You. Four, three, two, one,. [cheers and applause] happy new year it is officially the first day of 2018. Confetti new and fireworks went off at midnight as the crystal ball dropped in times square ushering in the new year. Tens of thousand of merry makers braved the frigid temperatures i can talk. Tradition. It was the second coldest new years eve in times square on record. The temps only 10 degrees in new york city at midnight. Foxs Lauren Blanchard is in new york with more. Reporter temperatures in times square not keeping revelers away bitter cold and unprecedented blanket of security marking this new ye year. Reporter keeping all these people safe a major concern. The more than Million Party goers going through patow theres so much police around and they checked us pretty well when we came in here. So, i think i think it will its safe enough. Reporter following the terror attacks and concerns here in new york and octobers shooting in las vegas, cement barricades and trucks filled
Records are likely bng shattered this made the cold more bearabl eaa bit but easing out there. Warmer weather is on the way but not by the end of the weekend. First breaking news from the vine street expressway. The expressway is closed in directions from 17th to 23rd streets because of ice. The water came from here. Its a Water Line Break at a garage at 17th and cattle hill. You can see it peering through a fence there. Crews are heading to the scene to cut off the water and remove the ice from the expressway. For now avoid the vine street expressway. Stick with action news for updates on this breaking news this morning. And a good morning to you. Nidian han is off and Jeannette Reyes joins us. Chris sowers is here with the accuweather forecast. The wind chills never got above zero. Today is going to be cold. Later this coming week the temperatures really start responding well have a few 50s in the 7day forecast. Right now this is the coldest that weve seen. This is the worst of it ri
Corrections officer outside a prison in northeast fill a we have gathered new information for you from overnight. And eagles lineman jason kelce meets fans and explains how, he got the idea for his iconic super bowl parade tirade. But first accu weather alert. Heavy rain this weekend, it will not be a cold wash out, meteorologist chris sowers is tracking all of the rain. Shortly after lunch not a total wash out but it will be close as we ares tracking heavy rains on the way here, some locations could see one to two maybe more when all said and done. If you are not a big fan of snow and cold these temperatures will climb in the 50s and possibly reaching 60 tomorrow. This is all rain. We are not worried with mixed precipitation, sleet, snow anything like. That heres satellite and radar includeds increase from the southwest looking to the lower left hand part of the screen we are starting to see just a little bit on have light rain popping autopsy cross the ohio and tennessee valleys, blu
Kelce continues, to be the man of the hour as fans, flocked to celebrate the super bowl win. Plus were tracking Stormy Weather that has triggered a flood watch for our region. Accu weather alert has been posted for this weekend, lets get details from meteorologist chris sowers, chris, lot of rain expected today a lot of rain. No snow. Temperatures are fairly mild. We are expecting 50s today and lower 60s heading in to sunday afternoon. Problem is numbers have been cold over last few days so ground is still frozen and because of that and heavier rain we are expecting flooding is likely into sunday afternoon. Lets look at the temperatures around the region. Look at reading upper level hand part of the screen already close to 40 degrees. They should be in the low to mid 20s. Allentown 35. Philadelphia 34. Dover 35 and 40s showing up from the beach haven all the way down to wildwood and cape may. Looking at the satellite and radar cloud continue to increase from the west and looking to the
Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life, and many other books. And walter stolzier, as well as lincolns secretary of war Edwin Stanton, called stanton, and he told me and i hope im not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye for sammen chase. Good luck with that. Because im sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury sammen chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barre, who is one of our Lincoln F