The charges against the influential democrat. David. Reporter ukee the congressman mentioned numerous times in this 85 page indictment indictment. He denies any wrongdoing but federal officials they believe and they are confident that he will be behind bars at some point. The conduct that congressman fattah engaged in undermines public safe and government. Blunt words from us attorney zane david hem injury who laid out this case against congressman chaka fattah. Fattah and his associates engaged in a coverup lasting years in an effort to avoid detection. Reporter the 29 count indictment tells the story of what authorities call schemes. Some words included in the do you mean, fraud bribery, sham and conceal. The congressman who went to washington in 1995, is accused of borrowing a Million Dollars from a wealthy supporter and only paying some of it back using money and federal grants from a Nonprofit Charity he runs. Hes also accused of using 23 grand in Campaign Money to pay off his son
Forecast for today and weekend with meteorologist bill henley with the first alert forecast. We saw some rain overnight. Still tracking some rain but not in philadelphia. The rain has ended, the showers, light rainfall in central, southern delaware and into south jersey. The line has pushed it to the south. Drying conditions for philadelphia during the day. Keep an umbrella handy. Well be up to 80 degrees and still climbing at lunch time today. Well go through the forecast hour by hour to show you where you will need an umbrella this friday. Right now, lets check in with first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Happy friday, jessica. Happy friday is right, bill. We are deal willing ongoing construction on the schuylkill expressway. For right now, were on the Spring Garden street ramp. From the eastbound schuylkill expressway, that part of the ramp is closed. Lets check out the drive times for the actual schuylkill expressway. You can see right here, right through the curve, movi
Precipitation rate well over two inches an hour. We hope that continues to move. We will talk more about increased showers along with decreased temperatures with the sevenday. Thanks, glenn. Our First Alert Team coverage continues with nbc 10s tim furlong live in wilmington. Local groups are taking precautions to protect children from this heat. Reporter absolutely. You have to. We always try to be live in front of something interesting. This is pretty uninteresting, athletic fields with no kids on them. Thats because they worked hard early so they could cut out of here before the worst of the heat rolled in. Its too hot to do lots of things today. It is really hot for football. You got to work through it. Reporter the Concord High School players are working hard but only as hard as their trainer lets them. Im here to keep them healthy. Reporter the coach played for concord way back when. I graduated high school in 1981, when water was a sign of weakness. Reporter water isnt a sign of
Confirm that. ,onne this is daybreak asia live from bloombergs asian headquarters in hong kong. Ramy betty is out today, i am david ingles. This is the first major market open here in the asian pacific. Lots on the play. Talk the ecb. E to it seemed like it was all about inflation the first time around. It is just not there. We look ahead to mario draghi and taper talk. There is talk about when auto maxx will stop start. Were expecting to go into this trading session with the stark contrast between the boj and ecb. The adjustment you mentioned we saw in the bond markets and currency markets. And the euro. S the dollar is stronger. The euro back to levels of what yvonne 23 month highs, remarkable. The whipsaw, we have a chart. I have to show it off. Twoentioned about those year highs for the euro. We saw whipsaw after the statement came out. It went lower and ran back up as soon as mario draghi started speaking. As much as he wanted to keep that the discussion vague on the timing of tap
Questions and the media fawned all over him. President trump is rapid fire, yes, he exaggerates and is entertaining, all of that is very different. The live action presidency continues. Hes off to see boeing, and maralago and tomorrow, he addresses a big rally in orla thats politics. What about money . A pause in the trump rally. There will be a modest pullback at the opening bell this morning. Oh, but please, look at this. The stock market has added 2. 7 trillion dollars to the nations wealth just since the election. That is the trump rally. Youve never seen anything like this before. And, Varney Company is about to begin. Many of our nations reporters and folks will not tell you the truth. The president has become so dishonest, the press honestly, is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. The hatred and venom coming from his mouth, the hatred coming from other people on your network. Look, when i go to rallies, they turn around and scream at cnn. Want to throw pla