Buildings like the philadelphian along the parkway. I feel like im going to be a prisoner in my home. Reporter Francine Gilbert parks in the buildings garage. For three days she wont be able to move her car and if she lever the garage before thursday night. I cant bring the car back and then how. I going to return if theres no transportation . So, its a problem. Reporter and they wont even be able to get around on their shuttle bus. Outside the black zone major arteries like lombard street will be limited to emergency vehicles only, closed to traffic and parking. While many respect scrambling to adjust, others say bring it on. Reporter youre okay with it. Were okay with it. We prefer to be able to leave the building but in the absence of that, were happy to be able to be with friends in the building. Reporter now the city will be holding another briefing next week on exactly what Center City Residents can expect and the Mayors Office says that plenty of signs will be posted in the Parking Security zones well before the popes visit. Live in washington square, david henry, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you, david. Special passes the ride new Jersey Transit during the papal visit will go on sale this weekend. A limited number of tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon on the agencys web site but you must have one of those passes to board an Atlantic City or river line train on september 26th or 27th. Both lines have limited service on those days. At least a handful of hospitals are in that traffic box established for the papal visit. Penn medicine has three hospitals so theyve been planning ahead to make sure that they are ready to take care of all patients as they would any other weekend. Health reporter and registered nurse ali gorman live outside the hospital of the university of pennsylvania with more on that. Ali. Reporter these are just some of the numbers. This is for staff that will be staying at the hospital will need an additional 3,000 sheets and 1500 pillows. The chief medical officer says its like planning for the worst snowstorm. They need to make sure they have enough supplies and staff to last four days. From supplies to medication and staffing, dr. Pj brennan chief medical officer for penn medicine says plans are under way to make sure all three penn hospitals in the traffic box during the papal visit will be ready. The immediate consideration is staffing. We have mapped all of our workforce to understand where they live, what their proximity is to our hospitals. Reporter aside from who can walk or bike to work, he expects 1500 workers will stay at the hospital. We will be fully staffed for all of the services and if we need a surge well bring in additional people. Reporter the pharmacy will have at least a 44 day supply of medication. Same goes for other necessary supplies including food and clean linen. Dr. Brennan expects the number of patients will go down going into the weekend but will go up as millions come to see the pope on the parkway. Were not all that far from the parkway and all the events that are going to occur so i expect many people will find their way particularly to Pennsylvania Hospital downtown. Reporter the hospitals also typically delivery about 100 babies per weekend. So, chief of ob gyn is working with all pregnant patients due around popes visit. Well and looking at everyones individual obstetrical history and where they live making sure that they feel comfortable with their care plan. We need to stay opened. We need to continue to deliver care at the same level that we do any other day of the year that the pope isnt here. Reporter and another consideration is making sure that they have enough Translation Services because many of the visitors may not speak english. On a side note theyre also taking a vote as to what types of entertainment to have at the hospitals for the staff since so many of them will be spending so much time as work. Reporting live from university city, ali gorman, channel6 action news. Monica. Thank you, ali. Now you can see the security perimeter maps and other road closures themselves on our web site 6abc. Com. There youll also read about the expected impact on new Jersey Transit and septa service during the popes visit. And learn more about pope francis himself. Action news has traveled to the place of his birth. Jim gardner is in argentina for us and hell report live all next week from buenos aires. Hes visiting the places that helped form the popes views on helping the poor. Jims live reports begin next monday. Look for those stories on action news at 6 00 and 11 00. A Philadelphia Police officer is okay tonight after a car crash. Chopper 6hd was over the scene about an hour ago at sixth street and hunting park avenue. Police say a car turned in front of the officer and then his air bags deployed. He was taken to Temple University hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Fortunately no one else was hurt. Firefighters pulled a pilot from the wreckage of his plane after it crashed in allentown this morning. The faa says an experimental amateur built plane went down in the lily high creek just west of the i78 overpass. It happened about 11 oclock. The pilot was the only person on board. Rescuers say that pilot was conscious while transported to the hospital. No word on the extent of injuries. The ntsb will investigate but no indication yet what caused the plane to go down. A partial Building Collapse in north philadelphia has neighbors worried tonight. Just afternoon, a structure here in the 3600 block of North Lawrence street gave way. Nobody was hurt but fire officials did clear the scene, then l and i, license and inspection experts came for a check as well. No word yet on what caused the partial collapse. Police are looking for a man they say stole a van filled with prescription drugs in west philadelphia. The suspect swiped a vehicle that was parked outside a pharmacy at 57th and chestnut about 10 30 this morning. Now, police say the thief crashed that vehicle later at 42nd and girard. Investigators recovered the van but the man took off running. Its unclear if he took any of the drugs. Folks in north jersey are still a bit nervous after a small earthquake rattled them today. This happened here just 2 miles north of Bernardsville Somerset county before dawn this morning. As new jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic tells us tonight it may have been slight but the repercussions will be felt for awhile. Reporter weve all heard of things that go bump in the night but in the bernardsville area it was a boom a2. 7 magnitude earthquake that jolted people out of a sound sleep. It sounded like something had hit the house. It shook things off our shelves, et cetera. So, it was a pretty big jolt. I was sleeping and it woke me up out of my sleep and it felt like a train was coming down the chute i guess and then my baby woke up and then we had to feed her and my dog was shaking. Reporter the quake happened at 3 41 a. M. Heres wait looks like registering on a seismograph measuring ground. I slept through it. Reporter seismologists say the quake happened about 2 miles underground. Thats considered shallow for an earthquake but it was just enough to shake everybody up above ground. I thought the house was exploding or there was an explosion and it was just a loud, loud noise. Reporter sharon owns the bagel bin in downtown bernardville. She goes its thunder. I said its not thunder. I didnt know what it was. It was like a big that you had. I didnt know if something fell on the house or the water heater blew up. Reporter Bernardsville Police confirm there were no reports of injuries or damage but the Early Morning wakeup call from beneath the ground has everyone talking. Its very unusual. I dont think we had an earthquake here in they say in my existence alone. Reporter mini earthquakes usually happen in new jersey. The last one was a 1. 7, 17 miles outside of trenton in december. In bernardsville, im Nora Muchanic, channel6 action news. Tonight we know why some wilmington delaware residents reported smelling gas. Turns out a construction crew did hit a gas line. It happened at 10 00 this morning at fifth and church. Delmarva power says everything was fixed by 11 30 but they have been still getting calls all day. Officials say wilmington folks should check to make sure their pilot lights are on as well. If you smell gas, please leave your house and call delmarva right away. Also from our delaware news room painting on the delaware Memorial Bridge could impact your travels this weekend. Crews will be continuing their work on the bridges twin spans. That means there will be alternating lane closures from now until sunday evening at 7 00. Officials say you should expect delays and that work is expected to be fully finished in late november. Coming up on action news tonight, the American Flag is again flying in cuba. We will have local reaction to this historic moment. Also well go live to eagles Training Camp where the birds are prepping for their first preseason game this weekend. Cecily. Temperatures have started warming up already. 88 degrees in philadelphia. Its 2 degrees above normal. But the heat and humidity making a big comeback over the weekend. Im tracking heat wave number four. Those stories and more when action news continues for you tonight. [cheers and applause] stars and stripes are flying in cuba for the first time in 54 years. The American Flag rose this morning over the newly opened u. S. Embassy in havana. This historic moment signals new diplomatic friendship with cuba. Of note the marines were invited to come back and take part in this ceremony today. Local cuban americans are reacting to todays news. I think for me now i can see the country, i can know the people, i can experience what my mother experienced so going back to her country or going to her country is going to be very emotional for me. I feel like its great, you know what i mean. Its great that we have communication again. Both these women work at the Latin American Community center in wilmington. They say the theme of the centers annual fundraising bowl in october by the way is a night in cuba, celebration of a new era and world news tonight with david muir will have much more from cuba for you tonight at 6 30. Philadelphia School District helped families get ready for the new school year coming up today. It hosted a back to School Education day right at the high school of the future, the citys parkside section. Students could register for classes. There was different information for parents and more than a hundred organizations were there to answer questions. There were even educational games and some fun Face Painting for the kids later. If you are looking for something to do this weekend you can head out the musikfest in bethlehem. Gates opened about 15 minutes ago. 16 stages are set up and their plenty of vendors to check out at one of the biggest free Music Festival in the country. Darius rucker are the headliners tonight. By the way the festival wraps up this sunday. The stage is also set for a big music weekend in Atlantic City. Lucky folks scored free tickets today on the boardwalk. Sundays concert put on by live nation will take up five blocks along the beach. Nick jonas performs first and maroon5 takes the stage about 6 oclock. The concert should provide a boost for Hotels Parking lots and other nearby businesses. [cheers and applause] time for sports. Ducis here and our eagles versus the colts on sunday and time for football. Finally. Its finally here. We get to see some real action in just a couple of days. You will not see sam bradford in that game. The eagles have chosen to take it easy with their new starting quarterback. Our Jeff Skversky is live at Training Camp with more on this decision. Jeff. Hey, ducis. Chip kelly will pass on playing sam bradford in that preseason opener on sunday. Look, eagles fans are disappointed. Sam bradford is disappointed but heres the bottom line and hes not hurt. Its not a setback. They just could not afford for this guy to potentially get hurt in the first preseason game of the entire season. Bradford will have to wait until next saturday against the ravens to test that twice surgically repaired left knee. Look, he went through this in saint louis as well. He was held out of the rams first preseason game last year, too, so its not that abnormal. So, mark sanchez will start sunday against indy but tim tebow and matt barkley will get the majority of the reps at quarterback. Bradford believes he still has plenty time to get ready for the monday night opener in atlanta next month. Sam will not play. Its my decision he really wants to play. I dont think hes real happy with my decision but hes been out here for two weeks doing a really nice job. Hell get his first work against the rave avenues when we get a chance to train with them. Mark will start the game. Obviously i wanted to be out there. I was preparing to be out there but, you know, this morning he kind of sat down and explained it to me and its up to him. Ill be ready to roll next week, get out there and play against the ravens. After practice today clip chip signing autographs and taking pictures with fallen Philadelphia Police officer robert wilson, iiis partner and grandmother. Chip attended a viewing after wilson was shot and killed back in march. Chip told me afterwards he feels really bad for the family and friends of officer wilson. Another football note. Eagles starting tight end zach ertz had surgery today on a core muscle. Will he miss the entire preseason but chip kelly believes he will be ready to go week one in atlanta. Hopefully that is the case. Live at team headquarters, Jeff Skversky channel6 action news. Ducis. Thank you so much. Well have a recap of the eagles postgame sunday night. Join us for action news sports sunday at 11 35 following action news at 11 00 eagles linebacker Brandon Graham will join us live. To baseball the phillies in milwaukee tonight and so is chase utley. The second baseman is leading off. Still nothing more on those trade rumors. Second round pga championship. Rory mcilroy the chip on number two. Rory leave the putter in the bag. Youll not need it. Mcilroy at two under par. Jordan spieth having a tremendous year already two majors to kick off the season on 18 from the bunker, exquisite. Six under par. John dale on number 10. After putting his third ball into the water, his club follows suit. Yup, he tosses his club into lake michigan. One mans trash is another mans treasure. Check out this youngster. Goes in there and gets the soup near. Your leader right now jason day and matt simmer at nine under par. Thats worth something absolutely. The Philadelphia Police officer surprised a group of students this afternoon. 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Youre going to want to do this alligator thing. And betty didnt lead us wrong. A little later we passed some dancing. And who doesnt like dancing . Especially when its followed by fireworks everyones nola is different. Follow yours. Meteorologist cecily tynan is here and going to go back into the sizzle this weekend. Yes, yes, the heat will be intensifying and the humidity will be intensifying as well. Double whammy. Uncomfortable by sunday. Right now live on storm tracker6 double scan showing that we have rain free conditions out there and the action cam taking a look over the schuylkill river, just a beautiful shot, blue skies and sunshine, the 6abc zoo balloon there and tomorrow pretty big event a rowing competition for athletes with physical disabilities will be taking place so definitely good luck to all the competitors. Should be a great day out there but definitely drink lots of water its going to be hot. Right now in philadelphia, 86 degrees our high 88, thats 2 degrees above normal. Allentown 84. Millville 83. Trenton 86. And wilmington 85. Sea isle city 81 degrees. Satellite6 along with action radar showing you have to look elsewhere if you want to see a lot of cloud cover. We are in the clear today. High pressure really in control and thats whats keeping this cold front thats draped across upstate new york from really working farther to the south. So, tonight will be a clear night. Humidity levels will be comfortable but it will be a little bit warmer than the past several nights. 68 degrees in philadelphia, seasonably warm. Allentown 60. Millville 62. And wilmington 64 degrees. Tomorrow the heat is on. 91 degrees, dewpoints in the upper 50s and low 60s. So, humidity really wont be a factor. This cold front really will be washing out and this High Pressure intensifies on sunday. That heat pump cranking the temperature up to 93 degrees. Dewpoints in the mid 60s. So you will notice an uptick in the humidity on sunday.