Good evening, natashas off, im joe holden. Jim bunting achieved much through his life, but known in our area as a central figure in philly east history. Eyewitness News Reporter alicia is live at Citizens Bank park with the details. Alicia, good evening of the. Good evening, joe, minutes before the game here the entire stadium paused for a moment of silence honoring the former phillies player, pitcher, who passed yesterday, were told he passed yesterday evening, news of his passing, though, broke earlier today. Many here remembering him as a pitcher or as a pitcher that was a hall of famer but beyond baseball, in all areas of his life. The worlds every baseball introduce today jim bunting in 1955, side arm pitcher placed 17 to the major least, phillies pittsburgh pirates, los angeles dodgers, when he retired and was eventually inducted into the Baseball Hall of fame, bunting chose to honor the team he last played for, wearing a phillies plaque, Phillies Hall of famer and later successf
In march he canceled all performances for the year due to health issues. He and his older brother formed the bluesy man. Allman was 69 years old. A loss for the phillies family. Hall of fame pitcher jim bunning has died. Bunning played for the phillies for six seasons. He pitched one of the perfect games in modern National League history in 1964. He also served in congress and in the senate representing kentucky. Bunning was 85 years old. And coming up in sports, reaction from larry, as the phillies honor bunnings legacy. Turning now to the memorial day weekend weather. At the shore, in philadelphia, and in wilmington, people enjoyed the seasonable weather today as the rain held off through the morning and early afternoon. Right now light rain is moving over delaware and the jersey shore. But for the most part the kickoff to memorial day weekend has been pretty good. First alert meteorologist erica has the latest of what to expect. We had a pretty nice day all around. Temperatures topp
Sunshine early in the day. Right now were not waking up to quite as nice of a sunrise, few more cloud but overall it is a very nice start to our sunday. Of course, not end to our weekend because we have that extra day tomorrow but some sunshine mixing with the cloud cover, little bit of fog developing across Lehigh Valley as well. This is bernville around reading area, Junior Senior High School and it is a foggy start to the day, out in Lehigh Valley, 53 degrees, limited visibility. A change at the beach where lots of folks will be heading down to the beach this afternoon, those cloud are out there, not too many people out just yet but it should be a relatively good beach day. I talk about the fog, lancaster we have limited visibility, same as reading we saw that picture there, from bernville, afterward, allentown, mount pocono, less than perfect visability and gets better as we head back down toward the shore points there looking at ac back down toward wildwood and perfect visibility.
Outdoor activities. We have been talking about that for the first hour. It looks like any afternoon plans you have, today, and during the Daylight Hours will not have any kind of problems. It will not affect your plan. Now if you have anything going on later tonight or early in the day on memorial day, that is when you have to keep an eye on the sky but for right now taking a look at top of Eyewitness News from sky scan with a few high cloud out there a very, very nice start to the day, very mild start to the day, check out these temperatures. 64 degrees currently right now in center city and it does feel muggy, maybe slightly humid with a dew point of 61, outside on the sky deck you can feel that humidity but overall it is in the a terribly muggy start to the day. Little bit of fog out toward lancaster, reading and area of the lehigh valley. Temperatures cooler as well. Fiftynine. Fiftysix in reading. As sunshine comes out which it has it will burn that fog off looking at 60s though f
Never fun to wake up with the foggy weather but again we did have it. The good news it is already burning off, because of all that sunshine, and it makes things nicer here to begin the day. Temperatures are slowly rising as well, just about an hour ago, i showed you our Neighborhood Network here from kutztown air there was at least a good amount of fog, at least a little bit of fog, i thought it was a good amount right along the ground. Right along this nice farm field but good news the sun has come up and it has burned or at least most of the fog out of the area. We are sitting at 59. A few areas out toward lancaster still maybe a little bit on the foggy side but rest of us looking good, trenton reporting a two and a half mile visibility, probably even a little better then that. It doesnt look like we will see that much fog toward trenton and southeastern bucks county here starting the day out but just keep an eye out on the road getting going this morning. Temperatures for the most p