Connolly from roll call and thanks for joining us. Glad to be here after a crazy week in politics. You got that right. No surprise. Alabama well, it was a surprise but alabama huge victory but is this victory for the democrats about the party and the democrats or was this about the rejection of an accused pedophile . You know, its its thats an interest, question. Weve talked to a bunch of political operatives on the democratic side and the republican side and they said its a mixture of both. You know, its sort of the democrats its been said needed a perfect storm to pull off this victory in alabama with doug jones. They thought they had a quality candidate, a clean candidate who wanted to present himself as some sort of an alabama man through and through and focus on what he called Kitchen Table issues and then you had doug jones who is sort of an insurgent republican candidate and of course the allegations of Sexual Misconduct against doug jones played a tremendous factor in the the f
15 billiondollar boost in military spending. Though trump proposed steep cuts to medical research, lawmakers increased the budget for the National Institutes of health by 2 billion. Theres money for opioid abuse, Summer School spell grants and cash for Transit Systems. By most accounts this is very much a middle of the road proposal that lawmakers on both sides can that agree to. None as they call them poison pills involved in this particular compromise. Members of the house and the senate do have to vote on this by friday in order to keep things running at least through september and then we start the process all over again. Live on capitol hill, im Melanie Alnwick fox5 local newsily. All right, melanie, thank you very much. 4 31 is the time right now. We now know more about a u. S. Service member killed saturday outside mosul. 25yearold weston lee a paratrooper from fort bragg was killed by an ied patrol p lee was from bluffing ton georgia. Hes been posthumously awarded several award
This morning i still have a decent coat on. We have had rain overnight but its long gone off the coast. A little bit breezy at times look at all the clearing we have out to the west. For a time today were going break out into sunshine before we wind up transitioning to cloudier skies later this afternoon. 42 degrees this morning, no more teens to talk about in the morning. 35 still kind of cold in allentown but even thats a big improvement and look at that wind coming up from the southwest. Thats a mild source region for us. We got a 13 Miles Per Hour wind right now in philadelphia and that is going to help draw in milder air as we go into the afternoon. So heres wait looks like today. 41 degrees by 7 oclock. By noon, 44. A lot more sun there. And then probably clouding up again later as we get through the afternoon. 51 is your high at 3 oclock though and even as late as 7 oclock were still looking at about 46 degrees. Now, by about 8 oclock in philadelphia, well have some rain moving
Ramp remains blocked and we can see theyre kind of moving around one of the vehicles here trying to get it into place. But in the meantime, the ramp from i95 southbound to the blue route still shut down at this hour. Live right here and you can see on sky6 as theyre moving some of the vehicles but its still flipped over and this is a great shot on twitter thanks to the woodlynne fire company for sharing this one. And you can see that the tractortrailer flipped over. Weve got debris and this is the way its been for hours. They have to upright it get it on the tow truck before they can begin to clear it out. Heres what you can do. If youre taking i95 southbound you can take 420 to macdadmacdade boulevard. You can take 320 to macdade boulevard or if you wants to head to 322 flip over you can go from i95 northbound to the blue route but you cant go from i95 southbound to the blue route and thats because of this accident a big one involving an overturned tractortrailer. Lets go outside live
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