Which he blames for leading to over charging and over prosecuting of especially nonviolent drug offenses. The end result he said, too many people locked up, too many people of color locked up, all at a price tag for the us of 80 million a year. Our nation is being robbed of men and women who cock workers and tack pairs. Could be more actively involved in their childrens lives could be role models, could be community leaders. applause . Right now theyre locked up for non violent offense. So our criminal Justice System isnt as smart as it should be. Its not keeping us as safe as it should be. It is not as fair as it should be. Mass incarceration makes our country worse off. applause . And we need to do something about it. Reporter later this week mr. Obama will become the first sitting president ever to visit a federal prison in oklahoma. Where he will repeat some of these themes like more opportunities for children to keep them on the straight and narrow more opportunities behind bars f
Afternoon, Montgomery County District Attorney risa furman says today is a sad one for the people of pennsylvania, im holding here two very thick criminal complaints of first of which for state attorney general, kathleen cane, the other for special agent of hers, doubled as her driver, patrick reese, alleged under the instruction of cane, reese illegally acts as secret grand jury information, then purposely leaked to the philadelphia daily news. Cane has been charged with obstructing administration of law, official oppression, criminal conspiracy, perjury, false swearing. That leaked information was regarding a sealed 2009 investigation, which fuhrman said today she sees as an act of revenge, that kane took to embarrass former state prosecute heres she felt previously made her look bad. The second half of those charges against kane relate to her testimony over the alleged leaks, in front of a grand jury, fuhrman stated today the evidence points to kane lying to cover up the leak. The m
These serious charges. Reporter state attorney general Kathleen Kane has had this to say in a statement. A resignation would be an admission of guilt, and im not guilty. What kane does not dispute according to the november 17th, 2014 grand jury testimony, is that she believed that the public had the right to know the details of a 2009 case involving adversaries. Lets put it out to the press she recalled in court. But kane has maintained that she was not involved in illegally leaking the info to the Philadelphia Daily News for june 2014 article. An act of retaliation coupled with a cover up, according to Montgomery County District Attorney risa furhman. In the hopes of embarrassing and harming former state prosecutors whom she believed, whom she believed, without evidence, had made her look bad. Reporter furhman is talking about a Philadelphia Inquirer article published three months earlier, kane disputes all above allegations adding i look forward to the opportunity to present my case
Feels good outside and humidity is way down and temperatures have cooled down nicely overnight and seeing readings in the 60s for most of the area. Still a couple of spots left in the 70s this morning but that wont last. We will see temperatures back in the 80s this afternoon. 71 now at Philadelphia International. Look at the 60s northeast philadelphia at 68, 61 pottstown and wrights town and roxborough 67 and warm side in south philadelphia. Delaware river trails 75 degrees at this hour. We will see lots of sunshine to start with but changes as the day goes on. Start off with the cool numbers. 69 degrees. A few scattered high clouds at 9 00 and mainly sunny skies at lunch time and 74 at noon. Later today, 80. We will see more clouds and likely lead to showers. Right on now lets check in with Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Watching the vine street expressway right now. All lanes open and moving along nicely and some ongoing construction and signs throughout the area o
As the day goes on we will see more cloud cover and that is going to lead to some showers. The first showers could be moving into parts of the area tonight. The hourbyhour future cast show you when the showers will arrive in your area when i come back in ten minutes. Right now take a look at the roads with Jessica Boyington in the first alert traffic center. We are on the schuylkill expressway right now. We are doing great in terms of the drive times around montgomery drive. Whether youre heading westbound or eastbound you can see its a tie right there. 11 minutes from the vine street expressway up towards the blue route so no real problems there. Ongoing construction not tying things up. The blue route here. 14 15 minutes at the most southbound from the schuylkill expressway up towards 95. Mass transit no problems currently delays this morning. A Beautiful Day to come especially right now not dealing with any Philadelphia International airport delays. Coming up we will check in with m