Captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org live from the abc 7 broadcast center. This is abc news, washington weekly. Tonight Health Officials fear more cases of ebola could turn up in the United States after a Health Care Worker in dallas came up with the disease. We have more. Tonight Health Officials in dallas trying to figure out how a nurse contracted ebola. She did treat Thomas Eric Duncan, who died of the virus here wednesday. Hospital management claimed she followed c. D. C. Guidance and wore full protective career. It tells us theres a need to enhance the training and protocols to make sure theyre followed. The urs in reportedly started having symptoms friday night and drove herself to the hospital. Within 9 0 minutes she was in isolation, later testing positive for the virus. Officials are working fast to figure out who the nurs has had close contact with. Ne person already in quarantine as a precaution. Please be advised that a Health Care Worker who liv
Marylandpennsylvania border. Radar shows precipitation moving ahead of the front. Some good lake effect snow across northeastern pennsylvania and western new york state. Well see several hours of this. Temperatures now in the 40s. Just to the west, in the 30s. Temperatures, precipitation at times through the night with rain or rainsnow mix. It will clear out by early tomorrow morning. Then the wind and cold temperature pours right in. To expect through the weekend. Any warming . Leon . Well, well see about that. Doug. Ght, well check back with you in a bit. An arctic chill spreading across the country already. Many states in the west hit record low temperatures this morning. In erie, pennsylvania, to the north of us, residents could see up to three inches of snow today, even more tomorrow. Also, over 40 inches of snow fell in parts of upper michigan of days. Past couple that slowed down traffic and slowed closed down businesses schools. In michigan, thats a big deal. Icy roads being bl
Coming up a look at your drive time with Amelia Siegel. Shes out live with the storm team 4 x 4. Melissa is checking traffic. Whats going on . Believe it or not, we have a big jam we just found on the camera. As you approach skaggsville road, only left lane get if it were to turn the back the other way, you could see its very, very slow. This is emergency road work. Just got off the phone with police. Probably going to be there for a while. No major problems into and out of town as you look at this map. 95 in maryland not the prettiest right now. Lorton road, moving along. 270, no problems. Northbound and southbound clear. Nice and green and moving. And we do have this construction still. Inner loop between landover and annapolis road. Two right lanes blocked at this point this morning. When im back at 5 11, weather and traffic always on the 1s. 66, another look at 95 in virginia and the top of the beltway once again. Guys . Thank you, melissa. 5 02. A new effort today to end sexual as
First light showing up on the Eastern Horizon from the storm team 4 tower camera. A few clouds around. Headline for this brrsday, might get the a shower around 6 00, 7 00 p. M. Temperatures in the mid30s. Near 40 in fairfax. Loudoun and william in the upper 30s. At the bus stop this morning, bundle up. Well stay cold through 8 00. Lots of sun. Chilly between 8 00 and 9 00. Low 40s. When youre waiting for the bus, download the storm team 4 weather app. Check the temperatures where you are. Get it on google play and the itunes store. Your time 6 02. The family of a metro worker killed on the job last year is suing the agency for 10 million. Harold ingram was a war veteran working on the red line near union station. A broken hose sprayed hydraulic fluid and caused a fire, and the crane operator lost control of a 40feet piece of rail, which hit and killed ingram. The family is claiming negligence. They say he failed to proper job briefing. They confirmed the lawsuit but will not comment an
Towards the west. The areas under the watch are Loudoun County, Prince Georges County, the district and everybody up towards the north. I will continue to watch this for you. We do expect more warnings and will keep you updated. We also have breaking news here at 5 00, a new report released about the rudd case. There was quote nothing district officials could have done to prevent the little girls disappearance. Jackie vin Jackie Bensen is live with the details. Reporter this is an internal review of how social workers, school and staff handled this disturbing and heartbreaking case. She was living at the family shelter when her mother allowed a janitor at the facility to essentially take her. Her disappearance was brought to light when the janitor caught his wife. Two weeks later he was found dead of a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Officials have stated they believe she was killed within days of being taken from the shelter. And the report knows her mother never reported her missing say