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
Today the jury will continue deliberations at 9 this morning in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing his former girlfriend. On friday, the jury heard closing arguments and started to discuss their decision on the case. The prosecution says 33yearold Nicholas Luerkens ambushed and stabbed his former girlfriend several times in the marion hyvee parking lot. They say there is clear and overwhelming evidence that he planned 29yearold Lynnsey Donalds murder back in april. While the defense admits luerkens did stab her multiple times, they say he was in an extreme depressive state. It contends that luerkens was overusing anti depressant medication at the time. Earlier in the week, a Police Officer testified reading from a journal he found in luerkens apartment. It had a todo list and killing donald was on it. On friday, the prosecution told intention couldnt be clearer. But luerkens defense lawyer suggested a 2nd degree murder conviction instead of first degree because of his clien
Help him. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live at Jefferson Hospital tonight. Chris a scary situation. Reporter sure s iain. That 26yearold Police Officer is stable tonight here at Jefferson University hospital but he is suffering from very severe injuries after being struck by a hitandrun driver in south philadelphia and police say that driver is still on the loose tonight. Shattered knee. Broken leg and the laceration to his head. Reporter broken windshield of the chrysler 200 is shattered from the body of a philadelphia Police Officer. Hit by a driver trying to run from police. The officer hit the parked unattended vehicle with such impact he put a whole a foot long and 2 feet long in the front windshield and you can even see some of the officers scalp and hair on the broken front windshield. Reporter police say the 17th district officer with just two years on the force was responding to a weapons call near the 2700 block of zero street in point breeze when this Volkswagen Passat sped the wr
Midnight and 1 00 a. M. It reached 69 degrees. That was technically the 15th of december, when the old record was 66, set in 2008 and 1971. So yeah we have a new record High Temperature, already and it is only 5 00 in the morning. That is what is going on with weather. A few left over showers, Lancaster County, Chester County a few more along the coast, this is last gasp of this cold front once it passes through we will get chillier air and very high wind. That wont settle in until later this morning. You can see wind is picking up, 14 miles an hour wind out of the west and were now at 62 degrees. 69 degrees high, happened right around midnight last night, sunrise at 7 15 this morning. We will see some sunshine but temperatures still unusually mild. Fiftys to the north, 60s to the the south of us, temperatures will continue to fall through the 60s and end up in the 50s by evening drive. A few you left over showers, wind gusting to 30 miles an hour today, sunset time bob kelly 4 37. We
Shattered knee. Broken leg and the laceration to his head. Reporter broken windshield of the chrysler 200 is shattered from the body of a Philadelphia Police officer. Hit by a driver trying to run from police. The officer hit the parked unattended vehicle with such impact he put a whole a foot long and 2 feet long in the front windshield and you can even see some of the officers scalp and hair on the broken front windshield. Reporter police say the 17th district officer with just two years on the force was responding to a weapons call near the 2700 block of zero street in point breeze when this Volkswagen Passat sped the wrong way down a oneway street. The car struck the officer and kept going. Leaving the officer bleeding in the middle of the road. Police say Good Samaritans came to the officers aid. They did really good job. One woman applied direct pressure using a towel from her home on the officers head. They actually collected the gun and the radio that fell off the officers belt