tree, what kind of tree would you be? it was like a hard-hitting interview question. president bush says well barbara, i am not a tree. i am a bush. [applause] and i said i am voting for him. so living life with that gentle, witty human it has been a plus to be around him and embrace my own humility and the importance of character. elections are about character. the people you surround yourself with their character sticks out. i didn t realize i wrote a book about this until megyn kelly s husband said this is a parent book about living with character and surrounding yourself with people of character. so i had worked on many other books. before i was a white house press secretary i was a deputy. i always say take a deputy job. you work holidays and weekends but you get to know the boss and learn the job so when there is an opportunity you can step up. i left the white house and i was called upon to work on doing publicity for karl rove s book, laura bush s book and i got a c
that. the guy who edits president bush, keep him in mind. he knew me and asked if i had a book. and he said what about your stories and he said you tell great stories about president bush. and i remembered i took the from the amtrak train and it was in my wallet for three years. all of a sudden i pulled it out and said i have do this. this is my book proposal a. ripped up piece of paper folded in my wallet for three years. sean looked at it and said leave this with me and went to this bosses and said we should do a book and they said that book will never sell and if you want to do something political we will help you. i said i am not doing that. i was a little humilitated. and then sean went to another publisher, my publisher. he said what if you did your book here. his team gave him a lot of room to run and he helped me structure the book. i wanted to fill in the gaps of history about president bush and provide mentoring advice to young people who didn t go to ivy league col
right next to where this is happening. i know, you re in pope town. i am in pope town. lot of hammers banking. so nice yesterday, all of this hard work, at least it is nice weather out, right? so the question becomes next weekends, will we be able to hold that? we ll talk about that a little bit. first we have to talk about little fog. not as bad as yesterday. so i have higher hopes for this, we won t be socked in quite like yesterday. we are starting to see reduced visibility a lock the coastline, wildwood, down to .8 after mile, not a problem yet on the road. see atlantic city a mile visibility, something to keep an eye on headed out the door today. clouds will dissipate throughout the day today. feel a lot less humid going from morning to afternoon, clear and cool night is ahead of us recalling and fall like week ahead. current temperatures in our live neighborhood network. check it out if philadelphia, about 72 degrees, newtown square, 67. same for pemberton, bensalem
and, of course, we are just six days away from the pope s visit to philadelphia. we re live on the parkway, where preparations continue this morning. plus, a important deadline for resident, something you need to know, especially, if you live here in the city. today is sunday, september 20th, good morning to you, so glad you re with us, i m nicole brewer. it is 7:01 right now. we send it over to kai l man, about to be fall, and it is starting to feel like it, which is kind of nice. it is. think about it, papal visit. won t it be nice we don t have to worry about people having heat strokes, dehydration? right? nice. temperatures down, i think that will help, you know, with all of the mass that is are coming to see that. adorable, a do-able pope. how cute was that messuage. he sounds like olds italian oh, sweet old grant pa. all excited for his visit, no doubt about it. let s talk about this next week. we will be entering fall ready or not here it come. girls yo
park in new jersey, in to center city. start see the clouds are breaking up. it will be getting better as we go on. how much, i want to point out the wind, 18-mile per hour wind coming out of the north, so it is a little brisk walking outside, be prepared, notice, really higher all way from mount pocono all the way to philadelphia, not quite so bad down the shore with the wind. taking live look at storm scan3, see the cloud cover, and it is going to be pushing out to sea as we go throughout our morning. that will leave us with sunshine this afternoon. hey, there is the good news, high of just 78 degrees today. that feeling certainly coming our way, high of 77 down the shore, little foggy start but getting better now, the visibility back, little morning fog as well until the poconos, will just be high of 68 degrees. so, we will talk seven day forecast, there is lots of 70s, good dose of sunshine, and we will also highlight what it will be like when pope francis is in town, wea