salters goes on to write i never did or will like the police. the picture was followed up by another post by salters account that read there are numerous crooked and corrupted cops, mostly white and mostly they harass, beat or kill, innocence. the mostly blacks. the picture has been deleted and salters has since apologized but the fire storm is far from over. so as expect both the fire and police departments are now, speaking out about this. >> steve keeley is live at police headquarters with the reaction, steve? >> reporter: he also put his boss in the position of apologize to go a lot of people including the police commissioner ramsey here at headquarters who got a personal apology from the fire commissioner who salt salters rantings quote disgusting and says an investigation is underway and any discipline, pay loss or job loss will come after. that the fire commissioner also personally, apologized for his paramedics over the line on line rants to the john mcnesby, president of the fraternal order of police who told fox 29 chris o'connell when

salters has apologized.ut story storm it has created is far from over. >> i thought it was disgusting. i think that we have a great working relationship with the police in our city and we want to keep that. a lot of our members have family members that are police officers also. so it was in poor taste. despicable, despicable and it defames the police, it is a brotherhood. we are still doing out the same work public safety and to do something like that is ridiculously stupid. we don't want to see anybody lose their job especially around the holidays but you know, if charged with stupidity was in hear handbook manual wow get a life sentence. >> fire commissioner says salters is in violation of the department's media policy. >> police and school officials are investigating a sex tape involving kids, that has been circulate ago monk the middle school students. this is in bucks county. >> fox 29's lauren johnson live in bristol township with that story, lauren. >> reporter: can you imagine these middle schoolers

but once we started asking questions, another post appeared from salters facebook page.s one an apology saying that post was out of anger of what is going on around the world. mike brown, eric garner and et cetera. and past experiences i've had with police. my intentions was not to slander or hurt anyone or my brothers in blue, again, i am sorry. still some say salters should be disciplined. >> you don't want to see anybody lose their job especially around the holidays, but, you know, if -- charges of stupidity was in the handbook manual he probable woman get a live sentence. >> philadelphia mayor michael nutter releasing a statement this afternoon which reads in part "we celebrate the exercise of our first amendment right to expression but there are clear limits and this posting went far beyond standards of decency and film ma tower speech or behavior like this is simply irresponsible and could potentially insight other toss inappropriate actions" that picture comes from rappers music video and that video has quickly become viral. joining us now via skype to talk about

salter goes on to write quote i never did or will like the police. the picture has been deleted and salters has apologized but fire storm, it has created has been far from over. we will keep an eye on that. it is expect both fire and police departments are speaking out. >> steve keeley is live, with reaction this morning, steve. >> reporter: at a time these police officers say when just doing their job is hard enough, with everybody around the country constantly protesting against the police, the job seems harder now when criticism comes from someone that they work alongside with helping crime victims and crash victims. uglier when the criticism appears to be racist and threatening. the reaction was swift, stern, the morning after fox 29's chris o'connell broke this story wednesday night, the next morning the mayor came out with the statement calling marcellus salters on line rants quote reprehensible saying salters could insight others to inappropriate actions. salters other boss, the fire commissioner, says an official investigation is now underway

paramedic marcell salters is a three-year department vet. the picture taken from a rap video called hands up by a rapper uncle murder shows two men point ing a gun at the head of the police officer. salters goes on to write i never did or will like the the police. the picture was followed up by another post, it read there are numerous, crooked and corrupt cops mostly white and mostly they harass, beat or kill innocence, mostly blacks. the picture has been deleted and salters has since apologized but the fire storm is still on. >>> now the police and fire departments are among those reacting to this post. lets get to steve keeley with more on how they are handling this. >> reporter: it has never been an easy time to be a police officer in this country but now is probably one of the hardest times and the philadelphia police department coincidently is looking for a few good women and men. they have a help wanted sign up and, in fact, they have commissioner ramsey made to look like uncle sam with the ad uncle ram wants you but now, there are cop

but once we started asking questions, another post appeared from salters facebook page. this one an apology saying "that post was out of anger of what is going on around the world. mike brown, eric garner and et cetera, and past experiences i've had with police it my intention was not to slapped or hurt anyone or my brothers in blue, again, i am sorry "still some say salters should be disciplined. >> we don't want to see anybody lose their job especially around the holidays, but, you know, charges of stewed did the was in the handbook manual he probably would get a live sentence. >> reporter: still not clear whether or not those posts violated the department's social media policy, but the mayor's office spokesperson tells me tonight if true, those are disturbing and would like some sort of explanation. iain? >> chris, thank you. >>> a massive penndot kickback scheme uncovered tonight. 10 people involved are facing charges. they're accused of of pocketing over $1 million from taxpayers. the conspiracy allegedly involves two former penndot managers investigators say they t

salters discipline could range anywhere from suspension to termination.ayor nutter also weighing in on this calling the post going way beyond the standards of decency. iain. >> chris, thank you. >>> dozens of students stage a dye-in front of a school district of philadelphia headquarters. sky fox over the scene this evening. the group says it's protesting all forms of violence. >> terrified moments in hatfield township, montgomery county. a woman robbing a rite aid store says she's got a bomb strapped on. fox 29's shawnette wilson is live outside that store tonight. what happened, shawnette? >> reporter: it's crazy, lucy. this woman suspect claimed to have a bomb and threatened it could go off if the cashier did not act fast. you're going to see this woman was smooth. she was calm she got in and out without any customers noticing. >> she tells the cashier that the store is being robbed. verbally tells her she has a bomb strapped to her. >> reporter: hatfield township police walk us through a daring robbery at a rite aid on north broad street sunday aftern

while spotlighting the 13 heroic stories, i was taken with chester pete salter. can you talk about him? >> very chiefly it's mark salter's father who fought in the korean war very far north and they were surrounded by the chinese and the i have cheese who used night attacks had overrun their position and there was a native american named mitchell red cloud called the winnebago tribe in wisconsin. he was wounded and asked them to tie him to a tree so he could hold off the chinese while the rest could get through a narrow defile and he did. obviously he sacrificed his life and pete salter on the way down engaged in hand to hand combat with the chinese. the irony was the next day they were ordered to take it back. it's a really great story about ordinary people and native americans and a fellow from iowa that led ordinary lives and did extraordinary things. >> amazing story. one quick point as the senate takes up this bill, how did they sneak in that 320,000 new amount of money that contributed to the national committees. is that the end of mccain fine gold as we ab

the paramedic marcel salters a three-year veteran who work at medic 23 in southwest philadelphia. the post also mentioned that he has a dislike of police officers, of course, it got the attention of those police officers. some who call the post despicable. >> i thought it was disgusting. literally disgusting. i think that we have a great working relationship with the police in our city and i think we want to keep that and a lot of our members have family members that are police officers, also. so it wasn't -- it was in poor taste. >> reporter: tonight he believes that post does violate the social media policy of the philadelphia police -- philadelphia fire department. salters was brought down here to be interviewed tonight by fire commercial brass and we also can tell you the mayor. he has chimed in on this matter telling us he believes the post goes way beyond the standards of decency. more on this tonight at 10:00 o'clock. guys? >> all right, chris, thank you. chris just mentioned philadelphia mayor nutter releasing a statement "we celebrate the exercise of our first amendment r

is of such as when it's time for the rent to be paid >> reporter: so far have not heard back every salter when the lack of.. >>darya: to the share ideas >>mark: more on the storms as in recent storms continue more trees are falling down there but we can from the drought tree trimming crews have been all over the bay area. you can never be certain to rise on a tide to come down and a vast garbage factors to be aware of it easier to treat certain to lead or to up as an indication it could be addressed to fall is over. >>darya: this whole had a problem with sony decided to pull the plug on their christmas day release of this controversy moving to the satire about a plan to assess not enough land later seven and a career does not find funny at all the nose to the best is linked area to the summit security breach at a more formal statement should be coming soon that hakluyt's private sunny e-mail's and other sensitive information. >> erica: enough grit government is was also for the sunnyvale had in the christmas the threat we want to know what you think of the way in lessening as a tweed for

. >> seeing no other new business, we can adjourn in memoriam, in memory of jeff salter and tarantino. motion? >> second. >> moved. >> in favor? >> aye. >> meeting is adjourned. [your] >> this is the meeting of the commission on the environment and today is tuesday november 25th, and it is 5:05, roll call, commissioner arce is excused. commissioner king is excused. commissioner gravanis? >> here. >> stephenson? >> here. >> commissioner wa*ld? >> here. >> commissioner wan. >> here. >> and as a point of order, arce has appointed gravanis for this meeting due to his absence. and the next item on the ago ahead agenda is jennifer kas, and the director this is a discussion item. >> this is on, great. wonderful. >> well, good evening, everyone and good evening, all of you. and this is a wonderful opportunity for me to introduce to you somebody you have known perhaps, for years. but she is taking on a whole new level responsibility in the department, jennifer cast has been with the city for 13 years and before that, she has worked for elected officials in a number of public service capacities

salter as well as his professional credentials, but we also recognize that professionals are sometimes asked or expected to serve as advocates. there is nothing wrong with that. but we are not aware of any evidence that would support an opinion that the noise variance had issue here is materially different from the noise variance recently issued to momos. the appellant simply failed to allege any serious basis or justification for reversing the determination of the department of public health. and in concluding, i want to salute the city attorney's office for spending a significant amount of time preparing well researched and well thought out briefs in support of the department of public health variance determination. >> thank you. >> the declarations. >> your time is up. >> thank you very much. >> okay, we can hear from the department now. >> good evening commissioners. i just want to make a very few small points. first of all, dph has no jurisdiction over the noise in the light well, we just got that last time. second of all dph might have jurisdiction over indoor noise and in excess

your book published today and i also want to acknowledge mark salter, your coauthor and friend. mark, can you stand and be acknowledged for a moment. there he is in the back. [applause] senator mccain, your book, published today appropriately on veterans day, profiles 13 soldiers from 13 wars, from the revolutionary war to iraq. among all of the millions who served in the military how did you select those 13 to be the subjects representing each war? what criteria did you use? how did you do it? >> well thank you myron and could i just say thank you to the press club for hosting this event and, by the way after i lost running for president i slept like a baby. sleep two hours wake up and cry. sleep two hours wake up and cry. i'm very happy to be here with you and i'm especially honored to not only have my coauthor and really the hardest working of our partnership mark salter here. we've been together for many years but also mary rhodes and her daughter samantha are here who we write about her experience in the gulf war. mary i'm honored you're here and thank you for your service

each other, taking each other's partners, stealing property, dismissing and dishonoring each other salters. that is not a recipe for social cohesion of a community. city abraham that rules are really a recipe for social cohesion and religious actors are at the root trying to help promote. so how are they just that is out there creatively working to build social cohesion and either read more zones are the areas where conflict amongst large. they are trying to inoculate neighboring communities. we see activities for analysis when they are working to build cocoa cooperatives and gone on among islamic and christian, in areas to be able to have an economic development model. they are owned and operated. they work together for their cocoa cooperatives. so that is an economic development model and has a peacebuilding minds to it because it presents the ideas of social cohesion, the imagination of being part of a larger community in these religious actors and hoping that developing mono go forward. we see these in creative attempts into nigeria to have interreligious action on counter malaria prog