trip through your area. what the cdc wants people to hear who fly out of dulles. and storm team 4 met tom kiern will help you get out the door. tom? >> the just updated visibilities from all area airports just now coming in. we do have dense fog in the east central shenandoah valley will visibilies are down to near zero, clos t though, visibility not bad. down to a mile, a mile and a half. sof the suburbs and rural areas and closer in, lowest visibility, prince georges county, andrews, a mile and a half, could be other places away from the airpos where there are denser fog. watch out for that. around here anoth couple of hours. there's the capitol. lit up with the spotlight, showing a little bit of light fog in the air there, but really no visibility problem, and we'll have the morning fog with us another couple of hours followed by a mild afternoon. your weather headlines, the big headline for the weekend is a big, cool change coming this weekend. this morning, temperatures off

to a cool start. need a jacket, in the 50s, w 60s in washington and right by wait. look at warming hour-by-hour at the day progresses coming up at 6:11'smeli what it's going on in the roads? >> nice to see you, tom. looking fine. no problems there. wide look at things into and out of town. no major issues. earlier roadwork clearedway. most of it. 66, hopping on in centerville near prince william parkway, slow there. heading into town, opens back up. you're fine. no major issue there's this morning. 95, slow. volume headed through quantico in to town. southbound, fine. no major problems. prince geo county look going. problems. tell you about this. blue silver line back to normal this morning. had earlier delays. look going now. travel times coming up in ten minutes. thayou, melissa. >> it is 6:02 today.

jesse matthew will make his first court appearance since brought back to virginia. but it is unrelated to hannah graham's disappearance. matthew will appear via videocone to be arraigned on reckless driving charges. his first hearing on abduction charges in the hannah graham case was pushed back to december. me drones are being used to help search for hannah. flying those drones was specifical approved by the federal aviation administration r this search. 6:02 right now. the dallas hospital handling an ebola case is now reviewing why it did not admit that patient sooner. right now thomas eric dunk sn in serious but stable condition. he first went to an emergency room septemb 25th, but doctors sent him home with antibiotics. health facials say he told the nurse he was visiting from liberia, one of the hardest-hit areas of the epidemic. that informatio though, was not communicated to other health officials.duncan back to the hospital two days later in

worse condition. this is cause for concern here in this region for some folks. we learned duncan wept through dulles interna airport on his way to dallas. megan mcgrath joins us live from dulles with a timeline. good morni rrmt good morning, aaron. e b tracking the movement of this patient treated for ebola in texas. there's a connection, that he took a connecting flight here at dulles internati airport. 42-year-old thos eric duncan left liberia on september the 19th. he flew to brussels. and went through cu flight 822. you are only contagious with active symptoms that that didn't happen until septemb 24ble, days after he made those flights. he was on united airline flight

951 from brussels and his connection wit flight 822 to dallas-f worth. the airport released a statement saying that the cdc does not recommend monitoring for people who were on those flights, because, again, duncan was not showing symptoms, which means that he was not contagious at the time that he was traveling. reporting live from dulles, megan mana, aaron, back to you. > head to nbcwashington.c for more coverage of this ebola situation. push out more to your mo device as we learn more. a $25,000 reward offered for information about the murmmurde today you can learn more about one of the possible locations for the new fbi headquarte.e general services

administ is holding an open house any other the proposed site in landover tonight. landover is one of three potential spots for the new headquarters e other sites include green belt and springfield, virginia. tonight's meeting from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the sports and learning compl on sheriff's road. this morni the safety committee for mont gummy county council will begin developing rules for using drones in your neighborho. i td you back in may, you might remember, the fire departme wou shart using drones like these to gain the upper hand during a fire or rescue situation. today the council will review and poss protocol for using them. for example, the committee will show where they can fly drones. the committee needs a complete set of rules before the drones can take flight. a young girl missing 12 years. why the reunion with her father has to be delayed for now. plus, we have a new reason for you to enjoy your glass of red wine. how your drink can help clear up your skin.

and it is a nice, cool morning so far. we'll take you through the warm-up today. hour-by-ho in your weather and traffic on the 1s. it's 6:11. and news for today scrolls through your forecast and drive times at the bottom of your tv screen during commercial breaks. check it out before you leave the house so you know what's coming on your morning drive. .

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your skin. an antioxidant from grapes can kill acne causing bacteria according a new study published. researchers say the so-called healthy antioxidants help prevent cell and tissue damage. so maybe if you double dose and if you drink it and you -- put it on your face, maybe -- >> yes. why not? take the bottle and four right on, rub it in a little bit. >> the things you'll do. right? i think you can drink it, coming up, over the district, a live look. see cloudy skies kicking things off on this thursday. check in with storm team 4 meteorolt tom kierein with your traffic and weather on the 1s. g on themorning. roads watch out for patchy, dense fog. not widespread, patches of dense fog between now through 9:00. after that, sunshine. temperatur steady in the 60s where we are now for your afternoon commute. that's looking great. dry roads. partly cloundy. temperatn the upper 70s by

later this afternoon. fog showing up over tenleytown, friend heights, bethesda in the distance, elevated. not causing visible problems at the ground level. noontime temperature, low 70s. upper 70s most of the region by last afterno with lots of sunshine. coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:21. a look at our next chance of rain and a big change coming for the weekend. melissa, good morning. what's happening? >> a problem now in virginia. this is right near tyson's corner mall. leesburg pike, a truck fire. trying to get more information to pass along to you. otherwis typical for this time of morning. travel times to share in virginia. first 66 east from the parkway to the beltway, on time. 11 minutes. ju a couple of minutes slow northbou. 270 southbound from germantown road to the beltway, 16 minutes. a few minutes behind. looking good outer loop from 95 to 270 running at 11 minutes. i'm back in ten minutes.

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i'm richard jorden at the live desk following a developing story. tensions rising in hong kong afr a week of massive pro tests. theye still in the streets. live pictures but things could escala soon. proteste said a deadline of midnight tonight. they want hong kong's chief execute to resign. they want him out of his job. they've been asking that he step down now for a few days. they say if he does not step down, they're going to start occupyg govt buildings. the chinese government very concerd about this.

they believe chaos could erupt on the streets. the protesters have been demandg freer elections. they want to do away with the policy where candidates are pre-scre before elections. they want that gone. initially ty wanted to talk with hong kong's chief executiv >> now they say they don't want to talk anymore, they simply want him out. if he dot step down they say they're occupy the buildings. police are preparing for riots. that's the latest. thank you, richard. > 6:16. montgome county police at carolyn mattingly's potomac home just an hour before she was killed. on tuesday andrew rocca slashed her tires and then killed her inside her garage on great elm drive. rocca then drove off and crashed his car on purpose to kill himself. po say rocca worked for mattingls husband and accused of theft from the company. > the maryland teenager seriouy hurt outside a six flags of ame was banned from the park. accordin six flags the

16-year-d w indefinitely banned from the park back in july. not clear what he was doing there saturday when a fight started. e boy's family says a group of strangers beat him up outside the gates and plan to hold a vigil for him tomorrow outside the park. the 15-year-old is still in a medicay induced coma. a candidate in maryland's race for governor suggests recent gains by his competitor could be misleading. democrat anthony brown disputes this research poll showing republic larry hogan within four points of brown pap commite actn committ ta suppor economic this poll. in a statement, gonzalez' resear is bipartisan. s team believes otherwise. they would emphasize the poll showing him in a four-point lead. and pointing out differences in a debate next week. mark warner faces off against republrd gillespi news 4 is joining the fairfax

chambee to spnser the debate. "meet thod chu todd is mottermotterate -- mode the debate. you can see it tuesday at 7:00 here on nbc 4. another nfler in the spotligh for the wrong reasons. c.j. spillman accused of sexual assault and not arrested. police in grapevine, texas, say the alleged assault happened septemr 20th. that is less than 24 hours after commissi roger goodell addresd conce about the way the league handles domestic violen cases. neither the nfl nowhere the dallas cowboys is commenting on this case right now. this morning, we're learning new details about michael phelps dui arrest. according to the "baltimore sun" his blood alcohol content was at .14. that is double the .08 legal limit in maryland. accordin court documents, phelps admitted to having three or four drinks at the horseshoe casino before he was stopped. police say phelps was going 85

miles per hour and swerving through the fort mchenry tunnel a juror may be leaking informn in the police shootit killed michael brown pap tweet claimed that grand ju have not seen enough evidence to justify arrestg dar wilson, the officer who shot the armed black man in ferguson, missouri, back in august. unarmed. a friend serving on the jury proceedings there. the post has since been delated. prosecuts are investigating whethee is misconduct here. brown's shooting sparked days of protest in ferguson. > a texas girl who vanished 12 years ago has been found alive in mexico. police say in 2002, sabrina allen's motr kidnapped her and o mexico. for more than a decade, the two have been on the run changing their names several time. pot up with them south of mexico city. sabrina was brought back to the states yesterday. greg allen never stopped hoping he would see his daughter again.

>> -- if i can give a hug. she -- she's in pretty bad shape is my understanding. >> allen says that sabrina's moth has brainwashed her against him. a reunion between the two son ho therapist decides the time is right. sabrina is 17 years old now and she was 4 when she went missing. > turning to our forecast, experien ne weather here. a little cloudy to start. sunshine by the end of the day. >> s can keep that going. tom kiern h forecast. a similar pattern today. patchy fog, some of the rural areas. spea of rural area beginnin to see gorgeous ought l colors. this photo posted, in west virginia. higher elevation there's. already near peak color. this photo taken yesterday afternn aroun just sunset there. you can put your photos on instagra twitter and facebook and i will share. this is how you can connect with me. love seeing your photos especial thi time of year

with the autumn color coming on. patchy dense fog in shenandoah valley. visibili down to a quarter mile in some locations. elsewher no dense fog. culpepper down to a half mile. hagersto, quarter mile. may get a little thicker between now and 8:00. temperat cool. just in the 50s now prince georges, montgomery, fairfax. you'll need a light jacket or long sleeves and long pants for sure for students waiting for buses this morning. it's going to stay on the cool side between now and about 9:00 this morning. then later today, beautiful with highs reaching the upper 70s during the afternoon. then on friday morning, we could have more widespread fog around dawn tomorrow. then sunshine. then cloe afternoon. highs reaching the mid-70s. should be dry for the nationals game. coming in, probably not until after midnight. only a 30% chance of some before midnight. likely showers early saturday morning. saturday aft up near 70 and much cooler sunday. sunday morning, 30s by dawn.

w 60s. after next week, a little milder, perhaps cool mornings highs reaching throw mid-70s monday, tuesd and wednesday. next weather and traffic on the 1s at 6:31. a look at neighborhood highs around the region for the afternoo melissa, looks likes an easy commute so far? >> pretty easy but a good fog here and there.u be aware headed out soon you may encountethat. wide look at things, looking quite good. no major problems. 295 a littl slow passing 50 headed into town. 66 at gallows road. moving right along. friends staff county hopping on 95 okay. get a little bit slow through triangle southbound also slope at this point this morning. t seeing a problem there. just volume. prince g county, roadways looking good. no issues there now. 95 and vw parkway, moving along.

back in five minutes way live look at 270. now 6:23. a white woman in ohio is suing a sperm bank for sending her the wrong donation. the viles ended up being from a black donor. she's happy to have a hea daughter, but now her girl is experiencing prejudice in the town they live in. she says the sperm bank should be held accountable for its mistake. you cannot just say, o i'm sorry. be happy you got child. and walk away from this. you can't do that. >> and then -- >> you can see more of this interview coming up on the "today" show right after "news4 to" it is one of the most anticid features of the new iphone 6 and this morning we're learni when youl be able to start using apple pay. the new mobile payment system expecto s octob 20th. be able to store your credit card an your phone and tap your phone at many retailers instead of swiping that credit card. most major banks and many retails will support apple > have you ever heard the

expressi, take a good look in the mirror? well, a thief in florida clearly had never heard that. pol gables, florida, stole money from a law office. trying to allude security cameras, tilted up the screen. beautiful decorative mirrors in the lobby caught his face as he walked by. the other than to who works in office believe the thief had access to the office, because there was no damage to his front door. those are huge mirrors. >> if you knew you could find thcameras, how do you miss a huge wall of mirrors? >> wasn't thinking, clearly. > three months into their marria a new york couple had been through more than most. >> a month after getting married, tunisia hall experid s headaches. doctors diagnosed her with a rare brain hemorrhage that stargts middle aged people. quickly hall began forgetting everythi. e didn't even recognize her own husband.

so raleigh hall, her husband, papered his wife hospital room with pictures of their wedding and time together. slowly her memory started coming back. >> i just know i'm laying in the room looking around, looking at the pictures, and probably doing a lot of this -- >> and i believe it was hope that she saw. when you put hope before people -- it happens. >> that is the truth. today tunisia hall is almost to normal. the hospital where they spent their fir three months as husband a wife, even threw them an anniversary celebration. what a terrific story. the power of giving and love add the dedication to helping his wife awesome. love the results. pictures, thr e memories and can bring back a lot to a relatin havin a hardship. go for them. > the project to make your trip on metro better could make it worse for a little while. the work that could slow you down at the metrocenter stop and how long it will take. plus a new man in charge of

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we are staying on top of a develo story this morning. the man treated for the ebola virus in texas was sent home the first time he went to the hospital. the information that he had been in africa was not widely shared and this morning many parents in dallas are afraid to send their childr to school. the school it's are asking parents to stay calm. no students have shown symptoms yet, but some parents are not taking any chances. > "news4 today" keeping your weather a traffic on the 1s every ten minutes. you can see fog on your morning drive. tom kierein with m team 4 your forecast. good morning. good mornin yeah, the school buses are just now hitting the roads. watch out for students waiting for buses with patchy fog. going to be with us between now

and 8:00 this morning. not widespread fog. just isolated patches of fog. mainly in the rural areas. right now in the low 60s. we'll stay this way through 8:00. se breaking out and the fog lifting between 8:00 and 9:00. mid-60s by then. lots of sunshine and a beautiful day to follow. neighbor high temperatures today, neighborhoods in prince get go and fairfax, upper 70s. right by the bay, low to mid-70s. low 70s high shenandoah. and high places in the mountains, might have a few light showers later this afternoo at the hour-by-hour changes into the after coming up next weather and traffic on the and melissa mollet. they all know it. thank you for that introduction. moving along nicely this

morning. no major problems anywhere. minor slowdowns here and there. looks typical. outer loop of the beltway, a litt slow as it normally does this time of day. 66 and 95 looking normal. 66 look going. 95, dale city heading northbound a little slow. again, normal for this time of day. looking at beltway at pennsy avenue, prince s county, just fine there. reme to follow us on twitter @first4traffic and like us on facebook, nbc washington. aaron and eun? >> melissa, thank you. right now investigators are tryingo figure out what ha before a boy was hit by a truck in fairfax county. that 6-year-old remains in critical c this morning. police say he was playing in his driveway on mount vernon circle. they say he rode his scooter out into the street and was hit by a fedex truck a few seconds later. that truck driver did stop and the boy flown to the hospital. right now it's not clear whether speed was a factor in the crash, but neighbors say it is a good remi in that i go through the area every

day but slowly. would you advise people to slow down? >> oh, god, yeah. yeah, they should all slow down. >> fed ex is says it is waiting for police to invest gate the accident. no charges filed against that truck driver. > a new front man leading the secret ser this morning. director julia pearson resigned after a number of security preaches and her replatesment is coming out of retirement torepu. like on capitol hill is tracie potts. director joe clancy coming out of retire after having been in charge of the president's detail three years ago. he's been working for our company, comcast, a parent company of nbc as head of securi here. this com pierson stepped down amid embarrassen incidents includina m convicted of assaul

an elevator with the president in atlanta at the cdc a couple weeks ago. that never came up when she testifie here on capitol hill and that's the thing that seemed to ce a lot of lawmakers, democrat and republicans, it was time for pierson, a 30-year veteran, the department's first female chief to go. she has stepped down and lawmakers are looking at whether or others need to do so as well thinking this may not be the end of it. taking a clo look at the manageme of the secret service, the department of homeland security and an indepet p are going to be investigating that. eun? t you, tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. a virginia teacher is in court today to face charges of having sexual relations with students. erica mesa was a teacher at coloni forge high school in staffo county. original the sheriff's office announced mesa sent nude photos and had a relationship with one student. according to the freelance star, investigators say she had sexual relations with at least four male victims since 2012.

>>a mother could face charges after polic say her son shot and killed his best friend in d.c. poli are investigat as an accident. the victim, 13-year-old tyrin caldwe and his 14-year-old friend were in an apartment on downing street northeast tuesday night. th older teen lives there with his mother. if police find that the gun belong to the 14-year-old's mother, she could be charged for not keeping i. we expect new information today in the disappearance of the lyon sisters nearly 40 years ago. those girls disappeared in 1975 after leaving wheaton plaza in montgome county. the family of michael welch once owned land where police were led. we'll have a crew in bedford county when the sharist holds a news confee this afternoon. look for updates beginning on news 4 at 4:00. we'll send push alerts as well with new information from the nbc washington mobile app. > rules could change for aborti clinics in virginia. the state's health commissioner s the board of health to

review regulations. abortion rights advocates say guidelin established in 2011 were designed to put clinics out of business. activists s many focused on constron regulations rather than patient safety. the board will vote in december on possibly amending the rule. today could mark another importt step for building the eisenhow memorial. the national capital planning commis is expected to grant prelimy approval for the praump's design. the original project mired in delays becau conflicts over th design. the architect revised his plan last month. while the planning s the project should be approved, the eisenhower family still voiced displeasure with that design. new this morning, going gnome. minutes ago the nationals got creative using gnomes to give away free playoff tickets. we'll tell you how you can take part in the scavenger hunt now under way. > plus a data change for

verizon customers. why the company just changed its mind about new policy. > you can see a little fog out there on your morning drive as we look outside. clouds there, too. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kin will show us when it clears up if your weather and traffi the 1s at 6:41. plus your weather and traffic are always on "news4 today." it is 6:36. . (yawn) (ding!) toaster strudel! more fruit in the filling, ya? mmm! ya! warm, flaky, gooey, toaster strudel! now, with more fruit! ring ring! progresso! i can't believe i'm eating bacon and rich creamy cheese before my sister's wedding. ll it's only 100 calories, so u'll be ready for that dress. uh-huh... you don't love the dress?

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get ready for more escalator closures on metro. we've learned the 12th and g street entrance on metrocenter will close in two weeks so all the es skaters can be replaced. that should eight months. metro will replace the escalato at the bethesda station nt week and that work is expected to take 2 1/2 years. eventual metro will replace 100 escalators across the good news for data users on verizon wireless. verizon wanted to cut speeds for

people on old, unlimited data plans. the drew a lot of anger consumers and yesterday a spokes said that's not longer happening. verizon's m comes amid incread competition between wirele carriers. > look at the forecast. talking about cloudy skies, a litt fog and hopefully more nice weather today. the live picture, clouds are here for sure to kick things off this morning. tom kiern has weather and traffic on the 1s. tom? under those clouds, patchy, dense fog. kind of isolated areas of dense fog. densest fog right know central and southern shenandoah valley and around the blue ridge. stanton, up to la rey, visibili a quarter mile. elsewher don't have dense fog pap couple spots with low visibi in north central virgin like culpepper. later today, hour-by-hour, chan the way. by late morning, upper 60s. noontime, q a bit of sun. ought to hit upper 70s by late

afternoo in much of the region with lots of sunshine. coming up, at 6:51, a big che w. look how chilly it's going to get. and melissa with 6 at lee highway looks good at this point this morning, tom. quite slow headed northbound through dale city 95. been that way the past 30 minutes or so, i'd say. otherwise looking typical around town. now the arteries coming in, a litt slower than we'd like to see now. 270 southbound from germantown road to the beltway, 10 minutes behind. 495, outer loop from 95 to 270, again, about ten minutes behind a look in virginia. 66 to the beltway. 16 minutes and 95 northbound from quantico to the beltway a problem seeing near dale city. about 15 minutes behind at this point this morning. i'm back in ten minutes. melissa, thank you. staying on top of a developi story. the man in america with the ebola virus flew through dulles.

word from the government for people who used that airport on the same day. plus, some parents upset. the message on a superhero t-shirt they do not want their daughters to wear. it is 6:42. we'll be

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>> the nephew of a man with the ebola virus make as plea for prayer in the midst on the "t" show. that virus is just one of the stories we're following four this morning. and team coverage starting with nbc's kate snow live in cass. kate, good mog to you. >> repor good morning, aaron and eun. what we know at this hour. it's a thursday morning, the dallas independent school distri is urging parents to send their kids to school this morning.i can tell you, a lot os we've spoken with are keeping their kids home. there is a lot of fear here. in part because of what the nephew is saying, what some of the family members are saying be a the patient who's in the hospit behind me here. they're saying this hospital did not do enough to guard against ebola. they are accusing the hospital of not treating the case seriouy enough. this man came to the hospital on friday, and was sent home with anti-bic

an he told a nurse he had been to liberia and was sent home and return monday. the nephew tells nbc news he had to call the centers for disease control himn order to push this case forwa and say, look, this reall might be a case of ebola. no word yet from the hospital. we've put in a request for comment, but got no comment overnigh back to you. >> all right, kate snow live in dallas for us this morning. kate, thank you. > and that ebola case has a connec to our region. we've learned duncan stopped at dulles inter airport. news 4's megan mcgrath from dulles whs part of the story. to you. >> r good morning, eun. airport officials and the cdc tryingo reassure airline travels that there's no need for concern here. after we learned that the man tr actual traveled through dulles internatl air on septemr the 20th. now, 42-year-old thomas eric duncan left liberia on september the 19th. he flew to brussels.

then he took a connecting flight here's at dulles internati airport, headed for dallas. he arrived there later that da symptoms, and that is important, because the cdc says that a person is only contagious when they're actually exhibiting active symptoms. that did not happen until septemr the 24th. days after he made those flights. now, duncan was on united airlines flit 951 from e connection here at dulles was flight 822 to dallas-ft. worth. now, the airport authority release add s saying that the cdc is not recommending monitori of those who were onboard those flight with duncan, because, again, at the time that he was traveling, he was not showing symptoms, which m dulles was not contagious. internl airport, megan s 4. back to you. > look for much more from dallas and this ebola outbreak next on the "today" show.

you'll hear new allegations abt the hospital from the patient's family. plus, dr. oz will be live with what y next on the "today" show right afr "n today." learning about the mental state on trial of the man accused of shooting a police y when asked whether he ever was concerned about his son's behavior, his father said, sometime he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in 2013 for the shooting of officer peter laboy who now has permanent brain injuries> the county council beg rules for using drones in your neighbor in may the montgomery county fire departmen showed me the drones and how they work. they will be used to help firefigh gai the upper hand during a fire or a rescue effort. today the council will begin reviewg and posy approving protocols to are using them. frebs, the commit will decide where exactly firefighters can fly drones without compromising

your privacy the committee has to come up with a complete set of rules before those drones can take flight. > for many of us it is tough to write that rent check every month and cnbc's courtney reagan is here to tell you why it's only going to get tougher, that's for "your money" this morning. to you. >> probably isn't the surprises for those of us write the checks but apartment checks continue to rise despite an uptick in new construc. a report out today shows rents rose 1% this summer to an average $1,100 nationwide. rents have risen the past six years. 15% higher than at the end of the recession in 2009. rents are rising the fastest on the west coast, a boom in the tech industry is fueling demand for housing. silicon valley and the pacific northwt specifically. thank yo. courtneyag from cnbc, in baseba heaven from beltway to beltway. hr tom?

the playoffs begin tonight in baltimor orioles take on the tigers in game one of the alds. the team spent time working out yesterday at camden yards. first pitch 5:37 on tbs. the o hungry for a world series hungry. last time they won, 1983, and in case you're wondering, jim m w still on the team and "every breath you take" the top song in '83. >> i was here in '83. only a little bit, though. we now now the nats take on the san franc giants in game one of the nlds friday. the giants beat the pittsburgh piras las night. all morning the wilson building was lit up in red to support the nats. check it out right there. the d.c. government will do this each night for as long as the in the playoffs. r vincent gray scheduled to attend the first game on saturday. pitch set for 3:07. a lot of folks doing things all

wait through the playoffs. these beards hang around through the playoff, what looks like a beard sort of. >> very nicely, it's growing. very nice. getting a lot of comments on it. speaking of beards. the nats are giving a little more information, new informn this morning. you want to listen to this, if you want tic to a playoff the nationals started a scavenr hunt that starts right now. they have hidden close to 100 of these guys. the jason worth garden gnome. six of the gnomes are autograp if you find an autographed gnome you will win two tickets to saturday nlds game two. you can tweet your photos of the hunt # -- >> how fun is this? everybody leaving their bags -- >> oh, my goodness. >> nothing in this studio. we've checked. those tickets are hard to come by, too. oh, boy. exciteme is building and here is your storm team 4

national forecast for tomorr at nats park. it looks like great baseball weather. now we know first pitch time will be 3:07. ought to be in the low to mid- then. partly sunny. by the seventh inning, cloudy, low 70s. by the last out, still cloudy. no rain. ba down to the upper 60s by early evening on friday. rain arriving after that. for the game today at camden yards, looks like great baseball weather there as the os yas and tirgs play their first pitch and partly cloudy for the rest of the game. by the last out back down to the low to mid-60s by late this evening. we look at temperatures now, we've got mid-50s starting early this morning. you'll need a light jacket. long sleeves at least. this is what to wear. long sleeves and lon pants at the bus stop this morning. it's going to be rather chilly between now and around 8:00. after that we'll quickly warm and boy mid-afternoon all the way into the upper 70s under a partly cloudy sky.

and we took this photo yesterday afternoon w shooting the storm team 4 -- excuse me -- fall special. we were emerging from the corn, if you build high pressure, we will come. >> up to your ears! >> we are. we were. oh, my, my. >> i know. a little corny. >> yes. we were -- >> stalking butler's orchard oh!erda keep 'em coming. watch for the storm team 4 weather fall special coming up in a couple of weeks. tomorrow with that gorgeous weather tha rain not arriving until probably after midnight looks like now into early saturd morning. much cooler for sunday. 30s in the morning. afternoon highs in the 60s. ought to stay above freezing and getting milder monday, tuesday and wednesday. melissa has breaking news on the road. breakings news in white oak. southbou columbia pike at lockwood drive a car crash off to the left. you can see police already on the scene but seeing slowdowns because o this, if you're headed out soon, a warning for

you there. southbou columbia pike at sout again out of frederk county, 270, slow all the way down until you get into about rockville, it opens back up towards the spur. wider look at things, looking typical at this point. 66 headed into town from t 45 miles per hour. 95 at newington. volume there. prince g county, looking s flow, you get this time of day. @first4traffic> now 6:54. jesse matthew makes his first court appearance since being brought back to virginia but it's unrelate ed d graham's disappea s first hearing on abduction charge the hannah graham case was pushed back to december. drones are flying to help search for hannah. the flying of the drones were specif approved by the faa

for the search. w a $25,000 reward is offered for information about the murder of a maryland man. 18-year-d johnny lee respert shot on adams street, blocks away from the rode witnessey it was a drive-by shooting as three men were inside the car the shots came from. you can hear d.c.'s mayoral candide square off tonight. taking part in a second debate. the debate is hosted by wamu rye and broadcast from 7:00 to 9:00. will be one of two panelis asking questions and two more debates later this month including one hosted by nbc 4 on october 16th. a new t-shirt controversy this morning. this time involving a message to teenage girls. the shirt says, training to be batman's wife, currently on sale at walmart and sold out on

amazon. critics say the shirt is sexist and obies young girls. so far amazon and walmart have not released comments on the shirt. d. comics says it is committed empowering all boys and girls. e company is reviewing licensg and product design process to ensure all products reflect that message. > four things to know as you head out the door on t th. keep your eyes out for a jayson h garden gnome today. hiding throws to 100 over the area. six are autographed. find one with a signature, you get two tickets to saturday's playoff game. and a news conference on the lyon sisters. the girls disappeared in 1975 after leaving wheaton plaza. look for updates starting on news 4 at 4:00. josh clancy is the new interim commander of the secret service. the presi indicating he

wants e to fix the secret service. > and treating a patient with ebola in the hospital. you'll hear from the victim's family making those claims next on the "today" show. this morning, watch out for isolated areas of patchy fog. otherwise, t sunshe comes back and later today in the upper 70s. nebs chance of rain is late friday night into early satur o > appreciat you waking up the "today" show is next.ast. back with updates. go finds the gnomes. go finds the gnomes. go nats! in cases of rape and incest, just go finds the gnomes. go nats! like the right-wing republicans in congress. they want to overturn roe v. wade. so does she.

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massive misstems. big questions swirling around the dallas hospital who released a man who was eventually diagnosed with eboll louisiana how could they ignore all the warning signs. nbc news has an interview with the nephew who said he had to personally call the cdc to give his uncle proper care. is the secret service in charge of protecting the president after a former special agent steps in. in kour the suspect in the disappearance of hannah graham faces a judge in virginia for the first time this morning while authorities