More about her book, true vine. Good morning. Im alice carey. As a reviewer for book page ide read a lot of books and pun of my favorites is truevine. Took beg macy to 25 years to unearth the saga, requiring research to untang al history from truths and the result is deeply moving and endend leslie compelling two brothers, a kidnapping and a mothers question e quest and a true story of the jim crow south. Truevine has been short lift it ford the kirkus prize and long listed for the andrew her first book, New York Times bet ser factory man was an number russ numerous lists and is the currently being developed into a by tom hanks. Thank you. Truevine holiday pass all the almosts of a southern goth nick novel but its true. As a Young Journalist who required in roanoke no 1989 to write feature exteriors i took two years to muster the nerve to mess with nancy and she was the storys gatekeeper, the greet niece of hughes. She heard rumors in row yoke. Photo, the best story in town but no one
Alex markets are relatively calm. Jonathan and have been throughout the season. The ftse 100 down but about. 1 . The dbacks in frankfurt, germany, performing pretty solidly on the continent. Across the continent, the futures firmer by about five points. I went through the other boards for you. Dollar yen, 149. Close to breaking 100 as we did on june 24. Fourday losing streak. A much stronger japanese currency. Ahead of this jobs report, unchanged. 1. 39 is your yield. Alex no one really taking any big nothings the next hour and a half. Lets check in with our team of our top stories. Julie hyman is in washington counting down to the jobs report. Guy johnson in london with the pound heading for its third weekly decline. And javier with oil taking a big plunge. David a little less than 90 minutes, well have the jobs numbers. Julie is joining us from our washington bureau. What are we expecting . Whats the consensus on what the number might be . So the consensus right now of the economists
Showers on and off throughout the afternoon, we will tell you when sunshine returns, coming up in the seven day forecast, how is it looking bob kelly. 7 01. Good morning. We are seeing beginnings of the morning rush hour, the schuylkill expressway, right here near conshohocken curve starting to see volume pop, no sun glare today though. Fortytwo, roads are still dry, but as sue mentioned make sure that umbrella is by your side throughout the day. 422 coming from the burbs starting to see delays oaks from king have of prussia so far so good, 202, an accident in bellmawr black horse pike at route 168, right at kings highway and in wilmington an overnight accident they are investigating northbound i95 a at brandywine river bridge. Two of the lanes are closed. Coming from the south and heading through wilmington, stick with 495 this morning to save yourself sometime and septa is uses shuttle buss long portions of the 101 trolley beginning today through midjune between providence and orange
It does, why does it have a particular shape, why do we see one large cluster of skyscrapers downtown and another one several miles to he north in midtown. Theres relatively few skyscrapers even to this day in the area in between. So building the skyline, just very briefly, is a book about my research and im an economist at rutgers newark. Over last decade or so, my interests have primarily been in studying the economys of cities, the economics of real estate and skyscrapers. And much of this book discusses my findings from this Research Agenda over the last decade. So the book is an economic history of the manhattan skyline and from 1626 to the present, perhaps youre wondering what 1626 has to do with the modern skyline. Ill leave that for you to read in the book. The questions that i seek to answer in the book itself are, what were the early real estate decisions that ultimately gave rise to the skyline . What have been the economic of skyscrapers since the late 19th century, and how
If you dont have breathing problems, its hard to breathe. Its hard to breathe already. Temperatures are already warmer. Philadelphia, the suburbs, new jersey and delaware are going to see that high humidity. Today through sunday, the first alert has been issued for very hot and humid conditions. Going to feel like 100 to 100 degrees this afternoon. And well see that poor air quality that tracy mentioned. Right now, were seeing a few light showers in chester county. Were about to get a few rain drops but nothing more than that. No storms this morning. 81 degrees in philadelphia. Also 81 in the suburbs. Upper 70s for the Lehigh Valley and delaware. New jersey its 80 degrees right now but warming into the 90s this afternoon. Isolated showers and thunderstorms. Lehigh valley, in the suburbs, steamy conditions will feel like its over 100 degrees this afternoon for philadelphia. Ill walk you through it hour by hour, when i come back in a few minutes but first, Jessica Boyington has the first