Meant for 40 years people who live said in greenville all their lives didnt know or remember we had a water fall. We lost the entire institutional memory that the fall existed, the falls that was once the center piece of the city so it was a tough sale. We basically said to people we propose to spends 13 Million Dollars to build a beautiful park and public garden around a water fall you have never seen, trust us. And they didnt. Mr. May,or, i waited until i was reelected to take this on. It was a tough sale because people didnt know the water fall was there. We were tibel remove the bridge and i have the next picture and created falls park. You only see a slice of it here, but the is a beautiful pedestrian suspension bridge where there was once a 4 lane high way. There is about 20 acres in the park t. Is a lush guardsen and what you dont see and do see people and they enjoy it all the time, it is the center piece, but what you dont also see in the picture just a few yards from main str
Magdalena carrasco proclaiming herself to be a communist next to a flag of communist vietnam. This is highly offensive to the many vietnameseamericans in the district and so carrasco lost the election by a slim margin. But in a case of Election Year csi, shirakawas saliva was discovered on the mailer after he licked the stamp the d. A. s office says shirakawa has limited computer skills and likely did not act alone. What they want him to do is to divulge how he paid for it and accomplices. Shirakawa offered few details in a written statement in court saying, my dna appears on that flyer because i created that flyer. I regret my conduct and apologize to the voters and the community for my actions. Magdalena carrasco eventually won the next election and is now a city council member. She did not call for jail time saying that he has learned his lesson. If shirakawa comes clean, he will face likely Just Community service. If not, the d. A. s office will push for a year in jail. Live in dow
Be good to us with a nice forecast. I have beautiful pictures to show. Sun is up in every location, so we take tour of the area. You can just stay put. Well go a loft places, but fasten your seatbelt before we go. Here we go. Center city philadelphia, beautiful looking start to the day. We head over to the poconos, the sun is coming up there looks great at jack frost big boulder. Moving down to the shore look at this, beautiful in Atlantic City with the sun, glistening offer the Atlantic Ocean and then we head out to kutztown, and the sun coming up there, too. 36 degrees. The temperature out there. We do have some cooler air this morning than we saw yesterday morning, with the afternoon, warmer than yesterday. 64 degrees, sun, clouds, still breezy, but the breeze comes out of the southwest, advice cents the northwest so it will feel better today than it did yesterday. Fortythree out at the airport in philadelphia. Thirtynine in trenton 39 degrees in wilmington, at the freezing mark in
His reinvention of the piano. Swiss police have arrested six highranking officials of footballs world governing body suspicion of corruption, being held pending extradition to the United States where they are expected of taking bribes worth millions of dollars. The Swiss Federal Office of justice says the u. S. Attorneys office in eastern new york is investigating fifa kickbacks since the early 1990s and it coincides with fifa executives meeting in zurich where they are expected to reelect seth bladder to a new determine. Hes not among the officials facing charges crossing over to london bringing in Andy Richardson to tell us more about the arrests and the allegations what are you hearing at this points . Reporter i think its caught people completely by surprise. Talking to people over in switzerland, fifa officials were zeina driving at the hotel the highend hotel where the arrests were made and they were completely caught by surprise, the timing of it is hugely embarrass, bearing in
Last four years. In terms of the process, this is good. We wouldnt have any interest to give to the general attorney the 18th of november if we would not have known that the consequences are exactly what were doing right here. So for us once again, it is not a nice day, and as you know we have other things to do as well. But in the other world its also a good day. I think the process goes on and were looking forward to have the results because as long as you dont have complete results, it leaves room for all kinds of speculations. This is for sure not something were looking for. On the second part im not saying that they did it on purpose because you guys are here but its because its more efficient when everybody is here. You have also the right coverage of the media. So this for sure was not the main goal, i guess. Rob, please. Reporter rob Harrison Associated press. First of all, how, when the world cup bidding process is under investigation, can you categorically rule out that those