was terrible. >> on july 12th, 1988, in a working class northeast philadelphia neighborhood, john fayhe sent his 4-year-old stepdaughter barbara jean outside to play. >> and i just called for her, and she was like right there somewhere. i looked, and her toys were on the sidewalk and she never walked away from her toys ever. >> i was at work and john had called for me to come over. what do you mean you can't find her? he says sharon just come home. >> soon after police received a 911 call from one of the fay he's neighbors. >> we got a call that there was a tv box up on st. vincent street. when i got there, the box was still on the sidewalk. i look in the box. the child was in a fetal position, and she was naked. she didn't have any clothes on. she looked like she was clean, like wet. she had her wet hair, wounds to her head, and there was a trash bag draping her. we knew deep down that that's probably the missing girl, and that was barbara jean. >> she had been killed by blows to the head. she had a couple of bruises on her back. she was wet in the box, which made them feel that

and yorktown and boston new york philadelphia and washington d.c. a graduate of feel he was editor at the "new york herald tribune" overseas news service and the a syndicated columnist before becoming an author. please welcome harlow giles unger. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you for coming ladies and gentlemen. dr. benjamin rush was one of the most important of our founding fathers in many ways the most important. george washington was unquestionably the father of our political and military structure and alexander hamilton fathered her economic structure but it was dr. benjamin rush who fathered our social structure. it was dr. benjamin rush you took the words of our declaration of independence that all men are created equal and translated them into significant social progress. few other founding fathers really believe those words. many of them owned and all of them believed they owned their wives and children. dr. benjamin rush was our first and only great humanitarian. he was the only doctor with a medical degree who signed the declaration of independence and with his

philadelphia center, president trump seemed to relish his role as commander in chief works sunday, it was a different scene. democratsworse. >> they would be impeachable offenses but whether they are important enough is in question . >> he may be the first president to face the possibility of jail time. >> they learned michael cohen could face jail time for orchestrating hush money payments. democrats make call him to answer more questions. james comey continues to draw the ire of the president friday by tweeting, james comey must've set a record for who lied to congress in one day. his testimony was so untruthful. he will be on the hill until af disturbing. >> and a development over the weekend, president trump will face democrat inquiries with the new chief of staff. jon keller will leave at the end of that year. in washington, chris jenkins, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> four people are considered to become the next cheapo step. john telich, the current chief of staff will leave at the end of the year. the associated press says those being considered is managing, mick, a republican congressman ma

party. on thursday, a philadelphia judge ruled that imprisoned former black panther mumia abu-jamal can re-argue his appeal in the case before the pennnnsylvania supreme court.. the judge cited then-chief justice ronald castille's failure to recuse himself from the case due to his prior role as philadelphia district attorney when abu-jamal was appealing his casese. abu-jamal was coconvicted of the 1981 mururder of philadelphia police officer daniel l faulknk, but has always maintained his innocence. abu-jamal's lawyers argued that statements castille made about people accused of killing police officecers indicated he should have recuseded himself. in 2011, abu-j-jamal was s sentd to life without parole. we'll have e more on this stotoy after heheadlines with one of te coordinatorsrs of the campaigngo mumia home but named johanna fernrnandez. in ohio, republican state legislatats failed t to muster enough voted to pass the ultra restrictivive abortion law known as the heartbeat bill by overriding o outgoing republican governor john kasich's veto of the bill last week. kasich, who has

your saturday. when we come back, the president lands of philadelphia more in his announcement that john kelly will be leaving the white house, what that means for the trump administration and immigration policy. we also look at possible congressional investigation. will have more when we come but it's also great for finding the perfect used car. back. i can't believe it. that grandpa's nose is performing "flight of the bumblebee?" ♪ no, you goof. i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. nice. i know, right? ♪ [nose plays a jazzy saxophone tune] believe it. geico could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> leland: a fox news alert.a le of philadelphia, and sylvania. the president is arriving for the army navy game. a little breakup on the signal. as president trump was leaving the white house he announced that chief of staff, john kelly is going to move on from his job out of chief of staff. replacement to be determined. the president tweeting about ten minutes ago. whether he was in the air saying a great honor to be headed

, successful journalist, successful social figure in philadelphia, highly respected and 70 becomes a world-famous artist into a three years. how did he get to that point that he could be the founder of american science in a way that no one else was? that we just go back inside what was it in his background, his family, his circumstances and boston and philadelphia that permitted him to emerge in that way? at sequential kind give it. because you so successful in science, he had the confidence and momentum to propel himself forward to politics as well. >> he does find mentors and patrons along the way. it's not simply that he rose all on his own, as i think almost no one does actually. who are some of -- why to define these people who would be so -- the only equivalent i know of is alexander hamilton who the people of st. croix raised the money. sort of the go fund me activity of the 18th century, to send them to school in america. they were his fan club in effect. how does franklin win people over like that? >> the people he went over were there in portland in pennsylvania the time bu

at the problem but also how people are addressing it. i mean they've gone across philadelphia into hu of schools and really change their ways. >> harsh penalties for breaking school rules push kids minorities disproportionately into the criminal justice system. >> 30 years ago when the academy lock up d let someone else deal with those back in issues >> kevin bethes spent eight years as the deputy police commissioner overseeing security in the philadelphia public schools.to he usee in charge of locking kids up.t >> look at w're locking up for. things that i did a kid. know have my little cub scout life i had i got to have fights in schools i did all that stuffki when i'm l up kids and i'm a deputy commissioner. i did those things. that was a moment for me and turned to my bosses and say man i can't do it anymore. >> bethel's started the diversion program in 2014 announcing that officers would arrest only when it was absolutely necessary. and they're also collecting data which is really rare. so we could see from a scientific standpoint is this actually working. it wasn't just anecd

jewish communities, by labor organizations, by philadelphia in cleveland and new york and chicago. there are protests and movements to boycott german-made goods. to show that you supported boycotted germane -- german-made goods. even a matchbook saying for humanity sake. away, manyns right led by this man. , you seedon't see individual actions, rallies and protests. you don't see a sustained anti-nazi movement. we look at how u.s. government reacts early on. george messersmith is one. a favorite past time to attack jews. messersmith and others in the state department are receiving petitions like this from all over the country. many of these petitions are not clear about what they are asking for. they just want some anti-not the declaration. died -- to be the ambassador in 1933, he tells authoritiese german are treating jews shamefully. i think what. thought fdr meant job to is it is his respect germany's national sovereignty. it's actually about multiple attacks on americans. brutal attacks on americans in 1933. number one on the agenda. the united states government at outside thi

ineam win the super bowl as a consolation prize. not bad at all. n >> ot game is philadelphia against chicago. 30 years ago they played in the fog. we don't know what the weather will be like next sunday, but what could have figured this. philadelphia against chicago. >> arguably the two besttories in the nfl. what chicago has been able to do to turn that thing around and philadelphia just counted out and ultimately ended up that it was chicago that had to win to get philadelphia in the playoffs and now they meet in what is going to be a chilly night in chicago. j t sounds good. >> it does. b eagles andrs. we will see you next sunday night from chicago. we will look at downtown nashville on this suay night. tennessee. indianapolis off to houston as the colts wiby a score of 33-17. untiwe see you next weekend,ou r whole gang is headed downstairs. ssod night from the music city, nashville, tenneee. >>> 1 "news4 begins with breaking news. >> breaking tonight on news4, a heartbreaking tragedy in oxon hill. three children are dead after a multivehicle crash on indianhead highway. you're lo

in philadelphia. our philly fox affiliate running a story about a new jersey man who hit lady luck in atlantic city. the lakewood resident won a million dollars playing poker on a $5 bet. that's tonight live look outside the beltway from special report. we will be right'l back.

to philadelphia for the conference on government ethics laws about on-line communications, so we're still digesting what we learned there, and we might put up some information on our website to help people digest the issues because people are talking about that a lot. aside from the identified policy projects, our second part, what we're calling miscellaneous administrative projects, that are either le leftover from earlier or dealt with on an as-needed basis, you can see those projects here. one is looking at regulation of county central committee, candidate committees, so these are candidate committee, controlled by candidates, looking for central committees. staff met with an attorney at the fppc, and at this point, it looks like it's going to take a lot more analysis and development of this project to really -- to move it forward. so i think at this point, i'm recommending that if the commission wants to move forward with it, that next month, when the commission looks at the quarterly policy plan of what projects would you like staff to work on as major policy plans, that if you

the harsh winter of 1777 and 1778 while the camp days right philadelphia. it is our long talk is part of a weekly series held at the new york city bar and grill the half king . >> when the new congress takes office in january, it will have the youngest, most diverse freshman class in recent history. new congress, new leaders. watch it live on c-span, starting january 3. >>> bob drury and tom clavin is "valley forge" ably visits and revives what for most without full knowledge of the story, has become your shorthand for terrible suffering and struggle and with impeccable research make the remarkable story of the winter of 1777 and 78 come to life. we get revealing details and incisive portraits of characters we think we know. alexander hamilton, john lawrence, marquita lafayette and of course the towering figure of george washington who, in the course of telling the specific story of the valley forge encampment and camps around, emerges as a holy complex individual. canny and insecure and intensely private and yet trusting of those men whose skills and characters he came to apprec

president expected to attend army navy later today in philadelphia. you can bet when he departs the white house, we will have questions for him. we'll wait and see if he answers, victor, jessica. >> thanks so much. >>> the president and his team say nothing to see here on the latest russia probe filings but the facts suggest otherwise. here to discuss, cnn national security analyst samantha vinograd and legal analyst, former federal prosecutor shan wu. the russian that contacted koen michael cohen, says in november, 2015, cohen received contact information for and spoke with a russian national who claimed to be a trusted person who could offer the campaign political synergy and synergy on a government level. i never heard the phrase political synergy. what's that mean to you? >> political synergy, victor, seems like the polite way of saying collusion. political synergy is cooperation between two corporations or agents to achieve an outcome greater than the sum of their parts, so what we have here is potentially the special counsel indicating that michael cohen perhaps at the direction of

fires in ohiond philadelphia. chris lawrence is at the live desk. what's going on. the details are devastating. our nbc affiliate is that 5 children have been killed in this house fire. witnesses are telling them thao ther reportedly jumped out of a window and told firefighters her five children were still inside the burning home. 9. chdren, the oldest is the youngest was a 1-year-old baby. they were able to pull three of them out of the home to get them to the hospital. take a look at the live ptures from philadelphia. a 5 alarm apartment fire. dozens of people had to go out in the sub freezing temperatures. they are still not sure they got everybody outf that building. two firefighters have minor injuries. we did see one man tha was able to grab his cat and gsbelong and run down the stairs. they set up a shelter at a school nearby. keep an eye on that and learn more information. >> just terrible, chris, thank you. now, road crews have reopened the arlington memorial bridge to traffic. the bridge was shutdown late frid night. that shutdown ended about an hour ago as scheduled. wor

. justice. in philadelphia nearly four years after vicki instils daughter shannon was murdered the police got a lead. in two thousand and would there been a series of assaults started to your place in fort collins colorado they put out a report to police agencies all across the united states. so they sent the from sharon's case to fort collins. the d.n.a. was a match. the suspect was married and employed at an air force base. about eight o'clock that night twenty third day of april. two thousand and two this fellow and his wife walked into the police station by midnight that night they had a full confession for the dozen different cases. the man they arrested was twenty nine year old troy graves philadelphia's elusive center city rapist. graves was accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and one count of murder in the death of shannon schieber. the prosecutor was district attorney lynn abraham the prosecutor in the city of philadelphia who is known as a purty deadly d.a. in other words she put more people on death row then any other prosecutor in pennsylvania and probably any

across the united states. in philadelphia shannon schieber was finishing her first year of graduate school. she had been up studying it was early thursday morning before i would say there was friday morning. about two o'clock in the morning she was prepared to go by. the assailant who attacked her be pried open her sliding door. she screamed for help as she was being attacked. the next door neighbor heard that he called nine one one. he told him that he heard his neighbor. scream for help and he heard like a choking he said. the police arrived within twenty minutes they knocked on the door but no one answered. the next day when shannon didn't show up for a lunch date with her brother sean he drove her apartment building. or lived in its neighbors came down and answered the door and sean said i'm trying to reach my sister i can't reach her. the guy just would pale they say oh my god i called the police last night they were running up the steps they broke open her door and she was laying naked on her bed. by the time we got to philadelphia the police were swarming around the apartment

problems this morning, new york, philadelphia, boston in or out there is a problem there. d.c. as well you have problems. chicago is more rain and snow. san francisco you have rain. aspen you have snow. white christmas most of the country it's not. here is coverage about 20% the last five years this is the lowest coverage of an inch or more on the ground that we have seen some christmas time. that's latest here, gayle, back to you. >> oh which boy thank you very much. >>> david beg no where the storm's damaging toll as it moved up the eastern sea board. >> we start down south where the sunshine state did not live up to its name on thursday. heavy wind and rain flooded roadways on the worst travel day of the season. lines of drivers made ways through flooded streets in tampa. tornadoes with winds up to 85-mile-per-hour spawned. leaving a trail of mangled home across the state. >> it was scarey. it sounded like a train going by. it was really loud. >> the twisters uprooted trees, knocked down power lines,er to roofs off homes and damaged around 70 mobile homes. >> there was -- it was fri

watching the fire burning in philadelphia. sit a four-story apartment building. that is not the correct map you are seeing. we have video we got in a half an hour ago of the fire raging. the real problem is this is an apartment building. they don't know if all the people got out. 50 people were evacuated and the building started collapsing, they had to evacuate surrounding buildings. this is in the over brook area of philadelphia. it's been a real problem. it started at 2:15 on the east coast. that's 11:15 our time. this has been raging for 5 hours and still nowhere near out after part of the building collapsed. firefighters have been having to try to pour water on it from outside. we will continue to monitor this fire in philadelphia. >>> the cause of a bedroom fire that required san jose firefighters to rescue a man is under investigation. the fair was reported yesterday -- fair was reported yesterday afternoon -- fire was reported yesterday afternoon. two residents of the building were able to get out, but one man was trapped inside. one of the residents cold kpix5 the roommate was s

out of west philadelphia. 185 riders are m fire in west philadelphia. it started with this apartment building just before 2:30 in a morning. firefighters have been hurt and 60 of the families in that building have been display >> the red cross is helping them at a nearby elementary school that is serving as a warming center until the families can find a temporary place to live. there was smoke and flames. they are not sure how the fire started but this is in west philadelphia in pennsylvania. will bring you your details as we get them in. am sure the eva zone is big. >> i grew up in that neighborhood. >> i was wondering. >>> thank you for joining us. we will follow that and local stories. >> good morning. we are following your weather. >>> there is a little bit of rain. i will show you that. in golden gate, there is a little bit there. it is moving across and not a big deal. for many, this will be over in a couple of hours. we have sun in the afternoon. it will not be foggy conditions. we get a break tonight into tomorrow. as far as rain goes, friday. 40s for all near 50 de

british took philadelphia, they kicked the continental congress out. some of them spread out. ,ome of them went to new york pennsylvania, some went home, some disappeared. there was no functioning government for the most part of the united states anymore. so george washington at valley forge was the united states government. inn valley forge began december 1777, the army went in there with 12,000 soldiers and they built huts. there were about 500 camp followers, women and children who follow the army wherever they went. suddenly, valley orange became the seventh largest city in the united states, and became the capital of the united states. that is something people do not realize in social studies. because philadelphia, the capital of the united states being occupied by the british and the fact that there was no continental congress because everything else in the political system was incomplete disarray, valley forge was the capital of the united states and george washington was the de facto leader of the united states. if he suddenly decided, i have had enough, i am getting out of

are eventually banished to. they came from philadelphia to florida with my grandparents, kind of migration in reverse, and they came here and when you visited them, they always had the same fight, and this was the fight. my uncle ron would say that they gave you large portions in restaurants in order to charge you more money and my aunt rose would say that they had to charge you more money in restaurants because they had given you such large portions. they had this fight for 50 years, as long as i knew them, even when uncle ron had his vocal cords removed in the hospital, they still had this fight. i'm telling you they give you the big portions just to charge you more. ron, i have been talking to you about this for half a century. same fight over and over. very happy marriage. they just went right on for 50 years. martha and i had one fight and this was the fight about food, because i discovered in our first weeks in this room that she was a well-done person and i came from a long family of rares. now, i should have known this when we got married, because we had been dating for a

sort of the sound of philadelphia. >> jon: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> stephen: kind of the sound of philadelphia. hey, everybody! welcome back. welcome back, everybody. folks, you know, it's the holidays, and that means holiday cards. everybody loves cards, unless they have glitter on them. but even the best holiday cards had to start somewhere. tonight we're taking a look at some early greeting card efforts in our segment, "first drafts." >> stupid! >> stephen: okay, as always, as always on "first drafts" i need a volunteer from the audience. who wants to come up on-- young lady. right there. you come with me. come with me. right this way. there you go. have a seat. >> thank you. >> stephen: what's your name, young lady. >> pam. >> stephen: pam, everybody! ( cheers and applause ). >> princess wave. pageant wave. >> stephen: there's a mic next to you on the chair. >> stephen: first of all, are you lactose intolerant? >> nope. >> stephen: how about some milk and cookies. there you go. >> thank you! >> stephen: where are fru? >> florida. >> stephen: oh, i wish i was there right now. >

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philadelphia prison. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with more on this. good morning, tracie. >> reporter: frances, good morning. rare cooperation here in washington on some pretty big legislation that would affect federal prisoners, and that is an important point. this does not affect state justice systems. but it does affect what could be tens of thousands of federal prisoners. what it does is not require mandatory minimum sentences for many low-level offenders. and as you noted, a number would be eligible for early release on good behavior. also, it provides reentry help, making it easier for them to get back into society after they have served time. this is the biggest change that we've seen since the '90s, even though some critics say it doesn't go far enough. in fact, that's one of the reasons why it's called the first step bill. it will become the first step law if passed by the house and the president signs it. and, in fact, the house is expected to take this up before they leave for the break, before the end of the week. >> all right. and looking ahead to that, traci

starting to figure out that wages haven't exactly kept up with the cost of housing in philadelphia where the eviction rate is one hundred fifty percent more than the national average city officials are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to apply and legal services for residents on the brink of losing their homes for more on this we go to our senior slum lady now and again yes. this is. this program sounds like a great investment to help struggling tenants or or it sounds like a slap in the face to property owners like me busting my ass to provide quality affordable housing going to be economy. right pretty sure as landlord a says would also like some free money so we can continue to offer housing like my most recent listing which i have yet to see any inquiries about. that's the liberty bell so just just remind me that the crack was already there and you'll get your security deposit back i'm not reading the liberty bell are you so no better than the landlords these tenants are taken to court when twenty eight philly families a day lost their homes and twenty sixteen y

. coming up in your wednesday sport briefing — philadelphia chase down toronto in the nba's eastern conference, river plate get ready for the club world cup and manchester city bid to finish top of their champions league group in the nba, philadelphia have the chance to keep up the pressure on eastern conference leaders toronto later. the 76ers — aiming for their 3rd straight win — host the brooklyn nets. joel embiid was philadelphia's top scorer in their last game as they beat detroit 116—points to 102. the win leaves them two games behind toronto — who have a tough game later on wednesday — they head to california to play golden state. river plate fans have been clocking up some air miles this week — and there are more to come. after victory over boca juniors in madrid, the copa libertadores champions now head to the united arab emirates for the club world cup. the competition features the champion clubs from each of the six continental confederations. it all kicks off on wednesday. river plate and real madrid join the competition at the semi—final stage. there's jus

philadelphia, the kick the continental congress out. someone to york, pennsylvania, someone home, some disappeared. there was no functioning government for the most part of the united states anymore. so, george washington at valley forge was the united states government. when valley forge began in the army went in with 12,000 soldiers and they built huts. there were about 500 camp followers, women and children who filed the army wherever they went. became thelley forge seventh largest city in the u.s. and it became the capital of the u.s. something most people would never realize in social studies is that because of the capital of the u.s. being occupied by the british, because there was no continental congress, everything else was in complete disarray, valley forge was the capital of the united states and george washington was the de facto leader of the united states. if he had suddenly been lost for whatever reason, if you decided i have had enough, i'm going back to mount vernon, the british government as a persuasion even offered to make him a duke. he would have been the duke of m