American teenager is behind the wheel. Kids learn to drive, and we let them in large numbers, at a younger age than we let them vote, drink, sign contracts or marry. None of those other activities involve climbing into a huge chunk of metal, and talking or texting or fiddling with the radio. Erica pitzi looks at how we teach young drives in the country, and no matter how they drive distracted, och with devastating oven with devastating results. Reporter playing with the radio, putting on makeup. Talking and texting on the phone. Aum taking a teenagers eyes off the road with deadly consequences. Cars. The most common form of distraction was teens interacting with other passengers, followed by teens interacting with cell phones, doing all sorts of things like texting, driving, and interacting with social media reporter how often do you come to the memorial . Every morning or night every three years. Reporter mikes daughter died in a car accident at this intersection in 2012. 18 years old
Homeland security, jack tomacio says its not surprising that a potential threat has already been uncovered. The concern is that the threat came from a lone wolf and not a terror organization. Individuals are harder to detect and track. In some cases these individuals are people that are sitting in their basement just tapping away on their computer writing and saying bad things about the pope or the government. Reporter he says government agents are constantly monitoring the internet and social media for signs of potential threats. Its not easy to sort the real thing from idle chatter. You just try to track them down and you see what you kind of connect the dots and see if theres anything really there or if this is just white noise. Reporter a Festival City is emerging here on the parkway. The secret service and vatican security are doing everything they can to keep the pope and the public safe here. But unfortunately this venue presents a more tempting target possible target for anybod
Ahead of the papal parkway mass. You have agents that will be assigned to this operation which is the largest in scale magnitude since at least Pope John Paul ii in october 1979. Reporter he says he was working security during that historic event and finds even more challenge where is agents protecting pope francis. Back in 79, we didnt have the existing terrorist threats that we have today which really ramps up the threat level from perceptual standpoint. Reporter catholics we talked with are not overly worried about the pontiffs safety. I think hes open and willing to risk whatever has to be risked to be close to gods people. Its often said before we cant let these terrorists stop us from living and certainly not going to let them stop us in this event. Reporter i did speak with the fbis field office here in philadelphia. They would would only say theyre working closely with the Us Secret Service ahead and during this event. Iain . Dave, thank you. Security planning for the popes rif
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Right now get ready for the coldest night in months. Heres live look from south philly to night after a cooler day the temperatures continue to fall tonight. People already out with long sleeves in haddonfield, new jersey tonight. You may want to get a jacket ready for the morning. Going to be chilly out there. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. The tears fall fierce fall is here. Scott williams tracking how chilly well get for your morning. It look like that fall preview is going to continue. I mean lucy and iain, it was chilly this morning across the area. Take a look at some of the low temperatures. 48 degrees this morning in the pocono mountains. We had 51 in reading. Philadelphia 56 degrees. So some of the coolest air weve seen since early june across the area, and tonight i think well beat some of those numbers by a couple of degrees. Here why. High pressure in full control. We have clear skies, win
Limekiln pike on a curb south of upper stump road in new britain. He hit a ditch slipping the car as many as five times. You can still see the marks in the lawn where it happened. He and the 18yearold passenger next to him were ejected. Front seat passenger that was ejected his injuries are more serious, broke he ken pelvis, i believe he he had a punctured lung, damage to his spleen, internal injuries. Reporter that victim is a twin brother of one of the back seat passengers in the pickup. Neither he nor a 16yearold also in the back seat suffered serious injuries. New Britain Police chief Robert Scafidi said speed was like al factor in the fatal crash. Theres toxicology test that is have to be done but there were beer cans at the scene. All four passengers attend Central Bucks High School south which made counselors available to students today even though its closed for the jewish holiday. And with the scars from the accident still edged in her lawn mary says shes frightened by repeate