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WJLA ABC7 News At 4 November 15, 2016

And we reject the president elect. The mood is antidonald trump. But the march is peaceful the entire way through. Speakers talking right now. Im joined by chloe. Why are you . What are you protesting . Im protesting everything trump stood for in the election and disenfranchise the minority students, lgbtq students and everyone in this country who believes in what the country stands president elect and will be the president. Do you think there is a way students like yourself can come to accept him and try to Work Together with supporters of his to move forward . This man is our president and it will be our president. Its unfortunate fact. We are not here today because he is not our president , its because he is. We protest everything he stood for in the campaign and we want to make the voices heard and this is something he hears and he knows coming into the campaign, into the white house. We will stand here every day. When he is doing something and he is going against the communities, well be here every singlal day he will say he will do stuff in them campaign. Jeff thank you. One of the many g. W. Students out here in front of the white house protesting the election of donald trump. Obviously his point of view on many subjects. We will keep watching and bring you updates on abc7 news as it develops. Back to you. Alison okay,jev. Thank you for that. Stephen tschida continues our Team Coverage today. He school protests that we are seeing today. Stephen throngs of High School Students descended on the trump hotel today and denounced donald trump. Some of them not too clear, not too specific with the rationale or the reasons but very loud. They continued down pennsylvania avenue to demonstrate in front of the u. S. Capitol and ended up in front of the u. S. Supreme and filled the streets of the nations capital. The students assembled en masse in front of the trump hotel. So many of them, they blocked pennsylvania avenue. Most of them not old enough to vote. Some unable to clearly say why they are protesting. Other than in the most vague of terms. We really dont like donald trump. Stephen 18yearold matt floyd did cast a ballot the election. He wants a peaceful transfer of power but also wants to inform the incoming president of where he and the others stand. We have to respond to the rhetoric in some way. We cannot have a country where hatefilled rhetoric is socially acceptable. Its ridiculous. Stephen now i spoke with one of the high School Organizers of todays demonstration. She said she really urged in the social media a peaceful demonstration. Some bottlethrowing at the hotel. It doesnt appear to be much damage to that and climbing on the statues. There were fights at by the capitol and theft of property. It wasnt as peaceful as they hoped but nowhere near as violent as some of the demonstrations we have seen in other cities across the country. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. The instapoll over the past few days. Do you think the students protesting donald trump are right or looking for opportunity to ditch class . Michelle overwhelming the viewers said its a way to get out of class. Alison that is why we sent q mccray to the protest to find out how strong the convictions really are. Here is what he found. Q students made it clear who they were demonstrating against. Donald trump and his election win. We dont really want trump as the president. We are here to protest. Q do they know why they were you are against . Im mostly against how like i dont know if this is true or not but the womans rights. We dont really know. Q we spoke to 16 students on and off camera. More than half didnt know the issues. I just dont like him and i want a better country. Maybe half, or more are here for the wrong reasons. They just want this is an excuse to get out of class. Q but then there were students like these. What p im against all the just big tri, the racism bigotry, the racism, the tone he uses and how he expects everyone he insulted to get behind him. He says abortion and he is trying to punish people for having abortion. He dont know what women go through. He dont know what we go through. Q the students marched from trump hotel to the capitol. Many of them didnt know all the issues involving the issue in the election, one thing is solidarity. Northwest, im q mccray, abc7. Michelle keep a close eye on the bottom of screen. Since we started the newscast its switching more in favor of the students protesting. Well keep an eye on that. Now to the trump transition. Key members of the team all joining the president elect in trump tower. Abc7s maggie ruley with how Donald Trumps first major are drawing criticism from many. Reporter president elect donald trump continues the transition to president receiving the first president ial briefing today in trump tower. From now on trump and mike pence will get the same daily updates as president obama. He will be a great president. Reporter trumps teams rallying around him. There is speculation that secretary of state will go to former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani or former unambassador john bolton. Abc news learned the former g. O. P. President ial candidate has taken himself out of the running. But there is one appointee who has been confirmed by trump polarizing politicians on the hill. Steve bannon. Recently the editor of breitbart, conservative news outlet considered to be a voice for white nationalists. Democrats in congress are signing a letter to the president elect urging him to rescind his appointment of bannon. Welcome to the dawn of a new unified republican republicans will be working closely with the trump administration, are taking a balanced it approach when it comes to talking bannon. This is a person who helped him win an incredible victory and campaign. Reporter the divisive election is dominating president obamas final overseas tour. He calms International Concerns when asked but also throws a subtle jab. President obama those folks than they were when i came in office. Reporter the current president decides what the president elect should receiver. President obama decided trump should receive the full president ial daily briefing. That is what president bush did for him eight years ago. Abc7 news. Jonathan in congressional matters House Republicans have nominated paul ryan to keep the leadership role as speaker of the house. Democrats are asking the Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to delay thursdays vote on the leadership positns now. The debate is should she keep her role . Some are considering a run at the Top Democratic Party position in the house. It is a project that was three years and 60 million in the making. But today its finally complete and it is gorgeous. The capitol dome was reopened this morning after the lengthy restoration project. The structure was once covered in scaffolding. Remember that . The repairs were done. Well, this morning the architect of the capitol gave the renovations included repairing more than 1,000 cracks and removing leadbased paint. Michelle gorgeous. Breaking news from ellicott city. A man shot in the airport from oklahoma city. He went up to the ticket counter. This is not the right video. He was injured according to our sister station out there. You are looking at the video now. Will Rogers Airport is the one we are referring to. Its shut down. Passengers are sheltering in garage. You can see the heavily armed officers go car by car to check it out. Alison Deonte Carraway now faces two more charges to bring the total up to 15. He faces more charges in Prince Georges County. Carraway a former school or recording children performing sexual acts at an Elementary School and community center. Jonathan coming up next at 4 00, the new speed cameras that we are all going to have to deal with. Alison also this you dont have to compromise. Michelle an antitrump protest takes a violent turn. Alison who stepped in to stop the protest and the criminal charges the student now faces. Michelle also, how Vice President joe biden is becoming memeinchief. We will show you the posts that are lighting up social media. Doug a little bit of a warming trend headed this way. Enjoy it. The coldest air of the season shows up in the sevenday outlook in seven minutes on abc7 news at 4 00. Jonathan we are continuing to monitor the George Washington University Student protest just outside the white house. Going on right now. Any new developments and well go back to abc7s Jeff Goldberg who is keeping an eye he gets a lot of compliments. He wears his army hat, walks around with his army shirt looking all nice. And then people just say, y . And im like, thats my dad. Male vo no one deserves a warmer welcome home. Thats why were hiring 10,000 members of the military community by the end of 2017. Im very proud of him. Alison twitter is revamping people can report harassment directly. Michelle tinder has made changes hand now you can make changes other than male or female. There are nearly 40auto filled gender options now. If none of those fit, user can type in a customized label. Jonathan by now you might have heard that the United Airlines is ruling out a basic economy option. You just get one carryon under the seat and no bag on top. It will go on sell for january for flights after march. They are reporting it will increase profit 5 billion through 2020. This is a subject of the new instapoll. Are you willing to give up your carryon for a cheaper briefcase with toiletries. You are taking someone from point a to point b. Alison a lot of people on social media today are sharing funny memes. Jonathan its funny. Michelle Lindsey Mastis is here to tell us why they are sharing this online. Lindsey in the past, white house staffers played jokes on incoming administrations. So these are jokes of what they could do. Take a look at this one. He, meaning trump needs official government phone. They are known to explode. Another one says biden is telling obama to print a fake birth certificate and put it in an envelope labeled secret and leave it in the oval office. This is how the Clinton Stafford took w off the keyboard when bush won. He said i took the ts so they can only type rump. Some appreciate them. But others do its the Joe Biden Meme creators who won trump the election by normalizing stupidity in the white house. But overall im seeing more laughs than condemnation on this one. Back to you. Jonathan a sensitive one. If you go to a party, dont bring it up. You never know. Half the country voted for trump. Just dont bring it up. Lindsey we have to talk about cats. Michelle gosh. Jonathan safe topic. Alison meanwhile the rolling election. Take a listen. Everyone outside the u. S. Is mystified id say. That is the polite word. I dont think he will be as radical as he was coming into it, making a big scene. I think a lot of what he says is tempered down. If it isnt it will be bloody ride for four years. We were all shocked and i thought nothing will shock me now. For all i know trump will get in. Sure enough, he did. Jonathan trump was using the song from the stones you cant always get what you want at the campaign rallies. Keep an eye on traffic with jamie sullivan. How does it look for the ride home . Its a slow one. Outbound. Sun glare. Its 37 from the beltway to Fairfax County parkway. We have this delay. Great on the toll way. As you travel on the inner loop, approaching the American Legion bridge this is bumper to b on the interstate. Back to you. Alison thank you. Lets get to breaking news. The protesters are on the move from the white house. What is the latest . They left the white house. Chanting this is what democracy looks like. This is a peaceful protest. We reject the president elect. Love trumps hate. Expressing the disagreement with the president elect. They will keep walking. Head to campus. They will keep walking, not sure where they are headed. But expressing grieve venses. I asked a student if she accepts the result of the election. She said yes but i disagree back to you in the studio. Alison thank you very much. Jonathan turn the attention to the weather. Its not too bad a day. Michelle pretty nice. Breezy if you are in the stage. Doug were in clear shape. We have a warming trend. After we hit saturday night. Tuesday afternoon. Light breeze is out of the west northwest. High clouds. But the trend will be for clearing skies later tonight. Headed out for Late Afternoon and early evening this is where we sit the temperature wise. A few degrees above average for middle of november. The forecast, the sunset tonight at 5 54. 55 at 6 00. Mostly clear. Drop to 51 as we hit 8 00. Temperatures will cool down for the remainder of the late and the overnight hours. 42 in the district. One of the warmer spots. We are keeping with seasonal temperatures and the averages. Over the next few days the temperatures will get above and significantly above average until a big cold front on saturday. Portly sunny at times. The winds will move to 60s. Forecast wise we are looking good. Midst 60s for wednesday and thursday. It turns warmer on 68 degrees. This is cloudiness ahead. Strong cold front and a few showers late tonight and 65. Behind the front is cloudy and 46. Probably flurries as a possibility across the area. We will stay chilly to monday and start to warm up slowly heading to thanksgiving. Michelle thank you. I have a head at 4 00, disturbing trend made the way to the d. C. Area. Kidnapping scam you now have to watch out for. High School Athlete on the bench but she is on the field again. The road to recovery up next. Alison the bushes introducing a rescue pup toy the world. They adopted him from the spca of texas. His name is freddie. I want my blood sugar to stay in control. So i asked about tresiba . . Tresiba . Ready . Tresiba . Is a oncedaily, longacting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. I want to trim my a1c. . Tresiba . Ready . Tresiba . Provides powerful a1c reduction. Releases slow and steady. Works like your bodys insulin. When my schedule changes. I want something that delivers. . Tresiba . Ready . I can take tresiba . Any time of day. So if i miss or delay a dose, as long as theres at least 8 hours between doses. Once in use, it lasts 8 weeks without refrigeration. 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And for a Churchill High School field player almost was kept off the field for good. This is our rising star. I knew something could be going on. Last spring the churchill senior suffered a third concussion in a lacrosse game. Helpless. This time it was a major concussion to miss out on class time. I wasnt able to finish the school year until midaugust. To get back on the field. She didnt want to get up. That was bad but ill get through this. That is how i learn to approach everything. A Bright Future awaits for the bulldog. Im Scott Abraham with our rising star. Alison at a young age to deal with that you want her slow. Michelle she is resilient. The love for the sport. Cant stay away. Good for her. Jonathan coming up next at abc7 news at 4 00 an antitrump protester take down hard. The trouble that the man now could be in. We have it next. Alison coming up new at 5 00, the first list is out for the toys you want to avoid buying the kids for the holidays. Its that time already. 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Later tonight and overnight, the skies remain mostly clear and wake up the temperatures for 38 to 46 in that range. Through the day we see plenty of sunshine. Temperatures hit 64. Notice the average high is 58. That is a good six degrees the same for thursday. Friday and saturday is warm. 68 on friday and sunshine. The weekend outlook, saturday is 65 with the sunshine. But then a dold front is going to bring clouds and showers in the afternoon. Behind the front windy, cold, flurries possible. High of 46. Let me shiver for you. Back to john. You dont have to compromise jonathan that is cell phone video of antitrump activist staircase at Ohio State University campus yesterday. He was tackled and charged with assault. The university is not commenting on the potential discipline from the school in relation to this. Michelle the West Virginia official who made what

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