Decision hed made to give up. He wanted closure for his family and for himself and for the city. So i think thats why he did it. Reporter after nearly two weeks of damaging testimony, painting williams as the da with his hand out and a sign up, political favors for trips and cash, williams would plead guilty. It was this morning at 1 00 a. M. That mr. Burke reached me and said that they wanted to accept the deal that we had discussed. Reporter no Court Williams 50 years old stood up and admitted hed put his office up for sale in return for a lifestyle his 175,000 a year salary could never support. Today, the former District Attorney for the city of philadelphia admitted each of the corrupt and fraud allegations contained in the indictment. Reporter it was 29 count indictment brought by the new jersey u. S. Attorney in march. Today williams revealing he was broke and seeing a psychologist admitted guilt to just one cou count. A charge hook to taking a bribe from this man, bucks county b
Overnight, but hope on friday that is clearing. Krystal klei is here to tell us more about it. And it is a pretty good forecast. The weekend as a whole looks pretty good. Today i would say a few more bumps than your sunday will have. Here is a live view outside in ocean city. Look how nice the camera view is. A gorgeous shot as the sun coming up this morning. We will see a mix of clouds and sun today with the possibility of a few spot showers or an isolated storm particularly in the afternoon hours. So right now, really nothing for us to track with the area looking nice and clear. You see that little blip of green kind of dissolve before it makes into our area. I think well see some spotty showers later on. Were at 71 in philadelphia, northeast philly at 70. Mid upper 60s to the north and west. Pottstown in the mid to upper 60s. And then low 70s for areas like atlantic city, wildwood 73, dover, you are at 70 degrees right now. Even our water temperatures now in the low 70s both along o
Our morning. Just some clouds. And it will be a humid one. My hair actually is a great forecaster because i can tell when its humid, it goes flat real quickly. So we are looking at hot and humid conditions about spot shower, but not a washout. Right now weertre at 72 in philadelphia, 68 in wilmington and redding. Allentown, youre at 67. And at the marina, 74. Not bad today well have a southwest flow, so that will keep our temperature pretty nice even along our shore points will be in the mid80s for our High Temperatures. As for philly, we go through the next few hours, 77 at 9 00 a. M. And 83 by your lunchtime. But we wont stop there. Were talking more right around 90 for forecast high. And well look neighborhood by neighborhood and ill let you know what sunday is looking like, that is my pick of the weekend, thats coming up. Protests raged through the night in hamburg. Police say that the protesters set fires and looted supermarkets. As you can see, officers had to use water could not
Im rosemary connors. Lets start with the weekend weather as it will warm up and steam up today. Here is a live look over the Philadelphia Museum of art. A place where it might not be a bad day to get relief from the heat. Check out some exhibits in the air conditioning. We may see some spotty showers, thats what krystal klei is cracking for us. Yeah, youre right. Its july, the rain is not gone, but it does look like a better forecast than what weve seen the last couple of days. We will be more dry over your weekend. So maybe you want to go to the shore. Right now we have scattered clouds overhead and you see this little spot shower that is trying to make its way into the Lehigh Valley. Allentown, you might get a few sprinkles, but nothing heavy across our region. And i really dont think that there will be much heavy rain at all through the afternoon hours. Although there will be more showers to pop up. Right now temperatures weert were at 72 in philadelphia, 70 in allentown, mt. Pocono
Learned his fate from a federal judge. Monday night, the big story, a sentence of ten years in prison for a man that spent 20 year yen capitol hill and 17 years before that in harrisburg. The judge said while you have done good you have engaged in widespread criminal activity. The prosecutors wanted a sentence of 1721 years. He was sentenced for stealing money from the government and charity toe pay his sons debt and buy a vacation home. He has to pay 6 million to fannie mae and nasa. Dan, can you put some of this into context of fatahs political career . He was once seen as a rising star of the democratic party. Hes been an inspiration to the younger generation. Today was a painful day. It was a young state senator who entered the race for congressman tate senator fatah, here they are together set celebrating as mayor. To see a friend like that a long standing friend like that go through this process, it was very difficult, very painful personally. He was a mentor to cindy bass. I hav