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
Here just outside Baltimore Baltimore county is there a Flash Flood Warning until 7 00 oclock this morning because they have had heavy rain overnight. Now moving in Chester County, in pennsylvania, New Castle County Delaware County, salem and cumberland counties in new jersey. We will zoom in closer and we will show you where heavier rain is east nottingham and all these southern counties, oxford pa, avondale and all places that as you head up route one it is through Chester County and toward Delaware County. It is a mess in spots this morning. We have not seen rain yet here in olde city. It is 74 degrees. 7mile an her breeze out of the east and 44 00 is our official sunrise time. Were getting there. 74 degrees. Sixtyfour in mount pocono. Sixtynine in allentown. Seventytwo in reading. At the shore we have mid 07s in both a Atlantic City and wildwood and 73 in wilmington. So decided to go with the five out of ten today because of the potential for soaking rains and thunderstorms through
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
Neighborhood is on edge following a frightening attempted break in thats all captured on camera. Quick thinking homeowner prevented what could have been tragic situation. Good evening everyone im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Natasha brown is live outside northwest detectives where police are now searching for the four men scene in this video. Natasha . We can tell you terrifying video shows the actual moment that four suspects armed with guns tried to storm a west mt. Airy home and neighbors in that area who are seeing this video for the first time are rattled and on guard. The home Surveillance Video is Crystal Clear showing the actions of four suspects trying to make entry into this house in the 500 block of burn numb road the first suspect knocks on the door at 10 30 tuesday night. Then looks right up into the camera overhead. Another knock the homeowner quickly open the door before hustling back inside seeing the sawed off shotgun in the hands of one man. Hand guns in the hand
That four suspects armed with guns tried to storm a west mt. Airy home and neighbors in that area who are seeing this video for the first time are rattled and on guard. The home Surveillance Video is Crystal Clear showing the actions of four suspects trying to make entry into this house in the 500 block of burn numb road the first suspect knocks on the door at 10 30 tuesday night. Then looks right up into the camera overhead. Another knock the homeowner quickly open the door before hustling back inside seeing the sawed off shotgun in the hands of one man. Hand guns in the hands of at least three others. Its kind of scary because i was actually sleeping down in my living room last night because the ac down there just to keep cool. And i saw the cop cars out front front. I didnt i had no idea what was going on. Reporter rob steal has lived on the block for seven years right across the street from the attempted home inn vague the suspects ran away never entering the house. We found no one