Many republicans are focusing on the fact that comey admitted to leaking information and the fact that President Trump never told mr. Comey to drop the investigation into michael flynn, only that he hoped it would go away. Nbc 10s lauren mayk was the only local reporter inside todays hearing. Shes joining us live from inside that hearing room. Tell us more about what you saw today, lauren. Reporter jim, you know, this hearing room has cleared out now but i can tell you there is now still work going on behind the scenes. For example, multiple senators here in this room today, they said that they wanted to see those memos that jim comey wrote detailing his nine oneonone interactions, conversations with the president. So that is just one of the things still happening. Now, the chair of this committee telling us after the hearing that this investigation is not over. Jim comey leaving the hearing room after giving senators wifnt to take in. The former fbi director saying nothing to us and the cameras after a two and a half hour testimony to the Senate Intelligence committee. Do you believe the russia investigation played a role . In why i was fired . Yes. Yes, because ive seen the president say so. Reporter the republican chair of the committee announcing. This is nowhere near the end of our investigation. The one message that i hoped all americans will take home is recognizing how significant the russian interference in our electric trorl process was, how it goes to the core of our democracy. Reporter but much of the hearing today focusing on comeys interactions with President Trump. When a president of the United States in the oval office says something like, i hope, or i suggest, or would you, do you take that as a directive . Yes. Senator first coops said he found the former fbi director today believable. Did you hear anything that strikes you as obstruction of justice . Thats a legal conclusion that im not going to jump to but what i did hear is that President Trump engaged in shocking uncalled for inappropriate unethical behavior incc repeatedly meeting with t fbi director and pushing him to abandon an investigation against general flynn. Reporter and former director comey said multiple times here today that he couldnt talk about something in open session, often it was about that russia investigation. And i can tell you that senators here today the ones on this committee did get a chance to have a closed door session with him in a secure room just down the hall from here right afterwards. One senator said afterwards that much of what they talked about they actually did already know but he also said that on the issue of whether there is obstruction of justice, again, jim comey would not make a judgment on that, pushing that over to bob muller, the special counsel. Jim. Lauren, fascinating to see you this afternoon inside that room with no one there. It was packed earlier today. You were inside. So describe for us what you noticed while you were in there perhaps that the public didnt get a chance to see. Reporter you know, jim, one of the things i noticed wasnt necessarily something you could see but something you could hear actually. Jim comey was sitting right there at that table and in front f1 o photographers, print photographers, their cameras make noises, its something that you watching at home you probably couldnt hear that because he was using a microphone so you probably couldnt hear that, but when youre sitting here in the room you can and they started to go off every time he mentioned something that was surprising, something we didnt know. Most of these people in the room probably read his Opening Statement that was put out yesterday so he knew some of the things he might talk about, but, for example, as you mentioned he firing which we were not expected. So when things like that happen you heard the clatter of those cameras going off. Probably couldnt hear that at home. Jim. Lauren mayk, thanks for that perspective. And our Team Coverage does not stop here. Still ahead at 5 15 we go oneonone with Nbcs Lester Holt. The why his interview with the president was front and center today on capitol hill. Plus atw; 5 30 comey watch parties and why its more than just politics. Count on nbc 10 for updates on comeys testimony and look for updates on air and on the nbc 10 app. For now, keith and jacqueline, we will send it back to you in philadelphia. Jim rosenfield live in washington, d. C. We will see you soon. Warmer weather returns. Hope you had a chance to get outside and enjoy this sun because its a beautiful day. Taking a live look at the philadelphia skyline, so good to see the sun, jackie. Skies, its blue,dn its nice o there finally. I know. And how about some tee time. Goal officers hit the driving range at conshohocken. This is the weather weve been waiting for. Lets talk to glenn hurricane schwartz. All right. The 90s are coming, glenn. Today is nothing. Wait until you see tomorrow, oh, my gosh, you will be raving about tomorrow if you like today. Even at the shore with clouds were in all day, looks like theyre starting to thin out a little bit and the sun will be returning there. You can see the cloud deck mostly in new jersey and in delaware as we were specifying yesterday with the neighborhood forecast. Areas like the Lehigh Valley and burkes county would see the most sunshine. Thats one of the reasons we do neighborhood forecasts. Here is the rain offshore, continuing to stay off sure and as it moves its going to take those clouds with it. Now we just have to get the wind direction to change. Its 67 in philadelphia now, 71 in allentown. So it is still unseasonably cool, the average high is 81 for this time of the year and, well, we will get there tomorrow but we did not get anywhere near there today. So far only 71, 82 degrees sat sunday and it continues to go up monday and tuesday. It looks like monday and tuesday are going to be c hottest parts of this hot spell. And as we go through the night tonight we have clearing conditions, some of these temperatures going down into the 40s by day break so you may need a jacket to start the day in parts of the area but you wont need it by afternoon. I will tell you about those big changes that are coming over the next week in just a few minutes. Day four of the bill cosby e the comedian did not speak, but his own words were on display today during his trial in norristown. Right now the jury is hearing the deposition he gave during a 2005 civil case filed by andrea constand. Earlier today a detective recounted what cosby told the officer during an interview after come stand reported the sexual assault. In the document cosby says he and constand had relationships that included petting and he was not interested in a sexual relationship. He says he gave her benadryl. Sex crime charges against a man who served as a youth hockey coach in south jersey and delaware. Wa farrinton of sex abuse dating back to the 90s. They say a new victim came forward. Farrinton already faces charges of havinifa sexual contact wit 12yearold boy in gloucester thenrb n Montgomery County man accused of abusing two boys in wilmington. A murder suicide inside a pennsylvania supermarket. A coworker shot and killed three employees before he filled himself. Inside a store near scranton. Suspect left a long trail of evidence online. He produced a film that praised the columbine shooters. New at 5 00, Philadelphia Police are searching for the woman you see in these pictures. 28yearold angela sky is wanted in connection with the attempted murder of a woman on frankfurt avenue in frankfurt last wednesday night. Were told the victim is in the hospital in Critical Condition with broken bones and severe who would v2 in two baby raccoons in a trash bag . Thats what the pennsylvania the raccoons were found over the weekend in south philadelphia. They are lucky to be alive. One needed immediate medical care, the animals were later transferred to an animal clinic, they will be released back into the wild soon. A group of burglars made off with 30,000 worth of jewelry from a Queen Village home. It happened late last month and now Philadelphia Police are trying to track them down. Investigators say two men and a woman got into the house on south salter street through an unlocked door. Celebrating a huge piece of sculpture sits along kelly drive. The artwork will stick around until november. There is a happening right now until 7 00 tonight in Madison Square con verv ensy brought the artwork to philadelphia. The city of wilmington is looking for a partner to improve baynard stadium. The mayor said a public and private partnership is the best option to revive the nearly century old facility on 18th street. They are requesting letters of interest from legitimate businesses who have the financial ability to help. Letters must be received by june 21st. A spike in crime at the jersey shore. New at 5 45 what you need to know before your summer vacation. And a toddler dead, his stepfather in custody. A neighborhood on edge, the community struggling. Trying to make sense of a oneyearolds death. Backfiring backhoe. A thiefs bumbling attempt to steal an atm is caught op camera. And im Jim Rosenfield live in washington, d. C. Covering james comeys testimony today. We will talk live to Nbcs Lester Holt about the dispute between what the president told him and what james comey says happened. A. This is nbc 10 news. Tonight all eyes on washington, thentkptah aatk hearing is the big buzz in our nations capitol and the outcome could potentially impact President Trump. This is one of the most highly anticipated congressional hearings in decades and Nbcs Lester Holt is joining us now. Thanks for being here essentially from different parts of the same building tonight. You recently conducted that exclusive interview with the president now a big dispute between what the president told you and what comey said happened as sort of he said he said that we saw center stage tonight. What do you make of that . Well, on a couple levels one was the whole timing of that dinner that they discussed, the president had told me that comey had requested the interview, that he wanted to talk about his job. Comeys testimony is just the opposite, he says the president called him that day and said, look, i will have your family over at some point but id like you to come over, they dined alone, and he says the president brought up his job which he thought they had already discussed. There was that, then the issue of the firing itself. You will recall the president told me that he was thinking about that russia thing when he chose to fire comey and comey says he now takes the president at his word and that he originally believed he was fired because of his handling of the clintondd affair, but he says after hearing that interview he took the president at his word and he believes he was fired because of that russia thing as the president put it. Yeah, and james comey essentially saying today the administration was lying when they described why comey was fired because of his impact at the agency. Actually calling out the white house the administration saying theyre liars today. Yeah, and on several levels he said that they had lied about him and the fbi he was you may recall early in his testimony he was very defensive about the fbi and the president had talked about it being im being out of control and on bad times. He stated just the opposite. He noted while he wanted to keep his job the fbi will be fine in anyones hands, but he took great offense at all of that. Lester, we know there is the perspective here inside the belt way, right, and across america i assume some of our cress depends from nbc news will be taking the pulse of people interest outside the belt way. Talk to me about the difference how this plays in washington today versus across america. Were still gathering on that right now. Of course washington was riveted today, but i think a lot of the country, this is what people were talkinghc;d about, this hg was on par with the Clarence Thomas hearings, the watergate hearings, many have compared it to the benghazi hearings with secretary clinton a couple years ago, but theres high interest here and as you know there were watch parties and bars and restaurants opening early so that people could watch this and kind of share a community experience, but there was a lot doq away from this no matter where you stand on this. As we know the president s outside daughters quickly came out today and said, look, this vindicates the president , its exactly what he said, that he wasnt the subject of an investigation. So theres a lot more people who find themselves on either side of this issue of the president and russia to walk away with and say, yeah, see, i told you. When i was at the train station in philly this morning getting ready to come down to washington the guy at the coffee shop was looking at my phone, he said i wish i could watch today but i cant so let me know how he did. Lester holt, thanks for joining us here. You got it, jim. Lets send it now back to philadelphia and keith and jacqueline with more news of the day. Jim rosenfield live from washington, d. C. , we will see you shortly. Al jazeera says it is under cyber attack on all systems. Despite that the qatar based Satellite News Network says platforms have not been compromised. This comes three days after saudi arabia and allies severed it ties with qatar. The wreckage and some bodies from a military plane that crashed were recovered today off the coast of myanmar. The flight with 120 people on board lost contact shortly after takeoff yesterday. The chinese made plane had left the city in myanmar before it went down. Turning to london where police made three new arrests in the connection to the London Bridge attack. Officers raided two homes today searching for more clues. Three men mode down pedestrians on the London Bridge and launched a knife attack at a nearby market on saturday. Eight people died, dozens of others were injured, police shot and killed the attackers. Tight security as voters in london headed to the polls. Security is a main issue of the election after the recent terrorist attacks. Prime minister theresa may called the snap election weeks ago. She wants to trengen her position in negotiating brittons exit from the european union. To our weather now. The sun will come out more tomorrow. A live look at cape may, a decent day at the beach but we may not be able to see any sand out there this weekend with all the people expected. Check out boathouse row closer to philadelphia. You will find people relaxing by the river along kelly drive this evening. Better news to tell you about, this warm up will actually stick around for quite some time. Glenn hurricane schwartz has your most accurate first alert forecast. A heat wave potentially, glenn. It does look like were having a heat wave and weve been advertising this for quite a while. It is going to be happening and we may actually be close to some record levels before this is all over with. And it will be a while before we see temperatures like this in the afternoon. 67 in philadelphia but were seeing more and more sunshine as we end the day and some peeks of sunshine elsewhere, but its been pretty cloudy over most of the area during the day today. The temperature philly international 67 and its 71 in port richmond, 69 graduate hospital, torresdale also 69 degrees. Every one of these places will probably be over 80 degrees tomorrow. So thats quite a difference. So the big warm up has started. Remember we were only in the 60s yesterday, 71 today. The heat wave starts sunday and gets even hotter monday and tuesday. We could be dry for about a week when you think of the last time we had some rain and sunshine, yeah, starting tomorrow, were going to have a lot of sunny days and were going to have a lot of hotter days, too. Its going up every single day, every single day is going to get hotter than the last until at least tuesday and were talking about mid 90s close to records. Now, you could see the cloud line, its almost over philadelphia now. So if you look to the west there is a lot of sunshine, if you look to the east it looks cloudy. V. Yz just depends on which way youre looking. Of course at the shore was a very cloudy day as we told you was going to happen with the east wind, that it was going to stay in the low 60s and thats do that tomorrow. This storm moving out, taking the rain with it and leaving us with sunshine tomorrow everywhere. Tacony at 83 degrees, allentown 78 degrees. Most of the area actually getting above 80 except perhaps right at the beaches of new por, a bit of a sea breeze coming in at least in the afternoon. Over the weekù. O were going to be seeing temperatures jump into the 90s so sunday is going to be hotter than saturday, both days look like were going to see a lot of sunshine, especially at the jersey shore and in delaware. We may get nothing but sunshine in knows areas and the temperature at the shore goes down a little bit of course in the afternoon. Now, the tendayq4 forecast sh those three hot days and then kind of a borderline day on wednesday. Wednesday may be a transition day as the front is coming down from new england, it could bring somewhat cooler air and also help create some showers. And then once we get into that wetter weather system it could last for several days, not that its going to lane all the time, but the threat of rain arrives just about every day just like the gift of sunshine arrives every day until then. 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