Thank you all for coming out. What a Beautiful Day to make history again. Inthis very day 50 years ago this very spot, dr. Martin luther king jr. Came to king street to deliver his march on ballot boxes speech. 8, 1966,nday, may mothers day, just as it is today, and now we gather on these hallowed grounds, 50 years later, to remember that important day in the history of king street and williams gstree and williamsburg, South Carolina. Thank you for being here for this importance occasion. When dr. King spoke your on may a rainy afternoon as you will see it was his first major public appearance in South Carolina. Speeches in three the state of South Carolina and defined not mistaken, the other two locations were in charleston and orange. Ree firstme to kingst and he came here after the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965. He came as a result of mr. Virgil dimly of the funeral home who came to atlanta, camped out, took up residence outside dr. King pro office for three days, hounded
Service. First, we start this morning with a check on the morning commute and a look at the Holiday Weekend forecast. Matt is standing by but first we are going to sally. We are showing up in the 50s and 60s this morning and going up to 70s. The weekend buzz is the sunshine through the weekend. It is feeling more humid for sunday and monday but plenty of smiling sunshine. Wet is rni for tuesday. Right now, 64. The winds are light and north. We are going to to be looking at plenty in the way of sunshine. This morning, a little chilly inland and the readings in th 50s. We are reaching up to the low 70s. Less breezy today as well. Fantastic weather. Now to matt for the traffic. Give the ac a break. We are in good shape on the in fact, the travel times suggest, oh, a speeder getting the ticket there. Travel times. Thats a look at the morning commute, back to you. Thank you, matt. Today family and friends say goodbye to the local nun killed in her home in mississippi. Sister margaret held g
Through the afternoon. It will be sustained winds at least of 20 to 25 miles an hour, with those occasional gusts, as high as 40 miles an hour, stowe really does change just exactly how that day feels. But it looks nice out here, looks a lot nice they are morning, than it did yesterday morning. We got rid of the rain. And weve turned on the wind machine. Weve got very nice temperature through center city of 44 degrees. Looking out at philadelphia from the palmyra cove nature park in new jersey, 43 degrees, those winds will be picking up as gee through the day. Storm scan3 nothing much going on out there for us. We will be finding some clouds moving in, especially later this afternoon. So we start partly sunny we ends up mostly cloudy and the winds will be strong, 44 degrees, right now in philadelphia, look at these temperatures, this is about as warm as ive seen it in i dont know how long over the entire area. Fortytwo trenton, 43 wilmington, 41 allentown 39 degrees down in wildwood. O
Figure, downpour. Sometimes computer models are right on, sometimes they are not. But actually the one we were showing yesterday, pointed out these showers that were going to be coming through early this morning, completely right on, not everybody saw them, so often the case with the weather, but those who did got a downpour. I want to show you on storm can three, this is loop over the last three hours, even little thunderstorm went through the philadelphia area, so well get little close near some of these, you can see what we were dealing with first thing this morning, you can see why liz was out there, trying to find, i dont know, a newspaper, a food bag, anything to put over her head to come running into the building. So we had seen some of these showers, not everywhere, but when they came by, they dumped a lot of rain. You saw them along the shore, as well, with thunderstorm going right through atlantic city, ocean sit. So, those are not totally gone. So we cannot completely count
Taking off the tops of some of those build, we move to the shore area, there looking at the clouds, seeing the raindrops, that have fallen, people back out on wet and almost deserted boardwalk, but i think that boardwalk will be getting a lot busier as we move through the afternoon. Storm scan3, showing those showers, and thunderstorms, that have moved off the coast, fortunately, as they moved right along the coast. We still have lingering shower, through portions of cape may county, atlantic county. But things are improving for now. Notice back to the west, with the clouds thinner out there. We do expect to see some sun today, we expect to see clouds, showers, thunderstorms, and it is going to be changing, who is getting what and when. So just know, that this is a day when the weather patterns are active, and sometimes youll like them, sometimes you wont. 74 degrees in philadelphia, 74 in wilmington, 71 degrees in the trenton area, mild, dew points are getting up there, as well. Our f