Page 7 - John Dougherty News Today

We begin with breaking news of fbi raids across the city of philadelphia. Federal agents are searching multiple locations connected to union boss John Dougherty. Sources confirm that a city councilman was also targeted. Trish hartman is joining us with the. Reporter there is lots of activity here. Investigators are in and out of John Doughertys home at 1933 and we have seen them bringing out boxes from the house next door that belongs to his sister. D ougherty himself is down the street hanging ...

Comparison from the same time yesterday its almost like night and day. Its 100 times better. The humidity has dropped off. Temperatures have fallen into the 50s and 60s north and west. So it feels really, really good. Poconos 56 degrees right now. 64 in allentown. Reading, 65. Lancaster, 63. A nice breeze out of the northwest 5 to 15 miles per hour. Only adds to the comfort, millville, 69. Philadelphia, 72. And cape may, 74. Heres satellite and radar, weve got a nice, big area of High Pressure f...

Delaware and lehigh valleys. The rain is a good thing, right. Reporter but its going to increase humidity, pick your poison. Lets show you the view, looking at the center city skyline, we have lowlevel clouds, the showers and thunderstorms are rolling into the area. This is ahead of the main batch that isd this afternoon. Lets get ou over to the radars. Were zoom into southern cumberland and cape may counties. Heres delsea drive into millville and vineland. The heavy downpours are by bivalve and...

The fbi has made no comment as to the nature of the investigation. A spokesperson for local 98 answered questions saying the union is subject to multiple audits a year and he doesnt know why it would come under financial scrutiny by the feds. I can also tell you that its somewhat puzzling that theyre investigating johns home because nothing in johns home or about johns home has changed in the the last 10 years since the last time the fbi raided johns home. Reporter dougherty was never charged af...

We had three days where temperatures were in the mid 80s lots of sunshine. Today is the complete opposite. With temperatures in the low 90s it will feel closer to 98 or 99. This will add to the misery. These downpours will increase the humidity later this afternoon. This is northern portions of Cape May County, dennisville, woodbine tuckahoe reporting a brief, but heavy downpour racing off to the east 10 to 20 miles per hour. Over the last few fraiments we frames we have a couple of more cells d...

Do and let them do their job. Im very comfortable with where we are at right now, once we get this ugly scenario by everything will be fine, im comfortable that is it. Reporter the probe also reached Philadelphia City hall. There they raided the offices of city councilman bobby henon and head of local 98 since 1993 and last year he took over the philadelphia trade council and mad money to jim kearney and he says he knows nothing about the raids. As it plays out we will know and i dont have infor...

Concrete over a railing that was supposed to protect them. Sky6 live hd giving you a glimpse of cape may, new jersey, a couple of people on the beach. Lets get you caught up on the forecast with meteorologist chris sowers. Before we do that, last nights storms left a mark in parts of the area. A tree crushed the back of a truck in philadelphias West Oak Lane section. The driver who was stopped at the red light is okay. Good morning, on this sunday, 6 01. Reporter heres the good news, the storms ...

Site throughout the city were raided by the fbi including ibew local 98 headquarters at 17th and Spring Garden where federal agents worked all day bringing out boxes of evidence. They raided this south philadelphia pub on second belonging to dougherty. The fbi wouldnt comment on the nature of the investigation. A source tells action news it involves a broad scope of alleged activity. A Union Representative spoke outside doughertys home. The allegations of financial impropriety is somewhat puzzli...

Everybody is in the mid 70s. Dover is pushing 80. Atlantic city, the dewpoint is up to 73. Its going to be oppressively humid afternoon. High temperatures in the low 90s. Combined the two, it will make it feel like the upper 90s. Here comes the cold front you will see showers and thunderstorms develop along it. That front moves in the soup and triggers showers and thunderstorms for us. They will be on the stronger side. Clouds an sun, lateday showers and thunderstorms after 2 00 p. M. , 91 is th...

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