>> new safety procedures in place at five major airports including dulles. we'll report what's been done to keep the virus from spreading as we get late word of another potential case of ebola exposur exposure. >> coverage tonight on the efforts to fight ebola at airports and hospitals. >> but in the last few hours, a dallas county sheriff's deputy was rushed to the hospital in texas after starting to feel ill coming days after that deputy searched thomas duncan's apartment. thomas was the first ebola victim in the u.s. and died this morning. >> reporter: thomas duncan died 10 days after being admitted to presbyter ran hospital with ebola. they issued a statement it is with profound sadness and heart felt disappointment we must in form you thomas duncan died at

7:54 a.m. he first went to the emergency room when he became sick and despite saying he had been in liberia, duncan was sent home returning two days later when his condition worsened. once admitted, it went from serious to critical. he battled the disease for ten days taking an experimental drug. today, family members had no comment as they left the hospital following his death. in a written statement, his fiance said my family is in deep sadness and grief but we leave him in the hands of god and called for a thorough investigation into all aspects of his care. one of the people being watched for ebola. we're now approaching a pivotal time ebola would develop. >> reporter: she shared an apartment with duncan and was moved during a decontamination monitoring process and the same process will be followed disposing of mr. duncan's body.

another patient rushed to the hospital for possible symptoms of ebola. >> someone who does not have either definite contact with epo bo la or definite symptoms who is being assessed. >> reporter: meanwhile, ash ohka muk mukpo -- ashoka mukpo is being treated. he received blood from the doctor who had ebola and he also o offered blood to the hospital for duncan but never contacted. dulles is one of five airports passengers could face extra measures before they reach their final destination. team coverage at dulles and what travelers there will go through. >> reporter: as we know, thomas duncan traveled through dulles international airport. dulles is one of the five in the

u.s. that sees 94% of the travelers from those ebola affected countries in west africa. dulles international airport, one of five in the u.s. that will see heightened screening measures for ebola. cdc staff will be present at dulles. travelers coming from guinea, liberia and sierra leone will be accompanied to a screening area of the airport. customs will observe for signs of illness and ask a series of health and exposure questions. medical staff will take their temperature. travelers with fevers will be evaluated at a cdc quarn ran tin station. if there's fever or possible exposure. the cdc will decide if they should go to a hospital or health department for further monitoring. mixed feelings on whether to worry. >> it never crossed my mind. some people die from influenza.

>> it's not airborne. >> reporter: this man traveled to the islamic pilgrimage and saudi arabia and back to dulles and wore a surgical mask on board. >> i would say we were not worried. we were cautious and using masks. >> reporter: dulles, atlanta's airport, newark, jfk and chicago o'hare will all see these new ebola training measures, newark starting saturday, the west of the airports including dulles here starting next week. livality dulles international airport. live at dulles international airport. >> thomas duncan passed through dulles airport on the way to dallas and started showing symptoms five days later and turned away from the hospital and wasn't admitted until september 28th and diagnosed september 30th.

he had been given an experimental medication his family was questioning and some family members say it was too late by then and some concern over moving his body because it is still contagious. the cdc has strict protocol about being wrapped in plastic before being buried or cremated. tonight, a lot of questions on the local level. david culver has that side of the story. >> reporter: how prepared are our local hospitals when it comes to identifying and reacting to cases of ebola, a question i took to public health officials today and you want to know what they want your public provider to be doing. and they may be the best students here for testing for ebola. including what symptoms to watch for, watch our special page and just serarch "ebola

crisis." the hunt for william bradford bishop, a man accused of killing his entire family back in the '70s. and now, tisha thompson tells us about it. >> the fbi put bishop on the 10 most wanted list and since then the agency has received hundreds of tips and tomorrow, one of those tips will lead to a bodying with being exhumed in alabama. we will show you why. you will see a photo that could be disturbing. long time state employee, william bishop killed his family with a sledgehammer and wrapped their body in blankets and used the station wagon to north carolina and set it on fire. officials found it about a week later in the grade mountain ochs tennessee. bishop had banished. the fbi wants to know if this

man known as john doe could be bishop hit and killed by a car walking along the highway in scottsdale, arizona. both men have cleft chins, distinctive no, sir and thin lips and similar hair and sideburns. john doe appeared thinner and older than bishop. the fbi says if bishop spent several years living on the streets and running from authorities, he likely would have appeared older and thinner. >> we learned the fbi plans to exhume the body of john doe as early as tomorrow morning so they can check records, fingerprints and dna. we have more of that evidence on a special website we created called "the hunt for william bishop." tisha thompson, news4 i-team. right now, we're awaiting a news conference from nfl commissioner roger goodell and expected to talk to the team owners about domestic abuse.

they have been battered about abuse of a hand full of their players including baltimore raven ray rice and leads to a chalk in personal conduct policy and how to discipline players and team executives. >> this comes as one of the team's embattled players appeared in court on charges today. minnesota running back, adrian peterson was in texas, after allegedly disciplining his young son with a switch. instead of entering a plea, peterson and his lawyers requested a new judge. the current judge has been accused of using foul language to refer to the prosecutor and the defense lawyer in connection with all the media attention surrounding that case. new details tonight how a man in custody got into d.c. superior court with a loaded gun hidden in his underwear. isaiah bogen was arrested yesterday for allegedly having a stolen car. officers initially frisked him

at the police station and did not find a loaded gun then taken to a cellblock and searched again. court records shows he was wear ing two pairs of pants and snow pants over blue jeans. and when he took the snow pants off the gun slipped out. no additional charges yet. senator mark warren and ed the gillespie covered a lot of ground in a televised debate. one new question emerged as same sex marriages became legal this week in virginia. >> reporter: it's been a perennial candidate question in virginia for years. do you support gay marriage. >> you are joined in marriage as wife and wife. >> reporter: suddenly, it's a reality in last night's senate debate between warner and gillespie, can you accept it? >> i support marriage equality.

i think it is appropriate we live in a commonwealth that doesn't discriminate. >> reporter: gillespie a catholic says his faith instructs one man and one woman but says it's up to the states to make decisions in same sex marriage. >> it is the law and i do not support a federal marriage policy in this regard. >> reporter: the immigration policy is a top concern now. dpil lessspy's focus, border security first. >> it is a national security concern with the growing threat of isis or isil and it is a public health threat and a public safety threat with the growing concerns about ebola. >> reporter: warner backs a bipartisan plan passed by the senate and stalled in the house pass i pa passing -- >> and obamacare, warner wants to fix it and gillespie scrap

it. >> they didn't get it right at first and then has to come back and fix it. >> i will have one of my own on friday and talk about refundable tax across and protections on pre-existing conditions. >> that's all gillespie would say about his substantive plan last night. it will be a topic on the debate monday in richmond. >> thank you. next, a look at what police uncovered in the car of the case of the abducted suspect of uva student hannah graham. a gunman fires at police officers behind the station. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news4, we'll have details. restaurants, room service, expensive overnight retreats. how school board members are spending tax dollars on trips very close to their homes. we see a lot of sun today. we will see some more early tomorrow. clouds move in and they

tonight, is there an investigation under way after police heard shots fired in their direction. it happened last week during a shift change between the district or behind that is the district 4 police station in

oxen hill. joining us with what police have tried to do to improve security there. tracee. >> reporter: the district 4 station is located in a shopping plaza, an open area, a concept to make sure the community feels invited. now, they're taking a close look at security to make sure something like this does not happen again. >> they were changing shifts at that point, they heard what they thought was gunfire. r >> reporter: we were told some were standing here and a few that way and one officer in his vehicle when suddenly it appears someone was firing from the tree line. >> we were treating it as a shooter incident potentially. at that point we had resources respond to the area. we did have an air unit check through the wooded area with their flare system and had canine units on the scene as well as other resources we deployed.

>> reporter: even with assistance of d.c. police, no evidence of shots fired was found, no bullet holes and no one was injured. a source close to this investigation said he heard one of the bullets go past his ear and did not hear the shot. some feared it was sniper fire. >> at that time, we didn't find any in the woods and began the investigative process. >> reporter: as to the investigation as to who was firing and what their target was continues, attention turns to security. >> we're looking whether we can improve anything at this point. we are making sure we have officers check to the rear of the station frequently to make sure we don't have any walking through the wooded area. >> reporter: they also have helicopter units checking nearby sta stations to see if they need to be monitored. >> reporter: do officers have a reason to fear going behind that building? >> no. >> reporter: police are saying they believe there may have been someone firing a gun but have

not found any evidence that supports that gunman was actually targeting police officers. the investigation into all of this is continuing. reporting live in oxon hill, tracee w tracee wilkins, news4. a brazen robbery caught on campus. look at the picture from the left. somebody reaches into a passenger side and grabs the purse and then takes off. this happened along south dakota avenue northeast along riggs road, happened on september 27th. doug is here with a check on our weather. beautiful day today. >> you get a nice batch of rain and thunderstorm activity last night. some good news, we did need the rain and more good news, no real severe weather. 78 degrees, winds out of the west at 5 miles an hour. it's been on the mild side as

our average high temperature is only in the 70s now. 78, pretty good number. 72 in leesburg, and 68 in gaithersburg and 76 in fredericksburg. i do think temperatures will drop fairly quickly this evening as we are going to be seeing clear skies and that means no rain. the radar is on the clear, too. tomorrow morning, chilly. no rain so you won't need umbrellas. it will be a little chilly. how about long sleeves and long pants and you may want to send them off with a light jacket or sweater because it will be rather cool tomorrow morning. satellite and radar picking that up. clear skies towards boston and west towards chicago and around ohio. not much in the way of clouds moving our way until you get farther back to the west, towards kansas city and little rock, that's in the next area of cloudiness we eventually start to move our direction, that happening tomorrow afternoon. here it is on future weather timing it out for you.

tomorrow, 8:00 a.m., nothing but sunshine. a beautiful start to your thursday. we will see clouds moving in 4:00, 5:00, 6:00. it will still be on the mild side with some sunshine even at that hour. more clouds overnight and start off on friday and for rush hour, friday morning starts off dry. there's the shower activity around our region during the afternoon on friday. i do think friday afternoon will be rather wet, not talking a ton of rain here but when you need the little umbrella for your evening on friday. if you have plans friday evening you probably need that umbrella for sure. 72 degrees and only in the high 60s towards the blue ridge. heads up back there. you might want to keep that jacket with you throughout the afternoon. then we get really cool. 67 on friday, on65 on saturday d only 64 on sunday.

don't cancel any plans, and there may be breaks in there. and that's something to watch. we do warm up 70 on monday and 79 on tuesday. the three worst days happen to be friday, saturday and sunday. coming up next, more than 100 taxi drivers plug a busy street and protest about uber. to compete with the wildly popular alternatives. a police officer learns his fate after killing a puppy. new at 6:00, an animal services officer shares why this case is so different from other cruelty cases she's seen. the shocking

>> ?? [ horns blaring ] >> a lot of noise and no movement led to tense times on pennsylvania avenue caused by a protest from a union representing taxi drivers in the city. they want changes to the way companies like uber are regulated. an issue boiling for months. he's downtown. is there any resolution to this in sight? >> reporter: good evening, doreen. to answer your question, probably not. this isn't the first time taxis

have come to pennsylvania avenue and shut it down in protest and probably won't be the last. they complain they are so heavily regulated even down to the color of the taxicabs but car services like uber don't face nearly that much regulation and why they came here to the offices of the mayor and d.c. council to protest. hundreds of cabbies inched their way up pennsylvania avenue. blasting their horns and demanding a change. >> they're operating illegally. the playing field must be leveled. >> it's a free market. it's not fair competition. >> reporter: police did all they could to keep traffic moving. eventually, traffic came to a halt and it became confrontationa confrontational. >> taking all our business. we ask the city for everything to be fair. >> reporter: several cabbies

were ticketed and one arrested after they got out of their cars in the middle of pennsylvania avenue. not every car in this line of cabs was here to protest. >> this is crazy. >> i don't know what's going on. >> i don't know what's going on. i hear a lot of honking. >> reporter: wrong place at the wrong time, i guess. >> what is it about? >> reporter: cab drivers are protesting uber. >> no, my friends do. >> reporter: they like it? sn>> yes. >> reporter: good day to be on a bike. >> how long have you been stuck in this? >> probably about 30 minutes. >> reporter: this is what washington is all about. >> love it. great. >> reporter: the d.c. council is expected to approve additional regulations for app-based car services like uber. cabbies say it's not nearly enough to level the playing field.

>> thank you, mark. we asked you to weigh in. do you think uber and lyft should be regulated the same way taxis are. our users said no, by a majority of 66% they should not be regulated. you may start to see more food trucks while shopping in fairf fairfax. new rules allow them to occupy in popular spots like tyson's corner and town center. they need permission from the propertywner and have to pay $100 a year for a zoning permit far less than the previous fee, $16,000. fighting ebola. why some say our region is better equipped to handle the cases than other parts of the country. as the search for hannah graham continues we're getting our first look inside the suspect's car hundreds of miles from the crime scene in

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investigators found when the prime suspect of a disappeared uva student was found in texas. and school board members lavish dinners not far from home and spending by prince george's county school board members. >> first, in the latest fight against ebola here in the u.s. >> in texas, a dallas county sheriff's deputy is in the hospital. he has not been diagnosed but was in the apartment with thomas duncan. >> duncan died this morning, came from liberia and the first person to be diagnosed with it in the u.s. and now screening changes for five airports including dulles international. in arlington with more on the efforts to prevent the outbreak, david. >> reporter: public officials want to be clear.

there are no go-to or specialized hospitals in our area when it comes to ebola treatment. they want every hospital ones like this one to be ready to react and identify potential ebola cases. >> here in this region between virginia, maryland and the district, we probably have the best. >> reporter: that's the director of the d.c. department of health telling local leaders he's confident local hospitals will react effectively should an ebola case arrived including the widespread region. if you live or work in those regions includes area hospitals. >> this is an area with people coming in and out are vulnerable. >> it is and why we started preparing over six months ago. >> reporter: public health officials take their lead from the centers for disease control. and every hospital must be prepared to identify suspected ebola cases and isolate patients and contact public health

officials and arrange proper testing to confirm the proper diagnosis. we don't have to just rely on the cdc. we have two labs to test, one in virginia and one in maryland. other jurisdictions must send samples to the cdc and public health officials say they're preparing test kits for certified labs should be coming in the upcoming weeks. and his office is in constant communication with the cdc and in turn will relay that information to he health providers. >> all hospitals need to be prepared. there is no one hospital that can handle patients. >> reporter: hospitals wanted to stress tonight there are no confirmed cases of ebola in our region and hence no confirmed outbreak. should a case arrived, the hospitals will know what to do. i'm david carver, live. a prince george's county candidate accused of molesting a

charge has been cleared of the charges. a grand jury found there was not suv evidence to indict. he's running as a republican for the maryland house of delegates in the 23rd district in the southern part of the county. an 8-year-old claimed the abuse happened at his home. when he was charged last month, he told tracee wilkins he believed he would be vindicated. tonight, a man who served as a police officer is headed to jail for a year, he admitted to killing a 7-month-old puppy, rocco and explains why some people have very different views whether the punishment fits the crime. >> reporter: montgomery county animal services has received more than 6 hundreds complaints of animal cruelty and neglect this year. jean aet jeanette wright who was on duty when the case came in said this is an extreme case. >> a lot of animal cruelty cases

don't get that type of sentence so i was pleased. >> reporter: former baltimore police officer alec taylor is spending his first night in the detention center. in august, he plead guilty to beating and choking rocco, his 7-month-old jack russell terrier. it happened in this silver spring apartment. he texted his girlfriend i almost killed rocco, well i wanted to. paraphrasing the text he made a me all over the carpet after i let him outside. at today's sentencing, stold th judge he was not just a dog, a member of my family. >> i think it's important. >> reporter: the parents say he put the dog out of his pain after being injured by someone else. >> we're not saying he wasn't culpable and not responsible for what he did but the dog had been injured. >> the reality he snapped,

killed the dog and lost his career and liberty. >> reporter: the defense for officer taylor plans to come back and ask the one year sentence be modified and criminal conviction be expunged so he can apply for a better job when he is released from jail but it is unlikely he will ever be a police officer again. chris gordon, news4. take a look at the damage done by a fire in annapolis, the loss at $1.5 million. investigators believe the house on sharps point road was hit by lightning at midnight. three people were inside but all got out safely. would you believe we are less than two months away from the lighting of the national christmas tree. the national park service announced it will be lit december 4th this year. free tickets for the ceremony will be given through an online lottery. you can enter your name between october 17th and october 20th.

3,000 seated tickets and 14,000 standing room tickets. you can find a link to the site and more details by going to our website, nbcwashington.com. a rude awakening for a local college student, the scary situation prompting a warning from police. new evidence in a high profile case. we'll tell you what police found inside jesse matthews stolen car and how that could lead to answers for a missing uva student. plenty of sunshine today. get ready if you have plans for the weekend, i'm tracking a 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.

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for the first time tonight, we're getting a look inside the car jesse matthews was driving when he was arrested in texas. >> charlottesville investigators left the car behind in galveston after gathering what they needed for their case.

they don't believe missing uva student hannah was ever in this car. it belonged to his sister. cigarette butts filled the ashtray and police officer's card and a cassette titled jesus lifting the spirit and three tools to release god's power. and inside a yellow envelope a necklace and a woman on the beach called police. >> he drove past right here and stopped dead still and looked right at me for a little while. a few seconds. and then he, you know, left the beach. that's when i knew who it was. >> reporter: the officer who responded to that call did not realize matthew was wanted, when he first ran the car's plates. the galveston sheriff said the officer's computer did not have a good signal so he did not

receive the initial alert. matthew is in a charlottesville jail charged with abduction. it has been nearly a month now hannah was last seen and matthew is linked with mortgage dpgan hn and assault in fairfax. a college student woke up to find a stranger in her house at college park and knox road. she woke up to see someone peering into her bedroom and she yelled and the person took off. the person did not take anything and the school has sent an alert to students. school board members dining out on a taxpayer's dime. >> reporter: in some cases you're eating by yourself? is that the best way to use taxpayer dollars? >>

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i'm mark warner...i brought republicans and democrats... together on a bill that gives incentives to companies that... bring high tech and manufacturing jobs to virgina. because instead of outsourcing jobs to china...we should be... insourcing them here for our people...and thats why i... approved this message. for some local school board members there is such a thing as a free lunch. dinner and breakfast, too. >> just months ago the montgomery county school board cut up their tax funded credit card s for charging pricey meals and now we found more pricey purchases. some of the charges are just minutes from their homes. >> reporter: this is the crab bomb, the house specialty at of

seafood along with a platter of scallops an $82 dinner, the exact dinner school board member regina jacobs used her tax funded credit card to buy august 13th for a meeting with a fellow board member for a talk about a summer program one of 40 times jacob used it for meals in prince george's county in a year and a half. her expenses shows more than $4400 worth of expenses. a $95 dinner for a meeting on professional development and $185 dinner at the restaurant in february, too, with two board colleagues about the district's budget. >> i just wonder why it's needed. >> reporter: juanita miller says the meetings could be held without the food and expenses. >> that's something that could go towards workshops or community outreach. >> reporter: one of her most frequent meeting members, her

fellow board member who used her own card for meeting at local restaurants. seafood and buffets and sometimes meeting with fellow board members and sometimes all alone. do you have a moment with us? we caught up with miss boston before a board meeting. in some cases you're eating by yourself without a meeting guest. is that the best way to use taxpayer dollars? >> if i'm down here all day for meetings and i need to have lunch i can use the card for that purpose. >> reporter: even by yourself. >> even by myself. i am entitled to eat. >> reporter: when we caught up with miss jacobs, she said the meals are important. >> reporter: you meet with other board members so close to home and the office. >> we also meet with other constituents and other board members. >> reporter: other board members charged far fewer meals to taxpayers, a few dozen total between the rest of them.

>> reporter: our investigation found only some expenses are meals. they also spend taxpayer money right here at the national harbor westin hotel in oxon hill. where they provided rooms $229 a night a room. the district's general fund paid for the room but these members used credit cards for valet parking at the hotel. a district spokeswoman tells us those expenses are allowed and they spent money for local hotel rooms because meetings began early and ended late. we found more than $10,000 was spent on the two most recent board retreats at national harbors, in the same county, a 25 minute drive from the district's offices. taxpayers also footed the bill when regina jacobs reserve add $230 a night hotel room at the washington d.c. hilton conference 37 minutes from the board's offices. the district told us jacobs is now seeking reimbursements from

taxpayers for the group that staged the conference. >> they could have used metro, requires getting up early or late make arrangement to catch a cab. >> reporter: district policy puts no limit on the cost of meals or hotel rooms for which board members can charge taxpayers and puts an overall $7,000 yearly cap for expenses for each board member. >> reporter: is the system working? >> i think there's always room for looking at what can be improved. that's always the case. as board members we have a responsibility to our taxpayers to do that. >> a district spokeswoman told me this about the credit card, the board's chair requested the office of internal audit to revisit policies and guidelines to clarify ambiguous language. this in no way implies the board members have used their credit cards appropriately. >> in order to see the board members receipts for yourself and learn about the i-team's similar investigation in montgomery county we invite you

to click on investigations at nbcwashington.com. >> i don't know. i'm kind of feeling like going for a drive to get crabcakes now. >> that was a big one, too. >> it's so nice outside. >> that's the thing. we are seeing fantastic weather the last couple of days. okay. today, beautiful. i think we have another great day coming. then we go back the other day for more time. that time we head towards the weekend. looking good, clear skies and a few clouds in the distance. all in all a very nice night. 78 degrees currently under clear sky, 71 degrees, breezy across our region. winds 10-15 miles an hour. not too heavy. nice weather at 9:00 and 65 at 11:00. i do think temperatures will cool fairly quickly and already down in the low to mid 60s in some areas. radar all clear. i expect to it stay clear today and not just tomorrow because of the clear skies talking about cool numbers. 52 in d.c. 44 in frederick and 44 in

culpeper area and 44 in martinsville. waking up tomorrow morning you will most likely need the jacket. tomorrow, sunshine and temperatures rebound nicely 70-73 degrees in the city. and we will see increasing clouds during the day. they will stick with us. we have a frontal boundary that will meander to the south and produce areas of low pressure and produce shower activity during the day friday and saturday and i think we're talking about little but not a washout. not talking about a lot of rain but we are talking about rain during the weekend hours. muchcooler, too. 67 on friday, 65 on saturday, 64 rather dreary on sunday with a better chance of shower activity. more showers next week. at least we're seeing temperatures back into the 70s. >> thank you. coming up on "nightly news" an investigation into the field so many of our kids in the area

play on. >> you may be familiar with the specky dots that show up in a house after practice. it's called crumb rubber. and a coach started asking questions after two of her own players were diagnosed with blood cancers and she reached out and learned of other soccer players with similar stories. we investigated the research that's out this. no one has established a link between cancer and these fields. the industry and others point to more than a dozen studies saying their products are safe. we talked to drshs and researchers and -- doctors and researchers and advocacy groups saying the testing is insufficient and hopefully those are questions we will answer tonight on "nightly news." i say you can forget baseball and some say you can forget football. we have hockey and basketball. >> wizards are learning they

will pay a regular season price for that preseason scuffle the other night. >> i ask y'all a question, how did you handle losing in the nfl? >> oh, boy, redskins safety ryan clark turns the tables on those who question the

some of you remember the time we had a time they didn't take the stuff from nobody. >> it wasn't that far long ago. >> you will definitely like -- >> the point is we had guys that will not be intimidated in the paint. >> paul pierce will be our guy. see it already. >> wizards playing their second preseason game tonight taking on the new orleans pelicans in just a bit. they're getting bad news from the league. a few hours ago, the nba handed down suspensions and fines for that incident in the game with the bulls on monday. remember this. they have to pay a price for this preseason scuffle. they will be suspended for leaving the bench during this

altercation between paul pierce and joakim noah. when will they be suspended? pierce was suspended $15,000 for poking noah in the forehead and noah was also fined $15,000 for his role in that. >> can't poke people. can't do it! can't do it. >> that's not good. >> from the team about to start their season to a team headed on vacation, the national season is complete. they have now won the division two of the last three years but this team can't stick around in october. last night, the giants ended their world series hope. the manager received criticism for sticking with rookie barrett. a wild pitch that would bring home the game's deciding run. ugly. giants get the win and nats get knocked out of the post-season

for the second time in three years. the quick exit not what fans or this team hoped for. now, they're getting ready for next year. >> we have a lot of talent and good ball players in here. a lot of good ballplayers under contract and coming back for a while. the window isn't closed but it is closing. it's important for us to move past this and go to spring training ready to go. >> i'm proud of their effort. we established a way to go about this game in spring training and accomplished that goal and played the way we wanted to play. it's tender and bitter and all those things. but i'm proud of them. proud of the way they went about it. >> amazing regular season for them. a tough playoff run there. it's never easy when a team is 4-1 -- 1-4. wishful thinking. sorry that that. we all know how it goes when

you're losing, everything starts to get looked at under a magnifying glass. lots of talk as to how redskins react reacted after a loss to seattle monday night. it came a question to the coach. >> there was no doubt in my mind they played their [ bleep ] off in every snap of the game. one was playing on a sore knee and running around all over the joint. his effort in the game and his desire to win i will never question it. >> as a media guy, i ask y'all a question, how did you handle losing in the nfl? i'm waiting for the first person. it's just me, right? that's my point. y'all have no idea how somebody is supposed to behave after a loss. you're saying because a certain group of people behaved a certain way they don't care. you don't know that because you haven't been in that position. >> i hear what ryan clark has to say. we all know what success is and leadership is and we deal with

it everyday in our lives. to say we don't play the game we can still see what's going on. >> that's our

on our broadcast tonight, ebola death in this country. the first patient diagnosed in the u.s. has died, and tonight there's another potential case at the same hospital in dallas. also, which u.s. airports are about to start passenger screening. our nbc news investigation, how safe is the artificial turf on the fields children are playing on across our country. is there a potential health risk? tonight, a coach who noticed a terrible coincidence among several soccer players and what we found that every parent should see. and were you cheated on your cell phone bill? how to spot the bogus charges and find out if you're entitled to a refund as the feds announce $100 million settlement. "nightly news" begins now. from