Aspect of American Life that remains particularly skewed. By race and by wealth. A source of inequity that has ripple effects on families and on communities and ultimately on our nation. That is our criminal Justice System. This is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happened. Theres a long history of inequity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure that we had videotaping of interrogations because there were some problems there. We set up racial profiling laws to prevent the kind of bias in traffic stops that too many people experience. Since my First Campaign i have talked about how in too many cases our criminal Justice System ends up being a pipeline from underfunded inadequate schools to overcrowded jails. What has changed, though is that in recent years, the eyes of more americans have been opened to the truth. Partly because cameras, partly because of tragedy, partly because the statistics cannot be ignored. We cant close our eyes anymore. And the good news and this is truly good news is that good people of all political persuasion are starting to think we need to do something about this. So lets look at the statistics. The United States is home to 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Think about that. Our incarceration rate is four times higher than chinas. We keep more people behind bars than the top 35 European Countries combined. And it hasnt always been the case this huge explosion in incarceration rates. In 1980 there were 500,000 people behind bars in america. Half a Million People in 1980. I was in college in 1980. Many of you were not born in 1980. Thats okay. I remember 1980. 500,000. Today, there are 2. 2 million. It has quadrupled. Since 1980. Our prison population has doubled in the last two decades alone. Now, we need to be honest. There are a lot of folks who belong in prison. If were going to deal with this problem, and the inequities involved, then we also have to speak honestly. There are some folks who need to be in jail. They may have had terrible things happen to them in their lives. We hold out the hope for redemption but theyve done some bad things. Murderers, predators, rapists, gang leaders, drug kingpins. We need some of those folks behind bars. Our communities are safer thanks to Brave Police Officers and hardworking prosecutors who put those violent criminals in jail. And the studies show that up to a certain point, tougher prosecutors and stiffer sentences for these violent offenders contributed to the decline in Violent Crime over the last few decades. Although the science also indicates that you get a point of diminishing returns. But it is important for us to recognize that violence in our communities is serious and that historically, in fact the Africanamerican Community oftentimes was underpoliced rather than overpoliced. Folks were very interested in containing the Africanamerican Community so it couldnt leave segregated areas but within the the last few decades, we have also locked up more and more nonviolent drug offenders than ever before for longer than ever before. And that is the real reason our prison population is so high. In far too many cases, the punishment simply does not fit the crime. If you are a low level drug dealer or you violate your parole, you owe some debt to society. You have to be held accountable. And make amends. But you dont owe 20 years. You dont owe a life sentence. Thats disproportionate to the price that should be paid. And by the way, the taxpayers are picking up the tab for that price. Every year we spend 80 billion to keep folks incarcerated. 80 billion. Just put that into perspective. For 80 billion we could have universal preschool for every 3yearold and 4yearold in america. Thats what 80 billion buys. For 80 billion, we could double the salary of every High School Teacher in america. For 80 billion, we could finance new roads and new bridges, new airports job Training Programs research and development. Im about to get into a big budget debate in washington what i couldnt do with 80 billion. Its a lot of money. For what we spend to keep everyone locked up for one year we could eliminate tuition for every single one of our Public College students. As republican senator and president ial candidate rand paul has said and to his credit hes been consistent on this issue. Imprisoning large numbers of nonviolent drug offenders for long periods of time costs the tax payers money without making them any safer. Roughly onethird of the Justice Departments budget now goes toward incarceration. Onethird. There are outstanding Public Servants at our Justice Department starting with our outstanding attorney general, loretta lynch. We have some great prosecutors here today. And they do outstanding work so many of them but every dollar they have to spend keeping nonviolent drug offenders in prison is a dollar they cant spend going after drug kingpins or tracking down terrorists or hiring more police and giving them the resources that would allow them to do a more effective job of community policing. Then of course there are the costs that cant be measured in dollars and cents. Because the statistics on who gets incarcerated show that by a wide margin, it disproportionately impacts communities of color. Africanamericans, latinos make up 30 of our population. They make up 60 of our inmates. About one in every 35 africanamerican men, one in every 88 latino men is serving time right now. Among white men, that number is one in 214. The bottom line is that in too many places black boys and black men, latino boys and latino men experience being treated differently under the law. And i want to be clear. This is not just anecdotal. This is not just barbershop talk. A growing body of Research Shows that people of color are more likely to be stopped, frisked, questioned charged, detained. Africanamericans are more likely to be arrested. They are more likely to be sentenced to more time for the same crime. One of the consequences of this is around one million fathers are behind bars. Around one in nine africanamerican kids has a parent in prison. What is that doing to our communities . Whats that doing to those children . Our nations being robbed of men and women who could be workers and tax payers could be more actively involved in their childrens lives, could be role models, could be community leaders. Right now, they are locked up for a nonviolent offense. So our criminal Justice System isnt as smart as it should be. Its not keeping us as safe as it should be. It is not as fair as it should be. Mass incarceration makes our country worse off and we need to do something about it. But heres the good news. Good news. Dont get me preaching, now. I am feeling more hopeful today because even now, lets face it it seems like republicans and democrats cannot agree on anything, a lot of them agree on this. In fact today, back in washington, republican senators from utah and texas are joining Democratic Senators from new jersey and rhode island to talk about how congress can pass meaningful criminal Justice Reform this year. Thats good news. That is good news. Good news. That doesnt happen very often. And its not just senators. This is a cause thats bringing people in both houses of congress together. Its created some unlikely bedfellows. Youve got van jones and newt gingrich. Youve got americans for tax reform and the aclu. Youve got the naacp and the koch brothers. You got to give them credit. Got to call it like you see it. There are states from texas and South Carolina to california and connecticut who have acted to reduce their prison populations over the last five years and seen their crime rates fall. Thats good news. My administration has taken steps on our own to reduce our federal prison population. So i signed a bill reducing the 101 [ inaudible ] disparity between crack and powder cocaine. I have commuted the sentences of dozens of people sentenced under old drug laws that we now recognize were unfair and yesterday i announced that im commuting dozens more. Under the leadership of attorney general eric holder now continued by loretta lynch, federal prosecutors got what he called smart on crime which is refocusing efforts on the worst offenders, pursuing mandatory minimum sentences 20 less often than they did the year before. That is you dont always have to charge the max. To be a good prosecutor you need to be proportionate. And it turns out that we are solving just as many cases and there are just as many police bargains and its working. Its just that we have eliminated some of the excess. And recently something extraordinary happened. For the first time in 40 years americas crime rate and incarceration rate both went down at the same time. That happened last year. So theres some momentum building for reform. Theres evidence mounting for why we need reform. I want to spend the rest of my time just laying out some basic principles some simple ideas for what reform should look like, because we are just at the beginning of this process and we need to make sure that we stay with it. Im going to focus on what happens in three places in the community, in the courtroom and in the cell block. So i want to begin with the community because i believe crime is like any other epidemic. The best time to stop it is before it starts. And im going to go ahead and say what ive said a hundred times before or a thousand times before, and what youve heard me say before. If we make investments early in our children we will reduce the need to incarcerate those kids. So one study found that for every dollar we invest in prek, we save at least twice that down the road in reduced crime. Getting a teenager a job for the summer costs a fraction of what it costs to lock him up for 15 years. Investing in our communities makes sense. It saves taxpayer money if we are consistent about it. And if we recognize that every child deserves opportunity, not just some, not just our own. What doesnt make sense is treating entire neighborhoods as little more than danger zones where we just surround them. We ask police to go in there and do the tough job of trying to contain the hopelessness when we are not willing to make the investments to help lift those communities out of hopelessness. Thats not just a police problem. Thats a societal problem. Places like west philly or west baltimore or ferguson 05rua theyre part of america, too. Theyre not separate. Theyre part of america like anywhere else. The kids there are american kids. Just like your kids and my kids. Weve got to make sure boys and girls in those communities are loved and cherished and supported and nurtured and invested in. And we have to have the same standards for those children as we have for our own children. So if you are a parent you know that there are times where boys and girls are going to act out in school and the question is are we letting principals and parents deal with one set of kids and we call the police on another set of kids. Thats not the right thing to do. Weve got to make sure our juvenile Justice System remembers that kids are different. Dont just tag them as future criminals. Reach out to them as future citizens. And even as we recognize that Police Officers do one of the toughest bravest jobs around and we do everything in our power and as we do everything in our power to keep those Police Officers safe on the job, i have talked about this we have to restore trust between our police and some of the communities where they serve. And a good place to start is making sure communities around the country adopt the recommendations from what i set up that included Law Enforcement but also included young people from new york and ferguson and they were able to arrive at a consensus around things like better training better Data Collection to make sure that policing is more effective and more accountable but is also more unbiased. So these are steps in the community that will lead to fewer folks being arrested in the first place. Now, they wont eliminate crime entirely. There is going to be crime. Thats why the second place we need to change is in the courtroom. For nonviolent drug crimes we need to lower long mandatory minimum sentences or get rid of them entirely. Give judges some discretion around nonViolent Crimes so that potentially, we can steer a young person who has made a mistake in a better direction. We should pass a sentencing reform bill through congress this year. We need to ask prosecutors to use their discretion to seek the best punishment the one thats going to be most effective, instead of just the longest punishment. We should invest in alternatives to prison like drug courts and treatment and probation programs which ultimately can save tax payers thousands of dollars per defendant each year. Now, even if we are locking up fewer people even if we are reforming sentencing guidelines as i said before some criminals still deserve to go to jail. And as republican senator john cornyn has reminded us virtually all of the people incarcerated in our prisons will eventually some day be released. And thats why the third place we need reform is in the cell block. So on thursday i will be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. And im going to shine a spotlight on this issue because while the people in our prisons have made some mistakes and sometimes big mistakes, they are also americans. And we have to make sure that as they do their time and pay back their debt to society, that we are increasing the possibility that they can turn their lives around. That doesnt mean that we will turn everybodys life around. That doesnt mean there arent some hard cases. But it does mean that we want to be in a position in which if somebody in the midst of imprisonment recognizes the error of their ways is in the process of reflecting about where they have been and where they should be going, weve got to make sure theyre in a position to make the turn. Thats why we should not tolerate conditions in prison that have no place in any civilized country. We should not be tolerating overcrowding in prison. We should not be tolerating Gang Activity in prison. We should not be tolerating rape in prison. And we shouldnt be making jokes about it in our popular culture. Thats no joke. These things are unacceptable. Whats more i have asked my attorney general to start a review of the overuse of solitary confinement across american prisons. The social science shows that an environment like that is often more likely to make inmates more alienated. More hostile. Potentially more violent. Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day for months sometimes for years at a time . That is not going to make us safer. Thats not going to make us stronger. If those individuals are ultimately released how are they ever going to adapt . Its not smart. Our prisons should be a place where we can train people for skills that can help them find a job, not train them to become more hardened criminals. And look i dont want to pretend like this is all easy. But some places are doing better than others. Mnt gom montgomery county, maryland put a Job Training Center inside the prison walls to give folks a head start in thinking about what might you do otherwise than committing crime. Thats a good idea. Heres another good idea. One with bipartisan support in congress. Lets reward prisoners with reduced sentences if they complete programs that make them less likely to commit a repeat offense. Lets invest in Innovative New approaches to link former prisoners with employers. Help them stay on track. Lets follow the growing number of our state and cities and private companies who have decided to ban the box on job applications so former prisoners who have done their time and are now trying to get straight with society have a decent shot in a job interview. And if folks have served their time and they have reentered society, they should be able to vote. Communities that give our young people every shot at success, courts that are tough but fair prisons that recognize eventually the majority will be released and so seek to prepare these returning citizens to grab that Second Chance thats where we need to build. But i want to add this. We cant ask our police or our prosecutors or our Prison Guards or our judges to bear the entire burden of containing and controlling problems that the rest of us are not facing up to and willing to do something about. So yes, we have to stand up to those who are determined to slash investments in our community an4ov any cost cutting preschool programs cutting job Training Programs cutting Affordable Housing programs, Cutting Community policing programs. Thats shortsighted. Those investments make this country strong. Weve got to invest in opportunity more than ever. An africanamerican man born roughly 25 years ago has just a one in two chance of being employed today. More than one in three africanamerican children are growing up in poverty. When americas Unemployment Rate was 9. 5 when i first came into office, as it was going up we properly recognized this is a crisis. Right now, the Unemployment Rate among africanamericans is 9. 5 . What should we call that . It is a crisis. And we have to be just as concerned about continuing to lift up Job Opportunities for these young people. So today i have be talking about the criminal Justice System but we have to recognize that its not something we can view in isolation. Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye to hopelessness and despair, thats not a Justice System. It is an inJustice System. But that is an extension and reflection of some broader decisions that were making as a society. That has to change. That has to change. What the marchers on washington knew. What the marchers in selma knew. What folks like julian bond knew. What the marchers in this room still know. Is that justice is not only the absence of oppression, it is the presence of opportunity. Justice is giving every child a shot at a great education no matter what zip code theyre born into. Justice is giving everyone willing to work hard the chance at a good job with goodon wages no matter what their name is what their skin color is, where they live. 50 years after the Voting Rights act, justice is protecting that the right for every american. Justice is living up to the common creed that says i am my brothers keeper and my sisters keeper. Justice is making sure every young person knows they are special and they are important and that their lives matter not because they heard it in a hash tag, but because of the love they feel every single day. Not just love from their parents, not just love from their neighborhood but love from police love from politicians. Jx love from somebody who lives on the other side of the country but says that young person is still important to me. Thats what justice is. And in the american tradition, and in the immigrant tradition, of remaking ourselves, in the christian tradition that says none of us is without sin and all of us need redemption justice and redemption go hand in hand. Right before i came out here i met with four former prisoners. Four exoffenders. Two of them were africanamerican, one of them was latino, one of them was white. All of them had amazing stories. One of them dropped out of school when he was a young kid. Now hes making films about his experience in the prison system. One of them served ten years in prison then got a job at five guys which is a tasty burger. And they gave him an opportunity and he rose up and became a general manager there and now is doing antiviolence work here in the community. One of them the young latino man, he came out of prison and was given an opportunity to get trained on green jobs that are helping the environment but also gave him a marketable skill and he talked about how the way hes staying out of trouble, is he just keeps on thinking about his two daughters and i could relate to that because you dont want to disappoint your daughters. You dont want to disappoint those baby girls. So he says i go to work and i come home and i grab that little baby and get a kiss. And thats keeping me focused. One of them Jeff Copeland was arrested six times before his 38th birthday. He was drinking using drugs, racked up dui after dui, sentence after sentence. He admits that the sentences he was getting for duis werent reflective of all the trouble he was causing. Could have been worse. Jeff spent so much time jogging in place in his cell that inmates nicknamed him the running man. He was literally going nowhere, running in place. Then somehow jeff started examining his life. He said this isnt me. He decided to hold himself accountable, quit drinking went to aa met a recruiter from the Reentry Program at the Community College of philadelphia enrolled in classes once he was released. Made sure to show up every day. Graduated summa cum laude with a 3. 95 gpa. This fall he will graduate from Temple University with a major in criminal justice and a minor in social work and he volunteers helping former inmates get their lives back on track. And its sort of a cliche he says but we can do anything and just two years ago, the running man ran his first marathon because hes going somewhere now. You never look at crossing the finish line he says of his journey, you attack it by putting one mile after the other. It takes steps. It takes steps. Thats true for individuals. Its true for our nation. Sometimes i get in debates about how to think about progress or the lack of progress when it comes to issues of race and inequality in america. There are times where people say oh, the president , hes too optimistic. Or hes not talking enough about how bad things are. Let me tell you something. I see what happens. My heart breaks when i see families who are impacted. I spend time with those families and feel their grief. I see those young men on street corners and eventually in prisons and i think to myself they could be me that the main difference between me and them is i had a more forgiving environment so that when i slipped up when i made a mistake, i had a Second Chance and theyve got no margin for error. I know i know how hard things are for a lot of folks. But i also know that it takes steps and if we have the courage to take that first step then we take a second step. If we have the courage to take the second step then suddenly we have taken ten steps. Next thing you know you have taken 100 steps and thats true not just for us as individuals, but that is true for us as a nation. We are not perfect, but we have the capacity to be more perfect, mile after mile step after step. They pile up one after the other and pretty soon that finish line starts getting into sight and we are not where we were. We are in a better place because we had the courage to move forward. So we cannot ignore the problems that we have but we cant stop running the race. Thats how you win the race. How you fix a broken system. Its how you change a country. The naacp understands that. Think about the race that you have run. Think about the race ahead. If we keep taking steps toward a more Perfect Union and close the gap between who we are and who we want to be america will move forward. Theres nothing we cant do. Thank you. God bless you. God bless the United States of america. You are listening in to president obama addressing delegates at the 106th Naacp National convention in Center City Philadelphia. The president spoke about how important the naacp is and how our nation wouldnt be where it is without that organization. If you missed the very beginning, one of the first things he said when he got to the podium was that im not going to sing. Of course he was recently discussed because the eulogy for reverend Clementa Pinkney he sang amazing grace. He talked about the racial inequities in the criminal Justice System called for change and of course the importance of the naacp. He has a busy schedule. The president s next stop will be the rittenhouse hotel. He will participate here in a democratic National Convention roundtable discussion. He was originally expected to be there about 5 10 but as you can tell its 5 40. Hes a bit behind schedule. From there its off to the airport for the trip home. Nbc 10 news at 5 00 beginning with storms in our area. Heavy rain is already soaking some neighborhoods. More storms are on the way. Thats why we have issued an nbc 10 news first alert for tonight. Lets head outside for a look at the Center City Philadelphia skyline. It is clear right now but it is not over. The day is expected to end the way it started for many people with rain. We see rain rolling this way on nbc 10 first alert radar. These new storms could mean trouble for local spots. Lets get right to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen. We still do have the first alert out for the rest of today and tonight or even tomorrow as well. This is going to continue because of locally heavy rain we are seeing with showers and thunderstorms around. Thats going to stay in the forecast the rest of the evening. Downpours in the forecast localized flooding. We already at least have one flood advisory and more as we go into tomorrow. Make sure you have the umbrella handy. Locally, most of the showers are confined to some parts of new jersey but bucks county seeing heavy rain. We have been seeing it in the same area, warrington upper makefield, heavy rain with lightning there, and this has been the case over the past hour or so. Its been just moving through bucks county so we still have the flood advisory until about 7 30 this evening. We have already seen about an inch of rain probably more at this point. There is the threat of some localized flooding flooded roadways. Around williamstown this is one thunderstorm that has been has the potential to produce a little bit of hail. I dont think the hail will be an issue. It would be the heavy rain that would be the biggest issues but some indications are that storm could be producing small hail. These showers and storms are traveling very slowly to the northeast. We are watching another section in central p. A. And another area behind that so as we go through tonight we have more showers in the forecast especially late tonight and another round of heavy rain as we go into tomorrow. Coming up i will show you the timing on that and when it will dry out. The rain is causing delays at Philadelphia International airport. The airport telling us it is under a ground stop for then9 30 minutes. That means planes scheduled to fly to philly arent allowed to take off right now. Track storms in your neighborhood on your smartphone or tablet with the nbc 10 news app. Get up to the minute live radar and instant weather alerts with the nbc 10 news app. Its free. It is the deal many thought would never happen but today, it did. A Nuclear Agreement with iran. According to that agreement, iran will not produce enough material for an atomic weapon for at least ten years. In exchange sanctions against the country will be lifted. The deal also allows for inspection of Iranian Nuclear facilities and military sites. Israels Prime Minister calls the plan a mistake of historic proportions and its not a done deal. Congress has 60 days to review the deal before voting. Any recent head injuries . Listen i played football. I know who you are. More than twice the legal limit. Thats how drunk Police Say Former eagle Donovan Mcnabb was when they pulled him over. The new information comes after the release of this video of mcnabbs arrest last month. Comcast sports nets john clark joins us to fill us in. Reporter police in arizona say mcnabb had a blood alcohol content of. 17 which is more than twice the legal limit of 0. 8. Donovan is looking at some jail time of course. He was arrested a few weeks ago in gilbert, arizona. Police say it is an extreme dui. He says he was just going home. He reportedly was coming from a sports bar. This is donovans second dui in two years so he could be punished 90 days to six months in jail. Maricopa county is one of the strictest in the country when it comes to punishing duis and this is what donovan could be in for. Former world series hero mark grace right there also had two dui arrests in two years in arizona. He plea bargained and spent four months in whats known as tent city. Its a unique outdoor jail that mostly contains those convicted of duis. Sometimes the offenders have to wear pink as part of the punishment. Coming up at 6 00 phillies gm ruben amaro reacts to Jonathan Papelbons comments saying he wants to be traded. Back here in philadelphia the body of a man shot in the head has been found behind a local apartment building. The Early Morning discovery happened in the 1400 block of 71st street behind the mount west apartments. Police tell us the man looks to be between 40 to 50 years old. So far, there are no suspects. Coming up im still tracking heavy showers and storms. More in the forecast for tomorrow. I will show you the timing and what to expect. Well some of you especially if youre in new jersey have seen very heavy rain already today. But we still have a first alert out for the rest of tonight and this is going to continue even for tomorrow. We still expect heavy rain in the forecast downpours, also low level flooding will be a possibility as we go into wednesday. Keep that in mind. Looking pretty good across center city. Looking down at liberty one and two. Not too long ago we did have a thunderstorm around philadelphia causing the groundstop. In philadelphia right now, mostly cloudy 79 degrees. Winds gusting near 25 miles an hour so a little bit breezy at times. Locally, i think most of the area is feeling the warm air and humidity but some of us especially if you are in bucks county you are still dealing with some thunderstorms and heavy rain through parts of new jersey, we do have one small storm. Heres bucks county from warrington to upper makefield, we have that same thunderstorm thats been sitting there for awhile but kind of redeveloping just south of buckingham now. Theres where we are seeing a lot of the lightning near lower makefield. This area near buckingham and a little farther north still flood advisory until 7 30. Localized flooding from heavier rain we saw earlier but that rain still continuing throughn] parts of bucks county. Now we are looking down into new jersey right around williamstown. Moving towards berlin this is one heavy thunderstorm. Its fairly small but still pretty. Xn heavy. Some indications that it could have very small hail tonight. And even lightning strikes. This storm, very slowly traveling to the northeast. Berlin should start to see it moving in soon. Aside from that, i think the rest of the area looking pretty dry. A bit of a lull between the showers we have now and what i have circled back off to the west. This line moving through central p. A. We could be seeing that move in not until later tonight, maybe between about 9 00 and 11 00 p. M. , but more wet weather back off to the west. A big area of low pressure there, too. Tomorrow, that will be crossing over our area so thats going to give us another chance of some localized flooding. Just keep that in mind before you head out tomorrow. Make sure you have the umbrella with you. Future weather, we go through the rest of this evening. By 10 00, 11 00, showers getting close. Overnight we could see some locally heavy showers around. Then by 9 00 tomorrow morning, still the same set of scattered showers and storms. We could see heavy rain again in the morning developing. By the middle of the day, 1 00 p. M. You start to notice more showers. A lot of these looking fairly heavy developing in the early afternoon hours. Thats when the area of low pressure gets right on top of us. We will have plenty of moisture around to work with. Later in the evening, i think a lot of this will start to come to an end as it moves offshore. We start to clear up just in time for the end of the week going into the weekend. Thursday much less pf[humidity drier conditions. Tonight we will keep the showers and storms in the forecast. Some could be locally heavy. 73 for the low in philadelphia 70 Degrees North and west. Tomorrow another warm humid day, temperatures around the mid80s. Showers and storms in the forecast. Those also looking pretty heavy as of now. Then we go into thursday night. Conditions, 83 degrees. Thursday will be a really nice day. So is friday. Going into the weekend, saturday, we will be hotter near 90 sunday even hotter than that. The thunderstorms will come back into the forecast, too. A 78yearold man at the jersey shore is out thousands of dollars after a group of alleged crooked contractors seriously damaged his house, then disappeared. One of the men was caught on Surveillance Video and police need your help to track him down. They say the case is an unfortunate example of why it is crucial to do your homework before giving anyone money. Nbc 10 Jersey Shore Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg with the story. Reporter andrew and his crew had to clean up the mess including a huge hole in the roof that Authorities Say this man and several others left at the Little Egg Harbor township home of an elderly man. For somebody to do that to anybody else is just terrible. Reporter police say the 78yearold victim who did not want to be identified withdrew 4300 in cash from this local bank of america last month and gave more than half it to the man seen in these surveillance images. Authorities say he and four guys with him showed up unsolicited and offered to replace the roof but refused to take a check. Thats definitely a red flag. Im smart enough to know better but i just, they very well corehoreographed. Reporter they demanded more money but the victim refused and said he was calling police prompting the group to take off in an unmarked gray pickup. The homeowner never got a name. You really got to research your companies. Reporter investigators say the group might be from maryland based on conversations they had with the victim. Authorities believe they are familiar with south jersey because one of the culprits said materials were waiting for him at a store in atlantic county. Police think that was a lie. At the least, get a Business Card get an estimate. Reporter the Victim Told Police the pickup had commercial new jersey plates ybv5274. A number that came back invalid when investigators checked. They are hoping someone watching will help them figure out who this man is. Dont give anybody money without checking them out first. Reporter money now gone and for this victim a 10,000 tab to have the job done right. Ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. The United States signs a nuclear deal with iran today. In exchange for agreeing [ inaudible ] sanctions will be lifted against iran. President obama says the economic sanctions will snap back in place if the deal is violated. Congress will have 60 days to review this deal but the president says he will veto any bill that blocks that deal. Critics say lifting sanctions gives iran money to destabilize the region. Nbc 10s tim furlong spent the day getting reaction to the deal in delaware. Reporter it might not be a perfect deal but the president says it gets the job done. This university of delaware professor agrees. President obama i think has finally earned his nobel prize. This deal is that big. Reporter he has written extensively about the middle east and believes thawing relations with iran creates a friendlier atmosphere in the middle east moving forward. Transformed the middle east. All the major powers in the region now are u. S. Friendly. Reporter but that really depends on your point of view. Its a good deal for iran and nobody else. Its a bad deal for the rest of the world. Reporter john is with the Jewish Federation of delaware. Like Benjamin Netanyahu he believes this deal doesnt go far enough from keeping iran from moving a Nuclear Program forward which could lead to Nuclear Buildup in neighboring countries. He doesnt think the world should let up on economic sanctions against a country historically hostile to all neighbors, let alone the u. S. And israel. They are our avowed enemy. Their eventual goal is the destruction of this country. This is not a jewish issue. This is not an israeli issue. This is a bad deal for humanity issue. Seriously. Reporter delaware senator provided us with a video statement from washington today, saying he likes the diplomacy seen at work here but he like many others isnt quite sure hes ready to trust a nation that has never done much to earn it. They have cheated on previous agreements so im going to read this agreement closely and with a fairly skeptical eye because i deeply distrust the iranian regime. Reporter tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Coming up next on nbc 10 news at 6 00 president obama addresses the Naacp National convention here in philadelphia. Nbc 10 has reaction from the crowd about the president s message. A live report next. Heavy rain in parts of the area today but another threat is on its way tonight. Im tracking the timing and how much rain we could see in my exclusive first alert forecast. A dangerous situation involving users of philadelphias popular bike share program. We are asking the city what its doing to promote safety next at 6 00. Right now at 6 00 nbc 10 first alert weather tracking heavy showers through parts of our area but the bigger storm threat is coming tonight. Tell you what not a great day to be mowing the lawn. Downpours left this landscaper soaked in blackwood. South jersey was hit hard this morning. A standard steady rain was falling in montgomery county. Residents were worried their neighborhood would flood. Taking a live look at i95 in wilmington, parts of our area are seeing showers right now. Lets get over to nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. When can we expect more downpours . That will be several hours from now. Say closer to midnight in the philadelphia area maybe a little bit earlier in western suburbs. We have a first alert out not only for that thats coming later tonight, but what we are going to be getting tomorrow. We will be getting another round tomorrow. We have downpours, we had some this morning we had a break, then had more this afternoon, now we are getting a break and we are going to get more. That can cause localized flooding and more activity is coming on wednesday. Lets take a look at the radar. We had one shower move through philadelphia and others in bucks county. We are still getting some of that rain and thunderstorms in bucks county the central portion of the county right now. We have had some go through easton and now bethlehem, right along route 78. That weakened a little bit but farther to the west things are a lot stronger. Heres that one cell coming into south jersey an area that got hit hard this morning. Then we look back to the west and central pennsylvania some pretty nasty storms up in that area. We will watch that. We are concerned because there has been so much rain that fell this morning. This is the radar estimate and in parts of south jersey this is two to four to