we checked a short time ago and councilman jack evans hearing on tax issues did resume shortly after 5:00 after the game. >>> coming up in sports kristen berset lets us know what davey johnson and jayson werth think of today's game, such as it was, and she looks ahead to tonight's game three for the orioles. >> tonight on your only local 7:00 news, americans will be spending a lot of cash on halloween, but on not what you think. it's not candy and it's not costumes, at least not the ones you're thinking about. we'll have the story at 7:00. >> that's a tease, d, see you at 7:00. >>> still to come in this half hour metro is used to busy days. you'll find out how the transit system wants to cash in on one of the busiest. >> top? >> let's talk about the baseball forecast tomorrow. either a 4:00 or 5:00 game depending on what the tigers do tonight, either way mostly sunny, upper 50s to low 60s. you will need a jacket tomorrow at the game. bright but brisk. we'll come back, talk about the end of the week and look ahead to the weekend, lots going on. >> but first hailing a cab in any big ci

jack evans is proposing a bill to let uber operate in the district without having it fairs regulated by the taxicab commission. the service featureses an app on your smart phone for ordering a car to pick you up. tax city drivers complain uber is taking business away from them. uber's owner claims some d.c. council members want too much regulation which would shut the service down. the taxi commission is also reviewing uber's operation, but it could be months before there are any changes. >>> 5:07. a discovery that could unlock mysteries surrounding the mona lisa. >> also ahead, how a news anchor is responding to one view are's harsh criticism of her weight. >>> and the surprise one hockey player got while trying to celebrate his goal. >>> heavy fog for a lot >>> moments after he scored, the player jumped on the boards and crashed through the protective glass and into the opposing team's benches. you can see the player just jumps up and walks it off. titans went on to win 4-1. that's hockey tough. >> what kind of celebration is that, though? >> sometimes they do that. have you not se

. >> and people, there were accusations that councilman jack evans left in the seventh inning on twitter. >> what? >> and that can be a decade before the team gets back to the play-offs. >> and we did hear some folks grumbling about it as they walked out. yeah. >> and we left the station today. bob's checking out the metro scene and a little bit on the fans coming in. bob. >> reporter: brian, it took me a half hour getting here. ahead of the rush hour and for the sake of the ride home, it's a good thing for the commuters, at least, this game was a blowout because people are leaving the last hour or so and this is a lot of people heading home now and that game is over. people left over the past hour or so, and this made it good until 20 minutes or so and if metro has three suggestions and that is that there is a second entrance and this is that half street entrance to the navy yard station here and there is another one on news jersey avenue, near the department of transport egghequarters. folks are coming out tomorrow and on to friday as l. metro suggests you use both enstrapses entrances

just to be clear council member jack evans did resume that hearing at around 5:00. >>> a former aide to mayor vincent gray was sentenced to 24 months probation and 200 hours of community service today. howard brooks avoided jail time after he admitted his role in the scandal surrounding the mayor's campaign. he's the man who made the direct payments to sulaimon brown, the other mayoral candidate who was also aiding mayor gray in winning the election. brooks faced up to six months under his plea deal, but his lawyers asked for probation and community service of the. >>> an update to news of a shoot -- service. >>> an update to news of a shooting we brought you in the 1100 block of eighth street northeast. there are no suspects or motives right now. we'll continue to track the story and give you more information as they give it to us. >>> today the supreme court heard oral arguments in one of its most high profile affirmative action cases in years and the outcome could have a broad impact on colle admission practices all over. danielle nottingham with the latest from the supreme court.

jack evans is proposing something that would let the car service uber operate in the district without having fairs regulated by the taxi commission. the service features an app on your smart phone for ordering a car to pick you up. taxi drivers complain that uber is taking business away from help. uber's owner complains some d.c. council members want too much regulation which could shut the service down. they're reviewing uber's operation, but it could be months before any changes. >>> national al might have already worn their division, but they still have something to play for on this final day of the regular season. they can clinch the top seed in home field advantage throughout the playoffs by beating the philadelphia phillies. >> and a bouncer to short. the nats win their 97th game of the year. >> looking really good. the nl east champion nats won last night. >>> let's go back to the live desk with breaking news. >> we have breaking news out of vatican city. straight to the video. police on the scene at the vatican where a man climbed the dome, this is after he jumped over this ra

or council member jack evans appearing on the politics hour friday told reporter patrick madden he'll run if gray doesn't, or is forced from office. >> if gray does not run, are you definitely running for mayor? >> yes. if gray does not run, i will run for mayor. >> reporter: but evans sharply disputed another media report friday saying a source close to gray says gray won't run again when his term is up in two years. >> i can't put words in the may mayor's mouth. you would not as a sitting mayor, regardless of the situation put yourself in a lame duck status. we just have to wait and see what happens. >> reporter: even the mayor's staff laughed off the media report and the mayor himself dismissed. >> are you going to run, are you going to run? >> is this based on someone's opinion that was quoted today in the story? >> yes, apparently. >> where did they get their opinion from? >> are you going to run, again? >> that's not even an issue. i'm not halfway through my term. why doesn't somebody come up with the real news. >> reporter: in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. >> mayor gram w

. >> reporter: or council member jack evans appearing on the politics hour friday told patrick madden, he will run if gray doesn't or is forced from office. >> if gray does not run, are you definitely running for mayor? >> yes. if gray does not run, i will definitely run for mayor. >> reporter: but evans sharply disputed the media tweet that gray wouldn't seek re-election. >> i can't put words in the mayor's mouth, but i would be hard pressed to believe that the mayor said anything about running, again. regardless of your situation, put yourself in a lame duck status and he's a good politician, he wouldn't do that. we have to wait and see what happens. >> reporter: reporters press gray for any hint of his intention. >> are you going to run, are you going to run? >> good morning. >> is this based on somebody's opinion i was quoted today in a story? >> yes. >> i don't know where they get their opinion from. >> are you going to run, again? >> that isn't even an issue. i'm not even halfway through my term at this point. this is the discussion. >> not make any political and gray signal his

>> reporter: despite the dismissal council member jack evans stroked the rumors further during wamu'spolitics hour yesterday and said he'd run if mayor gray didn't run for re-election. >>> good news for metro riders this weekend. you won't have to deal with too much track work. crews will only be working on two lines. on the red line trains will single track between judiciary square and fort totten and on the orange line trains will share track between stadium armory and cheverly. don't forget the work will last through monday because of the holiday. everything should be back to normal tuesday morning. >>> now to the future of metro and its new $800 million fleet of train cars. the transit agency released this video of the new cars complete with l.e.d. screens and new safety features. they will replace some of the 1,000 series cars that have been in service since 1976. metro pledged to phase those cars out following the deadly crash of 2009 that killed nine people. the new cars should be ready to go next year. hopefully they'll have that new car smell. >>> the time is 6:36. next, the

won't have to be regulated like the cab, i'm sure that's their argument, and thoo is something that jack evans and uber will have to respond to. >> who is going to hold them accountable on some things that cabs aren't held accountable -- we went through a lot of legislation on taxi cabs, and people want to free will their way through using transportation. i think they have to come under the same rules. >> this is a city of limousines, limousines don't come under the same rules as the taxy commission. i find this a rather interesting operation they have. yes it's a little more expensive, but the convenience is that, you know they pick you up, you're in a comfortable sedan, if people want to pay extra for that, more power to them. >> i think -- >> taxi drivers ought to clean their cabs up. >> i still think there should be a rule and regulation. >> the only other different -- i have no position on this, the yes is yeah, there are limousine, and are they a limousine or a cab? >> sounds more like a limousine. >> it is, and if they're not busy, you get to pay for a limousine service and you get a li

what i love about this, if you go back in time to talk the people investing twitter, evan williams and jack dorsey, and say to them in the future your creation, your platform that you're building will be used to organize protests all around the world by hash tags, they would have said, what is a hashtag? because hashtags were actually not part of their platform. it was something that users started to add. they didn't have any vision of political protests with twitter of course but they didn't even have the vision of hashtags. that came from people using twitter in that way. when we create platforms that allow this kind of creativity from ordinary people, suddenly you see this great, kind of rich ecosystem of discovery and invention that happens. and think that's, that is one of the things i'm very optimistic about in terms of future perfect which the government can create platforms like this and encourage ordinary people to come and help. this is really true in terms of local communities, where local governments sets up a platform that anybody can report a pothole, report a need they have i