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>> here's what all the colors mean. the green lines here behind me indicate the traffic box, essentially the entire thing. here's part of the green line. here's the bottom, south street cuting the city off right there. we first told you about that one last week. cars can travel within that box, they can leave it but they can't come back in after friday at 6:00 a.m. the yellow lines you see here going across here, going around, pretty much scattered all around the map. that's where authorized traffic can go. let's go to the black lines now. that's all around the parkway, here's independence mall, they go all around that area right there. that's where no vehicles are allowed. then you see within those, the red lines lining the parkway all the way down right here to city hall and also surrounding independence mall. that's where pedestrians will be screened by secret service and no vehicles will be allowed.
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jim? >> this map just out with the additions there. it will take people awhile to digest it. it is going to be up on our website and on the nbc 10 app. thanks for that late information. now to the impact on south jersey. we know which roads and bridges will be accessible. >> that plan has been fine-tuned and details have been released this afternoon. nbc 10's cydney long continues team coverage from camden. driving your own car to camden that weekend is highly discouraged? >> reporter: that's right. you are simply not going to be able to do it. this is going to be all about patience and pre-planning. we found out today, take a look, the parking lots behind us like the one here along the waterfront at the base of the ben franklin bridge, campbell's field, the battleship, you name it, there are about 1100 spots. you will not be able to bring your car here. they will all be reserved for credentialed tour buses and it will make camden the mass transit hub for this historic visit. >> for many people, they can't
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get there without coming from here t great state of new jersey. >> reporter: getting in and out of camden, new jersey will be an obstacle, what new jersey officials called a grueling climb to get anywhere close to the holy father. >> there is also a climb of 135 feet over mean high water of the benjamin franklin bridge. this is not an easy hike. >> reporter: a hike that transportation higher-ups felt for themselves, leaving at 2:00 to walk across the bridge. they not yet be to the parkway area where the pope will deliver mass. also, roads leading to the ben franklin bridge, the admiral wilson from baird boulevard and 676 northbound is off-limits. morgan boulevard drivers will be redirected to route 130 or route 30 to choose another route. >> the only vehicles that will be permitted north of exit 3 will be emergency vehicles into and out of the camden area and
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buses that have registered. >> reporter: those buses will fill all 1100 waterfront parking spots. officials say if you plan to drive your own car, to park in camden, you will be turned away. debbie figueroa of sicklerville will catch the river line somewhere else. >> i work in trenton. i want to make sure roads are clear. >> reporter: the river line will make limited stops. the new jersey transit atlantic city train will be express only from atlantic city to 30th street station, no stops whatsoever. of course, for that river line as well as the atlantic city line, you will also need special pre-paid passes which will go on sale this saturday through the weekend in the end of september. all of the closures we are talking about will coincide with the ben franklin bridge closure which will happen friday night at 10:00 and extend all the way through to monday morning at 12:00 noon. the commodore barry and betsy ross bridges and the walt
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whitman will remain open into philadelphia. i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> also connected to the papal visit, abandoned bikes. they got the heave-ho from philadelphia city workers today. the bikes collected every year but this year the round-up has special urgency as officials try to spruce up the city for the pope's visit. workers used blow torches and saws to unleash forgotten or discarded bikes from poles and fences. these bikes will be fixed up and donated to local children. there's a lot more information from both news conferences this afternoon. we have complete coverage on transportation, closures and school closures all on the nbc 10 news app for you. other news now. a new voice today in the kathleen kane investigation. we are now hearing from the judge who the attorney general says has the power to release key information that could help her. yesterday, kane called on montgomery county judge william carpenter to lift a court order so she could release e-mails she
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calls pornographic, racially offensive as well. she is accusing judge carpenter of protecting friends whose names are in the e-mails. she says the e-mails are related to the investigation into former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky. in his statement, judge carpenter says today kane has not filed with me any petition, pleading, motion or other request for court action. accordingly, i will take no official action at this time. kane is charged with leaking grand jury information to a newspaper, then lying about it. she is also facing calls for her resignation from governor tom wolf. she is scheduled for a preliminary hearing coming up on august 24th. we are now going to take you county by county with stories in ten different counties in pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware this afternoon. in cape may county, a man was arrested for two dwis within ten hours and he's not even old enough to drink. he was first arrested on tuesday night. police say the 19-year-old was drunk when he hit a utility pole on route 9 in toms river.
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crews were at the scene cleaning up which caused a backup. stay with me. in that same backup early the next morning, a hit and run involving cars stuck there because of tuesday night's crash. police say it was corsair again. police say he was high on drugs and was arrested again. in cumberland county, new information on a crash that killed two people and injured four others. police tell us michael haney of gilbertville died when his vehicle was hit by a pickup truck which crossed route 47 into oncoming traffic. the driver of the pickup is also dead but has not been identified. in kent county, the delaware teenager accused of killing his father with a crossbow will go on trial in september next year. seth ramsey told police he called his father because he had skipped school and thought his dad would be angry. ramsey was only 17 when his father was found dead in 2014. he is charged as an adult with murder. in burlington county, investigators are trying to
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figure out what started this house fire. skyforce 10 over the scene at weaver drive and ross way in evesham township around 7:00 this morning. fortunately, everyone made it out okay. in bucks county, a fire damaged an auto repair shop this morning. skyforce 10 flying over rnp automotive in warminster. fire started around 6:30. crews had it under control about a half hour later. in montgomery county, this may have tied up your commute this morning. skyforce 10 over lower merion where the schuykill was tied up for hours. a truck overturned between city avenue and belmont, spilling drywall. the crash happened around 6:30 and traffic troubles lasted through mid-morning. in camden county, thanks to tips from crimestoppers, gloucester township police say they nabbed the guy wearing an unusual disguise in this video. this video was from monday of last week. it first caught our eye because he's wearing a toddler sized pink teeshirt on his head. police say that's carl
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dannenhowor. police say he stole money. he's charged with burglary. there's a new place to pick up a sweater or pair of shoes in jersey. the new outlet mall could help pick up the local economy. >> cut the ribbon. >> with the snip of that scissors the gloucester premium outlets opened today in blackwood off route 42. the 90 stores in the new shopping center include calvin klein and underarmour, among others. officials say it becomes the largest economic development project in gloucester county's history. >> that momentum will continue to grow as people come here to our community to spend your money here in gloucester township. >> special events for the grand opening include fireworks later tonight. in atlantic county, the polar coaster will be the first of its kind. a florida developer is bringing
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his vision to the boardwalk. it will go where sands atlantic city used to be. no word on when construction on this polar coaster could start. in lehigh county, the westgate mall is getting a makeover, upgrading empty ;@ storefronts to look more attractive to retailers. renovation started this week and should last through february. sky zone trampoline park announced this week it would be opening within the mall this winter. in new castle county a push for gun control across the state of delaware. it's centered in elsmere. some town council members want to ban guns from their municipal buildings. nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong is live in elsmere. you spoke to people on both sides of this gun debate. >> reporter: i certainly did. here they will be talking about this right here in this room here tonight. the counsel krchambers. if you legally get a did you know in delaware, you can carry it on your hip. there are restricted spots in
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the state. some here want the restrictions to include this building in this town building. in 2013, you remember a man stormed into a local council meeting in northern pennsylvania. he shot and killed four people. >> i'm not against guns. >> reporter: the mayor of elsmere doesn't want that to happen in his town. he is co-sponsoring a law to keep open gun carriers out of the municipal building. open carrying is already banned in the town's parks. the mayor says he isn't looking to stomp on people's rights. he is looking to keep town workers and residents safe. >> some people just don't feel comfortable being around somebody who carries a gun. it's extremely tough issue because there are people near and dear to my heart that carry. >> reporter: ed is an open gun carrier and elsmere council members. he says town buildings are actually safer when law-abiding trained gun owners have their guns with them. all the mass shootings you see on the news, he says legal gun owners to have saved some lives in those cases. he says he trains with his gun hoping he never needs to use it but says he would rather have it and not need it than need it and
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not have it. >> the average response time for the police is six minutes. after six minutes, somebody walks in with a gun, whether they have it legally or not, you ain't going to need a policeman. you will need a coroner to haul the bodies out. >> reporter: back live, this law could only go into effect if and when the governor signs a new state law that lets local towns decide to do this. none of this would affect gun owners who get approved and trained for a permit for a concealed firearm. they will still be allowed in. in wilmington and new castle county, government buildings, you're not allowed to open carry. elsmere's mayor basically just tells me he wants his town to fall into the same umbrella under which they follow those rules. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. smoke and flames are still billowing from four fires after yesterday's massive explosions in china. today we know at least 50 people are dead. still unknown, what caused the explosions so large they registered as seismic events. the government is setting up monitoring stations to see what's in the air. they are trying to assure people they are not in danger.
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where this happened, tianjin, is a sister city of philadelphia. here in this country a ceiling collapsed on the concert goers in minneapolis. now three people are recovered from their injuries after this happened at the iconic first avenue nightclub last night. when the 30 by 30 foot section of ceiling fell it caused a water pipe to break as well. 1,000 people watching the concert got out quickly. firefighters rescued a center city woman after she was trapped in a building collapse. neighbors say they have been complaining about safety on this property for awhile now. nbc 10's doug shimell is live on the scene. you learned that this building collapse is tied to the deadly market street building collapse in 2013. >> reporter: exactly. the common denominator is griffin campbell, the contractor in the 2013 collapse. he was also the contractor here until two weeks after that collapse, when he was forced off the job as he was many other job sites. the biggest problem for this latest collapse, trying to get
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all of this heavy equipment down this tiny block of butler street to get at all of that debris. >> it sounded like an explosion or bomb was going off. i came around the corner and it was just on the ground. the whole thing. >> reporter: almost everyone near pine and juniper streets wondered when 320 butler avenue would come down. >> basically they heard a rumble. >> reporter: paul had two renters next door wednesday night. >> the fire rescue came out and got my two tenants out of the building through another access, through the church that faces 13th. >> reporter: residents say they had a bad feeling about the unfinished wood frame rowhome that towered above the neighborhood for more than two years. >> it didn't look very sturdy. it looked -- i haven't seen anyone working on it. >> this is a long going battle we've had with the owner of this building ever since the first contractor was thrown off which was griffin campbell. >> reporter: it was griffin campbell who was charged in 2013 with the deaths of six people in
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the now infamous 22nd and market street collapse. as cleanup crews now start work on butler avenue, the connection was haunting. >> this seemed like another harbinger of doom. thank goodness no one was hurt. >> reporter: the next big challenge for these cleanup crews is getting a large dump truck down here and the rest of the heavy equipment. nbc 10 has tried contacting the owner of the property. no success as of yet. l & i says they were well aware of all the issues out here at this property. they even had to put up a scaffolding for pedestrians in between the property that collapsed and the one next door just so something like this wouldn't potentially injure someone. i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. in decision 2016 news, a long-standing tradition at the iowa state fair kicked off today with presidential candidates opening themselves up to random questions at the so-called soap
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box. it is a high wire act during each candidate's allotted 20 minutes. hecklers are common. mike huckabee was first to take the stage, sharing the spotlight with the fair's famed butter cow and pork chops on a stick. the republican presidential candidate reiterated his political battles with the clintons during his political career in arkansas. as winner of the 2008 iowa republican caucuses, huckabee was at ease at today's event. >> hillary probably is not going to come. she will e-mail in her appearances. >> of course, we still don't know if hillary will speak at the soap box. democrat candidate jim west did it this afternoon. >> one of the ways i think we can motivate people in this country is to get them involved in programs of community service that also address the need for education. i'm committed to that. i believe in it. if you support me, we can do it. >> tomorrow we hear from jeb bush and on saturday, bernie
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sanders. there is actually a straw poll going on here. >> yeah. there is usually a competition for the best kind of pie, some kind of eating competition. at the grange fair in bucks county. this year, take a look at this. the bucks county republican committee holding its own straw poll of candidates for the white house. white cardboard boxes decorated with a candidate's face can be found next to the food truck. you have until sunday to cast your vote. lot of faces there. >> yes, there are. question here, do your children have a summer reading list and how is it coming along? >> sometimes it can be easier when you have a friend listening. kelce met lulu through the smarty paws program at the delco spca. kids were able to come in and read to the pets. the program was designed to make it easier for kids to read and give cats a chance to socialize. the ultimate goal is for the pets to find forever homes like lulu.
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>> it's kind of tough to say to kids you have to sit down and read for half an hour in the summertime. they want to play. in the wintertime, they don't want to come home and do school work. so she just enjoys reading to her and she doesn't complain at all. >> kids ages 5 to 13 can sign up to read while teenagers aged 14 through 16 can sign up to be smarty paws counselors. nbc 10 and telemundo 62 are working with other animal shelters to clear the shelters on saturday. you can get ready by checking out the exclusive kiddy cam. it's set up at the philadelphia animal welfare society's grant avenue location. we were streaming the kitty cam live on nbc10.com. here's how you can help clear the shelters. join the conversation and help raise awareness by sharing the event on social media. make sure you use the hash tag clear the shelters. send us pictures of your pets and of course, come out this
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saturday to welcome a new friend into your family. for shelter locations and fees, tap on the nbc 10 news app. what a day. we said the same thing yesterday and will probably be saying the same thing again tomorrow with that low humidity and the bright blue skies. got another beauty coming tomorrow. a little bit warmer but the humidity will still be down. then heat wave number four looks like it's coming. it does not look like we will be seeing extreme and dangerous heat, but several days of 90 plus. also, a bunch of dry days in a row. today is certainly one of those with nothing but sunshine out there, a few fair weather cumulus clouds that make it that much prettier. 81 degrees, feels like 81. the humidity is pretty low. temperatures are near 80 right now. 83 degrees in bensalem.
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we have gotten into the 80s at the shore with a northwest wind. 84, atlantic city international. which has had six straight good weekends and it looks like a seventh is on the way. a bit of the northwest wind today, 82 degrees. looks like a common temperature there. we are going to be seeing temperatures actually a little bit lower over the weekend because we will get a sea breeze sooner. we won't be getting any rain the way it looks. there is hardly any moisture in the eastern half of the country. so the shore forecast is once again looking good. temperatures up near 80 degrees, southwest wind will start coming in, changing to a sea breeze in the afternoon. at least at the jersey shore. the delaware beaches will be several degrees warmer than this. the water temperature now 85 degrees. in the pocono mountains, beautiful day on friday. got some more clouds coming in saturday and sunday, an outside
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shot at a shower, but it still looks like it will be nice. it's not exactly football weather but they are playing on sunday afternoon. it will be 86 degrees at kickoff, going up to 92. it will feel like it's about 95 by the fourth quarter. that's pretty hot for football. and pretty hot for the spectators, too. for tonight, clear and comfortable, 65 degrees for a low in philadelphia, 54 north and west. tomorrow, a few degrees warmer. lot of sunshine and low humidity again. we've had a lot of those days this summer, more than usual, i'd say. then on saturday, the temperature goes up some more, up near 90. the humidity, still not terrible. sunday, 92 with the humidity up a bit more. it will feel like about 95. monday, maybe the hottest, 94, could be feeling like it's close to 100 by that time.
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and tuesday looks pretty hot as well before we finally start getting some chances of storms. it's a total pain in the butt. >> ez pass finding drivers for cars they don't own. the nbc 10 investigators uncover the issue that has penn dot getting involved to eliminate mistakes. new video shows what happened moments before this school bus crash sent nine children to a new jersey hospital. plus the two businesses experts say are raising the value of homes in our area by nearly 40%.
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the flower town farmers market is open in a new location after a long fight to stay in business. a loan from the county gave the cash necessary to rehab the new location at 1800 bethlehem pike. you may remember it was the old springfield hotel. the market is open thursday through saturday. it employs about 60 people and a lot of local customers were worried the market would never
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reopen after the landlord at the old site ended the lease. vendors used social media to gain momentum for the new location. in just three days, five new houses will spring up in north philadelphia. it's all part of the habitat for humanity builders challenge. this empty lot on turner street will become hope village thanks to local construction companies and the carpenters union donating their time and talent. the work ends on saturday with five new houses. they will go to local low income families at an affordable price with zero interest. homework overload could face your children this school year. >> what a new study reveals about the workload on kids and how long experts say students should be spending on homework. plus a kink in the ez pass system that monitors you at the tolls. a new jersey couple got nine tickets for a car they never owned. they called the nbc 10
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strangest he's ever seen. >> it's a total pain in the butt. >> reporter: for two years his wife has been ticketed nine times, all claiming her car traveled through new jersey tolls without paying. the citation shows the car here at the ben franklin bridge. only problem, it's not the beckers' car. >> it had a picture of a car, a lexus which we don't own and have never owned. >> reporter: they do own this old pennsylvania vanity plate with the word protect with an o. registration expired in 2012. >> i gave up the right to have the name protect or my wife did on the car so then it went into the dead tag file. >> reporter: a dead tag is one that is no longer in use. p-r-o-t-e-c-t might be a dead tag but p-r-0-t-e-c-t is alive and well on someone's car. the lexus that's been running the tolls. >> a lexus. a lexus.
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>> reporter: the two plates are so similar, they confuse new jersey ez pass machines and the people hired to check violations. >> i called up dmv, i called up ez pass. no one could figure it out. >> reporter: here at the new jersey turnpike authority is where the new jersey ez pass office is located. we asked them for a comment about the issue but they refused to go on camera to answer our questions but did tell us the agency has a contract with xerox including two employees who review questionable violations. xerox was paid nearly $55 million in 2014. in a statement, ez pass says mistakes like the one in the beckers' case are rare. less than 1% of violations reviewed. they can be caused by quote, unclear images or similar characters such as 8s and bs, 0s and os and 1s and is. new jersey ez pass says it
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doesn't plan on changing how they do things. >> the onus is on the enforcement agency to make sure they are the proper plate identified. >> reporter: penndot's spokesperson says information on p.a. drivers and license plates aren't given to enforcement agencies who make electronic requests but that information doesn't include whether or not a plate is dead. after our investigation, penndot is making a change and hoping to make sure the beckers' case doesn't happen to other drivers. >> from the penndot side, it's going to make sure that the information is out there for all the jurisdictions to see even if they do misidentify the plate that he they should not be reaching out to us personally because it may have been marked as dead. >> reporter: penndot does not have a time frame for when the change will take effect but the agency did send the beckers a letter acknowledging the tag is dead. they can use it if they get any more erroneous tickets. new jersey ez pass set the beckers up with their own customer service representative
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to help with any future issues. harry hairston, nbc 10 news. here are some of the stories making headlines on "nbc 10 news at 4:00." large swaths of downtown philadelphia will become car-free zones during the pope's visit next month. mayor michael nutter just announced that security perimeters are being established around the ben franklin parkway and independence mall. fences will also go up where people will be required to go through metal detectors. you can see the map at nbc10.com. we learned today camden will be a mass transit hub for the papal visit next month but if you're not taking a bus or patco out of new jersey, you're going to have to walk and it will be a long one because you are not going to be able to park close to the ben franklin bridge. then you will have to climb the bridge, walk across and then it's about four and a half miles to the ben franklin parkway. nine kids are still recovering after their bus crash this morning. this happened in irvington, essex county, new jersey.
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the bus was heading to school when it was hit by an suv and went into a building. the driver said the brakes gave out. the kids were all taken to the hospital. the injuries are not serious. if you use citizens bank you could be getting some cash back. federal regulators say the bank short-changed customers on deposit slip mistakes. the bank according to the feds kept the difference when more money than the slip indicated was actually deposited. citizens bank must refund customers and pay more than $20 million in penalties. the bank says it has fixed the system. it is back to school season. millions of kids ready for another year of hitting the books. >> are they hitting them a little too hard, that's the question. a new study is putting the spotlight on what can only be called homework overload. the study published in the american journal of family therapy says kids are receiving more homework than what education experts recommend. >> kindergartners have three times the homeworkload they're expected to have. first graders have three times
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the homework load they are expected to have. second graders have 2 1/2 times the homework load they are expected to have. all these things are troubling. >> experts recommend a ten minute rule. ten minutes per night for first graders and ten additional minutes per night for every grade thereafter. they also don't endorse homework for kindergarten. thank your local food market if the value of your house has gone up recently. two in particular. if it's trader joe's or whole foods. a new study finds houses in the same zip code as trader joe's are worth 40% more lately. houses near whole foods saw a 34% boost. on the down side, homeowners near trader joe's pay higher property taxes. sugar house casino was showing off its new expansion today. the $154 million project should be open by the end of the year. it's going to more than double the size of the casino, allowing room for more than 40 more table games. nearly 300 new slots and a new poker room.
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cut the fat and you will shed more pounds than if you restrict carbs. that's the results of a new diet study by federal researchers. scientists discovered that eating less fat leads to a greater loss of body fat even though people burn more fat when they eat fewer carbs but researchers still say the best diet is the one you'll actually stick to. >> that's the hard part. women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer may want to consider additional genetic testing. most high-risk women are tested for mutations of the genes because they are highly linked to cancer risk. but a new study finds multi-gene
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testing reveals additional mutations that increase the risk of other cancers. in many of those cases women, even some female relatives, may need further screenings or preventive surgery. philadelphia fire leaders are making learning about fire prevention fun. >> they're doing it on the stage. today was the annual fire prevention drama contest finals. it was held at st. joe's and these young actors took to the stage to act out the importance of fire safety and fire prevention. the show was called chef, cooking hazards endangers families. awards were presented for outstanding cast, outstanding play, best actor, best actress and best fire prevention message. rescuing an animal from a shelter not only gives them a second chance at life. >> if ask yyou ask the owners, benefits go both ways. that's the case for one woman. next, the story that started in despair for both her and her four-legged family member.
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it ends with a message of hope. plus it's another beauty outside today. but the heat will soon start to creep up into the 90s again. it will get very colorful around here, too. i will have more on that in the weekend forecast. ♪ i am never getting married. never. psssssh. guaranteed. you picked a beautiful ring. thank you. we're never having kids. mmm-mmm. breathe. i love it here. we are never moving to the suburbs. we are never getting one of those (minivan). we are never having another kid. i'm pregnant. i am never letting go. for all the nevers in life, state farm is there.
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two days from now the faces behind these chain links could be yours for much less than you would normally pay. nbc 10 and telemundo 62 are fueling a nationwide effort to help clear the shelters. all week we have been telling you stories about the benefits of bringing a rescue into your family. >> today, nbc 10's drew smith talked to a breast cancer survivor who says her adopted cat was exactly what she needed during one of her life's darkest moments. >> you're mama's girl. yes, you are. >> reporter: the first time wendy saw this cat was on the
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news last summer. the delaware county spca was caring for a cat beaten against a guardrail. >> the young man threw the cat over the guardrail into the darby creek. >> reporter: she was the first to contact the shelter hoping to adopt the cat which was having trouble walking. >> i didn't know if she would have permanent injuries or the not. to me it didn't matter. >> reporter: the timing of this adoption was key. there was almost a role reversal of sorts as wendy adopted sav v savvy and gave her a home, the cat started helping her, too. >> prior to adopting her i had been notified i had a mass in my breast. >> reporter: on the same day as the biopsy procedure she got the call that the cat was hers. during that cancer scare, she was thankful for this playful distraction. >> a few times she actually would sit on the top of my headboard sort of like my guard and if the other cats came in, she would sort of growl at them like she was my nurse and my protector. >> reporter: she just went through a spinal surgery and this adoption is still paying off.
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this pet has been true to her name, savvy, short for saving grace. >> treats? >> reporter: drew smith, nbc 10 news. >> so great. you can help us in our effort to clear the shelters this coming weekend. >> today, help us spread the word by posting photos of your rescue on social media. use the hash tag clear the shelters and you can tag us, too, at nbc philadelphia. we are compiling a photo gallery of your photos on the nbc 10 news app. come out saturday to welcome a new friend into your family. shelters across pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware are participating. for a list of shelters near you and information on reduced adoption fees, go to the nbc 10 news app or nbc10.com. it was another spectacular day out there. if you didn't get a chance to get outside, you got another day
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tomorrow. it will be a lot like this. a few degrees warmer but the humidity will still be very low. then starting over the weekend, looks like heat wave number four is going to be occurring and we've gotten a number of dry days around. we have blue skies out there today across the entire area, just a few fair weather clouds. 81 degrees, humidity only 34%. very low for this time of the year. the temperature today so far 83, moving up to 87 tomorrow, 90 saturday, 92 on sunday and maybe even hotter than that early next week. 81 in philadelphia but 83 in northeast philly while it's only 78 at kennett square. that's one of the places that tends to read lower. so does oxford, quaker town, doylestown, pottstown, all 79 degrees. when you get that with sunshine in august, that's a little bit unusual. 78 degrees in cape may harbor. 80 degrees in beach haven.
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they will be getting a bit of a sea breeze starting tomorrow so it won't be quite as warm as it has been the last couple days. hardly any moisture in the eastern half of the country. the warm air that's been with us, that's going to be retreating and the hot air is going to be building in. once it is in, it's going to stay in for awhile. the redder the colors are, the hotter it is. here we go. sunday, right on top of us. monday, you see when the colors go yellow and green, that's at night getting cooler, then during the day it's back to red again. there we go. tuesday, we get out of this? well, wednesday, still pretty hot. so it's a fairly extended period where we will see this. it's also going to be hot for the eagles on sunday with the exhibition game. 86 degrees at kickoff, 92 by the fourth quarter. the humidity will be significantly higher than today. it's not going to be the worst ever but it will feel like it's about 95 which is not exactly
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football weather. not so great for the spectators, either. the shore is looking good. sea breezes all weekend long making it pretty comfortable. no rain once again. that will be seventh weekend in a row for the shore. clear and comfortable tonight, 65 in philadelphia, 54 north and west. tomorrow, a lot like today except a little bit warmer. the humidity is going to stay low, though. the seven-day forecast, temperature goes up a little on saturday, humidity up a little as well. sunday, temperature up, humidity up. eventually by monday, it's going to be really hot. 94 and feeling like close to 100 degrees. similar story on tuesday and then the first reasonable chance of showers not until next wednesday. a lot of us use a machine, namely a car i think is what we are talking about to get to work. others use their own man power to get there. >> this morning, our cameras captured a well-known philadelphian peddling his way
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love that music. nbc 10 debuting something new today as eagles training camp winds down ahead of their first preseason game this weekend. the newest addition to our sky cam network is inside lincoln financial field. this is a great shot. we call it the eagles nest. as you can see, it gives us a crystal clear look at the field and nbc 10 will be using this new tool as we get ready to bring you complete coverage as the official tv station of the philadelphia eagles and get your tailgate recipes ready. the birds are back in action sunday afternoon 1:00 when they take on the colts in their first
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preseason game right here on nbc 10. coverage begins at 12:30. looks beautiful out there right now. comcast sports net's john clark keeping tabs on all the action in training camp. >> you talked with with safety malcolm jenkins and learned something new about chip kelly. >> great shot of the linc. we want to welcome malcolm jenkins to the team. he will be our weekly correspondent all season with our eagles coverage. he will join us before and after every game to give us insights of what he's seeing during the games and practices. we sat down with malcolm to tape our weekly conversation for our pregame show sunday at 12:30 before the first preseason game. malcolm cannot wait to see all the new members of the secondary in game action for the first time. chip kelly remade this roster because he wanted to go from good to great. i asked malcolm if he thinks this birds team can be great.
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>> it's not really a bold statement to say that i think my team can be great. i think we have the guys, we have the system, we have the work ethic. now, that's all potential. we got to come out every day and challenge ourselves to be better than we were the day before. i think we have the leaders on the team to keep us focused in that direction. and you know, right now, we're just trying to be the best we can be today. >> chip kelly won the day. he really is all about taking care of the body and sports science. comcast sports net cameras caught chip arriving at the nova care complex on his bike this morning, rode his bike to work like some of the players. if you know chip he was probably moving pretty fast. in an hour, more with malcolm jenkins. we will tell you about a message he sent at practice today to some of the players that have been sitting out. i'm john clark. see you then. >> wonder what that says. look forward to that. "nbc 10 news at 5:00" is next. >> here's keith jones. next on "nbc 10 news at 5:00" from cars to bikes to taxis, we have brand new information on where you will be
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able to go during the pope's visit. plus new details on where that security fence will go and the screening visitors will face. another gorgeous night in store for us. that will lead us into a nice weekend. temperatures will get hot and we could be looking at our next heat wave. details on how hot it will get coming up. new information from this fiery truck crash on the new jersey turnpike. how two stranded commuters came to the truck driver's aid next on "nbc 10 news at 5:00."
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right now at 5:00, more travel trouble for the pope's visit. tonight we have learned new details that will impact neighbors, schools and businesses all across philadelphia and into new jersey. "nbc 10 news at 5:00" starts right now. officials in both states released a huge amount of information today. >> here's what we learned. first, more details on the so-called traffic box around philadelphia, including where cars can travel, where fencing will go up and where people will be screened. the city is also opening a resource center to answer questions that businesses have. >> we also heard from officials in new jersey about highway closures and public transit changes in that state. we have team coverage to break down all this information. >> let's begin with nbc 10's randy gyllenhaal. we learned a lot more details about the so-called traffic box and how it will affect people's ability to get around. >> reporter: even within that
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traffic box, there will be layers of different security. the most tight of which surrounds the art museum and independence hall. where we are standing outside city hall, this is within that most secure zone. we are learning there will be a fence surrounding this area to get into this area, you will have to go through a secret service screening process. this all begins at two separate times. at independence hall where the pope will be speaking, that area will shut down friday night and over by the art museum and parkway, that will shut down even earlier on thursday. beginning thursday night at 10:00 p.m., the most secure zone of the city will lock down. marked in red it circles around the art museum and parkway. the city says there will be a fence and every single person that comes into this zone will be screened by the secret service. outside of the red secure zone is the second layer of security called the vehicle perimeter. it's this black line that wraps up around center city, anywhere near city
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