Get out the way speeding at 100 miles an hour. Gas pedal stuck. You cant stop. About to hit somebody. What do you even do . Now, fox 29 news at 10 00. College class canceled Students Walk out when the professor used a racial slur. That seems reasonable. Except the class was about hate speech and pushing boundaries and debating freedom expression. The professor was making a point about the topic and of course designed to make students uncomfortable. Fox 29s dave kinchen went searching for answers live now in princeton. And dave, one of the books on that reading list was words that wound yet still some students were apparently surprised. Reporter lucy, thats true. In fact, the phrase hate speech is actually written into the title of the course itself. Many say these students knew exactly what they were getting into but still some say tonight it was just too much for them to take. I think people were like, wow, is this actually happening is this real life right now . Reporter princeton sh
Together. It has all come together, sue in one big 2018. And then Holiday Weekend right on the heels of that. Easter. President s day. Easter. St. Patricks day before that. My goodness we have to keep up. Dont worry we will keep it straight. We have eight out of 10 today. We are back to seasonal temperatures. Colder start then yesterday. Make sure you have winter coat , gloves on just like buddy celebrating the sixers win last night and with his mardi gras mask on as well. So for us right now it is 28 degrees but factor in the wind at 10 miles an hour so it feels like 19 out there, a lot colder, then it was yesterday at this same time so dress for 19, and sunrise time 6 56 and those days are getting a lot longer, and we have 17 degrees for our wind chill in pottstown. Sixteen in allentown, feels like five in mount pocono and 19 in wildwood, no problems with fog out there this morning so lets get to that fat tuesday, forecast, and it is, nice, it is seasonal with a High Temperature of 4
Lets hear some of the music. What is that . Oh, yeah. You have to dot second line is that a paper towel. Yes. Were supposed to have something white. Yes, just a napkin, and that is all i have. Yes. Nasty paper towel. That is great. You to have work with what you got. Do you need some help. Ready, here what he go. Yeah. Wow, hey. Wow. Catch the beads. You didnt even to have do anything for those beads. 2018. Yes. Things have changed. Fat tuesday, so, by the way get on twitter and let us know if you are getting to give up something for lent. Dont we have all day to think bit. We do. Last year i drank only water. That is right. Yes. How did that work out. How are you doing that again. I dont know ill think bit it. We just teased the love statue there, alex, you will be first to see it, we reveal it right here on good day philadelphia before it takes a tour of the city on fat tuesday. Yeah. I have a feather in my eye. Go ahead. Yes. Anyway. How did you know who i was, i have a mask on. All
One out of ten deaths in america since the start of february has been caused by the flu. It is monday night. The big story on action news tonight is a medical crisis throughout the tristate area and the rest of the country and the peak of the flu season could be wakes away. Dann cuellar is at hanneman hospital. Its historically bad and getting historically worse. Thats right, jim. The number of flu cases across the area is exploding. Many more cases reported by this time last year and last week was a bad week for people getting the flu. Doctors across the region are reporting a huge strike in the flu known as type a. Its packing a punch. Chills, coughing, nausea and diarrhea. There have been 26 influenza deaths alone. These are the numbers being reported since october 1st with Montgomery County reporting highest, 2100 cases. New jersey doubled the number of flu cases last week with 2,000. That compares with the 4,709 cases it saw the previous week. You can get the flu with the previous
High clouds may streak in later on. Generally speaking its going to be a bright one but were starting out colder as karen mentioned. 28 degrees in philadelphia, 25 right now in allentown. 24 in reading. Were ick in trenton, 26 in wilmington and 28 degrees in millville. Little bit of a breeze kicking around in philadelphia its around 10 Miles Per Hour or so and thats enough to give you wind chills in the teens this morning in many areas so do bundle up. Not only with the winter coat but maybe a little extra gear, too. Still have some residual flooding left over from those rains on sunday. The Rancocas Creek is still running a little high between pemberton and lumberton. Be careful there not only along the creek but its tributaries. The Maurice River also giving us problems as well as some of the streams that feed into that. And little while ago we also added the Great Egg Harbor River in atlantic county, again tributaries running into that river may also have high water and some flooded