I say this all the time we have to fight for local journalism when we lament losing a Hardware Store or things that are big parts of the community the local newspaper is just as important. Joe mcnamara reports on the things that we care about. Our kids, our local teams and to celebrate that thank you to everybody for coming here. And she has shown tremendous bravery and what she has done for us. Not only has she lost her soulmate that she had the courage to step up and stand up against the nra. She has been subjected to horrible things but was brave enough to stay in there to say we need to talk about these issues. But these things that are happening in our community , its a thing for all of us to tackle whether red or blue when these horrible things happen in our communities, not picking out democrats or republican republicans, causing heartbreak and devastation stood up for us on this issue so i want to thank her for that. [applause] and i also want to say what it must have taken how
I talk to you about what john gave to this community. I say this all the time. We have to fight for our local newspaper, for local journalism. When we lament losing our Hardware Store or our bakery or things that are in bit parts of the community our local newspaper is just as important. John mcnamara reported on the things we care about turkey cared about our kids, our local teams and obviously in his book he celebrates that i talking about there is Nothing Better than a local basketball game which i agree with 100 . I also want to thank everyone for coming here. I think andrea hasnt shown tremendous bravery in what she has done for us, not only has she lost her soulmate, but she has had the courage to step forward and stand up against the nra. She has been subjected to horrible things throughout the process, but she was brave enough to stand there and say we need to talk about these issues, these kind of violent things happening in our communities are not partisan. It is a thing for
It is not going to be the best hair day. Gene alert for that. Shiri it is humid. Hot and sticky and shot sleeves and flipflops if you have that option and providence, rhode island and going to feel the effects of that and north shore as well, peabody, gloucester, over to haverhill and exeter, New Hampshire and heaviest and steadiest it is mostly light rain along the coastline itself and waking up to the 70s, it is 70s, it is really sticky out there. We have also got another round of clouds but not the dense fog we had yesterday, most of the fog is focused from plymouth southward this morning. So anyone traveling in or out of the cape and islands thats where you going to get hardest this morning. 11 00 a. M. , 80 . Drying out here, going to see a little more sunshine here, partly sunny conditions this morning, look at how close to 90 youre getting, highs from 86 to 92. Julie grauert on stand by right now with live drive time by traffic tracking the slow spots. A little part of 128 north
Philadelphia. We have Live Team Coverage of the victory parade and Nora Muchanic is at the start at 20th and Market Streets but first back to Alicia Vitarelli and gray hall live at dillworth park where the rally will be held for the conclusion of todays parade. Lots of excitement building already. You can feel it its electric here, we are talking about this leading up to the moment and the excitement. This is the day and you can feel the excitement, the fans are super excitement, they all have signs like this one that say wildcats and 2016 national champs, they have gathered out here hours before the parade starts, of course it starts at 1 00 but they all wanted the coveted prize seats in the front row. Someone asked me were they ticketed and no they are first come first serve and its building and 60 thousand people are expected. V for villanova and v for victory and for philadelphia its a big day. Businesses are anticipating this incredible crowd and they are amped up and many are fol
Hello, welcome to the National Press club the place where the news happens i am john jensen at the 115th resident of the National Press club. Jen jensen 10 judson i did not mention earlier, but if you have questions, fill them out. There is cars on your table. Or you can email us at headliners press. Org. Please put sagaftra Fran Drescher in the subject line. Im going to take a moment to introduce our head table. Starting to my right at the end of the table, we have multimedia reporter for abc news libby cathey. Next we have sagaftra local president , kathryn. Please feel free to stand up. Next is white house recognize editor for the l. A. Times Donna Leinwand leger. Del wilber. We have Donna Leinwand leger former National Press Club President and cochair of our Headliners Team that organize the luncheon. To my left we have ian kullgren, labor reporter for bloomberg law. Next is liz shuler president of the afl. Mike balsamo, lee justice reporter for the associated press. Katie benner,