Ill update the weekend call coming up on with the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Karen rogers what are roads looking like early. Reporter we have an issue if youre living in Burlington County. Route 38 is shut down between smithville road and 206. A dump truck pulled down wires. We have utility workers trying to fix this. Stick to 630 or 70 instead. Live on the schuylkill expressway at Henderson Road traffic moving nicely. What a good shot of the Road Conditions were clear and dry schuylkill expressway westbound traffic heading toward the schuylkill expressway no slowing just yet. Only the big picture heres the blue route, schuylkill expressway i95 seeing speeds in the 50s and moving okay. Tam and eva. Thank you karen. Breaking news this morning a lone gunman stood in a packed Movie Theater in lafayette louisiana people were there to see train wreck. Police say the attacker died of a selfinflicted gunshot wound and nine people were hurt. Katherine scott is live in our Satelli
Chaka fattah senior is facing charges. That he used Charity Funds to repay his campaign loans. Chad pradelli is live now in sent city with the full story. Reporter we knew the feds were investigating chaka fattah and today they dropped the hammer with this 85 page indictment that could put the congressman behind bars for decades. The 29 count indictment alleges chaka fattah and four other codefendants, engaged in conspiracies consisting of several schemes, including Money Laundering and bank fraud. They say that fattah borrowed a Million Dollars from a supporter and after losing he used a nonprofit he founded and controlled to pay back 600,000 of the funds. To disguise the source of these funds fattah arranging for the payments to pass through two other companies, including one run by the codefendant. That they created sham contracts and made false entries and tax returns and the congressman is accused of using Campaign Funds to repay his sons student loan debt. To hide the scheme and
Least all 75. So we need to look back, what the intern is holding lets see how many . Like eight . He has a way. He has another hour. He better get to eating. Easy for to you say. Everyones celebrating today, though. What did you get here . My friend, that lou will, little girl in the area, so cute cousin ed, her dad brought me famous hot mustard wings from the irish pole on market street. Right down the road. Nice and wrapped up. I met her. She is so sweet, a doable she always spots me out and about, and were the best of buds. We needed extra wings but thank you. She didnt know what all we were doing. That place is good. One of the country top schools says you dont have to take the sats any more. Nope. George Washington University says leaving your scorings off your application, it is not going to hurt your chances every getting in. School Officials Say they can predict students success rate, they Fine High School records and gps. Forty schoolings have adopted the test optional policy
Through a 24 hour online lotte lottery. All day monday folks can ebbed enter with their choice of outlying stations and a time window for entry into a predetermined city stop. Theres a 10 pass maximum per customer and so far the average entrant is asking for about half that number. Thats good news. Suggesting few are trying to gobble up extra passes for resale at scalpers prices. Septa says it will keep an eye out for mass purchases or any other attempt to game the thursday. On entrance theyll be notify if they want the lottery. We want to make sure these passes get in the hands of feeble who want to see the pope or need to come down to go to work. Reporter speak of going to work, none of this helps reverse commuters those who live in the city and work in the burbs. Septa trains are inbound only during the papal weekend. Which means guys like micah mcgraw ask for days off. I just am flashing back to big snow days and stuff when all hell breaks loose and its just like septa can get pret
The good news, tomorrow not as hot. Still a little sticky. And then we got to deal with some late week thunderstorms. Ill have details on that coming up in the seven day. Karen, what about traffic early. Weve got a big accident this morning happening right now in roxborough so listen to this. A car slammed into a pole brought down wires and then the car caught on fire. Were hearing the driver was seriously injured. Emergency workers on the scene. Happening here in roxborough on shawmont avenue at nixon street. Stick to port royal avenue to avoid any of the helpers dealing with that. Looking live on the vine street expressway approaching the schuylkill, no problems just yet. Westbound traffic headed towards the schuylkill not really too slow just yet. On i95 here at cottman, northbound traffic headed towards academy here, the extra overnight construction is cleared. Were still getting used to the new northbound traffic pattern on i95 near cottman. It started over the weekend and thats b