Nbc 10 news today on this thursday. Im chris cato. We start with bill henley with todays forecast. In the wake of yesterdays storms, dry air is flooding into the area and brought the temperatures down. Much of the area is 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. 66 and fall at this hour in philadelphia. Look at the 50s. Falllike this morning for pottstown and doylestown. 65 in wrightstown and 64 in wilmington but those numbers are coming down. 62 at the airport. Hourbyhour forecast lots of sunshine and clouds out of the picture and the temperatures will warm from 66 at 6 00 to 70 at 9 00 and into the middle 70s at lunch time. Through it all, north northeasterly winds until lunch time and the dry air that is coming into the area and keep us cooler through the day. The sevenday forecast coming up in the next half hour but ill have a peek of the weekend when i come back in ten minutes. Lets check in with our traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. This morning, on 95 around girard area on the southb
How are you . Appreciate you being here. Real quick. Go ahead. Its only 11 28 i guess a little early but i dont want [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] no cuts to medicaid. Save our liberty. No cuts to medicaid. Save our liberty. Thanks for being here everybody. [cheering and applause] we want to get started. On the way over here someone told me that there are a couple folks from the Disability Community. Can we hear you. [cheering and applause] i know that we have folks from many different groups and all over the country but at least we have three major organizations represented here. How about someone who might be here from adapt . [cheering and applause] all right. We practice that a couple minutes ago. How about anger . [cheering and applause] all right. How about the art . [cheering and applause] we have a great lineup of members in the United States senate who are
About the National Security apparatus, do they have what they need post9 11 from the federal government . Or are there still things outstanding that they would like to be done . He mentioned that he felt spread were thinly because the threat has morphed into different countries. There talking about how is a priority on whats going on with prices in the philippines, africa, he even mentioned north africa. I got the impression that he feels like the resources were spread thin. Washe big event this week about ambush in niger, are there more questions to be asked . Do we know enough about whats happening as an American Public . We dont know that much about ambush. Pened in the the u. S. Military is doing an after action report right now. There are early signs that the group that ambushed the special forces unit had connections to Islamic State. Its known that Islamic State and al qaeda are trying to play off of travel robberies in that region to bolster their presence there. We have a lot
As the National Constitution Center Awards the 2017 Liberty Medal to senator john mccain. [applause] throughout his career, senator mccain has put his the devotion to the u. S. Constitution above faction or party. He is the kind of independent citizen statesman James Madison envisioned when he stressed that the u. S. Constitution created not a direct democracy, but a representative republic. Madison and the framers of the constitution believed that direct democracies have led in greece and rome to rule by demagogues and the mob. By contrast, in a representative republic, citizens would delegate power to enlighten representatives. A chosen body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations. Its especially meaningful that senator mccain will be awarded the Liberty Medal accompanied by the chair of the National Constitution Center Vice Preside
Reliably republican going back almost to george washington. [ laughs ] treasurer, controller, coroner, clerk of courts. I know. I mean, were talking 1799 theyve held power. Yeah. How do you look at this . Did you see it coming, or did you find some things surprising in exit polling . All right, well, lets start with this. First of all, the four collar counties have been trending republican for almost two decades. Very slowly at first. It began in montgomery county. Trending republican or trending democrat . Im sorry, trending democratic. In the municipalities close to philadelphia. And if you look at statewide elections and president ial elections, three of the four, sometimes four of the four have gone with the democratic candidates. So basically what happened, the reaction to trump, to president trump, the controversies accelerated a trend that has been underway in this state for two decades at least. It accelerated it why . Because the democratic turnout went up. The republican turn