Glimpse inside one of the hospitals ready to handle whatever comes. It took just five days to build out the unit for this ebola patient. Patient anded with survivor safety in mind. Coming up tonight at 5 00 we have an exclusive look at this new unit. Thank you. A maryland man accused of jumping the white house fence appeared calm her one day after his outburst in federal court. Lower court today at a hearing on the previous charges for jumping the white house fence after they were postponed. Yesterday he was found incompetent to stand trial. The judge ordered him to undergo psychiatric evaluation and treatment for the next 45 days but he is expected back in court in december. Another highprofile National Security case connected to the Boston Marathon bombings. Kyle jackson joins us from the live desk with more to the story. Ofhe has been found guilty lying to federal agents who were deadlygating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. After six days of deliberations a federal jury found him guilty of two counts of making false statements. Prosecutors say that he lied about what he witnessed the night that his friends went to the dorm room with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. At the time he was a student at the university of massachusetts dartmouth. They say that he removed a backpack with incriminating evidence in the bombings. The Attorney Says that he was high and did not remember anything. Michael dukakis even testified as a character witness. The u. S. Attorney in the case said that he lied about what he knew and could have helped. Is false statements and irresponsible actions seriously impeded the Law Enforcement terrorism investigation going on at the time and our ability to swiftly catch those responsible. Onhe will be sentenced january 29th and faces the maximum of eight years in prison on each count. Authorities believe that the brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, was the mastermind. They also believe that the brothers were responsible for kim killing and m. I. T. Officer three days later. Tamerlan tsarnaev was killed in a firefight with police, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remains behind bars awaiting trial. Thank you. We are right now uncovering chilling details about the deadly High School Shooting in washington state. A source told cna that thatcher told cnn that he took a selfie of himself holding a gun and send it to the next girlfriend prior to the shared to the shooting. On monday the sheriff in marysville reveal that he sent a text to his victims asking them to meet him for lunch, which is when he killed two people and wounded three others for taking his own life. The motive remains unclear. John kerry is in canada to offer condolences and express solidarity with the country following last weeks terror attack. He arrived in ottawa to later meet at the National War Memorial in honor of the soldier shot and killed standing guard. He attended the funeral in ontario, along with the canadian Prime Minister and other dignitaries. You see them along the miles of highway along the country, but news came to light about a. Otentially deadly design flaw virginia could become the first state in the country to take them out of service. Jeff goldberg is live in Tysons Corner with more details. Since 2000 six vdot has installed 11,000 across the state. Inspectors have been going across the state to replace a certain type of railing because of problems that have recently come to light. The type of rail that they are ,ooking for is the modified manufactured by a Company Called trinity in dallas, texas, claiming that when a vehicle strikes the railhead and locks up and goes through the car instead of peeling off to the side and this has led to serious injuries and even death. Totals presented crash test documentation and the data is on the way, but in the meantime they are beginning the process of removing the rail in question. Be done forto safety purposes. Especially in this area. It needs to be safe. It is not a done deal. Trinity says that there really is no reason to remove these rails. Here what north for both organizations have to say coming up tonight at 5 30. Until then, jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. Thank you. Lets talk about the weather. Yes, lets. Could not ask for a better day, especially considering this is the last week in october. So enjoy it. The word now is to get ready for things to get scarier as we get closer to halloween. Doug hill is here to scare us with that news. Listen, it is going to get cooler the middle of the week and then colder over the weekend. The concern since yesterday as the showers that are coming in the next round of this cold front. Is it going to wash out your party or affect trickortreating . We have the details coming up in the next hour. 77 as we look out live across the city right now, look at these numbers. 85 and fredericksburg. 80 one in dallas. 77 at the Reagan National airport. Temperatures running warmer than they were at the same time yesterday. A nice push of warm air against this approaching cold front. We will be dropping into the upper 60s with the south southwesterly wind. Tomorrow, a bit cooler with showers on the cold front. Wait until you see how much colder it would get this weekend. The sevenday will get your attention in a hurry. Thank you very much. Did you stay up to watch the redskins last night . You know that we did. [laughter] they may not be having the best season, but they did beat alice and thats all that matters. For some fans thats all we need for a successful season. Very exciting. You are right about beating dallas. Talk about an attitude adjuster for washington fans . Thats it. But as far as the rest of the season they have minnesotas next and then they will take over the final seven games of the season. A lot of football to be played, but look at these mistakes. 25 for 30, he did throw an interception Desean Jackson and was sacked three times. Folks, he rallied this team, never wavering in his leadership , slicing headfirst between defenders and the end zone, definitely the emotional leader of the game. I messed somethings up in the first half, but the coaches kept pushing me and finally i made some big plays to win the game. Again, this is a huge team win. The most important thing for us is we have just got to keep this going. A man. The Unsung Heroes of the game of the defenders. The skins got him five times last night, throwing blitz packages that the cowboys could not solve. If you blitz, you have to cover. Michele, anderson and a terrific game holding the cowboys at 17 points. No one gave the redskins a chance in this game. None of the socalled experts thought that they could win. We expect to win. We expected to win and we played like it. You heard a lot of crab being talked this week. That there would be no chance. Whos laughing now . No one believed except in that locker room. The win snapped a sixgame winning streak. There win over the titans last week kept them from going over the edge and losing the season, but this win last night may have turned the season completely around. We will see. He has made a lot of friends like talking about what he did wrong and what the team did right. Quarterback controversy . They love that in this town. Enough of that. Thank you. All day on social media they have been showing the video that showed the Public Relations department of the redskins riffing on and away from an interview. Check this out. Here we are in texas as the cowboys and the redskins no means no. No means no, in case you could not read lips. He says he was just doing his job and wanted to make sure that mccoy was back in the locker room in time. He also told us that if he could do it next do it again, he would be more diplomatic. We have this question of the day for you, after his performance last night do you think that the redskins have decisions to make about the quarterback position . I used the word controversy purposefully. Show your answers, we will share your responses of it later in this newscast. Later in the season they are talking about a possible quarterback controversy. Ed gillespie released an ad last night during the game but took a jab at mark warner for not taking a stance on the teams name. Gillespie points out that he wont answer a few supports a senate bill to force the team to change its name. Gillespie says that he would oppose such legislation. Tonight we take a closer look at ed gillespie. I could be effective on day one for my fellow virginians. I will work across the aisle, with democrats and republicans, anyone willing. You could see more of that interview tonight at 6 00. Great to have you here. Governor Chris Christie in maryland today, doing what he can for larry hogan ahead of election day. Hogan is trying to win the race for governor there against anthony brown. Today the campaign against gun violence gave its vote to brown. On thursday first Lady Hillary Clinton will be something for him in the area as well. Be sure to join our town hall meeting ahead of tuesdays election. We will be talking about the future and the balance of power on capitol hill. The conversation plays out thursday night at 8 30, streaming live over a wjla. Com. 4 00, a reacht out from an election. In our area they are scrambling to fix faulty Voting Machines. Tonights launch has been scrubbed because of the low. Thats right. Plenty of people were upset last night because they did not get to see the rocket launched from virginia. When can you get your chance to see it . What did we learn about the voter . A little bit later. Service you use a car designed specifically for your kids . Designed specifically for your kids . After filling out their hogan iquestionaire, aight. Hogan was awarded an a from the nra. But now he refuses to release his responses. The nra opposes comprehensive background checks. They want to weaken marylands gun safety laws. Even support letting suspects on the fbi terror watch list buy guns. On gun safety and terror, the nra is wrong. Hogan gets an a from the nra. On protecting maryland, we just cant trust him. Toyso dollars and . 50 in tolls, now she owes 2500 in fines. Find out what the company is doing to change their policy and see if your fees may get waived under the new first time forgiveness program. Coming up on new at 6 00. The fight between d. C. Cabdrivers and Services Like uber is going into high gear. Today the d. C. Council took action to put the brakes on it all. Sam is live outside the wilson building. Whats the story here . You said that they were going to put the brakes on it . Well, they did. Only oneuber won, vote went against them. They pass laws that were very favorable to them, giving them a status in the d. C. Code. The cab unione of members earlier today. We want to make sure that the bill that comes out, if they give them the bill, then we should be able to live by the same bill, the taxicab drivers. Well, d. C. Taxicab drivers were back outside city hall today, honking and venting against the council to pick up the bill that gives specific legal status to Companies Like lift and others, which are summoned by smartphone and are taking businesses away from the traditional taxicab industry. When the Council Session got underway, supporters complained the traditional taxicabs dont serve the outer parts of the city well because they dont make enough money doing it. Councilmember graham questioned whether this would destroy the traditional industry and d. C. The council the was not even close. 12 for the new system, only graham opposed. Huber was pleased. Consumers,good for good for the district, good for drivers. So, the battle seems to be has one. Ber reporting live from northwest washington, abc 7 news. Thank you. So, now what . If you could use a service like your kids . Ly for there is a Company Called shuttle in San Francisco offering a way for parents to shuttle the kids from place to place without getting behind the wheel themselves. You can schedule a ride up to one week in advance and then actually track the car once your child is inside. We put this one on our facebook page. Plenty of you has something to say. Why would we teach our children not to talk to strangers yet we have this . Why . Easy access for kidnappers . Interesting. Practices. Interesting concept. What do you do when you see parents putting a child delaplane alone . Maybe its the same kind of concept. Putting a child on the plane alone . Maybe its the same kind of concept. Heres how you get the attention of the driver, make them feed the kid. That might be extreme. [laughter] well, the driver is 12. [laughter] let me drive. An interesting discussion. Flex it is. What a day we had today. The 80s out there. A twostep cooldown putting us back to the more customary october whether, by friday and saturday we will be having early december whether. The big change coming, but as you look at the beautiful sunrise at the country club, the big thing is to understand the timing of the rain on friday night. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people affected. There is a chance for showers friday evening, but also a chance they might hold off until later tonight. That is our job, trying to give you a lively outlook on the weather. For the moment, it is gorgeous. Sunshine, clouds, 82 degrees in leesburg. 81 in bethesda. The morning lows are in the 40s and 50s. I told you yesterday that it would not be as cold as the night before. Thee near 60 by morning for same reason. A few clouds with a southerly southwesterly winds. 54 degrees to 60 degrees in the morning, still cold in the northeast, very warm in the mid atlantic. The farther west that you go it starts to cool off. If you get far enough to the north and west it is cold. North dakota, 37 degrees, the air temperature there is sliding progressively behind the cold front coming in tomorrow with showers in the upper 60s, dropping to near 60 in that air mass as it advances our way. As we get into friday, that is when the next cold front comes out of the Northern Plains and has a profound effect on the weekend weather. Big changes all weekend, we will be looking back at what its like outside right now. Northwestern wins at five to 10 miles per hour, check the next several days. 62 on thursday, friday the upper 50s with a 30 chance of yourrs during trickortreating hours, continuing overnight into saturday morning and then turning blustery. Temperatures only in the upper as over the weekend with reminder to turn the clocks back one hour. You know what i like . The reminder. Exactly. [laughter] thank you. On abc seven news at 4 00, inching closer and closer, the latest on the lot on making its way towards a one towards hawaiian homes. Plus we will tell you why these folks are flattered by the structure and. First, have you seen some of the best images trending right now . Images of a puppy dressed up in the approval best. The images are from a Nonprofit Company that provide training for canine programs across massachusetts. The puppy is reportedly named pa coming down,tions, demolition crews working this georgesn prince county. Brianne carter has more on the plans for this once troubled site. This was built let back in the late 1960s. You can see behind it here, after today the crews are working hard. Demolition is underway. For people in the community some say that this has been a long time coming. We understand that this is a community that has been plagued with problems for years. County and city officials today said that they could not wait to see the change in the community after hearing about everything happening here, including crime and drugs. An years ago they found opportunity to come in here and do some redevelopment. That process is now underway. Leaders and city officials it is wellestablished that this is not just about redevelopment, it is also very personal not just for the officials, but for the people that call this place home. The people here deserve the best. They deserve to have good living conditions. They deserve to have homes that they can come home to that they loved to be in. Where they want to meet with the children who can lay. Where they dont have to worry about ducking into their homes lets its but. Ullets where they can come home and enjoy their home without inc. Asked if they want to buy drugs. This is wonderful. I couldnt happier. Its been a long time, but its finally here. We do understand that each week they hope to have six or seven of these buildings taken down and be done with volition by march of 2015. They will be looking at the proposal from developers in february. Construction is currently slated to begin in 2016. Are precarious situation for homeowners tonight. Find out how their homeland up like this. Time to sort out problems with local Voting Machines. Identify yourself, a look at the case that could have right now justices with the Virginia Supreme Court are trying to decide if you should have to identify yourself before posting an online review. They had arguments this morning and a greta kreuz is here with a closer look. This is a case that many people are watching. It involves the Online Customer review site, yelp, and a local carpet cleaner. The owner in alexandria initially went to court saying his businessof suddenly turned negative after he stopped advertising with them. Reviews he claimed were not really from customers and he demanded that the identities were revealed, but yelp argued that violated on situational rights of privacy ands for free speech. Justices heard the arguments today and i can tell you that a decision in the case is likely to come down in january. Back to you. Thank you for that. So, if we started talking about crime, what scares you the most . Getting attacked . Getting your house robbed . What about being hacked . According to a new study, that is the crime that most americans fear more than any other, having their credit card information stolen is their biggest fear. Having their phone or computer hacked is second on the list. They say that they or someone in their house has had their credit card information stolen. All right, you know we cant say enough about how beautiful the weather is today. So unusual for this time of it up. E are just soaking we dont want you to turn off the tv to go enjoy it, but we will say that it wont last much longer. Just watch us on your phone. Whatever you do, from the Weather Center we are hearing about changes coming in. It may be subtle at first, cooler over the morning and the weekend when it becomes really cold. Cold temperature conditions at Reagan National, 77, looking live. The lefthand side of your screen, a beautiful afternoon with warm temperatures in washington and dulles. 79 degrees in fredericksburg. At this time of year the silly the first time the temperatures are in the 40s all day, the benchmark of changing our weather patterns over the past few years. It has come as early as the 16th of october, as late as the 27th of november. Looks like it will happen again this weekend, but we are not there yet. Upper 50s for the high on friday, it will knock us back into the 40s over the weekend. Chance of showers during trick or treat, we are thinking and hoping that the showers hold off until later tonight. A reminder to turn your clocks back one hour. Turn them back more if you want, but then you will be out of sync with the rest of the world. Who wants to live in the past. Check this out, house in washington a battle with mother nature. High wind and strong wake is trying to take the house out to see. This house sits on the coastline of the beach. A strong weekend storm left that home teetering off the edge of a cliff. For decades they have been watching home after home gets swallowed up by the sea in an unstoppable phenomenon of corrosion. I am standing right here, there is the camera. Here for been coming 30 years and that is the biggest one i have seen in my life. Meanwhile, more evacuations are under way at this hour for people in the path of the law the flow in hawaii. The law but is now within yards of homes on the big island. Officials say that there is no way to stop the law but, but they are working to protect our polls from burning and creating detours in case the main roads are hit. Everyone, including myself, are quite nervous. Closer everyone is continuing to work around it. Experts say that the lob a has picked up speed as it heads people downwind from the smoke and away from the imminent danger. Meanwhile, back here closer to home it is an exciting time for Space Exploration in this region, many will have their eyes on the skies tonight. Thats right. After a scrubbed launch on the Eastern Shore yesterday, they are now going to try again in just about two hours. Deskve more from the live in the newsroom. The good news here is that the weather for the launch looks pretty good. The reality check is that there is only about a 10 minute window to get the rocket off the ground. Nasa was forced to shut it all down after spotting a boat downwind. The problem was a boat in restricted waters. The area has to be clear of hazards. The rocket is taking the cygnus spacecraft into orbit to resupply the International Space station. It wont take long to get there. The rocket is scheduled to launch tonight at 6 22. You should be able to see the launch roughly half of the way up along with tidal basin. We are trying to learn something, anything about the person who forced the launch to be scrubbed. Plenty of people were showing their outrage last night, but lately we have not been able to pinpoint anything. We will stay on top of it and let you know if we learn anything about it. I will stick with doug as to whether you will be able to see the launch. Can get aee if we camera on that. That would be great. Coming up, they are on the snow budget even it is warm outside. Part of the area is getting ready for the next season. Today firefighters and volunteers distributed thousands of winter coats to families in need. Before we had to break, take 103yearolds, a book found at the bottom of the world. Found frozen in the ice in antarctica. Looks like it was used as part of the 19 evelyn what do you know that today is much too nice to talk about snow, right . Well, the Virginia Department of transportation is already thinking about it, devoting 145 million to snow removal this winter. The money will be reallocated to make sure that all the roads stay clear. Local firefighters, thousands of children across Fairfax County will be warm this winter. Thats right. They received new codes today donated by the Organization Operation warm. Sunny weather, it might not feel like it but winter is on its way. Fairfax county firefighters and volunteers spent the day ensuring that children will be warm in the coming weeks, giving away 3000 winter coats to kids at 70 different organizations and schools, kids who might otherwise get handmedowns or go without. They are modeling their code to their other friends. Willie baylee feels a connection to these kids. Of seven children, he grew up in Public Housing in alexandria. Times they have never seen anything new before. That is why we have name tags inside. Since he started this about one decade ago it has tripled in size. Even in the wealthier suburbs there is plenty of poverty. In thee is a lot of neat county. To be able to help our own Community Means a lot. For the first time the kids are going home the brandnew shoes. But a secondpair, larger pair to grow into. Quit kids need activity. Organizers say that they often hear back from teachers who say that their students are so proud of their new coats, they refuse to take them off. Hopefully they can contain their excitement until temperatures drop. That is wonderful. I think i found my favorite story of the week. Absolutely. Well, we are just one week away from election day. Find out where some Voting Machines may not be ready. We do not have said it better ourselves. How long will this last . Our in a flexible if they wish is for lady liberty, she made her debut 128 years ago today, designated as a National Monument in 1924, still looking good. Happy birthday. X i am not quite 128. [laughter] the Largest School district in maryland is turning to the state for help. Montgomery county schools calling out for more money to get dozens of expansion and School Construction projects underway. Why does the district say that it cant wait . I was driving by looking at houses in the neighborhood and i saw the kindergartners coming out and thought that this was the school for us. Gina now has a third grader here. Never imaginednt that the school would grow so much. Administrators work really hard to make the best of what they have. Classrooms take over the back lawn, assemblies have to be so that the students can fit in one room. The needs of the system and the growth we are experiencing are extreme. The district is adding 221 million to its School Construction budget, bringing the plan to 1. 75 billion. Money is needed from the state and joshua starr says that it would put 36 Expansion Projects back on track after last year when the state could not help. We will not be able to give the children the instructional spaces that they deserve. Enrollment has increased by are than 16,000 and 2007, enough students to build 22 elementary schools. According to the district increasing birthrates is one reason there are more students. To getd parents hope involved again this year. Whatever it takes to get us into permanent buildings. They said the next governor would play a big role in the effort, the effort to make the School District feel not so big. 5 00, we up tonight at are working on a pair of exclusive stories for you. First, a man is sentenced after prosecutors say that he tried to take a picture up a womans skirt at a car wash. Plus an exclusive look inside the nations newest containment unit. Which area hospital has this new stateoftheart technology . That is tonight at 5 00. The redskins beat the cowboys last night in overtime. I love that. Right, but was the performance enough to fight the quarterback controversy . Plenty of you had some answers. I hope you are wrong. Me to. This one says the best one should start, not the most popular. Well, an annual favorite is hitting the streets in our, the highheeled race in doubront circle. His will be the 17th year the race itself is at 9 00. Excellent. Beautiful sunrise there in the morning. Heres the deal, we were reporting about the rocket and being there for liftoff, but these are the concerns. There isrds the east Something Like 25,000 feet. So, it is worth the effort. Temperatures, no complaints. 75 and 80s across the board. This is beautiful stuff. Theseven in annapolis with cooling down across the river. It is that time of year, warm air, cold weather, partly cloudy skies and the southwesterly breeze to the south of the area. Very warm weather. In the midwest it starts to cool off, this is a twostage deal. Cold front number one brings temperatures in the 60s. Number two pushes temperatures into the upper 40 pop for the weekend. Timewise and coverage wise this is the first told front to quickly clear out tomorrow evening. Thursday look spirit full. Friday the stage is set for another cold front. Hit the upperll 60s midday to the noon hours. Breezy with nice weather for the day, but on friday the strong eyes, 58t before your for the high, showers with a 30 chance, we are hoping the will start to clear out and become windy and cold on saturday and sunday. Eyes are wide open here, just a. Hance for showers in the 50s you are on deck here. Saturday night we are turning the box back one hour. Thats true. That does not count what we did. The sunset is at 5 07 on sunday. You have so much more into zs and then i do. All right, thank you. Coming up next will republicans wind up with control of both houses of congress . Karen has a look at what is at stake. Election day. Il republicans are cautiously optimistic that they will have a big night. They need to pick up six seats to take control of the senate and the numbers guru was their chances at 63 percent. A new poll from the Washington Post explains why the midterm forscape is so bleak democrats. More than two thirds of that they arek off on the wrong track and 60 say they have little or no trust in the federal government to do whats right. In a bad sign for democrats, 63 of americans say that they believe the ability of the federal government to deal with the problems of the people has worsened since president obama took office. Despite all of that, the white house tried to project confidence. The vast majority of candidates care about how important it is for congress to be effective for middleclass families. The president s Approval Rating is 43 , a big reason that the Democratic Candidates in Key Senate Races are keeping him out of the spotlight. He is sticking to the states he won in 2012 and appearing mostly gubernatorial candidates. These are not the kind of races that determine whether his agenda goes forward or not. There are still enough wild card senate races to keep things interesting and keep the chances for the democrats alive. Meanwhile, we have an alert for Maryland Voters casting ballots at polling places. There are reports of faulty Voting Machines, Voting Machines that switch votes from republican to democrat have been reported in maryland. One woman in Frederick County said that she experienced the faulty machine firsthand. It would seem like it was choosing your selection, but then when you lifted your finger it would jump to the candidate above, who was always a democrat. The Maryland Attorney general is setting up a hotline for voters to call if they. Subproblem while casting a ballot. The voting machine that the woman used had been quarantined, you might say, the votes will be counted on Election Night erie quarantined is the word of the week around here. Say it a lot lately. Your voice, your future, coming up on thursday at 8 30. We will be streaming it for you as well on wjla. Com. America is defined by possibility. We fix problems. The president is urging americans not to let the fear win in west africa. Concerns about the disease are spreading in the u. S. New tools to help protect the public. The only station looking inside the newest containment units in the country. Suzanne joins us live. You will see this story only on seven. There is an unmarked door here so secret that we cannot show it to you. It is behind these hospital doors that few people will ever travel. This is the brandnew specialized care unit at the hospital. A highly secret, sequestered facility. It can be ready in just two hours to handle a patient. The goal is to take care of the patient with a hig