Meteorologist bill henley and his first alert forecast. Were feeling the change, temperatures running at least 5 degrees warmer than yesterday and a Beautiful Day ahead. Well see lots of sunshine in the 70s. But at this hour 44 in pottstown, wilmington is 47 and its 48 degrees in wrightstown. Northeast philadelphia, 53 degrees, chillier for roxborough and south philadelphia at 45 degrees. Clear skies, sunshine, well warm things up. Well be waiting for the sun at 6 00. 52 degrees, 55 by 9 00, and look at the warmup by lunch time 68 degrees and climbing. Ill show you how warm its going to get when i come back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. Were watching the vine street expressway where we do have still ongoing construction closing it down between the schuylkill expressway and broad street on the eastbound side. Were looking at the schuylkill around 11th street. You can see work in progress in here. Obviously left lane closed and we did see a vehicle move by bu
Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back. Right now Jessica Boyington is putting together first alert traffic. Every ten minutes when you see us. Right now were going to check out the schuylkill expressway around girard avenue. Moving along nicely. 13 minutes eastbound from the blue route to the vine street expressway, no real problems there, ongoing construction at a halt right now. Watch out for a crew and some signs in the area. If you are out in glassboro, get to school around the campus, watch out on route 322, closed now both directions from main street into route 47 so its this stretch in here, all lanes are closed due to a water main break. The best bet, you dont have to access the local roads in glassboro take route 55 or you can take ellis street here and that will wrap you underneath and back on 322 that way, that will be your easiest way to get by the area. For mass transit, no problems or delays this morning, more for you when i come back in t
Shoulder at north livermore. I am not seeing any slowing and it is looking good up and over the the altamont pass. We will look at the south bay commute in a future. Breaking overnight, four people are under arrest after leading c. H. P. Officers on a wild chase from berkeley to oakland. Officers say it started along interstate 80 in oakland and ended where you see it in east oakland at 3 00 a. M. , officers say the occupants were throwing drugs and other evidence out the windows. The driver rammed into three patrol cars. Somehow in the middle of all of this chaos, no one was hurt. A man is facing eight areas in prison and a 250,000 fine after being arrested on terrorism charges. Aws Mohammed Younis aljayab is from iraq. He is accused of traveling to syria to fight with different organizes in 2013 and lying about it. The 23yearold was arrested yesterday. A second man was take were into custody in texas. The governor of that state said the arrests may have prevent add terrorthed event.
Toy are trying to raise up 9. 6 billion to buy a stake in italys largest phone company. Rules on major benchmarks. Banksere imposed after were accused of rigging libor. The u. S. Has attacked 12 refineries controlled by the Islamic State in its latest attempt to degrade and destroy the sunni militant group. Peter cook joins us from d. C. What do we know about these strikes . The third day of airstrikes by coalition forces. This involved both u. S. Aircraft, saudi aircraft, and aircraft from the united arab emirates. They went after modular refineries. There are 12 of them in eastern syria. These are refineries that the Islamic State was using to fuel forces in their own that part of the country. This was basically an attempt to hit them right in their pocketbook. These are refineries that are producing revenue for the Islamic State. These are targets that had been looked at for quite some time. Involved, as well. The initial take on the strikes were successful. Do not be surprised if m
Welcome to hungry minds speak of series with Steve Simpson speaking on cronyism and corruption in government power. Steve sampson is director of legal studies at Ayn Rand Institute in irvine california. A former constitutional litigator for the institute for Justice Steve has litigated cases in the u. S. Supreme court and lower federal and state courts throughout the nation. Steve was the lead lawyer in speech now versus sec, the case that created super pacs and he has litigated many many other campaignfinance and constitutional cases over the years. Steve has written and spoken on a wide variety of legal and constitutional issues. His writings have appeared in the wall street journal, the washington post, the Washington Times and many print and on line publications over the years. So lets will come Steve Simpson speaking on cronyism, corruption and government power. [applause] okay. First of all thanks very much hannah and doug and hungry minds for having me here. I have to say its a