NewsWorks Tonight May 19, 2017 – Full Show

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    The Mayor’s Task Force to Combat the Opioid Epidemic met and made recommendations, Anne Hoffman reports. We close out our Life, unauthorized series, as Laura Benshoff sits down with ICE New Jersey field office director, John Tsoukaris. Solomon Jones reflects on gunshots in his East Mt. Airy neighborhood. Dave Heller sits down with Frank Newport, editor and chief at the Gallup Poll. Avi Wolfman-Arent visits a West Philadelphia school that is set to compete in the Kinetic Sculpture Derby. Finally, Margaret J. Krauss explains why the Pittsburgh Penguins are in the midst in a fight that has nothing to do with hockey.

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