I want to thank my legal team and i wants to thank the support of my family and staff and friends through this very tough time. Reporter fattah was found guilty in june of 18 counts of corruption. Namely racketeering bribery Money Laundering and fraud. Beginning in 07. The federal prosecutors proved to the jury there was a series of schemes to rip off programs he created federal grants and his own campaign money. Multiple former aides and political operatives have been convict the as well. Prosecutors asked for 17 to more than 21 years in prison for the once powerful 11 term congressman. He used his position in congress to benefit himself rather than constituents and engaged in krim cal activity for his own financial benefit. Reporter fattahs lawyers have vowed to appeal in part based on published reports about the dismissal of a descending jury member who claims claims he was removed because he refused to find fattah guilty. People make mistakes. I am not convinced that chaka fattah i
Real here. Lets get to the radar right now. Boy, it is clear. We havent seen much on that in recent times. It will day pretty dry here for the rest of the week. Just a little chance for a shower tomorrow night. Our weather headlines, do include cool, calm and collected conditions overnight. Another Beautiful Day tomorrow. Temperatures well into the 60s. Election day a little bit cooler but by and large nothing out of line for this time of year. I expect tomorrow morning in the quarter to be nice and quiet. Temperatures will be in the skies. By later on in the afternoon we will have some sunshine around and we will shoot for a high of 65 degrees. Well above the normal which will be down to 51 at this time of the year. Pretty good day coming up. There are now less than 36 hours till polls open on election day. President ial candidates, their vp picks are making the rounds. Many stopping in key battleground states to secure votes for election 2016. Weeks ago that the bureau may not be don
Vernon theyre like a lot of iowans they get up early, get the kids to school, and get to work. We need to build an economy that works for the middle class. Instead of giving breaks to big business, we need to cut taxes for the middle class and small business. Im monica vernon, and i approve this message monday is one day before the general election with president ial, and several need to know before election four years and nearly 400 Million Dollars later the university of iowa childrens hospit four years and nearly 400 million later the university of iowa Childrens Hospital is now opening their doors to the public. We go on a tour and see how this hospital is one of a kind. In the four years it has take top build the university of iowa Childrens Hospital the iowa Football Team has gone from average to amazing. Now back to average im sure the hawks wont mind sharing the spotlight with their newest neighbor. From a parking garage for patients and families to the tallest building in all
Breaking overnight the first woman to serve as attorney general just died hours ago. Ago. Cbs two News Reporter Stephanie Johnson is at the breaking news desk with more . More . Jeneejanet reno died early this morningher god daughter said that she died from complications of parkinsons disease. Disease. Reno was appointed by the Clinton Administration in 1993. Becoming the attorney general by bill clinton. Reno faced criticism for her deadly seize into a compound in waco texas alsofor the seizure of elian gonzalez. Reno was seventyeight years olds. In less than 26 hours iowans will begin lining up at the polls. And in that short time left president ial candidates their vp picks and surrogates are all making the rounds. Many are stopping in key election 2016 comes to an end. On the campiagn trail Hillary Clinton got news the fbi will . Not charge her over the contents of newly released emails. Ten days ago fbi director james comey announced to congress the discover of new emails that cou
We are checking in with terry looking at our thanksgiving week weather. It is going to stay pretty quiet around here the next 24 hours. There are some things this week that will bring some more active weather to the midwest. Some cold rain will be a possibility by the time we get to tuesday. Here is the radar tonight. It is a good thing there is nothing on here because it would certainly be in the form of snow. This morning temperature went all the way down to 16 degrees. You can see our skies are clear. That will allow temperatures to bottom out in the teens once again so the commute tomorrow is quiet but cold with temperatures upper teens to low 20s. Later in the day we should eget up to around 42 degrees so that is a bit of improvement since todays high was only 36. We will talk about thanksgiving day weather in a few minutes. Together in the corridor this afternoon to support area law enforcement. Joe tells us their message for the community and the officers that patrol it. Yeah. A