That remains particularly skewed. By race. And by wealth. A source of inequity that has a Ripple Effect on families and communities and ultimately on our nation and that is our criminal Justice System. This is not a new topic i know that sometimes folks discover these things like it just happened. There is a long history of inequity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois we worked to make sure we had video taping of interrogations because there were some problems there we set up racial profiling laws to prevent the coined of bias in traffic stops that too many people experience. Since my First Campaign i talked about in too many cases the criminal Justice System becomes a pipeline from underfunded schools to crowded jails what has changed though is that in recent years the eyes of more americans have been opened to this truth. Partly because of cameras. Partly because of tragedy. Partly because the statistics cannot be ignored. We can
Longer than ever before and that is why our prison population is so high. As republican senator, and president ial candidate ran paul, has said, and to his credit he is consistent on this issue, imprisoning nonviolent offenders for long periods of time does not make it safer, africanamericans and latinos make up 30 of our population and make up 60 of our inmates. After the string of statistics the president shifted gears talking about widespread reforms from everything from sentencing guidelines for nonviolent crimes as well as reforms in communities and more jobs for young people and reform in prison so people have a chance of reenry back into the real world a need for change from the president s perspective. Thank you john. Well, the president s day got started early with the announcement of a Nuclear Agreement with iran. It took 17 days of negotiations and months of diplomacy to reach the deal, stopping iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon for at least 10 years according to the pre
Im here to tell you our number today once again is a ten. We will give you one more before the weekend. Once humidity comes back we will drop that back. Today even though it will be warmer it should be a fabulous day. We have 68 degrees. We have 65 percent relative humidity. Calm wind. The it is a nice morning out there. Sunrise doesnt happen until 6 12, this morning, and heres your satellite radar, nothing to talk about here, once again, in precipitation and nothing even nearby, temperatures, elsewhere, are very cool to the north of us, were starting off in the 50s in lancaster, pottstown, allentown, mount pocono, reading. The trenton had 61. Sixtytwo a Atlantic City. Wildwood 61. Wilmington, delaware with 60 degrees. Win speeds are pretty calm this morning and most of them are out of the north or northwest but today is day we will start to see the change. The first westerly wind and then we will get southeasterly wind and you know what that means. Well, if you dont that means humidit
That is what im getting to. Ten out of ten. We have bus stop buddy already at the shore this morning. Temperatures are cool in the 50s and 60s out there but it is a nice morning, comfortable morning and he will put these shade on and getting that sun screen as well getting ready for a great beach day. Sixtyseven in the city with 68 percent relative humidity and sunrise time is not until 6 12. Calm wind, tranquil, beautiful morning, hardly a cloud in the sky. Cant find much here on satellite picture so lets check temperatures. We said they are in the 50s to the north of us, 60 in trenton. Down to the south, 59 in Atlantic City. Sixtyfour in dover. Cooler then yesterday thanks to those clear skies. Our friday fox cast has a high of 88 degrees. 4 degrees warmer then yesterdays 84 but still, little bit humid. 67 degrees with clear skies. That is your friday fox cast. As you know bob kelly is heading toward Seaside Heights, new jersey. Captain wait to hear from him. In the meantime were che
Second person, but the smoke and fire was too much. Reporter one person died. The survive a 55yearold man awake and rushed to the hospital. The person was pretty banged up. However, the person was still conscious but was in and out. Reporter investigators say the singleengine plane was headed from west hampton to morristown, new jersey, when the pilot reported trouble. Reported to farmingdale that they were experiencing difficulty maintaining altitude. Reporter today investigators surveyed the damage. Pieces of the plane scattered across the tracks near South Oyster Bay road, suspending service between hicksville and farmingdale. But an mta spokesperson says the crash could have been catastrophic. There was no train going through at that point, but the crossing was open. So, you know, there was a possibility there could have been cars going through. Reporter and because the crash happened on the liir tracks, the mta is investigating along with the faa. Lori bordonaro, news 4. And this