Is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Host brendan carr is one of three republican commissioners on the federal communications commission. He is our guest this week on the communicators. David mccabe of the New York Times is our guest reporter. Commissioner carr, this week there was an announcement by the chairman of the fcc ajit pai about the cband and 5g. Could you walk us through in layman terms what the Commission Proposed and what may happen . Guest 5g and securing u. S. Leadership in 5g has been our top priority at the sec and my top focus. Why is that . 5g is going to usher in a new era of economic opportunity, jobs, of Educational Opportunity for our kids. All these cutting Edge Innovations we heard about today from connected cars to smart cities, internet of cities will not work or not work well without 5g. The a lot of things that you do right. One of the ghost to question which a spectrum. We have to put out a
Gonzalez. Tens of thousands of customers lost power. News4s Darcy Spencer is live oi u street more on the folks affected and what areas. Darcy . Reporter there is never a good day to lose power, but you defily dont want to lose it on a day like today. It is extremely hot out here. And you cant help but think about the people who are stuck inside without air conditioning. We are here on Georgia Avenue in n wthwest where power just restored to this intersection. There are many intersectionsfe afed by the power outage where there are no lights, and you have to treat that as a fourway stop. We want to show you a photo. This was a moment during the pou r outage. Yocan imagine how frightening it would be to be inside an elevator when the power goes out. D. C. Fire a ems were able to rescue numerous people who got trapped inde elevators when the lights went out earlier this afternoon. The outage is affecting also Washington Hospital center and Howard University hospital. D. C. Fire and ems sa
Obstructing justice. Ur the president has repeatedly claimed that yoeport found there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him. But that is not what your report said, is it . Correct its not what the report said. A we decided we would not make a determination to whether the president committed a crime. Democrats endeavoring to make their case for impeachment. I believe he did uncover substantial evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors. Republicans attempting to cast the probe as unfair to the president. Having desperately tried and failed to make a legal case against the president , you made a political case instead. Following Justice Department instructions to remain within the boundaries of his report eller offered little to no new information. At points frustratingwi lawmake limited answers zbllt did he lie to you guys, too . Iant get into it. Refuting a rbyeated claim the president. It is not a witch hunt. There was no t defense this row dick louse hoax
Tunnel shut down now for more than three hours. Lets take look at this scene live right now. Can you see they have removed a number of the vehicles and a lot of evidence here. L poe are still on the scene. There is hope that they could open this tunnel soon, but, agin, its been shut down now for nearly three hours. This is what it looked like earlier. The focus here, this golen explorer. Police say that the gold explorer ran into t backof a darkcolored sedan. The occupants of the darkcored sedan and the gold explorer got out. Thereto was an argument. A man from the darkcoloredpu sedan out a gun and shot the driver of the gold explorer, and then that darkcolored sedan took off. Here now, here n hear now fro morgan cain,he First District commander. What do you make what happened here . This is actually i make that this was unnecessary. This is truly tragic, that a simple accident, vehicle accident, its an accident, can escalate into a shooting. So that to me is very sad and heart wrenchi
We want to apologize for some of the technical difficulties re having tonight. But now some more news. A tragedy on a popular local trail this weekend. A woman in her early 30s died because of the intense heat. Tonight an onlineis fund for rachel parkers family has raised nearly 2,000. U. S. Park police say she collapsed on saturday on the lly goat trail in montgomery county. The heat index was about 106 degrees. Parkerson was from maryland. She was a mother of three. A charity be ride ended in tragedy over the weekend as well. 59yearold Diane Deshields was riding in the annual firefighter event in frederick. During that ride, the woman from roth vil collided with a car at the intersection of woods borrow bike and good intent road. Deshields died ae scene. The firefighter event raises money for the Pleasant Valley Community Fire department. Tomorrow John Paul Stevens will be buried in a private ceremony at Arlington National cemetery. President trump and First Lady Melania Trump paid r