[applause] mayor coleman let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. A wrecking ball almost tore
How important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. Almost tore it down. And we saved it, renovated it and it is now one of the jewels of the city of col
Tonight, that heavy rain is over. Students at st. Josephs university were walk without umbrellas. But we still have a few lingering showers out there. Let get an update from tammy souza. It looks like we are in the clear as far as the heavy rain. Scattered showers continue throughout the evening but a lot has moved off the coastline and at this point i think we are going to start to see things receding. How much did you get in your neighborhood . Thats the big question. Lets look at the rain totals across philadelphia. Some isolated areas got more than that. Let take a look at what went on and to the north up in lehigh valley, walnut port, 1. 9 inches. Allentown, 2. 29 inches. So a large amount of rain falling outside of the metro area. Now we go to the pennsylvania suburbs, 2. 2 inches in westchester. Gilbertsville, 2. 27. Lets go ahead and look at what went on in new jersey. Thats where i thought we picked up the heaviest amount of rain because they got that dense downpour this after
Yesterdays rain that lingered into the overnight hours created some drivers all across the area. The worst of it is over. We will dry out later on. Meteorologist krystal klei has the details with the most accurate forecast in town. Oh, ery we warned, it would be a rainy day all day, and thats exactly what we saw. The good news is, were now on the tail end of the system, as it start t area. So this morning, still some sprinkles out there, as you drive through. Start to your morning, youre going to notice, its kin gets windshield. And weve got this line here of some light rain thats going to this whole system starts to rotate on out. The goodrs morning hours. As we get later into the day, i s mostly cloudy, we will dry out. Heres the wider view. Heres the backside of the system, as i said, you can kind of see that rotation i was talking about. So still some rain this morning, but look farther along to the west, still clouds, but for the most part, the rain will have come to an end, meani
Soon. Well get to that in just a moment. Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Thanks for being with us. Im rosemary connors. Its 6 00 on this saturday. First alert meteorologist krystal klei is tracking the wet weather and tracking a bit of a warmup, eventually, coming. Krystal, fill us in. Yeah, thats right, eventually. Today is going to be one of those situations where youre happy that the rain has come to a close, but youre a little sad when you look out the window and realize the sun is not going to show itself, quite yet. Heres our radar and satellite view. Its cloudy out there this morning. Weve got some drizzly, kind of misty conditions outside as well. And notice the green on radar. I know theres not a lot, but were talking some spotty, light rain thats going to pass throughout this morning. The good news is, its going to pass throughout and then whats going to happen, were left with mostly cloudy conditions, no longer rainy conditions. All of that bulk rain we saw, thats m