Its my pleasure to welcome back tj stiles to cwi. He spoke yesterday as you know. He spoke on George Armstrong custer, based upon a book that he received the pulitzer for. He is, as you all know, the winner of two pulitzers. This afternoon he is going to speak on another lets say misunderstood character in jesse james. Jesse james, the study of him by tj stiles is really at the point of a new wave of civil war scholarship thats focusing on guerilla warfare. You heard bart meyers yesterday. You met kim noe. They have all been doing work on what many have considered to be the periphery of the civil war. Thanks to these scholars and thanks to tj stiles, we now have a more expansive view of civil war military history. Jesse james, unfortunately, is sometimes perceived as a robin hood figure of the old west. We often see jesse james as being apolitical. That he is part of those bandits like bloody Bill Anderson. I think what is so impressive about what tj styles has done is that he has take
It is unseasonably cold out there. It is more like a january chill that we have. 36 degrees with wind. Some clouds out there are blocking out the sun. You can see temperatures are in the 30s across the entire area. We are dry until you get back towards the great lakes. This is the arctic air coming over this warm lakes creating lake effect snows. It could make it into parts of the area during the day today. It is 36 at philadelphia, 35 in all allento allentown. It is all about the winds and how it makes it feel. It feels like 25 in allentown. Only 12 in mount pocono right now. Then we look ahead later in the weekend. This is sunday. We have a weak system coming through which should be cold enough that any precipitation would be snow at least at the start especially in the Lehigh Valley. More on that sunday system and yet even colder outbreak in the ten day a little bit later. Local officials are sounding the alarm over the dangerous arctic blast. We are live at the Transportation Cente
Youre especially going to notice that next weekend. And ill tell you if the cold fronts will bring us rain. Thats coming up in the full forecast in a few minutes. All right. Thank you very much for the update. Breaking news we are following right now. Three people were killed in a fiery crash on interstate 75 earlier this morning. Another person was transported to the hospital in critical condition. News channel 8 is live on the scene with the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter candace, this is just a very tragic crash that that is i75. The dad died, two children died and the person taken to tampa general, that was the mom of the two young children. They were just 5 and 9 years old. And look at some of the video. Im sure you notice that the car completely burnt up. When firefighters got to the scene, they said it was already 50 engulfed and in flames and they said that two people inside and the car were dead. Hospital. That was the mom. And witnesses tell state troopers that the c
Youre especially going to notice that next weekend. And ill tell you if the cold fronts will bring us rain. Thats coming up in the full forecast in a few minutes. All right. Thank you very much for the update. Breaking news we are following right now. Three people were killed in a fiery crash on interstate 75 earlier this morning. Another person was transported to the hospital in critical condition. News channel 8 is live on the scene with the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter candace, this is just a very tragic crash that that is i75. The dad died, two children died and the person taken to tampa general, that was the mom of the two young children. They were just 5 and 9 years old. And look at some of the video. Im sure you notice that the car completely burnt up. When firefighters got to the scene, they said it was already 50 engulfed and in flames and they said that two people inside and the car were dead. Hospital. That was the mom. And witnesses tell state troopers that the c
Day. Well above average for this time of year. As we reach those highs in around 80 degrees. Now, ill have the 7day forecast for you coming up in a little bit. Rain is unlikely today but things change a whole lot over the next 24 hours. Coming up. 6 01. Breaking overnight in pacifico county deputies still trying to pasco county, deputies still trying to find the person shooting. Rodney dunigan with more. How are the victims doing now . Reporter dan, the last report we got from the Sheriffs Office, two of the men are in Critical Condition this morning, the third was not seriously hurt. Hes expected to recover. Investigators have been out here on the scene all evening trying to gather information and throughout this morning. Let me give you perspective. Were a block from where all this happened and investigators have actually closed down about a twoblock area surrounding this home. Away, we have been able to get a bit closer to the shooting scene here. To give you an example of how wide