Historian and author Richard Norton smith is working on a new biography of gerald ford. We caught up with him at his homing in grand rapids home in grand rapids, michigan. A Baptist Missionary put down roots, and a year or two later on the east side a friend be frenchspeaking intend tour showed up who was eager to sell liquor to the indians to save their sols, and it their souls, and it set the pattern ps in some ways for the two faces of grand rapids, west side and east side. Both sides of the river banks more for most of the 19th and 20th century were covered over with factories, furniture factories, back when grand rapids was the furniture capital of the United States. Theyre gone now, but the city that has replaced them in many ways was seated by that building, the ford museum was seeded by that building, the ford museum, which was opened in 1981, located downtown at president fords insistence in the hope that it might, in fact, spark the beginnings of an urban renewal, a genuine u
Prepare for threat of more snow and it could come and how much can we expect. Good day it is monday february 8th, 2016. Half time drama. It it was, where she almost lost her footing. She kept going. You never would have known. She may have slipped. Shes good. Bruno mars, good to see him back. I think he put on the best half half time performance ever. Yesterday, it the reminded me so much of Michael Jackson, his costume his moves, everything about it. So much talent. Sue serio did you stay up and watch. I held on through half time show and i fell asleep but a lot of costume was a little hefty bag looking was that big, but it was good, great dance and great show. But heres is what going on with the weather. First of all we have this storm and this storm. The this is tomorrows concern, and this is todays and it is really close call for this coastal storm, perhaps you heard talk yesterday of some snow a along the coast possibly or even some rain. None of that is happening right now but yo
P oh. Pyes. Pim going to get on there and do pweather a little bit. Ptreadmill tuesday. Pfirst its cold outside. Pits much different feel to the patmosphere. Pas were ever so slowly inching pback up into the 50s. Peven polk county has gotten back pinto 50s. Pleesburg 49, 51 Wesley Chapel 53 pin tampa. Pbut the winds are still 9 to pabout 17 miles per hour. Ptheres a 22 mile per hour wind pin venice. Pclouds hang around and so do ptemperatures in the 50s today. Pwere back in 60s. Pshow you that 7 day in just a pfew minutes. Pall right. Pthank you, dave. Pright now weve got live look pover Sunshine Skyway bridge. Pwant to mention couple things pwith this shot. Pfirst of all travel advisory pthat dave was talk about be pcareful crossing water. Psecondly we have a crash preported in southbound direction pi checked all camera i dont see panything notable ffrs wreck pblocking rains or delays but a psituation for that move over law pkeep your eyes peeled. Pgood news krooifrs heading pnorthbou
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4 31, still getting a few scattered showers in the area, but the bulk of the rain from last night is coming to an end. We get a chance to get a break from it late morning into the afternoon. You can see a good bit of rain in the charlotte area, eastern part of the upstate, still coming down good. The western part of the upstate and the nuns of North Carolina are getting clear. Southern buncombe county under a flash flood warning. A few flood advisories in transylvania. Flood watches that continue for the upstate and northeastern georgia, western carolina. Until thursday morning, then the rain is over. Theres afternoon, friday, saturday, sunday, cooler, drier weather comes in. This is the first event. We will see that come to an end later this morning. Another event expected down in the gulf to hit as early tomorrow morning through the day on wednesday. Another round of heavy rain. Temperatures, look how mild they are. 68 in greenville, 62 in asheville. We will see temperatures hit 70 i