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
From tysons over toward mclean approaching arlington, we have some showers now. This extends back again almost to about winchester and berryville. Andrea and mike, back to you. Thank you, howard. Heres whats in the news right now. The secret service has suffered another embarrassment. Cbs news confirms the security contractor who was convicted three times on charges of assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with president obama earlier this month in atlanta. Doctors at a dallas hospital are treating a man infected with the ebola virus. The unidentified man is the first confirm case with the disease diagnosed here in the United States. The cdc says the man is not a threat to others. Prodemocracy demonstrators in hong kong are threatening to expand their protests against chinas government. Protesters are angry over chinese interference in hong kongs first direct election set for 2017. Police want to know if two deaths of two people just minutes apart are related. One person was k
Garage fire, then one in a deadly car crash, but both victims had gunshot wounds. Our jim osman heard from the cops tonight and he is live. Jim . Reporter hi, derek and jan. Good evening at home. A car accident, a house fire and two bodies, Montgomery County police have quite the mystery to solve. Well into the night police still at one of the two scenes where a body was found at each. Around 2 30 this Afternoon Police received a call about a fatal accident at piney Meeting House road near river road. Officers from the Second District responded to a single vehicle collision where a lone male driver for reasons still under investigation left the roadway, struck a tree. He was deceased at this scene. Reporter at around the same time firefighters received a call to this house on great elm drive. When they arrived, they found a small fire in the garage and also a subject in that garage who was deceased. Reporter Police Remained mum on any potential connection between the suspicious deaths,
The secret service Julia Pearson faced a grilling. A fence jumper and white house shooter in november of 2011. Director pearson admitted to the House Oversight committee that a white house intruder with a knife, follow the red dots with me, got all the way to the east room where the president has given multiple major public statements. Pearson was also questioned about a story the Washington Post broke wide open this past sunday about that 2011 case. This man, Oscar Ortega Hernandez shot multiple times at the white house. And it took multiple days for the secret service to realize bullets had hit the white house where sasha, the president s youngest daughter was home. Is that true . Did a housekeeper find evidence of the shooting and your agents did not . The housekeeper was able to locate fragments of glass on the truman balcony, not an area frequented by security i didnt ask you about who was frequent. I asked you there was a spontaneous conclusion that shots were fired . There were
Doors, now, again, not true. More details are coming out. Some from whistleblowers making a story that was bad enough look even worse. Right now, go back. It was the 70yard dash seen around the world. And now we know Omar Gonzales, an arc war veteran with ptsd and armed with a knife didnt just make it over the white house fence all the way across the north lawn, up the stairs, and through the front doors but according to sources familiar with the incident, gonzales overpowered the guard inside those doors, ran past the fairway leading up to the first familys residence, they werent at home. Through the first floor and east room, being tackled by an officer at the doors to the green room. None of this being revealed by the secret service, but a whist whistleblower. I got deep concerns that the president is not as safe as we want and need him to be. Ive got questions about leadership, protocol and training at the secret service. No one was able to tackle Omar Gonzales, no dog was released