First. Let these kids say these words that are fortunately the norm and realize how lucky he they are a High School Musical the center of a heated debate in tonights parent make voices heard. Good evening, im jessica dean im Ukee Washington. District officials decided to remove a racial slur from the script of the music rag time. Some argue its censor ship alexandria hoff is live in cherry hill. While many were against changing the script. Reporter ukee, jessica, rag time is a musical that explores classism and racism. The question tonight is the n word as scripted necessary telling that story. The Cherry Hill School board made the decision last week to remove the n word from the musical scheduled to debut in march. A large crowd of students and alumni of cherry hill east filled the school bus meeting. Over 1200 others signed a petition to reverse the decision to remove the word is to sanitize history and its lessons, others feel the use glorifies an ugly word i and we dont need to be
Morning. Reporter good morning. Happy hump day. Were pushing out toward our friday. The road are looking good, feeling dryer then earlier this week. That is the thing were finally getting some sun today wow. I know. Can i get the a halleluiah. Halleluiah. Yes, finally that noreaster is gone, leaving, we still have a hint of the breeze left over there it but skies are clearing, we will see sunshine, and it will be a good day. On top of all of that i expect it will be milder then last couple of days too. Sunnies part of that but more than anything else, were just allowing some warmth to build in here. High pressure in place right now for at least one take. There is another coal front that waits in the the wings so even eye this while you have it. That would be my advice. Were already above average, normal high about 40, 42 at philly international and wilmington. Fortytwo in millville. Dropping off a few more degrees before the sun does rise but regardless we finally dried out so we dont
Last. Hopefully long but probably not. Good morning im rahel solomon im jim donovan. Katie and meisha will be along in just a moment. But first heres what you need to know to start your day in the morning minute. Reporter barricades are up around Center City Loews Hotel , all eyes are on the venue behind me where trump will meet with republicans tomorrow. Demonstrations erupted in several cities yesterday after the president signed executive orders advancing the controversial dakota and keystone pipeline. A stunning fall from grace , what powerful congressman today chaka fattah will report to prison where he will serve ten years sentence for racketeering. A violent carjacking in southwest philadelphia, police say a man was shot for his silver pontiac, victim is in stable condition. Let these kid say these word. A heated debate over a high school musical. Parents, students from cherry hill east make a passion that it plea to allow musical rag time, to hit the stage, without censorship.
Most accurate first alert forecast from meteorologist krystal klei. Tracking a little snow. Thats right, ted. Not for today, but for your monday morning commute. We are tracking snow across parts of our region. Well take a look at that in a moment. Lets talk temperatures first. Mostly dry out there. At 37 degrees in philadelphia, 35 in pottstown and 34 in allentown. Millville 36, thats the same for wilmington. Were seeing temperatures now mid to upper 30s, a chilly start. It feels colder than it actually is with the light breezes picking up outside. Radar and satellite, currently clouds, spots of white trying to pick up on radar. This is very isolated flurries trying to develop across our region, still because of lakeeffect snow. T the system will form later today and tonight. First alert issued for morning snow monday. South jersey to the jersey shore, delaware up to about philadelphia, although philly is at the cutoff line. From noon tonight through tomorrow, the snow should move out
This saturday. Lets start with our weather because we have had some changes, big changes, over the past week. Meteorologist krystal klei has been following all of them for us. Krystal. So we saw that long stretch of temperatures in the 90s and finally that broke the end of your workweek. Today, though, looking like we will be right around it again. Yesterday we hit a high of 90, today the forecast high 90 in philadelphia. Right now were sitting at 74 degrees, mount holly 68 currently, mid 60s allentown, 70 wilmington. Our temperatures mostly into parts of new jersey the upper 60s and low 70s at this point as well. Those temperatures going to be cranking right up into the upper 80s by later today. On your radar and satellite not a lot going on for us yet. Now, this weekend we do have the possibility of storms, that comes late day sunday. Today should mostly see sun, a few mixes of clouds into the afternoon, maybe an isolated shower into parts of new jersey although not liking at the lik