New intensity to an already strained relationship between the incoming president and the africanamerican community. Action News Reporter vern node attended several day of Service Events dan talked to participants and leaders about this controversy. Vernon. Reporter good afternoon brian. The truth is with Donald Trumps inauguration just days away now and the mlk celebration the annual one in high gear a lot of friction was bound to be generated already. Then enter trump versus john lewis. At this midday antitrump rally a mix of union and other acts 50s railed against the president elect. The issues healthcare, criminal justice and the whole assortment of areas where the Progressive Movement is angry and promising to fight back against the president elects stated goals. Many tell me they are relatively new to this level of activism. In areas of healthcare and protect womens rights and a lot of areas where that people could die because of bad decisions. I have a child who is in the milita
Yesterday morning. We are only talking about what was leftover from yesterdays rain freezing this morning. Mainly untreated surfaces. The treated roads should largely be okay but there are some treated roads that will still have spots of ice. So take it easy out there this morning. Otherwise, we are dry. Thats a live dry view looking across the delaware. Keeping an eye out for light fog. A little bit reported at Philadelphia International where visibility is 30 miles. Look at the readings below freezing in Washington Township 31 degrees right now. Down to 31 for doylestown. The 20s in pottstown. We are going to see dry weather for today. But anything that is on the ground that didnt dry up has iced up this morning. So some slippery spots to start with. 31 degrees. But its not the widespread icing we saw yesterday. 35 at 9 00. Well see the wind pick up on this Martin Luther king holiday. But the temperatures will also be up to near 40 degrees at lunchtime. Well go hour by hour when i ha
Started laying salt on the road. This is on roosevelt, police blocked the road while work took place and then reopened it. Nbc first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz here with the forecast. Glenn, what a difference a day makes. Absolutely. The roads dried out, sunshine helping, wind helping, lower humidity helping and higher temperatures as well. Getting kind of windy out there. Traffic is moving along just fine after some of those slick spots this morning. Were not doing to get any kind of repeat of that tomorrow morning. Look how much warmer it is than it was yesterday. 42 degrees already. It feels like 34. Feels like 31 in redding. So the wind hasnt picked up as much as its going to. Its just starting to pick up now. A couple of snow flurries in parts of the area early. That is no longer there. We are dry for the rest of the day. Were kind of windy for the rest of the day. Temperatures getting into the mid40s, which is actually a little bit above average for this t
Beautiful morning and its going to be a great afternoon eva. Take a look at satellite, we had cloud cover overnight. Its filtering away to the south. We had fog at the shore area, but we expect it to be breaking up quickly. 57 degrees in philadelphia. 62 in washington. Cooler in the upper elevations of western pennsylvania, pittsburgh 46 degrees. Generally speaking the winds out of the west for at least a bit of today. Should warm us up rather nicely. As we head into the afternoon around 4 00 p. M. Well see a high of 7 degrees, a couple of spots like urban centers. Center city could hit 80. Look at how far back and forth the average high that is, 65 degrees. Well have a redflag warning in the northern suburbs low humidity and dry forest floor could give us the risk of fire. Cigarette disposal important limit driving over any high grass, if you see a fire report it quickly so the authorities can get to it and get it out. We have cooler air coming in tomorrow and rain by, monday, ill hav
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