Right now we are tracking two major stories in our area tonight. The first on the left. Longtime u. S. Congressman chaka fattah guilty of all charges from racketeering, fraud and money laundering. But first severe storms slam into our area leaving some major destruction behind. Live radar shows the storms still with reds and yellows off the coast south jersey right now. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. That system came in hard and fast bringing pounding rains, high winds and sent people down the shore scrambling for cover. Right now, almost 26,000 people are still without power in Cape May County. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with kathy orr. Right now we are fortunate the watches have been dropped throughout the Delaware Valley, but still some storms moving through the region with very heavy rain. Please be aware of that. Nothing like earlier this afternoon between about 3 00 oclock and 4 00 oclock. We saw the storms move through fast and fu
The damage through south jersey and also central and southern delaware. Some of the fast and furious reports windows blown out of a home in the villas. Our peak wind gust 81 miles an hour in port norris new jersey that is Cape May County. Thats a her cane force gust and golf ball sized hail in better betteron, delaware n kent county. Doppler radar indicated tornado issued by the National Weather service. You can see the errly rotation on ultimate doppler. This is a sheer marker w you see the purple that is an indication of high rotation and a change in wind direction speed with height. Now, the National Weather service did tell me that they will decide tomorrow morning if they do indeed go down to the area near middle township, rio grand and green creek to investigate if this indeed was the work of tornado nevertheless even if it was Straight Line wind damage were talking about 80, maybe even 90 miles an hour wind gusts with this. Oh, my god oh, my god check out the boardwalk in north
Camera. Highspeed chase. The violent crash that ended it all. Drivers hurt and a shocker, a woman and child running from that car. The arrests this morning. And turning heads. Michelle obama and that dress. Her offtheshoulder vera wang number at last nights white house state dinner burning up the internet right now. Hey, good morning from new york city. He said goodbye to new york city and caught a flight to philly where he has a full day of events ahead of him. He certainly needed his rest overnight after a day of taking new york by storm. One of the most poignant and powerful images was this, the pope blessing and kissing a sick child at Madison Square garden overnight. Were going to have full coverage of the papal visit coming up. Much more coming up but we want to start here with the aftershocks from a genuine politic political earthquake in washington. The speaker of the house there he is, john boehner, surprising even some of his closest friends and colleagues stepping down in an
Facedown in her bathtub. Well, last night we were treated to whats called a super blood moon. That is when the earth and the sun and the moon all line up which puts the moon in the earths shadow. The moons reddish color happens because the suns light is filtered by particles in the earths atmosphere. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, september 28th. From abc news, this is world news now. All right. Were going to test you on that coming up on what you learned just now. Why was it red. Exactly. But were going to begin this half hour with the end to the popes historic trip to america marked by his advocacy for immigrants, the poor as well as the environment. And after touching the hearts of millions of people, pope francis was clearly moved as well. His parting words his heart was full of gratitude and hope. Abcs Marci Gonzales has more from philadelphia this morning. Reporter hi, guys. Good morning. The crowds werent quite as big as expected but it was still a huge showin
In this country. An estimated crowd of around 1 million people. The pope really addresses the public in english but did so sunday even as he offered a final blessing. May god bless you all, god bless america. Reporter pope francis ended on a high note as his last day here in the United States began with some of his strongest comments yet about church sex abuse. God weeps. Reporter speaking two to three hundred bishops this morning the pontiff went offscript for nearly three minutes and acknowledged some clergy members caused grievous harm. Translator and i commit to a careful oversight to ensure that youth are protected and that all responsible will be held accountable. Reporter those remarks came after meeting privately with five sexual Abuse Victims inside st. Charles borneo seminary. Barbara blaine from chicago is the president of the Survivors Network of those abused by priests. What im looking for is that the pope and Church Officials to take action that will prevent some other ch