Police told him to stop. They told him to stop repeatedly. He didnt stop and they shot him. [ audio difficulty ] reporter you here witnesses describing all kinds of reaction to this scene as well as to watching the shooting itself take place. I can tell you that as soon as these tourists were cleared out, security rushed in. We saw armed officials from both the secret service and the park Police Including armed with long guns take a position on the edges of the park on the roofs of the building as the situation here turned into that tense lockdown situation for a short while. We are told now that lockdown has been lifted, the park not yet open. We expect to see that reopen soon. For now, guys, back to you. Thanks. Head down the street now from your location to wusa9s ileana diaz who is at pennsylvania and 17th just up the street from where the shooting happened a e. Ileana, what do you have . Reporter well, right now mood is a lot more calm than it was just an hour or two ago. What youre seeing is again the corner of 17th and pennsylvania avenue. You can still see a lot of secret service and police around still keeping a lot of people away from the area because naturally this is a very popular place for tourists and many of them were here when those shots rung out and this is what they had to say. We were a little bit over that way. The shooting happened five, 10 feet back on the lefthand side. Thats where he was and thats where they put him down on the ground and had him in handcuffs and all the guns and everything came out. I turned and then i hear the gunshots. So when they turn again, he was on the floor and i told him finally, the guy got shot. Officer and Security Guards officers and Security Guards are coming out on their bikes pushing everybody out of the lawn and telling everybody to leave. As you can imagine it was a moment of pure chaos, we were scared, fid Something Like that happening before. Reporter well, you just heard it, a lot of chaos and a lot of tension but all of that over now. People say that, again, they were standing here when it happened and thats why a lot of them were actually in the area because they were taking selfies, several of those people that you just heard from and were actually here and we are actually here in the media staging area where we are still waiting for a sergeant to come from park police to speak to us. When those details are revealed about exactly what happened we will share that with you. Reporting live near the white house, im ileana diaz, wusa9. Ileana, thank you in the meantime lets get to ellison barber is live outside the hospital where the suspect was taken. Who do we know about this suspect . Reporter very little so far in terms of the suspect. We know that someone was brought here, that suspect was brought here in Critical Condition, sources have told us that he was shot multiple times, possibly in the chest area. So far we havent heard anything from the hospital but sources tell brought here. D. C. Fire and ems is only confirming right now that one person was transported from the scene, the hospital closest to the white house and in Critical Condition. We are here working on getting more information from the hospital. So far all we can officially confirm is that one person was brought here in Critical Condition. Reporting live at George Washington hospital, im ellison barber, wusa9. Ellison, thats the view from there. Jan jeffcoat is looking at the view from social media. You have seen some people who were there posting videos and pictures. What are they saying about what happened . Great video coming from social media right now. We want to go right now to bruce leshan who posted this interview that he got with listen to this. Telling us to get out, there had been a shooting, get out, get out and thats all we know. It was very scary. And you didnt see him display any weapon . I did not see any weapon. I saw him on the ground. They were on top of him with handcuffs but i did not see any weapon on him. All we heard was yelling, we saw the smoke from the gun but we didnt see anything else. Isnt and from s hanida writes avoid seventh and constitution avenue in d. C. Traffic is crazy down here due to the shooting near the white house. And of course we are told that area will be closed for at least another couple more hours while they continue to investigate that area. Garrett writing pennsylvania avenue still entirely shut down in front of the white house. And then finally minni writes tourists pushed to peripheral of white house after shooting. Of course e the top trending stories right now on twitter. Adam. Jan, thank you. We know that president obama was not at the white house when this happened. Vice president biden, though, was on the property. Secret service say he was, quote unquote secured during the course of this. As more details emerge on this story, we will bring them to you throughout the newscast. Look for breaking news 24 hours a day on our wusa9 news app. Other news to get to on this friday. A Fairfax CountySchool Teachers assistant is killed in an Early Morning shooting and police are still looking for the gunman. Yeah, this happened around 2 20 in the morning in the parking lot of the city side Huntington Metro apartments off richmond highway in alexandria and thats where we find wusa9s Delia Gonzalez live. Reporter tyrice sampson worked at Fort Hunt Elementary School about 5 miles away from these apartment buildings and while we dont know if sampson lived here, police say this is where he this very parking lot. I spoke to his family members on the phone, they tell me someone who did not care about life took his. I was trying to reach out to family to learn a little more about him and reporter we called family in the richmond area. His aunt spoke to me but did not want to be recorded. She said they are devastated. At that Reese Sampson treece sampson was just he was a teachers assistant for Fairfax County schools and, quote, wanted to make a difference in young peoples lives. But police still dont know why his life was taken. The crime scene stretching down the length of the parking lot, a car and a motorcycle towed for evidence. The Early Morning murder makes residents nervous about living here now. When you hear about someone getting shot, you think about how i walk there every night and if it happens right here, i dont feel safe anymore. Surprise for long time you and now its youre nervous. Pretty Friendly Community and its comfortable to live here. I dont know we are not afraid, nothing. Reporter this dad says the convenience of the park makes this an ideal community but others say its that very park that attracts trouble at night. Walking in the metro and there will be eyes in the parkway at night hanging around. Reporter hanging around being sketchy, thats what some neighbors say. And we talked to a lot of neighbors off camera who did not want to speak to us on the record but they do believe that they see a lot of people loitering, hanging out here late at night but never really heard or seen anyone getting hurt. Police still looking for the suspect or suspects. At this point t. J. s family believes he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. We are live in huntington, delia goncalves, wusa9. Thank you. If you saw in that parking lot between about 1 00 and 3 00 in the morning, Fairfax County police want to hear from you right away. Metro gm paul weedfeld is cleaning house. Today he fired 20 ramada managers who report directly to him. Seven of them were senior managers, many from metros rail division. And the firings are part of his effort to streamline the management and improve the effectiveness and the account anti accountability. Get ready for a cold rain tomorrow and that is certainly good enough for a yellow weather alert. First alert chief meteorologist i cant even get the words out, topper, because its so beautiful today and hard to believe we wont see this tomorrow. Yeah, today was really spectacular. An average may day, when we get average may weather it is spectacular. A little bit warmer too over the last 24 hours, 6 degrees warmer than this time yesterday and generally the whole east coast was warmer withe talk about the evening planner. Your plans are safe tonight, 74 at 6 00, 68 at 8 00, and by 10 00 65 with clouds. We are dry, though until about 3 00 or 4 00 in the morning but lets look ahead now. 7 00 in the morning on futurecast, we have showers and rain, gaithersburg, leesbur , sterling manassas. Futurecast is eliminating the heaviest rainfall south and east of town. Its safe to say it will be heavier in la plate in more rain will fall in d. C. Than gaithersburg. By 10 00 theres your heavy rain indicated in yellow and orange. Again, la plata south, Charles County into calvert county, still steady rain, still wet frederick to hagerstown with mid50s. And by 1 00 heaviest rain still lingers into Southern Maryland but pushes across into the delmarva. Some good news for the time we will have leftover showers but the steady rain will be gone. We will come back. We are contemplating yellow alert weather on sunday. We will explain why. We will see you then. Still ahead, more concern for pregnant women and the zika virus tonight. The family of a 2yearold toddler is fighting to keep the virginia girl alive. Little morance grace larson choked on a piece of popcorn last week. She was rushed from her home from falk fauqier county. Her father wants to take her off life support since there have not no signs for a week fighting the hospital in court. For now the court is issuing an emergency injunction against the hospital. We will have much more on this case tonight at 11 00. Turning now to the search for answers in the crash of egyptair flight 804. Search crews have found floating remains, luggage and seats from the doomed plane that disappeared over the mediterranean sea. The European Space station agency says a small spot on a satellite photo right there shows what could be a Mile Long Oil Slick from the plane. That jetliner was carrying 66 people from paris. It disappeared from radar on thursday. Terrorism is suspected in the crash. Investigators are running background check on every single passenger and scrutinizing anyone who had access to that plane. Is there anybody on that flight with a link to a terrorist organization, number 1, and number 2, are there any conversations that are going on right now within terrorist organizations, nonpublic conversations where they are congratulating leading theory so far, theres no hard evidence yet to explain what brought the plane down. We turn now to campaign 2016 and the National Debate is now in the spotlight. The Presumptive Republican president ial candidate donald trump addressed National Rifle association today. In louisville the billionaire received the official endorsement of the gun rights group. Earlier he took opportunity to pick away at Hillary Clinton for suggesting that she would put former president bill clinton in charge of the economy. Maybe she just wants him around the white house so she can keep her eye on him. Hillary clinton heads to florida tomorrow where she will meet with families of gun violence victims. An alarming new statistic on zika infections in the united states. The centers for Disease Control and prevention says the number of pregnant women in america infected with the virus has tripled since the last time it was measured. So the Health Agency is monitoring 157 women with zika. The cdc saying its unclear whether the increase is because there are more pregnant women with the virus or officials are now keeping track of them in a different way. The mosquitoborne disease can cause severe birth defects and miscarriages. Meanwhile president obama is calling on congress to approve emergency spending to fight zika. In order for us to make sure that we are doing effective mosquito control, to make sure that we are developing effective diagnostic tools and distributing them to make sure that we are developing the vaccines that ultimately will prevent some of the tragedies that we have seen. President obama says Congress Needs to put forward the bill before going on recess. Hundreds of commuters pedaled their way to their jobs this morning as part of the annual bike to work day. Just 800 people registered to participate at this Freedom Plaza pit stop. The riders say they were happy to save on some gas, get a little exercise. There were across the area complete with stuff to drink and eat, entertainment, a raffle and a chance to win a free bike and what a day to do it. Yeah, let me tell you what they were happy about. It didnt rain. Yeah, they are. Youve got a 3degree guarantee to talk about. We do and i think we are going to be okay. It was average today so average may weather can be spectacular. We have not seen any average may weather of late. We went for a high today of 76, seemed like a pretty good idea. Our average high is 77. We will let you know how we did tonight at 11 00 but i think we are going to be okay. Guidance kept lowering it but i stood my ground yesterday and last night, uhhuh. 74 right now, look at the dew point, in the 40s, relative humidity 34 , thats a pretty dry air mass considering winds off the east at nine gusting to 16. So still a very nice evening. Tonight we are dry until about 3 00 a. M. So if you have plans tonight youre going to be fine unless youre out really, really late. Yellow weather alert tomorrow, cold rain trimmed back an hour so 7 00 a. M. To 10 00 p. M. That is good news for preakness because by post time looking at light showers. Miranda lambert concert at more showers and thunderstorms on sunday. Right now we will refrain from issuing yellow weather alert but its possible we may need one on sunday. So preakness, heavy rain if youre going there early and getting the infield, until about 2 00 and then lighter activity 4 00 and 6 00, winds northeasterly at 11 00, though and only 60 degrees with showers by 6 00 but that is some improvement and ironically enough, the track will probably be less sloppy than it was last year after the thunderstorm. 10 00 tonight, 65 downtown, 62 in fairfax and then by morning about 7 00 we have showers across most of the beltway, heaviest Activity Still back towards culpeper. Mid50s, now 55 in silver spring, 56 in bowie. By 10 00, futurecast shunting the heavy of us into Southern Maryland not altogether sold on that. I think some of this heavy activity could be right up to d. C. We are still getting rain showers all the way to hagerstown. By 12 00, 1 00, heavy activity in maryland and then pushing across the bay. And then by 6 00 we are going to see showers but notice there are shades of green so that is an improvement. Doing the best i can here to spin it. At least it wont be a deluge, it will be cool. Temperatures only in the upper 50s and low 60s. Maybe we make 60 downtown tomorrow, maybe. Take you into sunday, heres why we are contemplating another weather alert, more showers, 53 in frederick, 56 downtown. This is 8 30 in the morning on sunday, so grab an umbrella on your way to church and then a little bit of a break but then more showers possible in the afternoon and maybe even a thunderstorm by sunday afternoon but it will not be a washout day. So on the day planner looks like this, heavier rain through 9 00 and then tapering off to lighter rain by 11 58 and then and 59. Sunday we will leave alone for now but afternoon showers and afternoon storms, rather, and morning showers, 56, showers and storms on monday, 73. Now check this out. Going to get much, much warmer, near 80 on tuesday, mid80s on wednesday, upper 80s thursday, friday. Just in time for memorial day weekend. Nats back in town monday right on through the holiday weekend. There are changes coming to the nutrition labels on your food. How that could change the way you shop in tonights consumer alert. And Georgetown University old slaves sold slaves. Tonight whats being done for the thousands of dezen decedents. In a 9 includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me an suv slammed into a building in alexandria today. That vehicle went into a front window of a Hallmark Center in the bradley shopping center. Fortunately no one was injured and its unclear exactly what caused the driver to control. Police in alexandria say they have made an arrest in a 2015 murder case. 26yearold brian bowert dumbfreeze is being held for the murder of leon williams. He was shot to death in october on bellpre way. Lets talk consumer news now. For the first time in 20 years the fda is taking steps to update the Nutrition Information labels on panhandle foods packaged foods so you will see calorie counts with bigger, bolder type, along with a line that lists added sugar which of course can be unhealthy and pretty difficult to track. First Lady Michelle obama announced the final rules as part of her lets move campaign. She says the new labels will make packaged food information more transparent. Very soon you will no longer need a microscope, calculator or a degree in nutrition to figure out whether the food youre buying is actually good for our kids. The ne list vitamin d and potassium, nutrients that we often lack. Food companies have two years to comply with the new rules. The fda wants you to take a second look in your freezer. The agency is adding more products to a massive recall of fruits and vegetables manufactured by crf frozen food. Now, those packaged frozen foods could be contaminated with listeria