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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Tarps and fences block the seating area in the Hoboken Terminal waiting room in Hoboken, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New Jersey
Transportation

8 years later, Sandy still costing transit systems billions

“It seems like at least once a decade, you’re going to get something that has a major impact on the transportation network."

5 years ago

People crowd the beach in Huntington Beach, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Environment
International

Earth breaks September heat record, may reach warmest year

Earth sweltered to a record hot September last month, with climate officials saying there’s nearly a two-to-one chance that 2020 will end up as the hottest year on record.

5 years ago

Jim Fontenot carries possessions into his brother's home, to which his family temporarily relocated to ride out Hurricane Delta which is expected to make landfall later in the day, in Lake Charles, La., Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Environment
National

Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana

Debris piles went airborne as Delta blew through, and some of the wreckage floated around in the storm surge.

5 years ago

A car leaves Cameron, La., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, past a building destroyed by Hurricane Laura, in advance of Hurricane Delta, expected to make landfall Friday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Environment
National

Louisiana braces to relive a nightmare as Delta nears

The city of Lake Charles was already a landscape of towering debris piles still uncollected after Hurricane Laura.

5 years ago

South Seaside Park in September 2015
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Public Safety

NWS: N.J. rip currents ‘life-threatening’ to anyone who enters ocean

Large swells up to eight feet high — generated by the distant Hurricane Teddy — are creating dangerous conditions and rip currents, according to the National Weather Service.

5 years ago

A Friday, Sept. 18 satellite image of tropical activity. (NOAA/GOES)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Greek alphabet now in use as extremely active hurricane season depletes names

For the second time in the history, the National Hurricane Center is using the Greek alphabet to name new cyclones during this year's record-breaking hurricane season. 

5 years ago

FILE - In this May 21, 2020 file photo, Gov. Wanda Vazquez, wearing a protective face mask amid the new coronavirus pandemic, attends a press conference, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Vazquez announced Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, that she will place the U.S. territory on a 24-hour lockdown every Sunday as part of stricter measures to fight a spike in COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)
Environment
Government Accountability
Infrastructure

Puerto Rico getting funds for power grid 3 years after Maria

“The Trump Administration delayed, dragged its feet and resisted allocating these badly needed funds,” said Rep. Velázquez, who was born in Puerto Rico.

5 years ago

Workers look over a damaged ferry, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Environment
National

Rescuers reach people cut off by Gulf Coast hurricane

Sally's remnants were over South Carolina on Thursday afternoon and were expected to move into the Atlantic within 24 hours.

5 years ago

A haze of high-atmosphere smoke obscured the sun over Boathouse Row on Sept. 16. (Courtesy of Brit Miller)
Environment
National
Billy Penn

When will the sun return? Philly skies could be hazy until California gets some rain

The smoke might get pushed south this weekend, weather experts say, but it’s likely to return.

5 years ago

Floodwaters move on the street, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Environment
National

Hurricane Sally unleashes flooding, hundreds rescued

Authorities in Pensacola said 200 National Guard members would arrive Thursday to help. Curfews were announced in Escambia County and in some coastal Alabama towns.

5 years ago

A geocolor image shows the view from a NOAA satellite over the East Coast.
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Public Safety

Forecasters eye multiple systems in the tropics: ‘This is what peak hurricane season looks like’

With more than two months left in the current hurricane season, forecasters advise coastal residents to have a plan should a tropical system threaten or strike.

5 years ago

Tropical downpours bring a localized flooding threat Thursday
Outdoors
Philadelphia
NBC10

First Alert: Tropical downpours and flooding to hit area Thursday

While the flooding isn’t expected until Thursday afternoon, the rain starts earlier during the day.

5 years ago

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection says the state is probably overdue for a more significant earthquake. (NBC10)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

‘My whole house shook’: Overnight earthquake strikes in N.J.

Hundreds of people as far away as Philadelphia and Long Island, New York, contributed to the USGS' "Did You Feel It?" map, reporting only weak or light shaking and no damage.

5 years ago

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection says the state is probably overdue for a more significant earthquake. (NBC10)
New Jersey
Public Safety
NBC10

USGS reports 3.1 magnitude earthquake in New Jersey

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection says the state is probably overdue for a more significant earthquake.

5 years ago

Water from Absecon Inlet washes over the north end of Atlantic City during Superstorm Sandy in 2012. (Courtesy of the Atlantic County Office of Emergency Management)
New Jersey
Public Safety

COVID-19 concerns means fleeing a storm at Jersey Shore will be different in 2020

New Jersey emergency officials are making plans to put evacuees in dorms and hotels instead of large gyms. They want shore residents to plan — now.

5 years ago

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