Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
Officers out there looking for intoxicated or drunk drivers, the chances are heightened of you getting caught. Well have officers out in the bar districts extra officers to make sure everybody is safe and having a good team for the new year if you dont have a safe way home, you find yourself in a bit of a pickle at the end of the night. You want to take the advantage of a safe Sober Ride Program and its 800200taxi. Keep that in mind. And police and fbi have been warning about possible isis threats to churches over the holidays seasons, we demecaed with dc police, they say theyre actively monitoring any threats as usual but are expecting things to go to smoothly, they say theyre prepared and of course, if you see something, say something. Live in alexandria, Lauren Demarco fox 5 local news. Lets take a look outside and find out what you can expect if youre heading out tomorrow night. Mike thomas quick look at the forecast. Mike . Reporter if youre heading out i think the weather will be
Live i cant deal with the mike in my hand. I cant tell if youre having a medical problem. Have fun there. Lets bring you back to our storm watch. Doppler 7 shows you a few stray showers. Were tracking a storm about to bring three inches of rain in less than a day. Warning ignored. What could have prevented the problems. Say goodbye to the home button. The big beautiful shot where the faa says some flights are delayed up to two hours because of gusty winds and reduzed viz blts. Theres 50 cancellations. No problems are reported at oakland or san jose well have an update in just minutes. Already were learning of some big changes. At least potential big changes. Apple is considering turning the entire surface of the phone into one giant screen with a digital tu touch bar at the bottom to replace the physical home button. The device is expected to come with a bigger battery to power the larger screen. Were tracking chances of more potential flooding. Meteorologist is up next with your accuw
Shower today, thats as good as i can do. There are the snow showers out by pittsburgh, we expect during the afternoon most of you seeing a little bit of that popping through. Not a big impact event, though. 33 in philadelphia. 28 in allentownle 28 in reading. 33 in dover. 27 in cape may. A light snow shower around dover this morning thats all ive got on radar right now. Windchills a factor. Its breezy out there, feels like the 20s and teens in most neighborhoods. Extra gear this morning, please. 33 degrees by 7 00. 38 by noon, these the high, 40 degrees by 3 00 p. M. Close to the freezing mark by 7 00. During the afternoon hours theres a chance of a spotty pop up snow shower, i expect wet roads out thereof, maybe a Little Grassy coating, slushy accumulation in spots when this comes through. The weekend is looking cold, too, ill have the latest in accuweather. Reporter were starting with a large sinkhole on the road in Port Richmond for the morning commute. You can see they have the con
Building. There was a point when we did hear some extinguishing equipment being fired off by fire crews. Weve not heard that for about the last 30 minutes. Now the big trick with an electrical fire is you cannot pour water on it because water conducts electricity and theres the risk of electrocution and having the fire spread. You have to put some sort of foam or some sort of nonconducting chemical on top of that fire to suppress it. We havent heard that in about the last half hour. Since we havent heard that or seen that weve seen the fire crews pretty much hanging back and weve seen these flames spread. Again, no one injured at this point that we have heard from official reports from either the Philadelphia Fire Department or from peco and were told everyone has been evacuated from the facility. Thats the latest from huntington park, Mitch Blacher, nbc 10 news. Well continue our coverage with nbc 10s denise nakano. The fire also causing traffic problems. What are you seeing out there