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WCAU NBC10 News At 4pm January 30, 2017

Stories of the families on the immigration order. And 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with local Trump Supporters standing their ground over the president s executive order on immigration. And within the last hour u. S. Senator Chuck Schumer asked for a vote to repeal president s order. The president is defending hiS Immigration ban. Theres nothing nice about searching for terrorist before they can enter our country. Glowing numbers of republican lawmakers expressing concern about mr. Trumps executive order among them marco rubio. Several universities are reacting. The school today issued a statement advising its students from effected countries to not travel out of the u. S. Because they may not get back in. Nbc10 news south jersey cydney long spoke with a 911 survivor who sports his ban. This is not a matter of religion but a matter of safety. Reporter 100 . He says this is a matter of protecting our country and not at all about religion or discrimination. He often jogs by this piece of steel from the World Trade Center north tower each day. Tas permanent remembrance of those who lost their lives on 9 11. He feels confidence that President Trumps executive order will protect us. Why dont you man up and woman up and protest this. Reporter he reads the snippets of the roads he put on facebook now watching demonstrators react to President Trump to immigration was painful. It divides us. Reporter he came facetoface with terror on 9 11. He escaped the World Trade Center south tower. When i hit the steps my legs gave out like spaghetti. Reporter he didnt know until hours later it was a terrorist attack. He told us why he voted for President Trump. Two things, vetting and immigration process. And also he said hes going to take care of the vets. Reporter this as we walk by 9 11 memorial. No one should be surprised. Demonstrators are illinformed. Reporter what he emotions did that spark . He supports trump for doing what he said he would, vetted people. He says the immigration ban in trumps words is not a ban on muslims but a process to keep terror cells out and protect our borders. If theyre going to find ways to hurt us if theyre here and hes trying to stop us to make us safer. By thinking and doing the right thing lets get us started. Reporter he will not apologize for how he feels. He has opened a democratic lawmakers who wish to strengthen and solidify the immigrant vetting process. Despite the fact that its been some 16 years he still feels that same emotion standing here by the World Trade Center steel as he did that day that he escaped those towers. Well have more on our conversation at both 5 and 6 00. Nbc10 news. And we found other people in the community who support the recent travel ban. People who supported donald trump during the campaign and elections say he promised to tighten the borders and protect the country and that is exactly what he is doing. If youre going to protest, protest legally. Dont block traffic, dont block the airports. Do things legally. Do things the right away. When you start acting out, you only hurt your cause. Trump supporters we spoke to were hopeful the president can follow through with his agenda. Late this afternoon washington states attorney general announced hes suing President Trump oemp hiS Immigration order and he becomes the first state attorney general to announce a legal action against the Trump Administration over one of its policies. He was actually one of 16 states attorney general who released a statement sunday calling mr. TrumpS Immigration action unamerican and unlawful. Pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro was among the 16. Weve reached out him. Were still waiting to hear back from him. Universities are urging their International Students and staff to not travel outside the country for now. Our Team Coverage continues now with nbc10 lauren mayk. Shes joining us live with University City. Reporter here at the university of pennsylvania where the snow is coming down, they tell us they have people from all seven affected countries. Theyre working right now with attorneys to figure out exactly what it means for all of them. In the meantime, this does effect students at universities across our region and whether they can go home and then feel confident they can return again. At temple university, students free to roam on campus but some may now feel limits on just how far they can go after the president s executive order effecting citizens of 7 countries entering the u. S. They cannot for example, plan to go home for spring break, they cant go home for summer break. Some of them have had family members planning to come visit them, they cant do that any more. Reporter temple has thousands of International Students. Martin miller and the staff here at the International Affairs office have spent the weekend reaching out to them. Anxiety is probably a good description, yeah. Reporter miller says theyve also been hearing from International Students who arent from the effected countries but are still concerned. Universities including temple and penn have put out notices to students and faculty. Penns letter warning we advise all nationals from the effected countries to defer travel until there is some clarification of the situation. Back at temple the issue sparking outrage. This shouldnt happen. Thats not fair to them. Theyre students trying to get an education and they want to go home to see their family. And some hope. Reporter i think the intention is well meaning. I dont think its necessarily being executed the way it should be. Meanwhile temple reaching out to future students from those countries who havent started yet. Its pretty quick but has anybody said, no ive decided not to come to this. Its what can we do to make sure i can still come. Reporter and he tells mel the biggest challenge is sorting fact from fiction and everything students are seeing on social media. Live in University City, im lauren mayk, nbc10 news. As soon as the travel ban started to criminal pact people in philadelphia saturday night local lawmakers rushed to the airport. Today we caught up with philadelphia mayor who called President Trump a bully. Im appalled at the attitude. Im thankful the President Trump was not president in 1840 or a million irish people who have been sent back and starved in their country. Its misguided. Not thought out. Its caused chaos over the weekend and i dont think our president should be a bully. Presence governor was also at the airport. We caught up with him today and he told us what his plan is to fight the travel ban. Just say this is not what we do as americans. Its not what we do as pennsylvanians. We are a state that has always been welcoming. Were a state that is prided itself in terms of the diversity of its population right from the start. Yesterday Governor Wolf met with the allentown family whos brother and brotherinlaw were sent back to syria on saturday. That family has been working on immigranting to the u. S. For 13 years. Republican senator pat toomey spoke out today for the travel ban. He released a statement, i support the administrations decision to increase vetting and temporarily suspend the admission of certain individuals from states that sponsor or provide safe havens to terrorists. Unfortunately, the initial executive order was flawed. It was too broad and poorly explained. This apparently resulted in deknifed entry into the United States for lawful permanent residents and others who should have been allowed immediate entry. We wanted to hear from our local lawmakers on capitol hill as democrats take action to repeal the president s executive order. Some members of congress prepare to rally outside the Supreme Court. Were following right now communities across canada will hold vigils tonight after six people died at a terror attack in quebec. Police initially arrested two men just one remains a suspect. They have yet to comment on a possible motive. More than 50 people were inside the mosque when the shooting began and the people of quebec are stunned. People are going to be more on edge but im hoping people come together on this and show their support for the community. We also learned today that President Trump called canadian Prime Minister to express condolences about the shooting and we checked with Philadelphia Police they are telling us security has been increased at mosques in the city. Officials in North Hampton county a Police Officer was justified when he shot and killed a suicidal man back in december. Three officers responded to the township home of scott macint h macintosh. His sister alerted him after she refused Text Messages from her brother by suicide by police. New videos making off with a sack cred and valuable scroll from a jewish school. They stol a handwritten copy of the torra worth 27,000. Call Lakewood Police if you know anything about this crime. A Delaware County school will be closed until at least friday after a boiler exploded this morning. Skyforce10 over the saints catholic school. The boiler explosion led to the gas leak and the building lost heat. There was no students inside and no one was hurt. New dui legislation could be coming to new jersey. Theyre scheduled to vote on a new bill. It would make new jersey the 29th state to enforce an all offender ignition interlock law. That would require people with duis to breathe into a breathalyzer before they start their car. Portion of a Delaware County road is now renamed in honor of a fallen upper darby Police Officer. Lansdowne avenue from school lane is now officer denis macin a mara memorial highway. He was the first cry to drive on the newly dedicated road. He was shot and killed on duty back in 2002. Former president george h. W. Bush is out of the hospital. He was released today after being treated for pneumonia. Former first lady joined him at the hospital for five days while she recovered from bronchitis until she was released a week ago. Happening now top honors for a local trauma surgeon. Cooper university is holding a surprise ceremony to rename the admitting area in honor of steven ross. Ross served as the head of the trauma division. The Cooper Foundation sponsored the event. They outfitted the admitting area with xray technology. President trumps second full work week in office began with him signing another executive order this one aimed at cutting regulations for Small Businesses. The president was surrounded there by Small Business leaders as he signed the order in the oval office this morning. Hes made his Supreme Court choice as well. He will announce who hes nominating tomorrow night at 8 00. The Supreme Court has been working with just eight justices. President trump for secretary of state could be confirmed within the next few hours. The senate is expected to vote on whether to approve Rex Tillerson later today. He has a former ceo of exxon. The fallout from President Trumps executive order on immigration has some facing a new federal lawsuit this afternoon. The council on American Islamic relations discussed the suit at its headquarters in washington today. The president S Immigration order violates the constitution. Our First Amendment was tacked last week at its fundamental core and its unprecedented what has occurred. The council on American Islamic relations filed the lawsuit on be half of more than 20 people challenging President Trumps executive order. Travellers are keeping a close eye on developments involving the immigration ban. Huge protests developed at airports over the weekend. One local couple was relieved to be together again this morning at Philadelphia International airport. They told us why their reunion was bittersweet. The personal attack, were not foreign. For philadelphia the travel ban feels like an attack on her faith. Angry, very angry. Im native american. Cherokee nation. Im born and lived here all my life. My husband is africanamerican. Born and lived here all our lives. This morning she paced and waited to see if her husband also an american citizen of muslim faith would be allowed back into the country. Its very scary. Not knowing whats going to happen. The tears she fought back during our interview were placed with smiles at the exact moment that she saw her husband. The sechbs relief was not felt by the relatives of two syrian families who arrived here saturday on the same flight only to be turned away. Reporter protests followed. It brings hope that our families feel free to come and be welcomed. Reporter for those of them arriving monday there was a sense of relief coupled with a sadness and anger by this new america where restrictions have been placed on who can enter from where and why. It doesnt matter if theres a green card or anything. It just happens to seem to be for whats going on with the muslim. All though the administration has said this is not a ban on muslims the people we spoke to today feel as though it is a personal attack. Reporting at philly International Airport, im panella oz borne nbc10 news. We broke the news at demonstrations over the weekend at Philadelphia International airport. Back to our first alert weather now in our area the snow is coming down. A live look from audubon camden county, see that snow collecting on the roof tops. Lets take a look from a Kimmel Center where snow is coming down along broad street in center city. This is sort of a squall as glenn described it, a snowy walk to class. Looks like its tapered off now. Lets go to glenn to find out how this snows going to stick around. Its just amazing how quickly this thing is moving through. Its already improving in philadelphia five minutes ago i couldnt see the skyline now i can. 30 degrees temperature got knocked down by that snow squall. We have some in other parts of the area as well and the ben franklin bridge we could see it again. You couldnt see five minutes ago anything from this camera. Thats how fast things are improving and this is the same camera i showed you ten minutes ago from president ial city apartments. This is the schuylkill expressway. Its like nothing ever happened. Theres no snow on the highway. Theres no snow on the sidewalks and heres that squall coming through much of the area theres some more snow showers back to the west but this is the main one that as you can see moving right through the area. Now, as we zoom in well see that its pretty much out of center city. Thats why those camera shots are improving but its certainly is into south jersey, gloucester county, runny immediate getting some pretty heavy showers right now and Deptford Township as well. We also some snow squaulz at the shore dumping some briefly heavy snow for just a few minutes. Now we have a break after that and this is the next system. Looks like its going toeskting part of the area for tomorrow morning. Temperatures near the freezing mark right now and of course that is very significant especially with the sun setting. Most places in new jersey are above freezing but mullica hills been knocked down to 30. You can see how it varies depending on how heavy that snow shower is. Mt. Laurel 36, medford 38. Its not as heavy up there thats why the temperatures are higher. Princeton at 35 degrees. Now as we go through the next few hours well have a few more of these snow showers moved through. Nothing as heavy as the one that did come through little while ago and then the next area comes in tomorrow morning, berks county, Lehigh Valley. This is more of a steadier light snow. Different type of system than whats coming through this afternoon. There we are tomorrow morning. So again the greatest chance is north of philadelphia and then things quiet down as we head through the rest of the day. So what do we get for tomorrow . Eventually well get up to about 40 degrees in Chestnut Hill. We have little bit of light snow, little bit of light rain, most of the day is dry. Langhorne similar story at 39 degrees. Reading and allentown, easton not as mild, heavier snow, some accumulation, perhaps an inch or two. Farther to the south, we have the mixture of rain and snow, robbinsvile, voorhees township. Farther south probably no precipitation, look how much warmer it is. Newark delaware. Look how much warmer. Im not predicting any kind of snow in delaware either. Signed up for an Online Dating site in hopes of finding the one. What he got instead headaches and a lot of frustration. Why he finally reached out to nbc10 responds. Actors at activists holiday star take center stage about President TrumpS Immigration order plus this. Fired up for chester countys own super bowl star how matt ryan is celebrating

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