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make sure they are ready to handle any other possible ebola cases. the cdc is not taking any chance. it's beginning enhanced ebola screenings at five u.s. airports including dulles international. bruce leshan joins us from that airport with that part of the story. what do the travelers have to go through out there, bruce? >> reporter: a little bit more. the cdc says it could be a hassle and potentially delay people. the enhanced screening is slated to begin next week. passengers from west africa will be head into a separate room by customs officers. there they will be questioned. they'll have their temperatures taken and they will be observed for other signs of ebola. now if they have symptoms or exposure, it will be up to the cdc to decide whether they need to be hospitalized then, turned over to local health officials here for more monitoring or allowed to continue traveling. passengers leaving liberia, guinea and is i area leon are already supposed -- and sierra leone are already supposed to be questioned before departure and have their temperatures checked with a remote sensor. now they will be checked again at dulles. passengers arriving at dulles from overseas say they are already facing some questions about their health. >> they ask me if i have fever or that i feel, my body, i say that i'm okay. >> reporter: you said you're fine. >> yes. >> reporter: thank goodness. federal officials have been considering for weeks what additional measures they could take but warn that the only sure way to prevent new ebola cases in the u.s. is to stop the disease's spread in africa. >> i am worried especially for africa because it's like aim nuclear bomb dropped in west africa and it just spread so quickly. >> i think we need to be stay of at home. >> reporter: -- safe at home. >> reporter: this is a primary care physician in alexandria waiting for her sister flying home from a pilgrimage to mecca. the doctor supports the stepped up screening at dulles but worries by the time people arrive here it will in many ways be too late. >> they've exposed people in the airplane, people on transit, people at the airport, in customs, you and i standing outside waiting to meet our loved ones and relatives. >> reporter: almost 1/4 of the passengers who arrive in the u.s. from west africa come right here through dulles. add those other four airports and the cdc hopes to capture about 90% of all the west africans or people who have been in west africa who were coming to the united states, but, of course, thomas duncan came through here and he had no symptoms and the cdc warns that no system is foolproof. derek, back to you. it is wednesday, october 8th, and we are dedicating of wednesday of the month to our bring them home campaign. you'll notice pictures on the right side of your screen. they are all children who are missing. take a good look. if you recognize any of them, know where they could be, call the number on your screen. you'll also see pictures on our wusa9 facebook page. so we invite you to scroll through those photos and share them with your friends. some parents of missing children feel helpless waiting for answers, but there are things parents can do during that time of uncertainty and wusa9's stephanie ramirez looks at how 1 national group is helping a local family facing the unthinkable. >> reporter: troy turner and close friends are searching an area turner knows once he clears he won't search again allowing him to comb faster and further as he pushes on to find his children. getting volunteers to help was never a problem, but this new method of organization, tracking their moves with specific date and time information didn't come until a national group called the class kids foundation got involved. the foundation's president mark class fights to bring home missing children after he lost his own daughter to a kidnapping and murder two decades ago. over skype he said he sympathizes with parents like turner. >> it's a horrible situation because i know from experience that you need to have finality. you need to know what has happened to your missing child and you need to find a way to bring them home. >> reporter: the problem he says is doing so when police can no longer continue physical searches. so the class kids foundation flies in members from other places in the country to train the family affected and the volunteers to do what it is police do. >> set up a command center and people have to have various skills and able to do a valuable search. >> they gave us an organization kind of method to follow so that we're not overlapping. >> reporter: turner says it allows him to keep focused on his goal of finding his kids and class says that is the most important thing because when it comes to parents -- >> they are the best advocates for their own missing children. >> reporter: many just need to be pointed in the right direction. to learn more go to www.wusa9.com. i'll have the link there. stephanie ramirez, wusa9. >> the group also discusses prevention and the things you can do to protect your child. you'll find it all on our website. their services are free for the families involved. all this month we're teaming up with the homeless children's play time project to help staff of the newly built playground at d.c. general. the playground can't open until that happens and that is the shelter where relisha rudd lived with her family. you can help insure the children there have a safe place to play. text the word play time to 25543 to make a donation to help the homeless children's play time project. our goal is to help them raise funds to cover the cost of having watchful eyes from the play time project to monitor the children whenever they are at play. the search for mission uva student hannah graham has stretched into day no. 25. like the 24 before it today came up short. debra alfarone has been on the ground for us in charlottesville. >> reporter: every day searchers head out to scour the area that's an 8-mile radius from where we're standing now, the downtown mall in charlottesville. today's search was no different. >> are we going right or left up here? >> whichever way we can get around the gate. >> i'm a mother, so if it was my child out there, i'd want everybody out looking, too. >> reporter: earliesville, the northernmost edge of the search area for hannah graham, the beautiful rolling hills and calm of the horses in sharp contrast to the grim task ahead on this 25th day. >> we can cover more ground, get into areas. we have a higher advantage looking down. so it's just another tool to use for search and rescue. >> reporter: today's search brought out retired nurse brenda saunders of piedmont search and rescue out of richmond. up to 50 searchers on search, atvs and in the air scoured this corner, too and thursday searchers get a boost. the results of last weekend's flyover with a special high resolution camera provided by bea systems is almost here. >> once we get that data and go through it our hope is that we will see things through this we have not been able to see before. >> reporter: one section searched today, panorama farm. >> it's a tough job. >> reporter: steve murray owns it. >> i expect that she'll be found, but still they've searched a long time and haven't found anything. i'm sure that people are getting discouraged. >> reporter: one thing helping lift hearts, more than 250 notes written by classmates of hannah's at uva thanking searchers and dropped off to charlottesville police chief tim longo. >> it's beyond frustrating. it's sad. >> reporter: searchers hope to cover the entire 8-mile radius by the end of the week, 200 square miles. the tip line number that helps with the search is 434-295- 3851. you can e-mail tips to cpdtips @charlottesville.org. debra alfarone, wusa9. hundreds of cabs clog downtown d.c. in protest. find out what's making them uber mad coming up. >> what a gorgeous day. here are the numbers, might be surprised. made it to 80 degrees at national, nowhere near 80 anywhere else, low was 59, averages now 71 and 53. we'll come back, talk about how cool it will be tonight. we're tracking another front for friday. we'll tell you what that means and the o's game, high school football an they descended on freedom plaza with a message you could hardly even hear it. >> we want the public to know these guys' livelihood is on the line. >> reporter: hundreds organized by the teamsters organization who say is getting an unfair competitive advantage. one council member is listening to the cabbies. jim graham. >> you don't have a level playing field. you have uber and other companies coming into this market policing themselves. >> reporter: graham wants to make changes to legislation drawn up by council member mary cheh that would legalize uber and other ride sharing apps in d.c. cheh says there's a reason why taxicabs and services like uber will not be regulated in the same way. >> they're entirely different models and require different regimes of regulation. >> reporter: many consumers seem to side with uber and can't understand what cabbies hope to accomplish by clogging pennsylvania avenue with cars and their ears with horns. >> this is why i'll keep using uber because the cabs do stuff like this. >> reporter: if uber won't be regulated like taxis in washington, then taxis may be fighting a losing battle now matter how loud they toot their horns. >> while the cabbies were honking their honorables, the d.c. taxicab commission proposed a new rule that would require all taxis licensed in washington to sign up for the one city one taxi e hailing app so they can operate more like uber. the commission's chairman says it is imperative to allow the industry to be able to compete fairly. if you see something on the roads that is driving you crazy and you would like our team to investigate, shoot us an e- mail. go to tellwusa9.com. some nice weather is on the way, but the weekend is coming, too. will it last long enough? topper is here with your first mt know on the go, text radar to 25543 and download the wusa9 weather app. got a little relief today as an allergy scurvier. >> you know what? -- sufferer. >> you know what? actually it was washed out. of course, every time it rains the mold gets higher. >> love that sunshine, my friend. >> it was a gorgeous day, hit 80 downtown, mid-70s elsewhere. tomorrow a gorgeous start, some clouds, still a very nice day. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, temperatures still 78 downtown. our relative humidity is only 33%, so a very dry comfortable air mass and winds west at about 5. showed you this earlier. it's worth another peek, a beautiful picture. jim sent this in from bowie, the blood moon this morning, the tree in the foreground. i tweeted it out as well. headlines, a little cooler tonight. open the windows, perhaps not too far, 40s and 50s, bus stop temperatures 45 to 62. that's 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. if you're walking to the bus stop, wear a sweater or jacket. nice tomorrow, a little cooler, still average, though, and then clouds return friday with some showers, just hard to pinpoint a, where the showers will be -- i don't think they'll be heavy -- so we've not issued a yellow alert yet. 10:30 tonight walking the dog, 64 downtown, 57 57 in manassas, leesburg. by early morning 40s, manassas, culpeper, 50 in la plata and 55 downtown. by 8:00 temps don't spring up, upper 40s still north and west and 55 downtown. by 1:00 gorgeous, 60s across the board. notice some high and midlevel clouds back to the west in oakland and cumberland. those clouds will spread into the metro area during the afternoon, still a very pretty day, not picture perfect, but very nice. 71 by 4:00, sprinkles out by oakland and the divide. still dry, upper 50s to low 50s by 7:00 and at 9:30 it's upper 50s in places like gaithersburg, leesburg, manassas and la plata and low 60s downtown. tonight clear skies, cooler, 45 to 55, winds westerly at 10. by morning mostly sunny and pleasant, sunglasses, sweater probably good, too, 45 to 68 and then by afternoon returning partly sunny which is a nice way of saying some clouds will work in but high temps still in the low 70s and wind west, southwest at 10. so a very nice day. your day planner, 50s to start downtown temps, 65 at 11:00 and 70 at 1:00. the next three days we're looking some showers possible, 69. we'll monitor that for both the o's game and high school football. morning clouds, nice saturday, temperatures in the upper 60s. the next seven days looks like this. we're looking at temperatures generally in the 70-degree range both saturday and sunday. we clearly out saturday, looks like a pretty good -- clear out saturday, looks like a pretty good weekend. columbus day showers return and milder air with the mid-70s. sports right after this. at the shelter we get food and a bed. >> but we still need a safe place to play outdoors. >> i like to have a playground. >> we don't need much for you to help a lot. in cases of rape and incest, just like the right-wing republicans in congress. they want to overturn roe v. wade. so does she. "i think roe v. wade should be overturned." barbara comstock even voted with right-wing republicans to require women seeking an abortion to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. that's all i need to know. i'm john foust and i approve this messge. now wusa9 game on sports brought to you by xfinity. >> the nationals ended their postseason long before many of you expected losing three games to one at the hands of the san francisco giants. a team that is a regular in postseason play. many will point to rookie manager matt williams' pitching decisions as the reason the team didn't get out of last night's game with a within. williams came from arizona last -- a win. williams came from arizona last season. many say being a first time manager may have been a reason why they did not bring in cruise dowen, tyler clippard -- bruce doren, tyler clippard. >> we had two lefties the top of the inning and if we got to the righties, we were going to go with barrett, that's what he's done for us all year long. >> meanwhile up the road the orioles are preparing for their alcs against the royals. the o's have the best record of those remaining in the postseason. the nats and the angels get the boot. baltimore will host kansas city at camden yards friday night at 8:00. the redskins got back to work today after monday night's loss to the seahawks. most of the talk was not about their improved performance, but about what happened after the game. several reports contend team leaders and players were laughing and joking minutes after the loss. a washington post report specifically called out trent williams and pierre garcon, but others were called out, too. the players take issue with it. >> if you felt something was out of line, don't just say some people. say what you saw and left us and the coach dissect it, but don't just say the mood in the locker room. >> they're saying because a certain group of people behaved a certain way, they don't care. that because you haven't been in that position. none of you guys know that. now what you do after a lose a game, what says whether or not you're a professional and whether or not you care is the way you come to work next week. jordan reed may see the field this weekend. reed missed the last four weeks with a hamstring injury. jay gruden says when healthy, the second year player is a big part of the offense. reed told some beat reporters he believes he's to full strength. the capitals had their final practices before tomorrow night's season opener against montreal. it will be washington's 40th season on ice. fans and players alike are thrilled training camp is over and the games that count are about to begin. >> it's exciting. i think training camp has been very good and at the same time we're wanting to get into regular season to get things going, get into the meaningful games. i think our team is in a very good spot mentally now to roll into the season. let's turn to basketball where duane blair, nene, orton and silas were suspended one regular season game for leaving the bench area during monday night's preseason game. joakim noah and paul pierce went at it that night ending in an altercation. the bulls center and wizards forward were both fined $15,000 for their part in the altercation. now it's time for the high school game of the week poll. you see some football games there you could choose from. they're all good. text the code next to the game you like to 25543. >> isn't paul pierce like 45? >> hey, hey. bring that down a little because it never works out in the end. >> looks like he's old enough to know better. >> that's it. the cbs evening news is next. >> we'll be back for your only local news at 7:00 >> pelley: tonight, the first ebola death in the united states. the disease claims thomas eric duncan. manuel bojorquez is in dallas. jeff pegues reports the u.s. will take the temperature of air travelers arriving from west africa. perspective on the fast-breaking ebola developments from dr. jon lapook. clarissa ward is inside syria with an american who has joined rebels linked to al qaeda. >> reporter: would you support a terrorist attack on the united states? >> pelley: and as the nfl owners' meeting tackles domestic violence today, elaine quijano talks to abusers who have been through court-ordered intervention. >> reporter: can an abuser be rehabilitated? captioning sponsored by cbs

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