And a new face. Right, the commissioner of the department of Public Health. Judy, good afternoon. Ed lifshitz. Dr. Police colonel pat callahan, and we are also joined by the commissioner of the department of Environmental Protection, catherine mccabe, to my left. Great to have you. Covid 19 is ao wholeofgovernment endeavor. Lots of departments have key noes to play, and dep is exception. Commissioner mckee will talk about her departments role. We will go right to the numbers and then feel in details from their. There. We are reporting an additional 2100 96 positive test results. Our statewide count stands at 18,696. Positive test results since yesterday. 696 in total. We continue to lose members of our new jersey family to covid19 complications. This does not get any easier. Since yesterday, another 69 residents have died. 267,total net stands at each of them a precious life lost from our new jersey family. Taking that number, which is a big one, and putting a face to it, and a couple
Vaughn spencer was bribing the president of city council Francisco Acosta to draft legislation to repeal an anticorruption statute. In allentown city hall a larger scheme, six people close to the mayor pleaded guilty k u including mike fleck. How did they work . In one incidence they said she moved a woman from her job because she did not favor a company because she did not pay to play. And they destroyed her score sheet and changed the numbers so the preferred company won the bid. An entirely rigged process. The popular mayor not stepping down and saying he is continuing his campaign for a fourth term in office. Late this afternoon he said this. I have done nothing wrong. Nor have i ever personally accepted a dime beyond my salary as mayor and not accepted anything but legal cam pennsylvania contributions and no way shape or form was city hall ever up for sale. So, the mayor will stay the course. And run for reelection here despite that some one time Close Associates may testify again
Pennsylvania and areas of the west, its already starting to come down. Its inching toward center city at this time where the temperatures are in the low 70s. There you can see the rain, especially north and west of the city, scattered light showers in delaware, steadier rain in chester, lancaster, berks, lehigh and into bucks county this morning. Some isolated spots where its coming down heavier, lionsville, south ccoventry, heavier there. But not by much. The heavier stuff will be here this afternoon and tonight. 60s for pottstown, trenton an mt. Holly. Some spots close to 15 degrees warmer this morning. A muggy one with occasional rains this morning, 9 00 well see 73 degrees and up to 77 degrees at lunch time with a chance of thunderstorms as we go into the afternoon hours. The future weather hour by hour when i come back. But first, jillian mele has traffic. Good morning, jillian. Good morning, bill. So far, no accidents to report. We are following some construction out there, that
Aspen Lamfers was 11-years-old when she took a trip to Wendy's in Jenison, Michigan, on August 1, 2022, after softball practice and ordered a "Biggie Bag" which included a burger, chips, and chicken nuggets
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