Political fundraiser for a city councilman. Rerea he demanded a personal apology and they are working with the community to organize a meeting between the two. The former Philadelphia City councilman spent three years in prison for racketeering and tack evasion. He says when he saw the caption, his reaction wasnt good. I wanted to choke him. How could someone write these kinds of captions to begin with . The publisher apologized to anyone offended by the picture and that he believes interest in the story is dieing down. When he was in city council, he represented the First District which includes, of course, chinatown. The con electrover have i is reminiscent of a another mistake that led to national outrage. It happened after the crash of an Asian Airlines jet. A tv station read a list of of supposedly the pilots on the list. The names were fake and offensive. Four Staff Members were fired. New information about the man who was arrested for assaulting a store clerk. He is connected to
Investigation, we have an action news crew on the way on the ground right now we hope to get to that reporter coming up in a live report. Look for updates as well at 6abc. Com. Well continue to monitor this situation an officer run over by a vehicle in Strawberry Mansion this morning. And the bitter cold has frozen the delaware and lehigh valleys temperatures in the Single Digits and the windchill made it feel even worse. Going live on sky 6 hd looking at the Philadelphia International airport, its not affecting flights but its affecting the workers on the tarmac. Lets go to david murphy a tough job to have today. Good to have an indoor job today. We have plenty of sunshine in place and you can see the visible satellite images in ohio this stuff is forming as the strong northwest wind drives over the cold land and over the milder ocean and starts to rise a bit, and lots of sun here and no issues with cloud cover the issue is the temperature and its not just us but up and down the midat
Accident. Its the new way seniors are being taught to prevent falls. It happens to a lot of us. I mean, we are a falling generation, i guess. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is a western edition of the broadcast. Nothing sends more americans to the hospital each year than Heart Failure. And tonight, we have some extraordinary news to report about a new drug that could change the way Heart Failure is treated. Right now, the best treatment available is a group of drugs known as ace inhibitors. But today, researchers published the results of a trial of a new drug called lcz696 in the new england journal of medicine. They said the drug had, an overwhelming benefit. It is twice as effective as ace inhibitors at preventing death from Heart Failure. In fact, this new drug, developed by novartis, was so successful in Clinical Trials earlier this year, that the trials were halted in order to get the drug to the public more