2 miles in pottstown. 4 miles visibility at philly international. Thick fog in millville and Atlantic City. Rain is on the way but still in the western part of the state. You can see the fog. It seems to have gotten worse from what we can see. 35 degrees, 7 16 is our sunrise time. Eont look for sun today, clouds and some showers and a high of 50 degrees. Fortytwo is your overnight low so at least it is only rain that were getting bob kelly if december you you never know. We could be counting our lucky stars on that one. Tough to see the stars last night and this morning because of the fog we are dealing w the most of us are in the fog to begin with at this hour and were all driving through it this morning. Heres a live look at the thick soup 202 right here near route 29 in malvern, pennsylvania. Headlights heading northbound. So between west chester and king of prussia we have thick fog on 202. Also seeing some thick fog on both the and portions of pennsylvania turnpike. Some trouble o
Our top story of this hour lip is declaring itself ebola free after a victory over the virus appears evident. The World Health Organisation saying the african nation is free of the disease. Theres no new cases in 42 days. After nine months fighting the disease, the feelings are hard to describe. They are largely emotional. As you probably know liberia was hard hit by the epidemic. Close to 5,000 died from the virus. The countrys president saying its no time to let down their guard. More from caroline malone. Reporter these students are the picture of health as liberia is declared ebola free. The virus has not been seen in this country for 42 days, twice the incubation period. I lost my father to the deadly ebola virus. Now i see my country getting back to normal. Im happy ill see my friends play, joke, shake hands. Things i have not been able to do for six months. The people in neighbouring guinea and sierra leone are still dealing with ebola. The World Health Organisation says both co
Now the Justice Department is investigating the death of a man injured while in Police Custody. The Saudiled Coalition launched new airstrikes in yemen despite an announcement that the air campaign is over. Fighter jets struck houthi targets hours of the a a new phase in the campaign was announced, one folk cubed on negotiations. The humanitarian toll is devastating. Since fighting escalated last month, 944 deaths, 3500 injured and another 150,000 people displaced. We have a report from the saudi border with yemen. There was another air strike after there was an announcement to the end of the campaign. What happened . They announced the end of a phase with the name and the beginning of another daze. Decisive storm ended renewal of hope is a new operation but it looks like there isnt much different between them. The saudis are now moving to a new phase in which they are not going to continue to strike but be on stand by and ready to strike anytime when they see it necessary. It seems tw
Plight of americans that just cant afford to stay in their homes. Severe weather in texas, tornados leaving behind a trail of destruction. This one in west Central Texas touching down before nightfall. You see the path of turned up earth, a grim reminder of the dividing line between that which is saved and that which is destroyed. Some houses exploding. Nothing left but scattered breeze and debris. Some blown away. Only the foundations remaining. Cameras catching this man standing on a second floor porch after the tornado moved through and destroyed the rest of his house. Dramatic scenes coming out of texas good evening storms tearing through the central part of texas. It appears that the west of the town off cisco was one of the hardest hit. Emergency crews saying one american mass been killed. Storm chasers capturing pictures of that tornado. It could be morning before we know the true extent of the damage, and the danger not over yet. More Severe Weather into the night. Kevin corriv
In 1949, the ship was launched as the champion along with three other ships were called before aces. They were midsize ships. They could all 250 passengers. In those days they had to care for injures. You cant find that kind of attention if you go on a line of today. Extended all the way up to the latter 50s. Some can happen and what happened is air travel. There was of course air travel before the Second World War but there was increasing is air travel. At the late 1950s the first commercial jetliner between new york and europe moved back and forth and that really spelled the death knell for many transatlantic acid or ships. You could get over to europe just counting the time in passage and maybe 14 days. But jack could take you over eight to 10 hours. It certainly wasnt as luxurious. Get the attention and food. We are interested as the people inconvenienced more than luxury and what happened is most american passenger liners begin to fill up their ships and go out of business. Not fa