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For more than 55 days, protesters a protesters have taken to the streets in portland in often violent clashes. A judge has entered a temporary restraining order barring journalists from being removed from the protests. Heres kayna whitworth. Reporter in portland, a mostly white city, and these mostlywhite protesters, and these black mothers, hope that protesters arent just here to raise their own voices. They hope theyre willing to listen to others. Weve still got some ways to go. We realized through our protest on monday and especially tonight that we still have a big journey ahead of us, and we really need some black leaders in that wall of moms group. Reporter here clashes have raged for days. They increasingly look like a war zone. Moms are here reporter and its the mothers showing up to form walls on the front lines. Protesting Police Brutality and systemic racism. I feel like ive been protesting all the way back to trayvon martin, where i protested in washington, d. C. , you know
Conshohocken a bit but first meteorologist kate bilo in the Weather Center tracking colder air and some snow, kate. That is right, hard to believe we could talk about anything colder then what we have already felt but on friday, wind chill, may be in the 15 below zero range, and that is making 22 in the sound all that bad. So we have, 22 is currently in right now. Eighteen in allentown. And, colder air waiting in the wings. Call than see cold made it all the way down to portions of florida where temperatures are in the 30s and 40s, eight in columbus and real core of the cold here over great lakes 11 in minneapolis and nine, in milwaukee. That is what is heading our way by end of the week. It feels colder then it is, it feels sub zero in the poconos. Four in allentown. Only feels like 10, if you are heading out this evening in philadelphia. Winter storm watch has been posted, this includes shore points and delaware beaches this will go into Effect Tomorrow evening and continue into thur
American history tv. Next, steven hood, the author of john bell could the rise, fall, and resurrection of a confederate general. Generals weof love to hate. You can watch all of this coverage by visiting our website at www. Cspan. Org history. Join us tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. Eastern for more of the symposium. [crowd noise] im just getting it right to the introduction of our next speaker, who had an odyssey to get here but he is here happily. M. Hood is a distant relative of confederate general john bell put. He is the author of John Bell Hood the rise, fall, and resurrection of a confederate general. And also, the lost papers of confederate general John Bell Hood. President of the Confederate Museum in new orleans. Without further do, sam. [applause] sam hello, and thank you. You mentioned my odyssey. My wife and i moved to myrtle beach, south carolina, five days ago. And if you think it is bad when the Airlines Lose your luggage, we werent able to move into the so we arere buying livin
Latter portion of the night. Hooeg some of the main area of rain. Look at the heavy rain back to the west coming through right between 6 00 and 9 00. Then it just moves right on out of here. We have a severe Thunderstorm Risk for the next several hours. Well be monitoring those thunderstorms for anything developing because thats whats going to happen. So as we look through philadelphia, the greatest threat is tomorrow morning. Although we could see some storms this evening. Especially in some of the northern suburbs and Lehigh Valley with a big threat and its going to be warm and humid overnight. Big changes coming over the weekend. Well get into those details in a bit. The rain is threatening several Outdoor Events scheduled for tomorrow morning. Deanna durante is joining us live where the stage is set for a big Music Festival. Its the first ever that organizers are putting on the a field here. They are saying regardless of the rain, this is a rain or shine event. Rain, rain, go away,