commissioner hyland? >> commissioner hyland: this came before the arc and commissioner pearlman and i heard it. the events that are important and significant in this building are close to home for me and i participated in some of them and went to services here and all kinds of lovely stuff, but the building really has no integrity left. and the project sponsor has done a phenomenal job at being very honest in evaluating this project in trying to figure out how best to make it work. i can't say that i've seen a case this honest before us, to try to make a case for why the proposed project is so much better. they've always tried to show why the preservation alternative is so horrible. [laughter] so i comment you for that, and i appreciate that. >> question about your statement for no integrity. do you disagree with it being an historic resource? >> commissioner hyland: that's a good question. i don't know if that's up for debate. is it up for debate? >> we're commenting on the e.i.r., so if we believe -- it

>> commissioner hyland: why the change now? it seemed to me that it was understood that the plaza and pagoda were one. and our position, and the reason we're talking about this, i feel like there's some information that may not be in alignment. and so i -- i'm really trying to understand where the fear is coming from as far as why the necessity to pull the two apart? >> i know philosophically, the japantown task force sees the pagoda and plaza together, but when we started talking with city representatives of all the departments in terms of the cost that will be incurred to do this remediation, the number now is about $24 million. and our discussions with rec and park, mta, mayor's office, all has to do with the cost. so we're not -- it's one of these situations, because it's a complicated project, not a simple one-department responsibility, and even between rec and park, there is differences of opinion about what each department is responsible for and we've been meeting with them for the last five months on this issue. that's

hyland street at east church, report of a vehicle fire. we do have fire and rescue on the scene there this morning. waterford, 9 near hamilton station road, lanes still should down there. car on its roof. bad accident there from overnight. in bound 66 before fairfax drive, right shoulder blocked by a crash there. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. 5:32. look at the morning's top stories. the senate passed a major overhaul of the u.s. tax code overnight. 51-48 vote took place shortly after midnight. senate democrats all voted against the bill. now the house will vote again today to correct some errors on a few minor provisions. we're going to check in with news 4's edward lawrence on a few things. >>> cardinal bernard law has passed away in a rome hospital. law was a key figure in the child sex abuse scandal that rocked the boston catholic church in 2002. he was strongly criticized for protecting priests who had been accused of molesting children. law remained with the church working at the van >>> we've been following the graduation scandal sur

. >> repter: when blainealbot was teething and in pain, his mom corrina bought hyland homeopathic teething tablets. they said "natural" on the label so she thought they were safe. but then she noticed an alarming change in her baby boy. he started having seizures. >> that scared me to death. >> reporter: the seizures stopped when the tablets ran out, and blaine is now a healthy 4-year-old, but the teething product later recalled by the fda for harmful levels of belladonna, a plant-based poison, now linked to the deaths of ten children and injuring 400 more. the company says there is no scientific link between seizures and their product. now the fda planning to crack down on the safety of many homeopathic products, a $3 billion industry that's never been regulated. >> they think they're taking an active ingredient that is going to benefit them, and that's where the scam is. that's where the snake oil part of this is. >> reporter: the fda plans to target high risk products first, ones given by injection, used by children and the elderly, and marketed for cancer, heart disease, opioid and alc

well economic historian garrett hyland says he's not predicting a big it coin crash but still surgesare just invested to take care i think it is a very high risk extremely volatile asset class that is starting to gain more legitimacy and it's becoming safer to hold in store technology and safeguards have come a long way since the two thousand and fourteen mt gox had which affected thousands of they point investors a half a billion dollars was lost but still even if you do time your investment wrecked we are still seeing a number of large tax seventy million dollars was stolen from that point my uncle last week and so security is still a concern volatilities concern generally i would still advise people if you are going in past only put into this what you are willing to lose and you can buy that will at how just they were the. top stories here are now to say that russian president vladimir putin has ordered a partial withdrawal of us troops from syria he may be in and spent on a surprise visit to a russian airbase in the tukey a province where he met syrian president bashar al assad p

this dissension clearly hyland any care or in the first place any voice some don't believe and he spoke of resolution in dialogue and it was just the strength and really the voices of those who believe in the aren't struggles to good reminder as well as an examiner about how far this crisis given that i think we said four hundred fifty thousand palestinians live in lebanon that's a lot of proportion of actually the whole country's population. seventy years ago the first palestinian arrived in lebanon and twelve refugee camps towns. spend. a lot of people but we understand from palestinian officials that it's not any longer the four hundred fifty thousand it's much less a lot of people over the years have. make their way and have made their way to china just to europe in search of a life because many of them have lost hope in their right to return to their right to return and find in un resolution so they have lost hope. but a lot of them will tell you never thought to look around them at least always fun to listen and there would be an international consensus on that at the internationa

michelle hyland this range of issues that something they think will have a discussion of peer-to-peer in the next phase now. tell us what that means another strategic policy consequences they may face. >> i think it is a great day to be holding this panel because just before we came in the room they concluded the european council concluded their meeting and i was trying to find out if the guidelines have been published yet, but they haven't been. [inaudible] >> yes, it is a summit. this was conducted at 27. teresa manley said dinner last night in brussels and then left. the main point that this was to confirm, which they did do a sufficient process. we can move to the next phase. they have been the agreement does approve the last week this last week made some decisions and come to agreement about citizen's right in the financial in both of those areas, but they are not insignificant accord. for their kick the can down the road the can download a road to some agreement about ireland, where you can read this and see directly contradictory provisions, some to satisfy the dep, which is th