Roger williams was it founder of rhode island and also the founder of the First Baptist church in america. Williams was born in london around 160 thr3. Were not sure of which because his birth records were burned up in the great london fire. He became a chapel for one of the great pureten lords. But because he was a puriten. He fled to england, arrived in at boston in february of 1631. This is a radical idea at this time. Every country had had a state church. They all had their own state supported churches. The taxes of the people paid for it ministers and the buildings and you had to go to church or theyd fine you. Williams said the state has no role whatsoever to play in religion. Eeventually he was put on trial and convicted of sedition and ha hauracy and was going to ship back to england before he could die. So he fled through it winter around february of 1636 and walked down from what is today salem where he was then taken in by izhad friends, the wompa indians. The following spri
Is a bitter cold that has descended on our area making it tough to to be outside unless youre bundled up with the start of spring less than two weeks away, a snowstorm is likely to hit our area early next week. Action News Reporter jeaneatte reyes has been talking to people. But we begin with Melissa Magee and the first check of the accu weather forecast. Were certainly doing late season cold across much of the delaware and lehigh valleys and part of the reason why it was cold today, was because of those blustery winds. Wind gusts across the region in philadelphia, 26 Miles Per Hour. Although earlier we had winds gusting at high as the upper 30s here in philadelphia. 35 Miles Per Hour there in allentown and gusts right now in coming in at 28. And 32 Miles Per Hour at the coast in beach haven end, factor that in feels much colder, the high was 32. A current windchill of 19 in the city. 14 in allentown, just two degrees in the poconos. And 25 degrees down in cape may. As satellite 6 alon
By the day. Plus the new version of the young book, a warning that it could be scary for children. Hello aim robin adams with the sport. We have the latest from the Masters Tournament and ill tell you if this man, Jordan Spieth is able to continue his run to the top of the leaderboard on day two. Hello, Police Investigating the brussels attacks have arrested five people including the paris attack suspect Mohammed Abrini. This video shows one of the arrestings made earlier today. Authorities say three of the suspects dna was found in a car used during the november attacks on french capital in which 130 people were killed. The police have been looking for Mohammed Abrini after he was seen with the key paris suspect salah h abdel h abdelslam. The belgium Authorities Say its not yet known if the man in the hat is among the five arrested today. The inquiry continues in order to determine if abrini is or is not the third person who joined the attacks at brussels airport, namely, the man in t
Degrees. We were a lot warmer than where we should be. Very warm conditions over the weekend and was a similar pattern as we head into the weekend. Heres a live look from our mount tam cam. 37 degrees currently for livermore. And the temperatures will continue to drop over the next couple of hours. As we head into the afternoon San Francisco will be as 62 degrees. Livermore will have afternoon high of 66 degrees. High pressure will continue to market its place here in the bay area. This was also allow for temperatures to warm. I really do not expect any huge changes within the next couple of days. We will be above average for most days. Theres not a raindrop in sight. We will continue with this pattern as will start 2014. There are a lot of people still have to our top story this morning. Childrens hospital of oakland says it will remove jahi mcmaths ventilator at five oclock tonight. Theres a small tribute of teddy bears and candles outside the hospital for the girl. Kron fours dan ru