. >> it has been a wild week for carson wentz, jeff mcclain from the philadelphia inquirer join us toabout the eagles draft. if you talk to people about spring training, five games over 500 only two and a half to first place may. no one would have believed you. more on the surprising phillies. >>> welcome to the sports zone. we'll have a complete break down of the draft ahead. we'll start out with the phillies. pete mackanin said the starting picture would be

. >> from the philadelphia inquirer city council president darryl clark blasted mayor kenney's propose $3 per ounce tax on sugary drinks. clark says that tax rate will never pass and it is ridiculous. clark is urging the mayor to take another look at a beverage container tax. >>> trenton ian reports that the employees with the mercer county park commission has been hitting up lots of overtime. more than 20,000 hours of overtime at a cost of $940,000. last month authorities actually raided the commission's facilities as part of an investigation of public corruption, theft and official misconduct. >> in the bucks county courier times second graders at russell elementary school in bensalem entertain areas veterans and family members during the school's annual solute to america show. they sang songs, poems and share facts about everything from the statue of liberty to washington d.c. >> that is a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >>> do you want to see eagles in action this summer? >> we will let you know when you can check them out for free. >>> plus

. >> philadelphia inquirer is reporting city council president darryl clark is floating an alternative to mayor kenney's soda tax plan. clark is looking at what a one sent or less tax could pay for. mayor wants to use money to pay for 6500 new prek, clark's proposal would fund 2,000. >>> on the front page of the bucks county courier times, detectives are investigating whether surveillance cameras installed around the bristol township municipal building and in police department holding cells violates state laws against unauthorized eavesdropping. >>> officials say while the cameras have capabilities they are not activated. >>> from the press of atlantic city, brooke, get your wonder woman costume ready, second atlantic city boardwalk can opens up tomorrow and runs through atlantic city. last week event draw almost 30,000 people. , how did you know i had a wonder woman costume. >> i just guessed. >> good guess. that is a look at the some newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >> because you are a wonder woman. >>> a major make over for instance gram, hold on see big change

. >>> philadelphia inquirer septa will a announce it is testing whether partnering with uber can boost rider ship and help parking crunches at the busiest stations. riders taking uber, to or from 11 regional rail stations in the the four counties surrounding philadelphia will get a 40 percent off the cost of their uber ride, the pilot program will be in effect from memorial day through labor day. that is a look the a the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >>> in other news president obama's next stop on his asian trip is japan where he will a tend the g7 summit and become first sitting president to visit hiroshima. he wrapped up three day trip to vietnam at a town hope in hoe chin men city. it praised next generation of leaders for being more conscious about the environment. >>> and a special honor for a former philadelphia mayor michael nutter. there is a theater a at pennsylvania convention center will be name after him, nutter served as chairman of the convention centers board of direct thursday from to 2003 to 2007. it will host film festivals, movie screening, co

the philadelphia inquirer reports that the accusers making those aforementioned claims are among those paid out. a penn state spokesman says university is aware of the accusations and is not commenting further. >> and on today's daily news sports cover, a big question overlaying paterno's face, nittany lion, a pun that will no doubt get people talking this morning. now, in 2012, can dust can i was sentenced to up to 606 years in prison for molesting ten boys, and later this month, a judge had sign off on a hearing that could land sandusky new trial. paterno you will recall died in 2012. jim, brooke, back into you. >> thanks a lot, justin. >> take a look at this spectacular new video as a space ex falcon rocket blasts off from cape canaveral this morning, caring japanese communication satellite. satellite was successfully delivered to orbit, then the hard part, the rocket made a controlled landing on an off-shore barge. this launch was number four of a dozen planned flights in 2016. well, the time now 5:36. in business news this morning, netflix subscribers are getting an upgrade. >> th

voila, "the philadelphia inquirer" shot. >> let's move on to bernie sanders.been any candidate this year who is famous for his gigantic rallies, bernie sanders. talk about this. josh: this is the big four bridge. this is what we call magic hour. it's a most beautiful time of day to stage an event. >> louisville, kentucky. josh: right on this side of the river is jefferson city, indiana, or the primary was being held that day. sanders wins it, surprisingly, and yet here in kentucky it is the may 17 primary. by going toofer this media market. with senator sanders you have this common future to believe in that he has been very consistent with from event to event. look how the afternoon sun and the sunset is playing off the big four bridge, just a beautiful, bucolic scene. straight on, this is what the photographers who were traveling with him are shooting from underneath senator sanders. it's the only angle they can make. this is perfect for "the new york times" or "the wall street journal." >> this is from february 27 in bentonville, arkansas. trumps event also

. >> actually an article in the philadelphia inquirer the full front page here that says they are trying in reaction times and different procedures that they experienced on that night acquire ago. >> the biggest one positive train control. they say it was supposed to be there when this happened. >> it was on the other side of the tracks. >> but not on this curve. >> another disaster making news again after conducting 400 interviews remember this and lab work on the evidence, the atf and texas state fire marshals office have determined someone started that fire on purpose. fifteen people were killed, 12 of whom were first responders, and firefighters hundreds more were injured, authorities would not comment on whether they know of a suspect yet, but somebody did it on purpose, killed all of those people. 6:36. heartfelt plea for peace for delaware county teen who died after bathroom beating at school. >> this message meant for teenage student after threats of retaliation. >> dave, so much emotion since we first heard about her death. now people are going to social media and making threats

in the article in the "philadelphia inquirer," he wrote, in part, trump was not my first, second, or third choice, object to his manner and policies. he went on to say it's up to trump to make the case for himself in a way that reassures the millions of republicans and nonrepublicans who have grave doubts about him. >> my basic message is he has a lot of work to do to unite the republican party and then go on to a general election campaign where he unites americans. >> toomey is inclined to support the party's nominee in the race for the white house. >>> the controversial fight over a new bathroom law in north carolina. shifting now to federal court. today the governor filed suit against the justice department defending the measure. if u.s. attorney general fired back with a separate suit asking a judge to block it. nbc 10 national correspondent, jay gray, has the latest. >> reporter: the controversial battle over bathrooms in has now moved to federal court. governor pat mccory filing suit after a demand from the justice department to abandon a new law requiring gender people to use

. >> we're in philadelphia inquirer shot.>> let's move onto bernie sanders because if there's any candidate this year who is famous for his gigantic rallies, bernie sanders. talk about this. >> this is the big four bridge. the ohio river behind us. this is what we call magic hour. it's the most beautiful time of day to stage an event. >> this is louisville, kentucky. >> more importantly on this side of the river is jefferson city, indiana where the primary is being held. sanders wins it. you get a two-fer by going to this media market. what you do have is this common future to believe in that he's been very consistent with from event to event. look how the afternoon sun and the sunset is playing off the big four bridge. just a beautiful scene. straight on. this is what the photographers who are traveling with him, the pool photographers are shooting from underneath senator sanders. it's the only angle that they can make. this is perfect for the new york times or wall street journal. >> dramatic. let's move onto a donald trump

i was a political reporter and an environmental reporter for the philadelphia inquire before that. i was looking for something different and stumbled upon research of infecting state hospital patients with malaria so they could trust drugs on them. this was shocking to me and i could not a lot of the historical treatment of this. i kept pulling threads and searching through boxes in the archives and i realized i was in unchartered territory and had to tell the story. i didn't know much about world war ii, malaria, or bioethics but got up to speed because it was a fascinating story i wanted to tell. i wanted these slides to be deleted because i have 60 but the boxes look like this. they were stamped top secret because it was a secret project. the world was at war and nobody had a good malaria drug. before normandy most of the fighting happened in highly malaria areas so if you had a weapon against the disease you would have a leg up on the battles. so the roosevelt administration opened the spigot for this project and hired 400 scientist, 50 universities, most of the american drug c

handelman who worked at "the toronto star" and editor at "seattle times" and a reporter at "the philadelphia inquirerfor many years. all of us were her students. she plugged me a shy kid from a working-class puerto rican family and the cypress hills projects of use new york and chose me to be the editor of her paper, the paper that are most every year when the columbia scholastic journalism prize. that probably had a lot to do it my eventually getting into columbia on a full scholarship and it was there that i first became acquainted with dissident views and social protest and in the columbia student strike of 1968. then can the young lords. jimmy breslin once wrote, the lords for the spark the jurnalists than columbia school. do lords were allowed, brass, radical intelligent group of puerto ricans. we became a thorn in the side of the establishment and police in this town and the city struck the east coast for a brief time, and influenced a generation of young latinos to demand more equitable treatment for our community. but of all of the radical groups of the 1960's, and the were many back then, we

. >> philadelphia inquirer reports south jersey man sentenced to serve ten years in federal prison for possession of child porn. forty-five year-old jeffery spicer of west wildwood was accused of down loading pornography on his home computer, cell phone and thumb drive. >>> in the delaware county daily times eighth great student at dell cross elementary school will be charged with bringing an electric stun device to the school. reports say the accused teen removed device from her handbag when another student grabbed it, setting him off. >>> in the trenton paper three schools in the lawrence township school district have tested positive for dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water. students and staff at lawrenceville elementary, blackwood elementary and eldridge park elementary will be provided with bottled water for now. >> that is a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >>> if you have not realized it yet, it is may the fourth or star wars day. >> fans of the film celebrate today because it sound like a line from star wars. may the force be wit

i was an environmental reporter before that for the "philadelphia inquirer". but i was looking for something completely different, and i stumbled upon some records that talked about how our researchers during world war ii infected state hospital patients with malaria so they could test new drugs on them. and i, this was shocking to me, and i couldn't find a whole lot of historical treatment of this. and as i kept pulling threads and searching through boxes in the archives, i realized i was in uncharted territory and that i had to tell this story. i didn't know much about world war ii or malaria, didn't know much about bioethics. but i got up to speed because this was a fascinating story that i wanted to tell. i actually wanted these slides to be deleted because i have 60 slides here for 15 minutes, but i'll whip through them as fast as i can. these boxes look like this, the records, a lot of them were stamped top secret because this was a secret project. the world was at war, and nobody had a good malaria drug. and before normandy, most of the fighting happene

"the philadelphia inquirer" looks at a growing battle over beverages.dering a sugar tax on soft drinks. the mayor wants to add a 3 cent per ounce fee on items like soda, flavored water, sports, drinks, and some juice. that means a 20-ounce bottle of soda could run you 60 cents more. >>> britain's "guardian" says rory mcilroy admits he's concerned about the zika virus at the summer olympics. he may reconsider playing for ireland at the games. 27-year-old mcilroy said he and his fiance may consider starting a family in the next couple years. he says he's monitoring the outbreak. i missed he was engaged. >> i did too. >> i missed that too. okay. >> i did too. >> i was looking at you for guidance. >> but now we can say congratulations. >>> "the new york post"" says that facebook has apologized for banning an ad featuring a plus-size woman. it shows model tess holliday posing. facebook said the ad depicted the body in an undesirable manner. the social network reviewed its decision and reversed it. >>> the duke and duchess of cambridge made an appearance at t

. >> and mike is here for the philadelphia inquirer shore lives in doylestown. is doylestown been to you. >> lived here five years. great town. >> how are things at inquirer. >> we're hanging in there. >> robust newspaper industry, hanging in there. >> speaking of the newspaper on the daily news back cover there is an article about phillies manager. for pete's sake or whatever it says, got to love pete. he is doing a remarkable job. >> they have a very young team that wasn't expected to do much this season and i think the fact that pete mackanin has calmed everything down is the reason they are playing as well as they are. >> so three big series starting tonight with the atlanta braves which is war team in baseball. >> i believe they are, yes. >> we've got phillies fans here in doylestown. >> yes. >> how oldies that hat, man. >> as old as you. >> not quite but pretty old. >> it is such a cool vintage sports store here, it is called, what is it called. >> monkey's uncle. >> i expect a check. >> yes good but really cool stuff in there, mostly vintage all four spor

. >> that's big headline on the philadelphia inquirer front page on the fowl, going to trial folks. >> this headline is also seen around america. and around the world actually, we have media from all over the globe in nor town yesterday. bill cosby will face trial now on criminal sexual assault charges, a judge ruled yesterday, that there is enough evidence against him, to take the case to a trial, prosecutors claim he called his accuser, andrea con stand, to his cheltenham mansion early 2004, drug her, with some pills, gave her some wine, and then groped her, as she drifted in and out of consciousness. that's what is being alleged. cosby ' defense attorneys though question andrea's credibility while maintaining the relations were concentual. con stand herself did not testify yesterday, one of our attorneys that we like to use. >> so cosby's attorneys were pretty, pretty insist and the. they were not happy that this andrea didn't show up. but i go this is a preliminary hearing. the standard of proof is pretty low. i was not surprised she didn't show up. >> you're right, they weren't h

one was at the "philadelphia inquirer" which still exists, and the other was at "the washington post." and i thought if it's an internship and i'm going to be out of a job in three months, i think i'll take the washington postbecause it was, you know, the hot newspaper at that time. so i stayed there, as bradley said. not only did i meet bradley, but i met carla cohen who ran politics & prose for a long time. and one of those people that i met during the reagan years was this gentleman, craig shirley. >> 23 years at the post. sorry it didn't work out. [laughter] pleasure how many books have you written? >> well, it depends if you count things like, you know, there are books that are, like, there's a book about black farmers, and i wrote the preface to it which is lengthy -- >> right. >> but the heart and soul, i think the reason that anyone in this audience would buy that book are these incredible pictures of black farmers through the south. >> right. >> but other than that i think it's eight books. >> eight books. what are you working on mow? [laughter] >> i just finished this one, y

let's get your first alert "philadelphia inquirer" for meteorologist bill henley.those are light rain showers. later this afternoon that's when we could see heavy thunderstorms especially in delaware and south jersey. temperatures climbing in spite of the clouds. 50 degrees right now in philadelphia. south jersey is at 50 degrees. cooler spots but not by much. clayton, haddon township all at 48 degrees. tracie. >> now let's check your ride to work. let's look at the roads. >> we're watching 76. this is over in gloucester right now in new jersey right in here. you can see some slow downs just around this curve. there's an accidents blocking out a lane heading over the bridge into philadelphia. some delays there. some delays on 95 headed northbound as well because of this accidents scene over the shoulder coming off the cottman avenue off-ramp. >>> this morning a 2-month-old baby girl is in critical condition after this accidents that killed another child that happened on henry avenue yesterday when two cars collided. later this morning, former penn state coach is as

. >>> from the inquirer, slide the sit the eye isn't coming to the philadelphia after all. 1,000-foot slip ape slide was expect to be here august 6th. it seems a permit was never issued. this isn't the first cancellation last year philly stop was axed at last minute after months of promotion. >>> and that is a look at some of the newspaper headlines from around the delaware will valley. >>> well, major milestone for the army, unanimous decision making history in the military. >>> and a warning before you put on the sun screen this summer, many sun screens don't work as well as advertised. see why and the best way to avoid getting burned. >>> we will be right back. >>> welcome back. there is a possible break through against the fight against zika virus. scientists have successfully cloned zika for the first time, that is first step toward creating a vaccine for the virus that is carried by mosquitoes. so far there are more than 500 cases of zika in the united states but none of them have been transmitted through mosquito by the. >>> a lot of people are starting to stock up on sun scree

. >> philadelphia media network says they're raising the apply cents of the inquirer and the daily news. >> both papers going up from 1 dollar to 1.50, starting may 23rd. spokesman for the paper said price hike is necessary to cover contents, design enhancement, the cost of the sunday edition and home delivery subscription will stay the same. this is first price increase for the daily news and the queen err since january 2011. >> if you love politics, what a day it was yesterday. as we wake up to the news that cruz is out, kasich is hanging in, there and bernie sanders beats hillary in indianna. we will break it all down for you coming up. >> and if politics isn't your thing, well the weather probably is so you know what to wear, what to grab going out the door, and bob is taking a long hard look at the roads. >> i think he is taking long hard break somewhere. >> i'm over here. >> building collapse, a man trapped inside, we're headed to the scene and will bring you live report. >> two separate police involved shootings happened overnight, one turning deadly. what happened when police at

. >> 1953 it's been a philadelphia staple so i think it's been here long enough that we know what we're talking about in terms of cheesesteaks. in fact, in philly inquirerf jim's cheesesteaks said it's most popular cheese eight to one. so i think this goes to prove you really have no idea what you're talking about when it's sports or cheesesteaks you're clue less. >> jamie you're a punk. you know why because you put your feet up on the table. have a little bit of manners. this is called television. so have some manners. let me explain to you something about cheese whiz. now jim or any other steak place is going to say cheese whiz is great because they make more money with whiz than they would with the provolone or american. cheese whiz in junk. you're talking about 1953. how old were you in 1953? minus 30? i mean give me a break. all right. next time, talk about something you know about. it probably not sports but it's certainly not cheesesteaks. come on. cheese whiz? ehhh! >> thing you have what it takes to knock the kid. shoot your video. send it to us and i'll talk to you next week. look at 'em! they're lovin' their vegetables. this is huge news! it'