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David thank you everybody for coming out. This book,alk about the story itself. But i also want to make the point that this period is varied distant and its going , to sound like a time where society was very socialist and was very long ago. But in fact in 1983 the , university of chicago showed in a poll that 27 of americans believed they were in touch with the dead. And this was the National Voting research center, i believe. This wasnt about asking people if they felt they were having imaginary conversations with the dead. The question was do you , genuinely believe that you are in touch with spirits and you are hearing from them . As i mentioned, 27 of the people said that they were which would have translated to about 50 million americans who believe d that they were in touch with the dead. So that was in 1983. The time i am writing about is the 1920s. The other thing i will say about how close that era essentially is, is that when i was a kid i remember there was an ice cream par
Many surrounding areas mainly north and west, including the Lehigh Valley and the poconos that goes until 9 00 a. M. Again, for light freezing drizzle and the chance for little snow, especially up in the pocono region, so coming up ill tell you bill more about what the Winter Weather advisory means better news for the rest of today. Erika, back over to you. More on the break cents news now this morning out every Hunterdon County, new jersey firefighters battling this huge four alarm fire at the sergeant in in delaware township. Gave us these photos, thank you to the folks. Crews are working on putting out the blaze, but icy conditions are slowing down progress, the build cents has been around since the 1700s. The restaurant opened more tan 100 years ago. So far no injuries have been reported. We do have a crew on the way and well bring you more information as soon as it becomes available. This morning family narrowly escapes just as their house comes crashing down. Four people got out
Because temperatures are close enough to freezing where you get this spotty stuff it could freeze up on surfaces. You want to slow down. In philadelphia its that blob of green im standing in. Winter weather advisory until 9 00 a. M. Because of the light freezing rain and drizzle just in case it freezes up on surface. Other than that we have snow that melted yesterday and refreeze overnight. Use caution this morning because of the spotty freezing rain and the refreeze of the melt. Satellite shows you cloud cover around, not a whole lot of precipitation, it will fall apart as it rides to the east. In pittsburgh you can see breaks in the clouds. 36 in philadelphia. 32 nearby in wilmington and still 31 in allentown. Again, spotty freezing conditions across the region, not all day well zoom by noon, 48 degrees, high of 53 by 3 00 p. M. Should be a nice afternoon. All right, matt, what are you seeing on roads. Reporter hespeaking of zooming looks like were zoom on the schuylkill expressway.
The big spot is allentown reading, and the counties down through philadelphia. Philadelphia you can see some of the counties here, slightly grayed out philadelphia is included in this, as is delaware county, Chester County Camden County, new jersey be and burlington county. It might be cold enough at the surf face to melt that up. For the morning rush use caution, anything that looks wet might be frozen. I give you a special warning for sidewalks, a lot of icy patches forming there. We have a lot of clouds to start out. Overall once we get rid of the morning cold and precipitation looks like a nice afternoon. 35 degrees in philadelphia. Despite that there are icy sidewalks that have formed in some cases in between the official reporting stations, the numbers can go lower. 29 in allentown. More than of an issue up north an down south. Noon, 48 were going to bounce back today 3 00 p. M. Thats the high. 53, matt pellman it will feel nice later today. A couple of chances of precip coming i