NewsWorks Tonight, January 23, 2014 – Full Show

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    Tom MacDonald attends Philadelphia City Council’s first session of the new year, where hearings are proposed for this week’s train derailment and this month’s fire escape collapse. Elana Gordon looks at the area trend of pharmaceutical Ph.D.s facing unemployment. Dave Heller and political science professor Ross Baker examine the very few successes the region’s Congressional delegation enjoyed in the last session. Taunya English learns about radiation tattoos from oncologists, nurses and patients. Peter Crimmins reports on a violinist playing a Tchaikovsky concerto on the very instrument for which it was written. Aaron Moselle reports on a woman who gave birth on a sled in Roxborough.

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