Now, the truth is, the murder rate has generally you see there on the screen generally declined over the long term, going from 391 in 2007 to 277 just last year. However, murders are up significantly in the month of january, 37 compared to the january of last year. Its unclear if that trend is going to hold. But, ed, do you think that the president knew that when he said that, or is he just spouting out generalities, hes got chicago in his mind, and he just said something that he just didnt have any facts to base it on . My sense is that he paints in very broad brushstrokes. And then you go back, and you can start to parse what he has said. Hes put himself in that situation a number of times. Overall, i think anybody in a big city is going to complain about crime, is going to say that it is an issue. For him, that was certainly the case in the campaign. It worked for him very effectively. So, he does have a tendency to make statements where, when you go back and you start to take them
Tough trees. Kimberly they are resilient. The Cherry Blossoms survived the cold snap, at least half of them did, and now the celebration begins. Abc 7 news begins with breaking news. Kimberly thank you for joining us. Im kimberly suiters. The police were called out for a shooting in Prince Georges County that turned deadly. Tim barber is on the scene at columbia place. Tim the investigation is just getting started. Dhese crime scene vans arrive on the scene and just started combing the scene. [audio breaking up] now, that is all the information we have about that teenager. We will stay out here and gather information about possible suspects or persons of interest or any leads that could help the police by the shte we will bring it to you. Tim barber, abc 7 news. Kimberly tim, thank you. A silver alert, 72yearold Sylvester Johnson was last seen at 6 00 tonight in 17th street southeast. The Police Believe he was headed home to his home in capitol heights, maryland, in a red cadillac eldo
Having a good hair day . It is pretty good. Because were holding off the humidity until tomorrow. Weve got the heat coming today. The humidity tomorrow, and specially friday. But what is this . No rain on radar . We finally got rid of that storm thats been plaguing us ever since saturday. We had rain from it yesterday. Now it is gone. 61 degrees, very mild start to the morning, just three mile an hour breeze out there, 72 relative humidity, sunrise time 5 38. And we will have quite a sunrise today. Weve got 42 degrees in mount pocono, skies cleared up overnight, thats why well see sunshine today. So temperatures did go down in a few places but we kept them mild here in the city, 59 degrees Atlantic City, 651 in wilmington, 6 after degrees at the moment in dover, delaware. Our winds are coming out of the northwest and the west. So the drier air moving in. At last we dont have rain in the forecast for today. Plenty of sunshine, pleasant start, already in the 80s probably for some, by lun
Minutes . Im hopeful guys you will be able to get out of the tent in the next few minutes, ill drop umbrella, see what it looks like behind me here. We have a lot of people kind of taking cover in the tent. But, also, a lot of people that are Walking Around, getting invent i have. I saw one woman with a plastic bag on her head then hat on top of that. So thats one way to do it. You know what, the rain is starting to wind down, we had real intense downpour come through about ten minutes ago, now just seeing a little bit of drizzle, few sprinkles here and there, but the worse of it is moving out. We just talk to fred stein, kind of running things here, he said he pushed everything back about ten minute so the opening is her moan list start about ten minute later than they were slated to because of the rain, hopefully that will give us some time to get these showers on out of here. Looking at storm scan3, show you whats happening with this rain. We were hopeful it wouldnt actually materia
From the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Six people including a child are killed in three separate fires in our area. An investigators tell Eyewitness News that at least one of those tragedies could have been avoided. Good evening im natasha brown, thanks for joining us. The fireses happened in norristown, south philly and in west philadelphia. Eyewitness news rarity alexandria hoff spoke to a survivor and family members of at least two of these victims. Reporter the son made a brief appearance, it is still a dark day on the 1700 block of moore street in south philadelphia. We got the call. When we came down. Reporter cynthia jacksons mother and her uncle john were pronounced dead on the scene according to family after fire claimed the multiunit home around 11 30 p. M. This is a photo that family shared with us showing the two victims enjoying a rooftop evening. Theres nothing they wouldnt do for you. Keep us in their prayers, thats what we need most