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Perjury. Were just learning the charges are perjury, false swearing and obstruction. Also abuse of office is another charge. We have reporters in this conference room. Were going to listen in to the News Conference as it begins. I think theyre just making sure everybody is in place. Ing at the d. A. In Montgomery County. Kathleen kane is 49 years old. Were seeing where and when theyre about to begin this News Conference. Here we go. Were here today to announce the filing of criminal charges against Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane. The charges include obstruction of law and other offenses that relate to a scheme that we allege she original straighted to leak confidential investigative information and secret grand jury materials, and then lying to a grand jury to cover up and conceal her crimes. The genesis of this investigation is a referral we received in december of 2014 from judge William Carpenter of the Montgomery County court of common pleas who was also the supervising judge of the 35th statewide investigating grand jury. 9 referral from judge carpenter to Montgomery County District Attorneys Office stem from a presentment that was issued by the investigating grand jury recommending criminal charges against attorney general Kathleen Kane. By virtue of the fact that the grand jury investigation was conducted not at a Law Enforcement investigation but as an investigation into a leak by a special prosecutor, the substance of the investigation was then referred to the d. A. s office. Before we had an opportunity to take action the Supreme Court of pennsylvania issued a stay in the matter which in effect prevented us from moving forward in any way. That stay was issued january 21st of 2015. The stay was in effect until the Supreme Court issued a decision on march 2015. First ruling judge carpenters appointment was appropriate and then lifting the stay. At that point in time we were free to proceed. Some of you will recall on april 1st of 2015, i issued a statement. And the statement promised a careful and thorough review of the presentments and if we determined an independent investigation was warranted, we would undertake that and we would review the entire matter with a commitment to fairness, integrity and justice. Over the next few weeks we began our review and on april 28th i had the occasion to issue another statement when another matter was referred to us from the court of common pleas. That matter related to potential retaliation against witnesses. And at that time again, i issued a statement and identified our process and that we would approach the investigation and the determination of whether charges should be filed, as any ethical prosecutor should that we would have an independent factual investigation, we would complete an independence analysis of the law and we would make charging decisions based upon the commonwealths proper burtd of proof at trial, which is beyond a reasonable doubt. And that is the process we have used. Standing with me here today is a team of career prosecutors who worked with a team of detectives career Law Enforcement professionals, to conduct an investigation to review the evidence that was gathered and to reach conclusions. These professionals have devoted their entire careers to the administration of justice. They are committed to fairness and to the operation of the system of justice that we have. We conducted an independent investigation and we reviewed the law. The investigators and prosecutors alike were meticulous, thorough detailed. And this investigation was as comprehensive as any we have ever done. We applied the law and we considered the commonwealths burden of proof at trial, which is beyond a reasonable doubt. We reached conclusions about whether charges should be filed. And yesterday at 10 30, i contacted the defendants counsel and advised him the charges would, in fact, be filed today. This Investigative Team determined the Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane devised a scheme to secretly leak confidential investigative information and secret grand jury materials directly to political operatives in the hopes of embarrassing and harming former state prosecutors whom she believed whom she believed without evidence, had made her look bad. The affidavit of probable cause, our charging document you have before you, details how this scheme was accomplished and the crux of it was obtaining and compiling this confidential information, delivering it to a political operative with instructions to leak it to the press. All designed to make it look like a former prosecutor went soft on a corruption investigation. The motivation for these acts as exposed by the evidence we gathered and, quite sinkly in the attorney generals own words, this is war. This was her war, based upon the evidence conducted without regard to the rules, without regard to the law, and without regard to any Collateral Damage the battle might entail. The materials gathered and distributed in the course of this scheme were confidential investigative materials. And confidential information is protected in pennsylvania by a statute. In Law Enforcement we referred to it as chria, and it is detailed within the charges documents. What it does is prevents anyone from releasing confidential investigative material. So, when Law Enforcement has a file when they gather information, when they gather evidence, that information is protected. In addition to cria the materials were protected by grand jury secrecy. And its a separate act. A separate statute in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. That specifically protects materials that are collected by gathered by a grand jury in the context of a grand jury investigation. We allege that after illegally leaking this confidential information, the defendant then set on a path to conceal her actions and that culminated in her testimony before the grand jury here in Montgomery County last year. We allege at that time she lied repeatedly about her own actions, the law and about other matters simply to support her version of events. The charges we have filed today include obstruction of the administration of law, official oppression conspiracy, perjury and false swearing. The Prosecution Team that you see standing here with me is made up of the finest prosecutors in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. Led by First Assistant District Attorney kevin steele, to my right. And First Assistant District Attorney of bucks county Michelle Henry. Shes went sworn here in Montgomery County and the two First Assistants will lead the Prosecution Team. To my left antonetta, a special District Attorney here in Montgomery County, assistant District Attorney in bucks county and a former federal prosecutor. And she originally came to us as an employee here in this office before she began working in bucks county and worked with us in grand jury matters. To her left is deputy District Attorney tom chief of our trials district here in Montgomery County. To his left assistant District Attorney stuart ryan. These are the prosecutors who will be working on the case. And then to my far right, for those of you who are not familiar with them chief of county detectives sam gallon and chief of investigators. With the charges filed today, the defendant will at a time to be scheduled in the future surrender and be arraigned by imagine the straight district judge kathleen rebar. I do not have the specific information about that arraignment but i expect it to be within the next two days. It will be a public hearing and well notify you of when it will take place. Also filed today, we filed a a charge of indistrict criminal contempt against Patrick Rocco reese. Mr. Reese is the attorney generals special agent, a supervisory special agent on her protection detail. Hes also her driver. He is charged with indirect criminal content based upon the evidence we gathered which would prove that he secretly snuck into the grand jury files in violation of a protection order issued by judge carpenter. Judge carpenter issued this protection order on august 27th of 2014, amidreports that he received confidential information of the grand jury had been accessed inappropriately. After that protection order was issued, agent reese on a repeated basis snuck into the grand jury files and obtained confidential grand jury information. Arrangements will be made for mr. Reeses surrender. The investigation will continue. I have to thank a number of people for their work in this case. I need to thank the Investigative Team, those standing here with me as well as those not in the room right now. This team of investigators and prosecutors assumed a very heavy responsibility undertaking this task. They did it with a commitment to justice that is unparalleled. They were thoughtful strong very deliberate in what they did. They did not allow outside influences to impact their decisionmaking. Im very proud of the work they have done and the approach they brought to this effort. I need to thank my colleague District Attorney David Heckler for lending his support with his staff, First Assistant and former District Attorney Michelle Henry and assistant District Attorney stanku. Were delighted to have them bart of of our team. We would like to thank District Attorneys for allowing us to proceed with the cases filed today. Many of the actions, as you can imagine, took place outside of Montgomery County. All of us have joined together with the charges being prosecuted here in Montgomery County. Special thanks to allegheny County District attorney stevenphen zapalla for him to stand up and do whats right. You will see he testified before the grand jury and shared with members of the grand jury and through the public with this affidavit, the truth about grand jury secrecy and the laws that govern our conduct as prosecutors. I would like to thank our federal counterparts for their assistance. Id like to thank the Staff Members of the office of the attorney general current and former. Members of the staff who displayed moral courage in standing up to share information they had. It takes tremendous courage to stand up and, in essence, telling your boss. Thats a hard thing to do. It took personal courage. They had it. They took great risk to themselves personally and professionally, and i thank them because they are true warriors for justice. Id like to thank the citizens from across pennsylvania who served on the 35th statewide investigating grand jury. These are men and women who come from across the commonwealth. They come from all walks of life. They cross every line and long to every different kind of group. They were diligent and thoughtful Public Servants and they understood that no one is above the law. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a sad day for the citizens of pennsylvania and its a sad day for all of us in Law Enforcement. A prosecutor has the responsibility of administering justice. And when he or she does her job or his job honorably, as we should, we honor our oath we stand up and do what is right every day. When someone is entrusted with upholding the law, violates that oath and violates the law he or she is bound to uphold we are all victims. Every one of us. When an elected official violates the truth it is up to us to stand up and hold that person accountable. As prosecutors standing before you, we hold ourselves as we should to the highest standards. The laws of pennsylvania apply equally to all citizens. And we have the right as citizens to expect that those of us entrusted with upholding the law will follow the law. To arrive at the charges we filed today, we simply followed the evidence applied the law and made the decisions that were right under the circumstances. And our actions here today make one thing Crystal Clear beyond any doubt, that no one is above the law. Not even the chief Law Enforcement officer of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. Ill take any questions. Do you thank Kathleen Kane [ inaudible ] we completed this investigation following our responsibility and honoring our oath. And this was a very heavy burden that we had. Whether or not she should step down is a decision she will have to make and whether any action will be taken regarding that is something others outside of this room will have to address. Reporter why not arrest her today when you announce the filing of the charges . Certainly a possibility that we could have done but i was dealing with attorneys who are coming from out of town. As a courtesy to them, we coordinated to do it later. Since i called them yesterday, i expect she will be here within the next day or two. [ inaudible ] without question. Her attorneys were extremely cooperative. We are making those arrangements. Reporter there is no charge for contempt is that right . Im wondering why. Because the acts that gave right to the contempt were charged as the more substantive criminal offensive. In our judgment the act of contempt is really a lesser included offense. [ inaudible ] we have not filed anything related to mr. Barker today. But as i indicated the investigation is ongoing. [ inaudible ] i will correct you first. We did not investigate this case with a grand jury. Certainly, an investigation that was not investigated with the grand jury could not have been subject of leaks. I think it should be clear to everyone in this room that from the time this office took over the investigation, and during the time this team has worked on it there have not been leaks of information. Up until yesterday at 10 30 when i made the call to defense counsel and advised them information had not come out of this investigation. So we completed the investigation that was given to us and we have reached conclusion and taken action today. Do you suspect someone may have helped mr. Reese hack into emails . Im told he did not have the capability Technical Capability to do that so did he have assistant, conspirators that may have helped him get into the grand jury information . If you read through the documents, and i know you havent had a great deal of time to do it mr. Reese is one of a very few individuals that personally had access to that information. If he did not do it himself and if he had others, i do not have that information yet. Certainly well consider that and continue our investigation. Did you receive any alss that the attorney general has people following her . No i cannot. That did not happen i cannot say it did not happen but i cannot discuss it. Whats your understanding of that. No i cannot. [ inaudible ] we often in many of our cases have the opportunity to collaborate with our federal partners. I certainly cant discuss any of that this is a case where we did have discussions with them. You called it a sad day for pennsylvania. Youre also a longtime prosecutor yourself. From the view of a prosecutor whats your take on what youve alleged the attorney general has done your take . As you know, ive been a prosecutor for over two decades. I started here in january of 1993. One of the proudest days of my career is the day i put my hand on the bible and i swore an oath to support, obey and defend the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this commonwealth. And i have been very proud to be a prosecutor in pennsylvania ever since that day. To be surrounded by people who are simply committed to doing justice and doing the right thing. This investigation and the charges makes me profoundly sad. Give me a perspective on that because some people saying a politician not telling the truth is not earthshattering and grand jury information leaked is not earthshattering but once an attorney general is alleged to have done that to the average person, how big of a deal is that . People need to understand the oath we swear as prosecutors, the all of us standing here is to uphold the law. As prosecutors in pennsylvania we focus on doing what is right. We describe our mission as dot right thing for the right Mission Every day. We hold ourselves to the highest possible standards. Thats an expectation i have of myself and its an expectation i have of my fellow prosecutors. So to have a situation here like we do the attorney general, the chief Law Enforcement officer of the commonwealth of pennsylvania is alleged to have violated not just the law but that oath that we cherish is very distressing. Its not the way its supposed to be so it is a sad day for all of us. Go ahead. [ inaudible ] what it really comes down to when you have a team of Law Enforcement professionals who conduct investigations for a living, this is what they do every day, they have to be able to simply put ausd any personal concerns any challenges any difficulties and just do the job. Thats what the men and women standing here with me did. They put aside the fact that it was difficult, the fact that it was sad, that it was a violation of everything we stand for, that we were looking into and simply did the job. So i know its easy to look at it and say, it must have been difficult because, but ive been incredibly impressed by this team and their ability to simply get the job done to collect evidence, to analyze it and to do it in this pure way as possible. [ inaudible ] i dont believe i can address that. The membership card in the Good Ol Boys Network in harrisburg. I dont think they invited me. Allegations that its the Good Ol Boys Network in harrisburg that is against her doesnt come into this investigation . No. Certainly as you know and everyone in this room knows, every defendant under the laws of pennsylvania and the laws of this country is innocent until proven guilty. Every defendant has rights and they have the right to defend themselves and the right to a fair trial. And now that we have filed these charges, that process will move forward. And it has been conducted throughout the investigation as purely as it could be done with an eye towards what does the evidence show how does the law apply to these facts, and can we prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt . And i think if you read the charging documents and if you review what has been filed, youll see the evidence expresses that. [ inaudible ] im not going to address that. How would you respond to anyone who says it appears the attorney general kane has gotten special treatment . Where an average citizen would have been brought in and cuffed. I think if you look around this room and you see the attention given to this case if there is any special treatment, i would say its negative treatment, not positive treatment. And we we organized our events today in a way that was most convenient for us so we took into account when our investigative needs were what our staff needed to be doing today and our ability to manage all of you here today. Is the investigation continuing . Yes sir. Is there the possibility of additional arrests . Yes, sir. Can the chief Law Enforcement officer of the commonwealth you have been watching and listening to the Montgomery County District Attorney presenting a list of charges against Kathleen Kane the commonwealth of pennsylvanias attorney general. The charges include perjury, false swearing obstruction, abuse of office and oppression. This all started and stemmed from a referral a judge sent when an investigation started about a leak into a grand jury investigation back in 2009. It then became criminal. According to the d. A. Furman a. G. Kane devised a scheme to leak information to political operatives to embarrass critics whom she felt tried to em base her or look bad. Well continue to cover this story. We have crews on the ground there and reporters Monique Braxton and deanna durante. We just got new information of the man suspected of a shooting death of an officer in louisiana. Getting ready to rumble. All eyes on cleveland for the muchanticipated prime time debate. A preview of the top ten candidates and how donald trump might behave. Rumbles of thunder might be heard at the shore overnight tonight and into tomorrow. Im tracking some wet weather. Well show you how long that lasts with the sevenday forecast coming up in this half hour. That breaking news Montgomery Countys District Attorney Just Announced criminal charges against pennsylvanias top Law Enforcement official. Attorney general Kathleen Kane has been part of an Ongoing Investigation over a grand jury leak. Nbc10s Monique Braxton is live at Montgomery County courthouse in norristown with details on those charges. The d. A. Did not pull any punches. Reporter absolutely not, vai. The press conference just wrapped up here on the fifth floor. She called it a sad day in pennsylvania history. Montgomery countys District Attorney announcing attorney general Kathleen Kane willingly leaked confidential information to a newspaper, then allegedly lied about it. Now, according to the Police Criminal complaint, attorney general kane is charged with obstructing administration of law, criminal conspiracy, perjury and false swearing. These charges stem from a 2009 grand jury investigation. Kane is the first democrat and first woman to be elected attorney general. She has denied any involvement. In december a grand jury did recommend she be charged. The grand jurys report was handed over to District Attorney and moments ago she explained the evidence that led to her decision. The motivation for these as acts, as exposed by the evidence we gathered and, quite simply in the attorney generals own words was, this is war. This was her war, based upon the evidence conducted without regard to the rules, without regard to the law and without regard to any Collateral Damage the battle might entail. Reporter kanes attorney was notified of the decision to file charges yesterday, according to furman her driver Patrick Rocco reese is also charged in this investigation. Hes charged with violating a protective order, allegedly accessing confidential grand jury information relating to the leak investigation. Now, the attorney general and her driver are to surrender here in a couple of days. No doubt well be gathering reaction and following more on this investigation. You can count on the updated information on our app as well as the evening newscast. Live now from norristown Monique Braxton, nbc10 news. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Police hope this new video will help them find a suspect wanted for robbery. They say a man chased a woman early. Police say the attacker took the womans cell phone before running away. If you happen to recognize this person f you have any information, youre asked to call police. Fire in holmes berg section of philadelphia sent one woman to the hospital. It started on oakmont street and they say the injured woman is blind. She was taken to Nazareth Hospital and shes expected to be okay. This morning the fbi is waiting on the medical examiner to determine if a body found in a Delaware County creek is a missing 11yearold boy. Searchers discover the body in the darby creek while looking for laquan lattimore. He was seen monday afternoon riding his bike in fullcroft. The family is offering a 1500 reward for any information. Preparing for the pope. Thousands of commuters could find out today if they won papal rail passes on septa. The Transit Agency will start emailing the winners of its lottery today. The septa is still determining, though which of its designated train stops sold out which ones still have passes remaining. Commuters and neighbors are bracing for major road closures when pope francis visits philadelphia next month. Lets begin with the ben franklin bridge. No cars will be allowed on friday september 25th through monday the 28th. If you plan on crossing the ben, youll have to do it by bicycle or on foot. As for the highways during that time the eastbound skooik schuylkill provide will shut down from blue line and westbound will close from i95 to route 1. Portions of u. S. 1, city avenue will be closed from belmont to lancaster. Thats the area near kenwood where the pope will be staying overnight. Also the vine street expressway will be shut down in both directions. You will be able to drive on i95. Theres a live look. Again, i95 will remain open during the papal visit. Yesterday the city of philadelphia released details of what it calls the traffic box for the pontiffs visit. Heres the map of what that box looks like. Its a three square mile secure zone covering parts of center city and west philadelphia. The zone extends westward to 38th street. Drivers will be allowed to leave the traffic box. However, they will not be allowed back in once they leave. Remember the tap the nbc10 news app for a breakdown of all the transportation changes for the papal visit. Youll find the popes itinerary and where you can can see him while hes in philadelphia. Authorities in louisiana are continuing to hunted for a suspect who shot and killed a police officer. Just a short time ago, the police chief identified the officer as thomas lavly, a fouryear veteran of the Shreveport Police department. The officer confronted the person and he was shot several times. Police chief also identified the suspect as grover cannon. He is nothing to me but a coward who would should an officer and hide and run. Awe cowardess act. Whatever rock he crawls under, we will find him. Cannon was already wanted for seconddegree murder and now wanted for firstdegree murder in the officers death. Taking sides, how your sleep position could determine your risk of developing alzheimers. Malaysias transport minister says evidence proves part. Plane wing found belongs to missing malaysian flight 370. Investigators say the wing piece could provide clues about what happened when the plane hit water, but may not ever solve the mystery of exactly what went wrong. The flight carried 239 passengers and crew and disappeared in march of 2014. New information this morning in the bill cosby Sexual Assault controversy. A Los Angeles County superior court judge has ordered bill cosby to give a sworn deposition this october in response to a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit was brought by a woman who accused the comedian of sexually assaulting her at the playboy mansion back in the 1970s. The woman was just 15 years old at the time. And now to decision 2016. Happening today, the republican first president ial debate with the top ten candidates taking the stage for a prime time showdown. Heres a look at who made the cut. Determined by national polls, selected by the host fox news. Donald trump led those polls so hell take center stage in cleveland tonight. Jeb bush and scott walker will flank the billionaire businessman. Barely making the cut, Chris Christie and john kasich. Trump and one of his debate rivals put a calm face on what they expect tonight. It means theyre going to try to trick you up which is unfortunate. All of that has nothing to do with being a great president. Im not running against any of those people on that stage. Im running for president. The seven gop candidates who polled lower will have a debate this afternoon, hours before the main event. Sunshine this morning, warming things into the 80s easily today. The humidity stays low. That may change tonight. Im tracking some rain that the first raindrops could be falling during the evening hours and still a potential for rain in parts of our area overnight tonight into tomorrow. The sevenday forecast to show you how long it will last when we come back. A new Study Suggests the way you sleep could affect your risk of developing alzheimers. Researchers found sleeping on your side helps remove waste products from the brain more effectively, compared to sleeping on your back or stomach. I building up of waste products in the brain is a marker of alzheimers disease. Scientists found the results in rodents so now theyre working to confirm them in humans. We are gearing up for a celebration of art, culture and development in one philadelphia neighborhood this weekend. Its time for the 13th annual give back Community Festival and concert in nicetown. Zach zachria is president of the nicetown Community Development program. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Tell us whats in store this weekend. We have a lot in store starting with our education bazaar, the 7th which will kick off at 1 00. We have the fraternity who will host 11 historically black colleges and universities with the information to provide to our young. This whole Community Event for friday is geared to the young people, so the education bazaar along with arts and culture and education will kick it off. And it will culminate with bazaar awardsed in evening, which is an award that was dedicated to the loss of my son, and will be given away scholarship awards to youth recipients who will be you furthering their education. Great tribute to your son who passed away in 2009. Whats the mission of the nicetown Community Development corporation . Our mission is simple to dynamically improve the continues of nicetown through a comprehensive and holistic way. That way is to reeducate to clean, beautify and secure the area. The 13th annual give back Community Festival and concert is happening tomorrow and saturday. It includes college fair health screenings, boxing tournament musical performances and so much more. Head to nicetown park on the 4300 block of germantown avenue. Comcast corporation, nbc10 and telemundo 62 are proud sponsors of the event. For more information head to our website at nbc10. Com and check out our nbc10 app. Thanks for coming. Good luck. Nice to talk to you. Appreciate it. A cool start this morning, but were seeing a nice warmup right now. Were also seeing more clouds. Clouds are on the increase this afternoon. Youll notice more cloud cover as we head into the evening hours. And im tracking some rain. The first raindrops could be here this evening, but a better chance of some rain coming in overnight tonight and into friday for parts of the area. Not everybodys going to see this rainfall. We will see it move out of here for the weekend. A nice dry, warm weekend. This morning the temperatures have been warming up. 74 with sunshine in reading. Already into the low 80s for philadelphia and cape may. The humidity is staying low today. No sign of any rain just yet. Just some scattered clouds over the lake which saws temperatures in the 50s early this morning. Much cooler than we normally see in august. With warm temperatures and clouds moving in we could see steady rain coming in for parts of the area. You can see the cloud cover just to the west. This is a large storm system that is going to be tracking into the area. We will see the clouds. The big question mark is rainfall. You see heavy rain to the south and tennessee and moving into kentucky, showers into the ohio valley. But it stops right in central ohio. Its running into High Pressure in the north. And if this moves due east, and thats a possibility, well get some rainfall out of it. Theres also a possibility that High Pressure will push it farther to the south. Still a question mark about how much rainfall were going to be getting over the next 24 hours. But well definitely get into the 80s today. Low to mid80s. Up to 80 philadelphia. Top out at 85 degrees. Nice sunshine but low humidity through the day. And winds out of the north 3 to 8 miles an hour. Those winds will be light, but with rain coming in tonight, we could see gusty winds overnight tonight and into tomorrow. A chance of some showers overnight tonight in philadelphia. The chance of rainfall is greater to the south and east for delaware. 80 degrees with a chance of showers friday. Showers are more likely during the morning hours. More likely to get some sunshine during the afternoon for friday. Look at the weekend. Sunshine is back. With temperatures in the 80s. 86 degrees on saturday. Sunday the High Temperature of 87. Both days well see low humidity. A beautiful weekend ahead. Humidity starts moving back into the area monday. Monday well warm to 85 degrees with clouds building. A chance of late day showers on monday. Really a better chance well see showers and thunderstorms on tuesday, but then theyre out of here for wednesday. Wednesday afternoon up to 86 degrees. Looks like a good weekend for tennis. Speaking of tennis they come from all different worlds but they all share a common love tennis. Israel Tennis Centers have been helping young people from different backgrounds from countries that are often dealing with serious conflicts. They learn from each other and coexist for nearly 40 years. And theyre bringing their love of tennis to the city of brotherly love this week through a Summer Exchange program. Anthony paul rollin is the haitian american born who grew up in northeast philadelphia and played tennis for masterman high school. Participating in the Summer Exchange program with israel Tennis Centers. Just 15 years old. Jacqueline is the executive Vice President of Global Development for israel Tennis Centers. We appreciate all of you for coming in. Thank you for having us. Lets start with you, jacqueline, your organization tell us about your organization what you guys do. Sure. We are about to celebrate our 40th anniversary. And very much like legacy our mission is to improve lives of tennis through the lifelong skills theyll learn through tennis and the values they apply to their lives. Lets turn to the boys. Anthony, youre headed you played at masterman, right . Yes. Tell us where youre headed to school this fall. M. I. T. Next year. Tell us how this happened for you to pick up tennis play it. I suspect it helped you get to boston. If i could aattribute my success to anybody, it would be my family the school. But legacy gave me the speaking skills, the writing skills and leadership skills to be who i am today. Tell me some of your choices. It could have just been m. I. T. Maybe it was your number one choice. Of course. But can you tell me some other schools i had penn state on the List University of pennsylvania brown, pomona in california and a few other schools. Thats impressive. Tell me how you got involved in the program. First of all, when i heard about the project and coaches, i just liked to get involved with it so i made an effort to get involved in this project. And here i am, sit hearing. Here you are. Tell me what your experience has been like while being here in philadelphia. Today is my fourth day in usa. Ive seen you know washington a little bit, maryland and philadelphia. Its awesome, you know to be here. Great atmosphere. The legacy center, thats nice. Its nice to be here. Its comfortable. They hosted us in their homes. Thats very great. Anthony, how has this program impacted your life . Well its made me think more about traveling and, like what how i can affect the world through my own experiences. I mean, when i got the opportunity to go to israel it was like oh man, this is my opportunity to carve my own opinion. I hope to keep carving my own opinions while i travel to other countries and build more bridges with other people from all over the world. Very very impressive. Appreciate you guys coming in today. Thank you. Thank you. For more information about israel Tennis Centers, head to our website at nbc10. Com and well have a link there provided for you so you can get the information youre seeking. Thank you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Happening today, music fest begins in the lehigh valley. Tonight the hit 80s band duran duran will perform in bethlehem. Other big acts over the next ten days including snoop dogg reba mcintyre, alice in chains and comedian jerry seinfeld. Now to an update on breaking news. Attorney general Kathleen Kane is charged with leaking secret grand jury information and lying about her actions under oath. Montgomery County District attorney announced the charges less than an hour ago. She says kane leaked information to a political operative to pass to the news media in hopes of embarrassing and harming former state prosecutors whom kane believed made her look bad. She is expected to surrender in the next few days. Attorney general kane release aid statement saying she does not plan to resign. It also says quote, im very disappointed the District Attorney made the decision to pursue this case. I have maintained my innocence from the day these allegations surfaced and i continue to do so today. Well continue to follow this story. Meanwhile, lets check in with bill henley and the final check of weather this afternoon. So far so good. Were in good shape today. Its tonight and into tomorrow thats still a question mark. Were tracking rain which could reach into philadelphia. Most likely well see that rain staying to the south. 80 degrees right now. Thats 6 degrees cooler than yesterday. And the humidity is down to 39 . Look at that sunshine. Also look at the clouds moving into western pennsylvania. Theyre across west virginia. Those are the clouds that will give us the rain overnight tonight and into tomorrow. Thanks very much for watching nbc10 news at 11 00. Abigail [sighs] chad abigail, i love you more than ive ever loved anyone in my entire life. Ben when the time is right we will do it exactly how youd like ita big wedding the whole family. Everything perfect. [knocking] paul hey, yeah, you can take both trays; theyre right. Over there. Kate oh, darling im not the room service but i do have the revised