Great honor to be here at the lincoln forum. I am coming from a different country. This is certainly, eddies berg is one of the holy paces places in lincoln country. I have spent most of my career in Founding Fathers country. Although they are both in the United States, and they both helped define the United States, i think of the scholars and the two countries do not talk to each other as much as they should. Abraham lincoln talked to the Founding Fathers all his life. His most famous utterance was the speech he gave here, where he said, our fathers wrought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. That was in november, 1863. Two and a half years into the civil war. But three years before that, february, 1860, at the cooper Union Address, the kickoff was his first president ial campaign. His new york city debut. A 90 minute speech, half of it was devoted to the framers of the constitution. Lincoln argued that a majority of them believed that the federal government ha
And action News Reporters Annie Mccormick and gray hall will bring us live reports on contract talks and what commuters can expect today but lets start with meteorologist, david murphy. All right, guys, well, were starting out in a little better shape this morning than we were in yesterday for day one of the septa strike. There are a few clouds out there but theyre melting away and i think well have a fairly bright start this morning and temperatures are not as cool as yesterday. 52 in philadelphia right now, 46 degrees in allentown. We actually got down to about 40 in most of the suburbs were in the 30s yesterday but you can see how much better we are today. 49 wilmington, 50 trenton, 56 in cape may and like yesterday the winds are still pretty but light and manageable. It is going to get nicer this afternoon. 49 degrees by 7 oclock. 55 by 10 oclock. 63 by noon. At times there might be a few high clouds filtering through. Then your high this afternoon is 73 degrees so it is going to b
The governor to deploy the state National Guard to control the chaos. Gov. Pat mccrory, North Carolina those who destroy properpty or hurt other people will be dealt with and i wanna make sure the chief can do his job with the necessary resources. A charlotte resident who took these pictures of a vandalized van says hes afraid things will get worse before they get better in the states largest city, waiting to see what another night holds. Charlottes mayor and police chief spoke at length today about the fox6 now dot com or the fox6 news app and search charlotte to hear more about what they had to say. The father of a man killed by police just outside of milwaukee. Says hes frustrated that information has been released in North Carolina and oklahoma. That still hasnt been made public in his sons case. He sat down this afternoon with our a. J. Bayatpour, whos here in the studio with that story. Tomorrow will mark the threemonth anniversary of jay andersons death in says its time for more
Double shooting at dinner time. One man is dead. Another injured. All taking place in milwaukees harambe neighborhood. Our Ben Handelman live at district 5 tonight. Good evening. Witness describe hearing two bursts of gunfire. Two men 30 years apart in age were shot. On milwaukees 99th homicide of the year. Near the corner of palmer and chambers we heard the shooting, pow, pow, pow and then we ran. Chaos breaks out just before 6. Just a lot of people running that way and the ambulance and fire department. Robert and alberta roy shielding their grand children, as police make their way to the scene of a double shooting. A 53 yearold man would soon die on the first day of fall there are changing colors in the neighborhood. Not on the trees but in vehicles and placards that arrive. The neighborhood changing for some reason. These neighbors moving in. People we dont know. As time passes, crowds grow. Some claim to be family members looking for answers. There are few given. This homicide the
Clouds mixing with some sun, a little breezy and get, up to a high of 44 degrees at 3 oclock. Theres a slight chance of a Late Afternoon or early evening snow shower popping up in the northern and western suburbs. Mostly in the poconos. These are small low impact events. Karen rogers what are roads looking like this morning . Unlike the past few commutes we have no weather related problems so thats good news. Looking live at i95 at allegheny you might want to watch for a slick spot or two. We had people reporting on twitter up in the northwest and the driveways a little bit of an issue. Here were looking southbound heading towards center city. Everybody is doing just fine right now and the overnight construction near the betsy ross bridge has cleared. We do have an issue here way tree that came down and brought down wires with it in those 50 miles an hour wind gusts we had yesterday. This is river road in tinicum township and its shut down at this point at smith town road so if youre i