From above. As we celebrate this vote today, we celebrate the lives of people like lou alvarez. Well never forget the heroes james delegate rode a, ray pfeiffer, and loual v. R. E. E. The september 11th Victims Compensation fund act is named to honor these three First Responders who lost their lives to 9 11related illnesses. Today the senate has an opportunity to honor these three and so many others that we have lost who never stopped fighting for 9 11 First Responders and the country they loved by voting yes on this critical legislation. Ive shared with many of my colleagues, i never had the privilege of going to new york city before september 11th, 2001, but i will never forget my first visit after september 11, 2001. It was just a few weeks after the attack had happened. Ill never forget the smell. Ill never forget the smoke coming out of the debris pile. Ill never forget the silent fire trucks with their lights on but no siren as they delivered even more heroes to the Recovery Effo
The discussion on how to discuss discrimination the classroom the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom. We hear from assistant education secretary for civil rights, catholic the center for American Progress. I am delighted to be in conversation with the assistant secretary and welcome. Thank you. Tell us what this does. Is the justice and thank you all. The mission is equal access to equal opportunity for our prayers no shortage of needs in school created by congress for an Civil Rights Act was passed to enforce that promise that no person shall experience race and accommodation includingna school and congress and six, termination, big topics and we have 12 offices and 600 staff dedicated to enforcing these laws and are charges to investigate whatever and information it was violated. [laughter] we take seriously the need to fulfill that promise that no person will experience discrimination so we try to use the tools we have and guidance to share information an
And have it on action news. 10 kilometers east of dover, delaware. And 5. 1 on the Richter Scale. That is relatively low. The higher the number the much bigger it is. 5. 1 pretty low but here in philadelphia we did feel it. So folks near dover probably felt it a lot more. You mentioned several fault lines under pennsylvania. Can you tell us more about is this historically a place that had fault lines but not active. We dont have a fault line like they have in california that typically active. Three years ago we had one and a lot of people felt it. Its not that unusual that we get the small earthquakes but dont typically get the big ones fort fatally that cause a lot of damage. Well share the messages through the evening. Thank you meteorologist, cecily tynan for that update. In other news a horrifying end to the life of a young girl that met a man online. We are learning more about a murder victim in west philadelphia. She was only 15 years old and she may not be her suspected killers
Police up at the house many people scattered. The 7yearold was last seen by friends on banick burn drive they offered to get minimum an uber and he declined. The ravine is is problems from the party on elgin lane. A source close to the family who asked not to be identified says the teen was not reported missing by the family and instead the report was made by a neighbor at around 1 0 sunday afternoon. And the source says safari phone last picked area of the swim club where his body was found around 5 p. M. Sunday. And many of the whitman students that showed up at the swim Club Monday Morning said the 17yearold was popular at school and well liked. And there were tears and hugs as teens friends mourpd his loss. This was part of memorial the teens left behind here. You see nav spelled out in the a little while ago and then you have flowers surrounding a heart also spelled out here with the candles we spent hours here earlier today and talked to some students off camera. Newspaper of the
If skyfox pulls out. You can see traffic is backed up for miles. As you can see the lanes there are blocked off while crews are investigating. Crews are working to get the liquid cleaned up and figure out what happened. Outer loop is only getting by on the shoulder. Well stay on top of this and keep you posted. A more breaking news. A shooting at the minnesota metro station, the vitim was shot standing on the platform. The investigation impacting train service, Marina Marraco is live at the scene with latest. Marina . Reporter dc police is assisting with the investigation, it is Metro Transit Police the lead agency that you see on this scene here. Theyre now trying to figure out why this shooting took place at the minnesota avenue platform. And who the suspects are and you can see the video here from just minutes ago. There was an extremely large presence from both metro officers as well as dc police detectives. We saw several witnesses being taken away for questioning to see if anythi