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Community college. President obama says thoughts and prayers are no longer enough. Weve become numb to this. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her handson a gun. In just a few minutes, some of the calls for help and how local colleges prepare for a possible mass shooting. But we begin closer to home tonight with a details of a wet, windy night and Important Information on more trouble to come over the next few days. Take a look at the nbc...

Sheena, this storm is going to bring a lot of rain. Yeah, a lot of rain but also a lot of wind. The onshore wind is going to be one of the biggest concerns along the shore, continuing to push water inland. That will be the case over the next few days certainly. Right now around the philadelphia area, though, we have pretty light to moderate rain through upper bucks, so creating a wet evening community, slower roadways, and this will be the case tomorrow, both morning and evening commute. Rains d...

Ton a bit wet right now and route 40 down near elmer. So, were dealing with some rain through the morning at times its not terribly wet out there. That heavy rain you can see he on satellite6 and action radar really pulled out of here. Its a day with lots of clouds but we can see some of this pulling in from the south. Well see some showers at times today and it could come down pretty good at times. We have humidity thats way up there. You really feel the moisture. 76 degrees already in philadel...

We had warned you the heavy rain that you got in the overnight hours, you can see he that thats shifted up mostly to the north and east. Weve got some spotty showers here or there. It is a damp start on double scan really just the beginning of a number of wet days. Lets take a look at satellite6 and action radar. Theres that heavy rain that moved through last night. Now it pushing up its new yorks problem. Lots of clouds dan not out of the woods. Well have a little bit of rain at times but that ...

Looking around the region we see that heavy rain we had has moved off the coast up to the north and east but we still have showers in spots so were seeing them through norristown, malvern you want to watch for that in glassboro he in new jersey, Medford Lakes, browns mills, some showers around. Today is not a terribly wet day but we are going to see lots of clouds and some showers at times. Here you can see on satellite6 and action radar had that heavy rain that has moved well to the north but w...

Worth mentioning. 1848 is this wonderful moment where people like Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Steven are all young, rising whigs who are supporting taylor and working together. It was stevens who was one of the confederate peace commissioners lincoln is dealing with in the end. When we thing of the civil war in military terms, we talk about the mexican war as a precursor, a prelude, but the congress that lincoln served in has Horace Greely and Alexander Stevens and sidelines ...

For example in january 1865, ab maryland has abolished slavery. Bn. The confederates are talking about offering limited emancipation in order for talk service in the army. Things have changed. This was not a debate they woult have in the cabinet in the way that Tony Horowitz or steven in spielberg portrayed. Such its such a wonderful thing to see, a film addressing such a fm complicated issues, but the timing is all wrong. Timi ecti from ave dramatic perspective, frostbite an Artistic License pe...

Theres a scene on the day of the vote where Fernando Wood is waving papers saying i have affidavits. Thats not 19th century congress. Thats what you realize when you see a movie like lincoln. Or think about mr. Smith goes to washington, almost all of what we think we know about past politics comes from movies. And popular culture, and we absorb it so much, we think its real. Thats why its so important to try to sort it out. I dont want to be one of those scholar squirrels that gore vidal used to...

Climactic scene on the floor of the house on the day of the vote, january 1st, 1865, they have james spader and john hay running to the white house to get the note from lincoln. None of that happened. The note, we think, is real, though we dont have the original of it. Its a recollection from james ashley, but James Spaders character, william bilbo, was in new york at the time, at the st. Nicolas hotel. The lobbyists were in new york in the final weeks of the fight working the press. The race sc...

Those hospitals. I think brooke put in our comment too that the women werent really around the men changing bandages but scarlet was all up in there. Shes was literally watching what was going on. Women usually removed from that because they were that pure for that sort of thing. She was kind of like a traditional, say your typical war nurse you would think of. Thats really not what it was like. Another thing to think about is that all of the hospital scenes that are portrayed are in the south a...