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House, both the deputy and the attorney general, both attorney general Jeff Sessions and his brandnew Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who has a bipartisan background, recommended to the president that the president fire james donald trump, the president , has sent this letter, made this letter public, that he sent to comey. He says, i greatly appreciate you informing me three times that im not under investigation, but i concur with the judgment of the Justice Department that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. We dont know yet the reason for this, lester. They havent said specifically what the reason is, but presumably its because of all the public all the public criticism of james comeys conduct of the handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The democrats havent liked the fact that he put out information about it late in the campaign. Hillary clinton has said she believes it was a factor in her defeat. The republicans didnt like it, and the democrats also didnt like that the fbi didnt say at the same time that it was investigating possible Trump Campaign connections to russia for the hacking, and the republicans didnt like the fact that comey recommended against filing any charges against Hillary Clinton for the emails. Its important, lester, that the president says in this letter that hes been told three times that he is not under investigation. Because it would be explosive for a president who was under investigation by the fbi, to fire the fbi director. So clearly President Trump is trying to stay im not doing this to save my own skin, lester. And the investigation that the director had revealed a few months ago, that was about the Trump Campaign and possibly dealings with the russians, correct . Correct. The fact that he was appointed in 2013 by president obama, as we said, a tenyear term, how rare is it to see handed to him . Well, exceedingly so. And of course the whole point of setting up this tenyear term for fbi directors was to greatly separate them from the push and pull of politics. You may remember that when bob muller announced he was going to step down, they asked jim comey once to take this job, the Obama Administration did and he demured. They agreed to keep bob muller on the job for another year, until comey reluctantly agreed to come to the dance. And he had fully intended, im sure, to serve out his entire tenyear term. So this is exceedingly rare, its a great shock. We dont know where the fbi director is right now. Were told hes not at the fbi building today. But this is a an enormous shock to the fbi, they did not see this coming. So what next on the Russian Investigation . It will now deputy and will go on, lester. Pete williams in our washington newsroom with the breaking news. As you can imagine, a lot of moving parts here. Were gathering them for you and well be coming on the air with nightly news in less than a half hour in the east and central time zones. Until then, im lester holt, nbc news, new york. And we are gathering reaction to this breaking news as well, as fbi director james comby is fired. More now from Chris Lawrence at the live desk. For folks at home, if you have the nbc washington app, you got an alert about this just the minute that it became public. James comey was four years into his term. We got a look at his termination letter. It was four sentences. Plus one last line that says, i wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. A very short end to what has been a very vibrant and very controversial four years at the helm President Trump, just to put this in context, has been ambivalent about director comey for some time. When he took office, he decided to keep comey, who was appointed by president barack obama and had also been a registered republican, he had worked under president george w. Bush. But just last month, mr. Trump told the Fox Business Network that it wasnt too late to ask comey to step down. He said something to the effect of, i have confidence in him, but well see what happens. Its going to be interesting. He also seemed to indicate that mr. Comey saved Hillary Clintons campaign, and of course mr. Comey was on the hill in the last couple days testifying to the reasons behind talking about the clinton email investigation and the probe into the russian connections from the trump commaampaign. A lot of this is developing and well stay on top of it and keep that phone handy because well be pushing out alerts as soon as we get new information. All right, chris well check back with you as you get new developments. Thank you. Other news now, tonight there are new concerns about safety in a place thats usually packed with people. Four laptops stolen from the apple store near bethesda row in a matter of seconds. This happened just before closing time in an area bustling with shoppers, diners, families too. Pat collins tell us how this crime unfolded. Pat . Reporter jim, rotten to the core. Two guys using a charity as cover to rip off the apple store. They work in tandem. The guy in the white is the talker. The guy in the blue is the taker. Police investigating a bizarre theft of four computers from the apple store in bethesda. Police say the guy in the white, the talker, told the clerk he was with a charity and wanted to buy some laptops to do charitable work. Laptops, placed them on a counter. At that point, the suspect distracted the employee. Reporter thats when the taker, the guy in the blue, grabs the laptops and runs out the store. Now, using a charity as a front to steal laptops, well, that doesnt sit well with people who got their apples the honest way. I think sometimes when you hear the word charity, people want to help. And people take advantage of that. Its really sad. And theyre are good people and bad people. Unfortunately, you never know what youre going to get from someone. Do you think sometimes were too gullible . No, i think its mostly horrible people doing horrible things. To good people . To good people, yeah. What should happen here . They should get arrested. Hopefully theyll catch them. Justice . Definitely. Reporter Sources Say Police are looking into the possibility that these two guys pulled the same scam at other apple stores in connecticut now, now comment from apple today, they say they dont talk about security matters. Jim, back to you. Pat collins, thank you. Now to a Murder Investigation in the district, prompting a response from the new police chief. Someone shot a man this afternoon near the corner of Martin Luther king avenue and irvington street in southwest. He died on the way to the hospital. D. C. Police chief Peter Newsham responded to the scene, and tells us multiple shots were fired and that there were a lot of people around at the time of the shooting. Still no word on motive or arrest in the case. Tonight new reaction to high profile hate crimes on local college campuses. Antisemitic messages were found at Georgetown University over the weekend. Bananas were hung from nooses at American University last week. Days later a noose was found at the university of maryland in it has some calling for a change in race relations. Meagan fitzgerald has more from our newsroom. Yeah, doreen, muslims are also seeing an increase in racially tinged acts. The council on America Islamic relations or cair, released a report today saying antimuslim acts have increased 57 from 2015 to 2016. Theyre calling the latest surge unprecedented. Obamas not in office anymore. We dont have a muslim in there anymore. Reporter this cell phone video showing a customer insulting a muslim woman in line is just the latest incident of bias actsgainst muslims. The council forreleased a repor showing a surge in biased acts against muslims. They say in 2014, there were more than 1,300 incidents against muslims. Fast forward to 2016, and the numberre so its not just the American Muslim Community thats being its all minority communities. Reporter the black community was targeted at arican University Last week, when someone hung bananas from a noose at three Different Directions on campus. A noose was also found on the campus of the university of maryland. Theres probably been more of an empowerment of attitudes that were never absent. Reporter dr. Greg carr is a professor at Maryland University and he and other measumbers agr the latest president ial election like lee emboldened people to act on racial tensions. Reporter this woman said shes been harassed several times before but shes hopeful that tolerance will increase with time. I advise them to rea more, like to know who those people and to stereotypes. Cair says theyve hired additional attorneys to challenge policies from the Trump Administration that they consider discriminatory like the muslim travel ban. Meagan, thank you. New at 6 00 tonight, an employee at nasa goddard has been sentenced after admitting to operating a counterfeiting ring. A judge ordered arthur chan to spend nine months confined to his home, he have to forfeit almost 40 grand. According to court filings, hes sold tens of thousands of dollars of knockoff hugo boss clothing and accessories on ebay. They said hes suspected of doing some of his work from his home computer. Chan was a longtime financial analyst at goddard. Hes accused of importing the phony merchandise from india and using a post office box in greenbelt. President trump is weighing a decision that has plagued two president s before him. The question is additional u. S. Troops to afghanistan. Blayne alexander is at the white house where the president s team is stressing there is no decision yet. Blayne . Sure. And doreen, of course before we get into that, the biggest news coming out of the white house is that which we broke in the past few minutes, that fbi director james comby ey is out of his position. This comes as a complete surprise to everyone in the phisfbi, the white house saying they will begin a search for his replacement immediately. All of this, doreen, comes on the same day that we learned that President Trump is exploring possible new strategies in afghanistan. Remember, this is a conflict where victory has been very difficult to define since the very beginning. Nearly three years after the end of americas longest war, the new commander in chief now considering a new plan to send as many as 5,000 additional troops how do we eliminate the threat . Reporter a question asked since 2001. What is the strategy now for increasing troop strength . Reporter this time around, President Trump would potentially give the pentagon power to determine troop numbers. He seems to not want to be doing his job as commander in chief and is shifting the decision onto the military commanders and the pentagon. If you dont add more troops in afghanistan, you can have a situation for another 9 11. Reporter back in 2013, trump tweeted about afghanistan, lets get out, our troops are being killed, we waste billions there. This as the white house faces more questions over former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and why it took 18 days for him to be fired, after acting attorney general sally yates raised the red flag that flynn lied about his ties to russia. Information, doesnt mean that you immediately jump the gun and take an action. Reporter today the white house dismissing yates as an obama and Hillary Clinton supporter, saying the president made the right choice. And we want to get back to the breaking news that we brought you before that story, fbi director james comey now out of his position. Were getting reaction coming in from those on capitol hill. We understand that senator Diane Feinstein was called by the president before this was announced. And we know that minority leader Chuck Schumer will be holding a News Conference on this within the next 30 minutes. Well continue to bring you updates on that. Blayne alexander, thank you. And nbc nightly news anchor lester holt will meet with President Trump at the white house later this week. You can see his exclusive interview on nbc nightly news on thursday, right after news4 at 6 00. Decades of history were nearly erased from the landscape of capitol hill when a fire gutted fragers hardware. The burnedout shell of the store still sherwood reports fragers has a new owner and a new future. Cast iron skillets still hang on hooks. Circular saw blades, still in place. American flags, singed and soiled by the great fire. The great fire of 2013, it destroyed fragers Hardware Store on capitol hill, in business since 1920. Longtime residents who have lived nearby for decades miss it. Well, you know, they had everything that i needed. You know, when i needed something from the hardware, it was right here. Reporter a temporary shop on nearby e street has some but not all of the items normally for sale. But now a groundbreaking today. Gina schafer and her husband, who own a dozen small Hardware Stores, own fragers and promise it will be rebuilt by early 19 beautiful will remain the same. We treat our employees, our customers the same. We embody the neighborhood, in neighborhoods that we are. Were not going to change anything. Reporter the new fragers at 11th and pennsylvania will have 34 condos on top. The Hardware Store with a longterm lease, it will be ready when these condo lights start burning out. In the district, tom sherwood, news4. [ shouting ]. Quite a scene as emotions boil over at ft. Lauderdales airport after Spirit Airlines canceled dozens of flights and left hundreds of passengers stranded. The airline had to cancel at least 30 more flights today. Spirit executives are blaming Airline Pilots who are in a labor dispute with the airline. Sarah dallof reports, the pilots denied doing anything to hurt passengers. Reporter night inside the terminal at ft. Lauderdale Hollywood International airport. Cell phone video showing emotions exploding, fights breaking out, and three arrested and released the next morning. This is my First Time Ever being arrested in my life and i have a college degree. Reporter all after spirit canceled nine flights. People getting arrested, nowhere to stand, nowhere to sit. Reporter spirit blaming the grounded flights on pilots refusing to pick up unassigned trips, even filing a lawsuit against the union, claiming the pilots are engaged in this illegal slowdown in order to bring pressure on spirit during current negotiations. Canceled flights due to pilot unavailability have impacted over 20,000 passengers since may 1st. Allegations the union denies, releasing a statement, reading, the pilots are not engaged in a job action, rather they are continuing to do Everything Possible to help restore the companys operations, which have experienced significant problems over the last several meanwhile, airport officials working to get operations back to normal. All hands on deck right now, to try and make sure everyone gets where they need to go. Reporter spirit passengers bracing for more possible delays and cancellations, but hoping for smooth flying. A penn state student from our area is charged now in connection with the alleged hazing death of a Fraternity Pledge in february. And were hearing the 911 call for the very first time tonight. He hasnt moved. He has cold extremities. Investigators tell us that call was made 12 hours after a Fraternity Pledge named timothy piazza, fell down a flight of stairs head first. His bloodalcohol content was four times the legal limit. The fraternity psychology is really about taking orders. And its about also knowing when to not challenge power. All it would have taken was one person to stand up and have the courage to do reporter 20yearold Lucas Rockwell of Bowling Air Force base is charged with tampering with evidence. He allegedly tried to help dress piazza before the ambulance arrived. A total of 18 defendants face charges, some as serious as involuntary manslaughter. A morning carjacking a morning commute turns into a carjacking for a woman in fairfax county. But the ordeal didnt end there. Police chased the guy for hours, even called in the k9 unit and a helicopter. Hes behind bars, but police want to pass on a message to people who find themselves the target of an armed carjacker. Kristin wright has that report. Reporter not what you expect at 6 00 in the morning, and when you have a gun in your face, theres not much you can do except comply. But the carjacking that happened at this intersection this morning does make you think about your safety. Its the normal afternoon commute at east drive telegraph road in the alexandria section of fairfax county. But this morning, a woman waiting at a red light, was carjacked at this intersection. Police say john russell pulled a gun on her and told her to get out, so she did. Police say the woman did the right thing, but they told us, its always a good time to think about safety behind the wheel. We advise to always keep your eyes open, as long as the vehicle is in operation. When youre waiting at a red light, its easy to let your mind drift off, but you have to Pay Attention to what and who is around you. And the red light doesnt mean its time to pick up your phone. And this is safety 101. Lock your doors at all times. This is the picture that police say helped them find russell. It came from a residents Home Security camera. Police say one of their officers spotted russell walking and they arrested him. The woman who was car jacked was not hurt, but no question, a terrifying encounter. In no snow, big problem. Well tell you what caused a local county to bust their snow budget and spend a lot more than they planned. Plus a close call involving a school bus as a driver tries to squeeze by in virginia. Coming up on news4, why the next time you take a plane, anything bigger than this could be a nono. And lots of reaction still pouring in to the breaking news on social media tonight. President trump fires fbi director james comey. Well have more on this story throughout ts hour. Hi well, doug warned us about the cold this morning, and then by the afternoon it seemed warm, doug. This is a typical early spring day, not what you get in may, where you get very cool mornings and nice mild afternoons. Thats what we have, even though temperatures are 10 degrees below average in many locations. It was a nice day, very cool to start the day. You might have needed a coat. Take a look at what flew in early this morning. These were the Hurricane Hunter aircrafts. They were at reagan national. Myself and tour the planes. The public too. These planes, two of which fly right through the middle of a hurricane. I have always wanted to do that. That one goes right through the middle. Even a category 5 hurricane that will go right through. Giving us precious data to help us predict the hurricanes, just a great tool for noaa to bring them up. Theyre making the rounds. Theyll be in miami in a couple days. Out there today, beautiful weather for that. People out and about enjoying the nice weather. Plenty of sunshine, now the clouds starting to move in. Winds out of the south at 7mileperhour. A lighter breeze. Really feels a lot better today than yesterday. 68 right now, fredericksburg. 63 in winchester. The cool spot along the bay. The pollen has been on the high side. Tree is high and grass on the moderate side. As far as the rain is concerned, were not going to see really anytime soon until the end of the week. We have a couple of dry days. Even though its really close. Take a look. Sunshine all day and look at the clouds coming in the last couple of frames. Thats with a storm system riding along this front. You can see the spin in the atmosphere here and more cloud cover moving down. This front, amazing what it does. It bisects the cool air to the north and the warm air to the south. Look at these numbers. D. C. At 66. Roanoke, right underneath the clouds and rain, 56 degrees. And then on the other side, 84 in nashville. 82, lexington. 56 in columbus, ohio. Thats not a big difference and its all because of that boundary. I showed you this map last week. This front right on top of us, where the jet stream is too, it allows all the cool air to reside across the northeast. That means the cooler pattern locked in place. More rain late week, thats what well be dealing with. Now tomorrow, actually a pretty sun and cloud. I think well see more clouds than sun at times. But still 72 not bad. 65 on thursday, and look at your friday, saturday, sunday. Shower activity, not good at all. High temperature of only 59 on saturday. Mothers day looking better, windy, but for the most part dry. Next week looking okay too. Ill take you more in depth on saturday and sunday. See you at 6 45, with more on what to expect for the weekend forecast. Thank you, doug. Were staying on top of the breaking news. New reaction right after the break as fbi director james comey is fired. 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All kinds of reaction coming in from virginia and maryland. Lets take a live Look Building there that were going to take a look at. Heres what were hearing from some elected lawmakers. Virginia senator tim kaine tweeted trump firing comey shows how frightened the administration is over the russia investigation. And Chris Van Hollen tweets, firing comey has the foul stench of trying to stop an Ongoing Investigation into collusion between the Trump Campaign and the russians. Senator van hollen goes on to say, the youre fired approach doesnt work when youre president and he accuses President Trump of creating a crisis of confidence in the Justice Department. Again, it was thatery basis that were hearing for the reasons why director james comey was fired, with the Deputy Attorney general outlining in a letter some of the reasons why he said he cannot defend the directors handling of the conclusion of the investigation into secretary clintons emails. And he says, i his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken. Again, four years into a tenyear term, we have not seen this quite frankly since the early 1970s. Although the last fbi director to be let go ahead of time was william sessns. Was fired by bill clinton, but he had been serving since beingy ronald reagan. We also are getting information and new reaction from the hill as well. Lets hear what senator john mccain is saying. The president does have that authority, so i respect that. So again, senator mccain saying the president does have that authority and that is true, the fbi director serves at the discretion of the president. Its a tenyear term meaning fbi director can outlast even a twoterm republican who worked under former president george w. Bush, but he wasppointed to the office under president obama and now let go well bore his term is up. Well stay on top of this, get you any new information including more local reaction to this shocking development. Chris lawrence, thank you. Lets get more analysis on this. We check in with nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams. Hesn the bureau with a closer look at james comeys firing and why it may have happened. Reporter the director had just testified last week about the aions he took that were so controversial, involving release of information about the Hillary Clinton email investigations. Before that, the fbi director, james comeys tenure in the job had gotten high marks from members of both parties. His handling of several high profile investigations, these issues of going dark, of the inability of the fbi to track terrorist conversations. All those things had stood him in good stead. Then along came the clinton email investigation and h testimony last week didnt satisfy members of either party. The democrats wer upset with what he said about the Hillary Clinton investigation so late in the process, and didnt say about donald trump. The republicans were upset he didnt h recommended against filing charges against Hillary Clinton. So that has been the thing that has been hanging around his neck here ever since the election last year. And presumably thats the reason. All right, that was nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams with more detail about the really surprising firing just a short time ago of fbi director james comey. President trump fired him. As you can imagine, a lot of information throughout thi evening, reaction is coming in too. To stay up to date on the latest, go to our nbc washington app and of course well have the latest on news4 at 11 00 tonight. More restricons could be coming for those flying into the United States. The deptment of Homeland Security is considering expanding the ban on those Electronic Devices on overseas flights. Mark segraves is live for us at Dulles International with the details on this. Mark . Yeah, good evening, jim. The ban on anything larger than a cell phone being carried on to International Flights is already in effect in ten airports, mostly in the middle east. But now airports in europe could be added to the list. Since march, the department of Homeland Security has banned passengers from carrying on Electronic Devices such as laptops and ipads on flights to the United States originating in eight countries, in the middle east and north africa. Now the Trump Administration is considering adding airports in europe to International Travelers at dulles had mixed reactions. I fully support it. I mean, like it or not, the government has a responsibility to maintain our safety. That would be a great inconvenience to all travelers, especially business travelers. Because on these long flights, you usuallyork all the time. Passengers would have to place larger Electronic Devices in checked baggage. Only cell phones could be carried on. Some Airlines Impacted by the ban have started to provide loaner laptops to customers. Thats only par for substitute, bause you have to bring along some of your memories of emails, of things youre working on and nobody likes to put that in something which you dont own. Reporter there are other concerns with putting all the ipads and laptops i a storage customers are afraid theyll get lost or stolen and security analysts are warning that having all the lithium batteries in one place, in the belly o those airplanes could also pose another security threat. Thats the latest here at dulles. Its not easy. Its very complicated, isnt it . Thank you, mark. One mother is being honored for her balancing act, raising six children during her husbands deployment. Her incredible story of love and sacrifice. A one local county blows through their snow budget even though our winter was one of the warmest on record. But first, heres doug. Looking beautiful across our area, into t 60s. We get one more really nice day before things go downhill in a hurry. My updated forecast with the latest on saturday and sunday. Thats an important day, mothers we did not get a major might be a little surprising to hear that Montgomery County still went over its snow budget. The county had about 8. 6 million set aside for snow removal and cleanup, but it used more than 9 million. They only saw about six inches of snow this winter. They say crews and contct personnel had to report in and be on stand by in case they were needed and that drove up costs. New members for metro showed just how much the safetrack Maintenance Work can make you late. It hit the blue and yellow lines hard in march. Blue line, ontime performance was a miserable 45 in march. Not much better on the yellow line, 53 . Riders we spe to say its weighing on them. Yeah, its getting a little old and annoying. So i wish it was over soon. I would get to the station, hopefully wait 25 to 30 minutes for a safetrack is expected to wrap up in the summer. On another note, metro numbers from the first three months of the year show that afternoon rushhour riders were the most likely to face delays. For a closer look now at your metro commute and how to improve your ride on the rails, heres our transportation reporter adam tuss with tonights installment ofridlock gamechangers. Reporter catching a ride on metro, sure, that can be tough. But there they be tips to make your commute easier. Tip number one, if youre on a section of the system with multiple lines and see a train with space heading in your direction, take it. Even if its not your exact color. For example, a lot of downtown orange riders will see a silver line train with space and let it go by. But a pro tip is it to take it to a transfer point, step off and then catch the orange line trains there. Youll spend about the same amount of time on the but youll have a more comfortable ride. Metro has another tip you may not have thought of. There are more and more eightcar trains out there. Take advantage of them. What a lot of people dont know, the last two cars of eightcar trains are always going to have more space than t rest of the trains. Reporter and one more tip, you neverave to wait at a machine ever again. Smart trip auto reload ezpass. We like that. Tomorrow adam will show us short cuts to the beach this sumr. A military honor thats not focused on the battlefield, but the sacrifices happening on the home front. How it earned one local mother a visit to the white house comin up. G [dad] hello . [woman] hello . Wa [woman] hello [parrot] hello [dad] helllo helllo hello. Hey. Hello it feels good to be recognized. Hello hi jake, this is bianca at td bank. How can i help . With td voiceprint, we know you simply by the sound of your voice. Hi. Wow i wasnt expecting. Oh because no one has a voice quite like yours. Dont just bank. Bank human™. Im in awe of the courage and the strength of our incredible Military Spouses. A warm welcome today at the white house from ivanka trump and Vice President mike pence to the candidates from each branch in the runng to be Military Spouse of the year. The winner will be announced on friday. Among the candidates, cassandra martinez, a veteran herself. Her husband is an army First Sergeant, stationed at ft. Belvoir. Our virginia reporter caught up with the Martinez Family in springfield today. Reporter theres something mesmerizing watching natures interpretation of family life. The martiz family looking on as these geese navigate their little ones across the lake. One parent leading, the watching their backs. We have our mindset on the mission at hand. And really thats where we ha to be focused. Reporter you could say First Sergeant Phillip Martinez is at the front of his family flock. For 16 years, hes served in the u. S. Army, to include four long deployments. All the while, his wif cassandra, keeping an eye from behind, picking up and comforting her little ones when they fall. Military spouses have to act as Single Parents on and off throughout the year, but we know that its for our country and that hes sacrificing and serving our country and its for a great cause. Reporter raising six children is only part of cassandras daily balancing act. My stepmom is really independent and strong and super reliable for everything. Reporter an army vetan herself, cassandra is fully involved in her kidss many activities and finishing up a fellowship in entrepreneurship. There is stress, but i think its just how you take it. If you turn it around and make it into a positive or try and look at the positive of the situation, then i think you can really get throu anything. Reporter its that work ethic and attitude that convinced a friend to nominate cassandra for army spouse of the year, which she won. Shes now up for Military Spouse of the year. Its a sign of how hard she works and loves to give back to the community. Reporter while the glory highlights service on the battlefield, ahead of this mothers day, its about recognizing this spouses sacrifice on the home front. In springfield, virginia, david culver, news4. Wow, makes m feel like a real slacker. She is impressive. Lets hope she wins. So, doug, what do we crank the heat back up for tonight . Its not going to be as cold. Last night it was 36 at dulles. That tied a record morning. But it warmed fairly quickly. The sun very strong this time of year. Out there now, temperatures looking pretty good. Sunshine with the temperature at 66, winds out of the south at 7 miles per hour. Weather underground numbers, coming at 63 at potomac. Twin brook coming in at 68 degrees. And centreville coming in right now at 65. No a nice temperatures well below afternoon this time of year. But still quite nice tomorrow as we get closer tho the average igh. Average high tomorrow, 74. Right now, nothing on the radar. Well stay dry, dry, dry, but notice where the rain is. Its very close. Not only is the rain close, this boundary, you can see it clearly defined, very warm air to the south. Cool air to the north of it. If we get into the warmer air, that would be great. But the boundary is sticking here, bringing cool weather for the next couple days. Tomorrow is better than where we were toy. We have clouds overhead, keeping us warmer. Still chilly. 53 in the city, noon tomorrow, 65 degrees, little bit on the cool side. 72, nice around 4 00. I expect to see a lot of clouds tomorrow, off and on. Mid to highlevel clouds and cool weather at 7 00, down to 68, but still nice for the nationals game. A home game. 65 degrees on your thursday. Nice here, not too bad thursday, although it will be cloudy and cool. 55 on friday with showers likely. Not a ton of rain friday. Mostly comes in friday into saturday. Saturday a high of only 59 degrees. We have rain likely. The heaviest looks to be early. Less rain in the evening hours. How about sunday, sunday of course is mothers day, going for a high of 73. Looking pretty good. We got the d. C. Bike ride, just bike around town. 61 by 11 00 a. M. Next week, looking pretty good. That was doreens helmet on that . Very fancy graphic. I like that, doug. Thank you, doug. Coming up in sports, the Caps Force Game seven at home while the wizards get ready for the big one in boston. How theeam plans t to t desk. This time tomorrow, well be counting down to all three sports teams playing about this time. So many moving parts. I tweeted its going to be such a busy night. And people were like, i have to cancel all my plans. You need three tvs. Come on over. Tomorrow is already one of the biggest spots nights of the year in d. C. Depending on what happens, it could be one of the most exciting. The wizards on the road looking to take their first lead of the series against boston. Meanwhile, the capitals looking to finally beat the penguins in a game seven. With a win, the caps advance to the eastern conference final for the first time in th Alex Ovechkin era. This scenario, all made possible by last nights 52 win in pittsburgh, after being offensively challenged to start the series. The caps have scored nine goals in the last two games. Now its win in advance. We know theyre going to show up to successful, we havent worried about that. Weve worried about yourself, what we can do, what we can control, and thats going to be our mindset. Were having fun now. I think the fun part has been the obstacle. The obstacle is a good team in pittsburgh and we were down in the series. We started off 02, so the group has been really, really strong. Puck drops at 7 30. Carol maloney will have coverage from the verizon center. After two straight wins, wizards say momentum is on their side now. Washington on their way back to boston with a chance to take their first lead in the series tomorrow night. The wizards practicing this morning before their flight up to boston. Winning game five wont be easy. The wiz are looking for their first win at td gardens since april 2014. But heres the thing, the wizards have sizeable leads in the first two games of the series in boston. So they know they can play up there. Its finally a matter of a w in enemy territory. We have a lot of confidence. Understand that we had a chance to win all four games, even though we only won two, and they won two. We had an opportunity to win those games, even though we didnt shoot well or play great defense. But that game gave us confidence. How big of a task is it to win up there, but you left some things on the table, so maybe its not that hard . No, its that hard. We were close. You have to be able to win the game. But if we want to advance, we have to win a game up there. Were looking at this as the first crack to do that. Its nothing that we cannot accomplish. Its still 94 by 50 feet and the baskets are 10 feet high. But we have to play well to beat them. That game starts at 8 00 and ill be live in boston with the coverage from td gardens. The bitter battle of the beltways continues. Bitter . Maybe. Is it a rivalry . After game one, orioles fans getting the bragging rights. Max scherzer will take the hill tonight, coming off his best start of the season. Hoping to take that into tonights game. Scherzer with a 52 career record against the birds, including an eightinning, tenstrikeout win last season at nats park. Watch out for jones, his career average against scherzer,. 480. Elsewhere, always dreaming arriving at pimlico this er morning, taking a tour before settling into his stall. The plan for tomorrow is to get him on the track for a light workout as they look for a repeat performance in preakness on may 20th. Hell have 11 days to get a feel, get adjusted. Give that horse a break. A light good luck in bean town. Give them heck up there. Thank you, sherree. Back to the breaking news as local lou makers react to the firing of firing of fbi director james comey. Senator mark warren called it outrageous. This is noft a confidencebuilding day for our country and for that matter, the rule of law. Ive lost faith in this Justice Department to be able to carry out the law. I believe we need a special prosecutor and im going to be looking very closely at who this president nominates to be the next fbi director. Senator mark warner, democrat from virginia, reacting to President Trumps decision to fire fbi director james comey just about three years into a tenyear term. Much more on this throughout the night on the nbc washington app and ahead on nbc nightly news next. And we thank you for joining us. Well have a late wrapup of all the developments and reaction to the comey firing, thats and well see you then. Have a good evening. Narrator the time is always right to do what is right. Ralph northam. Army doctor during the gulf war. Volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. Progressive democrat. In the senate, he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound antichoice law, and stood up to the nra. As lieutenant governor, dr. Northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. Ralph northam believes in making progress every day. And he wont let donald trump stop us. [doorbell] when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Breaking news tonighxxt, President Trump has fired fbi trump has fired fbi director, james comey. 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