Thursday, january 11th, good morning im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon. Katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things and getting us out the door. It is very wet. Not so much slick or slippery. We are not dealing with ice. But we have a few accidents out there and, ready to put bumper to bumper conditions out there as well. That is a bummer. We are finding no icing today. Way too warm for that. A lot of the snow is starting to melt so you will in the ruin your favorite pair of shoes walking outside on the sidewalk at this point. Things are drying out nicely. It is not completely gone that snow melt or that snow pack rather but with the temperatures climbing as they will continue to do, you will see a lot of it melt away, almost entirely which is good. I say good rid of it because we have a large storm system looming by tomorrow and that will bring in heavy rain, so any snow still left and there will be some down near southeastern, new jersey when we got hit with the last snow storm we w
Volunteer Fire Department arrived just before midnight and made quick work of the flames. But the damage was done. Fire tour a hole through the roof right above the kitchen. More than a dozen employees are now out of a job. Kelly reads daughter was a waitress here. She loves it. The customers are great. She loves coming to work every day and shes going to be really upset over this. Reporter thomas giannis bought the last mothers day changing the name from the white horse diner to country town diner. We were struggling. A lot of changes in the diner. And its our bread and but. Reporter fortunately no one was injured. The business was closed at the time but now hes left wondering if he can rebuild. Im going to work there. Its hard to get a job in this business. I dont know where to go from here ill be honest. I mean, i have my mother is disabled, my father has a heart problem and i was the only one who was keeping them on a daily basis. They with me every day. Reporter now the owner tell
I mean, look at this. Does this woman look ugly to you . Going there and look at our wedding picture. Look at her high school portrait. I mean, this woman had strawberry blonde, reddish hair, piercing blue eyes and ugly teeth, okay . And, you know, we do so much in this country to physically disparage people, whether they are female or male, if we dont like them. Theyve got their debts, they are bald, we dont like their glasses, we dont like their lipstick, we dont like the clothes they wear. I mean, weve got to be able to go back to that old adage of judging a person by the content of their character. Eleanor did magazine spreads for vogue. I mean, you know, do i hate the hairnet . Yes, i hate the hairnet. Arthur ground rules for all the pictures i did on eleanor . No hairnet pictures. But that doesnt mean shes ugly. So when i go into the classrooms who dont know her at all, whether they are kindergarten classrooms or third grade classrooms or, you know, innercity high schools, i say