As a local daily, High School Sports drive interest, as does s restaurant news. And we still run Birth Notices in our papers. Who does that anymore . Reporter not everyone loves the paper. Some elected officials, Community Leaders theres a lot of mischief that can go on in the dark that happens when you dont have local journalists keeping track of what is going on. Reporter mainers have relied On The Sun Journal for more than 175 years. Thanks to the trust, they still can and be a short delivery person beth combs will see you get your copy, even at your back door. Thank you to the amazing harry smith for one last piece of good news to take us off the air tonight. On that beautiful note, i wish you a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up ne late. Up late. Thanks to you at home for joining us. Really happy to have here. Right of the top, there has been Breaking News in the last hour or so in a couple of the legal cases involvin
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Action is tonight. Drew. Reporter people are eagerly awaiting for the fireworks to get up in the sky. You can see the roofs are still down there. An energetic crowd. People say this is the best sfotpot to take it all in. The rockets red glare still a beautiful city. We still represent. Everybody from across the world still come here. Reporter we found quite a mix of people on the parkway. Even a canadian celebrating this american holiday. It was canada day this week and now its the fourth of july. Look. Im here. Reporter with a little help from the mayor, phillies own the roots rocked the largest concert. I just want to see mmiguel. You see a lot of the Police Officers out here. Reporter police came prepared. Its a holiday. Its been going on. Reporter very encouraging number from police. People are out here behaving. This is a friendly crowd and theyre all excited for the fireworks that will be launching in a couple of minutes. Thats the live on ben franklin parkway. Im drew smith, nbc
Robbed someone else outside the same station. Nikki burdine is outside d. C. Superior court with more. Reporter jasper spires will be here today for his arraignment facing murder charges in the death of 24year old kevin sutherland. Police arrested the 18yearold yesterday afternoon charged with the horrific stabbing death on july 4 aboard a metro train. Motive was likely a robbery. Sutherlands father told wusa9 he believes his son died over a cell phone. He said police found a smashed phone outside the metro station. Today in court spires will be arraigned for the first time for this crime but wusa9 has now learned he faces a separate robbery charge. Police say on july 4 less than two hours after he allegedly stabbed sutherland, spires robbed a 76yearold man and his daughter also at the Noma Gallaudet station. They werent hurt but shaken un. Now friends of southerland are speaking sutherland are speaking out remembering a man they say was always smiling. Hes one of the kindest people iv
Well look back on the end of black and White Television 50 years ago. And louise has the weather. Good morning. Its a chilly start in the far north of the country but not a bad weekend in prospect. Mostly dry with decent sunny spells. More throughout the morning. Good morning. First, our main story. Kensington and Chelsea Council is facing more criticism over its handling of the Grenfell Tower fire. The mayor of london, sadiq khan, is calling for commissioners to be brought in to take over the running of the authority, which he says is not fit for purpose. The Council Leader, Nicholas Paget brown, and his deputy, both resigned yesterday. Simonjones reports. After angry protests at the Council Offices and after a meeting of the council was cut short following an attempt to ban the public and press. Reporter were you pressured by number 10 to resign . The pressure for the leader got too great. This is a huge Human Tragedy for so many families. The task for my successor is to ensure that