Kept inside several days this week due to the sightings. The big cat has been seen on a baseball field behind the school, and animal control officers have found what appears to be paw prints. Likely, though, from a different animal. They say theres concern even without direct contact with the cougar. Biggest threat is that it eats a raccoon or rabid fox and comes down with rabies and then tries toin effect some other animal. Animal control officials have also set up some camoflauge cameras in the woods to see if they can snap a couple of pictures of that big cat. A plan to develop a station on one of metros busiest lines is taking a big step forward. Metro has selected a team to develop the grovener stratmore administration. Proposing a Green Building with about 550 residential units and some 6,000 square feet of ground floor retail. The development would also replace surface commuter spaces at the station with a new extension to the current parking garage. Construction is expected to
Another breaking story tonight, the deadly crash of a commercial spacecraft. Witnesses say the craft exploded during a test flight over californias mojave desert. The local sheriff says one pilot was killed and a second pilot ejected but seriously injured. No one else was aboard. The wreckage just scattered across the desert. This was a suborbital passenger craft called space shape 2 developed by billionaire Richard Branson virgin galactic. Hundreds of people put down deposits hoping to someday fly aboard the craft. Virgin galactic said the spaceship experienced some sort of inflight anomaly. The man charged with kidnapping Hannah Graham appeared in a Fairfax County courtroom today in a different case. He was arraigned on charges of attempted murder, abduction and Sexual Assault from a case back in 2005. Peggy fox was in the courtroom this morning. Did matthew say anything . Yes. We heard him say a few things today. When it appeared that the judge was about to appoint the Fairfax Count
Released from prison after these conviction on a previous sex assault case was overturned in june. We have a reporter working on the story, and we will have the latest coming up on wusa9 news starting at 5 00 today. Good afternoon. Im mike hydeck. Todays other big story, Ebola Outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives in west africa is hitting home with the first case of the virus diagnosed here in the united states. Omar villafranca is in dallas why the unidentified patient is now in serious condition. Reporter cdc staff have arrived in dallas to help local Health Officials contain ebola virus now that the first u. S. Patient has been diagnosed. Theyre working to track down anyone who had contact with the male patient when he had symptoms. Well go every minute of each day with his family to understand who might have been exposed and every Health Care Interaction he had. Reporter ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids from an infected person showing signs of the vir
Patrols on duty. The next big question that people are asking, what about the weather for tomorrows parade . I was just outside. I dont know. Skies are gray. Theres talk about rain. Well go to our chief meteorologist paul deanno. Its going to rain a lot tomorrow but the timing is so critical for this and i think im getting more and more confident that the driest part of the day is going to be when the parade happens. Our official forecast partly cloudy and cool. There will be a chance of showers. Let me break it down hour by hour. The wettest part of the day is when youre trying to get to the parade. 7 a. M. To 11 a. M. Is when the front moves through. It is going to pour youre going to be a soggy mess. But then the dryest part of the day will be when the parade is going on. If you can get here unscathed, i think we may turn rainfree between lunchtime and 3 00 tomorrow which would be perfect for the parade. Theres the front moving in. It gets here tomorrow morning. Its going to pour. B
The governor urged new yorkers to stay calm. I know its a frightening situation. That its here in new york its more frightening. New york is a dense place. A lot of people on top of each other. But the more facts you know, the less frightening the situation is. Martha officials trying to keep everyone confident that new yorkers are not at a great risk. Reporter a lot of people are surprised a doctor who treated ebola patients in africa would come home on ride subways and go bowling even after feeling fatigued. But there is reason for optimism that the risk of the public being ex posed is very, very small. He spent a month treating ebola patients in guinea and west africa. He returned to his oklahoma in harlem last friday. He went for a threenile one wednesday morning and too two trains to brooklyn to go bowling if wednesday night and he didnt run a fever until yesterday morning and thats when he called for help. There is no reason for new yorkers to be alarm. Ebola is an extremely hard