corruption charges and the reason behind that electronics ban on certain flights and that is next. ♪ action news delaware valleys leading news program with gardner. ♪ it is tuesday night and the big story on actions tonight is 23 counts oftortio philadelphia's top prosecutor. da seth williams was indicted today and are be arraigned tomorrow the indictment says williams accepted more than 100,000 in gifts often in

exchange for his help in a court case. among the gifts he received trips to the dominican republic with his girlfriend, a custom sofa and 9,000 in cash. we have two reports on our big story tonight action news reporter christie ileto is live outside the da's office in center city but first dann cuellar is at the federal building with details of indictment today dann. >> reporter: jim the shock waves from the 50 count federal indictment continue to reverberate and the wide ranging bribery extortion and fraud in exchange for fixing legal problems for two business owners. >> it's hard to imagine a public servant tasked went forcing thelaw putting quid proquo above justice for all. >> reporter: seth williams accepted 10s of thousands worth of concealed bribes he received from two men described in

document as business owner one and two. >> in the form of money expensive vacations airline tickets a jaguar xk8 convertible expend expensive furniture. >> reporter: he received from business owners multiple trips to punta-canta dominican republic san diego las vegas and fort lauderdale florida in exchange for take official action asded and in some cases taking offl action on behalf of the bribe payers. exchange of text messages wner o requesting aentence for a friend whot to do jail time and officials say in return williams requested a vacation by saying quote i am merely a thankful bigger and i don't want to over step my bounds in asking but will gladly go. clearly in this context mr. williams is referring another trip to punta-canta. >> reporter: requested expensive gifts for himself and girlfriend

including a watch and purse a and sofaressure official to bypass airport security measures of business owner one returning from travel abroad but he and also alleged that williams pocket money to pay for a close family nursing h care. >> he simply took money that did not belong to him and he lied about it. >> reporter: mr. williams is expected to appear here tomorrow for his arraignment and expected to be here at 2 before medical magistrate at the federal building dann cuellar jim. >> defense attorney michael diamond stooen will not respond to any specific allegations but that the district attorney quote vehemently denies he compromised an investigation case or law enforcement function meanwhile the da's office put out a statement asking for privacy saying quote the da is not in

the office today because he is spending time with his family. williams himself has not commented since indictment but last month he publically apologized for his failure to disclose 160,000 in gifts as board. >> my decision to accept gifts and fail to report them brought much embarrassment shame and adverse publicity to me and for the office in which i love. >> reporter: in response the ethics board slapped williams with the largest fine in its history 62000 williams got out of his reelection campaign. the race for da is extremely crowded with 7 democrats and one republican vying to replace williams fighting for the democrat nomination theresa car denny and shabaz and federal prosn civil rights attorney and former manag

director and another former assistance da jack o'neal and former city and state prosecutor odameyer and beth grossman primn may 16 reporter christie ileto has been collecting reaction to the seth williams indictment and none is good and christie is outside the da's o center city christie. >> reporter: jim we spoke to several people one of them being his former boss and da lynn abraham and no secret at rocky but worked closely together for ten years and she and the rest of the legal community are charges. >> shocks you right out of your socks. >> reporter: seth williams lynn abraham is trying to make sense of the indictment claims instead of fighting crimeliams was committing crimes with cash and vacations and even stealing a relative's pension in social security payments. >> did he show you kidding he would not last five minutes in my office

if he did that. >> reporter: knows the da office well and holding it 18 years ten of which as williams boss. >> da chief law enforcement officer of the city who himself as ate preventer to commit crimes from the time he took office very shocking. >> reporter: legal community are calling for the 50-year-old to resign. >> people need confidence in the justice system in the court system and lawyers and the way that the thisconfidence willcontinue, will even ee steps down. >> he took my moneypersonally. >> that trust already lost on taxpayers. >> i'm very outrageous and i pay for him to go enjoy vacations, no, i don't thi don't get one. >> comes back t and expect the sense of integrity and establishment from these offices see that we got out.mber. >> as a voter i have to do my research and have to dig a little deeper to see you just can't trust a smiling f any

now mayor kenney said the troubling and first assistant would be interim district attorney until somebody could be appointed before the election christie ileto channel six action news. >> charges of the coverage of seth williams continues on 6abc.com there you can read the full 50 page indictment against the embattled da and find reaction from today's going updates thone right now police are on the scene of a deadly shooting in pemberto berlington on 100 block of kinsley road his body was next to a car so far there have been no arrests. we are learning tonight that a credible threat to airlines i the electronics ban on flights from 8 majority muslim countries sources telling abc news there does not ear toic plot but recent intelligence suggestsic extremists are working on smuggling explosives on a u.s. bound flight so any electronics besides cell phones

and medical devices beardlaptops cameras dvd players and video game systemschecked with luggage and it effects nonstop flights from ten airports in eight middle eastern countries on foreign carrierss from the united states do not have this restriction the uk today issued a similar ban. >> the fact that theuk is now also similar prohibition suggests to me there is some new element to the intelligence. >> reporter: implement the new measures. ♪ president donald trump made a dramatic visit to capitol hill this morning to congol and threaten republicans who have yet to commit to gop healthcare bill meeting with the file trump made his point clear he said quote many of you will lose your seats in 2018 if you don't get this done. trump said he would campaign for representatives who vote for the bill thety obvious.

there are still between 20-25 republicans either opposed or undecided. trump can only afford to lose 21. the vote on the republican plan in the house is thursday. elsewhere in the capitol supreme court no, ma'am me neil gor answered 10 hours of questions today and made several attention grabbing statements one on the abortion issue if you recall president trump said during the campaign that he would only appoint justices to overturn roe versus wade and this was between gorsuch and li ask you to overrule roe versus >> what would he do if you asked? >> i would walk out the judges do. >> reporter:lsobout his reaction when he heard the man who nominated him court attacked federal judge as trump put it who blocked his travel ban, this is what gorsuch said. >> and when anyone criticizes

the honesty or integrity of the motives of a federal judge, well, i find that disheartening, i find that demorilizing because i know the truth. >> reporter: more questioning of gorsuch happens tomorrow and tillerson calendar next month is concerning nato allies and word is that tillerson plans to pass up the meeting of nato ministers in brussels and will follow-up his absence going to russia a week later. obviously there will be much talk claiming that trump favors russia over the allies and we will see how this one plays out. pepsi is pulling two liter bottles and 12 packs from store shelves in response to philadelphia's sweet and beverage tax announcement effects not only the company's signature soft drink but other sodas such as mountain dew and sports drinks like gator raid and blames the tax for a loss of

sales particularly in larger sizes since the tax is calculated per ounce and the company is switching to smaller sized cans and bottles coke says it's selling more smaller portions too because that is what customers want, not because of the tax. from our delaware newsroom toith wilmington has indefinitely suspended its red light camera program for right turns on red and refund drivers given a ticket between july 1 and january 11 and total 800,000 mayor mike purzycki says the loss of revenue has a budget impact and recommending a property tax hike and eliminating 29 government jobs but he believes there is no choice because wilmington's red light camera program doesn't meet stricter new state requirements. in philadelphia they want to make parking easier and cheaper for visitors that is right cheaper for visitors starting in april for off street parking

lots owned by parkw corporation will drop their prices and get new user friendly parking equipment. the venice lot will cost 2 an hour parking at 4,000 main street will be 2 on weekends and for a dollar an hour you can par4 green lane. the vote has been taken but night we are waiting word of the winner in the special pennsylvania's 197th house district that is north philadelphia, what the board of elections reports is that the write in candidate won 93% of the vote. the issue is officials won't start tallying which names were written in until friday. still to come on action news tonight the video going viral from atlantic city getting attention even from the likes of lebron james not because of how the fight started but because of how ited plus the new list of fruits and vegetables most likely to have pesticide on them and the safest you can buy, cecily. >> temperatures 60 degrees on

the first full day of spring but wind chills in teens and 20s are moving in right in time for your morning commute and let you khow long the winter chill sticks around in the accuweather forecast. jamie hello and jamie apody the microphone jamie apody with the flyers trying to keep their playoff hopes alive against the jets tonight when action news continues.

video of a fight in atlantic city is going for all the right reasons, it even has the attention of philadelphia eagle tory smith and cleveland cavalier lebron james and it started with two boys in the street and peers egging them on when 28-year-old ali enters the picture and scolds the boys, points out how embarrassing they are to their parents the message resonates and one teenager even thanks ali when he tells the boys to shake hands their friends laugh and sees another teachable moment. >> look they want you to be enemies and look you stop smiling. you got that one. put your hand back out brother

going to hit you this time i promise.r shed t been seen more thanillion times 17 million views with a lot of people praising pha police areis surveillance video can help identify two thieves who plundered a million of jewelry and watches from a safe yesterday the suspects broke in through the roof of the bam boo restaurant on whitaker avenue in the lawn crest section of the city then broke through the adjoining wall into the kim thanh jewelry and they were no amateurs and cut wires to the phones internet and security systems. a massive fire that spread from a kansas apartment complex under construction to nearly two dozen homes is still under investigation, the fire department spokesman says fowlkes play is not suspected investigators say the incomplete structure was mostly a wooden frame making it just the perfect fuel. the damage from the fire is expected to be ins. on health check at 11:00 a new study says majority of fruits

and vegetables have tracesf pesticide residue and research from theorking group found it on nearly 7 in 10 samples of conventionally grown cultural the good news that is actually down from last year. strawberries topped the list with the highest amounts of followed by spinach nectarines apples and peaches amount of pesticides found on sweet corn, avocado pineapple, cabbage and onions colon survivors walked the runway and registered nursee get your rear in gear philadelphia vip runway for a cure fashion show fundraisers a sense of humor and colon cancer effects more than 135,000 americans a year there is a run-walk this sunday in fair mount park. let's get the late word from accuweather and cecily tynan. >> just when we are getting used to spring weather winter is making a come back tonight, it

is going to be cold tracker six live double scan showing dry conditions out there the front that will be slipping through overnight will come through dry so we don't get precipitation but we will feel the difference ht now it's not that bad yet philadelphia 51 dn 59 which above normal so on the mild side for this first full day of spring. wilmington 51 trenton 50 atlanta city 47 allentown 44 reading 47 and even the poconos above freezing 33 degrees but there is an waiting in the wing. satellite and radar you can barely see it it's moisture starved and it's this line of clouds near lake eerie has some limited moisture a few a few snow flurries with it but is arctic pressure to move in and bring us some real cold wind chills not just in the morning but through the day tomorrow so the bus stop forecast going to be a bit of a shock to the system. 6:00 31 8:00 33 but the winds

will be picking up right around sunrise so wind chills stuck in the 20s some areas even a little bit lower than that future tracker showing 8:30 in the morning allentown it will feel 13 trenton 16 reading 14 the poconos 3 degrees below 0 and look what happens as we head in the afternoon 3:30 in the afternoon wind chills still stuck in the teens and 20s so the afternoon high about 39 degrees that is 16 degrees below normal but with the winds this wind tunnel effect out of the northwest wind chills will be stuck in the 20s at best winds generally sustained about 25 miles per hour every now and then we could get a wind gust up to about 45 miles per hour so definitely wintery winds moving in for your wednesday how is that for i'll literation and high pressure will bring us bright sunshine and it will be cool 10 degrees below normal but with a high pressure sitting

right over us the winds will be diminishing and the high pressure moves off shore and get a warm front on friday with some clouds some showers and behind this system it will really feel tually like late spring by saturday. so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast plenty of sunshine doesn't warm us up tomorrow 39 d chill 20s and thursday sunny the winds relax so not as harsh 45 degrees and friday a transition day clouds with a spotty shower with the warm front 52 and behind the warm front temperatures climb 20 degrees on saturday some breaks of sunshine with some high thin clouds and temperatures drop off pretty quickly on sunday 53 degrees some rain we keep that chance of light rain by monday morning otherwise mostly cloudy 48 and tuesday clouds with some sun and a high of 52 degrees so as w're dealing with wind chills in the 2 of saturday 72 degrees, we can get there that is our pay off. >> i know but then. we cool off again and eventually

we will get more days in the 70s. >> i am never satisfied prom season right around the corner and this evening dozens of students were treats to a memorable shopping experience 200 high school students from across philadelphia were invited to the prom boutique at the center in north philadelphia. searched through racks of gowns to find the perfect dress and best of all it was freepicked out shoes and accessories to complete their perfect look andcosmetologists provided make for the night. ♪

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flyers looking to come up big but they come up small. >> the problem is not only the fact the flyers are 7 points out with 11 to play and the problem is all the teams are in the same boat and carolina ahead of the flyers winning tonight and no choice but team pace andi feel watching them. this is how i feel watching you too just kidding flyers and jets scores and jordan with the third goal in 7 games and flyers 1-0 but short lived and matthew getting one past steve mason on the power play and penalty kill is not done very well at all lately. in the third blake wheeler the rueser and nathan never had a chance. the flyers scored with two seconds left that was a little too late and lose 3-2 and still 7 points out and only have ten to play so not good. phillies slugger obudel herrera returned to the term after spending three weeks with

venezuela in the world baseball classic and says he thinks he can compete for a batting title this year last year had 348 so if he is close to that that would be nice and facing the twins and freddy galvis the first home run in the spring and fifth and 2 for 3 and obudel herrera was 2 for 5 in return with a couple rbi which is a good sign considering her went 1 for 11 in the world baseball classic and taken out of venezuela starting line up and home in the ninth as part of the rally and phillies came from behind to win it 9-5 and we will have more sports right after this.

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march madness high school hoops style and advance to the 3a state final and 6a reading facing archbishop iron and great ball to lonnie walker a future miami hurricane and reading advances to the final 57-51 things got a bit heated in toronto going to lopez in retaliation from there the punches began to fly. and then a player got into it with a coach too and got technical and lopez was ejected not sure who won the fight but toronto won the game in over time 122-120 sixers continue their five game road trip in oklahoma city tonight and no joel embiid of course but process sending his time on the sidelines poking fun at himself and look at embiid in this jolly ranchers commercial. >> and now out for the season

after he shot this commercial with a rookie year lasting longer than a jolly rancher. >> it was fun that he has been a rookie for two years and never ending and if you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at. i do it all the time jimmy kimmel live. that is what he did right. no it's not jimmy kimmel next on channel six followed by night line and the guest is shapel and scott and music from weezer and action continues at 4:30 from pamela edwards and matt o'donnell and karen rogers and dave murphy and you get them together and it's the weezer show and from the entire action news team i'm jim gardner.

>> dicky: from hollywood, it's “jimmy kimmel live!” tonight, dave chappelle, from “saban's power rangers,” all kidding aside, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. it's spring break and we have a special guest tonight. dave chappelle is here tonight. we have naomi