NewsWorks Tonight October 16, 2012 – Full Show

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    Jennifer Lynn reports on the funeral of Senator Arlen Specter.  Peter Crimmins has an assessment of the recent Open Air public art installation over the Ben Franklin Parkway.  U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack discusses the Food, Farm and Jobs bill, and a new program to bring biofuel production to the northeast, with a research grant to Penn State. In our series “The Stakes: Local Families View the Election,” Elisabeth Perez-Luna meets a West Philadelphia couple who emigrated from the Ukraine.

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