First. Let these kids say these words that are fortunately the norm and realize how lucky he they are a High School Musical the center of a heated debate in tonights parent make voices heard. Good evening, im jessica dean im Ukee Washington. District officials decided to remove a racial slur from the script of the music rag time. Some argue its censor ship alexandria hoff is live in cherry hill. While many were against changing the script. Reporter ukee, jessica, rag time is a musical that explores classism and racism. The question tonight is the n word as scripted necessary telling that story. The Cherry Hill School board made the decision last week to remove the n word from the musical scheduled to debut in march. A large crowd of students and alumni of cherry hill east filled the school bus meeting. Over 1200 others signed a petition to reverse the decision to remove the word is to sanitize history and its lessons, others feel the use glorifies an ugly word i and we dont need to be
And then hit the second elevator. Reporter record clerk Beverly Smith was in that car. What happened . I dont know. Something exploded inside the elevator. Reporter smith was taken to hahnemann hospital, along with others treated for numerous broken bones among other injuries. It was sort of like in pain, i didnt talk about what happened. Reporter statement from the city shows elevator passed an annual inspection two months ago, we are told other banks and elevators were reinfect and will be operational for friday morning. Meanwhile tense moments outside cjc as hundreds of people rushed, outside of the building. All we heard was a big bang and we grabbed our stuff and just left. My supervisor says lets go, lets go. We heard a loud boom and commotion and then we heard fire alarm, go off until they exit the building. Reporter one bright spot on this day were there as Beverly Smith left the hospital. Back live, some more information, Sergeant Owens was with us, in the courtroom as monsign
Wallets phones and electronics but four cars were also taken and eventually recovered. We do believe that the suspect knows the west chester borough very well. Reporter the crimes have rattled this Community Since a safety and many like lisa say they are increasing security at their homes. Im concerned that theyre not going to be caught. We now sleep with all of our blinds closed. We just order the a security s it should arrive by 2 30 today. Were doing everything we can. You put 1 foot on our property after dark every light on the outside comes on. My husband has that arranged. Reporter and police say none of the homes targeted had their alarms activated. Also we can tell you at this point there is no surveillance capturing that burglar or burglars. Police of course urging everyone to be on high alert. They say if you see anything suspicious dont hesitate to contact authorities. Live in west chester, gray hall, channel6 action news. Rick. Gray, thank you. We are following developing n
Reporter good morning, everybody, today is not going to be too bad of a day, well start out with shine. It will grow more humid as we go through the afternoon and evening, but it looks like it will be dry. 70 degrees in philadelphia. It is warmer this morning than the last couple of mornings in the city. 65 in allentown. 68 in reading, 67 in wilmington, 63 cool degrees in cape may, new jersey. Dewpoints are on the low side everybody close to 60 thats barely humid air the exception will be in dover, thats a little more humid in cape may. The numbers will be rising this afternoon and evening. As we roll through the day, 69 degrees for the run this morning. Humidity on the low side which is nice, well bump up to 78 degrees by 10 00 a. M. By noon, in the low 80s. Todays high, 86 degrees, it will be more humid in the afternoon and evening. Looks like a good start for musikfest tonight. Tomorrow, hot and steamy conditions matt pellman with the possibility of a strong, passing thunderstorm. D
Coming up next. Hack attack. New evidence that cyber criminals are targeting the president ial election. Nbc 10 news starts now. How did it happen . I thought we were going to die. A tragedy in hoboken. A speeding new Jersey Transit train slams straight into the station. We heard people screaming in the first car. They were trapped. Loud screech. We are learning more about the victims, the operator behind the controls and the technology that could have prevented the crash. That crash left one person dead, more than 100 others injured. Tonight the train engineer is out of the hospital. Investigators say he is cooperating and pulled one black box from the wreckage but it is too unsafe to get the second recorder from the engineers compartment. Reporter the only people with access to this terminal right now are the investigators. This is a place where normally 15,000 commuters would pass through every day but right now it is torn apart, so unsafe crews cant get in to fully check the wrecka