Ben franklin parkway under a total transformation. Barriers plus a massive stage all going up. Good evening to you, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. Crews are working around the clock f skyfox you can see the stage for saturdays festival of families all lit up as the finishing touches are added. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in fairmount as neighbors are working to make sure theyre ready for the popes visit chris. Reporter iain the excitement continues to build around the arrival of pope francis for most people. I say most people, there are some especially who live blocks away from the parkway who honestly say they cant wait until its all over. Gets grocery so we dont have to leave our apartment. Reporter bite looks of fairmount wholefoods store you would think a major blizzard was coming. Thats what we said. The like a snow day coming. Reporter maggie and joe daily are preparing for the papal weekend by stocking up on groceries. They live just two blocks away from the parkway but their plan is to stay as far away as possible. What are your plans for pope weekend . Going on our roof deck and not leaving. Reporter they arent the only ones. Residents in the fairmount and art museum areas are feeling the pinch of the center city shut down. Convoy of tow trucks rolled through fairmount tonight towing more cars. Security fencing around the perimeter of the parkway almost complete. Police presence has been stepped up, and residents who are dealing with all of this say it may be time to go. Im planning not to to pretty not leave my house except for mingling with the crowds. Im not going to try and get anywhere this weekend. Its nothing like weve ever seen before. Reporter this man cant wait for papal weekend. Thats because hes leaving town for new york. Its pretty cool much the pope is here but you know kind of annoying everything kind of closes down and people trying to navigate in and out of the city. Reporter youre looking at a live look at that security fence that was erected right down the middle of callowhill street and tomorrow the squeeze will even get tighter that is when residents with those yellow placards theyre going to have to move their cars off the streets and that is when the parkway perimeter is completely secure. So things are happening at a rapid pace. Iain. Sure are, chris, thank you very much. As those in the city get ready thousands are swarmed into streets the washington, d. C. To catch a glimpse of the pope. It is rah a wrap of his first full day in america and as our bruce gordon shows us from d. C. , the popes jam packed schedule was filled with simple and stately events. Reporter pope francis is widely known and largely admired as a pontiff who enjoys mingling with his flock, and for speaking his mind on controversial issu issues. Wednesday in washington, he did both. The pope emerged from his now famous francis fiat to be greeted by president obama and first lady michelle. Mr. Obama had high praise for his very special guest. Your holiness n your words you said a profound moral example. Reporter a brief papal parade gave thousands of fans of francis a chance to see and in a few cases be blessed by the pope. Midday saw the pontiff lead a Prayer Service for us bishops whom he thanked for aiding immigrants to the u. S. And for dealing with the crisis of the priest child sex abuse scandal. I know how much these last few years have weighed on your spirit when we bring secure then the victims have healed and we have to hope that such crimes never repeat themselves. Reporter and the pontiff ended his day by making history. The first ever Canonization Service on u. S. Soil. Conferring sainthood on father Junipera Serra 18th century spanish missionary credited with spreading catholicism to california. On thursday the pope will head to new york but not before one final big event here in washington. A speech before a joint meeting of the congress. Its likely the pontiff will raise the issue of immigration, those relations with cuba and the fight against global warming. Those views have already led to criticism from some conservative lawmakers. Thursdays speech may well reignite that backlash. In washington, Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. She died a tragic death at age ledge. Then became the youngest saint ever in the history of the catholic church. Now saint maria gorettis body is here in philadelphia. Tomorrow and friday the faithful can see her body at saint john the evangelist church. Youre invited to touch her glass casket which holds her wax statue with her skeletal remains inside. Make sure youre ready are to the big pope visit on fox29. Com. Well post all of our stories with Everything Else you need to know right there on the hoach page. Like our weather forecast. A chance of rain when the pope is here kathy. Unbelievable lucy. Were watching this so closely hour by hour as we time the popes visit. Getting even closer obviously every hour. Right now in philadelphia 67. Dew point at 50. That is very dry reading. Wind is calm a beautiful evening with temperatures mainly in the 60s. But as you see to the north and west, some 50s. 57 in pottstown and 59 in the pocono mountains. On ultimate doppler here it is. Were tracking this area of low pressure and there is a chance it could make it close enough to provide some showers during the popes visit this weekend. Here well time it out. Friday a few clouds creeping in over the course of the day but pretty much a partly sunny day. But were by saturday the rain getting a little bit close sr. Way mostly cloudy sky. But still held at bay to the south. The question is, what about sunday . Thats where the forecast gets more complicated. Ill have more on that coming up later in the broadcast. All right. Kathy, thank you one person is dead after a shooting overton park tonight. It happened around 7 30 on the 7600 block of sherwood road. Philadelphia police say a 41yearold man was shot once in the chest. He was taken to Presbyterian Hospital where he died. No arrests have been made. Image that sparked a frenzy on social media and even led to a hate crime investigation. It turns out Campus Police say nothing sinister is behind what was hanging from that tree at the university of delaware. But students are still hoping it brings attention a much bigger issue. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is in newark tonight. Many students we talk to tonight dont believe this display what they actually saw is innocent. But they say they love their university and theyre optimistic that this will be a teaching moment that could lead to change. We going to be all right . I said, we going to be all right. Reporter students pack the courtyard outside Mitchell Hall on the university of delaware campus this evening. I feel like i guess us having this conversation today can make people aware of it and just, you know, just like allow people to feel more accepted. Reporter black lives matter rally organized by the black Student Union comes on the heels of an incident that heightened racial tension many say already existed on the campus. Were heart broken. Reporter students like kevin were shocked at this picture. String and bent hangers hanging from campus trees tuesday night. This campus is a hot spot environment for students of colors. As i gazed at the nooses in the trees last night i was brought to tears. Reporter University Officials condemned it and Campus Police started investigating it as a hate crime. But by morning, police determined it was all the remnants of lanterns that had been decorating trees from campus event. Im kind of skeptical about that and im hoping well continue to look into this rather than just sweep it under the rug. Reporter diverse crowd of students say they have concerns about racism on campus. Its not limited to just black lives matter. Theres issues between latinos, asianamericans, around the whole border. Reporter University Staff telling students tonight theyre voices have been heard. We what happened things to get better not only in this university but everywhere. Reporter University Officials also said during the rally that they have come up with a diversity plan or divert is the training to give to senior staff to help with students concerns. Iain. Shawnette, thank you. Caught on surveillance cameras a strange burglary at the grand Food Services in West Kensington a guy walks in saturday and takes four cookers. Theyre worth 1200 bucks. If you know who the guy is, call police. All right. The eagles, zerotwo but a lot more they need to worry about for sunday. Howard eskin is here. This is a must win game, howard. Absolutely must. The eagles will be without key company alonso and likely Michael Kendrick at linebacker. Thorton didnt practice today and hell be outweigh broken bone in his hand and today Demarco Murray left practice with a hamstring pull. His availability im told for sunday will not be decided until the weekend. After sundays game against the cowboys, wide receiver josh huff told reporters he thought he heard the cowboys calling out the eagles plays on the dallas side line. Chip kelly put a stop to that but josh huff if you listen closely, maybe not so much. Ill just ask josh do you think they had any of our signals then said no. If he told you that, then thats what it is. Thats what you told him. If he told that you, then thats what it is. It sounds like thats different from what you said the other day. Stop blowing thing out of proportion. Tell me waits. Coming up later more on the eagles. Are the eagles a predictable offense. Chip kelly and sam bradford address that. It will be coming up later in another segment with your sports. Pulled over for a broken taillight then be rated by the cops for having hiv. inaudible . But it doesnt end there. What this officer did next that now means big payout for the woman behind the wheel. Also a philly radio mogils home taken over by strangers the confrontation as family and neighbors frying to them out. Going to extreme to battle skin problems that laser problems couldnt fix. It was so irritating. Ill itch it. I would catch. Constantly look in the mirror and pick at my pimples. While going under the laser no longer at a boo for brown skin. Empire fans go oneonone with cookie herse its one of the largest cocaine cease insures in philadelphia and today federal agents showed off their find. More than 350 pounds of coke now off the streets. But it took some serious di digging to find the drug. Fox 29s brad sattin is here with how they did it. Brad. Lucy this is a big one it actually happened at the port of philadelphia. Federal agents can do hundreds of checks and oftentimes most of the time it comes up empty, but last thursday while dig through a container of fruit that had just arrived they found nearly 400 long thin packages of white powder. We were fortunate enough to hit the gold mine. Reporter multi Million Dollar gold mine. Us Customs Officials hitting the jackpot last week at the port of philadelphia. Finding this. Stashed among boxes of squash and pumpkins coming from companies at a ricoh bound for new york city. What you see here today is 363 pounds or 164. 7 kilograms of cocaine with a value of more than 6 million. Reporter every container at the port is scanned by xrays with extra layers of security if anything suspicious. Youre looking for weight, youre look, for differences. Every shipment is different. Reporter this one pick a part as a result of a tip. This is basically laminated and side the box. Food is a typical storage target for drug dealers who know it needs to be delivered quickly. Thats one of the biggest commodities used. Easier, organic, its tedious for anybody to handle. Drug dealers know that. Were dealing with sophisticated folk. Reporter their plan was foiled this time. It was found, seized and will never reach the streets of our country. Reporter little bit of perspective this was actually the eighth biggest bust at the port. Big but not all that unusual. At ports across the country u. S. Customs seize an average of 10,000 pounds of drugs every day. Iain. Incredible, all right, brad, thank you man in a wheelchair is dead after shooting incident with police in wilmington, delaware. Skyfox over the scene on the 100 block of south scott street tonight. Wilmington police say the man refused to drop his weapon and may have had a self inflicted gunshot wound when they got there. He died at the scene. A long time philly radio mogil died his grieving family was devastated again when they found his home taken over by strangers. People who actually said its they are right to live there and as fox 29s Bill Anderson shows us the family is keeping whats theirs. Reporter radio executive current knee inter son lived in the wynnefield second of the city for over 30 years. The area has large well kept houses and close knit neighbors. Andersons house was known for hosting high profile gatherings so when he died in december, its not the type of place youd expect squatters to take over. But neighbors told me thats exactly what happened. I see some people mowing the lawn. Who are you guys. I know the owner and she would have told any of us if someone was doing something with the property. I asked them questions. They went inside the house. Whoa, how did you get the keys . Who are you . Were owners. Reporter as far as neighbors know andersons daughter now owns the house. So the neighbors took pictures and video of james and marissa doing yard work and claiming that they now own the property. The police were called but they confirmed that when they showed up, they were shown a state issued identification that showed andersons address, not being able to prove that the gadson has no right to be here the police legally conrey move them. I went to the house with sh a. M. A anderson who maintains she is the owner of the house. She told me that she was amazed and hurt that while still grieving her fathers passing someone would not only attempt to squat in her father house but also claim to own it. I dont know these people. Um, ive never met these people. I never received a phone call from them, and they decided that they would take initiative to come and change the locks on my door in my house without my permission. Reporter while i was there, she had the new locks that the gatsons allegedly on the house removed and went in to see what had been done to the inside of her familys property. The file cabinet was in here but it wasnt open. Reporter neighbors tell us jameses gadson claimed he bought the house in foreclosure. Those same neighbors tell us he later claimed to have squatters rights. In a philadelphia magazine article, gadson says he never claimed squatters rights but he has said the property is his. How do you explain yourself mr. Gadson. I went to see the sheriff whose office, he toll me records show that the late Kearney Anderson still owns the house. Theres no sheriffs sale. Theres no debt owed to the city. Theres no debt to a mortgage company. Hasnt gotten there yet. Reporter based on the research that did you in the system who own the house . Carney anderson he own the property. Reporter he also told me that people taking over houses happens more often than we may think. It can be a process to remove squatters but if they break into your house, ultimately its a crime. The door was locked. Sew someone broke in there and we dont know if its the same people broke in there, but someone broke in the property and put their locks on the door. Now you got a different story now, because when you break into a property and you take possession of a property, thats illegally done that. Reporter we of course tried to contact mr. Gadson and his wife for comment and he told me through text message that his likenessness is his creator to exchange for currency ton accommodate my request for an interview would require a payment of 5,000. After getting the police and sheriff involved, sh a. M. A anderson thought the gad sops finally left but days later neighbor manuel glenn was balking by and spotted james gadson and another man trying to once again go in the house and change the locks. He confronted them and caught the whole thing on video. This time Police Arrived during the act, the men had no id proving their right to be there, and both men were arres arrested. James gadson was charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief. Of course, we are staying on top of this story and bring you any developments as they happen. A car dealership riddled with bullet holes. The owner hoping cash will catch the shooter. I want him. 5gs. What owner says went down hours earlier that spark this outburst of bullets and quinc quincy im at a starstudded empire party at wd al s patti jackson. What did you think about the first show. Fabulous cookie. I cannot wait. Well talk to mother. Back to you guys in the studio. Slightly excited. Attacked on the streets several people trapped. What a firefighter tried to save families from that landed him in the hospital. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Were getting one day close sir but the only roadways that are closed with the papal visit remain the ben franklin parkway. Both directions so anyone coming into town tonight and tomorrow morning Martin Luther king drive youll be pushed on to the vine expressway. Kelly drive youre pushed on to fairmount avenue into the neighborhoods. But tomorrow night, 10 00 oclock is when we start to see the closures of the vine street expressway exits that will prevent folks from going on to the parkway and coming into center city. Well have the rest of the details and check the jam cams when we see bright and early tomorrow beginning a now your winning lottery numbers. Scary moments for customers at a detroit car dealership. An argument over a rental car ended with these bullet holes flying through the dealership. Police say angry boyfriend of a customer fired the shots. The gunfire sent the people inside running for cover. Tonight the dealership is offering a 5,000 reward to find the shooter and no one was injured in the shooting. Would be carjacker picks out his target even jumping in the drivers seat. You know what, he definitely wasnt expecting the driver to fight back. Surveillance cameras at this detroit gas station caught the whole thing. You see the carjacker jump in fight with the driver as the guy tries to drive off, the victim pulls out a gun. The victim starts shooting. Carjacker crashes i