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WRC News4 At 5 October 8, 2014

According to the paperwork, it is possible bishop hid in he mountains several years and could have hitchhiked the 200 miles to get where john doe was found in alabama. Alabama prosecutors say john doe died after a car hit him as he was walking down a highway 72 in scottsboro, alabama. The man had no identification except a piece of paper containing the phone number of a truck driver who picked him up while hitchhiking through kentucky a few days earlier which is why the fbi wants to compare his dna to bishops dna. We have more details about this break breaking developments at 6 00 including why the fbi points to why this could be their man. News4 iteam. To our other top stories. The first ebola death in the united states. The first possible patient admitted to a hospital in dallas. Here are details. Thomas eric duncan, the first person diagnosed with ebola in america died this morning. The 42yearold died at the dallas hospital where he was being treated. Duncan may have contracted the virus in liberia while taking a dying neighbor to the hospital. In the meantime, the government is taking new steps to prevent more ebola cases from showing up and the most prepared for an ebola outbreak. We have more on ebola in the u. S. And specific impact on your health and travel in our region. Dulles international is one of five airports across the country where heaviliers coming from west africa where travelers coming from west africa will be subject to extra screenings. What travelers can expect from this. Reporter dulles and these four other airports received 94 , 94 of travelers from ebola affected countries in west africa. Announced today, new screening methods for ebola at Dulles International airport starting next week. Dulles is one of five airports in the u. S. That will see the heighten measures. The cdc staff will be present at dulles. Travelers coming from new ggu gd liberia and others and will observe for signs of illness. Take temperature and travelers with fevers will be evaluated at a cdc quarantine station. Traveling to an islamic pilgrimage to saudi arabia and back to new york from dulles wore a surgical mask on board. I would say we were not that much worried. We were cautious, using masks. My biggest concern is gone from here to that big gathering in mecca for the pilgrimage and there you are exposed to every nationality. And you do not know who you may run into or might be exposed to. Reporter others at dulles not overly concerned about contracting the virus. It never crossed my mind, i know that because people die from influenza. Its not airborne. Reporter on news4 at 6 00 tonight, we will tell you what will happen here at dulles starting next week if a patient exhibits signs, has a fever, for example, or has says they have been exposed to the virus. Live at Dulles International airport, news4. Thank you. Bre breaking news in texas, a Dallas County sheriffs deputy has just been rushed to the hospital after complaining of some potential ebola systems. That deputy had been in the apartment of Thomas Duncan and came into contact with some of his family members. The hospital in dallas says tonight the deputys symptoms are not ebolalike but since hes feeling sick theyre taking every precaution they can. All of todays developments have people wondering if hospitals in our region can handle ebola patients. At a local meeting, area experts say their confident our area is one of the best prepared in the country. David culver joins us live from a Virginia Hospital Center in arlington. Reporter the message from Public Health officials today was crystal clear. They want every hospital in d. C. , maryland and Northern Virginia to be able to identify and react to suspected cases of ebola. They say that theyre ready and theyre confident. If youre one of those who lives or works somewhere highlighted in this map todays council of government meeting affects you. On the agenda, ebola preparedness in our area. Just how ready are our hospitals should a case arrive. Im very confident if we have ebola the district will be able to stop ebola. Reporter telling the board they take their lead from the centers for disease control. That means every hospital must be prepared to identify a suspected ebola case and isolate that patient and reach out to Public Health officials. From there, they must arrange proper testing to confirm the diagnosis. What we have to do is what we do every day. Reporter i asked are there specific hospitals that specialize in treatment . Our hospitals need to be prepared. There is no one hospital that is the only hospital that can handle these patients. Reporter still, Health Leaders confident in a victory over ebola. If someone can stop it it will be the united states. Reporter its worth noting its not only hospitals Public Health officials are speaking with, talking to nurses and pharmacists and anybody who has contact and could potentially have ebola. They want to make sure theyre prepared as well. At 6 00, where does the d. C. Area sit when it comes to testing for ebola. I took that question to Public Health leaders. That answer at 6 00. Live in arlington tonight. David culver, news4. Thank you. For symptoms you need to watch for an what you shouldnt worry about visit our special page on nbcwashington. Com. Search ebola crisis. We have an information f sto will only see on news4. Officers worried they may have been targeted by a sniper. Tracee wilkins is hive in oxen hill to tell us about this. Tracee. Reporter its under investigation to see if this gunman was actually targeting Police Officers. The Fourth District is located in an open area. They want to keep it that way but want to make sure this Police Station is safe. They were changing shifts. At that point they heard what they thought was gunfire. Reporter it happened just after midnight last wednesday. Were behind the district station where officers switch out from personal vehicles to police cars. And it was here someone was firing from the tree line. We were handling it as a shooter incident and did have police force respond to the area and check through the wooded area with their flare system and canine units on the scene as well as assistived units we deployed. Reporter they found no bullet holes or damage to anything. One of the officers heard a bullet go past his ear but did not hear the shot. Some worry they may have been dealing with sniper fire. At that time, we didnt find any in the woods or begin the investigative process. Reporter Police Continue to investigation. Neighbors on the other side of the woods were questions. They did continue to investigate. Neighbors brief they were dealing with a shooter. They just dont believe the gunman was potentially shooting at cops. We did potentially have someone firing a weapon off somewhere in this area and believe those bullets may have impa impacted either on the ground in the area or potentially on the roof. Reporter coming up at 6 00, what police are doing to make sure their district is secure and why they are saying Police Officers dont have any reason for fearing going behind this building. Thank you. A man accused of shooting a little girl outside his apartment in the district will li likely face prison time. Carey brown will face charges related to that shooting. The little girl was wounded in february hit by a stray bullet. They went to an alley to rob a third man thought to be selling drugs and brown will be sentenced in december. Virginia voters say Health Care Issues will be on their mind when they cast ballots next month for the u. S. Senate race. At last nights debate, ed gi gillespie and mark warner took very different issues on the impact of obamacare. Julie has our report. Reporter dawn is a nurse. She says even though her familys Insurance Plan hasnt been negatively affected by obamacare she sees her patients struggling with it. I know so this people tried to sign up for the Affordable Care act and they were charged for it and never able to use it. It seems like a never ending cycle of problems. Reporter thats why she will be evaluating the candidates based on their view of the Affordable Care act. At Fairfax County Chamber Debate the issue drew a stark distinction between the incumbent democrat warner and rnc chairman gillespie. Gillespie wants to start over and scrap the reforms. You dont have to go far in the commonwealth to find someone who had their insurance canceled and lost their doctor as a result of senator warners support of the Affordable Care act, obamacare. Reporter he says he wont be able to roll out his replacement plan until friday. Warner conceded some changes need to be made and let some stay on the policy for three years. I want to keep the people with preexisting conditions get insurance. Make sure women are not charged more than men. They like the fact we can keep our kids on our policies until theyre 26 years old. Reporter this couple says Health Care Reform wont be the deciding factor on their vote. In generally, ive been healthy knock on wood so it hasnt impacted our lives so i focus on other things. Reporter candidates take on on of the biggest shift in decades, the advent of same sex marriage. A third candidate, independent robert sar vis, was not part of last nights debate. He wasnt just a dog, a member of a family. Rocco was killed during a nasty domestic dispute. Now, a former Police Officer learns his fate. Where is the person that took you . A call for help. Teenagers say they were abducted, duct taped. Its what happened after this 911 call that was the real crime. Could there be a crucial clue . Cameras captured what police found in the jar of jesse matthew. For the first time were getting a look at the personal items that belonged to the man accused of the abduction of the uva student. If you strong references to religion are among some of the new clues police say they found inside Jesse Matthews car. Hes the man suspected in the still uninvolved disappearance of uva student hannah gray mam. Reporter as the frantic search for Hannah Graham continued, few would have thought the suspect police were searching for would be found 1300 miles away on a remote texas beach or that police would soon be investigating him in connection to more missing girls. Jesse matthews spent much of his time on the run recently driving in his sisters stolen beatup nissan and it gave clues. Cigarette butts filled the ashtray and Charlotteville Police detectives Business Card thrown in the back seat. In the front, this religious tame and odd empty yellow nashville instructing someone to open this first. Inside the envelope, a cross. Down the lane is where the campsite was. Reporter the person who first recognized Jesse Matthews on the beach and called police. He drove past here and stopped dead still and looked right at me for a little while. A few seconds and then he left the beach. Thats when i knew who it was. Reporter as the waves crashed, karens confidence briefly weaned. Thinking maybe it wasnt him. Maybe it was. Her conscious told her she had to do something. One of the sheriffs deputies responded. Even after running the plate didnt have confirmation the man was wanted. I didnt get a good signal. The signal didnt come back right away it was the individual we were looking for when he ran the plate. Reporter as luck would have it it triggered alerts on other deputies computers and the deputy who shunned public attention arrested matthews. Did matthews ever tell you why he came to galveston. He was very quiet while he was here. Wasnt out there very long, maybe a day or two . Reporter what makes you say that . Id rather leave that alone . Reporter evidence he was thats being looked into, a part of a case. Reporter Hannah Graham is not the only young woman missing in connection with matthews. In 2009, morgan was found after a concert there and tied to a 2005 sex assault. Rape claims against matthews go to 2005 and 2003 when two women say he assaulted them. Both decided not to file charges leaving matthews with no arrest record for the alleged crime. But the mystery and search continues. Local law Officials Say they are confident she is not along the water where he ended his time on the run. They believe Hannah Graham has never left the state of virginia. Investigators say a man and woman were drunk looking for some change when they stole a special needs school bus. Police found the school bus with extensive damage 30 miles away. Appeared the suspects crashed it and the surveillance camera shows the two breaking out the windows and trying to set it on fire. Officers arrested them at a home near that crash scene a short time later. You may have noticed everybody has a clean face here today. The beards are gone. I couldnt do it. It took three weeks to do that. Today, we had to call it quits because it was a painful night last night. There you go. Actually half shave, dont try that at home. Its not a good look. We got pampered today and chuck there at the grooming lounge. There he is all cleaned up. You opted to shave at home, right . I could not make it down there. I wish i had known it was that nice, i would have done that in a second. Who is that . Our boss . And mike goldrick. Why did they show that . You dont have anchor news control . Its for social media. They lost last night. Im ready to follow the orioles, too. Im fine with that. We still have one team in the fight so to speak. I want to thank all our supporters out there. There were some haters but a lot of supporters, too. Take a look out there. Beautiful afternoon. Temperature around 79 degrees with plenty of sunshine. Nice and warm, winds northwest at 8 miles an hour. It has been a very nice afternoon today. A little on the breezy side. 71, martinsburg, 79, d. C. , 79, huntington. Very nice across the area in the afternoon. If youre biking this evening, sunset by 6 40. You head out at 6 00, already dark at 7 00 as temperatures drop. And temperatures on the cooler side. It will be a fairly cool tonight night. And Storm Team Radar all clear. We will have a nice evening as far as rain is concerned and cloud cover going back to the west and were talking kansas city and little rock. We have a couple of really nice days as High Pressure starts to settle in here. 11 00 tonight, were all clear as we make our way into the day tomorrow, plenty of sunshine to start off the day, nice and mild during the afternoon. We will see more cloud cover during the day and could produce maybe an isolated shower and on the dry side. Thats good news. High temperatures tomorrow a little cooler. 71 in leesburg, 69 in martinsburg as clouds make their way in late in the afternoon. Temperatures around 71 degrees. 42 tomorrow and only 67 on friday. 65 on friday and 64, very cool rather dreary, i think on sunday. Right now, the shower activity looks like it could have an impact on the next couple of days, especially friday, saturday, and your sunday. More on what impacts our weather could have this weekend. For many of us the weekend starts with friday. We could be looking at wet bleachers for friday night lights. Cloudy and cool and showers starting 8 00 to 9 00, mainly south of d. C. We are talking about wet weather friday for sure. And we get to the weekend with the rain continuing friday night, and means a soggy ground for saturday and sunshine late morning to early afternoon on saturday. Wet ground, keep that in mind if youre going pumpkin picking, 6564 with better chance of showers sunday the way its looking right now. Thats right, veronica. This forecast may still change. The reason why that frontal boundary to the north a little warmer and not quite so wet. To the south cooler and sunday high of only 64. We do warm back up, close to 80 degrees, making our way next tuesday and another chance of rain next monday and maybe next wednesday. We see dry conditions the next few weeks and looks like Mother Nature may be turning things around for us. They found a loaded gun hidden in his pants, not the only surprise but an unusual case for a man who got past d. C. Courthouse screening with a weapon. Shes the first lady who knows a Little Something about fashion and how shes sharing that passion to inspire local students. Redskin safety ryan clark sounds off on reports of welcome back. Im dianna russini. Washington redskins have only won one game this season. After the loss to seattle, players had mixed emotions. There were some who were laughing just happy they werent embarrassed on national television. Today, redskins captain ryan clark not thrilled how his team is being perceived turned it on reporters. Theres been a big deal made in the media about people behaving a certain way, you know, after a loss, you know, so as a media guy, i ask yall the question, how did you handle losing in the nfl . Im just waiting for the first person to answer that one. Its just me, right . Thats my point. You have no idea how somebody is supposed to behave. Youre saying because a Certain Group of people behaved a certain way, they dont care. You dont know that because you havent been in that position. Head coach jay gruden said he spoke to some of the players that were seen joking around and coach says theres really no problem with the atmosphere in the locker room right now. We will talk more about this coming up at 6 00. All right. Thanks. Right now at 5 00, a bumper to bumper protest. And taxi drivers shutting down traffic downtown saying they are not being treated fairly by the city. Unlawful cell phone charges. You may be a victim and we will explain how you may be getting your money back. Up next, rocco josks the up next, rocco josks the puppy killed in in cases of rape and incest, just up next, rocco josks the puppy killed in like t

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