Fox 29 news hd brought to you by x fin the the future of awesome. Right now crews are working to secure the ben franklin parkway. This video just in to our newsroom showing peco and police sealing Manhole Covers late tonight less than two weeks ahead of the popes visit. Meanwhile, we are learning new details of a south jersey teens plot to attack the pontiff. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser spoke to phillys top cop. Hes live on the parkway knew the art museum tonight. Dave. Reporter iain, as you can see workers are out here right now working theyre way down the parkway stealing up the light stanchions and the Manhole Covers with a special digital seal. Theyre checking them, then sealing them up all in preparation for the popes visit here in 11 days. Theyre also building the stage and the altar right in front of the art museum. All this is going on while philadelphias top cop is speak out tonight about a Camden County teenager
Out tonight about a Camden County teenagers plan to mount attack on the pope. This is not something that people should be alarmed about. Reporter those words from commissioner Charles Ramsay tuesday as authorities down played the arrest of a 15yearold south jersey boy for plotting to attack the pope during his visit here next week. I was made aware by the fbi over a month ago that there was an investigation they had in south jersey. I didnt think much of it because there was no follow up conversation around it. Reporter federal authorities described the teenagers plot as aspiration al but noted the teen was allegedly inspired by isis and speaking about explosives and weapons on the internet and social media. We live in a world where between twitter and facebook and all these different platforms and so forth a lot of information comes to our attention. Reporter commissioner says police and federal authorities are closely monitoring social media and the internet for terrorist chatter as
Around midday. The nations lower middle 40s and up from 45 5 00 p. M. I dont know what the car resume are getting it through here. You put a guy putting up a roadblock. Well hear another few moments to see what is going on. Cars are getting back to you guys in the studio. Our top story Westside Neighborhood terrorist threat of 14 yearold boy brandishing are very real looking fake gun. Is another example of leftparenthesis for state lawmakers need to step up and do something stacy fry is life at take a look at the weapon a spinning cylinder safety mechanism and bullets all too real looking one of the victims was a mother of a kid should not be able to get their hands on things like that. He was arrested at his home where they say she handed over the fake revolver. The be arraigned in Juvenile Court his headed to call on this treated like real weapons that man confronted and threatened his life. And police agreed. How a jew be able to tell thats a bb gun. You can see where its been chipp
Democrats 202 5853880, and independents, all others, 202 5853882. You can send us a tweet. Or you can go to facebook. Com, or send us an email. Before the house acted on their border legislation last week president obama held a News Conference on friday, and this is what he had to say about executive action. We all agree that theres a problem that needs to be solved in a portion of our southern border. And we even agree on most of the solutions. But instead of working together, instead of focusing on the 80 where there is agreement between democrats and republicans, between the administration and congress, House Republicans as we speak are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going nowhere. That cant pass the senate, and that if it were to pass the senate, i would veto. They know it. Theyre not even trying to solve the problem. This is a message bill that they couldnt quite pull off yesterday so they made it more extreme so maybe t
Movie was the subject of peace negotiations between the north and the south at the very end of the civil war, which is the subject of the book. Its a shorthand way for me to introduce it to people because most people who have the fainted faintest interest in the subject will have seen the movie. The cover of the book is on the projector, which redepicts a meeting between lincoln and grant and sherman and admiral porter, who was the senior Union Admiral at the time. On the steamship river queen which was the air force one of its time, as i like to think of it. And it was the chamber, or the compartment on the river queen that you see on the cover of the book that the peace conference took place, about a month or month and a half prior to this meeting between lincoln and his military leaders. The artist who painted the picture in 1868 entitled it the peacemakers which i have always thought was titled with some conscious irony that took light of the fact that the peace conference that had