hospital in the nursing home. we heard from her grieving family today. we re not just hurting, we re angry, we re mad. this should. have happened. he took away my mother and my best friend. how dare you! how dare you! this needs to be fixed. incredibly emotional testimony there. we ll have more live from buffalo coming up this hour. also this hour, the last hours of campaigning in a super important primary race. you know the one we re talking about in pennsylvania, where voters are getting ready to pick their general election candidates, with not one be two late in the game surprises for virtual front-runners, although that word may be overstated. one candidate answering questions about his health, another facing questions about her participation in a d.c. rally on january 6th. plus, formula fallout. the head of the fda saying the empty shefls are because of a contribution problem, not a lack of supplies. and what is the white house doing to make sure this doesn t happe
the politics of perception. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. if it were still the economy stupid, then joe biden s presidency would be in much better shape. something else is at play here. yes, inflation is souring americans, but by many measures, the economy is booming. the economy is clearly grow ing. the gross domestic product is up 5.2% in the third quarter, even faster than previousliest mated. if gdp is rising, the economy is considered to be in solid shape and the nation moving forward. the dow jones rallied this week to a new high for the year. wages had been losing ground to inflation for two years, but since may, wages have return to outpacing inflation. and unemployment is at an historic low. the u.s. unemployment rate has been below 4% for 21 straight months, the longest stretch since the late 1960s. how about gas prices? they have fallen or remain ed steady for ten weeks. you barely reed about that, but if they were headed in the other direction, it would
With. Temperatures will not warm much today. From 46 right now to around 48 at 3 00 p. M. The warmest around 50 for the official high in philly. Because of the winds, gusts 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour. What youre getting the rest of the day. On darr and satellite, stands for your sky condition. A lot of sunshine. I do expect that to continue through the rest of our sunday and actually a good bit of the workweek. How long a dry spell and the warmup as well. Its all coming up in a few minutes. Happening now people are heading home from the thanksgiving holiday making for a very busy day of travel around the region. At least the weather will cooperate. A live look over 30th street station. Amtrak tells us avoid the rush get on an early train if possible because trains could get packed to capacity later on. The buses are certainly rolling. Some travelers got the jump on their trips early this morning. We caught this bus from new york to d. C. Making a stop in University City just a few hours a
Dispersed throughout the city. Its not just certain neighborhoods, and this figure, 40 of the children, and when we talk about poverty, were talking an adult with two kids making less than 20,000 a year, or deep poverty, less than 10,000 a year. What should city hall, city council, the mayor do with this report . Well, one thing is, they should talk about it. We dont talk about this. Jim kenney ran for mayor, and to his credit, said that this is a disgrace, and we should all be embarrassed by it, but the poverty rate has not changed an iota since he became mayor, and i think you need to use the bully pulpit to talk about this tale of two cities narrative we have going on now, because center city is booming, and two miles down the road, you have abject poverty, and cities dont ultimately overcome that kind of discrepancy. And were kind of inured to it, as well. I mean, the news comes out, and its like, yeah, you know. Were in last place, guys. Were the highest, most horrible poverty sit
Mans situation, and it just really scared me when i thought about it. Reporter he tells fox 29 and weve confirmed that Philadelphia Police investigat investigators believe some of the teens involved in the fatal beating of kevin cullen novembee who attacked him five days earlier and four blocks away. He was walking to work near ditman and aldeen in the mid afternoon when four teens approached, one of them asked for his cell phone. When he refused he bear hugged me from behind, and then he pick me up and he slammed me to the street and then they all started to kick me and punch me. Reporter Good Samaritan inter every interrupted the beating and ran off the attackers. Still he was hospitalized with scrapes and bruises. Police have arrested one teen in the attack. They do in the believe he was involved in the cullen killing. But believe the others may be connected. Your reaction when you heard that might be a connection . I had a bad gut feeling. My hair stood up everywhere on my body. Kn