Park in new jersey, in to center city. Start see the clouds are breaking up. It will be Getting Better as we go on. How much, i want to point out the wind, 18mile per hour wind coming out of the north, so it is a little brisk walking outside, be prepared, notice, really higher all way from mount pocono all the way to philadelphia, not quite so bad down the shore with the wind. Taking live look at storm scan3, see the cloud cover, and it is going to be pushing out to sea as we go throughout our morning. That will leave us with sunshine this afternoon. Hey, there is the good news, high of just 78 degrees today. That feeling certainly coming our way, high of 77 down the shore, little foggy start but Getting Better now, the visibility back, little morning fog as well until the poconos, will just be high of 68 degrees. So, we will talk seven day forecast, there is lots of 70s, good dose of sunshine, and we will also highlight what it will be like when pope francis is in town, weather wise, if you are going to be planning to take part in the papal visit. A lot of walking going on, nicole. So people need good weather for that. Yes, good weather will be welcome. Kyla, thanks. Now day two of pope francis historic john toy cuban and north america. Live look in havana cuba where the pope said to celebrate outdoor mass. Now one of the three, it is one of the three, hell preside over, as you can see, thousands of people are thereto witness that historic event, yesterday, pope francis arrived in havana to cheering crowd, and military band, a lot of pomp and circumstance there. He was also greeted by cubas president raoul castro. Coming up within the hour, we will have much more on popes visit to cuba with a live report from havana right here on cbs3. Pope francis may be in cuba but looking ahead to his advice knit philadelphia. I love. This video message from the holy father. He wants the city to know health be there. The people in philadelphia, when i come for the world meeting for families. Ill shall there. Because i will be there. See you in philadelphia. Oh, that just make me happy. Preparations of course kicking into high gear here in philadelphia, and today, crews will begin the process of towing cars from the restricted zones. Steve patterson with more on the stage preparations for next weekends big event. In full swing. The signs many of us have either been anticipating, or dreading, for months, are starting to take shape on the parkway. The stage literally being set for the popes arrival. This is one of the largest events to ever occur in the united state. Scott is the president of the philadelphia based esm productions, this guys done set up for the president , the dalai lama, and jayz, but he says, this takes the cake. Weve done some pretty large events. But his is definitely the largest event, has the most moving part. But with that, some headaches. Traffic closures, and pedestrian restrictions, already in place, mainly for the safety and breathing room of workers on the job. But look at what theyre building. That will hundred foot wide arch already spread across the main stage, will be shown on 32 giant screams, lined all across the parkway you. Real can i see this stage where were belling it, from a mile away. But the work doesnt stop there. Between saturday, and sunday, neck week, during the visit. With just hours to spare, theyll destroy most everything theyve built for the celebration, to build something even more special. After saturday night, we will tear out the stage, build a sanctuary for the mass. And that is truly honor to be involved in Something Like that. As mentioned, all of the construction does mean road closures already in place, right here on the parkway, both the inner and outer lanes, are shutdown from eakins oval to 20th street, and that remains in place until september 29th. The very last closure schedule to lift on october 4th. So plan accordingly, of course, all of this on our website at cbsphilly. Com. For now reporting from the stems of the art museum, im steve patterson, cbs3, Eyewitness News. And local churches concerned about how they will feed the homeless on the parkway during the papal visit. Chosen 300 ministries served hundreds every meals at 16th and the parkway. The Organization Says it is still waiting for word from the city on how to access the parkway to provide those meals within the secured zone. Well, volunteers are getting ready for the world meeting of families, yesterday was check in day at the Pennsylvania Convention center. The more than 10,000 volunteers will be identified through the bright orange tshirts they plan to wear. Some will get to work on monday, day before the world meeting of families officially convenes, but most of the volunteers will be utilized saturday, sunday, when the pope visits philadelphia. I volunteered for special needs, people with wheelchairs, or unable to walk. This Human Services diagram. Im special Service Coordinator also. So ill be taking care of everybody. There you go. Officials say all volunteers went through a thorough background check. And you can stay with Eyewitness News for the latest on the papal visit, live report from cuba is coming up in ten minutes. Right here on cbs3. Weve also got full resource guide for you on our website cbsphilly. Com. It is 8 06 right now. Some sad news to report. Best selling british author, jacky collins, has died. She was known for writing vibrant novels about extravagance, glamour, after fluent life in hollywood. Her family said she died of Breast Cancer in los angeles. The 77 year old was the sister of actress joan collins. Also, this weekend, friends, family, former nba great, gather to say goodbye to philadelphia legends moses malone. Funeral was held for malone this morning, at houston church. Moses helped lead the sixers to the 1983nba championship. The three time nbamvp died of Heart Disease sunday. He was just 60 years old. A two alarm fire burns through home in ridley township. This is Eyewitness News video, taken by timothy ike elman. The fire broke out shortly after 8 00 last night on the 400 block of ohio avenue. It took several hours for firefighters gain the upper hand, the good news in this, no one was injured. Authority are working to track down the owner of grenades, that forced evacuation after kensington thrift store saturday morning. This happened at the Village Thrift store, 2900 block every kensington avenue. An employee there found two grenades and plastic bag and called police. Authority say the devices turned out to be hollowed out, and not life. It is 8 07 right now. Danger inside your home, your car, your gym bag, yes, many of us use Hand Sanitizer kill germs, but doctors say they are seeing more and more kids drinking the gel by accident, or on purpose. Well have details ahead in the health watch. Plus, many people lover receiving gift carl, because you get to choose your present, right . But what if you couldnt actually use it to buy what you wanted . I dont know, that doubt sound good. 3 on your side jim donovan, something meant to protect you could become a problem at the register. Kyla . With the clouds looking ahead, the next seven days, including the papal forecast. Stay with us, Eyewitness News is wacking up with you. Good morning, well be right on the cbs3 health watch this morning, crazy and pretty dangerous new trends. Teenagers drinking hands sanitizer to get hi, and expecting calls to poison center. Health reporter Stephanie Stahl explains. It is everywhere. Hands sanitizer is the handy way to fight germs. And now, a quick and easy way for teenage tears get high by drinking the stuff. Poison control sent, may i help you . Since 2010, Poison Control Centers in the u. S. Have seen 400 increase in the number every phonecall regarding kids ingesting hands sanitizer. Basically jelled alcohol, jelled alcohol can be used like regular alcohol. Alcohol making up as much as 62 to 70 of the sanitizer. It is the same intoxicating chemical in cocktails made for consumption, drinking bottle of hands sanitize series give lent to drinking about five shots of hard liquor. As a teenager you have a little bit of pocket change, and it certainly is cheaper to buy that than to buy regular alcohol. And while it is illegal for teenage tears buy alcohol, there is no restriction on Hand Sanitizers. And for younger kids, there is an issue with accidental poisoning, because theyre colorful, and look enticing. Thats casino of concerning, like a lot going to the hospital. Im really shocked. We use it a a the l at lot of the places we are play have those at kid level. We wont be using those any more. Can cause number of problems including seizures, cardiac arrests, im Stephanie Stahl, cbs3, Eyewitness News. All right, this next story, pretty crazy. Womans driving on height way, okay, picture this, going 07 miles an hour, when she comes facetoface with a live poisonous steak. Me . Remained pretty calm. Said she was driving on interstate thursday, again, when she spotted something out of the corner of her eye. It was a live copper head snake. Slithering around inside that car. Unbelievable. She was able to pull off off the road and call for help, which i give her major props for. Found the snake hiding inside the glove compartment. I look out of my per i have val vision, and here comes a snake. He gets to about right here. And i guess i did a double take, and one of these. One of these. Oh, she is just great. I love it. I want to know how it got into the glove comparable then . I want to know how she didnt crash her car. What an amazing driver. I would have been ahh. She seemed like she could handle this. South carolina, hey, sometimes, listen, we can handle. This we can do it. But man, if it were me . I would have been dead. I would have crashed the car. Forget the snake. One time driving with a bee and i was like ahh, let alone a snake. Anyway, kyla . Lets talk about weather things. Do it. Blue skies, sunday, i know you are looking outside saying she is crazy, it is cloudy out. But it is Getting Better. I can tell it will burn off. It is starting to break up. Starting right now, Spring Garden camera, this one actually looking, i think not our center city camera, Spring Garden camera, yes. Thats our Spring Garden camera. You can start to see that we are getting little bit after breakin there. But still some cloud cover to deal with. It will get better going throughout the afternoon. Get little sunshine in there. Remember yesterday, took us a minute, same story today. It will take us a minute, too. But we will see an improvement everybody. Not to worry. Today, though, clouds will start to dissipate. Feel less humidity, nice byproduct of these cooler temperatures, clear, cool tonight, falllike week ahead. Ready or not here it come. Our average high this time of year 77 degrees, today we expect to get to up p. M. Look what happens monday, tuesday, we actually dip below the average, and then pull above it little bit as we head into the later part of the week. Thats to say we will see some temperatures you havent seen as highs for awhile. By september 23rd, our average high just 75 degrees. And well we all know what happens when we get into november. The average high there november 30th, 50 degrees. So, we will enjoy our seven days this week. Currently right now 69 greets in philadelphia. Thats interesting. Temperature actually ticked down little bit this morning. Sixtyeight atlantic city, 56 in mount pocono. Good morning to you. As we zoom out and take a look at the region, new york, low 70s, the rest of us along the i95 corridor still hanging out upper 60s this morning. Storm scan3, looking here, some of the clouds, starting to push out. So it will take a moment to get them out of here. But the afternoon should be looking much better. As we get into later part of the day. Watch like yesterday, be patient. Much better right now cape may courthouse. Take a look, earlier this morning, we had fog everywhere, all across this field, you can see it now, weve got the sunshine, looking good, getting blue skies in there, about 69 degrees right now. Headed down the shore today, pretty good looking afternoon. But, we are going to see temperatures cooler than youre used to. So 77 degrees for your high. Check out monday just 71 degrees, low 70s, as we work our way into cloudy tuesday. I heard this at a Football Game today, anyone hear about it . You did . Nicole heard about it . Dallas is in town taking on the eagles, good luck with that, dallas. 77 degrees, at 4 25. You are going have a tough time with our eagle. Partly sunny skies though and it will be a very good looking day today. So i think it will be a nice day for football. So for everybody out there, go eagles, and well see how it goes, right, today . Also point out, autumnal equinox wednesday, the day of the year when we have equal light and dark. So the nighttime and the daytime about equal time. We start losing some of the daylight and the night get longer. So our equinox at 4 21 a. M. On wednesday. That also means, were headed no fall everybody. Thats when it begins. Today, we will see little fall like, high of 78 degrees. Clouds clearing though, less humid, should be quite nice. Little chilly tonight, 56 degrees for our low, watch out for the wind today too. Little gusty right now, see it tonight as well out of the north. We look at the seven day forecast, of course we mention we roll into fall with the sevens, do warm up a bit wednesday into thursday. Then we head toward the papal visit where of course a loft people will be outside, and on saturday it is looking really good. Sunshine, with 70s, so, not bad at all. Sunny, 70s, well particular it. Kyla, thanks. 8 17. Lets check on the roads with ann. I know youre busy, ann, going to be all week . Busy week, nicole. But happy week, as women. The ben franklin parkway shutdown both directions now. Between the Art Museum Circle, logan circle, preparation the continuing fort worth meeting of families and pope francis visit. You can see kelly drivein bound that is shutdown between fairmount avenue and the art museum sickle for the world meeting of families, Martin Luther king drive shutdown from the ben franklin parkway montgomery drive. Now today shutdown for recreational activities, we will keep you post philadelphia it continues to be shutdown. For the ben franklin parkway, your alternates to take the vine street expressway to the schuylkill expressway, since the parkway is shutdown today. We move the traffic cam here, to i95, at broad street. Now if youre tending todays eaglescowboys game there is will be the highway you would take, so far no delays on 995, if you are doing some Early Morning tailgating you should have no problems getting up there this morning to the stadium. We move the traffic cam again, one more time, to the blue route at the midcounty tolls. No delays or problems on the blue route or at the midcounty tolls, if you are headed to the poconos, both pa turnpike and the northeast extension look okay. If you are taking mass transit to morning, on or close to schedule. And thats the latest from the cbs3 traffic center. Im ann evans, nicole, back to you. Ann, thank you. The holidays, i hate to say it, but will be here before we know t if youre one of the many people who frequently gives or receives gift cards, listen up. 3 on your side consumer reporter jim donovan takes a look at fraud protection. You might not know about. But could leave you locked out. To vans, a gift card is often the perfect gift. I tend to give gift cards mainly for things such as baby showers, wedding gift, bridal showers, things like that. Vanessa loves receiving them too. Her favorite type . Socalled open loop gift cards. Which are Network Brands dollars and can be used almost anywhere. I like the fact that having a gift card that doesnt limit me to one store, just gives me the flexibility to buy anything that i want to buy. She is a savvy shopper, always reads the terms and conditions before buying, or using a card, but one thing vanessa didnt know . I was surprised to learn that gift cards can be locked. Sometimes these gift cards will get locked, and it is really all about fraud. Thats because expert say if an issuer is concerned a gift card is being used fraudulently, a temporary hold may be placed on the card. If, for example, it is used in rapid succession, or if there are a lot of returns, of items that were purchased on the card. These suspensions, though, rare, are designed to protect consumers and gift card issuers. So what do you do if your gift card is lock after legitimate day at the mall . Simply call the toll free number on the back of the card. That will allow to you speak to the Customer Service representative of the issue here can clear up any concerns that the issuer has about the usage that far card. Just like with traditional credit cards, regular returns can mean funds may not be immediately available. Because the merchant wants to obviously make sure that the item watts returned, in good conditions, and that there was no fraud taking place. For anyone look to go buy an open loop gift card, expert say it is a good idea to give the recipient the receipt for the card in case they have any issues making purchases and need to know where the card came f even though only handful of credit card networks, there are lot of card issuers that compete for your business, a different terms and conditions and fee streek tours, so be sure to shop around. Reporting for three on your side, im jim donovan. All right, some good advice there. 8 20, now, heres Pat Ciarrocchi with why youre going to love the art in philadelphia. Opera, unique, frank. All reasons to love the art in philadelphia, this october. Add to that the Chamber Orchestra of philadelphia in september and you have a calendar of culture, waiting to be enjoyed. Opera philadelphia is hitting the high note as it opts it season with the classic, the story turns on the passion of a par ocean quarter son, she and her young lover, it is set against a rich bar