As scheduled. Well, things didnt go as schedule tonight. It would have been a perfect night. Near perfect night except Mother Nature had her way with i would say a ten or 20 minute interruption that caused a delay of the main act, and then a delay of the fireworks, but heres what we heres what we saw. Grand finale wawa welcome america festivities tonight above the art museum. Beautiful brilliant color in the summer sky. But Mother Nature had a say in tonights original schedule for the concert and firework. Just as boyz ii men left the stage earlier tonight the skies opened up and the heavy rain came down. Thousands who were along the parkway started running for cover. Fortunately the weather cleared and headline act mary j. Blige took the stage playing for more than an hour. It is great to see everybody come together and just enjoy one occasion. I mean everybody has their different takes on fourth of july, and im just here to enjoy the show and enjoy everybody coming together. Thats ba
As scheduled. Well, things didnt go as schedule tonight. It would have been a perfect night. Near perfect night except Mother Nature had her way with i would say a ten or 20 minute interruption that caused a delay of the main act, and then a delay of the fireworks, but heres what we heres what we saw. Grand finale wawa welcome america festivities tonight above the art museum. Beautiful brilliant color in the summer sky. But Mother Nature had a say in tonights original schedule for the concert and firework. Just as boyz ii men left the stage earlier tonight the skies opened up and the heavy rain came down. Thousands who were along the parkway started running for cover. Fortunately the weather cleared and headline act mary j. Blige took the stage playing for more than an hour. It is great to see everybody come together and just enjoy one occasion. I mean everybody has their different takes on fourth of july, and im just here to enjoy the show and enjoy everybody coming together. Thats ba
Between philadelphia and mt. Vernon for a not very president ial reason. With us now is lee around ornol senior director of the library and collections and chief operating officer. Thanks so much for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here. Youre the historical person forgo to facts. Im happy to be here. Ive been with the Historical Society for 24 years and tour guide within the city. Its always amazing that people even locals dont know a lot of the history of their own city and area. One of the first ones starts with the founding of philadelphia and that it was first founded by william penn, a quaker. You already mentioned early that race street used to be called sasa frasthe east west trees were named for trees and north south after numbers and philadelphia was the very first city built on a public grid and public quar system in the United States and also first city that established a street numbering system based on numbers systemically. And why numbers and trees . Its because part of
Were in the low 40s in the Lehigh Valley and 43 degrees very consistent in ac and then we still have that breeze kicking up around 18, 20, 22 Miles Per Hour impacting that wind chill temperature. Were still having the gusts especially along the i95 corridor winds gusting to around 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour but the good news is the winds will start to wind down as we approach midnight. If youre heading out for that second round of fireworks it will be less breezy for you. Storm scan3 it looks bad but dont worry. A lot of this is upper level moisture that the radar is picking up on. Youre really only seeing sprinkles in berks county, flurries into the poconos so maybe a very stray sprinkle if youre heading out around 10 00 to get your spot for the fireworks at penns landing. Otherwise dry conditions, mostly cloudy. Less of a breeze and temperatures will be steady so its chilly now but it will probably feel very similar at around midnight to wait feels like when you step outside right now s
Machine turning on later on this afternoon. For us, High Pressure in control, it will keep the clouds away to start the day, high, thin clouds to the west begin to increase later on. With the cloud cover expected overnight tonight, it keeps the temperatures on the mild side. As you head outside later this evening, for the new years celebration. Temperatures will be close to 40 which is close to the normal high for this time of the year. Heres the way it plays out today, 9 00 a. M. , 33. 11 00 a. M. , 38. 3 00 p. M. , 45, were shooting for a high of 47 more rain on the way next week. We could make another run at 60 degrees by tuesday. Ill have the details in the seven day coming up in just a bit. Alicia. Thank you. Now to breaking news, a Police Ground and air search is happening right now in central pennsylvania where a state trooper was shot to death on the job. They are looking for this man, 32yearold Jason Robison. Police say he opened fire on trooper landon weaver during a call for