He would be the first one to say there was so much more to do celebration of his life will take place over the course of six days it kicked off saturday after these events he will lie in state at the Georgia State capitol on wednesday thursday he has a celebration of life theres several more days where he will be remembered and it does feel as though people are coming together at this time to kind of highlight the choices, the brave choices he made with his career and the impact that had on civil rights legislation, among many other areas thats right. I was just look at this shot of Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and nancy pelosi both standing by in a socially distanced set up the aerial shot that was stunning and will be an image that stays with us as a marker of this time with bipartisan in such short supply in washington, the memory of john lewis is something that has brought lawmakers, policy makers from both sides of the aisle together both mcconnell and pelosi are schedul
Breeze, only 3 miles an hour. So basically it is calm this morning, and another milestone time for our sunrise, 7 30 sunrise, oh, boy, were really into the thick of autumn right now. Dont look for a lot of sunshine throughout the afternoon. Maybe little bit when we first get started this morning. But sunset time is 5 58. High temperature today, seasonable, 63 degrees. Bob kelly . Know what i like taking . The pretzel rods. Oh,. And sticking them into the jar of Peanut Butter. Oh, im good all day, you give me ajar of Peanut Butter. Good morning, everybody, 4 01, still working west on the schuylkill expressway, 476, again, all part of the paving operation on the schuylkill expressway. Theyre also working eastbound on the schuylkill expressway. All lanes are block right here at 30th street until about 5 00. This morning. Folks using the vine street expressway to get around it. And over on the boulevard, theyre also working, repaving, there is a crew at ninth street, and then another crew
Starting today. Good day philadelphia at 5 00 a. M. Starts right now. Right now, taking a liver pick at Lower Manhattan where this is an active crime scene, still, and we can see, that theyre still looking for evidence, at this hour. That area has closed off. A lot of questions, learning about the suspect, did he act alone, part of larger network, as we mentioned the investigation still, in the early stages, as we look live. This is along the west side highway, place where a lot of bicyclists, a lot of people going running, walking during the day, especially on day like halloween, getting ready for the parade. Steve keeley is there, gathering more details as we mentioned, well have live report coming up in about 90 seconds. It is good to have you with us this wednesday. It is good to have everybody with us, this morning, you mentioned it, all saint day today. So holiday for some of the kids at some of the Catholic Schools. Some of the kids off from school. All showing their sugar high.
When i left i went out into the world into the community to learn in life and how to be a man. And their workshops all along the avenue they are not there in more. And that discrimination not be faced from the darker skin students chasing kids hold afterschool calling him cracker as they fly at the st. Running into your yard there was a day at woodstock them. But one day their mother said we will put an end to this. Close the gate let them come up and chase them back into that corner to that big pail of water but overhead she doused them with the big bucket of water and said steve my kids alone. But that was the dynamics of the integrated neighborhood. Really not of racial tension but she is said j. Pittsburg figure all but one of his major plays whether it is urban redevelopment and coming of drugs or urban renewal later in the 1990s. So he and his plays really capture like that spurred history. To have a real sense that he walked the streets of the School District and he never drove
Our job is to educate, organize, mobilize people. Or years from now is a long time. Weve got other things to worry about today. [applause] you talk about universal healthcare and its something that so many of us believe in. What do you think is the straightest path to get that at this point . The problem lies in a corrupt Campaign Finance system. And the first thing weve got to do is overturn citizens united. [applause] and in my view, moved to public funding of elections. What we also have got to do, and this worries me very much , its directly related to healthcare or the environment or anything else. You have to pay a lot of attention and fight back against voter suppression. There are cowardly republican governors all over this country who are afraid of free, open and democratic elections and theyre trying to make it harder for young people, for old people, people of color to participate in the political process so we got to resist that and move toward a nation in which everybody ,