Thats npclive. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. From your right, dylan brown, a reporter from E E Publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn technologies, and a Longtime National park volunteer; maria recio, a correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers; will shafroth, president and ceo of the National Park foundation; elizabeth bumiller, Washington Bureau chief of the new york times; the honorable john warner, former secretary of the navy and United States senator from the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] thank you, senator. Ferdous alfaruque, medical device reporter for medtech insight and a press club board member. Skipping over our speaker for just a minute, rod kurkro, reporter at E E Publishing and the press Club Speakers Committee member who organized todays event. Thank you, rod. Tom crosson, the chief of Public Affairs for
That is freezing rain. The rain is falling and freezing on contact with the surface because the surface is below the freezing mark. There in the philadelphia area, just some light rain around right now. And farther to the south we continue to see some in delaware and south jersey. Its not about to end. We continue to see the Winter Weather advisory for the poconos and Northampton County until 9 00 a. M. Until the temperatures go back up above the freezing mark there. Still going to have issues. Its 30 degrees in mount pocono, you can see it is above the freezing mark in allentown, reading, pottstown. Not by a lot but its going to continue to be right about that temperature or go up a little bit. Look at this. For philadelphia we stay pretty level through the night with again that northeast wind and some rain. But the bigger storm moves in tomorrow. Sheena parveen has more on that. Thats right. So tomorrow with the bigger storm were talking about heavier rain, a higher chance for thunde
Reporter the search has been called off. Rough conditions are hampering the search for Harry Hernandez. He was a crew member on board the tug boat named specialist that crashed into a barge at the tappen zee bridge on saturday morning. The search for him called off because of poor conditions. The bodies of two men working alongside hernandez, 63year old paul ayman, and Timothy Conklin have been found. At 11 18 on saturday, conklins whether he had a premonition or a bad feeling, its sad that he would have that feeling. Reporter the specialist was the boat on the right, and the operation drifted towards the destruction barge under the tappen zee bridge, and they radioed in. We are too close. We have to move left, but they could not move in time. Marine unit for county p. D. Will stay on sight for the entire operations until and in the event that the third crew member is found. Reporter there are containment booms around the sunked tug boat. Crews will be making a plan on how to get the b
March 19th, good morning to you, im rahel solomon. The lets turn over to Justin Drabick talking about this snow, the s word. Stop dropping that s word. This could be the last time but never say never. Things can happen. We have had snow all the way to may. Oh, no, no, none of that. But spring arrives officially tomorrow with a little will bit of snow flakes. Not a big deal. It looks like this storm system will track too far off shore to cause big problems but just enough for a reminus that things can still happen and turn cold even in early spring. The lets talk about what is happening right now outside. Not a whole lot. We have clear skies, high included rolling in. The it is filtering out the moon but cool shot this morning of the the moon but cloud thicken up from the west today. Mainly dry day for the most part. We could see some rain arriving later during the day south and east of the city but look at the change in the temperatures. Here we go 10 degrees colder then this time yest
The count down is on, in just over an hour, these two apartment buildings will come tumbling down. We are live with why they are being demolished and what it will take to bring them down. The hawk will never die. St. Joes moves on in march madness we will hear from excited fans and the team, about last nights big win in the first round of the ncaa tournament, coming up. And were tracking snow for the first day of spring, when exactly it arrives this weekend and how much you can expect where you live. Today is saturday march 19th, good morning to you im rahel solomon. The lets hear about the snow. We will turn it over to meteorologist Justin Drabick. Fortunately you say it wont be too much. In the a bad thing, nothing is easy. First day of spring you think warm temperatures but not around here. But we have been spoiled. We have. Ill he just say it. Reminder it can still get cold. Talking about a nuisance snow coming at us tomorrow and should not be a big deal maybe accumulation mainly o