Of a possible ebola case here in our region. A patient at Howard University hospital was tested for the virus. Were still working right now to try to figure out those results. News 4s derrick ward meanwhile joins us live from the hospital. Derrick, what can we expect and learn later today . Well, we may learn more about the condition of the patient. Probably around noon as we hear from a spokesperson for the hospital. But you can say that the fears and concerns about ebola in our area as they stand right now have been cut by 50 . That is without knowing exactly the fate of the patient here at Howard University hospital. Now it was yesterday when we learned that a patient was admitted here in stable condition, exhibiting symptoms of the ebola virus. And that patient had indeed traveled to the country of nigeria and africa. So that patient has been admitted here. Tests are being run. The person is isolated and the cdc as well as the local Health Department were notified about this patient. Tests are being run as we said. Of course there was a patient yesterday that we were told had possibility of ebola at shady grove adventis hospital. That patient had malaria. It is good news when the alternative is ebola. Malaria is treatable and a lot less communicable than the ebola virus. It can only be transmitted through infected mosquitos. Well learn more about the fate of this patient. Still being checked for ebola. They dont think its a full blown case, but some signs are there. Live outside Howard University hospital, news 4. Thanks so much. This morning were learning texas officials will burn items collected from the home where the first u. S. Patient diagnosed with ebola spent time. A Hazardous Materials crew is decontaminating the dallas apartment. Nbcs reporter has more on the careful cleanup effort. Are you nervous . Absolutely. They depend on me. Its safe to say this is the most high profile job they have ever had. On sight 11 crew members sealed up the cars used by the family. Its right where we were doing our work. We wanted to protect our guys, anything going in the area. We didnt really want to, you know, be that close to the car without it being protected. Reporter then they went into the apartment and the family of Thomas Eric Duncan kold home. The first patient in the United States to be diagnosed with ebola. My guys went in. They reported back to me and said that, you know, its not as bad as someone might think. And then they were able to move through it pretty quick. In what is being called phase one, soiled linens, towels and clothing were put in containers. And mattresses were put in three bags and done in an abundance of caution. Do you think this is the most dangerous project youve ever had . Maybe personally. The crews worked in the apartment which was covered by a tarp. That was our call. Duncans family watched and then around 6 00 in the evening left the apartment in a van with local leaders. They just watched the guys and, you know, let us do our work. Were told this job, the cleanup will cost the state of texas 65,000. Its not over yet. The job will take days. We have families just like everyone else. We want to go home to them and determined to do it the right way. So were in good hands. And nbc news crew is now headed back to the u. S. From liberia after a photojournalist tested positive for ebola. He was working with chief medical editor dr. Nancy snyderman. He worked in west africa for the last three years. The photographer started showing symptoms wednesday and quarantined himself immediately. Nbc news says as a precaution, snyderman and three other employees are now being monitored for symptoms for 21 days. Now ebola symptoms typically show in infected patients between 8 and 10 days after exposure. The disease spreads through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person. The cdc says if no symptoms develop within 21 days of exposure, the person does not have the ebola virus. Symptoms plus how the cdc roolz out ebola cases head to nbcwashington. Com. This morning, an 8yearold boy is in the hospital following a shooting that hurt three people just outside Anacostia Park in the district. We brought you this breaking news last night. We were there. We watched as medics loaded one of the victims into the ambulance. The shooting happened in the parking lot of the apartment complex. Youll find that on hay street that is just off an costa freeway northeast. You can see right here where police found a gun. Were told though that boy was not the target of the shooting. He was taken to the hospital and he is in serious condition. No word on the condition of the other victims. D. C. Police also busy working for a person who stabbed and killed a man in columbia heights. This happened yesterday afternoon on 14th street near monroe in northwest. 35yearold Kenneth Young jr. Died at the hospital and police are now offering a 25,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case. Traffic alert to pass along for you this morning. Right now, there are no delays on 95 in Northern Virginia. But that could change this afternoon. So you may want to adjust your travel plans. Theres going to be a convoy carrying steel beams from the World Trade Center to mat reen corps museum. You can expect delays between 3 00 and 6 00 this afternoon on southbound 95 heading towards quantico. The joplin road skittle close. You can also expect delays on route 1 towards the museum. Its not just postseason play that brings crowds to Nationals Park today. Why you may want to consider a trip to the stadium even if you dont have a ticket to see the game. Plus, why the government is ordering the Marriott Hotel chain to pay up. The sacred item possibly damaged in a fire at the 9 11 memorial site in pennsylvania. Well have more on that. Is a lifeline forast cancer so many people. It is more than a community. It is a family. Theres always a hug. Youre friends for life. When i needed guidance, and i needed support, living beyond Breast Cancer was there. Last year, 5hour Energy Raised over 340,000 for living beyond Breast Cancer purchase a specially marked bottle now through december 31st. And a portion of the proceeds will help Breast Cancer survivors live beyond their diagnosis. Get ready. Get pumped for the pennant. More than 44,000 of you sold out nats park for game one against those San Francisco giants. Yes. And even though the nats lost, fans are not losing hope. Todays game begins at 5 37. A concert starts at 3 00 at yards park next to the stadium. There will be live music, food trucks and Face Painting for the kids. Several nearby restaurants and bars will also have specials during the game and noms. The garden noems. If youre headed to the game though, you may want to avoid the headache of driving and take metro if you can. Thats right. First 4 traffic reporter has everything you need to know to ride those rails. As can you imagine, a lot of people going to be headed to the ballpark today. Metro is going to be your best bet, even on metro though, people are being asked to fan out. The navy yard station going to be really busy today. You might want to consider the water front station. Its a short walk and can you avoid the crowds. Here are some other tips. Dont transfer lines if you dont have to. Transfer stations will be very busy. Preload enough money for a return trip on your smart trip card. That way you can get rightn the train after the game. Again, driving to the ballpark not advised. If you do, leave early. Expect delays and expect to pay 10 to 50 for parking. One other option, ride the baseball boat to the game. You can catch the boat in alexandria and at national harbor. Back to you. All right. I want to get on tt boat. That sounds fun. All you nat fans are sending us a lot of great pictures. We just got this delicious pizza. Why are they trying to tease us this early in the morning. Keep sharing your snapshots with us and how youre getting pumped for the pennant. Head to nbc washingtons facebook or twitter page. We love seeing your pictures and spirit. Got great ones, too. A Maryland Hotel chain has been fined more than half a Million Dollars for keeping guests from using wifi. They agreed to pay 600,000 to the fcc. According to court documents, a nashville, tennessee, location, blocked personal wifi hot spots in one instance charges guests 1,000 to connect to its own wifi network. They say the actions were legal and necessary to protect its guests from cyber attacks. This morning a threat at Harvard University. How the campus is learning about this case. Plus, the extra efforts happening now to keep students safe. And youll notice going to be a little chilly out there today. Right, chuck . You bet. Its not so bad right now. Many neighbors will be down below 40 degrees by this time tomorrow. When does old man winter blow into your weekend . That part of the forecast is coming right up. We thought our cable internet was fast. But, ourploads are half the speeds of our downloads our internet is really halffast. So halffast. Someone did a halffast job of posting our vacation pics. When i post my slow jams, im a little halffast. Totally halffast. Stop living with halffast internet. Only verizon fios comes with speedmatch uploads as fast as downloads. So his homework wont be so halffast. That is up to him. We are following a developing story, a pretty disturbing one at that. The terrorist group isis threatening to kill another american hostage who is a former u. S. Soldier. The threat comes in the same video that appeared to show the beheading of a british aid worker. Richard engel reports. Reporter this is the fourth execution of western hostages by isis in syria in just the last several months. In this case, it was a british aide worker, allen henning. He is shown in the orange suit very similar to other hostages killed by isis. Henning was a taxi driver who was kidnapped by isis when he was driving an ambulance into syria. The group also threatened to execute an american hostage next. A former american soldier who went to syria to help provide medical assistance to the syrian people. In these videos, isis is clearly trying to score propaganda points but also trying to provoke a reaction from the u. S. It seems to want to draw the u. S. Deeper into this conflict which isis firmly believes will be a quagmire for the United States and any other country that gets more involved. Right now isis is closing in on the city of kobani. It sits right on the turkish border. There are plenty of other towns and cities inside syria that isis could attack. But it wants to attack kobani right under the nose of turkish soldiers. They can actually see this battle taking place. And now turkey is also contemplating getting more militarily involved in the fight against isis in iraq and syria. That seems to be the isis strategy, widen the war. Richard engel, nbc news, turkey. Right now there is extra security at Harvard University after a threat of a shooting on campus. University police say several students and faculty members received a racially charged email threatening this shooting and they said it would happen sometime this morning. But some students say they are not worried. Dont have too much concern. Im sure the Harvard UniversityPolice Department will manage it very effectively. The university sent an email to the Community Warning them of the potential threat. The School Remains open. The flight 93 National Memorial in pennsylvania will reopen today, this after a fire. The memorial marks the site where united 93 crashed on september 11th, 201. Yesterday a fire destroyed several administrative buildings. The 9 11 flag that flew over the United States capitol was housed in there. They have not been able to get in and examine it. The memorial itself will be open today while investigators look into what started the fire. Today Laurel Police will stick it out in cooler temperature for a good cause. Officer will stay on the roof of a Dunkin Donuts on route 1 for 30 hours to raise money for special olympics. This is the sixth year the department has done this. Last year bringing in more than 6,000. It will be chilly and windy as they head up there this morning. The good thing is they wont have a shortage of hot coffee. Thats right. Send it on up. Send another pot of coffee up there. Theyre going to be out there this evening. Thats when its going to get really cold. You bet. The front already moved through the i95 corridor. And the colder air is set unwilling just as you settle into doing what you want to do on your weekend. Outside this morning, you hartley guess its going to be below 40 degrees by tomorrow morning. Its a cloudy and mild start out there. We have a little rain during the overnight hours. So roadways are wet. Some early leaves have fallen. Watch out for slipperiness on roads because of the Falling Leaves and wet roads. 68 degrees right now at national airport. But check out these numbers, humidity, 70 . The measure of moisture in the atmosphere, that is dropping like a stone. Its 10 degrees warmer than that three hours ago. Northwesterly winds. That is what is responsible for cool eastern drier air to ride in behind the weather front. The front is going to be moving off the southern tip of st. Marys county in the next hour or two. Already cooler and breezier weather up across northern maryland. Its only 54 in fairmont, 6 o degrees in hagerstown. Western maryland, oakland, 39 degrees the current temperature. You get the picture. Its going to get really breezy and chilly by later on this morning. Hourly temperatures, well stay in the 60s here through about lunch time this afternoon. But just as the sun starts to come out around lunch time, temperatures are going to start to fall off as the cooler air settles on in. A couple of great games locally to day. Of course the nationals is at 5 30. Good weather for that. The terps are playing host to the buckeyes. Its a noon kickoff. Sunshine by then. 66 at noon time. 64 by 4 00 when the game is over. Hopefully that will be a terps win. Some requested games today, navy on the road in Colorado Springs taking on the air force academy today. 63 degrees and sunshine at kickoff. Near 70 when the game is done out there in colorado. And you cant talk about navy and air force without talking about army. The black knights hosting the louisville cardinals today. 64 at noon for the kickoff up there in new york. And staying in the 60s with showers likely off and on throughout the game. Back here locally, there is a little light rain outside first thing this morning. Nothing all that heavy. Just enough of a spit and drizzle first thing this morning. Much, much colder air is moving in. Freeze warnings are posted across the eastern parts of West Virginia and these are wet snowflakes here in western wisconsin. So even though we dont have any chance for snowflakes here, that shows you how cold this air mass is thats coming our way. Our future Weather Forecast by 2 00 this afternoon, all these clouds are going to be scoured out of here about it return a gusty northwesterly winds. Winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour at times and then turning very cold late tonight and into early tomorrow morning. How cold . Keep in mind now many neighborhoods are already near 70. By tomorrow morning, upper 30s and low 40s. Seven day forecast time. A mild start to the weekend. A blustery afternoon and a cold night coming. Were joking about it on the early show this morning. Time to make up with your better half. Its snuggle weather tonight. Either that time to bury the hatchet and get along. Either that or invest in a good snugi. Those never get old. And theyre comfortable despite all the jokes. Theyre so soft. They are. Especially if you get the luxury one. Were one month out from decision 2014. What one candidate in marylands race for governor says he will not see from him before election day. 22 years running, yes, the fair fest is here. Im Erica Gonzalez. I can already smell the deep fryers running this morning. Stay with us. Well tell you much more about tradingin or selling your car, truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, book an appointment. And three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com happening today, can you take the whole family to the fairfax fall kid fest. Its happening at the Fairfax CountyGovernment Center in fairfax. News 4s Erica Gonzalez is there live for us. Whats going on . I got the tough assignment of being here between steak and cheese and the corn dogs and funnel cakes and elephant ears. 22 years running. It is finally time for fall for fairfax. You notice the leaves outside are changing. Theyre turning, theyre falling. Its a beautiful day. We want to thank our storm team 4 meteorologists for giving us great weather today. The rain subsided. The sun is coming out. This is a perfect day for you to bring the entire family out here. Again, 22 years running. This is a free event. We cannot stress that enough. It is free for admission. You can come in here. We have 100 different exhibitors and youre going to get to do a lot of different things. This is kind of like the best combination between a last grasp at summer, if you will. You have cotton candy and elephant ears and all that great food. But you also have the tried and true of fall. Lets put up that bracket for you so you can tell exactly what it is th