President and c sow and thritted to welcome all of you to our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this Evening Program is presented in con generation with our exhibition the vietnam war in 1945 to 1975. Which i hope youve had a chance it see. But its not, it is on view through april 22nd so i hope youll return during regular museum hours to see it. Our program edward and a the american tragedy in vietnam is the lecture on leadership. We created this series five years ago as a permanent way to honor two great americans roger and David Petraeus who won our history maker award in 2013. I would like to thank mr. Hertog for incredible for chair of New York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and generous participation over past four years in this lecture series thanks so very much to both of you. [applause] thank and recognize some trustees who were in the audience this evening above all our chair pam i would like to thank pam for all shes done on behalf of this great instit
Are following right now on action news. Can you feel the excitement it is eagles game day. We have everything that you need to know leading up to todays nfc championship. Fans are already getting in the game day spirit. Many of started to tailgate, we will hear what they have to say about the big match up. Plus heading down to the linc we will tell but parking restrictions and some options forget together game. More on those stories in a moment but First Exclusive accu Weather Forecast with meteorologist chris soyers. Great game day, chris. It is 51 at this midday hour in philadelphia. Atlantic city i has a pair of fives. Fifty wilmington, millville, dover. Trenton 50 degrees. So were expecting temperatures very mild. Not quite as warm as what we saw yesterday. Yesterday we actually managed a high of 57. But, with that said, it is very, very nice for this time of the year. Satellite radar shows cloud cover increasing from the west , all this green, spritz, sprinkles, scattered drizzle
Reporter this is what we live for. Everyone was hopeful that the eagles would get back to the super bowl for the first time in a long time. I dont think anyone thought it would happen the way it did. They demolished the vikings 387 en route to plague the pats. Playing the pats. Nick foles played almost a perfect dame in the first perfect game. Foles taking the birds to the super bowl. The celebration was on at the linc. Electric atmosphere, the underdogs approving everyone wrong. The biggest underdog of them all, head coach doug peterson. So many questioned the higher, he knows this town, i asked him what this means for the fans of philadelphia. Its pretty incredible. To have played here a long time ago and to kind of experience the passion then, to what they are feeling today im excited for them for our fans. They are a lot like us, weve been underdogs for the last couple of weeks and you know our fans feel that, they understand that and were excited to have won the last two games obv
Good evening everyone and welcome to the New York Historical society. I am Louise Mirrer the ceo and im thrilled to welcome all of you two are beautiful auditorium. This Evenings Program is presented in conjunction with our exhibition vietnam war in 1945 to 1975 which i hope you had a chance to say but if not it is on view through april 22, so i hope you will return during regular museum hours to see it. Our program Edward Lansdale and the american tragedy in vietnam is the petraeus lecture on leadership. We created the series five years ago as a permanent way to honor two great americans roger hertog and David Petraeus who both won our history maker awarded 2013 that like to thank mr. Hertog for his incredible leadership and support and now as chair and marriages of New York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and for his generous participation over the past four years and this illustrious lecture series. Thanks so much to both of you. [applause] i would like to thank a
Different day but different pattern change is underway. We will notice some cloud, no precipitation yet but with time we have a frontal passage that will take place and that is into tonight that will bring in more wet weather. We will have much more throughout the course of the show but just tuning into check in with the weather inn traffic to get outside the door heres where we currently stan. Yesterday we were in the teens felt colder this is a far cry from that. Thirty for current value from the airport. In the 20s in a couple spots but bulk of the region is definitely milder by comparison. Twentys for doyletown, mount holly and pottstown. As kid are getting outside the school bus they will see some sunshine as will you but for ride home wet weather is starting to move in. Guys, more on that later on. Thanks, katie. Taking a look at traffic i76 eastbound is closed right new for construction between vine street expressway and south street. One westbound lane is also blocked in the we