What is the appropriations process with the september 30 process. The other is the debt ceiling. You also spoke with him about planned parenthood which is another fulcrum and the process of these negotiations. What do you see happening with that . Victoria the best Case Scenario is nailbiting. We have had a nice long period without having these brinkmanship moments. I have been studies that show a really does have an economic impact. It is really not good for the economy for there to be this uncertainty and for congress to keep going to the 11th hour on these things. Best Case Scenario, it seems like the congress has set itself up to have Something Like that. Worst case is if you do have another crisis where the government shuts down, they dont raise the debt ceiling really uncertain. Susan they are in control for the most part. The signals both sides are sending our that we are not going to get near that shutdown moment. They have a stopgap spending measure to get the governmentfunded
Third time. This is your third book. I want you to tell us about your father and his storytelling. Robert my father was the single greatest storyteller i have ever known. He owned his own motorcycle chains and lubricants business when we were young. But he functioned as its sole traveling salesman. He was on the road for nine or 10 months out of the year by car. We grew up feeling like we knew him. My dad would call me out of school. Sometimes for weeks at a time can you imagine such a dream for a kid . And he would take me on business trips across the United States. By the time i was eight or nine, i had been to all 48 continental states. I knew more about Oil Viscosity and paint than any eightyearold in the country. We would pass the time during these long stretches by telling stories. Few would tony made up stories true stories. He was the single greatest weaver of yarns you could imagine. There was always one condition if he told you a story, you tell him one. Brian you remember on
1950s. So when mr. s went out for runs mr. East went out for lunch, got in the door, someone was pounding on the drivers side window, and mr. East looked, and there was a very scary looking individual saying are you p. D. East, the the troublemaking newspaper man . [laughter] and with more courage than he felt, mr. East said, yes, i am. The man said, if you get out of this car, ill beat your brains out. [laughter] mr. East, said if you want me to get out of this car, youve got to give me a lot more incentive than that. [laughter] the roorld the the regard i have for the Virginia Historical society where i spent many, many weeks working on this book for nelson, for graham, thats all the incentive i needed to come. And again, i thank you for the invitation. The booth book grew actually from a class i taught on great crimes. And in that class we would take a different crime every week, the lindbergh kidnapping, haymarket riot the next week, then the lincoln assassination. Hands down, the
Little bit around montgomery and berks or bucks i should say and a bit more down through south jersey and delaware. This is fairly light, just nuisance stuff for the most part. Every now and then you get a very brief downpour and youre seeing three Lightning Strikes there by the way but thats all associated with stuff up by new york state. As we take a look at the wider view on satellite and radar looks like once we get rid of that morning shower activity were looking at a fair amount of sunshine early mixing with a few more clouds as we go later into the day. Most of this action up by pittsburgh will miss us off to the west and north and were just looking at a very isolated shower or thunderstorm through the afternoon and evening. 74 degrees right now in philadelphia, 73 in sea isle city. Your dewpoints again today are in the 60s and 70s so that does indicate humid air. Youll feel it as you step outside. 71 degrees by 6 oclock. By 8 oclock, with a spotty shower and a few clouds around
The good news, tomorrow not as hot. Still a little sticky. And then we got to deal with some late week thunderstorms. Ill have details on that coming up in the seven day. Karen, what about traffic early. Weve got a big accident this morning happening right now in roxborough so listen to this. A car slammed into a pole brought down wires and then the car caught on fire. Were hearing the driver was seriously injured. Emergency workers on the scene. Happening here in roxborough on shawmont avenue at nixon street. Stick to port royal avenue to avoid any of the helpers dealing with that. Looking live on the vine street expressway approaching the schuylkill, no problems just yet. Westbound traffic headed towards the schuylkill not really too slow just yet. On i95 here at cottman, northbound traffic headed towards academy here, the extra overnight construction is cleared. Were still getting used to the new northbound traffic pattern on i95 near cottman. It started over the weekend and thats b