Joining us today from around the country and around the world. For those of you that dont know me i am jen johnson, currently chief of staff at Chicago Teachers Union and also a history teacher, missing my classroom but grateful for the work im doing today and ill be moderating our conversation but before i introduce the amazing eve ewing we have to thank the organizers of this event, haymarket books. Theyre amazing, theyve been doing so many fantastic events and something really exciting going on right now is there having a 50 percent off sale on their website so you can go to haymarket books. Org and purchase eaves poetry books collective arches and 1819, this is critical reading and its 50 percent off right now and what else are you going to do but be at home, read, turn off the netflix and read these books. Haymarket has other events lined up coming up this week and next week so check out the website for the full schedule, haymarket books. Org. And this friday so tomorrow at 7 pm e
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Not how hard is that, im clearly doing the highhat. You silly watch applause laughter . cheers and applause laughter . James now lets say, thats not all. Lets say it is sexy times at home, now i will let you into a bit of my personal life now. On special occasions, birthdays, anniversaries, christmas, i will go back to my bedroom with my wife. We will french kiss for anything between 40 and 50 seconds. laughter i will then place her on the edge of the bed, take five steps away, remove all of my clothes and play a sultry sax o phone saxophone solo, fully nude. Its what i do, ladies, control yourself, the thing is to do it you have to have a saxophone, so you have to go, get it out of the case, you have to put it all together. Empty the spit val of, and i have to admit, any time you are using the term spit valofits a mood killer, okay, that is not an issue any more. Because if i set my watch to saxophone. Okay. But applause its not just musical instruments. It is not just musical instrum
Relatively low humidity. After a shower or thunderstorm, especially south and east of the city this morning it will be bright and sunny but all this changes, matt pelman. We are tracking some of the hottest air weve seen so far this year so ill have all of that in the accuweather forecast. But were looking forward to a nice day today and a lot of people karen of course are looking forward to next week and the Big Convention thats coming to down and the police apparently are preparing for that this morning. They have the off ramp to 95 northbound to broad street blocked as you come off of the girard point bridge, you can see the Police Activity here. Were being told that is preparations for the Big Convention next week. So, stay to your left coming away from the airport headed northbound along 95. But no reason to avoid the vine street expressway this morning. Overnight construction was canceled and were hearing they will not close the vine again until after the convention so youre good
Karen. Its such a great day to do it. It feels fabulous out here. The humidity is way down. The sun is coming up and were going to see bright sunshine. The one fly in the ointment storm tracker6 live double scan showing we had just a small cluster of storms but they tore through delaware and parts of south jersey. Now making it off the coastline in Atlantic City. These storms brought 65 miles an hour winds and in some areas hail so very heavy downpours. We can see how it kind of dissipated now that its pushing through Atlantic City and off the coast but we are watching for that to 12 especially in delaware at any point the first half of the day we could see he that or extreme south jersey. 59 in quakertown. The rest of us just dry and clear. 59 in pottstown. 64 in saint davids. 71 in center city. Currently in new jersey its 62 in browns mills, 66 in hammonton, 68 in woodbine, 67 in dover, delaware. The humidity way down there. The dewpoint are just in the 50s in philadelphia and the no