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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm May 6, 2015

Dispatch crews, other crew members came down, stripped down a fire truck and hung black tarps to prepare for a funeral. Lieutenant kevin mccray worked with fire engine 6 for roughly six years. Hed been with the d. C. Fire department over two decades. Deputy chief John Donnelly worked with mccray in the rescue squad. It was challenging work, but donnelly said mccray did more than succeed. Whether its going over the side of a building on a rope or how to search in a burning building to find a victim, kevin had done all of those thing at an extremely high level and he taught other people to do them. Reporter he worked hard with a smile. It could get pretty ugly in 20 hours into your shift when youre busy and he was there doing it just the same as when he came in the door in the morning. His smile and his positive attitude are the best things from that guy. Reporter praise went from beyond that firehouse. Firefighters from all over d. C. And some from maryland came to pay respects. Students that went to school with his son came by. When he heard about his father dying this morning, it was very painful. So we just want to show the Fire Department love. We want to show my student we support him. Reporter everyone says the city lost a hero today, but 1 family lost their dad. Lieutenant mccray is survived by his wife perry, three children and his mother. Most of the firefighters didnt want to talk today, which is understandable, but one thing that was so amazing so see is how many visitors there were, countless fire trucks and people coming to the station to pay respects. This is the first time its been quiet here in a couple hours. This man was clearly well loved by his community. Live from northwest washington im ellison barber, wusa9. Mccrays loss felt tonight by firefighters who were also on the scene of that fire with him. Bruce johnson joins us from the scene on receive the street with more on that part of on seventh street with more on that part of the story. Reporter over my shoulder is the high rise by d. C. Standards 9th and 10th floors where the fire was limited to, an intense fire. It went to two alarms, dont know the cause, but now nobody is allowed in that building. Some of the residents are dispersed into the community and the red cross is helping those people. You go to that earlier tape, this was an intense blaze. A lot of firefighters responded, among them kevin mccray and he came out and collapsed here on the ground as you heard. They administered first aid immediately. He eventually died at the Washington Hospital center and, of course, this is a double tragedy because people are recalling how his cousin, also a firefighter james mccray, died back in 2001. When we arrived on the scene this afternoon firefighters were coming up to us. They wanted us to know and want the community to know what they go through here. They had me try on the gear. Putting the stuff on weighs almost 100 pounds. They say firefighter mccray was wear this when he went wearing this when he went into that building, climbed those stairs and came out and collapse. Two alarm fire and Something Like this happens. Yeah. The members did an exceptional job with lieutenant mccray in charge. As a matter of fact, their company was not even on the response initially. He took it upon himself to become available 2 blocks away to put himself on the response, which he would not have been on. Its just like your family member. Its the same it. Dont matter if its your cousin or brother, you feel the same. 10th floors. Reporter 10 floors. You could be in shape and still running up there and getting up there and moving around with all that, its still kind of hard. Even if youre in shape, dont matter. Reporter thats a lot. What am i carrying, 200 pounds here . But you got to carry your weight, all this weight and the gear. Reporter and temperature in the building, got to deal with that. Now they wanted me to try on that gear because they began a conversation about the number of firefighters not just here but throughout the country who are dying from heart attacks, cardiovascular disease. Its part of their diets, what they eat in the firehouse and part of the quick start they have to make and part of all that gear they have to put on before they dart up those stairs. Everybody is having to go through this and whether youre in shape or not, its a very dangerous business. One more thing about the lieutenant mccray. He led his company up 95 up to baltimore to put out those fires during last weeks riots. Red cross volunteers are helping residents displaced by that fire. Only on 9 tonight wusa9 has obtained dashcam video taken from an incident in 2009 when an officer shot and killed a man in Fairfax County. Peggy fox joins us now with more on what happened to david masters. What do we know, peg . Reporter Fairfax County is planning to publicly release this video tomorrow morning, but i was able to obtain a copy of it just an hour ago and so i want you to look at it. On november 13th, 2009, along route 1 in Fairfax County police pursued this green blazer that they apparently thought was stolen. It was not, but the driver would not stop. As officers gave chase with lights and sirens, the driver slowed down once but then kept going weaving in and out of traffic running two red lights. Finally he was boxed in at a red light. Officers with guns drawn jumped out. Then one officer fired and fatally shot driver who sped off and crashed. Heres some of what was heard. Get your hands in the air get your hands up get your hands up [ bleep ] what you doing, dude . Come on. Where . Right here, right here. Reporter the man killed was 52yearold david masters. He was unarmed and on his way to lay flowers at a cemetery for veterans day. He was a veteran and a very good carpenter says his father barry masters. Barry masters is 83 years old and lives in florida. Today barry masters got a copy of that video and watched it for the first time 5 1 2 years after his son was shot and killed by a Fairfax County police officer. Coming up at 6 00 we will have reaction from barry masters. Back to you. Thank you. Lets go back to Prince Georges County now where a teacher is behind bars after being charged with child sexual abuse. Police say the 39yearold worked at the school in landover accused of inappropriately touching and kissing a 9yearold male student. He is in the custody of the department of corrections this hour. The latest out of baltimore tonight, the mayor is asking the department of justice to investigate the Baltimore Police department. The mayor wants federal investigators to determine whether there is a pattern of misconduct including Excessive Force and improper arrest. Such an investigation is essential if we are going to build on the foundation of reforms that we have instituted over the past few years. Federal authorities were already looking into a string of Police Brutality claims before freddie gray was fatally injured in police custody. Meantime Governor Hogan has lifted state of emergency in effect in baltimore over the past 10 days. Cbs announced it will rebuild its baltimore store cvs announced it will rebuild its baltimore store damaged in last weeks riot and is making a donation to the united way in maryland. Our media partner the Washington Post first reported on this story today and scott broom is in baltimore now with new reaction. Reporter people here are used to the Police Helicopters overhead and cameras on the ground, but what a citizen spotted and then tweet about which is what raised the alarm about all this appears to be entirely new and today the fbi is basically saying nothing about what the capabilities of these aircraft are and exactly what they were doing, which is why civil libertarians are on alert. The planes, a cessna 182 like this and a citation jet flying much higher up were tracked by civil libertarians on a website. The patterns and orbits of the flight over the unrest in baltimore, very precise. The cessna had actually been photographed before when seen orbiting over mclean, virginia, near langley and the cia according to other curious observers who posted questions about what they saw on reddit. An up named fbi source told unnamed fbi source told us there were monitoring equipment on the craft to track operations on the ground. There has been a freedom of information request act to learn more. Jay stanley specializes in privacy in technology for the aclu. Theres a lot of brandnew very powerful surveillance technologies out there and we dont really know how they are being used. They are often used on airplanes. Some of them sweep up communications and cell phone information about tens of thousands of people. Others of them can track vehicles and pedestrians like across a 25 square mile area. Everybody recognizes when there is protests including some acts of property damage, the police have every right to know whats going on, to know where crowds are, but some of these Technology Goes way beyond that. A lot of these technologies are often deployed in secret. Reporter on the street in baltimore where a network of public surveillance camera are a common sight, suspicion that the mysterious aircraft are a step up. Its 10 that can be used to repress technology that can be used to repress or oppress. Reporter the fbi provided a very limited clarifying Statement Today saying that the aircraft were for Aerial Imaging of potential criminal activity, not to monitor lawful protests. The fbi said that this afternoon. Scott broom, wusa9. In the wake of the unrest stemming from freddie grays death, prince announced he will play a concert in charm city. The rally for peace show is scheduled for this sunday, mothers day, at royal farms arena. Now the purple one is also expected to debut a song called baltimore, a new unreleased single he wrote about the unrest and a portion of the proceeds from the concert will go toward baltimorebased youth charities. In fact, tickets are on sale right now. Another tuition hike at university of maryland, in a 9 3 vote the board of regents voted to raise the cost of attending school at the College Park Campus by no more than 5 . Another plan that gradually increases tuition for business engineering and Computer Science majors, that was also approved. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. A local store owner shames shoplifters by putting them online. Andrea mccarren brings us that story at 5 30. Plus topper is back with more on the thunderstorms moving through our area. Some new information about how that germanwings pilot practiced before crashing the plane loaded with passengers into the french alps. Right after the break a Howard University student vanishes days before graduation, what has his friends and family so concerned next. The family of a missing Howard University student is asking for help finding him tonight. Lance buckley was last seen yesterday morning in stafford, virginia, on his way to campus. Garrett haake has been following the story and joins us live from the newsroom. Buckley tiply got to campus typically got to campus slugging a ride which means showing up at the commuter lot and riding with a stranger to take the h. O. V. Lanes in. His wife dropped him off at the same commuter lane and hasnt seen him sense wednesday morning. He never arrived at meetings or other events on campus when he was expected. Buckley is a phd student expected to graduate this weekend. Hes married with two small children including a daughter just 11 days old. This afternoon his mother begged for help to find him. We want you all to know that he has a loving family and wife and two beautiful daughters and many friends and neighbors that care very deeply about lance. We are pleaing to the publics help and support in trying to locate lance. In a statement Howard University says that they are aware buckley has gone missing and are cooperating with the investigation and theyre sending out his picture and information on social media and online hoping somebody knows something. Garrett haake, wusa9. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Stafford County sheriffs office. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. One of the criteria for a severe thunderstorm is wind gusts and 1 Inch Diameter hail. This happened in chantilly about two hours ago and the same storms pushing off to the south and east are Still Producing hail. Lets start with a live look outside, our live, michael and son weather cam, its not storming everywhere, but those areas seeing storms are heavy, if not severe, and the areas receiving rain now will probably have fog by tomorrow morning. Still 81 at national, winds east at 7, just light activity at national. Heres radar the past hour. When you see bright colors, that means intense storms. We have one area of thunderstorms around frederick. This popped up again really in the last 15 minutes in parts of southeastern sections of loud and this is the activity weve followed southeast of winchester. Well zoom in Loudon County. Heavy rain out 26 as well and a separate cell toward thurmont on the east side of 15. Where is this headed . South and east. Lisbon at 5 44 and ivory at 6 06. Well move down to this massive storm, percyville down toward root 7 in between upperville north of 50 route search in between upperville north of 50. You route 7 in between upperville north of 50. Well zoom in again. This is heavy rain from upperville over toward frogtown up toward bluemont. Look at all the lightning strikes around percyville and just to the north. Well zoom out. This is earlier, the hail almost exactly on route 7. We think the hail could be 1. 6 in diameter. Thats severe stuff. Right now there are no warnings on these storms, but they are heavy. Look at these storms that just popped up. This whole line of storms from Montgomery County and across the river into Loudon County moving south and east. If youre in olney and rockville and toward montgomery mall, live in that area, you have time to secure loose objects and get inside, please. This storm is headed towards reston at 5 26, American Legion bridge at 5 46 and downtown d. C. At 6 10. Well have another three hours of this before its all said and done. Heavy storms tonight, yellow alert, bus stop dry and warm, nice tomorrow, warm and a dry finish to the week, mid80s again friday. 60s to start, 73 by 11 00 and 77 with partly sunny skies by 1 00. Tomorrow we have a chance for showers but not thunderstorms, just some showers. Well keep friday dry, 83 and just a few storms saturday, 85. Next seven days for mom well be dodging a few storms if youre planning a cookout and upper 80s on monday and tuesday, cooler in the 70s next wednesday. Today were learning that the pilot who crashed the germanwings plane into the french alps did a test run on that very same plane earlier that fateful day. Reporter in the First Official report since the march disaster officials revealed 27 yearold Andreas Lubitz put the plane into descent mode five times in 4 1 2 minutes and then brought it up again just like during the fatal flight the captain appeared to have left the cockpit. The chief investigators said he couldnt speculate what was going on inside the german co pilots mind when he repeatedly set controls to the minimum setting of 100 feet. Cockpit data shows the plane did not drop sharply suggesting people on the flight from duval dorf to barcelona might not do us dousseldor dousseldorf to barcelona might not have noticed any change. He researched stewardess and cockpit security online a week before the crash. A day at the playground nearly turns deadly for a group of kids playing at the park. And why 26 million americans have no credit history. Plus why this could be the truck of tomorrow, details in utility Officials Say it could be days before a sewer leak in oxon hill is completely repaired. A rupture in a 14inch pipe near the 100 block of north huron drive was discovered sunday. Most of the Wastewater Lab contaminated, but some of has been contaminated, but some of it is still reaching oxon run, a tributary of the river. It is part of a different system than the drinking water. In tonights consumer alert another down day on wall street after janet yellen said stock values were high and warned of volatility when the fed began to raise its benchmark interest rates. The dow fell 86 points, the nasdaq slid 19 points. A new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows 26 million americans have no credit history, none at all. The survey says another 19 Million People are considered unscorable because they have insufficient Credit Histories or old reporting information. Now these individuals are put at a significant disadvantage because they have very little chance of establishing lines of credit which are the key to so many things. The Obama Administration approved the First Ferry Service between florida and havana and it could potentially make it easier for people and goods to go back and forth between the two countries. Analysts say it is a clear sign how serious the u. S. Is about normalizing relations with the caribbean island and so far it is unclear whether cuba will allow it. It could be the big rig of the future, daimler showed off its new driverless truck during an after dark test run at hoover dam. There was someone behind the wheel just in case. Good. The truck can partially drive itself even at 50 miles per hour. Theres something still unsettling about that. I think even if i was in a car

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