Biography for the series of books on the president. I said arthur, i dont have time. Im retired. And he said i want you to do one thing. Allen evans have done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take the weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldnt say no. I was fascinated by the man. Did you know much about him. I knew he was a tennesseean and im a tennesseean. I knew that his grave is behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old homeplace in columbia is preserved and i had been there many times and have been there since. But i knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. His reputation was the result of what was to him during his presidency over the mexicanamerican war. Left him a bad reputation. A reputation as a warmonger. And the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great dea
Neighborhoods 15 days ago is causing problems for people. Cydney long is live in Gloucester County with more. She has this report right now. It has been and still is a monster job. Were waiting for the cleanup now, you know. Getting to all of the fallen broken branches stumps leaves and debris left over from the storm two weeks ago. This is bells lake drive in Washington Township, and piles of debris still line the curbs on wedge wood. Were finally moving more aggressively than we have. Until today Washington Township had just three municipal crews on debris removal, now there are eight. Now with the pressure of more nasty weather. Trying to get as much done today before the rains come. You know we can only do what we can do. This is Mother Natures call. One silver lining. Its a silver maple. They carve pretty good. Brian was hired to preserve this tree. The homeowner planted the tree with his father decades ago. This is how we gave the tree its second life. I live in town. I had to cu
Few sprinkles right now around the philadelphia area but coming up, the timing of more showers even Severe Weather in that forecast as early as tomorrow. Back to you. All right, scott, thank you. You can stay ahead of all the Severe Weather by downloading the fox 29 news app. You can check out life radar images and get weather alerts sent right to your phone and download it for free in the apple or google play stores. To to developing story right now. Rough day for technology and companies that represent american capitalism the Biggest Airline biggest Stock Exchange and et cetera prominent business newspaper all had massive issues that brought things to a grinding halt. Our joyce evans here with more on a day with some rather erie coincidences joyce. Really erie indeed. We begin on wall street where trading on the Stock Exchange closed just about an hour ago after being shut down for more than three hours. Now at this point Officials Say it still looks like a computer glitch, not a cyb
Brigantine area, galloway you can see highway 30 here the ac expressway heavy downpours as well as lightning. Then well move up the road here and you can see around Barnegat Light, long beach forked river looking at lightning as well as some very heavy rainfall. That rain has prompted some flood advisories not only for Atlantic County but for sections of Cumberland County as well as a sliver of salem and also Gloucester County until 8 30 respectively and 9 30 there just due to the very heavy rain. Rainfall rates one to 2inches per hour in some of those cells. Getting a break right now in philadelphia. But west goshen some downpours for you also moving toward the norristown area eventually toward Plymouth Meeting as well as the abington area. Watching out for you but you can see a dry break right now around center city. We have that front thats moving through now but tomorrow well have to keep tabs off to the west for a threat of some Severe Weather. So by 7 00 oclock, most of the showe
Because of her sexual orientation. Tonight a group of parents is rallying around the popular educator. Good evening to you, im jessica dean. Waldron Mercy Academy in merion is responding to night to the firing of teacher margie winters. Some parents say the schools actions are unjust. Eyewitness News Reporter matt rivers is live in fairmount where a meeting in support of wints just wrapped up. Matt. Reporter that meeting wrapped up within the last hour and a half or so. It was about two hours long and there was over 130 people here who showed up including the teacher who was fired margie winters. All of the people came out here were told to show their support support. Our cameras are not allowed inside that meeting room but were told margie winters received a standing ovation a show of serious support. Margie winters has been married to her wife since 2007. And she worked add waldron mer cease cad me for about that long that is until last friday when parents were sent an email notifyin