this morning nbc 10's deanna durante is live for us at the fort washington state which is one of the septa stations bringing people to center city to see the pope taoday. people have been coming and going throughout the morning. >> reporter: they have. as early as 5:30 this morning. actually 5:29 this morning is when 29 people boarded that first train for center city. take a look. you said that you can't get on the train. you can't get into the septa station here without that papal pass. people are lining up here in the parking lot. you see the volunteers milling around with the yellow vests. the rest of the people are passengers that are lining up here. they are checking their tickets, making sure that they have the papal passes. if you see a little bit to the right of the tent, because we are on the platform across, there is a cardboard cut out of proefs, ma pope francis, many people taking pictures. another train is coming here in just a minute. we are at train number 5 this morning. just under 200 people, i need to correct myself from last time, boarded the trains already for cen

a drone with the proper application would be a benefit. >> reporter: deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> we have more pope coverage for you still ahead, including a look at security preparations for the pontiff's visit to new york and washington and why pope francis' visit here means an early christmas for one local business. that's coming up. >>> to our weather now, summer is technically still here and it feels like it out there. taking a live look at cape may, jersey shore isn't as crowded as july and august, but it's warmer than usual today with nice low humidity out there, so how long is it going to stick around? >> let's get a check of our weekend weather forecast with nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen. sheena, changes coming in our direction. >> that's right, rosemary and jim. changes coming mostly the second half of the weekend, so to start your weekend it will still feel like summer. right now still kind of does. 82 degrees philadelphia, wilmington, 84 northeast philly, with the low humidity. so summer-like temperatures, but the humidity much more comfortable than w

deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> here's something of a surprise. with two weeks to go, there are still thousands of hotel rooms available in philadelphia. this evening, the city is making it a point to let people know about it with a new rallying cry. >> one more time. will you be there? >> i'll be there! >> that's the new cry. this was the scene inside the radisson warrick thiss afternoo. there are concerns hotel rooms aren't selling. there are still about 3,000 available. the mayor says the hotels didn't know what to expect and neither did people coming to see the pope. >> maybe some potential customers may not have necessarily thought that there would be hotel rooms available here in philadelphia. >> the mayor says some hotels are dropping prices now and offering incentives. activity has started to pick up. get all the latest information on the nbc 10 news app. >>> other news now. the search for a missing pilot off the coast of atlantic city has been suspended. tonight the u.s. coast guard stopped its search after that small plane crashed yester

as nbc 10's deanna durante shows us, officials hope the incident helps lead to a change in the law. >> this is a horrendous message to send to this community that you can do what you damn well please. >> reporter: chester police commissioner is furious. the morning was spent with chester high school on lockdown. student reported another had a gun in his pabackpack. the student arrested. >> i have just been advised by my juvenile officers that the district attorney's office says this does not qualify as a weapon or other than the fact that it's a weapon on school property, and the juvenile will not be detained. >> reporter: it was after bail walked away from a press briefing he said he learned state law doesn't allow for the child to be charged with a felony because the gun is a fake. . no markings on it and on the side of it it's marked as a colt 1911. >> reporter: police say the law doesn't account for how real the gun looks or manpower they had to use for the toy gun and now they are on a mission. police and the mayor say they are going to be reaching out to the district attorney an

the goal is to make traffic stops faster and easier as deanna durante reports, it's something that'set to expand to the entire state of pennsylvania. >> we have an overview of the county. >> reporter: it's the newest tool for police. >> i'm not typing anything. >> reporter: it's called track, and police say it will drastically cut the time they need to spend on dangerous roads, because it scans everything and immediately prints a ticket in a patrol car. >> as soon as the officer's done entering the information into the system, the ticket is immediately printed out and the hard copy is handed to the driver. >> reporter: lost tickets or a driver saying they never got one. >> immediately, that information is transmitted to the district courts. >> how are you doing, ma'am? >> reporter: the system can scan a driver's license and a pennsylvania registration card and display a driver's picture on the police screen. and say a driver gets a warning for not having their inspection updated, the system will prompt the police officer to go back and check and make sure it's been updated. if not, t

nbc 10's deanna durante tells us a medical tent city will be set up inside the seminary should the pontiff need them. >> we are going to go to sort of an all hands on deck. >> reporter: a conference room will turn into a bedroom. emts will be riding bikes and every paid staffer will be working next week when the pope is in town. >> we have no idea the impact on the normal ems district. >> reporter: the ambulance service is calling on all its members to help and some will be inside the seminary full time. others will be in philadelphia, city avenue, and along the motorcade route to treat those who could fall ill. >> basically an ems tent city where there's going to be physicians, nurses, paramedics that will be able to field triage people and determine if they need to go to the hospital. >> reporter: primary care for the pope will need all it can borrow to treat the thousands who show up here hoping to see him. in addition to its own fleet of ambulances, they'll be borrowing from surrounding townships, even a motorcycle to get to people who need help. >> a bus can hold 11 patients at a time

deanna durante has more. >> i didn't hear anything. we were all in our house.body heard anything. >> reporter: residents say they had no idea what happened down the street until they woke up. >> yeah, i saw the cops, they were looking for bullet casings this morning. they were pounding the door down next door. >> reporter: 53-year-old kevin brown was shot once in the neck just before he tried to escape. >> seems he was trying to get out the window, he and his wife were in that bedroom. and were able to get out. >> relatives say the home invasion happened after 11:00 last night and inside the house, brown, his wife, and grown children. >> i don't know why they would break into his house, of all people. >> does not seem to be a -- you know, situation where you have neighbors that should be concerned about it. it was a targeted attack. >> reporter: police aren't saying what leads them to believe that. most of the morning detectives were at the house carrying bags of evidence. neighbors say it's a scary crime, but still a place many feel safe. >> that was deanna du

a community hospital to handle all medical emergencies and nbc 10's deanna durante takes you inside. >> we have 28 radios out there, county radios for communication. >> reporter: it's not a hospital. >> come down to our main area where you'll sit down with one of the nurses or one of the p.a.'s. >> reporter: at least not in the traditional sense. >> wave not been challenged in this way before. >> reporter: nobody is sure how many will line the streets hoping to get a glimpse of the pope. >> we need to be prepared for more people than the emergency room can handle. >> reporter: and taking lessons from the boston marathon bomb welcome this emergency tent city is stocked with all kinds of supplies. >> we can suture, deal with eye injuries and we have medications to take care of kids. our current setup is for 15 to 18 people, but we have extra cots in the trailers. >> reporter: in the event of an emergency, ambulances won't be able to get through crowds. that's why gators like these are stocked with water, supplies, and equipment to transport patients. >> we have people who are never, in

. >> deanna durante is live in wayne, where businesses got some answers today. >> the township's beenking on this plan for over a month, it knows that a lot of cars will be here on route 30. this is a main road, no plans to close this road, however, one road around the radnor train station will be shut down for a big chunk of the weekend. >> we're getting creative. >> weekend dinners are the bread and butter of melrose. but the area close to the train station is going to be a no drive zone. >> we're going to open up at 5:00 a.m. and do a satellite kitchen, we're going to offer a continental style breakfast, coffee, potentially bloody mary's. >> reporter: the idea is to attract the papal visitors. >> planned and unplanned road closures. >> the township and police are alerting people now things will be very different come september 25th. >> we're going to have 24 hour presence. we're going to have officers all over the place and stop and ask. the predone message boards will help people going to the parking areas and those particular road closures. >> king of prussia road will be closed

. >> nbc10's deanna durante joins us live in wayne with more details. >> despite that warning, radnorice told business owners today they don't want them to fear the papal visit, instead, prepare for traffic on roads like route 30. route 30 will be opened, they plan to have a lot of police and digital signs to alert visitors to the detours. >> it's very exciting, and it's a wonderful event but can we get our students and faculty and staff in and out in a timely fashion. >> the main concern, will they be able to get to school, work and home? >> we'll have about 10 employees that need to get to villanova on monday morning. >> they want to know if the roads will be open by monday the 28th. >> it's a gray area of not knowing, losing the typical revenue that i have on a weekend, friday, saturday, sunday. that is a huge chunk of my weekly income, that's our bread and butter. >> and dining hotspots like 333 melrose, could be a no go. the roads along the neighborhood will be shut down. the chef is whipping up train side service. >> we're going to open at 5:00 across the street, and we're going

for now, we're live in conshohocken, deanna durante, "nbc10 news." >>> a new miss america will be crownedic city. and a famous song will be back at the pageant. ♪ miss america >> sunday's miss america pageant will include the famous line "there she is, miss america." a legal dispute kept the song out of the pageant the past five years. the organization reached a settlement of the estate with the original songwriter. >>> good morning. drying out today with temperatures expected to be above average, but we have changes on the way as we push into the weekend. storms expected on saturday plus a chance of showers on sunday and cooler temperatures move in for the second half of your weekend. a lot going on. a look outside where we're seeing mostly cloudy skies and even overcast skies throughout philadelphia. 73 degrees. breezy conditions for us as well. across the rest of the region, you'll notice we're seeing mostly cloudy skies in allentown stretching out to cape may. temperatures in cape may right around 71 degrees. ist an even spread with our temperatures. we're also seeing on the satellite

deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >>> nbc 10 news at 5:00 is next. >> here's jacqueline london. >> next all new tonight at 5:00, a good samaritan loses his life trying to protect a mother and her baby daughter. >>> and for the last year and a half nbc 10 has followed the criminal case against a former colin police officer. he was charged with stalking and harassment, now murder. tonight prosecutors have decided if he will face the death penalty. >>> and we have more nice weather in the forecast and warming temperatures, too. some changes across the weekend. i'll show you those coming up. your immune system doesn't work the way it did when rock was young. so we made fluzone high-dose vaccine... for people 65+. with a high high higher dose of antigen... it's significantly more effective than fluzone vaccine in preventing flu. fluzone high-dose vaccine is approved for people 65 and older. it's not for anyone who's had a severe allergic reaction to any vaccine component, including eggs, egg products, or to a prior dose of any flu vaccine. tell your doctor if you've ever had guillain-barré syndr

nbc 10's deanna durante is live in city hall with more on what changed and exactly why. >> reporter: septa says now that it knows the itinerary and events planning as well as security planning for the world meeting of families as well as the papal visit, it can now bring more transportation to those who want to move around the city. >> we have added to it. we have actually added 34th street and 8th street on the market frankford line. those are new stops right in what they are calling the francis festival. >> reporter: now you can get even closer to the events taking place on the parkway according to septa. it is doubling the number of broad street line and market frankford line stops for the weekend as pope francis visits the city of philadelphia. >> most of the time we will be bringing people in and out throughout the city all day long. that means people that maybe need to get to work or who want to come down to the papal visit just for a couple hours, then go back home can do that. >> reporter: for those riders with monthly or weekly passes, you won't be able to use them but septa

deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >>> two minutes. that's all it took for 10,000 tickets to sell out to those who want to see the pope at independence mall. tickets went online at noon today for the pontiff's appearance on saturday, september 26th. tickets were available online on a first come, first serve basis. nearly 400,000 people viewed the ticket website while the tickets were on sale. more tickets are up for grabs tomorrow. 10,000 tickets for the festival of families and 10,000 tickets for the papal mass will be available online tomorrow on the website of the world meeting of families. >>> less than 18 days from the pope's arrival in philadelphia and as we get closer to this big event, more and more information will be coming in that you need to know. count on nbc 10 to keep track of it all. we are collecting it right here on the nbc 10 website. the nbc 10 app as well. there are three things, too, you might find there right now. we just told you about the new septa plan for that weekend. we posted a map that shows you where the

. >> here's nbc 10's deanna durante. >> it's a mobile position unit. the first of its kind in the state and it's being rolled out in time for the papal visit. >> then coming up on nbc 10 news at 6:00, the secret service tells the nbc 10 investigators the agency is stretched as they work to secure followed. hear what the special agent in charge says about the security plan's biggest weakness. >>> let's take a live look at center city. this is eighth and market streets. expect tourists to flood this area here during the pope's visit this weekend. your immune system doesn't work the way it did when rock was young. so we made fluzone high-dose vaccine... for people 65+. with a high high higher dose of antigen... it's significantly more effective than fluzone vaccine in preventing flu. fluzone high-dose vaccine is approved for people 65 and older. it's not for anyone who's had a severe allergic reaction to any vaccine component, including eggs, egg products, or to a prior dose of any flu vaccine. tell your doctor if you've ever had guillain-barré syndrome.

. >> nbc 10's deanna durante was at this afternoon's news conference with the details. >> reporter: move those cars or have them towed. that's the warning from philadelphia's mayor. he says starting monday, signs will be posted all over the affected areas of the city, warning residents they better move their cars before the papal visit. >> residents are strongly encouraged and i want to ask you personally to please park in any other legal long-term spot in the city. >> reporter: papal parking spaces for those living in the secure areas will be [ inaudible ] by the philadelphia parking authority. for $20, those who live in no parking zones can park all weekend long. free parking is also available on pattison avenue in south philly. for businesses not in the secure areas, the news many have been waiting to hear. food delivery and trash pickup are scheduled between 12:00 and 4:00 a.m. on saturday and sunday morning. a reasonab this this rendering shows the parade route. now that septa has increased its transportation plans, that means people won't be walking as far as predicted. in his orig

he's staying there during his visit here and deanna durante is joining us live withere. despite the security, officials are saying the impact on neighbors and visitors should be minimal. >> reporter: that's the hope here. they are saying there will be very few road closures. city avenue, the main road here and this street here that runs along the side of the seminary and they also say as long as you do things legally, you're able to line some of the streets in the hopes of getting a glimpse of the pope. >> we're going to stay in, out of the hustle and bustle, and kind of coop up until monday when he leaves and i can get back to my normal life. >> reporter: she has no interest in being in the crowds to get a glimpse of the pope. >> only thing i may be concerned about if there's an overload on my cell phone tower and my electronics don't work. besides that, i'm sure there will be plenty of security. >> reporter: murphy says she plans to ride out the crowds. she may not be the norm. >> we're so happy this is going on, this is a joyous occasion. if people want to come out, t

deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> here's something of a surprise, perhaps. with two weeks to go, there are still thousands of hotel rooms available here in philadelphia. >> this afternoon, the city made it a point to let people know about the vacancies. keith jones has that story. >> officials have a new rallying cry. >> will you be there? >> i'll be there! >> will you be there? >> i'll be there! >> this was the scene in center city this afternoon. there has been plenty of concern that hotel rooms aren't selling. there are still 3,000 available. mayor nutter says the hotels didn't know what to expect. >> maybe in some instances, some of the potential customers may not have necessarily thought that there would be hotel rooms available here in philadelphia. >> the mayor says some hotels are dropping prices and offering incentives, so activity has started to pick up. 3,000 rooms are still available. there are about 16,000 hotel rooms throughout philadelphia. about 1100 in center city. live in the digital operations center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. >> nbc 10 is

nbc 10's deanna durante shows us how one hospital has set up a tent city to handle all medical emergencieshave 28 radios out there, county radios. >> reporter: it's not a hospital. >> come down to the main area. you will sit down with one of the nurses or p.a.s. >> reporter: at least not in the traditional sense. >> we have not been challenged this way before. we are excited. >> reporter: no one is sure how many will line the streets hoping to get a glimpse of the pope. >> we need to be prepared for more people than the emergency room can handle. >> reporter: taking lessons from the boston marathon bombing, this medical tent city is stocked with supplies to treat all types of injuries and ailments. >> we can suture down here, deal with eye injuries, we have medications to take care of kids. our current setup is for 15 to 18 people. but we have extra cots. >> reporter: in the event of an emergency, ambulances won't be able to get through the crowds. that's why these are stocked with water, supplies and equipment to transport patients. >> we have people who are never in theory going to get a

deanna durante live with that story. >> reporter: people who live and work as well as upper marion townships will be getting these letters. they'll list roads that are closed. police are preparing for a lot more come the weekend of the papal visit. >> we want to show our pride as a borough we are behind you 100% and cooperate to make this safe for the visitors coming to our town. this our pledge. >> reporter: that said the borrow will not be home to a papal visit. >> traffic could come to a halt, gridlocked especially special 95, all of the car on 76 east will no longer be on 76 east. >> being directed to 476 south. the expectation is viss visitor will be directed. many are going toing attempt to drive into the stay not realizing massive road closures and the fear is they'll drive around here lost. >> signs at every intersection, cosh corner. >> reporter: penndot is allowing the borough to close the middle lane of the bridge. warning residents of drivers that are driving around aimlessly, they want them to call 911 and report that and anything suspicious. >> i hope people will work with us.

deanna durante will be there go.to our web site, we'll have a link at nbc10.com or check out the nbc 10 app. thank you so much for being here. appreciate it and good luck. >> thanks. >>> concern near the campus of temple university. this morning philadelphia police are ramping up their search for the person who attacked a student there overnight. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> boy, what a voice. angelic. this morning we're learning more about the teen who made quite an impression during pope francis's visit to philadelphia. your immune system doesn't work the way it did when rock was young. so we made fluzone high-dose vaccine... for people 65+. with a high high higher dose of antigen... it's significantly more effective than fluzone vaccine in preventing flu. fluzone high-dose vaccine is approved for people 65 and older. it's not for anyone who's had a severe allergic reaction to any vaccine component, including eggs, egg products, or to a prior dose of any flu vaccine. tell your doctor if you've ever had guillain-barré syndrome. side ef

deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >>> 20 minutes of nonstop news continuing with developing weather. we are tracking rain. take a look at first alert radar. you can see the heavy stuff coming in tonight. glenn "hurricane" schwartz here with us. >> glenn, it's going to be a soaker tonight, isn't it? >> yeah, tonight and this is just the beginning of a very wet pattern. we've had a couple of weeks without any rain and now we're going to catch up in a hurry. over the last couple of hours we've already seen some showers move through the philadelphia area and now up toward the lehigh valley and the poconos. some of this on the heavy side right near allentown now, i-78 headed up towards the poconos, but that is nothing compared to this area that is going to be moving in later on tonight and perhaps into first thing in the morning. now we can see as we go through the evening we're going to be seeing some scattered showers and maybe a thunderstorm. this is the rainfall rate, obviously, when you get into the oranges and the reds, that's the heaviest stuff. and we're generally talking after mi

reporting live, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >>> sobbing from joyce mitchell could not soften a judge as he sentenced her today. she's the woman who helped two convicted killers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate new york. the former prison seamstress smuggled tools to the inmates before they tunnelled their way out back in june. the judge imposed a sentence of between two and one-third years and seven years in prison, despite mitchell's tearful apolo apology. >> i'm hope iing you will have mercy on me. no words can explain how deeply sorry i am. >> the judge said he did not believe mitchell's explanation that she did not report the inmates' escape plan because they thought they'd kill her husband. and the judge took her to task for the immense toll the escape created. overtime costs during the search totalled $23 million. prosecutors want her to pay restitution of nearly $120,000 to pay for repairing the cell walls that matt and sweat cut through during their escape. >>> we have this just in to our newsroom, kevin mccarthy announces his candidacy for house speaker. he m

reporting live in willow grove, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> kathleen kane released a statement justinutes ago saying in part, "i am disappointed by the action taken by the supreme court today. i continue to maintain my innocence and will continue trying to clean my name." >>> a school in pennsylvania is forced to evacuate after a student tosses gasoline on a security guard. the female student poured the gas inside a soda can after she was stopped from going inside the school. she's now been suspended and is in custody. the guard does not appear to be seriously hurt and no students were injured. >>> a worker is now charged with aggravated assault, accused of stabbing his coworker several times inside a hertz food truck. the victim says he never had prior disagreements with tamron jones. before jones attacked him with a kitchen knife on friday. philadelphia police say it happened as they drove, he needed stitches in his right eye and his right arm and was treated for stab wounds to his head, stomach, and leg. >>> a big relief for the family of a local girl who disappeared after leavin

this is nbc 10's deanna durante.th that photographer and she's been keeping us updated as people gather along the streets just waiting for the pope to pull out there and the motorcade would turn left there to go to st. joe's university for the inauguration of -- what did father lombardi call it? >> i didn't hear -- it was hard for me to understand and hear some of what he said, although we see more security personnel here making their way up. making their way up. i don't have an exact time. i don't know that any of us have an exact time of when the pope is expected to pull in here. >> so now i'm being told the nog eurouati -- inauguration of a statue cht it had the largest contingent of volunteers for the world meeting of families which you know is a huge undertaking. not only did it cost $45 million to pull it together but tens of thousands of volunteers who helped with the week long event including this weekend. >> also met and had visited with father john swope of st. joseph's prep who held out hope that the pope