Fattah to step down right away. Good evening everyone im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. Fattah offered his resignation from the house effective october 3rd. That is one day before hes scheduled to be sentenced in his racketeering case. Yesterday a jury convicted fattah in racketeering case that centered on efforts to repay illegal 1 Million Campaign loan. The 59yearold democrat has been in Congress Since 1995 but in april he lost his primary bid for another term. Republicans want fattah out of office immediately. Speaker of the house paul ryan released this statement tonight quote mr. Fattah has be trade the trust this institution and the people of pennsylvania and for that he should resign immediately from the house of representatives. We must hold members to the highest ethical standard and i hope that Democratic Leaders will join me in seeking his immediate resignation. Late tonight fattah issued a statement reading in part quote in further consultation with house leadership, we
The child gave birth to other children through an inappropriate relationship. And do you know who these other children were in the home, these other 12 children . Were still investigating that. Bucks children and youth are investigating that along with some other agencies trying to identify their genealogy and who the parents are. As far as i know we havent been able to locate birth certificates. Multiple times ive driven by this house and seen young girls of various ages, children dressed mostly in amish clothing. Often afraid. They would look like once he would come out of the house like the male would come out of the house they would go running into the house. And you know, other neighbors are telling me that these girls would usually not talk. They were very scared. Some of the other little girls in this neighborhood would come and try to play with them but they would refuse and run back into the house. Police are now investigating whether any of those other 11 girls inside the hom
Action news, delaware valleys leading news program, with meteorologist melissa a magee, jeff skversky, Sarah Bloomquist and walter perez. The storms came and went quickly but the clean up could take a while, from down trees to flooding and a fire, that may have been caused by lightening. The fast moving system, left behind quite a bit of damage. Sunday night and the big story on action news is aftermath of the this evenings Severe Weather. We have Team Coverage tonight. Action News Reporter Nora Muchanic is live with a look at damage there but we will get with meteorologist medical wrist a magee with the rain totals ape whether we are in the clear, melissa. Walter and sarah the good news is strong cold front that produced those showers and storms is already pushing off shore. You can see that on Storm Tracker six double scan radar. You can see that moving to the east of philadelphia. Same one that did produce Severe Thunderstorm Warnings across the a area and that severe thunderstorm w
If youre out here protesting because you think something is wrong, you will stand on that and not destroy your city. A lot of people dont know where to go. World wide dg is a 21yearold singersongwriter who grew up in sherman park. . He sings about the hardship of living without a father who abandoned him. One thing i learned the most about struggle iu . Musicians, poets, and barbers. Lets stick together around here, all right . These are people who believe it takes love and kindness to heal. This is their prescription going forward. Kathy two young men from west allis were touched by what they saw in sherman park over the weekend. Felix barros and everett weymier went to a donut shop and bought treats for officers at the 7th we want to sort of show people that you dont have to be part of the community to feel like a community. We might be 20 minutes away by car, that it is deathly not out of our way to come and help. Kathy there is also a prayer vigil tomorrow night. It was organized b
Howard beach home and say police have strong leads and it could be a matter of days until an arrest is made. She was found face down in a marsh near jamaica bay more than two weeks ago after going for a run. Police say she was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. We know that there is a Family Member of the killer that we need for them to come forward, you know, to finalize this very than 250,000 for anyone with information leading to an arrest. Anyone with information should call crimestoppers. Alison the man accused of killing a bronx deli work in court. He will not testify in front of a grand jury. Police say guzman shot and killed the man last week after guzman grabbed an officers gun outside the deli and fired 15 shots before police shot him. Guzman will be arraigned on murder and attempted murder charges at the next court hearing. We understand theres a grand jury convened that is taking evidence. This guy is bad, very bad pe person. Alison he is due in court september 1st.