dream. most americans in a brand-new poll say the ability to achieve their true goals is increasingly out of reach. hello, welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. and john, hello to you. john: good to be with you on this tuesday. this is america reports. 61% of those polled by the wall street journal say they are pessimistic about being able to achieve the american dream. as families get crushed by record high gas prices, skyrocketing inflation. sandra: it is hard to believe, the average price of gasoline has jumped nationally today to another $0.05, i should say, overnight. and now setting a record for 28 of the past 29 days. the cost of gasoline has more than doubled since president biden took office. john: the white house is scrambling to respond to the growing economic crisis with a new plan on solar energy? critics say the move will only hurt american businesses even more. sandra: ro khanna will join us in moments. john: according to the white house,
Mans situation, and it just really scared me when i thought about it. Reporter he tells fox 29 and weve confirmed that Philadelphia Police investigat investigators believe some of the teens involved in the fatal beating of kevin cullen novembee who attacked him five days earlier and four blocks away. He was walking to work near ditman and aldeen in the mid afternoon when four teens approached, one of them asked for his cell phone. When he refused he bear hugged me from behind, and then he pick me up and he slammed me to the street and then they all started to kick me and punch me. Reporter Good Samaritan inter every interrupted the beating and ran off the attackers. Still he was hospitalized with scrapes and bruises. Police have arrested one teen in the attack. They do in the believe he was involved in the cullen killing. But believe the others may be connected. Your reaction when you heard that might be a connection . I had a bad gut feeling. My hair stood up everywhere on my body. Kn
Weve got to get you free coffee. And meet wally. Were shining a spotlight on bethlehem. Back to you. Thank you. See you later. Thank you, guys. We will be at the wawa all morning long. Coming up, lastminute goodies and Stocking Stuffers from wawa. Now to traffic and jessica boyington. Good morning. We have breaking news to start, as well. On 95, overhead you see the crane. They had both directions closed because it was stuck. Now its just affecting northbound. If youre headed northbound toward 413, theyll divert you off before you get to this point because all of 95 is currently blocked. The southbound side is open. The northbound side is having all lanes closed, theyre diverting it around route 413. Who knows how long that will be there. It could be a little bit of time. Hopefully it clears before the commute. Some things will clear before them. The eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway, construction from the vine street expressway headed to about south street. That will be clos
That we should see an increase in the strength of these storms. Thats whats happening and thats why the severe thunderstorm watch has been extended into the philadelphia area and new jersey. The flood threat for tonight is actually less than it was yesterday but a lot of lightning and also a lot of high winds. Those are the main threats. But we still have some threat of some hail and even a tornado or two in parts of the area. Lets check in with meteorologist Sheena Parveen for more on exactly what to expect the next few hours. The reason why that watch is going so late is because of all the heat and humidity in place and thats what you really felt today. Temperatures still climbing through part of the area. Thats what will help fuel a lot of these storms as they move in tonight. 85 in philadelphia so we have gone up a couple degrees in the past hour. 85 degrees in reading, parts of delaware still at about the upper 80s and as we go into tonight, those temperatures will start to drop a
Prisoners. Think about that. Africanamericans and latinos make up 30 of our population. They make up 60 of our inmates. Weve also locked up more and more nonviolent drug offenders than ever before for longer than ever before. [ applause ] and that is the real reason our prison population. Is so high. So, in a nutshell, he said and if you just tick through it that africanamericans and hispanics are unfairly stopped charged, convicted, and overly sentenced compared to similar crimes committed by nonpeople of color. A disproportionate jail term for many of them, which means theyre in longer, almost always solitary confinement in situations when its not necessarily warranted, and very little rehabilitation, so were really making a bad situation worse because, as he said, the majority of them will get out someday and have no skills and a lot of anger and certainly have learned to be even more hardened criminals. How do you start to crack that nut . There are so many levels there and i know