Communities of color including africanamericans, latinos, asians and pacific americans and native americans. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Right now across the country, citizens are coming together to protest racial injustices. These protests began in response to a public lynching of george floyd by Minneapolis Police and the recent killings of other americans at the hands of those who are supposed to protect them. My prayers go out to the floyd family and other families, a long list of other victims and their loved ones. I stand in solidarity with all those who are protesting and patriotically challenging the status quo. These protests are about more than the pigment of africanamericans at the hands of police. There about the systemic changes or gears. They are now magnified by the coronavirus that we are here to talk about. This racial inequity in healthcare, it has been laid out by this pandemic. Africanamericans, latinos, native americans and other people of color have tested pos
Who are supposed to protect them. My prayers go out to the floyd family and other families, a long list of other victims and their loved ones. I stand in solidarity with all those who are protesting and patriotically challenging the status quo. These protests are about more than the pigment of africanamericans at the hands of police. There about the systemic changes or gears. They are now magnified by the coronavirus that we are here to talk about. This racial inequity in healthcare, it has been laid out by this pandemic. Africanamericans, latinos, native americans and other people of color have tested positive, being hospitalized and dying from covid19 at alarming rates. Americans are dying at a rate that is double what would be expected given the population. Latinos have been infected every state. Native americans who represent just 4 of the population in arizona are 21 of the coronavirus deaths. They went under, the recent by this crisis, the national conversation. The Coronavirus I
President decided he notified james mattis. Thats what you guys worry about. They are focused on the tax plan. They are prioritizing middleclass tax relief and then of course creating jobs. But all people heard is something that the president himself talked about today which was maybe the wealthy might have to pay more. I recall and im sure you guys you also during the Campaign Year and half ago he mentioned that and said i am wealthy i may have to take more in taxes. At least it appears between them in now. It has been a crazy month in dc. Not for the Federal Reserve. The latest statement on race unchanged. They did signal once again that it will start shrinking the Balance Sheet relatively soon. The markets and you can see these intraday pictures here. They started to fall and then you can see the first fall and then it started to hit a couple of peaks and now heading back down to lows of the session. Shortly after hitting session lows they rebounded. What do we see here. Guess what
Temperatures above freezing. So even the Lehigh Valley gets just rain. Everybody has it by 6 00 a. M. If youre going to get a lot more hours of it. How much rain is going to fall and if its going to get out of here by the weekend, well answer those questions in a few minutes. Download the nbc 10 app to plan ahead. Get Severe Weather alerts right on your smart phone. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a bucs county womans dog brutally killed and police say it was at the hands of her jealous boyfriend. Her boyfriend betrayed her trust. Reporter she says her 2yearold pug rarely got sick, but the time that he was she wanted her boyfriend to watch him, to give him his medicine. She didnt expect to come home and find him dead. He said i showed the dog more love than him. Reporter Jennifer Sherman gave us these pictureses of her now exboyfriend. The dog is her 2yearold pug sebastian. If anything happened to him, i would have been devastated. I told him that weekend before i left. Jenni
Way. We have team coverage. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington is tracking the commute. We begin with meteorologist bill henley. What can you tell us . We saw pretty good rainfall overnight, and theres more on the way. Theres a first alert for heavy rainfall for the entire viewing area today and tonight. Im expecting the heaviest of the rain to come through during the evening rush. Could lead to localized flooding for the area. Showers right now in the suburbs, more rain in delaware, and look at south jersey. This rain is going to be with us for most of the day as theres more lining up to the southwest. Those are showers that are going to come in this morning. Theres the heavy rain thats due in this afternoon. Its going to combine along with gusty winds to keep things chilly through the day today. 36 degrees in the suburbs right now. A few sprinkles in philadelphia. 40 degrees. The steadier rain is in new jersey, and the Lehigh Valley getting rain, 39 degrees. As far as del