from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs "eyewitness news". good morning. the world meeting of families gets under way today as preparations continue for at the arrival of pope francis. crews have been working flight to set up barriers and get cars off the street. pope francis wraps up his visit to cuba before traveling to the us this afternoon, we have his itinerary of events after landing in washington, dc. almost here. good morning, it's tuesday, september 22nd, i'm erika von tiehl teal.ning, it's tuesday, let's check on traffic and weather and meisha and still feels fall-like outside. >> gorgeous outside. it's kind of a welcome break after some of the humidity, good evening, justin. >> i don't think there's any humidity coming back any time

soon, i think we're done with that. last official day of the summer season as we bring you fall tomorrow morning. we're waking up way little bit of rainfall smochlts check it out on storm scan 3, you have to go north and west to the city up into berks county, allentown, reporting a little bit of line ravenlt that's where the moisture will be hanging out this morning, as it moves off. elsewhere we're waking up to mostly cloudy around the city, across driveway delaware and soufrng little bit milder than yesterday. the clouds are acting as a blanket this morning, holding in some of the heat. 59 in allentown with a little rain sales reading at violate degrees, 65 at the airport in philadelphia. lower 60's in south jersey. suburbs similar numbers looking at upper 50, quakertown, do you also town low 60's will willow grove and palmyra. the humidity absent because of the wind direction out of the north and northeast. it's coming in ten miles per less, break down the temperatures through the morning, clouds start off 9.look

the looking at mid 60, lunch few breaks, little bit of sun back into the low 70's once again like yesterday, temperatures will be in low and mid 70's above average for this time of year. there's a little bit of warmup in the seven-day forecast, we'll get to that in just a few more minutes, we got to hit the roads with meisha. good morning. >> good morning, justin. things are looking good. the roadways, no rain drops affecting anything we can at this point, things are looking nice and quiet. in the 4:00 hour, in bucks county this is place we have construction, route 1 be northbound between oxford valley and route 13. you can see the far right lane is blocked some of those cones got the flashing lights. again. not going to as low cause slow downs, many just waking up grabbing a cup of coffee. here's a look at the bvenl for those coming from jersey into center city. just a few drivers out there this morning. far cry from what we saw yesterday. especial as we said the heat through the morning, right now, enjoy the nice open roadways for those of you coming from jersey

into philadelphia oh into center city, looking nice. peak at the vine between the schuylkill expressway, you can see eastbound or westbound looking great here again, just a few at any times. headlights is exactly what we want to hear, when you click on the tv in the morning that things are looking good, construction in media 252 between state and jackson road, all lanes block both directs use summer street as your alternate, other erika. the world meeting of families begins day in philadelphia, the conference every three years will culminate way visit by pope francis this weekend. justin finch. joins us outside the basillica of st. peter and paul will the pope will celebrate mass when he comes to town. good morning. >> reporter: the crowds began arriving for the world meeting of families yesterday. it officially kicks doff. and here on it parkway, more work continues on what will be the papal stage. if you hook up, you you might see a surprise aprotection of a painting called marry undoer of

if knots, said to be a favor of pope francis on the dome you'll see the classic work of heart praying hands and burning candles, it's the work of art artist meg who was here. she teamed with the mercy and justice group of catholic chart home which helps local at risk groups find food and shelter, she invited those to write their strugglings on white written which is now outline outside the basillica it's marry the undoer of knots grotto. untie the knots. down the parkway the work continued overnight, we saw workers putting up high and heavy fencing in the area of turned and pennsylvania, not far from what will be the papal stage come this weekend and artist meg says as i pilgrims arrive the momentum is truly building. take a listen. >> from what i've witnessed it's

some of the best philly has to offer, people are working, celebrating together, coming together, it's exciting here. >> reporter: and the basillica art can be seen here all week from dusk until midnight. not on right now but come out a bit later and you will see it in motionly take note philadelphia public schools will close tomorrow for i don't want ky pour and on monday, school will also be closed as the city recovers from hosting pope francis and the world meeting of families. live on the parkway, justin finch; cbs "eyewitness news". erika? >> thank you. and towing schedules also continue ahead of the papal visit, you do need to move your car off the street. right now towing is in evening for areas around the ben franklin parkway and art museum. this does include areas north and souvenlth parkway and east to 12th street. you're looking at fairmount avenue. you can see tow trucks moving the vehicles out.

tonight at 6:00, cars will be towed from 12. street east to old city. you can purchase a parking a placard. thursday to move the cars. pope francis end his visit to cuba today with a mass at the country of most reveered shrine. this before he flys to washington, dc this afternoon for the start of his us visit. yesterday, the pope was in the town of, cuba fourth largest city where he celebrated mass and graded faithful in the pope mobile. he then arrived in the town of, he arrives in washington, dc this afternoon, after that a visit to new york city and the pontiff is scheduled to arrive here in philadelphia saturday morning at 9:30. in our nation's capital, crews making the final preparations for that evan. roads there are blocked off and metal fencing up around the nash mall as well as other locations that pope will visit. in washington, the pope will

speak before a joint savings congress. stay with "eyewitness news" for continuing cup as we inch closer to the historic visit of pope francis. you can find updates any time as cbsphilly.com. it's 4:37 age young child is hit and killed by a septa paratransit bus in south philadelphia. this happened around 5:15 last night when authorities say 2-year-old ran into the street near it says of 21st and morris. the young boy's family says he was visiting his cousin's house with his father at the time. we spoke to one of the child's family members. >> 30 seconds, not even 40 seconds. no one -- no one didn't know, you know, he was running in the street. if we would know, you know. >> the toddler was pronounced dead at the hospital. driver remained on the scene, and no charges are being filed

p. america airlines plane makes an emergency land i want to go philadelphia international airport. flight 1889 and air bus 8320 was on route from charlotte to hartford last night when the bird hit the plane's windshield and cracked it. the plane landed safely in philadelphia. no one injured. pennsylvania attorney general kathleen kane says she will not resign, even though her law license has been suspend. the state supreme court, you add unanimous ordinary temporarily suspending her license. kane remains in charge of a 750 employee officers, and a 93 million dollar budget but now without the ability to act as a lawyer. the state constitution requires the attorney general to be a licensed attorney. kane, a democratic is facing perjury, obstruction of justice and other charges. in campaign 2016, there is

now one fewer gop presidential candidate. wisconsin governor scott walker announced he is dropping out. he says he's ending his campaign so voters can focus on finding an alternative to donald trump. trump remains the republican front runner with carli he fiorina now in second place above ben carson. latest poll numbers say hilary clinton is in the lead on it democrat side. ben carson is not backing down from his comments that a muslim should not be president. the council on american islamic relations is calling on carson to drop out of the gop presidential race but his campaign is reporting strong fund-raising and more than 100,000 new facebook friends. all of of this since carson's comments on sunday. much more to cover on "eyewitness news", a north philadelphia charter school finally getting a much needed playground, but finally made this project a reality. we're entering final day of summer. comes down to this, but it's going to feel a lot more like fall than summer. justin has a

charter school will be built there on thursday. over 200 volunteers, including parents, some fixers and even some nuns in town for the world meeting of families, they're all part of the construction crew. for now, 700 students share a classroom that's been converted into a gym. >> it's actually good for the smaller kids because they get to enjoy and play and like around different tools to help them have fun. >> the estimator price tag for the playground is $70,000, and most of that is coming from community groups. coming up on 4:43. if you're going to hit the playground, you need a. >> tracking little bit of rain north of the city up through the lehigh valley but a fall-like forecast, we're going to bring

back someone re sun coming up over the next 24 hours. little sun for everybody. final day of the summer season, let's recap. what we went through this summer as we go back to the month of june. a wet one. 8.88 inches of rain, five inches above average, july a hot one. ten, 90-degree plus days. also dry, above average on the rainfall, august on the hot side as well. two degrees above average and september we have the highest temperature of the year in september on it 3rd, it was 96. no 90's coming up, we enter fall tomorrow morning at 4:21 that's when the sun aligns itself with the equator. we do have a easterly wind disturbance from the atmosphere light rain showers north and east, i 78 seeing a little bit of right rain this hour heading up the turnpike, the extension into the poconos region, you may have run into wet roads and lower visibility, nothing really

heavy. this should move through during the morning hours, we get a few breaks in the clouds later on, the wind direction coming out of the east and northeast right off the ocean, so that keeps our temperatures on the cooler side, upper 50's, north and west to the mid 60's around philadelphia. high pressure will protect us from any large storm systems from developing and it's bringing into that cooler air, 57 in assistant district attorney ton, setup, easterly flow cool day, back to sunshine on wednesday be highs in the 80's. thursday still warm day, upper 70's to near 80. clouds pretty much through the afternoon, those clouds do decrease tonight into tomorrow, we go, mostly sunny skies, here's your forecast today. again clouds few breaks of sun, 74 degrees for tonight, clearing skies, cool, 59 degrees, your forecast at 6:58. temperature around 70 at sunset and the extended forecast again, keeping it dry into the weekend. we cool back down to the to mid 70 for the papal visit. erika? >> thank you. the eagles are working on

getting their run game in gear ahead of sunday against the jets. chip kelly high flying offense was third in the nfls last year. this year, the boards have been grounded. the eagles rushing attack end with all of seven yards in sunday's loss to the cowboys. last year demarco murray finished just two yards but the coach is looking ahead now and the offense as if line knows it's not just murray. >> right now, it doesn't matter who the running back is, we're not doing anything up front to be able to give him an opportunity. we got to get this fixed. got it's about putting in a game plan that will be effective against the jets. that's what the focus is on. >> the phillies also need to get hot to avoid a 100 loss season. series against the marlins in miami tonight with 94 losses and 12 games to display. the phils not lost six straight. hockey season, think about that? flyers are started preseason schedule. first action for new head coach

dave hextall. the orange and black opened split squad action last night. five different flyers scored and beat the islanders five to three at brooklyn center, the flyers lost three to two. flyers and rangers at the well tonight. still ahead, an "eyewitness news" apple is ramping up to build a car. what the high tech vehicle will be like. that's coming up in your money watch report. here's what's head on cbs3.

look at your headline this morning, world meeting of families begins today in philadelphia. right now, crews are working through the night as preparations continue for the arrival of pope francis this weekend. meanwhile, pope francis wraps up his visit to cuba today with mass at the country's most reveered shrine. later today, pope francis will talk with families before he

flys to washington, dc this afternoon to start his us visit. back here at home, a toddler is hit and killed by a septa paratransit bus in south philadelphia. 2-year-old mohammed run into the street near the intersection of 21st and morris, pronounced dead at the hospital. the driver did remain at the scene, no charges are being filed. 4:49. time for check on business, jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange and the big news from apple. ramping up to build a car. tell us more about this. good morning. >> good morning. apple is speeding up efforts to build it's first electric car. target ship date of 2019. the company has been ramping up hiring for the project. pulling in all sorts of auto industry. it's not clear if apple will be making the car itself or contracting the work to another manufacturer, but stay sign

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and her initial reaction was positive, so i think he knew that she -- he'd have her blessing for it, very good. >> no drama here, thank you, jill. >> good morning. coming up after at break, check on your traffic and weather on this

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5:00 on busy too, construction bucks county route 1 northbound between oxford and route 13, as i'm looking at this camera, looks like that is also being picked up and moved out of the way, we're looking nice here, open roadways, everyone traveling around posted speeds. any camera i look at is looking good. even 95 southbound. this is one of our busyier stretches looking good around that s curve. just in the world of traffic looking good. i hear we have maybe a little bit of rain in some parts. >> you have the to go north of the city, around philadelphia roads looking good, he want towards berks and lehigh valley that's where we have wet weather to talk about. you can see this ton storm scan 3, not heavy rain toe deal with a light rain causing a little bit of wet road conditions to our north, just be a little bit patient when traveling northward up towards the lehigh valley and the poconos region, elsewhere, temperatures in the mid 60s with clouds around philadelphia, low 60s in south jersey. 52 in mount poconos, little bit milder than yesterday still on the cooler side, if you're

heading to the mountains the next few decks clouds and showers around this morning, high of 67, sunshine return thursday and friday, back into the low and mid 70's. if you're hitting the shore, not the best beach day, clouds, breezy, cool, 72, that wind will continue to kick up off the ocean, really chopping up the ocean, so you probably don't want to have plan to swim in the water but on the beach, looking pretty good wednesday and thursday, sunshine does return, forecast we're up to 74, few peaks of sunshine tonight's clearing skies, comfortably cool with a low of 59 for the city, cooler in the suburbs and the extended forecast fall arrives tomorrow morning at 4:21 be sunshine near 80. we'll keep it dry into the start of the weekend, mid 70's sunday could be a shower chance during the pope's visit, we'll have to keep an eye o breezy with highs in the low 70, erika back over to you. >> thank you here's a check now some of the stories our sister kyw news radio 1060 is following. the lit brothers building,

lighting up 7 and 8th market street. a south philadelphia woman with numerous papal encounters she's sharing her stories and hoping to others to take part. and the race for us senate in pennsylvania heatings up. one of the elicit candidates looking to run against pam toomey is a democratic mayor from a small western pennsylvania town. check in two, three, four times day on kyw 1060 on your a.m. dial coming up on the next hour, "eyewitness news" we are live in bash shop shanahan high school, we'll introduce you to the band performing for the pope. exciting. then three weeks after a police officer was shot and killed, his son is now speaking out. the new details just merging in this case. and a celebration turns scary when dancers see right there run over on the football field. when we come back.

from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs3 "eyewitness news". good morning. it's the reason pope is coming to town. world meeting of families begins today. as you slept crews worked put up fences along the parkway and towing more cars, we are live with the latest. new this morning, fire rips through yeadon delaware county business but that's not the only challenge firefighters are face throng. and "eyewitness news" cameras out in center city overnight on this last full day of summer. fall is almost here. also getting a better idea of this weekend's forecast for the papal visit just ahead that coming up in a just a moment. good morning, tuesday, september 22nd i'm erika von tiehl.

checking in with justin and meisha they got their eye on it forecast and the roads. good morning. >> good morning, the roadways looking good, overall things are good. i know in the weather department, they have a little bit of rain in places. >> that's right, meisha, not a whole lo it's been awhile since we talked about that. it's really north of the city if you're up in the berks county lehigh valley, the poconos you're running into a little bit of light rain, elsewhere looking dry. clouds over center city here on the sky deck and that shows the story there on storm scan 3, mostly cloudy conditions but you see light rain up in berks county and lehigh valley, keep that in mind. probably not enough to really use the wipers a whole lot either. 65 at the airport in philadelphia, 53 in mount poconos. south jersey, we go and delaware, similar numbers in the low and mid 60's and there you go for some of the suburbs little bit cooler willow grove, pottstown 58, 59 degrees, clouds temperatures mid 60's 9:00 you'll run into the that sprinkle north of