Right now on fox 5 news atten steve guilty on all counts. One time, the power broker convicted. A crush of reporters followed Sheldon Silver as they left federal court today. Steve the former Assembly Speaker faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. Sharon crowley here. Sharon. Reporter steve, the lower east lawmaker rose to the highest levels of power end new york and his fall just as great. A jury found him guilty of taking bribes. While the defense team insisted he did not, the jury convig him. Sheldon silver once one of the most powerful lawmakers new york has been convicted on self ren counts of federal corruption including bribery and Money Laundering a. Federal jury found the 71yearold democrat for millions and then lying about it. A good point. Reporter the prosecutor argued he used in flew tones trade political flavors to amass personal fortune. Unsomeone scheme, a prominent local cancer doctor testify he steered patients to the law firm white and lu
My life without my son. 17 and 19yearold were the people who shot my son. How is that . Why are we not doing more . Reporter the call to address the issue of gun violence here on the streets of new york city and colorado came with acknowledgment from some of the harshest critics of police conduct, that the battle being waged is two pronged. At the same time we deal with police accountability, we have to work with them in dealing with gun violence. And weve got to be able to thread that needle and weve got to be able to do it with focus. The truth is the truth. We can deal with the police 6789 we can deal with ourselves. Reporter spike lee joined the group of mostly politicians to announce his film a satire will not have a party but a march. Were not having a celebration after a premier in new york city. Its going to be a march. Reporter and a resolution to congress for National Gun Violence awareness month. Historic resolution. Hasnt been done before to make sure we can fight this issu
And, of course, well show you what some of that looked like. More than a dozen convictions from Assembly Members to state senators to sheldon silver, the most powerful of them all considered the cap stone in a recent run of prosecutions by u. S. Attorney barara. Silver got justice and at long last so did the people of new york. We also got a statement sent to us by the Current Assembly speaker carl hasty who said that accountability and transparency are critical for the people of new york. And critical for his office right now. Sheldon silver emerged just a couple of minutes ago. Told us he is disappointed at the verdict, but hopes to clear his name through an appeal. His attorney said they also were disappointed and they will fire an immediate appeal. Reporting live in lower manhattan, andrew siff, news 4 new york. Thank you for all the new developments there from the courthouse. Nearly a quarter million new Care Coverage today. Health republic is the 12th Health Insurance coop to col
Im gus rosendale. Erica is in for raphael this morning. Good morning. Were off to a cold start in some of our suburbs. Only 23 in sussex. 27 in poughkeepsie. But youre right, it doesnt feel like early december once we get into the afternoon hours. We do have some reduced visibility right now, one mile in poughkeepsie and six miles for your visibility in islip. Those visibilities could continue to go down closer to sunrise. Tons of sunshine once that sun actually rises. 51 degrees at noon. By 6 00, down to 52. Dropping from a High Temperature of 56 degrees. Its going to be a really pleasant afternoon. Another great day to spend outside. Coming up in our full sevenday forecast, we have a couple chances for rain. Pat, back to you. Erica, thank you. New this morning, authorities are on the trail of an arsonist in queens. Right now fire marshals on the this is the fifth one in recent weeks. Flames tore through a vacant twostory home on 69th street early this morning. Officials and neighbors
Potential recession down the road. That is a good jobs number. And the president is expected to speak about that report in about 90 minutes. Before he does that, were going to get the latest from the white house when a key member of the president s Economic Team joins us live. And you thought warriors celtics was good, history at the Scripps National spelling bee. Morehan. Morhen. 14yearold logan spelling an incredible 21 words in 90 seconds. And a clip you need to see to believe. Were going to get to that a little later here in the hour. But were going to start with the fallout if fr the recent mass shooting thats have so rattled the kush. Gunman who killed four people in tulsa, oklahoma, targeted a doctor who performed a back surgery on him less than a month ago. And the suspect legally purchased an ar15 style rifle around 2 00 p. M. The day of the shooting. Before storming the hospital just three hours later. Were also learning more about the mass acer that killed 19 people in texas