Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. Right now a bizarre standoff for a group of families without a home. Now take a look. Some with children. Only weeks old. Set up tents in this abandoned lottery fusing an offer from the city for a roof over their heads tonight. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. They say its part of a much bigger problem. Our fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live at this socall tent city in fair hill tonight. Chris . Reporter thats right, iain. At least seven homeless families will be staying yet another night in this make shift tent city here in north philadelphia. These families some of them as you said with infant babies rejected the citys offer for Emergency Shelters tonight. Instead this will be their home they say to prove a point. We do have space for up to six families tonight. Reporter the citys top two housing officials arrived to fair hills tent city offering Emergency Shelter to the two dozen people who have taken up resid
61 in wilmington, 69 in trenton. 65 in sea isle city. Heading school and work. Weve got 63 on the Storm Tracker 6 live app. Noon, 81. 3 00 p. M. , 87 that will be the high as you can see there will be plenty of sunshine. We have an air quality alert today for unhealthy air for sensitive groups like seniors and those who suffer from asthma and respiratory and heart ailments. Dont fill your cars between noon and 6 00 p. M. Karen what are the roads looking like early on friday. Reporter so far so good good on the roads. Live on i95 thats southbound traffic heading toward center city. No delays just yet. Building volume southbound approaching cottman and girard. Girard, 47 Miles Per Hour. No problems, schuylkill expressway in good shape, as well. The Benjamin Franklin parkway not so much, the inner drive already closed in preparation for the papal visit. We saw gridlock yesterday morning, well see that today. Expect that its not going to clear until the Tuesday Morning after the popes visi
A dry view from center city. Live view from the melon Bank Building in center city where the temperatures are in the 40ed. Philadelphia international, 49 degrees. Wilmington down to 46. Trenton is 51. Mount holly is 44 degrees. Chilly. A little bit of a breeze blowing. It will help clear things out. A few high clouds at 6 00. 51 degrees. By 9 00 57. Middle 60ed 00s and climbing. Back with future weather when im back in ten minutes. First alert traffic reporter katy zachry has a look at the roads. Good morning, katy. Good morning, bill. Things looking good in the area. New jersey live look at 295 at mount laurel. 238. Nothing to talk about on 295 or the garden state expressway or the ac expressway. Your drive times between the 42 freeway and delaware Memorial Bridge in both directions is looking really good, 22 minutes. No issues to report there. In camden if youre driving on lansdowne avenue know there is a blockage on coral street because of fire activity. We have a crew out there. Im
And the vine expressway. In philadelphia the ogontz neighborhood this is at west nedro avenue. 16th street. Its just in place for you to avoid it if thats part of your morning commute. For new jersey drivers, live look at your drive time on the 42 freeway traveling between route 55 and the walt whitman bridge five minutes in both directions. Speaking of the walt whitman bridge, all of our bridges are clear. A philadelphia man is facing arson charges after police say he started a fire at this row home in the ogontz section of the city. One person went to einstein hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. He is expected to be okay. Police tell us the victim and the suspect were renting rooms inside this house. And crews were also busy overnight in camden where a fire started in an abandoned house on lansdowne avenue. Firefighters arrived at 2 30 this morning to put out flames on the second floor. No one was hurt. This Morning Police are investigating the shooting of a 19yearold man in
Before you on this important subject. Since september 11, there is rarely a day that goes by that i am not asked by someone, are we safer today than we were before september 11 . The answer to that question is never a clear yes or no. In some ways, the answer is yes. In other ways, we have not given it enough attention. We have not anticipated because we cannot anticipate everything. The prevailing view right now among most Security Experts is that we have improved our safety and security with regard to attacks by air. We have improved our safety with regard to attacks by very large wellrecognized terrorist groups. We are now much more of own herbal to attack by either single individuals or much smaller groups who are acting on their own. We have seen a few recent attacks like that, boston being one of them, little rock, fort hood, the attempted attack in times square. The air attack that was foiled over detroit. The one in boston was probably the one that is the one that got everyone