NewsWorks Tonight, August 18, 2017 – Full Show
ListenLaura Benshoff reports on four families released from an immigrant detention center. Dave Heller speaks with Frank Newport, editor-in-chief at the Gallup Poll, to discuss Americans’ opinions when it comes to race relations. State Impact Pennsylvania’s Marie Cusick looks into how a hydroelectric dam could hurt clean-up efforts in the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Paul Halpern, physics professor at the University of the Sciences, joins the show to give some information about the upcoming solar eclipse. Maiken Scott brings the story of an eclipse enthusiast who can’t make it to a trip he planned for years in advance.
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