. >> reporter: west philadelphia high school principal mary dean hoped this would be a quiet friday mo>>rning. expected more from you. >> reporter: but school security just found two students with several vials of marijuana. they've detained them in handcuffs until philadelphia police officers arrive. a's a common scene in neighborhood with high rates of poverty and crime. and just a few years ago, under the school district's zero tolerance policy, both students would have been arrested, no questions asked. today, it's likely only one student will be arrested becausy he's alrn probation, wearing an ankle bracelet. >> you've already missed your chance. it's up. utis is what i mean about you doing dumb stuffhere and in here. >> reporter: but for the other student, who has no record, there's another option. >> do wh you're supposed to do, it'll all go away. you don't have to worry about these charifs or nothing. ou don't, then, of course, all the marijuana charges will be brought against you. >> reporter: rather than being arrested, the student is put in the philadelphia police school div

west philadelphia. it is a private university in west philadelphia. it is an ivy league school.an: how many students and how many professors at the law school? amy: students, i don't know the precise number. i think it is on the smaller side for an elite law school. it is something like maybe 700, 600. that might not be quite accurate. says onhat's what it the wikipedia site. amy: yes. for professors, we have a relatively small faculty. i think we have 50 tenure-track full-time faculty. we have many adjuncts, many people from the community, the law community in philly, which is quite a distinguished one, teaching part-time, various courses at our law school. brian: with that background, let me get to the reason we asked you to come talk. this is march 18, 2018, this year. it is written by heather is with theo manhattan institute. the headline on it is "the penn law school mob scores a victory." "the campus mob has scored a hit. professor amy wax will no longer be able to teach first law of courses. -- dean announced last week " i'll stop there. what's that about? amy: there is a

actually in west philadelphia. it is a private university in west philadelphia.my: considered one of the iv leaks? -- considered one of the ivy leaques. school,is an ivy league yes. likenk it is something maybe 700, 600, that may not be quite accurate. that is my guess. for professors, we have a relatively small faculty. i think we have 50 10-year or tenure-track full-time faculty and many adjuncts. many people from the community, the law community in philly, which is quite a distinguished one teaching part-time various courses that are law school. brian: with that background, let me get to the reason we asked you to come talk. this is march 18, 2018, this year. it is written by heather mcdonald with the manhattan institute and the headlight on penn law school mob scores a victory." the campus mob has scored a hit. professor amy wax will no longer be recorded -- allowed to teach required first-year courses, the school dean announced last week. what is that about? amy: there is a whole saga that leads up to it. i could try to give you the short form. i still haven

it is a private university in west philadelphia. it is an ivy league school.rian: how many students and how many professors at the law school? amy: students, i don't know the precise number. i think it is on the smaller side for an elite law school. it is something like maybe 700, 600. accurate. not b quite for professors, we have a relatively small faculty. i think we have 50 tenure-track full-time faculty. we have many adjuncts, many people from the community, the law community in philly, which is quite a distinguished one, teaching part-time, various courses at our law school. brian: with that background, let me get to the reason we asked you to come talk. this is march 18, 2018, this year. it is written by heather mcdonnell with the manhattan institute. the headline on it is "the penn law school mob scores a victory." "the campus mob has scored a hit. professor amy wax will no teach --"able to i'll stop there. what's that about? amy: there is a whole story that leads up to that. began when i innocuousa little, op-ed. it, in it, my co-author, larry alexande

when we talk about west philadelphia hippies, we also understand there is a large segment of the population that is quite fearful about this impact how it's going to hem and we also have to understand that war as defined of his era, we have all these -- philadelphia at this time would have a lot of people who served in world war ii and war in a hinking of certain way, where you take a capital city and you win and they are wondering why can't we this war by taking this capital city so i think that's a difference. >> mark? >> yeah, i think the american i think people in philadelphia generally had sort they wanted the united states to get out of the war. how todn't quite decided do that yet, but i was surprised know, this large ad in the inquirer, thank god we're a ll a democracy, write letter to your convention delegates that could help end vietnam and the ad was taken out by the business move for vietnam peace. that's not union leaders, but business executives who are worried about the impact of the war. i wanted to make vietnam, similarity of sort of on large scale, to other conflicts, the

there was a swing voter waiting and that was west of philadelphia and east of denver. that's where the swing vote was the came out middle action. >> talk about how integral the great recession was in helping create this coalition. i thank you make this point in several places throughout the book that this is a coalition that trump and not to take credit away from him in the sense that credit that he exploited but that he understood but that was formed regardless of him emerging on the scene and that's the message we take away from the book. it's why you believe this coalition is more adorable than others think. talk about it fueled the coalition and what do you think it takes for us to stay together after trump. >> i will throw a data out and then salena can talk about that. asheville, ohio, county of about 98000 people today and had 98000 roughly in 1970. the country has grown by 59% in that period of time. the workforce is the same as it was in the depths of the great recession, just eight years ago. the regular country bounce back [inaudible] but these are not good

that person was west of philadelphia and east of denver. that's what the swing voter was looking out in this election. >> talk about how integral the great recession was in helping to create this coalition. obviouy i know you both make this point several places that the book that this is a coalition that trump, and not to take any credit away from them but the sense that trump exploded, they do recognize and understood it but that was forming irregardless of him emerging on the scene. that's the sort of messiah took with the book that i feel what you believe this coalition is more durable maybe than others think. talk about how the role of the recession created in fueling the coalition, what do you think it takes for us to stay together after trump in 20242024? >> i'll throw a date out and densely can talk about that. ashville ohio city, county about 90,000 people today. had 98,000 people roughly in 1970. the countries, 59% in that time. the workforce in asheville is the same as it was in the debts of the great recession, just eight years a

seattle, the whole west coast. philadelphia, boston is booming.ackdrop is good for consumer spending. on the other hand, even if you were optimistic about consumer spending, there has been a story until recently that the old brick and mortar companies are dead. many of them have had very good years, much the surprise of many. what did everyone miss in that story? these are some of the best games of the year. was it just that they were so low that they had to bounce a little or is there something more fundamental there? guest: i think it is a case of a riding -- a rising tide lifting all boats if it rises enough. this has been going on for a decade and eventually it got good enough that it lifted some of the brick and mortar guys. when i travel around the u.s., places all over the country are doing better you would not think of. there was a story about columbus, nebraska, that has a housing shortage. rvhart, indiana is the capital of the country. joe: i knew that. guest: you were ahead of me. places.ller there is an index called the middle america

there was a swing voter waiting in that person was west of philadelphia and east of denver. that's where the swing voter came out this election. >> talk about how interval the great recession was an-- and helping to create this coalition. this is a coalition that trump and not to take credit away, but in the sense that trump exploited, recognized or instinctively understood, but that was forming irregardless of him emerging on the scene. that is the sort of message i took away from the book and i feel like it's why you believe this coalition is more durable maybe than others think. talk about how the role the recession created in fueling the coalition and what do you think it takes four to stay together after trump. >> also a piece of that out first and then salena can talk about kerry who is a good example to the answer this question. ohio, a county about 90000 people. had 98000 people roughly 1970 when census was taken and the country-- country is grown by 59% during that time. it's the same as it was in the depth of the great recession eight years ago. the rest of the cou

west. ings from just outside lood philadelphia so narrow sliver right through the state of new jersey. flash flood watchers continuing for the baltimore area. we've had a lot of rain over of the last 24 hours and we have this little narrow band of heavier rain that just shifted south of philadelphia now over the top of wilmington. also some steady heavy rain going through washington, d.c. and baltimore at this hour, too. as we go to a wider we have numerous storms around des moines, north central illinois and raleigh and heading to eastern north carolina and more ra that will cause a lot of those storms and numerous storms through kentucky, too. >>> the week ahead forecast coming up. we're going to try to dry it out in some areas. >> sounds good. thank you, bill. >>> now to your box office weekend recap, "oceans 8" easily stole the top spot at theaters all across the country. the female film opened a series best $41 million dough he mess tickly. >> "solo" story took $15 million. superhero flick "deadpool 2" came in third earning nearly $14 million in north america bringing in a total o

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philadelphia, out to the jersey shore. there are still some lingering raindrops inhe mountains of west virginia that are coming eastbound here. i can't rule out a little light rain. primarily across northern maryland and shheandoah valley. rain chances around the i-95 corridor and pns south wards are. fredericksburg and southern maryland, not zero, but very low. temperature-wise, a muggy start. mid to upper 70s. perfect day to get out to the pool. by noontime skies will be clearing out. it will be a sunny and warm finish to the day. by the time we get past 3:00 or 4:00, all those clouds will be gone. perfect weather for grilling in the backyardg. this even temperatures mid 80s at 6:00, falling into the upper 70s by 8:00. sun is not down in th8:37 this evening. for tomorrow all sunshine all the highs tomorrow up into the low 90s. hot and humid, but summer heat and humidity for tomorrow. as we get into the weekend, though, it's going to way warmer. 96 saturday. 97 sunday. 96 monday, and heat indexes, all three of those days, likely to be 100 degrees or hig going to start feeling like summertime, melissa. we'll have that ten-da

d.c., foils, toward pittsburgh -- philadelphia, toward ttsburgh, big storms to the west and to the northr us now, we're in a perfect location. and that's going to be the case over the next uple of days. we're eventually going to get into some heat. 86 no 88 in raleigh. look at the 90s back here. this is even se 100s in kansas. 95 now in kansas city. dallas. this type of heat is going to move our way just in time for father's day. 've got a couple of days before it gets here. out there tomorrow, this is what we're expecting on your friday. a faastic friday. nice tomorrow morning, 66 at the bus stop.eg 78es at noon. 86 by 4:00. just like today, it will be war witw humidity. it is going to be gorgeous. comfortable at 8:00 tomorrow. heading out to dinner tomorrow, sit is going to bectacular to get out and about. at 8:00, it may be cooler than that. but here mes theheat. 88 on saturday. 94 on sunday. 98 on monday. and look what i've got here. dangerous heat. the reason -- we're going to see a heat index close to 100 on sunday. monday, the heat ind could get above 105. it may stay that way thr

o we h ninth show in philadelphia last night, we're at msg wednesday and then we travel west. >> jimmy, last ti you were here, you got in the car with -- a$ap rocky picked you up? >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: and you started driving -- s real. >> yeah. >> jimmy: you drove across america. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, i hitchhiked and i took some buses, i took the greyhound. i travel across the country. >> jimmy: how was it? >> it was incredible. heard the most amazing stories. met just beautiful people. and you know what really struck me was that amidst all of the chaos and conflict in the world, you know, i found a lot of unity. i found a lot of peace and happiness. i found people that really agree on a lot. and, it was a beautiful thing to get out there in the country and just to see america at its core. it was great. >> jimmy: that's fantastic, dude. [ cheers and appuse ] >> yea >> jimmy: well, the name of the album is "america." congratulations on this. i wanted to play a fun game with you. usually i try to ask ire down to something different -- >> yeah. h jimmy: and do you mind playing a game

west texas after suffering a medical emergency. >>> time now for a look at your weather for this monday morning. major flash flooding is reported this morning in the philadelphia area after more than 5 inches of rain overnight and the flooding shut down a portion of the pennsylvania turnpike and some water rescues have even been reported. later today more heavy rain and severe weather is expected for the mid-atlantic. stm stretchg as far sts indiana. severe storms are also possible later today from minnesota all the way down to kansas. >>> well, coming up, remembering an actor from the hit tv sitcom "the goldbergs" after his death. >>> also ahead, new details on vince vaughn's dui arrest and the other charge he now faces. >>> and later, why it's someone's job in the white house to tape together pieces of paper that president trump rips apart. (boy) grandpa, look what i got! (woman) oh dad, wait 'till you see the bike we got for jake. (narrator) hearing loss happens gradually with age... making it easy to ignore. yet most older americans aren't getting their hearing tested. untreated hearing loss can keep your loved ones from enjoying what they cherish most. (w

philadelphia andewyo. temperaturre in boston. look at the heat. still down in san antonio at 98. but nothings 109. rainy weekend in washington, d.c. not bad in west virginia. highs in the 70s. the rest of the week will feature a warm-up. it has to get warmer in the northeast. it can't stay this chilly. >> it is pretty cold out there. "solo a star wars story" continues to reign holding down the top spot. the latest starwashes office domestically. it's not faring too well against other "star wars" moifrz, though. it takes a 65% nose dive from the nearly $85 million claimed in its first three days. the movie's domestic tally currently stands at almost $149 million. the number two spot, fox's "deadpool 2." its domestic hau at over $250 million. and newcomer "drift" made the and newcomer "drift" made the top thre arred aked the sun does not care. but we do. walgreens beauty consultants are specially trained to know what works for the health of your unique skin. walgreens. trusted since 1901. now, all sun care products are buy one, get one 50% off. they're all going in the same direction but in very different ways and pampers gives all of them our drie

sandra bullock, tracy morgan, and ben simmons of the philadelphia 76ers. [ cheers and applause ] that's sunday at 7/6 central after the game on the westt guest tonight either celebrated the start of the nba finals by swallowing a basketball or she's pregnant. we'll find out shortly. she's a multi-emmy and golden globe-winning actress who takes a break from keeping our country safe on "homeland" to star in the new movie "a kid like jake." it opens in theaters tomorrow, please welcome claire danes. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i'm so glad you're here. >> i'm so glad to be here. >> jimmy: i always feel a little guilty when people are pregnant, especially women when they're pregnant, because they have to come do the show and it's a nuisance, right? >> no, it's a thrill, a pleasure, and an honor. >> jimmy: are you feeling good? >> i'm feeling fine, right. i flew out -- it's a little more complicated when you're knocked up. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: what do you have to do? what are the changes? >> so i have to wear compression stockings. >> jimmy: oh. yeah. >> i should be wearing them all the time but i definitely like have to wear them

philadelphia. it's going to be a mess tomorrow morning for the commute out there. tomorrow afternoon the weather threat from des moines to kansas city down i 95. out west in southern california critical fire danger. including the fire outside of durango that continues to grow. david. >> rob marciano tracking it all for us tonight, rob, thank you. >>> next we're going to turn to the deadly explosion in an ohio neighborhood tonight. the blast destroying one home damaging several others. shattering windows. several people injured and one person did not survive. abc's kenneth moton with the investigation. >> reporter: the deadly explosion rocked this east cleveland neighborhood, obliterating this home. >> the house blew up, two or three of them. >> dispatch, it's engine 30. we just seen a large fireball go up. we're checking it out. >> reporter: firefighters racing to put out the flames, this house leveled, others also caught fire. debris scattered for yards. >> the roof looks like it was just lifted off the house and taken into the backyard. >> be advised, we have people down. we need rescue here. >> reporter: firefighters desperately searched for those t

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west posted this note on her front door. >> i really felt sorry for the people who were coming by. >> reporter: it's a trick nina irvin says she fell for, forking over $700 for this apartment in philadelphia, only to learn she was dealing with a scammer. leaving her and her mentally-disabled daughter, homeless. >> we need to have a place to live. we were locked out and i got scammed. in popular destinations like orlando, it's also happening with vacation rentals. realtors across the country say they see it all the time, with scam listings even popping up on some reputable websites. >> you're going to find some deals out there, but when you're talking about something priced at 10% of the actual value, it's probably not legitimate. if a deal sounds too good to be true it probably is. >> to avoid falling victim, experts say be suspicious of landlords saying they're out of town and never wire money to anyone you haven't met in person and consider working with a licensed realtor. tom? >> great advice tonight. marcy, thank you. >> up next right here, two 13-year-old girls trapped on the side of a mountain, what rescuers had to do to save them. >> plus, did these soccer fans in mexico celebrate

to get them on a train to philadelphia he changed close three times and went to see his father and he found his way up to northeast ohio and crossed lake erie back to canada west where he was observed that he appeared skeletal. he did eventually moved to washington dc where he worked as a messenger and contracted tuberculosis and died in 1872 at the age of 42 penniless and unknown and unrecognized in his own city until his death. then there was quite a funeral at the presbyterian church and the pallbearers included frederick douglass on and he eventually want up at the cemetery by fedex and -- >> the idea that they disappeared. julia and the fight for freedom once the war was over there was no historical moment anymore and so the men the question is how did they just recounted julia carreon? did she live official in life did she lose hope about race relations in the united states or reconstruction or anything likekeru that? >> she saw what reconstruction could have been pretty work for the freedmen's bureau after the war and started saying that the money and compassion was drying up and this feeling of we've done what we can so let's's w me on and she became i

with regard to the philadelphia eagles white house controversy, right down the street at west point,is that we can have such diverse opinions about how things should be done and i'm just proud to serve a country where we have those freedoms. >> logan, thank you for your time. i will sneak over here to david. david, we were talking earlier about the care for our veterans. you said we absolutely need to take care of our vets to the highest degree possible. we were speaking about the eagles controversy with regard to the white house. you said everybody you know is so into standing for the flag, you don't really understand this whole thing? >> well, i think if sports figures disrespect the flag, disrespect the president, in a way i think they're disrespecting me certainly to a small extent. >> okay. >> so i'm glad the president took a stand and is saying something about that. >> all right. david, thank you for your time on that. what a great time up here at west point. i've said it all morning long. if you get a chance to come on up here, one it's a beautiful location. two, history and r