A former astronaut about the dangers we face a life here on earth. Welcome to me Sophie Shevardnadze a giant asteroid like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs cross the earths past very often but smaller ones do all the time and while the boy did the danger so far our planet is still on prepared for any possible collision. Can we stop armageddon if it comes to it or is to earth defenseless against an asteroid strike when we ask former nasa astronaut asked a physicist and space and. As. The world becomes more familiar with whats beyond planet earth the potential dangers of space becoming more apparent with the threat of asteroids able to wipe out entire civilizations scarily close to our atmosphere so can we count of these dangers before its too late is humanitys existence simply a game of chance or is it in a sense to define and protect. Add blue physicists former astronaut c o b six twelve Foundation Welcome to the show its really great to have you with us thank you very much for hav
We are now less than 24 hours way from a historic celebration. City is making final preparation force parade to honor your super bowl champion the Philadelphia Eagles. Mayor jim kenney updated us a short time ago. He said be patient because there will be long lines,. Please make every effort to use Public Transit it will make your commute into the city much easier. We have also made accommodations to ensure that the parade is accessible for all. Celebration will have 14 jumbo trons place add long the route with amplified sound and ceremony will host afl during speaking portions of the Program Broadcast on the jumbo trons. The city is expecting the parade route. Ty officials and work crews have been working, preparing for tomorrows parade. Eyewitness news repor greg argos spoke to the producer and joins us with the steps of fess tifts. Yeah, lot to still be done here behind me this is the stage where the chtand crews im told will be working well in the night to get this done and to give
And freezing rain maybe wet snowflakes pushing up into parts of south jersey and delaware. Storm tracker6 live double scan shows you the progression. If you have been watching the show you see how this has filled in gotten farther north. Theres a puff of snow by reading another pushing north of wilmington. Thats probably fairly low impact but i am concerned about that blue down to the south. Farther to the south you can see the change to green and that is that warmer air coming up which eventually will change over this messy mix to rain. As we take a look at the current setup with Winter Weather advisories and watches well, its a storm warning up north in the poconos, a Winter Weather advisory now through the Lehigh Valley back through reading and as i expected yesterday it has been extended all the way through philadelphia and even include New Castle County delaware and some of these counties abutting the Delaware River in south jersey. And all of these areas for a time this morning y
Halftime report starts now. Just because were not up or down a thousand points of the dow does not mean the markets are calm in fact, the dow has been up and down tripledigits today now right now we are holding on to the strong gains, but with three hours to go, you never know what could happen risk also coming off just a bit as stocks rise volatility gauges are falling but the vix still above 20 match. Com soaring the dating site which oend owns tinder as more people sign up chipotle down and comp sales missing targets and it expects the decline to continue toward the middle of the year and wynn resorts and michael kors an and hasbro rallying and wynn, get to that story soon. Im Tyler Mathisen breaking news out of washington, Senate Leaders have announced a longterm budget deal. Kayla is on the hill with details. This is a deal in discussion since this fall. But earlier today just a few minutes ago leadership from each party in the senate took to the floor to announce they had resolve
My phone was buzzing because its sleeting in parts of our area. Also a lot of tweets coming in from various people saying twohour delay here and there so make sure you go to 6abc. Com for the complete list. Right now cloud cover getting thicker and here comes that precipitation. Im just going to walk right along with it. You can see how its rain to the south but we do have that mixed precipitation in and around about half of the region right now as this continues to push toward the north. We have some snowflakes in philadelphia and then just below that a big band of blue and thats where weve got the snow mixing with freezing rain and sleet. And there could be a little iciness developing on some roads down in and around there so you really want to be careful and that blue is very close to overtaking philadelphia. Farther to the north there is some increasing snowfall now parts of berks county beginning to pick up that stuff that was out in harrisburg earlier and those brighter shades of