Months in prison. Almost four years. Its been close to four years since the incident on the ft. Lee side of the George Washington bridge that created the bridgegate scandal. Bridgette kelly and bill baroni were convicted in november of wire fraud, conspiracy, and misusing the bridge as retaliation against ft. Lees mayor because he declined to endorse governor christies bid for reelection. Prosecutors said the two shut down several toll lanes at the George Washington bridge in september of 2013 intentionally causing a major traffic jam in ft. Lee. Governor christie was never charged with any wrongdoing. He argued that he was never aware that his office was involved until months after the fact. Federal sentencing guidelines call for 37 to 46 months. The exact sentence is up to the judge. Both boroni and kelly have asked for leniency including Community Service instead jail time. Meantime, governor Chris Christie is in line to lead a President Trump task force. That tops the other stories
This thing is raging on the 200 block of smith school road. It started around 8 30 tonight. Skyfox over the inferno. Crews still do not have this under control. So far though fire dispatch is report nothing injuries to any people or animals. We of course will stay on top this and bring you the latest updates as they come into the newsroom. Another big story we are tracking tonight. Chaos on the streets of north philadelphia. Four people shot. Two of the victims dead at the scene. The others taken to the hospital and tonight whoever pulled that trigger is still out there. Thanks for joining us im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. The shooting happened at the end of the school day while children were coming home. Lets get out to fox 29s sean wilson live outside of Police Headquarters for more. Reporter i talked to man who lives on corner between a school and the neighborhood where that shooting happened. He is a father and let me tell you i could honestly feel that mans pain and dont night. T
Happened . Tonight that guy is not who police are trying to track down. Thanks for joining us us. Im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. Officers are trying to find the couple with the baby who raced out of the store. Our Shawnette Wilson is live in center city tonight. Shawnette a bizarre and really scary chain of events. Reporter it is. You know, police say they dont want to insinuate that the adults with the child did anything wrong. They just want to confirm who they are. After seeing this video youll understand why police are so concerned. What looks like normal activity inside a Dunkin Donuts in seconds turns into something else. Watch as a man sitting at the window abruptly gets up and walks over to a baby in a stroller. The adults with the child immediately push the man away and grab the baby. Those are my friends at the register. So they came and they told me they trying to kidnap kid here. You know, i was surprised. We showed harry the video. Hes a regular customer at t
Jersey and pretty much all of delaware. Were talking some scatter the severe thunderstorms damaging winds. Some hail may be isolated tornado but the bulls eye well to our south through sections of virginia. Thats the greatest risk. Flash flood watches much of the area kicking in tomorrow continuing through friday afternoon. The grounds already saturate it wont take much for ponding and run off so heres the timing. Tomorrow morning 3 00 a. M. To 8 00 a. M. Already looking at showers and storms. By the afternoon from noon until 4 00 some of those strong potentially severe thunderstorms coming up ill have much more on the timing and the areas that well see up to two perhaps 3inches of rain. Back over to you. All right. Scott, thank you. Happening right now, a grandmother is heart broken after the murder of her grands grandson. Tyshein chaney died two weeks ago. Killed police say by someone walwalking right beside him. The alleged shooter is now in custody. Tonight tysheins grandmother has
Im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. Food stamps are supposed to be used to buy groceries and scammers are trading them for cash. Chris oconnell is live in West Philadelphia with more on this story. Chris . Reporter well, guys, sorry i cant hear you but this scam is actually quite simple. You get food stamps from the federal government and turn around and sell them on the streets for 50 cents on the poll. Actually this kind of thing has been happening for awhile now. But now this hustle is happening right on your social media page. For families on food stamps its a lifeline to nutrition and helping put food on the table. They give us that for to us eat or have what we need. Reporter but selling food stamps on facebook, it is happening. Fox 29 viewers zen us these posts. One woman in north philly telling 150 in food stamps for 125 bucks on the sixth of the month. And here on craigslist where you can get 195 bucks in food stamps for just 95. You can go in just about anyone these Corner Stores