the redskins promoted redskins legend doug williams to senior president of player personnel.d out some of the players today during minicamp. after a few stayed away from volunteer practices, others join their teammates today. seeing the full team back together again, making players stilleangelo hall rehabbing, a little envious he cannot join in. >> i'm jumping around watching them compete. i get more hyped than when i'm out there playing. are all learning. erin: he is ready to be a coach. d.c. united alison: just to recap, a very close race in the gop gubernatorial primary and virginia. the associated press is calling it for ed gillespie. nancy: stewart not conceding, saying it is too close to call. we will keep you posted on wjla.com and "good morning washington." alison: one last look at the weather? wave, a break in the heat a cold front and thunderstorm and a few showers tomorrow. alison: jimmy kimmel's next. nancy: have a good night. z2e2gz z1a2z y2e2gy y1a2y giant has unbelievable pro tip produce prices. : so you'll never have to choose between your favorites. i thought

instead the team promoted doug williams to senior vice-president of player personnel. ill essentially be the front office. team president bruce alan says williams beat out a dozen candidates both inside and outside the organization for the senior front office job. i know a lot of time when guys giving t they say we're going to win the super bowl to win the fans over we got great fans already. we need to give them a winning season. williams has worked for the red kins for the past four years. williams lead td redskins to victory in super bowl t two earning mvp honors. >> congratulations to him. the amateur soccer club that's headquartered at a maryland liquor store, they don't practice, they don't train but, they rarely lose. chriss to fc were the the cinderella story. the tournament is opened by amateurs. chris toes had to play d.c. united. they came out strong. they scored the first goal to take a one-zero lead. united tied it up a few minutes later. chriss to hung in for most of the game but they eventually ran out of gas. united scored several times in the final minu

yeah we're expecting to see doug williams a little bit later today.learly built for rather large players. can you still see me? yeah, exactly. beautiful chair and actually a beautiful restaurant here. we're in one loudoun. let's do weather. i'm going to be playing golf in a couple minutes. we're looking at temperatures overnight which have fallen back into the 60's and low 70's. currently 71 here in washington. doing 60's this morning up in new york and boston. and we're waking up with plenty of cloud cover at mostly cloudy start to the day t even a shower has popped up just south and west of the city there along 66. and what we're looking at later got south and west of us yesterday. we'll kind of roll back up on us a little later today. there might be a few showers this morning. anything we get this morning should be very light and then as we get into the afternoon hours look for some thunderstorms to develop and they'll be widely scattered but i want to throw out there that one or two of them if we get some sunshine today could be on the strong side

skins legend doug williams has been promoted to senior vice president of player personnel.his comes three months after they fired former general manager scot mccloughan. bruce allen will remain prominent in the organization with williams and coach jay gruden reporting to him. williams has been a personnel executive with the skins since 2013. >> i am excited that they gave me the opportunity to do this and i'll embrace it. yes, i as a senior vice president of the personnel to the washington redskins. robert: how far do you see the redskins going this upcoming season? doug: i think we have an opportunity to compete with everybody else in our conference. erin: after skipping voluntary o.t.a.'s, redskins running back matt jones took the field for mandatory mini camp. he lost the starting running back job last season mostly due to fumbles. he knows he has to fix the ball security issues. he credited williams for his attendance today. >> i am happy for him. he taught me to enemy combatant pete and get your job back. i respect him. erin: i love that. good stuff. nancy: a great att

doug williams introduced as the team's senior vice president of player personnel.s been in the redskins front office since 2014. of course most of us remember his time as a super bowl winning quarterback with the burgundy and gold. and he's ready to help bring them back to the biggest stage. >> our job is not to coach them. our job is to pick them. and we gonna be trying to do the best job -- we will do the best job, give jay and his coaching staff the players that he needs to take all of us back to the super bowl. >> today's announcement comes as redskins mandatory mini camp is going on. sherree burruss next hour will have emotional reaction from the players on williams' the redskins back. not feeling like football season out there now. we're in the dead of summer. we have a few thunderstorms popping up. spotsylvania county, you're seeing a nice downpour there. not moving too quickly. it's warm and humid out there. temperatures in the low to mid 90s, but check out the heat index, the air temperature and the humidity combined, triple-digits in leesburg. feels like

super bowl winning quarterback, doug williams was introduced today as the redskins new senior vice president to personnel. williams has been as an executive since 2014. he'll share the general manager responsibilities with the vice president of football operations, eric schaefer. >> reporter: doug, we've seen you for so many years. you were a player, super bowl champ, super bowl mvp. you've been a coach. we know gm is something that you've wanted on your resume. this title isn't exactly gm, but we're doing some of the responsibilities of a gm. is that okay with you, or do you hope some day to get the title? >> i think at the end of the day, when the dust clears, it still sits in the same ream of gm. if everybody does a good job, who cares whether or not it was gm or not. >> williams and bruce allen go which back to their days with the tampa bay bucs and the jacksonville jaguars. williams was at his alma mater grambling state. he led the team to a super bowl in 1987. williams was the first african american quarterback to play in a super bowl, and was named most valuable player in that 42- 10

and these guys are selected number one, that's not an easy thing to achieve right >>> doug williams isery optimistic about the redskins' evaluation of talent these days. the burgundy and the gold wouldn't through the draft without a general manager. williams was niamed the vice president of player personnel believes the experience of trying to handle decisions as a group could be beneficial down the line. >> all of us don't have the same opinion. it's going to be up to me, it's going to be up to kyle and the guy that's covering that area, talking about the player, and i doubt if all three of us see one player the same way. and the key here, and we discussed this early this year, if there's a player that we are this far apart on, then our team need to leave that player alone. but if we're right here, we need to find a way to get closer. we can talk about , it watch th tape, try to get to some kind of answer. >>> the nats are in new york. mad max is back on the bump. he has 24 strikeouts in june. mets are in second place in the nl east, trail the nats by 9 1/2 games. first pitch is at 7:

. >> different role for doug williams. he created history in d.c.legends and became a legend. his journey through football in life was influenced by many coaches, and here in washington, he made history as the first african american quarterback to one a super bowl. now he's hoping to craft the redskins' future. he's the new senior vice president of player personnel. it's a promotion for him. it comes three months after the gera challenge, and as he told sherree burruss, carries with him wisdom from another trail blazer. >> when i think about last night, you know, when i went to bed and when i woke up this morning, the guy i thought about most was bobby mitchell. he was the assistant general manager when i got here. i had an opportunity to sit down with bobby. i know bobby is listening today, he's really happy that i'm in this position. and i'm going to embrace it and like bruce and i talked, it's my job to run that department and run it the way that he think i can run it and the way i feel like i can. >> williams' promotion coming as the start of mi

not quite doug williams and gary clark, but they're working on it. >>> the cleveland cavaliers are gettingne. golden state is shutting down the cavs. but in the previous two match-ups, they didn't. last year, that shifted the series and both teams are keeping in in mind ahead of tomorrow. >> you never want to be down 2-0 in a series against anybody. so we have some things that we need to do better, obviously from game one and game two to get to game three tomorrow. look forward to the challenge, once again. >> the change of venue will probably spark energy from them, and we have to play even better to try to get a win in game three than we have in the first two games, knowing how much they can feed off the home crowd, how inspired lebron and kyrie are probably going to be, especially out the gate, try to set the tone. it will be fun. >> meanwhile the wizards working out a jenkins among those players showing off their talents. he's best known as the guy who hit the incredible game-winning shot for villanova against north carolina in the 2016 title game. today's work-out, the first for jenki

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>> sounds good, see you in a bit, doug, thank you. >>> prince william county beeves up nondiscrimination protections for lgbt students and staff. in a board members officially banned discrimination in county schools on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. critics say the move threatens the privacy rights and security of children. but supporters argue fairfax county and other virginia districts have passed similar protections. the virginia attorney general says school boards can set their own policy. >>> prince georges county executive rushern baker has his eyes on a new job. he announced in baltimore today he's running for governor. baker says it's a good time to look at what he's done in prince georges county and issues he cares about statewide, like education, jobs, transportation, public health. health care is an issue that touches him personally. his wife has been diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's disease. >> i'm in tune with what we need across the state to help people, the same way i get helped every day. >> baker joins democratic candidates. ben jealous, richar

williams. >> maybe doug has some info there capitol grounds, doug? >> good morning, yes, no information, on other victims, at this point. steve scalise is said to be in surgery now. here on the capitol grounds, we talked about this, i think, last hour, the fact this they've not lock this area down, which is a little surprising. >> they think the threat, to that practice, and no threat involving the other buildings, the capitol complex including capitol building it self. now they also say there is a more -- >> as you can tell, that was footage, we lost you, doug, are you back? >> yes, you got me? >> got you. >> okay. if you look off to your right here, see police are stationed, generally outside, if we look off to the right here, you can see, where police are generally stationed here, outside the capitol. we did see some more heavily armed officers, for awhile, but see up on the steps there, as well. so, again, police are saying that there is a more robust presence right now, in the capitol complex. which includes a number of buildings beyond just the

. >>> tennis star serena williams taking a page from demi moore, the mag >>> doug cameron joins us, what gorgeous team you've got in store. >> we'll have one more. and i'll take it. comes back and i'll tell you, a lot of people are excited about the heat. i'm not one of them. >> no. here. not heat lover, but for you folks that do love the heat. it's coming back pretty quick. thursday the first day above 90 degrees. the cloud cover across the areas. temperatures at 78 degrees. winds out of the east at 6 miles per hour. take a look at what we've got here. temperature wise around the region. mostly 70. 80 right now down towards. look at annapolis. we're seeing some rain come through parts of the area. those parts have cooled. all pretty good shower and that's what's going on there. another shower through prince frederick. look at this shower right here about to come right across the area, very close seeing shower activity and going to come right across 301. you might see a rumble or two. . you can see that, not much in our area. all from an upper level low that's parts of the dc all the way

williams has denied any wrongdoing. >>> great deal of anticipation outside u.s. supreme court this morning. >> justices could announce their decision on the president's travel ban. >> doug luzader joining us from washington, and doug, also another question is looming, could one of the justices be announcing their retirement soon. >> reporter: good morning. well, if that is the case it will over shadow all of these other issues, that may come up , with these court decision that is we're expecting relatively soon. there is speculation and only that but there is speculation that anthony kennedy may be considering a throwing in the towel. as cameras click away for their class photo earlier this month there was justice anthony kennedy looking relax, chatting with his fellow justices but does he know something here we don't. is he stepping down? speculation swirling now after his clerks suddenly push up a reunion party over the weekend administration facing questions about the possibility of another court vacancy. counselor to the president kelly ann conway wouldn't say much. >> has he said anything to the white house about his retirement plans. >> i will never reveal a conve