But recently mayor jim kenney and others received official notice from the government that their conversations with John Dougherty were wiretapped it is a standard pro forma i dont know how you cannot talk to John Dougherty or majority leader of council over a two year period and not be recorded. Reporter we caught up with the mayor following a news conference, highlighting new programs to put people to work in the philadelphia building trade industry. Kenney said he is not concerned about being recorded maybe i was a little profane here or there but nothing im worried about from a local perspective. Reporter also, philadelphia councilman bobby henon who was at todays news conference. He left a few minutes early and in the hallway he indicated he had no comment. John dougherty known as johnny dock was with his wife who is dealing with medical issues according to spokesmen frank kiehl. He says that the letter is standard procedure, and dougherty with the men and women of local 98 are no
But recently mayor jim kenney and others received official notice from the government that their conversations with John Dougherty were wiretapped it is a standard pro forma i dont know how you cannot talk to John Dougherty or majority leader of council over a two year period and not be recorded. Reporter we caught up with the mayor following a news conference, highlighting new programs to put people to work in the philadelphia building trade industry. Kenney said he is not concerned about being recorded maybe i was a little profane here or there but nothing im worried about from a local perspective. Reporter also, philadelphia councilman bobby henon who was at todays news conference. He left a few minutes early and in the hallway he indicated he had no comment. John dougherty known as johnny dock was with his wife who is dealing with medical issues according to spokesmen frank kiehl. He says that the letter is standard procedure, and dougherty with the men and women of local 98 are no
Yes. Good morning. It is cool outside. Things are looking good. It looks dry for the most part in terms of what im seeing on the camera. Lots of construction we have an accident, in mass trans that it we will begin in a bit the weather is absolutely not just quiet but stunning today. It looks like such a nice day, humidity is so low, if you are waking up, you had, to turn air conditioning off before you went to bed last night isnt it refreshing, comfortable that air mass is just really nice, and pleasant it will stay that way throughout the course of the day with sunny skies, expected as well. Storm scan is completely clear and empty. We are down to 40. It is late june and what is going on here. It will in the last very long, enjoy it, but 49 degrees in the mountains. Sixtythree at philly international. Mid up toker 50s for millville to atlantic city. Very cool for standard but comfortable start to the day and in the mid 50s in the outlining suburbs as well. As day goes on nothing but
This afternoon as the school board tries to come up with some kind of solution here, vern. Reporter trouble in the class appear to be ahead brian at this point the School Districts solution appears to be to cut off funding and revoke the schools license. Its the only Charter School among more than 80 city wide that that currently faces revocation of its charter. This is the ninth and sedgley building the Charter School has been occupying for years but now the landlord wants to evict them as the charter created in 04 continues drowning drowning in hundreds of dollars of red ink owing money all over town. All classes k through eight were shut down a week early in june without warning or ceremony. Teachers tell me they have resigned en masse and found new teaching posts elsewhere. Were protecting their identities. Now were going on three paychecks we have not been paid. Reporter what have the officials told you so far. Theyve told us nothing. Reporter we were unable to contact anyone on t
Casings there in the parking lot. Police still on the scene, still investigating and about to provide some Additional Information to the media who is, who are gathered here but what we know at this point is that one man was injured, shot multiple times. One suspect is in custody. There was a s. W. A. T. Team that went through this store looking for a possible second suspect. At this point we have no word whether there was. What we do know, though, is that the situation does appear to be under control. One person being treated at this point at aria torresdale. Reporting live in the northeast, jeff chirico channel6 action news. Thank you jeff. More breaking news right here out of the crescentville section of philadelphia. Chopper6hd captured huge flames shooting out of the Auto Repair Shop in the 5500 block of tabor avenue. That fire reached two alarms but in the last hour firefighters were able to get it under control. No injuries reported in crescentville. Fire crews still on the scene