The vicinity of upper makefield where we did have report of hail about. 30 of an inch into diameter in this cell where we have tour ren al rain falling. Please beware that most of these are fast moving and should be in and out of your neighborhood win about 10 or 15 minutes. But more will be on the way through the evening. Once we get through the 8 00 oclock hour, all of this will be fading after the sun sets. And skies will begin to clear during the late night hours but it wont be over just yet. More on the way tomorrow. In the city overnight 57. In the suburbs 53. Scattered showers and storms through 8 00 p. M. A few scattered showers becoming partly cloudy overnight. The big story is when the weather turns much warmer. It will be happening this week. Temperatures back into the 80s. Ill see you with the seven day forecast later in the broadcast. Well continue to track those storms. All right, kathy, thank you. We are on top of breaking news in cherry hill tonight. A pedestrian was hi
Untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. Hear her journey about writing this remarkable story that combines the rich intersection of the civil rights era, the space race, the cold war and the movement for gender equality. As an anthropologist with an admiration for history, i was curious about this date, september 8th. What happened with nasa on this date. So september 8th, 1967, the surveyor v launched. 1983, sat com vii launched. And today, september 8th, 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly publicly launches her book [laughter] Hidden Figures into the literary world. [applause] so a little bit on margot. I know many of you you know her, or went to school with her. Margot was raised right here in hampton, virginia. She graduated from the university of virginia with a degree in finance. A journalist, independent researcher, entrepreneur and cocreator of an englishlanguage monthly magazine with her husband, aaron, margot is the daughter of one of the first na
State legislators have told me, i, i told them, why do you take the medicaid money . They said because we dont want to leave any federal dollars on the table. And that is the biggest influence that i can see with legislators. Now some with political aspirations have not done that because they have said, ive got future political aspirations but, but, within a couple of years, they go after that money and i can tell you that louisiana did not take the medicaid money until the new governor got in. It was the first act that he did. That weve been leaving and millions and millions of federal dollars on the table. States, highway funds, why do they invest in highways before they invest in Higher Education . Why do they invest in medicaid before they invest in Higher Education . Why did land grant universities get created . Federal government gave lands under Partnership States would have to do following things which would create the greatest Public University system in the world which result
Health advocate, an author, a physician, an educator. He serves as secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and was founding dean of the Morehouse School of medicine, and today dr. Sullivan will be discussing his recent memoir, breaking ground my life in medicine, so welcome. Were very happy to have you. Thank you. [applause] this is a bit different because often i do fiction books, occasionally memoirs. But your story, theres a lot to talk about here. And i wanted to just begin, i mean, its a hard thing to say to somebody, you know, hi, can you synopsize your life in all of two sentences. But i wanted you to just in some just very brief way tell the audience what this book covers. And then i will delve in, and well start true going into start going into specifics, and then well build from there. Well, thanks very much. First of all, its a great pleasure to be here with you and to be here at the public library, so thank you very much. Youre welco
Hello, everyone. I am the director of Public Programs and events. Im happy today, thrilled to introduce doctor sullivan who is im going to have to read because his long list of things. Hes a policy leader and Minority Health advocate and author and educator and serves as secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and was the founding dean of the school of medicine and today he will be discussing his recent memoir breaking ground by life in medicine. So, welcome. We are very happy to have you. [applause] this is a bit different because often i do fiction books, occasionally memoirs. But in your story theres a lot to talk about and i wanted to just begin it is a hard thing to say to somebody can use use enough size your life and all of two sentences but i want to just and some very brief way tell the audience what the book covers, then i will delve in and we will start going into the specifics and then build from there. Guest thanks very much. Its a