I am joined now by gary orfield whos the professor at ucla who did the study. Welcome to chasing news. How are you . Well, i have to ask you. The reaction was so what. Basically what the court said was a half century ago that segregated schools in inherently unequal because they are not segregated by race, but also by poverty, by the nature of the curriculum and segregated by the likelihood and going to college and level of competition and the whole system of bill can i ask you something . On that, wouldnt it have everything to do with economics. If you look at the makeups of new jersey. You got camden and newark that have a very, very high concentration of minority population. So you dont have a real mix in the city that would stand to reason they will reflect that . Well, you got residential segregation that is serious. You got division of the metros into many separate School Districts and nobody is doing almost anything to overcome it. There are lots of things that can overcome it.
Rain thats already fallen. We will have the timing on the next round of rain with the sevenday and of course you can track those storms through the rest of the night with our nbc 10 app. Download it for free to get interactive radar and Severe Weather updates sent to your smartphone. President obama is here in philadelphia tonight. Lets take a look outside Rittenhouse Hotel where hes speaking at a Democratic National convention roundtable. Earlier, he addressed the Naacp National conference in center city. Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye to hopelessness and despair, thats not a Justice System. It is an inJustice System. The president s speech wrapped up minutes ago. His focus, criminal justice reform. President obama called it the three cs, the community, the courtroom, and the cell block. In each of those areas the president outlined reforms that he said could make the Justice System fair. Nbc 10s Rosemary Connors listened to the address. She joins us live from the Penns
Allegations. I also said that as an elected official i have never been involved in any illegal activity. Reporter he says he held that education seminar and its on video. Im just saying that the first thing is that most of the people who are talking about this across our area have not read the indictment. Reporter even with the allegations you think its important to be on the Appropriations Committee to be spending taxpayer money . Oh, absolutely. First of all, taxpayers pay the money from our region and we happen to be one of the very few places in the country to have a member on the Appropriations Committee. Reporter the feds say the investigation began two years ago after acting on a tip. Fattah says he does not regret his 2007 run for mayor. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Renee chenaultfattah is on leave from nbc 10. Read the entire indictment on the nbc 10 app and online. Well have continuing coverage as the congressman heads to his First Court Appearance in two weeks. Now turning t
Phil murphy face off on stage. We stand for Free Community college. Look around this room, everyone in new jersey going to pay for it. University of florida bracing itself as white supremacist arrives on campus today. It is likebeing in a real storm. Bringing halloween to patients at childrens hospital. We dont feel like normal but we can feel somewhat normal again. Nice day, Spirit Halloween set up shop at chop. Patients take the customs, pumpkins all paid for by local donors. Lets get out to katie. The weather, if it stays like this for halloween it would be perfect for the kids. You wouldnt to have worry about buying right side because you need a sweat shirt to put underneath, all that stuff. I am pretty sure i was a princess one year, i dont remember how oldy was but it was so cold that night on halloween. Were talking a couple decade ago. Hade to put a heavy coat on over my costume and i was the most bummed Little Princess on the block. It it was such a bummer. We will keep you po
At a wilmington car lot around 10 45 wednesday morning. Keisha par sons says she knows the victim who she identified as jason ball. Were just hoping for a speed key recovery to bring jason home. Reporter parsons says he owns the auto store where she was shot. Jason done have any enemies. Reporter police say prince drove to wilmington from maryland after gunning down five of his coworkers at advanced Granite Solutions just before 9 00 a. M. Three of those victims have died. In a News Conference wednesday night, chief robert tracy of Wilmington Police said there was no sign of prince until an observant person spotted his gmc acadia near Glasgow High School in newark. About an hour later another person saw prince walking in the area. After a short foot chase near the school these 3atf agents took prince into custody. Without the tips from civilians out there that helped us along the way because without their efforts and the trust they had with Law Enforcement and working together we would