Patco and 90 percent of area hotel rooms were booked. The city of philadelphia and our region will be bass being in the glow of this successful event. Reporter there were no apparent Security Issues but three people were arrested over the weekend. One for dui, second for probation violation, and the third arrest, according to mayor nutter was idiotic. After having stood in line for an hour, and decided to then try to come through a security checkpoint with a large bag of illegal drugs. That is the definition of stupidity. Reporter while memories are still fresh for many, archbishop Charles Chaput said the city made an impression on pope francis. The holy father really was very impressed with the beauty of our city. He commented on that. He was very touched by the size of the crowd. And the city today would not comment on a exactly how many people showed up, this weekend but estimates over weekend put it over 800,000. Reporting live from city hall, rahel sol machine for cbs3 Eyewitness
Heading our way. Showers and storms we have seen so far is appetizer, pop up storms out ahead of the main push of rain here tonight. What we are looking at off west is heavy rain south and west of washington d. C. But this will be lifting up toward our area during overnight hours and the heaviest will be in our north and western suburbs. A as we zoom in, we will see a few pop up showers have start add cross camden, gloucester counties in new jersey. That ban that came through earlier that lifted off to the north. Right now this is the quiet as it will get through tonight, it does intensify during overnight hours and right into tomorrow morning. Lets time it out by 11 00 we will see heavier rain moving in our western suburbs, heavy showers, really blanketing the the area by 1 00 a. M. Heavier rain to the north and west of philadelphia, south and east we have a few pop up, but not a lot of rain here as this is lifting due north. Allentown seeing still some steady rain at 4 00 a. M. We ha
Exactly. It is not necessarily the most pressing thing on my mind, to try to figure out how many people were there. Reporter despite not having a estimate mayor says weekends events were a success for hundreds of thousands hossa tended. More definite numbers were, however a available for other areas, according to the city about 28,000 people rode septas Regional Rail saturday, about 34,000 on sunday. Patco saw nearly 26,000 passengers this weekend, and about 90 percent of area hotel rooms were booked. Security was also tight, and, 71 agencies involved, and checkpoint lines, at times, were long. Even archbishop Charles Chaput said some of his friend had issues. Some of my friend, who tried to come, were still waiting to get in when it was almost over. Reporter now the event is officially over. While the city didnt provide specifics on how many people attended, mayor nutter says the weekend, however large, it actually was is proof for the future the city of philadelphia can handle major
Said that campbells conviction is a step in the right direction towards justice, and healing. I had a sense of joy, and jurors of their statement today. Reporter you feel there was in that courtroom today, justice. Yes, justice. Reporter now, jurors left the courthouse here indicating to Court Officials they did not want to comment on their second dick. Meanwhile, sentencing has been set for january 8th, prosecutors saying based on the number of counts for which campbell has now been convicted, if they are listed consecutively, he could wind up spending decade, perhaps the rest of his life, behind bars. We will have more on this developing story at 6 00, we are live from the criminal justice center, im walt hunter for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Walt, thank you. Developing right now, is he in or is he out . Speculation about joe bidens run for the white house is reaching a fever pitch. One local congressman says he has inside scoop on the vicepresident s, decision. Eyewitness News Reporter r
69 degrees in philadelphia currently, 71 in allentown, 69 in wilmington, 71 in sea isle city. Pretty mild out there this morning and the dewpoints are all well into the 60s meaning that it is muggy. It will feel that especially as you start walk argue round. This morning mostly cloudy and humid, 66 by 6 oclock and 68 degrees by 8 oclock. And as we roll through the day, like yesterday its going to be warm and humid and getting up into the low 80s. By noon 79 degrees, by 3 oclock, 82. That is going to be your high and then by 6 oclock 79 and notice how we get later and later into the afternoon, theres a better and better chance of some of those spotty showers building in. If youre headed to the phillies tonight i would bring an umbrella just in case and then the heavier rain comes in later tonight. Ill show all of that on future tracker6 coming up, karen, and we have a Tropical Storm down in the bahamas that looks like it might want to make a run up to our neck of the woods late this wee