now the city attorney as i understand it advises the sunshine task force. is that true? >> there is a deputy city attorney that does. i don't know what -- >> and the sunshine task force identified the three individuals involved and conducted their investigation and had those three individuals come before them. they made a finding and it seems to me that it should have been incumbent upon the city attorney to tell them look the issue you had before you was not directly to the department head mr. rahaim and if you want to send a charge to the ethics commission -- not only on these individuals involved who violated, but you should give mr. rahaim an opportunity to appear before and you testify why he shouldn't be know responsible and charge to the ethics commission and then we could deal with it. now this is the second time we have been told -- well, because the referral wasn't by the right party, and mr. rahaim has had his due process, which i agree with in a sense, but it's frustrating to the sunone was doing its job and comes up in this forum. >> i hear you. i can't spea

gets a lot of attention, a lot of scrutiny so it might behoove either -- the sunshine ordinance task force perhaps to really sit down with you and some members of your staff to discuss what is -- some of the issues you're faced with particularly when you have requests for information and for documents, so i don't know if that's something you want to approach the sunshine ordinance task force or perhaps during public comment if there is someone here from the task force that would like to comment on that, but i think these things can get a little murky depending on definitions or how the rules are interpreted by employees of a particular department. >> currently we're consulting with staff within the city attorney's office. >> yes. have you talked with director rahaim about the appearance tonight if. >> yes. he's aware of it. >> and he's aware that the sunshine ordinance task force made a finding against him that he violated these ordinances. >> yes he's aware. >> did he tell you any reason why he wouldn't come before us and give us his view of why we should not up hold the sunshine or

ringel and the sunshine ordinance. we did that a second time with specific terms and planners that work with the planning department to search their deleted files and provided him with that information basically transfer cd provided to us from dt. again i'm just really here for any questions. >> [inaudible] >> just a question on the deleted files. how often do you delete files or how quickly do you delete files since there seems to be quite a few deleted files that you both referred to? >> the planning department's practice is to retain substantive correspondence so if it's non substantive they're deleted and not retained in the record. >> they're immediately deleted -- >> well, -- >> shortly after. or when the planner gets around to it. there is no standard. >> so there is no standard system to when they're deleted and up to the discretion of the individual planner. is that what you're saying? >> it is but only non substantive correspondence gets deleteed. >> thank you. >> sorry. i didn't get your name sir. >> jonas i

part of your responsibility is enforcing the sunshine ordinance and every time the sunshine task force refers a complaint you sit here and kib etz and talk about the fact this isn't clear and this isn't clear so when are you going to do something about it? >> we just did. >> with all due respect commissioner keane this discussion has been going on for five years, the discussion on who is gets included on the complaint. i did that and i had the task force take that off. the reason is they went through two years of discussion and we're the ethics commission and according to the sunshine ordinance the only people we can discipline are elected heads and officials and so if you have a complaint against a line employee your response from the staff is we can't do anything, so these things go back and forth and you know. you can say the task force knows what it's doing but every single time the task force sends awe recommendation you find or the staff finds a reason to find fault and if you think it's at fault and you acknowledge the fact that part of the responsibilities as a body is the enfo

i'm not aware of any process being halted because the sunshine request hasn't been fulfilled. having said that there is an appeal process by most commissions and administratively to that matter to afford anybody due process. >> so when mr. ringel recounted when he got his documents and in a couple of cases and at least how he recounts it passed due dates where he could have submitted. do you know that to be the case? do you know if some of the cds were released to his possession? . >> certainly the last ones but they were emails not substantive to the matter. my understanding since i adopted this matter is mr. ringel's request were specific to correspondence and emails, and so when it went to the sunshine ordinance task force it was referred to them because one of his family members' emails was not included in the correspondence provided to the records request, and we would contend it's just a non substantive email. in fact i haven't seen it so i can't speak to it. that was the crux why it got to the sunshine ordinance task force. >> thank you. >> can i ask mr. ringel a questi

ringel's request were specific to correspondence and emails, and so when it went to the sunshine ordinance task force it was referred to them because one of his family members' emails was not included in the correspondence provided to the records request, and we would contend it's just a non substantive email. in fact i haven't seen it so i can't speak to it. that was the crux why it got to the sunshine ordinance task force. >> thank you. >> can i ask mr. ringel a question? as you stand here today are there still documents that you believe that the planning department has not delivered to you. >> absolutely. >> what are those -- >> they complied with the lasted search that he mentioned and the fourth cd i was given and after six hearings knowing there was a referral to the ethics commission it was pending and they were warned that it would be that exact same search but not for the deleted emails, all emails, anything held within the custody of the planning department was my request, and i understand -- i'm not a political person. like i only registered to vote which is weird but i never th

faith in government is there is accountability and responsibility and after six hearings with the sunshine ordinance and quite a long process i can tell you that he was given notice. absolutely. he sent whoever was in charge of sunshine ordinance complaints to the first hearing and to the second hearing and that was accompanied by the acting environmental review officer sarah b jones and because i was concerned on time because i needed the files by the last administrative hearing they told mr. rahaim or thomas de santo mentioned earlier they were to come to the tac -- what is it? >> [inaudible] >> compliance and amendments committee and everyone agreed it would be the next wednesday, the procedural notice and they told him so mr. ionin didn't show up at that hearing and he was taking over lulu wong's position and acting agent for mr. john rahaim. he knew about it all along so the order went to john rahaim. he was in receipt of it so to say he wasn't given notice or ability to be heard wasn't the case at all. he cheese people to hand. >> >> handle it and they didn't handle it at all. this i

that was the crux why it got to the sunshine ordinance task force. >> thank you. >> can i ask mr. ringel a question? as you stand here today are there still documents that you believe that the planning department has not delivered to you. >> absolutely. >> what are those -- >> they complied with the lasted search that he mentioned and the fourth cd i was given and after six hearings knowing there was a referral to the ethics commission it was pending and they were warned that it would be that exact same search but not for the deleted emails, all emails, anything held within the custody of the planning department was my request, and i understand -- i'm not a political person. like i only registered to vote which is weird but i never thought my vote mattered and i want to preface this i don't understand the politics but i understand the ethics commission and the relationship with the sunshine ordinance task force. it seems to be strange. because they didn't want to send the case here. i asked them to so there was accountability on behalf of those at the planning department and our f

expect to see plenty of sunshine. the sunshine will stick around the entire day.nd throughout most of the workweek we are going to see plenty of sunshine and temperatures starting to warm back. look at the temperature trend. the average this time of year is 85 degrees. today we were below the average at 74. we hit that high earlier in the day. most of the afternoon we were in the high 60s. tomorrow the temperatures recover. we are looking at tropical depression number four and tropical storm warnings for parts of the bahamas. and at this time it is expected to strengthen into a hurricane. as we head down the shore tomorrow temperatures at 75 on sunday plenty of sunshine. beautiful down the shore. tonight clearing skies, 61 degrees for philadelphia dropping all the way down to 54 for the suburbs north and west. and your seven-day forecast shows that warming trend. wednesday close to 90 degrees and plenty of sunshine until friday. >>> live and in your living room, 15 days away from playing meaningful nfl football. but now, the period begins that players fear. it was

saturday, sunshine, clouds and 74. and sunday we'll see clouds and thundershowers at any point and 74. sunday is not a washout, but we'll see showers or thunderstorm around at some time. today, 78 degrees, sunny and cool, nice. saturday, beautiful and warmer. 82 degrees, sunday, humid, some sun, 86 degrees. monday, partly sunny i say skies, 84. chance of a shower or thunderstorm. tuesday, humid, chance of a thunderstorm around, 84 degrees, wednesday, clouds and sun, 85. looking good on wednesday. thursday, partly sunny skies and 84 degrees for your high on thursday, as you look at this you can say it's not feeling like august today in the 70s. it's warmer by sunday. >> not feeling quite like august in the 70s. >> reporter: that's what you were thinking right? >> police arrest a 13-year-old girl drinking and driving. and she was not the only one inside the car. >> reporter: getting ready for bridge opening, but at the burlington brings tall bridge we're looking good. we>> we'll show you the playground specifically desig

bright sunshine, 3:00 p.m., 78 degrees. that's the high today. 6:00 p.m., 77 coming down from that high. if you're heading out of town, here's the travel forecast. philadelphia no weather related problems, boston, 63 looking good. chicago, 55 dry. charlotte, atlanta, newark, new york city looking good with no delays as you head out of the town today. >> robin williams wife revealed information about her late husband's health after his suicide. he was in the early stages of park sons disease. he was struggling with depression and anxious and sober at the time of his death. >> a britain new york delivery man is doing more than owe 'brooklyn, new york delivery man is doing more than that delivering packages. >> i said to the mom, did he want to get married? i have a nice girl for him. >> people thought it was a joke. >> he was afraid to get married, you see him there with his new wife. >> reporter: he was at the couple's wedding where ups cookies were on the menu. >> if you want to keep up with the latest headlines take them w

we'll see the sunshine returning for the second half weekend.er 60's right now, 67 in reading and allentown, 69 at philadelphia international airport. little sun trying to break out in south jersey. we're still in the low 70's. northeast philadelphia checks in at 73 degrees, a cool 64 degrees temperature in quakertown. compare this to yesterday at this time, almost five to 10 degrees cooler than what we were so there's a big change with the clouds and showers. look a whole lot better for sunday no matter where you are across the delaware valley. sunshine returns with a high near 80 for philadelphia. upper 70's at the shore. in the mountains beautiful conditions in the mid 70's. we'll talk about how long the sunshine lasts and warmer temperatures in the forecast as well. that's in a few minutes. natasha. >> justin thanks so much. we'll see you soon soon. >>> today thousands of people marched in new york city to protest the death of eric garner the father of six died after a police officer allegedly put him in a fatal choke hold while placing hum

sunshine tomorrow. sunshine tuesday. wednesday, thursday as well.ng a little warm around here. we've been 90 or higher three times in a row, only three times all summer. this could be the fourth time this week because it's back to school week and that's when it gets hot. >> but they will need a little jacket maybe in the morning at the bus stop, maybe. >> oh. >> only for the delicate flowers. >> feel like it's cool at 60 degrees. maybe. >> you're a mom, i will defer to you. >> i would probably give a little jacket. >> thanks, chuck. >>> this morning a couple from new hampshire celebrating a big vegas win. this duo won a whopping $2.4 million at the legendary lions share slot machine at the mgm grand. for the past 20 years, the lions share hasn't paid out. the lucky winners only played 5 minutes when they hit the jackpot. >> like any good american i'm going to give a big chunk of it to uncle sam and after that is done, we've been blessed in our lives. i don't know that our lifestyle will change much but i've got two children and five grandchildren an

ionin was adamant to the sunshine task force and missed the first hearings and we have given everything. here's an example of the non substantive email and in the packet. my first email saying you have the supervisor, the direct supervisor on the cover of the mitigated declaration so that was later revised and wasn't taken care of so you have a error on the information and they can't produce that email and they won't produce that email and this is from the hearing. supervisor kim, two things i am concerned about. one, i am concerned that you don't keep with the file every piece of communication associated with the matter. the clerk of the board is required to keep it with the file. i know the technology exist s and the planning department is capable of that. that concerns me. here is me to l u.d lu wong. can you have an it search it and the planners weren't complying and this is how we went through six emails. i emailed him before i knew who he was and they got the message back then asking for a continuance of the hearing because i couldn't get the case files i needed so there was plent

we are looking good out there, we are dry and have a beautiful day with lots of sunshine, and feeling good right now, lets go outside and show you what is looks like now, we were out earlier with the acts cam, look at the sunshine in fairmount park, not a cloud in the sky there, now that it's the afternoon hours we see a couple of fair weather clouds bubble up. 74 degrees and temperatures are cool for this time of year, look at the dew point, 48 and yesterday the dew point was in the upper 60s when it felt humid and there was no moisture in the atmosphere, winds out of the south-southwest at 10 miles per hour. it's picking up and a little bit a breeze out there. temperatures around the area, 74 in philadelphia, and we are were just in the mid to upper 50s this morning in the lehigh valley and 71 in allen ton un72 in trenton, 74 in millville, and down the beach in wildwood and 75 in dover, satellite 6 and action radar showing blue skies and sunshine, and a couple of showers building up to the north and west and you get one sneaking through and it's a dry at atmosphere, it's hard to get

i'm richard knee a former member of the sunshine ordinance task force when i served 4 years. recently my replacement was finally appointed a few things first of all, i'm understanding on your response to finding representation number 12 you say the ethics commission director will have staff notifies all the departments to remind officials and employees to follow the posting requirement to insure that the postings are easy to locate on the departmental website. you're going to have your staff notify the staff to look at the posting what if they don't what's the ors there. on recommendation on our responses to recommendation 20 b of the appointment of a hearing officer you point out there no mechanism in the sunshine ordinance to do that i will encourage t you to consultant with the city attorney. that being the case it certainly

plenty of sunshine. look at temperatures for doylestown, northeast philadelphia, mount holly, upper 80s. and cooler at the shore but still in the 80s for cape may. vineland warms to 85. wilmington will see 88 degrees this afternoon along with philadelphia. and plenty of sunshine for chester and westchester. wet weather in our future. seven-day forecast when i come back. >> thanks. 6:08 right now. when something serious happens on the roads, we launch sky force. >> sky force is in the air on the way to an accident. nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele will let us know what's haas happeniis h. >> they are headed to this accident on the northeast extension. the southbound side just past the exit for lansdale. on the northeast extension both lanes are blocked. traffic getting by on the shoulder. at least two vehicles involved in this crash. i tell you to take route 309 as an alternate. we're dealing with issues on 309. an update here. still have this accident southbound 309 blocked there. a small

today, sunshine and clouds, 86 degrees is the high.omorrow is the wet day, showers and thunderstorms, we'll see them at any point, the overnight hours might be the heaviest most widespread rain. wednesday may start off wet with clouds and sunshine. 81 degrees, thursday, nice and less humid, 80. the rest of the week is looking good, friday, partly sunny skies, 79. saturday, 80. sunday, warmer you can 86 coming off a -- warmer coming off a great weather weekend. tuesday we're watching for the heavy rain. >>> fighting in iraq intensifies as the obama administration makes a new move in the battle against the militants. >>> the scam is on in the poconos with some paying with counterfeit cash. >> reporter: matt in chester county on the eastbound side of the bypass it's a slow go. we have problems on the what's up, george? massage chair. my little indulgence. dunkin' french vanilla swirl, my little indulgence. indulge in the sweeter, creamier taste of dunkin's new french vanilla and hazelnut swirl coffees and lattes -- try one today! these ar

and you acknowledge the fact that part of the responsibilities as a body is the enforcement of the sunshine ordinance then i would think that there would be a moral imperative to do something to get together with the task force and come down with something meaningful where you can do something instead of these pointless arguments whether they charge the right person or crossed the right t or .ed the i and the issue is let them go to public meetings and let them speak and i went to the police commission and told by the the president you're not allowed to talk about certain things. i was told the same thing by the president of the arts commission. and the library commission and they all knew it wasn't true but they did it anyway. why? because they got away with it because they knew it would go to the task force and for some reason you want people to believe that the sunshine ordinance task force is a group that doesn't know what they're doing and you're more clever than they are because you can find a way there is something they did in some way that made it wrong and you're unwilling to do an

more sunshine at the east, more clouds to the west. sunshine will eventually win later on today. there's the lincoln memorial with plenty of sunshine on the east facing abe lincoln's face in sun light this morning. 68 degrees the current temperature. winds northeast at 8 miles per hour. northeasterly winds will help to drive in some slightly drier air. scour these clouds out a bit. any time we get that east to northeasterly wind that's the marine layer of moisture coming off the ocean. it does have a tendency to leave a little bit more cloud cover out in the higher terrain. so from western loudoun county in the blue ridge westbound into the shenandoah valley you may be sunshine challenged later on today. outside temperatures are in the 60s now. we're in store for a pleasant warmup today, in the low to mid 70s by lunch time. afternoon temperatures today upper 70s, maybe even low 80s around the area as well. no real big area of rain anywhere near us. couple showers off the outer banks of north carolina. keeping a close eye farther down to the south. this is the disturbance now what

we sill see plenty of sunshine. sunshine warms us that the 80s this yap noon.e are clouds inland western pennsylvania but it's this line of clouds that could bring us showers later this week. it's a slow mover that storm system may not affect us until early thursday morning. for today, 84 degrees with sunny skies. into the middle 80s for northeast philadelphia, mt. holly, doylestown, the jersey shore, the delaware beaches. upper 70s. up to 82 for dover. any spots of fog north and west will clear, middle 80s for chester, philadelphia and voorhees. the seven-day forecast with the timing of the showers our way an a lack at the weekend as we when we come back. >>> 11 minutes after 6:00. we've had a few zpaeaccidents o there. >> jillian just tweeted about another accident. >> bridges are clear of delays but i am following four accidents out there, including a new one that skyforce 10 is heading to right now. we're told it involves a vehicle that went into the woods.ç take academy street to get around that. accident on the boulevard northbound at grant avenue. perki

we'll enjoy sunshine all day long. no sign of any rain. six degrees warmer in northeast philadelphia. up by five in trenton. atlantic city, dover, also six degrees warmer this morning as well which has most of the area in the 60s. 61 in mount holly. pottstown and allentown at 61 degrees at this hour. tropical storm no more. it's now strengthened to a hurricane. 75-mile-an-hour winds. a minimal hurricane. good news is this storm is going to stay away from bermuda and the east coast but it will come close enough that there is a risk of rip currents right along the coastline, the jersey shore and delaware beaches. sunshine will be ripe. temperatures into the 80s this afternoon. getting closer to that 90-degree mark. we haven't seen that in a while and a possibility it will come our way in the short-term. the seven-day forecast with details when i come back. >>> check out this confusing drive. that's good stuff. i hadn't seen that video until now. lane striping problems along i-66 in northern virginia turns out tape was put down over the weeke

we're seeing sunshine this morning. bright sunshine.clouds and temperatures that are much cooler than normal for this time of year. we should be in middle 60s but right now northeast philadelphia has dropped to 59 degrees. it's 59 also in wilmington and very low 50s for millville, pottstown and allentown. today sunshine will be nice and bright. 68 degrees at 9:00. 76 at lunchtime. near 80 degrees this afternoon. meantime, katy zachry is watching problems this morning. hey, katy. >> holiday forecast looks good. if you are trying to get a jump-start on holiday travel heading through philadelphia, depends on where you're going but it doesn't look good. this is a parking lot on route 1 southbound approaching the 76 westbound exit. it's just a parking lot because there was an overturned tractor-trailer on 76 westbound exit that was preventing traffic from merging onto 76 westbound. this is a live look in just the last few minutes they removed that overturned tractor-trailer. you can see in here they are just in cleanup process. they've not r

is they went through two years of discussion and we're the ethics commission and according to the sunshine ordinance the only people we can discipline are elected heads and officials and so if you have a complaint against a line employee your response from the staff is we can't do anything, so these things go back and forth and you know. you can say the task force knows what it's doing but every single time the task force sends awe recommendation you find or the staff finds a reason to find fault and if you think it's at fault and you acknowledge the fact that part of the responsibilities as a body is the enforcement of the sunshine ordinance then i would think that there would be a moral imperative to do something to get together with the task force and come down with something meaningful where you can do something instead of these pointless arguments whether they charge the right person or crossed the right t or .ed the i and the issue is let them go to public meetings and let them speak and i went to the police commission and told by the the president you're not allowed to talk about ce

i'm richard knee a former member of the sunshine ordinance task force when i served 4 years. recently my replacement was finally appointed a few things first of all, i'm understanding on your response to finding representation number 12 you say the ethics commission director will have staff notifies all the departments to remind officials and employees to follow the posting requirement to insure that the postings are easy to locate on the departmental website. you're going to have your staff

sunshine breaking through the clouds. not a lot of rain, maybe a shower sneaking in in the morning maybe in the afternoon, high of 86. monday, partly sunny skies, 84. nice a chance of a shower coming around. tuesday, humid a few showers and thunderstorm 84. wednesday, dry, 85. thursday, partly sunny skies, 84 degrees, today quite cool out there to start you off. some of the suburbs in the low 50s making it up to 78. >> more stories you didn't see last night including the social media backlash as people find out the daughter of robin williams was being bullied and left the network. >> it's game day for the taney dragons. >> reporter: we are looking at 309 there's no southbound traffic heading toward the turnpike. we have a crash to avoid in a construction zone, i'll have the details after the break. >> tom hanks makes a name for himself in cyber space. we'll tell you about his app next in tech bytes. what's with the suit? oh, i had to go to the bank. if you look legit they give you special treatment. seriously? seriously,