From basketball, but mostly he was there to listen. He had good words of encouragement and lifted us up when were down. I look at him as a hero, as someone i look up to. Reporter mcraes son is in d. C. s fire cadet program. His friends say hes still planning to become a firefighter after graduating in june. He always wanted to be a firefighter just like his father and i quote to be just like my dad. Reporter but they also know losing his dad isnt easy. Hes not doing so good. Hes trying, though. Reporter some of those students are behind me tore they will be. Theres a or they will be. Theres a vigil that will take place at the Apartment Building where he lost his life organized by some of the students that were fire cadets who lieutenant mcrae actually taught to become firefighters. Reporting live from northwest washington im ellison barber, wusa9. Lieutenant mcrae had three children, two sons and a daughter. The mother of his son who is a senior at Dunbar High School died from cancer two years ago. Three weeks after the murder of Mary Washington student grace mann the feminist group she was part of has filed a title 9 federal complaint for failing to protect them from a sexually hostile climate. Peggy fox is at the university where individual students are also part of that complaint. What are they telling you . Reporter the students say they were harassed and intimidated on the social networking site yik yak. They say they were targeted repeatedly with sexually explicit attacks and even death threats, yet when they asked Mary Washingtons president to block yik yak, he refused. This is not speech when its violent threats of assault and rape and murder. Reporter students and members of the feminists united at the university of Mary Washington say administrators failed to protect them from sex based cyber assaults and threats of violence. It is inexcusable that this administration said they will not act. Reporter the students say some 800 threats against them appeared on the social networking site yik yak over the past two semesters. People gave out the location of our members and threatened to rape and kill us. I was terrified. I did not know if the person sitting next to me in class had just threatened to hurt me anonymously. Reporter Lydia Michaels says grace mann was also targeted with rape on yik yak. Three weeks ago mann was strangled in her off campus resident. Housemate Steven Vander briel is charged with first degree murder. He was a former member of the rugby team. In november the rugby team was recorded singing a violent chant. Raping, really being violent towards women and kind of joking about it in a sing songy way. Reporter zachariah kronemer was the student who recorded the chant and showed it to administrators. The feminist united president wrote an op ed about the chant and the ugg by team and the rugby team was indefinitely suspended. Countless amounts of yik yaks had my name in them, you know, talking about how they were going to kill the snitch. Reporter Lydia Michaels said she and other students went to administrators for help. They threw us out into the line of fire and then they backed off and hid while we were there open for targeting. Reporter Lydia Michael is one of the complain ants in the lawsuit and said Mary Washingtons president told her he could not block yik yak because its a Public University and that would be an infringement on freedom of speech, but other public universities like penn state have blocked yik yak. Im peggy fox reporting live at Mary Washington. And the feminist majority says their complaint does not blame the university for grace manns death. Four people are recovering tonight from injuries after a driver plowed her car into a building in rockville this morning. It happened at the saratoga building on parklawn drive. 1 person had to be rescued after being trapped under a desk. We dont know what caused that driver to lose control of her car. Other people of that building tell wusa9 this is the second time in the past 12 months Something Like this has happened. The u. S. Government must be more aggressive on social media to Counter Terrorist recruiting inside the country. That is the message from a Senate Hearing thursday addressing the increasing threat. Senator cory booker who has 1. 5 million twitter followers used his ipad to compare the Government Social media compared to slick multimedia isis recruiting campaign. If you want to fight back against recruitment of 15year old kids, you need to work with 15yearold kids. Todays hearing comes as isis made some disturbing threats targeting our very own region. Scott broom is here with how the experts are now addressing these claims. Well, theyre concerned about it happening in the wake of this weekends deadly attack in garland, texas, and isis taking to, you guessed it, social media to try to capitalize with these new threats. The latest threats spread via social media in a message to crusaders claims by isis that player mature and virginia are on a target maryland and virginia or a target list for an upcoming six month Terror Campaign claiming it has 15 operatives in 16 states, 23 of whom are like the pair that carried out the attack in texas this weekend, socalled homegrown lone wolves without any face to face contact with isis organizers. Thats the power of social media experts warned about today on capitol hill. I call them isis zombies. These are the selfactivated, might have Mental Health issues, really low level of competency, but then you could have directed attackers who say are syria returnees and do have a level of competence where just one person can pull off a quite effective attack. Reporter in the past eight months in the u. S. There have been 20terrorism related arrests including teens from minnesota attempting to join extremists in somalia. Here in the source somalia. Here in the d. C. Area agents looking for this man who they suspect of helping alqaeda. A Richmond CountyHigh School Student and woman have also been charged, ample evidence that experts fear isis most recent threat spread by social media may be all thats needed to spark a lone wolf attacker living among us. According to one study isis runs as many as 40,000 twitter accounts. Twitter has been shutting down accounts for violation of service but not in a pace to keep up and thats in comparison of a handful of sites operated on behalf of the u. S. Government which dont have many followers by comparison at all. Scott broom, wusa9. Illinois, michigan and california was also singled out for threats in the recent isis messages. What a sad story next, the 3yearold from d. C. Died after drowning in a pond near houston. Nigil park in son was with his family to celebrate his great grandmothers 90th birthday and was reported missing around 8 00 last night. The k90s and the volunteers went the k9s and volunteers went through the nearby woods for hours before they found his little body in a nearby pond this morning. The parents were there watching the child and it doesnt take but a split second for that child to disappear and unfortunately this is what happened. Theres even Surveillance Video showing dad keeping a close eye on his boy. No charges are expected to be filed. New information on a missing Howard University student in stafford, virginia. Investigators briefly pinged lance buckleys home in an area in Montgomery County. He was not seen since being dropped off at a commuter lot and then sent his wife a texts message from campus. Buckley has text message from campus. Buckley has two daughters, one less than two weeks old. He was set to graduate this saturday. Mayor muriel bowserer and chief cathy lanier want to equip every muriel bowserer and chief cathy lanier want to equip every policeman with a body camera. Chief lanier said it was generally agreed Police Body Cameras are a good thing. The use of these cameras will been 50 the community and mpd by increasing benefit the community and mpd by increasing accountability and enhancing our public safety. At 6 00 well have more on Police Body Cameras in d. C. And the tug of war over just how much access you might have to those videos. A robbery at gunpoint on a campus of georgetown university, police say a student was leaving the school of business Late Wednesday when he was approached by a man and woman. The male apparently drew the gun and ordered the student to hand over his wallet. That student was not harmed. If you know anything about this robbery, call the university or d. C. Police. Breaking in local sports, there is potentially devastating news for the Washington Wizards and their fans this afternoon. Kristen berset is here with an injury update on john wall. Reporter the wizards are in a middle of a promising playoff run, but today the Team Revealed allstar fig point guard john wall has five small nondisplaced fractures in his wrist and left hand. Wall injured his wrist and hand in this play in the game one victory over atlanta. He finished the game despite the injury with 18 points and 13 assists. Now a nondisplaced fracture refers to the way a bone breaks. Typically us a clean break and requires an xray to diagnose. Wall and the team are meeting with multiple doctors to determine the best course of action and the status for the rest of the series against the hawks remains in doubt. Ramone sessions replaced wall in game two scoring 21 points in a wizards loss. Game flee is saturday at the Verizon Center three is saturday at the Verizon Center tied at one game apiece. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. Reporter 10 years after starting with no staff, no money, no site, the African American museum of history and culture now almost finished, im bruce leshan with a look at the race to meet a crucial deadline. Im meterologist topper shutt, a very nice evening, quiet radar. Well look ahead watching this system off the southeast coast. It may enhance our chances for showers over the weekend, tell you what that means for your weekend plans for mom. Reporter residents assess the damage of dozens of tornadoes and start to pick up a teenager is dead after a fight in maryland. The Charles CountySheriffs Office says the 18yearold victim and two friends went to a waldorf apartment looking to settle something. An altercation ensued and the victim was stabbed on vivian adams drive. Officers have located all the people involved, but we dont know about any charges just yet and the victims identity has not been released. The Southern Plains states from texas to kansas remain under that Severe Weather threat following wednesdays deadly and destructive tornado outbreak. Adrianna diaz has more on the damage and cleanup from Oklahoma City. Reporter a powerful tornado cut a path of destruction through bridge creek, oklahoma, one of the hardest hit areas. Officials say at least 25 homes were destroyed. People returned home to salvage what little they could. My shop is completely gone. My sisters little house is unlivable. Reporter twisters also plowed through parts of Oklahoma City. Theres massive damage at this rv park, many of them tossed around like toys. Warning sirens went off shortly before a twister hit this hotel. Guests say it was terrifying. I was scared. I didnt think i was going to make it. Reporter everything brought to the hotel is gone. We lost everything. We got nothing. But my girls are all right and we made it out. Reporter Oklahoma City mayor touring the damage. Your heart just breaks for people that have their homes destroyed. Here we go. Reporter dozens of twisters touched down in whats known as Tornado Alley wednesday. Forecasters say Severe Weather could hit the area again in the next few days. Adrianna diaz, cbs news, Oklahoma City, oklahoma. Still not over for them yet. No. I think they even have a higher risk tomorrow for Severe Weather, especially in texas and oklahoma and a little slice of kansas. Yesterday one was headed almost toward moore, oklahoma, again, just missed moore for about the third time. Lets talk about the 3 degree guarantee. We went for the high today, easterly flow, a little fog to start, high of 80. Let you know how we did tonight at 11 00. Lets start with a live look outside, our live, michael and son weather cam, very nice, temperatures still mild, 80 on the button, winds south at 6, humidity kind of in between comfortable and not comfortable, 54 . Headlines, quiet tonight. Most of the showers well west, in the mountains and light. Bus stop temperatures 56 to 68, so a wee bit cooler to start but dry tomorrow, a warm and dry finish to the week and the weekend warm with a few afternoon showers and storms, so increase in terms of the chance, best day best chance probably sunday, not saturday. 10 00 tonight upper 60s, low 70s, walk the dog. By 6 a. M. Were in the upper sifts in manassas, 50 upper 50s in manassas, patchy fog developing overnight but nothing like the last couple mornings. We dont have any showers to help that fog form. Then by lunchtime a good day to maybe take lunch outside, 79 downtown at lunchtime, 80 in frederick, 78 in leesburg and by 5 30, 6 00 were in the low 80s, a few clouds here and there, but i think all the showers will be in the mountains. By 10 00 on friday i do have a slight chance of a shower late friday. If you have big plans or grilling out friday night, youll be fine, upper 60s, low 70s, even 10 00 hour. This is the tropical satellite picture. Weve been talking about this all week. Its sitting and spinning off the South Carolina coast. At 1 time it was going to be subtropical and stay offshore. Now its retrograding westward and that could fuel showers for us into the weekend. Its going to sit and spin here, doesnt matter if it stays subtropical, its going to increase our moisture. As we get into sunday, sunday evening, mothers day, a better chance of showers and storms by afternoon. Again not a washout, but if you want to do outside stuff, the earlier the better sunday. Tonight partly cloudy, pleasant, patchy fog late, 56 to 64, winds south, southeast at 10. On the day planner 64 to start. These are downtown temps. 70 by 9 00, 76 by 11 00, low 80s by 1 00. A slight chance of a shower saturday, 83, better chance of some thunderstorms sunday, also 83. Next seven days the best chance will be monday, temperatures in the mid80s, upper 80s tuesday and cooler, 70s wednesday, 75 thursday, two beautiful days. Were saying cooler because it will be, but actually it will be back to average temps. A dream nearly fulfilled now on the National Mall, the museum of African American history and culture is 3 4 finished and if youve driven down constitution avenue, youve seen its gleaming windows and bronze panels going up. Bruce leshan joins us live from the mall with a preview of what youll see when its done. Reporter they started 10 years ago with no money, no staff, no site. Now you can see what the African AmericanHistory Museum will look like. Theyre a few months behind schedule, but the director told me today they will definitely be finished in time for the countrys first African American president to cut ribbon before he leaves office in january, 2017. Here on the last buildable lot on the National Mall in the shadow of the memorial to a president who owned slaves, a monument is taking shape to a people who rose up and demanded america live up to its ideals. The story of slavery, a story of tragedy and difficulty, but also a story of america is a work in progress. Reporter these 150pound bronze colored aluminum panels are really the central feature of the exterior of the museum. The filigree here is designed to evoke the work of African American slave craftsmen in savannah, in charleston and new orleans. The goal was to have this sort of bronze to sort of suggest there has always been a dark presence in america and often we forgot. Reporter inside the facade the building is almost transparent. I wanted you to be able to look at an exhibition on the march on wash, and then out and see on washington and then look out and see the lincoln memorial. I wanted you to learn the story of enslavement and look down pennsylvania avenue where slave pens once were. Reporter the treasured artifacts, a slave pen and a childs shackles, a segregated rail character but also the joy of Michael Jacksons fedora and louie armstrongs trumpet. [ music ] Reporter Museum director lonnie bunch told me that he wants this History Museum to be about much more than just yesterday. He wants it as well to be about today and tomorrow and so curators now are collecting artifacts in ferguson and in baltimore and in new york so they can continue to tell this story about americas effort to make a more perfect union. On the National Mall live bruce leshan, wusa9. Before i let you go the mall re