let's check in with mitch blacher, live in upper darby. of people. i hear them. >> reporter: the crowd is actually died down quite a bit here at 69th street station from earlier today. we were here this morning when hordes of people were going through the turnstiles. the market street and the broad street line both free all day. and septa kept that train moving. they were lined up four or five deep in order to get people into the city. now we're seeing people trickle out of the city. e we talked to some of those people just moments ago. >> the train is very >> we're here to make sure everything runs smoothly. >> back out here at 69th stree station, folks are say inging it's 30treet to here at 69th street frankfurt l sep people today. latesth street station. i'm mitch blacher, nbc 10 news.500,000 it people a haul. a live look filled with people for the parade. hoking on the there's some residual closures up and down broad street. but it's really the majors that we're looking at people trying to get out of the city. 295 this is not a part of

mitch blacher, thank you. more on that story at 5:30. >>> school ace cross the area plan to close so students and teachers can attend the parade thursday. philadelphia public and parochial schools will all be. closed this thursday. temple and direction rexel are class. >> how is the forecast looking were so important. meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with what to expect. people could be out there for hours. and then the time it's going to take transportation and getting to the trains and buss. >> and going to be cold. even by february standards it's going to be cold on thursday. they would have had the parade tomorrow, but the wind is going to be so bad tomorrow. you can't do that. but on thursday, starting off at 30 degrees at 4:00 in the morning. a windchill of 22. by ak a.m., the windchill is 19. then it goes down to 17. down to 16 by 10:00. that's pretty cold. especially hour after hour after hour outside. by 11:00 a.m., 29 degrees feeling like 22. 1:00, 31. feeling like 26. if you're getti

we begin with mitch blacher with major scheduling changes from septa. >> free rides on the market frankfurtnd limited passes on the regional rails is septa's success formula to celebrate the super bowl. >> that's our plan to ride to match riders to real amount of capacity that we have on the railroad. >> thursday septa will only run from 3 stations closing major hubs along the parade route to crea a kind of express service. >> we want people to understand our limitations. we are working to carry every single person we possibly can. >> it expects this to be one of the biggest transportation events in philadelphia's history and says septa leaders learned from past mistakes. >> we found during the phillies parade there was just pedestrian gridlock and no way to get people up to the street at the time that those events really got. crowded. >> septa is hoping to avoid pedestrian gridlock. remember septa's capacity is 500,000 people. now let's go across the river who has more plans. >> turning 70 years old. i have waited a long time. >> reporter: he's got his seats and could accompany 80,000 para

mitch blacher has a breakdown of the changes that may impact how you travel to the the parade, all new at 5:00. >>> plans were announced for the parade of champions today. it will only operate five stations on thursday including wood crest, barry avenue and broadway. those four stops will carry parade goers on direct runs nonstop to 9th 10th and lo cust station. there will be no eastbound stops at certain times. that means empty trains will return to south jersey to return riders to center city as efficiently as possible. >> we can move 10,000 an hour. we'll be running for eight hours. about 80,000. we'll be able to brung those people back as well. >> after the parade they will reverse r the direction taking them across the bridge on the way home you can get off at any of those four stops we just mentioned. regular fares do apply. kids under 4 are are free. no bikes are allowed. you must buy your ticket at the station where you will depart. much more coverage of thursday's parade of champions still ahead. coming up at 4:30, nbc 10's lauren mayk with a look at how businesses are gearing