courthouse with expected to happen today. fill us in. just moments ago, my colleague text me to let me know the congressman has been sentenced to a decade behind bars. our camera was rolling when he arrived just before 9:00 this morning. he didn t comment when entering. during the opening, his defense attorney tells is judge sentencing guidelines are harsh, he also said fattah has helped tens of millions of people along the way. he also urged the judge to take into account the entirety of with who he is, helping to educate people, to bring progress to philadelphia. now, for more than an hour, i listened to close to a dozen witness, some constituent, some former employees. some benefactors of college scholarships. most spoke of his assistance in educating college students. two spoke about his love for israel. one witness said she was aware of his ins and he must be held accountable, so just moments ago my colleague did let us know that the form congressman has received ten y
district. a man shot after dropping off a child at school. teachers praised for keeping the kids inside. and metro reach as major hurdle to scaling back service on the rails after safe track. announcer: news4 at 11 starts now. i am good evening, everybody. doreen has the night off. first up tonight, a close call for a family just trying to stay warm. their house, killed with carbon monoxide because of a problem with their furnace, something firefighters tell us could happen to any of us. shomari stone live at the dc fire station to tell us more on how this family got out. reporter: good evening jim, tonight this family tells us they are fortunate to be alive. firefighters often respond to carbon monoxide calls during the winter months when people are turning up their heat. they leave stations like the one behind me, the victims often transported in ambulances like the one over here. tonight thisam just grateful that god looked out for me and my family. charles m
the kids are all okay. thank god. reporter: no one was in the room that was hit. the kids were immediately rushed out of the building. it s scary but we have been trained to act on panic motion, especially when it comes to kids. we just did like the tornado drill. reporter: make daniel read lives next-door. they did a hell of a job. nobody was hurt. everybody went home safe. reporter: investigated the building and says it s structurally sound. the school will open normally tomorrow. that was devon turk in fort myers. officials have yet to release any information on the driver or the cause of the crash. part of a crane collapsed in jacksonville in a residential community on the second floor of a ymca mandarin. the arm of the crane fell on top of it. damage is minimal and the first- no one was injured. for more than a month, the fema mobile disaster recovery center has been traveling to areas affected by hurricane matthew. right now it s in saint augustine helpi
your screen you can see 2% of the boat coming in. we will keep you up-to-date at the bottom and will continue to bring you our analyst throughout the night tonight. will see a grasp of the situation down there. because of traffic updates and traffic problems from years past the police chief recommended making a new traffic pattern for people getting to the polls this year. that turned out to be a mistake. that is what caused the problems in merrimack today. because of that they extended the hours at the voting polls and technically at this point the voting polls have a closed. anybody that is in the parking lot right now that has made it to the high school will be able to vote. the town moderator said she is very sorry for any of those stuck in traffic and many may have decided to turn around and that was not her intent at all. thank you suzanne, that was great. breaking news. on republican say, abc news calling this race for donald trump as winner of the new hampshire
calcification galore and the enormity of the situation needs to be perhaps graphically shared. under the city of albany, the capital of new york, which is part of the 20th congressional district i represent, happens to lie 317 miles of pipe. drinking water infrastructure. you know, you could travel from albany, new york, to baltimore, maryland, that s the sort of linear responsibility associated with that system. should we anticipate rightfully, that there may be some bumps along the road of that 317 mile stretch in any given year? absolutely. let s think of it in those sorts of terms, so that we can have a better understanding and awareness of an aged infrastructure, which by the way is also accompanied by a discontinued inventory in many cases. valves that are required are no longer manufactured. and so we have to come up with some innovative response when there is a break. and while we ve talked a lot about capital improvements, capital infrastructure, physical infrastruct