♪ oh, oh ♪ waitin' all day for sunday night ♪ >> al: sunday night, it's the season number ten. volkswagen post game report, we'll break it down and take a look ahead to sunday night in arlington, texas. >> cris: looking forward to hearing carrie, too. kind of missed her, too. we don't get it on thursday night. >> al: not part of her deal. from the 46. roethlisberger deep shot, deep pass and into traffic. it's incomplete. three patriots converging on markus wheaton, second down and

ten. >> cris: devin mccourty right there and devin mccourty was one of those guys in high demand. lot of people interested in him. patrick chung. there's mccourty. mccourty converted over from a corner, but one of things you always worry about taking a corner to a safety position is how they tackle. boy, he had some one on ones that he had to make against marshawn lynch in the super bowl and he managed to get him on the ground. it was impressive. >> al: ben dumps it over the middle. trying to get out of bounds and unable to do it is heyward-bey. bradley fletcher corralling him. clock keeps running. 1:40 left. >> cris: i think having to switch sides of the field, you know, lot of times in the hurry-up offense, you don't see those guys having to go back and forth. they just get wherever. that's eating up a lot of clock.

>> al: ton of time off the clock. third down and eight. and ben will convert this to brown making the catch, inside the patriots 40 for a first down. and a time-out taken. >> referee: 30-second time-out. >> al: by the steelers. so it's opening night, game one of 256. another big night for brady, starts the year with four tded. gronkowski catching three of those passes. meanwhile, deangelo williams great job with the suspension of le'veon bell. >> cris: pretty remarkable really. there's a guy that the last two years more catches than anybody in the national football league. slight guy. big smile. very pleasant to be around.

>> al: sixth-round draft choice back in 2010 out of central michigan. and ben sends one deep down the sideline and that is caught but a flag is thrown back behind the line of scrimmage. that will stop the clock with 1:10. >> cris: you've got one player for the patriots, ja ball sheerd with his helmet off. i don't know if somebody knocked it off. >> referee: hands to face, number 68 offense. ten-yard penalty, first down. >> al: that's the left tackle kelvin beachum. >> cris: take a look. 68 right there on your screen he definitely hit the helmet but kind of as he was going down, you know what i mean? looks like he sort of slipped on the play and then takes away this. which would have given the steelers a chance.

>> al: glancing blow but -- doy. >> cris: still yelling. >> al: first and 20 from the 49 yard line. four-man rush and roethlisberger is all he can do to hold on to it. another helmet. sheard, that's the second play in a row. and he gets credit for the sack. >> cris: he doesn't need a helmet. going to come right around the end here. that's a pretty good pass protector throughout in kelvin beachum too. look at the way he uses his hands. they have been working a lot with his technique here. they think physically he has all the tools and they can just upgrade that technique a little bit. he's going to be scary. >> al: he goes to miller. heath adds to his collection of catches over the year, near the top of the charts. >> referee: first time-out, pittsburgh. 30-second time-out.

>> al: 27, got 18 so still third down and nine. brady most wins as a starting quarterback for one team. 160. and favre with 160, but tonight add one in 27 official seconds and it will put him atop that leaderboard. >> cris: and heath miller now the second all-time leading receiver, passes john stallworth tonight with eight catches. ways to go to get to hines ward, though. >> al: yeah. our man, hines. an even thousands. third and nine. ben dancing and throws and that's incomplete. setting up fourth down. intended there for wheaton. so new england will start the year with a victory.

they will go to buffalo next week. of course that means rex ryan. there's robert kraft, the owner of this team. bought them in the mid '90s. has watched them go to seven super bowls. four wins, three losses. >> cris: no denying what that guy has done for this organization. >> al: and for the league itself. fourth down and nine from the 38 yard line. and roethlisberger escaping, looking, firing and it's caught at the 22 yard line for a first down and will take a time-out. one other thing about rob kraft, just to bring it up. i asked him about his relationship with roger goodell. he has always been goodell's biggest booster among the owners. you know, it's a two-sided thing. he has to wear two hat. one as the owner of this team,

he hates what happened over the last seven months. hates it. thinks it was unnecessary. on the other hand, kraft is so important owner because he is on the television committee, the relocation, finance all of the rest that he and goodell have to do a lot of business together on that end. talk about compartmentalizing things that's what kraft has to do. >> cris: let's face it, there's a lot of pressure from a lot of people around the league who think the patriots don't always play by the rules. so the minute something came up, it was, hey, you got to go get these guys now. this is not right. this is once again spygate and all that stuff. so it has been a strange political mix this year for the national football league. >> al: and roethlisberger throwing, caught, stops the clock. weirdly enough for people who are just tangentially interested in the game, they may be more interested in what's happened off the field than on the field. >> cris: not me. >> al: not me either. >> cris: i could not wait for it to end.

>> al: we're not quite tangential. >> cris: yeah. i don't want to get into the legal side of it. we'll be up until 1:00 a.m. in the morning reading that whole legal thing. didn't really get to the facts of the case. it was all about due process and lack of notice and all of that stuff. that's what i said. [ snoring sound ] >> al: roethlisberger and that is caught by brown for a touchdown. might make a couple of people happy in a minute here because malcolm butler gets beaten. makes it an eight-point game for the moment. couple of things that will be in play here right now. >> cris: malcolm butler, just dead perfect position. maybe used up all his luck in the super bowl, but couldn't have been in a better spot looking at the ball and somehow it missed his hands. >> al: speak about tangentially

interested, there are a few people more than tangentially interested right now. you know what i mean. >> cris: no idea. >> al: here is scobee. and that created a few ooh's and awes over the country. >> cris: i don't need you to get me in trouble. i can do it on my own. >> al: me, too. that's a seven-point game with two seconds remaining in the game. brown and butler going head toe head. >> cris: antonio brown made his plays. when you lose darrelle revis and you lose one of your guys that wasn't a starter in the super bowl that you say go cover one of the best wide receivers in the game, i don't know that bill belichick would go, that's one sided at all. i'll take that effort tonight from malcolm butler and that one, of course, the touchdown ends up really in garbage time

at the end of the game. >> al: not bgarbage time for some. one way to keep an audience. i know that. two seconds remaining. red zone faux pa were big. >> cris: really you take the two missed field goals and the blown chance from the one yard line, that's the difference in the game right now. >> al: uh-huh. that one drive after they cut it to ten that bogged down. got a little on side kick here. gronkowski will be there and that will do it. so the season has opened with a victory by the super bowl champions. never trails. tom brady, four touchdowns

another big night 25 out of 32 for 288 was brady tonight. julian edelman, caught 11. gronkowski caught three touchdown passes. michele on the field. we'll have tony rodney and hines break it all down. volkswagen report coming up next.

>> announcer: welcome back to the villanueva pa sat post game report. here now bob costas. >> in a constant rain in foxborough, the patriots begin defense of their reign as super bowl champions for the 28-21 quinn over the steelers. tom brady 25 of 32 for 288 yards and four touchdowns. three of them caught by rob gronkowski. brady declined an interview. he gets a game ball. so too does gronkowski. gronk is with michele tafoya. >> michele: bob, thanks. rob, on a night when this place was full of emotions because of tom brady, because of the last year's super bowl championship, you score three touchdowns. let's talk about the first. you look across the line. no one is there. what are you thinking? >> just a play we work on. we just saw going fast with the offense. everyone is on the same page. tom saw me open real quick. he threw it. he made a great throw. i had to make the catch. there's really no one on me.

make the catch and mange the play. great overall job by the offense getting set and ready. >> michele: tom brady close to perfect tonight. what does this performance tell you about him? >> he was an unbelievable performer tonight. he is our leader. he is a great player and it's fun to play with him. i have to give huge credit to our offensive line men. we had three rookies throughout. they played their butts off tonight and did an excellent job and same with our tackle. so it was just a great overall team win. our defense played well and our offense came together and did great. >> michele: congratulations on the win. >> thank you very much. >> michele: bob. >> michele, thanks. tony rodney and hines are here. rodney, let's start with you. tom brady is generally excellent. as you said before the game, if there's some kind of challenge in front of him, he is better yet. >> i felt like tom brady did a really wonderful job of controlling his emotions and playing with poise. a lot of times when you have a game like this, with everything that he has gone through, coming in here, it's easy for him to

get overexcited and try to do too much. i thought he did a great job of playing within himself. >> on the flip side, the steelers in their own way had the same challenge, not to be affected by the atmosphere here tonight. how do you think they did? >> mike tomlin was worried about the young defenders being overwhelmed by the moment and the patriots knew that. they had a great game plan. they moved rob gronkowski around. spread formation, got him open, pittsburgh made several mistakes and that definitely hurt them. >> hines, your old team moved the ball. roethlisberger was 26 of 38. for better than 350 yards. but they couldn't quite get it done. what do they take away from this game? >> you have to be encouraged coming into this game minus three key starters. put up over 450 yards total offense. on the defensive side, just clean up the communication issues in the secondary. the steelers will be fine this year. >> all right, guys. thanks. that's part of the story from down on the field. when we come back, al and cris will wrap it up from

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>> announcer: welcome back to the villanueva passat post game report. here now al michaels and cris collins worth. >> much anticipated opener, the new england patriots off to a good start. win 28-21. we'll see the cowboys on sunday night. the first game of the tenth season of the "sunday night football." lot going on in dallas. demarco murray leaving. they've got greg hardy but he is suspended for the first few games of season. what do you think of the cowboys a t this point? >> will they run the football the same way they did a season ago. joseph randle, darren mcfadden, those guys will be asked to take over. everybody talks about dallas's offensive line and they certainly were great a season ago. so we'll find out if these other guys can run the exact same way

that demarco murray did. >> we'll see eli manning. he has odell beckham on the other side of the passing game. >> how would you like to be the banker for the manning family. >> i would like that a lot. looking forward to seeing odell beckham. >> he is a true soourp star. he will do it again. he is fast and comes out of the breaks probably better than anybody i've watched on film. he is that good. >> that's sunday night. become a sunday night tradition. it's the giants and cowboys from arlington, texas. coming up next except on the west coast, your local news. tonight show starring jimmy fallon at midnight eastern time. now it's al michaels for cris collinsworth, michele tafoya, our entire gang, back once again happy to bring you nfl football. season under way, pats win. see you sunday.

tracking the rain. nbc 10 here on kelly drive tonight where the water made things pretty tricky for drivers. will this bring problems for your morning commute? but first, searching for a survivor. helicopters and boats looking for a pilot who crashed off the

jersey shore. we don't know what caused the crash, but we do know the pilot was flying in bad weather. his plane went down this afternoon about seven miles off the coast of atlantic city. nbc 10's drew smith spoke with rescue crews and an aviation expert who explains why the conditions were so dangerous. >> the coast guard was age to respond to this crash scene fairly quickly off the coast where they found a contained area of debris. but they also encountered bad weather, which an expert tells us tonight could have÷=+e somet to do with this crash. this coast guard chopper refuelled and headed back out. it was the second search pattern for this crew flying in less than ideal weather and visibility. >> it had some lightning in it, which for our aircraft is a problem. >> about seven miles off the coast. >> reporter: the mooney m-20

single engine aircraft was approaching the end of a three-hour flight from day lord, michigan, to atlantic city. >> 800 feet. now he's going into the ocean. >> it's capable of strong but !qke this, causes significant turbulence. >> reporter: we spoke with a philadelphia-based aviation expert on facetime. >> that would be uncomfortable. a rough ride. >> reporter: he looked at our weather alert radar at the time the plane crashed and that the heavy rain might be why it ended up on the opposite side of the atlantic city airport. >> it would be my judgment that that decision was made by him to avoid the intense weather. unfortunately, the area where radar contact was lost is rather intense in terms of the rainfall as well. >> reporter: we looked at the flight track, and the plane was registered to a 68-year-old from michigan. in atlantic city, drew smith, nbc 10 news.

breaking news right now in philadelphia's olney neighborhood. a fire destroys a home at 6th and olney avenue tonight. a viewer sent this us video. the house fire started just after 9:30 tonight. it took about an hour to get it under control. no reports of any injuries. when you see news happening issue send your pictures and video through the nbc 10 news app. now the big story we've been following today, the weather. we found heavy rain here on route 54 in hammonton. lighter rain in mt. airy tonight. we found some people venturing out without umbrellas. as you can tell from nbc 10 first alert radar, we are not finished with the wet weather just yet. we still have plenty in parts of the area. the question is, whether it will impact the morning commute. let's go to our meteorologist. wet roads tomorrow? >> well, we will be drying out a lot tomorrow.

but tonight we have flooded roadways to talk about. just south of philadelphia, we have very heavy rain. a small area of rain, very heavy and very slow moving. gloucester county, numerous roads closed. 295 southbound flooded near logan township. we are still seeing flooded roads. and here you see some of the rainfall totals in only the past three hours. radar is indicating over four inches near paulsboro. we are see a flood warning out right now for gloucester and camden counties. two inches of rain per hour here. so the flood warnings are going to go for the next few hours. this is really the only rain we have in the area. the rest of the area has dried out. some of the highest totals, close to 4 1/2 inches already in paulsboro because of the heavy rain in place. tomorrow morning, big changes for the morning commute.

it will be drier. but now we're tracking rain for your weekend. we have that coming up. 16 days. that's how long before pope francis touches down in philadelphia. and today we got a closer look at how security will impact people in center city. secret service released this 3d animation of screening stations that will be around city hall. and the city revealed what residents need to do to avoid getting their cars towed. >> reporter: residentsville to move their cars days before the pope's arrival. this parking lot in south philadelphia is the only spot people can park for free. 1,500 spots are available here. center city residents try and dodge the rainfall as they soak in the latest on the papal visit and what it means. >> it will be a challenge. >> reporter: he is among thousands who live in a secure parameter and warn their cars must be moved starting sunday, september 20. residents can park in the naval

hospital lot in south philadelphia for free or buy a spot in one of six designated parking garages like this one at 16th and vine street. the ppa is preselling spaces. $20 covers the entire weekend. >> it won't be easy. it's not ideal. but i don't see it being feasible to park and not have to worry about it. >> reporter: these images show the areas to be fenced off and secured. there will be a common sight in many viewing areas for crowd control. the secret service emphasized a number of screening areas will be equipped with metal detectors. >> we're really excited because we have tickets for saturday and sunday. >> reporter: this phoenix woman is coming to philadelphia to be in the presence of her first pope, something she wished for when pope john paul was in philadelphia in 1979. the planning and security measures don't faze her but just strengthens her faith that the

city has it handled. >> i feel very comfortable about it. my husband is a little concerned with it. my son's mentioned a few things. but i think we'll be fine. >> reporter: as information about security comes down, we will pass that along to you. signs will start going up monday in the neighborhoods affected by towing. in south florida, denise nakano, nbc 10 news. you can tap the nbc 10 app to find out if you're in the restricted parking area. you'll also find a list of road closures, mass transit closures, and the full papal itinerary. there are new developments tonight in the fbi investigation in allentown city hall today. a lehigh valley developer pleaded guilty to bribery charges. prosecutors say ramsey haddad gave campaign contributions to an elected official in allentown in return for help in dealing with the city. court documents don't identify the elected official by name, but say he announced his

candidacy for federal office on april 17. that's when ed pa lousky announced he was running for the senate. he hasn't been charged with a crime. new at 11:00, a new jersey police officer will face criminal charges in a deadly wrongway accident in march on staten island. sources telling our sister station wnbc in new york that the driver had a blood alcohol limit three times the legal limit when he hit a tractor-trailer head on. two were killed and a third injured. the man at the center of a high profile philadelphia kidnapping case says money made him do it. delvin barnes pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges today. he told a federal judge he needed money and grabbed carlesha freeland-gaither in a robbery gone wrong. he grabbed her off a germantown

street and forced her into his car. barnes said in court today he needed money to return to his home state of virginia. he claimed he wanted to see his daughter before facing charging there for a separate crime. today's plea deal will put barnes in prison for 35 years with no chance of parole. tomorrow marks 14 years since the september 11 attacks. today a new visitor center complex opened at the flight 93 national memorial near shanksville. the $26 million facility includes an overview of the crash site, new exhibits, and a learning center. flight 93 was the only airliner hijacked by terrorists that did not reach its target on september 11, 2001. and that was thanks to the efforts of the 40 passengers and crew members on board who died. governor tom wolf on hand for today's dedication ceremony says their bravery will never be forgotten. >> to a certain extent, this center is located at the spot where their story and personal stories ended. but to a much larger extent,

this is a place where their story actually began and where it will survive for many years to come. >> the only thing left to build is the power of voices, a 93-foot tall structure with 40 wind chimes, one for every victim of flight 93. president obama is opening the door to thousands of syrian refugees. today the white house said the president has directed his administration to take in at least 10,000 of those refugees next year. tens of thousands of people are fleeing war-torn syria right now. they are making the dangerous trek toward europe in search of safety and shelter. hungary says more than 160,000 have crossed its border this year. to decision 2016. he's politically incorrect, but still rising in the run for president. the new cnn national poll finds donald trump leading republicans with 32% support. also climbing, a former neurosurgeon, ben carson, jumping 10 points to 19%.

trump is attacking both carson and former ceo carly fiorina. he talked about fiorina's looks to "rolling stone" magazine and carson's medical skills. >> what does a doctor -- perhaps an okay doctor, by the way. not a great -- he was an okay doctor. >> fiorina shrugged off the insult against her saying it's a sign she's getting under trump's skin. you saw the nfl season get rolling right here on nbc 10 tonight. now our philadelphia eagles are getting set to start things off. ♪ >> the team got revved up this evening at xfinity live. the countdown to kickoff party featured current birds and former members of the squad. the eagles open the season next monday night in atlanta, and expectations are high. >> they look really good.

they look promising. i can't wait to watch them this season. >> it's unpredictable right now. >> i really like our chances this year. they some made some strategic moves. i think that i like our chances in the nfc. >> tonight's party also provided the backdrop for the always popular eagles cheerleader swimsuit calendar. all season long you can count on nbc 10 for complete insider coverage because we are your official philadelphia eagles station. we'll have exclusive access to the team for our post game show. the eagles kickoff show premieres this sunday at 10:00 a.m. john clarke will be the host. he'll be joined all season long by nbc 10 correspondent malcolm jenkins. they'll have expert analysis with eagles broadcaster mike quick ahead of monday's season opener in atlanta, including an exclusive interview with demarco murray.