Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. In the words of president obama today in philadelphia in far too many cases the punishment simply doesnt fit the crime. Laying out his vision for reforming the criminal Justice System. Obama said in too many cases Law Enforcement is treating young black and latino men differently than their white peers. It is tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the president s speech before the Naacp Convention in philadelphia. Obama left the city at 7 30 tonight after speaking to over 3,000 Convention Delegates and meeting with inmates about reentering society. And more on the visit and what he said in philadelphia. In his own words he said the system just isnt fair and it cant be ignored any longer. Saying the u. S. Is spending 80 billion a year to keep people locked up and it is time to shift the countrys mindset and its practices. Mass incarceration makes our country worse off. And we need to do something about it. President barack obama with a thoughtprovoking speech in philadelphia today on the Justice System in the United States. The 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. The president says the system needs an overhaul to remove bias. From policinge ingpolicing to prosecutors, correctional facilities and the judges and penalties has beeneded handed down. If you are a lowlevel dug dealer or violate patrol you owe a debt to society. You have to be held accountable. And make amends. But you dont owe 20 years. In his speech the president gave examples of several men who were convicted offenders but when given a Second Chance and a new opportunity, they turned their lives around. That included 37 year old sawyer serving 10 years in prison but is now producing films about what it is like for exoffenders to rejoin society. On top of that they do their time and come home to environments where there is no opportunity. And the president also talks about the north philadelphia native robert warner. They gave him an opportunity and he rose up. After eight years in federal program he is the Program Manager for philadelphia ceasefire. Trying to change the mindframe of the highrisk individuals and try to change and show them a different way. President obama says a big part of the solution is investing more in children at a young age. I believe crime is like any other epidemic. The best time to stop it is before it starts. President obama says to be clear, there definitely are people in prison who need to be there but he says there are a portion that he feels should have less penalties. And he is hopeful that reform is come income the criminal Justice System. And the republicans and democrats are working on regulation now to change that. And tomorrow president bill clinton will be in down to address the Naacp Convention. Thank you. The white house already launched a massive lobbying effort to convince democrats primarily on capitol hill that the Nuclear Agreement with iran is a good deal. The word came from associators this morning in vienna that the ts had been crossed and the is dotted on the agreement to curtail the Nuclear Program in exchange for lifting of economic sanctions. And celebrations in the streets of the area and they tried to head off the dealkilling opposition in congress. I am confident this deal will meet the National Security interests of the United States and our allies. So i will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal. But obama needs the support of enough democrats in the senate to make sure a veto cannot be overwritten. The body of a fisherman was pulled from the Wissahickon Creek in manayunk. The man was fishing when thinks line got snagged. The man went into the water about waistdeep and then slipped. Two friends he was with called 911 at 8 45 tonight. They were near ridge avenue. After nearly an hour the mans body was found. Police have not released his name but tell us he is 63yearold. And yet to identify the 18yearold driver who died when thinks car crashed into a school bus. The Authorities Say the police were chasing a vehicle when it crossed the median divider and struck the bus. And the police tried to make a traffic stop because the teenager was driving erratically. Police released this remarkable video of a sky diving plane landing. It was carrying dive students set to jump when the aircraft lost power. An instructor suffered a cut. Nobody else on board or on the road were hurt. And was the scene yesterday as philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter tried to calm down a homeless man outside of the mumbru Municipals Services building. And the mayor found himself in an unusual situation there. Pretty unusual for the most powerful man in philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter says he was down here last night making a site visit with Staff Members, far awray from any homeless people. But he says one individual made his way over to them and things went bad pretty quickly. Cell phone footage captured the George KramerWalking Around in the background where mayor nutter was talking with Staff Members and he was approached and grabbed by one of the security guards. You need to go. You need to go. The mayor himself reaches down to try to stop the guy. Stop it, stop. Stop. Stop. My main role here quite frankly, was really just to try to calm him down. Have him understand that no one is here to do anything to you. This is not about you. Just stop it. And the second homeless man tries to join the fray but is pushed back by another security officer. Eventually things are calmed down. Nobody was hurt and the man were not arrested and allowed to leave. Were good, were good. I understand. Kramer today says he had no intent to harm the mayor. I am not a violent person not at all. And thats why i am not in jail they know me. He just wanted them to know the plight of the homeless as we get closer to the popes visit in september. We are not allowed on the parkwayway when the pope comes and thats where i sleep. I always sleep down here when its going to rain. Meanwhile, someone in the background appeared to be startled that the mayor was down there in the middle of the scuffle. There happened to be a camera there but it begs the question how often does this happen to you . This is the first time anything like this has happened. 7 1 2 years. The mayor was asked if he was going to increase his security detail in light of the incident. He said no. He did not feel threatened at any time. He added in guest, he is from west philly he can pretty much handle himself. Live in center city. And firefighters went out on a little to rescue a tree trimmer in camden county. He was trying to cut down a large tree branch in haddonfield. And the concern to stable ooidz the tree and lift and keep the victim and rescuers safe. And the doctors expect to save the mans leg and that he wilfullywilful ly he will fully recover. And adam what is the latest on the approaching storm. So many hours away. West of harrisburg all quiet on double scan at this time. And in the wee hours thunder can pass through some communities. And the upperlevel energy will pivot to our south late today and during the day tomorrow. And that will bring this broken line in central pennsylvania through the first round comes in between about 2 00 and 5 00 tomorrow morning for some of us and more developing tomorrow afternoon. But it is very tropical out there right now. Dewpoints in the 70s. Thats water vapor sitting in the alleys. If you can wring it out you literally pour some of the downpours from the atmosphere and that could create possible flash flooding tomorrow afternoon especially. So through tomorrow scattered downpours. Not everyone is going to see them. They will be slowmoving. The good thing, not tracking strong weather with damaging winds or hail. We will be tracking them and a beautiful end of the week you will not want to miss in the sevenday forecast. Parts of the country dealing with Severe Weather. In Eastern Kentucky at least two people have died. Four inches of rain fell in just an hour. The flooding wiped out dozens of homes with people still inside. The homes floated away and slammed into a ditch and people are still missing. A Police Officer facing charges tonight stemming from an incident when he was shot. Internal Affairs Investigator say 48yearold officer robert penn paid someone to lie and to try to implicate his wife as the shooter. Penn was shot outside of his home in Overbrook Park in march of last year when he was off duty. Investigateors that penn conspired with charles mays to call the media and tell false tales. And he served 25 years in the department but now suspended and will be fired. I do and the former mayor of harrisburg surrendered today to wideranging corruption charges. Allegedly using public money to buy thousands of artifacts for failed city museums. Kathleen kane says his spending crippled them during his term as mayor. And he doesnt believe he did anything criminal. And this distinctive past is bugging berks county. There is an insect invasion underway by the spotted lanternfly. The destructive species feeds on grapevines, apple trees and truth trees, all big business in the keystone state. It is believed it is contained to berks county so far. But people in lehigh and montgomery counties are urged to keep an eye out and contact the authorities and kill the bug. The first women police chief ever in atlantic county. Sworn in at tonights meeting. The acting chief since june after the former chief retired. And higbee knows delaware well born and raised there and worked in the department for 13 years. She says she is not focused on this milestone for women in south jersey. I worked in several Police Departments and had the good fortune of being treated as an equal. I have always been treated very respectful. The challenge really is making sure i can get my goals accomplished by chief and thats what is really important. And producing runs in her and policing runs in her blood. Her father was part of the police department. And higher tuition rates for next years class. And nasa the closest ever encounter with pluto and hours away from closeup pictures. And it is something that has great sentimental value inside. A family is mounting a social Media Campaign to thank the person who sent it back. And adam joseph returns with theism prove the improve. In the forecast. And more information on Donovan Mcnabbs second dui. We have breaking news from north philadelphia. A 79yearold woman has been shot while sitting on her front porch. This video was just in to action news happening less than 20 minutes ago. The Police Believe the woman was struck in her right leg by astray bullet. The medics rushed her to einstein medical center. You see her loaded in the ambulance. Her condition is stable and police are searching for the gunman. A 16yearold girl surviving a plane crash out of the hospital. She said her step grandparents died when it went down in Washington State saturday. And she initially stayed at the site, but decided she needed to leave to get help and she followed a stream until it got to a road and she flagged down an i driver. And mission success. 3 billion miles away from earth, a spacecraft flew past pluto capturing the first upclose look at the planet. It was cause for celebration earlier today. It wasnt until two hours ago that they finally reconnected the signal out to the fridges of the solar system and confirmed the unprecedented encounter. Look at those images. By tomorrow the spacecraft will be beaming back the sharpist pictures of pluto. The Mission Launched 9 1 2 years ago. Well its become already something that has led scientists to discover new things about the icy world that they were all anticipating the planner to portraitings tomorrow. And a man desperately wants to find the person who returned his wallet and in it a priceless treasure, a note from his son. Chad pradelli has the story. The spoken word can be fleeting, the written one eternal. Do you want to read this . Uhhuh. I love my dad. [laughter] love spelled lave. And he wrote that note to his father two years ago when he first learned to write. And his father keeps it in his wallet all the time. It feelings like i am special. When he lost his wallet it had 40, his credit cards and other Important Information but it was that note he worried about most. The money i figured that was definitely gone. The cards we could cancel. The i. D. Would be a pain in the butt but you can replace all that. That you cant replace. And at lincoln financial field watching the Kenny Chesney concert. And they got not parking lot and he realized his wallet was gone and here too, the little note. Here we go again. But seriously i was like lets can sell the cards. They did that but two days later joanie received this in the mail. Oh, my god i cut it open and there it was. Not only was there it all the money, all the credit cards. The postage with no return address. Joanie wanted to say thank you and felt compelled to create a Facebook Post to say thank you to the good samaritan. Thank you so much for this person. We will continue to pray for you and pay it forward. If you lost it i would have to make another one. And the boy has a lot of love, or i should say lave for this mystery person who did the right thing. Chad pradelli channel 6 akdz. Action news. And getting to adam joseph and the accuweather forecast. And that note any parent notes that is priceless. And looking at what is priceless now is a banklank radar, especially as active as it has been. Some west of harris but we will take the calm prech stretch in the overnight hours. Right now in the 70s areawide. And it is not a comfortable 70s, it is tropically humidity with the winds and most temperatures between 74 and 78 degrees. There is a spin in the atmosphere you scene to the north and west of pittsburgh. That is upperlevel energy in the atmosphere that will trigger a couple of the downpours. The good thing with the energy it does not bring Severe Weather in the next 24 hours. Scattered downpours in the central part of the state. The first round in a few communities passing between 2 00 and 5 00 tomorrow morning. This is at 4 30 a. M. You may hear some of the heavy rain. The rumble of thunder or flash of lightning. Noon time it is quiet north and west. The target zone for heavy downpours is in delaware and southern parts of new jersey. And at 4 30 tomorrow afternoon there could be a few firing up in northern parts of new jersey and southern new jersey and delaware. And an again, the downpours can con contain heavy rain leading to localized flooding. And going through tomorrow afternoon and downpours mainly along i95 to the south and east at 85 degrees. And then the High Pressure comes in from canada. If you remember last summer last summer we had a lot of the aye highs breakses from canada and why it is so cool last summer. Finally getting a taste of it thursday and then on friday. 82 and a refreshing breeze and very low humidity. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast watching for the afternoon downpours developinger to especially new jersey and delaware. If you are at the beaches or the shore tomorrow watch for downpours. And a summer ever beauty on thursday, and mimic that friday. Backtoback days below average. Again comfortable humidity. It doesnt last long frp the humidity returns over the weekend saturday, maybe an isolate storm in the afternoon. And it pumps up monday, tuesday. And three 90days in a row is a heat wave and it could bring an isolated thunderstorm. It seems last summer we were already up to like heat wave number six. It is average normal right now but a little low. Thank you. Temple University Set tuition rates. The board of trustees approved a 2. 8 increase in the undergraduate tuition for residents and nonresidents. And the state students shy open ÷h ing an impact in this one. The game showcases while they go for homefield advantage in the world series. The american leak league leads. And trout led off with a homer, the first since bo jackson. And the first atbats in allstar games he played in single, double triple and homer. Something else. And ruben amaro junior has a message for Jonathan Papelbon you pitch and i will work the phones. Yesterday the pitcher publicly demanded a trade and criticized them not getting it done soon. And he said that papelbon knows nothing about the front office and said he is having conversations with teams about the pitcher. And more on Donovan Mcnabbs latest dui arrest. The blood alcohol level was. 17, more than twice the legal limit. Late last month mcnabb rearended a vehicle that was stopped at the red light. When asked if he was drinking mcnabb stated no saying he took cough syrup for a cold if convicted. Eagles quarterback faces a minimum of 90 days in jail. And jalil Sixers Summer League schedule comes to an end with a loss. Face of the knicks a look at jalil okafor. The free throw shooting continues to be his achilles heel. 27 from the line tonight and the sixers lose 8481. The union in a friendly lose 41. Golfs third major. The open championship gets underway thursday at st. Andrews. Jordan spieth is the favorite and rightfully so. The hottest golfer. Tiger woods won the event three times, twice at this venue. But tiger has not won the major since the world was flat. I am still young. I am not 40 yet. I know some of you guys think i am buried and done but i am still right here in front of you. So yeah i love playing, love competing and playing these events. Being a bit facetious. The 2008 the last time he won a major awhile ago. Dozens of teenagers in philadelphia spent this evening getting ready to give back. Tonight at Philadelphia University more than 100 middle and High School Students started sorting donations. Members of spark the wave collected 10000 donations incheweding clothing food and even School Supplies and they are donated to organizations throughout the philadelphia area. Jimmy kimmel live. 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