It work this way say investigators. Mitchell made sure Logan Technology and willard got nearly 1 million in upland security and surveillance equipment contracts from 2009 to 2015. Willard would allegedly kickback to councilman mitchell tone 15 of the deal on highly inflated prices. Some of the proceeds were moved in cash says the da to mitchell from a Check Cashing outlet. At least on one occasion he specifically remembers delivering delivering 5,000 envelope in cash to the house of ed mitchell upland borough. Reporter da alleges mitchell had secret audio and video recording Equipment Installed in borrow Hall Council Chambers in an office and he made tapes investigators were tipped when uplands mayor found the camera system back in march. And then there were dash cams for the police cars upland was billed not once but twice. 30 grand for those cameras. Its determined that these dash cams never arrived and mitchell instructs logan to report them as missing. Reporter thats what he d he apparently report the them as missing. At 6 00 oclock well have more on that whole dash cam scenario fort police cars here. Edward mitchell lawyer says his client is innocent. Both men have been released on bon. Da says the probe continues. Live in upland, im jeff cole. Lucy, back to you. Thank you very much, jeff. Your fox 29 Weather Authority if you thought it was cold when you left the house this morning, whole hold on to your hat and i do mean literally here. Frigid temperatures along with strong winds are going to make for a bitter night and chilly wait at the bus stop tomorrow morning. Meteorologist kathy orr bracing the cold in old city tonight. How cold are we talking, kathy . Do i really want to know. No, you really dont want to know. We have that arctic front and well see snow showers as a result as well and thats going to come overnight tonight. Right now, we have everybody bundled up walking by with their jacketjackets and their hats. Scarves and mittens coming up soon. Take look at the temperatures. In philadelphia as we look at the platt bridge the temperature is 40 degrees. Not so bad. The wind out of the whipped northwest at seven going to increase tonight the high today 43 degrees. Little bit below average. Right now, temperatures pretty comfortable in the city and surrounding areas. Some 20s to the west. 23 degrees in cleveland. 21 degrees in toronto. Thats where our front is. So this evening, temperatures will be falling through the 30s. A sprinkle or flurry at 11 00 p. M. In the city but i do expect the chance of some snow showers especially south and east of the city shortly after midnight. Theyll be a little bit of a burst of snow moving through delaware into south jersey could get into philadelphia and then it swiftly moves out to sea by 3am temperatures will fall quickly and that could make for an icy morning come tomorrow. So please be aware of that. So coming up, well talk about that snow tonight into tomorrow morning. The biting wind chills we expect and another chance of snow this weekend. Winter officiall officially begt week but it will feel like it to night. Ill see you later in the broadcast with the seven day. All right, kathy, thanks. Dont get caught in the cold without the fox 29 app like having a meteorologist in your pock. Available in the apple and google play stores. Bill cosby back in Montgomery County court today ahead of his Sexual Assault trial. Lawyers for both sides are battling it out over whether some of his a skus sore which is testify in the trial. Prosecutors say their testimony will show cosby has a history of abusing women. While the defense says the women are just trying to cash in. Our bruce gordon was back in the Montgomery County courtroom today. Bruce . Reporter yeah, guys, this twoday hearing wrapped up moments ago. Cosby left the courthouse and now we await the ruling from judge Steven Oneill it could come within days more likely win at least a couple of weeks. He will have to decide how many if any of 13 cosby a sues sores will be a loud to testify at this the only criminal sex assault case against him. Bill cosby americas dad or serial sex abuser in Court Wednesday morning County District attorney kevin steele detail cases of 13 young women who say cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them after are friending them, mentoring them and gaining their trust. Steel argued cosby quote intentionally exploited women in diminish state and call it quote a lifetime of Sexual Assault on young women. Cosby is charged in this case with drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his cheltenham mansion in 2004. There were no witnesses to the incident and miss constand did not immediately come forward with her allegations. The prosecution hopes 13 additional accusing witnesses each with similar stories can bolster their case. And refute any defense claim that cosby mistakenly thought constand was a willing partner. If in fact he had a plan arc scheme, a pattern of drugging women, he would know that they could not consent if they were incapacitated, unconscious. Reporter defense attorney Brian Mcmonagle described the 13 other accusations some of which date back to the 1960s as ancient and incredible. But so vague as to be impossible to defend he call the extra accusations quote a bandaged band wagon of claims. Says said mcmonagle to the judge you got to stop this. The defense spent most of the Late Afternoon tearing apart those 13 apparent witnesses or at least hopeful witnesses. One by one, variously describing them as being drug addicts or clicks test alleged incidents saying some of them changed their stories over time and others looked to be simply out for some publicity or cash. They had particularly harsh words for Gloria Allred you saw her in our peace there claiming she has market the and or kess traited these claims to make them seem like more than they really are. Lucy, again, a decision from the judge not expected for at least a couple of weeks. It will be a blockbuster when it come. It certainly will. Thank you, bruce. Police in the citys frankford neighborhood are checking Surveillance Video hoping camera caught a glimpse of a man who killed another man early this morning. Someone called police to the 1400 block of adams of a right around 1 00 a. M. Officers found a 30yearold man shot several times lying in the road. He died at the scene. Police have not yet released his identity. A woman is now charged in a hitandrun crash that hurt a 12yearold boy in new castle county. Marsha williams turned herself in to police last night. New Castle County Police say detectives say Surveillance Video of the car involved in the crash helped them identify williams. 12yearold Brian Richards was crossing the street when he was hit last week. Several of the bones were broken including a fractured skull. The number of open cabinet positions in the president elects cabinet is dwindling. Donald trump made another announce many today. All while carving out some time to meet with tech leaders. Foxs joel waldman has the latest from washington, d. C. Report roar whose who of the Tech Industry at trump tower. Elan musk of tesla, apple ceo tim cook amazon founder jeff ba seem os and Cheryl Sandberg of face back some of those invited what the president elect team is calling a tech summit aim at finding ways they can all Work Together to bring tech jobs back to america. They need each other. This industry doesnt have lot of regulation and what little it hayes is very out of date. So republicans are going to have a lot of power here and trump wants to create jobs and he wants this industry to create a lot of jobs in the u. S. The Transition Office also announcing some of these titans of tech along with the ceos and black stone group have all been tapped to serve in whats being dubbed the president s strategic and policy forum. Well i just want to thank everybody. This is a truly Amazing Group of people. I wont tell you the hundreds of calls weve had asking to come to this ming. Reporter another Administration Announcement from the president elect officially naming Rick Perry Energy secretary. Fox news also learning first term montana congressman ryan sin key will be likely be name interior secretary. This is about a shift in priorities. Both of these selections of rick perry and ryan sin key fort interior department they both signal that this is something that he is going to make a huge priority. Reporter a handful of democratic lawmakers today announcing that the General ServicesAdministration Says that president elect trump must divest his washington, d. C. Hotel when he becomes president because it sits on federal property. Joel waldman, fox news. In wildwood is man is in the hospital after partial home collapse. Sky fox over the 600 block of the west rio grant of a just after 11 00 this morning. The press of Atlantic City is reporting part of the home collapsed while crews were raising the property. One man wept flying into the water when a beam hit him in the head. Hes now in Atlantic Care Regional Medical Center trauma unit. We dont know yet his condition. Two septa employees recovering another a manhole blue open. Septa says the employees responded to a call about a gas odor in southwest philadelphia along the 4800 block of windsor street this afternoon. They went to check it out and septa says they as they walk up to the manhole it did that, basically fire just shot out at them. It burned one of the workers. Authorities say he is expected to survive. The other worker is all right out of the hospital. Pgw still investigating the cause of the gas problem. A deadly accident in a snow bank in new york. What one boy toll rescuers he heard just before being buried by snow. A postal truck went up in flames with male carrier did next some say saved their christmas. Bob . Reporter hey, gang g evening, everybody i got my light suit on. I got my boom box, the gang is ready to go. We are here live in levittown, take look at the holiday lights here on stony brook lane. We come right back. All right, bob. Coming up at 6 00 video youve got to see to believe. A backhoe operator weaving across a local road. What police say they found when they stopped the heff vo piece of machinery. Prosecutors say the theft of 55,000 55 tons of nickel from Chester County money factory is inside job. They say eight employees of the company in South Coatesville conspired to steal and resell the nickel. Authorities have already arrest the the seven people you see here. The eighth person is right now in texas. The company says it lost almost 1 million. All right. Today begins a new era for temple football after back to back 10 win seasons. Today the owls introduced their new head coach jeff cole lince. Of course hes got some big shoes to fill. Stepping in for former head coach matt ruhle. Sean bell is here to tell us a little bit more about jeff cole lips and his introduction to philadelphia today. Hey, sean. Guys as you know this thing happens really really quick. Jeff cole lince got the call accepted the job and left florida all within the last 48 hours and today he was introduced as new head coach of the temple owls. Coach collins grew up in at than but well aware of phillys reputation tough, gritty, no nonsense type of city and thats what we like in our head coaches. Collins grew up big hockey guy and theres one team he had to see every time they came to to town. Whenever the flyers were in town, im five, six, seven years i had to go see the broad street bullies. High to. Had my flyers gear and pennant getting stuff thrown at me. I didnt care. I wanted to see bobby clark, dave schultz. I was drawn to the fiscal will the, the toughness, the never say die, never quit which i think is philly. Which i think is us. He knows how to kiss up to the city already. Doesnt he . Its all roses and everything is good right now. But theres a ton of pressure that comes with taking over 10 win team that may be the best in school history. Later in sports collins talks about dealing with everything that comes along with that. Lucy . All right. Well talk to you then, sean. Toys for tots ramping up for a big collect drive this weekend fox 29 at the mall chevrolet dealership in cherry hill this afternoon. Dealership help raised 20,000 in toys so far this year. With christmas around the bend theyre very close to their goal of 25,000. Not quite there yet. We are really happy to participate in toys for tots through the marine corps. Mall chevrolet has donated 20,000 in toys to give back to the community. Our customers have come in and brought toys as well as our employees have donated toys. The toys are head to go children across Camden County. This is dealerships fourth year of teaming up with toys for tots. The toys for tots drive is this friday and saturday from 11 00 to 4 00 at mall chevrolet, cherry hill, haddonfield road is the place. So you can help them hit their goal. Santa claus and marine corps there be there too. Mall chevrolet is a sponsor of fox 29. You can go get yourself a cheesesteak. Exactly. Chicks deli. It is time once again to celebrate a very kelly christmas. Right around the corner from mall chevrolet. Chair meister himself bob kelly checking out another fantastic lights display. Bob in is in bucks county and joins us live from levittown. Bob, youre lit. Im lit in levittown. I think i have this suit where else am i going to wear it. I might as well wear it when we do our christmas lights. We are here on the front lawn take a look at this. This is all synchronized to the music to the boom box here. Hello levittown. [ applause ] were her on the 5600 block of stony brook drive in levittown. The front lawn of kevin and debbie why. How long have you been doing this . 10 years now, bob. You got to see the boom box here. Michael youll show the lights how its synchronized to the music and off steady flow of folks that come on by. Youve been doing it for 10 years. 10 years. When do you start putting everything up. Right after halloween. I actually have little halloween show i don switch everything over. You do this for halloween as well. Not as elaborate. Nice little show. Debbie, what do you think of the craziness here . Its crazy but i support it 100 . You support that hes crazy. I support that hes crazy. [ laughter ] it all goes to the music and kelsey the daughter home from college today. Finally. What do you think of everything that your dad does. Its great. Its really colorful and bright and perfect for christmastime. The crowd what do you think of the lights . [ applause ] how many songs altogether do we have program . Its programmed into a computer, right. Everything is computer controlled. This year i have 10 songs. 10 song. Yeah. Okay. So this is your favorite here. Big trance Siberian Orchestra band. This song how long is this song here. About three minutes and 34 seconds. Wow take look. You got to go. You got the speakers out front here. What do the neighbors think of the songs playing all night lo long . They dont actually hear the songs. Thats true because you know when we come back, they have their own Radio Station that when you pull up in the car, lucy and iain, you can keep the kids in the car, you pull up to the front and you tune the radio to a certain station and you can hear the munich your car. You dont have to to get out of your car. Were out of our car tonight and well stay here all night long. 5600 block of stony brook lane in levittown getting lit in levittown. Back to you guys. Not that bob kelly is dipping into the nothing or anything like that. That is so cool, though. It is cool. Turn on excellent stuff out there in levittown. Well see more. You knee gas in your tank if youre going to hang out. Idle there for awhile. Filling up your gas tank in pennsylvania will cost you more. When prices at the pump will once again be climbing. Oh, joy. Fox 29 viewer lost his daughter to a rare type of cancer and noticed not much was happening to keep other children from enduring the same thing. Now hes turning his heartbreak into a powerful mission. I felt i like a job to do. Something to accomplish now that could help someone else out. What hes doing to change that and were guessing youll find it very inspirational. New tonight Police Sources are telling fox 29 that officers have caught the man accused of stealing packages from homes in northern liberties. Police say this home Surveillance Video caught him in the act along 800 block every lawrence street last friday. Investigators arrested the man today at fifth and popular streets. Police say he had someones packages on him at the time. Cobbs creek a man spun out of control killing him when his car slammed into another parked car and a tree. It happened just past midnight at 58th and baltimore avenue. The 58yearold driver had some type of medical emergency which is why he lost control. He died at the hospital just a short time later. You know today marks four years since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown connecticut. One church is remembering the young lives lost on that dark day. 26 tshirts hang on stands in front of the Presbyterian Church of chestnut hill. They hang in memory of the 20 students and six teachers who died in that deadly shooting in 2012. The church host add Prayer Service today to remember the sandy hook victims as well all victims of gun violent. Heeding gods call asked us to be the hos