News. Sharniece really loved doing community stories. She loved talking to people. Reporter her family says she was returning from work on a story using Public Transportation as she typically did. She was shot as she transferred buses just minutes from home. Police believe the intended target of the gunshot that killed her may have pulled her into the line of fire, used her as a human shield. At 9 28 she texted me and said, im on my way home. So i was waiting for her to text exactly, let me know if she needed me to pick her up where she was. And we never got that text last night. Typically we think of losses of journalists as being out in the middle east or in africa or in dangerous places. But here you lost a very, very active and Important Community journalist in ward 7. Reporter now, as a freelancer here at the hill rag she didnt spend a lot of time at the offices. But in the limited time she was here she made a positive impression on just about everybody. She was always very nice. We talked about how she was feeling. I just liked how polite she was. She was somebody that reported and made a difference in the lives of people east of the river, and she needs to be remembered and the people who did this need to be held accountable. Through no fault of her own, you draw the recompense of the bullet. Its not the gun that killed her. Its those human beings and their wicked ways. Reporter derrick ward news4. Some strong stormz coming our way, doug. Whats up . Were seeing the storms develop along the outflow boundaries that continue to move around. Heres one. Look at Hour National harbor camera. Here as the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Look at the heavy rain. You can see the edge of the rain right south of the airport, moving right on through alexandria. This is a very good shot of that thunderstorm going on right now right over the city of alexandria. Very heavy rain in and around a line from bowie toward manassas and warrenton. A few other showers and storms around there. This is really pt deal na nas as, parts of Fairfax County, around the alexandria storm, follow the beltway around bowie, kettering. Youll continue to see very heavy rain along the beltway around ketorring and just southwest of bowie. In and around alexandria not severe but a very heavy storm. Ill take the lightning away. You can see where this is right along the gw parkway here, right down downtown along the potomac and back to the west toward 395. Extremely heavy rain, a lot of lightning with this over the last 15 minutes. Ill continue to track this storm. It wont move much so expect to see more rain over the next hour or so. But ill continue to track it for you. Guys . Dangerous levels of lead paint found at d. C. s largest homeless shelter. Tonight we have learned that city officials knew about it for a year but didnt take any action. Mark segraves broke the story just last week joins us live with the look at the next step for hundreds of families who live nd that shelter. Mark . Reporter wendy, thats right. Last week we brought you the news that two Young Children here at the shelter had tested positive for elevated lead levels and today the bombshell is that the Bowser Administration has uncovered that the Previous Administration back in 2014 knew about elevated lead levels and did nothing. Several families were removed from their rooms here and today the city administrator is tell telling us this is just completely unacceptable. The District Of Columbia should have addressed this issue sooner. It is not appropriate that something occurred in 2014 that is to be dealt with in 2015. Thats not appropriate and well make no excuse bz that. Reporter after two Young Children here at the d. C. General shelter tested positive for elevated lead levels, mayor bowser ordered a complete inspection of the building. Not only did that inspection uncover traces of lead throughout the facility, they found an inspection from 2014 had found seven rooms with dangerous lead levels but nothing was done. We are notifying residents in the building of the results of our tests. We will still continue to offer any resident or their child that wants it a test. Reporter families were moved out of these rooms and the lead levels were remediated after the Bowser Administration found out about them. Hundreds of other rooms tested positive for low levels of lead that are not considered dangerous. As for the families who lived in these rooms with the Dangerous Levels over the past year but have moved out . Department of Human Services staff is going through to identify any families that may have been in those rooms. Reporter Council Members werent happy to hear about another failure at the d. C. General shelter. If the city was alerted a year ago about Dangerous Levels, then where was the oversight when it comes to making sure that we got that information and took action upon it . Clearly we didnt. Reporter the Bowser Administration is now implementing new policies to ensure this wont happen again. Were doing everything in our power that make sure that that building and other facilities remain safe. Reporter now again the district is still offering free lead testing to any of the children who are living here now or who lived here in the past. As for the children who have been tested so far none have tested positive for elevated lead levels. As for how much all of this is going to cost, the testing, the remediation, still no word on that. Wendy, back to you. Mark segraves. And we should add you cannot easily see the effects of lead poisoning because it can cause damage all over the body particularly in brain. Often children will have behavior or attention deficit problems. It can also cause hearing and kidney damage. Some children might have problems with growth. Lead poise ping typically occurs from repeated exposure to small amounts of lead over time. And that means symptoms can sneak up on you. They can be vague. They include anemia difficulty sleeping. Headaches. We have a lot more information about the impact of lead poisoning on nbcwashington. Com. The man who was shot and wounded during the morning commute today is now talking with investigators. Another man was killed when somebody opened fire this morning on the anacostia freeway, 2 nient95. Police found the victims around joint base anacostia in southwest. At this point, investigators believe the men may have been followed from virginia into the district, but police say they do not have a clear description of the other car that was involved. Turning to the deadly flooding down south, the rain is not letting up. In texas, more streets are flooded, a major highway closed. Hundreds are being asked to leave their homes as the heavy rain from earlier this week moves downstream. The death toll in texas and oklahoma now stands at 23, 9 people still missing. Were going to have a live report from Nbcs Jay Gray at 6 6 15. Hes focusing on the search and recovery effort in texas. A reality tv personality is facing 20 years in prison now. Thats if hes convicted of making terror threats against metro metro. Jeras coleman also known as kidd cole appeared in federal court this afternoon. He wore a blue tshirt and sweat pants. He as being represented by a public defender. A judge ordered coleman to remain in jail until his next Court Hearing which is next week. Police say coleman made a number of threats against trains and buses in the last several months, some of which prompted evac waiss. Police say he used a fake british accent from time to time. Investigators say they matched coles voice from 911 calls to his voice during his appearance on mtvs show called catfish. They used that to help them make the arrest. Theres some new reaction to metros decision about controversial ads. Chris lawrence is at our live desk. Wendy, this is the first time were hearing from the woman who tried to advertise those controversial cartoons since she learned she has lost her fight at least for now. Pamela geller runs the American FreedomDefense Initiative which submitted a cartoon from her groups draw mohammed event to wmata. Thats the same group that held an event in texas where two men were shot dead when they tried to attack the event with assault rifles. Isis has claimed responsibility, but that hasnt been confirmed. The American FreedomDefense Initiative planned to run ads on metro buses here in our area, but today the metro board decided to close advertising space to any and all issueoriented advertising, including but not limited to political, religious and advocacy advertising until the end of the calendar year. In a phone interview this afternoon, geller says washington has caved to terrorists. This is an end run around the first amendment. These cowards may claim that they are making people safer but i submit to you the opposite. They are making it far more dangerous for americans everywhere everywhere. Rewarding terror with submission is defeat. It is absolute and complete defeat. There will be more demands, more violence will certainly follow. The message is, terror works. Gellers group has run some controversial ads on subway systems and buses in other cities across the country, including chicago, philadelphia, and san francisco. New york however, has recently instituted a similar policy to this new metro policy after geller tried to advertise there. At the live desk, im Chris Lawrence. And the armys top general says he does not believe that human error is to blame for that anthrax scare that is impacting labs across our country. Authorities now believe there may have been a failure in the technical process of killing or deactivating the live samples. The cdc is investigating what went wrong, and tonight 26 works possibly exposed to the live samples are being treated with antibiotics as a precaution. Those samples were shipped from an army lab in utah shipped to several private and government labs in nine states, including maryland and virginia, but those labs have not been identified. It appears now in Prince Georges County theyre going to raise property taxes for the first time in decades. A Council Passed a budget today that includes a 4 increase in the property tax. That would create 34 million in revenue, money which would go towards schools in the county. The budget also includes a 1 increase in the telecommunications tax. The property tax increase is much lower than the proposal that is is much lower than what Rushern Baker wanted. Coming up next, preventing Sexual Assault on College Campuses. How the murder of uva student Hannah Graham could lead to changes statewide. Several what they call pill mills have been busted across the area. Tonight, we take a look at the takedown and why its so hard to target people who are using illegal prexringsscriptionprescriptions. Two sides clearly divided. Why a marines Business Plan has some fearing for their childrens safety. Big breaking news about a former u. S. Speaker of the house. Dennis havocer has been indicted by the feds. That breaking news just in. Hastert ran the house until 2007, now accused of financial improprieties of paying hush money to someone and lying to the fbi about it. Charging indictment documents say hastert withdrew nearly 1 million in small inkreemts in a way that would allow him to notify bank or federal officials about those withdrawals and of giving that and about 3 million total to some other person to quote compensate and conceal past misconduct. The feds dont say who or what, but they indicate it could date back to his career before congress when he was a High School Wrestling coach. Federal prosecutors say when the fbi asked hastert question bz the Bank Withdrawals he lied about why he made them. The iteams review of federal lobbying reports show that hastert has been a lobbyist as recently as this year for a firm in d. C. That firm did not immediately return requests for comment. The case being prosecuted in hasterts home area, northern illinois. Back to you. Scott macfarlane. New developments out of texas this evening. Now there is growing concern about more flooding as those storms move through the state and rain from the earlier storms this week pours downstream. Hundreds of people have been asked to evacuate their homes as the rivers rise. 23 people are dead in texas and oklahoma, 9 others still missing. Nbcs jay gray has been following these tragic events. Hes live from wimberley one of the towns hit hardest. Jay . Reporter wendy yeah a tough go again here today. It doesnt look like right now, but weve seen rain at times. Its been hard making it even more difficult if possible for the search and recovery teams working through debris like this, which you see scattered for miles along the river. On the same day that the family members of those theyre searching for talked about how relentless they are to make sure their loved ones are found. Oh no reporter panic as a wall of water bursts through the door of a home along the blanco river. This home video shows the horror. While today the words of family members of the missing share the heartache. Its impossible to express in words the tremendous loss, pain and fear we are feeling. Reporter still working alongside rescue and recovery teams on the ground they refuse to give in. We are 100 committed to finding laura, Andrew Leighton randy, will, ralph, and sue. The search is over for the ramirez family. God had his arms around her and water brought her to glory. Reporter 18yearold Alyssa Ramirez was laid to rest yesterday, a homecoming queen, star athlete and Student Council president , alyssa was driving home from prom last weekend when she called her dad as her car was being swept away in the floodwaters. It was a horrible conversation. A conversation ill never forget. Reporter the emotions like so much here are raw. Battered communities pulling together where they can while in other places like wharton, southwest of houston, families are pulling out moving to higher ground. Voluntary evacuations in place with the growing threat of more rain and flash flooding here. You know unfortunately that threat of rain and more Severe Weather will continue across many areas of texas through this weekend. Thats the latest live here in wimberley, texas. Im jay gray news4. Thanks, jay. The system is creating all kind of havoc down there. Its the same one causing us so feel all this humidity and heat were having right doug . That helps us to bring on showers and storms, too. One thing were seeing toward texas, about half the state under flash flood watches through sunday, almost the entire state of oklahoma in flash flood watches until sunday as well. Lets take a look at that pattern. That pattern is making its way out of the southwest, you can see the jet stream. This is all because of el nino that has formed mao. You can see the jet stream coming south of los angeles bringing pacific moisture, combining that with some storminess making its way right across texas and oklahoma giving them all of that rain. Theyre going to continue to see this pattern not just for the next couple of days but it may stay like that. For us, weve been on the hot side. An area of High Pressure allowing the ridge to develop. Thats why weve been so hot for so much of the month of may. That pattern, however, is going to change. That ridge falls to the south. A new area of High Pressure moves in, this one from the north. Thats going to give us much cooler weather. With we are going to get bigtime relief moving into next week. Right now its hot humid with thunderstorms. Storm team4 radar showing the storms around. Now, not a lot of storms going on around of the area, but where theyre hitting were seeing very heavy rain. Back towards clark county just to the south of bluemont in parts of Loudoun County and look at this line of showers earlier manassas was getting hammered with heavy rain. Now its in towards Fairfax County and around arlington. Once again, right along 495, the mouse trap here. Lets zoom into this region right here over the city of alexandria. This has been here for the last 40 minutes. Well see a half ij to an inch of rain. We may see isolateding. Look at 395. That road always a mess. Im guaranteeing you right now it will be a mess because of the rain, too. And take a look at the Vantage Point from national harbor. Heres national harbor. Look at the camera showing all of this very heavy rain right now. Look at that. Just off towards Woodrow Wilson bridge it is really coming down. Weve seen a lot of lightning out of this over the last hour. The capital wheel is now closed due to incomplement weather. Another area of showers right around the area towards ket kettering kettering, leland and hall. The beltway continuing to see some tough times especially in the southeastern portions of the beltway. Now, tomorrow i think well see a better chance of showers and storms areawide. Just like today here is 8 00, not much going on. Tomorrow afternoon, just about everybody seeing that chance. I do think it will be just about everybody has a chance of storms. Well call it a 30 to 40 chance. The front comes through sunday, and that front will give us a chance for strong to potentially severe storms on sunday. Thats a day to watch. Could be a weather alert day. And then monday, tuesday and wednesday, look at those temperatures. Were starting off the month of june on monday and it starts off cool. Highs only in the mid60s. Wow. Thank you, doug. Two women admit their role in th