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archives. that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. on the ru tablg employee several times inside a fast food restaurant.
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why philadelphia police think how a table was cleaned may have triggered the crime. plus, within the last hour the democratic presidential candidates faced off on issues like gun violence, poverty and the flint water crisis. we'll show you the debate fireworks in decision 2016. but first, saying good-bye to the most famous first lady of a generation. tonight we look at the impact nancy reagan had on or area. good evening. tonight the nation is remembering nancy reagan as a woman who redefined the role of first lady. she was a devoted wife, mother and stepmother. nancy reagan died today of congestive heart failure at the age of 94. tonight we reflect on the legacy she leaves on both our country and locally on our region. >> influential and iconic in her own right, nancy reagan leaves behind a legacy that set the standard for first ladies. auchbl called a protector, she
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was a close advisor to her husband. her devotion to him was unwaivering especially in the years he suffered from alzheimer's before his death in 2004. nancy reagan discovered a passion for acting at smith college where she majored in drama. after graduation she made her way to hollywood and met ronald in 1951. she was known as nancy davis and for more than a decade had roles in television shows and movies including hellcats of the navy. >> you knew better. >> how could i know? >> she was criticized for her expensive taste but praised for her efforts to end youth drug addiction. >> when it comes to drug and alcohol, just say no. >> she often used her political stat ustion to raise awareness for worthy causes. >> that is me shaking hands with nancy reagan. >> he was there in 1984 when the
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organization honored nancy reagan with the distinguished american award. the associated press captured this photo of the event. it raised money for children's summer camps and senior living facilities and the first lady was gracious. >> and she shook everybody's hand, smiled at them and said something. >> in california, flowers now adorn the entrance of the ronald reagan presidential library where nancy will be buried and will rest in peace beside her beloved ronnie. >> more reaction to nancy reagan's passing and more on the impact she leaves behind on our region. just go to our app and our website, nbc 10.com. now to a developing story tonight, philadelphia police are on the hunt for the person who shot a teenager who was working inside a fast food restaurant. police tell us an argument over cleaning a table may have triggered the shooting inside the church's chicken in north philly. we're joined live from temple
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hospital where the victim is being treated tonight. randy? >> reporter: at last check that teenage fast food worker was listed in stable condition. he was rushed here to temple university hospital. police say he was shot three times by a customer who for whatever reason pulled out a gun while eating dinner. crime scene investigators combed through the church's chicken restaurant on north broad. they find shell casings and bullets scattered on the floor. police say a customer having dinner here became enraged and pulled out a gun, shooting a 19-year-old employee in the chest, the stomach, neck and back. >> we're just investigate ago shooting at this location. the investigation is ongoing. >> reporter: that employee was rushed to temple hospital while the shooter ran from the scene and remains on the loose tonight. >> i'm working in the area. i come here for lunch a lot. >> reporter: customers don't know what could have caused the suspect to snap, but police say
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it's possible he got angry when employees were cleaning some tablgs nearby as he was eating his food. >> it's a senseless crime. getting shot over some chicken? come on. >> reporter: police have sur surveillance video. police describe the suspect as a man in his late 50s or early 60s. live in north philly, nbc 10 news. just 30 minute before that shooting and about a mile and a half away police say a woman was shot and killed. that shooting happened just before 5:00. the victim was shot once in the head and died at the scene. still no word on what led to the shooting and no one is under arrest. new at 11:00, a teenager is dead after he was hit by a new jersey transit train this evening. the 18-year-old was struck and killed just west of the hamilton
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station. a spokes person with njt tells us that trains are running at a 90-minute delay while authorities investigate. seasonably chilly night for folks waiting for the bus in the east falls section of philadelphia bundled up there. it will start to feel like spring as we begin the work week. here is a live look over center city philadelphia where we may have some record setting warmth in the coming days. we're joined with details on that warmup. and we're talking 70s this week. >> that's right. maybe not even just one day, but it could be two as we head toward the middle of the week. for tonight it's going to be cold, but generally seasonable. 35 right now in philadelphia. a little colder toward millville and atlantic city. 32 in trenton. 28 in allentown. also into the mid-20s toward the poconos. high pressure in control.
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that's going to keep us dry as we head into tonight. we're talking a big area of high pressure so you can really see not much precipitation to speak of from the northeast extending all the way down toward the mid-atlantic. quiet for tonight and as we head into your monday as the cold air starts to move out. we'll make room for the warmer air mass across the central plains. that will arrive beginning tomorrow. temperatures perhaps reaching the 60 degree mark as we head into the afternoon. early morning hours still into the lower 40s but that starts to warm up quickly. closer to the 60 degree mark by 4:00 p.m. we'll have a look at how quickly we'll reach the 70 degree mark and how long those warmer temperatures are going to stick around. almost every poll has shown that sanders versus trump does a lot better than clinton versus trump. >> and there's only one candidate in either party who has more votes than him and
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that's me. >> the democratic presidential candidates each explain why they think they'd beat donald trump in a general election. hillary clinton and bernie sanders faced off in their seventh debate tonight. this time in flint, michigan. and as that debate was happening the votes are being tallied in maine. bernie sanders won the caucus picking up 64% of the vote. we go to our national correspondent for a recap of the fireworks in flint. >> hillary clinton and bernie sanders squared off in flint, michigan, where residents and children have been unknowingly poisoned by lead contaminated water. >> he should resign. >> and for the first time -- >> i agree. the governor should resign or be recalled. >> reporter: then the gloves came off on sanders not supporting the bailout. >> i voted to save the auto industry. he voted against the money that
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ended up saving the auto industry. >> if you are talking about the wall street bailout, where some of your friends destroyed this economy -- >> you know -- >> excuse me. i'm talking. >> the candidates also butted heads on gun control whether to give immunity to gun manufacturers after the question from the father of one of the shooting victims. >> giving immunity to gun makers and sellers was a terrible mistake. >> what we're really talking about is ending gun manufacturing in america. i don't agree with that. >> the candidates did agree that their exchanges are much more focused on important issues than their gop counter parts. >> clinton is way ahead of sanders in the current delegate count with over double the number. why michigan's tuesday primary is so important to the sanders campaign. now to the republicans. marco rubio is celebrating the addition of almost two dozen new delegates tonight. the florida senator swept
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puerto rico's republican primary today picking up 23 delegates. this is his second win in the race for the gop nomination. donald trump leads the count though with 392 delegates. senator ted cruz is not too far behind with 305 delegates. he's followed by rubio with 153. john kasich has 35. today the ohio governor picked up a celebrity endorsement. >> when he ran for governor, i said to him, i'll be back. governor john kasich. >> former california governor arnold schwarzenegger threw his support behind kasich. he's pinning everything on a win in ohio's primary which is a week from tuesday. pennsylvania governor wolf will boost wages for state workers and contractors tomorrow. he's expected to sign an
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executive order that raises the minimum wage to $10.15 an hour. that's for employees of state contractors. the democratic governor has asked the republican controlled legislature to raise the minimum wage for all workers to $10 an hour, but that has yet to happen. the current rate is $7.25 an hour, which is one of the lower levels in the nation. who gives and who gets? that's what's getting hashed out now that philadelphia mayor has announced his budge it for the city. tonight, on nbc 10 at issue the mayor sits down with nbc 10 for an exclusive one on one answering critics of his proposed soda tax. >> my view is that if we tax the sugar sweet and beverage, the additional money raised by that tax will not go to the distributors and the bottlers, it will stay in the neighborhood to create schools and improve
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every park, recreation center and library in the city. >> you can watch the full interview coming up at 11:35 right after this newscast. while their deaths remain a mystery, their contribution to our area can never be forgotten. the tribute to the immigrants who died while building a piece of pennsylvania history. yes, sir, thank you, sir. please, sir, can i have another? >> you knew this was going to happen. >> no presidential candidate is ever safe from saturday night live. what new jersey residents are saying about this mocking of governor chris christie.
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this weekend hundreds gathered to remember irish immigrants building a railroad years ago and to this day, their deaths remain somewhat of a mystery. the ceremony was held at the cemetery in kinwood. philadelphia mayor juz there to mark the occasion. in 1832 dozens of irish workers were hired to build a stretch of railway known as duffy's cut. it was part of pennsylvania's first railroad. within weeks all of the workers died. it's believed that some died from cholera while others
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developed a disease to keep from spreading. today nbc 10 was where the gift of life donor program hosted a luncheon for living organ donors in our area. dozens were united with their recipients. the goal was to ayr raise awareness. >> a lot of people know about donating but they don't know you can be a living donor and it saves people from waiting years and years for an organ. >> organizers tell us right now nearly 6,000 people in our region are waiting for a transplant. just about everybody has weighed in on donald trump's super tuesday speech with chris christie standing silently in the background. last night snl took its turn. >> i mean, he really is a sad desperate little potato back there. chris -- >> yes, sir, thank you, sir,
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please, sir, may i have another. >> giving his best impression as the republican front runner then told christie played by bobbie moynihan to get back on his plane and go home. folks share their thoughts about the governor and the weekend politics. >> i've been watching these things for 40, 50 years now and this is just the most ridiculous race i've ever seen. >> strange bedbedfellows. you wouldn't want to be caught in bed with them. >> others told us it's time for governor christie to get back to new jersey to deal with important issues in the state. some food for thought. it's the opening act to the third annual philadelphia chef conference. tonight's culinary panel discussion was held inside the mitchell auditorium. the ted talk style presentations included discussions on modern kitchen science and food waste. >> spring is right around the corner. we're almost there and thousands are heading to the philadelphia flower show to get some ideas
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for their own gardens. nbc 10 was at a crowded pennsylvania convention center today. last year around this time there was still snow on the ground. but with nicer weather this week, organizers tell us that it had plenty of people come in and you can learn new things at the show and get to work right away at home. >> the japanese flower arrangement was astonishing. >> this is a fund raiser for the pennsylvania horticulture society and all the dollars raised go to help all the programs that we do throughout the year. so this is really exciting for us. >> they hope next week's 70 degree temperatures won't entice people to skip the show and stay outside. they're hoping they come to the show and stay inside. the flower show runs through next sunday night. yeah, wouldn't be surprised if they get a very good turnout. we're talking a major warmup as we head into this week. spring like warmth over the
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course of the next couple of days and nearing records as we head into the middle of the week. we're also talking about the chance for some showers but that mostly going to be later in the week so we do have several nice days to enjoy before the pattern becomes more active. 35 in philadelphia. 32 toward wilmington. about 31 degrees toward dover out toward georgetown, 32. also a little colder toward atlantic city where we are currently at 27 degrees. again, temperatures dropped a little quickly tonight but they won't be going down much further. you can see we hold steady right around 33, 34 degrees during the overnight hours before the temperature very quickly jumps into the mid-40s by 10:00 and by noon we're talking about perhaps around the 50 degree mark in philadelphia. so again, the cold air is going to be on its way out. chilly tonight, but for the most part it's going to be seasonal and little by little this air mass will start to work its way east ward. we'll head into tuesday and that will also start to give way to the even warmer air mass that we're expecting for the middle
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of the week. wednesday morning already looking at mid-60s in philadelphia. perhaps a little cooler to the south, but again, we're looking at probable record breaking warmth as we head into your wednesday afternoon with temperatures in many spots looking to be in the lower 70s. forecast for philadelphia on wednesday, 74. the record is 73. that was set back in the year 2000 and you can see most of those temperatures record temperatures i should say, actually right around that same range. right around 73, 74 degrees. so you'll have to take a close look at that and it looks like thursday we could be looking at potential record although at the moment wednesday is looking probable. partly cloudy for tonight and taum again, seasonably cold out there. areas north and west as we head into tomorrow mostly sunny and becoming milder around 60 degrees in philadelphia, so just an absolute beautiful start to the work week, but it doesn't start there. tuesday we keep things sunny and it gets even warmer.
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70 degree mark as we head into wednesday. 74 degrees your high, that would be a record, but still well above normal and that's going to be the case for much of this week. coming up right after this newscast, an exclusive one on one interview with the mayor. he sits down with our sister station and it comes your way on nbc 10 at issue. stay tuned u.'s next at 11:35. i'm from comcast sportsnet. don't miss how temple couldn't contribute to a clinching victory. and sam bradford's new two-yoor deal. we'll hear from the qb next.
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the biggest news in philly sports broke tuesday when the eagles announced sam bradford will be back. he signed with the two-year deal. that's when we talked to sam as part of this nbc 10 exclusive. >> and bradford fires and it's caught on the run and inside the 10 and into the endzone goes matthews for a touchdown to win the game. >> sam bradford made it clear. philly is the place he wanted to be. but what specifically was it about his eagles' experience that made him want to return? >> play ng the linc is awesome. i just love the atmosphere that
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was created on game day. >> i love the guys that we have in this locker room. i think we've got something special here. i don't think we're that far off. >> so sam loves his teammates. it's clear many of them share that feeling. >> i know a lot of guys would love to have sam back. >> jordan matthews celebrated sam's return with this tweet. that type of support means the world to the birds' qb. >> i don't think you could ask for much more as a quarterback. to know that they've got my back. >> play action, bradford back, bradford fires, complete. touchdown! >> have to do everything in my power, you know, to be great for those guys, you know, to work hard for those guys because i owe it to them. >> sam left here all smiles thursday and despite the team's poor finish he left last season much the same way because for the first time in a long time he finished a season healthy.
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>> i know if we had to practice tomorrow i could go out there and do it. so i'm just excited for the offseason program to get started and when we do step on the field i'll be full go and i won't have any limitations. in other nfl qb news, peyton manning has made it official he will go out on top. manning was a five-time mvp over 18 nfl seasons. to basketball now, the sixers are once again short handed tonight. into the first half, check it out. ish smith, the clock winding down, no problem for him. drills it at the buzzer. sixers up 2 at the break. jeremy grant working the pick and roll and finishes strong at the rim. get out the way. sixers still in front. but not for long. with the rejection, covington, gets it sent away.
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whiteside, 7th block and d. wade. sixers fall, their 12th straight loss. baseball and hot dogs flying in clearwater. two on. spanks one deep to right and gone. phillies win 6-5. visiting fc dallas, castillo gets behind the union defense and andre blake, five hole and then it's row, row, row your boat. got to love the celebration. union fall in their opener 2-nil. >> temple hoping to take a huge step forward with a big dance today. all the owls wearing number 11 in warmups. he suffered upper body injuries in a one-car crash sunday. temple wins 54-56 to clinch the
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regular season title. we'll be right back.
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who gives and who gets? budget decisions are now being cameraed out in city hall. the beverage industry gives. schools and police get. >> thousands of prek seats. >> and now the budget ball is in council's court. >> he'll be supporting it? >> we'll see. >> good morning. i'm news anchor for telemundo 62. it's the fastest growing spanish station in philadelphia.
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the $4 billion budget last week and that's up about 2% from last year. we'll review some of the big issues in this budget. 3 cent tax on sodas. how universal prek is a key to fighting crime. we dive into the mayor's first budget. >> mayor pitched what he calls an ambitious and rad dal budget that's getting pushback from opponents of the soda tax. >> as some of you may have already heard, soda isn't thrilled about that at all. >> the crowd sitting in the balcony above loved the idea of a soda tax. it would fund universal pre-k, community schools and other programs. the mayor at one point stopping his prepared speech to acknowledge the loud support. [ applause ] >> is that my mother up there? >> a newly formed coalition against the soda tax says not so
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fast. >> we're concerned about a loss of jobs. this is a tax that is going to be passed on to the distributors. the distributors we think, are going to pass that on to the consumers. >> the budget is a wish list that relies on a tax on sugary drin drinks. it's been struck down twice before. now that the money is earmarked for specific programs may give it a fighting chance. >> i think that this soda tax is clearly designated for a very specific purpose. a purpose that is broad based support for us. >> and soon after the mayor introduced the budget i sat down with kenny for an upclose discussion for his priorities as the budget moves forward. thank you forrgy[ájjt here. and welcome to nbc 10 and telemundo. we have a lot to talk about today and some say that this week's budget speech and the
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budget is aggressive and radical. how would you define it? >> aggressive and radical. we need to be doing something different than we've been doing. we've been nibbling around the edges of community schools and we believe that these three particular initiatives will change the dynamic and narrative of education in our city. the state legislature has not funded philadelphia school system, any system in the state as well as it should. we are putting $400 million of new money into the schools. this budget, and we need to get children ready, 3 and 4-year-olds ready for kindergarten and first grade. >> you said that it's an early investment. >> i was at a pre-k up in northwest philadelphia today. anywhere from six months old to five years old, these kids were bright, they were engaged. they were fun. they were joyful. they were inquisitive, they were open armed and you can see the sponge of their brains absorbing
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everything. if we don't start that process at 3 and 4 years old, by the time they get to third grade they're not reading at grade level and they're going to fail. >> your campaign, it was one of the biggest issues of your campaign. now you're in a position to make it a reality. >> it's nice to try to keep your campaign promises and this is one promise that we're going to keep. that and coupled with community schools which is brings social services, medical service and other psychological services into the school base so kids don't have -- when their parents take off from work and the kids don't have to go to three different bus stops to get the services that you need. you can't learn if you're cold and don't have the right clothing. you can't learn if you can't see the board. if you have dental problems, there's a lot of distractions in the kids' lives. >> it is expensive program. what do you expect?
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>> we're looking at probably 10 million a year in community schools and we're looking to borrow $300 million in a bond issue about -- multiple bond issues and leverage another 200 to 300 in philanthropy and foundation money to renovate every rec center, library and park in every neighborhood in our city, which hasn't been done -- there are rec centers that haven't been touched in 50 years. >> you mention infrastructure in your budget, but going back to pre-k which is very important, are there any programs that you consider priority to actually send these funds into this program? >> i mean, we're not -- the school district will not run this program. this will be run through the city itself. we are on a couple of different levels. we're trying to expand the number of slots that exist in existing neighborhood pre-ks who get the 3 and 4 star rating from the state. we're going to do some back of
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the house and office work with the one and two-star pre-ks to get them up to 3 and 4. and then we're going to look to expand into libraries, rec centers, existing school facilities that have extra space. everywhere we can find where it will make sense in neighborhoods that are experiences high poverty, high crime, high unemployment, all those things that are affecting and impacting the lives of our kids. in the end, if we don't get them at three and four years old we're going to take care of them when they're 18 and they go to our county prison at $38,000 a year. >> there's a serious financial situation in the city so you need to develop the funds for -- to pay for this. the soda tax for example, please explain how it works. >> it's a 3 cent per ounce tax on sugar sweetened beverages so if it's diet soda or water or some other beverage that doesn't have sugar in it, it won't be
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taxed. we expect to raise about $96 million a year when will fund all these programs we're talking about. in addition, putting 26 or so million more in our pension, new money and helping council president clark get his initiative off the ground to create 10,000 new jobs in the economy. >> do you think it will be enough? >> if we get 3 cents an ounce it will be plenty. >> now, there is concern, because for example, some cigarette taxes in 2004. >> right. >> were implemented. it only generated about 20 million less than what it was expected. do you fear that something like that could happen? >> well, first of all on the cigarette tax it took a dip in the beginning but it's leveling off. sad to say people are still smoking. the liquor tax is a better example. at the time it was passed, the world was coming to end, restaurants were going to close, bars were going to close. the world was going to be out of business, no jobs and actually the restaurant and bar industry in our city has taken off and
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exploded in success. so the liquor tax argument that was made for that now is being applied to the sugar sweetened beverage argument and neither are true. >> some people in opposition feels that this might be sort of like a reverse tax and people who aren't poor who will actually pay more when they go to the store and they buy their sodas. do you feel that that impact is going to be -- >> the reality of it is that the beverage industry made about $65 billion net profit -- gross profit last year. $11 billion in net profits and where do they advertise the most? in african american and latin objection neighborhoods. my view is that if we tax the sugar sweetened beverage the additional money will not go to the distributors and the bottlers, it will stay in the neighborhood to improve every park, recreation center and
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library in the city. >> the tax has been proposed before twice. it's been slapped down by the city council twice. >> fist of all, there was no specific initiative. it was about obesity and then it was about filling a budget gap. so there was no attractive initiatives. >> what is different now? >> the difference is there are ten district council center who all have rec centers and libraries in their district and they want those refurbished. there's a strong movement in this city for pre-k. there are people who believe this will work as i do and they'll be my lobbyists. it will be the parks and recs people. it will be the pre-k moms, the community school advocates and the lobbyists being paid for will be the ones telling them it's a smart thing to do. >> we'll have more when we come back.
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with our exclusive one on one discussion with philadelphia major jim kenny. talk about the relationship with city council. you're definitely going to be needing the support of city council to get this accomplished and in the past, the mayor had a distant relationship. >> mayor didn't have a relationship with city council. i had tried and work every day at maintaining the relationship that i have with my former colleagues. my former colleagues and the new colleagues that have come in. another administration never did understand. in this relationship building goes on every day. intergovernmental affairs, works with council on a regular basis.
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our commissioners are responsive to council members and their needs. council members are allowed to call commissioners and commissioners are allowed to call them back. that's why everything got bogged down. >> and you've mad an effort yourself to do so, your speech for the budget. you extended a hand of friendship. >> i've always had a hand of friendship for my colleagues. i recognized the things they care about and the things they've accomplished. it's not all centered on the mayor. i call it the kind of the point guard on the basketball court where you're running the plays and making the passes to assist everybody but the council members are the board of directors of your company and you need to make sure you identify and respond to the things that they think are important. you develop a relationship and you move forward together. >> what can you do? i mean, you know some of them, personally what can you do to create a more conciliatory
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environment? >> we have a very good relationship right now. i've met with every council member at least once. we discuss, we collaborate, we have ideas back and forth. our folks and our mayor's office and the rest of the government respond to the needs and the requests and i think the relationship between the mayor and council right now is as good as it was. >> we talk a little bit about the funds that you want to go to the police department for example. in the past for example, you -- in your campaign you promised to end risk and now you have proposed to sort of revised that but not eliminate it. >> you're not going to eliminate stop and frisk. god forbid you leave the studio tonight and a man holds you up at gun point and takes your money and wallet and he's wearing a flyers hat and you call 911 and you describe the assailant and you tell them one of the features of him is he had a flyers hat on.
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the police see a guy fitting that description. you've told them on the phone that he had a gun. would you expect the officers not to frisk that man? the issue stopping someone on the street, with no 911 call, there's a lot of our stops did not result as a 911 call. it resulted in just a phishing expedition looking for whatever and trying to -- and trying to, you know, to stop people, question them and frisk them without a service call being made. you certainly would think that if you described that person with a flyers hat a your assailant and you said he had a gun, you would suspect that the officers would keep themselves safe, try to get the gun and make the arrest. >> how would you change the culture? what would you expect from the leaders of the police department to begin to change the -- >> first of all we have changed the culture. we have appointed commissioner richard ross who is a great
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community policing expert. >> he's local. >> he's local and a community policing advocate. it's about training, recruitment and explaining to officers that they are in service to the public and that people need to be respected. we need to expand our ability to have a more diverse department. for example. the latino representation in the police department is it really a bad low? it's about 13 pock%. we're going to work hard to get more latinos on the force. you have to have a police force that reflect it is diversity of the community and you have to train people and hire people to show respect. sometimes you're going to have to arrest somebody and sadly you'll have to shoot somebody if that's the case and the circumstances call for it. but the respect initially when you're dealing with a citizen is very important in setting the context. if you come at someone in a
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disrespectful way you're likely to get that in return. if you say good morning, good afternoon, how can i be of service, it changes the dynamic. >> the little things make a huge difference. >> you can always forget what people say or what people do, but you never forget how people make you feel. >> the confidence of the police department obviously has been affected in the past and i think commissioner charles ram sooe did a great job. >> a great guy. >> to establish a better relationship with the community. now, the cameras, you're planning on investing on possibly even 800 more cameras -- uniform cameras. what is the impact? what are are you trying to accomplish? it's not for the police department but also for confidence of the community. >> trying to keep the officers safe and the public safe. a picture and an audio and a video speak a thousand words. when you can see and hear the
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interaction you're a better judge of what happened. a police officer has been maybe falsely accused of doing something wrong to the citizen, the body camera will show what happened for real. the citizen claims that the police officer abused him or her, the body camera will show what happened. we need to negotiate to make sure it's a voluntary program within the police district. we're looking to negotiate the use with their labor union and we're trying to spread this. not every police officer on the force needs a camera. some people are in jobs where they're not arresting people or interacting with people. >> how do you guarantee the transparency of this? there's a great concern and what i mean by transparency, there's great concern that public defenders that might think, well, you can turn the system on and off and you might get sort of -- >> that's a -- >> -- a doctor report. >> that's a training and discipline program. there are ways of knowing when a camera is turned off.
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there's a discipline process that we're going to negotiate that you'll have to undergo. i think most officers who are right thinking decent people which most of our officers are, would like that extra transparency for people to be able to see what the interaction was like. you know, sometimes police officers don't treat people like and sometimes citizens don't treat police officers right. so in that video and audio, we'll know what happened. >> what are the results? how you feel about it? >> the police officers enjoy it and are happy with the process. you have to remember we've lost two officers there in the last few years so i mean, brave, brave men. as a matter of fact i think officer wilson's anniversary of his death is tomorrow and moses walker who i went to the police academy's graduation ceremony and this particular police cadet group dedicated their service to his memory. they put their lives on the line, but they also know and
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they know that people need to be respected. >> more with philadelphia mayor jim kenny. stay with us.
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welcome back to nbc 10@issue. as we continue our exclusive one on one with philadelphia mayor jim kenny. >> we are getting closer to the summer. we're getting ready for convention. what do you expect? >> ipex president-elect a nice big party where our restaurant hotels and our city make very good money. >> we it was a positive for the city. it was successful. however, there's some people that say that there was way too much in the city. it kept them away from the city. there were businesses especially small businesses who were affected. >> the secret service is in charge of the security. but there are things that the city can push back and i think the last administration didn't
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push back enough on some of the security details. however, the real important thing is that no one was hurt and there was no terrorist activity or anything like that. >> we have very little time, mayor, but my folks would not forgive me if i don't ask you about immigration. >> we are a sanctuary city. i'm proud of it. people choose to come to this city and live. we are not going the work of the federal government. the homeland security folks in the past have basically acted in an inappropriate way when it come to interaction with our immigrant citizens. you have to remember, i'm an american of irish descent. when the irish came here in the 1940s they didn't want us here either. they told us to go home, go back where we came from. three churches were burned to the ground. we were the scourge of philadelphia. the scourge of america and i'm not going to allow our government to treat our immigrants in that manner,
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because if you know your history in this country, you know you need to respect a new immigrant coming in and remember, the whole idea that somehow immigrants sucks resources away from the government, they pay taxes, they run businesses, they employ people. the other people that are doing that work in our communities are saving our communities so we're very proud of them. >> quickly, the id program, we only have about a minute, but -- >> we have to make sure that the id is not a stigma. we have to make sure it's something we can distribute to all city employees, to senior citizens, people returning from incarceration, because if we give it to the immigrant -- >> and the benefit is? >> people can open bank accounts. we get the banks to accept the id. people can come out of the shadows and start acting in the main stream as we want. >> thank you so much. always welcome. >> thank you. >> grammy winner john legend is
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now singing a new tune. movie producing. we'll tell you where you can catch his new film and help urban farmers at the same time.
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singer john he jepd is linked to our town through his time another the university of pennsylvania and now he's produced a film called "can you dig this." on tuesday they'll host a screening of this film at the landmark ritz. tickets are $14 and you can only buy them online. that is it for this edition of nbc 10@issue. join me again on telemundo. you can also download our app and check our live stream at telemundo 62.com. have a wonderful sunday.
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