This is about one hour. Good afternoon. We have a really Great Program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter using the npcli good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club. We have a really Great Program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter using the npclive. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that g the head table, and idd like to ask you to please hold your applause until all of the head table guests are introduced. Helpful to have the list. So from my left and your right, we have shawn butcher, Communications Manager at disabled sports usa and editor of challenge magazine. We have retired navy captain jim noon, commander of the American Legion post here at the National Press club. Next to captain noon, we have retired u. S. Marine corps Lieutenant Colonel brooks tucker. Hes the assistant secretary for the v. A. s office of congressional and legislative affairs. We have lori rousseau, who is
Good afternoon. We have a really Great Program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch, or follow along on twitter using the npclive. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience today are members of the general public, and so any applause or reaction that you may hear are not, is not necessarily from the working press. So let me begin by introducing the head table, and idd like to ask you to please hold your applause until all of the head table guests are introduced. Helpful to have the list. So from my left and your right, we have shawn butcher, Communications Manager at disabled sports usa and editor of challenge magazine. We have retired navy captain jim noon, commander of the American Legion post here at the National Press club. Next to captain noon, we have retired u. S. Marine corps Lieutenant Colonel brooks tucker. Hes the assistant secretary for the v. A. s office of congressional and legislative affairs. We have lori rousseau, who is the pre
Reporter we were young men. Yes, sir, we all was young men. Reporter these men fought a war in korea more than 60 years ago. One concerned sabre rattling could put another generation in harms way. Very worried, very worried. I am, i am. You know hell be in one predict if it happens. Reporter after the salutes and taps. Reporter some took time just to walk, look at the names of the fallen and reflect on wars and their cost. I need to come here and appreciate what these veterans have done for all of us the ultimate sacrifice that they made. Reporter youre looking right now at a live picture of the korean memorial here, the Korean War Memorial here with five county area more than 600 names carved in that stone here from either people who were killed in action or missing in action 648 names are carved into the gray granite of the vietnams memorial a half a block away. Live at penns landing john rawlins. John, thank you. Turn, to the forecast now. Looking live at sky6 hd showing you center
We have a Conveyor Belt of moisture just stream along atlantic seaboard. We have heavy rain this morning north and west of the city up in the poconos, some spots over 2 inches here over Monroe County, heavy rain in the city and heavy rain down the shore. Some spots didnt get as much but few areas over two or 3 inches of rain. Few rainfall totals from earlier today, jonas, pennsylvania in Monroe County in the poconos, three and a half inches just shy of that n sewell, new jersey 2. 93. Mount holly at 2. 9. At Philadelphia Airport this morning one and a half inches of rain and still very warm and steamy out there with temperatures in the 70s and 80s at the moment. Coming up we will tell but showers and storms moving through tonight and how it will clear us out as we see nice weather back in time to start mountain of june. For now, back to you. Thank you, kate. Business owners down the shore hope to salvage final day before everybody heads back to work and school tomorrow. Not a perfect b
It was sudden heatwave, but still humid this weekend. Well take what we can get. Well run the risk for showers, some storm, rain in any of the showers that do develop. Severe storms on the lower side today. But still i will get pounded by some downpours, especially later this afternoon, because you can just feel the moisture in the air. This morning for the most part quiet. We take a look outside, center city, little fog developing right now, so it may reduce visibility little later this morning, 74 degrees country east breeze coming in 3 miles per hour, and again, you can feel the mugginess in the air. Couple of light showers across northern Lehigh Valley, into the southern poconos, at this hour, will continue to move off to the north and east. Scattered showers and some under this earl storms developing to the wells. With the daytime heating today, some will fire up especially during the afternoon hours into the evening. Seventyfour at the airport, 64 up in the poconos, low 70s in pa