karen nicholas found guilty on some counts against her like wire fraud and falsification of records. the jury returned a split verdict for bowser, former chief of staff, found guilty on 5 of 21 counts she faced. >> our coverage of the conviction continues online. go to nbc10.com for more including a complete timeline of the case. >>> next on nbc 0 news at 6:00, vacation visitors preparing to set out on a summer trip, someone is happy to see you leave. thieves. straight ahead, steps to take to protect your home before hitting the road. >>> a lot of strong storms left the area, but we could see a few more later on tonight. the timing of that, plus another round of strong storms before the week is over, and that's coming up next. >>> skyforce10 brings us images of the aftermath of the severe weather, this from the cape may airport where a small plane is flipped over we presume in today's high winds. no one hurt as far as we know, and our coverage continues after this. >>> a live look at the scene in cape may with the start of sump, a lot of people are headed to the shore: it's a hot tim

. >> reporter: two others bonnie bowser and karen nicholas both linked to fattah guilty on some of the charges. the us attorney says he'll ask for prison time for fattah, a place where his son is already locked up. >> hopefully our elected officials and philadelphia elsewhere had a today's message loud and clear. >> reporter: chaka fattah, jr. is serving said federal time on bank and tax fraud charges his father can return to congress but without much power. he can't vote or take part in any committee hearings. live at the federal courthouse, jeff cole, fox 29 news. lucy? >> and jeff of course u.s. representative fattah was the voice in washington, d.c. for many people in our area. fox 29's bra brad sattin has ben talking with his constituents live tonight in bala kin wide. brad? >> reporter: lucy, shocked, disappointment some honestly not all that surprised but plenty of reaction coming in over the last few hours as a result of this verdict. fattah of course a member of congress for over two decades prior to that he spent about a decade in harrisburg as a state representative and sena

former fattah aide karen nicholas was found guilty on six counts including wire fraud and falsificationof records. the jury returned a split verdict for bonnie bowser. the panel found fattah's former chief of staff guilty on 5 of 21 counts she faced. >>> we're following new developments in the case involving 12 girls rescued from a house in bucks county. the county's children and youth services agency tells us there was a custody hearing yesterday for the girl found inside lee kaplan's feasterville home last week. we don't know the results of that, though. kaplan is charged with sexually assaulting the oldest girl and fathering two children. the couple from lancaster county is accused of gifting the girl to kaplan. all three will appear in court in august. we've learned nearly three dozen relatives of the girls discovered inside the home attended that court hearing. the girls themselves were not there. >>> environmental investigators are looking into new drinking water concerns in bucks county. doylestown closed the cross keys well after testing found found it was contaminated with chem

. >> his aid, karen nicholas, found guilty on some counts including wire fraud and falsification of records. >> the jury returned a split verdict for bonny, his former chief of staff, found guilty on five of 25 counts she faced. howard bruce cline was on the phone in the breaking news coverage. >> a former prosecutor, white collar criminal defense experience, thank you for joining us. >> convicted on all charges and fairly quickly, is that a testament to the evidence, a good job by the prosecution, or rather a bad job by the defense? >> well, it's impossible to know what happened exactly because the jury deliberates behind closed doors, so we don't know whether it was the strength of the evidence or it was the presentation of the case. in either event, a sad day for philadelphia when a 20-year congressman is convicted of corruption. that makes us think we have to redouble our efforts to make sure that that kind of thing does not happen in philadelphia and the people that we trust are not going to be violating that public trust. it's a sad day for the congressman, for his family, and for his

. >> bonnie bowser and karen nicholas also convic convicted t midnight the top federal prosecutor weighed in on the high profile conviction. >> chaka fattah, sr. and his co-defendants be trade the public trust and undermined our faith in government. today's verdict makes clear that the citizens of the eastern district of pennsylvania expect their public officials to act with honesty and integrity. >> reporter: sentence fog chaka fattah will take place on october 4th. he remains a member of the congress. he can go back down to washington but with very little power unable to vote or take part in committee hearings. live at the federal courthouse, i'm jeff cole. lucy, more at 6:00. iain, more at 6:00. >> jeff, thank you. see you then. as the news of the guilty verdict spreads tonight his constituents are speaking out. brad sattin spoke to people in the congressman's district. joins us 35 night at fattah's philadelphia diss trek office. brad? >> reporter: iain, he has been in politics for a long time. he has served 11 terms in congress. he was up for re-election lost earlier this year. prior

karen nicholas was found guilty on six counts including wire fraud and falsification of records.bonnie bowser was found guilty of 5 of 21 counts she faced. >>> we're following new developments in a case that found 12 girls in a house. there was a custody hearing for the girls found inside lee kaplan's feasterville home last week. kaplan is charged with sexually assaulting the oldest girl and fathering two children with her. nearly three dozen relatives of the girls discovered inside the home attended the court hearing. the girls themselves were not in court. we don't know the outcome. a couple from lancaster county is accused of gifting the girl to kaplan. all three adults will appear in court again in august. >>> 6:06. 72 degrees outside. happening today, the national weather service will investigate whether a tornado caused damage like this in capeay county. heavy winds ripped part of this roof off a condo building at east 10th avenue in wildwood. skyforce 10 showed pieces of the roof scattered all over the property. residents will be cleaning up today, at least a dozen trees f