this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". good morning, after heavy rain all through yesterday, and through the evening, too, there is some flooding in the area around our region. but the rain does look like it is moving out. a check on today's forecast and a look at the weekend, too. >> philadelphia residents who live near the ben franklin parkway nervous about the papal visit. more on the heated meeting last night where people who live in the logan square neighborhood made their concerns known. >> worse attack on american soil, we remember, 14 years ago the september 11 attack took place, 18 victims from bucks county. we have live view right here of the garden of reflection in lower makefield. we'll tell you how the victims are being honored today. good morning, today is friday, september 11, i'm erika von tiehl. >> i'm nicole brewer.

a check on traffic and weather together. katie and meisha are here. >> good morning, it is friday, we all want to smile, but i have to same, kai last i walked out of the house this morning and it was raining again. >> i know. but it will get better today. >> good. >> i promise that you. >> so we're hoping hopefully for the morning commute? >> i think things will definitely be most better than yesterday, we will be getting better as we go along instead of getting worse. right now, temperatures pretty mild in the 60s this morning, 68 in philadelphia, newtown square you can see 64, 66 in pemberton, 66, six a bensalem. notice the winds very calm, too. starting off with much nicer situation. we have left over problems, one of them here is a flood warning, you can see this is just south of philadelphia, in parts of gloucester county, and that means, that we still have got water on the roads out there, too. so it is a morning to be careful. you have to take your time. but notice as we take a look at storm scan3, this is what i am talking about, things getting better. see the little drips of rain,

drizzle clearing away, clouds also starting to clear away, so it will be much nicer today. looking around the region, 70s already, down the shore there in atlantic city, about 73 degrees, decrease in clouds, how about little sunshine, and less humidity, everybody. today that's what we are talking about, getting back to average temperatures, so headed in the right direction. that is for sure. we will talk about your weekend forecast, because i know everyone wants to talk about that, meisha, when i come back in just a few. how are the roads? i know it is early. but i would think we will be better than yesterday. >> yes, well, so far so good, kai l things looking really good. much different right now at this exact same moment than it was yesterday. yesterday was so busy right when walked in the studio. right now things are calm, looking really good. here is a look at the schuylkill at girard, light volume out there already in the 4:00 hour, people already hitting roadways, probably knowing from yesterday, that they want to get early jump on things, nine at southbound, just past coat man again. few travelers out there.

thinking about leaving your house any time soon, probably wise choice, you're in good company. here is a look at the ben franklin bridge, for those of you coming eastbound, looking great there. headlights out there traveling from jersey heading into center city, eastbound and westbound, as you head eastbound, into jersey, you can see, you have lost that far right lane due to some construction that's flip flopped. it was the west side, now it is moving in the east side direction. we have downed tree, a car, struck a tree, in pottstown, route 724 is closed between scholl road and catfish lane. so certainly use alternate road around there. then some fun stuff. double-header because it was rained out yesterday. phillies versus the cubs, tonight 5:05 and 8:35, ladies, over to you. >> meisha, thank you. new this morning heavy rains load to flooded out roads in our area, this is route 45 and berkley road in mantua township gloucester county. police have the roadblock off in both ex there, as you can see the water with halfway up the stop sign there. >> 4:33, and we news just over two weeks away from the arrival of pope francis in philadelphia.

not everyone is excited about the visit. the pope's visit has many philadelphians on edge, especially everyone going to the ben franklin parkway, wondering thousand will affect them. >> jan carabeo live for us outside the cathedral bass ill, a where informational session was held last night. hearing it was pretty heated, jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, folks who live in this area, well the papal visit will be napping their front yard. they really just want to understand what life is going to look like at the end of september, in both the run up to the papal visit and the big papal visit weekends. people who live in this area specifically the logan square neighborhood association got a chance to meet with city officials last night to discuss some of their concerns and get some of their questions answered. this happened right here at the basilica of saint pete area p and paul, about ooh people met inside with sit officials lalls night. they addressed number of topics including travel within the festival grounds, parking in the area. some residents are pleased with that open dialogue. other say they just don't feel

the city is addressing everyone's needs. >> it is great to have three people have their specific needs set, it is really clear there will be many more people who have situations that the city hasn't really thought through. so, we need the city to be able to be flexible amidst a lot of. >> this. >> reporter: in the meantime, city officials have now detailed a number of other information including parking restrictions, when towing will start in these row strict dollars areas. they've also given out more information about transportation on roads, rales, even on waterways. we will breakdown all of those specifics starting at 5:30 this morning. but for now, re are reporting live in center city, jan carabeo, "eyewitness news". >> good information, jan, thanks. also learning more details that affect people who live and drive within those secure zones, officials showed secret service rendering of what the final security set up will like like here. mayor nutter also announced parking restrictions, resident within the blue secure zones

will need to move their vehicles or face towing, and most of those vehicles will need to be moved by sunday september 20th, but if you have a 20-dollar plaque adder, to park in a ppa garage, then you will have until thursday september 24th to move your vehicle. another option, naval hospital lot at paterson avenue. >> this location has about 1500 parking spots and will be available for free beginning that week. >> to see the list of parking garages and free parking lot available during the papal visit just go to our website cbs-3. com/papal advice. >> i also learned waterways are off limit to boat traffic. us coast guard will establish security zones on portions of the schuylkill and delaware rivers. they'll be in effect from friday september 25th to monday september 28th. now, parts of what will become the papal stage have started to be put in place. workers sat down layer every grounds protection on eakin's oval yesterday. that's going to hold the framework whisk built over the

next few days. pieces of the stage are being trucked in on large pallets. crews are trying their best to protect the ground in the area of the parkway. >> happening today, philadelphia judge will sentence former youth football coach convicted of six sexual assault. jury found liam watson guilty of sexually assaulting six boys, prosecutors want watson to spend the rest of his life in prison. >> the coast guard continues its search for small plane that crash off the jersey shore. the single gin plane went down yesterday afternoon about 7 miles eels of atlantic city. the faa says the mooney a20 left gaylord, michigan, head today atlantic silt international airport. coals guard found scattered debris in the ocean, but no sign of a pilot. sixty-eight year old michael moore. >> any time the sun goes down, it is obviously harder to see things, but we have a lot of asset on scene right now. >> still, no word on what caused that crash. fourteen years ago today, the worse attack on american soil

took place. ceremonies are taking place all over the country in honor of the september 11 attacks, including the memorial in shenksville, pennsylvania, the site of the flight 93 crash. now, last night families and loved ones gathered to remember those lost. visitors gathered around the mains and newly opened memorial plot that honors passengers and crew lost on united flight 93. thousand candles and lights were placed on the plaza as silent tribute to those victims. >> remembrance events scheduled throughout the area today. we have live look right here at the garden of row flexion, in lower makefield township, where service will take place later on this morning. we have full list of events available on our website cbsphilly.com. and stay with "eyewitness news" for complete coverage of today's ceremonies. 4:38 right now. still ahead on "eyewitness news", we have updates in the race for president. >> joe biden gets very candid on late show, on the late show with stephen colbert. but he is talking about his possible run for the white house.

take a listen. >> i want to talk about the elephant in the room, which in this case is a donkey. do you have anything you would like to tell us right now about your plans? >> yes. >> oh, oh? what the vice president had to say about launching a campaign. that's coming up next. >> also, we saw more rain overnight. but how is today? and the rest of the weekend shaping up? kyla has a look at your forecast, back in just two minutes.

>> in campaign 2016, the stage is set for next week's republican presidential debate. cnn announced the same ten leading candidates who debate in the prime time last month will now be joined by carly fiorina, meantime, donald trump's lead is growing, while hillary clinton's lead is singing. her lead over bernie sanders

dropped to ten-point in a new cnn pole. >> meanwhile, vice president joe biden made his much anticipated appearance on the late show with stephen colbert last night. biden's appearance expected to take on light tone, instead it turned emotional when asked about his 2016 decision, biden said, he would be lying if he said he was prepared to run following his son beau biden's death in may to brain cancer. >> i don't think any manor woman should run for president unless, number one, they know exactly why they would want to be president, and two, they can look at the folks out there and say i promise you, you have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy, and my passion to do this. and i would be lying if i said that i knew i was there. >> biden also talk about an emotional breakdown during a recent trip to a colorado military base when a well wish err yelled out beau biden's

name and referenced his decorated military service in iraq. all right, coming up on 4:43, some rain continued overnight. this is a look at center city here. but the good news is it is clearing up for today, kyla is joining us now for a check on the forecast, hopefully some good news headed into this friday? >> great napping on the sofa day yesterday. >> oh, cuddled down with little jack and road out the afternoon in inside. >> evening commute, not fun for folks. >> not fun at all. thinking about people yesterday. good news it will definitely get better today. setting ourselves for very nice day, not just the rain will be gone, but humidity levels will be dropping, that's huge for today. set daily records yesterday. you can see there philadelphia 4.76 inches, that was daily record, over 3 inches in milton ville, quarry ville, just under that in valley forge, record there in trenton at about 1.68 inches. so we were deluged with rain. we have been talking about the rain deficit. you can see we had just about an inbetween august 1st and

september 9th. but look at this, yesterday, boom, boy, that changed it, that's what you call a drought buster. so we certainly have caught up. now we do still have flood warning, parts of gloucester county south of philadelphia. a lot of water still out there on the road. we have got it be careful everybody. here is the good news, take a look at storm scan3, these are the drizzles that will trickle out. you can see they are pushing off shore, not only are they going to go, but the clouds eventually are also going to give us a break and start rolling. so it will be nice afternoon. 68 degrees right now, in philadelphia. sixty-six in allentown, millville coming in at about 69. and we're in the 70s in wildwood there. good morning to you. 72 degrees. as we go throughout the afternoon today, so we watch in the morning, clouds start to dissipate. temperatures low 80s, it will be nice out, there and we get some beautiful sunshine as we start to get into the lunchtime hour. now this will push off shore. but we do have another front tracking our way. so while friday will look fantastic, look what happens here, saturday at 8:00 a.m., you start to see this werth off to the west t starts to roll through later on saturday. there is 11:00 p.m. you see showers rolling

through philadelphia. sets us up for little wet weekend, everybody, even sunday, we can continue to see few showers out there. so today we are looking good, high of 82 degrees, less humidity, decrease in clouds tonight, comfortable, low of 65 degrees. and if we take a lock at your seven day forecast, you can see it is a pretty nice day today. we do have to watch out for showers saturday afternoon, i think throughout the day sunday, even though those temperatures dropping down for highs in the 70s, latter part of the weekend. so feels like a decent change. >> making the transition, kyla, thanks. phillies looking for new general manager to lead the team's rebuilding project. the team is not renewing contract of rubin amaro, jr., son of former phillie one time bat boy and player for the phils, amaro joined the phillies front office back in 1998. he became gm after the 2008 world championship and was in office for the three post-season runs that came after. but amaro was at the helm when the team went from first to worse and owner john milton says things needed to change.

>> we recognize that we had a problem, and we're trying as fast as we can to get out of the problem and get back it winning. that's what this is about. this decision was only about how do we get back to winning. >> i haven't really spent any time in exploration of the history, my focus is on and continues to be on the future. switching to football, eagles kick off the season monday night in atlanta. a lot of people paying attention to new running back demarco murray. support reporter pat gallon shows us one of the those people is former eagles running back, shady mccoy. >> as a member of the dallas cowboys, new eagles running back, demarco murray, led the league in rushing by nearly 500 yards. still, that's not good enough for mccoy to admit that murray is better back. that will interview with gq magazine, mccoy said, quote, i don't see him as competition as far as the best backs. murray took a shot back at shady. >> you know, at some point you have to move on with your live and career, you know, never worry about what someone opens

says about me, good, bad, ugly. >> murray doesn't need to match mccoy step for step with individual stats or accolade, but teamed with matthews and sproles, they might be better suited than a yearing. >> we want to keep someone fresh in the game. if it takes if you come out, you know, for couple of plays just to get you in and get you back, it takes a toll on the defense. >> i'll give my touches, we will do some good thing, and i'm sure ryan and sproles will get their job done. >> from nova care complex, pat gallon, eyewitness sports. >> can't believe eagles season almost here, monday night. >> oh, football season, it is fall, that means fall to me. early start. that and a pumpkin latte. >> exactly. >> still ahead, fortune magazine has released its list of the 50 most powerful women in bills. we'll tell how made the cut. >> first, a look at what's coming up tonight on cbs-3.

>> an are eye law yourself a little extra time on the roadways today. this is route 45, in mantua township gloucester county, right now it is block off at berkley road. >> and the pope's upcoming visit has resident of the logan square neighborhood kind of worried about 50 resident attended q and a session last night, some say they don't feel like the city is address being everyone's needs. >> today marks the 14th anniversary of the september 11 attacks. family members will read the names of victim this morning, near the site where the world trade center towers collapsed. in shenksville, pennsylvania, people gathered last night to honor 40 victims who guide on united airlines flight 93, and they held a silent tribute. >> money watch's jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, hearing there is major step forward in the fight to rate pays for fast-food workers. hearing about this for awhile. what's the latest development? >> reporter: that's right, fast-food workers in new york are getting a raise. so new york state that is 15

minimum wage, it will be phased in within the next few years. this is the first time a state has set the minimum that hi, right now the federal minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. but cities and state have boosted pay on their own. some predict that the pay increase in new york len courage other areas to follow suit. erika, nick snow. >> and also hearing about fortunes putting out a list of the most powerful women in business. who made the cut? >> welshing yes. fortune listed the ooh most powerful women is out t includes 27ceo's, they have a combined trim john dollars in stock market value. and at the top of the list, is general motors eo marry, she led the company to billions of dollars in sales after the 2014 ignition switch recall debockle, also the head of pepsi and the ceo of ibm. they're number two and three on the list. >> this year, fortune decided to have a ben fuss pick. and that's a 51 -- singer

taylor swift. she is of course shaking up the music industry. she's refuse to go put her music on spotify, taking a stand against the way fingers are paid from those streaming site. so not too young to get on that list either. she's only 25. >> she needs to clear some room off of her shelves with all of those awards she's winning. >> we love her here. >> thanks so much. >> wildly successful, jill, thank you. coming up after the break, another check on traffic and weather together. we'll be right back.

>> meisha, a i know we are watching the roads, are they still wet out there? >> certainly wet out there. now starting to see some flashing light, that means we're having some myfoxphilly.com. good morning to all of you at home, if you are just waking up with us. this is where we have an accident, blue route, off ram top saint david, near route 30. you can see, not going to cause too many slow downs watch this does indicate, yesterday, as you know, especially for those of you watching us early in the morning there is happened right away in the morning, tan

kind of continued throughout the morning. so, we don't know if that's going to continue. but the roadways are still certainly wet, from some of the stuff coming down early this morning, and here's a look at the boulevard, southbound at fox street. looking good here. looking quiet. hopefully it stays this way. we know it will not as we move toward the 5:00, 6:00 hour. forty-two northbound, creek road, see it looking real nice on this stretch as well. kai last i don't know how it is looking in the werth department but traffic looking better than yesterday. >> we will see the rain slack off as we get into the latter part of our morning, so things already starting to look better. live look at storm scan3, you can see those little drizzle bit starting to push off. that's going to help us immensely, do have still flood warning south of philadelphia and part of gloucester county, and that you know as meisha was talking about, a lot of water on the road. careful out there everybody. looking good in center city, currently 68 degrees. you do see 9% humidity, part has to do with the early morning, part has to do with the rain moving out. that will will get better for you as we go throughout the

day today. take a lock where we are going, going see the cloud decrease as the day goes on. by the time we hit the afternoon talking sunshine and 82 degrees, how about that? so today, decrease in clouds, more sunshine on the way, noticeably less humid. back to average temperatures, guys, which is lovely. so i think today's perfect. i give it top ten. we just have to get rid after few clouds and then we will be great. heading over to you, i'll be back in a little bit with your seven day forecast. >> we will take perfect on a friday. >> please. >> coming up in the next hour of "eyewitness news", clock is particularring this morning, live with new details about the pope's visit to philadelphia. >> and also, ahead, a wild ride, new this morning, one of the craziest police chases you may ever see. >> plus reward is growing as authorities work to uncover details about a series of highway shootings in arizona. we'll have details on that when we return back to the top of the hour.

>> this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> just about two weeks away from the pope's visit to philadelphia. and there are still a lot of questions to be answered. we are live with details from a meeting for residents along the parkway. and new this morning, flashflooding in part of south jersey. meisha has the latest on your morning commute. >> rainy start here in philadelphia. "eyewitness news" cameras caught the center city downpour, a lot of folks i know got caught in that trying to race out the door or go home. >> it was a nice afternoon to stay in for me. >> once you get the jam is on, pretty fantastic. >> nice and cudley. >> good morning cents it is friday, september 11. i'm erika von tiehl. >> i'm nicole brewer. >> high water yesterday has route 45 closed at berkley road in mantua township

gloucester county this morning. now, that water is starting to recede. so that's good news, and that road should be open soon. the area flood something affecting your morning commute, absolutely, we want to check in with kyla and meisha with a check on that. >> good morning, not kind of the way we want that start off our friday, right? more rain today, temperatures are falling, just little bit kyla, but the roads are actually looking pretty good. we just have two incidents out there that i will touch base on. >> okay, good. >> and iand i'll help you out wh the weather today. yesterday i wasn't able to help you out. it was getting worse as the commute went on. today better. dow want to point out, we have flood warning, take a look at this, this is exactly where mantua; talking about a lot of the flooding is, and just south of philadelphia, part of gloucester county, so heads up, that's probably the biggest trouble spot we have right now. rain amount, check it out, over 4 inches, almost 5 inches every rain in philadelphia, three in abington, north hills over two, same as pottstown, just under two in newtown, i mean, these totals incredible here. see