The winds is still to come. Today we hit 73. The old record at dia in 1930 at 71 and those temperatures have been so warm throughout much of the day around the i25 corridor, south toward i25 corridor, south toward broomfield and North Eastern plains warming to the 70s and foothills in the 50s with the chinook winds racing. 39 in aurora and 52 mileper hour gusts at dia, Loveland Pass in the 50 mileperhour range, too and unfortunately the worst of it will be late tonight when a cold front moves through the region. Its a strong but swift cold front as it moves relatively fast. Wes wes peach color off to the western slopes is a high wind warning and west of i25 backed up against the foothills and across the North Eastern plains gusts easily 60 to 65 miles per hour, not to mention it has been so dry were going on 16 days at least here in denver without any rain without any snow and that means humidity levels extremely hope out there and with these wind gusts low out there and with these win
Jeffrey thompson. Why . Our local businessman at the center of major federal investigation and no one really knew who we was. So i basically told my editor i want to write the definitive profile of Jeffrey Thompson. When people want to know about him, they want i want them to refer back to this article. What we want to know about him . Right now, he is the center of d. C. Politics and some folks say he is actually at the center of d. C. All addiction basically falling apart. For years, behindthescenes, he had been giving to candidates. He had several contracts coming huge contracts with the city, one worth 22 million year. And no one really knew who he things came to light the011 over problems with current mayors. The current Mayors Campaign in 2010. We have one former city councilmember, the son of ron brown, the former head of the committee, and we have marion barry who was in and out of prison and all that stuff you all of that stuff. Is this a more corrupt town than any other . I d
Were going to continue our breaking news live coverage of this. I wanted to amplify for you what andrea was just telling you about the Wadirector Comey former Director Comey found out about this, the New York Times account of this is just stunning. He was addressing a group of fbi employees in los angeles when the television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired. In response, mr. Comey laughed. He said he thought it was a fairly funny prank. And then his staff started securing around in the background, told mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office. Mr. Comey stopped addressing the group. He proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to and he stepped into a side office where he confirmed that he had been fired. At that point, he had not heard from the white house. Shortly after that, rachel,
after all of that, its been on television, a letter from the president was delivered to the fbis headquarters just 7 blocks from the white house,
Running. Thats tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts right now. Tonight donald trump and his new Jersey Golf Club after a wild ride of a week moving the goal posts on collusion calling for an end to the Mueller Investigation and a full on assault on the media all while his own team beats the drum warning of the russia threat. Plus new developments in the Paul Manafort case. The testimony today that compelled his wife to leave the courtroom. And after another stunning week in this presidency well ask a celebrated historian if theres anything to celebrate in the history we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 561 this was of the trump
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