NewsWorks Tonight, October 26, 2017

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Local officials and residents react to President Trump’s naming of the opioid crisis as a national public health emergency.  Reporter Laura Benshoff discusses the investigative work she’s doing on a family at the Berks Detention Center.  As classified files on the JFK assassination are released, we hear a personal remembrance of that day. The Monument Lab is a public art project asking Philadelphia residents to help choose new monuments.  Temple University hosts a symposium on the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s start of the Reformation, and what it means for religious dialog today.

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