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Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of aweso awesome. Right now storms sweeping through the area. Live look at allentown getting hit right now with heavy rain and lightning. Live radar you can see the reds and yellows all part of that system covering the area. Some bearing the brunt of the storm. A live look from the ben franklin bridge tonight here in philadelphia the rain was kind of scattered throughout the night. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland and we have live team coverage. Chris oconnell out with concert fans adventurous diners dodging all of this. We begin...

Through our area. A break from the rain right now around philadelphia but take a look into sections of Chester County to the west of west chester moving toward the malvern area west vincent looking at some downpours and in particular berks county right now looking at very heavy rain around reading moving toward allentown. The pocono mountains. Some locations there have seen up to 2inches of rain. You can see as we move toward delaware, more showers and thunderstorms moving in your direction and take a look at some of the rainfall totals just to our west around york moving toward harrisburg. To...

And we thought, oh my god, this is such a big hotel, we will never get 200 people. We lasted at that hotel only for a year, and we have moved from one hotel to another weve held the convention every other year in washington, d. C. And this year there are almost 1300 folks registered already. [applause] with all those conventions, weve always started in the same way, and that is having an invocation to get started on the right foot. Each of us who have not drank alcohol or use drugs today is grateful, but we remember that seldom do we take credit for that all by ourselves. And two years ago and...

What to do, should we do it, we are not stopping, we are doing things all the time but at the start of a new administration there is a bit of a cycle based on change of administration, it is really great to take a fresh look at the crisis, the drug problem and what other major things we can do to address the problem so looking forward to the final report of the commission coming out in late october november, flowing the best ideas into the National Drug control strategy and try the most effective drug policies we can to help citizens across the country. [applause] let me say a word about inter...

Of there was a provision that said every state to get money from the feds had to set up a Revolving Loan fund to help create self run so support recovery houses based on the oxford house and that was put in there in large part because cspan covered a hearing in 1983 members of oxford house testified about their success living in the oxford house that spread and by Fall Congress put in the provision so of course, a major part was the creation of the drugs are ended almost every convention we have had the honor of them coming in this year is no exception. Richard bomb is the acting director of t...