Out. But that is the reality facing a lot of people in south philadelphia every morning. Good evening and thanks for joining us im iain page. Im lucy noland. Its not just one or two instances of cars getting busted into. This is in the double digits. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is at Police Headquarters and you must be getting an earful from frustrated car owners. Dave . Reporter lucy, anger gary and frustration among drivers who live in that neighborhood where these cars are getting broken into. Some of them have been hit more than one time and each time theyve had to dip into their own wallet to make repairs. 350 this time. 550 last time. Reporter Mark Mckinney notice the financial stink of having your car broken into. Twice in recent weeks. Thieves have busted a window on his kia sorento in south philadelphia and stolen items out of the his car. I lost 52 cents this time. Last time i had checkbook in there then bought themselves a new car on my checkbook. Reporter about a dozen car br
For help. Flames engulfed just before 5am the childrens mother who also lived here jumped out this back window to escape. Late morning, and geller rows father 80yearold paul said he wanted to show us something. He walked us to what looks to be a gas can up against a side wall of the burned structure with two charred boards covering it. I never seep this can there before and i know it has liquid in it. I touched it like this. Theres something in there. He says hes here all the time to work on a side lot says he fears someone set the fire which claimed this daughter and greatgrandchildren. Im almost certain this was started. You think was an arson fire . Yeah. Somebody set this fire . Yeah. Reporter he also talks of a fight out front of the home the night before. We ran her claims past the Fire Commission intern showed him a picture of that gas can. He says its far too early to say what caused this deadly inferno. Its much too early to be able to corroborate or speculate about anything t
Tomorrow the the pontiff will fly from cuba to the washington tc. On thursday he heads to new york city for todays and then on saturday morning his plane will touchdown, right here in philadelphia. The final preparations are underway, for Pope Franciss visit to the nations capitol. There roads are blocked off, metal fencing going up around National Mall and in other locations the pope will visit. While in washington the the pope will speak before a joint session of the congress. Of course, work continues here in philadelphia, chopper three over ben franklin parkway today where the stage that will host the pope is taking shape. Many arriving today, for the world meeting of families got a very special, gift at the airport. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society presented visitors passing through terminals b and c with carnations and walking formats of the cities public arts. This warm welcome was intended to give those visiting a great first impression. What we wanted to does give them a
Lunchtime 71, yesterday our high temperatures will be on the cooler side, low mid 70s. Heres youre school day forecast, 8 00 a. M. Mud 60s on the way home from school. Little bit more sunshine. Up to 73 degrees, theres your forecast, high of 74 for philadelphia, with you at the shore at 72 and still in the 60s well check that out coming up in a few minutes, erika first we got to check on the roads. Meisha . Lets do that. Bring it back over on this side, justin, good morning, happy tuesday. Things looking good on the roadways in with a little bit of overnight constructions most projects are clear out of the way nice and fast, heres a look those of you traveling out of jersey, 42 freeway northbound as you approach 295 you can see kind of a steady stream it certainly a volume levels are picking up. A little bit quicker than i would say yesterday at this same time on 42, just make note of that i could indicate were going to have some earlier congestion levels build maybe into later 5 00 mo
That will change. Storm scan3, yes, doesnt look too bad, does it . You do have light rain still falling, lightly, across the whole region really, but we put things into motion, throw the satelite coverage on top. If you are looking for the sunshine today, sorry, just not going to find it, just one of those days, warmfront with us, lifting through basically, throughout the day. So, that bridges the potential for just dreary conditions, damp conditions. Any time. You actually see this heavier band every rain that is starting to nudge in across central virginia. That has our heads our way by midday. Probably one pocket of heavier rain around that time. Otherwise just talking showers generally speaking any time otherwise. So, this morning, areas of light rain. How can we put it different way this afternoon . Clouds, showers there is evening, probably bit more scat nerd nature. But youre also going to see with that warm air mass, now in place, some patchy fog likely to develop. In fact, alr