8 00 this evening. For today, mitt and miss rain chances. Rain chances at 30 today. Todays high, 85. Rain chances back by thursday and friday. Ten minutes from now its amelia segal in kingstowne, virginia, but now its Melissa Mollet with traffic. Good morning, chuck. Nice to see you again this morning in the 6 00 hour. Taking a look at the map here, our first slowdowns of the morning. Were looking here at d. C. 295 past 50 southbound slow as we widen out here a little bit looking pretty good otherwise around the beltway. Into and out of town on all of the major routes, 66 at gallows road is looking good. One thing to warn you about in brandywine. A Police Investigation shut down floral park road closed between dobson and South Springfield road. Megan mcgrath is on the scene. Well hear from her in about two minutes. That breaking news another night of violence rocking the streets of ferguson, missouri. Protesters shot at Police Officers and officers fired tear gas at a group throwing mo
Happen anywhere. The aria hospitals are taking precautions in case. Reporter they walked into the emergency room in berlin or in voorhees it would trigger an immediately response. The entire team, transportation the sterile supply, doctors nurses the whole system would be notified. Reporter they have protective gear including masks, gloves and gowns and hoods and written stepbystep procedures. The air is vented out and not recirculated. You hear an alarm. It will alert us. You can hear it ringing. Reporter virtua is preparing a video about ebola about its website to educate the public and managers are meeting three times a woke to update the Ebola Response procedures. We are spending a lot of time for people to understand the protocol for treatment. Reporter they are trained to ask pointed questions of sick patients. If they have diarrhea, rash, weakness, we are specifically asking are you from the countries involved. Reporter the medical professionals around the country are hoping to
Region and state of have been reviewing and adhering to guidance from the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Pennsylvania department of health, and local Public Health officials regarding recommended bet methods for screening, isolating and caring for patients who may have been exposed toe bowl a hospitals will continue to stay abreast of the latest cdc and Public Health guidance to follow these recommendations. Im concerned that this region is not really prepared for it. Reporter patty is president of the association of the staff nurses anal identify professionals, the nurses union. Right now in philadelphia and regionally across the state we have different hospitals scrambling themselves trying to figure out should they use this goggle or that goggle and should they use hazmat suits or just gowns like what kind of exact processes should they set up. The cdcs regulations have been changing all along. Reporter nurses union is calling on local Public Health officials to develop
Monitored. If we dont know how, within the Isolation Unit its possible that other individuals could have been infected as well. Reporter richard bassir says that one area to look at is protective gear was removed properly. You have to be sprayed down and take things off in the correct order. If you dont have someone directing you to do that and oversee it probably that is where the real period of risk. Reporter improvements are made now to keep the Health Care Workers safe. All of hospitals have to be prepared to identify ebola and isolate patients. There are questions about which hospitals should street patients. We should think about if they should be transported to a hospital that has the special skill where the workers are training to do this kind of work. Reporter there are currently four hospitals in the United States with that special training as for the protective gear, as a nurse i put it on. I have taken it off. I never have treated anyone with ebola. Its not as easy as it ma
Easton, maybe toward st. Mike cams you might see a michaels, you might see a sprinkle. Its muggy out there. The humidity has crept up a lot. Mid60s to the north with gaithersburg 66. Were currently 74 in d. C. And going 206. Best chance of storms is in the mountains and the Shenandoah Valley. Lets turn it over to goal ga in for monika to olga now in for monika. This is basically in the brandywineclinton area affecting your ride on floral park road. Anywhere between brandywine road and piscataway road investigating an overnight accident there. Elsewhere in and around the beltway, did pretty good this morning. Starting to see some volume beginning to pick up mainly inbound 066 coming in from fairfax, in toward fair oaks. Also some steadier traffic now reported on northbound 95 out of qawnts the company and triangle quantico and triangle. Back to you. Missouri governor jay next so says there will be jay nixon says there will be no occur identify tonight. Residents continue to demand answe