Its hard to believe were talking about a heat wave theres a beautiful breeze outside. Its not all that uncomfortable at all. In fact its a beautiful friday night. Weve got new moon, a starlit sky out here in philadelphia and all across the region, but tomorrow the mercury starts to rise. And once it rises into the 90s there it will stay for several days. Lets take you out to storm scan3. Not a whole lot going on outside there are some showers and storms back across the great lakes a few of those could try to sneak up towards the poconos tomorrow. Most of them will miss us but something to keep an eye out for maybe a few more clouds bubbling up in the afternoon. Otherwise its a very comfortable friday night. Were at 76 at air pot. 67 in millville. Flip those numbers a around. 72 at the Atlantic City airport and 71 in allentown. Mount pocono 64. At this time last night many spots were already down into the 60s. You can see the difference. Little bit of a southwest flow has kick up and th
Too. First time in the studio. Yes, our new team here. I love that. It is hot not just today, nicole but it will be the next five days we have lower 90s out there. If you like the the heat, this is your time. We will take it it is august. It is august after all. Time for the heat everybody. We will see it kick in as we head in the weekend today. The first day of the 90s streak. Heat wave on the way. Lets look at the current temperatures. Were already at 70 degrees in philadelphia you can see 62 mount pocono. Sixtysix in Atlantic City. You know it is 70 degrees and this early in the day that were heading somewhere. Live Neighborhood Network shows you that 70degree narc in bethlehem. We have 68 in bensalem. Birdboro69, and cinnaminson, 68. We will see a sloppy mess to the north and west. That ace weak cold front trying to make its way toward us. The it will not be very successful. We will see a lot of sunshine. But take a look at these numbers, saturday and sunday, sunny and in the 90s,
Homes are gutted have a huge fire in trenton that grow toss four alarms and forces a dozen people out of their homes overnight. We will have details coming up. Tragedy at a pennsylvania speed way a sprint car driver from bucks county is killed in the crash. Plus a call for help when the pope comes to philadelphia, how you can lend a hand and be part of the history making visit. Today, it is saturday august 15th, good morning to you, thanks so much for joining us, im nicole brewer. Just past 6 00. Lets get a check of the forecast and it will be a pretty hot one today and high humidity. Maybe not the best hair day. Not the best hair kay and day to stay cool, hydrated. Take all of the precautions in the city where we will be in the 90s. Wow. Sunnies just starting to come upright new but were at 70degree mark in philadelphia already there you can imagine we are only going up from there, everybody. Your high today we are looking at 91 degrees in the city. Little cooler at the shore. Lets lo
General, so thats really something to look forward to. What i wanted to do was to set this up, if we could go to the graphics, to look at one of our key themes. Now, not just speaking about the nation of islam here, were speaking about islam and religion in general, as is our way in this class, but we think about identity and relationship. Well, what if we talked about identity and selfesteem and relationship as empowerment . Thats what i think were seeing when were talking about the Africanamerican Muslim movement. In other words, identity is selfesteem a person must feel good about themselves and relationship is about empowerment. And im you know, this is not the gospel truth here, as always im working with some ideas that were familiar with, so we can try to make sense of this powerful doctrinal statement. So when we look at the nation of islam, as we have here on the graphic, we can see it as a reinterpreretation of traditionl islamic or muslim doctrine, in order to meet ethical ch
Afternoon. And firefighters tried to put a flame retardant chemical on the flames but with the wires energized it just reunited. Huge plumes of spoke blanketed north philadelphia and some were evacuated. The fire commissioner explained why the fire burned so long. Before they could douse it with water. We are going to end up putting the fire out the old fashion way without water but we have to make sure the power is shut off. So we have unmanned water streams and putting up a water pipe with the aerial ladders and when we have confirmation that the power is off from peco we can start to put out the fire. That happened shortly after 5 00. Hazmat teams were called and 75 firefighters on the scene and the commissioner was asked if the smoke was toxic and he told reporters it was something to be concerned about and get out of its path but less toxic due to the change in construction of the power grids, you see the flames that were burning, we spoke with one neighbor saying what others were