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the ebola virus on its way to american soil for the first time. how a u.s. hospital is preparing to care for an infected american while keeping the virus from spreading. neighbors heard screams coming from a local apartment. what police found inside that has them calling the woman s death a homicide. and we start with some breaking news from hyattsville where traffic will be a mess tomorrow morning. route 1 will be closed at least through the morning rush because of a water main break that spilled 6 million gallons of water this afternoon. it happened near the intersection of crittendon street, near the anacostia river. that s where jamari stone is with the cleanup. how long will this take, jamari? seven hours is how long it took crews to drain water out of that hole over there. that s where the water main broke, and right now they re continuing to drain water out of it so they can get down in there and figure out exactly what happened, what caused the water main ....
so this is definitely a long running repair here. so it may go into the evening rush hour or longer? at this point it s tough to say, but maybe make alternate plans for the evening rush hour. we worked all night and we ll work all day to get the road open, but i d make other plans. the courthouse down the street is without water? correct. about 16 customers don t have worry and the district court building is one of them. we can make the repairs and get the water on and then we ll still have to take care of the road after that, but hopefully we can get the water on as soon as possible. but it s an old pipe, a lot of damage. thanks for the update here this morning. so the bottom line, rhode island avenue in hyattsville, only one lane in the southbound direction getting by. all the other lanes are closed and that will be the case a good hunk of the day or maybe longer. so plan accordingly. megan mcgrath, back to you. now news 4 melissa mollet is looking for you ....
today he was one step closer to learning his fate in this leesburg courtroom. it was october of last year when patrick wren and his wife, leah, were killed as they rode together on a harley. they both loved it. that was just something they enjoyed. reporter: the driver who hit them, 54-year-old attorney mark scarlotta was driving drunk. his blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit. today he pleaded ggt to two counts of manslaughter and one dui telling the judge, quote, it s the best way to put all this behind us. not so simple a task for the victims family. taking a day at a time and seeing what they would want me to do. reporter: he could get between 1 and 20 years on each of the manslaughter charges. he s out on bond but is due to turn himself in on august 7th with a sentencing hearing scheduled for december. in the wake of the family s loss, there s reflection and also advice for those who would make the decision to drink and drive. i couldn t ....
workers in liberia, nancy ripold currently getting an experimental drug, wasn t enough left, so dr. kent brantley got a unit of blood from a teenage boy who had survived the disease. how the impact of the ebola impact is reaching into our neighborhood. reporter: nathaniel dennis loved the baltimore ravens and had loads of friends, a local community college student and aspiring musician. he was visiting family in liberia when he physical gravely ill. when he was first admitted to the hospital, they put him in the ebola ward. reporter: his cousin said nathaniel fell victim to circumstances. turns out he did not have ebola but couldn t get the needed medical care out of the country because the ebola outbreak left him grounded. nathaniel died. now she waits for his body to return to the u.s. along with his grieving mother. there are current think 1,323 cases of ebola currently 1,323 cases of ebola, 729 deaths including a passenger from nigeria that was going to retu ....
The NH Electric Co-op election, which began on Tuesday and will continue until June 12, sparks a crucial public debate for approximately one in 10 New Hampshire residents who rely on this nonprofit utility for their power. ....