Often when we have a winter like this we want to take advantage of training to get people out of the icy waters. The blunt message to the public dont go on to frozen lakes and rivers and creeks. You can have an area of 10 feet in diameter it could be 1 inch and 10 inches thick in that diameter. Its not safe to walk on the ice at all. The men and women of the marine unit are pros and know how to function and work on the ice and the message from the lieutenant there is directed at the rest of us that we need to stay off of natural ice no matter how tempting it may look this time of year. John rawlins, channel 6 action news back to you. Thank you. And turning to the forecast now the melting continues as we finally have temperature as above freezing and as the week goes on it will get even warmer. Its hard to believe but it could feel like spring by friday. And that is hard to believe. Lets go live outside sky 6 hd showing you Philadelphia International airport looks like that snow is melt
Major distillery here, and it was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided that we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologists, excavated the site, found were the distillery where the distillery had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided that we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and to show what an 18thcentury distillery was like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. There is a gristmill here as well . How do these two relate to each other . Dennis pogue the reason the gristmill is here is because washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off of it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon, and he hired a scotsman by the name of James Anderson to be his plantation manager. And apparently all s
And im rachael kaye. Weve got a clear and cool start to this weekend, with many of us waking up in the mid 30s sunshine this afternoon will help warm us to the upper 50s and possibly a few 60s around the area. High 59 happening overnight. Milwaukee police say around 930 last night officers found a 24yearold man lying on a sidewalk by a home near 19th street and capitol drive. Officers say he was suffering from gunshot wound and died at the scene. Milwaukee police are also investigating another shooting happening overnight. Police say a 47yearold man was shot near 24th and auer around two this morning during an ongoing dispute. Were told he suffered a serious treated for what is believed to be a non life threatening injury. And in Brown Deer Police are searching for suspect after a shots fired incident. It happened around 830 last night near 51st and dean. Investigators say it appears shots were fired from one car at another vehicle. No one was hurt. Two men are recovering after a boat
Yellen said that the central bank is in no rush to raise interest rates. And that powered a stock market rally around the globe continuing today. And resulted in the dow industrials gaining 83 points to 17716. The nasdaq added 22 and the s p 500 rose nearly 9. The president of the chicago fed agrees with the fed chair. In an interview today, Charles Evans said a rate hike in april would be surprising. I think chair yellen laid out all the right issues, you know, coming out of december going into the march fomc, risk factors increased a bit, financial volatility, things settled down a bit. I think global risk is higher. The median is for two hikes this year. If the data come in the way were expecting. If they come in stronger, everybody would adjust upwards. Evans added the potentially moving in june that decision would be made on the basis of further improvement in the labor market but emphasized he didnt want to get ahead of himself. And there was more evidence today the job market is
Yellen said that the central bank is in no rush to raise interest rates. And that powered a stock market rally around the globe continuing today. And resulted in the dow industrials gaining 83 points to 17716. The nasdaq added 22 and the s p 500 rose nearly 9. The president of the chicago fed agrees with the fed chair. In an interview today, Charles Evans said a rate hike in april would be surprising. I think chair yellen laid out all the right issues, you know, coming out of december going into the march fomc, risk factors increased a bit, financial volatility, things settled down a bit. I think global risk is higher. The median is for two hikes this year. If the data come in the way were expecting. If they come in stronger, everybody would adjust upwards. Evans added the potentially moving in june that decision would be made on the basis of further improvement in the labor market but emphasized he didnt want to get ahead of himself. And there was more evidence today the job market is