live for now in old city, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >>> you saw monique holding her umbrella. it's a rainy start to the day. a live look outside right now at center city philadelphia. nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz here with the forecast. >> it's not wet as it was a few hours ago for the morning rush. the clouds do linger from the bow k poconos to the shore and everywhere in between. we expect them to hang around. there's fog, even a little bit of drizzle as you saw with the reporters in the city, even though there's nothing on the radar. there's drizzle along with low clouds and fog. the main rain, that moved out across most of the area. a couple of shriprinkles near t shore. there's rain to the west and that will come in. this will develop into heavy showers, maybe a couple thunderstorms this afternoon as it moves in. that would be toward the afternoon rush. a variation in temperatures. 47 in allentown and trenton. it's 60 in georgetown, delaware. much warmer down to the south. that warm air is not going to be coming up into our region. as w

jews were always there in the old city and around this holy site.rom this situation, the and is to make palestinians leave jerusalem. when i was in the army, in police in jerusalem, the goal is to make people's lives miserable. we are doing for the fact they will not act. we need to make a life miserable so they will be afraid all the time and will not have time to plan terror attacks. it is, of course, ridiculous. the end goal is to make them want to leave also made them want to do crazy things like attacks on jews and israelis. the second context of will talk about, the last few years. atce the second intifada him the end of the second intifada, bloody on both sides, the palestinians decided to act nonviolent acts. like amira hass mentioned, go to the u.n. all of that was counter in a very, very harsh oppression by israel. officials are calling them terrorists. if you're going to the u.n., you are political terrorist. , you are promoting bds an economic terrorist. people are arrested for that. jerusalem is calling the parliament and telling them,

couple problems, one here in olde city, overturn truck that is blocking the the ramps from front and market to head south on i-95. from center city, we will use seventh street ramps to gain access to head south on i-95 towards the airport. north on the new jersey turnpike thinks an overturn truck near exit number two for 322, and then in the neighborhoods 17th and west moreland street watch for a fire location, otherwise, septa says they are off to a good start. could have slippery rails like on friday but for the most part regional rails are getting out of the gate with no delays and all of the bridges are wet and slower than normal this morning. whitman, ben franklin, commodore barry all looking good at the moment, chris and kerry, back to you. >>> it is 4:50. allegations of sexual assault are coming back to haunt bill cosby and only on fox a long time friend of his speaks to fox 29 about those allegations. >> so attorney for cosby posted a message on facebook saying cosby will not respond to the allegations, four women have made a assault claims against cosby but he was never prose

growth sides have been at the negotiation table friday in olde city.tate senator anthony williams indicated there were little to no major sticking points left to hash out. >> i wouldn't say it's tense. i would say it's earnest. i would say that people are putting their best foot forward to reach to a successful conclusion. >> reporter: the union on monday promised 24 hours notice of any decision to strike indicating they would announce whether they would continue talking or strike on friday. major issues include contributions to the pension fund medical care and wages. but despite all these positive signs still at this hour no official word that an agreement has been reached. reporting live tonight in olde city, todd quinones for "eyewitness news" at 10:00 on the cw philly. >> all right, todd, thank you for the update. be sure to stay with "eyewitness news" for the latest on the septa contract talks. we'll bring you any new developments as they happen. the latest is always available at cbsphilly.com. >> "eyewitness news" in fairmount tonight where it w

anyone from old city to center city trying to head south.ill want to use that seventh street ramp and fire location at 17th and west moreland and expect delays at the airport today, because of the weather conditions because if we have a flight scheduled out of philly international would i check with the airline and slow go here a along 295, corridor as well from mount laurel down to the freeway. >> bob, thank you. >>> prayers have of thanksgiving being sent up as philadelphia learns pope frances is in fact coming to the city of brotherly love. >> pope made the announcement from the vatican this morning. letters from school children along with prayers and pilgrimage to the vatican by mayor nutter of philadelphia and other local dignitaries, may have contributed to the pontiff's deis to visit the city of brotherly love. fox 29's steve keeley spoke with official this is morning, to say that news comes just the right time. >> after the eagles game yesterday, the rain this morning, it is a joyful morning. when i first heard, back earlier when the

center city olde city ramp from front and market to head south on i-95 blocked with an overturn truck. use seventh street ramp to gain access to i-95. south on 295 and accident at rancocas woods. this vehicle slid off the roadway off the off ramp. just an example even though it is wet we could have slippery conditions out there on those on and off ramps. philly international so far so good but we will have have some delays at the airport so check with the airline before you put those bags in the trunk. up in the lehigh valley, as sue just mentioned wet road watch for poor visibility and slower than normal speeds across the board and so far so good on mass transit, chris and kerry, back over to you. >>> 5:04. prayers have been answered pope frances is coming to philadelphia. >> fox 29's steve keeley is live outside the archdiocese with details on this we heard for so long he was coming, now finally it is official. >> reporter: worst kept secret and he unveiled it himself this morning. we have been seeing banners for world meeting of families gathering for 2015 philadelphia for a couple

been checking the first alert weather app and it's about 35 degrees where i am right now here in old city. it is very cold. you can feel it in the air. although as you mentioned, the wind is not too bad, especially out here on the city streets where you have all the buildings blocking us. right now it's very cold. i will show you out here it's not cold enough for the standing water to turn to ice. at least that's a good point. you take a look at the people who are working this morning. you have construction workers laying down some of thats a fault here in old city. and these folks have been working throughout the night. they are bundled up. look at the poconos. they have snow making in progress as we speak. and so it's very cold up there, cold enough for the ice and snow. in that part of the region but not so down here. at least not yet as we take another live look. these guys are starting to wrap up their work here. hopefully going back home soon and getting warm like most of you at home. coming up in the next half hour, we're going to be moving. we're going to try to move throughout th

is there 40 galleries opened tonight in olde city, stop in, you can per yous the beautiful art, suchladelphia, people have been walking by trying to get in the galleries and get into these bars and restaurants for a hot cup of hot chocolate coming in as handy as well. from a blustery second street in olde city philadelphia, i'm meteorologist kate bail owe for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> enjoy kate, thanks very much. >>> in less than one month from now this giant 85 norway spruce license covered with more than 40,000led lights. 13-ton tree arrived at rocker feller center in new york this morning. as you know by now tree has roots here in pennsylvania, cut down from a farm in bloomsberg earlier this week. it will be lit during a ceremony for december 3rd. >>> trending now fun times in outer space, take a look at this rid ohio from the international space station. a astronauts put a waterproof go pro camera inside a large bubble of floating water, that is cool and then they used to it record themselves. why? well, you have to entertain yourself somehow up there in space. >> very cool. >

we're in old city right now.e most of you are in home cozy in your living room or your bed, these guys are out here working hard. we'll give you a look at what you're missing out oncoming up. >>> they're working hard in temperatures, 20s, 30s, feels like the teens in a lot of spots. cold, coat morning. cold enough to make that snow up in the poconos. you think it's going to be cold today? it's going to be colder during the workweek. we'll have the numbers straight ahead. >>> right now on "nbc10 news today," temperatures are hanging right around that freezing mark as we get a hit with a taste of winter. here's a live look outside right now at boathouse row. along with the cold, we're also tracking a system that's moving into our area. a little bit of precipitation to let you know about. good morning. welcome to nbc10. meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking the clear but cold conditions. michelle, do we normally see temperatures drop this low this time of year? >> no. it's the coldest temperatures of the seaso

commute and it is not without problems.w we have a an accident involving an overturned truck this is old city the ample from front to market street i-95 southbound partially blocked because of the truck overturned with the wet conditions. you can see the splash on the roads as the cars travel through slowly. he other than that we have light volume. you can see a wet morning commute as you look at the vine street expressway at 6th street. use the vine southbound instead of the ramp to vine southbound because of the overturned truck. we have a house fire 17th anticipate west moreland. on the turnpike, northbound near exit 2, an accident blockings the right lane. >> the the vatican confirmed o longer that the pope will be coming to philadelphia for 2015. katherine scott is live at the headquarters with the announcement. >> reporter: the poem made the announcement from rome, it was rumored he was coming, people thought he was coming, but they needed that confirmation. you may remember back in march a dell indication fromtion. philadelphia went to rome to try to persuade the pope for this event. t

this is the ramp 295 southbound from old city, from the front street and market street intersection, so that ramp is blocked right now. in north philadelphia, we have fire department activity on north 17th street. that's blocked off between westmoreland and ontario. you can take 15th or 20th streets to get around that. and finally, for drivers in new jersey, we still have this accident on the turnpike northbound right as you approach exit 2, which is route 322. the right lane is blocked so traffic can get by, but you can expect to see a little slowdown there. chris? >>> at 4:32, we are following this breaking news from rome this morning. pope francis officially has confirmed that he is coming to philadelphia next year for the world meeting of families. that announcement happened just within the past 90 minutes at a small gathering in rome. nbc 10's matt delucia is live outside of the cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul. now, this was expected. in fact, the pope has mentioned in public several times in the last few months that he does plan on coming to philadelphia, but now it

that's the latest from old city, annie mccormick, channel 6 "action news", jim. >> thank you, an jury. they brought him out for everybody to see. eric frein in the flesh. just having been charged with capital murder. in tanersville he was captured this morning in front of pike county courthouse people yelled are you sorry. why did you do it? what he allegedly did is shoot two state troopers one fatally. he is now in maximum security five by eight foot sell his 48 day odyssey in the woods now behind him. "action news" reporter sharee williams is at the big board tonight sharee the more you learn about the police operation that ultimately led to frein's capture the more you realize it was planned with military like situation. >> that can mean waiting your target out or waiting for your tarring tote make a wrong move. every day for weeks in and weeks out teams of law enforcement officers walked their assigned grip grid. the jackpot turned out to be this abandoned hangar area where they methodically had been awk walking and clearing that mission there and one alert agent saw movement out

let's look at the old city itself. home to the muslim quarters, jewish, christian, consisting of mainly orthodox christians, and the ar mainian quarter. the holy sep you will kerr is located in the christian, and you see the location of al-aqsa mosque and the wailing wall. to discuss the situation, founder and director at the center for dialogues, and the historian author - great to have you with us. i want to start with the closing of a sacred site. what does it mean? >> the signal of this is something ancient and old. whatever we expect. emotions on both sides are high. so the landscape is so dry. the smallest spark ignites it, ignites fire. we have this again. as long as we don't look at the route causes of this wisdom, unfortunately, is lacking. they think of the present, not the future generations, what we leave for them. conflict, tension, day after day. it's the situation for this. as a dad situation. >> a spokesman called it a declaration of war. what do you make of those words. >> they are strong words. >> as

we've come to the old city of jerusalem. and if you go through that big door just behind me, you reach the al-aqsa mosque compound. it's the third holiest site in islam. you can see palestinian muslims are going through there to pray. but this site is also sacred to jews who call it temple mount. and after a number of recent visits by right wing jewish extremists who are calling for change to restrictions here, which prevents jews from praying at the site, there have been a lot of protests, a lot of anger. jordan has even recalled its ambassador to israel over this issue. the israeli prime minister has said there will be no change to religious practices here, but not everyone is listening. these right wing jews are gathering at the start of a march. they're going to be heading towards the old city. and they've chosen this as their starting point, because last week, a prominent rabbi, who's been pressing for greater jewish access to temple mount, was shot and injured by a palestinian militant here. the fate of slem has always

today, israeli police lined up around the old city to impose restrictions on palestinian muslims heading to the mosque. down, to calm things officials restated the ban on jews praying at the site which they called temple mount would stick. this has been for many decades, since the six-day war. stand behind the rights of jews to go to the mosque. mount andn go to the pray in the al-aqsa mosque. policy chief added a call for a return to peace talks. >> it is worrying that after the cease-fire was reached in august, we are still having .ifficulty >> recently, there have been fresh reminders of how the political vacuum could be filled with silence. someone from hamas drove into pedestrians, killing two people. it was the second such attack in jerusalem in two weeks. now in gaza, there is also concern about a return to chaos. fatasions targeted officials, showing the reconciliation deal with hamas is under severe strain. this is at a time when many palestinians ask their leaders to put up a united front. bbc news, jerusalem. >> president obama invited congressional leaders to the white house

negotiations at the within ham hotel in old city. there were little to no major sticking points left to hash out. i wouldn't say it's tense. i would it's ernest. i would say that people are putting their best foot forward to reach to a successful conclusion. > the yn onon monday promised 24 hours notice of any decision to strike indicating they would announce whether they would continue talking or strike on friday. the major issues include contributions to the pension funds, medical care and wages. once again just moments ago sources have indicated that the final touches on a deal right now are being looked over herein side the windham hotel. we're expecting an announcement here in a matter of minutes. reporting life tonight in old city, todd quinn owes is. we'll stay with eye witness news for the latest. we'll bring you developments as they happen right here on the air and of course on cbs philly.com. it is a brisk night across the area and soon we're going to be feeling an even bigger chill. changing conditions, what can we expect.

they're going to go from here down through center city, to old city, back up through center city, go up around fairmount park, come back down this way. so it's a long trek. 26.2 miles all in all. so we're going to be waiting the next couple hours as these guys cross the finish line. they have a long way to go. we'll be out here bringing you the stories of the folks who are out here live in center city. >> and matt, you and i are going to do it next year, right? >> reporter: maybe. but i might be working. i worked it last year. i worked it this year. so i'm used to it. i like just being right here on the sidelines, behind the bench. >> good excuse. thanks, matt. >>> right now on nbc10.com, we've got everything you need to know about the philadelphia marathon. our news and weather apps, have the latest forecasts. plus, we've got all the information on the traffic detours downtown. again, it's on our website, nbc10.com. >>> new from overnight, former washington, d.c. mayor marion barry has died. voters elected him mayor four times. barry's 1990 arrest after being caught on video smoking

i want to begin by reading to you a brief conversation i had with a friend in the old city of damascus and we were discussing the election of president barack obama in summer of 2009, a mere 50 few months after his election and we will discuss in historical significance of having an african-american in the white house. to give you some background, a sunni muslim, well educated, curious about american culture and extremely serious. on the topic of diversity in the middle east. as an american you like diversity, you have all these raises and ethnicities, even a black president. what if diversity in my society is not the same as diversity in yours? what if diversity here is a source of weakness? he asked me. wasn't it diversity that created the violence in iraq, he pressed on, the existence of all those different groups, sunni, shiite, christian, kurdish? i would rather live in a place that did not have diversity and was stable than live in a diverse place that was at constant risk of falling into civil war. let that pregnant conversation hang in the air for a minute and i will return to

i'm in the old city of damascus.bc takes a look at syria's long war, a conflict a tearing this country apart. as part of special coverage, i've been to aleppo, once the powerhouse of this country. now large suedes of the iconic city lie in ruin. syrians are desperate for war to end. >> i pay everything here to make my family live. i can't. i am tired. >> i'm yolande knell at the camp in jordan. it's one of the mass camps set up to help people exiting syria. >>> i'm here with the rest of today's news. edging towards one of the great space moment moments, the roset spaceship sends a probe to land on the comet. >>> another fine for another big banking scandal. >> here we go. five global banks are fined $3 billion for their role in rigging rates in the foreign exchange market. let me tell you, it's a massive market with $5.3 trillion of currency traded every single day. yes, a massive fine by regulators. here's the question. will it change banker's behavior? it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. washington, 2:00 p.m. acr

the on-ramp from front and market streets in old city. we have an overturned truck blocking that ramp, so you can't access it right now. what you can do is get on the vine eastbound and take that to 95 southbound. that will put you right on 95. that's a straight shot there. so, that's probably going to be your best bet. 295 southbound at rancocas, a truck partially blocking a ramp there. and in delaware, 495 southbound right at exit 5, philadelphia pike in claimant. but the good news is it's on the shoulder and not blocking anything on the highway itself. chris? >>> well, the eagles just have to put what happened yesterday behind them and get ready for the next game against the titans. the packers were good. they took an early lead at lambeau field and never looked back. green bay led 30-6 at halftime and kept piling it on in the second. the eagles' offense didn't help mats. mark sanchez threw two interceptions and lost two fumbles. the final score 53-20. >>> first, guinea, sierra leone and liberia. now the u.s. is adding a new country to

started a small fire at fourth and race in olde city. that prompted evacuations. pgw rush to put a cap on the 1 inch line that had been abandon years ago but still had gas inside. nobody was hurt. >>> there will soon be one less discount grocer in the region. bottom dollar food is shutting down. the parent company at the low cost grocery chain has sold its 66 location toss aldi. bottom dollar says stores will remain opened at end of the year and its 2200 employees will get severance pay. >>> it is a damp night across the delaware valley. we have areas of fog as well. our eyewitness weather watchers are reporting all over the delaware valley. we will start at 49 degrees. jessica is saying in win, just wet. reading same thing 49 degrees there. 48 degrees in gilbertsville and eileen is saying that the win is light, relative humidity quite high and it stopped raining in gilbertsville about 2:30 this afternoon. that is good news mount laurel is saying robin is saying light wind, plenty of rain and guess what light fog right now in mount laure

. >> good sunday morning from old city philadelphia. fourth and mark, it is sunday, november 23rd, it is marathon sunday. >> it is, yes, it is a marathon sunday which makes it difficult to get around this day. already a good morning, hope you are, too, beautiful sunrise, i'm karen hepp watch people are talking about, a lot of news developing, social media reacting over night to the death of former dc mayor, mayor john beer. >> i thousands every runners participating if the philadelphia marathon, can get hard to get around center city. live to the ben franklin parkway in just a few minutes. >> firms, let's get a check of the inter-active forecast, getting nicer at this minute, for caitlin, already looking ahead with the crazy possibility of maybe snow on the busiest travel day of the year? before we even get there, though, a lot to talk b live look outside center city philadelphia, more clouds around, and knows clouds are actually a result of some warmer air coming in. so our main headline what we want to talk about first is the warm up

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suez canal, breaking the blockade, capturing the west bank of the jordan river and occupying the old city of jerusalem. the first crippling blow came 25 basish air raids on in egypt, jordan, and syria. the sinai campaign was instrumental in mapping the nation's battle plan. quickness of the israeli army crash forces with a one-to punch. charges are vigorously denied are broken.atic a cease-fire continued at the united nations. u.s. ambassador arthur goldberg issues a peace plan. an immediate debate is started in the security council representing 15 nations. while the united states and russia disagree on the wording of her troupe of her true patrol, israel's foreign ua ourr charges president plotted the murder of a state. the vote is finally taken, and the resolution adopted unanimously. word continues to come from the battles on, telling of sweeping israeli victories. next day, egypt accepts the cease-fire, joining jordan, leaving syria facing israeli forces alone. the united nations arena remains in the world spotlight because of the many questions raised by the short but decisive middle

. >> reporter: and how about a trip down old city for those famous first friday festivals?r three. first friday parking in old city is free after 5:00. >> didn't know that either. >> there's those sometimes confusing kiosk. >> i had to move fast because, you know, ppa they don't play. >> reporter: we were there as jeremy boyd of wynnefield got his time slip for his car on south street. >> right now i beat them. so i beat them. i'm all right. >> reporter: that takes to us secret number four. kiosk tickets can be used anywhere by time at one kiosk using the balance of that time in any metered spots you like. what matters here the time, not the location. by the way we did find some of these secrets plane as day on ppa's facebook page and on its blog. but everyone we spoke with says this is the first they've learned of this. and that's something they'd like to see the ppa fix. >> they should make us aware of they don't. >> if they can fix that that would be good. >> in center city, dave kinchen fox 29 news. >> great tips there. >>> well, a couple is terroriz terrorized, tied up

now francine is going to present the old city within the city. with ruins. ins of an ancient stadium. i love how your city combines the future and the past. and what a superb idea to use the colosseum for inspiration. a perfect touch. (crowd cheers) this is awful. lefty's getting crushed, and this hot dog doesn't have enough mustard. what do you mean? this game's a blast! how many home runs have we seen? you don't mind that lefty's not pitching a perfect game? i'll see one someday. yoo-hoo! over here! we need more peanuts! (sighs) you can never get those vendors when you need them. wait a minute. that's what this stadium needs. a light that flashes over your seat whenever you need something. (groans) francine: the buttons could be on the armrest. it will be perfect! and now... my name is tyler, and this is second grade, and we're working on cities. what do we need to make a city work? a city hall? fire station? the hospital? we started with a whiteboard, and then we put some roads on it. we need roads in our city so people can drive. are there other forms of

we've got light rain falling here at fourth and mark in old city. behind me, the roads are fine. ts of snow that didn't really stick here in the city before switching back to rain and traffic obviously moving okay but if you're travels this evening take you away from the city you'll be finding accumulation north and west of town. we showed you snow totals earlier. keep showing you them throughout this newscast. west streets here the concern will move to refreezing overnight. ultimate doppler shows i think they're starting to break i was par. you can see holes in the radar right there that very light gray that indicates light snow. mainly north and west of philadelphia. it looks like snow on radar but it is just some light rainfalling right now as temperatures are a few degrees above freezing and that is just rain as it has been mostly all day long in south jersey. so we've got a couple more hours to go. light rain and light snow across the area and then from there, we watch for the refreezing later on tonight. the concern becomes temperatures fall towards around 32 degrees. will t

overturn truck in old city ramps from front and market to head south on i-95 to block. use seventh street ramps that morning. this morning crash on the lincoln drive and gypsy lane. schuylkill crawling from conshohocken to center city. use extra wiggle room between you and that bumper in front. look out in the construction zones. they are rough go this morning with 20 minute delays. mike and alex, back to you. >>> 7:03. breaking news and only good news we have on a monday morning. >> there is prayers of thanksgiving as philadelphia prepares for a papal visit next year. >> mark this on the calendar, 9/25/15, there is steve keeley at the archdiocese, hi steve. >> reporter: mike, have a bigger circle on sunday the 27th. he will have an outdoor mass on a sunday on september 27th and the headline there, 2 million people expected for that mass here to close out the world meeting of families conference here in philadelphia so we do get some big news stories, biggest in the country sometimes on this show. never before have have we had the top international lead news story here

city. i'm 62 years old. l days which finished in 1956, but at that time, i think europeans may have outnumbered moroccans in the center of this city. it's not the case now. there's very few europeans actually living here full time. >> the notion of living a life apart, of being somewhere else, there are those who like that feeling. i like that feeling. then there are those who may live apart, may live somewhere else, but they're not entirely comfortable. it's the difference annoys them or is a burden. >> it did, and it frustrates them. some people have to leave home to find their home. i'm one of those people. whereas i didn't feel at home in the country i was born in at all but here i feel okay. i feel very, very happy here. >> there is indeed something special about this place. burroughs described the native quarter of tangier as a maze of sunless twisting streets filled with blind alleys. its smell was particularly notable to him, including a mix of hashish, seared meat and sewage. tangier, before anything

. >> i'm taking you through damascus gate, which is one of the gates to the old city. walls are pretty ancient. people say that the deepest go back to king david. as history progressed, they built up the wall. so the top bed is the newest. >> and by newest you mean -- >> up to about the ottoman time. the turks left here about 150 years ago. and the brits came and they conquered us. >> i wasn't here. >> born here, now cooking in london, he is the widely known respected chef and co-author of the book "jerusalem." >> basically, this city was divided into two until 1967 when there was the famous six-day war. >> yep. >> and the hall that we're traveling in now, walking in is east jerusalem. it's the palestinian part. that was up until '67 belonged to jordan. so now it's under israeli control. very controversial because for the jews, for the israelis, the city has been unified. but obviously for the palestinian, they're under occupation, as far as they're concerned. we just have to go for a falafel because it's so much part of the culture here. again, contentious because jew

. >>> and an underground fire caused an evacuation in old city. after a contractor hit a gas line. john rawlins live at the scene and joins us with the very latest. >> reporter: hi rick, ray street is open now, there were intense moments earlier today, gas was burning and emergency crews came running. a small gas flame near a contractors trench, it didn't get very big but got everybody's attention. >> about 3 feet above the trench level. it wasn't spurting or anything, just a slow roast. >> firefighters responded and 24 people were evacuated from two nearby building as pgw crews worked to stop the fuel source. >> the spark call it to ignite. >> initially it was thought that an 8 inch high pressure main was struck but then it was determined that it was a smaller pressure line. and the contractor that was installing lines, hit a line that was not marked as being active or aenergized. >> he did everything right, called 911 but somehow that one, 1-inch gas main was not marked. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> time for a first check of accuweather, we are transit

she is live now in old city. any. >> and brian, that's right, everyone is hoping this saga will come to an end. at this point there's a lot of positive signs pointing to that. union and septa members are still negotiating a deal at this point. a good sign came around 8:00 tonight when members of the septa board including chairman did arrive to the table here. we're told that does signal that a deal could be closer the at this point sources are telling us major issues like city contracts have been taken care of and they're hashing out the details with suburban lines and they're hoping they can avoid a strike and come to i deal. it's been 7 months since the transit workers union worked without a contract and this week they is a possibility of a strike looming over the city potentially affecting buses, trolleys and subways and not regional rail. they went as far as distributing picket signs earlier in the week. union boss willie brown wanted a contract by the end of friday and we're working now into friday evening.

police say 33 year old melvin crane of granite city grabbed the six year old boy by his jacket and pulled his belt and threatened to attack the child if he did not stop bullying his daughter. some parents want to know why the driver let crane get on the bus in the first play. >> i said sometimes parents do step on the first rung or two to ask questions or deliver information. so they didn't think that the parent was going to, you know, get out of control or do anything. >> crane has turned himself in to police. no word on exactly what the six year old did that set him off. he's facing charges of battery and aggravated assault. >>> all right. so apparently, magazine like a whole magazine it's a well known one i might add actually thinks philadelphians don't look too hot and we're not talking about our cold weather either. nothing to do with that. >> we've come up in the ranksings. one national mal magazine said we've got some of the most unattractive people in the country. if you can believe that. stay tuned for that and also in california, a woman falls 70 feet off a cliff but surviv surv

we've seen almost daily clashes between palestinian protestors and israeli police in the old city of jerusalem around the compound t area the jews refer to as temple mount. >> talk us through what happened there. we have pictures of the temple mosque area. we saw some amateur video footage from that area today. >> reporter: that's right. this was from early this morning. israeli police have moved into the sight to clear in a sit-in by protestors. they heard jewish right wing activists were planning to visit the site and they were sitting there to protect the area as they saw it. as police tried to clear the area using stun grenades and other methods we're told, rocks were thrown and other items. a number of palestinians were hurt. one young man was hit in the face by a rubber bullets we're told. israeli police say a number of their officers were also hurt. the scene there is now calm. it's a reminder of how high tensions are running i think. this is a site that's both sacred to muslims, third most joh sacred and most holy for jews. a week ago, a militant shot a jewish right wing acti

old city 5th street is blocked, 3rd or 7th will get you around it.e's an accident and vehicle fire what is going on this morning. new jersey transit river line half an hour delays between camden and trenton. you're messed up on the rootdz and -- roads and the bridges and rails. >> reporter: we're cold, that's the weather story, 39 in philadelphia. 33 in reading, 32 in millville and 36 this trenton. when you factor in a light breeze that's blowing it feels like 33 in philadelphia. 27 in wilmington and in some places not much of a difference because the winds are not as strong. we roll through the day and head to the bus stop or the el. 43 degrees by 9:00. clouds will build through the day, high of 51 probably around 1:30 or 2:00 sliding into the 40s this afternoon. clouds build and later this afternoon a light rain or shower is possible. possibly mixing with wet snow in the northern or western suburbs. doesn't look like a big deal. i never really gave much thought to the acidity in any foods. never thought about the coffee i was drinking having acids.

it will be a big day in old city, home to the highest concentration of independent boutiques, restaurants and galleries. the shops and restaurants along king's highway are also ready to make sales on this small business saturday. merchants there and all over the region are going all out to get customers in the the door. >> we do have different deals. we do have gift baskets here that we sell. not only for christmas but also hanukkah. >> small business saturday, by the way, is in its fifth year. other shoppers will be taking a break after spending yesterday on the hunt for black friday bargains. sky force 10 was up in the air surveying the shopping crowd throughout the day. there was no shortage of crowds in the parking lot. the shoppers braved the cold to walk between the plaza and the court. in northeast philly, this is a birds eye view. the mall was open on thanksgiving and rereopened yesterday morning at 6:00. early bird shoppers received a swag bag full of black friday coupons. and shoppers also got an early start at the concord mall. some of the cars started to pour into the parking

the old city stood as a powerful symbol of the uyghur identity. chunks are being torn down on the orders of the government. promising new homes and better living conditions. you see the occasional tourist. moster fightened by violence that the authorities blame on uyghur armed groups, some of whom wants independence from china. most are aware of talking to foreign journalists, those that do don't like to be identified. >> the government says this is not very safe for tourists and hope next year will be better. if more tourists come here, it will be easier for us to make money. >> reporter: roadside billboards show a vision for the future, a city that could one day be the shanghai of central asia. the new high-rise pointing to billions that the central government is pouring into roads and buildings. a construction boom that it hopes will bring stability and prosperity as it strives to transfer the city into the economic trade hub of old. >>> a free school lunch programme in ghana is running into trouble. more than 1.7 million children from poor fam

. >>> it is a great morning from old city philadelphia. it is saturday, november 22nd, i'm karen hepp. >> and i'm lauren johnson. >> growing tensionness ferguson missouri and here at ohm. >> and also a federal judge makes a ruling on sports betting in new jersey. >> we want to begin with your weather. caitlin, it's chilly out there. >> very cold morning, you guys. and we're seeing record lows in some spots, mainly up north in allentown where they started the day off at 16 degrees. we're looking ahead to the philadelphia marathon. that's tomorrow morning. luckily not going to be as cold. we're starting off as 38 degrees at 7:00 a.m. that's the beginning of the race time. that's still cold but it won't but as cold as it is this morning. so outside right now, we're going to see a lot of sunshine through the morning hours, maybe a few clouds later on. you can see it's moving through ohio so it's not too far away, that pink indicating mixed precipitation, it's not just rain, something frozen, by the time it reaches us, warm air will get ahead o

you could really feel that it got much calmer for those of us who were in the old city, calmer between the palestinians and police, and calmer between palestinians and israeli views who were advocating for more access to the al aqsa mosque area. between the walls of jerusalem's old cities, this taxi driver has kept the last five months in his rearview mirror. >> how bad has it been? >> it's been very bad. >> he knows why. according to the muslim faith the dome of the rock sits on the very wrong where mohammed sat before ascending to heaven. the police have kept muslims from praying there. instead they pray from the street. nothing infuriates the muslims more. >> on friday al acsa prayers became a family day. inside 40,000 muslims filled the al aqsa plaza. the mood was calm. >> besides allowing all ages in for prayers, tension still exist just down the hill from here. >> it's a lot of problems every day. >> for more than a thousands years in 1967, israel captured and occupied. it's still 99% palestinian, but in the last few weeks jewish settlers have been moving in. their homes are just

the old city of fez had about 120,000 people for its total population.this would have been an equivalent of a population density of tens of thousands of people per square mile. now, the only reason why that was possible, especially in a nonindustrial context, was that you had a very effective agricultural environment around fez within, say, 15 or 20 miles radius. but you also had very effective forms of nonhuman transport -- donkeys, camels, horses, mules -- that could bring in all of the kinds of supplies that the city needed. now, that's one reason why you had such high population densities. one of the effects of really high population densities, of course, is to create very dense urban markets, lots of consumers concentrated in small spaces. and this is one of the reasons why fez has such a high degree of urban specialization. keach: as in ancient ostia, almost everyone in fez is a full-time specialist. in the tanning industry alone, there are some 20 specialized activities required to process skins into leather. there are washers and hair removers, b

tomorrow they call for change during rally at city hall. 51-year-old lori hit and killed by golden gate transit bus this morning. driver was turning left from lombard street on to vanness avue when the woman was hit. police not said who was at fault. police who live in the area say it's a very dangerous intersection. >> many if it's scary when you cross the street. just a lot of commotion going oychbility really bad intersection to one through. >> van ness is considered one of the city worsstreechlts advocate group says 5 people have died alg the corridor this year. e.we have new details about crash that delayed rush hr commuters in san ramone. we see where at least one vehicle hit a highway patrol motorcye officer on 6 80. chopper rushed the officer to a trauma center and expected to srvive. >> friends of hay tech engineer ho you can help find h after he vanished in san francisco nearly a week ago. nobody h seen or heard from dan sense last friday night halloween. dan roommate saw him rush out ofthe south market home wearing red hoodie develop we are a comny metro million and friends s

♪and best wishes from the lottery♪ >> reporter: welcome back we're looking live in old city, this isreet expressway right now. the ramp from i-95 northbound to the vine street westbound is reopened. on the vine street expressway approaching the schuylkill expressway. just ahead the ramp from the vine are street expressway to the schuylkill expressway westbound is reopened. we're watching live as they started to allow the traffic to get through. the construction is cleared on the ramp as well as the accident is cleared. no problems there. we have an accident where a vehicle ran off into a tree. it took down a stop sign, the driver fled the scene. an issue on the boulevard northbound approaching ryan avenue you want to watch for that. expect retrickses in that area. berks county, 422 is closed between pine land fairview chapel road. stick to lincoln road or 7:24. >> and we continue to follow breaking news out of tallahassee, florida, a gunman opened fire after midnight. sfu officers confronted the shooter on the steps of the school library and told him to drop their weapon. he fired a

6abc.com anytime anywhere. >>> works of arts created by people with alzheimers were on display in old citye shown at the hamilton theater art center. the work gives patients creative ways to community good morning to you on this saturday, sky6 live hd taking a live look at the platt bridge, 35 degrees outside, 5:49 right now. a pennsylvania agricutlure official has expanded the quarantine of a bug in the area. the threatens the grape apple and stone fruit injury and warns it could be a problem for hotels. two townships in berks county were originally quarantined that list has been expanded to five. the quarantines leads to materials like lumber and trash that can carry the bug cannot be moved without inspection. >>> now to health report, germs are everywhere. that's no create. ali gorman swabbed surfaces to find the dirtiest things we touch everyday, and her finding may surprise you. >> reporter: germs are everything we touch in many places we expect them. but we set out to swab surfaces to find the dirtiest things using this device in just 15 seconds it shows us the number of organisms on

we have an accident involving an overturned truck in old city, it blocking the ramp to i-95 southbound you've got to use the ramp to the vine street expressway, instead. now we're looking live at the vine, no other problems, traffic is moving nicely, you need to give yourself extra of time and slow down the speeds. we have a house fire 17th near west moreland. stick to 15th or 20th. a new accident east greeneville, montgomery county, main and 6th. we have a disabled vehicle in abington, meeting house road that cleared. >> breaking this morning, we received official confirmation from the vatican this morning, in fact here's the confirmation in my hand that pope francis will be attending the world meeting of families in philadelphia in september of next year. katherine scott is outside the archdiocesan head quawrdz in the city -- headquarters in the city, as a matter of fact you're inside. >> reporter: that's right, matt, pope francis will be here for the world meeting he have family, there will be a papal massen 0 the benjamin franklin parkway which will open to the public. back in marc