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now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, may 17th. i m john berman. brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me in new york. we have live pictures of the white house this morning, very shortly president biden about to depart for buffalo, to meet with the families of those killed in the racist mass shooting there. moments ago, officials told us the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. and he will call on americans to give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to try to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning we re getting new details about the suspected shooter. cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment he was taken into custody by police, new evidence shows he spent several ....
Prisoners. Think about that. Africanamericans and latinos make up 30 of our population. They make up 60 of our inmates. Weve also locked up more and more nonviolent drug offenders than ever before for longer than ever before. [ applause ] and that is the real reason our prison population. Is so high. So, in a nutshell, he said and if you just tick through it that africanamericans and hispanics are unfairly stopped charged, convicted, and overly sentenced compared to similar crimes committed by nonpeople of color. A disproportionate jail term for many of them, which means theyre in longer, almost always solitary confinement in situations when its not necessarily warranted, and very little rehabilitation, so were really making a bad situation worse because, as he said, the majority of them will get out someday and have no skills and a lot of anger and certainly have learned to be even more hardened criminals. How do you start to crack that nut . There are so many levels there and i know ....
Allentown. Seventyone in philadelphia we are expecting daytime highs to spike backup in the mid 80s a. It is still warm, seasonably so but minus the humidity. The it feels fantastic. Up in the poconos i love how we put this just doesnt get much better than that. Seventysix, full sunshine low humidity, a great excuse maybe to take the boat on the the water do some fishing, whatever your feeling is, it is a great excuse to be outside and doing to it day meisha. I will do it again. Thanks, again so much for that. Right now outside it is still early, many just waking up with us, welcome, good morning. You know unru h avenue is closed at ditman street. We have do have some Police Activity going on. The just make note of that in and around the northeast philadelphia area. Unruh avenue is closed right now. Take an alternate if you can. Fortytwo north bound at creek road and northbound freeway approaching 295, you can see steady stream o ....