. now at 11:00, players versus the president. >> we're bringing the witness to something that needs to be addressed. >> a new nfl protest tonight. a new reaction from fans. veterans.

and the white house. finally home. first responders getting hugs from their families after weeks responding to not one but three hurricanes. an immigration backlog. the news 4 iteam talks toy aformer judge, who says the system is broken. >> it's a disaster. good evening, everybody. tonight america's team joined a growing demonstration sparked by comments from america's president. >> on monday night football the dallas cowboys took a collective knee before the national anthem. then players stood arm and arm for the star-spangled banner. >> news 4's shammari stone with new reaction from veterans, fans, and sports stars here in washington. shomari? >> reporter: dallas cowboys fans at the parlay bar in northwest d.c. tell me they were stunned when wh they saw the team and owner jerry jones take a knee before the national anthem. we found one fan

was disrespectful, but the vast majority of people inside this dallas cowboys bar tell me they support the team. >> appreciate it. >> reporter: juanita campbell is a lifelong dallas cowboys fan. her team and owner jerry jones made her proud when they took a knee and interlocked arms before the national anthem was played. >> i like that the players protest i protesting peacefully. >> reporter: the protest started in 2016 when colin kaepernick took a knee to speak out against police brutality toward african-americans. this past friday president trump set off a firestorm when he said this -- >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he's fired? >> reporter: pro athletes across the country are responding, including members of the washington redskins and wizards. >> when a president act like that, what do you say to that? i

stands for, dignity, pride, respect, honor. where's the honor in that p sn. >> that's not respectable. your job as a leader is to bring everybody together. and everybody in the world feels like since you got in office that hasn't been the case. >> we have bigger issues in this world you that need to be focused on instead of other people. >> we went down to the world war ii memorial and found some veterans like doug rich who says he won't be attending nfl games anymore. >> i think it's a shame and disgrace to our country and i'm fed up with the nfl. >> it's worth mentioning that some veterans we talked to tell me they support the players taking a knee because they say it's their first amendment right. just to let you know, jordin sparks sang the national anthem tonight. she did not ta a

hand, basically speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves. live for you in northwest d.c. i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> shomari, thank you. president trump doubled down in just the past few hours, blasting nfl players who did not stand or show up for the national anthem during sunday's games. he tweeted this tonight. "tremendous backlash against the nfl and its players for disrespect of our country #stand for our anthem." tonight vice president mike pence defended the president campaigning for a gop senate candidate down in alabama. >> we've all got a right to our opinions. but i don't think it's too much to ask the players in the national football league to stand for our national anthem. and i know the people of alabama agree. >> president trump holds a news conference with the president of spain tomorrow in the white house rose garden. you can expect to hea

more about this tomorrow afternoon. dozens of first responders are now back with their families in virginia after weeks away from home. some helping victims of three hurricanes back to back to back. news 4's jackie vincent is live for us this evening. that's a lot for these people, jackie. >> reporter: they found themselves responding to help after one hurricane and then found themselves directly in the path of another. >> i don't think anybody was quite aware to the level it was going to happen. >> reporter: battalion chief michael schaaf describes the unexpected. after helping in texas in the aftermath of hurricane harvey, then heading to florida following hurricane irma. members of virginia task force one arrived in puerto rico just ahead of hurricane maria. and in the bullseye. >> we were right there in the stairwells and the elevators where it was concrete. we were able to stay in there and ride that storm out there. >> reporter: often more sensitive to impending storms than humans,

members did something unusual. >> the dogs were like awake but they were fine. they were good. >> reporter: fairfax county fire chief says luckily recent training had prepared the dogs and handlers for something they had not done before, island hopping by helicopter. >> the canines and the handlers never did that before. and so we were able to now employ that on this rescue mission from san juan to st. croix and the other virgin islands. >> reporter: family members waited for hours at a facility in chantilly to give the task force an enthusiastic welcome home. even the youngest wanted to express their pride. >> i took a bunch of pictures because it felt good. it was beautiful. >> and we wanted to let you know that members of maryland task force 1 still on the ground in puerto rico. live in chantilly, jackie bensen, news 4. most of puerto rico still without lights. no power, running water, fuel,

crews did restore some power to about a handful of hospitals and the areas surrounding them this afternoon, but it is still going to take months to get that island fully back online. they are also dealing with a food and medicine shortage. some puerto ricans feel the united states, the u.s. territory is being forgotten. fema says there are more than 10,000 federal staff on the ground in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands assisting with relief efforts on those two islands. well, amelia is in the storm center for us. and tell us this. you've got a pretty stark picture of just how big this challenge is for puerto rico and the months ahead. >> yeah, when i saw this image earlier today it really spoke to me, and i think you'll agree when you take a look. it's a before and after image from a satellite taken during the nighttime. the satellite picture taken during the nighttime. and this was tweeted out by noaa satellites earlier today. you can see this is before maria and this is after maria.

millions there without power. so just try to imagine that. you can find that on my facebook and twitter pages. our morning tomorrow is going to be a mild and a dry start, but a cloudy start due to maria right now. we're at 77 degrees. by 9 a.m. we're around 72. and at 11:00 a.m. plenty of clouds in the forecast. and temperatures at that point in the mid 70s. now, a new track has just been issued for maria. i'll have that plus skies when we could see some 40s here at home in my forecast coming up at 11:18. leon harris here at the live desk where we're tracking fast developments in the fight over the future of health care. now, you've probably heard senator susan collins announce today that she will not support the latest gop effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act. tonight she came out and explained her vote. >> the democratic party made a huge mistake in pushing through the affordable care act

a single republican vote. it is a mistake for my party to repeat that error. >> now, with that no vote from senator collins republicans now don't have the numbers to push the bill through. it's a disappointment for one of its sponsors, senator lindsey graham. he was defending the legislation, saying in a cnn town hall debate tonight he's going to press on. >> if we don't find a different way to do this, obamacare's collapsing, folks. the reason we're here tonight is it didn't work. in many ways i wish i were wrong about obamacare, but i'm right. >> there were lots of loud demonstrations today on the hill, and there will be more tomorrow. more than 180 people were arrested there today. tonight democrats say that they will work with republicans but they won't be able to pass anything unless the republicans take repeal off the table. jim, wendy, back to you. >> stay tuned. leon, thank you. new video tonight from the scene of a teenager's murder. jam-packed with the people who lod

zaire kelly was killed in a robbery at the park on 13th and downing streets in northeast last week. tonight family and friends lit candles there to remember his life. kelly was just 16. he was a rising high school senior. earlier today classmates shared what they remembered most about him. >> he had the opportunity to be whatever he wanted and all of us know that. and all of us love him and we're all going to remember him. >> we've also learned tonight new details about the night of that attack. zaire's father says the teenager who shot zaire also tried to rob his teenage brother zion that same night. now, zion ran home and texted his brother to be careful. their father says zaire responded saying he'd be fine. a former memphis police officer could serve time in jail for parking near the white house with a cache of weapons in his car. that included ne

three knives. the secret service says timothy bates told agents yesterday morning that he needed to talk with top security officials about getting a microchip out of his head. a judge denied bates bond today. the news 4 iteam found 22 people have been arrested just since 2014 for jumping the white house fence or for violating the security perimeters on the capitol grounds. we're still working tonight to learn more about the person found dead in a car outside of a rockville shopping center here. chopper team over the scene tonight. montgomery county police tell us it was a man but they haven't released much else. someone noticed him at the white flint plaza this afternoon. no word yet if foul play is involved here. and new at 11:00, the pilot rescued in a small plane crash in pennsylvania last night is from anne arundel county. two men had to cut phillip beckner jr. loose with a pair of scissors. his safety restraints were putting pressure on his neck after that crash in a philadelphia suburb. beckne

we don't know yet what caused that crash. next at 11:00 tonight, the news 4 iteam uncovers a shocking backlog in the immigration courts. but wait until you hear what happens when immigrants finally get their day in court. >> everybody's afraid. >> the one piece of information some say has a b

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a crisis in that courtroom. more than 58,000 people in the dmv waiting for their cases to be heard. >> and the court is already scheduling hearings four years from now. investigative reporter jody fleischer has been digging into the numbers for us and some of what she found might surprise you. >> reporter: we've spent months working with nbc investigative teams across the country and we've found whether an immigrant gets to stay here in the u.s. has a lot to do with where they're from and which court location hears their case. here in d.c., maryland and virginia more than half of the immigrants who go through the courts get to stay. >> a nation without borders is not a nation. >> reporter: you might think in this political climate -- >> no amnesty! >>. >> reporter: -- immigrants would appreciate being caught in the four-year backlog since they get to stay in the u.s. while they wait for their case to make its way to a judge. >> it's people's lives.

remain or not, the decisions are life changing. >> reporter: judge paul wickham schmidt retired from the immigration court in arlington. when he left in 2016 he was already scheduling hearings for 2021. >> i think sometimes we minimize the difficult yuz of having your life on hold. >> reporter: jonathan clareos knows living in limbo can be a difficult thing. he moved here from el salvador when he was 16 and has spent almost half his life in montgomery county, maryland. >> everybody's afraid. they go out but they don't know if they're going to come back home again. >> reporter: he married a u.s. citizen three years ago and has applied for legal status. >> it's been kind of hard. it's been almost a year waiting for an answer. >> reporter: like jonathan, nearly half of all the immigrants caught in the backlog in our area are from el salvador. that's more than 28,000 people. and judge schmidt says the courts do not treat all nationalities equally. >> the law's sort of tough on central american cases. some of them can make it, some of them don't. an ethiopian with a

claim, they almost always get granted. >> reporter: the court data shows the location also factors into whether an immigrant has a better chance of being able to stay. the national average is just over 56%. here in the d.c. area it's 61%. los angeles is 70%. >> clearly the attitudes of the judges and how they feel about asylum law has quite a bit to do with it. if i were an immigrant i'd rather be in california than georgia any day. >> reporter: in one georgia court only 13% of people are allowed to stay in the u.s. he says the appellate boards also lack consistency in their decisions. >> as a result judges don't get the kind of guidance they need. the board doesn't crack down on judges who are way out of line with what the law should be. >> reporter: judge schmidt says immigrants deserve to know their fates sooner, our system simply doesn't allow for that. he says with the volume of cases the gravity of his difficult decisions was often emotional.

single one right and you think about the lives you might have destroyed that you could have saved. and of course that weighs on you. >> reporter: just like jonathan's case weighs on him and his entire family. >> if it gets better than it is right now i guess ev's going to be all right. but right now most of the people are in danger. >> we have much more on our crisis in the courts series at our nbc washington app, including a look at the wait times in imarbitration courtrooms across the country. just look at investigations. jody fleischer, news 4 i-team. >> you've got monday behind you. how much longer are we going to be in summer? >> we'll be in summer through wednesday and as we look to thursday it'sing go to be our transition day. by the weekend i mentioned 40s earlier. some of us will be in the 40s on sunday morning. >> ooh. all right. >> it's only monday. there may be a lot to process. you're hearing 40s on sunday

we're feeling like summer around here through wednesday. our high today 91 degrees. we keep the humidity tomorrow we are a little cooler. hot out there. thursday we start to change back to more fall-like weather and then this weekend feeling very much like fall. you can turn off the air-conditioner. might even have to turn on the heat in your home, especially if you live in the more rural areas. currently it's balmy outside. 77 in washington. down to 68 degrees in honey town. 72 in the leesburg area. tomorrow we start out the day 78 right around 72 degrees. nice but unlike the blue skies we had this morning we'll already have more clouds out there and the clouds will thicken throughout your tuesday. by lunchtime in the mid 70s. it's not as hot. a high tomorrow of'll 3. almost 10 degrees cooler than it was today due to the increasing cloud cover. as we look to your evening on tuesday it's still humid during the evening hours with a temperature around 79. most of us are completely dry

unless you're in southern maryland. small chance for an isolated shower mainly during the afternoon hours. as we look to maria, the graphic is having a little bit of difficulty loading. i was checking that out before i went on. we might have to skip through that. it's still a category 1 hurricane moving toward the north. here you see this is the tropical storm warnings in effect. for the outer banks starting right along the virginia-north carolina border. and then basically heading just to the north of the wilmington area. conditions will be bad in the outer banks from maria tomorrow through thursday. big concerns will be the potential for some storm surge flooding. we're going to see -- continue to see high swells out there. leading to some beach erosion and some winds as well. gusts potentially around and above 50 miles an hour in the outer banks. mainly tomorrow afternoon through wednesday afternoon. what we're going to be talking about tomorrow afternoon through wednesday afternoon will be the humidity. take a look. we're between that muggy and oppressive level. but as we look to thu

more comfortable around here. by friday it's really nice out there. it's going to be refreshing by the weekend. here's your ten-day forecast. maybe that isolated shower. not just tomorrow but wednesday as well east of 95 due to maria. otherwise it's just the cloudiness we're noticing the next couple of days. pretty much our only impacts for maria. near 90 on wednesday. low 90s on a breezy thursday, low to mid 70s on friday and then low 70s both saturday and sunday with october beginning on sunday. >> that's fall. >> we waited a long time. great. >> coming up, a n

>> announcer: this is the x fipt sports desk. we were all waiting and hoping he'd be back -- >> i wanted to go to philly today to see if i could see his return. since august 12th bryce harper is back. but he showed up today to the park and he had flu-like symptoms. so they're going to wait and see if he can recover, be full strength before harper -- >> they need to burn sage around him or something. >> purell. >> the producer, he's also been sniffling today. here we go, fall. should nationals fans worry that bryce harper has yet to return? the only answer is of course. for any d.c. sports fan worry is what we do. but there is to distract us a regular season. tonight nats picking up regular win number 96. that matches last season's total. the philly phanatic, he knows better than to mess with jayson werth. a former philly. top two werth on first. michael talar at the plate. and have we

stands for awesome? crushes this ball to left center. can wave that good-bye. two-run shot. 17th of the season for taylor. nats a 2-0 lead. a.j. cole on the mound for the nats. getting some help from his defense in the fourth. hoskins with a full swing gets dribbler and ryan zimmerman. glovely. does the trick. see it again. even zim just puts the backhand on it. he's like i don't know, this just works. a.j. cole, his 5 2/3 innings. and then shawn doolittle closes the door. 21st save. boom. curly w. 96th w of the season and with six games to play they match last year's total. victory monday has almost come to an end but the buzz about the redskins isn't going away anytime soon. are they for real? a 2-1 record with one dominant win, too small a sam million size to know for sure of course. one of the sidebar storylines

last night's first round -- last year's, rather, first-round draft pick. he does actually have a couple of receptions on his nfl resume. but this one grab the third of his career, a game changer. we've heard a lot from coaches and teammates about docketon's deep threat talent and ability to go up and get the ball. redskins fans finally see if for themselves. just the beginning says coach jay gruden during today's conference call. >> continue to develop. josh can do things not many people can do when the ball's in the air. he can track it, go get it and leap and high point it like he proved last night. with that will hopefully come more opportunities for him to make plays down the field. he looks like he might be covered but kirk might give him a chance. >> redskins back to work on wednesday. all eyes on the wizards today. media day. john wall and bradley beal, otto porter take center stage. wizards agree to extension to wall and porter over the summer. these three legally here for a while. good thing too, the wizards coming off their bes

decades. 49 ws. most for the franchise since 1978. 1979 season. a lot of movement and changes in the eastern conference but not for wall and company. just how they like it. >> i don't care what any other team does. they make changes. they make stuff that makes their team better. we do what we've got to do to make our team better. all i'm going to do is go out there and compete when i get between the lines. >> there's 28 other teams that want to win a championship. and we're no different. we'd love to win a championship here. we have guys that are

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