NWT Full Show, Oct. 19, 2011
ListenCarolyn Beeler brings us the latest on the disturbing case of four mentally challenged adults found captive in a squalid Tacony basement. Tom MacDonald reports on protestors’ plans for the future of the Occupy Philadelphia Movement and the event that could come to the city next summer. Dave Heller speaks with Ana Peralta and Caesar Marroquin, two students fighting for the passage of the Pennsylvania DREAM Act and the cause of undocumented youth in America. On FIT, Lari Robling explains how the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention is attempting improve Americans’ heart health and reduce the negative effects that heart attacks have on our health care costs.
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