Being faced with felony child neglect charges. Here in this nokesville neighborhood, there has been a and there are a lot of people very distraught here. Be a lot more to information before we can pass judgment. Thank you stephen. Press has a have a conference as they still search for Hannah Graham. They do not have a lot of information that can tie Jesse Matthew to Hannah Graham. Jeff . That is right, leon, they are not saying a lot, but they said this afternoon there is going to be a shift in focus when it comes to look for Hannah Graham. Sadly, they say there is going to be a shift in strategy. A are not elaborating too much. All are not talking at about the new developments further connecting a jesse disappearance or the murder of the other college student. Jesse matthew was working as a cab driver the night that the previous student had disappeared on tober 2009. She had used his taxi just two weeks previously, and no information about what was found inside the vehicle. Jail duringput in the investigation of Hannah Graham. In the search for Hannah Graham, crews remain hopeful. Ande do remain optimistic every day we walk out saying tomorrow is going to be the day. Weeks,he past two Virginia Police have confirmed a forensic lake between the previous murdered student and Jesse Matthew. They have not explained what those connections are. Coming up at 5 00, we are going to speak to the owner of a cab company who described Jesse Matthew experienced odd behavior. Abc 7 news. Police are looking for the man whom a dozen apartments to just stare at the women sleeping inside. That is live in college park with the details. Thad . The neighborhood that is being targeted is just over there, just east of route one. It is a neighborhood of singlefamily homes and fraternity houses that house riemer elite students. People have said and the last couple of that house primarily students. People have said over the last couple of weeks that someone has broken into homes to standing over women. Police believe that what is really going on here are burglaries and the person who is that they can get in and out with computers, tablets, what ever it is, but there has been some contact with these people who come face to face with the bad guy. They are saying to protect yourself. We talked to some students and they said that they are listening. Know my roommates have been very careful, we have known that we had some windows left unlocked, and we are now trying to be a safe as we can be. At 5 00, we have some more information on the story, including one student who woke up and woke up to find the stuff in there rooms were gone. Handief counselors are on at Duke Ellington school of the aftern washington, dc, the principle died yesterday. Died after payne collapsing from a heart attack. Members of the community are remembering this caring leader. He was so completely integrated into our entire family, and i cannot even imagine not having him as an educator and as a consummate leader, and holistic way touching the lives of the children. Yne was just appointed head of the school on august 1. D. C. Police are looking for a masked man who announced an execution in the southeast. The man i walked into a a barbershop a long good hope road and shot one of the men in the chairs. We will have more information coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00. Washomas duncan discharged from the dallas hospital after showing a 103 degrees fever. We have more on the outbreak. Scott . Thehere is a lot on criticism, especially from his family, stating that he should not have been turned away. They believed it had he not been turned away, he could still be alive. Is are arriving in west africa and setting up hospital. The pentagon meanwhile, marines are arriving in west africa and setting up hospitals. The pentagon says their projections show there will be 1. 4 million cases if it is not stopped. What they are hearing is that it is not communicable, people are relatively safe, but meanwhile, people are seeing pictures of people coming out of buildings wearing spacesuits. People are saying, i dont have that spacesuit~ people in spacesuits give the impression about the infectivity of the virus. It is not realistic. It is an overreaction, and i fearsit flames peoples about ebola. There are more reactions than help to ban flights from infected countries to the u. S. We are going to cover more of that at the news at 6 00. Back to you. Scott, thank you. Nationse, the united says that the rate of ebola cases are doubling every three to four weeks. There is a situation this is an announcement from a Flight Attendant before officials in full hazmat suits boarded a flight headed to the dominican republic. Have ebola, you are all screwed. The flight from philadelphia was all clear, but it was kept on the tarmac for two hours. This is only the beginning in a new front to stop the fight against ebola. The hotrs a leaving zone will be checked for symptoms, asking rushes, and will have their temperatures checked when they arrive stateside at five International Airports on the east coast. This includes laguardia and chicago ohare. We expect to see patients with fever, and that will cause some obvious and understandable concern at the airports. More than 50 million passengers traveled through jfk last year, that this will affect a tiny fraction. Exams will be done in a separate area by customs and border protection. Officers will step in to evaluate any potential ebola case. People leaving from liberia, arera leone, and new guinea already being screened before they leave those countries. We will be checking these airports. The who,cording to more than 4000 people have died from ebola in west africa, all but nine of those people have leone, liberia, and new guinea. A patient was hospitalized and released. The Health Department recommends a flu vaccine for children over the age of six months and for people who are 60 years of age and older, and for pregnant women. Also for health care workers. Ofthe nations Largest UnionFlight Attendants once your phone stored away with your goods. They believe that these objects could become dangerous projectiles. They believe they could also become dangerous distractions during safety announcements. Do you think you should have to keep your electronics off and away during takeoff and landing . You can share your opinion on our Facebook Page and we will share those a little bit later on the show. Find out why it is a great time to buy some appliances. That is coming up. Heand a man who claims that caught an officer using a stun gun on a passenger not wearing a seatbelt has new information. Why there is some new information for local university students. I am cai jackson, coming up, i will tell is there a difference when it comes to women versus men asking their bosses for raises . Apparently so, at least according to one microsoft executive. His comments about raises has people calling him sexist. Kai jackson has common. These comments were made by a a conference at for women. He responded to a question about women asking for raises by saying that women should have faith in the system that they will give them the raise in the right places when they belong. What do you think about these comments . Donna says that unfortunately this is the mindset that women at my age had to have when we started out working. Another viewer says that what we need to do is ask for equality. Pay r says that women women are paid 75 of what men are paid, we need to us for more. Of allays that on behalf men, just stop. You are ruining it for all of us. Have asked us to join weve asked you to join us in this conversation. You can join us on our Facebook Page. Said that heas answered wrong, saying that women and men should receive equal pay for equal work. All right, so how about the weather . It seems like today may be the worst day. We have been having an hawing, but let us start with a live look at one of our hd cameras. This shows the scenic river here, just a little bit of light rain, and little bit of areas of fog year. There will be fog likely across the entire area. The doppler shows a little patches of light rain and showers. Bad right now,y so the rain might stop and then start again. We do think that a little bit later ton i, it will get a little bit heavier. Later tonight, it will get a little bit heavier. It will pump up the volume a bit on the radar. That will be the story. The big question is about the orioles game. I dont know. Could they squeeze it in between the showers . They may be, they maybe not. We will let you know. It is cool. Lots of 50s right now with the cloud cover. Gaithersburg, 57 degrees also in quantico. Temperatures will drop a few more degrees, but without the sun the day, you will realize how cool it is now as compared to this time yesterday. 13 degrees cooler in manassas, and 30 degrees cooler at reagan international. About 70 or so, and we are only going to be in the lower 60s for the next couple of rain. The next couple of days. It will be about 50 to 55 degrees. The rain will taper off to an end at the Morning Hours, and we might see some rays of sunshine in the early afternoon. We may have a dry day here sunday with some sunshine. The farther south you are from washington, all weekend long, the less likely you are going to see sunshine. There will be some isolated showers in the morning, 60 to 65 degrees. Getoes improve as we towards columbus day, which will be back to 70 degrees. Ok. We will take it. Not much we can do about that. If you are in the market to buy some appliances, monday today through monday, virginia is holding a sales tax holiday or appliances and other products. They must cost 2500 or more. 7 news,g up on abc there are more demonstrations in st. Louis. This is after another police shooting. At this time, there is something different. And a pakistani teenager who was nearly killed for her activism has been the recipient of the nobel peace prize. Teenager is a sharing that prize with an indian activist. I think this is really the beginning. 17yearold pakistani child activist is in the spotlight again, becoming the youngest person ever to win the nobel peace prize. Is a childrennor rights activist from india. It is an important part for both hindus and muslims. Eight pakistani to pakistani to join together for peace. She was originally shot in the head to speak out for the right for women to go to school. Since then, she has spoke out around the world. That the onlyieve way we can create world peace is leadingity knowledge and education. She has remained humble, even in the face of extraordinary difficulty. This is really an encouragement for me. Ala has said that going to school as like walking through a magic door to your dreams. She was in class when the good news was announced. I love that. Speaking of being an class, we are just a few years hours away from an awards ceremony for teacher of the year in baltimore. Seven teachers are finalists, and we want to wish them all good luck. We will be watching. Premieresw show , abc 7 news and new then stay tuned for abc 7 news and stay tuned for abc 7 news on 11 00. Will show youi the unique design that pays locale to today posture showers could give into heavier rain tonight. The heaviest rain is in a band south of the richmond area but it is working its way in. That will be the story. Patches of rain showing up on Doppler Radar just north of washington. Moving out of baltimore, the annapolis area. The biggest batch west of fredericksburg. That is going to be pattern through the evening. You look at Richmond Southwest towards bristol and southwest from virginia. That is where the heavier downpours are. They will stay to the south but later towards midnight and after , a secondary area of intense rain could move across the region. It will be starting and stopping in areas of fog thrown in. It looks like most of it should move out of our area during the Morning Hours tomorrow. Guys inut those baltimore . There will be scattered showers. They could get the game in but it will be chilly in the the area. Things are looking a little bit soggy for the orioles at camden yards. Birds dont mind rain, though. It is kicking off tonight. You have an opponent on fire. They swept the angels. Moment of every or omentum everywhere. At 8 00 tonight. Lead the league in home runs while the royals are dead last. They only hit 95 all your wall the os hit 211. We are talking the alcs. We are in the clubhouse. They are hot teams. Hot teams are scary. Fun team tobe a watch. The team was supposed to be in the situation so i think of teams are playing on house money. That is why we are going to go out and leave it all between the lines. Your starter tonight is chris tillman. He went 136 in the regular season. Come on, adam jones. You have the best team in the american legal most the whole season. You have to go into this modestly. Being humble. Nothing wrong with that. Fans are getting ready for the game. Suzanne kennedy caught up with some of them before the game. Are in downtown baltimore just hours away from game one of the alcs. A very exciting day. Lots of people wearing orange, including a lot of new friends, roxanne, kathy, entities. What a great day. It is awesome. We will be on the edge of our seats but i feel we will pull it out. It will be stressful until the end but the os will take it. Everyone in town seems to be a good move. What has it done to the spirit of the city . I think it has brought everyone together. Everyone will be cheering for. It turned the town orange. Dennys, you are the one everyone is and being. Tickets in hand. Going to a playoff game. Im super excited. Rain or shine, we can win this. A lot of positivity in downtown baltimore. We are a few hours away from game one of the alcs. Suzanne kennedy. Back to you. We will have a wrapup of the game tonight at 11 00. For. C. Police are looking two gunman accused of robbing Catholic University students. They said the men approach them last night on pain street in northeast. Wallets,away with purses, backpacks, and cell phones. Vague descriptions were given so if you know anything about the case, officers want to hear from you. Tensions in hong kong as protesters return for a prodemocracy rally today. After the day government reportedly called off talks with student leaders. Students and activists have protested for the past two weeks , demanding a greater say in choosing a citys leader. Hong kong says the talks were undermined after the students called for more people to occupy the streets. Demonstrators are expected to march in st. Louis to protest the shooting of a teenager by police. The days of unrest following the shooting. Some protesters burned the american flag. Others chanted no justice, no peace. Police lined the street. Raw emotions were on display in south st. Louis where demonstrators remained angry about the Fatal Shooting of a young black man by an offduty police officer. Some making comparisons to what happened in ferguson, were unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white officer. The protest in south st. Louis began as a small candlelight vigil. As hundreds of people joined the tribute, the gathering turned rowdy and violent. Police responded with pepper spray. A protesters were arrested. Department showed a tremendous amount of restraint this evening. The officer was working on a Second Security job when he came across myers and his two friends. According to police, a began to run so he followed them. An altercation ensued and then fired. An altercation ensued in which they fired at least three shots, and the officer returned fire. Local leaders are calling this a case of racial profiling turned deadly. Police officers around st. Louis on high alert, preparing for protesters calling a weekend of resistance. Thousands are expected to attend rallying against police violence. As for what happened with Michael Brown in ferguson this past august, a grand jury is investigating that case. They have until january if to decide if officer Deron Williams will face charges. 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The results were interesting. Many people are automatically critical of the way they look at appreciate a complement. Llfemale rock band in texas has set up a mirror in an austin mall with similar results. We wanted to see how you would react to this. We welcome you to go to our w jail Facebook Page and tell us what you think. The rock band we welcome you to go to our wjla Facebook Page and tell us what you think. A mirror, ierson in would say, leon and allison, you look marvelous. You would not be able to [laughter] hopefully it will remind people to dole out compliments more often. After looking at the study, it affects men, too. One man said he would stand in front of the mirror all day. Like the man did not want to go home. [laughter] you can get lost in ikea. The talk about colds and flus, something could give your help a boost and that is a dog. Labrador. Com says having a dog in the family can help lower your cholesterol and your blood pressure. Helpers for stress relief and people who have a dog tend to be more active because you have to take them for walks. The study showed that children who have dogs generally grow up to be more nurturing adults. That is probably the only way the neighbors get to get each other. They know each other by their dogs. And by their smell. Coming up next dont tell me how i know that. We want to invite you to a town hall meeting. You have about three and a half weeks until you get to vote in maryland. On monday, our sister station channel eight will host the only debate between larry brown and jeff hogan. These are the issues. Stop taking so much money out of my check. From silver spring. What about crime . What i care about is education. I think the maryland economy and attracting more business to the state and reducing the burden on businesses. These are the candidates. The democratic nominee, Lieutenant Governor anthony brown. Ofi bring a wealth experience and perhaps even more importantly, passion to build a better maryland. Nominee, larryan hogan. State cabinet official. Lifelong maryland or who loves the state and i was frustrated with politics as usual in annapolis. The campaign has been called among the most negative in the country. Is desperately running false attack ads against me because they are afraid of losing. They should be afraid. People do not want another four years like the past eight. Smallestprotecting the group will be largest, wealthiest corporations who need it the least. In a state where democrats outnumber republicans by a 21 margin, polls are showing a tight race. Leading hogan 47 to 38 . Another poll says it is closer. Both candidates are struggling to get their message out. Strikingly, 45 of marylanders dont yet have an opinion on either candidate. The onlywill to you poll that matters is the one taken on election day and that is why debates such as the one we are probably hosting on our sister station news channel eight on monday are so important to help dividers help Voters Decide which candidate best suits their needs. Brad bell, abc 7 news. You can send us your questions ahead of the debate. You can watch it live at 10 00 on our sister station, news channel eight. More insight into former president bill clintons time in the white house. In 10,000 pages of documents released today, it shows how the defendouse sought to clinton and the fallout of his affair with monica lewinsky. It might be one of the most difficult things for many of us to do, turning off our portable electronic devices. Arguee Flight Attendants that passengers might not live unless they turn off devices during safety announcements. Her question of the day should passengers on planes be required to turn off devices during takeoff and landing . At the discretion of the airlines, the faa gave the green light to use devices when it was determined that they would not interfere with avionics during takeoff and landing, which is the most vulnerable time. Flight attendants think the faa got this wrong. They argue passengers are not paying attention to potentially lifesaving safety and security information. In d. C. From panel the Circuit Court of appeals denied the request to overturn the decision. Should the devices stay off . Here is what you are saying about it. You can join the conversation by going to our wj l. A. Facebook age. This is one of the issues that people will be talking about for a long time. Some of them could be lifesaving. Faawhatever reason, the does not think it is a problem. Coming up at 5 00, here is the big mistake most people make when they leave the hospital with their newborns. Yards. Go live to camden Suzanne Kennedy spent the day with a fans and we will have the excitement. There is a holiday change at macys. We will have that coming up. First, lets get a check on the weather and how things are changing up for the weekend. Not getting off to the best start weatherwise. Rainy, and the weekend will see slow improvements. Lets get you started. This is a Torpedo Factory at alexandria. Just kind of gray, a little bit of missed and light rain. High humidity levels and cool temperatures, mainly in the upper 50s. This is Doppler Radar. We have areas of rain that move from left to right across the screen. That would be generally from west to east. As a result, we will be intermittent in the rain. As far as baltimore goes, it is ok. More patches of rain are possible during the evening. We will keep our fingers crossed. Thee is even more clouds to south and west. The real heavyduty lines of showers are from north carolina, southside virginia. It looks like they will push off across the lower bay. We dont see immediate heavy rain. Midnight, two, three in the morning we could see heavy rain over parts of tennessee. Rain will be the threat tonight and overnight but tomorrow morning may see improvement after the rain comes to an end. Local or through most of the area. The higher elevations, the farther you go, the better it gets. As far as pete times, we will see in the next weekend, not this weekend but next weekend, our normal peak. The midoctober peak is especially visible in the blue range and it is past. It should get better by next weekend. Anderatures in the 50s 60s. A chilly afternoon. We will continue with a rain at times but our thought is it will end in the morning. We may see it clear in the afternoon and sunday is looking better. Even though it may be cool, we may get through sunday with no rain and partly sunny skies. The farther south you are of washington this weekend, the better chances it will be cloudy. The better chance you see some sunshine. The drizzle isw affecting the traffic situation on this friday. Not looking too good. Going into are Holiday Weekend getaway coupled with wet weather, making for dramatic delays. Graphicstart with the of the inner loop of the beltway. All the way into Montgomery County. That is an intense delay even by friday standers. Heavy and slow on i66. That is up into Montgomery County onto i to 70. We will show you northbound from rockville to gaithersburg. A report of a broken down bus. That is tying up the right lane. Not much better on interstate 95 with the getaway in full force. There is a lot of traffic through Prince William and stafford counties. If youre daring enough to get behind the will. Have a good weekend. Seven is on your side with a consumer alert for drivers. Mitsubishi is recalling nearly 166,000 cars and suvs in the u. S. Because the engines can stall unexpectedly. The recall covers the 20082011 lancer and lancer evolution. The 20092011 lancer sports back, the 20082011 outlander, and the 2011 outlander sport. The problem is caused by warner belts and pulleys. Next, breaking ground on a memorial anacostia parke version of rock creek park. Revitalizeking to marvin gaye park. They are breaking ground on a new playground dedicated to the late musician. They kicked off construction of a new playground at the marvin gay recreation center. It features playground equipment shipped as musical notes. This is amazing. Im hoping to see activities for the little ones. Neighbors complain the park is overlooked and the new features are overdue. There is not a lot of light here and activity going on. It invites a criminal element. It will make a major difference to this area. Playground construction heard rap in december but phases playground construction should wrap up in december but phases two and three will start later. This started when i was a councilmember. When you are i mayor, you can do more. Washingtonnization parks and people is working to revitalize the mile and a half stretch. In another section, thousands of volunteers recently transformed a Gathering Spot for drug addicts into a Walkable Community space. We pulled 16,000 needles out of the park. This is key to moving crime out of the quarter. Residents know that the parks problems will not disappear overnight but they are seeing progress. Now the neighborhood gets better. All three phases should be complete in 1824 months. Live from the abc seven 7oadcast center, this is abc news at 5 00. On your side. We began the day optimistically but at the end of the day we may feel a little bit defeated. Every day we walk out and say tomorrow will be the day. Crews continue to search for Hannah Graham. There are new details about the man charged in her disappearance and a fiveyearold murder case. Developments connected to the morgan herod had Morgan Harrington case. She disappeared in 2009 after a concert and we learned that Jesse Matthew was a cab driver in that college town back in 2009. Jeff goldberg explains how a New Discovery could play a big role in both cases. Tell us about it. A major clue is authorities recently discovered Jesse Matthews taxicab outside of town. Charlottesville police not saying anything about the case today. Search crews are 99 done searching a targeted area north and west of town. Still, nothing. After 27 days of searching for Hannah Graham, there are no big breaks. There is also no quit. Motivation, wee believe that every day is the day. New information further ties Jesse Matthew, the suspect in the Hannah Graham case, to the disappearance and death of Morgan Harrington, who went missing after a metallica concert in 2009. I know he was out working that night. Mark brown, who owns yellow cab in charlottesville says many of the drivers who knew matthew at the time have reached out to authorities. We had 20 drivers who provided information to the police concerning him. Matthew was working for access taxi which is out of business. Authoritieso, recovered his cap on a farm outside of town. Matthew