People living down the shore are now cleaning up from a big mess. The hardest hit areas and why residents say it could have been much worse. And congressman convicted a jury finds chaka fattah guilty on all charges against him. What comes next for fattah as he awaits sentencing. The gloves are off. Hillary clinton calls donald trump unfit to deal with the nations economy. How trump is firing back. But we begin tonight with storm damage down the shore. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im nicole brewer. Ukee washington is off tonight. Severe weather left its mark this afternoon and now the cleanup begins. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do is live in lower township Cape May County with a closer look at that damage. Trang. Reporter jess dark this storm came through around 3 30 and you can see crews are still out here cleaning up this mess. Take look theres tree crew here because two massive trees fell down on this yard. You can see the one fell right on top of this house. Its mazing with the
How trump is firing back. But we begin tonight with storm damage down the shore. Good evening, im jessica dean. Im nicole brewer. Ukee washington is off tonight. Severe weather left its mark this afternoon and now the cleanup begins. Eyewitness News Reporter trang do is live in lower township Cape May County with a closer look at that damage. Trang. Reporter jess dark this storm came through around 3 30 and you can see crews are still out here cleaning up this mess. Take look theres tree crew here because two massive trees fell down on this yard. You can see the one fell right on top of this house. Its mazing with the size of these trees and the widespread damage in this county that no one was hurt or killed. Sirens blaring signaling a busy night for the villas fire department. They were tacked for the whole two hours during and after the event. Ive been here through hurricanes and noreasters. Never seen anything like this before. This is crazy. Reporter severe storm came into Cape May
Right now we are tracking two major stories in our area tonight. The first on the left. Longtime u. S. Congressman chaka fattah guilty of all charges from racketeering, fraud and money laundering. But first severe storms slam into our area leaving some major destruction behind. Live radar shows the storms still with reds and yellows off the coast south jersey right now. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. That system came in hard and fast bringing pounding rains, high winds and sent people down the shore scrambling for cover. Right now, almost 26,000 people are still without power in Cape May County. We begin our Live Team Coverage tonight with kathy orr. Right now we are fortunate the watches have been dropped throughout the Delaware Valley, but still some storms moving through the region with very heavy rain. Please be aware of that. Nothing like earlier this afternoon between about 3 00 oclock and 4 00 oclock. We saw the storms move through fast and fu
Tonight. Brad sattin has reaction from the congressmans district lets begin with tonight with jeff cole who was in the courtroom has the verdict was read. Jeff. Reporter iain, a sweeping conviction of chaka fattah. Guilty across the board on all counts. Now the local u. S. Attorney wants to send him to jail in an october 4th sentencing. Its a crushing below. A stunning fall from power for u. S. Representative chaka fattah convicted of corruption and likely headed to prison. Very tough day but were going to confer with my lawyers, well figure out what our neck steps. Reporter jury found him guilty on all charges of 29 count corruption indictment including count one, conspiracy to commit racketeering. Also wire and bank fraud, even Money Laundering and other charges. Were gratified for the jurys hard work respect the verdict. The government flipped two men to make its case. Political consultants close to the congressman they testified fattah set up a big Illegal Campaign loan and hid his
With this storm reports of pingpong sized hail, golf ball sized hail through delaware and extending into Cape May County. Thousands of lightning strikes associated with this. And this is the culprit. It is a front and to the south of it that is where we saw the Severe Weather threat earlier this afternoon. And we could see a few more storms popping up this evening. So remember, we do have the severe thunderstorm watch in effect for central and south jersey and entire state of delaware until 9 00 oclock tonight as we look ahead with our computer models you can see our future cast has by 5 00 oclock most of the activity dying down all the severe storms to the south. A few storms possibly popping up in Burlington County through the six, 7 00 oclock hour even into the 8 00 oclock hour right where that front is and this moving toward the southeast. Another batch coming from baltimore, married and heading toward dover and possibly again toward cape may between 10 00 and 11 00 oclock tonight.