Police brutality and racial injustice. The discussion focused on how newsrooms are changing how they approachstory coverage. Welcome. So happy to know that youre with us. Im the executive director of the National Association of Journalism Institutes and we are really happy to be hosting this event on newsroom protests and it has anything really changed. Thank you to the National Press club members for planning this program in partnership with us and the communicatorscommittee. Its going to be an interesting and informative conversation. First among our wonderful panelists and then we hope youll join in by sharing your questions using the monday. So im going to turn this over to our moderator ina moment , Michael Carter who is usa today managing editor, ethics but first i want to say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda managing editor of theassociated press. Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Church news and dorothy packer, Investig
Court. He talked with the woman who recorded that video. Path, what did she tell you . Reporter she has a lot to say, jim, but, first, lets talk about the victim here. Hes a howard grad, a finance major. He works in a startup here in our city. Saturday he wanted to see his mom. He decided to take metro. He goes down into the u street station and and lets go to the videotape. The metro cop tased him and then tased him again. They say the man was trying to be a peacemaker when it happened. The 29yearold man cuffed and charged wit assaultn a police officer, charged with obstruction of justice, charged with resisting arrest and jailed for two days. According to his attorney, the charges all dropped today. Hear now from his mom who was at the courthouse. I couldnt believe my lawyer. They dropped all the charges and happy. He is very upset. Highly raumatized, and hes not happy. Hes not happy the way things went. Today i shock with shameer jones who took the pictures. I kept screaming like yo
Week. Were going to begin with a consumer investigation that you saw only here on news 4. New accusations against the maker of a controversial guardrail thats being blamed for a number of deaths here in d our region a across the country. This particular guardrail end piece is called the x light, its been at the center of a news 4 consumer investigarlon anr neay two years. Susan hog has been on it all along. Here are the new details. Steve imers daughter, hanna, died in 2016 afteritting an x light. He believes the product is defective and he is on a mission to get the guard rails removed from our nations highways. So we traveled to his home in tennessee earlier this year to give you a firsthand look inside his ground zero, where he says hes made some surprising here x represents the max we can spend, okay . Reporter its a typical wednesday morning at timers home, melissa pulling double duty for mom and homeschool teacher for seven of h kids. Before leaving for work, steve heads to the b
Temperature for todays date 75. So well beyond that. Close to a record. Our record 96 back in the 1960 s. Temperatures right now, they are still quite toasty across the area where 90 in trenton. Ninety in philadelphia 91 in ac. But we see that 79 degrees. Wilmington due to thunderstorm activity and rainfall moving through over last couple of hours, you can see high level cloud from the thunderstorms over delaware, creeping their way in Center City Philadelphia we are contending with this thunderstorm activity and, a few cells could be a little bit on the high side working through parts of the delaware, bauers will see heavy rain just about to move in. We also this cell that is working its way through beach haven, couple rumbles of thunder and pea sized hail possible with these cells. We have a marginal risk of is he vee weather, not everyone will see storm activity but if you see a storm popping up it could be on the stronger side. We will talk about the thunderstorm activity when it w
Temperature for todays date 75. So well beyond that. Close to a record. Our record 96 back in the 1960 s. Temperatures right now, they are still quite toasty across the area where 90 in trenton. Ninety in philadelphia 91 in ac. But we see that 79 degrees. Wilmington due to thunderstorm activity and rainfall moving through over last couple of hours, you can see high level cloud from the thunderstorms over delaware, creeping their way in Center City Philadelphia we are contending with this thunderstorm activity and, a few cells could be a little bit on the high side working through parts of the delaware, bauers will see heavy rain just about to move in. We also this cell that is working its way through beach haven, couple rumbles of thunder and pea sized hail possible with these cells. We have a marginal risk of is he vee weather, not everyone will see storm activity but if you see a storm popping up it could be on the stronger side. We will talk about the thunderstorm activity when it w