. >> i was paid, promised a job not an interview and work with vincent gray to defeat adrian fenty. >> he showed money orders and did not show how much he received or when he received them. >> do not interrupt me. i want to finish. >> i went to get this exactly right. details matter. >> he flat out refused to answer anything. >> you are a witness in this case and i think it is inappropriate to be asking. i want this on the record. you are a witness in this case. >> you are delusional. >> you threatened the confirmation hearing. >> sir? >> your fantasies and need to be checked. you undermine her credibility or and usefulness to have to this committee. he raised more questions than he was answered. why did they wait until he was fired to come forward. >> that is what counts. >> technical you were not doing the right then. >> i came forward. >> they strongly deny these allegations and that testimony is now into its fifth hour and must wrap up by 7:00 p.m. and after that the county will decide whether to continue tomorrow. reporting live from northwest washington, caroline lyders, abc7

. >> he said vincent gray's campaign paid him to verbally attack and then mayor adrian fenty and that he has the text and "true grit" -- and he has paint checks to prove it. >> sulaiman brown released copies this weekend of money orders given to him last year during the mayoral campaign season. he says the checks totaling $600 were given to him by consultants of vincent gray and by the chairman of vincent gray's campaign. they are made out to sulaiman brown for mayor. brown says that vincent gray promised him a job in the administration if he stayed in the race. he was hired as an auditor. he made the allegations public not long after he was let go from that job. he is supposed to testify if before the council committee around 1:00 this afternoon at the wilson building, that is located behind me. it is supposed to wrap up sometime before 7:00. that is something that he worked out with the council committee because he did not want this to go on all day. we will be here for that hearing and will update you as we get more from asia. reporting from the west, jummy olabanji abc 7. >>> look

. >> e says that he was paid by the vincent gray campaign to verbally attack adrian fenty. he said that he has the text approve it. jummy olabanji is live in northwest and joins us with a preview. good morning. >> good morning. sulaiman brown says that he is ready to testify and he has. this weekend gave copies of money orders to the washington post which show he was paid by members of vincent gray's campaign during last year's campaign season. those money orders total about $600. he says they were made out to sulaiman brown. brown alleges that vincent gray 's campaign paid him and promised him a job in the administration if he stayed in the race. brown was hired and then later fired as the auditor in the d.c. department of health care finance. he made the allegations public not long after he was let go from that position. the testimony today is supposed to be around 1:00 this afternoon. as part of a deal that struck with the d.c. council committee that is supposed to wrap up sometime before 7:00 p.m. we will be here for that story and updates viewers as we get more informa

before, he was out spoken when he was abruptly fired making claims that he was paid to attack adrian fenty, then mayoral incumbent candidate. well, then just suddenly he stop talking. >> no comment. >> reporter: but now it's back on again, not by choice, but basically told by a judge last week that he would testify before a d.c. council committee. mayor vincent gray denies brown was paid anything or promised a job, only that he could interview for the position. >> i can't even imagine engaging in such reprehensible behavior. and i know absolutely nothing about any -- anyone in my campaign who did that. >> reporter: and brown tells a different story. he says he was given $600 in cash to attack fenty and says he has phone records of repeated calls to and from the gray campaign. so we'll see if he sticks with that story this afternoon at the wilson building, it should be an interesting one before d.c. city council committee. back to you. >> we've learned that brown wasn't necessarily the most sympathetic character on this. do you think city council members will be amenable to what he has to s

exchange for running a smear campaign against adrian fenty. budge brown refused to answer questions from council member david katanya. >> you are a witness in this case and it's inappropriate for you to be asking me questions. i will put it on the record, because you are a witness in the case. >> mr. brown, your solutions -- >> brown showed many orders during the hearing that the city received from two mayoral aides. mayor gray has denied the allegations. >>> a d.c. council member denies allegations that he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money. >> having to stand here, i was not going to settle on something i did not do. >> the d.c. attorney general's office has filed a civil lawsuit against council member harry thomason jr.. they claim, is used money that was meant for you to place all programs on travel, golf outings, and a luxury suv. the spifbi is also investigating.

claims mayor vincent gray's campaign promise him a job and gave him cash to attack former mayor adrian fenty. a judge ordered brown to testify after he refused to comply with subpoenas from the council. >>> some northeast d.c. streets will stay closed as pepco crews repaired underground cables blamed for last week's massive power outage. parts of first street and-- parts of north capitol street will be shut down until rush hour. >>> eastern arizona residents have been forced to evacuate their homes because of this huge wildfire. this is the third largest in state history. there's no containment. it expanded by several thousand acres yesterday. it is 20787 square miles. another one in the past cover 156 square miles. >>> stubbornly high oil prices continue to cripple the airline industry. a big apple events today as a technology company tries to stay on top. >> no more from bloomberg headquarters in new york. >> good morning. apple ceo steve jobs is going to address developers at an annual conference today, unveiling the new on-line storage service where consumers have a new way to access dig

with accusations that his job and cash were payment for his agreement to criticize then mayor adrian fenty. surae chinn joins us live with a preview. >> reporter: good morning to you, andrea, mike. this should be an interesting meeting before the d.c. council committee in the wilson building here, and you know, it was once thought this testimony wouldn't happen because the one time mayoral candidate refused to testify. >> no comment. >> suleiman brown has given up the fight after a court appearance last week and is expected to talk before city leaders on the record about his claims that he was offered a job and given cash by campaign aides in exchange for attacking then incumbent adrian fenty. mayor vincent gray denies brown was paid anything or promised a job, only he was told he could interview for the position. >> i can't even imagine engaging in such reprehensible behavior. and i know absolutely nothing about anyone in my campaign who did that. >> reporter: and brown says he was given $600 to attack fenty and says he has phone records of repeated calls to and from the gray campaign, bu

his goal is to to prove mayor vince gray paid him to verbally attack adrian fenty during the mayoralace. things it get -- did get heat at times. >> didn't you make those allegations? >> because they're true -- >> wait a minute. let me finish this. >> before you got hired? why at any time you macthem then you thought it would jeopardize the deal, right? >> that is your answer or you want my answer. >> give me your answer. >> i did not -- >> make it short. >> i'm going to give you my answer in my time. >> that being change was only the beginning -- that exchange was only the beginning. >> there were several other verbal jabs that happened during the hearing. audrey barnes has mir on that showdown. good lord! >> you know. it was a hearing unlike any other that we've seen recently. fired d.c. worker sulaimon brown came to the council hearing with money orders which he said proved his allegations that he was paid to make verbal attacks against then mayor adrian fenty during the last election. brown says that he didn't have to to much to prove his case. he had the five money orders, copies

council that he was paid off for verbally taxing adrian fenty. the hearing got heated at times though. audrey barnes live at the wilson building with the highlights. >> reporter: good morning t didn't start out as a showdown but it certainly became one. sulaimon brown showed the councilmember money orders that he says were given to him to help then mayoral candidate convincement gray win the election. he says the proof that he was paid off. he specifically blamed lorain grenieri and howard brooks in addition to mayor gray. brown who refused to remove his sunglasses, was agitated and combative especially during questioning by marion barry. >> why did you make those allegations? >> because they're true. >> wait a minute. lets me finish this, before you got hired. you thought it would jeopardize the deal, right. >> you want my answer? >> yes. >> make it short. >> i am going to give you my answer in my time. >> no, you're on my time. come on. talk. >> reporter: now, at one point, barry asked sulaimon brown for he has lost his mind and then he tells h

. >>> a one-time mayoral candidate says he was paid to bad mouth adrian fenty. today, sulaimon brown says he will present proof of a city hall scandal. >>> the morning off to a pretty good start. a little hazy out there right now but it will be a pretty decent day. temperatures in the 60s right now we'll warm up into the 80s. good morning. thank you for being with us this monday morning. i'm steve chenevey. >> i'm sarah simmons. welcome to fox 5 morning news. let's check in with tony perkins this morning. you can see haze out there. this is what you've been talking about. >> some haze, fog, more humid this morning. our humidity level over 80%. the last several days, it has been pretty low. that is the difference with this morning and that will be the difference today as well. temperatures will be about the same as what they have been but more humid. let's take a look at the radar and we'll show you what is happening out there. nothing is happening as far as any precipitation goes. there is moisture in the air in the form of humidity and fog and haze but no rain

then council chairman vincent gray and two campaign workers for verbally attacking then mayor adrian fenty. he even presented the council with money orders to prove there were payments. the meeting got pretty heated at times when he frequently interrupted council members. mayor gray and his campaign staff deny the allegations. >>> there is a new apple service called icloud. steve jobs made the announcement yesterday. >> reporter: it is that time of year again, apple's annual worldwide developers conference. apple is not revealing a new iphone. apple it is taking a different focus this year and in his first public appearance since taking medical leave, steve jobs focused on what he refers to as the sole of the company's product, software. >> if the hardware is the brain and sinew of our products, the software in them is their soul and today we are going to talk about software. >> reporter: during today's announcement. apple showcased its new service for hosting music, movies and photos, the icloud. what difference it from its competitors. according to some, it's big deal. >> this opens up t

involving a man who claims he was paid off by the mayor's staff to help take down former mayor adrian fenty. >>> the work of some maryland high school students will be part of the final space shuttle mission. we'll be right back. >>> coming up in sport, ryan zimmerman takes another step closer to returning to the nationals. also the miami heat regained control against the dallas mavericks though a lot closer than they would have locked and local golfers make a bid to play in next week's u.s. open at congressional when news 4 today is not about finding the time to do your homework. it's not about logging on to this week's class. today is a celebration, a triumph of dedication, a victory for that little voice that urges us on. today is a day to recognize that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, and to prove that not all heroes wear a cape. some wear a cap and gown. congratulations to the strayer university graduates of 2011. >>> new york congressman anthony wiener today admitted that he has not been telling the truth for the last week. he acknowledged today that he posted a racy phot

brown claimed that he was promised a job and was paid money to run a smear campaign against adrian fenty. a civil action filed against council member harry thomas jr.. thomas is accused of misusing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. the d.c. attorney general says thomas diverted $300,000 in youth baseball funds for his personal benefit. he says the money went to travel and golf outings and nearly $50,000 for luxury suv. thomas says he is innocent. >> i am confident once we have the information that has been provided to my legal counsel in this civil suit, which has been presented by the government, we will be vindicated. >> attorney general is asking $4 million of reimbursement of punitive damages and the fbi is investigating. >>> new this morning all three underground cables on north capitol street that lost power last tuesday are prepared now. it's go those streets will remain closed through tomorrow morning on north capitol street. the other streets are now open. >>> crews are fighting an uphill battle against a huge wildfire in arizona. the of control blaze has burned 350 squ

campaign aides promised him a job if he agreed to stay in the race and leveled attacks against adrian fenty. brown was hired as an auditor at the department of health and finance. this weekend he released copies of memos that were given to him by top campaign officials. >> i have faith but i am starting to wonder. we will have to wait and see. >> residents who have seen scandals unfold and fold up in other administrations just call this the nature of washington, d.c. politics. >> politics is ugly. it would be unfortunate if it was not true. it would be unfortunate if it is true. >> nearly all of the residence that i spoke with today say that they believe these allegations should be investigated. not all of them believe that they are really true. the hearing continues today at 1:00 this afternoon in just about one hour and should wrap up before 7:00 p.m.. >> thank you so much. coming back to our breaking story in the district, before we do that we are going to update you on a story that is new at noon. investigators are on the scene of a deadly stabbing in northern virginia. neighbors heard

claims that gray paid him cash and that he was promised a city job to continue attacks against adrian fenty. he says that he got that city job which he did land but then was fired after those allegations were made public. >> i'm sort of surprised by this because i hay conversation with mr. brown before of the investigation began. he said he was very happy to do that. didn't need a subpoena. >> and mary cheh talking there about the fact that sulaimon brown originally said he wasn't going to testify or did everything possible to avoid it and now he is being compelled to do so. brown tells fox 5 that he has other checks other than the ones already made public, that he will have here before the council to prove that his allegations are true. reporting live, i'm stacy cohan. back to you. >> thank you. >>> the d.c. attorney general meantime promising to make an announcement today. the investigation of councilmember harry thomas. thomas has been under investigation to find out where he got the money to buy an audi suv. thomas said he used his money to buy the suv through a company he owned before

allegations he was paid by the gray administration to keep up attacks on then incumbent mayor adrian fenty orders have surfaced. earlier on brown talked about having dna evidence that proves he was, indeed, paid by the gray administration. there's a three-way race between brown, fenty and gray. brown said the gray campaign paid him to keep up attacks on the incumbent. then, after gray's victory, gave him a six-figure job for his troubles. the point person on hiring saying brown got a job in the health care finance agency because of his qualifications but he was let go after further vetting. it's raised enough of a dust up to get a u.s. attorney involved. so far the city council has been out of that equation as far as brown is concerned that. changed last week when he was called before a judge and agreed to appear today before mary khaeu's committee on government operations. that committee will be looking into executive hiring practices of the gray administration starting at 1:00 p.m. in an interesting aspect of this there has been an agreement brown will not be kept past 7:00 p.m. live at

campaign staff of giving him money and promising him a job in exchange for attacks on then mayor adrian fenty. >>> d.c. police are investigating an early morning shooting in northwest washington. it happened around 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of l street and 7th street northwest. a man was shot once in the abdomen. police say it was an attempted robbery. the man's injury is serious and police are looking for two suspects. >>> fire investigators are searching for the cause of a late-night fire that occurred in southeast washington. the two-alarm fire began in a three-story apartment in the 5100 block of f street southeast. one person was transported from the scene with serious burns. they are expected to survive. >>> four people are being treated for injuries that they received in a montgomery county accident that occurred this morning. sky 9 was over the scene where several cars collided near the intersection of east-west highway and glen galen lane in chevy chase. one woman was rushed to the hospital. another woman and two men were also injured. police are trying to determine the cause o

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brown says he got the $600 from vincent grey's campaign to disparage the then mayor adrian fenty. the council hearing slated for tomorrow. >>> this may be the first time an election in peru has snarled traffic in falls church. jamming two schools on leesburg pike voting in their country's presidential run-off election. britany morehouse reports the gridlock is really costing people. >> reporter: directions for thousands of peruvian voters that live in six states. >> dc, virginia, west virginia, delaware, kentucky and maryland. >> reporter: traffic is snarled for 12 hours plus. the government is renting out the two schools to be used as polling sites for the run-off election for two presidential candidates. >> a little nervous today because it is very strong. >> reporter: nerves run high because of driving and parking here. while some wait in their cars for family others decide to park in the same lot behind mcdonald's where cars are disappearing. >> i was looking for my car. they said you better check phone number posted at the front. so there are a whole bunch of tow trucks there

promised him a job and paid him if he agreed to stay in last year's race and wage attacks against adrian fentyay and his aides deny those accusations. >>>

given to him by gray's top campaign aids so he would keep up his verbal attacks of then mayor adrian fenty. >> right here if you would like to see them. and these were given to us for our campaign, by the gray campaign. now when they purchased them, i don't know. don't even care. i just know when i received them. >> brown had testy exchanges with just about every council member on the committee. he suggested david would be a witness at trial. and catanya accused brown of delusions and fantasies. he kept listing anyway. mayor gray's office would say it's awaiting the results of three different investigation of brown's allegations. >> now to congressman anthony weiner who is facing a possible investigation of his own tonight. after coming clean about his twitter photo scandal. in a late afternoon news conference, the democrat admitted to sending lewd pictures to multiple women and he says he is deeply ashamed for his actions. >> i don't know what i was thinking. this was destructive things to do. i'm apologetic for doing it. it was deeply, deeply hurtful to the people i care about the most.

candidate vincent gray paid him to stay in the race in order to run a smear campaign against the mayor adrian fenty. that type that the attorney general filed a civil lawsuit against harry thomas, jr. accused of misusing several hundred thousands of taxpayer dollars. they allege he diverted $300,000 in youth baseball funds for his personal benefit. they say the money went to travel and of outings. thomas says he is innocent. >> i am confident once we have information provided to my legal counsel in this civil suit, which has been provided by the government we will be vindicated. >> of the ag possessive $4 million in reimbursement and punitive damages and the fbi is also investigated. >>> let's take a look at other stories we're following. a vigil for a local football recruiter. 36-year-old ralph thomas was shot and killed in front of mckinley tech high school. one -- crawford tried out for the team and was not picked. thomas's friends will gather outside the school tonight at 8:00. >>> a chevy chase woman accused in a fatal hit and run is accused of vote -- set to go on trial. she is accused of str

brown says that mayor vincent gray's campaign paid his campaign to verbally attack then mayor adrian fenty. gray beat fenty last year and brown brought along receipts and copies of money orders he said were given to to him by mayor gray's top campaign aides. >> these were given to us for our campaign by the gray campaign. now, when they purchased them. i don't know. don't even care. i just know when i received them. >> mayor gray's office says that it is awaiting the results of three different investigations into brown's allegations before making any more comments. >>> d. c. council member harry thomas jr. could face criminal charges. the ward 5 council member is accused of spending $300,000 in city funds on trips and an suv. the money was intended for youth baseball program in the district. the city has filed a civil suit against thomas seeking more than $1 million. the accusations came to light after his 2010 republican opponent accused him of running a fake nonprofit organization called team thomas. >>> a d. c. police officer already accused of murder is now facing manslaughter charges.

brown testified that he was paid off for verbally attacking then mayor adrian fenty during debates in the mayoral race. brown showed the council money orders he says were given to him to help then candidate vincent gray win the election. he says they are proof that he was paid off and he specifically blamed campaign workers lorraine green and howard brooks in addition to mater gray. >> vincent gray broke -- to mayor gray. >> vincent gray broke the law specifically as it relates to the promise of a job that i was promised and i received. >> today's hearing did get heated at timement council members mary cheh, catania questioning a sometimes combative brown who oddly refused as you saw in the video to take off his sunglasses throughout the testimony. mayor gray and his campaign staff say the allegations are simply not true, but bray is refusing to speak publicly about this -- gray is refusing to speak publicly about this until the investigation is complete. >>> a police officer facing a judge accused in deaths of his mistress and their toddler. up next his dramatic confrontation with th

he claims he was promise add lucrative job if he campaign against and publicly bashed adrian fenty during last year's campaign. the one time mayoral candidate himself, brown says he received money from vincent gray's campaign for those actions. the according to the washington post brown has copies of money orders he says he received from the gray campaign. until now brown had refused to testify before the city council. >>> fire investigators are searching for the cause of a light night fire in southeast. the two-alarm fire started in a three-story apartment building in the 5100 block of f street. one person was transported with serious burns but not life threatening injuries. >>> police in prince george's county say speed and alcohol caused crash that killed three people sunday evening. they say an suv slammed into the back of the car, running that car off the road and into a tree near the intersection of indian head highway and wilson bridge rode in oxon hill. >> there were two passengers in that vehicle, two females ejected from the vehicle. they were pronounced dead on scene. the the d

promised job and paid him money to stay in last year's mayoral race and level attacks against adrian fentyay and his aides have denied that. the u.s. attorneys office is looking into brown's claims. >>> an icon of television, gun smoke star has died. he died friday of natural causes. candace gibson looks back at his life and career. >> reporter: for generations of television viewers. >> starring james arness. >> reporter: arness was the ultimate lowman, playing on gun smoke for many years. at 6'7" he played the part. he got some of that bravery from serving in the army during world war ii. he was injured during combat, winning a purple heart. the minneapolis native started his acting career in radio and got his first film break opposite loretta young in the farmer's daughter. >> i almost missed the train when i was drafted. >> he appeared in a string of films including the thing. but begunsmoke made him an icon. his buddy john wayne turned it down. i knew there was only one guy to play him, james arness. the series ran from 1959 to 1975, one of the longest running series in history. arness

paid him and promised him a job in exchange for running a smear campaign against former mayor adrian fenty. mayor gray denied the allegations. >>> d.c.'s attorney general has filed a civil action against carey thomas jr.. he's accused of misusing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars. the attorney general says thomas diverted $300,000 for youth baseball funds for his personal benefit. the money went to travel and golf outings and nearly $60,000 for a luxury suv. thomas says he is innocent. >> i am confident once we have information that is being provided through my legal counsel in this civil suits which has been presented by the government, we will be vindicated. >> attorney general is asking $4 million of reimbursement and punitive damages. the fbi is also investigating now. >>> an update on some street or in the district. all three underground cables in the north capitol street area that lost power last tuesday are fixed now. pierce street northeast between north capitol street and first street will remain closed until tomorrow morning. other streets in the area that were closed whi

brown says mayor vincent gray's campaign paid brown's campaign to verbally attack then mayor adrian fenty. gray beat fenty in last fall's primary. brown brought along receipts and copies of money orders he claims were given to him by gray's top campaign aides. >> right here. if you would like to see them. and these were given to us for our campaign by the gray campaign. now, when they purchased them, i don't know. don't even care. i just know when i received them. >> mayor gray's office said it is awaiting the results of three different investigations before making anymore comments. >>> more problems for council member -- d.c. council member harry thomas jr. could face criminal charges. the ward five councilman is accused of blowing $330,000 on trips and an suv. the money was intended for a youth baseball program in the district. city filed a civil suit seeking more than a million dollars. the accusations came to light after his 2010 republican opponent accused him of running a fake nonprofit called team thomas. >> secretary of state hillary clinton says the government has not made any sp

. >> brown claim he was paid and offered a job in exchange for verbally attacking then mayor adrian fenty during the debates. >> sulaimon brown has had no issue talking with the fbi, even investigators on capitol hill, but he did not want to speak with council members. today he brought with him what he calls proof that he was paid off, copies of money orders he claims he was given with cash to help mayor gray win the election. >> reporter: he came with copies of those money orders in hand and sunglasses on his face, but why did he refuse to take them off? sulaimon brown was sworn in. >> the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> reporter: and then launched right into then chairman vincent gray and two campaign workers, lorraine green and howard brooks. brown claims they worked together to pay him and give him a job. >> she wanted me to continue my attacks on fenty and i wanted a job for me and my brother after he won and my job stipulated a range of pay from 100,000 to 150. >> reporter: brown says he was first handed money orders and cash inside an envelope here at union sta

promised him a job and paid him if he agreed to stay in last year's race and wage attacks against adrian fenty. gray and his aides deny those accusations. >> reporter: he will indeed appear before city council today, something they've been trying to get him to do since march. he says he has evidence to back up his claims in the form of money orders. suleman brown has been an elusive figure at the center of election controversy and said federal investigators told him to limit what he says. and congressional overnight committee and attorney's office looking into brown's allegations. he was promised a job and paid by the gray campaign to keep up on his attacks by the other opponent fenty. brown had indeed been given a six-figure job and he was fired earlier this year around february at the time the allegations became known. it did open up a can of worms involving the gray administration's hiring practices. there's been a committee all week on that. gray is a point person on personnel issues denied any quid pro quo on brown's job. they resume their hearing on executive hiring practices today at 1:

sulaiman brown said gray's people paid him to stay in the race and bad mouth then-mayor adrian fenty. brown said he was promised a city job once gray got into office. he did get that job and then lost it. when he testifies this afternoon he said he will show the committee several money orders from gray's people. he also said the fbi got dna from envelopes used to deliver money from gray's campaign. but even with all of that talking to us, it took a superior court judge to get him to talk to mary cheh. >> i'm sort of surprised by this because i had a conversation with mr. brown before the investigation began and he said he was very happy to do that, didn't feed a subpoena. >> reporter: campaign records show brown accepted for man $600 in cob trib august which came from howard brooks. some of the amortizations were misspelled but he said they came from brook's son payton, also called michael, and payton's girlfriend and andrea naylor, said to be a relative of howard brooks. you can look for coverage today on myfoxdc.com and then on fax 5 news at 5:00. >>> and another controversy dogging

i had the full backing of my boss, the mayor, adrian fenty, who said i'm going to put my entire politicalr on the line. >> reporter: what happened? >> he lost the election. >> reporter: recently test scores at some schools that were under rhee's leadership have been questioned. >> we hired an external investigator to investigate this. what they said was in the vast majority of cases they found actually, you know, no impropriety. in the small number of cases that they did see that something was wrong, we took the necessary actions against those people. >> reporter: do you feel like you pressured them into doing that? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: you seem to have landed on your feet. you seem to be doing all right. started your own organization. >> the basic premise behind it is that our kids are not getting the education that they deserve. the nation is falling further and further behind. what we're trying to do across the country is to stop policies that mandate life over last in, first out policies. when a school district is in a budget crisis and they have to lay off teachers, that t

alleges that aids to mayor gray promised him a job and paid him money if he attacked then-mayor adrian fenty. >>> and 7:30 and another check of weather from tony. hello, sir. >> hello to both of you. we'll start this one by talking about pollen and some of the allergens in the air. grass has been pretty bad during the last few days. i remember we were seeing the tree pollen and we've now transitioned into the season of grass and that is the case again today. let's take a look and show you what is going on out there as those of you who are sensitive to grasses will have some problems today because the level is very high. meanwhile, tree pollen level is moderate and the weeds are still low. temperatures across the region, here we are in the 60s. here in washington now we're at 68 degrees here. 63 in gaithersburg. 64 in baltimore. in virginia we have 65 at quantico, 66 at manassas, 66 in culpeper. the warm spot, annapolis at 70 degrees early this morning. here is a look at the satellite radar composite. now not a lot to show you this morning. we have had the haze. we've been seeing that with ou

which he said shows he was paid to steer voters away from then- mayor adrian fenty. this morning councilwoman cheh believes brown was offered a job by gray but it hurt his case. >> he undermines his own credibility with his behavior, his answers. he had selective memory, things he would remember that he said quite vividly happened this way and then two or three days later i would ask him questions about what would happen and he no recollection of it. the whole performance was one that leaves you frankly questioning his credibility. >> reporter: but mary cheh said this whole situation has opened the door to find out exactly how many people are promised jobs and how that whole process works and she predicted there will be legislation to come out of this that will prevent is from happening notice future. allison. >> audrey barnes live for us. thank you. >>> kwame brown scheduled to meet with fellow council members today to discuss how to move forward on the case of harry thomas, jr. he is accused of misspending $300,000 in d.c. funds and could face criminal charges. he'