Judgment and decisions but not crimes. The prosecution says he is lining his pockets since taking office 7. 5 years ago. In his Opening Statements to the jury. Prosecutor said that the case against Seth Williams is one of freud, corruption and concealment. Selling the power and concealment of his office accepting gifts from wealthy businessmen. Like 15 Airline Tickets and free caribbean vacations and furniture. To pay alimony, Child Support and for private schools. Thomas burke called him an honest Public Servant with rich friends, and that he never took bribes. There is no evidence that any cases were compromised. The first witness the director of the where his mother is in long time care. Prosecutors say he stole 23 million in funds designated for her care for his own personal use. Prosecution witnesses are due on the stand tomorrow and this trial could last up to four weeks. Im vernon odom, channel 6 action news at the federal courthouse in center city. All right vernon thank you. A
Reporter the mayor calls for increasing the amount of fire inspectors from 6 to 12 and will modify the fee schedule to pay for them before the budget is finalized. A new database will final the communications between departments. The idea is make these build, safe before it comes to conditions that would require red tagging. Reporter instead, the city plans to dramatically increase blue tagging. It does not require the people to be displaced from their homes. It is a method on the books for a while. That is something we are lifting up and retraining all personnel. There is the ability to correct some violations or some concerns. With the tenant still in the building or move them from one area of the building to another area while we work on fire safety systems. Some argue its not a big enough stick to force compliance. If i need to red tag you, thats what i have to do. There is no compromise for that. Reporter blue tagging or red t tagging, lives hang in the balance. In oakland, im les
People hurt during a huge chapel hill celebration overnight. The Basketball Team winning its sixth National Championship victory and nearly 55,000 people hit the streets in the downtown area last night. Ive been going through new video coming into our live desk this morning. I want to show you this one. You can see bonfires were set overnight. Some kids even jumping through those flames. Student ws were urged not to do. This they did not listen. The seven people hurt overnight are expected to recover. Reggie, natasha, back to you. Thank you, jess. Firefighters are watching for flareups from a massive fire at a Food Processing plant near the l. A. Coliseum. It took 110 firefighters to get under control. You can see the flames tearing through the roof. It was apparently fuelled by a broken natural gas line. Arson investigators are expected to start combing through the rubble this morning. Investigators trying to determine what caused a fastmoving fire in San Franciscos height ashbury. Th
Vossoughi vossoughian. Russian Police Search for a suspect or suspect in the saint peets burke attack. No immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Nbcs keir simmons is following development from our london bureau. Whats the latest we know on the manhunt . They say they have issued a picture of somebody that they want to find, but there are alternative reports suggesting that that person has gone to russian officials and said that they are that person in the picture and it was not them. So there is confusion over whether this was some kind of a suicide bombing. They have found two explosive devices, one at the site of the explosion and another that did not detonate, that they were able to defuse. The carriage itself, the car itself exploded in a time when it was able to get to a station. Meanwhile, President Trump spoke with president putin and offered support for russia at this difficult time. It happened in saent petersburg. Perhaps the place and timing is not coincidental. T
Moving through not looking impressive. Spotty showers in south jersey, salem and Cumberland County into lower gloucester and camden counties. And Burlington County is getting a few rain drops, as well. No big rain here, though, this morning. Not to start with. Theres a chance well see more showers, but later this morning, early this afternoon. Were getting a warm start in spite of the wet weather, 50s and 60 degrees. 6 0 now in philadelphia. The chance of showers and possibly more thunderstorms comes in during the morning. The temperatures will be warming up. It will not be allmorning rainfall. The winds will come out of the south to 14 Miles Per Hour. Once we get sunshine this evening after the next rounds of showers comes through, were warming into the mid to upper 70s today. 76 degrees in new jersey. Delaware may hit 80 degrees this afternoon. Well break down the forecast hour by hour to show you when those showers are most likely to come back in your neighborhood when im back in te