Illegal firearms in homes and in the hands of the wrong people and when children have access to firearms, bad things happen. Reporter while this was happening across town police were investigating another shooting. A young adult man was shot multiple times and killed early this afternoon on the 4900 block of east capitol street in south of east right in front of the st. Lukes catholic church. More than a dozen shots were fired. Police say it does not appear that this shooting had anything to do with the church. Detectives are still investigating that. They havent released a motive. Theyre investigating that. Thing as a homicide. Chief lanier says she has all hands on deck with this recent increase in violence as far as the Police Department is concerned. 100 extra officers are on the streets throughout the district every single day she says. Live in south of east im mola lenghi for be with southeast im mola lenghi for wusa9. Thank you. Was a Police Officer making meth the day an explosion occurred inside a government building . According to charges filed in federal court, that answer might be yes. A former federal Police Officer was trying to manufacture methamphetamine the very same day an explosion went off right inside the building at the National Institute of standards and technology. Our ellison barber is in gaithersburg with details on what weve learned tonight. Ellison . Reporter derek, when that explosion happened, one person was injured, a Police Officer who worked here at nist. Prosecutors tell me that is the same man who is now facing a felony charge for making meth. This single page document was filed in u. S. District court sometime monday. It charges christopher bartley, a former supervisor rei Police Officer at nist with knowingly supervisory Police Officer at nist with knowingly trying to manufacture a mixture containing an amount of methamphetamine on or around july 18th. Thats the same day an explosion happened inside a building on the institutes gaithersburg campus. As that explosion was investigated, Officials Say they found substances used to make meth. Nist is one of the oldest science laboratories in the country and its run by the federal government. Two days after the explosion this email was sense to a Congressional Committee that oversees the institute. An official passed along information to Montgomery County police explaining they were investigating the fire explosion as a possible Chemical Reaction due to drug manufacturing. The person involved isnt involved in the case anymore, they turned over to the fbi. Christopher bartley quit the day after the explosion. Bartley is set to appear before a judge friday morning at 10 a. M. I spoke th his attorney an hour ago and he told me his client intends to plead guilty at this hearing. He also said bartley is a good guy who has had years of service both in the army and as a Police Officer. He said when this explosion occurred, batterly was conducting an unauthorized training experiment. Batterly now is facing up to bartley now is facing up to 20 years in prison. Reporting live in gaithersburg im ellison barber, wusa9. A spokesperson for the institute told wusa9 that nist has been fully supporting the investigation and will continue to cooperate with Law Enforcement as requested. Petar petrov thought he was a dead man, the uber driver just happening to block an escape of a crime in d. C. The man found himself literally staring down the barrel of a gun. Reporter the gunfight right here in the heart of shaw, guys on this corner and on that corner blasting away at each other, a burgundy chrysler 300 racing off the wrong side of s street and nearly runs into peter petrov in his prius coming this way. He just kind of came out of the sun roof and pointed the gun at me and just said Something Like get out of my way of. Reporter petrov did not want to swear, but the suspects words were far more threatening. Did you think he was going to pull the trigger . Sure, i did, yeah. Reporter did you think those were the last moments of your life . It was very confusing for a situation like. This. Reporter but the gunman took off. I saw so much people screaming and running away and police was giving first aid of the guy that got shot. Reporter and when petrov pulled around and saw Police Officers performing cpr on matthew lon decision an up and shlonsky, an up and coming au grad from a stray bullet from a gunbattle more than 1 2 mile away, he was even more shook up. This guy right here, hes got a gun, just left. Reporter petrov had no trouble picking the suspect out of the surveillance tape released by police. I dont even want to look at it. Reporter sources tell me that detectives are making Good Progress talking right now to people who may have been involved and hoping to announce arrests soon. In the shaw neighborhood of d. C. , bruce leshan, wusa9. And Police Stepped up their presence and installed portable security cameras in hopes of easing the fears of people who live in shaw. Well, the heat may be lessening, but Storm Chances are going in the other direct. First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt here with more on our yellow weather alert. Top . Yeah. We go the some thunderstorms, some clouds, that will hope temps i think in the 80s the next couple days, but in the meantime we actually could use some showers and storms. Heres our radar, first alert doppler, heavy activity developing north and east of town and this little storm moved across i66 headed into western loudoun county. A little storm popped up around silver spring. Now its moved up north and east, east of olney and light activity in the district. Further west its a pretty good little storm, no lightning. Its moving off to the north and east on our Storm Tracker headed towards hillsboro about 6 50. Just expect brief heavy rain with that storm, nothing severe, no hail and very little lightning. Heres a look at futurecast at 10 00. Theres still going to be some leftover showers and even isolated thunderstorm tonight and kind of muggy because of the cloud cover and winds out of the south of temps will hold in the 70s pretty much everywhere, by midnight temps in the 70s with a leftover shower. Well come back, talk about which commutes could be affected wednesday and thursday and look ahead to the weekend. A high profile radio dj speaking out tonight about the stabbing that almost cost him his life. His name is dj nestor and he said the thursday morning attack near Dupont Circle has him scared for his safety, but he felt he must do something to help stop the rising tide of violence in this town. Our Stephanie Ramirez is live in Dupont Circle with his story. Stephanie . Reporter derek, were talking about 25yearold nestor lopez who works as dj nestor for the d. C. Spanish Radio Station 107. 9. He was out here early thursday around 2 a. M. Getting off work getting something to eat when he says a man attacked him in his vehicle. Lopez described the incident for me. He says the suspect opened the door and demanded money, tried to get his wallet and when he tried to get his wallet, that is, two times, the suspect was attacked multiple times stabbing him multiple times, in the throat, his head, his side and more. He still is very weak as i talked to him, but he wants to warn others. I dont understand how you try to cooperate with somebodys taking something from you and, you know, he still injures you. He still stabs you. I want everybody to know that this person is still out there. The person that did this to me and this time it was me. Next time it could be somebodys daughter, could be somebodys son. Reporter lopezs co workers created a gofundme page to help with medical costs saying he does not have health insurance. Lopez tells me he couldnt be more grateful, but right now his concern is making sure everyone out here in the public protects and looks out for one another. In Dupont CircleStephanie Ramirez, wusa9 news. Thank you, stephanie. Police dont have any arrests in the case. They are on the lookout for a lone male attack are. Coming up police make a attacker. Coming up police make a dozen arrests at a concert in maryland. Well tell you why. Also a deal reached to display stop ancient artifacts. Up next the first time authorities in Bank Congress have released Surveillance Video of the suspected bomber in yets deadly attack and yesterdays deadly attack and it shows a young man in a yellow tshirt taking off his backpack in a popular outdoor shrine and then walking away. Cell phone footage captured the moment of whats believed to be the pipe bomb detonated. That blast tore through the crowd of tourists and locals visiting. 22 people were killed and tonight people are leaving flowers and candles at the scene in memory of those victims. Maryland governor larry hogan says 95 of his cancer is just gone. Its amazing news. Hogan tells our Editorial Partners at the Washington Post he learned the cancer was gone following his second round of chemotherapy. Just two months ago doctors found 60 tumors throughout his body and they diagnosed him with stage three nonhodgkins lymphoma. Hogans treatment is just halfway complete. He begins his next round of treatment next friday. Good treatment. Yeah. Coming up perhaps more good news, panda watchers at the national zoo taking another step preparing for the arrival of a brandnew panda cub. But up next family and friends of john geer reacting to sfx music throughout sfx crowd cheering sfx crowd booing sfx crowd chanting sfx crowd cheering music stops sc johnson, a family company. I was about to head to thecheck. Bank, but out of nowhere it just started to rain. Like really rain. [clap of thunder] d i dinot want to go out. P [claof thunder] but then i was like duh, just use your phone. Mobiledeposittechnothingy to r thee. Escu im rayna. And i bank human at td bank. A former Fairfax CountyPolice Officer now charged with murder has a Court Appearance tomorrow morning. Adam torres who was fired two weeks ago was indicted yesterday on Second Degree murder for the shooting death of john geer. The springfield resident was unarmed and standing in the doorway of his home with his hands up when he was shot two years ago. Protests, public outrage and a judges order to release information reopened the case and led to a special grand jury indictment. I couldnt get past the fact that adam torres has two Young Children of his own. He has a wife of his own. You know, sadly this whole story began with two beautiful girls losing their father and now potentially two more children could lose their father at least for a period of time. And john geers father don geer witnessed his sons shooting. Remarkably he says he holds no animosity towards torres on a personal level. He talks to our peggy fox about that coming up at 7 00. Well, 12 people are under arrest accused of possessing and distributing nitrous oxide at this weekends fish shows at the meriweather post pavilion. Howard county Police Believe the suspects are part of an organized group that travels up and down the east coast selling the inhalable mind altering gas at various concerts. Police say officers seized large amounts of cash, 30 nitrous oxide tanks and two vehicles all part of this investigation. All the men and women arrested are from new york, pennsylvania, massachusetts and rhode island ranging in age from 22 to 52. Panda watch is reaching a fever pitch at the national zoo. Officials say the giant female panda mei xiang is entering the final stages of a possible pregnancy, so they closed part of the panda habitat to the public. The national zoo says shes been exhibiting behavior consistent with pregnancy for weeks and that within 20 to 40 days shes either going to have a cub or experience the end of a pseudopregnancy. We want the butter stick. Treasures from the holy land will be on display through museum of the bible now under construction here in washington. Under a deal announced today the Israel Antiquities Authority will provide ancient artifacts to be displayed in the top floor gallery of this brandnew museum. The specific artifacts have yet to be identified or decided. The museum of the bible will be located a few blocks away from the National Mall set to open in 2017. The dean of the Washington National cathedral is retiring at the end of the year. The very reverend gary hall is stepping down with two years left on his contract. Hes 66 years old serving as the leader for three years. Hall opened the church to same sex marriages and helped to balance the budget after years of financial problems, but he says the Episcopal Church is entering a new era and needs a new long term leader. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. So youre all about this tropical storm. Kind of. Its kind of interesting. Its a long, long way away, but its only the fourth named storm of the season. It only takes one bad one. But that said the forecast has been revise down for the hurricanes this year because of el nino. Its way out in the south atlantic headed off to the east, still like 1,000 miles away from the lesser antilles, but that said it is forecast to become a hurricane by the National Hurricane center as early as thursday with winds up to 65 miles per hour. So well keep an eye on it. This is a very similar breeding ground for storms like andrew. This is about where andrew formed back in 1992. Now a good thing to point out here, if you download our app, you can actually get this graphic on the app. You can track tropical storms along with thunderstorms locally. So keep that in mind. Right now look look michael and son weather lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, its 86, first alert doppler, storms moving up d. C. Up 95 south of baltimore, nothing crazy heavy. This storm held together pretty well i must say just northwest of warrenton moving eastward into portions of loudoun county. Well zoom in. This has now moved over the Montgomery County line into howard county. If youre going up 29 or out 108, youll see heavy rain but nothing severe. This one is heavy rain also going out 50 past aldie into upperville moving north and east. So its going to head up toward percyville on our Storm Tracker, maybe even waterford, headed toward percyville probably about 6 45 tonight. Lets talk about the headlines. Weve got a few showers and storms tonight, yellow weather alerts tomorrow and thursday. A great finish to the week. Lets hang our hat on that. 10 00 tonight some leftover showers and by Early Morning still showers possible in parts of the metro and by 9 00 still showers. So id keep the umbrella handy tomorrow. So storms possible 9 00, 83 at 11 00, 85 at 1 00 on our day planner. Next three days wednesday, thursday about the same, but then friday its fantastic, mostly sunny to partly cloudy and warm but not humid. Thats going to feel nice. Next seven days looks like this, looking at temperatures in check, upper 80s saturday, sunday, maybe showers sunday, better chance monday, back in the upper 80s tuesday. So we could see actually a shower or storm during the burgundy and golds preseason game, could early on. Early on you say. All right. Our buddy robert griffin, iii was talking today. Im thinking he didnt say anything about being the best quarterback in the league. Well, you could be wrong. Oh . Redskins back in ashburn for practice, happy about that, but all the talk was rg3. The qb responds to the firestorm surrounding oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Tea . Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v now wusa9 game on sports with Kristen Berset brought to you by xfinity. Well, we didnt think wed have to deal with any quarterback controversy this early in the season, but apparently we spoke too soon. For the past 24 hours you havent been able to turn on sports talk tv, radio or any social media without seeing people talk about robert griffin, iii. Hes taken a lot of heat as he made a recent tv interview claiming he felt he was the best quarterback in the league. While his comment has been taken out of context and i personally think its been blown way out of proportion, griffin actually addressed the situation again today in ashburn once the team finished practice. You know, i know what i meant. I think everyone in this circle knows what i meant and its unfortunate that my name keeps getting used for headlines for people to click on stories. I know what i want to be and strive to be and im not going to make apologies for that. Thats all i got to say. Robert has high goals for himself and i dont fault anybody for having high goals for themself. We dont want anybody thats trying to be average. Cant fault the guy for wanting to be good. The rest of the team held their first practice since leaving