The charges against the influential democrat. David. Reporter ukee the congressman mentioned numerous times in this 85 page indictment indictment. He denies any wrongdoing but federal officials they believe and they are confident that he will be behind bars at some point. The conduct that congressman fattah engaged in undermines public safe and government. Blunt words from us attorney zane david hem injury who laid out this case against congressman chaka fattah. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detection. Reporter the 29 count indictment tells the story of what authorities call schemes. Some words included in the do you mean, fraud bribery, sham and conceal. The congressman who went to washington in 1995, is accused of borrowing a Million Dollars from a wealthy supporter and only paying some of it back using money and federal grants from a Nonprofit Charity he runs. Hes also accused of using 23 grand in Campaign Money to pay off his son
Steamy day but there is relief on the way it does come in the form of showers and thunderstorms, but lets go start things off by taking you back in time here. We are looking back to yesterday ever so slightly, under achieving from the expectations in terms of the actual daytime high. We did hit 93 on the the a airport. Average is 87. But that made it to the 16th, 90degree plus day of 2015. However, you cannot go by face value of these numbers when we are dealing with the humidity we had. It was feeling like triple digits in dover as we went on the air at noon. I remember that from yesterday. Storm scan three is clear as a bell. We have a couple cloud out there. Unfortunately we will not cool off under that clear sky we do still have an excessive heat warning in effect even though it is not as oppressive right now. Once again, later today those heat index values will sky rocket for i95 and adjacent counties here to about the triple digits. So again it is another second day in the row of
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Lets go to meteorologist bill henley. The excessive heat warning is still in effect right . The first alert is still in effect because of the high heat and the very high humidity and the potential for strong storms later today. The showers and thunderstorms already showing up on the radar. This morning im tracking a few on isolated showers moving through Lancaster County and the pottstown area light rainfall there. The line of storms for this afternoon is already in western pennsylvania and moving our way. Before it gets here another hot and humid day. We are starting off in the upper 70s for philadelphia northeast philadelphia just dropped down one degree from 80 and still in the 80s in doylestown and pottstown. Otherwise hotter than yesterday morning and just as steamy. 77 in roxborough. We start off with clouds and few isolated showers and 78 by 6 00. 9 00, 81. Upper 80s into the afternoon. As we move into the afternoon, we are watching for showers and thunderstorms. Ill take you th
Construction on an off ramp off the schuylkill expressway. Around Spring Garden street you can see right here road closed signs. We have no access to the schuylkill expressway westbound from the Spring Garden ramp. Eastbound access is okay. They do have local detours posted around the area. This will be out there until at least august 4th for right now. They are going to have to plan your trip accordingly. If you dont follow the local4z stbound 13 minutes from the blue route up towards the vine street expressway. Pretty much the same going westbound towards the king of prussia area as well. 202 cars are green and moving. 11 minutes northbound or southbound up towards the schuylkill expressway. Area bridges doing just fine so far this morning. Waltman bridge is clear and so is the ben. Two lanes blocked headed westbound into the city. One of our regions longest serving congressmen indicted. Chaka fattah is accused of participating in schemes and years of illegal activity. 29count indict