A steeple that was perched atop the roof now sets in ruin about a quarter mile away. The churchs brick facade was peeled away. Stained glass windows are mangled and twisted. Just part of your life is gone. All kind of memories here. Theyre gone. Central baptist is an example of both the devastation in appomattox county and the communitys determination to persevere. Members of the Appomattox County High School Football Team showed up at the church early thursday morning to help clean up. All of the kids volunteered and said, coach, come pick us up. Come get us. Where can we meet and help . The team rallied around one of their own. Drew mann, a football player. My mom and dad got married in the church and i grew up here when i was younger. Its devastate to go see what happened to this place. So i need to help out. When they werent cleaning, Football Players held up signs asking for donations to help the community. One corner of the county where wednesdays tornado left a trail of damage.
Today in new york starts now. Happy st. Patricks day and good morning. 5 00 a. M. On this thursday. March 17th. Im michael gargiulo. Im darlene rodriguez. Storm team 4s chris cimino is here. Today, if you look outside, the barricades. Barricade, the green line is down on 5th avenue. Temperatures will cooperate. Thats the good news. Have to deal with a couple of showers before the parade is through. Poughkeepsie at the mild 47. Low 40s across most portions of long island and northwest new jersey. Yesterday, showers, theyre long gone. Had a couple of flashes of lightning and thunder last evening. This next batch is coming on in. Intensifies a little bit. Weve got plenty of real estate between the showers out in western pennsylvania right now. I think were going to buy some time there. The day planner if youre headed out to the parade, look for the winds to pick up, though. The temperature climbs. 06 at noontime. Forecasting a high of 56. Possibility of a few spotty showers. More details
Reporters as he walked inside. And philadelphia just made the list as one of the most walkable cities in the nation. That should help us get our recommended 10,000 steps in day but why 10,000 . Good question. Nicole brewer find out why its the magic number. Those stories and much more straight ahead we begin with Stormy Weather moving through our region right now. Good evening everyone im york washington. Hi, everyone, im jessica dean. Lets get over to meteorologist kate bilo who is tracking these storms as they pass through and also what it could mean for your morning commute. Kate . Jessica and ukee, things have really gotten nasty just in the past hour or so as this heavy rain has shifted north and east into our region. You can see the heavy rain around the philadelphia area, and strong thunderstorms right now impacting much of the central delaware thats where the worst of the thunderstorm activity is. Further to the north where it was bit cooler today were dealing with heavy downpo
When we had pope here in president is, is that right sue. Steve keeley mentioned it earlier about the barricades, last time he saw them looking like that. Anyway we have ultimate doppler here. We have rain from yesterday, which has ended and new were watching a little difficulties to turn answer in the central part of the the state to see if it makes it here. It is in the supposed to but, of course, we will keep an eye on things, dry in our region right now, 44 degrees is our current temperature. You can see flag blowing in the background, with 18mile an hour wind. It makes 44 feel like 36, and sunrise time 6 33. And we will see sunshine to start the day and throughout the day, as it will be chillier then yesterday. Always a trade off, right. We have warmer temperatures yesterday but we also got the rain. 43 degrees in trenton. Forty in lancaster. Fortytwo wilmington. 46 degrees in wildwood. These are temperatures that are 12 degrees, 13 degrees, chillier, then they were 24 hours ago a
Rain has shifted north and east into our region. You can see the heavy rain around the philadelphia area, and strong thunderstorms right now impacting much of the central delaware thats where the worst of the thunderstorm activity is. Further to the north where it was bit cooler today were dealing with heavy downpours and also some thunder and lightning but i want to zoom on this storm right here. Take look at all that lightning as it moves through portions of the eastern kent and Sussex Counties right around milford, dover, coastal delaware about to cross over the delaware bay that is a very nasty storm. This storm has a history of producing hail over an inch in diameter we had one report in Sussex County of three quarters of an flinch diameter and that is shifting toward the jersey shore at the moment. Further to the north, heavy rain you can see the yellow and orange shading imbedded rain and thunder moving across much of the chester, delaware, montgomery counties and through philad