Reporter good afternoon, rick. Philadelphia police have just released the identification of the suspect who exchanged gunfire with them on a heavily populated residential street yesterday afternoon. He remains hospitalized but expected to survive. Police say this man, 30yearold Jose Gonzalez of camden remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition after he was wounded in a wild gun fight with Police Yesterday after on north fairhill street. [gunfire] screaming . Reporter action news obtained this video that shows the moment the gunshots broke out in broad daylight around 4 45. Police were responding to reports of a man with a gun. They found him quickly and he opened fire police say and then the police responded. The male not only was armed with a gun but he preliminarily were getting information from civilians that he actually ensured that the gun was loaded by racking it and slapping the magazine plate. At that time that male fired twice at uniformed officers. Uniformed office
Country club. Their neighbor who didnt want to talk on camera says. Shes afraid. Sot victims neighborlast night was really very scary. I didnt think all those bad guys would come up here and hurt other people. They pulled my neighbhors purse and wrestled with my neihbors husband and then they ran away. Maybe we should not go out after dark and double lock the doors. And i probably will buy a big flash light and every now and then focus outside. I guess if you own gun you will feel better but it will just create more trouble. The suspects got away with one of the victims purse. Which had credit cards and other valuablesstanduppolice say the suspects are described as hispanic men in their twenties. Their hope is that one of the homes in the neirhborhood will have some surveillance footage. That will help track these guys down. Reporting in moraga, hermela aregawi, kron 4 news. james in national news. Ousted National Security adviser Michael Flynn wants to make a deal in exchange for his
mark breaking news we are following this morning. A small earthquake rattles the south bay. According to the usgs a 4point0 magnitude quake hit around 4 15 this morning in aromas. It hit about 35 miles from san jose. So far there are no reports of any damage or injuries. And remember we have a full page dedicated to earthquakes on our website. It shows an earthquake map and has safety tips on what to do when an earthquake hits. That is all on our website at kron four dot com. darya tensions flare at an East Bay High School as students accused of posting racist pictures on instagram return to class. mark this comes after two separate displays of discrimination at albany high school. And there are more rallys scheduled for later today. darya kron 4s averi harper is live at the high school this monring with the latest. Averi. averi tensions flare at an East Bay High School as students accused of posting racist pictures on instagram return to class. The protests happened yesterday at alban
Ted kennedy, hatch, crafted compromises. They were both strong partisans, but they had the spirit of compromises. Thats our main prescription for compromise. But if you look at senator hatch, he was a pretty well threatened by the tea party, the primary potentially ousted from office because of the compromises. True, and we dont say compromise is difficult, governing is difficult, however, as politicians, what do we remember hatch for . For passing great legislation to protect health care. Were not going to remember politicians for their cowardness, but for their courage. Were in the going to remember them positively for cowardness, but their courage. We are calling on politicians to exercise leadership. Theres a set of reforms that would make it easier to compromise, reforming the filibuster, open primaries, rather than close primaries. Limiting the amount of money that is politics. The problem is you cant get reforms without compromise so we all have our favorite reforms. Politicians
Of books that you may not know about of the lines. We are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia this week, and we are joined by the president of the university dementia is the coauthor of this book, the spirit of compromise, white governing demands it and campaigning undermines it. President , are we a politically compromising nation . We were created in compromise. A lot of people think of the revolutionary war, which separated us from our mother country, but if you recall, i know you werent there then, but if you recall it historically speaking our Founding Fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution. They were as polarized as any set of americans who had been throughout our country and history. There were a pro and anti slavery and yet they compromised. So, yes, we were founded in compromise. Today compromise has become more difficult than ever before. What do you mean when you talk about the uncompromising mindset . Well, we live in an era t