Good morning. Before that, the pope spent part of the morning at the white house. This ceremony on the south lawn was reserved for visitors but clouds were lined up leading to the white house. The pope gets a version of the ceremony in every country he visits. Frin s the pope was greeted by president obama and the first lady. Then the leader of the Catholic Church walked to the podium. The president officially welcomed the pope who addressed 2 crowd in english, one of the few times he will do so during this trip to the u. S. Your holiness, your words and dee deeds, you set a profound moral example and in these gentle but firm reminders of our obligations to god and to one another, you are shaking us out of our complacency. American catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities and to reject every form of injustice and discrimination. [ applause ] pope francis also said addressing Climate Cha
In, northwest at 6 miles per hour. Our humidity is at 69 , satellite radar shot shows nice and dry condition. High pressure still in control giving us lots of sunshine, just a few clouds so thats going to make for another Beautiful Day with lots of sunshine, temperatures in the 70s at the poconos, pushing into the low 80s in allentown, 79 in doyles town, 81 in norristown. 71 in cape may. Similar conditions at the Atlantic City airport. For philadelphia, we will push into the 80s, 80 degrees, your current temperatures start off at 54. Trenton, were at 53 degrees and Atlantic City temperatures if wildwood at 55, low 50s in dover, 52 degrees in wilmington, 48 right now in potts town, so its a cool start to the morning mplg as we head into the rest of the afternoon, you wont need those jackets. You will definitely need them as you head out the door. The average is 75. Today 80 degrees. We cool things down. They set us up for a papal visit. Guys. Its 5 01 now. Pope francis set to make histo
And it will stay breezy through the weekend. Especially if youre along the shore you can expect about 25mileanhour winds with coastal flood advisory. Here you see the clouds moving in, not as much sunshine today as we had yesterday. Temperatures are comfortable. 65 now again, 59 in pottstown, 58 in allentown, 65 right now in dover, 62 millville, 70 degrees in wildwood. Now today we will get into the mid to upper 70s, and a cool weekend forecast especially for the the papal visit in philadelphia, ill show you all of those numbers coming up. Thanks for that. Lets talk traffic. What you need to know. If you take the vine street expressway, its open but keep in mind several exits are closed and will remain closed throughout the weekend. Those exits are 23rd street, Ben Franklin Parkway, broad street and eighth street closed. Jessica has been telling us. If you use septa, some stations are closed right now. This is video from city hall. The broad street line closed, so did suburban station
Contest, into the convention and general election. That of course, is what this seminar will focus on. Withrocess, the politics the candidates and their campaign, and the policies. Houseth to the white still depends on 270 Electoral College votes. Many of you have probably seen the website, 270 to win. That, are interested in what is the path to victory in the white house . Today,270 votes, as of january 4, 217 of those are viewed as safely democratic. That means that the democratic candidate needs to get 53 more votes. If you think, essay states could could the safe states change, let me tell you what the safe states are. The republicans have 191. California, 55 votes. New york state, 29 votes. Votes. S, 20 michigan, 16. New jersey, 14. Washington, 12. Massachusetts, 11. Maryland 10, oregon seven, connecticut seven. That gets us to 191. Four. Maine, three, anddc, hawaii, four. Once you get to 17, how do you get to 270 . Votes. Ennsylvania is 20 florida is 29. Ohio is 18. 217, a candid
People. Another roughly 50 people online participating. What kind of a difference will that make . Right now the latest poll before the holidays, senator cruz was leading in iowa. Trump was close behind. Marco rubio, after that with significant dropoff. And in fifthmpaign place, jeb bush. Will stay the same, the importance of these early contests and the difference they could make. I dont think a difference in a loss in iowa for the clinton wont be decisive. A win in iowa on the public and side may not be decisive but could turn the campaign. 2008,think back to president obamas Campaign Manager says everyone looks back and says you can see how it developed. Them, every battle was won iowa or be out of the race. They won iowa, went to New Hampshire, lost New Hampshire, but made enough of a showing to go to south carolina. There was a small window there in the Obama Campaign and they saw the window and was able to make that into a path. Path, but nevertheless, a path to victory. As we pu