Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. You may have thought youd heard it all regarding the prison escape and manhunt involving two killers last month in new york but it turns out there was a lot more. Today as Joyce Mitchell the prison worker who helped them bust out, appeared in court to plead guilty to her crimes nbc news obtained a detailed, at times salacious and eyeopening statement she made to state police about the plot the supplies the weapons, and the plan to kill her husband the night of the escape. Nbcs john yang was in court today in upstayed new york. Reporter with a tearful signature Joyce Mitchell accepted a plea deal today admitting she smuggled hack saw blades, drill bits chisels, padded gloves glasses with lights, and other tools into the prison for convicted killers richard matt and david sweat who, the d. A. Says used them to escape. Shes been very anxious, very depressed,
And yesterday, a likely fragment of one washed ashore on a tiny remote island. Is it a piece of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 . What is the latest this morning . Well malaysian investigators say theyre almost certain this piece of debris came from a bowing 777, and they sudden be able to determine whether or not this is from the missing flight mh 370 over the next couple of days. The piece was find on the island of reunion, about six to eight feet long. Its called a flaperon, its part of the wing. Investigators have found a number on the fragment which could be a maintenance number and may help them identify it more quickly. Mh 370 disappeared in march of 2014, not a trace of it has been seen since. Its believed to have gone down in the southern indian ocean and computer model predicted debris would begin to wash up in this same area, around this time. One oceanographer said if this is from mh 370 you can expect more debris to wash up in the coming days and weeks. Australia is leading t
Used from federal grant money for an educational seminar fatah never held. His long time Congressional District assistant the helped cover up the cashflow. Brandt took part in the alleged crimes. 29 counts in this indictment and some of those penalties are pretty hefty, with racketeering and bribery carrying each a maximum of 20 years in prison. Reporting live outside city hall deanna durante, nbc10 news. Congressman fatah was in washington when the indictment was announced today. Nbc10s keith jones is live now in our Digital Operations Center with more on what the congressman had to say today. Hes going to let his attorney handle this matter, he wants to continue to focus on helping his constituents. All i want to say is i spent my time helping people. Im going to spend my time helping millions more and im going to let my attorney its going to be important to my constituents that this not be a distraction in terms of my would, and im going to try not to have it be a distraction. This
Expressway closed. Now that is actually preventing any access to the schuylkill expressway westbound. The eastbound side is doing just fine. You can see the road closed signs here so no access to the westbound schuylkill. Take girard to the schuylkill expressway just for right now and they also have local detour signs posted throughout the area. We are still dealing with 11 minute drive him heading westbound from the vine street expressway toward the blue route and eastbound side of the schuylkill expressway from the blue route up to the vine 12 minutes there. No problems on 95. 15 minute trip there from the schuylkill up to the vine street expressway. Mass transit no problems or delays so far. Indicted. Longtime congressman chalk a fa talk of philadelphia is accused of bribing and stealing money intended for charity and dates back to his failed race for mayor in philadelphia in 2007. The indictment alleges his misuse of congressional influence and misspending of taxpayer money and cha
But those have died down. That is not the main threat. This is. The storms moving through southwestern pennsylvania. Right along North Central pennsylvania too. That line of storms will be moving in. Before it gets here the temperatures will head up. You see mostly cloudy skies right now. We will see some breaks of sunshine. 79 degrees at 8 00. Middle 80s by 11 00. At 2 00 this afternoon, 90 degrees and then we will be watching for storms during the later afternoon hours in philadelphia. We will go through the future cast hourbyhour when i come back in ten minutes to show you when the storms will likely arrive in your neighborhood. If youre heading out the door right now Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. We are working through a work zone here on 295 in new jersey. As you can see right here around the black horse pike we are having work zone here in the center. We are losing some shoulder on either direction. Left hand shoulder. Good news the off ramp is open here. Vehicl