Welcome to the Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. Were honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work have been the embodyment of Free Expression. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to other subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter here is genius at. This the sprob i dont know any jokes. Bt First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i gook willed. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. About jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and vrabel minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes.
Were honored to have you celebrate with us tonight the awards for the six men and women. Now standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and go on to more serious subjects. David bradley is the genius at this, the problem, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do. I googled, i mean, i asked alexa, i mean, i asked siri about jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology of course. There are many stories about some making jokes about the First Amendment and countless stories about whether or not the amendment does cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and racial minorititiy t minorities. The answer, by the way, is yes, yes, yes. I found some possible material from lenny bruce, but i figured we had that material covered already. Seriously, i cant remembe
The north so that will keep things nice and pleasant today. Seventyone at the airport in philadelphia a northeast breeze at 2 miles an hour. Allentown has 60 degrees at this hour. Sixtynine in millville. Little muggy down towards the shore 70 the Atlantic City airport. Quakertown cool spot at 69. Sixty in pottstown. We have a win direction, everyone reporting a north to northeast wind a cooler trier flow, enjoy it. It will in the last. You do in the see this too often for month of july. One left over shower in the Atlantic City ocean city moving off shore, we have plenty of sunshine, through the morning in the afternoon. And for midsummer you have to call today practically perfect, sunny, warm, temperatures where they should be but humidity stays low with that light wind. Were up to 86 degrees, in the philadelphia mid 80s at the shore. Poconos, stuck in the 70s but as we approach the weekend were talking about near record High Temperature in the forecast, hottest air mass we have seen
It was sort of with a ride down the escalator and it ends up here tonight. Donald trump said several times i will be the president of the United States on january 20th, 2015. Speech ran a little longer than people were hoping. Everybody was on their feet for the first 30 minutes and then they decided to take a break. The thing you cant deny is the energy in this room. People said to me i may not agree with what he says, hes politically incorrect but its refreshing and i believe hes going to make a difference. John dickerson over to you at the podium. Now the balloons are up again. It was a speech full of existual threat. He mentioned our way of life in a moment of krises. This was a candidate who came up with stadium rallies. This was very much like his stadium rallies. No optimism. The question now is, is there a big enough group in the country who shares that same desperate theme about the state of things that they are under siege. His optimism is to bring in new people. There was no
Im jim rosenfield. Philadelphia police say the attack happened monday morning. But the victims son didnt find his body until this afternoon. Next 10s Brandon Hudson is live at the home in southwest philadelphia. Brandon, do police think this was a random attack . Reporter jacqueline and jim, Police Believe the victim was targeted. The suspects got in through the back of this house. They say they broke in through the back window which is next to that door. Then killed the 77yearold homeowner. Since our last report, we spoke to friends who described the victim as a great guy. In the hours following the gruesome find made by the victims son, Philadelphia Police collected evidence from this murder. The place a 77yearold man called home on theodore street most of his life now a crime scene. At this time investigators havent said if they found a weapon. A shame, im telling you. Reporter arthur became friends with the victim years ago from their time at the American Legion post. Arthur got a