Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. In the words of president obama today in philadelphia in far too many cases the punishment simply doesnt fit the crime. Laying out his vision for reforming the criminal Justice System. Obama said in too many cases Law Enforcement is treating young black and latino men differently than their white peers. It is tuesday night and the big story on action news tonight is the president s speech before the Naacp Convention in philadelphia. Obama left the city at 7 30 tonight after speaking to over 3,000 Convention Delegates and meeting with inmates about reentering society. And more on the visit and what he said in philadelphia. In his own words he said the system just isnt fair and it cant be ignored any longer. Saying the u. S. Is spending 80 billion a year to keep people locked up and it is time to shift the countrys mindset and its practices. Mass incarceration makes our country worse off. And we need to do something abo
Makes a surprise visit to baghdad, reviewing the progress against isil. The haunting message sandra bland left her friend. One year later will a nuclear deal with iran help bring Washington Post journalist home from an iranian prison. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Good morning im randall pinkston. Defense as he can ash carter landed in baghdad this morning on an unannounced stop. He arrived a few hours ago where he will meet with iraqi leaders and u. S. Commanders fighting isil. They are working to plan a ground assault to retake ramadi. The visit comes during a bloody week in baghdad with isil attacks claiming dozens of lives. Imran kahn is live in baghdad. This visit was not on the publicly announced agenda for secretary carter. How is iraqs leadership reacting to his arrival . Thats absolutely right. Although this visit was unannounced, it certainly was not unexpected. These things take a lot of organizing. It goes to show you how dangerous the security situatio
Droughts, and longer wildfire season, all disasters that are becoming more frequent, expensive, and dangerous. Families experience it too. Asthma rates have more than doubled and as temperatures warm, smog gets worse, and those americans will be at greater risk of landing in the hospital. Climate change is not a problem for another generation, not anymore. That is why my administration will release the final version of americas clean power plan, the most important step we have ever taken to combat Climate Change. Until now, there have been no federal limits to the amount of pollution power plants can dump into the air. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury and sulfur and arsenic in our air and water, and are better off. Existing power plants can still dump unlimited amounts of harmful Carbon Pollution into the air we breathe. For the sake of our kids health and safety of all americans, that is about to change. We have been working with states and Power Companies to make s
David duke. Leading up to our question about your thoughts on the tone of the campaign, what do you think about it so far . Perhaps its a pacific topic and endorsement specific topic and endorsement. Republicans, you can dial in. You can post on our twitter page and our Facebook Page as well. The lead story in the Washington Post is about donald trump. Some of theturing tone of the campaign a season so far. Racial overtones and grew uglier on sunday. It goes on to say that trump had disavowed duke on friday. He stammered on sunday. Marco rubio responded by saying it made him unelectable. Thats just some of the stories about the tone of the campaign. We want to get your thoughts as well. You can call and post on our twitter page as well. Somell give you a sense of of the rhetoric that was exchanged. Lets start with donald trump talking about marco rubio. He is a desperate guy. Ive been watching him. He is not president ial material and he does not have the demeanor. He is a nervous nell
For everybody, not just fastfood workers. A bit of a change from the past couple months. Good morning, how are you . I am very nice, we were having a conversation with mike and ines about who was having the best day because mike was stuck at jury duty. But he did get to sleep in. He was bragging about how great his day was, how relaxing but ines won. We will see if she can show the pictures she had. Went to the beach yesterday, great day. Meteorologist it started out the took awhile to get going and that is okay, got some sun in there. A lot of folks enjoying the last few days of summer even though unofficially comes to a close, certainly doesnt feel like it today. This is not a beach day. We have some wet weather around the tristate region, spotty showers, widespread across the majority of the tristate including long island, connecticut, lower Hudson Valley and more to the southwest. These are not just showers but heavier thundershowers in the area, plenty of lightning and thunder for