The daytoday of the Fenty Campaign and that was the current mayor the time and he was the main opponent of vincent gray who was chairman at the time. So it covered the normal campaign. I was interested in watching fentys downfall. Everyone saw it coming. And it was my job. Shortly after gray took office, i heard from the gentleman suleimon brown, who had run for mayor. He had a job in the administration, which was odd. The next thing you knew, he was fired. Then he was calling and saying do you want to talk . Next thing you knew, he disclosed serious corruption about being paid during the campaign to disparage fenty on the campaign trail. Then there is a federal investigation where they learned that there was something much bigger going on which they called the Shadow Campaign. And that was a parallel operation to the Gray Campaign that was done in secret that was not reported, and it was 650,000. Which is nothing to sneeze at. Allegedly, Jeffrey Thompson was the sole funder. You have
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
the weather. it should be a good looking day and a cool day. today, only in the low 60s. let s get to the satellite picture and show you we are looking nice and quiet out there at the moment. the satellite picture showing conditions are fairly quiet across the region. there should be some gradual improvement in our forecast over the next couple of days. i ll have details on that in just a minute. i ll toss it back to you. thank you. checking our top stories, a late night rescue for a construction worker trapped in the rubble of the parking garage collapse in florida. rescuers freed the critically injured worker 13 hours after the collapse of the garage. one worker is still missing inside the collapse. vice president joe biden and paul rain are gearing up for the debate tonight. some suggest ryan has the added pressure of familiarizing the public with him. the cardinals won yesterday 8-0. it is do or die time. they are now one win away from clip. ing the series and e
blue. i got on purple. i don t know. there is always tomorrow to get it right. hopefully, there is tomorrow. all right. let s get to weather. it will be cool if you are heading to the game this afternoon. if you are working out in the yard, that kind of thing, cool as well. generally in the 40s. it has just fallen into the 40s here in the city. there is a live look at your satellite picture. most of the cloud cover is well to our north and to northern new england, upstate new yo. we are looking at fine conditionsen unlike yesterday, looking at fine conditions unlike yesterday. reagan national, right now at 49 degrees. 45 at dulles. bwi marshall, 46 degrees. here is your forecast for today. again, temperatures about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. we ll go 62 here in town. but notice most of the area only in the upper 50s for a daytime high. bring along a jacket. dim bring a jacket if you are going to the game this afternoon. once that sun starts to go down, it w
there are people all over washington going i m late. allison s voice. no, no, no, sarah is off. it is only 5:00 in the morning. go back to bed for two hours. you re good. we re nice and quiet. going to be a beautiful day. temperatures are going to be cooler than yesterday. yesterday, about 70. today only about 60. get ready for a cooler day than yesterday. should be lots of sunshine. if you are headed to the game this afternoon. nice and dry for the start of the game at 4:00. again, there you go, looking at the satellite picture, got some clouds in upstate new york. that is about it. check out these cold temperatures. here in washington, we are now 52. look what is lurking offer to the west. we re in the going to get this cold. columbus, ohio this morning, 28 degrees. yeah, detroit, 31. yeah, here we go. high temperatures around here will only top out in the upper 50s to about 60 later. so kids dim want to bring along a jacket today. it will be a cool one. you can s