Of rain to get through, but take a look across the delaware valley. Well kind of zoom in and show you where the heaviest of the rain is occurring right now. Especially in parts of chester county, delaware county, where you see that yellow, were kind of zoom in little closer here. Moving toward the phoenixville area right now, just outside of west goshen, media getting some of that moderate to heavy rain, moving toward chester then eventually moving back toward the philadelphia area. Down the shore, take look at cape may county, cumberland county, atlantic county. Millville down the shore looking at some of that moderate to heavy rain. Take a look at the impression seive rainfall totals so far on average one to 2inches. Look at wilmington. 1. 66inches. A little over an inch toward the philadelphia area and were not done. We still have a flood watch the entire area almost through tonight and an additional one to 2inches of rainfall is expected. So if youre stepping outdoors, for dinner,
Weve lost . We need to assure the ones that lost all their belongings, their places to stay, that they will have shelter. vo lowery says hes been reaching out to other non profits that can help provide a place to stay, and that they are slowly taking the displaced fire victims into their facilities. As for the state of the building the conditions people were living in before the fire started, that is something that very well acould come upin a lawsuit from victims or their families. spencer a mediator hired by cook says the place was unhinhabitable when she did a walkthrough a few weeks ago. Live in oakland, Spencer Blake, kron four news. catherine also in oakland the owner of the warehouse where the deadly ghost ship fire happenedin december is facing another lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed last week by the father of one of the victims. Its just the latest in a string of lawsuits. It claims the Building Owner was aware of fire hazards but did nothing about them. It also claims the buil
A fire captain reported finding lifethreatening hazards in the building, and recommending shuttering the place. But instead, the city gave the owner the chance to make repairs. Today an attorney for the Master Tenant said lawsuits could be coming. Hes a dynamic, young 64year old that lost his life. Aurea lewis is one of the directors of Urojas Community services, and shes also one of the people who lost a loved one her brother in mondays san pablo avenue fire. A mediator hired by attorney james cook, who represents urojas, says the place still had uninhabitable conditions when she did a walkthrough just a couple weeks ago. There was water leaking down from the ceiling from the bathroom of the second floor coming down to the first floor. There were exposed wires. Cook has been representing urojas ever since eviction attempts by the buildings owner, keith kim, began in december. Kim claimed the Master Tenant owed him unpaid rent. This was around the same time the city inspection found th
There are an array of options and that is certainly one that is there. We are going to turn to membership for questions. Im told to remind you it is on the record. We ask you wait for a microphone. It will bring it to you. Speak directly into the microphone, stand stand up, tell us your name, affiliation and limit yourself to one question. Lets start over here with this gentleman. Hello. My memory on this may be hazy, but i was on the defense policy board at the time of the earliest crises. Somehow or another at the time the cold war was ending they made it possible for some of their records to be made available to us. One of the things i was surprised, for those of us who saw the records, where it took about a year to persuade the russian and chinese to get into this. They were very much afraid of the american response and they didnt want to go to war with america again. That was certainly an opening. I should back up and say, it was my opinion then that we simply had to send a person
In prison, the term hard time can mean many different things. It can be an inmate who will never see freedom again. Or an inmate whos doing solitary confinement for years at a time. Our crews have seen numerous examples of what its like to do hard time. But theres one story in particular that seems like it came straight out of a movie. Every weekday morning just after sunrise, a group of inmates at the elaine Hunt Correctional Center in louisiana prepares for a grueling day of farming the fields adjacent to the prison. 63 acres of vegetable gardens that we grow vegetables on. Anything from squash, tomatoes, mustard greens, collard greens. Supervised by armed officers on horse back, and earning 2 cents an hour for their labor, the inmates harvest more than a Million Pounds of crops a year. All of it used at the prison. But this particular work detail forces staff to be especially vigilant. Knowing that they have tools, that they could easily use as weapons, and they have done it before.