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Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by x finity the future of awesome. Right now a city transformed. Heres live look from the ben franklin parkway tonight. Fences, bleachers, barricades and a massive stage all set up to. The guest of honor still days away the but the preparations are not over. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. The pope touches down in philadelphia saturday morning from the parkway to right here in old city. The streets look totally different. Sidewalks, blocked off. Jumbo trons set up and checkpoints ready for hundreds of thousands to rock on through. Fox 29s brad sat tip is live along the parkway tonight. Brad, i was earlier today. Im overwhelmed with what i saw. Reporter ill tell was, right now lucy i feel like i should probably whisper its so quite here. This is not what you expect to see from the ben franklin parkway. It is really quiet. Just within the last five minutes i think that they actually did shut down the roads because there ....
Fox 29s brad sat tip is live along the parkway tonight. Brad, i was earlier today. Im overwhelmed with what i saw. Reporter ill tell was, right now lucy i feel like i should probably whisper its so quite here. This is not what you expect to see from the ben franklin parkway. It is really quiet. Just within the last five minutes i think that they actually did shut down the roads because there is nothing behind me here. This is the red zone the socall red zone this is the area that starting now everybody has to go through security residents only allowed in at this point. Public will be allowed in to go through security starting tomorrow. Traffic cut off, cars being towed here. It made for unusual drive around the city on a thursday night. Cam before the storm driving around the city tonight no problem crossing over the ben franklin bridge which will be closing to vehicles friday nig night. The barriers theyre on the side ready to go. To make the walk across the bridge an orderly one and ....
She almost got hit by a car. Reporter she actually crossed the street. She could have the street with blanket over her head. Not even she couldnt even see. She had the blanket over her face over her face. And she just she just crossed the street ran across the street. Reporter Police Recover the child but it happened again just two days later. Incident reports say no adult was observed and that the child was Walking Around by herself. This time mom was charged with child abandonment. Again, on june 30th 484 old walk away again mom was arrest arrested. This time Child Welfare authorities took the children for a time. Finally on tuesday of this week a fourth incident. Gonteskis daughter walking alone on busy streets. Mom was again arrested. Her children taken into protective custody. Shelly parks is her close friend. She sa ....
Armour ad coming up in the friend. Im looking forward to that. 5 01. Good day he everybody, friday, august 1, 2014. Dlots weather on the ones with caitlin. Good morning you to tgif is correct here we are in august last unofficial month of summer of course summer goes to september 22 but we are counting down towards labor day whether you want to or not. Four weeks to go. Lets look at forecast straight away for today. Clouds increasing overnight. Its humidity. Warmer out there. Showers towards the south. Just south of delmarva actually starting to get organized bringing us chance for showers as early as this afternoon. 7 outside now. Winds out of the south, southwest light. But that is affecting in the system with all the moisture. 72 atlantic city. Cooler north and west. 65 pottstown. 64 in allentown. But a warmer change for a lot of us. Sxermly south. Thats where warmer air is. 15 degrees warmer than this time yesterday in millville. About more lining summer yesterday after a couple co ....
Prosecutors say this is just the beginning. Lets go oh fox 29s Dave Schratwieser live in east falls tonight. Dave . Reporter lucy, this case hits taxpayers right in the wallet. Prosecutors say they have a former employees diary. They have documen documents ands tracking to prove their case. These are the first two big arrests in a widening investigation of penndot contracts. Only fox 29 was there when state investigators raided V Tech Services in fulcroft a few months back. Now the owner of the company has been charged in a scheme that prosecutors say cost taxpayers 3. 6 million. Its about money. Its generating large sums of got tepp gains. Reporter 62 year old yen was charged with theft, corruption and bribery and plead not guilty thursday. Vehemently denies bribing anybody. He steadfastly maintains that for every day that he had this contract he did the work. Reporter i ....