they took turns each night guarding bethel baptist church. in 1958 a young woman who lived across the street, lavern mcwilliams who was coming home from her job at a sandwich shop noticed smoke coming up beside the church building. she went over to wake up some of the guards and found they had actually fallen a sleep on the porch of the house next door. one of the guards, a man named will hall, walked over to investigate. what mr. hall found was not a fire but, in fact, a metal bucket filled with dynamite and the fuse had been lit. now, mr. hall had worked in mining and had experience with explosives. so, he looked at the fuse and calculated that he probably had a minute before the bomb exploded. rather than running for cover, mr. hall picked up that metal bucket. he set it in the street, turned, ran, jumped into the ditch and the bomb exploded. it blew a crater two feet wide and 15 inches deep in the middle of the street. it also blew windows out of houses in the area and blew the windows out of the church but it saved the church building. t

i remember the example how important it was when i was in bethel one time, and this gentleman came up to me, i was in a vfw hall. a lot of you have been in vfw halls, and you know when someone's coming at you in ap aggressive pace -- an aggressive pace, it's probably not positive. he held his hand out and showed me his scars. he said i had to go to anchorage to get this taken care of. and then i was about to, plain, and then he said but do you know what i get to do? every single week now when i need my therapy, i with go -- i can go to the bethel, not fly to anchorage to get it done. that is the model of how to do the right thing. when it came to fisheries, alaska's well nobody for it. well known for it. i know, don't mean to pick on senator franken, but i remember him coming up to me because we coined a phrase on modified, engineered fish. we called 'em franken fish. it was not about you -- [laughter] it was about this fish that was chemically enhanced that would really destroy fisheries in alaska and be bad for the market and bad for consumers. we fought, because alaskans brought it

all the way out to discovery bay and bethel island and san ramon. fremont, sunol grade will probably be a mess today along the peninsula as well. a little heavier coming in. 50s on your temps. they will not budge i think another degree. i think they are stuck here. it will be a cooler day. lows in the 50s. highs in the upper 50s or low 60s. not an outrageous breeze but it will pick up. we've already had hints of that. 27 in tahoe. nothing yet. fog being reported around truckee. again that winter storm warning starts at noon today and goes all the way into tomorrow. last check i saw there wasn't too much precip yet. winter storm warning. we will measure feet. snow level around 62-65. and then it will come down. there is a lot here to like if you like rain. if you don't like thunderstorms then you might want to take a flight out of the area because it looks like they will start to move in later this morning. rainfall looks good for everybody. and it's been a long time since we've said that. so everybody in on a really good rain event here and it's abo

elsewhere, just 29 minutes ago in bethel snow coming down pretty hard where they picked up inches ofnow over the past couple of days. and i love this one much this is from spike in trenton and he says, this is a snow tease. earlier today holiday flurries had this snowman convinced they soon would be joined by new friends. not enough snow yet. if you will like to be a weather watcher, you can become part of our newscast. go to cbsphilly.com/watchers. special thanks to our weather watchers to providing pictures and video over the past several days with the snow. our live skycam3 down in ocean city. the boards are white because of a squall that moved through. that has lifted to the north into atlantic city. a few more snow showers snow showers lingering out there still rotating around an area of low pressure. our nor'easter off the coast of maine. you can see these moving on through toward the south and the east. still lingering in comer land, salem, even gloucester counties and down the atlantic city expressway toward estelle manor still hanging out in galloway and moving north of atla

mark lamont hill spoke at mother bethel ame church in queen village this morning.ill just came back from ferguson and he was critical of the police, the prosecutor and the grand jury's decision. he also talked about the deep cutting pain he witnessed after learning the grand jury's decision. >> i watched michael brown's mother. she stood there crying devastated how -- i kept thin thinking about... >> dr. hill said he never expe expected an indictment. he says he feels sad for young people who were hoping for positive change in this case but were burned. >> in st. louis there was a big show of support today for ferguson protesters. >> really powerful statement came from football players the st. louis rams during the team's pre-game introductions you can see what they're doing. they had hands raised that gesture hands raised don't shoot. they raised their hands. this was the gesture first adopted by the ferguson protesters aftermath of michael brown' death to show they too like brown were unarmed. >> police are now confirming they have found the the body of missing o

deputy commissioner kevin bethel joined lawmakers and community leaders in tonight's discussion autumn reed high school. they talked about the impact of mike brown and eric garner grand jury decisions and audience heard from the parents and children as young as 3 years old taken by gun violence there. >> is a conviction in murder of off-duty, philadelphia police officer. rafael jones received a mandatory life sentence. officer moses walker junior was shot and killed during a robbery in august, 2012. a co-defendant testified that jones thought the policeman looked like a college student because he carried a backpack. it may have been an easy target. that defendant faces 20 to 40 year sentence as pleading and charmed guilty of third degree murder. >> police have names of suspects want ford a violent robbery in bensalem. they're looking for david pier grocery and daniel leflar believed to be the men that smashed display cases and stole thousands of dollars worth of coins from the coin and collectable store. they got away in this vehicle and both are considered armed and dangerous. >> toda

upper mount bethel getting a pretty good snow shower right now. lighter side. so not much in the way of accumulations. anything would be on the grass. we don't expect it sticking to the roads. but overnight, we will get a lot colder. light snow showers and maybe flurries around the i-95 corridor. but again, those temperatures right now pretty well above freezing. area of low pressure that nor'easter has not left the northeast just yet. it's spinning around new england. that's the center of it and it's really swinging us the colder air giving us the snow, as well on the back side of the system. so as we even go through tomorrow, we could see more lingering snow showers before it all moves away. so here is future weather for the rest of the evening. even overnight tonight, you see future weather showing 4:00 a.m., snow showers still. and through the day tomorrow, we also somewhere the chance for some lingering snow showers. 10 it's really not until friday when the entire system starts to move out more. so for tonight, windy and cold, snow showers st

decent little cell out toward bethel island. we do have some breaks around the east bay. probably not much happening. peninsula there were few cells falling apart. so this still has to swing on shore. i mean we are on a marginal risk of severe weather. which is very rare to get marginal. so possibility of funnel clouds and waterspouts. a couple reports from half-moon bay and pacifica it is howling along the coast and in some of the higher elevations. half-moon bay 37 out of the due south. it will be a blustery windy day for some. and some of the higher elevations. we still have a ways to go. this looks to be favoring areas to the north. some of the rainfall projetions will lift a little bit over the next couple of days. there will still be rain san jose and out to sacramento. the heavier rain will be focused near marin county. some soft rain rates i have not seen for as long as i can remember. i cannot keep up on the rain totals. >> yeah one of the things we cannot keep up with all the crashes. fender benders. more serious crashes. let's start off by looking at the the to

there's some rain out towards antioch, bethel island, discovery bay. parts of marin county. heavy here. a little bit teams to be picking up in lake county. 40s on the temps or 50s. to the back side, here comes some more. there will be a series of these coming through. today, tonight. it looks like tuesday night into wednesday. one more on friday. rain, cloudy, foggy, breezy at times and very brisk temps with a lot of 40s. sal, we have something going on in oakland? >> yeah, we have breaking news. we have 50 to 75 protesters that have blocked the broadway offramp from northbound 880. they are interlinked with handcuffs. they -- they are all chained together with these handcuffs. and that's gonna make it tough for the police to move. the chp has put out an alert for all officers available. they are even asking for officers from san francisco to show up to the area. oakland police are on the ground. they were also in front of the oakland police building and needlessly, this is -- needless to say, this is causing a huge traffic tieup in oakland on the freeways on city streets an