Deadly shooting happened at the intersection behind me. We checked with police this morning. Still no arrest. Grieving mother tells us she is confident there will soon be an arrest given the witness Statement Police have and the information that they are working with right now. Tark a look. This is renay valentine. She says her 39yearold son was targeted. He was sitting in a car at a light at the sprex of sormdale and boulevard early sunday when someone in a white cadillac suv pulled up alongside him and fired, killing him. His mother believes it stems from a fight at a club where he worked as a bouncer. He has children who are struggling with the fact their father is dead. They targeted him to kill him. They did. He wasnt a violent person, and for him to be taken away from us is senseless. As you saw in that interview, she was struggling to find the right words. Tells us she wanted to speak out. She feels like she needs to. Wants to send a message to law makers and legislators who vot
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And philly international and 50 in ac and wildwood. Looking at the region throughout the course of the take we are calling it partly sunny basically. Clouds, some sunshine, we will see a shower, however, coming through very, very much in spotty fashion. This is not a wet day at all, just one of the things i got to talk about because we have it out there. We do expect to get a shower anytime, temperatures rebound nicely as we flirt with 70 later on today. The closer to seasonal, meisha, over to you. I hope we will get up to 7o i see 69 but nope, not accepting it, i will stay and get to 70. Hopefully we do. I95 off ram township broad street is still closed. Repaving between oregon avenue and broad street. We are just blocked with the flashing lights. Make note we keep looking at that picture. I will let you know when it clears. Levels building ever so slicely now that we are racking the 5 00 oclock hour. Burlington bristol bridge is scheduled to open in three or four minutes. Just know t
Havent seen in quite some time. People are extremely passionate on both sides of the issue because youre talking about children, but youre also talking about the potential loss of jobs. So were getting that level of debate in the council, in the street. Wherever you go, people want to talk about sugary drink tax. So, i think, at some point, we will come up with a solution, cause we do need to figure out a way to do these very worthy causes. Im not sure how we do them. The actual Implementation Phase is still not clear to me. I have a lot of questions, as the other members do, as it relates to, why do you set up a totally new prek system when there already is a prek system . Why dont you just give the money to the existing prek system . How do we get the diversity that we need to have as it relates to construction on new rec centers and libraries . All of those things need to be discussed. Lets take both ends of that question. Lets start with the money. Everybody that ive called in city
I want to begin with the Associated Press and their story on the exit polls from the New York Primary on tuesday. The headline that the heated primaries energized dems and divided gop. Voters saw their party being divided by a contest featuring months of barbs and heated rhetoric among donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich. Exit polls on tuesday showed the vast majority of democrats willing to back either of the candidates in november while significant chunks of gop voters some candidates in the field that they flat what not support. Independents, join the conversation as well. Has this energized you or do you feel this chanted or divided about the Political Parties . Lets go to mike in south carolina. A democrat. Is this energizing you or do you think it is dividing the party . Think it is energizing, it is bringing up issues that generally do not get brought up. I think in general, the primaries have helped the issues, at least in the Democratic Party, to be brought forward. Host do