strong enough to warrant a jury trial. the 76-year-old cardinal pleaded not guilty. in a statement through his lawyers, pell steadfastly maintains his innocence. a dramatic rise in temperatures in the eastern half of the country. good morning, dave and christine. get ready for summer-like temperatures over the next couple days. high pressure beginning to build here. as it does, look at the trend across new york city going from 51 yesterday, 26 better what we expect today up to 77. how about the 40s to 60s for places like boston the 70s yesterday to the 08s of today across places like detroit and new york city. temperatures down into the 70s and not a bad weekend. it cools off, yes, but still very comfortable setup across much of the northeast. d.c., we do it a few degrees better than that, up to the lower 90s come thursday afternoon and spectacular weekend.
20% teacher pay raise by the year 2020 with an additional $100 million budgeted for. teacher pay in arizona has fallen 10% when adjusted for inflation and teachers kick in a larger portion of their pay to the pension fund, more than 11% of the pay today compared to 2% in 1999. australian cardinal george pel will stand trial for allegedly sexually abusing multiple victims decades ago. pell is the most senior figure in the holy seat to face criminal charges for alleged sexual assault. an australian judge made the ruling following a month long preliminary hearing. half the charges against pell were dropped but the judge decided the prosecution s case was strong enough to warrant a jury trial. the 76-year-old cardinal pleaded not guilty of historical sexual abuse in a statement through his lawyers, pell steadfastly maintains his innocence.