these close-up, chris campbell, it is wednesday, february 22nd. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> you think they knew what story they were posing for when they agreed to take pictures? >> sure they were told it was about all the beautiful people that work here on "world news now." >> all right. we'll get more on why you should embrace the ugly coming up. our top story this half-hour, president trump denouncing anti-semitism. the statement came in the weak of the vandalism of jewish graves at a missouri cemetery and bomb threats at jewish community centers. >> the president's daughter. vanka tweeted a call for religious tolerance. some still we get more now from abc's jonathan carl. >> reporter: president trump used a visit to washington's new african-american history museum to finally denounce the spate of anti-semitic threats and attacks in the united states. >> this is a meaningful reminder of why we have to fight bigotry, intolerance, and hatred in all of its very ugly forms. >> one of the moets jarring incidents this jewish cemetery near st. louis desecrated more tha

chris rehobb are speak. he's showing philadelphia stands with their muslim neighbors. >> i like him. >> president trump praises the camden-based company campbell's during his speech yesterday. we'll explain what prompted that praise. >>> a new weapon for police. we'll show you how it speeds up connecting officers with information they need to keep you safe. >>> and welcome back. here's a live look outside philadelphia. still dark outside. what we're looking at is a dry picture over center city. later this afternoon that will not be the case. we're expected to see showers and thunderstorms popped up along the region as a line moves through. that will drop a cold front. you can see surrounding is the rain. some of the steady to heavier activity. that's going to gain some strength as it hits our neighborhood. why? because of the warmer air. the warmer temps gives fuel to the fire for stronger thunderstorms to develop. so here's a look at the planner. we go upper 50s nice and early. to upper 60s by noon. some spots low 70s in philadelphia are expected. you can see we start to trop off in temperatures as the storms start to develop later in the after

campbell's soup cups tomorrow. welcome back to the trump cpac takeover. joining us is chris cillizza and susan page.it's great to be back, i missed you guys. he celebrately skipped it last year with a threat of a wakeout by attendees. the conservative event that donald trump is not talking about reforming reentightments, changing his position versus theirs on the issue of trade. what does this say short term and lg-term about this vement? >> loves this place because he's changed that place. he made cpac have less ideology in some ways and different issues in other ways. he got a lot of applause for his protectionist trade riff that he did on today's, in today's speech and you hear very little complaints, maybe a little bit under very quietly about the fact he is not taking a tough line when it comes to spending which is our entitlement reform issues, used to have a lot of residents at cpac. >> four, five years ago this was an, every speaker talked about gay marriage, abortion. he really did -- >> immigration, radical islamic terrorism, trade. >> he didn't talk about that at awe. at the end he said a

campbell. we want to start with opioids. chris christie is finally here, his big focus.at's what everybody was talking about. are we making progress on this battle? what's going on? >> it's a terribly big problem. it's ahronic disease. it's a disease of addiction. it's been spiked by the up tick and the availability of the synthetic version of the potent opioid. if you look at the cost of heroin per kilogram, $35,000. >> right. >> a kilogram of this is like $3,000 and would kill an entire city. most of the drugs available now are laced with this because it makes the drug go further for the drug distributor. kids are dying. it's cheap and very, very potent. 50 times more potent. >> what is the answer to the problem? we hear donald trump talking about a crackdown on the border and all the stuff they are going to do, a war on drugs that's been fought 30 years. what do you do about this, mostly a prescription drug epidemic? >> it's a prescription and synthetic, chemicals made in a lab. i like the idea of harm reduction. harm reduction is a technique and topic, instead of arr