Action news, Delaware Valleys leading news problem with jim gardner. Pope francis will deliver a historic speech at Independence Hall saturday september 26. Today the world meeting of families released 10,000 free tickets at 12 00 noon. They were gone by 12 02. And minutes after that, scalpers were hawking them for a steep price. And the rush for tickets for paper yam papal events. And two ticket releases. At 4 00, 10,000 tickets online for the festival of the world meeting of families on saturday night and 10,000 free ticket will be posted at 8 00 tomorrow night for sundays papal mass on the parkway. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick live outside, and pope francis lashed out at what he called unbridaled capitalism and now it appears that the unbridaled capitalism is getting involved in the ticket for his philadelphia event. And jim, thats right. Organize irs say there are precautionings making sure not one group or person gets too many tickets. Working to fair it fair and free. And
If youre still down the shore somehow and we have an accident on the Atlantic City brigantine connector, southbound around the Convention Center with the right lane blocked. Well check in on mass transit when i come back in ten minutes. The first of the 10,000 tickets for the festival of family on the ben franklin parkway will be available starting at 4 00 this afternoon. At 8 00 p. M. , you can logon and try to get a ticket for sundays papal mass. Tickets for the popes speech on saturday at Independence Hall on september 26th went online at noon yesterday and by 12 02, they were gone. 394,000 people visited the world meeting of families website at noon trying to get those tickets. So if you didnt get a ticket to that event, thousands of others are being given to parishes with large immigrant populations. The popes speech on september 26th will focus on immigration and religious freedom. Just as fast as those tickets were given away at noon, some of the lucky people tried to cash in. M
To happen down the road. We start to see a breakdown in that. We get rain in here, i think, tomorrow. Could be a good soaking rain in parts of the area with heavier showers and Thunder Showers late in the day and tomorrow evening. Better half of the weekend is saturday. Could be more showers by the time we get to sunday. Weve had a great string of weekends, little rain on sunday wouldnt be that bad of a thing. Steamy right now. Heading back to the upper 80s by noontime. Well build in more clouds this afternoon. Up around 90 by 3 00. Thats the forecast high. Could be a spot shower or thunderstorm in some areas late this afternoon. Early trouble spots on the commute so far, lauren . Just two small bumps in the road. Nothing too major on the gowanus eastbound. Theres a disabled vehicle in the right lane. Heading up to the gowanus into the bqe, we have a disabled tractortrailer eastbound or inbound by atlantic avenue. Neither is causing big delays. One of the tubes is shut down at the batt
United forced to step down amid a federal investigation into whether the airline tried to influen a the head of the Port Authority of new york and new jersey David Sampson by adding twice weekly flights from newark to columbia, South Carolina where sampson owned a vacation home. Cnbcs phil lebeau covers the airline business. T re questiol is whether united added flights between newark, new jersey and columbia, South Carolina as some sort of quid pro quo as part of the negotiations for extending its leaseoa newark airport. Reporter in a Statement United Airlines says the departures announced today are in connection with the companys previously disclosed internal investigation related to the federal investigation associated with the Port Authority of new york and new jersey. Federal Law Enforcement sources tell nbc news tonight todays developments are an extension of the bridgegate scand ineslving the portw authority. David samson was forced out of rhe port authoritn last year amid that
Follow him. Reporter that was their chance to act. Both men tell me they chased the robber out of the store. Video shows him running north away from the deli turning east. Then watch this. He pitches the shotgun into a nearby garden. Police found the weapon and these workers hope the gunman is next. This deli closed right now. We saw them close up not long ago. One of the workers says he was still shaking hours later. Theyre grateful the gun malfunctioned. If you know anyone who knows that person, give police a call. News 4 new york. Alleged misdeeds involving the Port Authority of new york and new jersey are costing an executive his job. This time it is the ceo of United Airlines. We are here with the latest. Did United Airlines executives arrange for special flights to help the head of the Port Authority get from new jersey to his South Carolina Vacation Home . Was there a quid pro quo with the Port Authority spending millions to help uniteds businesses at Newark Liberty . United ann