From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im tamron hall, in for lester. He was the last of americas first astronauts. John glenn, the former astronaut and u. S. Senator has died in ohio at the age of 95. Tonight, he is being remembered not just for what he accomplished, but also for what he helped the dreaming beyond the stars. Tributes are pouring in tonight, including from president obama, who said, the last of americas first astronauts, has left us, but propelled by their example, we know that our future here on earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens. On behalf of a grateful nation, god speed, john glenn. Tom costello has more on his extraordinary life. Two, one, zero. Reporter john glenn was more than an american hero. For more than half his life, he was a 20th century icon, perhaps best known for what happened on february 20th, 1962. Two, two, one, zero. Reporter the First American to orbit the earth and put
Season, and parents are cracking up, just trying to find them. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im tamron hall, in for lester. He was the last of americas first astronauts. John glenn, the former astronaut and u. S. Senator has died in ohio at the age of 95. Tonight, he is being remembered not just accomplished, but also for what he helped the nation believe about dreaming beyond the stars. Tributes are pouring in tonight, including from president obama, who said, the last of americas first astronauts, has left us, but propelled by their example, we know that our future here on earth compels us to keep reaching for the heavens. On behalf of a grateful nation, god speed, john glenn. Tom costello has more life. Five, four, three, two, one, zero. Reporter john glenn was more than an american hero. For more than half his life, he was a 20th century icon, perhaps best known for what happened
Mine. Not for you. For todd. Oh, i forgot about him. Where are your priorities. Little selfish right there. Forecast looks great across entire region, if you have plans to head outside traveling across the region next 12, 24 hours, no problems. Quiet this morning, maybe few areas of fog. Still have left over moisture from yesterdays rain, we will dry out quickly. Northwest breeze 6 miles per hour, and it does feel like 35, when you factor in the breeze, not bad at all. So 39 at the airport, look at wilmington, dropping to 29 degrees, at this hour, so depend where you are, if you get stuck with the calmer winds, temperatures are able to drop upper 30s, in allentown and in he had rag. Sitting at freezing in quakertown, willow grove. So somewhat of chilly start. Nice rebounds this afternoon, storm scan3, nice and quiet yesterday. We had the rain roll through, nice and dry today, High Pressure in control. So good looking christmas. Here is your temperature breakdown, throughout the morning
It is a time for celebrating hanukkah, festival of lights, with boathouse row dressed in blue. Beautiful there. Merry christmas, happy hanukkah, everyone, today is sunday, december 25th, im rahel solomon. Lets get over to meteorologist, justin drabick, with the weather and the forecast, not looking like a white holiday, but not bad at all. Visiting friends, family today, ideal conditions. Sunshine, just pass the sunglasses around. Sunny . Sun glare, not bad at all this time of year. So if you like warm temperatures, you will love this forecast, as women. We will be running our high temperatures ten, 15 degrees above average, really over the next few days, locked into the mild pattern, and no signs every any cold arctic air coming at us, as we finish out the year. Temperature right now at the airport, 35 degrees. We drop, normally get coldest temperature right before sunrise, and nice color shaping up, you can see, cloudfree skies, light breeze out of the west, about to bring the windch
The bulk of the action, the energy with this particular front, is removed off to our north and west, so while dow think we have to worry about couple of scattered showers, and possibly even some freezing rain, see through the far northwest suburbs, should be you have ally spotty. So sprinkle or shower the worse you have to deal with, if you are headed out, maybe heading to some of those door buster deals, post christmas, looks like all do you have deal with again couple of sprinkles on south and east, but go in a enough north and west, still quite cold outside. Freezing rain advisory goes in effect at 7 00 this morning for the Lehigh Valley, berks county, and all point north and west of that, it is a little too warm, even though 36 is chilly, little too warm here in philly, though, to have to worry about any frozen precipitation, northwest half of the region where you have to worry about, that primarily just this morning, otherwise, it is mainly cloudy at the shore, 52 the eventual hig