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tomorrow to determine if it is indeed the body of bradley bishop. >> we'll have live reports tomorrow on wusa9. in new york, newark airport, chicago o'hare, washington dulles and the airport in atlanta. >> dulles international airport one of five airports in this country that will be putting some passengers through additional screenings to hopefully prevent ebola from spreading. the white house made the announcement today as we learned the man with the first confirmed case in america has died. thomas eric duncan traveled here from liberia september 20th. he entered the u.s. through dulles before going to dallas. the white house backed increased screening just about everyone who would travel through ebola stricken areas would pass through one of these five airports. >> as soon as this weekend at jfk and a little later at the other airports here's what you can expect. >> reporter: i'm bruce leshan at dulles. enhanced screening for ebola slated to begin here next week. customs officers will lead passengers from west africa into a separate room. they will question them. they will check their temperatures with a device like this and they will observe them for sign of ebola. passengers leaving liberia, guinea and sierra leone are already supposed to be questioned before departure and to have their temperatures checked with a remote sensor. now they will be checked again when they arrive at dulles. 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. if the passengers have any kind of signs or symptoms of ebola, it will be up to the cdc to determine if they need to be hospitalized right then, turned over to local health officials here for more monitoring or allowed to continue traveling. at dulles bruce leshan, wusa9. >> the cdc is warning no system is foolproof and when thomas duncan traveled through dulles, he wasn't showing any symptoms. so even the enhanced screening may not have picked up the ebola that was incubating in his body. meantime that ebola virus now responsible indirectly at least for the death of a dog. his name is ex caliber. he belonged to the nurse's aide who was first to contract ebola outside africa. hundreds of thousands of folks signed an online petition to save the dog's life, but officials in spain cited public health concerns and a scientific study that indicates dogs could transmit the dogs to people. so they decided to euthanize the dog. the saddest thing is they never confirmed the dog actually had ebola. on the right side of your screen tonight you'll notice the face of several missing children from our area. if you recognize any of them, please call the number on your screen and head to www.wusa9.com. we have all of their photos in a gallery. share it with your friends so we can all help bring them home. day 25 of the search for missing uva student hannah graham and they brought out a new tool that was a helicopter from department of homeland security. >> today's search yielded no results. debra alfarone joins us from charlottesville from the area where the 18-year-old sophomore disappeared. >> reporter: every day searchers head out to scour the area that's an 8-mile radius from the downtown mall in charlottesville. today's search was no different. >> are we going right or left? >> clever way we can get around the gate. >> i'm -- 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: 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 foot, atv, in the air scoured this corner, too and thursday searchers get a boost, the result of last weekend's playover with a special high resolution camera provided by bae 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 consumerred. >> reporter: one thing -- discouraged. >> reporter: one thing helping lift hearts, more than 250 notes written by classmates at uva thanking searchers and dropped off to charlottesville police chief tim longo. >> it's beyond frustrating. it's sad. >> reporter: one thing that can help investigators is giving out the tip line. that number is 434-295-3851. you can e-mail any tips to cpdtips @charlottesville.org. debra alfarone, wusa9. >> so far the call center has taken nearly 4,000 tips. one organization that's helping to support parents of these missing kids is the class kids foundation. members came here to train volunteers how to properly organize the search for missing montgomery county kids say and -- sarah and jacob hoggle. the group's founder lost his own daughter to a murder and kidnapping and told us via skype this is his way of paying it forward. >> 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. >> for more information on what the group does you can go to www.wusa9.com. we've got a link. now to an update on the d.c. prisoner found with a gun in his underwear in the central cell block at d.c. superior court yesterday, today the 19- year-old was charged with an unregistered firearm and ammunition. a status hearing was set for november 7th. he was let go. investigators are trying to figure out how officers failed to find that loaded gun during several earlier patdowns. assisted suicide is back in the national spotlight tonight after a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with brain cancer announced to the world that she's planning her own death november 1st. her emotional and controversial video has gone viral. >> i can't even tell you the amount of relief that it provides me to know that i don't have to die the way that it's been described to me that my brain tumor would take me. >> brittany maynard's story has a lot of people talking and it could change the national debate on the issue. >> reporter: brittany maynard's video went up on youtube only monday, already nearly 3 million have watched. >> i was diagnosed with cancer and told i was terminally ill. >> reporter: at age 29 and terminally ill maynard moved from california to oregon where assisted suicide is legal reopening a debate with a new face much different than old images of dr. jack kevorkian. >> i went from having potentially years to being told i have like six months. >> anyone could look at her and say that could be me. >> reporter: maryland delegate heather mizeur proposed death with dignity during her recent primary run for governor. >> brittany is helping transition this issue from a radical concept to one i think will be mainstream very soon. >> from the church's standpoint it doesn't change the debate. >> reporter: but at the archdiocese of washington a new face and heartwrenching circumstances do not change the fundamental issue. >> our view on human dignity is consistent from the beginning to the end and that's not to be diminished. we cannot do anything against that dignity and purposefully end a life that has infinite value. >> reporter: mizeur says neither maynard nor anyone else should ever have to move away to have death on their own terms. >> putting a face on this issue and not having it be an academic exercise but being able to relate to the personal story that brittany and her family are going through raises serious issues why every state needs to take up this law. >> and i will die upstairs in my bedroom that i share with my husband with my mother and my husband by my side. >> reporter: scott broom, wusa9. >> she seems so young. you can see why this has so much controversy. laws in our region vary wide we. assisted suicide death in maryland -- widely. assisted suicide death in maryland is a felony. the punishment in d.c. is unclear since there's no law on the books. cabbies fuming in d.c., up next demands that drove them to honk, scream and clog up the traffic downtown. >> back to the national championship series. >> not the outcome we wanted, but nationals are -- let's look on the bright side today, derek. we'll hear from the team after the break. >> is there a bright side? >> there's always next year. >> that video gives me a pit in my stomach. a gorgeous day, tonight we'll be 40s in the burbs. we'll talk about tomorrow. there's a little cloud cover rolling back in and tracking a front for friday. tell you what that means for the o's game. they're still in it. the high school football and look lady to the weekend. >> in addition to -- ahead to the weekend. >> in addition to our bring them home campaign, we're beginning a campaign called help them play. text the word play time and we will send you info. all of this information is at www.wusa9.com as well. we 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. it's a little congested down there, lots of honking and shouting and taxis lining up as far as the eye could see, hundreds of taxis in downtown d.c. driving everybody crazy with their noisy traffic clogging protests. the problem from their perspective? uber. >> we'll hear how the cabbies are trying to get the d.c. council to listen to their demands, but it might be a losing battle. >> reporter: they descended on freedom plaza with a message for anyone who could possibly hear it. you can hardly hear your own voice it's so loud down here. >> we want the public to know that these guys' livelihood is on the line. >> reporter: hundreds of taxis organized by the teamsters union protested against uber, a ride sharing competition they say is getting an ununfair competitive advantage from district officials. everyone from downtown d.c. can hear these horns. the question is will the council listen? 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 to 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 the same way. >> they're entirely different models and require different regimes of regulation. that seems to be lost in this debate. >> reporter: many consumers seem to side with uber in this battle 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, taxis may be fighting a losing battle no matter how loud they toot their horns. >> while cabbies were longing, the taxicab commission was proposing a new rule to require all taxicabs licensed in washington to sign up for the one city one taxi e hauling app so they can operate more like uber. the commission's chairman says it's imperative to help the industry compete fairly. you can shoot us an e-mail at tellwusa9.com. the nats' postseason is over, but they did their best. >> they did. the nationals lost 3-2 to the giants last night. it's all over and a lot faster than we were hoping. despite the loss the team is taking the glass half full approach. >> it's not easy to win in postseason. obviously our goal like everyone is to win the world series, but i think we have a lot to be proud of with the amount of games we've won the last three years, where we came from and i think the future is still very bright for this team. >> we played the way we wanted to play. we did a lot of things right. you know, it's tender and bitter and all of those things, but i'm proud of them. >> we're proud of them, too. it was a great season. we had a lot of fun, very exciting series. we thought for a second last night they'd bring it back. there was a real glimmer of hope. >> they didn't get it going. >> and that wild pitch and it was all done. >> there's always next year or is that loser talk? >> spoken like a true cubs fan. a new gripe from iphone 6 users, what well, first there was bend gate. now they say there's another flaw that some iphone 6 users have found, although it's not something that i'm worried about. >> i don't know why not. it's being called hair gate. some people say the tiny gap between the screen and metal frame is pulling out their hair. >> which is why i'm not that worried about it. >> it's affect mend and their beard hair and women -- affected men and their beard hair and women and long locks. apple has not said anything about the supposed hair gate. that's not something you need to worry about. >> my moustache hair is not that long. >> stick to the sold stuff, no problems, doesn't bend, pull my hair, still works. >>, what the flip phone? >> [ laughter ] >> the 5s. i got rid of my blackberry a few years ago. >> gave it to the museum? >> i still can't time as fast. >> i agree. 80 degrees the high today and a gorgeous start this morning for the blood moon. hope you guys had a chance to see it. take a live look outside, this is the moon tonight. look at the rays over the water. isn't that nice. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam. temperatures still 75, still pretty darn mild and the relative humidity is very low, almost like desert air, 31%. there is the blood moon this morning. jim sent this in from bowie, a spectacular picture. i gave him an a plus for that. tonight cooler, open the windows, perhaps not too far because we're talking 40s and 50s. bus stop temperatures 45 to 62. a sweater is probably a good idea or sweatshirt for the kids. nice tomorrow, cooler. 80 today was a bit above average, tomorrow low 70s which actually is average and then clouds return on friday. there could be showers on friday, but essentially i'm not really this concerned about friday at this point. i think the showers hold off till late in the day and generally light. we've not issued a yellow alert yet. 10:30 tonight 50s in the burbs, gaithersburg 56, 54 downtown, 57 in manassas. by tomorrow morning a different story. it was kind of mild today, different story tomorrow, 40s to start, mid-50s downtown at 6:00 and by 8:00 still 40s and 50s. by 12:30, 1:00, a few high clouds begin to stream in. we're in the 60s. notice the clouds back to the west. we'll have high and midlevel clouds come in tomorrow, still a nice day. by 4:00 it's 71 downtown, 66 in gaithersburg, 69 in leesburg and manassas and 71 in la plata. there could be a couple showers toward oakland. i think this may be a bit overdone with a shower in winchester. in the mountains i do see a shower. 6:00 clouds everywhere, 60s but dry. tomorrow night 8:00 upper 50s to low 60s but dry, no shortageful clouds and by 10:00 tomorrow again upper 50s to low 60s. the clouds tomorrow will keep temperatures up a bit. tonight clear and much cooler, 45 to 55, winds westerly at 10. the winds have calmed down. the day planner, remember these are downtown temps, so subtract 10 if you're in the burbs, 54 at 7:00, 58 at 9:00, 65 at 11:00 and 70 by 1:00, pretty much pure sun till 1:00, then some clouds but still nice tomorrow. showers friday mainly late, best chance is showers friday night, 69 for the high friday. saturday i may have to add showers early, temperature about 68 as well. right now sunday still looks okay. all models are not in agreement, but we'll say 70. columbus day showers, mid-70s and showers tuesday, also mid- 70s, so again the o's come back into town, could be shower tomorrow night before the game, mt how "7 th heaven" dad stephen collins is responding to the child molestation claims. >> cops rustohed his home fearing he might have killed himself. should he be on suicide watch? >> he could be at risk. >> how collins' famous neighbor fueled false suicide reports. >> it was stupid, but i did it. plus we question new allegations the tv minister told his estranged wife he slept with at least 100 men. >> was he set up in their dirty divorce battle? >> he could be a molester and she could also want more money. th en, hear how gwyneth is firing back at martha stewart's critical comments. >> if she were confident in her acting, she wouldn't be trying to be martha stewart. also tonight, sofia vergara, sofia vergara, sofia vergara. she talked about love and the one thing she can't live without. >> wouldn't that be joe? >> no. we'll explain why these stars are doing a beach boys classic. ♪ god only knows now "e.t." with all the latest celebrity news. hi, everybody. stephen collins' attorney speaks out on the alleged molestation confessions, which were recorded by stephen's estranged wife. he says in an attempt to bring him down. >> this didn't just bring him down, this basically imploded his life. police swarming his house last night suspecting he might have killed himself, a secret life, sex addiction, pedophilia. the allegations are not only horrific, but some are criminal. >> not simple. i mean, let me tell you. >> no. >> each layer we unpeel reveals more questions. what does his wife, fay grant, know, and when did she know it? is he a psychopredator, sex addict, or guy being set up by a scorn ex for millions? a lot of i

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