Reporter after testimony concludes in the mcdonnell corruption trial the former governor talks about his own human frailness and whether he forgives Jonnie Williams. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. Im derek mcginty. The battle to put a stop to ebola which is ravaging west africa right now starts right here. 20 volunteers will potentially put themselves at risk starting next week in an ebola vaccine test trial. We spoke with a doctor leading the effort. Reporter the World Health Organization says the number of ebola cases could eventually top 20,000, six times as many known about now. There is need for urgent action. The world has never seen an outbreak of ebola like this. Reporter its why dr. Anthony foucht with the National Institutes of health realizes what he and colleagues are about to embark on is so important, a trial for an ebola vaccine. Well go very slowly, give it to three individuals, wait a while, give it to another three, wait a while. Reporter 20 people will be administered the vaccine in bethesda all in Excellent Health between the ages of 15 and 50. They will gauge whether a trial participant immune system mounts a response to the ebola genes in the vaccine. Were going to start the study on the vaccine here. Then very soon there after theyre going to start in the uk and the uk is then going to use sites that we have in mali. Reporter the two americans brought to atlanta with ebola were given therapies for treatment. The difference here . What were talking about is a vaccine to give to an uninfected person to help prevent them from getting infected the same way when you and i were children, we got measles and mumps vaccine and all those vaccines to protect us from getting infected. Reporter while there is a need to put a halt to ebola which has ravaged west africa, doctors need to proceed with a vaccine trial with caution. Safety is paramount. Reporter although they have been developing the vaccine more than a decade, the emergency in west africa has pushed the nih to accelerate its development. Public Health Agencies have taken extraordinary measures to launch the study as quickly as possible. New information tonight on joan rivers condition. Her daughter said she is resting comfortably at a new york hospital. Melissa arrived at the hospital tonight and thanked everyone for the love and support and to keep already mom in their thoughts and prayers. Rivers stopped breathing during throat surgery this morning and suffered a heart attack. She was rushed to a hospital in Critical Condition and placed in a medically induced coma. Last night the 81yearold spoke at an event in new york. This is cell phone video taken by someone in the audience. The woman said rivers seemed completely healthy. Here in our area sylvia cook harris, wife of maryland congressman, andy harris, died unexpectedly today. The congressman was by her side. The harris have five children and two grandchildren. Cookie was a devout catholic and advocate of the maryland right to life organization. Reports indicate she may have suffered a sudden heart attack. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the congressman and his family tonight. Presidenobama says he doesnt quite have a strategy nailed down for dealing with isis just yet, but today he said he hasnt also decided if hell order airstrikes in syria against the sunni muslim fighters. The president plans to send secretary of state john kerry to the middle east to build a null it inational coalition to support the fight Multi National coalition to support the fight against isis. We can rout isis on the ground and keep a lid on thing temporarily, but as soon as we love, the same problems come back again. Leave, the same problems come back again. So weve got to make sure that iraqis understand in the end theyre going to be responsible for their own security. It also means that states in the region stop being ambivalent about these extremist groups. While the president ha not decided on airstrikes in sir has not decided on airstrikes in syria, he said they will continue in iraq to protect u. S. Personnel and u. S. Interest. Today the president said russia has to face consequences for its actions in ukraine. Mr. Obama said russia is responsible and encouraging the violence and today nato released these satellite images showing what it says are russian combat forces during military operations in ukraine. President obama insist insisted sanction insisted sanctions are working and russia should expect more if they dont put an end to the violence. A gaithersburg man disappeared one week ago from rockville. Family and friends set up a makeshift command center at a local church and received reports of possible sightings up and down the c and l toe path with rogers described as distraught and stressed. His wife believes he might have suffered some kind of medical problem. This doesnt make any sense. This is a steady reliable, gentle, caring man who loves his children desperately who simply got up, walked out like he was going to work and vanished. He was driving a 2001 audi a4 with maryland tags. That car is missing. Police want to hear from anyone who may have seen rogers or the car. The military says a Massachusetts AirNational Guard pilot died when their fighter jet crashed yesterday in remote mountains near deerfield valley, virginia. Authorities have not released the pilots name. The plane was based at barnes Air National Guard base in westfield, massachusetts. It was going to the Naval Air Station in new orleans for a radar system upgrade. The pilot report an inflight emergency, then radio contact lost. The air force is now conducting the crash investigation. One man is in custody, the other still on the run tonight in a gruesome murder in laurel. Police are searching for this man, bayron cruz vargar. Investigators say he and another man now in custody killed their roommate jacinto perez. Perezs body was found dismembered in trash bags at the apartment complex where they all lived. The three men got into some sort of fight over money inside their apartment. It got violent and deadly. If you have any information about cruz vargar, call Prince Georges County police. Police searched for a man who attacked a woman in the gainesville area of Prince William county last night around 10 00 near lee highway and the Gainesville Square shopping center. That man pushed the woman down an embankment and tried to sexually assault her. She fought with him for some period of time and was finally able to get away and climbed back up the embankment, screamed for some. A passerby stopped to assist. The assailant ran into the woods near lee highway and today police canvassed the area and handed out flyers. The crime solvers organization is involved offering a 1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Closing arguments are set for tomorrow morning in that corruption trial of former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell and his wife maureen. As peggy fox reports today, the former governor talked about his own human frailness and whether hed forgive Jonnie Williams. Reporter the government has rested. What do you think . How do you fare you think . Im glad theyre resting. Reporter on his final day of testimony former governor Bob Mcdonnell was surrounded by his children. My son just got back from duke last night. My other son is coming back from vanderbilt. Reporter mcdonnell says he accepted many of the gifts from Jonnie Williams such as golf outings and vacations to spend more time with his family. He testified he didnt know about other gifts to maureen and could not have conspired with her because the two were barely communicating. How is it having your children here with you . Wonderful, thank you. Reporter the final witness was fbi agent Katherine Weber who analyzed the couples time together. She found that in the 22 months covered in the conspiracy charges mr. And mrs. Mcdonnell spent 90 of their nights together, but the defense poked some holes in her testimony. That argument was somewhat diminished by the fact that they didnt draw the chart to scale. Reporter political analysts say it will come down to who the jury believes, Jonnie Williams or Bob Mcdonnell. William certainly initiated a corrupt bargain. The question i think that will be in the jurors mind and will be interesting to see how the judge instructs them is that did Bob Mcdonnell commit any official act on behalf or you might say to complete his part of the bargain this Jonnie Williams thought he was initiating . Reporter mcdonnell testified that he thought Jonnie Williams was a friend but misjudged him. After this whole ordeal are you less trusting of people . No, no. Thank all human beings or fallible and im one of them. Reporter do you forgive Jonnie Williams . Sure. Thank you. Reporter his whole family is in town and their celebrating their daughter calins 30th birthday. Closing arguments are set for tomorrow morning. Whether the jury gets the case tomorrow afternoon or tuesday depends how long those Closing Argument and jury instructions take. A large crowd marched down to the white house today calling on president obama to stop deportation of undocumented immigrants. That rally was organized by the groups casa de maryland and casa de virginia. We spoke with a demonstrator who came to the u. S. At age 7. Now shes worried her family may be torn apart by government rules and regulation. My parents dont have papers and yet they worked. They worked so hard all their lives to put my sisters and me through college and i feel that its time. During that demonstration the Police Arrested 145 protesters for blocking a sidewalk near the white house. Another gathering outside the white house today did a bit of a twist on the ice bucket lechalnge. Yeah, no ice water. Instead thats a mixture of dirt and sand for what they call the rubble bucket challenge. Participants dump that on their heads to support those in the gaza strip. Organizers decided to use rubble because water is tough to come by in gaza. Hands up dont shoot the Michael Brown chant returned to the white house this afternoon as protesters stood outside the gates. Demonstrators are calling on the department of justice and president obama to investigate. About 900,000 people have signed an online petition. Theres new information about what one person says is an audio recording of the gunshots that took Michael Browns life. Today online screaming company glide said a piece of audio that has gunfire in the background was recorded near the time of browns death. The man was in an online video chat when he claims he inadvertently recorded audio of the shooting. Take a listen. You are pretty. You are so fine. [ gunshots in background ] just going over some of your videos. [ gunshots in background ] how could you forget . The fbi now has that audio recording and are trying to validate it. Six shots were heard. There is big news in the nfl today. The league issued a new policy to do with players who commit domestic violence. The first offense would result in a six game suspension, but a second offense you could be banned from the league for life. Our sports director dave owens is here with more, obviously a lot of fallout from the two game suspension ray rice got. Today we saw something from the commish rarely seen, an admission of a mistake ever since levying a twogame suspension of ray rice where his assault on his wife, the commish has been under fire from womens Advocacy Group and organizations supporting victims of domestic violence. Today goodell responded to that criticism by specifically addressing this case here, the ray rice case saying he got it wrong. Then he instituted a new policy which will suspend all nfl personnel for six games instead of two if they violate this policy. The second offense equals a lifetime ban. Heres what else the commissioner had to say. I take responsibility both for the decision and for insuring that our actions in the future properly reflect our values. I did not get it right. Simply put we have to do better and we will. The new rules here dont affect ray rices current twogame suspension. We reached out to the ravens today. They say they respect the decisions that the commissioner makes and the future decisions he will make. I got to ask and you may not know. The lifetime bans are usually appealable from the nfl. Yes. Is this . Yeah. Its going to be appealable and listen, theres some areas what is a domestic dispute . All these things have to be i think described and defined. So theres some things that still have to be worked out, but obviously a serious deal and the commissioner making a serious stand. Hi there. Im first alert meteorologist erica grow. We had a beautiful thursday and friday, promises to be more of the same because of that area of High Pressure parked over the u. S. canadian border. In the meantime im tracking this area of low pressure moving through the Great Lakes Region which will bring us our next round of thunderstorm this weekend. The timing not very good as were heading into this Labor Day Holiday and wed like to get outdoors and enjoy it. Down the shore its not going to be bad. Well see the threat for thunderstorms arriving for most of the delmarva beach regions on sunday. Saturday should be dry for most, but as we head into the weekend back here in the metro well see the chance for thunderstorms increasing but not tomorrow, beautiful as youre stepping out the door, only in the mid50s as the sun is rising in outlying suburbs. Well talk more about the thunderstorms and track them with 9 futurecast in the first alert sevenday. Pepperoni, sausage, mouse droppings . Thats just one of the disgusting extras in russ ptaceks pizza themed restaurant alert. Another major move toward a new iphone, the the invites are out and millions of folks are all worked out and even though were not going, we got a look at the invitation apple sent out for its next big unveiling that simply says 992014, wish we could say more. Thats vague, but word is apple will unveil one and maybe two brandnew iphones, maybe something for your wrist a week from tuesday. I dont think thats vague at all. I think thats saying something is coming out a week from tuesday. The restaurant alert is all about pizza all with violations leading to Health Department closures. Heres Investigative Reporter russ ptacek. Reporter we start at no. 17, pizza no. 17 on 17th street northwest down from dupont circle. Thats the spot the wusa9 restaurant alert app shows with the july 23rd closure inspection citing uncovered rodent bait. Inspectors cited no. 17 with 14 other Violations Including rodent droppings in basement. A manager said, we just updated our pest control company. Everything is clean and everything is as it is supposed to be. Papa johns is the one cited with a live rodent. Its the 1 in the 3800 block of pennsylvania avenue southeast shown in the restaurant alert with the july 22nd report noting 11 Violations Including live mouse observed inside the kitchen next to the unused conveyor pizza oven and rodent droppings observed on several floor areas and in food contact surface. Prince georges county hasnt gone digital, so we tracked down paperwork on a closure at pizza and wings on laurel bowie road in laurel. The report states a Closure Notice has been issued due to lack of compliance with violations cited may 28th where inspectors warned them to fix 20 Violations Including a watering can used for personal hygiene in an out of order restroom, a household style free and refrigerators cooling at 66 freezer and refrigerators cooling at 66 degrees instead of the maximum temp of 41. All items were removed and discarded. They all passed inspections and are back in business. Text the word food to 25543. Well send you a link to the restaurant alert database. You can check for yourself. Im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. The only station with weather alert days, wusa9 first alert weather. Hi. Im first alert meteorologist erica grow and if youre familiar with our weather alert days, you know green means youre good to go. Were good to go again tomorrow. Heres a beautiful look with the michael and son weather cam at the National Harbor and that ferris wheel, right now 74 and clear, wonderful with the dew point of 53, a nice low relative humidity and a nice little breeze out of the north, northeast at 10 Miles Per Hour. As we head through the overnight hours, its going to continue to cool down. Its a great night to open up the windows especially if you live in one of the suburbs north and west of the city. Well have another gorgeous day friday. That sunshine is staying with us. That low humidity is sticking around as well, but heading into the weekend well see heat and humidity return just in time for the unofficial end of summer. Its definitely going to feel like summer and we have the chance for thunderstorms especially on sunday and monday, but a few other opportunities in there, too. Well show that all to you on 9 futurecast and the first alert sevenday. On satellite and radar we are clear, no problems, no complaints. The drier air remains in place as were waking up friday morning and then heading into friday afternoon were going to have dry air with us, but saturday some clouds start to approach. Were still dry. The chance for showers and thunderstorms will primarily be well to the west of the beltway. You can see in cumberland up toward hagerstown possibly getting a thunderstorm saturday afternoon, but most of us are still completely dry until sunday. Notice that cloud cover builds in sunday morning and its going to be hot and humid, temperatures reaching the 90s once again this weekend and the thunderstorm threat really increases along with that heat and humidity. 9 futurecast tends to give us a lot of thunderstorms when the heat and humidity are in place. I think youll get some rain on sunday, probably on labor day as well. Overnight tonight just beautiful with lows between 56 and 65 degrees under those clear skies. A beautiful start tomorrow, too, 60s and 70s with those sunny skies remaining with us and in the afternoon just almost a carbon copy of what we had today, highs in the mid 80s, southeast winds 5 to 10 Miles Per Hour under those mostly sunny skies. Im keeping the green weather alerts for now. We do have that chance for thunderstorms late in the day saturday west of the beltway. Sunday more widespread, more scattered storms. You can check out your radar app using your wusa9 radar app on your smartphone or go to www. Wusa9. Com to check out any storms. Notice also a heatwave coming into the forecast. It stays in the 90s until tuesday. Talk about making the most of your final chances to impress the coaches, a couple guys sending a clear message to jay gruden. Hey, coach, im not giving up the playbook just yet. Now wusa9 game on sports with dave owens brought to you by xfinity. Got to admit after bashing preseason games i kind of got into tonights redskins bucs game. In the next few days the unemployment line will get several new members, most of which will be very large muscular men with very little body fat. Sort of like derek mcginty. Tell you what. Gruden family portrait in tampa bay here tonight. This is a nightmare. This is not funny. Nose guard chris neil battling in the middle injured his right knee,acl injury. He tore his left acl last year. My heart hurts for that guy. Ryan grant very impressive, though. This guy has suction cups on his mitts, snags the back shoulder throw. He caught five more passes. Redskins win the preseason finale 2410. We talked about the running back. My confidence is high. I feel like ive been putting great things on film since camp started. So i just pray about it and see what happens. We talked about the running back battle, jumped the gun, two players standing out. First lake seastrunk who im changing his first name to river because he was flowing, the rookie out of baylor showing why he was drafted. Hes a doctor. He makes house ca 8lls,0 yards for the touchdown. Silence redd looked like earl campbell, just joking, but he did look good, running hard, 14 carries, 79 yards and a touchdown. On to the ravens now, John Harbaugh wanted to go through the preseason undefeated. Tyrod taylor to thompson wide open in the end zone, a little toe tap for the score. Heres a cool part of this story. River Hill High School grad in maryland Michael Campenaro trying to make the club. Thats going to help, not just the catch but a wiggle. Ravens finish preseason 40, 22 13. Good stuff to end the night. Wasnt looking forward to that game tonight, but it was fun to watch. That little fellow can ramble my father would say. Theres nothing worse than somebody getting worse preseason. I feel hey can you fix this . You bet thats our new interactive speaker wall. sup . Thinks its a speaking wall. This can even dim your lights. Your 3dprinted girlfriend will love that. Real mature. There you go. 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