is 10,000 more papal tickets in now in circulation, just after 4:00 this afternoon, 10,000 tickets were released for the festival of families, and tickets to the mass on the mark way will be put online for sale tonight and they started to sell pope francis merchandise tonight in center city. this is a means to help pay for the cost of world meeting of families. live on the parkway is david henry, what about the tickets released late this afternoon. >> reporter: you know 85% of the parkway is open to the public but you need the tickets to get in the secure zone down there, where the 10,000 tickets were up for grabs at 4:00 and they went within two minutes, 10,000 tickets for the saturday event went in a flash with

overwhelming demand. >> no strategies just hope and prayers. >> sharon was hoping to get tickets, she was disappointed missing out on the tickets yesterday. >> how disappointed were you? >> i was right there, i was highly disappointed. i said how does 10,000 people get them that fast. she said quick fingers and said no way, that is ridiculous. >> they sold out within minutes, some were asking hundreds of dollars for tickets they got for free. >> organizationers were hoping to spread the joy with the free tickets. >> and then for someone to turn around and sell them, we know how desperately people want these tickets, i'm disappointed and i hope it stops. >> at least alice has the

spirit. she got ticket yesterday for the independence hall event. >> i'm thinking about giving them away to someone that has a need, i don't have to be close, just being in the street and being a pilgrim for his visit is good enough for me. >> tickets may be free for some but there are no freebies at this store. the world meeting of families opened its official merchandise store at 11th and market today. can you get the pope francis bobble head or the more loveable plush doll, they have every kind of souvenir you could want here. he was here for pope john paul ii's mass on the parkway 30 years ago and is excited for this. >> a lot more people, it should be exciting. it's going to be a joyous occasion. >> organizers are estimated that

a million people will show up for the mass and 150,000 of them will have tickets to get in the secure zone down there, 10,000 of those tickets are up for grab at 8:00 tonight and no doubt they will vanish quickly too. live on the parkway, david henry, channel 6 "action news." >> no doubt david. as more information about the papal visit is revealed, please rely on 6abc.com/pope, our posts include the list of highway and road closures and items prohibited from the francis festival grounds and how to see the pope during his two scheduled parades. that is at 6abc.com/pope. other news at this hour, four current and two former correctional officers were in federal court today after being indicted for allegedly smuggling drugs and phones into city prisons, live outside right now

is "action news" reporter, sara bloomquist. >> reporter: jim, they were sworn to guard the city's prison, and now are looking at years behind bars themselves, accused of smuggling drugs and cell phones to inmates in prison it turns out the inmates and supposed drug suppliers were working for the federal government. >> today the u.s. attorney announced the indictments of two current and two former correctional officers. alarmed by an increase in contra ban, city prison officials asked the fed to investigate. >> after seizing these cell phones and drugs we knew we noted assistance. >> prisonerers working for the

federal government undercover asked for cell phones and drugs. >> during the meetings the reported associate handed the cash payments and the defendant smuggled the contraband and delivered it to an inmate. all six are charged with attempted extortion and attempted distribution of controlled substances. >> the philadelphia prison system has no place for staff that uses their power or position for criminal acts. >> he represents former prison guard mark thompson, whose mother is a former philadelphia police officer. >> it's a serious case and people should not bring those types of things in the prison but we don't have enough information now to indicate where we'll go as far as defending this case. >> now, the drugs were just placebos and not real, today three of the six defends entered

not guilty employee pleas sentencing guidelines should put them behind bars for three to four years, i'm sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you sara. 42-year-old lamar poole, the philadelphia police officer killed in a hit and run crash was laid to rest today. mourners gathered at the first district plaza in west philadelphia for the funeral service, police say that poole was off duty when a vehicle struck his motorcycle and the driver was capture aid short distance away and charged with homicide by vehicle and dui. teachers in the upland school district were paid today. more than 300 teachers and staff agreed to return to work and return to school last week even though the district said they could not meet the first payroll but the paychecks came on time

today because the state covered the district's debt. congressman chaka fattah has taken to the internet to fund his defense. he was indicted on racketeering and fraud charges, legal bills are mounting and now fattah is crowd funding to fight the charges, the house economics committee approved the fund. he will use the contributions to hire the best lawyers to defend his name and work in congress. fattah's trial is scheduled for may. this coming saturday, the federal judge enforcement administration wants you to clear your medicine cabinet of unused or expired prescription drugs and take them to a designated drop-off point and it's called take back day. >> reporter: please don't think this is not happening in your

life. somebody you know is having a problem. tricia stout knows of what she speaks, she lost her 19-year-old, pam, in 2010 to a heroin overdose, it did not start there it started with an addiction to prescription drugs namely percocet and then oxycontin. >> she died in her grandmother's home. >> it's not a drug addict on the corner anymore it's our own kids. >> she speaks to teens and parents at schools about the growing academic of opiate drugs leading to heroin. >> it's a gateway to opiate addiction in this country because there are so many prescription opiates left in the medicine cabinet. >> i don't know how to not be her parent anymore even though she is not here. this is my way of doing that.

>> the dea has sponsored take back days, people clearing out their medicine cabinets of unused prescription drugs and turning them over to the dea for disposal. >> we destroyed 4 million pounds of expired and unused medications. >> this saturday the 12th, the dea will have several drop-off locations across pennsylvania and delaware and be centrally located and no question will be asked. it's a quick drop-off. i'm vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." and you can find a complete list of the take back spots athe 6abc.com. they say that building a coding system at the navy yard, they expect the $70 million facility to be complete in late

2017. they make specialty paint and coatings for the automotive industry. coming up on "action news" tonight, construction crews make a historic find in south jersey this morning, ahead what preservationists are saying about what they dug up. jaime apody is live in south philadelphia, sweating it out with the eagles today. >> yes, that is for sure, the birds getting ready for monday night football and we'll hear from them. plus, one fearless prognosticator, who usually get its right predicts the birds will win the super bowl. adam it was hot out here today. >> and per your twitter, women only glisten. >> 90 monday, 94 yesterday and 93 today and a break is on the way. i'll have the details in accuweather.

new at 6:00 they have dug up an impressive chunk of history in burlington county, new jersey. nora muchanic has the story. >> reporter: when construction crews in burlington city began digging next to memorial hall on high street, they did not expect to find this, four and a half foot long 1500 pound cannon. >> it will start to corrode over time. >> archeologists for historic

preservation came to examine the cannon, they say it was probably on a water vessel. >> it's not unusual to finite manies that date back this far. >> it may have been a decorative cannon they had at one time and just covered it up. >> the city owns the property and is home to american legion post 79, crews were digging to make a wheelchair lift to make the building handicap accessible. they are putting the project on hold to figure out exactly what they got here and if more excavation is needed. >> we have something here that is potentially historic and looks hist or can. >> there is no guarantee there is not a cannon shell in there, we doubt that but we'll move it carefully. >> the rusty cannon is gingerly

removed and will sit in a facility away from the public while they dig up the history behind it. i'm nora muchanic, channel 6 "action news." the philly pops have created a new program to help reinvent music education in philadelphia. ♪ ♪ jazz singer tony desar was part of the announcement. it's called keys for philly kids and will be offered at south philadelphia high school and that program will reach out to students that may be shy of taking traditional music classes. let's clear the air.

there are no limits on the amount of carbon pollution power plants can... release. and our senator, pat toomey, led the fight to keep it that way. carbon pollution, a major cause of climate change, leads to more asthma attacks in children. over a million pennsylvanians now suffer from asthma. and senator toomey took over a million dollars from polluters.

tell senator toomey: it's time to clear the air. vote for the clean power plan. we are gaining on it week one in the nfl. >> it's here before you know it. the eagles got back to work they are fairly healthy, chip kelly says that all players are cleared to practice.

jaime apody is live in south philadelphia. >> it was great to see zach ertz coming off a core muscle injury, he is a game time decision for monday night and chip kelly was asked if he was eager to see sam bradford play in a full nfl game and he said not really, you got to love chip kelly. bradford led the birds to touch downs on all three drives and the way they put up points it will be fun to see how they play in atlantic. the guys are waiting for the games to finally count. >> i'm ready to play and i don't think there is anything else to do, just go out and play ball. >> we are gearing up for this for a while now and waiting for the season to get going, we are overly excited and happy to kick it off on monday night.

>> we want to be the best and this is our first opportunity to come out there and display it. >> also pumped the number three quarterba quarterback, steven morris, he is the guy that was rated the highest on the waiver wire, as for mr. tebow, he is headed back to television, an analyst for the sec network and another former eagle, now an analyst, joe banner, he tweeted that the eagles will win the super bowl, before you joke, every single one of banner's preseason predictions last year came true. live at the nova care complex. channel 6 "action news." >> we'll take that. we are teaming up with phl 17 to bring you coverage of the opener, the game itself is at 7:00 both on phl 17.

the phillies and braves meet for the final time this season and young david buchanan hopes it's not the last time he pitches for the phils, he spent the last month in the miners hoping to get his game right, hay as era of 9. ooh. >> i am excited to have another opportunity to come up here, something they didn't have to do but they did it feels good to me and they have the confidence in me. great football players don't have to come from the nfl or the college game, high school players can be equally as excited. casey handler from orchard lake, michigan, fields the punt and break a few tackles and takes it to the right, a couple of key blocks and has a slight opening and then has to beat a few would be tacklers, he might make it

but he trips up and runs out of gas and they spot the ball at 1 yard line. adam joseph with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment.

looks like we could get some rain. and we will, august 11 and is the last time philly saw a quarter inch of rain and we desperately need it. most of the area is quiet and tropically humid, a couple of locations with a downpour or two

around, lucky spots in burlington near marlton and north of 70 in medford as well as browns mills east of 206, no lightning with eeshl of these particular downpours, just some brief heavy rain. as you head way south on the garden state parkway, high temperatures, some areas saw records, a record high in allentown of 95 degrees, record tying in reading, 94 in trenton and 90 in wilmington and 90 in millville, down to the south temperatures because of a sea breeze were only in the mid to upper 80s, however sea isle city and places like beach haven and dover were only 85 to 88 degrees, when you factored in the extreme humidity, the southern areas including

millville still felt like 98 degrees, it didn't matter if you were in the 80s or 90s, everybody felt like the upper 90s with allentown and philadelphia feeling like 98 and trenton 97 on this september afternoon. but the beginning of the heat wave started today and ends today, we have a cold front to the northern and west closing in and that will eventually collapse tomorrow and a wave of low pressure will develop along the boundary to enhance the rain around here to turn it on the heavy side by thursday afternoon. but for tonight, tropical feeling just a couple of downpours around and low temperatures overall around the 70 degree mark in much of the area, and the shore the warmest spots near 75, future tracker tomorrow morning, a couple of downpours and scattered showers around to start and morning rush hour on thursday, fairly quiet during the morning hours and lunch time and a little after,

overspreading the region with heavy downpours and a few embedded thunderstorms as well and by 11:00 the heaviest pushes towards new york city and southern new england and lagging behind are a lot of clouds and a few left over spinning showers. tomorrow .75 to 1.5 inchesp rain and the heaviest is in the afternoon and we have a packed almost concrete like ground right now, that means initially the rain will run off because it can't seep into the solid ground, that could create some flooded roadways. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 82 tomorrow, with a welcome soaking and then quickly turning sunny on friday morning and 84 with low humidity and another weak system passes through late saturday and sunday and it's a middle of the weekend showers, much cooler on sunday

compared to saturday. and finally we get a true september feeling with a high of 76 and low humidity, still comfy on tuesday and 82 and turning warmer again a week from now at 85 degrees, one day in the seven day we are anywhere near normal. >> still one day of rain. thank you adam. abc's world news tonight with david muir is next on channel 6, "action news" continues at 10:00 on phl 17 with brian taff, adam joseph and ducis rogers, and then please join us for "action news" at 11:00 here on channel 6. for cecily tynan, adam joseph, ducis rogers and the entire "action news" team i'm jim gardner we hope you'll join us at 11:00.

tonight, breaking developments. exclusive video from inside that boeing 777. the engine exploding into flames during takeoff. pilots rushing to bring the plane to a halt. the race to get off. one passenger saying it was like a river of fire. and late reports of yet another shooting. authorities calling it an act of domestic terrorism. >> the protest in the capitol against the iran nuclear deal. and we ask hillary clinton, do they have a right to be concerned? and the big headline from apple. the tv