Shoring up before the building is safe enough to go inside and start working on it to try to get it repaired. Advocates of wood frame construction say its perfectly safe and very economical when it is combined with modern sprinkler systems which is why its a legal construction type but this building was under construction and not occupied yet so the sprinklers were not working yesterday, thus the disaster we witnessed. It is entirely possible depending what the engineers say they have to take down about two thirds of this building and start all over again. And college park, scott broom wusa9. s 4 the complex is a development by the Wood Partners of atlanta which is a National Development firm that is yes to comment. A gray and rainy day with showers just hanging around. First alert meteorologist er terrace and what are you seeing on live doppler . We see a couple of showers and nothing heavy tonight. Bad news is roads are still wet from todays drizzle and showers. Heres the radar and opening it up wide and you see showers and thunderstorms through the carolinas and around virginia beach. Normally the pattern in spring is areas of low pressure get cut off in the upper levels of atmospheric cant move and thats why they linger day after day. In the winter it would have been here 24 hours ago. Because its still lingering we have clouds in and a flow off the ocean keeping temperatures down. We get in a close and view and showers and Loudoun County and by and large heavier showers moving north, northwest up the bay past baltimore. On futurecast at 8 00 tonight spotty showers. Temperatures in the 50s by 10 00 spotty showers 58 downtown and 58 leesburg. 59 fredericksburg. 56 hagerstown. Still have the easterly wind keeping clouds in place and by 6 00 a. M. A couple of sprinkles not warranted for yellow weather alert and the commute will be okay but it will be cloudy. By 8 00 still have clouds and snow showers with temps in the 50s. By 9 30 breaks showing up in culpeper and by 11 30 or noon to the west you see sunshine. We will come back and let you know when we see sunshine downtown and look ahead to the weekend with june temperatures headed our way. Police and Fairfax County hope they can solve a murder mystery at a senior retirement center. They spent the afternoon handing out flyers with information and a 77yearold was found murdered last thursday in a Retirement Community and an autopsy found the cause of death is trauma to the upper body. At this point no one has been arrested. A defeat today to the trump administration. That decision blocks the white house orders to cut funding to cities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities otherwise known as sanctuary cities. The administration and to pull billions of dollars from the citys if they dont change their policies. Looking to avoid a shut down President Donald Trump is abandoning his demand for funds to build a wall at the mexican border. Lawmakers need a budget agreement by saturday to keep the government running and there is relief today on capitol hill. The president s 11th hour demand written to append the progress. We are pleased he is backing off. With the border wall battle back on the birder the white house is ready to focus on tax cuts. President donald trump is expected to unveil a tax reform blueprint tomorrow that slashes the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to ivanka trump in germany on her First International trip as a white house adviser. Angela merkel invited her to speak at a conference about improving the role of working women. Crowds booed her for praising her father is a tremendous champion of supporting families. I certainly heard the criticism from the media and that has been perpetuated but i know from personal experience. Many experts see the visit as a strategic move for Angela Merkel and when she visited dc to meet with President Donald Trump the atmosphere bordered on icy. Ivanka trumps invitation may have been a side door into the white house for the chancellor. A show of force by north korea. They carried out live fire military drills overnight to mark the anniversary of the founding of its armed forces. The u. S. Flexing its military le the korean peninsula. North korean media caused dangerous and said the u. S. Should consider carefully any catastrophic consequence. The wife of Terry Mcauliffe considering a challenge to representative Barbara Comstock in the states 10th consecutive congressional district. She confirmed her interest in the race during a visit to a middle school today and its her first bid for elected office. The 10th district is a conservative stronghold of clark and Frederick County and she declined to say when she plans to make a decision. It was a shooting rampage as terrifying as the dc sniper attacks and today the suspect pleaded guilty. Eulalio tordil a former federal cop admitted he shot three people outside Montgomery Mall killing one and also killed a woman in aspen hill. Bruce leshan and live at the courthouse with more details about this case. Reporter definitely awful and he pleaded guilty to all the counts of here in Montgomery County against him but the prosecutor John Mccarthy still went through the massive amount of evidence against him including his interview with detectives and a terrifying phone call that his daughter made, his stepdaughter, made to 911. His confession released publicly for the first time and the former federal cop explaining to the detective that his rampage was sparked by money troubles and fury at his wife. inaudible i heard the gun reporter his stepdaughter grace was on the phone 11 say her stepfather murdered her mother in the parking lot of High Point High School in beltsville. He admitted he shot and killed Malcolm Winffel at the Montgomery Mall the next day and was allegedly trying to carjack a woman for her getaway vehicle. Markus white Malcolm Winffel had come to help her and the courtroom was packed with his friends and parishioners from a gaithersburg Catholic Church and wept openly during the hearing. I didnt see any remorse from him. Did you see any . No. Did that make you mad . Reporter he also admitted he shot and killed another at the giant in aspen hill and then calmly went shopping ending up eating lunch at the boston market, the same restaurant where the dc snipers had lunch after they shot five people. Marini remembers she was terrified in both attacks. Terrifying. Because we knew he was Walking Around he was going from place to place and no one knew where he would go next. Reporter John Mccarthy spoke to reporters. This is a man who in his own writings knew there would be innocent victims and was willing to take those unknown human lives when the opportunity came about and thats what he did. Reporter one of the shooting survivors said that Eulalio Tordil just smiled as he pulled the trigger. Is lawyers today said this guilty plea was his first step in taking responsibility. Live at Circuit Court , bruce leshan and wusa9. So many lives destroyed. Thank you. The prosecutor said maybe he wanted to spare his stepdaughter the pain of having to testify against him. Sentencing set for july and he faces possible life without parole. Opposing sides gearing up for a showdown over airbnbs in the di sponsored by councilman duffy requires host to register listings with the city and limit the number and duration of rental bookings. Supporters say home sharing benefits the district and over regulating them would damage the city economy. The council has scheduled a hearing for the issue tomorrow. Beyonce launching a Scholarship Program for black women at four selected schools and one of them is Howard University in the district. The scholarship offer is a way to mark the anniversary of her release of the visual album lemonade. The announcement said the awards are aimed at encouraging and supporting women who are unafraid to think outside the box and are bold, creative, conscious and competent. The scholarships are good for the Upcoming School year. The baby eagle lake who calls the Police Academy home has a name. Today it was announced he will be called spirit. He was hatched march 15 and is doing well. The earth conservation corpse said more than 10,000 people voted on the name and his parents liberty and justice have raise their young for 11 years in an oak tree at the academy in southeast. A bible dont on the baseball field reminding parents to take it easy out there. Have you seen this on your facebook feed . A tree planted in front of a Pitchers Mound in maryland. Police have an idea who is responsible. Remember the bible story about an Airlines Passenger dragged off an airplane . Theres another side to the story. These woman i have a masurprise for you. Are you . Man you have a surprise for me . Narrator at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. And when theyre away, they miss out on a lot. But they wont miss out on financial support. Because we cover any difference between their military pay and their families. Why do we do it . Because our vets sacrifice enough. Dominion. Depend on us for tmorehan energy. Stand by me. New details on the story we broke yesterday at 5 00. Middle School Students accused of abusing xanax during the school day. Where did they get the Prescription Drug . Perigee peggy fox digs deeper in the story outside riverbeds school and Loudoun County where it happened friday. Reporter there were two incidents on friday. One at River Bend Middle School involving seven students and the other nextdoor at potomac falls high school. The Sheriffs Department and the School System dont believe any of these students took the drug unwillingly but want to know where they got it from. This is something that has to be handled by family. This isnt the principals job. This is not river bends job. The xanax is not coming from the school. It is coming from home and we have to have our eyes wide open about our kids. Reporter phenix is a Prescription Drug used to treat anxiety. I talked to a drug makes you feel like you are drunk. You have to be very careful prescribing it to children and some psychiatrist will not prescribe it to children. Like alcohol, xanax can be very addictive. If you take it for a long time and suddenly stop you can die. We need to be vigilant. There are people having their houses robbed in what is being robbed is the medicine cabinet. Reporter in the case of the seven students there are questions how it was handled. The mac why were they taken to the hospital . The nurse at river bend is a registered nurse and as luck would have it we had a resource nurse who was also a registered nurse and they did a thorough investigation of the student symptoms and look at their heart rate, blood pressure, their pupils and balance and found one student with a slightly elevated heart rate. Checked again in a little while and make sure oral their vitals reporter depending what the Sheriffs Department finds where the drugs came from the could be criminal charges. In the School System there will be disciplinary actions. Peggy fox, wusa9. The Loudoun CountySheriffs Office looking for any connection between the xanax incidents between the high school and middle school. For the first time in 20 years the city recorded more than 100 homicides before the end of april. The violence has not relented since 32 people were killed in january and thats the most in 12 years. The homicides started to spike in the spring of 2015 following the rioting after the death of 25yearold freddie gray. It was two years ago that protests began escalating in baltimore following his death and the 25yearold died from spinal injuries after he was transported in a police van. Those protest turned into riots and at least 250 people were arrested. Police officers were hurt and cars and homes and businesses were set on fire. Pharmacies were looted and in the end no Police Officers were convicted in his death. Newly released police documents provided different account of what happened here on this United Airlines flight one a passenger was dragged off an overbooked light and the officers say dr. David dao was flailing his arms and verbally abusive toward them before he lost his balance and struck his face on an armrest. Thats what they say. The incident sparked worldwide outrage and led to apologize apologies from the ceo promised to overhaul overbooking procedures and a lawyer representing dr. Dao said the reports are utter nonsense. Now first alert weather radar dcs most accurate forecast. s 4 we are glad you are accurate because that means things will look better starting tomorrow. A slow process tomorrow and clouds will hang tough through the early afternoon hours. If you are around the bay it will be cloudy all day. Everyone breaks into sunshine thursday. The 3 degree guarantee, i think we are in good shape today. We went 62 for the high in average high is 70. Thats quite bold to 8 degrees below average. We will let you know how we did tonight at 11 00. Live outside and 60 right now and dew point 59 and wont see much change in temperatures tonight wind out of the northeast at 12th and not a pleasant wind and spring or winter unless you like snow. Winds get northwesterly tomorrow. The radar over the last hour a couple of sprinkles moving across the bay toward in baltimore and Gibson Island and thats about it. Showers tomorrow and few and fall much at all. Bus stop thames 50 to 64 and i will keep an isolated shower or sprinkle in. Warming up the rest of the week. 70s tomorrow and 80s to maybe 90 thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. We go from feeling like march yesterday and today to feeling like mid to late june by the weekend. 80s are coming. 73 tomorrow. 85 thursday. 84 friday. 90 saturday. 84 on sunday. And nats come back friday so it should work out for baseball whether. By 10 00 futurecast cranking out a couple of showers. A little bit overdone but a few showers and drizzle tonight and upper 50s across the board. By morning we see a couple of showers and Loudoun County towards leesburg and some near frederick and still in the 50s. Notice how slow the clouds give way. We see a little break to the west of harrisburg by 9 00 and by 12 30 63 downtown and because we are socked in we have temperatures in the low 60s. By the time we get to 5 30, this time tomorrow we see sunshine returned to the west end temperatures respond back into the 70s and 71 downtown. Prince georges county, bowie eastward probably wont see much sunshine tomorrow if any. By 9 00 still have clouds in pretty good fog tomorrow night. Temperatures very mild and tomorrow night temperatures holding in the 60s. That is like a june night. On the day planner upper 50s to start. 61 by 11 00. Clouds still in place. 66 by 1 00 and mostly cloudy skies especially dc eastward. Warmer on thursday and 85. I have an isolated storm to the west end warm on friday. Great finish to the week. Temperatures mid 80s on friday with sunshine. Storm and sunday a better chance for storms and the maps gust the nats on at 9 00. Cooler cold front next monday knocking temperatures into the 70s by next tuesday. For marylands Eastern Shore comes the story of something unusual found Era High School pitching mound. A tree. Someone planted it on the mound in centerville and scratched birthday 2017 into the dirt. The Sheriffs Office said the tree has the 139 price tag attached and police say the field has since been repaired and they are investigating the planting as a senior prank. Have you noticed Little League games can sometimes get intense and move even more so than in professional games. All the kids sports can get crazy. Parents yelling at umpires and coaching this yelling at players. A league ed it reads please remember these are kids and this is a game. Coaches are volunteers. Umpires are human and your child is not being scouted by the brewers today. The sign has gone viral. Look at what our facebook friend posted on our page and its a similar son at a Little League field in chantilly. All the same bullets except for the one that says you dont play for the washington nationals. I posted one from a soccer game. They put these reminders out because kids are supposed to have fun. Its not the world cop. A nascar legend on the last lap of his career. Dwight gayle r r junior is pulling aside his racecar. And jc penney a bold move to get you in the doors and a new app that will let you stay in the Dale Earnhardt, jr. Is calling it quits after the season. He is a fourtime his a 14 time winter and 26 career cop victories including a pair of wins in the daytona he turns 43 in october and got married during the offseason wants to start a family. Hes the son of Dale Earnhardt senior and he has suffered a series of concussions through his career and one forced him to miss half of the last season. In tonights consumer alert jc penneys getting a makeover. The retai