Upcoming holiday weekend. As we take a look whats happening, you can see a few pockets of some showers north and west right now. But nothing heavy in sections of chester, montgomery as well as bucks county and down the shore still keeping tabs on few showers but nothing like what we saw the first part of the day. Those temperatures right now upper 60 to right around 70 degrees down the shore. If youre stepping outdoors, well call it mostly cloudy. Temperatures still kind of comfortable. No airport delays right now at the Philadelphia International airport. A couple of delays right now for newark as well as chicagos ohare. But as we take look at the friday forecast it looks like most of that rain stays to the south. When showers move back in on the fourth of july when i come indoors. Iain and lucy. All right, see you soon, scott. Right now at 6 00 a story youll see only on fox. Philadelphia police are closing in on the killer of an 85yearold woman. Only fox 29 us what there as investiga
That see only the negative and theres a lot of positives going on here and i hope, i hope that that is seen and thought about. He still has work left undone so we need him to be table reply Enter Society as soon as possible so he can continue to pay it forward relative to the lives he has wrote touch. Reporter fat is a at as wife left Court Without comment. Federal prosecutors that had called for 17 to more than 20s years in prison for fattah. But the judge obviously chose to impose far less than that. Today chaka fattah was sentenced to 10 years in prison and thats a significant sentence. Reporter sharrie, in addition to 10 years behind bars, mr. Fattah will have to pay over 600,000 in restitution to the agencies he ripped off. He remains free on bail until january 26th. Then he must surrender to federal authorities t live at the federal courthouse in center city, im vernon odom channel6 action news. All right, the sentencing making national headlines. Vern, thank you. Meantime a man
I want to thank my legal team and i wants to thank the support of my family and staff and friends through this very tough time. Reporter fattah was found guilty in june of 18 counts of corruption. Namely racketeering bribery Money Laundering and fraud. Beginning in 07. The federal prosecutors proved to the jury there was a series of schemes to rip off programs he created federal grants and his own campaign money. Multiple former aides and political operatives have been convict the as well. Prosecutors asked for 17 to more than 21 years in prison for the once powerful 11 term congressman. He used his position in congress to benefit himself rather than constituents and engaged in krim cal activity for his own financial benefit. Reporter fattahs lawyers have vowed to appeal in part based on published reports about the dismissal of a descending jury member who claims claims he was removed because he refused to find fattah guilty. People make mistakes. I am not convinced that chaka fattah i
Bribes and stole money to pay off Massive Campaign debts and to fund lavish lifestyle. The scandal led to his defeat in the 2017 Democratic Congressional primary he would quit his Second District seat shortly after his june conviction on 18 corruption counts. The government had requested a sentence of 17 to 22 years but u. S. Attorney hem minimum injury assisted he was not disappointed by the judges ruling. He used his position in congress to benefit himself rather than his constituents and engaged in kimly activity for his own financial benefit. Hes also an individual whos done significant thing on behalf of the city of philadelphia for a number of years. The courtroom was packed with fattah supporters some of whom testified his character witnesses describing a career of helping his constituents and others in areas like education and scientific research. You believe he was goodman . I know he was a goodman. And i think a goodman who made some grievous mistakes. We lose a guy whos got
Packaging get swiped right off front stoops but what was inside these boxes something precious. Clothes meant for children in need gone. Just taken and now the Good Samaritan who checked the donations is hoping for a miracle. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. That woman who collected the donations reach out to us here at fox 29. Lets get out to fox 29s Dave Schratwieser at sixth District Police headquarters witness story. Dave . Reporter iain n Good Samaritan is heart broken because shes worried that some of the kids who were expecting gifts now wont get them. Shes hoping that folks will replace the gifts and the thief gets caught. They were for gifts in our community. Danielle and her friends on social media are in a giving mood this Holiday Season they donated and collected dozens of coats, hats and gloves for kids at the gw child school in south philadelphia. Either kids between eight and 14 dont have enough money to get basic searches like winter coats, scarves, hats, glo