Care in texas hospital. How long president George Hw Bush could be in that icu we do not know. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. Meantime his wife former First Lady Barbara Bush is also in the hospital. Heres what we know right now. The couple are in the same Houston Texas medical center. The 41st president were you admitted saturday for shortness of breath and by this morning he was moved into up tense seive care unit. Doctors performed a procedure to clear the former president s airway and address a respiratory issue stemming from pneumonia. Meantime barbara bush was admitted to the hospital after experiencing fatigue and coughing ton night a longaid to former president bush says 41 is a fighter. You know, hes a great man. You cant keep a great man down, and hes always got the best attitude of anyone in the room. Both president and mrs. Bush just made a public appearance. They just celebrated their 72nd wedding anniversary. Our fox 29 app users the first to learn of todays news thanks to
Months in prison. Almost four years. Its been close to four years since the incident on the ft. Lee side of the George Washington bridge that created the bridgegate scandal. Bridgette kelly and bill baroni were convicted in november of wire fraud, conspiracy, and misusing the bridge as retaliation against ft. Lees mayor because he declined to endorse governor christies bid for reelection. Prosecutors said the two shut down several toll lanes at the George Washington bridge in september of 2013 intentionally causing a major traffic jam in ft. Lee. Governor christie was never charged with any wrongdoing. He argued that he was never aware that his office was involved until months after the fact. Federal sentencing guidelines call for 37 to 46 months. The exact sentence is up to the judge. Both boroni and kelly have asked for leniency including Community Service instead jail time. Meantime, governor Chris Christie is in line to lead a President Trump task force. That tops the other stories
Delays first from 29 to the schuylkill, an eightminute trip with speeds into the 60s. Thank you. Happening today, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been tapped to lead President Trumps opioid commission. Its a new effort to fight the growing epidemic. Nbc10s matt delucia joins us live in the digital operations center. Christie is not new to this fight. Reporter thats right. He met with President Trump last month. Later this morning he will be at the white house to be part of a round table discussion on opioid abuse. A white house official said earlier this week that the governor would work on an opioid task force. The governor has indicated that his final year in office would be dedicated to reducing heroin and Prescription Drug addiction here in the garden state. And last month, he signed legislation to include a fiveday limit on firsttime opioid prescriptions and a requirement for insurance to cover six months of Substance Abuse treatment. Earlier this month, the governor also t
In black and wearing a hood opened the door to bucks corner store in south philly and started firing hitting her with half a dozen bullets before taking off. I want the Death Penalty for him. Im sorry. Its an emotional case. We have nothing but respect for the victims family. But by the same token, its not going to make it any better to have the wrong person convicted. Reporter revenge against the victims grandson is the alleged motive. He testified he and his exgirlfriend regularly bought heroin from groan. E he also said the exgirlfriend was having ab affair with green and upon bucks ushlging stole a gold chain from the suspect last may. They pawned for 2,000 for drug money. We dont blame my neve knew. Not me. Not my father. You can see all surrounding him with the love. The defendant had the motive. He was looking for the victims grandson. His vehicle that is recovered matches to a tee not just in the make, model and year, but also the dents. In court today prosecutors presented Sur
Four receive home confinements. Instead the judge sentenced her to 18 months behind bars for her role in bridge gate. She was the writer of the infamous text, time for traffic problems in ft. Lee. I want to assure my kids and everyone else that this is far from over, i will not allow myself to be the scapegoat in this case. She testified she told governor christie in august before it happened and the governor consistently said he did not know about the political pay back scheme to publish the democratic mayor of ft. Lee who would not support his reelection. One day at the appropriate time. She no doubt will give an interview and lay out all the faces as she knows them to be. Former law maker, bill baroni was christies top appointee and he got two years for his role. He apologized for making poor choices but did not speak after advice from his lawyer because an appeal is planned. Mr. Baroni and miss kelly abused their positions in the government, used government resources, to settle a p