alison: you have seen the protests at the game. ah, dinner. throughout history, the one meal when we come together, break bread, share our day and connect as a family. [ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh? hey? i paused it. bam, family time. so how is everyone? find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. >> now, abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. the growingly on 7, nfl controversy going from

alison: the latest in new and explosive few days, the president taking jabs at players who take a need during the national anthem. jonathan: you can vote on our poll at wjla.com/vote. for now, jay korff is live in fairfax. the bar owner knows this may hurt his business, yet this is something he wants to do. jay: indeed he does. earlier today the president once again called on the nfl to ban players from protesting during the anthem. fairfax tuesday's and bar owner says i agree with the president. ♪ jay: it is a festive night at fat tuesday's and fairfax. but the owner wonders if business will be slow the sunday. >> no nfl here. jay: he is pulling the plug on nfl games, saying he had to take a sta

layers protest in the games. >> we are probably full is doing this, but enough is enough. jay: this was after president trump said blair should be fired and called on people to boycott nfl games. says he has always stayed out of politics, but he said this is personal. his daughter served for a year in afghanistan in the army, inspiring them to post this flyer on his bar's facebook page. >> people who honor our flag. jay: he will change the channel thereo pro football when is "a stop to this foolishness." we should note that a number of customers have told us they are not coming back until pro football is back. one customer said the owner has this all wrong.

the country or veterans or the military, this is about players protesting social injustice in our country. reporting live, jay korff, abc 7 news. jonathan: a couple minutes ago i asked you to vote. we are checking the instant poll at the bottom of the screen, flip-flopping between split down the middle. should the nfl mandate players to stand and put their hand over their heart. no.yes, 50% find all the reporting with this customer say -- with this controversy including what d.c. sport stars are saying. just head over to wjla.com. alison: we are tracking the aftermath of hurricane murray at and the devastation in puerto rico. most of the island nation without power and water service after hurricane maria, thousands trying to leave as the death toll rises.

visit next week and committed the aid effort going on right now. underwayive effort is and we have been really treated very, very nicely by the governor and everybody else, how hard we are working and what a good job we are doing. alison: tomorrow, d.c. police officers will head to puerto rico to help. they wanted to go so badly, they volunteered to use personal days off to do it. >> i cannot wait to land. tim: he is going home to puerto rico, which he watched get one apart by hurricane maria. >> we were watching the news minute by minute. gonzales and his fellow police officers could not just watch the island to get destroyed, so they asked the union and chief peter newsham if they could flied out. >> i cannot be more proud of them going down there. tim: they will get three days

state police with whatever puerto rico needs, then volunteer on their own time. >> we are taking on a mission to get it done. tim: some officer still have family members on the island. >> we were preparing all day. i got a call i was not expecting. i waved my tears for a second and back to the mission. tim: part of the mission is to find his sister. he has not heard from persons the storm hit. >> we became police officers there. and now we are going back to help. it means a lot. the officers here are flying out of andrews air force base tomorrow morning, expected to be down there about five days. that could change depending on how badly they are needed. reporting live, tim barber, abc 7 news. alison: meanwhil

update nica,e island of domi where hundreds of american medical students are making their way home after being stranded in maria's aftermath. up andentire house went she was just holding onto the floor boards for the entire storm. from the wind. her face was red. alison: although students are now on their way home. jonathan: and this is good news -- maria has been downgraded to a tropical storm as a continues its trek north. thereparation, some of evacuated areas near the outer banks of north carolina, maria is not expected to make landfall but is expected to cause a strong storm surge in the coming hours. we will have a live report from north carolina at 11:15. now this storm, a tropical storm named maria

winds still at 70 miles per hour, gusts to 85. the forecast tomorrow, highs in the middle to upper 80's, heat index values of the lower 90's. we are watching a cold front that will bring us relief from the heat and help push maria further out to sea. big changes are on the way for the weekend. more on that in a few minutes. michelle: i'm michelle marsh at the live desk, tracking the search for a missing college student from prince george's county. she has been missing more than a week in north carolina. herself cell phone was found in a dumpster and her car recovered. lastini-cooper was seen near a military base. she was on her way to work in a sandwich shop but never made it. anybody with information is urged to contact the fbi. to

read more about the story, go to our website, wjla.com. live desk ,i'm michelle marsh, abc 7 news. jonathan: honoring the little rock nine who pioneered desegregation decades ago are being honored at the national museum of african american history and culture. why told anna-lysa gayle their special story is so special now. very moving listening to the nine on stage and the struggles they went through just to go to school. anna-lysa: jonathan, it was definitely an honor and rare opportunity for the community to hear from six of the nine young people who sacrificed their comfort and entered into an uncomfortable situation, all in order to pave the way for others. six members of the little rock nine were greeted by applause tuesday night at the national museum of african american history and culture.

years ago when they were spat on, yelled at, and asked to stay out of little rock central high school. the school they helped desegregate in the fall of 1957. it was no easy task. >> who thinks about dying at that age? this iconic photo is an example of the pain they went through. >> i knew that those who were the first had to be exemplary and had to make sacrifices. anna-lysa: ernest greene was the first of the group to graduate, making him the first african-american to receive a diploma from central high school. >> absolutely we made progress. that was a lot to do. anna-lysa: what did you think when you saw the nfl protests this weekend? >> that is the core of the market

ability to challenge. the ideas may not be accepted initially, but over time you have the opportunity to change it. it has been a busy day of protests, starting at the capital where protesters staged that side of the senate offices over the latest effort to repeal obamacare. hours later we found out the bill is dead and no vote is scheduled. ♪ another set of protesters outside of the capital today called for congress to approve the clean dream act, to help illegal immigrants who were brought here as children. and finally this at georgetown, protesters taking a knee and filling the steps near a planned appearance by attorney general

defend it the president's criticism of nfl protests. jonathan: the montgomery county councilman tonight to hear views on raising the county's minimum wage to $15 per hour. it is currently $11.50. the measure would raise the minimum wage to $15 over the next three years. opinions are divided. mandates minimum wage like this are forcing businesses to modify operations at the expense of the very employees that such mandates were intended to help. >> increasing wages is the most effective tool to help low income workers move toward self-sufficiency. jonathan: this is the second attempt to raise the minimum wage just this year in the montgomery county. county executive ike leggett vetoed a previous version of the same bill in january. alison: a former local college and teacher pleaded guilty to sex abuse charges. jonathan:

he may be up to go back into the classroom. plus -- >> his teeth look like they had been rearranged with pliers. jonathan: they say their son was tortured by the north korean regime before he died on american soil. alison: and we are tracking maria tonight live from north carolina, next. and and consumer news, your tweets may get longer.

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butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. (laughs) (vo) you can never have too many faithful companions. introducing the all-new crosstrek. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek. alison: we have breaking news in the high-stakes alabama senate race. nominated voters have former judge roy moore. he is best known for his opposition to marriage equality and this is part -- and his support of the 10 commandments. he received the endorsement of president trump. jonathan: a newly released all tops a report found there were no obvious signs that the university of virginia student was tortured in north korea, who died six days after

he spent a year and a half in prison for stealing a poster. oner's conclusion come his parents say they knew exactly what happened to their son. >> his teeth look like they had been rearranged with a pair of pliers. you can look at the evidence, a perfectly healthy young american innocentthere, an young american come somewhat severe brain damage. it was a year later. jonathan: president trump said "totally prepared for devastating military action against north korea should that be necessary." in the a major shift ultraconservative nation of saudi arabia. it is going to allow women to drive. this will start next summer and will be the first time in that nation's history. the country was the only one of the world that had barred women from driving. jonathan: l

home who pled guilty to child sex abuse may eventually be able to teach again. richard smear admitted to sending illicit texts to a teenager when he was a coach at a school in kensington. he served three years in jail and served probation. this month the judge allowed him to be taken off the sex offender registry, sparking a debate. >> parents quite frankly have told me they are horrified. >> he is virtually penniless, has a menial job, really menial, whatever he can get. the judge felt that was enough punishment. andthan: three more years the sex abuse case will be wiped from public record. alison: getting back to tracking maria, a tropical storm at this hour making its way towards north carolina. live in killin, devil hills. how are the conditions tonight? justin:

expecting that to continue through the night. it will be kind of rough on the beach. the beach is just behind me. i just walked up there a short time ago and saw the waves crashing on the sand, something we has seen through the day. i was in a minivan and we were shaking, flags flying, light pole swing in the breeze, and that is what we been experiencing all through the day. earlier, i was out on the beach for a couple hours and you could feel the wind and the sand kicking up, pelting my face come almost felt like needles hitting me on my face as i was doing the live shots through the day. maria is bringing wind and rain across the area, flooding in some locations, and also washing down some driveways. alison: thank you very much for the latest from kill devil hills.

talking about what's going on right now with the temperatures, closer to home, 78 degrees at reagan national, 71 right now at dulles, 69 manassas, oakland maryland, 64 degrees. the cloud cover will keep the temperatures up. maria is now a tropical storm with maximum wind of 70 miles 5, moving gusts near 8 to the north at about seven. not a lot changing with the storm, but better news ahead. the turn that this will make tomorrow night as a collides with a cold front. back cold front will push the storm will out to sea, weaken with winds around 65. after that we are done with it and don't have to worry about the beach erosion. if you have plans to go to ocean dewey beach, rehobeth, or bethany, take extra care, especially in the water because

overnight, some fog west of d.c. along i-81. kids leaving early in the morning, leave an extra few minutes and take extra caution. the wind out of the north at 5 to 10. tomorrow morning looking good. if you could wear shorts or short sleeves tomorrow, go for it. in the mornings, upper 60's, lower 70's. not staying there very long. the day planner, highs in the upper 80's, heat index values of the lower 90's. plenty of sunshine. i cannot let a chance, a slight chance of an isolated shower or risk, but 10% to 15% most of you will not see anything at all. make sure that you have your sunglasses all day long, the temperatures will be well above average. the weekend looking fantastic. saturday and sunday, lower 70's. the average for the weekend, around 74.

apple picking, this is the weekend to do it, looking really nice. breezytch 7 outlook, thursday, cooler air friday, lower humidity for the weekend, 73 monday, mid 70's tuesday. we stay in the middle 70's through wednesday of next week. the end of next week, back in the upper 70's, near 80.

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dr. ralph northam was an army doctor and a volunteer medical director at a children's hospice. he passed the virginia law requiring concussion standards for school sports. the smoking ban in restaurants. and dr. northam is working to connect veterans to good paying jobs in virginia. ed gillespie is a washington dc corporate lobbyist. he shows up for whoever pays him. jonathan: metro is expected to join the effort to bring amazon's second headquarters to the dmv. they will vote thursday whether to include a metro-owned sites. multiple submissions are expected by their deadline. alison: longer tweets may be in our future. twitter is reviewing their 140-character limit, allowing some users

that is in almost every language come except japanese, chinese, and korean. the social media did an extensive study about how languages fit into the character limits. erin: i'm already on it all the time. it is also for media. jonathan: but you watch the news all the time. erin: i mean tv shows. alison: and sports? erin: ok, i guess i watch tv. anyway. extra days off and that could be the key to the defense's success. and bryce harper was finally back in th

>> and now the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. erin: the nationals activated bryce harper tonight. he was out for over a month with a bruised knee. a quiet night for harper, 0-2 with a walk. kendrick in his first at-bat crushes this. he has seven homers since joining the nationals july 29, but that was the only run the nationals would get as they lost to the phillies 4-1. the wizards ar

turning camp which opened today. head coach scott brooks once his team to get off to a faster start than last year, and the starts with a good first day of camp. coach brooks: a lot of energy, a lot of focus, and the competitive spirit was high. erin: redskins safety dj swearingen said the team is looking to make a statement this season. he has given the defense a new attitude after they finished 28th last year and dj swearingen are even has the meeting on their off days. >> we are getting better. that is what the meeting was about tuesday, ways to get better. we can always get better. rising.le keeps heads to d.c. united new york to take on the red bulls tomorrow

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alison: last word on the weather? aeve: tomorrow around 88, little more humid, the heat in excel use in the lower 90's. a cold front later tomorrow night, pushing maria out to sea. 75 friday. the weekend near 75 degrees. don't forget fairfax kids fest, a lot of fun. 73 monday, sunshine sticking around through thursday next week. tomorrow we might have a slight chance of a tiny shower, very little. jonathan:

alison: have a great night.

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