Is bribery. This is corruption. The real thing. Dont let this stand. Had a the first time we real effect of connecting of the dots by the prosecution and one intended to undermine the defense case that anything that happened that was wrong here was the result of maureen mcdonnell. Of next Maureen Mcdonnells attorney, who argued the prosecutions case is flawed because it is based on the testimony of jonnie williams, immunity. Ed a case built on the word of theie williams is definition of reasonable doubt, the defense said. They described mcdonnell as burned by a businessman wanting access to power. And Bob Mcdonnells attorneys still giving his closing statement, arguing the charges are absurd and no crime occurred. The government will have one last time for rebuttal, and then the case will be in the hands of the jury. We do not know when jury deliberations will begin. We expect it could be tuesday, after the holiday, but nothing is certain. This is clearly an involving story, unfolding fast. We will have updates on it tonight at 6 00. Jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. Thank you so much. Jeff will be back in richmond next week as we await a verdict and we will bring it to you as soon as it happens either on abc 7 news or. Anyonea heads up for trying to travel on route one today. Wo power poles fell that knocked out the power to more than 1800. Kris van cleave is on the scene. Gordon, most of the people who lost power have it again. Some will be out for quite some time. Let me show you why. You can see the debris lying in the southbound lanes of route one. This work will take many hours, long into the night, which means southbound route one will be closed for quite a while. Urging a dominion power crews began a lengthy cleanup and repair project on route one in alexandria after two power poles came crashing down, locking the southbound lanes of route one just before noon. Be cause is unknown. We do know it was not because of a crash or anything like that. Boom, like that. He had to leave his business because they lost power. Happen. Things do i thought maybe a truck hit the pole or something, but it just fell down. Amazingly without striking any vehicles on a busy stretch of route one. But it is bad news for commuters. The southbound lane remained closed hours later. She is one of the customers who will have to wait until repairs are complete to get her powerback. She had her air on. She is 85. She does not have any air. I am sure she is frustrated. Hopefully it will get fixed. I will tell you, if you are sitting in the southbound lanes of route one right now, you hope it gets fixed pretty quickly, too. You can see quite a backup. Police are incursion people just to avoid route 1 tonight, because it is going to continue to be an issue. Backups an extensive back toward crystal city behind is here. 2100 customers will have to wait until the new power poles are installed and reenergized. Everyone else as the lights back on, but a major traffic mess for the labor day weekend. Kris van cleave, abc 7 news. Mess indeed. Lets look ahead now to the weekend weather. We are hoping this weather will stick around for a while. Hi, guys. Wishful thinking that this her willc friday weat take us to the holiday weekend. Look at this view from the rooftop camera. 82 degrees now at reagan national. A light south breeze at seven miles per hour. Really comfortable air. Temperatures in the 70s. 75 at gaithersburg and annapolis. The humidity is very low. Humidity will be slowly increasing, especially through the overnight hours. 7 43. Evening, sunset is at upper 50s to lower 60s downtown. Still comfortable. Humiditynotice the tomorrow. 90s for sunday and monday. Also with the heat and humidity does come the late day risk for some storms. I will detail the timing and intensity of the Storm Chances for the at a weekend in just a little bit. All right, thank you. British officials have raised the u. K. Rett level to orange, the secondhighest level on the chart. What sparked this action . Our political reporter is in the newsroom with more, including what this meeting what this can mean for the u. S. . This is not an irrational kneejerk reaction to what is happening with isil. It has been three years since the alert has been at that level there. Today we spoke with experts about the threat potentially coming here. In london today, a sobering warning. Deeper threatnd to our security than we have known before. Britain raises its threat seizeto severe and might militantsto prevent entering the country. They are battle hardened. Thousands have joined the fight from the u. K. To 300 for the u. S. Why is this catching on for them . Because of the age of social media. Because of the ease of travel to these locations. Initially many made the trek to defend women and children against oppressive regimes, but they were quickly radicalized by isil. Me, look, i have 15yearold students going on spring break to syria, and they are not going for humanitarian purposes and they are going to come back with those stripes on their shoulder, and it is jihad i tourism. D this week, weust often do not know about these people until they are already there. The white house does not anticipate raising the Terror Threat level here. Agencies are monitoring individuals they have red flag. Also perhaps completely unrelated, the president changing his schedule, not spending the night in new york. The white house not saying zac lee why that is. At exactly why that is. Thank you for that. This just in. Onece and have identified ramirez, senior, as the suspect wanted for sexually assaulting a woman in gainesville. Told police he pushed her down as she was walking along route 29 in a gainesville shopping center. If you know ramirezs whereabouts, the police would like to hear from you. According to the washington post, todays hearing for chris brown was rescheduled because the singer could not get a flight out of california. The hearing will now take place next tuesday. He has already rejected two reviews plea deal offers, but he is expected to plead guilty to punching a man after that Photo Bombing incident last october. You have seen the breaches for shoppers a target. Now the latest targets of a sever attack, federal employees. Thousands at risk after a Virginia Company that handles background checks. The companies opposed to do the work to make sure anyone who wants to work is cleared and safe. Their ways busted and, putting workers at risk. This is probably going to happen to you at least once in your lifetime. Janice mclean is talking about identity theft. She was a victim of the target reach. The federal government is looking for someone after a breach of Homeland Security employees. Someone did not do their job. Does background checks for the feds. The company made headlines after admitting that it screened Edward Snowden and aaron alexis, the navy yard shooter. The Justice Department also went iter the ebony, saying that cut corners. Now it is back in the news. This information used to steal identities is all bad, but there is really highly Sensitive Information there. Valuable information that could put federal workers at risk for identity theft. Whileks for the feds, and he is not happy to hear his colleagues information was compromised, he says they have to keep combating hackers. They are the ones on the front line. Of course they will be the targets. We asked the department of Homeland Security to tell us specifically how many employees are being impacted in what is being done to risk to reject them, but they did not respond. Reports thatn post dhs has suspended its work with a company. Thank you very much. The National Institutes of health take a leading role in the fight against ebola. What local researchers are doing to fight the outbreak. This is the worst tragedy i have ever had to deal with. For tony stewart, this is what happened after he accidentally killed a racer on the racetrack. Plus, we will tell you why a for sendingnsible entire school of students home for the day today. More schools are cutting recess out of the school day. The College Park Academy is the latest, which has some parents and education officials really upset. Our correspondent is live in delphi to explain why the cuts are being made. Kimberly . Valuable leads into instruction time, but some educators argue the opposite, that playing is essential to learning. At College Park Academy, hours after the school board allowed administrators to eliminate recess. We were playing games. It was really health and fitness. I am ok with that. He is not. I know these school is trying to implement pe for the kids and whatnot, but i do not think it is the same as having the mental and physical break. 200 studies suggest physical activity supports learning. Reports a positive relationship between recess and classroom behavior. And the American Academy of the jeff rick says a limiting recess negatively affects academic achievement. Who haveen new rss recess 10 to pay more attention after recess. I think our test scores we need to teach them more in class. They have 115 minute recess, the county minimum. Do you wish the school had recess . Why not . Idle like it outside. It is to live. I am all for academics. A year ago, when we first learned that college park was opening its doors, they were welcoming and invited us in. Today they decided they had no comment. To be fair, they are a middle school. They are not required to have recess at all. Abc 7 news. Kimberly. Ou, the amount of exercise your middle schooler gives during the school day depends on where you live. Montgomery county students have physical education every day. Get to county students hundred 25 minutes of exercise a week all year long. Prince georges county schools only require one semester of physical education. We have all heard the saying my dog ate my homework, but students and in anne arundel countys school can say the cap close my school. Students and teachers went outside as animal control officers searched for a cat. Theanimal is not found, so school was closed. Animal control officers will set traps in hopes of catching the cat. If you are the kids, you say thank you, cat. It was a beautiful day. I think someone must have called that end, one of the kids. Because it was gorgeous. Fantastic. If only we could hold onto this wonderful weather. Not that it will be that bad, but hey, take a look this great shot from news choppers seven right a long the bay bridge. We have beautiful conditions. Cars are moving. Not to bad. As we get a little bit lows are, yeah, looks like theres a good bit of traffic. For that chopper 7 great view. A lot of people heading to the eastern shore. I will actually show you the weatherbug camera this is in boardwalk here. A lot of people on the boardwalk, getting closer to the water. I am sure this will be a busy scene as we head through the upcoming holiday weekend. The forecast will be pretty much the same at the beaches. The Congressional Country Club in bethesda. Really comfortable air overhead. 79 degrees as we get further west into berryville, virginia, clark county high school. A little breezy. And i am sure a lot of you have noticed we have been seeing dwindling daylight over the past month or so. Today we have about 13 hours in nine minutes of daylight, but we will be continuing to lose daylight as we head toward the two millipede equinox, september 23. By the winter solstice, we will have nine at half hours of daylight. Soak it up. 78 extent art. 79 frederick. Again, the humidity is very low. High pressure to the northeast, ushering in this light northeasterly breeze for most of us. The hot and humid conditions to the south you see the line of storms that extended the midsection of the country. I want to show you the regional midpoint temperatures. As the High Pressure moves offshore, we will tap into that hot air mass for the weekend and monday. Take a look at the futurecast. For tomorrow it is going to bring more humid. I think that temperatures will be in the mid 80s. It is overnight saturday into sunday that this front moves to our north. It will be hot in the 90s. A few scattered thunderstorms are possible late sunday into monday. Not everyone will see rain, but you will certainly want to be weather aware through the weekend. That cold front will take its time to usher in more of that drier. Tonight, look for more cloud cover and more moisture. Temperatures will only fall into the upper fifth these 2 upper 50s to upper 60s downtown. Not quite as cool. 91 sunday. 40 risk of late day storms. Pretty much a repeat performance on labor day. Days. Typical summertime tuesday, a lot of us getting back to work and school. Still going to be hot and humid. We will stay in the 80s as we head into the middle of the week. Enjoy the rest of this fantastic friday whether. Thank you very much for that. The state could change the way that assaults are Sexual Assaults are investigated. And a real game changer for a local university. For College Football fans the university of maryland begins theseason this weekend, first of its big ten conference. We have a look at what it means for the fans and the finances of the university. When the terrapins take the field this weekend, it will be as part of the bigtime, big money, big exposure world that is the big ten. Football is unlike anything maryland has experienced in the acc. After an ugly divorce from the Atlantic Coast conference, maryland will compete against some of the most storied teams in football. The University Says admissions applications from students in the west and midwest are up. Increased 25 . Ve and after years of difficulty, maryland projects that athletics will be financially the 20172018or year. As a partner, they have their own network, btn. For players who came from the acc, a new matchups do not seem to be a problem. It is everything that you like about football. As maryland awaits new teams, analysts say the first few years may indeed be rocky, but ultimately i think maryland its in really nicely with the big ten. The big money for the conference in maryland is yet to come. The big ten will negotiate new Network Contracts in 2017. College sports, they say, an extremely hot property. The big ten is going to be able to increase the money it brings in from its tv parties to fold. Tb partners to fold. You can see them getting bigsed up for the terps opener against james madison. First test will be a win will be when away state visits. They tell me that they know these secrets will be to win some games, and that will be a challenge. At the university of maryland, brad bell, abc 7 news. Thank you. Tomorrow, their first game of the season against james madison. It begins at 330 p. M. At college park. Abercrombie fitch is changing one of its signature looks. It can get a 1,000 turbocharged reward card with a new volkswagen turbo. Why are we so obsessed with turbo . Because we like giving you power, but we also like giving you fuel efficiency. Like the sporty jetta. And the turbocharged passat tdi® clean diesel. Okay. And the iconic beetle. And the powerful tiguan. Okay you cant forget the cc. Guys, this is going to take a while. Get a 1,000 reward card on new 2014 turbo models or lease a 2014 jetta se for 169 a month after 1,000 bonus. Ends soon you are watching abc 7 news at 5 00 on your side. Role in theleading fight against the Ebola Outbreak. They will be testing a vaccine for humans. Story,live with the including new information on where the Ebola Outbreak is believed to have originated. Kevin . A Renowned Harvard University doctor and her team found out this horrible global virus started with a single transmission from an animal to a human being in the west african nation of ghana. Truly a remarkables discovery remarkable discovery there. The National Institutes of health will begin human testing of a vaccine that could prevent the ebola virus. The initial trial that will include about 20 healthy adults will begin next week. Virus, andwill use a safety features are built into the study design including daily and weekly reviews of patient data. Folks at nih are murdering with other groups partnering with other groups. But how long will all this Research Take . Data could be available by december, and if particulars look strong, nih could start shipping vaccine to africa sometime next year. The ebola virus has claimed more than 1500 lives. It has also infected 3000 people. Officials say that number could grow to 20,000. Live from montgomery, kevin lewis, abc 7 news. , colleges and universities may implement additional help checks of students from west africa because of the Ebola Outbreak. U. S. Health officials are on alert, but they caution against undue alarm. Time now for a look at todays other top stories. Closing arguments for the defense wrapping up in the corruption trial of former governor Bob Mcdonnell and his wife maureen. Is endings attorney the case by raising questions about the ceos credibility that would be jonnie williams. The couple is accused of from williams in exchange for influence. British Prime Minister david u. K. s terror the threat level to severe. The u. S. , however, has not raised its Terror Threat level. Is a trafficere alert for virginia drivers. A portion of route one in alexandria is closed after two electric poles fell. That is causing major traffic delays, especially southbound on one. More than 100,000 people are without power. Crews are working to cleanup and repair the roadway. Now for a check on the traffic situation bob with details. They are still directing traffic around that situation, route one in alexandria. Traffic does it buy in both directions, but under the direction of police. This is a it away weekend for many. 95 southbound, not much worse than vermeil. From there, often on to patrick county. The northbound side not doing to a badly at all. Traffic on 270 will slow down from memory village and clarksburg. For frederick, some people heading for the mountains. Delays on the way to hagerstown. Bethesda to silver spring, connecticut avenue, running quite well. Heading out to the seashore, 50 east. Not too bad. And here we are an 66 near 123. It does slow down on several stretches headed toward centreville. No incidents along the way. Have a safe weekend. All right, bob. Have a great weekend. Now we turn to project immigration. Hundreds of demonstrators marched outside the immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, demanding congressional action on immigration reform. Many of them were arrested. This comes as some states continue to struggle with what to do with the influx of unaccompanied children coming across the border. Is the government sharing enough information with the public . Sharontkinson atkinson takes a look in this project immigration report. Down facilities unaccompanied minors. They have been transferred to 150 Centers Across the country, mostly group homes run by nonprofits. To try to find out exactly where, and the government will not answer. Not the public, not supporters. Not even congress. This is a serious local Community Local impact. Do you think under the law the government has the right to keep the location of these minors secret question marks about it is outrageous. They are telling the American People and congress were not even entitled to know where these people are. We compiled a list of more than 100 shelters across the u. S. That could be housing the children. Places like boys town in ria use home in texas. There are proposals to start up a dozen more shelters. That does not count the 1000plus minors already released to Family Members. The most impacted states are texas, california, new york, maryland, and virginia. The government is keeping details secret to avoid negative or blue city and protest. Bcfs cited backlash as the reason for it stepping away from converting a hotel. Senator Chuck Grassley criticized the cost, which he said worked out to 166,000 a year per child. Answer ourd questions. The website says we cannot release information about it in a full children that could compromise the child for a location or identity. At a demonstration in washington this week, supporters of undocumented immigrants weighed in. To knowmmunities want where they are being held and said,s going on that there have been safety concerns about these children in communities that have displayed a lot of racism. [indiscernible] personal information should be protected, but not locations of groups. A member of congress cannot do his or her job in representing constituents unless that person knows where these people are being taken, where they are being held, where they are going to be released or it they are entitled to Community Health and social services, as well as education at local schools already struggling with stressed budgets. Investigating in washington, im sharon at benson reporting. Wants to change the definition of consent when it comes to Sexual Assault investigations. And meet ruby. She is a real survivor and now she has a right future. Still ahead. A big chance for ferguson, missouris police department. What they from no means no to yes means yes. A bill in california is redefining the way that College Campuses investigate Sexual Assault. A report on the controversial proposal that could become law. Californias state senate change iny passed a campuseshat investigate Sexual Assault. Instead of no means no, they will rely on yes means yes. We have to put our foot down. Silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent. It is not consent if the prospective partner is drunk, drugged, unconscious, or sleep late. Advocates for victims of Sexual Assault aboard the new definition. It is important to make everyone, especially the females on the college campus, feel safe. Critics are afraid of College Campuses and murky legal waters. I feel like everyone and brits actions differently. College campuses are on pressure under pressure to change the way the investigate allegations. Areuses across the country acing investigations for their responses to sexual abuse and violence. It distracts from a problem that needs substantive attention. The bill goes to californias governor jerry brown. His staff says he will make a decision sometimes next month. Angeles. Los coming up next in sports tonight nascar driver tony stewart opens up for the First Time Since hitting and killing another driver on the track. And ube the military has identified Lieutenant Colonel maurice killed ins the pilot that f15 crash on wednesday. He he reported an emergency and went out of radio contact. Because her means under investigation. D. C. Police need your help in ibm person of interest in a Sexual Assault in the mouth Pleasant Mount pleasant neighborhood. They have released this video. Investigators believe the same person is behind that attack and two other Sexual Assaults on canyon street and park road. Call police if you recognize him. And a man remains in custody after a barricade situation at the College Park Holiday inn. Police say that man held them at bay for several hours overnight and had a gun and ammunition and threatens to harm himself. He was arrested shortly before 3 00 this morning and taken to the hospital for a mental evaluation. His motive, still unknown. On your sites 7 consumer alert big changes for drivers. And big changes for a popular clothing line. If you are stuck in traffic this labor day weekend, here is a little bit of good news. Gas prices are down a decent chunk of a year ago. Aaa says a gallon of gas will run you . 15 a gallon less than you paid last labor day weekend, and that should help offset the n of 35 million that americans hitting the road this weekend, the most in six years. Uber is spreading. It has launched its service and markets, any two of them college towns. They are also offering free for thoseabor day college towns. They are expanding to australia and new zealand. Fitch more abercrombie logos on his clothing. The fashion retailer says it is dropping its name and logo from the clothes it. Apparently teenagers do not want ranted items and are more price conscious and that has hurt sales. Their shares continue to decline. Consumer alert. Back to you. Thanks. Tonight at 6 00, kris van cleave one,he latest from route and also the latest on the fort hood shooter to read what he wants even as he faces execution in a u. S. Military prison. Former governor Bob Mcdonnells attorney makes his case in closing arguments. That is coming up at 6 00. Are right but lets get a check of the weather. If only the beautiful weather would last. It will not be a bad weekend, but we will see more humidity. The temperatures will start to climb. Lets focus on this fantastic friday as we take a live look from our weatherbug camera at za hotel. Pla does not look like too many people on the beach. I am sure that will be a different story tomorrow. We are very comfortable. We do not have high humidity. And redom 82 in easton rick berg, everyone else in the 80s. Fredericksburg, everyone else in the 80s. I think the morning clouds will give way to sunshine. I know it is showing a few blips of rain on this particular computer simulation. However, i think most of us will be dry tomorrow. Overnighthrough the hours saturday into sunday, more heat and unity. Sunday, off to the west we will in during building the late evening hours. Five, 6 00, 7 00. It will not be widely scattered, but there is a 40 chance of seeing a storm where you are. Hourly forecast, looking pretty good. Temperatures fall into the 60s. This holiday weekend, it will be hot and sticky. That trend will take us into much of next week. Back to year. I get very much. You really like that. It is starting to trickle in right now. There are some nervous souls that will have to cut more than 20 players from their roster. Richard crawford, the most notable cut of the day today. One of the toughest the running back position. Rest ofht, all of the the backs on the roster played well. How about that 80 yard catch enron by ricky lish they catch and run . What is he going to do . Runs betweenugh the tackles. These last play, that is what he is known for. Chris thompson, good things out of the backfield. It will be tough. A tough decision. But one will be made. We have good film to watch, which is good. We will have to make the choice. All right, we will let you know what happens when it happens. Next, tony stewart got before cameras for the First Time Since that tragic accident where his car struck and killed driver kevin ward jr. Stewart has set out the last three premier races. Hes decided to raise this weekend at the atlanta motor speedway. He talked about how difficult the past few weeks have been for him, but also anxious he is to get back to racing. This is been one of the toughest tragedies i have ever had to deal with, both professionally and personally. This is definitely something that will affect my life forever. I have taken the last couple of weeks off out of respect for kevin and his family, and also to cope with the accident in my own way. Tohas given me the time think about life and out easy it is to take it for granted. A tough situation all the way around for kevin wardrobe family, and of course for tony stewart, who has made the decision he will get back in the car and raced. Thanks, oris horace. To live,s not expected but ruby did covering adc landmark tonight. Nbombed theers yar guideropes leading to the smithsonian locale or a. It is completing the gallerys an artist. About a ninemonthold boxer mix puppy has a new leash on life. After being shot in the face just last week. The dogs name is ruby and the veterinarian is saved her life also has future plans for her. With a bullet exit wound in the left side of her neck and a feeding tube in the right, ruby has a long road to recovery. The exit wound is still raw, so we have decided to blur that part of her face. She is doing well, all things considered. The shooting happened last thursday when a Family Member discharged a weapon inside a week known. Jawelect shattered her left the bullet shattered her left job. She was losing blood, had trouble breathing, and was losing consciousness. We got her to the hospital as soon as we could. At kindness animal hospital, they stabilized her and performed lifesaving surgeries. She had her left mandible, job on pretty much shattered. She had multiple fragments removed. Owners had financial constraints, so they surrounded her surrendered her to the hospital. Has at least one more procedure. Despite all she has been through, the doctor says ruby has no fear of humans and loves playtime. Another act of kindness he and his wife are adopting this gem of a dog. Having axcited about new pet. My kids are certainly excited about having a new pet. The circumstances of the shooting are still under investigation. Meanwhile, to help with the cost the officers are collecting donations. Good luck it, ruby. It warms your heart. That is wonderful. That is all for us at 5 00. Here is what is new for 6 00. Is a greater and deeper threat you are security than we have known before. Britain raises its threat level. How the United States is responding. Trial of virginias former first couple. And coming up, a new major virginia road. Where to affect where traffic is being tied up now. Live from the abc 7 broadcast center, this is abc 7 news at 6 00 on your side. Britain has the second highest level of alert because of the threat posed by the terrorist group isil. Minister Davide Cameron has ordered that level elevated to severe. The u. S. Has not taken similar action. Rebecca cooper is live from washington with the actions the United States is taking now. Gordon and alice, the u. S. Has made it clear they are not increasing the threat level in the u. S. Even though there is a visible increase in metro police, they say be bomb sniffing dogs and the weapons are part of regular rotation in post 9 11 washington. Greatestat isil is the threat the u. K. Has everything, british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron said he had no choice at to warn the citizens by raising the threat level. My First Priority is Prime Minister is to do Everything Possible to keep our people safe. President obamas Spokesman Says the white house does not seem the same threat see the same threat to the u. S. There is no indication that isil is actively plotting to attack the u. S. Homeland