Anita oh for cbs3 Eyewitness News. The estate of the first fee hail fire tighter to died in the line of duty in philadelphia has now filed a lawsuit against 30 equipment manufacturers. The joyce craig died in december, 2014, fighting a house fire on middleton street in philadelphia the suit filed last week alleged that the equipment that she was wearing failed to save her life. It also seeks damages in excess of 50,000. Hundreds of Law Enforcement officers stood at attention in the rain on the Atlantic City boardwalk today paying respects to a new jersey state trooper, killed in the crash. Officer Frankie Williams was responding to a call in Egg Harbor Township last monday of an eradic driver when the driver then crossed the median and struck williams car head on killing them both. The 11 months on the job, williams outside impact was clearly felt by so many. Frankie williams was the on the job just 11 months, model trooper, he was a model recruit, always wanted to be a trooper and to
Wants to appeal his sentence. But at this point we dont know when that appeal will come. So once its filed, thats when well know more about those details. All right, mitch blacher. And our coverage of todays sentencing continues at 4 30. Coming up in 30 minutes, well speak to a legal expert about the sentencing and any possible grounds for appeal. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with federal marshals shooting and killing a suspect while serving a warrant. Authority say the suspect grew his weapon first. This all unfolded shortly after 10 00 a. M. Behind a home on hellerman street near frontenac in the citys Oxford Circle neighborhood. We have more on what the agents were doing there, from nbc 10s tim furlong. Tim . Reporter agents were looking for this guy to came out of the house. They say they tried to bring him in calmly and peacefully. They took him across the street. He started running this way, thats when they say he turned around and pulled a gun on the agents. Thats when t
Reporter prosecutors intended to send a message to those politicians simply here to support a friend. At this moment im not dealing with issues of blame. Im dealing with his family and dealing with him and trying to pick up the pieces to go forward in terms of the work that has to be done. Reporter since 2009, there have been eight members of congress who have been contradicted and sentenced for crimes. This is the longest prison term any of them have faced. The judge today said he was trying to send a message. Fattah will appeal the decision. Were live in old city tonight, mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. Walk us through that timeline for the appeal process. Could it happen before he has to report to prison . Reporter so the appeal process for the sentence, he has just 14 days to file an appeal. That will happen with some urgency. As far as the conviction itself, that could lead to more hearings. And its very unlikely that that will be done before chaka fattah has to report to prison on ja
Information might have been exposed. Randy gyllenhaal has the details. Reporter Quest Diagnostics has dozens of Testing Facilities in our area including this one here in philadelphia. Now the company says thousands of its patients personal info has been hacked. If you have taken a blood test here, your personal info might be at risk. Quest diagnostics says 37,000 patients are affected. Hackers infiltrated the Online Patient portal stealing lab results, names, birth dates and phone up ins. Medical companies are prime targets for this. Reporter this Cyber Security expert runs layer eight security. He says the medical industry is a treasurer chest of personal data. The hackers were likely out to steal identities. People want information because they will not necessarily need it right when they steal it. They will sell it to the next highest bidder. Reporter using it for anything from fake prescriptions to blackmail to identity theft. The information is valuable. You can create multiple pe
All right, guys, were off to app partly cloudy start. It looks like there might be some sun peaking through some of these early clouds, maybe, maybe not. In any event the general pattern of the day going to be to increase those clouds and well wind up fairly overcast later on. 35 degrees is your currents temperature in philadelphia. We are off to a cold start and i expect that number to dip a little bit over the next hour or two. 30 degrees below freezing in allentown, 32 in reading, run in lancaster, 35 in trenton, 34 in wilmington, 33 in millville and Still Holding onto 40 degrees in cape may. Not a lot of wind out there this morning so you dont have to worry about any big deal wind chill. 7 Miles Per Hour wind in philadelphia currently. Heres how its going to go today. 33 degrees by 7 oclock, maybe some sun for some of you. And then by noon 40 mostly cloudy skies there. And your high at 3 oclock is going to be 47 under mainly cloudy skies. 40 by 5 oclock and by 7 oclock 38 degrees.