Just a public official who is selling his office but also defrauding private individuals in a separate matter. He denied williams request to be let out to visit his ailing mother for fear of her passing away. You stole from her mother and now you want to visit her. A reference to evidence presented at trial that williams defrauded her nursing home out of 23,000. And the lawyer read his apologetic to the people of philadelphia for quote, letting them down. We didnt want to make this a sobbing spectacle. Obviously its not my day of sentencing to get his words across it was better that i read it. His wife and daughters were in court to support him and left Court Without responding and the girlfriend making an obscene gesture to the media. The Justice Department said it could be several weeks before Seth Williams low security prison is actually selected. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news at the federal courthouse in center city. Thank you vernon, you can find a wealth of material of the r
16yearolds have been shot to death. A gunman is still on the loose. Witnesses tell Police Investigators they heard some sort of argument leading up to the shooting at 12th and the writner just before 8 30. The teens were left to die on the street. Police officers picked up the teens before ambulances arrived and rushed them to the hospital. More breaking news frs the hunting park section of philadelphia where the manhunt for the handcuffed shooting suspect who escaped Police Custody led police to a warehouse filled with drugs and weapons. Dann cuellar is live at 10th and russel. The story is evolving. What is the story there is a shooting investigation led police to a heroin distribution center, large cas cache of weaps and money. Witnesses say the 19yearold man had been tranc transported o st. Christophers for a gunshot wound in the chest. The gunman reported to be driven na white car by this man with a tattoo that says family. He handcuffed him and put him in the back of the police c
Dann cuellar is live at 10th and russel. The story is evolving. What is the story there is a shooting investigation led police to a heroin distribution center, large cas cache of weaps and money. Witnesses say the 19yearold man had been tranc transported o st. Christophers for a gunshot wound in the chest. The gunman reported to be driven na white car by this man with a tattoo that says family. He handcuffed him and put him in the back of the police car. They then chased the alleged gunman. Thats when things got weird. Police went back to the vehicle where the 17yearold was placed. He was not in the car. He was able to get out of the vehicle. Canines were brought in and they followed his scent to a warehouse. Thats where police found a major hi heroin operation. They are cut and weighed for bundles of street sales. It was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but theres more. They went to the second floor and found a cache of weapons and uncut heroin. Right now police are getting rea
65 degrees. Bob kelly . Good morning, everybody, ticktock, 5 00. And our top story also going to be the top traffic story. South phillys favorite bridget foys, fire scene this morning, we will go out to jenny joyce there live at second and south, headhouse square, but this morning, be ready for alternates, instead of second street, you want to use either fourth or sixth. If youre headed down south street, you want to use pine or bainbridge, expect delays through the morning rush hour. Septa also has buses 12 and 40 on detour. Theyve been trying to cut down some trees here, and running into problems, this is a live look at the montgomery drive onramp to go east on the schuylkill expressway. So, penndot waiting for a bigger saw from a private contractor. So thats going to cause delays through the morning rush hour. The benny looking good. No fog here. And mass transit, other than the two septa buses were off to good start, karen, back over to you. Bob, thank you. You mentioned it, lets g
Virgin islands. The Senate Committee rooms of committee runs about 2. 5 hours. Good morning. This hearing has come to order. I would like to say on the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. The circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We certainly want to send her thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, i saw how he was doing. Apparently he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal defibrilator that mayiy have saved his life. There are still blockages to worry about and additional surgery and additional surgery work that needs to be done. To what the chairman said, keep them in our thoughts and prayers. I want to thank our witnesses, not only for being here and your testimony, but for the last two and a half months. I have been to femas response center. I have talked to the men and women working with you. I think doing an extraordinary job, working