Good evening. And we begin tonight with two breaking stories. The americans who were on board that jet when it crashed. But first tonight, the army argent charged with desertion. Bergdahl the u. S. Soldier held hostage by the taliban for five years. We saw him blinking in the sunlight. Set free in the Dramatic Exchange. The u. S. Handing over five taliban prisoners to gain his freedom. After the handoff, patted down by a member of u. S. Special Operations Forces before boarding that chopper and flying to freedom. But tonight, that freedom could be short lived. Late today, the u. S. Army revealing the charges that could lead to life in prison. Abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, leading us off. Reporter the possibility of a life sentence shows just how serious the charges are. Desertion with the intent to avoid hazardous duty, endangering his fellow Soldiers Left to face the enemy without him. Endangering the safety of a command unit or place carries a maximum potent
Behavior. I never thought of myself as a racist. I never considered it a possibility. But the bottom line is that the words said in that chant were mean hateful and racist. The lawmaker who organized yesterdays meeting says she believes levi pettits apology is genuine and she forgives him. The senate takes up work today on the federal budget one day after the house passed its version. It relies on 5 trillion in cuts over the next decade. Much of the savings from medicaid food stamps and welfare. The two versions will have to be merged in to one before the april 15th deadline. Speaking of budgeting, a couple from pennsylvania has a lot of it to do after a big lottery win or maybe they dont. Joseph and jodi are 7 million richer thanks to a scratch off ticket. He was sent the ticket by his dad. It was tucked in to a get well card because he was recovering from surgery. My dad does that too. He said he couldnt celebrate too much because he was supposed to relax. The couple is married almos
Was all because he was a bad businessman who was battling addictions. His attorney and prosecutors spoke out about the out come. My goal which i think weve a accomplished to get him incarcerated so he can start paying restitution even fit means hes making license plates for 50 cents an hour to start paying that back. Thats what we expect from him. Reporter well, tollefson originally agreed to a plea deal that would have sent him to jail for just seven months. Half of which he had already served but withdrew from that deal and went to trial saying that he wanted his story told. Tollefson is a former employee of fox 29. Iain. Joyce, thank you. Change is rolling in your fox 29 Weather Authority. We got another round of rain today. With that comes a big jump in that our temperatures. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams outside old city tonight with a preview. Scott . Thats right, iain. Its going to be roller coaster ride believe or not over the next several days. Temperatures in fact will b
I really do. Because we wont be seeing any around here today. So youll fly out of it, and hopefully into the sunshine. 42 degrees, in philadelphia. Now, this is a whole lot milder than we have been any other morning this week. So with starting off at 42, you know we will zoom up from there. Weve been telling but it for days. 6 55 your sunrise time, so little bit of rain on the east coast, but watching this storm system, thats headed our way looks like were going to be dealing with rain, with drizzle, with fog, for awhile until this whole complex system gets out of here but for today look forward to 68 degrees, have the umbrella near, because there will be showers, and the occasional thunderstorm, as well. So thats today. For tonight winds pick up little bit. We get few thunderstorms here and there back down into the 40s once again well tell you what happens after that when we bring you the seven day forecast. But envisioning blue this morning, it is bob kelly. We got the blue, good mor
Their new honor tonight. Good evening. And we begin tonight with two breaking stories. The americans who were on board that jet when it crashed. But first tonight, the army argent charged with desertion. Bowe bergdahl the u. S. Soldier held hostage by the taliban for five years. We saw him blinking in the sunlight. Set free in the Dramatic Exchange. The u. S. Handing over five taliban prisoners to gain his freedom. After the handoff, patted down by a member of u. S. Special Operations Forces before boarding that chopper and flying to freedom. But tonight, that freedom could be short lived. Late today, the u. S. Army revealing the charges that could lead to life in prison. Abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz, leading us off. Reporter the possibility of a life sentence shows just how serious the charges are. Desertion with the intent to avoid hazardous duty, endangering his fellow Soldiers Left to face the enemy without him. Endangering the safety of a command unit or