We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco texas. We are very focused, almost all of the 40 books we published each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fit for our listand we are proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you linda rogers needs no introduction at all. She served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and she serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University and the johnleland center for theological studies. 11 years ago Melissa Rogers coauthored her first book at Baylor University press, an ambitious volume called religious free
Jessica, thank you. 4 30, we have snow overnight in parts of the area. Heres one example. You can see the flakes swirling. In Delaware County the snow actually accumulated on cars at the Shopping Center in havertown. You can see snow on the grassy areas. The fast moving snow showers now open the doors to two days of dangerously cold air. And will you feel the chilly change as you step out the door. Nbc10s Pamela Osborne is live this morning at the station. There you are. Reporter yes, definitely the type of morning where you want to put on the extra layers and take them off throughout the day. This type of weather you dont want to be out long unless you absolutely have to. We talked to these guys here and theyre going to warm up in a little bit. What in you dont have a place to go. Its a very big concern for leaders across communities. The Salvation Army is under a code blue emergency. They only goes into this type of alert in extreme weather. Where the windchill factor is 20 degrees o
Then it gets even colder tonight. Well look at the hourbyhour forecast in just ten minutes. Starting on the schuylkill expressway right now, right around the vine street expressway onramps, theyre just removing some of the last of that construction. You can see theres actually a gentleman walking towards the sign that they have blocking off the road here and we have the construction vehicles in the way. So, this is usually the last ramps to reopen. By the time you get out the door, you should be fine. Out in deptford county, theres an investigation from an earlier crash, all lanes are being blocked and detoured right now. That wont set you back too much. Early to see delays there. In brooklawn, theres a water main break. The earlier water main break has the left lane closed. 6 00 this morning, also just around the route 47 area. Youll be detoured around there as well for the next hour or so. Vai and tracy, back to you. 1 minute past 5 00, snow fell in portions of our region. Check out
Wilmington, during the archl, this closer to 40 miles an hour. This is the cold air dumping into the area. These numbers are falling down to 5 degrees for the windchill in reading. Weve managed to drop out of the 20s for whirl. Now that is sweeping across the area. During the day today. Most areas will look like that. With temperatures in the Single Digits. And since we went on the air at 4 room 30 this morning. 27 degrees in new jersey. And Lehigh Valley. 23 degrees. The suburbs will be in the 20s all day long. But its going to be middle 20s at best for the suburbs. 23 degrees with the bitter wind blowing. In the Lehigh Valley. Just 28 degrees in delaware. A cold day. Ill break it down, hourbyhour. Ill show you when were going to see a warmup when i come back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington is watching your first alert traffic. Starting off near 95. No big problems on the bridges and traffic. Speaking of 95, seeing delays on the southbound side. Might be partially because of
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