By the time youre heading home from work mid90s. Ill let you know how long this heat and high humidity will stick around for our area. Thats coming up in my extended full forecast. For now we check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. The roads are good for now. Were not dealing with a whole lot of volume. The schuylkill expressway relatively light. Were looking live around girard avenue. So we are losing out that righthand shoulder on the eastbound side. Theres a little bit of equipment in the area. Not an active work zone but something to watch out for. Headed eastbound right in here a 12minute drive time. From the blue route up towards the vine street expressway, no real problems there. Well head over to new jersey now. We are seeing just a tad more volume than normal. And a little bit earlier than we normally do, possibly some folks heading home from the shore. So northbound from 55 up towards the walt whitman bridge still seeing an easy drive time. 61 Miles Per
During that papal visit. Good evening to you, im lucy noland. Im iain page. There are only enough septa passes for a tenth of that so today septa announced a lottery. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in norristown tonight at one of the few septa stations that be running that weekend. Shawnette. Reporter okay. Iain and lucy heres the deal. 350 thus san Tickets Available for that entire weekend. The tickets are mandatory for travel into the city the weekend the pope will be here whether you plan to come to see him or you need to be here on other business. I think you may have a better chance of actually winning the lottery. Reporter step Regional Rail riders we spoke to arent happy about the lottery that will determine who gets passes into the city the weekend of the papal visit. Just arbitrarily what you can or you cant based upon random number. Septa officials said during a News Conference today that monday august 3rd they will launch a sight built by philadelphia firm ticket leap that
Reporter okay. Iain and lucy heres the deal. 350 thus san Tickets Available for that entire weekend. The tickets are mandatory for travel into the city the weekend the pope will be here whether you plan to come to see him or you need to be here on other business. I think you may have a better chance of actually winning the lottery. Reporter step Regional Rail riders we spoke to arent happy about the lottery that will determine who gets passes into the city the weekend of the papal visit. Just arbitrarily what you can or you cant based upon random number. Septa officials said during a News Conference today that monday august 3rd they will launch a sight built by philadelphia firm ticket leap that will be hosted by amazon. At 12 0 1 00 a. M. People have until 11 59 that night 24 hours to go online and request up to 10 passes at tepp dollars each. Those passes will be for the Regional Rail on September September 26th and 27th and are mandatory for travel into the city for any reason that
Papelbon. Good riddance. Down the road in washington. Enjoy him the nationals he seems like the quality guy. Phillies won again. Yes, they did. In toronto. So well talk about that in a little while. This is kind of breaking weather news, just issued by the National Weather service excessive heat warning. And it is in effect in all of these areas in blazing red, until 6 00 tonight. This is for the heat index that could be 100 or above meaning, what it feels like outside after we get to the high of 95. We also have for the entire region, an air quality warning, until tomorrow, until, i should say until later today. So anyway, satellite radar picture, no rain on it, look where we are already at 79 degrees. We have 84 relative humidity. We have only a 3mile per hour winds. 5 57 is your sunrise time. Temperatures elsewhere 62 mount pocono, already 70 in allentown, 71 in reading and 72 in trenton. Seventyfour atlantic city, 73 dover, you get the idea, in the 70s just about everywhere. Winds,
Had a long rap sheet. This is the ak47 he used to open fire on officers before they shot and killed him. He was armed with a smoke grenade and 100 rounds of ammunition. Police tried everything to get him to surrender. They even flew in his mother from delaware. Instead he chose to fight to the end. N. J. Burkett will have the latest on the firefighters condition. But first, lets get with tim fleischer. Reporter we can show you a much better vantage point, the nypd has allowed us to move a little closer. I will show you, we can move into it and we are right up next to the crime scene. See that house with the green roof . Down in the basement apartment, that is where this suspect was holed up for nearly six hours in this standoff. That large vehicle in front of it, that is known as the bear. That is a heavily Armored Vehicle used by the esu unit. That is what the men worked out of while they worked on this stand off and what they used to protect them when the gunfire began. This standoff