For 17yearold taylor white of jackson, mississippi people have it on their houses. Its everywhere. Reporter and rose kenney i dont know of any other, you know any other place when you have a war and the loser gets to fly their flag. Reporter witnessing this historic fall of the Confederate Flag over South Carolinas capitol is a moment they will forever embrace. Even watching it on a tv screen from the Pennsylvania Convention center. I had a great great uncle who was lynched under the flag and my great grandmother had to take care of him. Reporter kenny and his sister are united having felt the divide and hatred they say associated with the symbolic battle flag in their native north carolina. Even running into the woods from the ku klux klan. People used to throw things at us and use the n word go home and we were only third and fourth graders at the time. Reporter as young girls they crossed the Railroad Tracks among the first black students to attend a white school. So for those of us
With the heat. Here is a live look over philadelphia towards the delaware river. The sun starting to come up. Looking great out there. Temperatures will top off in the 9 os. Well let you no he what is ahead for the start of the work week in the first alert forecast. Good morning. Welcome back to nbc news 10 today. Im rosemary connors. Meteorologist Brittney Shipp is tracking the sunny and warm weather. A little cool to start though this morning, right . Thats right. Were going to see temperatures mainly in the 60s, even some spots in the 70s. As we head into the rest of today, well push into the 90s. A live look outside right now. Take a look at that beautiful sunrise. There are clouds out. There plenty of sunshine expected for us today. It should be nice and comfortable once again. And our visibility is down in two locations. Areas of fog if youre closer to south jersey places like mt. Holly, visibility is down to a half mile. Down to five miles northeast philly. Five miles in millvil
Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Its 7 00 on this sunday. Meteorologist Brittney Shipp has the first alert forecast with us. It includes a nice wrapup to the weekend, right . Thats right. Were going to see plenty of sunshine today. There is a live look outside. You can kind of make out the skyline there. Were going to see lots of sunshine for us. A few high thin clouds. And ill switch you over to our satellite radar shot. Give you a better idea of what to expect. We have a lot out there. That is great. That is going to stretch all the way to the northeast. We dont have any weather disturbances anywhere near our area. And thats going to help us out monday as well. So 58 degrees in the poconos. 63 in pots town. 6 wilmington. 6 adegrees in millville and 66 currently in widewood. A mild start to the morning even if youre at the Atlantic City airport. 67. All the locateses close to 70 degrees. That is a mild start. City planner shows by 12 00, 86 degrees. Close
You can track those storms in your neighborhood right on your smartphone or tablet with the nbc 10 news app. Get up to the minute live radar and instant weather alerts. The nbc 10 app is free. How about this now. A tree limb wayeighing more than a ton plunged on to a tree Service Employee pinning his legs in the bucket he was working in. The limb came loose to soon as crews worked to clear a vacant residential lot in haddonfield. The Service Crews were working to clear the lot. Nbc 10s cydney long is there live. Tell us about the dangerous rescue. Reporter i can tell you it was dangerous and delicate. This private contractor right now is hospitalized but take a look. He was trapped and terrified right here about 50 feet in the air. You can still see that limb hanging in the balance, the one that fell on top of him. Its more like a tree trunk, about 25 inches in diameter. Haddonfield police kept residents away from the danger. Neighbors tell us they heard an extremely loud snap and this
Aspect of American Life that remains particularly skewed. By race and by wealth. A source of inequity that has ripple effects on families and on communities and ultimately on our nation. That is our criminal Justice System. This is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happened. Theres a long history of inequity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure that we had videotaping 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 experience. Since my First Campaign i have talked about how in too many cases our criminal Justice System ends up being a pipeline from underfunded inadequate schools to overcrowded jails. What has changed, though is that in recent years, the eyes of more americans have been opened to the truth. Partly because cameras, partly because of tragedy, partl