let's go straight to west london and my colleague ben brown. ben.ore information, haven't we? we're hoping for a police news conference, actually. it was due to be at one o'clock yearjust close to g re nfell tower be at one o'clock yearjust close to grenfell tower with the metropolitan police commander stuart cundy. that is actually now been delayed. we're not sure how long for but we will be getting an update, or at least the latest information from the police on the investigation into what happened in the tower block and also possibly the casualties figures. the dovetail still standing officially at 30 but the police have always said that will rise. unofficially, we understand that the total of dead and missing is currently 70 and minute 2a people in hospital, 12 of them ina minute 2a people in hospital, 12 of them in a critical condition, in critical care. those figures may change when the police come here and give us their latest update later on this afternoon. some other news to bring new is about the underground. the london underground. and we

final thought, ben.at we should probably have a policeman or policewoman attached to each congressman, if it costs $75 million a year, it's worth it. liz: ben stein, thanks for coming on the show. >>> more bad news continuing to come in for uber, sued by a woman who said top executives at uber improperly obtained her medical records after she was raped, she said, by a driver in india. that's according to new court documents. this after ceo travis kalanick of uber is on a leave of absence in the wake of an investigation into the company's workplace culture. a number of sexual harassment suits brought at uber. we have this story for you. democratic governor terry mcauliffe calling for gun control after yesterday's shooting. my next guest is a gun rights advocate. says the only thing that saves the congressman there was a gun, stacy washington speaks out next, don't go away. [vo] when it comes to investing, looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. it can provide what we call an unlock:

> we won't bother ben. hear him vocalizing. >> reporter: 30 minutes before showtime and a sold-out crowd. >> i always love this view, looking out at the audience, it's so gorgeous. >> reporter: outside fans are already lining up. like these teens from utah. >> kind of like a signal of hope that eventually you will be found. and there's someplace for everyone anywhere and you just have to find it. >> reporter: the message of the show is spreading beyond those lucky enough to get tickets. ♪ when you fall in the forest there's nobody around ♪ ♪ you can really crash do you make a sound ♪ >> reporter: these youtube tributes a sample of the vast response the show is getting online. >> the most beautiful thing is the way people are responding. we really feel -- it's everything an artist could ever dream of. >> reporter: just days before the tony awards, platt is riding the wave. even getting his own caricature at broadway's famous sardy's restaurant. >> are you ready for, and the tony goes to? ben platt. >> i'm re

over the next 150 years. >> and ben wasn it originally.laughter] >> david asman with business. david: just about everybody was glued to this to week former fbi chief james comey was saying, but some say we should be more glued to what establishment g.o.p. leaders are saying about tax cuts and might have our economy coming unglued. hi, i'm david asman, this is forbes on fox. let's go to find out what it is with steve forbes, elizabeth mcdonald, john tamny and you say that g.o.p. leaders need to stop talking about how to get tax cuts passed and get it done. >> the economy needs the boost. if not, the economy will stay in

but this is bbc news, i'm ben brown, the headlines at eight. james comey, america's sacked fbi director, accuses donald trump's white house of lying when it said the bureau was in disarray and poorly led. the administration then chose to defame me and, more importantly, the fbi. those were lies plain and simple, and i am so sorry that the fbi workforce had to hear them, and i'm so sorry that the american people were told them. president trump's response to that came from his attorney. the president never told mr comey, quote, i need loyalty, i expect loyalty. he never said it in the form, and he never said it in substance. millions across the uk cast their vote in the 2017 general election, the polls due to close in two hours. new video emerges of the three london terrorists, filmed outside a gym days before their attack. it comes as three more arrests are made. also in the next hour, inside afghanistan — the bbc gains rare access into helmand province, and life under the taliban. and the one place where you never want to be the star attraction

the domino effect from the ben to the vine to the schuylkill.nd we are still industrying to recover. >> after the truck flipped of on the turnpike in del val. and the ramps are finally reopen. and issues in delco a bad crash with a vehicle into a pole and the pole is down at the mattress firm. stick with 452 and not 352 a vehicle fire in gloucester county close to woodbury and the turnpike. and in mount laurel downed poles blocking elbow lane. >>> your attention to something new. a new episode of our 6abc.com series, hidden philadelphia today. we look deep under the grounds of the philadelphia zoo. >> an old manor house a piece of american history. called the solitude house, find out why. and see the rest of our hidden philadelphia videos, go to 6abc.com/hidden video. >>> everybody has two minuteses in their day. hidden philadelphia. >> still ahead at 4:30 a check of the accuweather forecast. stepping outside a live look sky 6 hd giving us the view of center city from the temple university camera. meteorologist, adam joseph >>> meteorologist, ad

then we're looking at the ben franklin bridge. have construction, it's westbound side downside, the far two right lanes blocked hard to see, but there are cones in place, forcing you to be in the far left lanes is this isn't going to pose too much of a problem. hopefully crews are moving out of the way overall, we're still looking ok and construction crews are still out there in cherry hill. route 70 east and we have the between cuthbert boulevard and crop well road, one lane open. then we have delaware construction and we'll be talking more about this coming up in the next ten minutes or so. jan back over to you. >>> a beautiful event on philadelphia's rittenhouse square, >> it was the 34th annual ball on the square, held every year on the third thursday of june. the ball is the largest fund-raising events for the friends of rittenhouse square. proceeds will be used to maintain the park and miles per hour partner, jim donovan you see him there and i were happy to host. he's enjoying sleep at this hour >> you guys look great >> th

. >> we won't bother ben.s a lot going on. >> you can hear him vocalizing. >> just days before the tony awards, platt is wave. >> hey! >> even getting his own caricature at broadway's famous sordy's restaurant. >> are you ready for and the tony goes to ben platt. >> i'm ready for that. >> no, i mean, you know, i think most of all it is just we have loved the piece since we started with it 3 1/2 years ago. we are just trying to hold on to the ride and understand what is going on before it all passes us by. it is so exciting. >> reporter: whatever happens sunday night. ♪ you will be found >> reporter: no doubt platt joan and the cast already feel like winners. what is your biggest hope for people as they leave this theetethee theater. >> people not being so hard on themselves, darkest moments, find yourself in a pit, you are not happy with the person you see in the mirror you are the farthest thing from alone in that. ♪ if you only look around you will be found ♪ >> reporter: deborah reports in new york. >> comi

ben carson. [applause] >> on this makes newsmakers, the national republican congressional committee -- on the 2018 congressional campaign and special elections happening this spring and summer. including one in georgia later this month. newsmakers, this sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> c-span's washington journal live every day news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, roosevelt institute fellow -- discusses the dodd-frank regulation law. and -- on the supreme court decision on the hearing a major cell phone privacy case. also darrell burnett talks about the every student succeeds act impacting the ability of states to identify effective teachers.sure to ecstasy spans washington journal. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, leaving civil war historians convergent gettysburg pennsylvania to explore the civil war from all angles. american history t.v. on c-span3 takes you to a conversation at the gettysbu

ben raised the wage question. if you look at the atlanta federal reserve wage tracker, high educated wage earners are earning -- their wage increase is about 4% a year. where is low educated workers, they're wage increases are growing by 3% a year. that suggests there's a problem here in terms of just a growth in wages, forget the levels. so i think there is a skills shortage. and a lot of the hard data point to that, including the unemployment rate. unemployment rates of people with a college education, 2.4%. unemployment rates of people without even a high school degree, 6.5%. that tells you something. >> ben? >> yeah, although i mean, the gap in the unemployment rate has not been widening, if anything, it's been narrowing. if anything, we're seeing an economy that's starting to put people back to work. i think it's important to distinguish here between a skills gap and an economy that is doing better or a labor market that's doing better. is it harder for companies to hire now than it was when the unemployment

benning road shut down in both directions.. let's get right sam sweeney live in mobile trak seven. - hot & humid through monday (feeling the worst sunday) - hot & humid through monday (feeling the worst sunday) - more numerous afternoon/evening t-storms today & tomorrow - stormy monday - less humid & nice tuesday today: am clouds. pm thunderstorms. hot & humid. highs: 84-88 winds: se 5 mph tonight: mostly cloudy. isolated t-shower. patchy fog. lows: 67-74 winds: ese 5 mph saturday: partly sunny. hot and humid. pm thunde winds: sse 5-10 mph breaking news in the war on terror the russian military claims it has killed the leader of the islamic state group. officials say "abu bakr al-baghdadi" was killed in an airstrike late last month along with other senior group commanders. they say the may 28th air raid targeted an isis meeting being held in raqqa. u-s officials say breaking news in the war on terror breaking news in the war on terror the russian military claims it has killed the leader of the islamic state group. officials say

. >> ben. >> stephen: ben, comup. let's doh ben, everybody. all right, ben, thank you so much.at. happy father's day. >> happy father's day to you. >> stephen: ben what's your full name? >> john benjamin roy keith. >> stephen: john benjamin roy keith? >> from the south. >> stephen: you have four names and they're all first names. that is greedy. that is really greedy. happy father's day. would you like a cold beer. >> yes. >> stephen: there gu. cold beer right there. what else do we have? and here is some ground beef. >> ground beef. >> stephen: okay? that packaging is beginning to swell a little bit. ( laughter ) i think we should have-- actually, i need that space right there. i need that space right there. host of the show, guest. don't touch the props. okay. here's how it works-- is are you ever seen us do "first drafts" before? >> i think i saw the mother's day edition. >> stephen: i'm going to shoi a series of father's day cards, okay, a really great one, and followed by the not-so-great first draft o way they wrote did the first time before they got it right. is the prem

. >> ben watson visits young ben s living i soledad: education is a basic human right but for millionsfugee children, going to school is not an option. according to a united nations report, only 50% of refugee children have access to primary education. in the united states, 40% of refugees resettled in 2015 or under the age of 18. one georgia community has an academy dedicated to refugee education. it is providing students with much more than just the basics. diane roberts has a look. ♪ >> sports understand the power of a team and that translates in the classroom and into the community , you immediately have a good response. >> soccer coach is teaching these children a critical skill. how to play together as a team. doubly powerful because they have something deeper and, -- deep in common, a shared history, they are all refugees, driven out of faraway lands by poverty, hunger, war. >> they come with one suitcase, a family with one suitcase and when you flee war, you do not have time to pack up. they know they are lucky to be here, less than 1% of the refugee population gets resettled a

ben: the market is taking on two views.ne, currently priced into the market, and been signaling lately that we're going to see a pause in the tightening cycle for the next few months. it looks like they want to start normalization by september. at the same time, the market has priced in further out that the fed funds rate can normalize somewhat further. i don't think the market has mispriced it and the market has taken onboard the fed is taking this optimistic approach to tightening over the next two years. and this explains why the flattening is happening. if you were to go faster than we who get much more steepening. the market is pretty much on par of where the fed wants to be going. vonnie: if the balance sheets, normalization starts, that process starts this year, early next year, and then we get a change at the leadership of the federal reserve, what happens then? does that process stop immediately or does it accelerate? ben: i'm not sure if it immediately happens. but there's one thing to know in some of the fed boar

back to ben ando naga. thank you, are we seeing you tomorrow? —— ben and naga.o a new docu—drama. it uses actors to reconstruct some of the key moments during last summer's contest to replace david cameron. we are going to speak to one of the actors and writers behind this. before we speak to the team behind it, here's a scene where borisjohnson tries to convince andrea leadsom to join his team. andrea. boris. michael. coffee? yes, please. great, better make a pot. didn't wejust please. great, better make a pot. didn't we just show them at wembley? yes, we did. i loved the line of viewers, can you name the six eu prisons? five. donald tusk. jean—claude juncker. prisons? five. donald tusk. jean-claude juncker. schultz. this will bloom. you must know how much we would love to have you on board. ido, you we would love to have you on board. i do, you mentioned it a few months ago, you mentioned the treasury, i hope you are on that. michael has agreed as chancellor. deputy pm charged with brexit negotiations. agreed as chancellor. deputy pm charged with brexit negoti

was ben's chili bowl. and all these years later, he's still here.s been my distinct honor and privilege to have been in the company of some extraordinary people. you cannot imagine my joy and my pride when i got the word a month or so ago that all of y'all had voted for poor little me to sit on ben's chili bowl wall. you have no idea. what an honor that is. >> a cutting. the colorful mural is there for all to see, including 78-year-old sandra butler whose father was an early accountant for the owner and is a walking history of local washington. >> it means so much to see the living legacy. it deserves a lot of the history. >> thank you so much for our community, for the washington, d.c. community. >> reporter: virginia ali, ben's widow, spoke for the family that commissioned a new mural. it includes president and michelle obama, harriet tubman, know am ali, marion barry and jim vance. >> my blessings continue to flow. and i thank each and every one of you. >> reporter: the veteran mural artist says his mural represents a narrative of local national

work started today on the ben's chili bowl mural.know whose faces were chosen to appear on the grand mural. as q mccray tells us, they range from music legends to local icons. casino it's official. the mural -- q: it's official. the mural at ben's chili bowl has a new look and new faces. >> this is the breakdown. long gone is bill cosby. donnie simpson, chuck brown and former president obama are back. the president even has his better half with him. >> it's a great choice for me. muhammad ali is an inspiration. >> dave chappelle made the wall. >> dave chappelle? that's good. i like that. >> prince is on the wall former mayor marion barry, harriet tubman, and dick gregory to name a few. it's going from four to 16 faces. which is a lot of work for the person who painted the first mural. up for the challenge. >> i a excited. the community has been involved. >> they are getting what they ordered. >> if you are at home wondering when will the mural be complete, at this point there is no date set. there will be a formal invailing and the d

one of them was ben. his family tell us how he was ben. his family tell us how he was treated.s. thank you, victoria. good morning. polling stations are open for millions of people to cast their vote in the general election. police forces say there'll be increased security in some areas following the recent terror attacks in manchester and london. voting will go on until ten o'clock tonight, with the first results expected at around midnight. and in the last hour, party leaders have begun casting their votes. seven weeks after calling the general election, theresa may visited a polling station in her maidenhead constituency, while labour leaderjeremy corbyn went to a ballot box in north london. and a reminder that you can watch all the results coming in throughout the night. the election 2017 special will be with david dimbleby. that's on bbc one and the bbc news channel from 9.55pm tonight. the former fbi director sacked by donald trump will give evidence to a senate committee today. james comey claims the us president tried to influence his investigation into links between me

own comedian dave shapel. >> i used to come to ben's when i was shooting my first hbo special that i call k killing them softly and everybody said why did you call it killing them softly i said it is best shown washingtonians put out in a long time. soy just want to thank you guys and want to let you know i'm honored to be home and this means enormous amount to me and family. i'm proud of it much love everybody, man, long live d.c. >> i can't w and see it finisheded i was there for the start and they painted colors in and cant wait to see it all now. and public voted to choose the people and famous face on that mural on the side of ben's chilly bowl. >> great to see dave shapel in town, too. >> weather not bad again today. >> beat full summer afternoon. really, really nice. more humid and hot for tomorrow. tomorrow is dry. then all eyes focus on how tropical storm cindy will impact us which looks like hefty amount of rain beginning friday morning overnight to friday morning. kind of need the rain it's been dry june out here. >> really. >> no we had enough rain. >> i know i love that

benning road still shut down between oklahoma avenue and 295.ow this is impacting things for people heade >>> news 4 today starts now. >>> good morning, everybody. so this next story is music to metro rider's ears. the last safetrack surge begins tomorrow. >> news 4's molette green is live at shady grove station with everything you need to know to make it through the final stage. hey there, molette. >> reporter: hey there. you know, passengers are not quite yet ready to put on their dancing shoes. surge number 16 on the red line kicks in tomorrow. let's show you a map now to give you some perspective on when all of this kicks in. you won't be able to use the rockville or shady grove stations. as we've seen in the past, there will be free shuttle buses running at all times of the day at those stations. now passengers, of course, encouraged to try if they can to start their day at some of the other stations. twinbrook, wheaton during the surge period. one rider telling me he's not doing anyf >> i think i'm going to drive. >> okay. >> i think i'm g

ben with animal rescue, he's got a catch pole. but getting the fawn out, that was the easy part. >> you've got to be cautious. that looks like a mini sink hole. it could get bigger. >> lucky for them they don't have to worry about it. ben makes quick work. but once the fawn is pulled out, little tangled up. and the catch pole. and they believe it's a week old. there you could see them trying to get it out. there it is trying to run away. >> where's mom? >> that's what they're hoping to find out very soon. so ben picks her up and they wanted to wait until mom was nearby. so ben starts walking deeper into this woodsy area. >> just do the fawn call. >> i think moms know the difference between an imposter and their child. >> i think you're on to something here. i think mom recognizes it. because the fawn's let go and you think okay. where is mom? mom knows her baby. in her own sweet time makes an appearance. >> come on back here. you know you anticipain't suppo be running off. >>> when it comes to your men, be careful what you ask for

let's see what ben thinks about this news.ry about how much i'm paying for it, versus accessibility, then that would be ideal. games, games and more ps4 games. sony kicked off its playstation press event with a bang, thanks to a trailer from developer naughty dog's latest adventure, uncharted: the lost legacy. i'm slipping! the crowd certainly liked that sony made it snow in sunny la for robo dinosaur mash—up horizon zero dawn's expansion, frozen wilds. and everyone's favourite friendly neighbourhood spiderman swung into action in a new game which features an innovative use of his athletic abilities and his web slinging. hi, is this the flight to newark? and, unlike xbox, who didn't even mention vr, playstation renewed its commitment to techno welding goggles, sorry, virtual reality, by showing off a host of vr games, like platform adventure star child. and an utterly bonkers final fantasy vr fishing game. final fantasy 15: monster of the deep. playstation is riding high at the moment with its ps4 outselling its rival, the xbo