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And satire hit full strut bundled up or shirt less. Wasnt time of year to go out and have fun. Cold, rape, snow, we do it. Two street stoppers we fire up and bring the crowd. Reporter the crowd wore layers as the mummers warmed by their favorite beverages welcomed the new year. Jerry fox lost her son live long mummer in 2017. So at 81, she took his place. It was a little scary in the building by the time we got to the judges i was whoo whoo here i am. It was juggling and acrobatics and the poke in the eye to jailed city pauls the mummers have become famous for. I didnt have enough room on my son for john purchase sell and rick mariano. Why is the mayor at the top. Giving him a little warning saying, hey, you guys got to get in line witness frogs. Join the frogs and be a jailhouse frog. Reporter one family sheltered from the cold at a bus stop. Were enjoying ourselves. We cant ask for nothing better. Great new years. So were just out here having fun. Trying to stay warm. Reporter mayor ....
Amongst the people that still work there, and the investigators . Well, i wouldnt say im the best person in the world. I think that there are probably a lot of good people because most of us dont take bribes, and most of us are really more interested in doing the right thing than we are in lining our pockets or having a lot of glory, but i think the way that you have to do this, of course, is to set a standard, and you need to make it very clear to all of your staff that there are no favors, that there are no gifts, that you will not tolerate anything of that sort. You got to do the kind of thing that liz holtzman did in brooklyn, which was if someone flashed a bag to get a free ride on public transit, they were fired. I mean, you got to be serious about that, but at a larger level, we have to look, also, at issues of, i would say, Institutional Corruption. There are far too many supervisors, and a lot of them were made ....
Reporter police are looking for the driver of the red truck seen in this photo. To that man who fired this shot, turn yourself in now. Every second you are out there you are only making this worse for yourself. We were all excited for her, she was excited. We were just happy for her. Reporter we spoke to biancas dad earlier today. He held back tears as he talked about his daughters wishes for college. Rodney roberson said his daughter was returning from a shopping trip when she was killed. I can visualize what happened for my daughter and i know she was scared. Her personality was one of love, she always wanted to make you smile. Reporter her family showed us the poster she made for her soon to be college dorm at jacksonville university. Its an angel that will be missed. As hard as it is she is there with her brother. Reporter police have a vague description of the driver, they say he is a white man, medium build, 30 to 40 years old with blonde or light brown hair last seen driving a s ....
Sentenced for his guilty plea on a single corruption charge. However, he basically admitted he was guilty of all 29 charges where he took bribes while in office. Williams resigned immediately and faces five years in jail. His deputy, assistant District Attorney kathleen martin, whos basically been running the office ever since williams lost his law license, will continue to run the office until a new d. A. Is sworn in. Val, you went to school with Seth Williams, you know him very well. Id like to start with you. Why do you think Seth Williams put everyone through a long, arduous investigation, a trial that lasted the better part of a couple of weeks, and his relative absence at the d. A. s office itself . Whyd he put everyone through this . Well, let me say i start off by saying its a sad day for philadelphia. Its a sad ....