temperatures are cooler as well. nice and clear view. this is the view from the mellon bank building in center city. 50s for doylestown, pottstown and millville 68. philadelphia low 60s, northeast philadelphia at 63 degrees. look at roxborough at 61. a pleasant start, a bit cool this morning but we ll see the temperatures climb 67. by 9:00, 74 and into the 80s at noontime today. it will be a warmer day than it was yesterday. we ll go through it hour by hour with the future weather when i come back in ten minutes. right now let s see how the traffic is looking on a friday morning. brittney shipp has your first alert traffic. i-95 atten in, things are moving along nicely. take 95 to work southbound, woodhaven road to 676, that will take you about 12 minutes. in the a whole lot of traffic out. 76 eastbound, pa turnpike to 676 will take you longer, 33 minutes with the average speed around 41 miles per hour. then 476 northbound to 95, and 76, the average speed, 61 miles per hour
reporter: some of the businesses we talked to on callow hill street are not sure if they are going to open or close. others tell us they are just going to shut down. too many unknowns for them. the city is hoping to help out businesses starting monday on the city web page and the commerce department will be able to answer questions. you can call, look up the questions you may have on their website and see if that may fit your needs. deanna durante, nbc 10 news. don t forget, special tickets for new jersey transit go on sale tomorrow for the pope s visit. you can buy them starting at noon for the atlantic city rail line and river line. they cost $30 round trip. there will be limited service the weekend of the pope s visit and no other tickets will be accepted. you can buy the tickets at the atlantic city rail terminal, the river line stations or online at njtransit.com/papal. the rail line takes you to 30th street station. the river line ends in camden. speaking of camde
i m chris cato. let s begin with meteorologist bill henley who said yesterday that it would be very humid and hot again today. here we are, bill. not too bad out there right now. the temperature isn t bad but you can feel the steaminess in the air. pottstown, millville in the low 70s. yesterday this time it was in the 60s. 74 in philadelphia. that s off a degree compared to yesterday. but still plenty warm at this hour when temperatures should be in the 60s and it s going to be a quick warmup with sunshine, 9:00, we ll be up from the 6:00 amt number, up to 78 degrees and upper 80s and climbing at lunch time with the southerly wind that will stay below 10 miles an hour. the neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when i m back in ten minutes to show you how warm it will get where you live. right now, time for first alert traffic with katy zachry. good morning to everyone at home. as soon as my camera comes back i can show you 95 around woodhaven. here are your drive times fr
they have a lot of things on their plate. they arrived at the airport at 8:30 rome time. this is made up of 30 people including city leaders and officials of the archdiocese of philadelphia and ceos of several large local companies that are supporting the world meeting of families and they ll spend the next days in meetings for the global event in september. one of the main themes is keeping the pope safe. philadelphia has had vips before but one never like francis. we re good at this but this is another kind of event with a different kind of person. pope francis pretty much requires a significant amount of access to the people that s what he s about and it s our job to make sure that that access is safe at all times and that his movements are easy. reporter: mayor nutter along with his security officials, the special operations director for the city they will have a key meeting on thursday with the director of security for vatican city talking just about that about how t
now your nbc 10 first alert weather. the first full day of summer is a hot one and it s only going to get hotter too. we could hit near record temperatures tomorrow. the heat isn t the only weather concern we re tracking. a threat of severe storms is looming. first we focus on that heat. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen is live in center city. people are doing all they can in logan square to keep cool. all they can to keep cool outside. some people with their shirts off, some trying to cool down. water looks a little refreshing right about now. at least it s not as humid as it was last week at this time. yesterday was the first day of summer. we did hit 91 degrees today. we hit 91 degrees and tomorrow we expect to be even hotter with near record high temperatures. that is going to be our first official heat wave coincidentally starting with the first day of summer. that s going to be in the forecast. take a look how hot it is. 90 in philadelphia northea