News today. Im rosemary connors. Its 9 00 this sunday. Michelle grossman is tracking the heat but low humidity makes all the difference. He stepped outside a few minutes ago, it feels great out there. It does. Especially for august, with 90 degree temperatures, but without the humidity it feels good. Mostly sunny skies, a nice start to our sunday. Well continue this heat wave our sixth day, so 90 degrees, thats our forecasted high. We reached the high of 90 yesterday. It will feel a lot like it did yesterday with low humidity in place. We wont have the breeze we hads ares are warms up already. 78 in philadelphia, 79 in northeast philadelphia. 70 in mt. Pocono. 79 in wildwood. Temperatures took a jump the past hour. We will see them jumping to here 90 degrees. Lunch time, 86 mostly sunny. By 6 00 87 degrees. A hot one today, more humid on monday and more hotter. Keeping the heat wave going on tuesday, finally a break in the temperatures. Thats all the straight ahead. Philadelphia police are investigating a crash that critically injured a man along busy henry avenue in the citys roxborough section. It happened around 3 45 this morning when the man was hit by a car. The driver of that car did stop and is cooperating with police. Preparing for the pope means that today folks are getting ready to buy one of septas special Regional Rail passes for the papal visit. The passes go on sale this evening, just after midnight. Nbc 10s jesse gary is live at 30th street station. Youve been talking to passengers and exploring the pitfalls once people get to center city. A lot of people we talked to this morning say they are bracing for the crush of crowds that come when people come to town to see the leader of the Roman Catholic church. Its a very special occasion. I think people understand that security needs to be very tight. To that end, septa is restricting service to just 18 of its Regional Rail stations. Trains will express into and out of three stops near papal activities september 26th and 27th to ride passengers need to enter a 24hour lottery from 12 01 a. M. To 11 59 p. M. Tomorrow. Winners will be allow ed toed to purchase a 10 papal pass. Theres no need to stay up so you can log on to the lottery. You can do it any time during the day. Reporter only 300,000 passes will be sold. Trains to 30th street station could still mean a half hour walk to the art museum for the mass. Security trumps those concerns when someone of this cache comes to town. Its annoying but its what you get when you have the in town. Reporter a few weeks ago, septa tried to sell the passes on its site but demand was so high that the site crashed. Now personnel are hoping they have more success with the lottery. The lottery starts just after midnight into monday morning. Jesse gary nbc 10 news. Good information. Thanks for that. Mark your calendar. Join us this tuesday at 7 00 in the evening for an exclusive half hour on pope francis. We are the only local news operation to visit the popes homeland before he visits philadelphia. Jim rosenfield spoke with colleagues friends and critics to learn more about the man who would become pope. Thats this tuesday at 7 00 p. M. On nbc 10. Verizon employees say they will work without a contract while the unions that represent them and the wireless carriers schedule more negotiations. The decision comes after a contract covering nearly 40,000 workers expired just before midnight. That contract affects employees from massachusetts to virginia, including pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware. This weekend family and friends are remembering the three young victims who were passengers in a crash that Philadelphia Police are calling a case of street racing. The Community Came together for a vigil last night at the scene of the crash near red lion road in bustleton. There they remembered 17yearold yvette gonzalez, and 20yearold felip hernandez. The family members of the third victim, sabrina rhoads, tell us the circumstances of this incident are heartbreaking. Great kid, man. 17 years old. She had everything ahead of her. She was going in the right direction. Police say new Surveillance Video shows two cars going at a high rate of speed before the crash. Investigators have some new information on the second car that took off from the scene. They believe its a dark blue or black bmw. Police are trying to track down the driver and passengers inside that car. This morning parents in the city of chester are outraged after 10yearold boy was shot at a Community Swimming pool. A 17yearold was running after three young boys yesterday afternoon, chasing them, and opening fire near the Memorial Park and pool. The 10yearold was grazed in the stomach and is now in stable condition. Several chester city workers helped police catch the teen shooter. Authorities have now charged him as an adult. There are new clues this morning about what may have led to the plane crash last year that killed Philadelphia Inquirer coowner lewis katz. According to the owner, the plane had a flaw that allowed it to reach high speeds while unable to take off but gulf stream Airspace Corporation blames the may 2014 crash on the crews actions. Six other people in addition lewis katz were killed. The newspaper reports that the faa is working with gulf stream on design changes for the 500 planes still in service. Today Training Camp gets underway for the eagles. Players will hit the field for the first time at the novacare complex. Busy off season to say the least and some questions remain for the team like who will be at quarterback . Sam bradford and mark sanchez are battling for the starting job. Nbc 10 is the official station of the philadelphia eagles. We have you covered all season long. Coming up later this morning in sports well break down a lastminute offseason move by chip kelly that sends a familiar face on defense across the state. Will he or wont he there are new indications that Vice President joe biden could soon be making a major announcement about the 2016 president ial race. And later, officials in zimbabwe take new action following the killing of cecil the lion. Now theres a new investigation into the killing of another lion. Details coming up. Welcome back on this sunday morning. A beautiful start. Lots of sunshine. It will be hot but well keep humidity levels down a bit. A perfect day to be at the beaches. We lucked out with a beautiful beach weekend. A live view from the cape may camera. Temperatures are already starting to jump. At 78 degrees in philadelphia. 78 in horsham. 77 in wrightstown. To the north and west we have gotten to the mid 70s. 73 in quakertown. 69 in shenandoah. Thats the cool spot. The beaches looking at the 70s. 73 in woodbine. 76 in dover, delaware. 78 at the lant city airport. So today well reach a high of 90 in philadelphia. 81 mt. Poconos. Strolling the pocono mountains, looking nice. 89 in mount holly. Temperatures in the 80s. 86 in cape may. Hot today, hotter on monday. Well talk about that and to your humidity. Well talk about that coming up. Now to decision 2016. Vice President Joe Biden says he is not ruling out a president ial run. Political analysts say bidens friends and advisers are urging him to launch a campaign, but that decision may not happen until after this month. Talks about bidens possible run for the white house were put on hold earlier this year while his son, beau biden, battled cancer. He died in may. Pennsylvania is in its fifth president obama is calling it the most significant step the u. S. Has taken to fight global warming. Tomorrow the president plans to finalize a rule that will require power plants to cut Greenhouse Gas emissions even more than previously mandated. In his initial proposal president obama called for a 30 nationwide cut in Carbon Dioxide emissions by 2030. The final version will require a 32 cut. Opponents plan to sue to stop the rule from being implemented. 78 degrees outside. Up next nbc 10s vai sikahema will introduce to you this weeks wednesdays child. As we look outside. Looking good. Not a cloud in the sky over center city. Plenty of sunshine. Meteorologist Michelle Grossman will be back with the full first alert forecast after the break. Come to sesame place before little kids become big kids. And celebrate our 35th birthday with our new Neighborhood Birthday Party parade. Buy your 2016 pass now and get the rest of 2015 free. Sesame place. Go before they grow. Tradingin or selling your car truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. 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Some counties may front the money and some workers may go unpaid. This is the third time in 12 years that social services are feeling the effects of budget deadlock in pennsylvania. Lets check in with this weeks wednesdays child. He has a lot in common with the legos he loves. Hes hoping to make a connection with forever family and hoping for structure and guidance he needs to help build a successful life. Nbc 10s vai sikahema introduces us to javeon. You can see the chunks of the pieces. Reporter 12yearold javeon, who likes to go by jay, is a little shy at first. When hes in his element he really opens up. Hes passionate about legos so we went to check out art of the brick at the Franklin Institute in philly. We had a great time exploring the exhibits. He was really amazed at what could be done with legos. Javeon is a very bright, young man. Has he a big heart. He likes to help people and do nice things for his family and friends. Jay is currently in the sixth grade and enjoys playing sports with his friends. He has a passion for professional wrestling. He has dreams to become a wrestler someday. I want to be a wrestler. A wrestler. A professional wrestler. The ideal family would be there for jay providing love and structure. Javeon would be best in a two parent family with an experienced family who had parented before. He has expressed interest in a family that goes to church or is spiritual in some way. Hes ready to share his big heart and dry sense of humor with his forever family. Whats your tshirt say . Im not lazy, i just really enjoy doing nothing. Tell me about your tshirt. I just picked that up because i thought it was cool. Javeon is this weeks wednesdays child. If youd like to help make javeons dream come true or the dream of any wednesdays child sponsored by the dave thomas foundation, go to nbc10. Com and search wednesdays child. You can also call the National Adoption center at 1866doadopt. Nbc 10 and telemundo 6 are teaming up with dozens of animal shelters in our area to help find homes for pets in need. Its called clear the shelters. Its happening on saturday, august 15th. On that day, shelters will be offering reduced adoption fees in hopes to finding homes for thousands of animals. Heres how you can help. Real simple. Just join the conversation. Raise awareness by sharing the event on social media. Use cleartheshelters, and include pictures of your pets. Come out saturday august 15th to welcome a new friend into your family. For shelter locations and for those fees, tap on the nbc 10 news app. All right. Good sunday morning. Im Michelle Grossman. Super sunday so far. Lots of sunshine. We will keep that sunshine in place today. Well bring up the temperature. A hot afternoon. Luckily keeping the humidity down before that humidity returns on monday. Weather headlines on your sunday looking really nice. Hot, but not humid. Thats the good news. That changes as early as monday. Storms return as early as monday night into tuesday. Looking at the chance for thunderstorms. 78 degree now in philadelphia. Winds out of the northnortheast at 3 miles per hour. Winds are calm today compared to breezy conditions we had yesterday. Mainly in the 70s. 72 in ail listen town. 78 in philadelphia. 70 in mount pocono. To the south and east main ler the upper 70s. So, its warm now. Well be hot by this afternoon. A live look outside, looking really pretty. Grab the sunglasses as you head out. The sunscreen, were looking at a uv index of about 8. Future weather, hot today. Thats the big weather headline. Tonight, a nice night. If you have sunday night plans, hopefully outdoors temperatures into the low 70s. Mostly clear skies. Things change later on monday. We bring back the humidity and a bit more cloud cover in the day. This is monday at 3 00. You can a system back to the west. This will move through later on monday and bring us a chance for showers and storms late monday into tuesday. I will stop this clock at 11 00 on monday. Monday into your tuesday. Sunshine returns on tuesday. Poconos forecast, 81 degrees, warm mostly sunny. At the beaches, a beautiful weekend last weekend. A beautiful start to the weekend. Looking good once again today. 85 degree. Mostly sunny, winds out of the west. Warm water still at 71 degrees. Today, closer to the city mostly sunny and hot. Low humidity 88 to 91. We will end up around 90 degrees. Continues our heat wave. This is day six. Tomorrow is day seven. Tuesday day eight. Its a heat wave. Monday partly sunny, more humid. Those storms come late into the day. Still hot on tuesday, 91. Mostly sunny wednesday, not as hot. Theres our big break in terms of the heat wave. Look at thursday lots of clouds showers, scattered80 degrees. On wednesday, showers return to our forecast. 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For lunch try our steakhouse burger. Or any steakhouse lunch combo starting at 7. Ava and i needed a little vacay. But we needed to watch our spending. Meaning i needed to watch nikki. Shes the spender. Im the saver. So, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track. For both of us. She was just browsing. We gotta go. Im ava. Im nikki. And we bank human at td bank. What . This morning the manhunt is underway for the person who shot and killed a Police Officer in tennessee. This happened in memphis last night. Emergency crews rushed the officer to the hospital where he later died. Police identified the slain officer as 33yearold sean bolton. He been with the Memphis Police department for the past five years. Just said thatny was going whiteney was going to haunt her from the grave. Family tensions flared yesterday at the funeral of Bobbi Kristina brown. Bobby browns sister stormed out of the church. She was angry that Whitney Houstons sisterinlaw spoke at the service. 22yearold Bobbi Kristina was the only child of bobby brown and whitney houston. Bobbi kristina died in hospice care on july 26th, six months after she was found unconscious out this kansas a 9yearold bat boy for an amateur Baseball Team is in Critical Condition this morning after he was hit in the head by a bat. This happened yesterday afternoon when kaiser carlyle, you see him pictured there, ran on to the field to retrieve a bat. Witnesses say he got too close to a player who was warming up. That player didnt notice the boy and accidentally hit him during a practice swing. Hit him in the helmet. Knocked him down. He got back up. But he went right back down again. Everybody came out and helped him. An ambulance rushed kaiser to the hospital. He is now being treated in the intensive care unit. We have new information this morning in the death of cecil, the beloved lion in zimbabwe. Officials have suspended the hunting of lions, leopards in the area where cecil was killed. Crews are also investigating the killing of another lion in april that may have been illegal. They only received information about that killing this week. The announcements follow International Outcry and a call to bring the american who killed cecil to justice. Authorities say the hunt was illegal and are seeking the extradition of walter palmer, a dentist from minnesota. We are hours away from septas sale of Regional Rail passes for the popes visit to philadelphia. Jesse gary has more on what you need to know. Those passes only work at a limited number of stations. Well talk about that and what else you need to know once you get to center city. Temperatures are close to 80 degrees. We are off to a warm start but a pretty start with lots of sunshine. It will be a nice su