Now, mayor Michael Nutter says he understands this will have enormous impact on the city, but says this is once in a lifetime plan for once in a lifetime event. As the saying goes, of all the cities and all the countries around the world the vatican chose philadelphia. We should be excited as we can be about that. And really take it as a badge of honor and civic pride and what it says about our great city and who we are as a people. Reporter want to let you know about other details being release dad. For the Philadelphia School district. Schools will now be closed wednesday september 23rd to friday september 25th and make up day has now been scheduled for friday october 9th and kindergarten will now start on thursday september 17th. Now the city also announcing today government offices will operate on an Search Services only schedule from thursday the 24th through monday its september 28th. So a lot of details coming out. The mayor also revealing today that many of the 1. 5 Million Peo
Accumulation north and west of the city. Temperatures cold out there especially in allentown as we head toward the the poconos. Philadelphia still sitting at 34 degrees. So it will be a little bit of the wintry mix before the snow begins to stick, little bit on the grass surfaces. By 11 00p m we can see snow showers, lifting out, a break and a few more snow showers tomorrow morning. We have a coat to go an inch in the philadelphia area close to the inch mark toward our extreme northern and western suburbs and one to 2 inches through reading, allentown and poconos where air is colder and you will be close to that area of low pressure. Light snow in the overnight. Snow showers returning early friday morning patchy, how some extra time tonight and tomorrow morning, there could be some slick spots. Coming up up we will talk about in the wake of this wind chills below zero super sunday snow, new information coming in on that and it could be the coldest yet in the seven day it is winter afte
Here is one special dramatic example, nebraska hit a high of 71 degrees this afternoon, it will be in the low teens by tomorrow. Over the course of the next week the coldest air since last winter arrives and frigid temperatures will stretch deep into the deep south. We are joined from boston be eric fischer. Eric, what is happening . Jeff, winter early is, early an often is going to be a theme this year. Frost is across the arctic and head to is south as we head to the week, across the week, down the rockies, well into texas, stretching into the midwest, by the end of the week, the only state really spared from the cold air is going to be florida, never quite gets in on the action, deep into the Sunshine State n terms of temperatures, by wednesday, the cold really is taking control, Single Digits and teens here, places like cheyenne, denver, omaha, below freezing and staying in the twenties and by thursday morning when we are all waking up and this cold really worked its way eastward,
Much of the country is about to enter the icebox. Here is one special dramatic example, nebraska hit a high of 71 degrees this afternoon, it will be in the low teens by tomorrow. Over the course of the next week the coldest air since last winter arrives and frigid temperatures will stretch deep into the deep south. We are joined from boston be eric fischer. Eric, what is happening . Jeff, winter early is, early an often is going to be a theme this year. Frost is across the arctic and head to is south as we head to the week, across the week, down the rockies, well into texas, stretching into the midwest, by the end of the week, the only state really spared from the cold air is going to be florida, never quite gets in on the action, deep into the Sunshine State n terms of temperatures, by wednesday, the cold really is taking control, Single Digits and teens here, places like cheyenne, denver, omaha, below freezing and staying in the twenties and by thursday morning when we are all waking
Reporter now during the long effort to try and bring her husband home Elaine Weinstein had expressed great faith in the government and the efforts of the u. S. Government to bring her husband home. Late today the white house issued statements and say theres an investigation going on to try and figure out what went wrong. The congressman for this region, john delaney, is asking, he says hes outraged by what happened. He says that the u. S. Needs to do more tasmar sha we can rescue hostages to insure that we can rescue hostages and work with families and hes going to introduce legislation to try and make everybody more accountable and to make that effort more responsive and more effective. Reporting live in rockville, bruce leshan, wusa9. Now to the protests over the death of freddie gray, they popped up again today in baltimore as the investigation into how he was injured in Police Custody continues. Garrett haake is live at city hall where todays demonstrations began. Todays demonstrat