here in the studio with us right now is rebecca cooper. has written a book called "diets don't work she's also founded rebecca's house, eating disorders and treatmentprogram. and i have to say i agree, diets don't work. absolutely. absolutely. >> so tell me how you came up with the idea for the book. i think that you probably had an eatingisorder yourself? >> yes. after years of recovery, i actually started workingith people who had problems with -- at first i was more like yo-yo dieting and i realized that the devastation that's caused by the failed die wias having a big imct on people's self-esteem, along with setting them up to get into disordered eating. i found out too that dieting actually changes the brain chemist and some people progress into eating disorders. >> when did you recognize this in yourself? >> in myself, not until i had years of recovery, years of recovery did i start -- in fact a lot of this information is new. we didn't even know about how the brain was involved in the eating disorder. >> so tell me a little bit more

coast guard circling." >> once that text went out, greg called adam's wife, rebecca.ome with joy -- >> i was like, yeah, trouble's the best call, you know, that you can ever -- yeah. >> talk about emotions flipping on their head. >> yeah. oh, it was a crazy day. like i have never experienced anything like this roller coaster. >> a roller coaster ride none of them would ever forget. especially adam creek, marcus, patrick fleming, and the captain, jordan hanson. >> what happened was what happened. >> here you are. >> and here i am. >> and able to tell the tale. >> i don't want to say i've seen it all. that's a dangerous thing to say with the ocean. we'd definitely taken the boat through you its paces. >> they had been about 3/4 of the way across the atlantic, they said. miami, about 900 miles to the west. the last night was routine. and then just about sunrise saturday, april 6th, the waves grew larger. but it was nothing they hadn't gone through before. the rowers were just doing a shift change. so the hatches were open. >> then a bunch of things started happening at o

hi, rebecca. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> glad to have you. each party has their big gun out there stomping for them. you have hillary clinton on one side. you have rick -- excuse me, mr. romney on the other side, and let's consider party enthusiasm we just depicted in that fox news poll we just showed you. who would you say has to work harder at messaging and what will be clinton's focus and what will be romney's focus? >> well, if we look at the iowa race where we're going to see mitt romney and hillary clinton in the coming weeks and we've seen them there already stumping for the candidates, we have two very difficult goes here. on the republican side you have joanie ernst a charismatic candidate. she has momentum on her side and she's been running a great campaign. all a republican like mitt romney has to do when he's jumping for joanie, he has to get voters excited to vote for her. but hillary clinton with bruce braley has a lot more work to do. she is obviously a very big draw, someone who democrats are excited to see but bruce braley ha

live in the newsroom, rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >> thanks, rebecca. thank you so much. you have an update for us, i understand, about some of the violent weather of last week. >> last wednesday afternoon, live during the afternoon here in the weather center, we had tornado warnings. we found oud to the the national weather service confirmed this was a small tornado, ef-0. wind speeds 55 to 65. it was a tornado in the bell haven area of alexandria and also a separate tornado from a separate storm only about 25, 35 minutes later in eastern howard county, maryland, not far from savage so two ef-0 tornadoes confirmed. no severe threat ahead. we'll show you the weather pictures here. live view from the weather camera on the roof where clouds have been increasing all afternoon. more clouds coming in. 66 at reagan national right now. if you like to keep score at home with the numbers, a lot of people do, they actually write it down, put it in the computer. 70 and 45 the high and low today. 67 and 49 the averages. comfortable weather. a little bit of a breeze. clouds and 60's n

rebecca with us now. you reached out to at&t. what are they saying tonight? >> reporter: david, they say this only impacts 3% of their customers, and they also say they've always been completely transparent. >> rebecca jarvis with us here tonight. rebecca, thank you. >>> well, tonight, the countdown is on to the midterm elections. one week from tonight, seven days now, until america heads to the polls. it's your voice, your vote. the stakes are extraordinarily high. a president, a white house, waiting to learn if the senate lot go republican, too. the house already in republican hands. and new tonight here, a portrait of america fed up really with both sides. take a look here. this is one of the tools we'll have on election night. the exit polls. the voters and what's driving them revealed all night long. tonight, a bit of a preview why america is fed up. a new abc news/"washington post" poll of likely voters. here's a question we asked of them. we asked about the direction of america. is it going in the right direction? 70% saying no. just 26% saying yes. an

joining us is rebecca passer source and bessemer, and joe lavorgna. thank you both for being here. what happened over the last week? 4 rebecca, none of them seem to have gone away, yet our perception seems to have changed. >> i think we've gotten better valuations. things get cheaper, but probably even more importantly we've gotten quite a few data points both on earnings and economic data to just reinforce the idea we're not falling off a cliff. there's no sense of equities doing a real sell-off after what we have already seen unless there's a risk we're heading into a global recession. we've seen u.s. jobless claims, mortgage refinancing, mortgage applications, consumer confidence, the list goes on suggesting that the u.s. is still doing quite well, europe is sloeing, but it's priced in. >> joe, what about you? >> i'm still very bullish. there's a lot of good data. even consumer sentiment last week, still low historically but edged higher. it shows you that households aren't worried about what's happening for their economic situations. so to me everything looks pretty decent. gro

i'm curious how many of you are friends with my wife rebecca or sugar margin? raise your hands. okay. thank you all for being such good friends to people. you know, my dad said after rebecca and i got married before i was part of this family i didn't have a lot of friends and she was absolutely right that i had a few friends and one of them was named rob. his friendship was a gift given like most of the best unsuspectingly by being paired up randomly as roommates freshman year at yale and also being permitted to write the story that his family. in freshman year i was hired as a bouncer at the symphony orchestra that tells you a lot. it was one of the most highly anticipated social events of the year. i was supposed to keep the side door closed from the inside. he is also intoxicated as people get symphonies c-charlie intent on exiting this way he didn't like being told that he couldn't. he ended up sort of tackling me and we tumbled down the door into this crowded plaza where the kids made some room for us. it was more so until his friends join him. all three of them sort of bac

reporting live from the satellite center, rebecca cooper. >> thank you.the world health organization says millions of doses of experiment of vaccine could be ready by next year. five more experimental vaccines will be tested in march. but the world health organization also warned it is not clear whether any of these back scenes were work -- vaccines will work against the virus. be sure to join us monday night for a town hall on ebola in america. be sure to send your questions to us. investigators returned to frederick municipal airport this morning, looking for clues into the cause of a midair helicopter and plane collision yesterday that killed three people. >> the ntsb talked about the crash earlier today. we have the latest developments. >> the latest development are that the he investigators have wrought in some heavy here, to get that and see what they can learn from it to move their investigation ahead. fracturedicopter lies between buildings in a storage facility. the airplane hangs in trees behind a community college training facility. investigato

narrator: rebecca jim is the director of l.e.a.d., a community-action agency. through the years, she has witnessed firsthand the effects of toxins in picher. jim: i was an educator here in this community for over 25 years. and what i found when i first got here was children that were ready to learn, and they were able to, and they were eager, and they were excited, and they could learn easily. and through those years, those children became more exposed, and, i think, became damaged. man: rebecca jim contacted me in the mid-1990s and asked me whether i could measure some of the teeth that she had collected from school-age children for lead. we measured those teeth. the levels were relatively high. narrator: the tests further confirmed rebecca jim's suspicions -- that the children were being affected by lead poisoning. many of the problems lead causes in the human body appear to be associated with its ability to mimic or inhibit the action of another metal -- calcium. calcium can only enter the body's cells by binding to a specific protein. once in the cells, it

found rebecca's jewelry box intact. see the shadows on the top from where the jewelry was laying inside. >> the charred mementos and family photos are painful reminders of the past. bianchi-peters also strives to create positive ones. >> i know that sammy would have been very honored for all your hard work. >> she's started the just love foundation. named for the tattoo worn by rebecca and matching stencil worn by sammy. the foundation funds an annual scholarship to send a child from a low-income home to a local performing arts school. >> sammy loved to perform. it was sammy's safe place and we're gonna fight this ugly, horrible event by providing as much love and positivity as we can. >> the ochoas were arrested the morning following the fire and the story was widely covered on local news. >> brother baron ochoa was interviewed and police found scratches on his neck, head and shoulder area. >> the little girl's father conrad ochoa smelled of the same strong odor of the karen lane fire. >> the person interviewing conrad

rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> rebecca, thank you. >>> and we move on now to another very familiar face. this time, for new englanders. a political powerhouse has died. tom menino. that city's longest serving mayor and, remarkably, more than half of all bostonians say they personally met him. a college dropout who never lost his thick boston accent, an italian mayor in a city famous for his irish roots. tonight, president obama calling menino the embodiment of boston strong. menino was 71. i had so much fun covering him as a young reporter there in boston. >>> and we move on tonight to las vegas. and that big gamble by federal agents, dramatic video of their undercover sting. smashing an accused international gambling ring. the bust proving that what happens in vegas doesn't necessarily stay in vegas. here's abc's david wright. >> july 5th, 8:43 a.m. >> reporter: surveillance video from las vegas. a scene straight out of "ocean's 11." >> we're up and running. >> reporter: this video, shot by state and federal aagents on the trail of an illegal sports meting operation for the chines

ashley: rebecca, what is collapse of this getting to court? is this grand staning lawyers? >> they might bridge it toourt -- bring it to court but they are not going to win. ashley: not going anywhere. >> no, the aclu, said she is concerned, she is respectfully, a nurse who treated people in west africa, that is noble and honor. but she may have a different outlook if she were governor of the state, there is a whole constituent see they have to think about and spread of virus, and if anyone leaves, one state goes to another, there are a lot of concerns that sometimes individuals may not recognize on a whole. >> that going to one nurse, 163 people on now subjected to these concerns. because she took a flight, he went to look at dresses, and all of these people that came in contact, they are now subjected to this, maybe i was infected. they don't know. ashley: could there be a legal challenge here the other way, saying that individuals may have acted without proper regard for public safety. >> a great point it goes to a battery, if you know you are infected with virus, and go

rebecca stevenson joins us now. where do we stand with hudhud?we'll continue to see it move into central india. dumping rain on the coast of india. we're expecting the track of it in the next two days to continue and turn to the north gradually so we'll see another round of heavy rainfall into the mountains of nepal. let's stick with that theme because we're currently watching tropical storm gonzalez, threat thing puerto rico tonight and the virgin islands. we're expecting this particular storm to gradually strengthen to hurricane status. dangerous winds and it still stands as a tropical storm but it must be watched. this is a lot of rainfall very quickly. now let's address a lot of rainfall very quickly and wind gusts up to 70 to 80 miles an hour. oklahoma city down to dallas fort worth are planning for a stormy night, as a conceptual line moves through. these wind gusts coming down like straight line winds can easily cause a lot of damage here. brought to you by incredibly cold air. wind gusts across the southwest up to 50, up to 45 to 50 in no

tonight, abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis, getting answers. >> reporter: there's a limit to unlimited. the government today suing at&t claiming the wireless giant's been misleading customers with its so-called unlimited data plans, offering unlimited access to the internet, apps, e-mails and online videos. but the ftc says there's a catch. once consumers use a certain amount, everything starts to dramatically slow down. making internet access as difficult as in the dark ages of dialup. and that it's happened to at least 3.5 million customers. 25 million times since 2011. >> millions of customers affected on this rebecca with us now. you reached out to at&t what are they saying tonight? >> they say this only impacts 3% of their customers and they say they've always been completely transparent. >> rebecca jarvis with us tonight, thank you. >>> well, tonight, the countdown is on to the midterm elections. seven days now until america heads to the polls. it's your voice, your vote. the stakes are extraordinarily high. a president, a white house waiting to learn in the senate w

the torture and murder of his 21-year-old daughter, rebecca. but at the moment, his focus is on his ability or inability to purchase snacks and supplies from the jail commissary. >> first thing i ordered was coffee, freeze dried coffee, 3 ounce. go down. ordered one. insufficient funds. cocoa, five pack, insufficient funds. and i ordered sweet and low, ten pack, that's 50 cents, insufficient funds. pretty bad when you don't have 50 cents. soups are 60 cents. i ordered three of those. that was $1.80. insufficient funds. and one pepper pack, i was really hopeful on this one, insufficient funds. that's really bad when you don't have 25 cents. everybody should have 25 cents. just to feel like an american, you know. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the american way, apple pie, ice cream. >> lance butterfield is an inmate that teams to do his time well. he's an older guy in a jail full of younger inmates. he seems to get along with them. >> i try to convert some of the younger kids on how lame it is to be sit in your cell for 22 hours and

rebecca cooper shows us collectibles up for sale. today, everything was for sale at the cozy inn and restaurant. memories and history. >> this family-owned -- the oldest family-owned restaurant in the county. eclectic range of items, including some from presidential visitors at nearby camp david, like this bear rug inn afterd up at thein president hoover shot it. davis the historic camp peace talks, it was ground zero for press and step. during president clinton's middle east peace negotiations, i was reporting and covering the summit. he liked the fact there was no cell phone reception in the mountains. it made it difficult for the durings and palestinians the negotiations. >> my mom worked here. my son worked here. a lot of us were care. it will be hard. >> to christmas ornaments new and old, every part of this place was sold today and carried off, except the memories. rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >> a man with a bullhorn interrupted hillary clinton during a speech in san diego this weekend. >> in 1995 -- [siren] [indiscernible] [la

and he's asking rebecca, come here closer.he's not into it. >> want to see what i've got. >> he's on his knees and he has something in his hand. >> oh. >> come here. >> are you freaking kidding me? that really just happened? >> just watch it because then you'll start thinking, maybe that didn't happen. >> it looks like he fakes it. >> he looks like he's going to retrieve the box with the ring in it because it's right on the ledge and the whole box goes ding and fries olies off the edo the grand canyon. >> he probably loves her dearly but some guys are just not good at the romance, you know? >> stick to the dinner proposal. >> and she's kind of like pushing him away and turning her head. before going here, i don't think he did his research. he's putting the ring on her finger. she has not ever said yes. >> i thought you were going to die. >> i'm not going to die. >> you scared me half to death. >> you want to show the camera your ring? >> i just want to show them you that you're not dead. >> that's it for "right this minute." w

rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> rebecca, thank you. >>> and we move on now to another very familiar face. this time, for new englanders. a political powerhouse has died. tom menino. and if you're from boston, a household name. that city's longest serving mayor, and, remarkably, more than half of all bostonians say they personally met him at one point. a college dropout who never lost his thick accent. tonight, president obama calling menino the embodiment of boston strong. he was 71. i loved covering him as a young reporter in boston. >>> and we move on tonight to las vegas. and this evening, proof that what happens in vegas doesn't stay there when captured on tape by the fbi. here's david wright. >> july 5th, approximately 8:43 a.m. >> reporter: surveillance video from las vegas. a scene straight out of "ocean's 11." >> we're up and running. >> reporter: this video, shot by state and federal agents on the trail of an illegal sports betting operation, allegedly run by the chinese mafia. >> we're going to try to see if we can get the dsl working. >> reporter: at caesars palace casino

and abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis, and rebecca, what's causing this? >> reporter: big thing here is oil. oil prices are plunging. we are now on the verge in this country of producing more oil than saudi arabia and becoming the world's largest oil producer. that has sent prices at the pump down across the country. 30% of the country tonight, david, is paying a price that begins with a 2 in front of it. and they can expect to see more relief in the coming weeks, 20 cents, that's what my experts are telling me. you can expect to see oil prices, gasoline prices drop another 20 cents in coming weeks. >> that would be great. in the meantime, we have a few seconds left. heating oil, how is that affected? >> reporter: heating oil looks good, too. you are seeing prices come down. this winter, a typical family can save $350 on their heating bill. >> all right, rebecca jarvis with some good news tonight, thank you. >>> now, to that debate tonight. the offer from facebook and now apple. telling women who work for them, we will pay to freeze your eggs. abc's mara s

rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >> thanks very much. major news about the agency whose job it is to protect the president of the united states. secret service director julie pierson has resigned. >> new leadership of that agency was required. >> pireserson's departure stems from a series of blunders by the secret service. gonzalez appeared in court for the first time this afternoon. >> that is where we join scott thuman. what was the outcome? >> let's just note that pierson's resignation, incredibly fast. the calls were getting loud very quickly. today in court, omar gonzalez pled not guilty. he waved it attention hearing, meaning he will be held until trial. the biggest moment, the strangest moment with his attorney arguing he should not have to undergo a mental health evaluation and telling the court to back off. attorneysistening as argued over the court's push for a mental health screening, omar gonzalez said almost nothing, his lawyer insisting the accused white house intruder and war veteran is quote, doing just fine, and the judg

for "nightline," i'm rebecca jarvis in brooklyn, new york. >> good tips.s for watching abc news. tune into "good morning america" tomorrow and as always, we're online at abcnews.com. good night. ok. how about this? we're on a private jet, right? now, all the passengers, they're asleep. yeah? yeah. and i'm the captain, and you're the flight attendant. ok. hello...vickie. wait. who's vickie? you are. why can't i jujust be m? all right. ok. fine. fine. you're you. hello...debbie. boy, i usually don't cramp up when i fly, but...maybe you uld take off your clothes and rub my neck a little. ok. wait. ray. ray, can you just be you? what--i can't be me. i don't know how to fly this thing. just forget the airplane. i just want to be here in our bedroom with you. what kind of pervert are you? oh, no! what? what no? everything's locked, turned off, or asleep. no, no. i just remembered. i think i'm out of stuff. stuff? yeah, stuff. well, there might be a tube of it around here somewhere. tube? a tube. yes, a tube. unless you want to be a father again, look for the tub

. >> reporter: rebecca samuel is afraid to leave her daughters alone and supposed to be four of themhe older sarah was abducted by boca in april and if she could send a message this is what she would say to her missing child. >> translator: be strong sarah, good will help you escape if you are still alive but if you are dead then there is nothing i can do for you my child except pray that you are at peace. >> reporter: sarah and other girls from northeast nigeria were not the first to be kidnapped by boko haram and hundreds are still disappearing in nigeria and some who managed escaped have disturbing stories to tell. dealing with the fiscal and psychological abuse isn't easy. >> when they hear a sound, just a sound of a gun or a sound of thing being hated, they get freeze. so and that you can feel and if somebody can get freeze by hearing the sound of something, this is the level of the traumatic situation that is true. >> reporter: the nigerian government is not doing enough to protect people and nigeria officials deny this. >> attempt at rescue, that is the numerous services that

rebecca cooper picks up our team coverage from the satellite center. rebecca? is an internal document that's come out today where a world health the w.h.o.n says failed to see what he called plain writing on the wall when it came to ebola. acted not only inefficiently but incompetently as this spread. now, meantime today, as the white house plans to name longtime washington insider ron klain to the newly created job hospitals across the country are ramping up training and preparation. is just one example of the new normal for hospitals preparing for even the patient.ty of an ebola and leon and alison, take a look at what happened in florida today. in a broward county courtroom, when a judge presiding over an internet connection learned that that inmate standing at the podium claims to have the deadly virus. >> mr. britain, take a step to your right. >> yes, yes, your honor. claims he hasman ebola. >> watch how quickly the deputy moves away. judge instructs prison officials to clear all of these inmates out of that courtroom. inmate later said he was misquoted.

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plus the weather with rebecca. >> yes, hurricane gonzalo, and how many hurricanes we see go from the united states over towards europe, coming up. >> rescue teams in nepal are searching for more climbers who may be stranded. in one of the worst disasters to hit the himalayas, more than 300 people have been rescued. this amateur video shows the harsh conditions that led to the deadly avalanches. visibility is almost impossible. the liker who took the video said the traj city ma tragedy mn avoided had proper measures been in place. >>> hurricane gonzalo cut off power to many on the island of bermuda. no deaths have been reported. rebecca stevenson have the latest on gonzalo. >> bermuda has gotten hit so hard, just in the last seven days. just last week we were tracking another hurricane that went by, fay. now gonzalo. st. john's bay is on alert. strong winds, very high waves and quite a bit of rainfall on this. most of the stronger winds will stay south off shore but the track of gonzalo we have got it as category 1 now, maintaining its strength, accelerating its speed, also became a l

joining us is rebecca patterson who's chief investment officer ats be mer trust and chief u.s. economist at deutsche bank. thank you for being here today. i want to talk about what happened over the last week. we had all of these worries about ebola, europe and rebecca, none seem ito have gone away an our perception seems to have changed. >> i think we have a better perception of them. and a few data points on earnings and economic data to reinforce the idea we're not falling off the cliff. there's no sense of equities doing a real selloff after what we have already seen after a risk of a global recession. we've seen u.s. jobless claims mortgage refinancing, mortgage applications, consumer confidence, the list goes on suggesting the u.s. is doing quite well and europe is slowing but. >> did your chick outlook change week to week. >> i'm bullish. a lot of good data. consumer sentiment last year, low historically but edged higher. shows households aren't that worried about what is happening, for the economic situation. to me everything looks decent. growth could be 4% for q 3. ma

. >> reporter: rebecca sam suggest afraid to leave her daughters alone.e supposed to be -- there are supposed to be four them, but the oldest sarah was ab doublessed in april. if she could send her a miss edge, this is what she would say to her missing child. >> translator: be strong, sarah. god will help you escape if you are still alive. but if you are dead, then there is nothing that i can do for you, my child except pray that you are at peace. >> reporter: sarah and more than 200 other school girls in northeast nigeria were not the first to be kidnapped. hundreds of women and girls are still disappearing in nigeria. this some of those that have managed to escape have disturbing stories to tell. >> reporter: dealing with the physical and psychological abuse isn't easy. >> when they hear a sound, just all sound, a sounds of a gun or a sounds of something being hit, they get freeze. and that you can feel. if somebody can get freeze by hearing a sound of something, it shows the level of the that traumatic situation they pass through. >> reporter: the gove

for "nightline," i'm rebecca jarvis in brooklyn, new york. >> good tips.e into "good morning america" tomorrow and as always, we're online at abcnews.com. good night. [dramatic music] [cheers and applause] >> yeah! hey! hey! hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! hey! hello, and welcome to millionaire! i'm terry crews. i'll be your host, and you can also check me out on brooklyn nine-nine. [cheers and applause] >> to save money, today's first contestant moved into his father-in-law's basement. >> all: aw. >> yeah. we gonna need to get this man some money. from babylon, new york, please welcome bryan mcmullin! [cheers and applause] >> how are you? what's up, man? >> thanks, terry. oh. >> what's going on, bryan? your father-in-law's basement? >> you got-- you know, when you want a house, you have to give up some things, like freedom and... >> [laughs] >> paychecks towards savings. so that's--you know, we're saving money. we're living with my father-in-law. he's a nice--nice guy. >> okay. i'm saying, it'd be a little different if he comes downstairs all the time, so, "hey,

rebecca? leon, billionaire richard branson created virgin galactic to try and lead the way tourism.cial space keep in mind, already this week, the private sector space majorry suffered a setback with the explosion in virginia of the rocket headed to station.national space now those doubts about commercial space flights are tragic loss ofhe life today. let's take a look at the wreckage. faa officials say that the catastrophe happened just after spacecraft had separated from the launch vehicle. the two pilots on board plummeted 50,000 feet to the floor of california's mojave desert. did miraculously survive the fall, with serious injuries. quickly air-lifted to an area hospital. but the second pilot was killed on impact. witnesses say his body was found, still strapped into his pilot seat. the crash occurred just after 10 a.m. pacific time. this was intended to be the flight of virgin galactic. two.million spaceship i interviewed virgin galactic ceo, richard branson, this past venture.t his busi

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rebecca, thank you. >>> tonight, the world is remembering a fashion legend. oscar de la renta, who died at the age of 82. this evening, first ladies in their own words, remembering a great. here's abc's amy robach. >> reporter: he spoke in his own worlds about the honor of dressing a first lady. from jackie o to nancy reagan. from laura bush to hillary clinton. >> to me, my role as a designer is toll do the very best i can for that woman. >> reporter: they called on him for those cold inauguration mornings. for that first dance at the ball. for the dresses that would become apart of history. hillary clinton spoke of choosing a dress off the rack. >> he goes, is that my dress? and he said, oh, it's wonderful. i'm so delighted. >> reporter: he would take mrs. clinton from heldbands to haute cue chur, dressing her in this golden gown in 1997. >> he said to me, what i would like is, i walk into the room and bill will look at me and say, wow, you look great. >> i thought, oh, my god, that's beautiful. >> reporter: later, convincing "vogue" to put her on the cover.

i'm rebecca jarvis. we begin with a nation on edge over the ebola virus as the first person diagnosed with the disease on the u.s. soil takes a turn for the worse. tonight, the family of thomas eric duncan fearing for his life. his neighbors frightened too, one of them wearing a mask to take out the trash. the people in hazmat suits still at work sterilizing his apartment. hundreds of miles away in another city, passengers wait on the ground as a sick man from west africa is taken to a hospital. the questions and fears mount tonight. the cdc reporting that the number of calls they got about ebola has spiked from 50 a day to 800 a day. abc's ryan owens has the latest from dallas tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. the man known as patient zero has been at the hospital a full week. and tonight, his condition is worse than ever. thomas eric duncan is struggling to survive tonight. the man is in critical condition. his family says he is unconscious, on a ventilator and on dialysis after his kid

rebecca stevenson here with more on the storms and the weather. rebecca? >> we are looking at gonzalo because this is a storm that has intensified and has recently had a big pick-up in speed. it's accelerating up towards new finland. we are expecting it overnight today through sunday to gradually pass by to the south. as it continues its way over into the atlantic. here in the next four to eight hours, we are going to get some new finland wins and those wind gusts will be strong and the southern portion island and will have rainfall and it could be minor flooding along the coastline and fafrther inland. you could say the track of the storm at a category 1 as we just said but it's going to be moving up over into the atlantic, slowly expected to transition to a post tropical storm but right now, we are looking at tracks that are taking it towards ireland. it kind of has sort of a northerly track to ireland, but still, that could bring significant rain and high waves, even as far over into europe. we will track this particular storm. it looks impressive on th

rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >> our coverage of the nationals playoff run continues ahead. we will introduce you to the women who keep the team running. >> we have some bright skies metaphorically for these nats. >> that is what we are paying for. still about four and a half to get that done. started.he way it break early in the clouds. a couple of sprinkles on the lens there. remains cloudy, breezy, and comfortable throughout the afternoon. thisain has remained for hour. the motion is moving more to the north than it is to the east toward the washington area. rain are further south in virginia. certainly the steadier shower is holding off until later on this friday night. temperatures are not an issue. breezy.be cooler and wake up in foreign in the morning it might be raining. we even should you video of it earlier. a power plant has shifted rapidly into canada. it has lost a lot of its energy. this is the batch that is likely to pull through our area later tonight. in the meantime it is just a waiting game. give it a good kick in the pans and pushed out by tomorrow. defin

that also includes volunteers like rebecca. from a corporate standpoint pepco is there but you're a volunteer. >> volunteerism is so important in our community. i've been a part of the washington, d.c. area for a long time. i felt this was a perfect opportunity for me to get involved. i'm a social worker in the community and i focus on child develop. >> it's part of your heart to begin with since you chose your career that way. >> what we're talking about is keeping it staffed and the importance of keeping it staffed and well maintained, what it means to the parents and what they're able to do-to- do. tell us more about that. >> their children are in a safe environment and being supervised appropriately. we're hearing there's over 500 kids in the shelter itself so it's helpful to have supervisors out there to keep it controlled, keep the kids safe. it's nice, too, because the parents have an opportunity to come out and sit on the benches and read the numb, a book and observe their child in play and really see that joy in their

rebecca, i have the video.ational weather confirms the tornado that did this last night in tennessee. one house in hickman county was destroyed. the homeowner said he was watching storm warnings on t.v. when he heard a roarring sound and hid in the closet. when he came out, it was raining inside. four other homes were damaged. one woman was injured what tree fell on a highway during this storm. still ahead on "al jazeera america," cricket is king in india but now a newspot is making its way into that country. >>> when it comes to sports in india, sports is the i, cricket is the name of the game. organizers are call okay soccer and they are call okay bali wood stars to bring out the fans. >> this is a rare site in india. in mumbai, a city of 18 million people, this is the only dedicated football field these kids might have a head start in becoming the nextb thing. the indian super league is going to have five football leagues. they say hi television ratings for the world cup and the various european leagues prov

live in the newsroom, rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. >> news chopper seven is on the scene of a fire truck, a truck that is caught on fire. it is happening on southbound georgia avenue. the intersection is shut down at this point. if you need to get to that area, avoided if you can. no word on any injuries. >> breaking news in the meantime. whichk about the weather, today is picture-perfect. >> some gorgeous sunshine, a little breezy but will we'll take it. very comfortable temperatures. here is wide shot outside. clear skies, temperatures in the lower 70's. a breeze out of the south and southwest at about 10 to the teen miles per hour you -- to 15 miles per hour. reagan international has been that way. wind is sustained at 15 miles per hour. a definite breeze but not enough to put a chop. it is choppy on the day. 71 degrees paid at children's hospital, a high of -- 71 degrees. 72 at children's hospital. we have the numbers ranging from the lower 70's, a few upper 70's to the south. very comfortable and bright and sunday -- and sunny on this monday afternoon. redskins, 60 seven. at kickoff

rebecca cooper has more. rebecca? >> in ih reported that the dallas nurse -- nih reported amat the dallas nurse nina ph has been upgraded from fair to good condition. we will keep you updated. the president continues to reject calls for a travel ban. today dulles international announced today dulles international announced they will be stepping up ebola screening as more passengers will be diverted they are and other u.s.- 4 airports. >> in the passenger whose travel originates in guinea, liberia, or sierra leone must fly into one of five designated airports including new york, newark, atlanta, chicago, and here at dulles. passengers like the new rules. >> safety is very important. >> i am concerned about it. -- i cannot say i'm concerned about it. but definitely a little bit. >> there are personnel available to pull them

. >> rebecca cooper is live outside of nih with the latest on the preparations underway. rebecca? >> the nurse arrived here at the bethesda campus at nih, and she will be treated inside building 10, which is over my shoulder. it has a highly specialized biocontainment center. they have arty treated one previous patient suspected of possibly having ebola. but i have already went through this procedure once and they are prepared. specialized clinical center inside building 10 at nih has one of the few facilities in the nation specially trained to handle it ebola. it is filled with thousands of employees working on the nih campus every day. some admit they are nervous. >> it's a little nerve-racking, but i believe they are equipped for what needs to be done. >> this person serves to positions inside building 10. most employees said they have confidence in the clinical center possibility to handle the deadly virus. the nih director told members of congress that the nurse will be isolated. limited level of capacity to do this high level of care and containment. our total right now is t