Trenton was selected because of its location, even though we are not in the Geographical Center of the state. We are situated on the Delaware River. Equidistant between north jersey and south jersey. It made sense for trenton because trenton was a household name. It was made famous by George Washington and the battle of trenton, crossing the Delaware River. It was also a center of commerce. William trent had established trenton as a port town. A river port town. Hisould fail sail merchant ships as far as this point, up to the fall lines of the delaware. It made sense to bring government here. The building involved over the course of 200 years from 1792 to 1991. 10 different architects, 16 Major Construction projects. Where we are standing in the rotunda was completed in 1889. The first steakhouse was constructed between 1790 in 1792 by jonathan doan, he was the builder, an architect from philadelphia. He constructed a very simple, georgianstyle building. It cost 215 pounds, which is 40
Some intense lightning are possible. Things look knight ninice right it is humid and it is getting out today ahead of the stormy conditions. 79 right now in philadelphia, 75 in the suburbs. Also 79 across new jersey, Lehigh Valley and delaware. In the afternoon, feeling more like 90s. Well talk about all the forecasts going on through the fourth of july coming up. Now to that breaking news were following out of new jersey. The State Government is officially shut down. Governor christie gave the order after lawmakers failed to meet a midnight deadline for passing a new budget. Governor christie has called for a special joint session of the legislature in trenton for 11 00 this morning. The Sticking Point in the budget is an overhaul of new jerseys Largest Health insurer. The republican governor and Senate Democrats want it. Democratled assembly does not. During the shutdown, all essential services in the state will keep running like state poli police, but the stoppage could impact peopl
Our laurels that it will be pretty nice summer day out there. It will feel like august, temperatures here, the daytime high up to 91 degrees, later on, but in the sunshine, now, while yes could be spotty shower thundershower around, i think thats definitely the exception rather than the norm for most neighborhoods. We start thing offer by taking you on out here to storm scan3 , at the moment is nice, and clear, virtually no cloud cover out there at the moment. So avenue feeling we will end up with a absolutely beautiful sunrise. Meanwhile throughout the course of the day we warm up efficiently from miler conditions from what we had this same time yesterday. We were held back to the mid 50s, heck even lower 50s in a lot of spot, same time yesterday. So, warmer place to start off, and we will heat up just as easily then later this afternoon. Currently at 73 at the airport , and mid or upper 60s in many other outlying suburbs throughout the course of the day, those thunderstorm icons are
Our sky scan and no shortage of lightening worse by 12 30 this morning. Fire officials believe lightening sparked this overnight house fire in sellersville bucks county at height of the storm just after 12 30 on the 600 block ofe temple road, flames were contained to mostly upper floors, fortunately there were no injuries reported. We are getting reports of the down trees so lets check with meisha and Chelsea Ingram , good morning. Good morning. So great to have you with us this morning. So much fun to watch and so much fun to work with you guys Flood Warning on my cell phone at 12 30 what is going on. Usually so peaceful to sleep but last night i woke up like, wow what is going on. It really was. So roads are looking okay, we will see smaller road those are flooded, we were talking about this a little bit. Down trees we will get to in a little bit but just construction. Nasty storms they rolled through overnight but things are looking so much better, taking a live look at storm scan t
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