Classmates gathered here at this temple to say their final farewells to grace mann. Mann a 20yearold university of Mary Washington student was found unresponsive in her off campus home last friday. Her life tragically cut short after authority said she was strangled. Mann was described as someone who loves music and among her peers was known for fighting for justice and equality. This morning, a family friend read a statement from her parents. Its with profound sadness and disbelief that we are here today. Our hearts are simply broken. Our beautiful, sparkling, compassionate, wonderful funny, brilliant grace is not with us. Brianne were learning new details as well about exactly what happened. Now, we did have a reporter in the courtroom there in fredricksburg as 30yearold Steven Vander briel who lives in the same home as mann appeared in Court Earlier this morning. We understand he is facing charges in connection with her death. This morning, he was appointed a public defender and we understand according to this t proceedings was held without bond. He is expected to be back in court next month. Reporting live brianne carter, abc 7 news. Jummy new developments this noon in the search for the man wanted in the murder of his wife in an Anne Arundel County dunkin donuts. Police are still looking for patel. According to the capital gazette, patel may have fled the country. Hes charged in the death of his wife in the shop where they learned. They found her body on april 12th and they say she was apparently hit multiple times with an object. Court paperwork suggests that patel took a cab to Newark International airport in new jersey where he may have boarded a plane. The investigation also continues into what caused a fatal spinal injury in freddie gray up in baltimore. This cell phone video has eemerge emerged that shows the end of the encounter. The 25yearold can be seen on the ground with three officers over him as he screams in apparent pain. He died a week later. Right now, six officers are on leave. Theyre responsible for what happened here because it happened in their custody under extraordinarily suspicious circumstances. Jummy its the latest in a string of politician incidents all caught on camera. A former Michigan Police officer has a Court Appearance today after he was charged criminally for beating a man after a traffic violation. And a reserve Deputy Robert bates, has a Court Appearance in oklahoma today for killing a suspect after grabbing his handgun instead of a stun gun. Protesters are on their way to the capital to demand lawmakers take action on police brutality. The march to justice began eight days ago in new york and will end tonight on the west lawn of the capitol. Our sam sweeney is live outside of the Howard Theater are marchers are gathering right now. Sam . Sam jummy, more than 250 marchers getting set to take to the streets here in d. C. They say they want to raise awareness about police brutality. They want more Government Investment in minority communities. They want to demilitarize local police and then, of course they want to end racial profiling across the country. Now, they started this march nine days ago in new york city. Today, they will end on the west lawn of the capitol. They say they expect thousands of people members of congress and even celebrities. We are not an antilaw enforcement movement and we expect the ones that follow the law and believe they are not above the law. Sam now, they will march for about seven miles through the streets of d. C. This afternoon. Again ending on the west lawn of the u. S. Capital capitol tonight at 5 00 p. M. Sam sweeney, abc 7 news. Jummy thank you. Meanwhile, jurors will hear evidence in the penalty case of the Boston Marathon bombing trial. As expected Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him earlier this month. As abcs Marcy Gonzalez reports, this phase of the trial is going to be much harder to predict. Marcy back in the courtroom, today is a battle for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs life begins. The same jury that found him guilty on all charges seated again today for the penalty phase of the trial. Protesters gathered outside backing the pleas of some of his victims to bring the case to a close. Calling on the government to take the Death Penalty off the table. Rebecca gregory who lost a leg in the bombings and completed the Boston Marathon yesterday is one of many who fear a death sentence could lead to years of appeals. Part of us getting on with our lives is this ending. Marcy a sentiment shared by the family of Martin Richard killed in attacks. Writing in an op ed in boston globe as long as the defendant is in the spotlight, we have no choice to live a story told on his terms, not ours. The defense will definitely find ways to use that. Marcy legal experts say this will help the defenses case as at the try to humanize the 21yearold terrorist trying portray him as a gullible young man influenced by his older brother in hopes for the ultimate sentence, life in prison without parole. If one juror votes for life you wont get the death sentence. Marcy they say tsarnaev is not expected to take the stand. Jummy the trial began today for the woman accused of convincing a friend to help her steal a home in upper marlboro. Authorities say Keina Johnson and her codefendant filed a false deed allowing them to unlawfully take possession of the property and they then allegedly sold it to an investment group. The home had belonged to a woman who had been dead for three years. This is johnsons second trial. She was convicted in february of stealing and moving into another home. Police are investigating a deadly crash in talbot county. Emergency crews were called to queen anne highway in queen anne maryland. Route 404 will be shut down for an extended period of time. We are working, though to get you more information on this story. Make sure you stay with abc 7 for any updates on air and on line at wjla. Com. Taking a look right now outside at the nations capital, much drier day than we had yesterday. Chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a look at the first forecast today. Hey, doug. Doug hey, jummy. Temperature are 65. Well into the 70s at this time yesterday. No worries about storms today. Well have a lot of sunshine and gusty winds and temperatures are going to be close to 70 degrees in some spots. Lets look at Reagan National with a live shot from the rooftop camera behind it. 65 degrees with a westnorthwesterly wind at 16 miles an hour. 63 in frederick and 61 degrees in baltimore at this hour. So well be watching for temperatures to make a slow climb. Gusty winds will bring in drier air. These are the wind speeds now, not the gusts. And sustained winds 13 16 miles an hour locally. 20mileperhour winds measured at Andrews Air Force base and then well see the winds help to dry out the air and dry out the ground a little bit and actually pretty nice day. There you see the hour by hour through the afternoon and through the evening will be clear after peaking out close to 70, well drop through the 60s. Upper north and west, another cold front on the way. Breezy day tomorrow with a chance of showers and maybe a few more thunderstorms to deal with. Well talk about that in more detail and throw in the forecast as no extra charge in a few minutes. Jummy. Jummy the captain of the boat that sank in the mediterranean over the weekend is now under arrest. The United NationsRefugee Agency says more than 800 migrants drowned in that accident. Its being called the deadliest mediterranean incident ever recorded. Only 28 people were rescued. The last few survivors arrived to safety on the shores of italy overnight. Prosecutors are charging the captain with reckless homicide and illegal immigration charges. And an Egyptian Criminal Court sentenced muhammad marsorsi to 20 years in prison for the killing of protesters in 2012. They attacked opposition protesters sparking clashes that killed at least 10 people. Morsi, the first democratically elected president of egypt was deposed by a military coup back on july 3, 2013. An american couple has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for premeditated murder in indonesia. Heather mack and Tommy Schaefer were vacationing in bali when they were arrested for killing macks mother. Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase inside of a trunk of a taxi. Mac was sentenced to 10 years in prison and schaefer to 18 years. Pope francis has accepted the resignation of a u. S. Bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected child abuse priest. The vatican says Bishop Robert fehn who leads the diocese of kansas city st. Joseph in missouri has offered his resignation. He waited six months before notifying police about a priest whose computer contained hundreds of lewd photos of young girls taken around churches where he worked. A 70yearold woman is facing charges this noon after trying to smuggle large amounts of cocaine into j. F. K. Airport. Authorities say olive fowler seemed nervous when she arrived at the airport this new york. A Border Protection agent escorted her to a private room where they found more than 73,000 worth of cocaine in her girdle and in her underwear. Fowler is facing federal narcotics smuggling charges today. Coming up on abc 7 news at noon a happy reunion. We hear from the children rescued from a burning home in maryland over the weekend as they get ready to meet the firefighters who saved them. Plus a terrifying moment for any mother. Her car stolen with her 8yearold son inside. Find out how he was found. Plus an update on that robot stolen from a local high school. Well tell you where its been found. Plus more storms could be on the way. Doug is back with the full forecast coming up next after the break. Jummy happening right now two young maryland children are reuniting with the fire crews who helped rescue them. 13yearold marcus mccoy and his sister alleyah will meet the 911 operator and firefighters that got them out safely. On monday morning, he called for help saying he and his sister were trapped inside the burning home on small drive in clinton. Im happy i did that. Trying to save my life and he did. Jummy firefighters say mccoys quick thinking and calm demeanor saved both his life and his sisters. Are still searching for the cause of the fire. Todays reunion is happening right now at Prince Georges County fire e. M. S. Station 832 in fort washington. Well have more on this wonderful story tonight at 4 00. A dramatic 911 call in Northern California after a mother leaves her son in a running car and returns to both missing. Somebody took your car and your son was inside . Yes. Jummy Suzanne Guzman was frantic after she realized her car was stolen with her 8yearold son brock in the back seat. She says it happened as she took a quick step back inside her home before taking her son to school. Baby was gone and there was a bike there so i knew somebody took my baby. He woke up and a guy looked back and said i didnt know you were in the car. And then pulled over and got out and walked away. Jummy he was found unharmed. Police took a person of interest into custody on an unrelated charge. Wow. 7 on your side this noon with a consumer alert. Blue bell creamery is recalling all of its products now. This after ice cream tested positive for listeriaosis. The company is looking into how that bacteria got into the manufacturing line. Blue bell issued a recall last month after it was linked to three deaths. Five others were sickened in both kansas and texas. The usda says cases of bird flu are growing in the united states. Nearly eight million cases have been detected in 13 states since december. Most of them are confirmed this month. Officials say more than seven million infected hens will have to be euthanized in iowa and minnesota. Health Officials Say no human infections with the virus have ever been detected. Another legal complaint has been filed seeking to halt the closure of sweet briar college. The complaint alleges breach of contract against the private Womans College and president james jones. The complaint alleges interference by jones. A group of sweet briar students parents and alumni filed that complaint last week. The college is denying both claims. An update now on that robot stolen from a Virginia High School robotics team. Today, that prize winning robot was returned to the team robo loco at Loudoun County high school. It was recently found in the woods in tennessee. The team took second place in a competition and when the robot was stolen along with their equipment and s. U. V. Later that night. They got robot back. Doug put a lot of work into that. Looks good. Today, a much quieter day. We can all use the break. We got a lot of rain again here. Thats just going to green things up and keep driving this pollen count higher and higher. So lets get you started and give you a little live look right now at laurel, maryland. 59 degrees. Yesterday, we were showing the high school because of the crazy, ugly clouds near some pretty heavy thunderstorms but today, its all a thing of beauty. Sunshine temperatures in the upper 50s. 59 degrees. 60 now in laurel. This is all live data that we the same on our weather bug network. These are wind gusts that have been registered the past 20 or 30 minutes. 36 in the district and laurel. 35mileperhour gusts in germantown and these numbers are the lefthand side are the sustained winds. Average winds that theyre blowing. Still kind of breezy. That will be the story throughout the day. Temperatures cooler than yesterday. But with the sunshine the breeze i think it will be rather comfortable. Still, 58 in hagerstown right now. 65 degrees in quantico. 61 degrees in annapolis and also in baltimore. Look at the pollen count and mention this for a moment. This is the pollen count that we got was measured yesterday and you see the pollen count its 24 hour count measured at 7 00 in the morning. Yesterday before the rains came in and the storms, we registered our highest pollen count of the season so far for tree pollen and the microbiologists say its only going to get higher and higher as we go through. Grasses, weeds and the low range mold spores in the moderate range. As far as the numbers today, well climb to the 60s to perhaps, 70 degrees through the afternoon. It will remain partly cloudy. It will be breezy. Winds will get a little bit gusty at times. Satellite and radar locally, not much to see. A few clouds here and there. Few more towards the mountains but its a different story. You get far enough north and west from michigan and beyond this is snow in patches coming across the upper sections of michigans peninsula, wisconsin, minnesota, the dakotas, all some snow patches here. Cold air. Most of the cold air will wrap around and go back into ontario and quebec. Well stay on the cool side for this time of year. Its not going to be cold and no snowflakes. Futurecast for tuesday night shows a couple of showers popping up in the mountains. Well stay rather clear and quiet. Watch out overnight. Tomorrow is a different story. As the front approaches likely to see some cloudiness increasing through the day. Back and forth between the clouds and sun and tomorrow afternoon, the cold front comes through with showers and isolated thunderstorms. Theyll quickly move out tomorrow night and then be babbling to sunshine and a conditional couple of pretty nice days. 70 today with sunshine and breezy weather. A 40 chance of showers tomorrow or a thunderstorm or two. On thursday 62 and sunshine. Friday, 60 degrees. Weekend, not bad. 30 chance of a few showers saturday. Highs about 60. It will be cool. More sunshine on sunday into the day on monday. Jummy ok. Looking dry for the most part. Doug well take it. We need to dry things up for a little bit here. Jummy thank you. Coming up here on abc 7 news at noon, the surprising drink that could help you work out. Plus the new medical device that could extend the lives of patients around the world. Jummy instead of water after a workout, you could reach for some chocolate milk. Thats right chocolate milk. Researchers say the popular drink among children is actually a great recovery aid after an intense workout. The protein from the milk rebuilds muscle and the water in the milk rehydrates and the sugar and the carbs replace glycogen burned as energy. The food and Drug Administration is expected to approve a new heart valve this summer. It could extend the lives of patients around the world. We introduce you to one man who says the valve changed his life. Reporter if you take a look at his extended family its easy to see several months ago when he could barely do with his wife marjorie, a lot of people were worried about him. Hed already had one open heart surgery so dr. Dean kariakas said it was too risky to try another one. Instead and he said that there was this trial that joe could be in. Reporter the trial is being conducted by edwards life sciences. They make a Third Generation expandible heart valve much like this one and as you can see in this imaging, it opens with the help of a balloon and expands when placed into the heart through a tiny incision in the groin. This is the actual device here. Reporter compared to previous heart valve technology. Its significantly smaller so the hole that you have to make in somebodys artery to put it in and the requirement of vessel size in order to get this catheter in is markedly reduced. Porter it also locked and seals itself in to stop leaking which complicates things. Im doing great. I got a heart of a 30yearold. Give me a body of a 30yearold to go with it reporter liz bonis, abc 7 news. Jummy clear skies and 70 degrees. How long will it al