Be involved in conflict in the troubled region. I was in desert storm, so my opinion is pretty short and bleak. We were in iraq once. We should have taken care of it then. Reporter for some the human cost is too great to stand by idle and they support president obamas authorization of targeted airstrikes. There may be some genocide involved and i say by all means. I just dont we cant turn a blind eye to that, not america. Reporter the first bombs fell early friday morning less than 24 hour after president obama approved the action. I understand the position and wanting to help people, but typically foreign intervention causes more problems than good. Reporter opinions are also mixed over further military action, questions still remain over how deeply involved the u. S. States will become in the countrys civil war with some firmly against putting boots on the ground. Absolutely not. You know what . If theyre willing to send their kids and family members to go and get mangled and hurt, then sure, but theyre not, you know. So i dont want any more people my age getting hurt. We cant just stand by and see some of the atrocities go on. We never have and were going to take care of business. Reporter as more airstrikes are launched, the debate continue over president obamas decision. Vanessa herring, wusa9. The u. S. Said todays second round of airstrikes killed some terrorists and iraq military says it has taken out at least 45 isis members. With the fighting escalating overseas in iraq and elsewhere, the commitment of military families to the United States cause is unwavering. Stephanie ramirez spoke with some parents of the Naval Academy who got to see their children today for the first time in weeks. Reporter this is the moment these Naval Academy students have been waiting for. Students reunite with their family after several grueling weeks away at training. Midshipmen spend the rest of the day with their families today and tomorrow and then its back to school. Those members are considered active duty now as we speak making hugs that much tighter as fighting continues overseas. Today airstrikes in iraq. Both parents and these midshipmen are very aware of whats going on and sharing their perspective. What you see here today is a generation of young people like my son who answered the call to serve knowing were at a time of war. Weve been at war many, many years. Thats significant. Going into the Naval Academy i had not a huge idea of service. I always kind of knew i wanted to serve and fight for our freedom in the world, but theyve kind of indoctrinated all the principles honor, courage and commitment. My daughter told me something last year when she came to a seminar here and she said when she decided to come here, mom, its not me, then who . That just changed my total opinion. We are fortunate enough to have the greatest fighting force and our job is to give people back their hope. I wanted to be part of that. I wanted to go to other countries and give people back their hope and ultimately that was my goal in life. Reporter at the United StatesNaval Academy in annapolis, stephanie ramirez, wusa9 news. Those are some impressive young americans. The class of 2018 Naval Academy includes about 1,200 midshipmen. The families, too, very impressive. Were the mcdonnells trying to hide the gifts and loans from Jonnie Williams . That question front and center as the stock broker testifies. Reporter Jonnie Williams gave Maureen Mcdonnell a 50,000 loan. She used about 30,000 of that to buy Star Scientific stock. As far as public officials, they have to report anything that family members have over 10,000. Today on the stand john piscatelli, the mcdonnells stock broker, he testified Maureen Mcdonnell wanted to get those shares out of her name in both 2011 and 2012 in order to avoid reporting requirement. Also on the stand today was another Star Scientific executive. Paul perito is a former federal prosecutor board chair and coo at star when ceo Jonnie Williams spent 165,000 of his own money lavishing the mcdonnells with shopping trips, vacations, golf outings and loans. Perito said he had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of that activity. Reporter did you really not know about all those gifts . He did. He said everything he had to say in the courtroom. Dont you think that was quite enough . Thank you very much. Reporter perito said he at first was wary of williams relationship with the Virginia Governor and his wife concerned about the political ramifications of his company not taken seriously, but he said he grew to accept the governors support hoping it would give his product antabloc credibility and influence the Virginia Tobacco commission to fund a study. Star hired former Virginia Attorney general gary kilgore to pursue those tobacco grants. Ready to get it over with. Reporter perito testified he did not know kilgores brother terry is chair of the Virginia Tobacco commission. Also today the governors deputy chief of staff matt conrad testified that he had heard there were piles of gifts in the first ladys closet. My experience with the governor is he is a fine man who did a lot of good for virginia. Reporter Terry Kilgore did not testify. Its likely hell be on stand monday. In richmond peggy fox, wusa9. That stock broker six times during the trial today was reminded by the prosecutor what he said under oath to the grand jury. They were all statements that could be damaging to the mcdonnells. Virginia attorney general mark herring petitioned the u. S. Supreme court to review lower court rules that have struck down virginias ban on same sex marriage. Herring believes the recent rulings were correct but feels the Supreme Court is destined to have the final say. He said, i look forward to a final resolution that affirms the fundamental right of all virginians to marry. Meanwhile floridas Supreme Court is asking courts to stop considering same sex marriage until the Supreme Court weighs in on the issue. Judges in four counties have overturned licenses. The attorney general says florida will deter to the Supreme Court. The university of maryland resolved its differences with the Atlantic Coast conference w the acc to keep the more than 31 million bucks it withheld when the terps announced they were leaving the conference in favor of the 10. In return the acc agreed to drop its lawsuits against university of maryland. Maryland has no further financial obligations to the acc and stop laughing because i said university of the maryland. Its not that funny. Its not. Weve got a serious story here in that police recovered a huge clue in the murder of a store clerk. Tonight theres fear the killer caught on camera at the exxon station in hanover, maryland, may strike again. Reporter im scott brook hanover, maryland broom in hanover, maryland, where Anne Arundel Police turned over a clue of the shocking murder of a store clerk. A memorial here continues to grow for 49yearold night clerk Rajindar Kumar whose death was caught on video, no chance or warning given by a merciless suspect who pulled the trigger immediately as he entered the store a. M. Thursday. Early today police did find the driver of an suv theyve been looking for seen in the video, a potential witness who may have had no idea what was happening when he drove in the station. They could glean some light on something, a direction, whether the person made a left or right, whether they entered a vehicle. Somebody may recognize the person even though the images may be grainy by their walking, stature or how they run. These are Little Things that are important. The death of james brady, president Ronald Reagans press secretary wounded in the attempt on reagans life in march of 1981 is now listed officially as a homicide. Thats the ruling from the virginia medical examiner. The report says bradys death is the result of injuries he suffered now 33 years ago and that means the gunman could be charged with bradys murder in federal court. Coming up fighting resume between israel and hamas just one minute after the latest ceasefire expires. Another great night, not humid, not that warm. Well show you the numbers, below average on both counts, High Temperature 84, the low 69. Average is 87 and 71. Might remember the record high 102 set back in 2007. Well come back, talk about the weekend. We have not issued yellow alerts, doesnt mean we wont chase a couple showers. Well explain. Reporter those here on hawaiis big island are assessing damage after the the rockets are once again falling in gaza following a three day ceasefire. Hamas began firing rockets less than one minute after the ceasefire. Israel responded, one hitting a mosque killing a 10yearold boy. Israel pulled its delegation out of cairo saying it wont negotiate while hamas is firing rockets. Hamas said it will keep on firing rockets till it extracts key confessions from israel and hamas warns it is not afraid to drag israel into a long and bloody war. The World Health Organization declared the Ebola Outbreak in west africa a World Public Health emergency and is asking for money and resources to try to stop the virus. The United States has been sending Health Workers to west africa to try to do that. Today the president of nigeria declared the containment of ebola an international emergency. Dr. Kent brantly and Nancy Writebol are being treated at Emory University hospital in atlanta. Defense lawyers cliffed their final argument today concluded their final argument today in the Oscar Pistorius case. The chief prosecutor accuses pistorius of repeatedly lying on the stand trying to defend against a murder charge. Pistorius faces life in prison if hes convicted of premeditated murder. Coming up a onetwo punch of back to back storms in hawaii. Tropical storm iselle arrives on the big island and hurricane julio not too far behind. Hi, its Howard Bernstein . Remember the thrill of a fresh box of crayons on the first day of school. With our give joy Operation Backpack Program you can send thcrese s ayonand lots of other great back to School Supplies to those children with a click of a button. Give joy. Operation backpack is sponsored by your toyota dealers and volunteers of america. Hey, i lost my debit card. Do you guys do instant replacement . snap what just happened . Check your wallet. No. No way. Your debit card should arrive in 710 business days. Its time to bank human again. Get debit cards on the spot, and no monthly fee checking with just a 100 minimum balance at td bank. Americas most convenient bank. After more than two decades without a hurricane hitting the state the first of two major storms is now pounding hawaii. Iselle made landfall overnight as a Tropical Storm and continues to move across the state. Even though its weakened it has major concerns, bigad shaban with the story. Reporter the storm sent trees crashing onto this house on the eastern part of hawaiis big island. You were actually trapped in your house for a bit . Yeah. Reporter matthew poleto was home with his girl friend and 7monthold daughter. I was in the kitchen making dinner and i just heard a big crash. Hit the house, shook the house and the power went out. Reporter the storm came ashore Early Morning with 60 mile an hour winds that brought down trees and power lines. Thousands of homes were left in the dark. Heavy rains triggered flash floods. The river rose 13 feet in 12 hours. Ben and paul kohler are vacationing from maine. We had to swim across the river with our backpacks on. Reporter hundreds of area people filled area shelters. Iselle is moving north and west dumping more rain on the rest of the hawaiian islands. A second storm julio, a category 2 hurricane, is expected to weak and miss the state by a couple hundred miles. Even though julios forecast is to the north, well keep an eye on it. Reporter the states primary election will go on as planned tomorrow. Candidates suspended campaigning today as the islands rode out the storm. 20 years since theyve had any major, major. 1. 8 billion worth of damage back in 92 with nicky. Lets talk about where this second storm is going. It will miss the hawaiian islands. They wont even have Tropical Storm force winds, which is great. It is a category 2 storm and will weaken to a category 1. These are local times, so theyre six hours behind us, local time for hawaii. You can see the storm well north of the big island and well east of honolulu as it pushes further away sunday and monday and will weaken to a Tropical Storm, but it will still be a category one as it passes north of the islands. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, 83, high 84, very nice. Look at the dew points and humidity, 36 . Just doesnt feel like d. C. , does it . Headlines, great night to be outdoors. Again its so dry in terms of humidity you can exercise and get away with it. Weekend warm, a few showers. I just said this a minute ago. On a scale of 1 to 10 the weekend will be 7. 5. It wont be that bad, just not picture perfect. Keep your tee times. Heaviest activity will be south and west of town, so south, fredericksburg south, Southern Maryland, Northern Neck and west in the mountains and west of i81. Heres futurecast 10 00 in the morning weve got temps in the 70s, 75 downtown, low 70s in the bushes, some showers even in the morning out 66 around culpeper and toward luray, nothing crazy heavy. By 1 00 showers showing up into Southern Maryland and this is where the action will be most of the day. At 3 00 a couple showers get into the immediate metro area. Its possible. Fairfax county, Loudoun County and the district but nothing crazy heavy. See all the yellows . That stays south into Southern Maryland. By 7 00 showers begin to wane. Youll be able to cook out tomorrow night with temps in the 70s. By 9 00 75 in gaithersburg, 79 downtown, some showers south down toward fredericksburg and showers in mountains again saturday night, not a bad weekend for us. 70s to start, 78 by 11 00 and 82 by 1 00, dry in those time periods. Dont worry about that. Next three days a few showers saturday, sunday, pair of 85s, 87 monday afternoon storms. Next seven days not bad. Afternoon storm tuesday and wednesday. Were in the upper 80s and were back in the low to mid 80s on thursday and friday. Holden is here with sports, something about College Hoops . Absolutely, topper. A couple local hoops legends heading into the hall of fame tonight. Ill tel hey can you fix this . Sure. You bet thats our new interactive speaker wall. sup . Thinks its a speaking wall. 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He surprised me because i thought of him more of an outside run. Thats all, but this guy he can really run the ball. Hes very gifted. He really surprised me. The ravens are celebrating their new look, joe flacco drove for 83 yards. New offensive coordinator gary kubiak got a solid performance on this zjside of the ball after the starters were long gone. We went out there the first drive, joe, all of us and we executed, but when we came out the same level of excuse came in and that was good to see that there was no dropoff in anybody, especially our younger guys. Nationals sent Stephen Strasburg to the hill tonight, game one of a three game set in atlanta. Strasburg is 89 on the year. Good news for the nats. They lead the braves by 4 1 2 game in the nl east. Atlanta has lost eight in a row. Bad news, the braves own the nats. Theyve won seven of 10 this year. Were going to go down there and win the series two out of three. I think wed be happy if we could do that. We had a rough time with them. Well have to play good ball and see what happens. Garry williams enters the naismith Basketball Hall of fame in massachusetts. He coached the team for 22 years, but williams isnt the only local connection headed into the hall. Former Georgetown CenterAlonzo Mourning will be inducted as well, a three time all american, the 92 big east player of the year. We had a nice little conversation before it went on here. Its got to be ewing, mourning and iverson. Ive got to talk about Garry Williams who was a coach when i there was back in the late 70s. 70s, really . I thought it was the 50s. Congratulations. Well see you back here at 7 00. Ice bucket challenge. Pelley tonight, back in battle. The president orders u. S. Warplanes to attack sunni muslim extremists in Northern Iraq to stop a campaign of terror. But he makes americans this promise i will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in iraq. 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