Black members of the jury. We want to talk about your confidence level in the criminal Justice System. If you are in the mountain , andic, 202 7488001 experience with criminal justice, we want to hear your story this morning, 202 join us onu can also twitter or facebook. We will get your calls in just a minute but lets kick off the conversation with president recent weekly address he made about the criminal Justice System. Some 2. 2 Million Peoples behind bars in america and millions more are on parole or probation. Papernd 80 billion tax doll taxpayer dollars every year to keep people locked up. Many are serving excessively long sentences for nonviolent crimes. 60 have Mental Health issues and 70 were drug users. The population is disproportionately black and latino. Plenty of people should be behind bars but the reason we have more people behind bars than any other country, it is because we have criminal justice laws that need to be reformed. Simply locking people up does not make Co
Fill get some help from folks up in bucks county. But once again the big story on action news tonight is day four of this brutal heat, heat index making it feel like well above 100 degrees across the region and we have just learned that two people from philadelphia have have died as a result of the heat, all as the entire viewing area remains under an excessive heat warning until tomorrow night. We have live team coverage. Trish hartman joins us from Fairmount Park where people have been seeking out the shade anywhere they can find it. But we will begin with meteorologist Melissa Magee and the latest from accu heather, melissa. Walter, it is just not the heat but it is also the humidity that makes it unbearable stepping outside. As you mentioned this is day four of the heat wave number five here in philadelphia a. It started wednesday with a high of 93. Thursdays high 95. Yesterday we maxed out at 97. Today our high in philadelphia 98 degrees making this the hottest day so far, this ye
Listen to pat toomey brag i have had a perfect record with the nra. Pat toomey gets an a from the nra. Hes not for you. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Come out firing second minute of the match and cj redirected for the goal and union gets two more in the second half including this from Chris Pontius and score a 4nilw and the win of the month. Determined to be the fastest woman alive comes up short in the olympics and gardner 7th in the 100 meter dash in rio and who won a gold you got it swimming for the final time in the olympics Michael Phelps wins the 23 and swimming the butterfly in the 400 by meter rely and phelps plans to retire with only 28 total metals can you imagine that trophy room in his home in baltimore. Thank you, jeff. Action news at 11 30 is next with more on the extreme heat. Action news spoke with people all across the Delaware Valley about how they are keeping cool under the brutal conditions and police need your help trackin
We learned a short time ago that she died from her injuries. Police are looking for a newer model black nissan ultima with tinted windows. A second hit and run, this one in fairfax county. Police said a toyota camry was rearended on i495 buy a nissan maxima. It swung the camry into the jersey wall, killing a woman and seriously injuring two other four other occupants. The driver was found hours later in annandale and taken into custody. We will go to back to school. Hundreds of thousands of students around the region are returning to class, including headstart students in Prince Georges County. This comes after funding questions put the program in serious jeopardy. Sam sweeney has that story. Learned that Prince Georges County Headstart Program will soon be under the control of a denverbased company. This comes after the federal government pulled a 6. 4 million grant, largely due to the incompetence of district employees. Today a county executive welcome students back to their first da
Today. Workers are expected to vote on a very important contract proposal today. It could effect nearly 200,000 people. There is outside the offices this morning where that vote and discussion is taking place. Janine de la vega will have more on how it could effect the commute in just a little bit. Thank you for wakingen with us on this friday morning december 27th im pam cook. What day sit again . Friday. Just double checking. Im brian flores in for dave clark today. Rosemary in for steve. How are you . Im doing okay. Tgif to you. Hopefully you have a great day in store. Hopefully you have the day off. We have better air quality in the forecast. It is slightly better. I think saturday will be slightly better than this. A comparison from yesterday into today. Most areas still in that shade of orange. Meaning if you have asthma, respiratory issues, this is where you need to consider maybe not having such or not prop longing that outdoor activity. But in the inner eastern zone weve got y