Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it. So we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. I would think that one passage, particularly, caught the listeners attention that day. And keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln recently been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half ye
One of the big issues is going to be the funding, the fact that there is an additional 3. 2 billion for defense that is not matched. Thehe days are dwindling, house will get to their final passage on friday. What about the senate, what is action . Table for that should be sometime next week. Theyre considering the cr, then trying to get out of town. Action . This is the defense reporter for the washington examiner. She is also on twitter. Thank you for your update. Thank you. In the on cspan, a conversation about the future of the conservative movement, then, the house passed a bill that changes the doddfrank financial bill. Also, we hear from president elect donald trump, who traveled to cincinnati, ohio to think supporters. Supporters. Cspans washington journal live every day with the news and policy issues that impact you. Friday morning, Congressional Mental Health Caucus cochair representative tim murphy will discuss Mental Health legislation and the state of Mental Health care fu
Scandal back in and is digging august up new information tonight. Take a look. Video obtained by five investigates showing he drove through boston on two different occasions lights and sirens blaring to get through traffic. That was incredibly bad judgment. He resigned on friday weeks after the state suspended him and his boss for using state funds for private partygoers were driven in golf carts rented by the state to the vip area. Here is or he is greeting guests. This is on the Republican State Committee and has donated to his campaign. I we going to hear about more bad apples in dcr . I have known him for a long time. I certainly do not think you anything like that again. Five investigates have been looking and found numerous ties do the Massachusetts Republican Party along with a questionable background. For other pastor present Committee Members are employed at dcr. Including the Community Relations manager. The quincy attorneys smile license was suspended over misusing client fu
But just got thicker in mount holly and wrightstown. Toms river, zero visibility at this hour. 37 in pottstown and doylestown in the 30s. 45 at philadelphia international. It looks like roxborough at 45. Chillier northeast philadelphia. Chillier this morning, but a warmer afternoon. A quick warmup. 47 at 8 00, add 10 to that for 11 00 and by 2 00 this afternoon the southwest wind, some sunshine warming us into the 60s. Topping out near the record of 65. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood when im back in 10 minutes. Jessica boyington is watching your first alert traffic. Were on 309 now. This is around susquehanna road. You can see no problems either direction. Drive times are down. And still down on the majors around philadelphia. 95 and the schuylkill expressway heading into center city no problems right now the blue route is great southbound from the schuylkill to 95, all the average speeds are late 50s and up so everybody is still moving along nicely. No probl
End so well above average for us. Lets look at your right now conditions 50 in reading. 51 in pottstown. 50 in allentown. 54 in philadelphia 5, 3 in wilmington. Temperatures in northeast philly 55 degrees and along the shore closer to wood vine 55 degrees. 58 in dover and 53 in delaware city. We are tracking record warmth. The record high is 65. 61 currently that will be the high in pottstown. Well be at 60 in allentown and temperatures will push to 61 degrees in wildwood. Heres the late west our record highs rest of today. The record 65, well make a run for it with our forecast high at 65. The records dont stop there. Were tracking even more recordbreaking temperatures into the weekend. Your city planner shows by 1 00 p. M. 62 degrees. By 4 00 p. M. 62 and by 7 00 p. M. Were at 58. A few clouds move in. I amtraking what to expect as we get into the weekend but heres a hint. Well warm up even more than 65, vai, ill have more details in my sevenday forecast. Over the weekend, nbcs Georg