students here at howard university picking up their cell phones and tweeting out their frustrations about poor conditions, they say, and lackluster administration here at the historically black university. students are complaining about broken air conditioning, mold in dorms, bureaucratic run around, high tuition, rats and hassles with financial aid. here's a sample of some of the top tweets we put together for you. a student tweets, housing, wi- fi, administration, financial aid, it's time for change. and james ferguson tweets out 10,000 students and only two booths open at financial aid? one-hour phone wait? where are the staff. where does my tuition go? finally an alum chimes in and says i graduated hu11 years ago. current students shouldn't have the same complaint i had when i was there. so what are the problems and what's behind all these complaints that the students have? i'm let you know coming up in the next half-hour. we're live outside hu, delia goncalves, wusa9. >>> quarterback controversies, concussions. now it's a twitter scandal at redskins park. good morning. i'm mike hydec

we just want howard to be, you know, howard. >> reporter: at howard university, delia goncalves, wusa9. >> howard's president wayne frederick says the administration is working on a plan to resolve those student concerns as well as communicate better. >>> arlington police have a warrant now to search bonnie black's husband's home. she's the mother found dead inside of her home back in april. investigators suspect there could be forensic evidence at david black's home that could help solve the case. >>> right now family, friends and dignitaries are paying their last respects to former maryland governor marvin mandel. the public funeral is in pikesville. mandel was 9 95. anne arundel police warned drivers that the funeral procession will slow traffic in that area early this afternoon as it heads toward davidsonville for the burial. >>> we now know the identity of a woman accused of trying to run off with a toddler on an orange line metro train yesterday. investigators say 48-year-old monique mcknight tried to snatch a 2-year-old girl out of a stroller with the child's mother standing rig

the administration's attention are being addressed. >> reporter: while both sides are talk, howard university is experiencing severe financial loss. its credit rating has been downgraded, staff positions cut, enrollment is down, all of these things impacting the university's ability to fix some of what's wrong, but spokesmen say the university is committed. >> it's a priority of and while the university is in a financial climate that doesn't allow us to do everything that we need do or that we would want to do, there is a converted effort to ensure that first and foremost, student reeds in met. >> reporter: the president has directed his staff to meet the needs of students and to listen to their concerns, but again, some of these issues are financial and just cannot be taken care of immediately. reporting live outside howard university i'm tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. thank you. >>> the long labor day weekend is here and many are you heading of you the of town for one last summer get away. more than 850,000 people in the washington area are expected to travel more than 50 miles

william, professor of economics at howard university. great to have you both.'ll be back with a final >>> in business it's common to see practices that dance up to the edge of existing law, but don't break it. certainly as contingent labour is common, as bosses got nearly unlimited power to higher and fire at will, in a nonunionized labour force, subcontracting workers basically saying "they don't work for us", was the law. it may not have been nice. it may not have been fair. it was legal. it was entirely consistent with the trends in the marketplace that saw employees gathering strength and power, and workers singly or in groups losing it. individual bargaining power is deluded by a period of high unemployment and underemployment, like the one the country lived through. it may be that the pendulum is swinging in the other direction. the ruling one of many sites growing sympathy for workers at the bottom of the labour force. will you pay a nichol or a time for a hamburger, $0.20 more for a pizza. if you know workers on the top floor have a little more power to

including herbert jackson, iii, at the howard university did i vin -- divinity school. >> it's the experience asia graduate over and over and over. >> reporter: asia cotham would be 25 years old this year. so on september 11th her family will bring 25 pink balloons to a fundraiser here next-door to ben 's chili bowl and at 9:37, the moment the plane crashed into the pentagon, they'll release those balloons in her memory. in d.c. bruce leshan, wusa9. >> wow. instead of just a pediatrician asia's parents now say they have doctors, lawyers, nurses, ministers and i.t. experted all studying or graduating with money raised in her memory. our new show will be live at the fundraiser friday between 9:00 and 10:00 in the morning. they're going to have a big surprise for that foundation. >>> former tennis pro james blake said he was thrown to the ground by police officers while being mistakenly arrested in new york city. tonight the nypd is investigating this incident. blake said he was tackled and put in handcuffs at a manhattan hotel earlier today while police were investigating stolen cell phones. th

some students say they are now fed up with howard university and they are planning sit-ins and have created the hashtag, take back hu. >> take back hu, the entire movesome about bettering our university. >> reporter: posted on twitter today from students claiming a history professor quit, saying he would not teach until the university paid him. >> we are trying to take advantage of the momentum that the twitter campaign has gained. >> reporter: inside financial aid building there are post-its from students writing grievances with the university. last night, some students met with the administration. >> we were able to air our list of grief grievances and proposed solutions and the administration communicated with us in terms of a lot of their financial constraints. >> reporter: after our own unreturned calls and e-mails from the university's communications staff requesting an interview, we tried interview this student and his mother on campus. >> we want people to be in place to assist him and help hem hymn when we get there. priva p >> private property. >> okay. >> reporter: after the disc

and to just add to his coming to students at howard university, i want you to know that at the university of virginia, where he was, he was the most popular professor with people standing in line because the students sensed his passion and commitment but they sensed his realness. as i introduce and thank you so very much for that very vibrant and informative presentation, as i introduce this next gentleman who has his own history, let m

. >>> dc mayor muriel bowser is teaming up with howard university to recruit mentors for the empowering males of color initiative, a literacy program where mentors aim to help male students gain confidence and discover a passion for reading, tonight from 6 to 8:00 at howard university any school of social work in the auditorium. mayor bowser is expected to be there. >>> a handful of sports are now on the cusp of inclusion in the 2020 olympic games. car atty, surfboarding are among those recommended. we'll learn the final decision from the international olympics committee sometime next year. >>> right now on "news 4 midday," pope francis is back at the vatican. >>> plus one of or region's most popular grocery chains has let some of its employees go. >>> new today, pope francis back home at the vatican this morning after a whirlwind trip to the u.s. and cuba. immediately after his return the pope visited the papal basilica of st. mary major in rome. he laid out a bouquet there of flowers at the altar and spent a few minutes in private prayer. he's accustomed to go there after a trip abroa

college students across the country greatly admired stokely carmichael who was a student at howard universityhat was one of the most important civil rights organizations. after the achievement of the civil rights act leaders set their sights one of the leaders of that shift away from the south to the north to the west and crisscrossed the country. really inspired students to take action. >> what was the importance during this student movement? >> that's a great question and is counterintuitive. counterintu itive. historically black colleges and universities would be sights of struggle. at a time when many were trying to widen opportunity and predominantly white institutions. what students have come to learn by the late 1960s is that integration as it was playing out in american education and american schooling was not a two-waya two-way street. it was really coming at the expense of black institutions. while desegregation, equal rights, full inclusion, certainly remained the main call by leaders, by black civil rights leaders and leaders of the black power movement, there was a concern that t

in connection with the shooting death of matthew shlonsky august 15, right outside the shaw-howard university metro. the 23-year-old american university graduate was walking with friends when he was caught in the cross-fire. police tell us that dudley is also wanted for second degree burglary, a robbery that happened just three days before the shooting. if you have any information in regards to where the suspect could be, you're upped to call police or text -- you're urged to call police or text them anonymously. we'll have much more coming up in the case in the next half- hour. delia goncalves, wusa9. >>> d.c. police are warning people to be alert when exiting metro stations, especially late at night and walking along bike pacts. the warning -- paths. the warning comes after two sex assault cases in northeast which might be linked. one assault took place july 28 on riggs road. a second assault happened on michigan avenue early last friday morning. police say the suspect is in his 20s to 30s and about 6'2" tall with facial hair. the man had a knife. he was last seen riding a dark colored bicy

investigating a stabbing that happened just before 9:00 at gresham place and georgia avenue, near howard university in northwest. no word of the condition of the victim and the police have not made any arrests. a search for a group of robbers that targeted an upscale northwest neighborhood. two robberies happening this morning minutes up. the first happened at a fraternity house. witnesses claim three people on ski masks, threatening people from them.stole and blocks away, and attempted robbery at an apartment complex. the neighborhood is on alert as the police try to track down the men. threenton, parents of killed in a horrible car crash, prompting new warnings about a stretch of kirby road. killed in the afternoon. family members spoke to abc 7 today. a million years what i have thought i would have to bury my only child. if i could deliver a message to you, please slow down. jonathan: the couple was just running out to get last minute items for a barbecue when they were hit. a woman is dead after being struck by a car this morning and gaithersburg near south frederick avenue. the driver stayed

executive director of the progress action fund, associate processor of political science at howard universityd political strategy, founding partner of purple strategy. bruce, right out of the gate, donald trump was making fun of rand paul's appearance. it was not exactly an auspicious first half hour with this new technique of trying to get them to take shots at each other instead of having the moderator exchange. >> yeah, it was almost like a box of cereal that we had to work our way through the cardboard to get to the good stuff inside. we did get there after we waited through some personality issues and a lot of these the opening four questions was about donald trump and some of the things he has about the other candidates. but we did get to some substantive exchange on foreign policy, immigration, on taxes. i think voters earned a lot. and 23 million people watched for a reason and i feel like they learned something. >> angela were there contrasts between these 11 candidates? significant ones? >> no, i think it was a blur of sound bites and not a lot of substance. i disagree, particularly

and michael an associate professor of the political science at howard university.erry, was there a final precipitating moment, do you think, for your friend john boehner, something that said all right, fine, it's time to go now? . >> a high moment, yes, a visit by the pope was a gallanizing moment for the speaker. he has been talking about some day this day will come for a long time. i think the combination of having had a very high day with the pope visit, and a walk as described in his interview last week, the walk to get a coffee. it doesn't get better than that, you know, and it's right back into the meat grinder. i can save my colleagues a lot of pain and agony and do the country a little bit of good, i'll turn it off now, i'll go out on top. i think that's what he did. >> norm, we heard people at the value voters' coalition lustily cheering the announcement that john boehner decided to put down the gavel. probably equal only by the cheers around the country of democrats who saw him as no particular friend. are they both missing something by cheering his depar

patricia o'neil of howard university's center for sickle-cell disease and reverend pamela newton, thankou both so much for being with us and we're so happy about your renewed life. >> yes, yes. >> and we wish you well and good luck. >> thank you. >> finding that man and having that baby! all right. thank you both. >>> and that's "viewpoint." thank you for joining us, i'm pat lawson muse. stay with us. news 4 is next. enjoy your sunday. mmm yoplait! it's snack time! oh, look! yoplait original now has 25% less sugar. time to taste it. how is it? it tastes good! congratulations yoplait! you did it! yoplait! >>> "news4 today" starts now. >> seven hours and counting until the redskins home opener and the beginning of the kirk cousins era. we'll tell you how the new starting quarterback plans to keep cool under pressure. >>> plus a hundred people waking up away from home after a massive apartment fire. how one resident got all the residents out in time. good morning. welcome to "news4 today" on this sunday. i'm adam tuss. >> i'm angie goff. we'll check in on the forecast in one second, but we

we've got more rain around college park, the stadium, howard university has little patches of moderate shower activity on top. everything is moving again off to the north and east. we'll zoom in a little bit toward nats park. still some moderate showers and more showers back to the south. these showers toward reagan national begin to move north eastward in to the nats ballpark. it's going to be a cold wet game. bus stop temperatures 56 to 68. kind of a cool start. primary clouds tomorrow. not so much shower activity. trying to hint at showers lingering tomorrow morning. i'll readdress that tonight at 11:00. mostly cloudy on tuesday. if we're lucky we'll see the sunset. looks pleasant for the pope. temperatures around 80 with sunshine returning. here's the futurecast. still showers across the metro area. upper 50s to low 60s downtown. by morning, by about 6:00, still light showers possibly with temperatures in the 50s. 56 in gaithersburg. 53 in manassas and those showers give way to clouds as we go through the midmorning temperatures in the 60s headed for about 75 on tuesday. solid clou

college students across the country greatly admired stokely carmichael who was a student at howard university that was one of the most important civil rights organizations. after the achievement of the civil rights act leaders set their sights one of the leaders of that shift away from the south to the north to the west and crisscrossed the country. really inspired students to take action. >> what was the importance during this student movement? >> that's a great question and is counterintuitive. counterintu itive. historically black colleges and universities would be sights of struggle. at a time when many were trying to widen opportunity and predominantly white institutions. what students have come to learn by the late 1960s is that integration as it was playing out in american education and american schooling was not a two-waya two-way street. it was really coming at the expense of black institutions. while desegregation, equal rights, full inclusion, certainly remained the main call by leaders, by black civil rights leaders and leaders of the black power movement, there was a concern that

starting at 11:30 right before nfl today. >>> new era beginning on sixth street in northwest, howard university had been operating with an interim athletic director, no more. the school tapping kerry davis as its next a.d. davis visited 9 sports studios today. he's a former executive at hbo sports and while he's never been an a.d. he's got plenty of connections and he's got two ivy league eedegrs. old also has a deep appreciation of hu tradition. >> the people i looked up to, thurgood marshall, vernon jordan, even on the creative side people like billy eckstein, when i started thinking about the tradition of this school, i knew that this might be someplace that i can make an impact and make a difference. >> see the entire interview on the wusa9 app. >>> finally tonight it's the nfl, so why not do a little throwback thursday, bruce johnson and the jerry curl? >> i never ever had a jerry curl. >> let's begin with the fleeting memory of rg3. listen, guys, i was in the building four years ago when griffin electrified the bayou with this new zone. two touchdowns, ran for 42 more. they shocked the wo

this is happening tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 at the howard university social work auditorium. mayor bowser is expected to be there. >> congress has days left to pass a spending bill and avoid a government shutdown. the deadline is wednesday. it appears it's going to pass. john boehner plans to step down later this year. they plan to keep the government up and running until december when someone new is in charge. >>> less than a week since pope francis has anncanonized junipe serra, the statue has been vandalized. only the graves of europeans were vandalized. >>> pope francis back in italy after a visit. he put this tweets out there adding the hash ta tag #godblessamerica. crews are still cleaning up after mass on the benjamin franklin parkway. >>> hundreds of thousands came from across the country for a chance to see him in person. we're going have more on that coming up. >>> jay gray will be live be with report this morning whith what kind of lasting impact the pope is having on people. >> let's check in with jay. i think we have jay. there we go. >> good morning, guys. how a

this is happening from 6:00 to 8:00 in howard university in the school of socialwork in the auditorium mayor bowser is expected to be there. >>> d.c. regulators originally rejected an offer for exelon to buy pepco. they originally offered $7 billion. exelon is going to ask for a new hearing today. it also wants a new vote sometime in the next 30 days. >>> a small earthquake being reported in central virginia. good news. there are no reports of damage. >>> want a new i phone but can't justify that price? would 400 bucks in gift karsd9[ change your mind? >>> a national embarrassment. why two baseball players say they're not mad after this dugout duel. >> chuck >>> i want you to take a look at this. a massive sinkhole swallowed several cars, a trailer, and even some tents and a campsite in australia. about 140 people had to be evacuated from that region. a 492-foot sinkhole almost ten feet deep. >>> at 5:41 we check in with chuck bell. >> "c" for recess. most of these west virginia showers are going northeastbound into southwest parts of pennsylvania. there are a couple of sprinkles towar

robert: we will go one on one with the top terp and to howard university where a fallen family member that and more at 8:00. join us on "countdown to kickoff." it should be fun. revealing interview with rgiii. infamous best quarterback in the league southbound. leon: are you bringing that back up? didn't we bury that? robert: we did but we have to bring it back. kimberly: extra mambo sauce threw heat on it. be right kimberly: "7 on your side" is is -- with this consumer alert. animals -- [loss of audio] kimberly: this is available to members who have kindle fire with the video or the amazon video app for apple and android services. pandora is turning ten. the music streaming service celebrating with an ad-free day september 9. that is a week from tomorrow. listener love day for 24 hours we can all listen to our favorite channels without interruption. sorry. like that. my i.p. box dropping on the ground. the only way to avoid ads on the other day of the year is with a $5 a month prescription. time for me to go. that is it for "abc7 news at 5:00". "abc7 news at"abc7 news at 6:00g up nex

here is the railroad station and howard university. much, but at help least we see the road pattern follows. superimpose the creekte map following the , because that is all we have to go by. here is cincinnati again. there we are. the encampment -- sorry about here we go. here is the society of cincinnati behind us here and here. that is only an approximation. i would not recommend doing any archaeology here. , i think i had better conclude my remarks tonight. rochambeau route from new york to alexandria. you what ise to ask the rochambeau revolutionary route, you would hopefully say it is many different things. it talks about troops but it talks about encounters between americans and french. it talks about encounters between french and german immigrants and black slaves. we talk about the occupational have,ence french officers and the educational experiences americans have. byause we know who we are what we are not. this is the first time americans encounteredbers french men. they know that they are human beings and allies. findinge p

he did go to howard university and spoke about mass incarceration, that's important, but what's moremportant are jobs and education. >> that's right. here's where we are. the median income is down about $5,000 per family since obama's president. the poverty rate, we have millions and millions more americans, millions more on food stamps. lowest labor participation rates since the '70s. these are obama's policy, but when we sper view some people, they say it's working. it's bush's fault. seven years in, they're saying it's bush es's fault. >> many are going support president obama until the end of the road. i did not see that around the hillary clinton candidacy sork to regardless to that -- >> you like trurp trump? >> look at bush. he has an excellent education record to run on. but sometimes, you got to say look at what i've been able to do in florida. i can do it for you, too. >> let's look at the latest gop poll here. pretty similar to what we've been saying. trump at 28%. carson, 17. kasich is up in this poll. this is a new hampshire poll. cruz, fiorina and bush coming in with 7%

he did go to howard university and spoke about mass incarceration, that's important, but what's moretant are jobs and education. >> that's right. here's where we are. the median income is down about $5,000 per family since obama's president. the poverty rate, we have millions and millions more americans, millions more on food stamps. lowest labor participation rates since the '70s. these are obama's policy, but when we sper view some people, they say it's working. it's bush's fault. seven years in, they're saying it's bush es's fault. >> many are going support president obama until the end of the road. i did not see that around the hillary clinton candidacy sork to regardless to that -- >> you like trurp trump? >> look at bush. he has an excellent education record to run on. but sometimes, you got to say look at what i've been able to do in florida. i can do it for you, too. >> let's look at the latest gop poll here. pretty similar to what we've been saying. trump at 28%. carson, 17. kasich is up in this poll. this is a new hampshire poll. cruz, fiorina and bush coming in with 7%. do

police say someone stabbed him right next to howard university.fficers tell news4 they found the man conscious and breathing near gresham place and georgia avenue. this was yesterday. police did not share any information on a possible suspect. >>> you will have a chance today to express your thoughts on the d.c. police force. questions like do you know officers behave in your neighborhood, would you describe the policing as effective? the american civil liberties union will host several town hall forums this month. it begins on alabama avenue in southeast. >>> a former fairfax county police officer charged with possession of child pornography will appear in court for a preliminary hearing. william bud walker is a 15-year veteran who served as a public information officer for the department. he was arrested in april after a tip was received through tumblr. he was fired after the arrest. >>> it's all quiet now, but hundreds of kids will soon be filing in to hayfield secondary school in fairfax county. a number of other schools across northern virgin

and in the fall of 1929, he began classes at the howard university school of law. thurgood marshall :i had to commute between baltimore and washington, which meant i got up about five in the morning and got home around eight. and then worked after i got home. i lost fifty-five pounds in one year. narrator: each day he would walk back and forth from union station to classes as early signs of the coming depression began to appear. howard law school was evolving from a part-time night school to a full time day school, under the guidance of a man who would have a profound influence on marshall's life. thurgood marshal:deann charles h houston, he was a graduate of amherst and harvard. very brilliant. very decent person but a very hard man. he used to tell us in our first year, "look at the man on your right and look at the man on your left and bear in mind that two of you won't be here next year." that sort of kept your feet to the fire. narrat or:in the 1920s there :in the 1920s there african-americans living in the deep south, but only 100 were lawyers. most were poor

lives matter movement and all those problems like that i talked to juwan, who is a senior at howard university. he says it is sad that we are still having conversations about problems that were happening 27 years ago. for my generation, i would say the reason why nwa's music still resonate, we still deal with a lot of the same issues this they speak to self-expression, feeling comfortable expressing yourself and then more specifically, dealing with issues with the police, dealing with issues in the community. when we listen to the music, not necessarily what they are saying, moring why didn't people get what they were saying so we wouldn't be dealing with the same issues they deal w >> you can see this generation is well versed in the music, they understand not only the music of today but the music of their parents. now, very in tune to those kinds of things. >> look, these feelings are not going away any time soon, the freddie gray case stirred up more protest in baltimore today a lot of police officers feel right now, they feel like they are being targeted. >> there is that sense and, you kn

right now showers and rain on saturday for the terps and for howard university homecoming, not good. got some showers in the morning for the burgundy and gold. it could clear out before the game, leftover shower monday, back to 72 with sunshine next tuesday. >>> campaign 2016 now and a shakeup in this week's gop power rankings. every week usa today asks 30 political experts who they think is the strongest candidate in the republican field. carly fiorina retains the top spot after her strong debate performance two weeks ago. marco rubio knocked donald trump from second place. trump falls to three, ben carson four and jeb bushel at no. 5. >>> a funeral today for -- jeb bush at no. 5. >>> a funeral today for beloved yogi berra. friends gathered at a private ceremony in new jersey where the legendary baseball player and coach raised his family. derek jeter, hallsteinbrenner. yogi berra was 90 years old. >>> latino leaders were invited to share their stories in montgomery county. >> when i look out here in this auditorium, what i see are extraordinary leaders, extraordinary faces. each an

and to just add to his coming to students at howard university, i want you to know that at the university of virginia, where he was, he was the most popular professor with people standing in line because the students sensed his passion and commitment but they sensed his realness. as i introduce and thank you so very much for that very vibrant and informative presentation, as i introduce this next gentleman who has his own history, let me quote again as i indicated pope francis from last week which captured all of what we're saying tonight, to respond in a way that's always humane, just, and fraternal. we need to avoid a common temptation nowaddais to discard whatever proves troublesome. let us remember the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. the gentleman i'm going to yield to, mr. bobby scott is a former chairman of the subcommittee on criminal justice, now the ranking member on the education committee and has led his professional, at least his congressional life as i have known it, to be a champion for criminal justice reform but more importantly has been one

police say someone stabbed him right next to howard university.fficers tell news4 they found the man conscious and breathing near gresham place and georgia avenue northwest. police didn't share information on a possible suspect. >>> later today, news4 have a chance to ask d.c. leaders about their efforts to reduce crime in the district. muriel bowser and cathy lanier will host a meeting to highlight their efforts to get illegal guns off the streets. this summer bowser administration increased the amount of reward for tips. >>> you can express your thoughts on the d.c. police force. if you like how officers act in your neighborhood, how would you describe the effective policing, several forums will be held this week. the first is tonight at allen chapel ame church. >>> 5:51, 73 degrees outside the studios. chuck bell is back this morning. we had a really nice weekend, holiday was okay and now we're back to summer. >> very much so. pencils down, quiz time is over. so 1,600 buses, 40 feet to a bus, how many miles is that? the clock is ticking. young

and then you get where the tiber used to be paired then you get to howard university. the road does make this kind of a bend. this does not help a lot. this does not help that much, either, but at the very least we see the 18th-century road pattern follows. and then if we superimpose the campsite map, now following the creek, because that is all we have to go by, then here's the society of the cincinnati again where we are. me i have to go all the way through now? where we are. then the encampment, i'm sorry about this, then the enchantment is, there we go. here's the society of cincinnati. so it's a little behind us here and here. but that is only an approximation. and i would not recommend doing any kind of archaeology here, either. with this, i think i'd better conclude my remarks tonight. we've followed the washington-rochambeau route from newport at least two alexander. to alexander. if i were to ask you what is the route, you would hopefully say it is very many different things. it is the march 2 yorktown. -- to yorktown. ittalks about troops, but also talks abou

howard university had a collection of of brilliant political scientist and historians, alan locked, in the 30s. they were some of the first scholars of the mandate system. it is it is a very interesting batch of people. he was there, it made made sense he would be writing his dissertation as something that was seen as-is this a way to foresee independence. >> what lessons do you think the people who are crafted the united nations took away from the experience? >> guest: for the mandate system or for the relationship between the international organization and empires, there was much more explicit belief in the united nations, at least in a fair number of people involved in the united nations that the imperial order was on its way out. so the trustee council work differently from the mandate system. the main lesson is that it has to be all land. what is interesting about the league is that states kept picking up their blocks and going home. now if you are a state, there is hardly any state that doesn't want to be part of the united nations. in the league, because it began as an alliance,

. >>> howard university is now responding to student concerns about condition it is he school.students are complaining on social media about mold, rats, broken air conditioners, limited staff. university leaders admit money problems are taking a to in a statement, the administration said they met today about student leaders to tell them about the work that's been done and to highlight the challenges ahead. >>> a developing story right now, new actions taken against that clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. >>> in ar ling top, another surprise search in the bonnie black murder case. this is the only murder they have had in arlington this year. it happened four and a half months ago. it's still open. what's going on? i'm >>> which do have a severe thunderstorm warning now for d.c. and prince george's county until 6 p.m. just like yesterday, getting the pulse thunderstorms, go up, down at times, they deliver outflows that could trigger a thunderstorm. this one for d.c. and prince george's county 6:00, the storm with lightning again heading out of alexa

. >>> and howard university students are taking to social media to vent their frustration with schools. just some of the complaints like mold and no hot water. take back hu is designed to address the problems that alumni say have been around for years. >> i want it to be smooth sailing and i feel like we keep hitting bumps. >> i would just like to see that more people take care and the little details of the school to make sure that the little aspects of it about your experience from like how you interact with your teachers is just better. >> and howard's president says that the administration working on the plan to resolve the student's concerns and to communicate with them better. >>> virginiaens are fed up with gun violence to take the stand. local lawmakers would show their support by helping to present nearly 28,000 petitions calling on the old dominion to expand the background checks to cover all gun sales, including those on the web. as they were joined by members of the brady campaign at the arlington courthouse today. approximately 40% of the gun sales would happen without the

so i'm, my name is damon tweedy, and i want to thank howard university for having me here today and thank c-span who's recording this today. hear in the back? okay, great. it's really great to be at howard of all places because my book is called "black man in a white coat," and it's about race and medicine and how it's a really great place to be -- howard is a really great place to be to talk about these issues. if you go back to the late 1960s, depending on the statistics that you see, howard and ma harry trained 75-90% of all american doctors, so this is an appropriate place to have this conversation today. here is the book, "black man in a white coat." so the first question you always want to ask yourself, you know, why should i buy this book, why should i read this book? what is it about? race is a topic that's on everyone's mind these days, right? it's all over the news. you hear about it in terms of criminal justice, law enforcement. that's what we're hearing about it all the time right now. but race is also an important issue in medicine and in health care. it's a really important

. >> eagles getting ready for a brutal jets defense practicing at monmouth university. howardin breaks down the matchup and gives us his keys to the game later in sports. >> madison square garden in new york city jam pack right now as the pope celebrates mass inside the famous sports arena. you're taking a look at everything going on life right here on fox 29. back in a moment. ñÑ ♪ >>> hundreds of thousands of people will make their way into philadelphia to see pope francis this weekend but only about 100 begin and end their day iconic war ship. a lot of people moving through camden for that long walk over the delaware river. >> for this group of lucky visitors it doesn't get much closer. fox 29's bill anderson shows us when a battle shim becomes your hotel. bill, i would so love that. >> reporter: it's awesome over here lucy. after months of anticipation, obviously the pope will be here in less than 24 hours. but some people decided to check something else off their bucket list. they're going to stay here on the battleship new jersey while the pope is in town. >> battleship

howard university. >> what was she like? >> same way, cookie jr. back then.and just cookie. >> so how happy are you to be back? >> it's fun. >> we're happy. >> we're picking up where we left off and we're raising the bar. >> robin will talk to you about that coming up or one of you -- >> i can't. i have a doctor's appointment. but can i say, you look fantastic. what have you been doing? >> eating healthier and in the gym. >> all right. >>ish. >>ish. >> that's it. >> it's the tartan pants. >> i wore my pants. tartan makes a fat man slimming. >> tartan is the new black. >> you caught up with the plaids. you don't see the fatness anymore. >> we need a lot more time for anthony anderson. he's coming back in our next hour. >> george, you're always kicking me off this set, man! what's going on? ♪ how you like me now >> no, we're not. >>> good morning, i'm eric thomas. developing news out of san leandro where a sheriff's deputy shot and killed a carjacking suspect along northbound 238 through the 14th street exit. he's accused of shooting at officers around 2:00 thi

one is an administrator at howard university, another is a well represented journalist and news anchor in new york. the third as a cleveland municipal court judge. and the fourth as an editor and public affairs director for a television station in droith -- detroit. he was extraordinarily proud of his children, and of his grandchildren. they, like all of us in this house who served with him, mr. speaker, were and are extraordinarily proud of congressman louis stokes. i join in extending my condolences to them, to their mother, representative stokes' wife of 55 years, angela, and to the seven grandchildren that representative stokes so cherished. the house of representatives was made a better body by having louis stokes serve in this hall. and a grateful nation thanks him and his family for sharing his life with all of us who had the honor and privilege and joy serving by his side in this revered house of the people. that he loved and who loved him. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. does the gentleman hav

university. the books in the right-hand corner, these are books that william howard taft at his -- and his younger brothers would have used while attending woodworth high school, such as the anatomy and physiology book here. we know the books are original books. alfonso taft would have had many more books that would have covered all the wall space here in home. most of those books he donated to the mercantile library downtown in cincinnati. is america's house. it belongs to everyone. just learning the history, they cover every political post you could imagine you over five generations of taft's have served in public service not only to help the communities here in cincinnati and the state of ohio, but also internationally. i hope visitors would come here to visit the william howard taft national historic site and get the upbringing through their public service life and possibly reflect on how things might be in their own very home today where they can have a child who comes here and they can look at that child and say you will be the next president or next chief justice to serve for our country. >

university. >> thank you, howard. thank you, ruth. i hope it's a good visit by the pope. when we return let me finish with a few words about how much another religion person, aunt eleanor who just died at 92 and spent her whole life starting in the 1940s teaching kids with real challenges, we now call special education. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. s. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. we're making hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. you don't have to be a member to buy their services directly at angieslist.com but members save more on special offers. angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. visit angieslist.com today. >>> let me finish tonight with this. my aunt eleanor just died at 92 and i'll be giving the eulogy tomorrow afternoon. that's her on the right there with my aunt agnes. she began teaching in the 1940s and spent much of her life teaching children with special education needs. she was incredibly pati

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the hashtag take back howard is putting the nation's largest historically black university in the middle of a new controversy. >>> we begin first with storm team4 coverage of the afternoon storms delayed the dismissal of schools in prince william county. >> veronica johnson tracking the radar. wet roads out there >> thunderstorms came through between 2:30 and 4:30, did deliver some hail and high winds, some folks sending in some pictures of some high winds that came through their backyard, but nickel-sized hail in bull run area this little area right here, also in prince william county that had the high winds, did have several trees and tree limbs reported down around mint hill road, nextville, so right now, just left with a few showers around alexandria, springfield, doing a little better, a report there, a little ding, so, a new warning just issued in areas of west virginia. meanwhile, you can see on our road impact forecast here for the evening, i think the weather will continue to have a moderate impact on area roads overnight, not quite as heavy and by early saturday morning, dry fo

universities. many of them went on to become incredible educational institutions that produced some of our greatest thinkers. morehouse college, howard, spellman. all across the country, particularly in the south, a lot of these historically black colleges and universities were the nurturer of an african american middle class. many of whom went on to become the civil rights pioneers that helped lead to dr. king, and the civil rights movement, and all the history i think you are aware of. a lot of those schools are still doing well. some of them have gotten smaller and are struggling, partly because of good news, university of georgia is not segregated anymore. it is good african american students or latino students have more diverse options. but they still serve an important role. working with people like congressman bobby scott others, we have continued to provide support to those schools. but one thing arne and i have been doing is saying to these historically black colleges and universities, you have also got to step up your game in terms of graduation rates because there are some of the schools who taken a lot of students but don