jack evans, the longest serving member of the d.c. council, is no longer the chairman of the powerful finance committee. his colleagues stripped him of that title just moments ago in a very contentious debate before the d.c. council. i can tell m you thatber jack evans has been under federal investigation for more than a monday and also under investigation for the metro board of directors and he had to step down from tt position after he violated ethic rules nd the council has voted to also hire anoutside law firm, investigate him and pay that law firm between $100,000 and their 100,0et to compl that investigation and this decision was not without controversy or heated debate. rlier today both the chairman of the council, phil mdelson and council member david grosso got into a heated debate over the due process they should afford the council member. here's what the two had to say. >> jack should step down now. he's created such a distraction up there that you saw in our informal breakfast that we spent two hours of what to do. we coul

councilman jack evans will speak with d.c. councilmembers in hopes to keep his position on a powerful co uittee. he isd for using his public position for personal gain. the council will vote next week whether to remove him as chairman of the finance >>> we have new information about a deadly kayaking accident over the weekend in ryland. e victim was a secret service agent. eaecial agent stephanie hancock was a river n annapolis on saturday when her kayak overturned. crews were able to rescue a second kayaker who was with her but it took time to recover her body. h hancock had been witthe secret service since 2007. >>> frightening ments at a facebook mail facility in california. a screening device spotted a iece of suspicious mail th led to the evacuation of several buildings. >> that package apparently believed to contain sarin. that is a chemical ud in war fare. two people were taken away for testing. this morning the people who came in contact did not shm any symptos. more tests will be needed before an official ruling is ma

council members will also take a up a rre resolution to remove jack evans as the financechair. news 4's mark segraves has been following the deliberations today and joins us live from the wilson building with the back and forth. mark? >> reporter: and jim, it has been a heated back and herth since tclosed-door breakfast meeting this morning to the debate that's going on as we speakl on the coun dyes. it's not whether or not they will remove him as finance chair. that seems certain that that will happen.r it's whet not they will remove him from every committee on the d.c. council. of course, council member evans has been under for months, both by federalig inveors and by the metro investigation. that wrapped up a few weeks ago, and because of that metro investigation, that's what led o d.c. uncil members to want to remove evans from his rfairmanship of the poweul finance committee. evans has said almost nothing todayxcept one word. no, when he was asked whether or not he would reclfe himse from voting on the loyry contract today. but earlier today, both council member david gras

we're fwing the latest developments regarding jack evans. >> announcer: "news 4 today" starts now. >>> 6:00 on the dot right now. i like it when that happens right at 6:00 here we are promised. good morning, everybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. it's wednesday, july 10th, 2019. half way there. let's get a lookat your weather and traffic right now. >> melissa mollet of course standing by for us. we'll begin with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck and what we need to know about today's weather. >> all right, aaron. you need to know that it's going to be sunny and it's going to be hot. typical for july in washington. nice, quiet weather for today. back up close to s90 degreehis afternoon. not all that unusually hot. our average high is 89. still watching for a very high chancof thunderstorms coming our way tomorrow. it will be a storm team 4 weather alert in addition to a thunderstorm chance. there's also ing to be a pretty high chance for some localized flash flooding tomorrow. viously the ground is saturated because of what happened around here on monday. but for now, your wedn

council as embattled council member jack evans faced hours of tough questions from hiscleempingts evareation. evans is trying to convince them of not stripping him of his chairmanship of the powerful finance comndttee a as mark segraves reports evans refused questions.many of the >> reporter: last week when uncil member jack evasked for a chance to be heard before he council votes to take his committee chairmanship away evans said he would be happy to answer all their questions but today evans was only willing to answeruestions regarding the metro ethics investigation which he called flawed. when council mrs asked about possible conflicts of interest being investigated by federal prosecutors evans was less forthcoming >> the best approach to that is to let the investigations which are looking at all of that pay t rather than me try to answer that question today. >> i have just lot of questions that are clearly not going to red today. >> i appreciate your pontification and you're mischaracterizing a lot and interrupting me. >> you put news this position to egin you. >> i don't like to either.

council voted to remove jack evans as chairman of its committee on finance and revenue. ev as isccused of using his fice for personal in. the council stopped short of removing evans from all council committees. this comes less than a month after the fbi raided his home. evans stepped down from the metro board as well. >>> the questions surrounding evans didn't seem to slow down the efforts to bring sports betting to d.c. th councilpproved a measure that will allow the same company that operates the d.c. lottery to also operate the city's future mobile betting app. evans sponsored that bill which came under someus scrutiny be it did not allow competitive bidding but it passed 7-5. this paves the way for mobile betting to get up and going next year. fall see it early next at nationrkls pa. >>> 9/11 first responders may filly get the peace of mind thehave been fighting for. first responders have lobbied congress over the past couple of weeks for money to ensure the fund has enough money for those wfer with health problems relateto the 9/11 attacks. right now that fund does

i >>> happenng today, jack evans will speak with fellow d.c. councilmembers. evans is accusis of using h public position for personal gain. next week, the council will vote whether to remove him as a chair of the finance committe. evans has more than a year left on his council seat. >> prechotests are set to take ace around the country in line of recent reports at migrant dention facilities at the u.s./mexico border. >> the demands of the proresters a to close the migrant detention f cilities andreawe night family. this come after the own government watchdog learned that conditions were so bad that border agents were worried about possible riot. the caucus led them to the border yesterday. >> we had a chance to visit with 15, 20 mothers, some of whom had been at that border patrol for more than 50 days and some had been sprayed by their kid. ere was a toilet but no running water for people to drink. in fact, one of the women said that she was told by an agent to drink water out of the toilet. >> the department of homeland security did not respon to a m nbc t f

council member jack evans faced hours of tough queions from the uncil. he's fighting to keep his position as chairman of the finance committee. yesterday he addressed his colleagues regarding aetro ethics investigation but refused to answer several questions unrelated to that investigation. will eek the counc decide his fate. >>> the legal battle to get president trump's tax returns is heating up. means se ways and committee is now suing the treasury department and the irs. the lawsuit alleges the administration defied a bpoena to hand over six years of trump's financial records. the president man tans he cannot release his documents because he is under an irs audit. >>> 6:37 now. check this out the burgundy and gold decked out for some rock and roll. chopper 4 found the stadium set r tonight's rolling stones concert. the concert had to be rescheduled from its original dat in may because mick jagger's heart surgery. we checked ticket master overnight, there are still some tickets available. some for $70. probably goes up from there. at some point i remem

council as embattled council member jack evans faced hours of tough questions from his colleagues. evans is trying to convince them not to strict him of the chairman of the powerful finance committee and as mark segraves reports adams refused to answere many of thcouncil's questions. >> last week when council member jack evans asked for a chance to be heard before the council votes to take his committee c eirman awayans said he would be happy to answer allei th questions. to delay judgment until all the facts are known and my side is heard. >> today evans was only willing to answer questions regarding the metric ethics investigation which he called flawed. when investigators asked about other investigations being led by other prosecutors, evans was less willing to answer. >> we need to let that all playh out rat han me to answer that question today. >> i have just lots of questions that are being clearly nottooing get answered today. >> i appreciate your opontificating and yre mischaracterizing a lot and interrupting me and i don't appreciate that. >> i don't appreciate that we're

councilman jack evans will speak with d.c. councilmembers in the hopes of keeping his positionn o a powerful committee. last month, fbi raided his home over accusations he used his public position for personal gains. the council will vote next week whether to remove him asan chaif the finance committee. >>> still ahead this morning, lse time of year when nearly everyone trave. >> we are showing you how to keep your personal information safe from hackers while on the road. >>> we are taking a look the new law in effect in our area and coming up how two of those laws will make schools safer. news4 wilbe right back. >> today at 5:00, summer means one thing for kid. >> fun times, swimming in the pool. >> before your little ones head for the pool on a hot day we will brush up on swim nowledge we all need to be aware of at all times. >> we will held you dispe >>> welcome back. at 4:40,ew a n survey suggested grandparents should do more to c keep presription away from their grandkids. the surv asked more than 2,000 adults whether the

council voted to remove jack evans as chairman of its committee on finance and s revenue. evan accused ofhi using s office for personal gain. council stopped short from g remov evans from all council activity. this comes less than a month after the fbi raided his home. evans als stepped down from the metro board. >> the questions surrounding evowns didn't seem to slown the efforts to bring sports ng bettio d.c. the counscil approvur a meas operate the city's future mobile betting ap evans sponsored the w billhich came under scrutiny because itd d not all competitive billing. we could see in person betting at venues including nationals park anne capital o arena eari ths fall. >>> 9/11 firstma responders finally get the peace of mindav they hbeen fighting for. conessional leaders will vote on extending the victim compensation fund on riday. first responders lobbied m congress foroney to ensure the fund has enough money for those who suffer with heth problems related to the 9/11 attacks. ri fht now thatund doesn't have enough to pay out currentnd projected claims. the bill wi

. >>> tomorrow jack evans will speak with d.c. council members with hopes of keeping his position. last month the fbi raided his home over accusatio of him using his public position for personal gain. the council wi vote next week whether or not to remove evans f chairman of the finance committee. news 4 mark sea grace is going to be at that hearing tomorrow and he'll update you midday. >>> a local couple hopes justice is served after a maned plead guilty today to killing their three young children in a crash last year. today, thomas hawks admitted fault in the dui crash last december. you may recall it. he killedin 5-year-old tws alexander and rosa lee and their brother isaac. hawk's vehicled slammed intok he b the family's vehicle as they were stopped at a red light. the children's parents recovered from their injuries. their mother described the pain they are feeling. >> we were coming from church. they didn't deerve to leave. we had so manyla pns with them. >> hawks fas 36 years in prison when a jud sentences him ine sember. >>> prosecutors ina alexandri will not retry the man

. >>> jack evans faced hours of tough questions trying to convince them not to remove him. evans is accused of using his public position for personal gain. yesterday he addressed his colleagues regarding a metro ethics investigatio but he refused to answer several questions unrelated to that investigation. when council members asked about possible conflicts ofnterests being investigated by federal prosecutors, evans was less than forthcoming. >> the best approach to that is to let the investigations, whicg are lookt all of that, play out, rather than me try to answ that question today. >> i have just lots of questions that areclearly notgoing to get answered tooy. >> yre mischaracterizing a lot and interrupting me. i don't appreciate at. >> now, throughout the meeting evans asked his colleagues to keep an open mi . a vote is planned for next week on whether to remove him as chairhin. >>> new t morning, we have learned metro settled two sexual harassment lawsuits filed by women working for the transit agency. our news partners at wtop report details of the settlement were no

're following the latest development regaing jack evans. >> announcer: "news 4 today" starts now. >>> fast approaching 5:00 a.m. on this wednesday morning, morning, everybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> yom eun yang. u're ready to go, aren't you? >> that's right. g time toet this thing started. >> there you go. it's 5:00 a.m. it's wednesday, july 10th, 2019. get to a look your weather and traffic. >> melissa mollet is standing by with your first 4 traffic. look at the roads and rails this morning. we'll start with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell and what you really need to know about the weather today. >> i need to know if somebody put irish in your coffee. i have a funny feeling about that. four things to know about the forecast. another quiet weather -- can smell that irishom frere. another quiet weather day today. back to close to 90 degrees this afternoon. it will be hot. it will be more hud than yesterday but no rain today. still tracking a high chance for rain and thundetstorms orrow. and the flood risk because of all the rain we had on monday remains high. tomorrow will be a

council member jack evans faced hours of tough questions from the council. he is now fighng toeep his position as chairman of the finance committee. yesterday he addressed his colleagues regarding a metro ethics investigation but he re used to answer sev questions unrelated to that investigation. next week, the council will decide his fate. >>> the legal battles to get president trump's tax returns is heating up. the house ways and means committee is now suing the d treasuartment and the irs. the lawsuit alleges the administration defied a tcongressional subpoenahand over six years of trump's financial records. the president maintains he cannot release his documents because he is under an irs audit. >>> this morning, baseball fans continue to mourn the sudden death of los angeles angels itcher tyler skaggs. he was found dead in a hotel room in texas on monday. c theause of his death remains d. undetermin officials say there is no evidence to suggest foul play or suicide. last night an emoonal tribute for skaggs. the angels held a moment of melence before the

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. >>> happening today, jack evans eak with fellow d.c. councilmembers. evans is accused of using his public position for personal gain. next week, the council will vote omether to remove him as a chair of the finance cttee. evans has more than a year left on his council seat. we will update u on that at the news later on today. >>> protests are set to take place around the country in line of recent reports at migrant detention facilities at the u.s./mexico border. >> one of the protesters is happening in front of the white house at 10:00 a.m. the demands of the protesters are to close the migrant detention facilities and reunite families. this comes after the go rnment's own watchdog learned that a conditions at a facility were so bad that border agents were worried about possible riot. the caucus led them to the southern border yesterday. >> we had a chance to visit with 15, 20 mothers, some of whom had been at that border patrol station for more than 50 days and some had been separated from their kid. pere was a toilet but no running water forple to dr

councilmember jack evans, the council is voting whether to strip him of finance committee chairmanship and decide whether to hire a law firm to see if evans violated council rules by benefit is his own. evans has been forced to resign from the metro board. >>> we are proud of you! >> the family of an international teenage phenom shouting their support. coco gauff lost in the fourth round yesterday and surprised the world by making i far as e e did and rising to famlast week after beating a superstar and one of her idols venus williams. you can hear from lr. she wil be doing a live interview today herews on ne during the "today" show. >> what an experience 15 years old up against so many big name in the tennis world. >> she has moved way up the ranks and making a name for hearst. >>> next on "news4 today," after seven decades, a welan find hersf holding something that she thought was lost. we will tell you about. he reunion >>> disney say the doll fashioned after a "toy story 4" character could be dangerous. we will have the detail mom and dad will want to know. >>> after yesterdayrenti

>>is morning jack evans addressed his f mllowembers on the d.c. council. svans is accused of using his public position for personal gain. next week, the council will vote on whether teme him as chair of the finance committee. >> for 28a years i h served this city and worked as hard as a person could to make things better here. from addressing the financial crisis that the city faced, to c creating eomic development to, woulding to help repair and expand the safety net and investments in our neighborhoods. i have tried to serve the best interest ofhe city i love, and' itpeople. >> evans finished his statement by saying, put y rself in position. wouldn't you be watt due process? let me keep my committee? >> evans has more than a year left on his current term in the council. mark sea graves is at the hearing today, you can follow him to get updates on twitter. >>> new this morning, take a look at this. investigators are working to figureut what caused a large house fire on hayes street. the fire destroyed a large attached garage and apartment. it didd not spr

councilmember jack evans to be removed from a powthful post. council is voting whether to remove him as chairman of a finance committee and decide whether to hire a law firm to investigate if evans violated his position for personal gain. evans has been forced to resign from the metro bo he say he plans to stay on the d.c. council. >>> we are proud of you! >> the family of an international teenage phenom shouting their support. that video was taken a short time before tennis star coco gauff lost in the fourth round yesterday at wimbledon.ri she surpd the world by making it as far as she did and rising to fame last week after beating a superstar and one of her idols venus williams. will be doing a live interview today here on "news4 and talking about the beginning for her. 15-year-old old. so poised and so stro y. >> wordsou used phenom and star and she is only 15 and she is handling it well. >> her parents are adorable. >> be good to watch her grow and her career blossom. >>> necks on "news4 today," after seven decade a woman find herself holdi

council as embattled council member jack evans faced hours of tough questions from his co> eagues. >ans is trying to convincetoiph maf owoterfu nemithnance committee, but as news 4's mark segraves reports tonight, evans still refused to answer many o the council's questions. >> reporter: last week when nsouncil member jack evasked for a chance to be heard before the council votes to take his committee chairmanaway, evans said he would be happy to answer all the questions. >> to slow this rush to judgment until all the facts are known and my side is heard. >> reporter: but today evans was only willing to answer questions regarding the metro ethics investigation which he called flawed. when council mbers asked about possible conflicts of interest being investigated by federal prosecutors, evans was less forthcoming. >> the best approach to that is to let the investigations which are looking at all of that play out rather than me try to answer at question today. ons thate lots of ques are clearly not going to get anwered today. > appreciate your pontificating. >> but you're ermischara

the city council voted to remove jack evans. ez accusinged usin his office for personal gain. the council stopped short of removing him from alluncil committees less than a monthaf ter the fbi raided his home. vans stepped down from th metro board also. >>> the question surroding evans didn't slow down the efforts to bring sports betting to d.c. the council approved a measure companyl allow the same that operates the d.c. lottery to also operate the city's future mobile betting app. evan sponsored the bill which came under scrutiny because it did not allo competitive bidding. ultimately it passes 7-5. this paves way for mobile betting to get up and running next year. we could see in-person betting at venues like national's park and capital one arena this fall. >>> d.c. is hoping to have new police officers on the streets in the coming months. news4 pat lawson muse has more on how the depament is recruiting. >> in the past several years d.c. police departme has taken steps to ease an officer shorte this and weekend a recruiting fair is set to find moe men and women to join the

. >> jack evans will speak with council members. he's hoping to keep his position on the financial committee. the council will vote on evans this week. >>or eleolmes norton will host a forum to push for d.c. statehood. that starts at the ame church in northwest. now let's check on your commute with melissa and your first 4 traffic. good morning. southbound 270, a crash blocking the left lane. we'r seeing a little built of al delay, especia south of urbana on 270. inner loop before st. barnabas, left lane blocked by a disabled vehicle there. as we lk at eastbound 76, everything getting b on the left side, about a twmile backup. >> thanks. >> we'll check your forecast next.. >>> good morning. i'm lauryn ricketts. temperatures, at 60s and 70s right now, on our way to the low 90s today. plenty of sunshine, but about a 30% chance of an isolated storm mainly west of d.c. low to mid 90s tomorrow, feeling close to 10 and a 40% chance of storms. we up it to 60% on afternoon and evening on fourth of july. hail, and even dangerous winds, d we'

evan longoria breaks it up and dramatic fashion. home run number 12 for like gloria and that would hold up. giants win 1-0 that they are 7- 2 in the last 9 but 7 aims under 500. scary moments and used to. >>> astros hosting the angels, eighth inning, and game tied at 10-10. the sac fly, he comes in hard and bowls over. angels catcher jonathan lucroy, you see the replay and that shows on violent visits. it was a head-to-head collision. lucroy would be carted off, taken to a local hospital and scheduled for a ct scan and evaluated for a concussion and a broken nose. angels, by the way, lost to the astros 11-10 and we will have more on that story and hundred dollars jersey retirement -- andre iguodala's jersey retirement. >>> coming up next 11:00 . >> it is really appreciated now with all of this space they have. they should have done this. >> travels across the country returning home from a long fourth of july weekend and finding changes at san francisco international airport. airport. >>> it is a way to alleviate traffic in the area,

and r cide whetheto hire a law firm to see if evans violated his position. evans has be forced toresign from the metro board. he say he plans to stay on the council. >>> we are proud of you! >> the family of an international enage phenom shouting their support. he fourth lost in round yesterday and surprised the world by making it as far as she did and rising to fame last week after beating a superstar and one of her idols venus williams. she will doing a live interview today here on "news4 today." this is just the beginning for coco gafuff. she is only 16! her rank was 300 plus and she has moved way up in the ranks. n >> learn theme and learn the face. ou'll see it again. >>> 4:10 is our time. >>> next on "news4 today," after seven decade a woman find herself holding something that she thought was lost.we ill tell you about the reunion. >>> disney say the doll fashioned after a "toy story 4" character could be dangerous. we ll have the detail mom and dad will want to know. >>> after yesterday's torrential rain, scientists will talk about why this will keep

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evans, you're up first. >> the way that we're approaching this and working with our partners at dhs is really doing risk modeling. so it is really identifying what are those most critical assets that an industry has. and then in my particular case, what i'm trying to do is develop a set of tools so that the government, as well as our industry partners can actually look at what is the best way, what is the highest risk, how do i protect that, what is the cost associated with reducing the risk in that particular asset. and so, as we move forward with that, a lot of this is then how do you give them that information so they can then use that in the marketplace going forward. >> that's the same model governor perry had there in texas that made our grid pretty secure when he was in texas. thank you. mr. dodge, your thoughts, sir? >> thank you. thank you for the question. so from nerc's perspective we are doing things on a voluntary basis, briefings, identifying best practices, sharing those practices in addition to they ferc under took a conference back in the spring where we brought togeth

evans, you are first. >> the way we are approaching this in the way we are working with our partners at dhs is really doing risk modeling. so it is really identifying what are the most critical assets that an industry has and then in my particular case what i am trying to do is develop a set of tools so that the government, as well as industry partners, can actually look at what is the best way, what is the highest risk, how can i predict that, what is the cost associated with the risk in that particular asset? so as we move forward with that, a lot of this has been how do you give them that information so they can then use that in the marketplace going forward. >> that is the same model governor perry had there in texas that made our grid secure when he was in texas. thank you. mr. dodge, your thoughts sir. >> thank you, thank you for the question. so from our perspective, we are doing things on an active basis. providing briefings, determining best practices, sharing best practices. in addition to that, nerc undertook a conference in the spring, a couple months ago, where we brough