Because of her sexual orientation. Tonight a group of parents is rallying around the popular educator. Good evening to you, im jessica dean. Waldron Mercy Academy in merion is responding to night to the firing of teacher margie winters. Some parents say the schools actions are unjust. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers is live in fairmount where a meeting in support of wints just wrapped up. Matt. Reporter that meeting wrapped up within the last hour and a half or so. It was about two hours long and there was over 130 people here who showed up including the teacher who was fired margie winters. All of the people came out here were told to show their support support. Our cameras are not allowed inside that meeting room but were told margie winters received a standing ovation a show of serious support. Margie winters has been married to her wife since 2007. And she worked add waldron mer cease cad me for about that long that is until last friday when parents were sent an email notifyin
Wints just wrapped up. Matt. Reporter that meeting wrapped up within the last hour and a half or so. It was about two hours long and there was over 130 people here who showed up including the teacher who was fired margie winters. All of the people came out here were told to show their support support. Our cameras are not allowed inside that meeting room but were told margie winters received a standing ovation a show of serious support. Margie winters has been married to her wife since 2007. And she worked add waldron mer cease cad me for about that long that is until last friday when parents were sent an email notifying them that the popular director of religious education had been let go. No specific reason was given but Eyewitness News has learned several parents at the school had complained about winters sexual orientation. In a statement the schools principle would only say for the privilege of calling ourselves catholic we adhere to the teachings of the church. But said the school
Wind and that moves in south jersey by nine or ten and then off the coast by 11 or midnight but biggest threat with these storms will be damaging wind and heavy rain. There is that severe thunderstorm watch for the entire area until 11 00 p. M. And high risk for downpours and damaging wind and moderate risk for frequent lightening. We will track this and i do have Better Weather news for weekend coming up in the three day forecast jessica. Track storms in your neighborhood by down loading the cbs philly weather app a. You can get latest forecast check live radar anytime down load app for free right now on google play and itunes. Only Eyewitness News has exclusive video of the fire erupting from a manhole. Buildings were evacuated until crews go the that situation under control. Syma chowdhry is live from olde city now with more on what happened, syma . Reporter jessica, it was a chaotic day for folks here in olde city when an underground fire ended up causing many Power Outages in this
My feature. If you have a pool im serving up nice wetter come back anytime. I accept it, yes. Once bad weather comes forget about it. Whole different story. Enjoy to it day and rest of the weekend. It will be somewhat hot but humidity levels not too bad. Get outside if you can to enjoy the sunshine today. Lets go outside and taking a look at ben franklin bridge right now from our campbells field camera, and it is again, we are dealing with sunshine across the region, maybe just a few cloud streaming in. There you go, nice shot of the bridge, right now, a and that is what we can expect through the rest of the today temperature wise, still comfortable at this hour at 72 at Philadelphia International airport, 64 at allentown. Fiftyeight in mount pocono. South jersey shore points mid to upper 60s at this hour. Palmyra new jersey warmer at 71. Willow grove, mount holly both coming in the mid 60s at this hour. Storm scan three it is nice and quiet. A good travel day. Maybe heading home from
You know . 54 degrees the current temperature outside kutztown area middle school, thin vale of little cloud cover overlapping the farmland here in our live neighborhood network. But we have nothing but brought blue skies overhead. Not just here on the cbs3 skydeck, but everywhere else, storm scan3 nice, empty, just like we like it for yet another day. Are you getting board by this forecast yet . How could you . I mean, common. Might as well be in san diego at this point right . Expecting daytime high to hit the mid 80s expect to also keep that low humidity. So it is a running theme that just keeps ongoing for our area. Area headlines, still gorgeous, we keep it going one more day then approaching frontal boundary sunday. So only very minor hiccup in our weekend forecast. We will talk more about that possibility every wet weather coming up as the show goes on, but for now you said it, beautiful outside. Keep it going again today. Lets just keep that negative talk later monday. Thanks s