Thank you for that introduction. I feel like going to door number one or door number two. Thank you for coming. I am the pitching machine, he is the slugger tonight. The immediate peg for this evening is the ratification of the 13th amendment. Lets begin by backing up a bit. April 18, 65. Richmond falls and the army of Northern Virginia surrenders. The civil war is over. What do the victors, what are the unions plans for the south for the freed men . , i dont think there was any single fixed plan, even though president lincoln had put forward various ideas, plans of reconstruction during the civil war. These were primarily geared to winning the war, so to speak, and maybe detaching states from the confederacy. Which would be a considerable aid to the union cause. Nobody had really thought through exactly what the status of the freed people was going to be. In a sense, at the time of lees surrender and shortly afterwards followed by lincolns assassination, this was the fundamental quest
Colorado through the midwest even sparking damaging tornadoes tonight in the southeast. For us, it will be wind and rain and a lot of it. Heres live look in reading to night the threat of serious flooding thanks to all that melting snow. Good evening, im iain page. Good evening, im dawn tin timmeney. Lucy is too much night lets get right over month meteorologist kathy orr tracking when this is all going to start. Kathy. Dawn, it will get off to slow start but then pick up as the day progresses. Ultimate doppler you can see snow through the great lakes heavy rain through the Tennessee Valley theres that line of Severe Weather through mississippi and alabama all of this moving in tomorrow morning. Now i want to you look at the visibilities because as that warm air moves in, we are going to be seeing areas of fog. This is in the morning at 7 00 a. M. Look at the poconos still with that snow pack visibility at zero in allentown a half mile. In reading visibility a mile and a half. So thats
A. M. Look at the poconos still with that snow pack visibility at zero in allentown a half mile. In reading visibility a mile and a half. So thats not so good. Lancaster and wilmington three quarters of a mile and in dover visibility only a quarter of mile even in philadelphia visibility at 1 mile. So fog could be an issue come tomorrow morning in many locations. Then well be seeing the rain moving in. By 7 00 a. M. Some showers to the north and west. It gets heavier as the day progresses and then we have the threat of thunderstorm. For your morning commute a low impact with the storm. But by the afternoon, a high impact storm with rain and serious wind and even the threat of thunderstorms. That flood watch goes into effect at noon. It continues through thursday and the area of concern will be to the Lehigh Valley and our northern and western suburbs where we will see a lot of melting with record warmth an lot of rain. Heavy rain between inch and and a half will help that snow melt. We
Well tell you how much rain and we tell you about high winds tomorrow all coming up. Rights now its traffic time and big story all morning in case you woke up and had not heard this is the new jersey turnpike southbound near delaware Memorial Bridge and overturned tractortrailer has been out there all morning long and as a result several lanes closed there. Plea to be exact. We want you to stay out of that area altogether if yourep coming southbound on the turn pike get off at 3 22 for Commodore Barry bridge there and take ixts 95 south and get away from thatal together. Also blue route southbound approaching schuylkill theres an accident that has right lane blocked and on route 30 eastbound at route 82 an accident that is on the shoulder. And one more on the pennsylvania turnpike westbound just past Fort Washington accident there has left lane blocked. Mike. You got it, sue, its almost 7 02. A pregnant woman is dead after a shooting in north philadelphia. Yes, this happened a couple w
That pennsauken, new jersey. Still closed tonight nearly 12 hours after that huge fire. The fuel tanker crashed around 11 00 this morning erupting in flames forcing dozens to evacuate. Now, it could take days to get that ramp back open. Good evening im iain page. Im lucy noland that. Damage a mile from the betsy ross bridge. Chris oconnell is live in pennsauken tonight. Chris . Reporter lucy i physical was a mess. Hazardous materials crews spent this night cleaning up from that massive tanker fire along the route 130 offramp here in pennsauken. Like you said about a mile away from the betsy ross bridge. That crash happened about 100 yards behind me. The off ram system still closed tonight. As investigators try to figure out what caused that tanker to overturn. Police are still directing traffic around the scorched roadway in pennsauken new jersey. Heard a big bang. I looked over i just saw flames. It was like armageddon. Big black smoke billowing overhead. Reporter thats just some of t