Strangers and friends placed bouquets on trooper chad dermyers cruiser, outside state police headquarters. Parents struggle to explain his death to their children. Dermyer was on a Training Exercise with a dozen other trooper at the richmond greyhound depo. 30 seconds later after he stopped to talk to brown, he pulled the handgun out and shot the trooper repeatedly. This man was like get down, get down. Reporter two other troopers returned fire, brown continued to fight with medics and officers, as they rushed him to the hospital where he died. The loud noises didnt make sense. I was like there is thats gun shots, then there were five or ten more. Reporter he would pull off the interstate to save a lost dog. He is survived by his wife and two young children. My prayers and heart are with his family. Reporter in addition to murder, brown had been charged in aurora, illinois, with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, aggravated battery of an un born child, intimidation and felony possession of a women, his aunt told colleagues in richmond, he vowed never to go back to prison, he said that he would fight it out with police. Live at Virginia State police headquarters. Trooper dermyer wearing ace body armor and the superintendent says they are recommended but not required and not clear it would have saved him. Two women hit are expected to be okay. Hundreds will show respects for trooper chad der mier and the many Law Enforcement officer whose put their lives on the line each day at saturdays united for blue rally, starts at the Law Enforcement memorial in northwest and ends with a march to the national mall. United for blue aims to pay respects to what officer dos everyday, officers do everyday. Kelly is the president and says its been a heart breaking month and a half in our area. My husband goes out to work every night, i dont know if he is coming home anymore. Yesterday was a Training Exercise. He was shot and killed. She was shot and killed over a Training Exercise. How does that happen . How is the community not enraged. I have the last month just between the officers with Prince Georges County, last night with the Virginia State police. She is not the only one. Tonight, they are hold aggieness cook off fundraiser at the fraternal order of police lodge in northwest on 4th street at 6 00. More problems at the washington monument. For a second time this week, elevator malfunction is forcing the closure of the monument. 86 people on the Observation Deck had to make the trek down a lot of stairs , the monument will remain closed through saturday while the crews try and make the repairs. Broken elevator caused a shutdown on tuesday as well. Metro watchdog tweeted out this response to the elevator trouble today. Washington monument, now run by ramada. Now, fairfa that robbed and sexually assaulted a woman in knife point at springfield. It happened on commerce behind a busy shopping plaza. Ray is live. Youve talked to the victim . Reporter thats right, bruce, minutes ago we talked to the 40 year old victim, who says she was on her way to work. She was walking alone when she was grabbed by a man at knife point, dragged in to this dumpster behind me, robbed and sexually assaulted. Property manager rick florez is passing out fliers detailing the attack, it shows two surveillance pictures of an older model red 2door car with a white or gray patch on the drivers side door. The female victim through a translator talks with wusa 9. She was on her way to work when a man with a knife grabbed her and pulled her in to the dumpster where he took money and sexually assaulted her. Thats awful. Thats crazy. We have to take in to account to tell my employees and coworkers to be careful. Tell them to go in doubles. It can happen to anyone. Reporter the woman was able to break free and call for help. Avoid this area at 6 00 in the morning. This is a good neighborhood. There are hard working people here. Reporter the woman says she doesnt believe this was a random act because this paid by her exhusband. Police will not verify or confirm that she was targeted. Is866411 tips or text tip 187. Dc is joining other states banning travel for district Government Employees to North Carolina. Mayor mural stands with the Lgbtq Community and against discrimination after a controversial law was passed there. Debra alfarone is live with reaction. What are you hearing . Reporter people i spoke to today at the lgbt center for the community applaud the mayors stand but not everyone agrees. Here is a recap of the law that has states picking sides. The controversy all comes down North Carolinas controversial new law is that it requires transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex they were born with b not the gender they id with now. Talking about multistall bathrooms. There is work to be done for the lgbt community. Reporter travis is from North Carolina, the mayors ban follows, connecticut, vermont, washington, San Francisco and new york and seattle. David mariner who workses for the rights, sums it up like this. If your state is not working for lgbt community, its not welcoming for anyone. Reporter we heard both sides. Dont think no one should right a law discriminating against no one. To be in target with your child in the bathroom and a person that looks like a woman comes thats confusing to kids, i think. I saw a great meme on facebook the other day that was like, you have gone to the bathroom with a trans person and didnt even know it. We are all trying to pee in peace. Reporter the law in North Carolina also stops cities and towns from putting in measures to protect people on the faces of Sexual Orientation and gender identity. We are live along 14th street tonight. Debra alfarone, wusa9. Companies like facebook, google and dow have taken stances against this law. New information on the news paper vendor accused of stabbing a man at the addison road metro station. After a daylong search, daniel brown surrendered to police. He is facing assault and other charges. He was happening out the free handing out the free express newspapers when he got in to an argument with a stabbed him three times. The victim, 24 years old, is in stable condition at the hospital. Alexandria police are investigating the first homicide of the year. Police say he suffered a head injury on tuesday while being robbed along the 200 block of south Alfred Street and died from injuries today. Police have no suspects in custody. Prince georges county, a man was shot and killed, in capital heights, at 1 30 this morning, on shady glenn terrace. The victim died at the hospital. Police dont believe this was a random act and looking for the shooter. Lets turn to the race for president. The next big prize is wisconsin, which holds the primary on tuesday. The polls show republican ted cruz leading front runner donald trump by 10 points. Fellow republican john kasich predicted the gop nominee will not be crowned on the campaign trail but at the Party Everybody tried to figure out my math, cruz needs 90 of remaining delegates. Thats not going to happen. The polls show Bernie Sanders with a single digit lead over Hilary Clinton in wisconsin. Clinton might be seating the state to him while looking ahead to a larger prize. Its new york and it holds the primary april 19th. Clinton campaigned there today. Dc Council Plans to hold emergency vote tuesday on legislation that would put democrat Bernie Sanders on the dc primary ballot. His campaign submitted the fees and paperwork to the dc democratic party, but the party did not notify the board of elections until after the deadline. The districts democratic primary is june 14th. We are Getting Started on wusa9 at 5 00, two brothers from Prince Georges County on different teams in the final four competing for ncaa little bit. Drivers tired of the car shaking through the potholes. Back with the strong storms making their way through the dc area. Right after the break, more protests on the streets of dc as demonstrators rally against nu as a Small Business owner, heres one thing you can rely on your business will change as it grows. Whether its new space, more employees, or better equipment, things have a way of moving fast. But if your network cant keep up, it can really slow you down. And thats not good for business. 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Not far from the protest, the Nuclear Security summit is underway, this years focus, preventing terrorism. The summit isnt tackling a major issue. World leaders are not addressing the elephant in the room, the 15,000 nuclear weapons. Reporter this inflated nuke helps send the message, they want World Leaders and the president know it worldwide. In a world where Foreign Policy is dictated instead of militarization. Reporter he knows survivors of Fukushima Daiichi and. The summit wraps up in 45 minutes at 6 00, we are expecting traffic to get congested in this area around the convention center, to avoid this area if you can. More on what is going on inside the summit, coming up at 5 30. Prince georges county, Darryl Johnson indicted on two counts of murder. Back on february 2nd, johnson killed davis and her daer chloe in a dispute over child support. The child was shot and killed while she was strapped in the child seat in the back of the car. The troubling discovery along 395 in fairfax, Virginia State police say they discovered a body in the grass. The medical examiner trying to determine an identification and cause of death. Dc kicks off the pothole palooza today. No pranks intended. Despite what you might think, the district has been hard at work trying to build the craters. The city says its committed to filling the potholes in less than 72 hours. We got to see the technology they are using to get our streets nice and smooth. I think they are late on this. Most of the damage has been done. People are in potholes. It was an early spring, we had the cold spells as well. We are dealing with springlike weather in strong storms. Severe warning dropped at 5 03, a strong storm up that way. Back to where we should be on our weather computer here, as we are looking at stuff here. Give me half a second folks. We are looking at the storms that are going on right now. We got first alert doppler, we are starting on the big picture, one to the north, one to the south, the one to the north is going to miss the metro. Thats quickly pushing past frederick, westminster, at 50, 55 miles per hour. This line of showers and storms, west to fredericksburg, harrisonburg, that will be tracking over the next couple of hours. Westminster to mount airy, we are getting hit hard with heavy downpours. Its not severe. Westminster here in the few minutes, shrewsberry, this is going to go towards pennsylvania. South of culpepper, towards orange, racing towards the northeast, at 50 miles an hour. We think its going to be towards the mount vernon 6 00 p. M. , the nats, they are home, they got a game. A preseason game over at Nationals Park with the twins. You will have to watch that. Weather headlines, after todays 80s, big changes for the weekend. Showers tomorrow morning, southeast of i95, a better chance, i havent put a yellow weather alert for the morning. East of 95, if you got a sports event, maybe one of the kids games, watch for that. A high wind watch saturday night, sundays morning, we could see gusts 4050 miles an hour overnight saturday night in to sunday morning. Cold air, well north and west, when you get to upper montgomery, louden, towards i 81, freeze watches in effect. A colder shot of air for tuesday. We might not get out of the 40s tuesday, considering we are in the low 80s, 81 washington and gusty. Mostly cloudy skies at the moment at national. Dew points in the 50s. It doesnt feel terribly sticky but spring is going away for a few days. Great lakes, 30s there, chunk of that is coming our way. The last gasp of winter, battling on the northern lakes with snow. Springtime storms south. That battle is going the go on for the next several days. We will be caught in the cross fire. For tonight, evening showers and storms, mostly cloudy, cooler by tomorrow morning, in the low to mid 50s, with showers around in the morning, especially east of i95. 50s in the morning, more sun in the afternoon. Not as warm. 58 to 66. Windy tomorrow night in to sunday morning. Sunday, sunny and 52. Monday, showers return, especially in the afternoon, tuesday cold incomes the 40s, showers cold, in the 40s. Showers could hamper opening day of the home opening day for this 2016 campaign with highs in the 50s. Straight ahead, the curse of the bradford pair, a story getting looks on social media and not quite sure why. Getting a new smart phone will cost you a little bit more. And americans continue to turn away from soda. I will tell you about that in our consumer alert. Wall street. The nra. Theypore werful. They usually get their way. But t nowith democrat Donna Edwards. She wont take cash from wall street banks. 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The company filed for a patent for talking drone propellers, the blades will make warning noises and shout out phrases like, watchout, to alert people for the third day, the curse of the bradford pair is one of the hottest stories on wusa9. Com. We are stumped by why its so popular. Its not just us. Other stations are doing the same thing. The tree was a popular choice for homeowners and developers here in this area as well as other parts of the country. In part because of its white bloom in the spring. Experts say the species became invasive and harms native plants and trees, when the trees mature they grow weak and start splitting. Any wind storms or big thunderstorms, they would get weak wooded and start splitting and then they figured out through the years its not such a great tree. The Missouri Department of conservation says there are other trees that will provide the very same beautiful white bloom without the problems caused by the broadfords care. You see beautiful, not sonice to other plants. Straight ahead, its about family for two Prince Georges County brothers. The special story of how the athletes are sharing the same court this weekend. Frightening moments a at Shopping Mall after a baby is kidnapped bay complete stranger by a complete stranger. World leaders gather in dc to sto