In march he canceled all performances for the year due to health issues. He and his older brother formed the bluesy man. Allman was 69 years old. A loss for the phillies family. Hall of fame pitcher jim bunning has died. Bunning played for the phillies for six seasons. He pitched one of the perfect games in modern National League history in 1964. He also served in congress and in the senate representing kentucky. Bunning was 85 years old. And coming up in sports, reaction from larry, as the phillies honor bunnings legacy. Turning now to the memorial day weekend weather. At the shore, in philadelphia, and in wilmington, people enjoyed the seasonable weather today as the rain held off through the morning and early afternoon. Right now light rain is moving over delaware and the jersey shore. But for the most part the kickoff to memorial day weekend has been pretty good. First alert meteorologist erica has the latest of what to expect. We had a pretty nice day all around. Temperatures topp
Correct. Becoming the youngest competitor ever to qualify for the National Spelling bee. How shes preparing to go up against kids twice her age as the showdown kicks off this morning. And good morning, america. So 6yearold edith fuller about to make a little history at the spelling bee. Youngest competitor ever. Could she solve President Trumps spelling challenge. Could she spell covfefe. Or covfefe. The v is silent. Covfefe. 12 06 tweet. Never finished it. Covfefe. That tweet, that word, covfefe, covfefe, whatever you want to call it has sparked more than a million tweets and jimmy kimmel saying what makes me sad is that i know ill never write anything funnier than covfefe. And as george alluded to he responded to it on twitter and found humor in it. Well have much more on that in a bit. First we want to get to breaking news. A devastating attack rocking afghanistans capital near several embassies during rush hour. Lets go straight to abcs lama hasan for the very latest on this, good
Dont knows made mincemeat out of the house. Early today starts right now. And good morning to you. New jersey governor is facing a major backlash after this image you see here surfaced of his family. Jersey to christie, get the heck off the beach. Now on any other day there would be nothing wrong with this picture. With a budget standoff with the governor and the legislature causing more than 50 state parks and beaches to close after the state missed a deadline. So while theyre not able to enjoy some time on the sand, police turning away people by the thousands, their governor was able to do just that and he did so just before having this exchange with a reporter during a News Conference on the shutdown. Take a listen. No, i didnt. But go ahead. I didnt get any sun today. Little the governor know that the image would go viral following his image. His response to that, yes, the governor was on the beach briefly today. He didnt get any sovereign sun, he had a baseball hat on. 81 disappro
And matt pellman in for karen rogers. Happy 4th of july eve. Reporter yes it is we have cloud cover moving off the coast. We have thunderstorms out to sea. No worries, its far away from us. In pittsburgh you see clouds and showers, you might see a popup shower or thunderstorm in the northern and western suburbs. 73 degrees in philadelphia. 60s in trenton, allentown, reading and lancaster. 69 in millville. 72 in wilmington. 71 on the beachfront there in cape may. And dewpoints are still a little high from philadelphia down through millville, wilmington, and especially in dover and cape may where they are in the 70s. So anything over 60 indicates humid air when you get into the upper 60s and 70s thats darn humid. We expect the numbers to drop during the day. It should be less sticky in afternoon. 76 degrees by 7 00. 88 by noon. The high is 92 just a little bit humid. 09 by 5 00 p. M. , 88 degrees by 7 00 p. M. Tonight. More on the possibility of a spotty thunderstorm with future tracker
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