Traffic not looking like its getting by easily. Keep our eye on that for you. Northbound side of route 309. Also watching the vine street expressway. We are open, dealing with construction that we normally see at this time or taking a day off here. In between broad street, we are open and end with this goggle drive time. No problems here either. Still in the green eastbound towards center city and blue. 14 minute trip. Also into the 50s. 309 when i come back. Jessica, thank you. Just mentioned your commute to work and school could be slick in spots. Thats right. Heading back early. Maybe youre waiting until tomorrow. Thats true for People Living north and west of philadelphia. Thats why we sent nbc 10 in store for us to keep an eye on conditions in those areas. Youre in douglasville county right now. What are you seeing . Right now we have been seeing quite a bit of rain within the past 45 minutes. Rain started after heading up. Give you a look at what conditions look like. Still very
New years eve. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today. Happy new years. We issued a first alert this morning because of the threat of freezing rain and slick conditions for the morning commute. Bill and nbc 10 weather. Henlyey. Eventsly its going to warm up slowly. Be warming up. By 8 00 the threat will be done. Until then we run into freezing rain and ice up some sidewalks and untreated roads as well. You may find an coating of ice on your car first thing this morning. Not everybody will see the ice. Just rain. Too warm for anything other than that in delaware. Most of new jersey, but there are some neighbors especially in burlington county. Also closer to philadelphia. And then look at Lehigh Valley. Suburbs. This is where were seeing icing this morning. Not widespread, but some neighbors just cold enough to produce the ice. The temperatures above freezing for delaware and philadelphia. Rain is falling, but the temperatures will stay elevated. Suburbs at 35 degrees and 33 degr
Is about immigration. And lets face it, it is a fraught issue, a provocative issue, and unresolved issue then and now. On then, and focus see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this hot topic. With december 6, after his a month reelection as president. Its the day Abraham Lincoln and as fate would have it his final message to congress. It is known today as the state of the union. By the tradition of the lincoln era they were not or rated in person, they were sent Via White House staff and read aloud 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. That one passage, particularly, caught the that day. Attention and keep in mind as we set the stage, not only had lincoln been reelected, but the civil war had been raging for three and a half years by this time, and hundreds of th
Department head and associate professor in history at the university of windsor, where he specializes in modern european cultural history and world war i. While a recent visiting all right scholar at the City University of new york, he investigated a german colonial gaze on Eastern Europe that he argued was radicalized or and world war i during world war i. I also note that he has a cool art program about some of this. Nelsons innovative thinking helped him informed his 2011 book german newspapers of the first world war, from which his presentation today derives. Nelson will explore the role of british, french, and german newspapers and examine their effects on social around soldier morale. Please welcome to the stage dr. Robert nelson. [applause] dr. Nelson no pressure. [laughter] dr. Nelson first of all, i very much want to thank the world war i museum and memorial. This is the third time i have been to kansas city in two is fabulous to know that world war i historians get to come to
Africanamerican participation, in thinking about world war ii, grappling with the various and sundry issues and challenges that the 1940s present. Todays reading, what the negro wants and in this reading we see some pretty clear unanimity in terms of africanamerican leadership saying in a fairly full chorus, right, that segregation needs to go. And this is a shock to white southern liberals, right, and moderates all across the nation. The question for today that well answer is how do we get there . How do we get in 1944 africanamericans coming together, leadership from across political spectrum coming together and saying, yes. It is time for segregation to go. The answer to that question i would contend is that there is just movement, what i like to call this movement before the movement. A series of events, actions and activities we have to consider when we think about the moment in 1944. One of the places we can start is back in 1941 and just a little bit of background in terms of th