hard with tornadoes and widespread flooding. early today starts right now. good tuesday morning. i m frances rivera. and i m phillip mena. president trump is set to meet with the republican senators and house members today with gun control likely to be front and center. this ar after the president raised eyebrows with a meeting at the nation s governors saying if he were on the scene at the parkland school shooting he would have charged in, even unarmed. you know, i really believe you don t know until you test it, but i think i really believe i d run in there even if i didn t have a weapon and i think most of the people in this room would have done that, too. the president also pledged to take action on background checks and bump stock devices. even taking on the nra if he needs to. so, this newest round of meetings prompt congress to act? nbc s tracee pots has more from washington. tracie, good morning. reporter: good morning. that s a good question. the presiden
cherry hill superintendent. it s over a history teacher who was suspended for making remarks about safety here in the wake of the school shooting that happened earlier this month. quite a few students have since come to his defense. yesterday morning, some of them gathered in the school auditorium to ask that the teacher be reinstated. followed up with a petition of about 500 signatures and here s one of the students that organized that petition. i absolutely thought something needed to be done in support of my history teacher. like i said, this man just meant too much for me to sit down and watch this injustice happen. reporter: students say they were threatened with suspension. and the cancellation of prom and a senior trip if they go through with a planned walkout this morning. we re also told that there s another walkout planned for mid-march. the day after the parkland shooting, the superintendent said that the concern was the primary focus of responsibility. and any
in, northwest at 6 miles per hour. our humidity is at 69%, satellite radar shot shows nice and dry condition. high pressure still in control giving us lots of sunshine, just a few clouds so that s going to make for another beautiful day with lots of sunshine, temperatures in the 70s at the poconos, pushing into the low 80s in allentown, 79 in doyles town, 81 in norristown. 71 in cape may. similar conditions at the atlantic city airport. for philadelphia, we will push into the 80s, 80 degrees, your current temperatures start off at 54. trenton, we re at 53 degrees and atlantic city temperatures if wildwood at 55, low 50s in dover, 52 degrees in wilmington, 48 right now in potts town, so it s a cool start to the morning mplg as we head into the rest of the afternoon, you won t need those jackets. you will definitely need them as you head out the door. the average is 75. today 80 degrees. we cool things down. they set us up for a papal visit. guys. it s 5:01 now. pope franci
you are trying to get in, out and around philadelphia the city prepares for the pope. we have another warm day ahead of us, cooler temperatures are on the way if time for the pope s visit. it s 6:00 a.m. good morning, this is nbc 10 news today, i m tracy davidson. it s throwback thursday. it s cool out. let s go to nbc 10 brittany shipp with our forecast. it is a cool start to the morning. the temperatures are either in the 40s, 50s or 60s. it s still cool across the board. we ll warm things up nicely above average for us. it will be another summer-like day in fall. satellite radar shows clear conditions. we ll see lots of sunshine, heading into the rest of today and a few little clouds moving in south jersey, right along the shore, our current temperatures at 48 degrees. 58 in philadelphia. 55 degrees in wildwood and 53 degrees right now in trenton. so again, a cold start, taking the kids to the bus stop, make sure they have a jacket. they will definitely need it. our
good morning. we are already tracking showers in the area. you can sy see them to the south from philadelphia to south jersey, delaware getting light showers and steadier but light showers in southern delaware, approaching cape may at this time. this morning is your best chance to see wet weather today. as chris mentioned, there will be more to come over the next now day, potentially, some of it from joaquin. right now, we are watching light showers. 61 degrees at 6:00. the winds continue. look at the temperatures coming done into the 50 at 9:00 and then we start to see a break in the rainfall at noontime. 60 degrees and the temperatures will rebound a bit. nowhere near as warm as it has been. we will go through the forecast and look at joaquin as well and its horrible effect. we are have your first alert traff traffic. rand on the schuylkill expressway, watch out for ongoing construction. these are our cameras around girard avenue. you see police activity. some cones in