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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 ...

Are going to be screened. Theyre all screened. Behind actually there are fences here. Central park is fenced off. Fifth avenue is fenced off. We were sent a little earlier in the day i dont know if i want to share this with you or not. Go ahead. Its a lot of figures and facts and stuff. These are the sorts of things you can dazzle your friends with if you want to tell what the nypd had to do for this particular security effort. The nypd is going to use 24,500 barriers, 14,000 of which are owned by the department. Its going to total 196,000 feet of barrier or 37 miles. The barriers are primaril...

Pope were glad about that. Its important to be there, its important to be there and vote with your body and show you support it. Were going to current fromhold interrupting johns report, francis has arrived and sitting in the chair. About 100 inmates are going oh, my. Lets listen. [applause] good morning ladies and gentlemen thank you to all of you coming to the correctional facility. That is commissioner were working on getting this audio just as loud as crisp as we come. Maybe you saw the commissioner in the report that i did, he is catholic, so this is quite an experience for him, not only ...

Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Barriers going up in philly as the pope ends a historic day down 95 in d. C. Here at Home Security on the ground and above to protect you and the pontiff. And okay. We are going to be all right. Students flood to local university after what looked like a hate crime. Why many believed what was hanging from these trees was no incident mistake. Well have that story in delaware in a moment but right now, the city is changing by the minute in preparation for the pope a live look tonight at the ben franklin parkway under a tota...

Friday afternoon. He is a good leader and hes very professional. Very compassionate. Does a very good job of organization. Hes a great guy, and i wish him well. Family, friends, city leaders and dignitaries came together to give their best wishes to ford. To me, hes like the captain of the ship. The Police Department was the ship. His hand was always on the helm no matter what happened. He knew where he wanted to go. He came on to the force more than 40 years ago, promoted to sergeant on january 1st 1979, and promoted to chief of police over 26 years ago on september 19th , 1989. He handles th...