The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio

Avery Marz accepted the Most Courageous Award from the Philly Sportswriters Association in January of 2018. It was two months after the Saint Joseph's University senior scored her first points as a Division I college basketball player. More than three years after her career on the court seemingly ended before it started, with a stroke that left half her body paralyzed, trying to relearn how to walk. This is the story of how she got from there, to here.

Matt Leon (@MattLeonKYW) comes back to the podcast to tell us about Avery Marz.

To learn more about her story, check out Matt's article: CLICK HERE

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

This episode of Scroll Down KYW is about four murders that happened in the Philadelphia suburbs last July. Since then, a lot of things have happened. Paul Kurtz (@Kurtzpaul) joins the podcast with an update.

(Original description) In July of 2017, four young men suddenly disappeared in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The search for answers took just over a week. What happened to them shocked the nation. KYW's Jim Melwert (@JMelwert) and Tim Jimenez (@TimJRadio) join Scroll Down to tell the story of the lost boys of Bucks County.

Scroll Down KYW is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia.

 

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This episode of Scroll Down KYW is about four murders that happened in the Philadelphia suburbs last July. Since then, a lot of things have happened. Paul Kurtz (@Kurtzpaul) joins the podcast with an update.

(Original description) In July of 2017, four young men suddenly disappeared in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The search for answers took just over a week. What happened to them shocked the nation. KYW's Jim Melwert (@JMelwert) and Tim Jimenez (@TimJRadio) join Scroll Down to tell the story of the lost boys of Bucks County.

Scroll Down KYW is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia.

Christian Guardino used to be blind. This is the story of how Christian started to see, after a group of doctors spent 20 years trying to cure a rare, specific type of childhood blindness. The groundbreaking gene therapy program developed by doctors at the University of Pennsylvania was approved by the FDA in December of 2017. Christian was part of the program’s clinical trials at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. KYW reporter Mike Dougherty (@MicDougherty) comes back to the podcast to tell what happened when Christian saw his mother’s face for the first time.

To learn more about the Christian’s story and the therapy that gave him his sight back, check out Mike’s article here: [LINK]

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

Late at night on November 16, 2017, the Barclay Friends assisted living community in West Chester, PA, went up in flames. The fire tore through the building, quickly growing to five alarms. 137 seniors were inside. This story is about the heroic efforts by first responders to get them out, and the neighbors who got up in the middle of the night and sprang into action. Paul Kurtz (@Kurtzpaul), Dan Miller (@TrafficDanKYW), and Steve Tawa (@stevetawa) join Scroll Down to tell the story of the nursing home fire.

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe! 

See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Late at night on November 16, 2017, the Barclay Friends assisted living community in West Chester, PA, went up in flames. The fire tore through the building, quickly growing to five alarms. 137 seniors were inside. This story is about the heroic efforts by first responders to get them out, and the neighbors who got up in the middle of the night and sprang into action. Paul Kurtz (@Kurtzpaul), Dan Miller (@TrafficDanKYW), and Steve Tawa (@stevetawa) join Scroll Down to tell the story of the nursing home fire.

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

The FCC is cutting the cord on Net Neutrality. So what does that mean, who are the big players, and why should you care? KYW tech editor Ian Bush (@ianthebush) joins the pod to talk about the free and open internet and what's going to change on December 14th.

Here are some of the links we talked about in the show.

FCC repeal draft order on fcc.gov (TLDR; this podcast). [CLICK HERE]

FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal - pay wall alert. [CLICK HERE]

For Net Neutrality:

Battle For The Net [CLICK HERE]

Save The Internet [CLICK HERE]

And write and call your legislators!

Against Net Neutrality:

Reason [CLICK HERE]

Tech Freedom CLICK HERE]

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

We just celebrated Veterans Day in the United States. And nearly all of us have someone close to us who has served. If not a family member, maybe a friend. Someone who's made an impact. This week's show is about our heroes.

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

Kevin Brinkley spent 40 years behind bars, for a murder he says he didn't commit. Sentenced as a 15 year old, he's out on parole, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling. And now the prosecutor on his original case says -- maybe he got it wrong. Cherri Gregg (@cherrigregg) joins the podcast to tell the story of Kevin Brinkley.

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert in the KYW Studios in Philadelphia. You can follow the show on Twitter: @ScrollDownKYW. And you can follow Tom: @teerick

Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!

"Instead of seeing that beautiful, scenic view, it just looked like a dead zone. It looked like toothpicks sticking up from the ground." A reporter from Philadelphia heads to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to see the devastation first hand... and to make sure her family members were okay. Along the way, CBS 3 Eyewitness News (@CBSPhilly) reporter Alicia Nieves (@NievesReporting) met courageous people with stories to tell. She brings them to Scroll Down this week.

If you want to donate to help the people affected by Hurricane Maria, there are lots of organizations you can give two. Here are three:

American Red Cross: http://rdcrss.org/1OjHxYG

Save the Children: http://bit.ly/2hmPMs4

Unicef USA: http://bit.ly/2yrbCBR

Scroll Down is hosted and produced by Tom Rickert (@teerick) in the KYW Newsradio studios in Philadelphia. Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe!