3 mostly cloudy skies with morning showers will move out late in the day, leading to some afternoon sunshine. Highs will reach 51 in the upstate and 45 in the mountains. Tonight stays partly cloudy with lows in the 20s to mid 30s. 3 now lets send it over to the pit crew Traffic Center. 3 were watching watching 3 heres a live look at the s. C. D. O. T. Cam on 3 3 3 this morning. Were waiting to get an update on the standoff at an oregon wildlife refuge. After one of the protesters was killed and the groups leader was arrested. Arrested. Tuesday night. Investigators say ammon bundy and several others were pulled over while heading to a community meeting. At some point, shots were fired, killing one of the protesters. Hes been identified as lavoy finnicum. Who has been one of the most outspoken protesters. Ammon bundy and bars. Its not clear how many protesters are still occupying the wildlife refuge. The group seized the refuge january second. To protest the federal convictions of two ra
Fireworks forecast for the rest of the region. For now, well check in with jillian for a closer look at traffic. Good morning to you at home as well. We have downed wires causing problems in newark right now. Upper pike creek road is closed between new linden hill road and paper mill road. Polydrummond hill road will be a good option. Bucks county, route 1, no problems to report. 95 is also quiet. This is a live look near cottman avenue. We have bigtime issues when it comes to mass transit. Septa airport line has suspendec service. This is all because of amtrak problems. This happened late yesterday evening and its still out there right now. When it comes to the airport line, one important thing to note, Shuttle Bus Service is operating between 30th street and Philadelphia International. Chris . Once again, hurricane arthur made initial landfall in North Carolina around 11 15 last night. This is what it looked like along the outer banks just before the storm hit. The storm turned up th
Seems like every two years. This is one of the most extraordinary scholarshiply things i have seen. I dont know how you do this bus that not story. I want to talk to you about your book because it is its so definitive about violence and religion. But secondly, your thesis is really interesting. Which is that religion may not necessarily be the cause of all violence, and i wondered what prompted you to do this book in the first place. Guest just abuse im a writer about religion, i keep getting told by taxi drivers, psychiatrists, and teachers, that religion has been the cause of all the major wars in history, and it really jars because its clear the not true. The first world and Second World Wars were not caused by religion. They were fought for secular nationalism, and i think that if we could keep on just casting religion in the role of the absolute villain, we are not looking at some of the other factors that military historians tell us are always involved in both violence and terror
Im glad you could join us this morning. I have to say that i am stunned that you managed to put out one of these books. It seems like every two years. This is the one of the most stored in the defeats that ive ever seen. I dont know how you keep all of this information in your head and how you do this. But thats another story. I want to talk about your book because it is first of all so definitive about violence and religion but your thesis is interesting that religion may not necessarily be the cause of all violence and i wondered what prompted you to do this book in the first place . Guest just co. Just because i am a writer about religion, i keep getting told by taxi drivers, teachers that religion is the cause of all of the major war in history and it really does because it is clearly not true the first war in the world war were not for the religion that secular nationalism. And i think that if we can just keep casting religion in and the role of the absolute avail billina we are n
The one that got me most was the search for meaning. Guest we are meaningseek creatures, as part of our human conditions. Dogs as far as we know dont agonize about the canine condition or the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, but we do, and we fall very easily into despair if we cant find some kind of ultimate significance in our lives, and our warfare has actually been for men particularly, one of the triggers for a certain ecstasy that chris hedges, New York Times correspondent has written a very good book called war is a force that gives us meaning. Everything was Crystal Clear for men on the battlefield. Theres us and them, its black and white. And also, he says that when youre in the midst of conflict, you see how very, very trivial and pointless most of civilian life is. I was talking to a military historian in britain, and he was telling me one of the chief quarters that drives young people to go to the battlefield is boredom. A sense of utter boredom and futility in t