>> i find myself always locked up on these, jim thorpe i think is the greatest american hero.is he great soldier, but he was a great sports hero. >> they argue over whether or not they should keep his remains in jim thorpe, pennsylvania. i also, though, the reason i find myself in a trap on this is i have a friend, i have such respect for muhammed ali, going at the olympics and his hands are shaking and he lights the flame in atlanta. and my friend blew up at me. he said how can you say muhammed ali is a hero? he avoided the draft. for that black 80-year-old man who served in the military, it was a great disappointment. >> that guy is my hero. >> your friend. >> mr. cobb, that one's for you. >> there's so many to choose from. that's what's so beautiful. he's mouthing to me. >> me, me. >> no. when i think of somebody who served admirably and refused to be released when he was held as a prisoner of war. you know, the admirable, think of john mccain what he went through as a prisoner of war, it's really resonates with me about how much people give up when they serve this country

day, same in allentown, lehigh valley, up in the poconos, we'll see scatter the showers tomorrow jim thorpeees. the shore or in delaware, temperatures 80 degrees in south jersey like trenton and along the shore, atlantic city, 67 degrees tomorrow, and avlon at 69, and 80 degrees closer to wilmington. you want umbrellas tomorrow. future weather, for the morning hours, mostly dry, rain off to the west, and 6:00 p.m., scattered showers around later tomorrow night. that's when we see more rain moving through, maybe thunderstorms overnight. could see heavy rain overnight into very early saturday, and rain lingers, saturday, 9:00 in the morning, south jersey and del delaware and in the afternoon, more clearing into saturday night. take a look at the weekend forecast. it depends where you live. philadelphia area tomorrow, rain, clearing saturday, and sunny, looks beautiful. in south jersey or along the shore, your rain is lingering saturday, same for delaware and it'll be in the sixtys too. >> thank you. lester holt is live from san francisco. >> what's coming up on "nightly news? >> well, coming

poconos, though, seeing heavy rain around chestnut hill, jim thorp getting out of that rain but it's moving across 476 here, some lighter showers in upper parts of lehigh county. looking at parts of berks and lancaster county around 76 here also up through parts of berks county, right near maiden creek in that area, mannheim as well light to moderate rain showers. the lightning farther to the south in maryland, so i circled this area for you because it's going to be moving into our are very soon. that's a spot i think will be moving up the i-95 corridor eventually, as we get closer to the evening commute. the later part of the evening commute. so here's the motion, mostly west to east, if we track this whole broken up line it will be moving into the allentown area by about 4:15 so in about 10 minutes wilmington by 5:26, philadelphia 5:30. so it's moving fairly quickly. we still have a little time until it gets close to the major interstates. temperatures have really jumped up, near 80 in philadelphia and northeast philly and reading. these temperatures will be helping to keep these