nbc 10 news starts now. right now at 11:00, post hurricane p post-papal clean up. crews are hard at work trying to get everything back to normal after the pope's historic visit to the philadelphia area this weekend. good morning. i'm rosemary connors. pope francis is back at the vatican and not taking a break following his whirlwind tour of the u.s. and cuba. he spoke to reporters. of note he slamm emed members o the church who covered up sex abuse. this comes after pope francis

met privately with a group of sex abuse victims sunday morning while he was here in philadelphia. he also expressed his love for american nuns and even touched on his feelings for the city of brotherly love. >> philadelphia -- >> pope francis said the people in philadelphia gave him a demonstrative welcome. in d.c. he said he received a warm welcome but it was a bit more formal. in new york he said his welcome there was a bit unlimited. he appreciated the warmth of all the americans calling it a beautiful, different thing. and now that the papal visit is over crews are hard at work cleaning up the ben franklin parkway. let's check in with jesse gary lie along the parkway this morning. >> reporter: an army of workers for the city and private contractors just behind me and their vehicles, this is logan square, and you can see philadelphia police have it

blocked off, 18th street as it comes across the parkway, and that's because of all the activity on the other side of the fountain. let's take a look at our video. hours into the cleanup and you can still see plenty of work left to be done. trash still litters some streets and a smell from it flows through the air, unfortunately. now, we've got street sweepers, garbage trucks, leaf blowers, good old-fashioned broom and dust pan. here comes another street sweeper you can hear in the distance. all of this designed to remove tons of garbage and equipment from the pavement and the grass around here. >> it's hard to control the public. they leave a whole lot of debris in various places, sometimes places that are not seen by the naked eye. so you know what i mean? that's why we feel the way we feel. >> reporter: that's james bernard from area five of the streets department. he said it's harder, this aspect of it. the setup is one thing but it's harder to break it all down and then clean because so much trash

gets into so many little nooks and crannies that it takes a while, but he promises this is all going to be open. we took a drive around the city, as we can see with our video, just to show you most of the streets are open. this is around city hall area. most of the streets are open but there's still spots you will see some work being done. for example, here you have got barricades in the median so you want to drive with caution if you're coming through center city because there are crews out trying to get all of this stuff out of the way. live at logan circle, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >> still quite a bit to do. thanks, jesse. life is slowly getting back to normal throughout the area but that parkway section, that's going to be tricky for the next few days. let's get a check on traffic from jessica boyington. >> we know the parkway will be a little bit of a mess for the next couple days with cleanup, but what about the rest of the majors? we're doing okay and we're ahead of schedule. the schuylkill expressway is open. watch out for the spring garden exit, still blocked. the ben franklin bridge opened

at 4:00 and it was scheduled for 12:00 noon so way ahead of schedule. the roads in new jersey leading up to the bridge are now open as well. take a look at the drive times. on 95 and the schuylkill expressway, mostly no cars at all. eastbound from the blue root to the vine we have a 12 minute drive time here, and what about that traffic box? you just saw jesse gary out in the area of the papal festivities this weekend. cars starting to travel around. the traffic box is about three-quarters of the way open but watch for isolated streets barriers in the area and cleanup crews around the ben franklin parkway. parking restrictions will remain in effect until the areas are cleared so make sure you check for signs. don't get your car towed at this last minute. it's all over now. rosemary. >> good advice. thanks. the images of pope francis traveling down the parkway, his motorcade slowing so he could wave to the crowd before the outdoor mass yesterday, all of that is a part of our philadelphia history. ♪

>> the choir sang and the philadelphia orchestra performed as the pope arrived. he bowed to the cross and made his way to the altar. during the hom di tily the holy father focused on the importance of the family. >> translator: in my own home do we shout? or do we speak to each other in love and tenderness? that's a good way of measuring our love. how beautiful it would be if everywhere and even beyond our own borders we could appreciate and encourage this prophecy and this miracle. >> during the liturgy of the

eucharist, some 500 priests distributed holy communion to the crowd. before the mass, the pope greeted an adoring crowd on the parkway. he took his time stopping to bless and kiss several babies and children along the way. >> all septa passengers going towards jefferson station, reasoner rail line, please proceed up 12th street. >> after the papal mass came the mass exodus. pilgrims started making their way home from center city. septa tells us that they handled nearly 63,000 riders on regional rails over the papal weekend. that means that just about half of the papal passes sold before the weekend were actually used. many of the pilgrims from out of town ended up taking the broad street line to return to their buses at the sports complex in south philadelphia. pope francis offered a final

wave good aboard shepherd one at phil philly international airport. he offered his gratitude before departing. >> i prepare to leave, i do so with a heart full of gratitude and hope. i'm grateful to all of you and to the many others who worked so hard to make my visit possible. >> before leaving the pope said good-bye to several hundred selected guests inside an airport hangar, many of them included volunteers with the world meeting of families. as we've heard him say throughout his u.s. trip, the pope asked them to pray for him. in case you haven't picked it up, here is the front page of "the philadelphia inyoquireinqu"

it shows him with the people before yesterday's historic mass. you can relive yesterday's mass and the entire weekend on our website, nbc10.com, and on the nbc 10 app. in other news, a man was shot and killed after a home invasion in montgomery county. this all happened just before midnight on philmont avenue. officers found the victim on the front lawn. he went to abington hospital where he died a short time later. police tell us the gunman was wearing a mask. it's unclear if he got away with anything during the home invasion robbery. there are no arrest this is this case yet. now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> warm and muggy today following a very pleasant weekend for the pope's visit to philadelphia. as we get ready for the workweek, big changes are heading our way. let's check in with nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. glenn? >> rosemary, we've started the day off with a lot of low clouds and fog, but we're still shy in

the rain department. it's now been 15 straight days without any rain, and we managed to get through the weekend without any, too. but there's plenty of clouds around at the moment, even with no rain on the radar close by. it is back to the west, and it is getting closer, and it is in the forecast. of course, it's much-needed rain. we don't really need heavy rain. the future cast as we go through the day today, basically dry, although we expect mostly cloudy skies. it's warm and it's humid and it's going to stay that way. actually going to just keep getting warmer. we're in the low 70s right now. the temperatures held down because of all the clouds and the fog. mid-70s farther to the south. 78 degrees in atlantic city already. we're going to be seeing a lot of places get way up into the 70s and close to 80 degrees by later today. most likely rain-free, but it's not going to stay that way. i'll tell you more about the timing of when heavy rain is

expected with the seven-day in a few minutes. >> this morning we know more about the death of a penn state student. her life was cut short after a car crash on the pennsylvania turnpike yesterday. vitalya sepot was a passenger in the car returning to state college from the philadelphia area. investigators say she was one of seven students soliciting donations for an opportunity run philanthropy project called thon. that's when the crash happened in chester county. the six other counts involved are recovering in the hospital. in less than two hours from now, eagles head coach chip kelly will talk to reporters about the birds' first win of the regular season. a road victory against the new york jets. finally, right? demarco murray didn't play because of the hamstring injury but darren sproles picked him up with this 89 yard punt run. it's the seconds longest punt return in eagles history.

>> and that's what happened. >> obviously that was a really good football team to come on the road and get a win today. you know a tough win. our defense did a great job today keeping us in the game. you know, just a great win for the team. >> the eagles, by the way, have never lost to the jets. the birds take a 1-2 record into next sunday's game at washington. it's 11 minutes past 11:00 this morning. a face-to-face meeting that's a long time coming. next, we'll have a preview of president obama's meeting later today with vladimir putin. it all comes after the president's harsh words this morning to the u.n. about the way russia does business. and talk about a super sight. it was an opportunity to catch a glimpse of something spectacular in the sky. it won't happen again for another 18 years. i've got a warm, humid day on traap but i'm tracking coole weather and rain.

happening now, the general assembly is meeting at the united nations. this is a live look inside the u.n. in new york. several world leaders will speak to the general assembly today. right now this is the president of poland. president obama spoke a little bit earlier this morning. he's also expected to meet with russian president vladimir putin. president obama's meeting with putin will be their first in nearly a year.

he says the world cannot stand by while russia violates ukraine's integrity and sovereignty. mr. obama is also calling on world leaders to do more to help the poor and vulnerable. he says that kind of action may have prevented some current global problems. now, to decision 2016. a new nbc poll shows the race tightening for donald trump and hillary clinton. the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows clinton has lost ground to bernie sanders. she leads him by just seven points. the former secretary of state acknowledges that the issue of e-mails is not going away anytime soon. meanwhile, the only other woman in the race, carly fiorina, is raising and gaining ground on republican front-runner donald trump. >> it means that carly fiorina is doing a lot of things right at exactly the time that hillary clinton is either doing things wrong or that the things they're

trying aren't sticking yet. >> the latest poll shows donald trump still in the lead on the gop side. fiorina has jumped from the bottom rungs to third place. she's now tied with marco rubio at 11%. it was a little bit of a scary moment for fiorina when a backdrop collapsed during a campaign event in texas. carly fiorina was speaking at the national women's business conference in san antonio when the frame, piping, and cloth fell to the ground. several women rushed to shield her. nobody was hurt. let's take a live look right now. presidential front-runner donald trump is announcing a tax plan that he says will reduce rates for lower and middle income families. he's speaking right now in new york. trump has been mentioning the plan for weeks and is expected to put forward several ideas that he insists are contrary to typical gop talking points. in trump's words, he doesn't want certain people on wall

street getting away with paying no taxes. joyce mitchell, the former new york prison worker who helped two convicted killers escape earlier this year, received her prison sentence today. this is new video from the upstate new york courtroom where mitchell was officially given her seven-year sentence. she reached a plea deal with prosecutors after admitting to providing tools to richard matt and david sweat who broke out of the facility in early june. in an exclusive interview with nbc's matt lauer this summer, mitchell said i just got in over my head. david sweat and richard matt were at the center of an intense manhunt that lasted for nearly a month. after 20 days on the run, officers spotted matt about 25 miles away from the clinton correctional facility. he was shot and killed by border patrol agents. sweat was located two days later. officers arrested him and sent him back to prison. talking weather now, severe weather, this surveillance video from south carolina shows the

moments that a tornado touched down last week. the twister struck after midnight on friday packing 130-mile-an-hour winds and leaving a trail of destruction that stretches for miles. fortunately no injuries have been reported. coastal flooding is causing some serious erosion problems at beaches in hampton, virginia. storm waves are taking out chucks of sand from the shoreline. the national weather service is blaming all of this on strong winds along with a full moon that's closer to the earth than usual. lets head to mississippi where a flash flood watch remain this is effect. heavy rains flooded the area yesterday making it very difficult if not nearly impossible for drivers to get around. the national weather service says seven to ten inches of rain fell there yesterday with at least two more inches expected today. in case you didn't see it, last night there was a total lunar eclipse of a super moon. the event happened for the first time in more than 30 years. it's considered the fourth and

final blood moon. the moon appeared brighter and larger in the sky before the eclipse moved in and gave the super moon a reddish-copperlike color. an event like this will not happen again until 2033. unfortunately for a lot of folks in our area, it was a little tough to see because it was so cloudy out last night. now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> yeah, that's right. we had a lot of clouds last night. we're going to have a lot of clouds tonight, too, and in between during the day today. but we still have some warm and muggy conditions. the humidity is pretty high for this time of the year. i've got another foggy night ahead and tomorrow morning should be pretty foggy and we do have some heavy rain coming in the seven-day forecast. the clouds continue across the area, but it was cloudy over much of the weekend, but it stayed dry as we had expected. 72 degrees with the wind east at

8 miles an hour. it's 4 degrees warmer than it was at this time yesterday despite all of those clouds. we're still in the upper 60s north and west and also in mount holly it's 69 degrees. glassboro 769 but it's 78 at atlantic city international. on the beaches we have that wind still coming from the east, and so temperatures are going to be leveling off pretty close to where they are now. lots of clouds across most of the area. the showers pretty far to the west, and it's going to take a while for any of those to get here, so i think it's just going to be a cloudy issue during the day today. then we have some issues starting later tomorrow. so tomorrow morning we've got the clouds socked in. then a couple of showers developing but more later on during the day and especially at night. look at this mass of heavy rain

and thunderstorms coming through tomorrow night and perhaps into wednesday. that is going to be the first focus of our weather, but we have more coming later in the week and over the weekend. mostly cloudy, warm, and humid today. temperature this is the upper 70s to near 80 degrees, and the seven-day forecast, yenear 80 tomorrow with rain later in the day and especially at night, you saw that heavy rain, and look at the temperatures drop as we head to the end of the week and another potential for heavy rain by saturday. happening right now, philadelphia mayor michael nutter is holding a news conference to recap the pope's visit and the world meeting of families. let's listen in. >> -- the president of the pontifical council for the family. police commissioner ramsey is here, fire commissioner sawyer, and most of the members of the

pope five, deputy mayor for public safety could not be with us for this morning. also with us our main partner for the event, special agent this charge for the united states secret service dave beach and many members of his team and in particular also want to thank and recognize from the u.s. secret service mike breslin. we had yesterday, i want to again thank him publicly, the u.s. secret service director joe clancy was in philadelphia yesterday observing events and activities at a personal level. i want to thank him and also the secretary of the department of homeland security, who many of you met or saw somewhere i guess about ten days or so ago, jay johnson. also with us today is, of

course, the current general manager of septa, joe casey, and his colleague, jeff knupple. i want to thank governor wolf and drpa, penndot, the state police, and all the other folks who were involved in this incredible effort. today is our 11th and i think final media update related to the world meeting of families 2015 and the papal visit. it was a tremendous honor for all of us to serve as hosts to the holy father, pope francis, in our city for two days of large public events, the largest events he attended while in the united states of america. hundreds of thousands of pilgrims flocked to our city and enjoyed a wonderful and certainly joyous and spiritual experience. as we might say, they came, they

saw, and they experienced philadelphia at its best. city of philadelphia and our region will certainly be basking in the glow of this successful event, series of events, for months and years to come. our public employees and first responders did a fantastic job. again, i want to thank all of our public employees for the work they did leading up to and certainly through the course of the weekend. and at the risk of missing a department or agency but certainly philadelphia police department, fire department, ems services, city streets department, and the sanitation division in particular, parks and recreation, lni, the health department and the commerce department, their response in setting up the business resource center and so many, many more. all of our public employees deserve huge thanks from the citizens and certainly all of the participants. i received a number of very,

very, very positive comments from any number of people that i ran into. folks from here within the united states and also many of our foreign visitors talking about the support that they received from city employees, and we thank them. i know that certainly leading up to and probably over the course of the weekend there were legitimate concerns about any number of aspects of this event, but i and we certainly had faith that this event would be successful because of our public employees and our public safety partners both here and in the surrounding counties but also because of the spirit of the citizens of this great city. our public employees are the best in the nation at what they do. our citizens have a hometown pride. i don't know about other places, i have never lived anywhere else but there is a pride that philadelphians have about our great city and after we talk or fuss or fight or whatever it is we're going to do, at some point in time the switch goes on and

people say, it's time to be the great city that we want people to know and love as all of us do. of course, unfortunately at times all good things must come to an end. i was at the airport yesterday. pope francis was wheels up at 7:47 and we, of course, wished him a very safe and successful trip back to the vatican. life does go on, and our city is returning to whatever normal is at this time of day. i think we'll have to redefine that, but in many instances or aspects, rather, we're actually coming back to normal operations sooner than most of us thought. hopefully there is at the same time is greater sense of peace and kindness after hearing the message from pope francis over the course of the weekend. a couple details, the -- formerly known as the traffic box, renamed as francis festival grounds, that has been

completely lifted. about 75% of that was gone last night when i talked with members of the news media. i guess that was about 9:30 or so last night. three-quarters of the traffic box had already been lifted. i-76 and i-676 are open in both directions with all ramps open. ben franklin bridge as i mentioned last night was scheduled to open at 4:00 a.m. to vehicular traffic. all ramps on i-95 are open as well. some areas along the ben franklin parkway are still closed because we're actively in the cleanup process. as i'm sure all of you saw or experienced, there was a lot of infrastructure out along the ben franklin parkway. it does take some time to get all of that back in its place and get it cleaned up, but we're also used to that. all the surrounding neighborhoods though are open. parking restrictions have been completely lifted. we're also working to lift barriers also known as new jersey barriers, at private garages and remove all over

event infrastructure. we expect it to be gone during the course of today. a few stats. septa reports 28,575 passengers on saturday. 34,371 on sunday on regional rail. more than 40,000 passengers were moved from center city to at&t station on the subway after the papal mass alone. as a special note, and i'm sure we'll have a little more to say about this later, septa's very successful transportation plan is the perfect way for -- if it has to end, which, you know, we all have various feelings about that, but he's made the decision so i think there's no turning back, septa's successful transportation plan is the perfect way for joe casey to end his tenure as the gm of sep ta and for jeff to begin as general manager. joe's last day is this wednesday september 30th but he deserves a

huge round of applause. [ applause ] we've done a lot of things together. >> yes, we have. >> and i'm going to miss you. petco, 25,961 passengers both days. 591 vehicles were relocated. you will recall when we talked about the vehicle restrictions, we had anticipated or estimated that we might have to tow upwards of 1500 cars. so obviously that was also a huge success. and our residents really stepped up and helped us out with about a 90% compliance rate, and again i want to thank the citizens of this city. again, certainly a level of inconvenience to enable us to host this successful event, but most folks just really did what we asked them to do and we're very, very appreciative. hotel rooms, about 90% of hotel

rooms in center city were booked. a little over 9900 rooms. business resource center senior commerce staff manned the phones 24 hours a day over the weekend. leading up to the event there were about 150 calls, mostly questions were answered again on the spot. over the weekend there were very few calls indicating that businesses had made their arrangements and were operational. isolated problems were forwarded and handled promptly by the emergency operations center also known as the eoc. medical patient contacts. ten medical stations and first aid tents helped 423 calls for assistance with 129 transports to hospitals. more than 100 ambulances and a little over 1,000 ems professionals were on call. philadelphia police department reports only three event related arrests. the department will have more details on those issues at a later time. indigo, 2,080 trips on friday.

4,900 on saturday, 5,300 on sunday. sunday's numbers are 134% increase over the previous one-day record set back on august 12th, and this is with 15 stations that were closed over the weekend. during a typical friday, saturday, sunday time period, typical ridership is about 6,000 trips. logistics, 300 pieces of heavy equipment, on-site dormitory services for more than 1700 public safety personnel and volunteers. 69,000 meals provided to those personnel. and 250,000 bottles of water provided to the public for free. on that and a number of other things we want to thank wawa for stepping up to the plate and providing all of that water. 20-plus planning subcommittees, hundreds of personnel, thousands upon thousands of hours spent by public employees and our private or nonprofit partners, and that,

ladies and gentlemen, is the tale of the tape on the largest world meeting of families hosted to date. first time ever in the united states of america. attendance at the convention center is somewhere -- nodonna y have better numbers than me between 17,000 and 20,000 people folks. is it 20? as i said, donna would have better numbers than me. 20,000 participants at the world meeting of families congress, which was the purpose of the pope's visit in the first place. previous high number on that event over the last 20 years is about 7,000 people actually coming to the congress. a tremendously successful event, and it only happens because of all of the folks here and many, many thousands that you don't necessarily see here at this event. >> that was philadelphia mayor michael nutter recapping the world meeting of families and pope francis' visit to philadelphia. just a quick highlight, to

highlight some of the numbers he mentioned. he said that about 90% of hotel rooms were bookbooked. in terms of septa's numbers on saturday, 28,000 people take regional rails. 34,000 for patco. 26,000 on both days. in terms of what's happening in the city right now, he did talk about the traffic box. that has been completely lifted. he also mentioned that all ramps are opened on the schuylkill expressway, 95, on 676, the vine street expressway, and of course, we know the ben franklin bridge has been open since early this morning. he said all parking restrictions in the city have since been lifted. he did not give specific numbers as to how many people attended the outdoor mass yesterday. however, from what we heard overnight, the early numbers suggest that it's about 860,000. we're going to continue to get an update on that throughout the day. keep checking on that number to see if that changes. he did mention though that in terms of participants at the world meeting of families, there

were about 20,000 people last week. the largest in the world meeting of families history. on a final note he said it was a tremendous honor for philadelphia to host pope francis and he thanked all of the public employees who made this past weekend possible. you're watching nbc 10 news today at 11:00. >> this is nbc 10 news. pope francis is back at the vatican today following his whirlwind trip to cuba and the united states. this video shows the pontiff returning to the vatican following that historic mass here in philadelphia yesterday afternoon. we now know more than 800,000 people packed the parkway yesterday for that incredible mass, that incredible

showing, and this morning cleanup efforts are in full swing from street sweepers to leaf blowers. right now crews are doing everything they can to get it all back to normal. within the past hour archbishop charles chaput spoke about the success of the world meeting of families. cydney long joins us live now. she has more on what the archbishop had to say about the success of the event. cydney, fill us in. >> reporter: well, rosemary, we did ask if he would have done anything differently. the archbishop said if he had it his way, it would have been simper. in fact, much simpler, but it's certainly not up to him to be able to protect the pope and protect the volume, the scores of people we saw. you mentioned 800,000 where security measures are concerned. but he did say despite the road blocks, thousands of them along with business closures and those security measures, the weekend visit of pope francis can be measured in three uplifting

words, peaceful, joyful, and historic. chaput felt joy little crime occurred in the city and a record crowd of 22,000 took part in the world meeting of families congress. ahead of the festival of families that we saw saturday on the parkway. he said francis noted the people of philadelphia were peaceful and chaput said even though the pope's journey in philadelphia is over, it is really just the beginning of families working to better love one another and work together. francis had a message that families are worth it. we asked does this visit and francis being open to the gay community and those divorced, does it redefine the meaning of the family within the faith? >> children are most healthily raised with a positive relationship of both parents who love one another faithfully. >> reporter: and the pontiff we do know had a very rigorous and

exciting schedule for the 78-year-old. chaput told us how lucky he was to have pope francis staying at his papal residence in philadelphia saying he slept very well, he ate well, he really did rest peacefully when he wasn't running that rigorous schedule, rosemary, and also just one little quick note, he didn't have a philly cheese steak when he was here and chaput said he also didn't help himself to any second helpings. the fact he didn't have a cheese steak, maybe he's going to have to visit philadelphia once again. we're live at the convex sntion center. i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> let's hope memories can last a lifetime and beyond. that's what many, if not most, took away from the papal mass on the parkway yesterday. it was the final public event for pope francis in philadelphia and in the u.s. the holy father took the altar wlt over 800,000 attending that mass. the excitement, the energy was

palpab palpable. >> his word has been very inspiring to me. >> i have seen people from other religions. it's so culturally diverse. >> to be at a mass being led by the holy father is just amazing. >> others we spoke to said that the mass felt very intimate even though it drew so many people. all those people meant long lines at the security checkpoin checkpoints. the key was really keeping yourself busy because for some the wait lasted hours. early estimates as we mentioned have the crowd under a million. that meant pilgrims eager to see the pope had to really tap into that christian virtue of patience. >> the line was like three hours to get in here. we waited three hours here. >> we walked right up to the white. >> and today? >> we were all the way down spring garden. >> some families who got stuck in the back of the lines gave up and left early. don't blame them, especially if they had small kids. those who made it through got a blessing from the pope. they received communion, and they parade together.

pope francis took time to stop and bless the knotted grotto right next to the cathedral basilica yesterday. the grotto's sculpture is made of more than 30,000 white ribbons each inscribed with a personal hardship, struggle or prayer. francis has a deep devotion to the blessed mother. sister mary scullion of project home spearheaded this project. the knots for the sculpture have been gathered from people all over the world. if you missed any moment of the papal visit, we've got you covered, or if you'd like to share some of your moments with us, go to the nbc 10 app to watch what you may have missed and relive this exciting and historic time for philadelphia. coming up, from one pope to another. it's the touching and funny moment we can't seem to get enough of. we'll tell you about the message the holy father had for this baby's mother. pope francis just couldn't

seem to get enough of all those adorable little babies during his visit. we'll talk live with a local mom who is feeling especially blessed this morning after a truly unforgettable time on the parkway.

who could forget this memorable moment from the pope's visit to philadelphia. an infant dressed up as a mini pontiff caught the holy father's attention. a secret service agent brought the baby girl to pope francis where he gave her a kiss on the

forehead. the agent then returned the child to her mother's arms. he passed along a message from pope francis telling the mom that she had a sense of humor. pope francis kissed a lot of babies during his trip to the united states this past week, and this is a moment a family from the main line will never forget. the holy father planted a kiss on little margaret quisenberry saturday afternoon just before his speech outside of independence hall. baby margaret is here this morning along with her mother chrissy quisenberry. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having us. >> is this the same pink onesie she was wearing? >> it is. margaret had a wonderful time visiting with the pope there and it was a special moment for the entire family. >> so walk us through how this all came to be. did you think, okay, i have a 2-month-old infant, she's coming with us. this is the pope magnet. kind of talk us through it. >> exactly. i was thinking i have a 2-month-old, i'm bringing her down. we have two other children who stayed at home, but we enjoyed

our time getting down there. it was a wonderful day. no traffic and we had a wonderful time getting down there, and then when we saw the popemobile coming i taughought maybe this was a good time to get to the fence. i lifted margaret up and there came the security detail and he grabbed her and took her to the pope. >> were you hesitant in any way passing over margaret to this secret service agent? >> you know, i have to be honest, it happened so fast, and a lot of people have asked me that question, but, no, i knew -- the pope was right in front of me. >> you were in god's -- >> good hands. >> good's hands and in good hands. so in terms of this blessing and this moment that's now captured that you will have forever, captured on video, how has it affected your family? how has it affected your faith, this whole experience? >> well, the visit this weekend was so inspirational to so many people and to our family especially. so margaret, she gave us a moment there, but the whole

weekend really captured such wonderful feelings of love and faith and now the work begins, correct? >> yes, it does. >> we take the pope's message and we'll have to work hard to live out what he's asked us to do. >> that's what he said, live your faith. go out and spread the good news and act upon it. >> correct, yes. >> krissy quisenberry, thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having both of us. >> margaret quisenberry, you are a nice, delightful guest. we appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. >> thank you and take care. well, it's warm today, but get ready for the arrival of cool and wet weather. we'll let you know when to expect the changing conditions just ahead.

whether it's crime, abuse, homelessness, or the death of a parent, many children in the philadelphia area have suffered some kind of trauma or witnessed

it at some point in their lives, and those psychological scars can no doubt have a tremendous impact. radio station 900 a.m. word is trying to help those young people overcome those issues during a brain strain symposium. it's happening this week on wednesday. mike o'brien is the program manager of youth arts education at village of arts and humanities in philadelphia, and you will be speaking at the symposium this week. >> yes, ma'am. >> thanks for being with us. >> no problem. thank you for having me. >> first, tell us about what you're going to be doing during the symposium, what you will exactly be speaking about. >> yeah. so my role there, i will be talking about the role that arts can play in healing and in building community because a lot of times we don't think about healing from psychological trauma taking place in the context of human relationships, and that's a huge part of the process for young people and not just young people, but even adults that have to go through a healing process, restoring that like human relationship portion, so i'll be talking about that and a little bit of the brain

science behind why the arts are so important and often we talk about arts as being extracurricular, co-curricular, they're good for math but there's a whole other side to the arts in human development that i think we're missing sometimes. >> in your experience as the program manager of the youth arts education program, what have you seen? >> yeah. so interestingly enough, i have been at the village now for about eight months, really though i have been working around arts and community development for probably about the last nine years. what you see a lot of is a mix of what we call resilience, these strength-based traits that people are allowed to grow in situations with other people, right, and human relationships where you can grow these emotional behaviors that help us buffer a lot of the traumatic things or the hurtful things that can happen in life. so you see a mix of that with a mix of people who are also just really detached from the hurtful situations, from the trauma, and they don't know where to place it or where to put it. a lot of times the memories are kind of shattered, they're in

places and spaces that aren't in like a personal narrative, and you haven't learned how to like work through it or work with it. so you see the wide gamut of it, and you do your best to make sure you're servicing people right where they're at and pushing them to help develop those emotional behaviors we're looking for. >> one way you're doing it is going to be this wednesday at the symposium when you will give your presentation and give your discussion. we have that information right there on your screen. the brain strain, the effect of trauma on education takes place this wednesday september 30th from 6:00 to 7:30 at the franklin institute. admission is free with an rsvp. a great way to get in the community. go to our website nbc10.com or get more information on the nbc 10 app. mike o'brien, thank you so much for coming in here. >> thank you. >> i'm sure we will probably be at the symposium on wednesday to see you. >> great. it will be great to see you. >> glenn, take it away. >> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist

glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> all right, rosemary, i will take it away. and we've got some mild, very muggy weather out there. despite the cloud cover, that's helped keep the temperature down, but as soon as the sun comes out like millville and atlantic city, the temperature is jumping up to near 80 degrees, and it will continue to see improved conditions across the area with some of these clouds breaking up. visibility getting better and that will allow the temperature to go up. we have some showers to the west. nothing too impressive just yet, but things are going to get a little wild around here. here is the future cast as we go through the afternoon with a little bit of sunshine. temperatures get into the low 80s. we have just an isolated shower or two possible, but you can see some breaks in those clouds. not later on during the night the clouds come back, low clouds and the fog, so tomorrow morning it is overcast, it is foggy, and

it is very humid for this time of the year. so possibly a shower or two in the morning, but the main thing that's going to happen, you can see the warmth tomorrow afternoon, too, and then tomorrow night this gigantic area of rain starts coming across and some of that obviously is on the heavy side. it could linger into wednesday as well, and that's not the only big rain event that could be happening this week. one of the computer models here is giving us over an inch of rain by early wednesday morning. and even more later in the week. for the rest of the day today, it is mostly cloudy. it's warm and humid up near 80 degrees for the high. assuming a little bit of sunshine at least. and the seven-day forecast, the rain mainly late in the day tomorrow and especially tomorrow night. heavy at times. then we cool down quite a bit for the rest of the week. by thursday and friday temperatures don't get out of the 60s, and may not even be as

warm as we've listed there, and then another chance of heavier rain friday night and saturday. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ with the name trusted for nearly 80 years, you have the courage to enjoy the ride. independence blue cross. live fearless.

before we leave new morning, we want to get one last check of the weather. it looks like the fog is starting to clear a little bit. >> you can see the tops of most of the buildings out there now, and conditions will improve this afternoon. it will be warm and humid, but we'll see a repeat of the fog tomorrow morning and then some really heavy rain late tomorrow

into wednesday. >> bring that umbrella to work is what you're saying. >> yeah. >> that's going to do it for us. see you later on. a have a good one.

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