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sits in a lecture with one of the nation s college professors. you can watch it next, brooklyn college professor benjamin carp talks about the advantages and disadvantages for british and american forces during the revolution. he describes how individual personalities, supplies, and timing influenced the outcomes. this class is one hour and 15 minutes. benjamin: hi, everybody. today s lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war in the north and south. next week, when we have our guest speaker, she will be talking about the western campaigns in more detail. there are other aspects of the war, financing the war, women s participation that we will not get to today that we will be leaving for future classes. i wanted to start by talking about one of the best recent books on the american revolution called the men who lost america. he argues that british generals are described as incompetent, in decisive, but he argues that these were competitive men ....
two, in some spots more than three inches of rain. there you can see active thunderstorms moving through northampton county clearing the allentown area. flood warnings in effect for pennsylvania and south jersey. flash flooding can occur even after the heaviest rain has ended because it takes some time for the runoff to accumulate and cause the flooding. be on the look jut for flooded streets this morning. the thunderstorm threat stays with us this morning and into this afternoon. we ll go through it hour by hour with the future cast when i come back in ten minutes to show you where the strongest storms are expected to pop up later today. let s see how the traffic is moving. first alert traffic reporter jessica boyington. jessica? we re looking live at the boulevard around fox street. you can actually see how wet the roadways are right here. southbound lanes headed towards the schuylkill expressway, there s not a lot of volume. definitely something to watch out for. y ....
children at all times. you have to take measures to make sure that a child that age isn t able to leave the residence without you knowing it. i just wanted to find out how she got out of the house. why do you want to know? reporter: the toddler s parents were confrontational when we showed up this morning. sources tell nbc 10 investigators found evidence of heroin and marijuana inside the house. were you using drugs? he did not answer the question and we can t air his response on television. authorities are still investigating what led to the child s death. sources say both parents could face charges, as could their neighbor, because the toddler was able to get to the pool after wandering away from her own home. this wasn t here last night. reporter: when did that go up? 1:00 in the morning. those people who own pools have to take every measure possible to assure that small children can t gain access to the pool. reporter: we went to that neighbor s hous ....
76 degrees at 7:00. by 10:00, 83 degrees. then 86 degrees, high humidity and we ll likely start to see showers popping up during the early afternoon hours. we ll go through the forecast, neighborhood by neighborhood when i m back in ten minutes to show you where the storms will not be hitting today. right now, let s check in with jessica boyington withç your first alert traffic. bill, we re out in new jersey, first, starting things off around runnemede. the northbound lanes moving along nicely. this is headed toward the walt whitman bridge. a five-minute drive time headed northbound from 55 up towards that point. if you re heading out the door on the to x ao the schuylkill e, the center city area from the schuylkill, 13 minutes there. currently no problems or delay. for mass transit, we re free and in the clear for new jersey transit, septa or patco speed line. no weather-related delays at the philadelphia international airport currently. chris? we continue to fol ....
create the potential for strong thunderstorms this afternoon a long with the heat. i ve issued a first alert weather day for the potential for severe thunderstorms this afternoon. with the storms today comes the threat of damaging winds, gusty winds on these fast-moving storms likely to push through during the afternoon hours. along with the winds, there will be heavy rainfall as well. don t expect to see the flooding rain we saw in parts of the area last night as these storms will be moving faster. it s a large area from west virginia into northern virginia and our entire viewing area that has the potential for these storms this afternoon and early this evening. the first showers of the day, we re seeing them to the north as expected to the north, between allentown and into the pocono mountains. some heavy downpours just to the south of scranton right now. that s the first wave of a system that will crank up this afternoon. you can see the line of storms extending thro ....