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it s december 31st. i m martin savidge in for boris sanchez. good morning. good to be with you. i m amara walker. thank you for spending part of this final day of 2022 with us. we re following breaking news. pope emeritus benedict has died at the age of 95. his health had been faming prompting pope francis to ask for prayers. for the first time in modern history, pope benedict resigned, which paved the way for pope francis to take control of the catholic church. cnn cnn s deana gallagher has more. a german childhood, he lived in the shadows of hitler s nazi regime, he was referred to as god s rottweiler. years caused accomplishments to go unnoticed. he was the first pope to go green, making the vatican the first country in the world to go with a zero carbon footprint and bringing in electric vehicles including a hybrid popemobile. he was cardinal and pope dur the year whence the catholic church sex scandals came to light. it was too little too late for some, but ....
Arrive and reports of fires at an ordered research the need for that incident. Reporter we also tell you that the organ have more on what hellfires doing close here about dry lightning how common it is the bay area coming up tonight at 6. Pam cruzan these bayberry earned a light one been put out cal fire the the entire bay area and its not a fire occurs to them with a plan to do. Trylightning severe thunderstorms out here interdistrict being proactive and we of personal the staff more engines. But offduty personnel at home he will come in and set up another fire engine. Dianne we have the storm system off the coast there as you can see all. Week one at that and still giving a 30 percent chance of dry thunderstorms. And heres a storm checker right here currently right now off the coast between anywhere of 5 00 p. M. To 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow it could get the public thunderstorms. Outcry thunderstorms meaning not all thunderstorms produce showers. In this case the gravitation out there cou ....
This parish life has been declining and parishes face challenges. Coauthor of the important book renewing parish culture. The local parish is the cultural home base of american catholics and in these smallest and most basic units, the catholic culture is nurtured, sustained. It depends to a great extent on the vibrancy of parish life. What are the challenges . What are the possibilities . Please stay with us and after this short break well talk talk to dr. Melanie morrie about the catholic parish. Fo hello. Welcome back. We have with us today dr. Melanie morey and welcome to you. Thank you. Thank you, john. A little about you. A bachelors degree from smith college. Masters from Boston College and Harvard University and a doctorates from harvard. You have an expertise in catholic identity and catholic culture. Today at the archdiocese of san francisco. You published extens ....
By the way, james blunt stops by live in our studio this morning. So did you go to the concert last night, i heard it was packed. Let us know. Ed sheeran, james blunt, at it again tonight. But james is with us today. Look at that video and imagine just singing just to you. , who james blunt . Beautiful. Mable, a little later this morning. Well, now. Sue be . You wish. One wishes. It will be hot in here. Oh, wait, thats the wetter. Ya, well, this is going to be worse today. Even added excessive heat watch just for good measure, now down to seven out every ten in your weather by the numbers, here it is, the counties affected by the excessive heat watch. It is all the urban, i59 corridor there, will feel like it is in triple digit later on today, so prepare tore that. Do any exercising your tee do outside either this morning or late, late, late in the day, were off to muggy start with bus stop buddy and the dog and the water bottle by his side. 79 degrees, southwesterlies at 8 miles an ho ....
We have flakes out there you can see. Its playing out exactly like first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz said it would. Some snow followed by bitter cold. We have some pretty good snowshowers or even snow squalls coming into philadelphia. This is the link, all right, the turbines are going you know whats supposed to be back there . The city skyline of philadelphia. Its gone. No, the buildings did not disappear, theres snow falling between the stadium and center city and thats whats reducing the visibility. You can see that, right here theres another heavy snowshower back to the south. But right over here. Now, you can see south phillys right here. Theres center city. And thats the heavy shower. Snow squall coming through. Lower marions about to get it. Were about to get hit here at the station. North philly is in the middle of it right now. Thats pretty heavy snowshower. And you saw the results of that. Theyre moving through fast, though. Right over abington, the sun ....