Obama, just a picture of the president studying briefing material. We do not have a strategy yet. Aides say that the president has no military plan yet. Pentagon officials tell abc 7 news it is too late to view airstrike says the answer. Is 200 strong. A growing number of americans believe the president is doing to a little in confronting Foreign Policy challenges. We need to show them we mean business. I think it is about time for us to do some things. British Officials Say their intelligence also shows no specific threat, but they are not waiting. As anee isil overall imminent threat to their security and they are taking action now. Law enforcement officials tell abc 7 news that they are carefully monitoring the situation, but they are not going to raise the threat level. A spokesman for the Metro Police Department says if anyone sees anything suspicious, they should contact police. Rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. Thank you, rebecca. Seems to have adopted the controversial interrogation cia. Ique adopted by the according to reports, they waterboarded james foley. Themore note convicted fort hood shooter wants to join isil. The former army siegrist wrote a twopage letter to the groups leader, and in it he expressed the desire to become a citizen of the islamic state. A military Court Sentenced him to death for the killings at fort hood in 2009. Of former governor Bob Mcdonnell and his wife maureen will soon be in the hands of a jury. The goldberg is out of courtroom and live to tell us about the closing arguments. Gordon, just the past hour the lead attorney for governor mcdonnell wrapping up his closing arguments, saying the government could not find a crime in this case even with a microscope. The final act of the day leaves the attorney for the prosecution would bring his verbal rebuttal. This was a case filled not with emotional testimony, but passionate arguing from attorneys on both sides of this highstakes case. Today, into court Maureen Mcdonnell again leaving any talking to her daughter. In the closing arguments, the attorneys for both mcdonnells repeatedly slammed jonnie williams, arguing the governments case is based on the testimony of williams, who received immunity to avoid potential charges of stock fraud. Presented marine as an afterthought, a victim. The evidence makes clear that she was gaga for jonnie williams. He said the governor never gave williams any special favors. [indiscernible] the day began with the prosecutor passionately accusing Bob Mcdonnell of being at the heart of these scandal, using photos, emails, and text messages, arguing the governor was fully aware of the financial deals happening between williams gavehe mcdonnells, and he him special treatment in exchange for gifts and loans. He wrapped himself in the flag of the commonwealth of virginia. This is bribery. This is corruption. The real thing. Dont let this stand. For a while i thought they had a hard time connecting the dots. Today he connected them in a powerful way. The prosecutor should be wrapping up his rebuttal in an hour or so. Then we expect the judge will Adjourn Court until after the Labor Day Weekend. If that is the case, on tuesday readng, the jury will be the detailed jury instructions, and then eight men and four women will consider the case of the former governor and first lady of virginia. Live in richmond, jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. Thank you. You can count on abc 7 to bring you the developments of the mcdonnell trial as they happen. Our team of reporters will be in richmond as the verdict is read. Abc 7 andbe on wjla. Com. Company officials joined politicians at the groundbreaking. Beretta and announced it would use its u. S. Manufacturing and research out of maryland, blaming the states gun control laws. They still plan to keep 100 administrative jobs. Coming up on abc 7 news at 6 00, we take you live to the scene of downed power poles that are blocked a major road in Northern Virginia. Plus, big changes coming to the town of fergusons police force, three weeks after an officer killed an unarmed teenager. A morning robbery of police on alert to read what you need to know. A pictureperfect friday. As we kickstart the long holiday weekend, there are c we are just getting video in from northwest washington, video of an Armed Robbery of a Convenience Store in broad daylight. Police say just before 10 00 this morning, a masked man you can see there arched into the store at the corner of third and each tree. Pointed a gun at the clerk, demanded money. No one was hurt. The suspect is still out there tonight. Developments in the project to head off the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. A just published report says the drug used to treat two americans, zmapp, had a 100 success rate in a trial with monkeys. More than 1300 deaths are blamed on the outbreak, which is now been traced back to an interaction between a human and an animal late last year. Backed separatists have seized control of a key port city in eastern ukraine. Says 5000h government Russian Troops are fighting alongside the separatists. Moscow denies the allegations. Nato says troops are waiting on the border. European prime ministers are expected to propose new sanctions against russia at a meeting tomorrow. And now to ferguson, missouri where prime ministers are being trained to use body cameras. Two companies donated enough cameras for every officer on the force. To uniformsclick and can record 12 hours of audio and video. The body camera would have made a big difference into the investigation of Michael Browns shooting. At 6 00xt on abc 7 news i am kris van cleave in alexandria. A big traffic mess to start the Labor Day Weekend. Two power poles come crashing down. A report coming at you next. The weekend off to a beautiful start, but will rain make an appearance check of the forecast, just ahead. And we will find out a lot about the Washington Nationals chances over the next few hours. And it is time to cut the roster hey pal . You ready . Can you pick me up at 6 . Ah. boy im here im here cop too late. I was gone for five minutes ugh move it. Youre killing me. You know what, dad . Im good. dad it may be quite a while before hes ready, but our Subaru Legacy will be waiting for him. vo the longestlasting midsize sedan in its class. Introducing the allnew Subaru Legacy. Its not just a sedan. Its a subaru. A traffic mess is happening now in Northern Virginia after power poles snapped right alongside u. S. One, blocking traffic from reaching old town alexandria. The work is expected to last through the night. Kris van cleave has more on what to expect. The work continues here, and they are making some progress. You can see they have teed up of three new power poles up and in place. They have one more they have to take down, but that is really just the beginning. They expect this work to last until the Early Morning hours saturday morning. Which means southbound route one is going to stay closed for quite some time. Commute to evening start the long Labor Day Weekend in alexandria. In what appears to be a freak accident, two dominion power poles just came crashing down, blocking the southbound lanes of route one. I went out, saw a spark, and smelled this burning smell. A lot of traffic. He was down the block when it happened. I thought maybe a truck hit the pole or something. It just fell down. They snapped and damaged the cross arms on others. It is very lucky nothing was damaged. The polls will be replaced sometime late tonight. Route one warming closed in the work area. It will definitely cause traffic problems, especially friday on rush hour on a holiday weekend. I think i would almost rather be stuck in traffic them be the guy hanging off that poll there. They have a lot of work to do there. They have a lot of work to do. They have to get that third role in, reenergize the power poles. At that point be 2100 customers in the dark will get their power back. They do not think that will happen until dominion completes this work, very likely early tomorrow morning. We understand that the southbound lanes of route one are going to stay closed as long as these dominion crews are out here working. The best he buys the best advice from alexandria police, avoid this area until the work is done. Kris van cleave, abc 7 news. Good advice. Thank you. Speaking of traffic pilots, the traffic running out of town appears to be relatively smooth. It is the getaway weekend for the holiday. This is a live look at the bay bridge. You can monitor traffic conditions at any time. The live look right there is not terrible. We will have updates for you anytime on wjla. Com. And we know the weather is cooperating in a big way. Today at least. If you were driving across the bay bridge, i would be rolling the windows down, breathing in the fresh air. For how long . Just the remainder this evening. You may want to roll them down tomorrow to get a relief from the heat. A beautiful look from our weatherbug camera in chesapeake beach, maryland. I am sure there are some people enjoying time there this weekend. Maybe even dying dining alfresco tonight. That is what i am thinking about. 84 degrees, the high at Reagan National today. Our average is 85. 84 is an anomaly because most of were ine most spots the 70s. Gaithersburg checking in at 75. The same in annapolis. 80 degrees in quantico. 81 in fredericksburg. At least the humidity is low. Humidity will increase slightly through the overnight hours. The High Pressure will shift offshore. These southeasterly breeze will bring in more moisture. To will probably wake up mostly cloudy skies tomorrow morning before we break out into some of that sunshine. By sunday, this weather front will be to our north, and that is going to allow us to really heat up the temperatures sunday and monday into the 90s. Futurecast, notice we have some cloud cover over us. You can see the clouds breaking a through the day. It may be mountain storm possible. This is saturday at 5 p. M. You get the southwesterly wind. It will be a mix of clouds and sun kind of day. Those showers and storms pushing farther to the east through the late evening hours. Sunday. Eye on the sky there will be a repeat of this weather pattern on monday. Temperatures will be quite hot. Temperatures in the low 90s, but with the humidity feeling more like the mid 90s. I think with morning clouds, temperatures only in the mid 80s, maybe feeling hottie hotter because it will be quite humid. Late day0 chance of storms. 30 chance of late day storms on labor day monday. As we go back to work and school on tuesday, in additional chance for storms. Water temperatures are warm, mid70s, for ocean city. Degrees on the outer banks. Looking ahead to the rest of the work week, looks like it will be on the hot side, highs in the upper 80s. And now the toyota sports desk, ruts you by your local toyota dealers. Localught to you by your toyota dealers. What happened to the nationals in philadelphia . I dont know. They lost, i know. They did not hit . They did not score enough runs . I knew you would get there. Up against one of the top pitching staffs in baseball. It is a great test for a team trying to make the playoffs. They had to perform. We know that if we do things correctly, then we have a chance to be the other team on a given night come a and that is how we approach it every day, regardless. Regardless if we have a winning streak or if we have lost three in a row. Does not matter. Same approach. This is from houston. Take a look. A fly ball. It looks bad from the beginning. Oh a mark or two, i think. The redskins will be trimming their roster. They have to lose 20 jobs by sunday. They cut third year quarterback richard crawford. They have tough decisions to make, such as linebacker or running back . They played well last night. The problem is, they cannot afford to keep the mall. We will let you know more about the cut as they announce. A big possible upset to look out midis are tough this year. They are opening against ohio buckeyes lost their starting quarterback for the season. Chain a chance to test ourselves with the best. Kind of see where your program stands, where your team stands. Our guys recognize this will be a very tough challenge. Better cross every t,. Every i, be prepared. Should be an interesting game tomorrow. Lost her williams thirdround match today due to missed opportunities like that one. As everyone awaits word on ,ho will make the nfl rosters Michael Sampson on the outside looking in. Until 4 p. M. E tomorrow to make a decision. We will let you know when that happens. Marilyns Football Team opens up its season tomorrow marylands Football Team opens up its season tomorrow against james madison. Two will be out for the entire season for violating the student code. The whole season . A pictureperfect friday. You will notice the humidity tomorrow. Partly sunny skies. 86. 90 one on sunday. Keep an eye on the sky for a few storms. Repeat performance for monday, even into tuesday. I think a lot of people heading to the poll. The last we can to get to the pool for some. Abc world news this is world news tonight. Terror threats. Isis on the march. 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