hi, everybody. welcome back. i m hallie jackson in washington along with louis burgdorf in new york. it is the bottom of the hour. we re headed live to berlin for the latest on that manhunt for the driver in monday night s terror attack. but first a look at the morning s other top stories. four more michigan officials are now charged in connection with the flint water crisis. two state emergency managers, along with former flint city executives who oversaw the water treatment plant, all face felony charges that could mean 20 years behind bars. michigan s attorney general says the four failed to protect people in flint from health problems because of drinking water contaminated by lead. in all 13 people have now been charged in that water crisis. at least 29 people are dead and more than 70 hurt after an explosion at a big fireworks market just north of mexico city. look at this. officials don t think it was terror related. but they re checking into whether this market broke any
particular location. if something wad does have the fbi is prepared with 56 command posts. filled with agents watching in their region. ready to reach out and spawnt at the first sign of new york. happy independence day peter. on this independence day want to go out and enjoy barbecues and not have anxiety about going out to the parade. governor cuomo of new york saying they are following city executives worried about their reports from homeland security and making sure that we re the clamping down on some of this chatter and targeting some of these larger parade areas and subways. some of the major gathering spots on this holiday. i think people should enjoy their weekend. when also was the last time that there was a warning that we are going to have an attack. people should go out and live their lives. did they coward? of course not.
that by extending temporary taxes. but the headline, engineer oh brown, trying to get things under control in california. so we are seeing against trying to get control, including governor comb oefplt wish them luck, right? bill: a lot of luck. new details in the bell, california scandal. that s that small town in california near l.a., where city executives are accused of illegally paying themselves outrageous salaries. new court documents now show some of them apparently thought ripping off taxpayers was pretty funny. writing this in an e-mail, quote, we will all get fat together, bob, referring to robert rizzo, has an expression he likes to use an occasion, pits get fat, hogs get slaughtered, so as long as we re not hogs, all is well. this from angela spac kreufplt a. eight officials are charged with multiple counts of