supreme court more than three months ago but most republicans so far have refused to even meet with him. they are allowing partisan politics to jeopardize something as tuned mental as the impartiality and the integrity of our justice system and america should not let it stand. this is an election year and during election years, politicians tend to use the immigration issue to scare people with words like amnesty in hopes it will whip up votes. keep in mind that millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country with ancestors put in the painstaking effort to become citizens and we don't like the notion anyone might get a free pass to american citizenship. but here's the thing, millions of people who have come forward and worked to get right with the law under this policy, they have been living here for years, too, in some cases even decades. so leaving the broken system the

way it is, that's not a solution. in fact, that's the real amnesty, pretending we can deport 11 million people or build a wall without spending tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money is abetting what is factually incorrect. it's not going to work. it's not good for this country. it's a fantasy that offers nothing to help the middle class and it demeans our tradition of being both a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. in the end, it is my firm belief that immigration is not something to fear. we don't have to wall ourselves off from those who may not look like us right now or pray like we do or have a different last name because being an american is about something more than that. what makes us american is our shared commitment to an ideal that all of us are created equal, all of us have a chance to make of our lives what we

will. every study shows, whether it was the irish or the polls or the germans, italians, chinese, japanese, the mexicans, the kenyans, whoever showed up over time by second or third generation, those kids are americans, they do look like us, because we don't look one way. we don't all have the same last names, but we all share a creed and we all share a commitment to the values that founded this nation. that's who we are. and that is what i believe most americans recognize. so here's the bottom line. we've got a very real choice that america faces right now.

we will continue to implement the existing programs that are already in place. we're not going to be able to move forward with the expanded programs that we wanted to move forward on because the supreme court was not able to issue a ruling at this stage. and now we've got a choice about who we're going to be as a country, what we want to teach our kids and how we want to be represented in congress and in the white house. we're going to have to make a decision about whether we are a people who tolerate the hypocrisy of the system where the workers who pick our fruit or make our beds never have the chance to get right with the law, or whether we're going to give them a chance, just like our forbearers had a chance, to take responsibility and give their kids a better future. we're going to have to decide we'rwhether we're people who act the cruelty of ripping children from their parents' arms or

whether we value families and keep them together for the sake of all our communities. we're going to decide whether we're a people who continue to educate the world's brightest students in our high schools and universities only then to send them away to compete against us or whether we encourage them to stay and create new jobs and new businesses right here in the united states. these are all the questions that voters now are going to have to ask themselves and are going to have to answer in november. these are the issues that are going to be debated by candidates across the country, both congressional candidates as well as the presidential candidates, and in november, americans are going to have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. i promise you this, though -- sooner or later, immigration reform will get done. congress is not going to be able to ignore america forever. it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. i can say that with confidence

because we've seen our history. we get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongerring, and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. that's how we all ended up here because i guarantee you, at some point, every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. yet here we are. that's what's going to happen this time. the question is, do we do it in a smart, rational, sensible way, or do we just keep on kicking the can down the road? i believe this country deserves an immigration policy that reflects the goodness of the american people, and i think we're going to get that. hopefully we're going to get that in november. all right? i'll take two questions.

two questions. go ahead. >> realistically, what do you see as the risk of deportation for these more than 4 million people? you say we can't deport 11 million versus 4 million and there's a chunk of time here -- >> well, let me be just very clear. what was unaffected by today's ruling or lack of a ruling is the enforcement priorities that we've put in place, and our enforcement priorities that have been laid out by secretary jeh johnson at the department of homeland security are pretty clear. we prioritize criminals. we prioritize gangbangers. we prioritize folks who have just come in. what we don't do is to prioritize people who have been here a long time, who are otherwise law abiding, who have roots and connections in their

communities, and, so, those enforcement priorities will continue. the work that we've done with the dream act kids, those policies remain in place. so what this has prevented us from doing is expanding the scope of what we've done with the dream act kids. keep in mind, though, even that was just a temporary measure. all it was doing was basically saying to these kids, you can have confidence that you are not going to be deported, but it does not resolve your ultimate status. that is going to require congressional action. so, although i'm disappointed by the lack of a decision today by the supreme court, a deadlock, this does not substantially change the status quo, and it doesn't negate what has always been the case which is, if we're really going to solve this

problem effectively, we've got to have congress pass a law. i have pushed to the limits of my executive authority. we now have to have congress act. hopefully, we're going to have a vigorous debate during this election. this is how a democracy is supposed to work, and there will be a determination as to which direction we're going. as i said, over the long term, i'm very confident about the direction this country is going because we've seen this in the past. if we haven't seen it in the past, america would look very different than it looks today. but whether we're going to get this done now, soon, so that this does not continue to be this divisive force in our politics, and we can get down to the business of all pulling

together to create jobs and educate our kids and protect ourselves from external threats and do the things that, you know, we need to do to ensure a better future for the next generation, you know, that's going to be determined in part by how voters turn out and who they vote for in november. all right. one more question. go ahead, mike. >> two practical going-forward questions. number one, are you going to be able to do anything more at all for immigrants going forward in terms of executive action before the election of the next president? and number two, do you in any way take this as some republicans presented this as a slap at your use of executive authority, and will this in any way circumscribe how aggressively or forcefully you use executive authority in the

remainder of your time in office? >> okay. on the specifics of immigration, i don't anticipate that there are additional executive actions that we can take. we can implement what we've already put in place that is not affected by this decision, but, you know, we have to follow now what has been ruled on in the fifth circuit because the supreme court could not resolve the issue, and we're going to have to abide by that ruling until an election and a confirmation of a ninth justice of the supreme court so that they can break this tie, because we've always said that we are going to do what we can lawfully through executive action, but we

can't go beyond that, and we've butted up about as far as we can on this particular topic. it does not have any impact, from our perspective, on the host of other issues that we're working on because each one of these issues has a different analysis and is based on different statutes or different interpretations of our authority. so, for example, on climate change, that's based on the clean air act and the e.p.a. and previous supreme court rulings as opposed to a theory of prosecutorial discretion that, in the past, every other president has exercised. and the supreme court country definitive one way or the other on this. the problem is they don't have a ninth justice, so that will continue to be a problem. with respect to the republicans, i think what it tells you is that if you keep on blocking

judges from getting on the bench, then courts can't issue decisions, and what that means is then you're going to have the status quo frozen and we're not going to be able to make progress on some very important issues. now, that may have been their strategy from the start, but it's not a sustainable strategy, and it's certainly a strategy that will be broken by this election, unless their basic theory is that we will never confirm judges again. hopefully, that's not their theory because that's not how our democracy is designed. >> (inaudible). it was a one-word opinion that said we can't come up with a decision. i think that would be a little bit of a stretch. yeah. maybe the next time, they can -- if we have a full court issuing a full opinion on anything, then we take it seriously. this we have to abide by, but it

wasn't any kind of value statement or a decision on the merits of these issues. all right? thank you guys. >> all right, a clearly frustrated and disappointed president saying that the lack of ruling on the supreme court over his immigration policy takes us furtherer from the country we aspire to be. we're going back to jan crawford now at the supreme court. jan, your reaction to the president's remarks. >> two things. number one, practical purposes, obviously, this plan would have protected about 4 million people from deportation, illegal immigrants who had come here more than five years ago, and whose children were here either born here or leer legally. the president made it clear regardless of what the court decided today, it will not impact whether or not those 4 million people will be deported. he signaled they will not be, they're very low priorities. what it means for them is they won't be able to get work permits or be eligible for certain benefits like social

security or driver's licenses. that's what this program really would have done. the bigger point he was making was about the court itself. he said this deadlock sexually underscores that the supreme court is not functioning with just eight justices and it illustrates the need, in his word, for the congress, the republican-controlled senate to confirm his nominee judge merritt garland to the supreme court. this is the ideal case to make the point because had justice scalia been on the bench for this case he would have been a sure goat vote with the other four conservatives. today the president lost with a punt meaning the lower court ruling will stand against him but it would have been a much more definitive ruling against him if justice scalia had not passed away in february and merritt garland would have never been confirmed to participate in this case.

for practical purposes, the congress' refusal to act on his nominee doesn't really affect this case but he's making the bigger point the supreme court is deadlocked 4 to 4, will be unable to to reach a decision on some of the most important issues of the time. >> another major supreme court action, the president mentioned the justices upheld an affirmative action program at university of texas allowing the school to consider race in admissions. the ruling was 4 to 3. justice kagan recused herself because she worked on the case as solicitor general. there will be more about all of this on your local news on this cbs station, on our 24-hour screaming service cbsn and tonight's "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia. this is cbs-3 "eyewitness

news". in addition to the president's statements on immigration, we're also following this developing story at noon, german officials say an armed man, has been shot dead inside after movie theater. german police now say no one else was injured, despite early reports of multiple victims wounded. good afternoon, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomas there is all happened in the town of very how many, which is about 40 miles south of frankford. officials say mask man walked into the theater this morning, taking several hostages. police returned to the scene, shooting the armed man, and again, they say no one else was hurt. no word yet on the man's identity, or motive. the verdict was announced this morning for the baltimore police officer charged with second degree murder in the death of freddie gray. >> craig boswell shows thus officer was the only one charged with murder. >> reporter: baltimore police officer, ceasar goodson, found not guilty of all charges, including second degree murder in the death of freddie gray. judge barry williams said did he not believe the 46 year old

defendant intends today harm gray. >> clearly, the state failed to present evidence efficient convince this judge. >> good son was driving the police trans for the van the day gray arrested, accused of nos ensuring his passenger safety, not calling for medical assistance, 25 year old died a week later. >> good son, is the thirds baltimore police officer, charged in the high profile case, he was the only one charged with murder. >> but foolishness, at the ends of the day, i feel i'm justice cussed. >> during good-sons' trial, accuse the officer of intentionally giving gray a rough ride causing his fatal spine injury. defense argued that gray caused his own injuries by falling inside the van, and that the suspect never appeared injured until the final stop, when a medic was called. gray's death sparked violent protests in april 2015, multiple police agencies and the national guard are all on alert in case there is more

unrest today. craig boswell, for cbs-3, "eyewitness news". as you just saw, president obama just finished speaking moments ago about a tie vote by the supreme court this morning, blocking his immigration plan. this morning's tie vote leaves in place a federal appeals court ruling the state of obama administration did not have necessary authority to shield millions of ill league a.m. immigrants to deportation, one sentence opinion effectively kills the plan for the rest of the president's term. the president shared his disappointment in the ruling. >> i think it is heart breaking for millions of imigrants who made their lives here, who have raised families here, who hope for the opportunity to work, pay taxes, is her in our military and more fully crib to this country we all love in an open way. >> house democrats continue an unprecedented protest, they say, is necessary to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists. the democrats are calling for new gun control legislation, in light of the orlando shooting, and they say,

they'll keep it up until they get a vote. >> but cbs weijia jiang reports, republicans aren't likely to give in any time soon. she's on capitol hill with more details. >> democrats have been protesting on the house floor for more than 24 hours. demands ago vote on new gun control legislation. >> they don't have to vote for the bill. but they have to put the bill on the floor, and own up to where they are. and stair their constituents in the ian say yeah or nay. >> holding up signs, with the names of the orlando gun shooting victims. after delaying votes for several hours, republicans eventually worked through the protest. >> refer to the house calendar. >> and pushed forward, with votes on several unrelated issues, before adjourning until july 56789. even when congress returns, speaker ryan said he's not giving in to these tactics, for bill he believes is

flawed. >> they know that we will not bring a bill that takes away a person's constitutional guaranteed rights without their due process. >> but texas congressman, louie, says ryan should have put a stop to this sit-in. he confronted the democrats on the house floor. and gem err says, claims that republicans are working for the nra are bogus. >> i don't care how much money anybody gives me. i'm not in anybody's pocket. >> the democrats say, they'll keep this up until they get a vote. weijia jiang, cbs news, capitol hill. >> all right, now we will check on our forecast, katie, it has been a weird weather week. a lot of great days, weird days, some rain. what's going on? >> some nice weather, certainly unsettled weather that's for sure, and today the storm system really didn't only deliver just glancing blow, so it wasn't quite as severe or strong with a situation with thunderstorms as we had potentially been in the midst of. but we will get to the radar

in a second. first out to the liver neighborhood network, sunshine peaking through the clouds, guys, we have got that in a lot of locations, still looking somewhat gray outside middle township high school, with updated frame you can see it is still quite gray outside. but regardless, when you look at storm scan at this wider zoom, we had some very heavy thunderstorms, just barely clipping the southern tip of delaware. so, the placement of this system, the trek, in other words, was everything, and it worked in our favor for a change, now, as of this moment, starting to see these skies clear out little bit. we can't say we're totally out of the woods just yet, we do have, though, nice clearing sky at the moment, but there is still some instability, and some moisture to work with in the atmosphere, as a result we could still see shower or thunderstorm before said and done. we do actually, this has since update from the earlier this morning, sit in at least marginal risk through the southern tear tear of the area for stronger thunderstorms, and any impacts out of this, primarily lead to damp, gusty winds, maybe some hail, it is a slimmer shot at this point,

but regardless, it does look as though maybe see shower or thunderstorm still pop up at some point where the day is said and done. area temperatures at 80 degrees, even even at philadelphia international airport, still flirting with that value, most other locations, but we have also since because starting to clear out a bit upped the he can pecks takes cents for daytime highs in the city. should hit low 80s down near the shore towns, but again, there could still be late day shower or thunderstorm, while you may get in beach time here today, despite the clouds, keep it in minds that there still may be thunderstorm that rumble on in. looking at the seven day, again, some nice weather down the road here, nice little trade-off comes our way, once we end up with the system pulling away, completely, if the front that is attached to it, by the way, worth mention, stalls nearby, there could still be lingering shower tomorrow, at minimum maybe left over clouds, but we keep it optimist he can, say things will start clearing out, transition day, but the weekends all week has looked real nice, it continues to look real nice, mid upper 80s for both saturday, sunday,

great pool or beach wetter. >> that's what i am looking at. thanks, katie. we'll be right

>> might feel like chris march fos sixers fans, first pick in the nba draft. >> six letters take ben simmons from lsu with the top pick, worked out for the team earlier this eaked, he talked about the possibility of becoming the face of the franchise here in fill. >> i it is surreal, but i am looking forward to it, i feel like i've put in enough work

to get to this point. and, you know, i think everything else will take care of it self. >> take atake a look at the live picture at eakins oval, the star studded draft party will be held. well, that's "eyewitness news" at noon. i'm jim donovan. >> i'm brooke thomasment for katie all of us here, thanks for watching. "eyewitness news" continues at 5:00. we're always on line for you at cbsphilly.com. the young and the restless is next.

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