Stateside. Action News Reporter Sharrie Williams has the the big story at the big board tonight, sharrie. Reporter shirleen, we have a lot of information, new information, tonight from a press conference, held this evening. First of all, officials are stressing at this point as we know there is only one person, thomas eric duncan, confirmed to have the ebola virus and he is isolated in dallas and fighting for his life. Of course this is only confirmed case in the united states. Meanwhile we have more information, a major point in reference to what they called the the contact list. That is the number of people to have come in contact with the one person who is infected. It started out high, at 100 people and then limited to it 50 and tonight that number is down to ten. Finally out, watch as family members ordered to stay inside their dallas apartment, leave. They were told to stay put because they were in contact with ebola patient Thomas Duncan. None of the members are showing symptoms
He was aware of the risks and tried to take every precaution possible. But unfortunately he still got sick. And he was very nervous yesterday, of course. It is a very frightening experience. Also today there is word of a patient placed in isolation after showing ebolalike symptoms following travel to nigeria. That is happening in washington, d. C. At this point it is not a confirmed case, but you can imagine that hospitals are cautious, with good reason. This developing news, islamic radicals release add video they say is a beheading of this man, a british cyst sin named alan henning. He is held captive since december when working as a volunteer aide worker. It does match the style and tone of similar videos of the execution of americans and britains hayes. And more monday world news with david muir. And in the mean time the defense now has the case in a double murder trial in Montgomery County involving a baby and her grandmother. The accused is representing himself after recanting a
Accuweather forecast. Chris its feeling chilly out there, overnight tonight well see lows dropping into the 30s, far western suburbs, thats going to be a shock to the system. Holy cow. Reporter thats a perfect way to put it, holy cow. Meantime were dealing with this, its gray and damp. We have showers pushing through. Its breezy and theres patchy areas of fog. The this morning is not looking nice, Storm Tracker 6 live double scan were zoomed into our far western suburbs first, were dealing with the lighter shades of green. This is a very light rain thats falling, every now and then with the yellow we pick up a heavier downpour, again were not expecting widespread heavy downpours throughout the hour. Every now and then you may picking up a heavier downpour. You get into the southeastern portions of medford, Burlington County they are getting heavy downpours. 8 00 a. M. , 67 degrees, 9 00 a. M. , 68 degrees, a shower or downpour from time to time. Later this afternoon, cold front sweeps
Feel uneasy with the direction the county is heading. I think a lot of people are not comfortable with obama care and other things. I think theres another important part. People are tired of a complete lack of function in our government. Senator reid chose to shut down the senate two years ago and weve done almost nothing, this is an important opportunity and obligation for republicans to govern. Weve got to reopen the senate and pass bills and be productive as the American People expect us to. People are concerned about taxes, the elephant in every room, youre, woulding on a billow owe youre working on a bill for taxes that come up for renewal or nonrenewal, swells as well as as our friends from new jersey. Will that happen . I think we should have the temporary feature of the tax code. Good tax policy should be made permanent and bad tax policy should be eliminated. Senator menendez will take some of the parts of the bill to make them permanent. Use Small Businesses to grow, purchase
Punishment is not the governor. The judges, they decide if theres enough evidence and whats constitutional not the governor. In pennsylvania, the governor cant individually pardon someone. He cant do what he did. He granted a reprieve without a time period for every defendant on death row. That is unconstitutional. That is illegal. Now, what could happen is that the pardons review board can meet, and they have to vote unanimously on an individual case, if theres new evidence, if there are new facts, and they have to have a time period for it. The reason why i had to respond was because the First Defendant that this affected was Terrance Williams, who was scheduled to be executed on march the 4th. A local case right here from germantown. He had killed brutally by bashing the heads of two gay men that he had provided services to and tried to extort them for money. A jury unanimously said that he should be found guilty, that he should get the Death Penalty and while, yes, there is racism