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Names on buildings, and other physical memorials, and what we should include and exclude in school curriculum. The timing is right for us to have a serious, respectful conversation about how we remember and memorialize the people and cultures of 17thcentury new england and to help us with that, i would like to turn the microphone over to dr. Robert allison of suffolk university. [applause] thank you, frank. And thank you, susan. Im bob ellison and a teacher in the History Department at suffolk university. And we really are honored and withhted to participate the forum and new england beginnings in the Congregational Library in providing a venue for this terrific dialogue we are about to have this evening. And we have an extraordinary panel with us and my job is to introduce them. And then to sit down while they talk and i will come back for a moderated discussion so you can ask them questions, raise comments and further discussed the issues they will be raising. Let me now introduced t
southward for a couple of wet early this morning. the hour-by-hour forecast show 65 degrees at 7 a.m. partly cloudy skies. and that means on and off clouds through much of the day. we are back to 80 by 11:00 this morning. into the afternoon, upper 80s inland. it is going to be hot. i would say about 80 degrees there. the coast including boston at 86. and cape about 81 degrees. and an hour by hour afternoon. a slight shower risk. auburn this morning. two tractor-trailers collided on the pike eastbound. this is right under the under the bancroft street overpass. our photographer at the scene say it is appears that one tractor-trailer rear ended the other, and the driver of the second tractor-trailer was trapped inside. rescue crews used the jaws of life to pull that driver out, and he was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. the latest on the traffic hold-ups associated with that crash are coming up right now. here is catherine parrotta update. how is that situation w
this is the fox25 morning news. and good morning, everybody. 6:00 on this thursday morning, it is august 18. we appreciate you being with us this morning. i am gene lavanchy. sara: a and i am sara underwood. warm air sticking around today and meteorologist shiri spear says not quite all sunshine today. she is in the fox25 storm tracker weather center with where you will find the brightest conditions out there. reporter: yeah, to brightest conditions this morning will be north of the mass pike. south of the mass pike, this batch of rain that thank will be shifting it is lightening up as it goes. it is kind of losing steam and losing energy and that means patchy lighter rain. i haven t seen more than a patch of rain. close to worcester. worcester at 65 degrees. worcester at 70. 63 in lawrence staying dry there. norwood at 59 degrees at risk for a little bit of that morning rain. it is not even going to last all morning long here. futurecast 8 a.m. showers from barnstable
in a pod. complete new england news coverage starts right now. this is the fox25 morning news. gene: good morning, everybody, thank you for being with us this thursday morning. it is august 18th. i m gene lavanchy. sara: we have a warm day ahead, but it is not all sunshine. shiri seeing patchy showers, but at least the humidity down. shiri: actually feels pretty comfortable but if you are in worcester, for example, or douglas, might want to grab the umbrella, a little bit of light rain this morning. attleboro to rehoboth and norton and plan on a little bit of light rain there as well, not going to be high impact because it is so widely scattered, 71 in boston, this is all going to slide south of the city. city stays dry today, 60s in the suburbs as you re waking up this morning and we got these showers that are going to be drifting eastward through about ten or 11:00 this morning. southward. that s where we are going to get the scattered stuff the next couple of hours