Our colleagues in North Carolina had dug into his background today and say he works for a Small Fire Department in the durham North Carolina area. He has been a minor actor and an extra in some minor Film Productions in North Carolina and thats about all we know about him. He is minor criminal record featuring marijuana an accident that involved a child last year. Otherwise an unremarkable person until now. He has appeared in court and held without bail. We will know more when he appears thursday. Live outside Dc Superior Court scott broom wusa9. Outside of the restaurant frustration is the number 1 feeling amongst people who live in the area and Business Managers near the restaurant. Stephanie ramirez is live on me are off and comment is closed today but Police Officers are going in and out of the businesses around here and there are a lot of managers who are grateful for this. Greg manages a coffee shop in the basement of a nearby bookstore who said a few weeks ago he was concerned of protesters coming out. There was an internet hoax and a highly physical presence. This is pretty much the worst case scenario. Reporter the shooting inside comet the momandpop style Business Managers say they were afraid of. A few doors down employees inside a different pizza restaurant said they were getting threatening phone calls and for some it seems that, it is in the midst of a lingering election firestorm. Its clear it was the White Supremacists spreading lies about small local businesses reporter this is a College Writing teacher who knows about fake news stories and the trolls continue to go on comments Facebook Page and try to link Hillary Clinton with child sex ring. If you boil it down to hard facts you can find out whats true and not. Reporter thats why megan brought flowers. Theres nothing here that is illegal. This is a great business run by incredible people and we to stand up and say that has to be the case and we will stand against hatred. Reporter they believe this is related to other acts of vandalism seen in the area after the election. Swastikas drawn on buildings and cars and comment will open tomorrow. Police say they were made aware of the fake stories a month ago and will continue to work with in northwest of the ramirez wusa9. Its bizarre it keeps perpetuating. On facebook several people planning to attend a friday event to show their support for comment. On our Facebook Page one person writes the problem comes from people taking everything they see on facebook as real. Let us know what you think 24 hours a day. Log on and leave your thoughts on our Facebook Page. Breaking news out charged with the murder in the death of an unarmed black driver. The jury deliberated for nearly 22 hours before failing to reach a verdict against michael slager. Cell phone video shows walter scott fleeing and its tough video to watch. He shot him five times in the back. He was fired from the police force and charged with murder and still faces charges in federal court. The death toll stands at 36 and expected to rise after the deadly crews called off the search today after determining the building could collapse at any moment. Officials believe the fire started at the back of the warehouse but the cause is not clear. The Coroners Office working to identify the victims and family members being asked to preserve items like brushes and combs with dna to help with the process. The victims were musicians, actors, artists 32yearold chase whitley power was bartending during the night of the tragedy and his father said raising his son stepbrother will not be easy. Every time i see him he will pop in my mind. If feel so painful right now. In the end of the maybe it will be a blessing. 35yearold travis was a member of the oakland electronic band ghost of lightning. On his Facebook Pages aunt wrote there are no words for this loss. Dc mayor Muriel Bowser will donald trump tomorrow and Bruce Johnson reports the mayor requested the meeting which is scheduled for tomorrow morning at trump tower in new york city. They are expected to talk about dcs continued economic growth. You remember earlier this year when mayor bowser chose not to attend the grand opening of the trump hotels down the street from the white house on pennsylvania avenue. The ribboncutting was mor in the transition team. President elect donald trump again the week by filling out another cabinet appointment. Is formal rival dr. Ben carson was named head of the Depauw Department of housing and urban development. He also met with former Vice President al gore. I had a lengthy and productive session with the president elect. It was a sincere search for areas of common ground. The president elect appears to be expanding his search for former u. S. Ambassador to china jon huntsman, Democratic Center joe manchin exxon mobil max hellers and. A rainy start to the day and a yellow weather alert untapped tomorrow. Look whos back. First alert topper shutt in the Weather Center and you brought the rain with you. I did and the only Silver Lining is and then were looking at a very gray day. Morning commute impact low and after the impact highly. Dont think well see flooding. What practices after school at a high risk as well. Lets talk about futurecast. In the Early Morning at 6 00 clouds overspread the area and notice we are dry. Most of us will have a dry commute. 41 downtown. 37 leesburg. 33 and close to freezing and frederick. Bit of magenta here and there and there will be sleet mixed and just like last night north and west in town. By 10 00 rain makes it to the metro area just after the rush. After that it gets heavy so grab of winter coat an umbrella because temperatures will struggle to get out of the upper 30s north and west and only in the low to mid 40s downtown. After this we track the coldest air of the season. We are getting a sneak peek at one of prince from opening and we got a tour of the grand atrium and dozens of restaurants and all kinds of tastes from china to some local flavors from home. Our entire culinary staff is cooks and sous chefs from prince georges county, from dc if you are not integrating yourself in the local community you are missing out on a huge opportunity to learn and grow. The casino offers 3300 slot machines, 124 gaming tables including poker, roulette, craps and blackjack. Mgm National Harbor open source and that at 11 00. Five people out of their homes after an Early Morning fire in northwest washington that started at one house before spreading to another on iowa avenue. No one was injured but the people next door lost many of their belongings and tell us they are thankful n was hurt. Thankful to the lord that everyone in my house made it out okay including the animals we have. Thank god that we came out with our lives. Everything else can be rebuilt. The red cross is helping neighbors find temporary housing while their homes are prepared. The suspect in the brutal murder of a gas station clerk and Spotsylvania County in court today. Is accused of beating him to death with a piece of wood. Reporter the brutality of this murder is simply shocking. We know the suspect had a piece of wood in his hand when he walked in the store and spoke to the clerk for several minutes before using the piece of wood to kill him. People brought flowers to remember the man who was a manager at the sunoco gas station on Jefferson Davis highway. He was a friendly guy. Its very sad someone would do that to was a 54yearold family man who has worked at Convenience Stores in the areas for 20 years. Until one of his customers allegedly ended his life. David washington is accused of killing him by beating him with a two foot by two foot piece of wood. Ive been in this business 40 years and its one of the most brutally Violent Attacks ive seen. Reporter it happened that store, spoke with the clerk for a few minutes and viciously attacked him and kept attacking him. Reporter washington is charged with firstdegree murder, robbery and grand larceny. We know the suspect destroyed the Cash Register and the store has been closed all day while the owner tries to get things back to normal. And spotsylvania peggy fox, wusa9. Robbery is the motive but continuing to gather information in the attack. Tracking metro tonight and if you ride the train between potomac avenue and stadium armory stations you can now get internet and make calls on your phone. Transit Agency Announces the first segment of the internal cell service today. Verizon customers have access now. Metro will announce the next phase of the wireless project in 2017. Getting started on wusa9 news at 5 00. A new president means thousands of new jobs and coming up how people are lining up to get a gig with the trump administration. Bei bei is back. After the break the public lining up at the national zoo to get their first look at the thousands of native americans and environmentalists celebrated the decision to reject part of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline project. The army corps of engineers turned down a request that would have routed the pipeline north of the Standing Rock reservation. Were all from a here. Are welcome here. The fight might not be over. Balk priced voiced support for the pipeline and could reverse the decision when he takes Office Next Year and protesters vowed to remain. Hes back and on the mend. The baby panda bei bei recovering from a emergency surgery in making his first post op appearance to an or this was no minor procedure. This was the major surgery and 10 days later he is eating well and playing and sleeping a lot. He has panda keepers very grateful. He made his first public appearance doing what he loves most, eating. On thanksgiving we notice something wasnt quite right with him. He gave panda keepers a blockage of bamboo leaves in his intestines the size of a lemon. You can see the line on his stomach where he had life saving surgery the very next day. Its a unique thing to see and we were plan on seeing him at all. On the website and said he wasnt able to be viewed. He still not 100 but panda keepers say hes eating well. Advaita biscuits apples and Sweet Potatoes and staying off the bamboo. After taking pain and nausea medication hes only on antibiotan as with any toddler they dont want to take medicine and some taste bad. What works with him as we use gel caps and put the medicine in a gel cap and wrap it in a little bit of cooked sweet potato and he swallows it right down. He will continue to recover by taking lots of naps. Is adorable. How can you not love and want to help conserve such a beautiful creature . And delighting zoo goers in panda keepers say he is interacting a lot with his mom which is a good sign hes on the mend. Sleeping and playing, sign me up. National zoo said his blockage is very rare and heard of it only happening a few other times. Well no snow so far this season but check this out, copper is back today and cant stand himself. He wants to be at this observaton of snow over the weekend. The elevation is 13,000 feet so snow isnt that uncommon but most people dont typically associate hawaii with snow. When you say its snowing in hawaii, you can see a snowcapped mountain. I havent been to hawaii but thats what ive been told. We actually have a pretty good soaking rain heading our way. Me ntioned this earlier that most of us will have a dry morning commute. Lets talk about the 3 degree guarantee. High in the mid to upper 50s today and a high of 56 and i think that will pan out very nicely. Ill let you know how we did tonight at 11 00 live look outside and 51 right now. Dew points mid 30s and winds out of north northwest at nine miles an hour. I December Stanwood not a bad evening. Yellow weather aler but dry and really close. Maybe out toward i81 and culpepper west might have light rain before the big kids get on the bus. You will certainly have problems picking them up. Morning commute driving wet from noon on and pleasant wednesday and more arctic air, probably coldest air of the season on thursday and could im looking forward to that. 10 00 to night clouds rolling in. Upper 30s north and west and mid 40s downtown. Not terribly close tonight and cloudscape temps up. By 6 00 in the 30s but not too many green blobs so a dry early commute. 41 downtown. 33 manasses. 35 gaithersburg. 37 in bowie. By 9 00 rain develops southwest to northeast and culpepper will probably have b 9 00. 43 downtown. In the 30s and a bit of magenta with sleep mixed in. Not a driving issue but dont freak out if you see sleep in frederick. Reports last night of sleep north and west. By 1 00 rain and cold march like rain with temperatures in the low to mid 40s. By 6 00 everyone has rain and 995, 270, 56 all will have a tomorrow. Temperatures 40 gaithersburg. 38 fredericksburg. In addition to the umbrella, a winter coat a good idea. I 8 00 heaviest rain moves out and left over showers by manasses. Then we begin to see clearing skies. Tonight increasing clouds and cold 34 to 40 and by tomorrow morning yellow weather alert light rain develops mixed with sleep north and west. Not a driving problem. By afternoon a bit of cold rain and a miserable day. 39 to 44 and winds east northeast at 10. We dont like to waste noreasters this time of year. Low 40s on the day planner to start and temps dont move much. Only 44 with rain and heavy at times by 1 00. Wednesday pretty nice. Pleasant 53 and tracking arctic air thursday and 45. Saturday. Sunday clouds rolled back in and could have light mix by sunday evening and back to the low 50s next monday. Still ahead he wasnt the one being honored but president obama brought in the loudest applause at the Kennedy Center last night. An important chicken recall to tell you about an Grocery Shopping without waiting in the checkout line. We will talk about it in fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. His sister can live stream it. For just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. Thank you for dining with us. Hope to see you again soon. Whoa, whoa, i got this. Just gotta get the check. Almost there. I cant reach it. If you have alligator arms, you avoid picking up the check. I got this. Thanks, dennis if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Growwwlph. Its what you do. The redskins bounce back from sundays loss when they travel to philadelphia next week. Washington heat in the and desert and the backand forth game a pretty good game and severally changes. We will have more coming up in sports. In tonights consumer alert nearly 2,000,000 pounds of ready to eat chicken pulled off the shelves because it might be a bit tank. Some of the products may be undercooked and the recall chicken was produced between august 20 and november 30 of this year and have the g. Jetblue getting in the holiday spirit and kickoff 12 days of deals. 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A 12yearold Girls Mission to bring christmas cheer to People Living on the street. And workers get sneaky as they try to get Holiday Shopping done while they are on the clock. After the break thousands of jobs now available working for president elect donald trump. We look at people and talk to them trying to get a new gig with the new administration up afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. All seems beautiful to me. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. His friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song. Er. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. Cable cant offer that. Only fios can. Good trump transition need your help. In fact they put out a big help wanted ad. Maybe the biggest ad in the last eight years. We just got our hands on it. Its called the plum book and its full of plum jobs from the head of the Space Program of americas