Expressway, very busy all the time, that will be entirely shut down all the way from conshohocken at the blue route, all the way south into 95. No traffic on the schuylkill, going westbound, it will be shut down from 95 all the way up to u. S. One. Lets talk about u. S. One really quick, that will be shut down in the west philly section from lancaster over to belmont, that is the area where the pope will be staying overnight, so that busy city avenue section will also be shut down. Ben franklin bridge will be entirely closed. Officials confirming that for the first time today. That will allow pedestrians to walk across from new jersey into center city and walk over to see the pope at the world meeting of families events. There is one rumor that was spreading around that i95 would shut down. Theyre telling us no, not at all. 95 will remain open entirely, there may be some exits and onramps that are completely closed. Lets take a look at penndot from a few minutes ago. These road closure
Ben fraiphn bridge, no cars will be allowed. If you plan on crossing, youll have to do it on foot. As for the highways, all eastbound lanes shut down to interstate 95. The westbound lanes will close from 95 to u. S. 1. Portions of city avenue will be shut down. Thats the area where the pope will be staying overnight. Also 676 will close in both directions. No traffic on the vine street expressway. But you will be able to drive i95. V pz during the papal visit. The city today also released the details of what it calls the traffic box for the l visit. Its a three square mile secure zone. That zone extends westwardo t 38th street. The box, but they wont be allowed back in. It will affect people from new jersey to Montgomery County. How are people reacting to this news . Reporter most people seem to be taking it in stride. Especially because it will all be relatively brief. And the planning took a bigad÷km forward today now that people know the skuk l expressway will be among the closures
Into the bus companys safety record. Reporter a surveillance camera captured the school bus slamming into the liquor store on springfield avenue after colliding with an suv. The bus was coming down stanford avenue but the driver told witnesses and police the brakes failed before she could stop at the busy intersection. She was saying, oh, my god, my brakes went off on me. And that was it. And i thought, thats okay. Its going to be fine, you know,. Reporter this bodega owner was among all the people you can see here rushing to help the children, the smallest only 3. I tried to come back here. I grabbed a few bottles of water and tried to give it to the little kids because they were scared. Even the ones that they were okay, they were scared. And they were crying. So i tried to help out. Reporter officials here say the 11 children, the bus driver, chaperone and suv driver were all alert and conscious with scrapes, bruises and broken bones. We take injuries to be evaluated. You dont think
Not sure. Senior Obama Administration official said no one in the Us Government is aware of any plot like this. The french government has yet to make a comment. This as the u. S. Continues to lead strikes against isis targets in syria and iraq and even though the Us Government says theres no evidence of an immediate Terror Threat cities are on high alert that includes Transit System right here in philadelphia. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live at septas busiest hub below city hall. Chris washington is the mood like or have people even heard about this yet . Reporter thats right. Most rush hour commuters hadnt even heard about the threat until we told them. So they are not overly concern concerned. Keep in mine the fbi is actually questioning this information since it came from the iraqi government. But here locally, septa is taking these threats seriously as they do all threats. We did see some stepped up patrols at entrances to subways. Septa system is ld also made up of more than 10,000
The number of hate crimes in the United States. Exactly two weeks after the brutal beating of two gay men in center city, their supporters staged a mid afternoon rally at love park to demand state lawmakers add Sexual Orientation to the list of categories covered by the states hate crime statute. The beatings took place in the legislative district represented by openly gay state rep brian sims. The more we ignore the issue and assume that things have gotten better, the more we are shocked that incidents like this attack still occur. Provide for additional penalties for criminal conduc conduct reporter a few hours earlier and just across the street, City Council Members blondel Reynolds Brown and jim kenny introduced legislation designed to gift philadelphias hate crime code. An assault motivate beside hatred toward a persons actual or perceived Sexual Orientation gender or gender identity would be its own offense. That could bring the offender an extra 90 days behind bars and 2,000 fin