and though he may not look like a working class hero in his tailored suits, ken allen says his fatherr, like many of weinberger's former patients. in fact, allen says he worked in the mills himself as a teenager. that's him behind the wedding mask. >> a lot of my colleagues as lawyers somehow think they morph into something different once they get a law degree and all of that. and i know who i am. i knew where i came from, and i don't forget that. >> though hard to prove, ken allen believes his lawsuit on behalf of phyllis barnes and her subsequent death are what caused mark weinberger to flee. >> weinberger realized at that juncture that his gig was up. he knew, having killed someone, that it was not something he could easily sweep under the rug. >> and so, with prosecutorial zeal, this personal injury attorney hired private investigators to chase down rumored sightings of mark weinberger. in china. israel. and france. >> it was almost like sightings of elvis because we would get tips or leads that we'd follow up on to a blind alley. >> but it was in this remote corner of italy, not

jon allen, yamiche alcindor, ken thomas, thank you for being with us. >>> coming up, the latest plea in the mueller investigation, this one involving foreign funds and the trump campaign. >>> and a home going for the queen of soul. "the 11th hour" is just getting started on friday night. >>> we are tracking a major development in robert mueller's russia investigation tonight. according to court documents, american lobbyist sam patten admitted he made a $50,000 donation through a straw donor from a russian and a ukrainian. patten has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in washington, d.c. and special counsel robert mueller. patten, who has ties to paul manafort, pleaded guilty today to failing to register as a foreign agent. meanwhile the associated press reports today that doj lawyer bruce ohr was told by british former spy christopher steele that russian intelligence believed it had, quote, donald trump over a barrel. here to talk about all of this, ken dilanian and eric tucker, who broke today's news on that meeting between bruce ohr and christopher steele. ken, let me sta

allen? >> ken, thanks. >>> happening now san francisco firefighters contained a fire in the outer richmond this afternoon. the one alarm fire burned two floors of a residential building on cabrio street in s every is. firefighters quickly got the -- in san francisco. firefighters quickly got the fire under control. no one was injured. the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> new video in of a hit and run in south san jose, two kids riding their bikes when a white honda civic rolls through a stop sign, hits them and then takes off. the hit and run happened last monday as the kids were riding their bikes along cottle road near el molino way. kpix5's kiet do is there right now. >> reporter: it's been about a week since this all happened. it looks like the kids are recovering okay. the boy had a broken wrist. the girl had a concussion. amazingly they walked away from this crash, but on video it looked horrific. the surveillance video shows the white honda civic coasting towards the stop sign a

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allen, this is a contradiction from an earlier report that we have. >> yeah, ken. it's a little confusing. today, bart's police chief told the bart board, information from a license plate reader did not reach federal immigration agents. bart did admit, cameras at the macarthur station parking garage were accidentally activated . they had been turned off for eight month last year. the information collected by that license plate reader was fed to the northern california regional intelligence center. the citizen's coalition called oakland privacy reported, ice could access that information. but late today, bart said , none of that data was shared with ice. >>> i am in agreement that they need to do something about public safety, but not surveilled the public without their permission and awareness and transparency. >> in spite of concerns, the bart board gave preliminary approval to an ordinance for governing the use of plate reading technology in the future. a final but will come later this month. no one from bart would go on camera to talk about any of this. but bart

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ken auelueta joining us. we have reaction for what it means for comcast, sky, disney and the world of the media we have mini grossman, ceo of weight watchers. we have former nba all-star ray allento do. >> big show. very well rounded program this morning. andrew, we'll see you. >>> well, the countdown is also on because if it wasn't busy enough already this week, the federal reserve will kick off a two-day meeting tomorrow central bank widely expected to raise rates when it announces that decision wednesday at 2:00 eastern on "power lunch. we'll get the fed's latest economic forecast and fed chairman jay powell will be in joel, thank you. joe, first to you. what do we expect from the federal reserve? are we going to get a rate hike this week? >> we are going to get a rate hike, brian. good morning the key issue will be how many rate hikes do policy officials signal for '19, '20 '21. >> answer that question. >> we'll get a hike this week, another hike in december i don't think they'll hike more than once or twice next year but the fed will say three times next year, one more in 2020, however, it will come close to the fed increasing those estimates. in other words, nothing will