Remains particularly skued by race and by wealth. All right. Weve got some technical glitches going on right there. That was president obamas speaking there he is again at the Naacp Convention. Our bruce gordon is there live but right now lets see if we have the president again. Yes, we do. Lets listen in. applause . Now, this is not this is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happened. laughter . Theres a long history of inn equity will the nim cell until Justice System in america. Yes when i was in a state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure that we had video taping 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 experienceed. Since my First Campaign ive talked about how too many cases are criminal Justice System ends up being a pipeline from under funded inadequate schools to overcrowded jails. Clap. What has changed in recen
And later, home Court Continues to be lucky for the wizards and now lets hope the luck carries over for the caps as they continue their request for a stanley cup tonight. Good day at 9a starts right now. All right. So we got the caps, we got the wizards trying to do their thing, we got the nfl draft. We the got the nats keeping on keeping on. So its all interesting right now who redskins going to pick much a lot going on. Empty meantime 9 01. Good day d. C. Thursday, april 23 are, wisdom martin, holly morris, maureen umeh, steve chenevey. Were all here. The caps take on the pittsburgh penguins. If you want to be there to cheer them listen closely and keep your twitter closer starting now like right now 9 00 oclock the team is kicking off another rock the you can win play off tickets. Mike thomas down near the Verizon Center looking for clues. Well check in with him a little bit later on. First though we want to talk about the weather. Because when those clouds burn off this morning, it
And that man we understand was 80 years old. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick iswick there. She has an update on this onhi Death Investigation. Estigation. Mel, good morning. Me reporter hey, goodor morning, steve and allison. A lot of this infveormation not confirmed by meals, much of iteo coming to us from neighbors in n the area. Are we can tell that you fairfax frf county police have been heren h since just a little after 1 oclock this morning. And then all of the news crews arrived here probably a little a bit about 4 oclock. They are pretty much wrappingtt up the investigation here fortia what they can do on riverniv drive. Dr this is an enclave of home inf e the mason neck area about 200ut homes here, very big very b properties, many of them the this house in particular wherele the incident happened ispene bordering the Potomac River overlooking the Potomac Riveracv and police do tell us that the man was found in the backyardacr suffering in their wordsir words trauma to the upper they als
It was a great opportunity i thought for him to, um, to visit with a great organization. Phenomenal organize. So i think it was hahn for him to have that opportunity. As a former quarterback for the birds he was mentor of Don Nan Mcnabb who was surprised by the choi. I didnt see this happening or becoming a reality because of the lack of experience that doug, you know, obviously doesnt have on his resume. Jeremiah trotter who played with pederson like the higher but it may not have been his first choice. I myself would have moved to try to get hugh jackson. He was the number one guy on my list. Andy reid sold Jeffrey Lurie hiring doug. Obviously andy spoke for him when he was here in philly. Less bowen broke the story of pedersons higher. Is he good coach. Hes never been a head coach in the nfl. Even as offensive coordinator in kansas city he doesnt call the play. Coming up in sports well hear what the voice of eagles Merrill Reece had to say about the higher. Does he approve. It seems
Now. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im ukee washington. Social media is blowing up tonight over the news. Lets bring in lesley to tell you more about it. Its hard to tell if this was indeed their first choice theyll never tell. They got their guy, but the eagles at this point cannot confirm the decision to hire Doug Pederson but a Team Spokesman did say they have concluded their search for new head coach. Eagles cannot officially hire Doug Pederson until the chiefs are knocked out of the playoffs. But right now it appears to be the worst kept secret. Pederson was andy reid former quarterback and current offensive coordinator. It was a great opportunity i thought for him to, um, to visit with a great organization. Phenomenal organize. So i think it was hahn for him to have that opportunity. As a former quarterback for the birds he was mentor of Don Nan Mcnabb who was surprised by the choi. I didnt see this happening or becoming a reality because of the lack of experience that doug, you