let's speak now to historian max arthur, thanks for being with us here in the studio in london waiting this ceremony to get underway, of course. the french president paying a national tribute to those who died. and this is the first air money of its kind to remember what something like 20,000 french civilians who died with the allied troops bombed that area of northern france. people forget that, don't they in. >> they do. we had to blitz the area from the reaches upwards. but the germans, in the french population and you know, 20,000 people being killed in their own homes sheltering perhaps is welcoming some ways as one expected really. >> you can understand that, i think for many years afterwards people in that northern part of france actually didn't feel kindly towards the allied troops who obviously lit rated france eventually. but at the time caused so much damage. it was a decision i guess that the commander had his to take. >> had to take on board, plus the fact that the fighting was not easy, just up from the coast. a lot of rear guard action bite germans and strong attacks fro

arthur. take look as we watch with our weather authority graphic here showing you that air force reserves have been flying into this cluster of showers and storms finding maxp sustained winds at about 38 miles per hour and a surface pressure a little over a thousand millibars it does have some time to intensify and we will watch it over the next several days. but looking at the spaghetti plots the models showing you the consensus pretty good right now. taking this parallel to the coast of florida. over the next day or so. and then eventually toward the outerbanks of north carolina. and then sitting it well to the south of us by friday morning. however, we could still have some impacts in the form of some clouds as well as showers as we move into friday out of this system and also an increased risk for rip currents. in the meantime it's warm and muggy. coming up we'll time out the potential for heat wave later this week. >> all right. scott, thank you very much. we want to take this moment to welcome lucy nolan to the fox 29 family. welcome. great to have you here. >> i am so thrilled to be here. so thrilled. i've been having so much fun going throughout th