Today is sentencing day for former Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane. A judge will determine if shell serve time and for how long. Lets get the latest from action news reporter, Katherine Scott live at the Montgomery County courthouse where the hearing is taking place right now. Katherine. Reporter sarah and rick, Kathleen Kane is asking for house arrest or probation so they can help raise her two sons. The prosecution is calling for jail time saying she has shown no remorse in the case. Two hours in the sentencing hearing in Montgomery County courthouse for the perjury and obstruction case, oral statements are going on inside. Lets go to video of her arriving earlier. Speaking on behalf of the to rememberer Pennsylvania Attorney general we heard from her 15yearold son chris who said losing her to prison would be tough on the family. Her 20yearold niece, a temple student said kane opened up her home to her and supported her through a tough time. Both a retired police chief and pastor from Hazleton Lou Luzerne county. Helped against Violent Crimes and get rid of crimes. The retired police chief went on to say she would she go to prison, she would be a target connected to the people that she investigated, it would be tantamount to a death sentence. The quement the commonwealth is calling people up to the stand. They played a news citizenship where she said she had no regrets. The defense question the the proceeding question to the interview. They called a former attorney general who talked about how the morale changed. Abject mood settled over the office, thats a quoted. She faces a maximum of 12 to 24 years in prison. Again the sentencing hairing is underway right now inside. Katherine Scott Channel 6 action news. Thank you. Now to the developing story in center city, philadelphias Historic Union league is dealing with major damage to one of the staircases leading into the buildings on broad street. Action news reporter, bob brooks is live with new information about what would likely happen and caused the extensive damage. Bob. Reporter sarah you work in this business long enough, you hear things that make you wonder why its another case. Before we get into the explanation i want to walk you through and show you the damage. This is the circular staircase leading up to the front door of the union league, ushering see the railing has crumbled over in its entirety, the whole way down. Now we just spoke with a representative of union league. She gairches us an explanation gave us an explanation of what happened. Around 3 00 a. M. , a vandal walked up to the stair case, you see the brass railing theres one going up this side, he ranked at the brass railing and the whole staircase came crumbling down. This piece of brass that he yanked at half is missing. After he yanked it came krumping down, he walked down the street and disappeared into the side street down moravian with the brass in his hand. Lets listen to the spokesperson. Its on tape that he came up the stems at 3 02 a. M. Came back up to the railing and grabbed at the brass, strimed stripped it down causing the structure to fully collapse, as you can see unfortunately. Reporter another look outside live to the staircase of the union league, this will take time to fix, very expensive, this is really great architecture down here, a beautiful building. Philadelphia Police Department is down here they are looking over the surveillance video. This is captured on tape. They are trying to figure out who the suspect is. He yanked at the railing and stole half of it and in the process the railing came tumbling down. Bob brooks, channel 6 action news. In other news, we are getting information at this hour about a series of Violent Attacks on Temple University students over the weekend. At least four attacks happened on broad street near temples main campus, according to police, Temple University thunderstorms tell us a group of several dozen juveniles carried out the attacks in an hour in a one hour period friday night. Two temple students and two Temple Police officers were assaulted. Police arrested four jive nice between the ages of 14 and 16. Were gathering details from police and well have an update at 12 30. Turning to the weather, sky6 live hd looking live at the ben franklin bridge on a breezy monday afternoon, cooler temperatures have settled across the region and we might need to break out the winter jackets, perhaps today certainly this week. For more on that, david murphy outside on the terrace with the first check of the forecast. David. Reporter rick, im happy to have the jacket on right now. Its a little bit on the cool side for today. Clouds have swept down from the northwest and obliterated most of the sunshine. Take a look at satellite there were showers that tried to come in the predawn hours and fell a part before producing drizzle. We had a period of sunshine now you see the clouds sweeping in. It looks like clouds and sun the rest of the way. 63 degrees in philadelphia. 59 in allentown. 59 in trenton. 62 in lancaster. 65 in wilmington. Its possible that we add a few degrees to some of the numbers, in some cases youre not moving very far from where you are right now. The wind speeds are starting to be more of a factor. 15 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. 15 in wilmington. 22mile an hour sustained wind in reading. 12 in sea isle city. The gusts are starting to pop up. How about gusts up 30 Miles Per Hour in allentown and reading were all in for that softer of blustery condition this afternoon. It stays cool. Well go for a high of 64. Were at 63 right now. If we manage to squeeze out sunshine well go above the 64. At the same time the winds are driving down the cool northwest at this hour. Thats the average high for the date and well off the 83 which was where we were for most of last week. When i step inside, sarah, weve got more cool air coming in over the next complferltdz couple of days and very chilly overnight lows in the next couple of days. Details coming up. Republican senator pat toomey and Katie Mcginty are getting ready for the final debate in the Heated Senate race. Our own jim gardner will moderate the face off at Temple University you can watch it live at 7 00 p. M. On 6abc. Well, the president ial candidates are making a final push for the white house this week. Were 15 days away from the election and the latest abc News Washington post poll Shows Hillary clinton with a 12 point lead over donald trump. Trump said the polls are unreliable. Else in florida today, clinton is in new hampshire. Well have more on the president ial rails coming up on that race coming up at 12 30 30. Uber and lyft could get the grelt to operate in greenlight to operate in philadelphia. The senate is expected to vote on a bill to allow the companies to operate in the cities. They will pay a 1. 4 tax to be divided between the School District and the city. The house passed the bill last week. After a big win yesterday, the Philadelphia Eagles are getting ready for their next challenge, a prime time game against dallas sunday night. The birds handled sam bradford their first loss of the season. Final score 2110 improving the record 42. Head coach Doug Peterson is talking about the game right now at the nova care complex in south philadelphia. Well view more on the News Conference coming up later on action news at 4 00 p. M. Still to come on action news at noon. New advice for moms and dads. The leading doctor said babies should sleep in their parents bedroom for the firstntire year of their life. A building is being called the Leaning Tower of san francisco. Residents paid millions of dollars to live there. David murphy will have the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast when action news comes right back. Pat toomey and donald trump theyre just wrong for the women of pennsylvania. New fallout for donald trump. Should a woman be punished for having an abortion . There has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yeah, there has to be some form. I would support legislation in pennsylvania that would ban abortion, and i would suggest we have penalties for doctors who perform them. Pat toomey and donald trump theyre not for you. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Z25pmz zi0z y25pmy yi0y this hour in and around oklahoma city. Police are searching for a man suspected in a double murder and shot two Police Officers at the crime scene last night. The injuries are considered nonlife threatening. The victims killed are the suspects relatives. The suspect stole a police car and sped off. Investigation continues into one of the deadly crashes in california history. 13 killed and many injured. A tour bus slammed into a semi truck yesterday morning. The bus was going much faster than the truck which caused it to plow 150 feet into the truck. The ntsb is sending a team to california to investigate. Five people died when a small plane crashed at Malta International airport. The twin plane slammed into the ground. It was heading to the libya coast to monitor illegal smuggle of victims and smuggling of victims and drugs. No word on what caused the crash. Today iraqi forces fought their way into two villages outside of the isis stronghold of mosul. They destroyed 2 dozen vehicles and fighting positions over the weekend. Now human rights advocates are calling into an investigation about an airstrike that hit a nearby mosque. 500 people died in the attack. Galaxy note 7 owners are suing for compensation for hours they spent exchanging the device. Samsung has discontinued production. In california, concern is growing over the 58 story apartment buildings. Its called the Leaning Tower of san francisco. The Millennium Tower is sink into the soil below. It has more than 400 luxcy apartments and ten Million Dollar penalty penitentiary penitentiary penthouses. The building is safe. I think a lot of people are losing sleep over it. The developer and city leaders are fighting over whos to blame as they work to confirm whats causing the problem. An 8yearold boys act of kindness is inspiring others. Cameron wanted to see his part for the people of louisiana hits by flooding. He starting pointed asking the church for help. He ended up collecting donations and 4,000 for another boy his and his family they drove the donations 1 hours from South Carolina 12 hours from South Carolina to louisiana. There are good people out there. When you do good things it makes you feel good, when you do things for others, god will whether he bless you. Upon meeting, the boy became fast friends, a friendship that will last a lifetime. Theres a revolution at the pennsylvania ballet, well tell you about a program thats pushing the boundaries of classical dance in the next halfhour. A blockbuster media deal is facing opposition, at t want to buy time warner, the Company Behind hbo and cnn. Public interest groans fear it will lead to groups fear it will lead to higher costs and problems for consumers. Hillary clinton said regulators should scrutinize the deal closely. The American Academy of pediatrics recommend babies sleep in the same bedroom with their parents for 6 months or their first birthday. They said they should sleep in the same room, but not in the same bed. Ali gorman will have more on the new guidelines tonight during action news at 5 00 p. M. What do you think about that, good idea . Its a tough one, right . Yeah. Action news is working on new stories tonight beginning at 4 00 p. M. Lets check in with Alicia Vitarelli with a look ahead. Reporter i say sleep is a thing of past for new parents. Speaking of infants you will remember the amazing conjoined twins in new york that were separated after 1 months, 13 months, every day they continue to recover and get stronger. Well show you a huge moment for the baby and her mom. And this young boy and a little dog are the perfect match. How mans best friend started changing the boys life almost immediately after they met. You can take us with you on the go if you have not downloaded the free 6abc news. You can stream it live on your smart phone or tablet. See you at 4 00 p. M. Action news is comes right back. It was lights, camera, action in the philadelphia School District. Philadelphia School Television is an inhouse production studio and education channel run by and for students. The studio had become inactive due to budget cuts. Now, thanks to private donations, students have once a place to Learn Television and video skills. Watch out they are coming for us. They will be learning meteorology. Sooner or later. Reporter we have precipitation free skies across the region. We have sunshine resulten house square on Rittenhouse Square on the action cam. Pretty picture. In the last hours weve seen the skies cloud up a little bit. Unfortunately, its a little bit cloudier than it was. Now we can take a look at the temperatures. 63 degrees, the dewpoint 41 . The winds west northwest at 15 Miles Per Hour. Starting to get blustery out there. In fact we have strong gusts over the sustained winds in the Lehigh Valley going up in the 30s. 63 degrees is the current temperature. 66 in millville. And as we take a look at satellite and radar you can see how the clouds have we would up. We had showers coming in earlier this morning, but they fell a part before they did anything other than light precipitation. Now were in a clouds and sun mix the rest of the way. In the Lehigh Valley, 59. It will be cool, mix of clouds and sun, breezy conditions. At the shore today high a little bit better, 66 degrees along the coast. Sun and clouds, breezy conditions, the ocean temperature down a little bit below that. 64 is the high in philadelphia, a mix of sun and clouds, breezy conditions. Winds running 12 to 25 Miles Per Hour the rest of the way. And we have winds gusting as high as 30 Miles Per Hour. Prance a little bit more than that. Taking a look at the afternoon and evening commute. Looks kind of cool. Mix of clouds and sun, temperatures ranging from 63. 4 00 p. M. , 62 by 5 00 p. M. Down into the 50s by dinnertime tonight. Overnight tonight its down right chilly, 42 degrees in philadelphia. The suburbs the upper 30s. 7 to 14mile an hour winds. Tomorrow, High Pressure out to the west it will be far enough away to allow winds to wrap around the high. Cooler high 57 degrees with the winds out of the northwest. Fairly sunny tomorrow. The next big story becomings tuesday overnight into owe poe becomes tuesday overnight into the morning period on wednesday. You can see how temperatures overnight get to the freezing mark before bunsing back boug back up into the mid 40s. On the bus stop you will want a winter coat. Its going to be cold out there. This afternoon, 64 degrees, mix of sun and clouds, breezy conditions the rest of the way. Tomorrow, sunny, blustery 57 degrees, notice how the low is coming down to 37 degrees overnight in philadelphia tuesday night and some suburbs down into the freezing zone. That means in the morning on wednesday not only the winter coat a good idea you might find frost on the windshield for the first time in neighborhoods. Sunny and cooler, 53 degrees. 58 on thursday, clouds and periods of rain arriving later in the morning and into the afternoon, high of 58 on thursday. Looks like were dry on friday, a mix of clouds and sun, 61 degrees. For the weekend, clouds and sun on saturday, 65 degrees is the high. There can be a spotty shower on saturday, hopefully not during the temple game. I like a dry field for that one. We have not seen frost in a while either. But we will. Insomnia cookies is celebrating a milestone with a free cookie. The idea was hatched inside a pennsylvania dorm room back in 2003. The chain has locations throughout the u. S. Today. Hf the stories were following on action news at 12 30 p. M. Breaking news, former Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane is in court at this hour waiting to hear if she will be going to prison for perjury. Pennsylvania Senate Candidates pat toomey and Katie Mcginty square off in a debate tonight and it is live on 6abc. We have details about a series of attacks on students and police near the Temple University campus over the weekend. Annie mccormick has details and live report coming up. The big story on action news at 12 30 p. M. Is breaking news, pennsylvanias top law enforcer Kathleen Kane is before a judge right now to find out if she will be going to jail. Its playing
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