The if could i just ask everyone to foldunder their chairs at the end of the event and lean them against the klose bookshelf or wall. That would be greatly appreciated. And last thing is for the q a session after the presentation, if could ask you to step to the side to my left right here. We have a like, microphone because we have cspan here. Eight u aid like to introduce the author, cate line berry. Her sect major work following the secret rescue, and untold story of American Nurses and medics behind nazi lines. Nominated for the 2014 edgar award for the best fact crime and number one wall street journal best seller. Robert small in 1862 sees a confederates steamer sail from charleston harbour through a union blockade, fleeing himself and his family but his mission did not end there. He would later become the first black captain of an army ship and enjoy, usa today clears reed reading the book is like recovering a lost heirloom. Count look human countless publications cate line berry
Before introduce tonights speakers. Cell phones and other devices should be turned off. Tonight is the sole event, so tonight there is one event, so if i could ask everyone to fold at their chairs at the end and leave them against the closest bookshelf or wall. Last thing is for the q a session after the presentation if i could ask you to step to my left we have a microphone. We record this and cspan is here as well, so for prosperity if we could get this all on recording that would be wonderful. Without further do i would like to introduce tonights author, cate lineberry. Be free or die the amazing story of Robert Smalls escape from slavery to union hero is her second major work. Nominated for the 2014 edgar award for best [inaudible] be free or die chronicles the heroic journey of Robert Smalls who in 1862 sees a confederate steamer and sailed his way from Charleston Harbor to a Union Blockade freeing himself and his family. As all of you will soon see and learn he his mission did no
Then some sun breaks, temperature 67 our at the airport, 68 in wilmington, 64 in trenton this morning, in the 70s to the south. Team luster will vary, 81 around philadelphia, south jersey, but if are through some our northern sections, of bucks, montgomery counties, that sort of thing lehigh, berks county, probably see these temperatures stopping in the mid to upper 70s. Briefly run this through, you can see by 11 00 this morning, we start to see some break ups of the clouds, and by this afternoon finding even more of that still cannot totally rule out scattered shower moving through the rest of the the day, a lot better than yesterdayment check out the seven day just ahead. Thank goodness for, that carol. Thank you. Saturdays storm pack plenty of high wind, enough to bring this tree down in southwest philadelphia, no one was hurt, so thats some good news, but the road shutdown while crews dealt with that mess. Now thousands more are in dark this morning because of the storms, right no
Flood watches are in effect right now. Severe storms to our south could track this way. Lets get right over to meteorologist kate bilo. Shes tracking it all in our cbs3 weather center. Kate. Thank you natasha. Yeah, this is a large scale storm. As you can see as we take a look at satellite and radar together the center of this storm across ohio and you can see the warm front draped across our region. The cold front is still back here so were in whats known as the warm sector of this storm. We have a little bit of everything are heavy rain, Cool Conditions and cloud cover to severe thunderstorms to the south. A few of these storms over portions of maryland, down through virginia have produced tornadoes or at least have been tornado warned in the past few hours. So we have to watch as these storms start to push into our region. Heres a snapshot of what it looks like right now. Heavy rain around philadelphia and the western suburbs. Portions of Montgomery County got over 3inches of rain l
Then some sun breaks, temperature 67 our at the airport, 68 in wilmington, 64 in trenton this morning, in the 70s to the south. Team luster will vary, 81 around philadelphia, south jersey, but if are through some our northern sections, of bucks, montgomery counties, that sort of thing lehigh, berks county, probably see these temperatures stopping in the mid to upper 70s. Briefly run this through, you can see by 11 00 this morning, we start to see some break ups of the clouds, and by this afternoon finding even more of that still cannot totally rule out scattered shower moving through the rest of the the day, a lot better than yesterdayment check out the seven day just ahead. Thank goodness for, that carol. Thank you. Saturdays storm pack plenty of high wind, enough to bring this tree down in southwest philadelphia, no one was hurt, so thats some good news, but the road shutdown while crews dealt with that mess. Now thousands more are in dark this morning because of the storms, right no