you know? 54 degrees the current temperature outside kutztown area middle school, thin vale of little cloud cover overlapping the farmland here in our live neighborhood network. but we have nothing but brought blue skies overhead. not just here on the cbs-3 skydeck, but everywhere else, storm scan3 nice, empty, just like we like it for yet another day. are you getting board by this forecast yet? how could you? i mean, common. might as well be in san diego at this point right? expecting daytime high to hit the mid 80s expect to also keep that low humidity. so it is a running theme that just keeps ongoing for our area. area headlines, still gorgeous, we keep it going one more day then approaching frontal boundary sunday. so only very minor hiccup in our weekend forecast. we will talk more about that possibility every wet weather coming up as the show goes on, but for now you said it, beautiful outside. keep it going again today. let s just keep that negative talk later monday
forecast. bill, nis and cool out there again this morning, why not? cooler than yesterday. our beautiful stretch of weather continues today. we re looking at temperatures in the 50s and 60s right now. 59 in pottstown, philadelphia is 62. look at the low 60s for wrightstown, toms river millville both in the 50s this morning. down to 66 in northeast philadelphia. a little bit warmer in southeast philadelphia, more buildings, more cement seem to hold in the heat. delaware river trail, 70 degrees. 69 degrees is the forecast for 6:00. by 9:00 we ll warm to 74 with a light breeze out of the north at 6 mile-an-hour. into the low 80s this afternoon. we ll see the low humidity persist right into the afternoon hours. we ll go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when come back in ten minutes. first, jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. bill this morning we ll start things off on the schuylkill expressway. around montgomery drive moving along nicely. westboun
2009 by the bbc s katty kay, who was guest host on the the diane rehm show. this is about 50 minutes. katty: thanks for joining us, i am katty kay of the bbc sitting in for diane rehm. on april the ninth 1865 general robert ely surrendered robert ely surrendered robert e. lee and the sultana sank in the mississippi river. alan huffman tells us overlooked story. thank you so much for joining us . we will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our e-mail address. let s start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. describe it to the audience. alan: the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. it evokes what was going on. the river was full of people. there were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. after it exploded and caught higher, you
at least for today. we have the start of the weekend so beautiful. i think we ve been to the pool every day this week. really nice especially from mid-week on. then things begin to change. we get sticky during the workweek. here s a live look outside today. a beautiful place to be. the poconos. this is a great shot. we re looking at temperatures in the 50s there. right around 51 degrees in the pocono. feeling like natural air conditioning out there. 58 in allentown. 60 in lancaster temperatures at the shore in the low 60s. 64 in wildwood. low temperatures right now very comfortable. we saw low dew points as well. we ll keep low dew points today until that changes tomorrow. 83 by lunchtime. by 3:00 86 degrees. we re looking back at wednesday through friday so comfortable. in the low to mid-80s. today up to 88 degrees. it s going to be hotter today. even hotter tomorrow. and hotter during the work week. we ll talk more about that. also a couple chances for some rain in your s
shoes visiting station w you uom in michigan public libraries. on april the ninth, 1865, general robert e. lee surrendered and the sultana sank in the mississippi river. it remains the worst maritime disaster in american history. alan huffman tells us overlooked story. thank you so much for joining us. we will be opening a phones a later on in the program, and comments to alan at our e-mail address. rshow@wmu.org. let s start by describing what you have on the front of your book, a picture of the sultana. describe it to the audience. alan: the boat in the painting is in flames in the middle of the river, and you see a lot of rescue boats and it is night and you see people drifting down the river clinging to debris. obviously it is that it was painting but it does obviously it is a stylized voteing but it does the evoke what was going on. the river was full of people. there were 2400 people aboard a boat that was supposed to carry 375, roughly. after it exploded and caught h