we're following the latest developments regding jake evans. >> announcer: "news 4 today" starts now. >>> it is 4:00 a.m., good er morning, evybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. it's wednesday, july 10th, 19. let's get a look at your weather off.traffic to start things >> melissa mollet is standing by in first 4 traffic. we begin with meteorologist chuck bell a not a whole lot to talk about for you, right? >> on to you, melissa. >> that's at good ng. >> relatively quiet weather day today, much like yesterday. plenty of sunshine, skies are clear here this morning. temperatures not too terribly bad. 69 at dulles airport. 73 washington now. 75 in annapolis. not quite as cool and comfortable as yesterday morning, but thekies are clear and there's a littl t less fog contend with. your hour by hour planner sunsu before 6:00 a.m. this morning and it will be bright and sunny start to fnish today no chance for rain today. afternoon high temperature expected to reach 89 degrees. now rain chances go w up we get into your thursday afternoon and evening. we'll time out that and talk about

we're following the latest developments regding jake evans. >> announcer: "news 4 today" starts now.4:00 a.m., good er morning, evybody i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. it's wednesday, july 10th, 19. let's get a look at your weather off.traffic to start things >> melissa mollet is standing by in first 4 traffic. we begin with meteorologist chuck bell a not a whole lot to talk about for you, right? >> on to you, melissa. >> that's at good ng. >> relatively quiet weather day today, much like yesterday. plenty of sunshine, skies are clear here this morning. temperatures not too terribly bad. 69 at dulles airport. 73 washington now. 75 in annapolis. not quite as cool and comfortable as yesterday morning, but thekies are clear and there's a littl t less fog

jake. >> manu raju on capitol hill. thank you so much. >>> our team of russia investigation experts joins me now. and evan, let me start with you. mueller made the last-minute request to have his deputy, a guy named aaron zebly sworn in but not as a witness. so what do you make of this all? >> i think it is not unusual for a witness to have -- in this case he was his former chief of staff when mueller was running the fbi. and so you normally -- it is not abnormal to have someone sitting behind you when you don't have the answer to something to sort of get help with the answer. i think it potentially helps mueller answer the questions more fully. it probably makes the hearing better. but i think i could see why republicans are sort of raising some ruckus because they think it will change the hearing tomorrow. i think it will make a better hearing because we're more likely to hear full answers. >> and you know robert mueller. house democrats in the judiciary committee certainly hope this will help change the tide in support for impeachment of president trump. because of the obstruction charges, potential obstruction charges. how i

evan perez with the latest, thank you. >> sure. >>> thanks to all of you for joining us this afternoon. stay with us. "the lead with jakeow. >>> days before the big cnn debates, joe biden says, hey, no more mr. nice guy. "the lead" starts right now. >>> as the 2020 democrats prepared for the next showdown, joe biden firing back at the two candidates who will be next to him on stage, including one who called him an architect of mass incarceration. >>> democrats debating the next move after mueller, and whether to take their shot at impeachment even mo mueller's testimony did not exactly cause democrats to stampede to join the impeachment crowd. >>> high-level trolling? or someone who doesn't internet well? how did president trump end up appearing in front of a fake presidential seal? >>> welcome to the lead, i'm jake tapper. house democrats now facing a critical decision -- debating whether to move forward with an impeachment inquiry. following robert mueller's testimony on capitol hill, nancy pelosi making it clear she will not discourage democrats from supporting an inquiry, though she personally does not support it, a