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WRC News4 Today October 5, 2014

Moments ago d. C. Police confirmed an officer shot a man in the district. Now, this shooting happened just before midnight on wheeler road and alabama avenue in southeast. Thats in the Congress Heights neighborhood. We do not know why the officer opened fire on the man. Were working at this hour to find out his condition. Today Police Officers from all over virginia will search for missing university of virginia student hannah graham. Shfs last seen september 12th, more than three weeks ago. Were expecting to hear from the officers any minute now. They have just met up in charlottesville. Jesse matthew is in jail charged with taking graham. Hell face a hearing on that abduction charge in december. Matthew is not talking to investigators. Grahams parents made a plea to anyone who might know where they daughter is. In a recorded statement, grahams mother fought back tears. She said something must know something to solve the mystery. Please, please, please, help end this nightmare for all of us. Please help us bring hannah home. Thank you. There is a 100,000 reward today for any tips that can help police. We are following new developments right now on the ebola outbreak. The centers for Disease Control say a patient at howa university does not have the deadly disease. We learned the former patient, dr. Richard sacra is in the hospital again for an infection. Doctors are keeping a close eye on him, keeping him in isolation until they could confirm the virus did not return. Theres only one confirmed case of ebola in the u. S. That is in dallas. Nbcs Chris Pallone reports Health Leaders are isolating more people with suspicious symptoms. Reporter as the cdc and other officials try to calm fierce, more sick people with ties to ebola ravaged nations in west africa are being isolated and screened for the deadly disease n. Newark, new jersey, a man who got sick on a flight from brussels and his daughter were talk into the hospital to be evaluated. A patient at umass with a history of traveling to west africa is being evaluated for ebola. A disease that has killed thsa africa could become more widespread here. Although we might wish we could seal ourselves off from the world, were not going to be able to get to zero risk no matter what we do. At texas presbyterian hospital, the condition of Thomas Duncan has worsened, hes now in critical condition. Public Health Workers are monitoring people who came in contact with him last sunday. Representatives with the federal government remain positive the risk of ebola spreading in the u. S. Is minimal. The United States has the most Capable Health care infrastructure and best doctors in the world bar none. The United States is prepared to deal with this crisis. Reporter meanwhile the freelance nbc news photographer who contracted ebola in liberia this week will be flown to nebraska on sunday to begin treatment. Chris pallone, nbc news, new york. Stay with news 4 and nbcwashington. Com for continuing coverage. Online you will find out how ebola is spread and what you can do to protect yourself. Today a new memorial opens near the National Mall and the president will be there. It will honor u. S. Veterans. News 4s derrick ward is live on washington avenue southwest where guests are arriving right now. Good morning, derrick. Good morning. Were at the foot of capitol hill west of the rayburn building for the dedication of the American Veterans disabled for life memorial. You can see people have been filing by all morning to take part. We want to show you compelling video. This is from the website. This shows a time lapse sequence of how this memorial came to take shape. You know as long as there has been a United States, there have been men and women who give life and limb to keep it. What they havent had is a place to honor that. Today thats all changing with a stair moan that gets under way in about a couple hours from now. This memorial has been described as both bold and subtle in its form and purpose. Folks have been coming from all around to take part in this. That video showed you a compressed time frame of this thing taking shape. Folks weve talked to say its been a long time coming. Looking forward to it. It should have been done a long time ago. Im just proud to be here. I really am. Proud to be an american. Surprising that it happened. Are you . Yes. How come . I didnt think it would. Surprising that it happened, but people are glad that it is actually happening. It gets under way about 11 00. The president , a lot of other people are going to be here. Live on capitol hill, derrick ward, news 4. Back to you. The nationals trending all over twitter right now in social media. This as they get ready to head to San Francisco with the world series hope on the line. Just one loss in the nats game and theyre out of the playoffs. Belt with a drive hammered to deep right field, and that one is gone pretty loud out there. You can hear the boos after the giants home run in the 18th. You heard me correctly, 18th inning of the game. The game lasted 6 23. It is the longest game in hours in playoff history. A lot of you told us just how long the game felt. These are some of the postings on twitter. Ashley writes this game is so long that i raised a sheep, sheared it, spun some yarn and knitted a sweater. This one said the game is so long blue ivy, beyonces 2yearold daughter, has performed a super bowl halftime show. Another one this game is so long, my iphone 7 plus just arrived in the mail. You can see how easily this can take off. Believe it or not, the giants starting pitcher last night, also started the second longest game in playoff history. My only question is did they really stop serving beer after seven innings. That has to be a hard 11 more innings to sit through. Be a little rough for anyone who continued beyond that. Good point. Sounding off. How protesters used a symphony performance to call for justice after the deadly shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri. The fire that stranded thousands of air passengers. The Progress Report from chicago after dies of trying to get the system back on track. The sacred items destroyed in a fire at the 9 11 memorial thing is. Our crazy tax code actually rewards companies. For shipping them overseas. Its wrong and im fighting to fix it. Im mark warner. I brought republicans and democrats. Together on a bill that gives incentives to companies that. Bring high tech and manufacturing jobs to virgina. Because instead of outsourcing jobs to china. We should be. Insourcing them here for our people. And thats why i. Approved this message. Breaking news now out of japan. The Japanese Coast Guard launched the search for three u. S. Airmen. Our contacts at the pentagon tell us three crew members were washed out to sea near okinawa. Apparently they were taking photos of the high waves out there. A helicopter crew is looking for the airmen right now. Well keep you posted on any updates that come in. Protesters are not giving up in hong kong. Crowds right here camped out on the streets one week after the start of the massive pro democracy campaign. Scattered groups finding spots to sleep wherever they can. Protesters insist they will stay in the streets until hong kong gets more autonomy. And specifically the right to choose its own leaders. Today police will prepare for a situation they hope they will never encounter at an mva. If you live in anne arundel county, First Responders are holding a active shooter drill. They should be finished by this afternoon. Your next trip to chicago should be without any major problems. The faa says its running nearly nine out of ten of the typical number of flights there at both ohare and midway since the air Traffic Control center in aurora caught fire. Flights in and out of chicago have faced a lot of issues. They should be back to normal before the end of the month. This morning a generous show of public support. How a pro Football Player i getting help caring for his daughter battling cancer. A warmup on the way, right, chuck . Well need it t. Sun is out. All over my twitter feed its beginning to look and feel a lot like winter time. Dont you worry, warmer days are just around the corner. The go this morning investigators are trying to figure out what caused a fire at the flight 93 National Memorial in pennsylvania. We now know the fire destroyed an American Flag that flew over the u. S. Capital on the day of the september 11th attacks. This fire also destroyed the parks headquarters and a handful of personal items that belonged to the crew and passengers of flight 93. Now crews were actually able to save the majority of its oral histories and also photo collections and dvds. A symphony is interrupted by dozens of people protesting the shooting death of an unarmed teenager in missouri. This is the video posted on youtube. The st. Louis postdispatch reports the musicians were about to perform when demonstrators started singing and unfurled three banners from the balcony. There were messages about Michael Browns death. The protests happened last night. Police didnt receive any calls to respond. Fergusons unrest was the source of inspiration for an artist. Nbcs art holiday shows us the pictures coming from the pain. For ferguson, this is kind of like my personal therapy that im sharing with everybody because im processing my thoughts on how i think about it. I actually happened to be driving down west morrison on the day the incident happened. I was watching things happening with the police and all those things. Reporter at first the indelible images resulted in watercolor paint innings. Initially they werent images i was going to share. Eventually newspaper headlines in the st. Louis american became his canvas like this image following the arrest of Alderman Antonio french. Since august 9th he estimated hes created 50 pieces. The hash tag ferguson started to connect all these pieces together. All this is a narrative. A narrative thats intense and in your face. A father in mourning. A Highway Patrol captain throwing his arms around a town in turmoil. Its a tendency to think its an us against them and the police are the bad guys. Even with the images of captain ron, i dont want to be onesided where im saying, its the police there are examples of police doing good every day. I want to try to capture the human side of it. This allows me to say what i need to say without much of being interrupted or be interpreted the wrong way. It lets me get it out. That was art halladay reporting. Right now we want to tell you about a special story thats happening. Its about an nfl player whose daughter has cancer. Take a look at this. This is bengals defender devon stow with his 4yearold daughter leah. Hes been reassigned to the practice squad so he can take care of her. Together theyre getting a lot of attention for this story. It es done wonders for me. It does wonders for my daughter. Every time shes on a tv, she calls and tells me how shes a movie star. Everybody is keeping my daughters spirits up. I definitely appreciate all the attention shes getting helping getting the story out about pediatric cancer. The bengals have sold more than 10,000 jerseys. The team says it will donate all the proceeds to Childrens Hospital in cincinnati. You can hear more tonight on football night in america that airs at 7 00 right before sunday night football. You you can watch josh elliot delivering that sport. You wouldnt want to stand in front of him on the football field. Man, his 4yearold daughter, he multis. You saw her smile. How can you not, right . Exactly. Weve seen temperatures drop drastically around here. Yesterday morning, i told you it was coming, nobody believed me. Oh, its not going to be that cold. If you havent been outside this morning, yes, its that cold. Temperatures really plummeted during the overnight last night, down into the 30s and 40s. Outside this morning, sunshine has returned. Its going to be a pretty day to be outside. But its been our toldest morning in a long time. National airport the coldest morning since april 29th. National only dropped down to 44 degrees. Dulles International Airport 33 degrees this morning. Thats the coldest temperature since it was 31 on april the 21st. So it has indeed been a long stretch since weve sen temperatures this cold. Overall temperatures this morning, theres that 33 at dulles, 44 at national, 42 in an nap sis. These are overnight low temperatures. Now its sunshine retuing, things are starting to warm up. I managed that frost is out there. My twitter followers jennifer in hyattsvil hyattsville, scraping a little frost off the roof of the minivan this morning. Caught a few other folks out there in the twitter world sending me their frost pictures this morning. Right now its a nice looking day outside. 50 at national airport. Southwesterly breeze at 6 miles per hour. The real change is how dry the air mass is thats outside. This is static electricity dry weather. Be careful if youre scuffing your feet on the rug today. Temperatures have rebounded. 50 downtown, 43 at dulles. Even mid to upper 40s in the shenandoah valley. Quantico still at 48 degrees. So so youre planning to go outside and take your run, temperatures will be climbing today up into the upper 50s and low 60s. If youre running here in the next little bit, have a shedable player so after mile two or three you can shed the layer and stay comfortably warm. Nonetheless, no chance for rain across the area today or tomorrow. Thats good news. No big weather system anywhere close to it. This is a relatively dry flow in the atmosphere for us. Our next little chance for rain coming our way on tuesday will not have a lot of moisture to work with. A 30 to 40 chance for showers. Rainfall amounts will be very low. Going out tonight on night on the town, it will be chilly going out to dinner. Jacket required even if the restaurant doesnt say you need one. Sunshine, start to finish all day long. Hopefully you have a chance to get outside. Another chilly start tomorrow morning. 40s in the suburbs to low 50s. Tomorrow, a nice recovery. Southwesterly winds could be a little breezy at times tomorrow. That will just speed the warmup, 73 tomorrow, 74 on tuesday. Theres that little shower chance on tuesday afternoon and evening. That will be out of here by wednesday. Wednesday and thursday look great. The next real chance for substantial rain looks to be rolling in on friday and may linger into all of next weekend. I dont know if were ready for that. Well try to droi that one out. Its going to be a busy day for chuck. He is headed to the fall for fairfax fest. What . Say it again ten times. Youre looking at it right there. Also taking special equipment from storm team 4 with him. Why you may want to join the crowd. That is coming up. Im kerry dan. Im mark murray. Lets get ready to resultable. On tuesday, incumbent democratic senator mark warner is facing off republican challenger ed gillespie. The debate airs on nbc washington at 7 00 p. M. , moderated by our own chuck todd. Kerry, mark warner is the clear favorite. There was a recent poll that had the lead at nine points. Still its going to take a mighty big wave for republicans on election night. Were expecting lots of fireworks in this debate coming up over the health care law, social issues and the standing of both Political Parties in virginia. Chuck todd is playing a big role as moderator. The debate will feature nbc washingtons julie carey along washingtons julie carey along with we thought our cable internet was fast. But, our uploads are half the speeds of our downloads so 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 upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. So his homework wont be so halffast. That is up to him. 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This is the carnival food truck. Lots of rides, lots of things going on, rides and food. Just a really Good Opportunity to get out and enjoy yourself. This is an event set up for the youngsters in the community, an opportunity for them to enjoy the day and get out here and have a good time. A couple things you should know about this. It is free. You cant beat that. A handful of events will set you back a couple bucks. It can be a fairly cheap outing for you and your family. Its at the Government Center in fairfax. Out cant miss it. A bunch of activity happening here. As i mentioned, its really geared for family activities. Ill be out here all day long. You can come check me out here. Ill be here by the storm team 4 by 4 getting to know you guys. As i mentioned, late crispy this morning. If youre looking for an excuse to get out of the house, this is it right here in fairfax. Back to you in the studio. Thanks so much. Done. Im going. Chuck will

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