Why not, you know. The Weather Center right now shows you cloud cover and of course we do have that first band of precipitation that has swept through the region. It was over philadelphia earlier. Now were getting kind of a break but down the shore rain has changed over to snow and theres that second band coming in from the west. That will be here a little bit later this morning. Right now most of our focus is on the coast and storm tracker6 live double scan shows that you the ma is off the coast. Were getting clipped for maybe a couple hours along the northern portions of the jersey little bit of precip starting to pop up in New Castle County delaware, Chester County, lancaster county, berks county picking up a little bit of atd become more of an issue for us a little later, maybe after 7, 8 oclock this morning. As we take a look at temperatures, still 35 degrees in philadelphia. So even though roads have gotten a little wet from some rain and some light wet snow, they are just wet an
When the students he recruited future Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas and Edward P Jones who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. This is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon, i would like to welcome everybody and start the program if we could. Good afternoon and welcome. This is a wonderful turn out and we are happy to have everybody this afternoon. On behalf of the college as well as though as the holy cross public radio of boston by want to welcome you to this monthly lunch. I am greg. Thank you for being here as we celebrate the publication of fraternity with author diane brady. An exceptional and accomplished journalist, diane has done all of us a great gift in telling the story of father bob brooks as well as in an Extraordinary Group of black students and how they are tied together at holy cross in the late 1960s to help shape their lives and changed the course of history. As one reviewer commented, fraternity brings to our attention for the first time an unsun
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Of shelters and the states highways are clogged with a mass evacuation. Molly hunter is live in new smyrna beach. Reporter its relatively quiet on the east coast but the waves are getting progressively bigger as we wait for irma. Hurricane irma churned through the northern caribbean overnight devastating small islands. Its the strongest recorded storm to hit the atlantic. The worst time of my life. I would not want to see this again. Irma stayed largely offshore in port week but saint martin and turks and caicos and the tiny island of barbuda taking direct hits. The entire country has been decimated. Irma with wins of 150 Miles Per Hour taking aim for the bahamas and cuba and tomorrow south florida. And here on the coast of florida, people are boarding up their houses and many houses are actually empty and people are heeding the call to get out of town. People are ordered to evacuate and stocking up on water and food. I am trying to get as north as possible. Shelves wiped clean of bott
And could cause major impacts from coasttocoast. Regardless of which coast you live on be prepared to evacuate. Governor of florida warning everyone who can to get out now. Those that cannot are stocking up. Shelves are wiped clean of bottled water and supplies and sandbags and people are waiting on long lines at gas stations some have run out of fuel. As Hurricane Irma inches closer to the coast thousands of people are ordered to evacuation and thousands packed airports trying to catch a flight out of the storms path and more than 4,000 flights are already canceled. Gray hall is live now at the Philadelphia International airport where some fortunate evacuees were able to get a flight to physical. Reporter those passengers able to make it here to philadelphia. They are thankful they are safe but tell me their thoughts and prayers are still with the people stuck in florida. Really scary, you know it can turn at any minute. Its safer to get my family out. Two little kids. Im sad because