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has done best out of the last year. `` turnaround for Bashar al`Assad.

Time now for ABC World News with Dianne Sawyer. Welcome to World

News. Tonight, beating Ebola, the remarkable recovery of two

missionaries. Today is a miraculous day. Tonight out of the hospital. Is

there any risk for those around them? The growing terror threat and

a new warning about the brutal forces of ISIS, the US clearly

getting ready to act. And new details about the failed rescue

raid. And new travel scams. The hotel phone call that could empty

your bank account. And a good evening to you on this Thursday

night. We began with the stunning and wonderful return to life of two

Americans infected with the deadly Ebola virus, tonight declared cured,

leaving the hospital in Georgia. His two pictures say at all. Doctor

high`fiving his medical team today. It was 20 days after this image.

Brantley Getting out of the ambulance and walking into this

hospital with the medical officers sealed in medical suits. We will

speak to our correspondent in a moment, at first, we live the drama

of this day. For a missionary who nearly died after contracting Ebola,

there was good reason for Cheers and applause. Today is a miraculous day.

I am thrilled to be alive. On Wednesday, July 23. I woke up

feeling under the weather. And then my life took an unexpected turn, as

I was diagnosed with Ebola virus disease. Nervous but healthy looking

doctor stepped in front of cameras with his wife, and then hugged every

member of his medical team who had had to work in protective suits and

bubbles but were not worried today. After three weeks here, he is now

cured, and is now even in unit to the virus responsible for 1300

deaths in west Africa. `` immune. God saved my life, a direct answer

to thousands and thousands of prayers. I am thankful to all

involved in my care, from the first day of my illness up to today.

Families were praying for both he and his co`worker, seen here working

at this Liberian field hospital. It took a rescue mission to fly them

stateside when they were sick, and they both received an experimental

drug. She was discharged on Tuesday. There was ongoing testing, feedback

and results. So I feel extremely confident that these patients pose

no public threat whatsoever. She is doing very well, she is just trying

to get the strength back that she had before she came down that the

virus. Missionaries tell us the focus needs to remain on West

Africa. In Liberia it has come to this. There is no way in and no way

out. Police in riot gear have quarantined hundreds of people.

Later they we heard from the family's Church in Fort Worth,

Texas. They tell us he would be overwhelmed with the number of

people who will want to hug him. We will turn to ABC's chief medical

editor. He has travelled the world hunting down viruses. On the

question of contagion, they have been tested, but how are they sure

it is not contagious any more? They will not have any virus in the blood

or euro on. The one recommendation public health officials make is to

use condoms per about three months after infection `` urine. They

should be free in the community without spreading disease. Now they

are immune, which means they can go in and help other patients without

risk? Baron into this strain of Ebola, that is `` they are immune to

this strain of the virus. People who have recovered can be caregivers. Is

fast they say it worked. They need to do a study to find out whether

difference, before rushing to judgement that it was a miracle. ``

hurts. And now the other big story today, the hunt for those

responsible for executing James Foley. One of the men, with what

seemed to be a British accent. And now the urgent worry about another

hostage, and details of the rescue mission that failed. ABC's chief

correspondent. With growing concerns about the fate of a second US

hostage, US officials defended the failed rescue attempt in Syria on

the July four weekend. Omission was executed flawlessly after a

significant period of preparation, planning, and rehearsal `` the

mission. And it turned out that the hostages were no longer at that

location. US officials say the secret night`time mission targeted a

large ISIS camp in Syria. It involved several dozen special

operation troops. And ships, helicopters, and surveillance drones

overhead `` gunships. The US will not relent in trying to bring our

citizens home and their captors to justice. The rescue mission was

launched after it became clear that no negotiations were possible with

the ISIS group, which had demanded a ransom of $130 million for the

release of James Foley. The FBI didn't take it seriously. We didn't

take it seriously. People involved in the process of State ISIS

hostages from France and other European countries were set free

after ransom payment of about $2 million cash bid. Delivered by

middlemen from Turkey. Something the US has refused to consider. And 2014

alone, they have gotten millions of dollars from kidnapping western

citizens. Obviously we believe very strongly that we need to cut off

their funding. As the FBI stepped up its investigation, some former

hostages identified James Foley's executioner as one of three British

citizens they nicknamed the Beatles, who served as jailers, torturers,

and executioners for the Islamic terror group.

ISIS tonight said in an e`mail that you do not spare hour week children

and women, so we will not spare yours. As you know, the central

question is what will work to defeat a force as ruthless and implacable

as ISIS? What are they talking about today? They're going to continue

these airstrikes and they have really been pounding those ISIS

targets in Iraq. They have pounded about 100 targets since the

airstrikes began. They said today at the Pentagon that

they are sure ISIS will regroup, and Chuck Hegel called ISIS an imminent

threat to every interest we have, whether it is in Iraq or anywhere

else. What about in an thread, does that mean a specific target in the

US? `` fracked. I don't think he meant that, he meant the region ``

threat. They are concentrating on the region now and I would not rule

out airstrikes in Syria, the Pentagon said today. Martha, Brian,

thanks very much. Good to have you with us in New York

tonight. To Ferguson, Missouri, and a sign that chaos after Michael

Brown's death may be subsiding. The governor ordered a systematic

withdrawal of the National Guard. Overnight there were fewer addressed

.Mac arrests, with authority saying the crowds were smaller and violence

was less. More details on what brought the economy to the brink a

few years ago. A landmark settlement between bank of America and the

Justice Department. $60.25 billion. What does the bank admit it did? We

have been talking to our sources all day.

Today bank of America admitted to massive fraud, fraud that cost

thousands of Americans their homes. Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and

Countrywide each engaged in pervasive schemes to defraud

financial institutions and other investments. They were packaged as

good investments and when they failed it led to a tsunami of

bankruptcies and foreclosures, igniting the great recession. It's

like going to your grocery store that is advertised as fresh, only to

discover that store employees knew the milk you were buying had been

left out on the loading dock unrefrigerated. Today's record,

nearly $17 billion, includes $7 billion for ready for underwater

homeowners. It includes several big pay`outs. Many bank executives,

including the CEOs of Countrywide and JP Morgan trace, were brought

before Congress. Do you understand this is difficult for my

constituents to take? Our industry shares some of that responsibility.

Former Countrywide CEO and genome is LO is facing the threat of a federal

lawsuit. But today there were no criminal charges filed against

high`level executives. Banks don't commit crimes, bankers do. Not a

single banker is being held accountable here. Justice Department

officials said criminal charges could come. Six years after the

collapse, many critics are sceptical. For the thousands of

homeowners who lost everything, critics are blunt. They say somebody

big needs to go to jail. Now a trial in the headlines tonight

and not quite what we have ever seen from a political couple in trouble.

Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonald, the charge is political

corruption. But it was his very personal defence that riveted the

country today. Virginia Governor Bob McDonald... He

appeared the polished politician with convincing confidence, talked

about as a possible presidential candidate. But behind the portrait

of Bob McDonald was the emotional wreckage of a troubled dissolving

marriage. He told how he was accused of

working with his wife to trade access to luxury gifts and cash.

That's why the troubled marriage is key to his defence, arguing things

got so bad with his wife they couldn't communicate enough to trade

their position for privileged. But prosecutors say Johnny Williams, the

CEO of a diet supplement company, provided them the use of his private

jet, a Ferrari, gifts including a Rolex watch, $15,000 for their

daughter's wedding reception. In all, $165,000. But the former

governor claims the businessman got no special access. I never thought I

would be having to testify in a trial like this. Painful

admissions, emotionally reading eight 2011 love letter to his wife,

in which he wrote about, that a 2011 love letter `` a 2011 love letter.

He went on to culture is it got so bad that he would work until he was

asleep in the Governors Mansion to avoid contact. If convicted both he

and his wife could be moving into prison cells.

Up next here tonight, how to be smart about travel scams. Something

new, the late`night phone call to your hotel room that could empty

your bank account. And music to their ears? The new way to keep your

dog happy and maybe save your furniture when you're away.

Next tonight, and alert in time for the final getaway of summer. AAA

predicts 37 point million and it `` 34.7 million Americans will be

travelling this weekend. `` an alert. What started out as a pitstop

in this new audience hotel ended up a major pitfall for Christine and

her daughter, Katie. It's about midnight and our hotel room phone

rings. It is one of the ladies from the front desk explaining, " I need

your card number to put on file otherwise you need to get out of the

room" . So she gave her debit card number and went back to sleep. I

woke up and immediately thought there was something sketchy about

that call. She checks her bank account and realises all her money

has gone. It turns out this is so common that many hotels present

their guests with warnings about it, including the Best Western where

they stayed. The American hotel and lodging industry says it provides

regular updates to hoteliers on fraudulent activities, like this

one, the pizza scam. You'll find flyers under your door when you take

into the hotel. You call, you give them your credit card information,

you order your pizza and nothing comes. Because they're not a

restaurant? It's nothing, a thief. Never give credit card information

over the phone once you have checked in. Go to the front desk. You want

to see the person getting this information from you. Check in with

a credit card instead of a debit card. They can move that money out

of your bank account in the blink of an eye. The advice we consistently

heard? It's fine to let your hair down on vacation but don't let down

your guard. A play date getting a lot of

attention to light, two kids visiting an aquarium in Connecticut

when this whale swims by simply to say hello, then gave them a bit of a

scare. Snapping the jaws... Doing it again. Maybe just entertaining them

in the style of a whale. An unusual way of saying let's just be

friends. A Grammy win has been writing songs for a particular

audience, something to make them relaxed and put up their feet... Oar

four of them. A dog I would say would want

something more... Andrew now composes and performs music for dog

TV, a station that keeps home alone dogs company. 12 million dogs in

America have clinically diagnosable separation anxiety. Your music is to

calm the dog, to occupy the dog, so it doesn't chew your couch. Save

your couch with DogTV. Researchers have discovered cows produce more

milk when listening to country, and monkeys like music that sounds like

their own screeching. And DogTV actually researched and produced

guidelines on what dogs like. Keep it below middle level C, a harp,

nothing to piercing. Think Brahms does it work? I can't tell if they

are going to be touched or emotionally moved by it, all we can

hope for is they don't run away to. We borrowed the owner's dog and

Andrew played for him. Tailwagging, licking. She seems happy.

Thanks very much. We are always on the website. Nightline is on later

and I will see you again tomorrow night. Good night.

We will continue to see plenty of showers overnight, especially in

central and southern parts of Britain. They will clear quickly in

the morning and Friday is looking bright with a lot of sunshine. Still

showers are crossed the exposed northern coastal parts of Scotland

and Northern