♪ right now at 11:00, only one more week to prepare before pope francis touches down right here in philadelphia, and tonight, new details emerge about security for the event we also have more road closures to talk about. some happening in just a few hours. good evening, i'm jessica dean. >> i'm ukee washington. police now say certain traffic detours will last several days after the pope leaves philadelphia. "eyewitness news" reporter greg are a goes is along the ben franklin parkway right now with

more on the final preps. greg? >> reporter: ukee, good evening. in fact you can see the ben franklin parkway right here the inner lanes already closed in fact that is a jumbo tron one of the many that will line the parkway for pope francis' event on saturday and sunday but we've just learned from philadelphia police the outer lanes the ones you see right here with these vehicles traveling on them right now will close starting at 6am tomorrow just the latest step in preparation for pope francis' arrival. just about one week until pope francis is in philly. >> i'm ready for it to be over. >> i think it's pretty cool. >> i will not be anywhere near here. >> reporter: even as day turned dark construction of the papal stage and altar still in full swing along the parkway. and what is without port o potties both lining the chestnut street here the wall net street bridges waiting for their final destinations all throughout the

parkway area. >> it's a big event. there are lot of port o potties. >> there's also a lot of planning for security. >> we know of no specific credible threat directed at the pope's visit here to this city. report roar behind the scenes safety measures are taking shape. this undisclosed multi agent seats communication center more than 50 governmental agencies will keep close eye on every location the pope will visit. >> you have to have structure. if you don't have structure, you have mayhem. >> reporter: the montgomery county sheriff says his department is ready in case any mayhem happens. >> preparing his bomb squad with how to use this drone which could be used during an emergency. >> if there's going to be a million and a half people or 10 -- whatever it is, in center city philadelphia, or on city line avenue, it's going to be very difficult to get a robot in that area. so a drone with the proper application would be a benefit to us. >> reporter: now, for as all

of these reopenings of these detours, these closures, philadelphia police says everything should be back to normal by october 4th that's a sunday by 8:00 p.m. reporting live here along eakins oval greg are a goes, cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> time is running out for city residents to figure out where to park their vehicles ahead of the papal visit. signs designating the no parking areas within the security zones have been posted since monday. the parking authority will start towing vehicles parked in the zones on sunday at 6:00 p.m. drivers have the option of moving their vehicle outside the zone or parking in a garage. final preparations are being made in cuba for saturday afternoon's arrival of pope francis. it's the first stop on his whirlwind north american tore his four day trip to cuba include visits to certain churches and meeting the country's poor. today ahead of that visit, president obama and cuba's president discussed on-going efforts to restore ties between their two nations. as he prepares for this

journey the pope tweeted this today quote i ask you to join me in praying for my trip to cuba and the united states. i need your prayers. thousands of catholic priests are expected to come to the next week's world meeting every families here in philadelphia. including one group who arrived early to fight for their place within the priesthood. "eyewitness news" at the women's ordination conference about 200 women in the united states act as catholic priests but operate outside of the church. the women held service tonight at the convention center. pope francis has made it clear the all male priesthood should be preserved but the women hope that being here during the papal visit can help to change his mine. and remember, you can always get any information you need about the pope's visit any time by going to cbsphilly.com/papal visit. we got complete guide of what's happening. when it's happening and helpful information on getting around town. now in other news tonight, neighbors are on edge after recent rash of car and home

break ins in south jersey. this week the burglars were caught on camera stealing from a truck in sewell, gloucester county. "eyewitness news" reporter diana rocco has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: a rash of cars, shed and home break ins washington township has police issuing a warning. >> i would just encourage the community, one torque lock their cars, lock their doors. mack sure their garage door is closed protect their property they work hard for. report roar since august, 51 cars, 19 sheds and sick homes have been broken into. so far police have made two arrests. leaving them with hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in unclaimed valuables. rings, watches, cell phones, gps devices and electronics. just this week, two of the burglars were caught on home surveillance video stealing tools from a pickup truck parked in a driveway on haddock drive in sue well around thee am monday. the two males looked to be in their late teens or early 20'ss. >> they look to be pretty comfortable. they looked to be quiet at ease.

so in my experience would tell me this is certainly not the first time they've done this report roar police believe the pair are responsible for some but not all of the recent break ins. >> now, knowing this, we're all kind of going to be little bit more aware, a little bit more in touch with each other. >> reporter: neighbors on the block are taking extra precautions and keeping an eye out for each other. >> we pretty much are cautious any ways. so we keep our doors locked and usually somebody around. report roar police believe they are not just dealing with one group of burglars but several. if you recognize any of the stolen items, think you may have been the victim of a crime or if you have information for police, they are asking you give them a call. in washington township, i'm i'm diana rocco cbs3 "eyewitness news". terrifying night for northeast philadelphia mother who feared for her life as three men barged into her home. it happened around 1:00 a.m. on the 2800 block of shipley road when police say the masked men put a gun to the woman's head while ransacking her house. her children remained asleep and

unharmed upstairs. the suspect got away with $800 in cash. investigators are hoping fingerprints will lead them to the suspects. a quick trip to the backward to mow the lawn can be live changes eye as a phoenixville family learned when their three-year-old almost died. david spun has the story of how a devastating accident sent a local mother on mission to bring awareness. >> i'm trying but sometimes it doesn't stay. >> reporter: the relationship between dr. ray men and three-year-old talon is a special one. to put it plainly, she saved his life. back in may, a family member was mowing the lawn on an industrial sized tractor. when talon ran out from behind the bushes and was run over. >> in my wild dreams i didn't imagine that i'm going to run into a dad carrying his son in his arms completely, you know, filled with blood. >> reporter: rail men is the medical director of new hours dupont at phoenixville hospital and operat operated on oh on tan

minutes after he was arrived. he was almost cut completely in half. the doctor was able to help talon thanks to an i pad and technology called tele medicine. >> it's a secure way of obtaining expert ease at a moment's notice. >> reporter: about an hour later, talon was in a helicopter on his way to dupont in wilmington where he underwent a nine-hour surgery. he continues to come back to wilmington for therapy with his mom alicia wilson. she still thinks about that day talon was run over. >> my first reaction was i thought he was dead. >> she tells "eyewitness news" her son has defied all odds. >> it's a miracle. >> the angels are with him that day. >> you save the day! >> talon's case unfortunately is common. according to the consumer product safety commission, more than 17,000 kids and teens are injured each year in similar accidents. that's almost 50 a day. wool stone wants to see more safety information available to the public. she's already started a public awareness campaign hoping to save other kids from her son's

fate. >> you go out and you want to mow your lawn and get it done to spend more time with your familiar but you don't realize what, you know, the ramifications of it can actually be. >> reporter: alicia reached out to u.s. congressman ryan costello who told "eyewitness news" in statement there needs to be more public awardness about little kids and heavy machinery especially lawnmowers. woolston hopes to meet with the congressman soon to continue to bring attention to little kids and law mower safety really amazing just to see how well talon is doing considering those injuries. only been few months. we're live in the sat center. david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> remarkable story. remarkable little boy. david, thank so much. gloucester county high school on alert after one student has a confirm case of whooping cough. parents were notified by text today about the student at clear view regional high school in mullica hill. another student is also suspected of having the disease. school officials say they are sanitizing the school we as well as buses it's school remains open at this time. it's shuttered showboat casino in atlantic city has new

owner for the second time in less than year. tower invest elements pay stockton university about $22 million for the property. philadelphia developer bart black steen is ceo of tower invest manies. stockton bought the showboat in december for 18 million with plans to turn into sat lied campus. but conflicting legal restrictions on how the property can be used sung that deal. the last week of summer is upon us and kate is keeping an eye on much cooler weather. kate. >> that's right. the last weekend of summer and it is going to feel pretty summer like at least for the first half of the weekend. let's talk about what's ahead for your saturday. summer sunshine, nice and warm but then it does turn cooler sunday and by monday into tuesday it's going to feel down right fall like. i'll have all the details coming up with the full seven day forecast. also ahead, you buy something with a life-time warranty so you probably expect it to last a lifetime, right? not always the case. three on your side's jim donovan has very important information you need before your next big

purchase. plus, the us government order as major automaker to fix nearly a mav half million cars. we'll tell was volkswagen got caught doing. get yourself ready for football. it's the original friday football frenzy coming up. >> and coming up right after "eyewitness news" at 11:00 it is the late show with eye stephen colbert ton night stephen welcomes presidential candidate bernie sanders, actress lupita, christopher wheel don, robbed

>> nearly 500,000 volkswagen vehicles being recalled tonight by federal regulators due to emissions software. the epa has accused of the automaker of violating clean air laws by putting a device on vehicles so they would pass an emissions test. affected diesel models include the jetta, golf, passat and audi

a3. the company faces more than $18 billion in fines. when you buy something with lifetime warranty you might expect it's going to last a lifetime. but as three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan explains customers and retailers do not always agree on definition of lifetime. >> reporter: jimmy didn't expect his blinds to last forever but he did expect he'd be able to get them fixed as long as he owned them. after all, they came with a limited lifetime warranty. >> when i saw lifetime, i thought hey this is great deal. i'll buy this blind and i cannot have to worry about for lifetime ownership. >> reporter: when jim knee contacted just blinds about broken blinds he got a surprise. that lifetime warranty was only good for five years. whereas this e-mail explains the lifetime of the average blind. he had his for seven. >> it was kind of deceit full to me. >> i think the company had a deceptive warranty. the warranty itself you can't call a warranty lifetime and

then in the fine print say we define lifetime as five years. that's five year warranty. not a lifetime warranty. >> reporter: edward, founder of consume mr. world.org says the term limited lifetime warranty simply means you may have to have to pay to have the product shipped for service or the warranty is limited to the original owner. if the company uses the term lifetime they have to define whose lifetime they mean. >> federal trade economic has a rouleau about lifetime warranties. they basically require retailers to disclose their definition of what lifetime means. and that's key for the consumer. so there's no ambiguity. >> reporter: they're covered if quote service is ever needed but there's a second three-year warranty description buried several clicks deep in every product description. just blinds couldn't say whether that was there when jimmy bought his blinds but he's now looking for carefully at all warranties to avoid being blind sided.

>> just blinds says it wants nothing more than for jimmy to be satisfied and has now agreed to replace the blinds. ftc regulations require online retailers to post warranty information in or near their product descriptions. reporting for three on your side, i'm jim donovan. if you're looking for a scare this fall we do have the place for you. >> it is opening night at the eastern state penetentiary terror behind the walls at the nationally ranked haunted house visitors wander along the halls of the abandoned prison, watching out for inmates, zombies and clowns. i had the clowns. they get in the way. keep in mind frightening a traction will be closed during the pope's visit. otherwise it's open through november 7th that do a great job year after year. >> it does make you think of hal hoe wean but it doesn't folic fall right now. >> knowledge it's not too fall like outside wrote now. it will get fall like through the weekend. looking for fall weather we've got that for you coming up as we

get into really monday and tuesday especially temperatures in the 70s and it will feel even cooler thanks to cool breeze that's going to set up. but first we've got to talk about the warm stuff that's your saturday. good summer weather outside for the last saturday of the summer. quick look outside on skycam3 out towards center city from our roof camera things looking really nice out there. very tranquil evening no problems it has been quite week across the board a very sunny stretch and as you can see from a time lapse video on our live neighbor network it was beautiful day. looking out towards center city and you can see we had blue skies just a few clouds then the sunset look beautiful and now looking good as well temperature just dropped to 69 degrees there in palmyra, new jersey. here's our next weather maker look at all this rain. look ominous off to the west. this is all lifting to the north and to the east. and we're just going to be dealing with the trailing front that's right about here. notice it doesn't have lot with it. it will have even less by the time it gets here. so that means we'll cool down but we don't have to deal with the rain or thunderstorms maybe just a stray shower in spots on

sunday morning. otherwise 71 right now at the airport. 63 in allentown. it's skate degrees in trenton and let's watch that front progress toward the area. notice into tomorrow morning, we start the day with a good deal of sunshine a few pat cheese clouds here and there. the front is just lurking off to the west saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. and then we've got this sneaky little storm trying to move up the coast but the good news is as that front comes through sunday morning temp generally dry, a few clouds can't rule out sprinkle. does it pick up this storm and it takes it out to sea. so 2:00 p.m. sunday looking at more sunshine. high pressure rebuilds across the region you'll get what's kind of a pressure gradient known as wind from high to low pressure the wind comes in out of the north and east here and that breeze is what's going to make it feel pretty cool as we head into the start of next we week. so the cooler air returns. with northeast wind especially monday and tuesday. the jet stream dives south and we're finally talking about a hint of fall in the forecast as we head into especially the start of next week. which coincidentally for the last two days of summer but definitely going to feel little

less summer like. overnight mainly clear and comfortable down to 64 degrees. your saturday looks beautiful any outdoor plans you want to do any last summer activities outside 84. feeling fantastic. and great weather for the eagles home opener. 77 degrees parly sunny sunday afternoon at 4:25. the cowboys are in town. it will be cooler so if you have tailgate plans not quiet as hot in the sun as it has been this week, partly sunny and pretty nice outside. so the "eyewitness weather" seven day forecast even though it's not quiet as sunny as this week was, little bit cooler and still we have some nice weather to tell you about. 78 degrees the high on sunday. as that cooler air comes in then it's breezy monday and tuesday. northeast wind will make that 75 on monday feel a little cooler than that. tuesday's breezy as well with more clouds than sun. fall begins on wednesday we'll see sun shine there as we head toward the end of next week temperatures warm back up to near 80. chance for few showers on friday but as of right now it look like that should clear out for the pope visit next weekend. >> fingers crossed on that. keep you move. >> kate thanks.

>> time for friday night sports with pat gallen. >> got phillies highlights. get you seat for the eagles and cowboys as he will it's friday night and you know what that means it's the friday football frenzy and it's coming up next. ♪

>> we can check tonight fosses game off the list. 14 games remaining until the

phillies are put out of their misery. they star add series on the road with the braves. the game was tied in the fourth until cameron maiden single off adam morgan. freeman scores. loss number 92 for the phils. 22-one the final. less than two days before the eagles and cowboys battle at the linc dallas has won the last three meetings in south philadelphia. with dez bryant out things may be easier for byron mack well he struggled against julio jones monday night. jones had nine catches for 141 yards and two scores against mack well. byron says he'll play better on sunday. >> definitely. your timing, rhythm everything will get back game two. that just how it work. you more you get into the season the better your game becomes. sharper your game becomes so, yeah, definitely everything will be sharper. >> now to hockey. hard to believe but the flyers started training camp today at voorhees much the first game for the new flyers head coach who

took over for craig berube. 32 a day sessions and the flyers first preseason game is monday against the islanders in allentown. ♪ >> you're watching friday night football frenzy. hi pat. >> whoo! >> thank you to the fantastic ridley high school cheerleaders it was great night for football and we'll get to our game of the week coming up but let's start in the philadelphia public league. it's central at bartram. central airing it out but this one is picked off by george kiaea he works on trying to return for score. just 5-foot sick he's trying to find a gap, little hole. they do catch him. central wins 28-22. gratz visiting fels. play of the day gillis under center. dancing around. shades of donovan mcnabb against the cowboys finds parsons and he cannot be stopped. break at least four tackles on the way.

gratz a 55-zero winner many. we go to mastbaum at frankford. isaia robinson he is johnny on the spot. the receiver tips it in the air robinson does the rest. frankford is a winner 56-12. it's west philly taking on the school of the future. blair finds a hole. my man is off to the races. 35 yards for the score. west philly wins 46-six. valley forge military academy visiting polumbo. derek brown the nice pump fake almost got the cameraman andy wheeler but he hooks up with the cruises for the nice diving touchdown. low palumbo wins. connor adams a touchdown interboro wins 26-sick. penn visiting downingtown east. a beach out in the sand. haiyan night north penn, a nice fake as well here. he'll keep it run in for the score downingtown east wins

28-24. west chester east at west chester ruston. steve franks rumbling in. looking like the bus there. jerome bettis. ruston wins 28-21. perkiomen valley is at pottsgrove before the game pottsgrove honored veterans on the field. sporting those cam mow pants looking good out there, guys. perkiomen valley goes to the air steven strum finds sean owens looking like terrell owens the there. 60-yard gain and then few plays later strun finds row and ro* and knee arch. pope john paul the second evening owens j. roberts the band rocking out at half time. catch of the night here, jarod john loop pal finds him for the full extension catch beautifully done. roberts winner 43-22. stay with us. coming next it is our game of the week. garnet valley visiting ridley.

that's coming up after the break.

>> welcome back to the friday football frenzy for our game of the week highlights two premier programs from the central league in delaware countily one-one garnet valley facing a two-zero ridley squad played great deadpans so far this year. >> talk about each week our legacy we want to leave, right? we talk about we're going to play for. you go out and represent the community, the school, student

body, yourself, your parents, when you go out like the song says you play and the people have your back the guys standing to your left, to your right, in front of you, behind you. >> nice behind the scenes at the locker room. coolest seating before the game the more race family bleacher seating in the back of the house. cool view. the fans ready for this one regional rivalry growing each and every year. ridley with the early lead in this one because of plays like this. kade scrambling and avoiding the garnet valley defense. nice gain there for the first down. back comes garnet valley derek west doing a little north south running in for the touchdown. then it's danny guy is the man. he runs in it for the touchdown here. garnet valley comes away with the 28-10 victory. don't go anywhere. we are coming right back.