Philadelphias newest museum is in the heart of the city just two blocks from independence t hall. And it tells the story of the countrys road to independence. E the museum of the American Revolution opened in april. Tonight we take you inside. It was a decade before that shot heard around the world in concord and lexington that americas battle for freedom really begins. Al and joining us inside the museue is its president and ceo Michael Quinn. Thanks for being with us and for allowing cspan inside the museum. Its a pleasure to be with you and were honored to have o cspan in the museum. You with are welcome anytime as is anybody watching. We were there for Opening Night of the museum. W but my opening question is how this project came about and why. Well it came about out of a decision that we need to preserve and tell the story of americas founding. S tu and not just as a series of events, but as people who actually achieved it, who fought off these soaring ideals of equality and how
Inland as we go through overnight hours but height of the storm will be tomorrow morning. Lets take a look what this storm looks like right now. Locally cloud are increasing, after some sunshine to start the day, cloud increasing now this system approaches, this is a very, very large storm system. Very powerful storm system. It will rapidly deepen whether we call bomb out as we get through overnight and thomas it moves up eastern see game. You can see snow through carolinas, north and South Carolina getting heavier snow. Some spots seeing dangerous freezing rain. This is hugging coast and lifting northward. We have talked about the track of this storm. It would depend on the track. Track new does look closer to the coast, which means in other snow, for our region. Look at the winter alerts blanketing eastern seaboard, area you see in the pink color those are winter storm warnings for savanna, georgia up into maine. Along the coast you see red areas those are blizzard warnings and parts
Corridor and points to the west. Were tracking some brief but heavy downpours and you could find an instance where you get an isolated severe thunderstorm that pops up. The other part of the story on our monday is that the humidity is quite oppressive in some spots. The dewpoints, the level of moisture in the atmosphere, 69degree dewpoint there in philadelphia. When we get close to that its really oppressive but down right oppressive for lancaster, wilmington, down to millville and Sea Isle City at this hour. As you look at the heat index however, current air temperatures are in the middle and uner 60s but you factor in the humidity it feels like 90 in philadelphia, feeling like 92 in wilmington and 80 degrees along the coast a current heat index there in the boardwalk. Coming up well let you know if this humidity is going to break any time soon and were tracking a bit of an unsettled pattern this week. Take a closer look with the full and exclusive accuweather forecast. Monica. Thank
Tires. Track storms in your area on your phone and tablet down load cbs philly weather april an on itunes and google play. A person of interest is questioned in the disturbing attack on a fiveyear old girl. Police say child was abduct and severely beaten suffering injuries to her face. Girl was found in the backyard of her home on north hutchinson street. Eyewitness News Reporter Todd Quinones is a at special victims unit and todd, we have a look at some of those upsetting photos of the girl after the attack. Reporter ukee, indeed these pictures are very disturbing. Police indicate this fiveyear he will girl was abduct from her home and then thrown to the ground, beaten, and stumped on. Fiftynine yearolds mom want people to see this picture so everyone understands the kind of monster out there. Keep in mind there are other pictures just too graphic to put on television. She had skull fractures she has a hairline fracture in her skull and broken jaw to where she cannot eat solid food fo
He was history teacher and came to congress and realized there was no organization saying nice things about the congress and thought there ought to be somebody who did that and created the u. S. Capitol Historical Society as a way to create an organization whose responsibility would be to educate the public about the capital, the capital building, the people who served here and the architecture thats here. For over 50 years, we have been doing this with publications. With guide books to the capital. Calendars that we produce and many members purchase and issue to their constituents. And other ways. Were formed by congress, but were not a federal agency. Were a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We have to raise all of our own dollars for people who help sponsored this evening tonight are part of that organization of people who help us stay in business. And every year we try and honor a committee of the congress. This year the ways and Means Committee and we try and alternate between