Itedll star before 6 00 this morning federal ageat the home of longtime d. C. Council member jack evans. Police closed off the entire lock for hours as the fbi agents searched evans home. Its not a normal friday morning in the neighborhood, but i think its necessary. Its sad. Wats all. Evansaited outside as agents brought out what appeared to be evidence boxes. No one commented. Hours after the raid at evans home, Phil Mendelson announced the council would launch its own investigation and remove evidence. Yesterday he announced he would resign as chairman aftern a investigation found evans had violated its cold of ethics. Mayor Muriel Bowser has been a staunch supporter of evans. Now she was asked if she still had full faith and confidence in her colleague. What i will say, mark, its very disappointing and troubling. Im upset about what i read because i do think it represents conflicts of interest for the council member, but i want the federal authorities to do theiro. reporteren the f
In custody. Were expecting a News Conference to take place sometime in the next 15 to 30 minutes. Well keep you updated on this breaking story right up until the nbc nightly news at 7 00. We have more breaking news tonight. A local couple found dead while vacationing in the dominican republic. Wlets get straight toendy rieger. Shes got everything wenow at is point on the story. Whats the latest . We know the couple is from Prince Georges county. They are cynthia day and her fiancee 63yearold Edward Holmes. They got to the resort may 25th. They were staying on the southeast coast of the island. The newspaper today is reporting their bodies showed no signs of violence. Investigators have not determined a cause of death. The couples family says theyve been in contact with the u. S. Embassy in the dr and are baffled, not sure, dont know what happened. According to the dominican today, the Hotel Director says they were scheduled to leave yesterday. We are still working this story and gettin
Stay ahead of the possibilities of storms on the 4th. Download the nbc washington app. Set your home page to weather. Now to that fourth of july and the show of military might such as weve not seenn decades. Yeah. Bring in the tanks. They arrived in the district today at the request ofid prest trump, and they are being transported by train to the National Mall for the salute to americaju this is one part of the president s grand vision, to makes the 4th a much bigger celebration this year, bt a of these changes mean its going to be a much biggerpa one ryone traveling through the area. Dont you know it. Were working for you with Team Coverage tonight. Adam tuss has new details on why the celebrations will impact air travel. Corey smith and new details on t tanks. Cory . Reporter well, wendy, we knew before today that the salute to america was going to be big. Military flyovers, a president ial speech and these tanks make it huge t just way President Trump likes it, but after talking wit
Saturday, something you wont want to miss coming up in my forecast. News4 midday starts now. Good morning everyone im molette green. And im erika gonzalez. We are falling news on ts west bank. Take a look at the clashes. The leader of hamas is falling for anger as President Trump decision. And Richard Engel takes us into the streets. Reporter this is in response to President Trump speech. Palestinian are taken to the streets and using fires as smoke screen to give them some sort of protection. And we are not just seeing this where i am in the west bank, several cities in the west bank that are seeing very similar ramallah and going on for hours and perhaps a great deal longer than that. A new uprising, new way of getting their demands. They say that the Peace Process which theyve been engaged in for decades is no longer working. They say with that speech by President Trump, the u. S. Has proven itself not to it be a fair mediator in the conflict. So now they are trying a different appr
There is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. Reporter franken taking a swipe at President Trump and Alabama Senate candidate roy moore, but notably not apologizing for any of his alleged behavior. Some of the allegations against me are simply not true. Others i remember very differently. Reporter one of his accusers calling that appalling. He just keeps passing the buck and making it out to be something that we took his behavior the wrong way. Reporter the pressure started mounting after a seventh woman came forward publicly alleging sexually inapprope behavior. Todays announcement coming after a 24hour domino effect of colleagues pushing him to step aside. Its a very tough situation, but he did the right thing and i think were at a very important moment in our history. Repor