Frankly about what the science is showing on ebola. The virus was operating on virus time. And all the rest of us are operating on programmed time. And the virus is winning hands down. Harsh criticism from dr. Michael of the university of minnesota calling for more openness in talking about ebola. We have a problem with the fact that we think were going to scare people. Certainty does not exist. We have to start being honest about that. Introductions in developed countries are likely. Johns hopkins Predictive Modeling expert, dr. Joshua said, efforts to screen travelers are not foolproof because ebola takes an average of ten days to emerge. It doesnt entirely contain the thing because of this incubation period, during which you can pass screening. It will not go to zero. There will be an endemic cycle. There is a longterm prospect of ebola persistence and a long term management question that needs to be faced. A consensus is the development of a vaccine will be the only way to stop ebola in the long run and that will take billions of dollars, time, and immediate support from government, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies around the world. The strategy of isolating patients remains the most effective containment method and poor west african countries cant do it alone. Advice to americans from the doctor is to get a flu shot. You dont want everybody with a sniffle coming in thinking they have ebola. So, prevent the sniffle and get the flu shot and it will help sort this out. At the Johns Hopkins bloomburg school of public health, scott broom, wusa9. And one expert reported the experimental drug, z map remains the most promising treatment for ebola. So how prepared are we in this area someone with a potential case of ebola walk into one of our hospitals . Debra alfarone took a closer look at Montgomery County today. Number one, it is not contagious unless the person is similarmatic. After two cases of ebola in the u. S. And a bunch of scares and panic, Montgomery Countys top doc addressed the council with what the county is doing about the disease. Ebola is what is called a reportable disease, meaning any hospital who encounters a case must call the state Health Department immediately. But how prepared is each and every hospital . What about each and every worker . She have sent the head of each hospital correspondence and held webinars. I have to trust the leaders of the hospitals have taken that advisement in doing the discussions with their staff. We dont know. We dont know, but i can at least say that i know in terms of the Emergency Management responders at the hospitals that they are involved. They have gotten the messages, not just from me, but from our Emergency Preparedness manager here in the county. Ebola cannot be transmitted through the air, but rather through direct contact. In germantown, debra alfarone. You want to do it, derek . When were off the air you know what . We are always on top of the story even if were not on top of our camera situation. But, we have some weather to talk about and it could be pretty serious tomorrow. Top. Right now, we have a few showers off to the west. But by tomorrow afternoon, early afternoon, it will be rock and rolling in the metro area. Heres our doppler over the past two hours, you see some showers moving from warrenton across 66. Sort of on the shenendoa valley. A couple showers. You notice the showers and head up toward hagerstown and stay west of frederic. Frederic and leesburg. Probably be okay. In the metro area, we are okay. For tomorrow, a different story. Yellow alert tomorrow, Flash Flood Watch in effect for our friends out to the west between midnight and noon tomorrow. Showers and thunderstorms for us, heaviest will be in the afternoon. And wednesdays commute could be impacted in the evening. The only good news, the heavy activity will have moved through. The roads will still be wet. Critical times, 11 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. In the metro, if you are out to the west, it will be earlier. 7 30 tonight, just a couple sprinkles. Temperatures in the 70s. 8 00, the same deal. By 10 00, most of the showers con tined pho i81. Thats why they have the Flash Flood Watch in the area because you will get rain tonight and tomorrow. We will get that one line of showers tomorrow morning. By 6 00, a few showers possible, upper 60s, low 70s, but boom, big time activity. Well track that for you when we come back and let you know what is in store for us. A prominent rabbi is charged with vowerrism. Rabbi, Barry Freundel was seen setting up a camera at the kesher israel synagogue in georgetown. Police arrested him. Kesher israels website says friewn says freundel has been the head of that synagogue since 1999. The d. C. Funeral home is helping them out with a discount rate, but that family is struggling to pay that. Let it sink in. Michael willerson cannot believe in a sprit split second, he lost two of his daughters. Ive been pretty strong, but its hard. Its just hard. Tay they were both passengers in an acura, struck from behind while stopped at a light friday night in oxen hill. Two young cousins and a woman in the other car also died in the crash. Curtis and wilkerson leave behind ten children between them. The oldest is just 15. Right now, their mother is in heaven. You know. They want a chance to say goodbye. Oh yes. After watching news reports on the crash, sean reid reached out to the family and offered funeral services, including caskets, embalming and burial. The cost is a huge expense for his small business. I plead to the public to step up and help us out, come together as a community to make sure both sisters have a dignified home going service. They hope to collect money from the driver who plowed into the back of the acura. They hope to use that money to support those ten children. But these funeral expenses need the money for that right now. That money can be for the kids, thats all we want. To take care of the kids. After this. The family has set up a Curtis Wilkerson page and they have faith in the generosity of this community. In d. C. , bruce leshan, wusa9. And if you are moved to help, we have a link to the go fund me page in our story in wusa9. Com. Bob mcdonnell should go to jail after his conviction on corruption charges. 60 of the adults asked in the university of Mary Washington center for leadership and media studies poll say that mcdonnell should be sentenced to prison time. 28 say the republican should not serve time and 12 had no opinion. Mcdonnell and his wife, maureen, were convicted of essentially selling the states highest office in exchange for luxury goods and 120,000 in loans from businessman, johnnie williams. The mcdonnells could face decades in prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for january 6. Money and matrimony. Coming up, why experts say how much you spend on your wedding could determine if your marriage lasts. Really . Lets remind you that the final debate in the race is this week. Catch it right here on wusa9. Bruce johnson is going to moderate the matchup. What you can watch live thursday at 6 30 on wusa9. Com and tune in for a one hour special on friday night from 7 00 to 8 00. Well be right back. A hi. Ty . Im new ensure active clear protein drink. Clear huh . My nutritional standards are high. Im not juice or fancy water. Ive got 8 grams of protein. Twist my lid thats three times more than me. 17 vitamins and minerals. And zero fat hmmmm. You bring a lot to the party yay new ensure active clear protein. 8 grams protein. Zero fat. 17 vitamins and minerals. In delicious blueberry pomegranate and mixed fruit. Were getting now for our search for gas prices under 3. Southern Fairfax County and according to aaas fuel finder, the express stop in burke has got regular unleaded for 2. 96. 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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. Heres some good news with fathers with daughters everywhere. Spend less on the wedding ceremony. Economics professors at Emery University found that couples who spent less on their weddings have longer lasting marriages than those who splurged. A correlation between less expensive Engagement Rings and lower divorce rates. This is looking better and better. The type of couples who have a more modest wedding may be a better match for each other and being frugal relief young couples of a financial burden. Have the wedding that meets your life where it is. Dont have a wedding that you cant have a life to support. What about the ring issue . I think all of the rules apply, right . You dont even attempt to give a ring at all. If i did. Well, im happy i have three daughters. Thats good to know. Three weddings, topper. As i say to kids, correlation does not prove causality. It doesnt mean thats the reason. But for now, well go with that reason. All right, yellow alert tomorrow. Big thunderstorms possible between 11 00 a. M. And 5 00 p. M. Live look outside. It feels almost like summer. We hit the low 80s today. It is still 78. Winds are southeast at 15. They will continue to be gusty. Tomorrow may be a gust to 20 to 25 miles per hour. Perhaps more inside a thunderstorm. Heres the radar. Last couple of hours, this deep green there, which covers much of the valley is a Flash Flood Watch from midnight to noon tomorrow. We do see a couple showers, but most of the showers are well west of the metro area. If you want to do something through the evening hours or walk the dog late, it should be okay. A couple showers extreme western loudoun county, everything moving off to the north, northeast. So, you see a little fleck of yellow. Its headed toward perserville on our tracker. But again, nothing heavy or severe tonight. But, a few showers, thats it. Tonight and tomorrow morning. Bus stop temperatures, warm. 65 to 72. Take an umbrella if you walk the kids to the bus stop. Nothing heavy for us. But out west, a different story. Wednesday yellow alert for thunderstorms. Critical times now 11 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. And this critical time is for the metro area. So, if youre out in the winchester area, your critical time is from 8 00 a. M. To noon. And if youre east of town, your critical time is 1 00 to 4 00 or 5 00 p. M. So, were going to start the future cast at 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Yes, we have some light showers around, but for the most part, heavy activity out to the west. It will be a busy morning. Temperatures in the low 70s everywhere. By 8 00, we have temperatures upper 60s, low 70s. Light activity in the metro. Heavy activity toward martinsburg. By 9 30, look at all the reds. Thats big time activity. Because theres enough instability with this type of a system, and remember, this front has a history of producing Severe Weather, all kinds of tornado watches out south of us right now. I think were going to see some Severe Weather in the metro area, maybe in the form of hail. And or flooding with the heavy downpours. By noon, we see the line now from hagerstown to leesburg, back to fredericksburg and it plowed through the metro area. Did you see that fleck of magenta . Thats heavy activity. Were talking some heavy storms between 11 00 a. M. And 2 00 p. M. Through the metro area. By 2 00, they are now essentially over toward leaving gaithersburg, over toward columbia and then really hammering now much of Prince Georges County and even into charles county. By 4 00 p. M. , essentially they are gone, but the roads will be wet and there could be a few light showers, but were going to monitor this very closely. Kind of concerned about this front. Tonight, mostly cloudy, breezy, and mild. Primarily west of town. Low temperatures in the 60s. Day planner, maybe a thunderstorm as early as 9 00 west of town and by 11 00, get ready. The metro area, here they come. Mid 70s. Next three days, not terribly cooler. Low 70s, a couple left over showers. Very nice on friday, 74. How nice will that be for high school football. Next seven days, great on saturday. Big sports weekend. Terps in town. Homecoming for howard. Upper 60s to near 70. Berg di and gold here on sunday. Ravens in town. Temperatures in the mid 60s. Nice on monday, perhaps a few showers next tuesday. Huge homecoming weekend. Marylands homecoming, too . Yeah. Good weekend. All right, orioles are in the same position the nats were in several days ago. Nats did get a winning game three. Well see if the orioles can do better than that. The weather in kansas city appears to be cooperating tonight. Do the orioles have what it takes to dig themselves out and takes to dig themselves out and get that big w . Sports is next. 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Now, wusa9 game on sports with kristen berset. Brought to you by exfinty. The weather in kansas city is chilly and windy, but there is no rain and it looks like game three of the alcs will finally be played. It was postponed after nonstop rain. The Baltimore Orioles had another 24 hours to think about how they will dig themselves out of a twogame deficit. After sweeping the tigers, the os havent been able to get a win. Tonight they face former oriole, Jeremy Guthrie on the mound. Thleorios havent led once in their first two games and have only hit one home run. But his teams confidence is still sky high. 96 reasons to be confident in our guys and just like they do. Thats why once again, its so fascinating. You have two teams, really four teams meeting this time of year and everything, you can create a lot of positive feelings about it because youve been through so many battles. You have seen them respond so many times. Game three of the nlcs is underway. A little windy there. Biggest place so far, a three run double by travis to give the giants a 40, first inning lead. The cardinals are trying to claw their way back. Its 44 giants in the 8th. Right now, they tied it up. Today, they exercise the third year option for otto porter. Selected third overall in the draft and they also optioned the fourth year for Bradley Beale. Now beale talked for the First Time Since having surgery on his wrist. He expects to start working out a week before the regular season starts, which is october 29. Beale fractured his wrist last week in an exhibition game, but surgery was the best option and he is thankful it wasnt any worse. It is frustrating a little bit. But at the end of the day, it is what it is. At least im not out for a long period of time, and at least im not because it could have been a lot worse. I could have been out for six to nine months. Im fortunate it was my left hand, and two, can be back pretty soon. Taking on san jose sharks. Caps looking for their first home win of the season. And if they can score a goal against the sharks tonight, they will be the first team this season that have been able to do so. Sharks have posted two shutout wins. Well have highlights at 11 00. The maryland terrapins back to work after a bye week against iowa. The terps are slight favorite heading into saturdays game despite the hawkeyes being 20 in the big ten. Whwill start under center for maryland . C. J. Brown is the guy, even though he was pulled in the second half against ohio state two weeks ago. The coach says he isnt ieworrd about his qbs confidence taking the hit, despite being benched. I dont think cjs confidence is any issue at all. He knows that, you know, when we sit down after the game and watch the film, you know, there are mistakes that are made and you correct them and move forward and go to the next game, so his confidence is good. And a reminder to vote in our High School Game of the week poll. Four great games for you to choose from as topper says, it will be a beautiful night on friday. So text the code that is next to the game that you like to 25543 and vote online at u. S. A. Today. Get your votes in. You think Bradley Beale will let us sign his cast . What do you think . Maybe hell let us media folks sign it. Hurry back, will you . We need you. Only when youre ready. Thats it for us, the cbs evening news is coming u