wants to do is win. there is a lot of things said he is pulling for this guy or that guy. that is not the place here. robert: how is rgiii taking this? a source close to the situation is that griffin is content despite the setback and he still wants to play here. coming up at 5:00, we will hear from the starter kirk cousins. robert wachts to play here according to a wants to play here according to a source. kimberly: even at that level you compete for your job. robert: every level. that is what you are talk from little league on up. jonathan: you can t blame the coach. he wants to win. thanks. no surprise that the redskins is a big talker on social media. kimberly: we have more than 100 comments on the abc7 facebook page. kimberly: we want to know what you think. join the conversation by going to the abc7 facebook page. jonathan: coming up tonight at abc7 news at 5:00 and 2:00, our own diane cho will have reaction from the fans out on the street talking about the move w
robert: espn said that redskins are pushing for the end of their ramp with griffin but ownership is holding on. gruden: i like griffin. his future with the redskins is what it is. there are no discussions about letting him go. we re going to plan on maying with the three quarterbacks. last year we used all three. the door is not shut on robert griffin. he is a redskins players and he has to compete like even else. robert: a source close to the situation tells abc7 robert griffin iii is content. and that he wants to stay in washington. another normal day in washington football. leon: yeah, right. kimberly: content is one of those safe words. isn t it? twitter was not a safe place for anybody. it went wild as the news spread that cousins would be starting the season for the skins. our diane cho picks up the team coverage with fan reaction live from outside fedex field in landover. diane, what are you hearing? diane: it didn t matter who we approached about the story, as soon
violence in the district. a 13-year-old girl, caught in the crosshairs. she s recovering from a gunshot wounds tonight. that as d-c s police union votes no confidence in chief cathy lanier. roz plater is live at m-p-d headquarters with our top story tonight. roz? roz. indeed it is. that girl back home tonight. hour ago. about an her mother said she is crying and traumatized to have to come back to the same place she was shot. a group of ght, neighbors got together to brainstorm about how to stop the violence. bright lights, a portable surveillance camera near the spot where a 13-year-old girl was shot saturday evening. the unintended target of a drive-by shooting. it s not safe here. the police station is blocks away. only god protects us, that s it. despite the saturation of police across the city, the there was a surge in shootings and two more homicides. the rise in violent behavior is rampant. city council members packed a building desperately looking for ,
song for me? david muir and the pope s excitement about his historic first visit to the u.s. only on gma this morning. and good morning, america. what a moment at the vatican. abc news there exclusive ly for an historic event getting ready for his first ever visit to the u.s. and maybe news on the issue of abortion. big announcement coming up there. right to the extreme weather making it a steamy start to september. the east coast set to bake in above normal 90-degree heat and in the southwest, more rain, powerful wind. ginger zee covering it all. good morning. good morning. strong monsoon storms taking trees down, putting them on top of cars and sounded like this in phoenix. oh, my god. oh, my god. up to an inch and a half of rain. there were water rescues and pockets of flash flooding and power outages, 65,000 in phoenix to this in brownsville, texas, 4 to 6 inches of rain especially north of the city. a lot of the drains couldn t handle it and charleston, sou
unprecedented challenge for this department that has dealt with many precedents in the past. reporter: part of that challenge, just as the pope is leaving town, president obama is coming into town for the u.n. the general terror threat environment a concern, which will mean added vehicle check points, uniformed officers deployed across the city, along with additional security measures, not visible. we re going to work very hard to make sure that as many people as we are able to actually get to see his holiness while putting layers of security in and around that. reporter: as for the possibility of a motorcade through central park, a spokesman for the archdiocese this afternoon declined to comment as a decision has not yet been formally reached. back to you. all right, jonathan. for complete details on the pope s upcoming visit to new york, including his schedule, be sure to head to our website, nbcnewyork.com. new at 5:00, nearly two years after a daredevil leap off