Bribery. Vernon odem is outside the courthouse with details. Reporter sarah, good afternoon, it was about a two hour hearing the mighty congressmans fall from grace is complete, a decade in prison for one of philadelphias most powerful politician. Chaka fattah left the court after receiving a sentence of ten years in prison. We respect the courts decision we do not have a comment on that, i do thank all the witnesses who stepped forward, i want to thank the over 200 people who wrote letters to the court on my behave. This is is a circumstance in which the court has made a determination of this phase of the process has come to a conclusion. Reporter this morning the judge heard multiple backers urge him to consider his good work over 37 years as a public official and show him mercy. Fattah was kicked in june of 18 criminal counts racketeering bribery Money Laundering and fraud. Prosecutors surged the judge to sentence him to urge the judge to sentence him to 2 the years in 22 years in p
Rain or snow and matt pellman lets hope you have a commute like yesterday. Reporter i dont know if i can guarantee that, but matt will talk about that in a moment. Were looking at driver conditions, but in lancaster and west chester of Chester County were seeing snow showers move in. This may start out as snow in the western suburbs, and snowflakes closer to philadelphia before a quick change to rain. You can see how warm air is beginning to surge up from from the south and change the snow over to rain north of baltimore and that change is going to have a tendcy to push into the region an allentown and i95 corridor before that moves in. Looks like it stays with us through the the morning and good portion of the afternoon. Theres a Winter Weather advisory in the poconos because north of these areas in the Lehigh Valley youll never get that changeover until the afternoon hours, well talk about the possibility of some snow and maybe sleet mixing in until 4 00 p. M. In the poconos, word to
Online at wjla. Com. Social media and the stormwatch7 app. You can get alert and School Closings sent to your phone. Go to wjla. Com text to sign up. Jonathan now to breaking news we are following this everything. D. C. Police released body cam video showing the moment that an officer shot and killed javon hall on christmas day. We should warn you, the video is graphic. No, no, no. No. The moment the shots were fired is difficult to see what is going on. When you slow the video down you plainly see that hall is holding a large knife. He appears to lung moments before being shot. The family members said that the video didnt know any knife at all but bowser said this is released in the interest of transparency. Maureen now to the showdown on capitol hill. President obama squaring mike pence. They have not met face to face. But the battle they are waging in the halls of congress will effect every american. Q mccray is following the controversy centered on whether to repeal what is known a
Pennsylvania. His daughter ivanka coming back to namplt once again, showing how important the Granite State is to trumps campaign. Ivanka has three stops scheduled here thursday. As the days before election day run out, trump himself is coming back to court those four crucial electoral votes, promising to stay focused and on script. We have to be nice and cool. Nice and cool. Stay on point, donald. Stay on poi no sidetracks, donald. Nice and easy. Reporter ivanka trump has her first of three stops at this school here in manchester. She should be here shortly. Donald trump himself returning to New Hampshire tomorrow and then election eve, he has a big rally planned. In manchester. Live in manchester, victoria warren, 7 news. Sarah Hillary Clintons campaign is also making a lastminute push with more reporter clinton is in North Carolina today campaigning with her former rival Bernie Sanders and singer farrell. Faerl pharrell williams. Hillary clinton looking to the man she hopes to repla
Lunchtime and early afternoon. But in plymouth, the thanksgiving parade, going to stay cloudier, not too much wind yet. That changes tomorrow. Im tracking a storm system on the way. Get out and enjoy some of the 50s today. Its all going to come crashing down. Back to you. Jason developing this morning, Police Continue to search for a hit and run driver plowing down a woman in a crosswalk. Heather this morning, Stephanie Coueignoux is live in chelsea for us at the intersection where it happened. We are h that the victim is expected to be okay. Reporter amazingly that woman only had nonlifethreatening injuries. I am at intersection of fourth and broadway. You can see at the surveillance camera here on the lamp post. All of this was caught on camera. I do want to show you the Surveillance Video that captured the hit and run. In the video you can see the woman at the bottom of the hitting the 72yearold, new yorking her to the ground. That minivan drives off. Chelsea police say the woman di