Actor lost his leg to the disease. His wife tells us why she believes he will pull through. Saluting captain tom. The skyhigh tribute to a hero of this pandemic as the world war ii veteran celebrates his 100th birthday. Thats a lot of candles. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is going away. Were going to come up with vaccines but this is going away. And when its gone, were going to be doing a lot of things. A new drug is showing positive results for fighting covid19. The data shows that remdesivir has a clearcut significant, positive effect. Diminishing the time to recover. An additional 3. 8 million americans filed for unemployment claims. That brings our sixweek total to over 30 million. Just days after beaches reopened in california, the governor is set to close them. Hospitalizations went up again. Number of deaths, again, went up. Harrison ford now under investigation by the faa. Ford crossed a runway while another plane was about to land. Ncaa board
Our event today its not just democracy, integrity and elections but in the 2020 elections. Wewe have a time horizon of 14 months. I think michael put it off very well, in terms of what the scenario looks like, its sort of a butterfly ballot on steroids, if we have a close election, if we have a contested result and even just a couple of counties and there has been a Disinformation Campaign that is exposed that may have skewed the results, what i worry about is i dont know how we quite survived second election here in the country, a second president ial election that comes into serious question and at pan america we come at this at slightly different angle, we are freespeech organization and we see guardians of open discourse and of truth and we are not digital specialists, we are not election specialists, we are an organization of writers and journalists and editors and publishers and people who are invested in the quality of our discourse and our ability to sort facts from falsehood a
Boost temperatures. A mild one this afternoon. 55 degrees at noontime today. Well top out near 60 in philadelphia, new jersey. Upper 50s for delaware. Sunshine and winds kicking into the Lehigh Valley. From the 20s this morning into the 50s this afternoon. Ill break it down hour by hour and show you what to expect during the day today and look be at the sevenday forecast coming up. In gloucester county, crews just cleared an accident that shut down part of the black horse pike in washington township. The tractortrailer hit someone. Were still working to learn the victims condition. Heres first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington with the rest of the traffic for today. Jessica . Right. Ill touch on that accident that we talked about. With that registering as closed, theyre probably getting everything out of the way. Northbound moving through washington township. If you have to avoid the Atlantic City expressway, you might have a slowdown there getting by the scene. For the most par
Carson wentz out for the season with a torn acl. Well, michael vick went down, nick foles won like eight games. There is still hope. Argument sparks gunfire at a gas station in logan. His injuries are so severe police have already notified the homicide unit. This was an attempted terrorist attack. City authorities are trying to piece together what led an immigrant from bangledesh to detonate a pipe bomb in the citys busiest subway station. It is a race thats divided the republican party. Voters in alabama, head to the polls today to choose a new senator. Do you want to hear something funny . What . John stewart and i were offered those goals. laughter . Todays morning minute. Sponsored by pen medicines abramson Cancer Center. The number one Cancer Center in the region. Little competition there i guess. One mans katie, we send it out to you, all in perception, some may hate the forecast you have, like me, but other love winter and love it. Im not the person totally digging windchills in
Losing one child, let alone two. Reporter a family friend says a text message alerted them to the news. His son played baseball with bryan jr. And they wanted to help. A gofundme page is bringing cash donations to the family so they have less to worry about as they try to recover. We hope god is with the family to carry them through this difficult time. Reporter after investigators sifted through the ashes in search of a reason why the fire started, those who want to do something are showing up and leaving trinkets as a memorial. They too are asking why and how. I just dont know what theyre going to do. I dont know what that family is going to do. Its the most horrible thing i have ever heard. People are dropping off flowers. One man dropped off a baseball glove and bat. Were also told by the School District that grief counselors were on hand as the Elementary School where the children went to help their friends with the loss. Reporting live in schwenksville, montgomery county, deanna