the foo fighters are now on world tour in support of their latest album "concrete and gold." calls the shots. >> nobody told me what to do back then because ibody cared whas doing and now it's still nobody tells us what to do because we've just built this sort of foress around our band so that it's protected by us. ♪ >> reporter: grohl is now equal parts ambassador and evangelist of rock and roll. the band's "sonic highways" project-- both an album and hbo documentary series-- took them to iconic musicians and locales around the nation. making the point that local still matters when it comes to music. is that still true? i mean do we hear so much about the flattening of thearth, right? everybody has the same technology? in now it's just the touch of a button and some kiis basement can let the world hear his latest masterpiece that heco ed in his bathroom. you know, i think that's amazing. that's the kind of independence and distribution that e dreamed of when we were kids. as far as it sort of changing se regional aspect-- ther still different flavors and there's still differ

and none of those groups is bigger-- or louder-- than the foo fighters.ir leader, dave grohl, hasre now stin two of the most popular bands in rock history. but as jeffrey brown tells us, grohl has also successfully built a life balanced between music and family. >> reporter: he may be on the cusp of 50, but dave grohl is still a ur of rock and roll energy. >> it is honestly the best feeling in the world. when we walk outn stage and i bust into that first song it's like the theme from "jaws." you just know "awww, someone's gonna get torn up."l alght! it's like being shot out of a cannon every single night. r >>eporter: as frontman, guitarist and leader of the foo fighters, grohl spent the nextwh few houripping up a sold-outyl house at marand's merriweather post pavilion. but he well remembers how it began, as a teenager growing upm not far ere in the northern virginia suburbs. >> i'm like, "i'm going too it now. i'm going to put on a show at 1 years old in ske v.f.w. hall and put up flyers and hire the p.a. and i'm going start my own band, i'm going to rec

he went to the foo fighters concert in san jose last night.r my millennial friends, i )e posted all the pix, vids, selfies i shot at the show right her >>> good morning. bob went to foo fighters concert. rocked tonight in san jose. for my millennial friends, i've posted all the pics, videos. >>> a follow-up. mayor of a new orleans suburb is changes his mind. he says he won't -- last week in a memo he issued a ban after nike released its ad campaign starring colin kaepernick. >>> 5:57. new this morning, a pay gap in contra costa county. public defenders there are calling for equal pay compared to prosecutors. east bay times is reporting the paid disparity. the paper says the average entry-level public defender who handles misdemeanor cases makes about 71 grand a year. entry-level prosecutors make between $89,000 to $90,000 a year. the paper says there's twice as many prosecutors as public defenders. at a meeting this week, dozens of public defenders told supervisors they work 70 hours and represent more than two dozen clients a week. >>> new de

. >>> meantime, that same night in seattle foo fighters' dave grohl was having a similar issue. dave, who once continued a concert from a chair after breaking his leg, wasn't about to stop the show. >> when it comes to getting a cold and losing your show, it's nothing compared to breaking your leg and finishing the show. >> dave later joked, that's the last time i ever make out with bono. he's a warrior. >> pretty impressive. >>> coming up -- ben affleck's playboy playmate fights back. is she to blame for ben falling off the wagon. >> and i'm talking with ben ex jennifer garner. >>> plus, whitney houston's wedding day relived on screen and how lindsay lohan just set >>> "e.t." isn't just on the air. we're everywhere, every platform, ♪ >>> "playboy" model shauna sexton is fighting back after a fan claimed she got ben affleck, quote, thrown into rehab. but sexton responded in part, "blaming a 22-year-old for someone's third time in rehab is just ridiculous. never drank around or with him for the record. ben has been in rehab now for nearly 2 weeks. >> strong clapback game by shaun

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. >>> many of you enjoy the return of sundaal foo but president trump is bashing the nfl because of players protesting duringalhe nati anthem. yesterday the president tweeted, quote, first nfl game ratings are way down over an already really bad last year comparison. viewershipd decli13%. the lowest in over a decade. he goes on to say,e, qu if the players stood proudly for our flag and a ihem and is all shown on broadcast, maybe tings could come back. otherwise, worse. >>> talking about football,o controversy for redskins fans this morning because the team pulled off is epic victory to start the new season. >> the skins conquer the cardinals 24-6. i can't remember the lastime ad a first game looking this good. ow that big. >> some new players helped >> share the win in the season opener. > for the first time in five years the redskins starting the season offith a win. playing his first game since november and comg off an injury, chris thompson started the scoring early forgt waon. eterson joined him in the end zone. the burgundy and gold scored three touchdowns in the first half. defenseeld

. >>> foo w locker upgraded from outperform to market perform. there are fewer headwinds in europe. the price target is $58. the stock rose to $49.09. >>> still ahead, looking forb t a startup? there are a few things that you need to know. >>>ouse republica released their plans for a second round of tax cuts. the legislation propose by the house ways and means committee would make the lower individl rates permanent, eliminate the maximum age forome contributions to retirement accounts and allow for new business writeoff. >>> airlines are waiving change fees as hurricanes florence threatens to hit. it is strengthening. it looks increasingly likely it should make landfall along the mid-atentic coast. governor of south carolina has ordered more than 1 million residents to evacuate. the governor of maryland hascl ed a state of emergency. southwest has waived fees and other carriers are expected to follow. >>> insurance stocks were lower, especially those with exposure to north and south carolina. >>> volvo is dropping its ipo plans at least for now. th automaker's parent company, guile,

they wanted them puree, to make the bean foos sauce, you know what we did, we followed their guidanceo sauce, all of a suld they were happy. they were being fed in the way they liked to eat, food in essence gives you hope that tomorrow maybe things will be better. that is why a plate of food is so important in those moments. >> it is so fases naturing. because if you have been out there on the ground, i mean really in-- incredible timing that you are here now today speak being this when the president of the united states is tweeting out saying that, you know, the disaster wasn't as much of a disaster as people claim it to be. were you actually on the ground. you saw what happened. how does it make you feel and how do you respond to what people are seeing the presidencying today. >> i mean we need to help our president. we really do. because we should be showing the empathy he doesn't have. i think he tries but i think it's lost somewhere between his hair and somewhere else. and only to see him used to say, it it was very obvious fo many people on the island that the death toll was muc

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we'll eventuallump up to 80 degrees for highs today.al college foo forecast, the terrapins hosting theden gofers of minnesota tomorrow at noon. at college park. was that too irish? too irish apparently. >> my activitiecents are horrib. they all sound the same. inbound 66. right lane is blocked. that's the only thing still hangin. the beltway looking good and loop and outerloop no problem. this is justwe cleared b nasa and 197. had the one right lane gting around the workzone and the yellow there. that's clear now. southbound here, 95. 32. down to the beltway. 74 miles per hour. hank l right, melissa, you. it is 5:31 right now. mo than 200 people gathered last night to remember wendy martinez. the vigil was heldot far from where she died in d.c.'s logan circle neighborhood. >> her heart broken fiancee was among those that spoke to a crowd of supporters. the two were engaged just one week ago when they were plaeming a dr wedding here in d.c. and then another celebration for family in columbia. wendy loved running so much and was helping h train. >> wendy, i love you and i kno th're in a

he was a little foo cool for me.emember when an american was beheaded overseas and he went out and played golf. i like the president a little feisty. when you go into the swearch have to flip the table over, he's going to meet a little resistance. >> paper towels ? listen here, you mights not like his tweets but we can agree when it comes to meeting world leaders, this president has gone above and beyond what your president did in eight years. let's take a look at that. maybe his tweets work. maybe his name calling works. maybe we elected him to get thing down and guess what, he's doing it which is why the mainstream media is outraged, venting and fuming. >> i would ask you to ask the people of puerto rico, our fellow citizens about the 5,000-plus deaths that he completely ignored and the paper towels that he threw at them and the fact that his cronies are going in there making money off of disaster capitalism. if that's what you mean by exploiting people, treating them like a colony, that's a perfect example of how

i got ten dollars, and i put in six of it for the gas and gave the rest to my momn for some foo.. do with my money. i don't think i'm going to do mowing for a living. (barking) >> the bills here at the house is just too much for me to handle. and i seen a doctor last week for depression, and she put me on some antidepressants and xanax for my panic attacks. right now there doesn't seem to be a way out. ve my only options are to give up my house and y stuff into storage and move into the motel room. >> whoo! >> i mean, i don't even know if i can find a job when i get out of school. or if it'll ever get any bter. >> grace, come here! >> (sniffling) (dog barking) i'll have to find day care for kaylie. i mean, she's ten, but still... her and tyler, they're brother and sister. they fight. i'll come home and one will be hanging from the ceiling fan and the other one will be god knows where. i'm scared. >> i don't want to move.in i like lhere, because my friends are nice to me. like, i just want to stay put here. we won't get to ep our dog, nala. it's extra money, and we're going to get

its executive director said there's nothing crazy about opposing foos sill fuels. bloomberg and governor brown are seen as leaders in reversing the effect of climate change. >> climate change is still not at the top of the political issue i don't think in any country. but we're putting it there. >> reporter: thousands of people with an interest in the summit came to pledge support for the 2015 paris agreement. by then the u.s. vowed to reduce carbon emissions by 26% by 2025. bloomberg said we or already halfway there. hollywood also weighed in on the issue. actor harrison ford spoke about a new hope pour the next generation. >> we've accomplished a lot, but all of that is at risk if we don't change the path that we're on today. the future of humanity is at stake. >> reporter: harrison ford with a beard. the two people arrested were cited and quickly released. live in san francisco, lee ann melendez, abc 7 news. >> lee ann, thank you so much. that climate summit is the main cause for gridlock in downtown san francisco. >> unfortunately for commuters, the traffic pai

. >> did evacuate the buildings and had to go to security foo to see who pulled the alarm. somebody pulled it. there you go. >> florence is going to be an stlinefor the carolina c starting later on in the day wednesday into thursday. most likely land fafall is proby coming up thursday into friday.w that's what know. virginia, north carolina, and south carolina are going to be the three states hardest hit .right aw the impacts locally for us, northern virginia, maryland, and the district, our localized impacts may not start to be felt until saturday but could linger as late as tuesday of next week. so it won't be racing up the coastline. that is good news for us in the short-term but potentially bad news for us long-term as the storrs lin on land for several days. flooding, inland flooding of historic proportions will be a real problem. the latest forecast track as of the 5:00 a.m. advisory brings the sto as category 4. the farthest north land falling on record. records go back to 1851. this will break the record currently hel by hurricane hazel in 1954. it's wlat happens af

we've been recognized as a foo city. just in the year 2016, the bon appetitni recd d.c.s a restaurant city. we've been validated on that front. a lot of people here are experienced in going out to eat. they don't cook as much. >> we're busy. >> we work long hours and like to eat really good food. >> can you tell us about the companies and the goodies yout brouere that will be represented. >> this is my favorite part of the day. this is where you get an opportunity to taste all of the inlocal bses and you have cookies, doughnuts, we have pretzels. everything that you can get in d.c. will be at the convention center. it is an opportunity tod taste just have a great time. >> is there something in particular you're looking forward to, keith? the tasting lounge, as lori shared for folks being able to taste district doughnuts. withs. cook to actually learn from other people how they were able to get their fo in the door as far as the food industry and to expand. >> sounds like an event right up my alley. keith sellers and lori paris,ni thanks for j us today. again, the event i

foo he admits he was playing games during the flight and off-line games that do not use internet. >> it's an off-line game. as you can see, it still works. >> so why these big charges? >> that's why we called t-mobile right away. >> t-mobile reduced the bill to $3800 and the family thought it was wrong. >> we don't know where to go, but i watch channel 7 news every day, and i know about michael. >> vivian contacted 7 on your side. we found out that some mobile gaming apps are using internet even when you don't need a connection to play it. the app runs in the background using data for refreshing data or sending you ads. we also contacted t-mobile and the company agreed to cancel all remaining internet charges. >> we were just, like, what? wow! >> to make sure your app is not running on data go to settings on your phone, find the app under cellular data and flip it to the off position. i posted a link that shows you exactly how to do that. you can find it at abc 7 news.com. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >>> just ahead, a new movie getting a lot of buz the director's bay area roo

attempted to talk t hi at that point, the individual fled from the officer, and the fficer engaged in a fooursuit. during this foot pursuit, the individual is grasping at his waistband. toore crossing brinkley road this side of the street, that individual discards s described as two license plate tags from two different vehicles and this is substantively what the citizen called about. the individual proceeds to cross brinkley road to the 3400 block at the top of this hill. at that point, he enters the ground floor of the apartment building through what's glass ed as a sliding door. at that point, the officer does not pursue him into thattm apt, not certain what he may be confronted, and calls for additional assistan t. a shorte afterwards, three officers enter the front of that building and proce down to the w apartmench matches with where the suspect entered from the rear. during a subsequent search fth subject -- and i want to be clear, the involved officer who ched that individual wart of that officer's group of th we officers wt in looking for him again, found that individual in the lau

. >>> new for you, united airlines has a new boarding process that cuts lines from foo i have to twoercrowding at gates and you have seen it right here, crowds swarming that entrance to get to their fight. united says that it will start sending notifications to your smartphone to let you know the boarding has started. united says it tested different boarding strategies over 12,000 flights and then reviewed customer feedback. >>> if you drive a honda civic, you need to be careful. >> better make sure that it's locked up, because apparently it is the number one stolen car in the country. thieves love 'em. the national insurance crime bureau released its annual list of most stolen vehicles. more than 45,000 honda civics were stolen last year. the accord second most stolen chevy pickup e ford pickup and the toyota camry. >>> well, here we are on a wednesday, and things are starting to heat up. >> going to heat up today, feeling like summer for the inland valleys. really not much of a change for the coast, and some parts of the inner bay but we're up to 86 degrees today and then 90s in th

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stop fearing retaliation and think our governments will just make a deal so these tariffs never go fooffect what's the logic i pose the question because aside from caterpillar pretty much every industrial with a lot to lose from a trade warsaw its stock roar higher. that includes boeing, china buys roughly a quarter of their planes yet it gained more than 3 bucks. the only stocks hurt are the semiconductor names and most recently apple even that many the semis are a good run apple's stock has fallen atoday. a and, look, the weakness in the semis has nothing to do with tariffs hurting business they're not selling fewer chips. no, china blocked qualcomm from acquiring nxp semi and made everyone want to pay less however we'll soon find out if the chinese want to quash all the deals and not just the american ones as just today a japanese firm offered to buy integrated technologies for 6 billion and thought that was a rumor takeover target. how can the markets be so complacent about china first many american company that is do their manufacturing in china have a lot more flexibility than mo

foo that we need turn to al roker with the track. go. >> good morning. we're watching this system now that it's come onshore. it is still a tropical storm. g probab downgraded in the next few hours. twenty miles northwest of hattiesburg, 40-mile-an-hour winds, moving northwest at 14 miles per hour k stillping a pretty good clip. we watch it continually make its way inland by thursday -- i should say saturday afternoon. it's goingig to be along arkansas, mississippi border. we watch this orthing,n with 4 million people under flash flood watching. some of these feeder bands could er dropping up to 2" of rain hour. locally 5 to 8 inch stretching from pensacola all the way into arkansas aso we get on ie middle of the week. this system is going to eventually interact with anothed system bring it further inland. meantime winds are dying down but rain is a big problem, t gu .s now agh ri to washington the ne tell-all book sending shock waves through the capital and yond, legendary bob woodward, paints atr pt of the white house. this morning the president is pus

. >> to reiterate something creates foo creates. >> ford has been asked to testify we don't know whenternoon, chuck grassley went ahead of the senate judiciary committee said there is a hearing on monday fox is told that ford has been contacted or at least her torn so far has not yet accepted the invitation, not to say she won't, but just that so far it has not been accepted. >> blake burman thank you so much for that reporting joining me now white house senior advisory for strategic communications mercedes schlapp, mercedes we are waiting for confirmation that brett kavanaugh accuser will appear and when, in front of the senate judiciary committee. but could this be another day tactic by democrats when clearly politicized to the extreme this woman's accusations? >> it has been incredibly unfortunately that we've seen at a democrats in particular senator feinstein play these delay tactics during this time let's think this through in terms of a process, senator feinstein knew about this letter back in july. she met with brett kavanaugh never even brought up a question on this on this a