The cup the also visited the prefecture which were hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. And the emperor expressed sympathy for those affected by a series of disasters. Among them were strong earthquakes that devastated the southwestern prefecture from april. The emperor referred to his august message to the nation where he indicated his message toed a so indicate. It may be difficult to carry out duties as his condition declines. The emperor and other members of the imperial family are scheduled to appear at the imperial palace in tokyo three times on friday morning to greet well wishers. Japanese emergency crews have brought one of the countrys biggest ever fires under control. Flames swept through the city on the sea of japan coast and burned at least 140 buildings. Five people were hurt. The fire broke out thursday morning in a Chinese Restaurant in the niigata prefecture. Translator ive never seen a fire this big. Translator im wondering if my home is okay. The city advised
Today a pretty nice day. Were starting off dry and mostly clear skies. Nowhere near as cold as it normally is. Usually see these numbers in the 20s. Right now its 36 degrees in philadelphia. Theres a little bit of a breeze now out of the west at 12 Miles Per Hour. That will be enough to make it feel chillier start with. Look at these afternoon temperatures. 47 in new jersey. For the suburbs degrees along with the Lehigh Valley and near 50 this afternoon for philadelphia. While delaware is dry, today 47 degrees. Dry today but rain is on the way for tomorrow. Ill go through forecast hour by hour when im back in ten minutes. First lets check in on the first alert traffic with Francesca Ruscio. We have some updates for you folks in terms of mass transit. Train 1295 will be running 30 minutes late because of earlier equipment problems. Everything else is running on time and schedule. So, again thats train 1295. We have a water main break on the southbound side of columbus boulevard blocking
6 00 a. M. , friday, december 23. Tam is off, nydia han joins us. Reporter were following several breaking stories, holiday tragedy, fire crews in montgomery are searching for the cause of a house fire that left a person dead. Were live on the scene. Breaking, a woman gets into a bloody struggle with two men who bander into her home overnight. Accuweather and santa is tracking wet weather. It will be dry today before rain moves in Christmas Eve. Karen rogers is here filling in for david good morning. Reporter good morning its cold outside, well a cold start to the day. Its a prettier day than yesterday, we have bright sunshine, go ahead and take a look, you can see that on satellite and radar, we have the clouds that cleared in the overnight hours. We can see the clouds spilling in from the west, though, they will fill in later in the day. Well start with bright sunshine. 31 in quakertown and pottstown, 30 in coatsville, 29 in kennett square. 28 in browns mills and ewing. 30 in cinnami
Surely this is an old case, old at least by newspaper standards. The condition had occurred in 2003 and i thought surely people have written about this but when i dug deeper, i saw that it hadnt been covered at all and the reason was that brian regan was arrested two weeks before 9 11 and he was convicted one month after the us invaded iraq so it was almost this story was kind of book ended bythese two major events. And it was sort of lowhanging fruit for me to go after. To rewind a little bit, your interest in going to this cryptology us, do you have a background in science writing so you were comfortable solving into it. As you get to the cryptology section, i think everyone except that hardcore cryptology us are going to say, let me get a cup of coffee, this is serious. Can you talk about what was your interest in cryptology before that . Were you working on something . I didnt really have a specific interest in cryptology. Im a science writer, i worked at Science Magazine for many
Historic place toss learn about american history. General Douglas Mcauthur was a fivestar general who committed allied forces at world war ii. At memorial in norfolk, virginia we learn about his early life, service in world war i and career during interwar years. This is part one of a twopart program. Welcome to the mcarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia. Its my honor and privilege to be the director here. This is a museum and Research Center dead indicated to life and times of general of the army Douglas Mcauthur who lived from 1880 until his death at 64. We want to show you pressures from our exhibits. Lets go take a look. Were located in old Norfolk City Hall built in 1850. Given over to the memorial in 1964. City hall contains nine galleries which follow chronologically life and times of general of the army Douglas Macarthur. We begin with his family which answers the 64 dollar question, why in norfolk. The answer is mom. Let me show you a photograph of general macarthurs mother an