intended for the nursing home. mr. williams simply took money that did not belong to him and then he lied bit. reporter: they are a stunning series of charge is allegedly seth williams sought , received lavish gifts in exchange for official action. vacation offers by business associates to punta cana, vegas, santiago, williams wrote in the text dude, i never want to feel like a dragon your wallet but we are always ready for an at venture williams is charged with 23 counts including bribery and stonings. prosecutors say that the pattern of criminal activity stretched on for years. another text message showed the business associate thanking williams, gushing about their friendship saying i care about you, and want you to be the next mayor, and next governor and maybe the next president. well, mayor jim kenney released a statement and sum of his word he put it this way rather bluntly. quoting i don t see how he can do his job. i think he should resign. we should point out
unusually quiet in south philadelphia this year. organizers of the parade say the political climate makes it a no go. we ll explain. maybe we can shed some layers today. let s turn to meteorologist, david murphy and karen rogers. good morning. this afternoon we definitely can. right now maybe some rain gear for some of you on the way out the door. these are light nuisance showers and they re not everywhere but you can see that down in south jersey through camden county, gloucester county and then down in through cumberland and salem counties and very shortly in cape may and atlantic counties you are looking at a couple of light sprinkles and showers a bit of this down through delaware and there s another batch moving through bucks county getting ared to pop back into montgomery and chester counties and there s addition in ally stuff out to the west. i think the last of this probably gets through after the end of the rush hour. temperatures not as bad this morning as they
salt all overall of our cars. they are light s know how get wo to clean off your car but it will be enough of the swipe or two of the wipers and those will be moving through the next hour or so, and so, it is not like we will get a couple areas, down in southern new jersey whe w steady rain and philadelphia right now. we have a 45 degrees, 6 miles ar su earlier, sunsets will get later, and now that we have had the vernal equinox longer days and shorter nights. 45 degrees in philadelphia y and now, much milder4 hein mon erer in lanca to the north of usrty-two levit. just about everybodythis mornin. our number of the day we willt r then y eventually some sunshine. we wil part of the like what happened last tuesday. i don t even any of that again. good4:, on a tuesday eastboun the wa here, see police herewill need to go straight, philadelphia, or if this is the ramp here for oregon avenue. heading eastbound on the schuylkill police have that stretch blocked. they are also wo
buddy is this morning and is there the rain this morning. last of it starting to move through montgomery county and, little bit of chester county this morning and parts of the new jersey. we have got a lot of cloud cover here in philadelphia we have had a few sprinkles earlier. 44 degrees at 7:02 is your sunrise time just about to happen. and 30 s to the north of us but upper 30 s, so everybody is above freezing, 44 down in wildwood. we have downingtown 36. thirty-seven in doyletown. we will head to a high of 59 degrees later on and we will eventually see some sunshine. this is a pretty decent weather day at lee it will be later on but tomorrow is different story. we will talk about that and rest of the seven day forecast , coming up, where is your jammo, bob kelly. i just remembered there is another person who has a candy dish here bill anderson has a candy dish. it empties quickly. i will make a trip upstairs and see what kind of goodies he has. we will just move it
exchange for his help in a court case. among the gifts he received trips to the dominican republic with his girlfriend, a custom sofa and 9,000 in cash. we have two reports on our big story tonight action news reporter christie ileto is live outside the da s office in center city but first dann cuellar is at the federal building with details of indictment today dann. reporter: jim the shock waves from the 50 count federal indictment continue to reverberate and the wide ranging bribery extortion and fraud in exchange for fixing legal problems for two business owners. it s hard to imagine a public servant tasked went forcing thelaw putting quid proquo above justice for all. reporter: seth williams accepted 10s of thousands worth of concealed bribes he received from two men described in document as business owner one and two. in the form of money expensive vacations airline tickets a jaguar xk8 convertible expend expensive furniture. reporter: he received from business