Mascot change, a little less elephant and a lot more coyote. Mr. Coyote, that is, known to his friends as wile e. Classic cartoon fans will remember him as one of the stars of the looney tune animated series. The smart guy whose obsessive focus on stopping the roadrunner leads him to all kinds of wacky shenanigans enabled by acme company gadgets. The bomb. The rocket. The flying bat suit. The giant slingshot. It seems to me the republicans would be able to relate because this week they reached into their own grab bag of schemes and unveiled the latest strategy in their ongoing attempt to stop the Affordable Health care act from running. Investigate it to death. From ru. Investigate it to death. Thursday the house held the first of multiple hearings to figure out who, what, and why behind the botched rollout of the exchange website. During the hearing, members of the house energy and Commerce Committee grilled a panel of representatives representing the contractors responsible for build
Rassoules. Hi, guys. Good morning. So today its my honor to welcome this great group of people. I want to get right to the conversation slowed to a lightning introduction of old in. Just about right is Christina Lewis halpern was the founder of a allstar code, nonprofit dedicated to closing opportunity gap between young men of color and the tech sector. Next we have taofeek rabiu, the senior technical manager at aol. He does products and key developer. Taofeek has been coding since he was 14. Last but not least we have nikolas rassoules who is a sophomore at pathways to Technology Early College High School in brooklyn. He is actually bit on the Robotics Team at his high school as a Software Developer and you just went to nationals this year, right . Awesome, cool. Thanks for being here. I would love to start with christina. Tell us of a bit the allstar code and what the program does and why you want to focus on young men . Sure. So allstar code is a prep program for the Tech Industry,
Sotloffs mother made a public plea. She said her son is not responsible for obamas foreign policy. James foley was beheaded in the same fashion. The video is genuine. We are sickened by this brutal act taking the life of another innocent american citizen. Our heart goes out to the sat lo to the sotloff family. Obama heads overseas to deal with ukraine and the isis threat. First stop, a visit to astone ya as former soviet countries. They are watching the unrest in ukraine and are relying on the International Community to provide security for the region. President obama will travel to nato. Live in the dim tal operations center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. To the weather. Call it a september scorcher. The month off to a sweltering start. 90 day today making work difficult for the roofers. Changes are coming. The first alert radar tracking storms that will be moving into parts of our area. The latest on the warm temperatures from chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. We have only ha
Through overnight. We will get a break from the summer heat we saw yesterday. Good morning, welcome to nbc 10 news today on this wednesday, lets begin with meteorologist bill henley and his first alert forecast. The big change from this morning versus yesterday morning, its not nearly as muggy out there. The mugginess has started to come down. It will come down more during the day. Most of the areas dry but not cape may. The rain is still falling there. Thats a view from the marquis de lafayette hotel. Showers are in southern delaware as well. This is the last little bit of rainfall moving through the region. We will be dry for the rest of the day and the clouds that are with us, theyll be clearing, too. The sturz are running lower. North and west, 60s for allentown, mount poconos down to the lower 60s. 75 in philadelphia. Thats a few degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. Overall, it will be much more comfortable as the humidity drops, 74 degrees, clouds around at 7 00, otherwise
Time, sunny and 84 degrees. The humidity will be much lower. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when i come back. First, jillian mele has traffic. Good morning, bill. That construction finally cleared off of 95 southbound near bartrum avenue. It was taking out the two left lanes in this area. But as you can see, its wrapped up. This is the 42 freeway at creek road. Northbound sides adrivers pass 295 and head out to the bridges. We still have construction on the westbound side of the bend as drivers make their way into philadelphia. We also have construction on 295. This is in both directions between route 168 and the 42 freeway. This is expected to be out there, active construction until about 6 00 this morning. Tracy . We continue to follow breaking news in philadelphia. Fire crews are wrapping up following a fire at what was to be a daycare center. They were just about to move in in the East Oak Lane section. This is a live look at the scene at wadsworth. He told us a day care ren