Finally turn around a floundering philadelphia sports franchise. The sixers tonight won the nba lottery which means they get the first pick in the nba draft. And sports director Ducis Rodgers explains how it happened and what it means. It means they can probably get a good players who can attract other good players to come to our city. The nba lottery is a game of odds. The sixers had the best odds, but there was no guarantee the pick would be theirs. The draft lottery gods finally smiled upon this franchise. The sixers land the number one pick. And they can draft an Immediate Impact player. Brett brown hid his excitement rather well. No need to glot but you know he was going bananas inside. The sixers will now spend the next five weeks deciding between lsus ben simmons and dukes Brandon Ingram. The draft is june twid. I spoke to coach brown by phone. He conveyed how monumental this is for the franchise and the city. I think it just gives us amazing opportunity, you know, theres a lot
Hamburg berks county and just to the west of reading we have a couple of light showers. Some of this stuff keeps trying to push over toward allentown and then kind of falls apart a little bit but its damp around allentown and quakertown at times as well and were going to be dealing with some off and on spotty showers through the Morning Hours hoping that some of that stuff out to the west either misses us to the north or starts to fall apart a bit and we taper off to mainly just cloudy skies later in the afternoon. Your temperatures currently as you step outside the door, still chilly. 53 in philadelphia, 51 in allentown and really thats pretty much what everybodys dealing with this morning. Winds are light but its cool enough for a jacket. And as we go through the day, most of the day does look cloudy, again spotty showers possible at times most of those before lunchtime or up maybe up until the very early afternoon hours. 65 degrees by 1 oclock and then by 3 oclock probably cloudy bu
Doesnt look like it. Its not going to be a pouring drenching rain but we have some showers that are starting to build in from the north and west and those could be a factor for at least some of the region as we move through the rush hour. Reading getting a little bit closer to this. The bulk of this is centered back over harrisburg. While there are some heavier spots within this we are also seeing a breakup here and there and its possible that those breaks down to just spotty showers as we move through the morning and perhaps into the early part of the afternoon. Looking at radar though right now there is quite a bit of rain back out to the west and a lot of this will have to break apart in order for us to get that spotty shower forecast so were hoping that this is just spotty stuff mainly in the morning but well have to keep an eye on whats going on out to the we have. We have cloudy skies in place even where it isnt raining this morning and its relatively cool with a temperature of 5
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Firefighters on the second floor roof as smoke comes out of the windows. Burgess says flames shot from the back. The whole back was on fire. Like fire started in the kitchen somewhere. Reporter firefighters got the call around 6 00 this evening. They say the woman believed to be in her 20s was suffering from smoke inhalation. She was taken to temple hospital. This was his first fire response. Occupant is breathing on her own suspected to survive looks like this good news story. The young woman was reunited with her family at the hospital and everyone who lives in the home is accounted for. Burgess who was also the block captain is relieved to hear the news. I had to say a prayer i saw them bring her body out. We didnt think nobody was in there. Reporter back here live, the cause of the fire and where it started is still under investigation tonight. Meanwhile the new fire commissioner says it has been a busy past couple of days. 14 working fires yesterday and several today. But, again,