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
If you havent yet, you will before the end of the day. 68 degrees in pottstown, six after mount pocono, 72 degrees in philadelphia. And atlantic city, 75 wildwood. Those are your temperatures, as you walk out the door. We go ahead give this one a five again because theyll be times of rain, then there will be times of sunshine just like yesterday. It will calm down inbetween the storms. So storms around this morning 83 degrees by lunchtime. Eight a with scattered thunderstorms throughout the afternoon. So they could pop up at any time. Thats the deal for your wednesday. Sunset not until 8 29 this evening. Thats your Weather Authority forecast. As we check traffic on your wednesday morning the schuylkill expressway at route 202, it looks like there was a car, you can see the flashing lights on the left hand side of your screen, it is off to the shoulder now but apparently there was a spin out of this car during the worse of that heavy rain. And thats the casino every thing you have to be
Other parts of town. Reporter the gunman also died in the attack. U. S. Official identifying him as 24yearold Mohammed Abdullah zis born in kuwait. Investigators do not yet know if he was a u. S. Citizen. Now the us attorney for eastern tennessee says his office is investigating the shootings as an act of domestic terrorism. Fbi is also on the scene the department of Homeland Security is involved and we are told the president obama has been getting updates all day long. So far no information about any of the victims is being released. In the newsroom, dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. Were also following breaking news out of could it to into tonight a jury has reached a verdict in the Movie Theater shooting trial of james holmes. Its been nearly three years to the day since holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 others. It happened during a showing of the dark knight rises. The jury is expected to read that verdict 6 15 p. M. And we will bring that to you as it happens. Also, coming up at fi
So if you are stepping outdoors, of course, we have excessive heat warning in effect for those urbanized areas along the immediate i95 corridor. Heat advisories elsewhere for those feels like temperatures mid 90 toss triple digits. Remember these hot weather safety tips, of course, dress for the heat, throw down takes breaks and drink a lot water. When i talk indoors well talk much more about how this oppressive heat and humidity will last. Ill dray hydrated and take a drink of this water before i come indoors. Back to you. It signed the ac scott. See in you in a few minutes. Develop to go night it is one of the biggest tests for mass transit ahead of the popes visit in september. And septa has failed in a big way. The website selling passes to get suburbanites in and out of the city crashed just an hour into sales. Bruce gordon is live at 30th street station with what happened and whats next here bruce . Reporter yeah, chris 30th street one of the locations that folks were lump into o
Difference between negligence and a crime. Big difference between an accident and a crime. Reporter bostian had accelerated amtrak train 188 to 106 Miles Per Hour as he entered the frankford curve on the night of may 12th, 2015. The train derailed killing eight people and injuring more than a hundred 50 others. Amtrak paid out big bucks in civil judgments but the philly District Attorneys Office declined to file criminal charges. Citing a lack of evidence. Legal maneuvering by attorneys representing the family of a crash victim led to the state attorney general filing charges. But the case was challenging from the start. Federal crash investigators ruled bostian was not drunk or high or playing with his mobile phone at the time of the crash. They believe he may have have been distracted by reports of vandals throwing rocks at septa trains nearby. Look closely at this map from the ntsb hearings in may have last year. Bostian had the train going 106 in a 50 miles an hour zone approaching