That working together should not be assigned as weakness, but a sign of strength. These students are fully dedicated to the work and to reviving these principles not only back into our government, but also into everyday society. These students have learned to the example of senator ford that those ideals and principles or what it takes to best serve your constituents and community as a public servant. The less than principles our students learn our ones they will use throughout their lives. They may be High School Students today, but they are also our nations in the states, and communities future leaders. On behalf of the ford center, i would like to welcome and recognize several of our dignitaries we have in attendance today. We have the honorable joseph mckinley, the honorable jeff taylor, the honorable david payne come and the honorable j wethington, mr. Joe boland and susan mile, jim gooch. Honorable mayor tom watson and city commissioners bob glenn and larry conder. Officials from
American civil war at the university of virginia and a great friend to the Virginia Historical society. He has spoken here on several occasions and has done research here in the Rich Holdings of our civil war manuscripts. He was a member of the class in 1988. I wont tell you how old i was at that point. We were glad to have him then as today. He has also mined the collection of the Confederate Memorial Society at the museum of the confederacy for his essays. That question, that collection, as you may know, will be housed at the Virginia Historical society where it will be preserved, catalog, and digitized as part of a new Civil War Research center. This will be, through this partnership, the largest private repository of civil war archives in the world. [applause] as you might imagine, that comes with a great cost and lots of work. This is a 3 million effort to provide storage, process and catalog the collection, and in doubt this so it can be available to the largest possible audience
Nominee mitt romney. And a philadelphia fan favorite showing how much the fans mean to him. It is a special connection that is a special connection. Brian dawkins breaks down while talking about eagles fans. It is bringing him to tears. Seinfeld fans, jay peterman is in the the house. Mr. Peter man. Actor john ohurley joins us this morning on good day to preview a National Dog Show in our area. The precious, pups he is bringing with him before they go for gold. You know it is a big day for me then. Yes. Jay peterman is here. You are excited. You are like the kid on christmas. We will try to talk him into recreating one of the famous scenes between elaine, you will play elaine and he will be jay peterman. Do you think he will do it. No. You know, it has been 20 years, sometimes these anchors want to divorce them self from the characters. We will can when he gets here. Lock the door and not let him out. That is one way you cant talk about your dogs until do you this. Good day, it is frid
Meteorologist bill henley and the first alert forecast. Bill always springs out of bed every morning, right, bill . Yes, which is why im all bruised up. At 4 00 in the morning or earlier. Grab an umbrella if youre headed out the door. Headed to spring weather, that usually includes rain. Thats what we have this morning. The rain is falling in cape may. Live view from the marchquise de lafayette hotel. The first bit of rain and well get a break before more showers move in later on. The temperatures will be moving up despite the wet weather. The clouds 56 degrees at 6 00. By 9 00 59. Upper 60s at noontime. Well go through it hour by hour with the future weather show you when that next round of showers will be moving into the area when im back in ten minutes. Right now lets check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Good morning, jessica. Good morning, bill. If youre headed out in the Center City Area on the vine street expressway, the westbound side is closed due to on
Im ted greenberg. It is 5 00 a. M. On this saturday morning. Thank you so much for getting up early and joining us. Lets say good morning to first alert meteorologist Michelle Grossman. Were going way up today. Its going to feel like summer by this afternoon. Already feeling good as ted mentioned, temperatures mainly in the mid 50s. Youll feel that difference as you step out this morning and by this afternoon some spots hitting the 80 degree mark. The big story being the temperatures through the day. The temperatures not bad at all right now. 56 in philadelphia 55 in Washington Township same story to the north and west mainly sitting in the upper 40z and youre waking up to 50 in lancaster. Temperatures into the mid and even upper 50s in some spot, 57 in dover and 52 degrees in mount holly. Were going to see winds gusty this afternoon. So not bad at all right now. Were seeing calm winds. When we get the sun going, well see the winds picking up. Winds gusting near 20 miles an hour. Today