Twos on your clock there, 22 minutes into town. Eleven minutes on eastbound 422. Still dealing with fog in the suburbs and flights coming from baltimore are delayed because of some thunderstorms, down into Baltimore Area so just be ready for some possible pop up delays, the at the airport, for flights in other parts of the country. South wound 42 an accident at 534, we are dealing with sun glare coming from the opposite way. Lights out in the northeast at somerton byberry and evans and mass transit looking good. It looks like bill cosby will be entering a Montgomery County courthouse in about two hours. This hearing will determine if his trial will move forward. Umhmm. So dave kinchen is in the Montgomery County courthouse, dave. Reporter we are anticipating bill cosbys arrival in a couple hours here at this court house and i want to show you everything taking place outside, a lot of International Media here. Were all watching now that the Pa Supreme Court denied a motion to halt the p
Need a sunglasses. Thinks unsettled day and you will see looking at radar we are still under the influence of the off shore storm, we will look more in depth in a moment but it looks like heavier showers in Sussex County delaware, lighter rain along the jersey shore. We will keep it cloudy here in philadelphia. With 56 degrees, relative humidity up there at 90 percent and temperatures are mostly in the the 50s, we have got 48 in mount pocono, mid to upper 50s every where else. Plan on lower 60s by 9 00 oclock, still quite a few clouds and shower or two around and some cloud and sun by lunchtime and pop up thunderstorm possible again, today around the same time probably not as many as we saw yesterday, sunset time is eight credit 18. So, bob kelly, get ready to sweat, we have got 80 in the seven day forecast. Sweating to the 80s, good morning. 6 01. Any minute now were ready for april opening here at that coney palmyra bridge. It has been on stand by we will see traffic moving. Getting
Next chapter of the criminal case against the legendary entertainly to begin. The stage is set at the Montgomery County courthouse. Security barricades put up to control the anticipated crowds. A couple hundred media and spec tatters are expected to fill the courtroom to see bill cosby face charges of criminal sexual assault. And for the first time we may see his accuser prosecutors may call to the stand andrea constand. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting the former Temple University employee inside his cheltenham home back in 2004. Among those watching, civil rights attorney and philadelphia native gloria allred. Shes representing 30 women in separate civil lawsuit for accused cosby of similar crimes. We believe in equalizing power with power, and were used to david and goliath battles, and we look forward to the battle. Reporter included in the evidence against cosby, his own words. In the 2005 deposition in the civil case against cosby, attorneys asked him if he ha
Why did you lead your forward with that . Jesse part of the reason why i got into writing about africanamerican history in washington, d. C. Was because of barack obama and his campaign. There was a lot of interest in African American history, having the first africanamerican president in the white house. I was lucky enough to be assigned by the Associated Press to cover obama that weekend. I remember pulling up to the obamas townhouse in chicago thinking about what book will i write next. And right at that spot is when it hit me. I got so excited about the topic and so i immediately called my editor. She immediately tamped down my enthusiasm and told me to think about it. To make sure that i had a really good idea about what i wanted to do. Brian what was the idea . Jesse the idea was to write a story about the africanamerican slaves who lived inside the white house. Back then, the country was still talking about how great and how unique it would be if an africanamerican president liv
Brian what was the idea . Jesse the idea was to write a story about the africanamerican slaves who lived inside the white house. Back then, the country was still talking about how great and how unique it would be if an africanamerican president lived inside the white house. I said to myself, i understand that would be great but he cannot have been the first africanamerican to live there. And then the thought process went on so who were the first africanamericans to live there . We knew there were africanamerican butlers but i thought there had to be someone before them. I decided to write a book about the africanamerican slaves that lived inside the white house with the first president s and that is when the invisibles the untold story of African American slaves in the white house got its start. Brian we have an artist rendering of the first president s house in new york city. You say in your book that there were nine slaves working for George Washington inside that building. Explain h