Ben simmons. The wait is over. Sixers get their man the first pick in the first round of the inform ba draft. And take look at the excitement from fans watching here in philadelphia. Sixers nation is hoping ben simmons can help turn things around for this historic franchise that had struggled might till until recent years. Theres been a lot of talk surrounding the freshman from lsu. Good evening, im crosswalk washington. Im jessica dean. Don bell is live in Wynnefield Heights at the sixers practice facility, don, this is just a huge night for the sixers. A massive night for the sixers. Its a night weve been waiting for for many weeks right now let me show you exactly whats going on right now. So the president of basketball operations ryan coangelo expected to come out and talk about the number one overall selection right now you know its ben simmons Power Forward out of lsu. Lets show what that looked like in Brooklyn New York tonight as the commissioner adam silver crossed the stage,
Nice already for the area. Jim has been looking ahead to the weekend . Thats all i look at. And it really still looks very promising. If you have any outdoor plans, things look awesome, today still transition day, feels little muscle little muggy outside shall hint of wet weather rolling through portions of southern new jersey, delaware, new jersey, the latest colds front continues to not quite stalling, but it is still lingering nearby. So i always call these kinds of days transition days, not going to be any kind of wash out for you, rather, just left over shower at this point. The further north you go, you have actually cleared out nicely, see depending on location, actually going to see more sun than anything, but more of clouds breaking for sunshine situation the further south you go, stray shower sort of just left over at this point. We look at the area temperatures, right now, into the very warm low 70s, both at the airport here in philadelphia, but also, across all of southern
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Into the area just a few light showers pick up by the radar here in the north and western suburbs heaviest rain is in Chester County and its spreading to the east. This will all start to fill in just a bit. Its not going to miss us. It will really start to come down after midnight but before then, light rain will spread north. Its moving along 95 pushing up towards philadelphia. Timing will be close here for everything thats happening tonight. First off its picked up by the computer forecast. Well stop it right her at 8 00 oclock that area spreads to the northeast. Coming down in philadelphia just some light rain initially but it does pick up intensity and gets a bit more widespread by 10 00 oclock so its still a few still seeing a few breaks here around the city. Likely seeing some rain coming in. Might see little break. Then it will get little heavier this is 1 00 oclock in the morning now. This is when the rain will really start to come down. Between, say, one and 6 00 oclock in the
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