. >>> i'm david foster, and we have this coming up, counting their chickens, why brazil's pull try farmersould benefit from the crisis in ukraine. >>> and a call from lebron james helps cleveland sign a new star. we have the details, stay with us here on the news hour. ♪ vé ♪ >> you are watching the al jazeera news hour. these are our top stories. palestinians in gaza have been trying to assess the damage that has been caused over the last seven weeks. hamas says it is a victory. israel says hamas could have accepted the same deal offered a month ago. >>> in afghanistan both presidential candidates of pulled out of the audit into the disputed election results. abdullah abdullah has described the effort as a joke. and a formal investigation has been launched into a long-running case about a $500 million-plus payment to a businessman while christine was the french finance minister. >>> let's go back to gaza. we'll talk to this man in the gaza strip, and you are at one of the u.n. schools, which was targeted during the course of the last seven weeks. who have you met there? what are they sayi

david foster and richard sullivan will be aired tonight at 7:00 in founders hall auditorium on george mason university's arlington campus. that election will be held next tuesday. meantime, the corruption trial of bob donnell and his wife, maureen, injuring its third week now. the governor's chief of staff is on the stand. we were there as he walked into court this morning. he testified that the former governor was visibly upset after they interviewed his wife. i asked him not to drive a ferrari from jonnie williams' home. the governor remains optimistic. >> we're about halfway done. i am looking for to presenting our case. >> they are charged with accepting more than 155 thousand dollars in gifts and loans from williams. they could face decades in prison if convicted. jeff goldberg is still in richmond and will have more on the testimony coming up tonight on abc 7 news at 5:00. the washington redskins are wrapping up training yesterday in richmond. this is the last session for fans this afternoon at 10:00. there will be a walk-through. they say that they are a little sore after landi

i'm david foster. the head of the u.n.ssia is violating ukraine's sovereignty by sending in troops and weapons. >>> the number of refugees who have fled fighting in syria has surpassed 3 million. that's 5,000 a day or thereabouts. the united nations says this is the biggest humanitarian emergency of our times but not enough is being done to help. >>> in senegal the first case of ebola has now been confirmed. it is the fifth country to be hit by the virus. the health minister says a student arriving from neighboring guinea carried the disease. galaxo smithkline is speeding up guests. but the spread of the virus could eventually hit 20,000 people. >>> russia's foreign secretary says there is no proof, but nato's secretary general say there is no doubt that russian troops are in ukraine. >> reporter: nato's ambassador met in emergency session to discuss how best to respond to the escalating crisis. >> despite moscow's hollow denials, it is now clear that russian troops and equipment have illegally crossed the border into east

. >> rip sullivan beat republican david foster.he special election was held to fill bob brink's seat in the house of delegates. brink took a post in terry mcauliffe's administration. district 48 covers parts of arlington and mclean. the g.o.p. will be taking over the virginia state legislature. republican ben chaffin won a special election for a seat in the 38th street. it was abandon by philip puckett giving republicans control of both houses. but there is a federal investigation under way as to why puckt stepped down. some believe it was so his daughter would be granted a judgeship by republicans. >>> 6:34. wusa9 and d.c. jobs want to help you get hired. ufcw is hiring organizers. it's a full-time position requiring between one and two years of experience. if you'd like toe find out more, go to wusa9.com/dcjobs. >>> we'd like to introduce you to this morning's facebook fan ever the day. congratulations to lloyd rollins of fort washington, maryland. lloyd says, i've been watching channel 9 since i was 20 and i'm now 61 and still w

. >> in our area richard rip sullivan democrat is facing david foster, a republican, in a house of delegates race. the winner will serve the remainder of the term being vacated by former dal gatt robert brink and the district includes arlington and parts of mclean. >>> right now this is a look outside. isn't that a nice appearance there. calm. but we are expecting some wet weather later in the day and later in the week. >> howard joins us live on the weather terrace now to tell us where and when. good morning, howard. >> reporter: good morning. muggy this morning. the wet weather expected more in the mountains and out toward the shenandoah valley than here in the metro, although we can't rule out a spotty shower. most of us will stay dry and tomorrow as well. thursday afternoon and evening has a better chance for showers and thunderstorms. temperatures this morning are in the 60s and 70s. i want to back it up for a moment and show you the radar here. we're tracking a couple of showers here from denton to queenstown. they're trying to get into the bay toward tillman and st. michael's. they ma

. ♪ >>> and this is the al jazeera news hour, coming to you live from doha, i'm david foster.me to the program. this is some of what we have coming up in the next 60 minutes: nato says russia has thousands of troops close to the ukrainian border. >>> 3 million refugees have now fled syria.

david lopez is board member of the silicon valley children's fund. the rise program gives foster children the support they need to keep them from falling through the cracks. it's one of the reasons the program received a $25,000 grant from nbc universal's 21st century solutions. >> i completely see myself in there. i always wanted it, so i made the choices to be there. but it was always the support that was needed. and i think here they have that. >> reporter: niklas jackson jumped around from foster home to foster home. she says the rise helped her graduate magna cum laude. >> it was a challenge, not because i couldn't do the work or that the work was hard, but because my mind was elsewhere. he was always worried about what was going on at home. >> reporter: there were more than 1200 children in foster care last year in santa clara county. traditional schools are failing many of those children he says and thinks the rise program helps fill that void. >> those students that are in there unfortunately have been challenged in a traditional setting, but they've come here, and there'