For vacation house up in the poconos, and then they create a sham transaction. Reporter fattah stepped down as chair of the House Appropriations committee but plans to remain in office. He responded to the allegations outside of his d. C. Office. This is not deflategate. This is a normal issue of which there are allegations after a very long running eight year investigation. Reporter mayor nutter has known fattah and his family for years. He said despite allegations fattah has done a lot of good for city. He has been a champion for this city a and across United States of america in terms of education. Reporter fattahs attorney tells me that they knew the nature of these allegations for some time now and they plan to fight the charges. Were live from overbrook Syma Chowdhry for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Same, thank you. We will have continuing coverage of the fattah indictment at 5 30 our Pat Ciarrocchi speaks with fattahs mother about the indictment. Tonight at 6 00 we will take a deeper l
Snow emergency, philadelphia Public Schools and all diocesan schools are closed. Good morning, im vai sikahema. Im tracy davidson. Heres a live look at philadelphias mt. Airy neighborhood. Were taking a look from the changeover to snow. Now, lets go to the pocono mountains where the changeover has happened. Snow started falling here overnight. And snow moving into the Lehigh Valley. Heres a live look at allentown. This morning, we have complete coverage of the storm. The First Alert Weather Team has the most accurate in the neighborhood. Bill henley and krystal klei, here with the storm. Were seeing the intense snow this morning. It is spreading to its south. Its already snowing in allentown. And had to run the plows, but minimal accumulation. And a much lighter snow in allentown. But this storm is just getting started. We expect it to intensify. Theres allentown, lehigh, maiden creek. To the south, richland is seeing that snow. But then farther to the south, we saw tim furlong driving
Che guevara made 1961 the year of education. They had an illiteracy rate of 27 , which is ours, as well. And within a year, they dropped it to 4 . Howd they do it . They had the political will to attack Adult Literacy. And they closed the schools. Brigades of teachers and students went out into peasant fields, taught reading, taught writing. And within a year, it was turned around. And not only that, but today, cuba has the greatest literacy statistics in the world. And i talked to Michael Nutters the director of the Mayoral Commission on literacy, and she said, we could do that here. We have the plans to do that here. We dont have the political will to do that here. It would cost 56 million to really make a dent in Adult Literacy. 550,000 adults in philadelphia lack basic literacy skills. We cant get to job creation if we dont deal with this issue. And how would that begin . Explain once you do that part, what does it move within education for our kids to change how we see that system
Golden girl . New details this morning. Dangerous curves. The model making huge headlines for her racy campaign for a burger chain. Is this the sizzling video thats catapulting her to the top of the year . And good morning, america. Hello to robin at home. Welcome back to amy robach. We have news breaking overnight. A powerful 8. 0 earthquake in the south pacific. It created a tsunami. It hit the Solomon Islands pretty hard. Four people dead right now. The threat has subsided. And also happening right now, a really difficult morning for a bakery delivery man. This is a very dramatic scene on a florida highway. You see the truck dangling off an overpass. A rescue operation is under way right now. Well give you the latest of what is happening with that. Also on the show, one couple, twice the luck. The husband and wife with the astonishing doublewin at the lottery. You wont believe what their planning to do with all that money they just won. We have to get right to a huge snowstorm. In f
Dangerous curves. The model making huge headlines for her racy campaign for a burger chain. Is this the sizzling video thats catapulting her to the top of the year . And good morning, america. Hello to robin at home. Welcome back to amy robach. We have news breaking overnight. A powerful 8. 0 earthquake in the south pacific. It created a tsunami. It hit the Solomon Islands pretty hard. Four people dead right now. The threat has subsided. And also happening right now, a really difficult morning for a bakery delivery man. This is a very dramatic scene on a florida highway. You see the truck dangling off an overpass. A rescue operation is under way right now. Well give you the latest of what is happening with that. Also on the show, one couple, twice the luck. The husband and wife with the astonishing doublewin at the lottery. You wont believe what their planning to do with all that money they just won. We have to get right to a huge snowstorm. In fact, the biggest of the winter, on track