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diana, everybody loss of a good offensive ethnic joke every once in a while. what do you got? really? [laughter] bill! this is a joke some say has gone too far. take a look at this. it shows the key port, new jersey, police chief dressing up as a chinese take-out container to roast the former fire chief eugene, an american of chinese descent. the roast also included a play on many chinese stereotypes, he wasn t reportedly offended by it, but others were. you wouldn t have done this in black face. to me, my first reaction was this is yellow face. never, ever would have thought of doing this if the guy was black. why in the world would you do it? reporter: i came to key port, new jersey, to learn more, i spoke with bill sacks, a local business owner, actually at that roast, and he filled me in on the missing details. i laughed when i read some of this, to be honest with you. these guys all know each other, play jokes on each other all the time, and i can see som ....
today. fox s lauren blanchard has more. reporter: the united states drops what they re calling the mother of all bombs. we have incredible leaders in the military and we have incredible military and we are very proud of them and this was another very very successful mission. reporter: the united states dropped its most powerful conventional bomb in eastern afghanistan early thursday. the bomb which has never before been used in combat targeting a system of tunnels and caves believed to be used by isis. as that terror group moves into territory once known to be occupied by al-qaida. the united states takes the fight against isis very seriou seriously and in order to defeat the group we must deny them operational space which we did. reporter: known as the mother of all bombs the gbu43 weapon was unveiled in 2003 and weighs 21,000 pounds. it is the largest non nuclear bomb in the united states arsenal. with a blast radius of roughly a mile wide. designed to explo ....
son. karen hepp has morning off. good morning to you. i want to point out color coordination here. i know. intentional. yes. we looked and said hey. you have on your easter purple. i i have black and white stripes on. you can be tony orlando and we can be dawn. we have a little variety show going on here. anyway, we re going to get a little punchy because it is friday, holiday weekend coming up, let s get to it. we have a number that we have selected just for you today and it is, again, a 10. now you did notice that yesterday was cooler, then previous days this week but that is what april was supposed to feel like. that is where we will feel like again today. it is an appropriate coolness. 51 degrees with the 9-mile an hour breeze from the north and sunrise at 6:24. other temperatures throughout the suburbs we ve got allentown at 43. 39 degrees in atlantic city. definitely need a sweat there are this morning. only 40 in doyletown. 37 degrees in haz ....
it had free stuff, in it, of course. hopefully she had a good holiday, whatever was going on and you ll enjoy today, even with its imperfections, shall we say. we are now down to a seven out of 10 today and bus stop buddy is here with the umbrella a lot of kid are still off today , the day after easter, but where ever you go, you should have some rain gear with you, especially for middle of the day. now it is dry at the moment, it is 65 degrees, sunrise at 6:20 this morning. we will see mostly cloudy skies when that happens. we have 56 in allentown. in wrightstown 63. wildwood 67. wilmington delaware 67 as well you can sigh spotty showers on the way moving in from west to east and not a lot of it making its way in the area just yet but we will show you in a few minutes future cast with some more showers in our future. we will say mostly cloudy through lunchtime and maybe even a little bit beyond but we will still get to a comfortable high of 75. just a good idea bob k ....
at the shore have closed ahead of the storm. those storms are scrolling at the bottom of the screen. let s go over to david murphy with the latest to see what s going on. matt pellman is in for karen rogers. reporter: hurricane joaquin will miss us off the coast, but what we re dealing with is rain heading up the coast ahead of the storm. most of the rain we have is moderate. there s heavier stuff to the south, but it looks like the way things will play out the heavier stuff holds off until the afternoon and tonight that would be the latest idea. the wide view on satellite and radar, shows us we are socked in, looks like we ll be looking at rain tonight and tomorrow things start to improve a little bit in terms of the active rain. we are going to have coastal flooding that s going on at times of high tide today and tonight and into sunday. it will not be raining the entire time, but we ll have the onshore flow that will pile the water up, not only along the coastal ar ....