sitting down during the national anthem is making many people stand up and pay attention to the 49ers quarterback. he received support from jerome bettis on this morning s first take on espn. what he decided to do was a, was to create a peaceful protest that would be a lightning rod, okay, that would force you to talk about the issue at hand. and that is the issues that african-american are facing in this country. kaepernick s former teep mate, alex boon, said they would have had a problem on the sideline if they were still playing together. it s almost like disrespectful to you know, you see these pictures of these veterans and the legs and they re standing up in their wheelchair. i had a brother that served. it s shameful. so far, his teammate are fending his decision. he say he understands there could be consequences like be cut from team or losing sponsor, but will continue to sit during the national anthem as long as he feels it s appropriate. his offensive c
a funeral mass is being held in mississippi for sister paula merrill. the stoneham native was murdered, along with another niun, in their home last week. the man accused in her death will be arraigned later today. emily: the duck boat operator who sheared the roof off his vehicle last night on storrow drive has been issued a warning by boston police. the driver says he was forced onto the road after a detour. no passengers were injured. erika: and we are live from district court. the driver accused of exposing himself and fondling himself in front of women from his vehicle. paul griffin is walking into the courthouse earlier today. he did not show his face in the courtroom during arraignment. both incidents were in front of the same woman. the latest one yesterday, when description. when officers found him, he took off in his car and then jumped out, but was caught and arrested. he did not have any passengers with him at the time of the incident according to police. they ll
we learned a short time ago that she died from her injuries. police are looking for a newer model black nissan ultima with tinted windows. a second hit and run, this one in fairfax county. police said a toyota camry was rear-ended on i-495 buy a nissan maxima. it swung the camry into the jersey wall, killing a woman and seriously injuring two other four other occupants. the driver was found hours later in annandale and taken into custody. we will go to back to school. hundreds of thousands of students around the region are returning to class, including headstart students in prince george s county. this comes after funding questions put the program in serious jeopardy. sam sweeney has that story. learned that prince george s county headstart program will soon be under the control of a denver-based company. this comes after the federal government pulled a $6.4 million grant, largely due to the incompetence of district employees. today a county executive welcome students back
people are marching and chanting but a voting rally has been canceled just in case. the protesters say they will continue to rally today and every day to get their mission accomplished. fire police chief suhr. protesters say police reform me begins with firing the police chef which is gaining momentum since the fatal shooting of mario woods in december. protester say there have been one too many unnecessary shootings of minorities. it is a huge issue in san francisco. it is not ferguson or boston but san francisco is worse. the last two yours four people have been shot. 59 shots. in a drastic move the group called frisco 5 went on a hunger strike for 17 days before they had to be hospital i ve. hundreds of supporters are carry on the mission including the medical students who helped treat the group. i care for my patients and i care for the community. when i see san francisco hurting in the way it is under these pose attacks and police impunity i feel moved to act.
sam: we have been here for the last eight hours and this train has been stuck after an early morning fire in the last three minutes. it moved from the tracks above benning road behind me. it is a great site for all of those people in this area. this train has caused delays for the orange, blue, and silver lines all morning since the metro opened at 5:00 this morning. some people telling us they got to work more than an hour late today. metro saying it has been causing delays of to 30 to 35 minutes. it all started when a small fire happened under the train. clearing weekend track work. they brought in a test train to go over the area and they say a small fire started. they were able to put it out with a fire extinction. asy left that train in place they worked on it throughout the night into the early morning and trains sat waiting to go by. this was not the only problem. a partial power outage at farragut north station causing signals and single tracking on the red line. we c