Firstdegree murder in the shooting death of mitchell white. He was picking up his son near the Bel Air School on tuesday when a fight broke out between the suspect and the victims son. When he tried to break up the fight, warren pulled out his gun and fired. Off, but police had strong leads from witnesses. White has had runins with the law before. Nothing as serious as this. He has two citations over the past two years for possession of marijuana. The investigation into what caused the fatal fight continues this afternoon. It was not gangrelated. We will contue following this developing story throughout the day. Reporting live in the newsroom. For those breaking details. A former democratic official who was in court this morning on Sexual Battery charges this comes a month after he was released on charges he was had molested two girls. Why he will remain behind bars. Convicted sexual predator trying to flee the state . That is what the judge was trying to figure out. Michael gardner, the former Democratic Party chairman was denied bond today. Of his sistereo and his attorney leaving the courthouse. They did not comment. His wife was also here. She is the former mayor of falls church. Was a heated argument in court between his attorney and the prosecution on whether he is a flight risk. After a warrant for his arrest was issued last week, he traveled without a court order permission slip. He traveled to the outer banks without his family. Two supervisors with the Sheriffs Office testify saying that they made it very clear that he could not travel or it was a violation of his supervised release. He is now accused of sexually abusing a relative back in 2009 when she was under the age of 13. It was thanksgiving night of 2009 with his daughter in the room at the time. Come of the prosecution says. The prosecution says. She came forward after she found out he was released from prison after being convicted in 2011 of molesting two young girls at a slumber party, also at his home with his daughter present in the room. Gardner, the husband of the former mayor, was serving a 22 year prison term. He was freed after his conviction was overturned, claiming that key witness testimony was left out. His wife was inside when the prosecution said he cannot control his compulsion to abuse children. The judge agreed. He will remain behind bars. John gonzalez, abc 7 news. This news coming in from alexandria. Troy washington has been evacuated George Washington middle school has been evacuated due to a smell of gas. All students have been accounted for and no one was hurt. The manourt hearing for charged with the abduction of Hannah Graham has been continued until december. Jesse matthew was scheduled to appear today on reckless driving charges. His hearing was continued to december 1. Jesse matthew has a separate hearing on his adduction hearing charge on december 4. Hannah graham has been missing for three weeks. Taylortorney for randy sent a letter to the commonwealths attorney asking for more dna testing in his clients case. His attorney wants to order the of social media activity to determine if she had any contact with jesse matthew. Taylor was sentenced to two life terms for the objection and murder of the teenager who went missing in august of 2013. Her body was never found. Today at 3 00, the Bedford CountySheriffs Office will hold a press conference to update the investigation into the search of sheila and catherine lyons. The girls disappeared while walking to a mall in wheaton. Searching the land owned by welch. Our sister station will carry the press Conference Live this afternoon. The Northern Virginia bureau chief will have a full report beginning this evening on abc 7 news. We want to switch gears to talk about the weather. A mix of sun and clouds out there on this thursday. What is up for the rest of the afternoon . Eileen whelan is here with a look at the rest of the forecast. Ofthroughout the remainder the afternoon, we will start to see a bit more sunshine, similar to the same whether we had the past few days. 70 degrees outdoors right now. 71 at reagan national. Look at our rooftop camera. You can see the haze. We had fog this morning. Still some haze and the low clouds in a few spots. Temperatures in the upper 60s. Dulles, 69. 67, quantico. We will see a bit more sunshine and temperatures climbing a bit. 73 by 1 00 p. M. We will start to fall into the upper 60s by 11 00. Travelers forecast is looking pretty good up and down the east coast. Invel trouble spots will be the midsection of the country as a powerful cold front slides through. It is going to bring bigtime temperature drops for the upcoming weekend. I will let you know what you can expect for saturday and sunday coming up. Thank you. D. C. Police need your help finding a missing man. Abc 7 news spoke with joe maddons mother. He has not been seen since monday morning. A bartender at brooklyns finest bar in northeast. He never showed up for work. He was last seen wearing jeans and black workboots. Jennifer will have more coming up in our later newscast. Meantime, startling revelations trial of then the cab driver charged with shooting in Alexandria Police officer. A psychologist testified that before shooting the officer, he told her that he drove through Old Town Alexandria trying to find women to rape. The defense claims he suffered a psychiatric psychotic break at the time of the shooting. The prosecution said he understood the consequences. Fears among travelers are high this noon as we learn even more about the first case of ebola right here in the u. S. A patient is being treated in dallas for the virus as Health Officials investigate another possible case in hawaii. What is being done to keep people safe. , a father andan former chauffeur from liberia, remains in isolation in serious condition. Officials intal texas continue to face tough questions after confirming the sick patient was given antibiotics and turned away on his first visit to the er even though he told the nurse he had just come from an ebola stricken african country. ,e went back into the community only to be admitted to days later with severe symptoms. Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team. Authorities say they now want to talk to as many as 100 people who may have had contact with duncan. Stressing that does not mean they are showing symptoms, they are only watching family members who have been ordered to stay home with no visitors for 21 days while receiving regular checks for ebola symptoms. The New York Times is reporting duncan contracted the virus in aneria after helping infected woman to the hospital for days before he traveled to texas. As we have seen with the diseasen texas, a outbreak, an epidemic anywhere around the world, puts people in america at risk. Health officials in hawaii are monitoring a new patient who has been placed in isolation as a precaution. It is unlikely this person has ebola, but they are awaiting more tests. Just less than an hour ago, maryland Health Officials discussed the states readiness plans should doctors confirm any readiness any cases there. What did they say . There are no cases of ebola maryland. Health officials across the state said that the Health System is ready if in fact there does become a case of ebola. The Maryland Department of Health Officials said that Health Officials across the state had a meeting to talk about readiness plans for and fascists Infectious Diseases like ebola. Lab have a stateoftheart facility and time sensitive procedures and place in place. Toy have the ability properly identify cases, protect health personnel, individually diagnose, and the eventually do immediately notify state Health Officials and the cdc. The public should be reassured that we are fully prepared at the university of maryland to accept patients that either have low or high risk of ebola. We have worked through all the kinks of how you would deal with the patients. Health Officials Say it is not just the university of maryland. They have given guidance on how to deal with the virus to doctors and others. They are working closely with other states to make sure they are not only up on the latest what is happening in the u. S. , but also across the world. Thank you. We turn to sports. Building fort is nats fans. The team takes on the San Francisco giants in the National League division series. We want to show you a live wheree from that spark manager Matt Williams is speaking with the media. You can watch the press conference right now live on news channel 8. Today is a workout day. Game one is tomorrow. First pitch at 3 07. As part of the playoff excitement, the nats are taking fans on a little bit of a scavenger hunt. 100 of these jayson werth gnomes. Re hidden around the area we found this one hidden outside of our studio. Six of these are autographed and the fans who find the ones that are autographed will win tickets to saturdays game. Hree have already been claimed there are still plenty more out there. Good luck to you. We are giving you the chance to win the gnome we found today. Good morning washington tomorrow to find out how to enter the contest. Good morning washington begins at 4 30. The sure to watch our nats special airing this saturday night. We will take a closer look around all the excitement surrounding the team as well as the fans. Washingtons road to the championship airs on saturday night at 7 00 on abc 7. Hostaltimore orioles will the Detroit Tigers in game one of the al division series. That 5 30 outh is of camden yards. Good luck to them. Coming up here, new details about a local teenager who was severely injured in a weekend fight at Six Flags America. Why he should not have been in the theme park in the first place. Plus, more follow from the shooting death of Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri. Why the grand jury is under investigation . It is thursday, so that means an allnew episode of scandal. We have the scoop on what to expect. Eileen is back with her full forecast. You are watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. Welcome back. We are learning more about the teen severely injured in that big fight at six flags over the weekend. The 15yearold remains in a coma after recovering from brain surgery on tuesday. Has7 just confirmed that he been banned from all Six Flags America locations indefinitely back in july. The only reason the parked what an act that ban is for inciting violence or theft. New fallout in ferguson, missouri after allegations of misconduct by the grand jury hearing evidence. Prosecutors are investigating whether one juror discussed evidence with a friend and claimed there is not enough to warrant an arrest of darren wilson. Breach, has been a prosecutors may have to start over with another group of jurors. They have been weighing evidence since august 20. In the meantime, we switch to our local forecast. Fallish dayg at a out there. It is going to look a lot more like fall by the weekend. I kind of feeling a broken record. We have had fog and clouds in the morning and then clouds and sunshine in the afternoon. I want to show you the time lapse from our rooftop earlier this morning. As we got to about 10 00 or so, we started to see some of the fog lift. Just peeking outside of our window in the studio, we are seeing a little bit more in the way of sunshine. You can see some of that sunshine and blue sky from our weatherbug camera at the u. S. Naval academy in annapolis. 61 degrees blowing off the water. Temperatures are in the lower 60s in annapolis. 69, alexandria. Belle haven country club. You can see some golfers out there. A little on the muggy side. Big changes arriving by the upcoming weekend. 69 degrees downtown. 72, culpeper. A little farther toward the north and west. The really cool air is going to be in the upper midwest. We have a big cold front dipping down and allowing some cool canadian air to move in. It is going to take some time. The rain is through the upper midwest, stretching back for missouri and even into oklahoma and kansas. All of that moisture is going to continue trekking toward the east. When will it arrive . Probably not until late tomorrow. That is good for the orioles and for the nats. Come onchanges will saturday and sunday as the cooler air moves through. I want to take you through futurecast. By 8 00 tonight, nice and dry. It should be great for the orioles game tonight. Going through tomorrow, eight 00 a. M. , no problems getting out to the bus stop, getting to work or school. It will be breezy and ahead of the front with this southerly breezes. Late afternoon and evening, more clouds and some showers. I think we will be a ok at the nats game. Lingering clouds early saturday morning. It will be breezy with clear skies. Highs only in the 60s. This afternoon, pretty warm, 7378, as the orioles are playing tonight, temperatures falling into the middle 60s. Tonight, 5460 with patchy fog developing. Breezy tomorrow. Warm again tomorrow. Her affect at the nats game. Most of the rain should hold off until after about 9 00, 10 00. Most of the rain will be overnight while a lot of us are sleeping. Weekend. Cold for the 66 degrees, the High Temperature on sunday. A is going to be feeling little bit cool. I was outside earlier. I got to see a little bit of sunshine over at patterson elementary school. We were talking about weather, i brought the storm chaser. All of those students in southwest washington. I had a great time talking to the kids about the weather come of the storm chaser come all of the different instruments on top of the truck somehow we go every single morning to different locations across our viewing area to give people their neighborhood walk out the door weather. Thank you patterson elementary for hosting me today at your school. I had a great time. Did they like the anemometer . I told him that was going to be there word of the day. They loved it. Dont worry, kids, i cant say it either. Kate are, william and getting tough with the paparazzi. What they are doing to it will be at least another month until we know more about the death of actor and comedian robin williams. Medical examiners plan to released his autopsy report by the end of october. They need further time to get analysis. He was found dead of an apparent suicide. Real housewives of new jersey today ifl find out they will get prison time for fraud. They admitted they hid assets and light on mortgage and loan applications. In faces up to 46 months prison. Teresa faces up to two years behind bars. Joe faces deportation. Prince william and kate are warning the pop rotc to back off their son. They sent letters to photographers asking them to stop harassing prince georges and their nannies. The duke and justice duchess of cambridge are expecting their second child. They say they want their children to have is normally childhood as possible. Sound on aove that thursday . It is time for this weeks scandal scoop. Olivia tos to bribe working against the white house. That doesnt work, he brings up olivias love of president. You know im not afraid of the irs. Ill tell them. Him. Tell every day. Cyrus is just so evil. Tandalous part of the tgi lineup. Abc 7 news at 11 00. Still we have time for a quick check of the forecast. Pretty nice for the rest of the afternoon. Cloudy. Temperatures down into the 60s. I am feeling optimistic that we should not have any problems for the nationals game. Much cooler for the upcoming weekend. Thanks for joining us. [cheers and applause] yo oh. Oh. Oh. Uh, uh, uh. Uh, uh. [laughs] hello, and welcome to millionaire. Im terry crews. Ill be your host, and you can also check me out on brooklyn ninenine. [cheers and applause] todays returning contestant describes himself with one word fabulous. He says picking out his outfit today was much harder than any trivia question we could throw at him. From temple hills, maryland, please welcome Jonathan Walker [cheers and applause] uh. [laughs]