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WRC News4 Today October 18, 2014

G to storm team 4 meteorologt chuck bell. A light jacket definitely required first thing this morning. Colder air arrives today. Outside on storm team 4 radar, couple of sprinkles across far Northern Maryland into the panhandle of west virginia. They wont last long or add up to much. I couldnt rule out a stray dro. Northern Frederick County toward hagerstown. Of us wont need to worry about that. Weather headlines, autumn chill coming back today. Wind will start to increase. As a result, it will be day tom. Temperatures mostly in the 50s. Rising into the 60s by later on today. The cool air is coming. That p forect in a couple of more minutes. For now, back to the news. Chuck, thank you. The developing story of ebola in the u. S. Tht of Frontier Airlines says he learned this woman, amber vinson, who took a flight while infected, may have been more sick than originally thought. He heard the news from cdc and emailed a employees. The cdc says its very unlikely anyone was infected. Several flight staff are on temporary leave to ensure they do not get sick. Meanwhile in dallas, the head of the hospital where vinson was infected is opening up. He is speaking to Nbcs Jay Gray about what he regrets. Health care workers rallied outside Texas Health Presbyterian while dr. Daniel varga opened up about the struggles his facility has dealt with during the ebola crisis. The places where we didnt perform up to our expectations have devastated us. Repy the misdiagnose of the first ebola for the first time in the history of the united h ebolae that. He also acknowledg that his staff wasnt adequately trained for ebola and didnt wear full hazmat suits until october 1st, three days after duncan was admittly for nina and for amber. You have two sick nurses. Ive got two sick nurses. R theyve both been moved to specialized treatment facilities. Amber vinson at Emory University and nina pham at the National Institu of health in the good news is that window is about running out and were hopeful for that. Theyre tired right now. They do resent, you know, kind of constant, negative coverage. But theyre resilient. Theyre going to bounce back. Rep resilience being tested for many right now by the deadly virus. Jay gray, nbc news, dallas. You heard jay mention there, doctors are treating nina pham at bethesda right now. Shes in fair condition. Expected to recover. Theyre also calling her resilient. Phams mother and sister are also in town as she undergoes treatment. Well let you know the latest on her condition as we hear about it. A Carnival Cruise ship carrying a Dallas Health care worker planned to dock in cozumel, mexico, but was denied when port officials learned the woman was on board. The woman has not shown any signs of the disease but did handle a specimen. Passengers will get 200 credit and half off their next cruise. The boat is expected to arrive tomorrow. On over to nbcwashingtom for everything you need to know about ebola. You can track confirmed cases with an interac calendar and learn how the virus is and is not transmitted. Two people hit by a car on silver hill road. A man and woman were rushed to the hospital. Theyre both in critical condition. The driver of the car did stay on that scene as they investigated also, pinned in h feared for his life when an unarmed tee words from Ferguson Missouri Police officer wilson. Government officials still unclear why he fired at brown several times. That incident sparked protests in missouri and across the nation. Right now a Traffic Alert for you n less than an hour, crews will shut down pennsylvania avenue in northwest d. C. To repair a sink hole. The closure will begin at 7 00 this morning near 26th street in the west end neighborhood. Ddot saying one lane will remain open in both directions, but youre going to want to expect delays in the area. Everything, though, should be back open by 7 00 tonight. It can happen to anyone, even the commander in chief. This morning, the president s story after his credit card was declined at a restaurant and well tell you who saved the day. A cameras clear image that can help stop a bank robber. And closer look at the fault line that could be center stage they may not be the most handsome of body parts. Yet, there they sit on the sides of our heads. For the world to see. But what happens when they stop hearing . Should we stop doing . Should we stop living . Not today. Esteem. The hearing implant. Police in the fbi are looking for this man who robbed a bank in arlington. Its at the intersection with north harrison street. Detectives say the man is sixfeet tall. F you know anything reward. Lots of you have respoe new sea student hannah graham. Volunteers needed 200 more people to help search for her outside of a park in charlottesvill we checked their website, helpfindhannah and it says now everyone is signed up. Graham was last seen more than a month ago. 32yearold Jesse Matthew is behind bars, charged with her kidnappings. As the secret serv undergoes a reorganization, were learning of yet another mishap in 2008. The secret service says two tourists were able to walk through a white house gate without being stopped by security officers. The German Tourists say they had mistaken the gate for a public entryway. E not armed. No charges were fired. Mark sullivan did not mention that while testifying about a separate breach. Seems the president is not immune from getting his credit card declined because it happened to him at a restaurant. I went to a restaurant up in new york during the General Assembly and my credit card was rejected. Turns out, i it enough. Th thought there was some fraud going on. Fortunately, michelle had hers. Mrs. Obama saving the day there, picking up the tab. The president told reporters the story during a signing ceremony for new co protectio following data breaches. Powerful storm hin danger as hurricane gonzalo moves through. What have you got, chuck . Bermuda will have spent most of their day cleaning up. For us, starting to bundle up as a cold, northwest wind arrives for your we detai and your hour hour look at right now, take a look at as a russian ship leaking tons of fuel is drifting in in the indian ocean. Take a look at the ship, how it lost power thursday. Still not clear yet, though, as the ocean is very rocky and dangerous. Coming up on 6 13. Hurricane gonzalo heading out to sea after crossing over bermuda. Powerful category 2 storm made landfall, knocking out power to more than 70,000 people on the island. 110mileperr win knocked down trees, power lines and damaged bermudas main hospital. The storm surge could create widespread flooding. If my history is correct, its been a good ten, 11 years since theyve been hit hard. That hard, yes. However, they were grazed by hurricane fay a week ago. Its only the second time since 1850 that bermuda has had two hurricanes come so close in such a small period of time. So, ooh, its going to be a long weekend for our friends and neighbors in bermuda because theyre going to have a long, painful cleanup after what was almost a direct hit from gonzalo late last night. Fortunately, the storm is going away and their weather will improve. For us, get ready for a taste of autumn chill coming our way after another day in the 70s yesterday. We wont make 70 today. A lot of spots wont even make 60 degrees tomorrow as the cold air rides in on a northwesterly breeze. For now its a quiet start in the washington area. Mix of clouds out there first thing. Clouds across parts of Northern Maryland. 58 degrees. Light southwest wind in town for now. That will become a northwest wind this afternoon and turn quite gusty and that will bring in much cooler air. For now, temperatures, 59, 61 in winchester. Skies are cloudier here in northweste maryland and the panhandle of west virginia. As a result, temperatures there are not as chilly. Where the skies have cleared out, its cooler. 50 in lorton right now. 57 in southern maryland. So the impact the weather will have on your day, on the whole, relatively low impact. Be ready, though. It will be a good kiteflying weekend as a pretty stiff northwest wind arrives later on this afternoon. He futurfa sune e in and around the metro today. More of a sunshine challenge farther north and west. By late this afternoon and into this evening, increasing clouds, i couldnt rule out one or two stray sprinkles, especially in the higher terrain north and west of town. I dont think we have anything in the way of rain chance north of the metro. What little rain is out there wont add up to much. Hour by hour, 50s this morning, low 60s at lunchtime. And high around washington right at 67 degrees. The wind will start to increase after lunch. Clouds will pick up a little bit after the sun goes down. Homecoming, well have that later on. Noon kickoff in maryland. Temperatures in the mid 60s most of the day. If you want to see your game featured on our 9 00 show, send chuckbell4. Or twee whos playing, when theyre playing and where theyre playing. I need all that information to get your forecast out there on the 9 00 hour. Theres that chance for showers today. Northern maryland and southern pennsylvania, t about it. Any rainfall today anywhere across the area will be incredibly light. Sevenday fo time. Breezy and nice today. 60s. Breezy and chilly tomorrow in the 50s, after a very cool start. Coldest morning of the week will be monday morning. Best chance for rain will now be coming in on tuesday and wednesday. Temperatures staying at or slightly cooler than average for much of the week. Storm team 4 tracking fall special comes up at 10 00 am. Yo want to be glued to your set for that one. Are you hiding in some, i dont know, tall cornfields or corn stalks . Yes, children of the corn. That was us. Thats scary. Just in time for halloween, right . Thats right. Well, at this hour, 25 years ago, the San Francisco bay area was doing this. They were cleaning up from a huge earthquake. You can see that theres massive damage and panic. The loma prieta quake caused. Lester holt walks us through what happed tha day and how the region is responding. San francisco is in trouble. In oakland, a freeway pancakes. Scores are injured or dead. A few miles away, tv engineer don sharp is crossing the bay bridge. I noticed all of a sudden the truck leaped from this lane to that lane. Just leaped . Just leaped. Then i noticed that the bridge was swinging a little bit and i see all this dust. Repor yet as bad as it was, Scientists Say it was not the big one. It was a big quake but it was a big quake 60 miles south of much of the urban population. Geologists now believe every day brings the bay area closer to another major quake, far bigger than the 6. 0 this past summer in napa. We are much better prepared as a city now than we were in 1989 to respond to a quake. R since 1989, officis here have been racing the clock, requiring vulnerable buildings to be strengthen e. Reinforcing bridges and building this new eastern span of the bay bridge. Are you confident that this bridge can withstand a very large earthquake . Yeah. Its planned. Its designed, its constructed to survive the earthquake. Te if napa was a wakeup call, then this is one of the many voice mail messages, if you will, this ruptured sidewalk sitting right atoe fault, foretelling a were standing on probably the most sighs mickaelly dangerous fault in the bay area. Has it gone before . Repeatedly. The last time was in 1868. Rep its one of three fault lines scientists we concerned about. A 7. 9 magnitude quake here, they believe, could result in 7,000 dead. 1. 8 million homes without drinkable water and 300,000 people homeless. Earthquake, earthquake. Ep a new alert system that gave up to nine seconds warning of the napa quake could save countless lives. Lester holt reporting there. Still to come, remixing what was old and making it brand new. The big event planned as the New Springfield town Center Celebrates its well, second grand opening. Thieves stole one womans laptop, a phone, even a timed 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 have you seen the news about Barbara Comstock . First, the Washington Post reported, Barbara Comstock failed to report eightyfive thousand in income. Now, we learn, Barbara Comstock pushed a clients issues in the Virginia Legislature and didnt disclose it. Barbara comstock shepherded a trio of bills through the legislature and into law, but Barbara Comstock never officially disclosed that all the while she was being paid thousands of dollars. No wonder she hid it. This morning, a woman in green belt is hoping to get her dog back after it was stolen. Jackie bensen tells us about the 10yearold boxer and her owners plea for help. If you have her, bring her home. You dont understand the part of my heart that she has. Rep a gentle old gal, thats how gabrielle cowgillwilks described arwyn. The two have been together since the boxer was 6 weeks old. When she came home and found her home had been burglarized her first thought was for arwyn. I was on the phone with my sister and i looked and happened to see stuff was thrown all over the place and i was like, oh, she got out. And like, wait a minute. She. D then i turned and was like, where is she . I was calling her and i realized she was gone. Rep gabriel believes the boxer had run out of the open door or even pushed out of the apartment wite burglars, she would have stayed close to home. Days of searching have turned up no sign of her. People at a dog park next to the complex, a place a loose dog might be d say they have not seen her. Police believe arwyn was taken by the burglars. Nearly seven months pregnant and about to move to a larger apartment, gabrielle says she cant sleep, cant eat, cant stop looking for her best friend and companion. She doesnt leave my side when im home. She sleeps next to me on my bed. It feels awkward not having her there. The burglars also took a laptop, phone and a diamond ring. Gabrielle says they can keep that stuff. She just wants her dog back. In green belt, jackie bensen, news 4. Socalled food police have spoken. Hardtomiss items you may want to pass on next time you stroll down those grocery aisles to benefit your health. The big event happening on the National Mall. Nbc is glad to be a partner. Well take you out there. Plus, much cooler weather. Just how warm well get on this saturday. Keep it right here. Youre watching news 4 t. Right now, people are gathering on the National Mall for the audi best buddies the Opening Ceremony for the 100mile ride begins in about 15 thatright. Lets go storm team 4 eteorologist ver on by. Hey, vj. Hey there, yeah. Its a little chilly out here. Thats not stopping folks from coming in with big smile on their faces, part of the best buddies challenge thats kicking off within the hour here. Youve got bike races, foot races. Its all about bringing together these individuals who live with intellectu and developmental disabilities, the mentors, the organization the companies, the community, everyone that helps support that. You can see the bikes in the rack over there. Youve got the food tent so they can go over there and get some of the carbs. And the stage where ill be serving as emcee. Its about bringing together those individuals who have been living with developmental and celebrate their accomplishments, their achievements throughout e year. A lot of companies that have been out here today actually red them. At the core of it all again is the creation of friendships, onetoone friendships between the mentor and those individuals and the person who knows all about that, let me bring in mr. Anthony kennedy. Perfect weather. You know, forget about me talking about this. You talk about this. You started this in 1989. Its been going strong now for 25 years. What are the achievements youve seen . What does this mean to each and every Community Across the country . Swrornltown university where i started in my dorm room 25 years ago. Im into hire, to reach out to Corporate Leaders in this community to hire people with intellectu developmental disabilities, 85 unemplment for our population. Its not just about the money. Its about finding good, competitive, solid jobs for people with special needs. Thats been a great extension o mentoring progr i started at georgetown. The socialization, integration, inclusion, making people fee hu. My kid, your kid. You want them to feel included and thats something that people with special needs has not had traditionall you have buddy pro are in schools. Youve got them in the workplace, all over. We do, yeah. Leadership academy weve got going. And the good thing is weve got it in 51 countries, but it all started in washington, d. C. This is a special place for sure. My mom started Special Olympics in this community as well. Weve been lucky. Its a great culture here and great culture of giving. It is. I was part of it last year. I cannot tell you the energy, the friendship, the camaraderie out here. We have much more information, mr. Shriver, thanks for coming out. On our website, nbcwashingto search best buddies if you want to be part of this. Weve been here all morning long. We have a couple of races, also, guys, that will be kicking off. A lot of excitement back there today early on. Thank you so much, vj. Theyll have quite the scenic route this morning. Lets talk about what theyll entail. The 100mile ride starts followed by the 20mile ride at 7 45. Then the carl lewis 5k run walk, at 8 30 am. 9 00 am student fun run pizza party. Got to finish it off with food. As this best buddies challenge gets under way, ws e weather going to be like for that . Let turn it over to meteorologist c bell. What do you say . It will b day on the National Mall for all the best buddies challengers. Te morning in the chilly 50s, but not

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