Investigators are on the scene in Delaware County after a person was found dead in Newtown Square and septa takes action to keep people safe. The way to report crimes during your commute. And the big story is the the rising racial tension sweeping the nation after the weekend of violence in virginia. The demonstration was the flash point in charlottesville. And now pressure to take monuments down and its hitting home after someone is demanding the removal of a polarizing statue here in philadelphia. Jeanette reyes is here with more on that. Reporter well rick, aside from Donald Trumps comments yesterday setting off a firestorm. Its igniting an ongoing debate in philadelphia. Should the frank rizzo statue here be taken down. Hours ago the man walked up and pelted the statue with eggs showing of course where he stands on this issue. After apparently being vandalized tuesday night. This afternoon in broad daylight. A man stood outside of the newly placed barricades and pelted the frank ri
Lives matters wants it gone. If the city wont use it i think its time for the people to rise up and take it down. Rizzo should not be honored. He was a racist bigot and homoaphobe and how he interacted with black and brown people was with violence. But jodi who used to work with rizzo, got it all wrong. He was a tough lawmaker and won the respect of african meshes. Blacks got to breaks irish got to breaks and polish got to breaks. You dont get breaks if you break the law. The current mayor, jim kenney asked about the new effort. There is a group of people and folks in the city that want to reconsider the placement of that statue whether removed or relocated. You have to go through the same process. Im not a fan of the statue and im not a fan when it went up. But that doesnt mean i can unilaterally tear it down. Intentions were stated. Those that want it gone and those that want it to remain here. The statue remains and surrounded by a temporary fence and a watchful eye of Police Office
Laced tirade. I came out side to see what was going on and saw the shotgun and the kids were crying and i called 911. The police came and ordered stout to drop the weapon. Stout refused to comply with the commands and starts to raise his arm and pointed the sawed off shotgun in the direction of the officers. That is when one of the responding officers opened fire killing the 62yearold stout. The ensuing investigation said that the shotgun while operational was not loaded and stout was toxcated with a blood alcohol content of. 06. He says i think the Police Officer did his job. What choice did he have, he didnt know the gun was empty nobody new. And the daughter described her father, he was a troubled man and hard man but he wasnt a bad man, im sorry for the children that were scared and sorry for the officer that had to take a life and sorry ill never get to say good by. The ruling is the officers use of deadly force was justified. Thank you. It has been more than 24 hours since the fi
Downpour near king of prussia, 202 a heavy downpour another moving through the blue route right near Newtown Square and some of these downpours dropping as much as 3inches of rain an hour. So, that is causing a lot of ponding on roads. Good idea to kind of pull over if youre trying to drive through this and wait the storm out. Theyre moving pretty quickly. This is what to expect really the next 36 hours. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. The focus will be shifting to the east tomorrow. Now, i dont expect a lot of Severe Weather but were looking at wind gusts up to about 40 miles per hour. Some pea sized hail and locally heavy downpours and once the storms move out, im tracking some real summer time warmth moving in. Ill have details on that in the accuweather 7day forecast, jim. Thank you, cecily. Now to the tragic traffic death of a 17yearold student antawn timbers was struck and killed Early Saturday Morning on route 130 in Burlington City. Police suspect that toxicology tests wil
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If you’ve already binged your way through all six episodes of Pete McTighe’s BBC One thriller The Pact – and you’ve come to terms with the shocking twists and turns along the way – you might be wondering if a second run is a possibility.
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So far, there’s not been any news about whether the show
will be renewed, although McTighe has expressed an interest in returning for another season – despite the fact the first season ends pretty conclusively. Warning: The below contains major spoilers for The Pact series one, which is available to watch in full on BBC iPlayer