Mark lee his lawyer a former federal Prosecutor Says fattah is not guilty and the two former aides are out to save their own necks and their lack of credibility he says will be revealed here. Brian, at this hour an fbi agent remains on the witness stand presenting various documents related to the case. The key government witnesses will not take the stand for quite some time down the road. This trial is expected to last about two months. Live at the federal courthouse in center city, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. All right, vernon thank you. We have breaking news right now out of Gloucester County. This is the scene in Franklin Township in the 400 block of harding highway where firefighters are responding to an active fire right now. This is apparently a chicken coop burning also on route 40 again in Franklin Township. Apparently 911 calls were coming in, reports of a brush fire in the area. When crews arrived they discovered it was a chicken coop. No word at this point if any a
The money. One phase of the case centers around wealthy friend herb vederman. In Court Prosecutors called him a human atm machine for the 11 term congressman and his family hoping the powerful washington insider could land him an ambassadorship from the obama white house. Prosecutors say he paid off the College Tuition and gambling bills of fattahs son chaka jr. And disguised 18,000 he gave over for a dummy car purchase used by fattah and his wife to close on a Vacation Home in the poconos. Late today congressman fattah spoke briefly with reporters. I think this has been a good first day and well begin again in the morning. Reporter fattahs lawyer told the jury of one africanamerican and 11 white that is vederman was a rich good friend of fattahs and did nothing that rises to the level of bribery. Fattahs lawyer dismissed two of fattahs Political Consultants who already pleaded guilty hoping for light sentences in exchange for testifying against chaka fattah. Mark lee told the jury to
Take a listen. . [ music ] . . Those ladies are trying to get home to minnesota as you see. They are taking a positive outlook on it all when i ran into them they had been in line for an hour and 40 minutes just to see a desk agent. They hadnt even gone through security yet. Throughout the day at rdu travelers faced incredible wait times up to four hours in line all of cours outage that caused a system wide shut down for six hours. Many flights and cancellations as a result have been impacted in some way. Travelers seem to be taking it all in stride. The terminal was calm and quiet other than of course a little singing. Everybody is so nice. Thought might as well make the most of the time. You can be grumpy or happy and i choose to be happy. Just smile and keep going. I choose to be happy. Thats what a lot of people were saying around 1 30 this afternoon delta had only operated 1600 of the 6,000 flights scheduled for today. The incident is likely to drag on for a few days and it is est
Employee later released and a more seriously injured sergeant in the sheriffs department. I think it was an upper floor. This shows two elevator cars in a common shaft. One car sling shotted upward with such speed and force it breached the concrete ceiling and that is the machine room or penthouse, heavy debris from that impact rained down more than 100 feet on to the car that the employee was riding forcing that elevator down. The building is closed and remains closed today. The court system says they will reopen the cjc tomorrow. Late this afternoon they reverse that saying it will be closed for most matters including all trials. There will be open for business certain bail matters in the basement. Done in the courtroom in the basement and potential from abuse orderers, other than that the cjc will be closed tomorrow. Live in center city, john rawlin,ing channel 6 action news. Lets switch live to sara bloomquist at hahnemann hospital. What is the latest on the condition of the sherif
The most important piece of news you will get all day. All is quiet on the western front, bill. Yes it is. There we go. It is quiet and it will stay quiet for most of the day. Will take a look at Doppler Radar right now. There we go. You can see that we do have a couple of showers down here and thats about it. They are out in the gulf of south waste and we will watch our wins change direction today coming in at the west and that will push any showers inland by early afternoon. We are starting off at 80 right now and a. 74 clearwater. Wins mostly calm coming in and out of the southeast but it will change and become westerly later on. We are looking for a high today of 91. As we watch the temperatures like 102 by later this afternoon and even warmer inland. I will show you the best chances of rain and time them out for you. Breaking overnight, a car slams into a Police Cruiser and another vehicle causing both cars to go up in flames. Lets take a look at the scene. Just a few hours ago, y