david wright has the latest. most successful yoga gurus, bikrim chowdrie is a fugitive. a year ago, a court ordered him to pay $7 million in damages for sexually harassing and firing his own lawyer. >> i feel vindicated. i am elated. >> reporter: but he never paid a dime. so an l.a. judge issued an arrest warrant. bikrim creator of hot yoga. when we first met him five years ago, there were rumors of groping students. >> i never lie, never cheat. i never hurt another spirit. >> reporter: he categorically denied them. >> the hardest problem in my life, david, is stay away from women. but, yogi supposed to be yogi cannot be involved the women. since then, half a dozen of his former students accused him of sexual assault. >> some one can look him in the s the hidden most assets and fled the country. he has been spotted during the past year in india and in mexico. david wright, abc news, new york. >> when we come back, oh, there are plenty of spoilers from "game of thrones." why everybody seems to just, just be doomed. >> only if you are kendis. >> tiny dancer finally gets it

here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: tonight at the department of justice, breaking news. >> we areoming on the air now with major news. >> the u.s. justice department announced this evening -- >> this a special counsel has been appointed -- >> reporter: the big announcement, there's a new sheriff in town, a special counsel who will now take over the ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the november election. deputy attorney general rob rosenstein chose former fbi director robert mueller for the job. >> a special counsel mueller will have extraordinary power. he can replace all the agents currently working on the case if he chooses. he has 60 days to put together a team of lawyers to work with him on the case. >> reporter: mueller's appointment is a blow to the white house. >> i am told that the senior staff here at the white house did not get word of this until about 30 minutes before the news was shared with the news media. completely taken off guard. >> reporter: tonight the president issued this statement. "as i have stated many times, a thorough investigation will con

saying his decision was necessary to restore public trust in the fbi abc's david wright with the latest. >> reporter: fbi director james comey was out in los angeles for a recruitment event for new agents. unaware it would seem that in washington. >> excuse my breath, i ran out here to bring you the news. >> coming out of the white house. >> just fired the director of the fbi. >> comey is out. abruptly fired by his boss, president donald trump. as fbi director comey was accused by the democrats of helping trump win. recently been a thorn in trump's side. in charge of the high profile probe into russian meddling in the november election, and, possible links between moscow and the trump campaign. comey's sudden departure now clears the way for the president to name his successor. >> an historic day at the white house. the firing of an fbi director, by a president, is an extraordinarily rare event. it hasn't happened nearly quarter of a century. >> reporter: the president does not cite the russian comey's dismissal. instead, the white house suggests comey fell short of fbi standards. trump

in northern virginia, kristin wright, news4. >>> that's going to do it for "news4 this week." lawrence. we leave you with pictures of the jefferson memorial. we learn more about how they plan to clean up the outside of the memorial. you can watch tom sherwood's report on the nbc washington app. thanks for joining us. have a great week. at ikea, we believe that your dream bedroom, from a personalized closet, to a well-organized chest of drawers, to a cozy bed, can be yours for less. save up to 20% at the ikea bedroom event. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month online, for the first year with a two-year agreement. it's the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. cable only offers upload speeds ion of their download speeds. plus get hbo for a year and free multi-room dvr servic

abc news reporter david wright has the latest from washington. >> reporter: back at the white house, and back on twitter, president trump scores his first overseas trip as a success. today he blasted back at news reports on the russia investigation insisting many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. the president arrived home to a bit of a reality check. questions swirling about his son-in-law, jared kushner. >> mr. president, is -- [ inaudible ] >> the fbi wants to know why kushner, a tp adviser to the president, met with the russian ambassador back in december along with retired lieutenant general mike flynn. sources familiar with that meeting say kushner wanted to open a secret back channel on the u.s. response to syria and other policy matters. >> to have the president's son-in-law, key player within the trumt. organization, trying to establish back channel with the russians through a russian diplomatic facility, you have to ask, who are they hiding conversations from. >> contact from the russians were right after intellig

here's abc's david wright. ♪ >> reporter: from those first moody bass notes, "twin peaks" was quirky,urky, and strange. ♪ a road not taken, ever, in tv before. >> february 24th. entering the town of twin peaks. >> reporter: a place full of riddles wrapped in enigmas and sometimes earnestly cradling a log. >> my log saw something that night. >> reporter: the show's central mystery was the death of beauty queen laura palmer. and in a final twist in the plot, the very last words we hear from her in the final episode of "twin peaks" -- >> i'll see you again in 25 years. >> reporter: now are coming true. "twin peaks" is back for a third season, 25 years later. sunday nights on showtime. we last saw you -- bloodied. bl cackling with laughter. >> yeah. >> how's annie? >> yeah, yeah. a great way to end. >> the longest cliffhanger in history. >> yeah, yeah. yeah, without question. >> reporter: the cast full of familiar faces plus a newcomer or two. as surprised as any of us to be reunited again. we met up with a few of them at the lamb's club bar in midtown manhattan. i'm relieved after 25 yea

abc's david wright has the details. >> reporter: what did donald trump tell the russians in the chummylosed door meeting last week in the oval office? this exclusive "washington post" story is causing a major stir. trump revealed classified information about an isis plot to use laptop computers in terror attacks aboard airplanes. in his meeting with lavarov, the russian foreign minister, trump seemed to be boasting abut his inside knowledge. the post says the information the president shared was code word clearance, highly classified and shared privately with the u.s. by a foreign government. a key partner in the fight against isis. >> if it is true, obviously it is disturbing. i think we have got to find out more before i could comment. >> the meeting with the russians was controversial. the morning after trump fired the fbi director, who was overseeing the investigation, into possible collusion between trump associates and the russians during the 2016 campaign. according to the post, the president not only shared with the russians what he knew about the alleged plot, but also what ci

david wright has reaction from both sides of the aisle. >> reporter: even as new candidates arrive at the justice department to interview from the fbi director's job, president trump is still being asked to explain this tweet, suggesting he may have taped his conversations with director comey before he fired him. >> are you recording any of your meetness the white house, sir? >> reporter: the president declines to answer. on the sunday shows, members of both parties say he'll have to. republicans -- >> this tweet has to be answered. i would advise the president not t tweet or comment about the investigation. >> if there are such recordings, i think those will be subpoenaed and they'll have to turn them over. >> reporter: and democrats. >> first of all, we have to make sure these tapes don't mysteriously disappear. >> to destroy them would be a violation of law. >> reporter: today, george stephanopoulos put it to ken starr, the independent counsel whose investigation of the monica lewinsky scandal led to the impeachment of bill clinton. >> would you demand tapes from the white house if

for a more in-depth look at your traffic this morning, here's julie wright. julie: this will definitely impact your commute into southeast washington with disclosure headed inbound, you can go no further than forceful road. sky track 7 has made their way over to this area. you can see the delays starting to build on route four as the folks bailout in use that as an alternative route. we also have a fatal crash tying up your commute in n between campus avenue and north capitol street. call at 2:45 this morning with an ongoing investigation going on it this time. with poles and wires across the highway, metro checking in with delays on the red line due to a medical emergency outside the medical center. tok in the next 10 minutes update your writing to southeast. let's see if we find a lot of sunshine today and if those temperatures warm up. will warm up, not quite as high as yesterday, but getting into the mid-70's. .lenty warm we are looking at headlines for the work week. conditions by midweek, get ready to hit 90 degrees. that for your wednesday and thursday

julie wright, take a look at the next week. the average this week is 80 degrees, so this is unseasonably cool. really seeing significant warmth. what you see is what you get, but hopeful that later this afternoon will finally get us some sunshine. julie: fingers crossed for that. we are looking for a warmer temperature. around the beltway, not looking too busy. we have the trees that is down westbound on river road. that's before you reach goldsboro. eastbound, all lanes are open. no problems to report there. in down 50 at 202, looking good. year atthe west on 66 nutley street, light traffic volume. keep in mind that the hov will have lifted on 66, 395, and 270. over to you guys. autria: all right, thanks so much, jules. look at porter here. it's time to meet porter, the path of the day. he's a husky retriever mix. obviously, this picture was taken when we had snow on the ground and he was just a puppy. we want to see your pets. you can send them to burst.com/wjla and they might just be our pet of the day. larry: happening toni

my subject was richard wright from chicago. and i know that is where it began. so i began with the spirit of chicago and the possibilities that chicago has always represented. i think that the choice of the city in which to locate this wonderful new museum couldn't be better and i say that as an ardent pittsburgher and someone who'ves new york and boston. couldn't be better. for one thing it's in the middle west. and there's something so american about this part of cower -- our country. pending so many years writing about the writhe brothers and -- the wright brothers and another project i'm working on right now. you have qualities in this part of the country you don't find so conspicuously on display every else. remember modesty? you don't get too big for your britches? or your mother might watch your mouth out with soap if you used bad language? those fundamental rules of good behavior are real and valuable and we must never lose them, just a we must never lose the sense of who we and are why we are the way we are. i think that what is happening in this museum

and robin wright is fellow at the u.s.titute of peace as well as a contributing writer for the "new yorker" magazine. we welcome all three of you back to the program. beef talking 'little elliott about the president shifting language how he talks about terrorism extremism. what i want to ask the three of you is how much of a shift in policy is what president trump is saying in his, particularly in that speech in saudi arabia. how much of a shift in policy would that be? >> there is a shift, i would say from the obama policy which was much more open to friendship or better relationship with iran and was not casting iran as a central problem in the middle east. in saudi arabia, the president said very much, iran is the problem, the king of saudi arabia then said the same thing, iran is the problem. now of course we're hearing it from prime minister netanyahu. this isn't a change i would say from bush policy actually but these are changes from obama policy which was centered on improving the relationship with iran. >> woodruf

here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: tonight the president, who complained so loudly about the rigged washington, now seems to be holding all the strings. >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he wasn't doing a good job, very simply. he was not doing a good job. >> reporter: not only did the administration brush off questions about trump's firing of fbi director james comey -- >> president trump made the right decision at the right time. >> reporter: the white house also sought to move past comey's ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the november election -- >> which includes whether there was any coordination between people associated with the trump campaign and the russians. >> let's put it behind us, let's move on, let's focus on what we need to do to turn our country around. >> reporter: then today in an ironic bit of timing the president held an oval office meeting with some of the same russian officials known to be targets of that investigation. there's the president. shaking hands with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. dig smiles all around. the image captu

here's abc's david wright with the fallout. >> reporter: tonight fbi director james comey was out in angeles for a recruitment event for new agents. unaware, it would seem, that in washington -- >> excuse my breath, i just ran out here to bring you this news coming out of the white house. >> president trump has just fired the director of the fbi. >> reporter: comey is out. abruptly fired by his boss, president donald trump. >> you are hereby terminated and removed from office effective immediately. >> reporter: as fbi director comey was accused by the democrats of helping trump win. more recently, he's been a thorn in trump's side. in charge of the high-profile probe into russian meddling in and possible links between moscow and the trump campaign. comey's sudden departure now clears the way for the president to name his successor. >> it's an historic day at the white house. the firing of an fbi director by a president is an extraordinarily rare event. it hasn't happened for nearly a quarter of a century. >> there were a lot of democrats over the course of the summer who would have b

robin wright, can these countries drive out the extremists to a large degree, and will they? >> well, militarily there's been a lot of progress made over the last eight months, for example, in iraq and some in syria against isis. but the reality is that these extremist movements have affiliates all over north africa and south asia. they have lone wolf cells in europe and we believe maybe in the united states. that there is the danger of a broader phenomena that is the product of alienation, marginalization, whether it's in the west or at home. that there aren't the broad solutions. and that's why president trump's speech was dealing with the v y veneer of extremism. we're in the third generation and this is a problem that you can't just use a bullet to solve. and that's why i think the idea of creating whether it's a military coalition or one that deals with cyber security, if you don't have the kinds of basic solutions that deal with the most volatile region in the world, then you're not going to solve the problem of extremism. at one point president trump also said that thi

david wright, abc news, new york. >> looking forward to seeing that.ing, you know the flashbacks of her with her children. and, it is sort of a look behind the curtain that we often don't get with the royals especially one look her. >> yeah, an interesting special. we do hope you will joan us sunday for it. last 100 days of diana airing sunday night at 9:00, 8:00 >> coming up, getting a caffeine buzz from your bagel. >> why you might want to think twice about ordering a gluten free meal on your next flight. lh the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free. it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. even well fitting dentures let in food particles just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. super poligrip free made even the kiwi an enjoyable experience try super poligrip free tand, our adulte children are here. so, we save by u

this pick tweeted by nova head coach jay wright, josh hart...pionship game they walk today and rock the jersey under the cap and gown outstanding group of young men to say the least. congrats to all. >> he's probably sad they're leaving. >> yes. >> he probably wants them back next year. >> you think. good players right there. >> when is the temperature going to start to dive. >> later on this evening. by tomorrow morning temperatures upper 50s right around 60. high temperatures tomorrow in the upper 60s near 70 degrees. so a lot of events taking you might want to grab that light jacket. yes. for tomorrow. >> i had the air-conditioning cranking this morning. >> i know. >> give eight break. >> back to seasonal. >> all right. tonight at 10:00 not too long ago doctors told this local boy he may never walk again. after he suffered a major stroke. well his attitude and his commitment helped him beat the odds. we have his inspiring story coming up tonight on the fox 29 news at 10:00. >>> well that does it for us here at 6:00 o'clock. we'll see you back

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lets get tojulie wright - another cloudy, foggy morning - finally some sun later today - marginal riskevere storms this afternoon - beautiful tomorrow & friday - unsettled weather returns for the weekend today: am patchy fog, clouds. partly sunny. isolated pm t-shower. highs: 79-84 mph tonight: lingering shower or storm early. partly to mainly clear. lows: 56-63 winds: nw 5 mph thursday: mostly sunny. low humidity. highs: 78-81 winds: nw 5-10+ mph kidd o'shea in the now.. get ready to buy your tickets for "jagged little pill" the muscial! alanis morissette's classic 1995 album is hitting the stage as a musical! the show, debuting in the boston area next may, is expected to feature such alanis songs as "you oughta know" and "ironic." "jagged little pill" sold won the grammy for album of the year. ariana grande is organizing a concert to benefit victims of the terror atttack after her manchester show last week. ariana tweeted it will take place sunday in manchester. katy perry, pharrell, coldplay and miley cyrus will also perform. araian suspended her "dangerous woman" tour in the wake o

and here's abc's david wright with this story. >> reporter: what did donald trump tell the russians in that chummy closed-door meeting last week in the oval office? tonight, this exclusive "washington post" story is causing a major stir, alleging that in that meeting trump revealed classified information about an isis plot to use laptop computers in terror attacks aboard airplanes. "in his meeting with lavrov, the russian foreign minister, trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat," writes the post. the post says the information the president shared was code word clearance, highly classified, and shared privately with the u.s. by a foreign government, a key partner in the fight against isis. >> if it's true, obviously it's disturbing. but i think we've got to find out more before i could comment. >> reporter: the meeting with the russians was already controversial. the morning after trump fired the fbi director who was overseeing the investigation into possible collusion between trump associates and the russians during the 2016 campaign. according to

worked very hard to get a good bill and the chairman and ranking members from our chamber and speaker wright and and leader policy for working so hard last week and over the weekend the negotiations between the two sides were consistently r productive in deutsche respectful.tic route of process those that negotiated in good faith on believe this experience bodes well for the budgettions. and future negotiations to show the same desire to get things done to get the darn good budget without the specter of the shutdown to hang over the countries had.an one final thing to show the colleagues are willing to work with us we can get things done.his all too often from the white house the attitude is just do it our way or my way or the highway. that is what happened. when you don't do things in a bipartisan way it is much harder to get a product with the consensus of where america is. hopefully this negotiation beat a model for the 2018 bill but that we can allrk work together to get things done for the country we love. i expect we will follow later this week and received overwhelming support in this

abc's david wright is covering these fast-moving developments tonight. >> reporter: tonight at the whitese, controversy on two fronts. >> it's totally improper. >> stunning, breathtaking revelation. >> reporter: "the new york times" reports in february, the president personally asked the fbi director, james comey, to go easy on national security adviser michael flynn. a source close to comey tells abc news the fbi director wrote himself a memo in february, the day after flynn was fired for lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador. "i hope you can let this go," the president allegedly told comey, according to the source, "he's a good guy, i hope you can let this go." comey didn't. >> comey's memos are especially significant because this is what he wrote in realtime. immediately following his conversations with the president. >> reporter: abc news has not seen comey's memo, neither has "the new york times." those sources did confirm its existence. tonight the white house is pushing back insisting the "times" story is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation

abc news reporter david wright has the latest from washington. >> reporter: back at the white house and back on ter, president trump scores his first overseas trip as a success. today he blasted back at news reports on the russia investigation, insisting many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. the president arrived home to a bit of a reality check. questions swirling about his son-in-law jared kushner. >> mr. president, did your son-in-law set up a channel to the russians? >> reporter: the fbi wants to know why kushner, a top adviser to the president, met with the russian ambassador back in december along with retired lieutenant general mike flynn. sources familiar with that meeting say kushner wanted to open a secret back channel on the u.s. response to syria and other policy matters. >> to have the president's son-in-law, a key player within the trump organization, trying to establish a back channel with the russians through a russian diplomatic facility, you have to ask who are they hiding the conversations from? >> reporter