Religious violence or help normalize hate speech. The president is facing a strong backlash for retreating a series of videos that show the violence being committed by muslims. Jana is here with the details. Reporter the white house defended the president s intentions today. There was an outcry. President trump is read tweeting videos without knowing if they are accurate in giving fame to an obscure far right group in britain. Trump retweeted three videos posted by a woman from the Group Britain first. France and who has posted hundreds of videos denouncing muslims and immigrants in britain has been convicted of religious harassment. The presence retweets prompted people to spread her post. And through praise from former ku klux klan reader david duke who tweeted this is why we love trump and why the Fake News Media hates chopped. He brings to light what the media wont. They cover up races hate crimes against white people. Theresa may condemn president trumps action calling it wrong. T
Thermometer in Atlantic City mount pocono we are way warmer , this same time yesterday and new held back to the 30s, 20s, nothing a typical, thinks where you should be but noticeably cooler and luckily you dont have too much in the way of wind. As day goes on suns warm but still above average here. Look at 55 in the city with mixture of sun and included, not terrible and we have a frontal boundary but that will hold off any wet weather until later on tonight. We will look at area dew point s, northeast wind flow is quite light, and it should begin to shift southerly as day goes on in advance of the approaching frontal boundary which will time out in more detail, later in the show, meisha. Katie, sounds good, thank you very much. Were looking outside and as we were just talking about at the desk things are looking good, we are starting to heat up levels just a little bit but no accident this morning so we are looking good there, lots of construction, ben franklin bridge looking great tr
Looking good. Karen, thomas, back to you. Bob, thank you so much. Developing right now, homeless man, who was beaten to death in mayfair, now being remembered as a kinds and gentle soul getting the respect and death he did not get in life. Police are still looking for the people responsible. Lets get right out to jenny joyce at police headquarters, jenny . Good morning, dante was out there at the vigil last night, she reported that police have identified one of the teens involved. He left his safe phone near the scene, interviewed by investigators but has not yet been charged. Meanwhile the family and friends of kevin cullen say theyre anxious for justice around 6 00 sunday night, cullen, homeless, mayfair, was brutally beaten by a pack of he later died last night. People who knew cullen and even some who didnt, attended a vigil to honor the life after man they say was a very nice man. Police tell us he suffered a violent death. The mans head was smashed against the side after house on
Marriage. Good day philadelphia at 5 00 a. M. Start right now. We will call it the scoop here at 5 00 a. M. Great to have you with us this thursday, im thomas drayton. Im karen hepp, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate t we have the whole gang here, bob and sue getting you where you need to know. Good morning, thursday. Almost friday. Almost friday. The weekend, yes. And last day of the month. Just remember thursday, so i have my breakfast segment, going to breakfast in downs town, then go check out the Christmas Lights in south philly. Wait until you see this joint tonight. Un believable. And great time to put up the light. So warm, sue. Right. And i would get it done this weekend at the very latest. By the middle of next week, whole, whole different story. All my neighbors have the lawns decorated. I know, i just put the last of the thanksgiving stuff back in the basement. Sorry, neighbors. Oh, well, anyway, it is a nine out of ten today. Wont be as mild as yesterday on t
Draws International Outrage after he we treat death Retweets Retweets britain first, a far right antiimmigrant hate group, whose leader has been convicted of religious harassment charges, just picked up for hate speech. Trump was condemned by british Prime Minister theresa may and the london mayor, among others. We will get response from al jazeera. Then the republican tax overhaul that would shower billions of dollars in tax cuts on the richest americans could go to vote as early as friday. This is the worst tax bill ive seen in my long life. It should not be called tax reform to read it actually complicates our tax structure and opens up new loopholes and gives advantage to precisely the groups that are already advantage. Amy we will speak with nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. His new book. Trump is unfit to be president. It is not just that he tweets all the time in ways that are really embarrassing to the country and he really does not understand and is not very intere