Longer than ever before and that is why our prison population is so high. As republican senator, and president ial candidate ran paul, has said, and to his credit he is consistent on this issue, imprisoning nonviolent offenders for long periods of time does not make it safer, africanamericans and latinos make up 30 of our population and make up 60 of our inmates. After the string of statistics the president shifted gears talking about widespread reforms from everything from sentencing guidelines for nonviolent crimes as well as reforms in communities and more jobs for young people and reform in prison so people have a chance of reenry back into the real world a need for change from the president s perspective. Thank you john. Well, the president s day got started early with the announcement of a Nuclear Agreement with iran. It took 17 days of negotiations and months of diplomacy to reach the deal, stopping iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon for at least 10 years according to the pre
Good afternoon in the news this noon, a 16yearold girl survives a plane crash and then walks for to days to reach help. And we get an update from a school destroyed by a tornado and teachers are trying to save whatever they can. But the big story on action news is another day of upsetled weather and showers and thunderstorms moved through the area this morning, this is the scene along route 55 at vineland and Cumberland County. Some area could be hit with downpours and flooding today. Lets get to karen rogers in for david murphy. With the humidity in the air we are getting the downpours at times up to an inch an hour, we have flash flood warnings this morning where they had over 3 inches of rain. And there are flood advisories for parts of the region including philadelphia and bucks and montgomery and atlantic and cumberland and gloucester and salem county new jersey continuing until 3 45, we look at stormtracker 6 live double scan we have got some heavy rain in parts of this region an
It was more of the same here along much of Long Beach Island, a few vacations said that the rain was coming down if buckets. Haley says that when it was over long beach boulevard including the School Parking lot looked like a river. I come outside to watch the cars come by they send waves literally up to our front door. Reporter but what took her back was the strong wind that came with it. It was strong and windy and this flag got ripped out. A little bit of action. And back out live where it might not be over yet, the rain is just starting to fall once again. Reporting live walter perez channel 6 action news. Walter thank you. Lets head over to meteorologist, adam joseph, hopefully adam the worst of this is behind us now. We have some residual downpours in a couple of locations but they are not flooding downpours, but sitting over the same areas for a long period of time. Its now off the coast and some lingering showers at the shore but its light rain and some downpours between allent
Exit. Working to the north and that will sink to the south in Delaware County in the next 15 minutes, so it is moving along and not creating any Flooding Issues at the present time. And the impressive rain totals super soakers, in plainfield, 4. 5 inches of rain where there was a lot of flooding franklin township, 4. 33 inches and Atlantic City and east Galloway Township 3 and 4 inches of rain and limerick over 2 inches of rain earlier, but the dew points the measure of how much moisture is in the air we saw flooding downpours because the dew points were in the 70s and that releases a lot of rain and north and west the line of where the downpours are are falling into the 50s and 60s and the droir air is coming in from the northwest to the southeast, and will invade quickly overnight tonight and set up a couple of days ahead. And well talk about some spectacular weather in the full accuweather forecast. Talk again soon, stay on top of the watches and warnings by going to 6abc. Com weath
York. Also breaking, jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of a man accused of shooting up a colorado movie theater. His lawyers argued that holmes was in the middle of a psychotic episode but prosecutors argued that he still knew right from wrong. The jury will read the verdict tonight. Stay with action news. And now a man is charged with child porn charges after authorities have found thousands of aimths on his computer. Police say they found 2,000 videos and images of child porn on his computer and 80 other images that could be child porn, sara bloomquist tooked to broughters about this case. A teenager had to hide in a closet during a Home Invasion in lawn crest that girl is telling her frightening story. Chad pradelli is live at northeast Detectives Bureau this was at the very least a traumatic day. Reporter very scary something you would see out of a movie from this young girl who spoke to action news. I was in here peeking out a little bit. 16yearold lisa long zroibed what