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Obviously a terrible, tragic, sad, scary day for our community and our hearts and prayers and thoughts go out to the victims and their families. Right now brand new details in the Maryland Mall shooting that left three people dead. New this hour, the gunmans name, plus details about the investigation, the weapon he used. Still plenty of reporter which will be gone through as they continue their investigation. We also know about his movements once he got here. He took a can to the mall, got out on the upper level; went downstairs to the food court. Within an hour of arriving he was wreaking havoc, taking lives, scaring hundreds in the mall. People that left belongings will be able to come here later today over to the pnc building off the mall property to get their property, personal belongings. As for merchants that have closed they have yet to given a time they can return to stores. Its unclear if the mall will reopen monday or tuesday. Mall officials apparently say theyre trying to do that. Its no longer a crime scene. Police have now turned it over to mall authorities so they can prepare for reopening. More questions and many questions generated as answered by what we learned here today. Primary among a lot of peoples concerns was who the person was. Now that primary concern moves to exactly why. That has yet to be determined by authorities. Were live in columbia. Derrick, now we know the gunman, Darion Marcus Aguilar. We know about the two victims that worked at the skater store called zumiez. One is 25yearold Tyler Johnson who recently moved to mount airy from ellicott city. The other victim, 21yearold Brianna Benlolo from college park, worked as the store manager. Her grandfather tells the Associated Press she had a 2yearold son. He also said this was her first job since giving birth. We call the victims families. Neither wanted to speak. We spoke to a neighbor that lived next door to Tyler Johnson. He said he followed the events through social media and didnt know one of the victims was his own neighbor. Very nice family. Very sad to hear that. I had no idea until right thousand. Dodd didnt know johnson lived at the mall. He says he and his family were quiet. Were getting look at 340emos after the shooting happened. Half a dozen or so what looks like a swat team with weapons in hand are walking carefully toward the entrance of the mall. Howard county police say it took them several hours to clear the scene. Were hearing from Maryland Governor who released a statement saying on behalf of people of maryland i want to express my deepest condolences to the victims and teams and all those affected by the violence. Protecting the public is our solemn dedication. We want to get a check with a me amelia. Good morning to you. Winds are calm right now. Throughout the day, breezy at times with increasing clouds. Heres a look at afternoon temperatures. Temperatures warm to low 30s today. Mostly cloudy skies this afternoon and maybe a few flurries. Now tomorrow it will be warmer on tuesday it will be frigid. Ill take you through the work week forecast coming up in ten minutes. The good news, after tuesday, were looking at relief from the bitter cold. Details in over ten minutes. Thank you so much amelia. Dozens are expected to gather tore pray for two teenage girls. Teresa french and emma lowe were walking on lancaster road when a car hit them. French died, and low remain in the hospital in critical condition. The vigil is at the Covenant Life Church a short distance from where the fire happened. Take a look at the footage we got from chopper 4, flames shooting out of the roof of the town home. Two people including one firefighter had to be treated for smoke inhalation from the fire on sweet clover drive. Both are expected to be just fine. Right now in our nuewsroom e have heard of several trying to work and find out more about the shooter. Join pus online. Well post constant updates on twitter and face boochlkt if you were one of the people in the mall and need to retrieve your items, go to nbcwashington. Com. Weve got the information you need posted there. Stay with child is a 12yearold whos been in foster care most of his life. Hes stayed focused on school and remains a good student. Barbara takes us too meet isaiah. Not many take us to the bookstore as their favorite place to visit. Fantastic. Barnes and noble at an Early Morning before the store was opened and before isaiah was fully a wake, she asked what kind of books he liked to look for. He said sports. What sports do you play . Football and basketball. Lets see what we can find. They found several books he might enjoy and passed up a few he had read like the entire hair harry potter series. We quizzed him on that. Good job. He loves to read. Judy dickman has been his foster care worker for years. Hes moved from home to home most his life. Hes shy in new settings but does well in school. What grade are you . Seventh grade. Do you like school . Yes, i do. Whats your favorite subject . Math is my favorite. What kind of grades are you making . I have an a in math class. Wow. He wants to be a computer engineer when he grows up. He needs a family to encourage him and celebrate his successes. Hes got big potential. Hes a bright child. Barnes and noble had a gift to keep him working towards his potential. Wed like you to have those. We have a few more books for you as well. Oh my goodness. Thank you. Youre very welcome. Thats something to smile about. News 4 for wednesdays child. If you have room in your home and heart for isaiah or another child, call 188 to adopt me. Search wednesdays child on nbcwashington. Com also. Right now were check ought the new information we received in the Columbia Mall shooting information. The shooters name, Darion Marcus Aguilar. Were digging through online profiles to get more information. Were going to let you know developments as their coming through. High temperatures today in the low 30s. Another arctic blast is weights. Four hours on the slopes. And two hours doing this stuff. Which leaves me approximately two minutes to get my banking done. So i use the citi mobile app to quickly check my accounts and pay my bills. Which leaves me about five seconds to kick back. That was nice. Bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. Citi, with you every step of the way. We are staying on top of breaking news we are following this morning regarding the shooting at the Columbia Mall yesterday. Police have identified the gunman, 19yearold Darion Marcus Aguilar from college park. He fired six to eight shots in the mall yesterday killing two employees at the zumiez skater shop inside the mall. They havent been able to pinpoint if there was any type of relationship between the shooter and the victims. One of the victims lives in college park as does darion the suspected shooter. Were hearing the mall will be opened at latest by tuesday. If youre one of the people that left youre things behind and need to pick them up, go to the pnc bank between 12 00 and 5 00 today. 4107303302 if you need to call for help. A weapon used in the shooting, a mossberg 12 gauge shotgun purchased from Montgomery County back in december. In other news, a rock ville man is behind bars after he was arrested for the death of purvis. They believe he was killed by osborne near yuma street two weeks ago. Purvis was taken to the hospital and thats why he died. Osborne was charged with Second Degree murder. A Storage Facility was given a deadline by the governor. They have until march 15th to remove the 17 above ground tanks. Earlier this month Freedom Industries failed to report a leak of chemicals that leaked into the elk river impacted 300,000 west virginians. President barack obama will speak at the state of the union address. David gregory has the latest. Thanks for joining us david. We have been following the small shooting. Gun control debate is reignited. This is something the president had in the state of the union last were. Do we expect that . Yo expect that to be major emphasis at all. Hed like it to be. He was disappointed when his efforts to get more gun safety laws didnt pass at the federal level. I think more of the action is at the state level to see if there are gains made. At the federal level on congress its too difficult at the moment. What do you expect him to hit hard tuesday. You mentioned health care. Wants to talk about economic recovery, those left behind, income, raising the minimum wage, preschool, education, those things. Hell look at areas he has a shot getting things done with congress. He had a bad year last year. He has a bad environment around the budget, immigration picking up. Hes got things to work with. My big question is how much influence does he have . Thats the tough question. Another thing we can bank on is the response from the republican party. Rand paul is on the program this morning. Hes got response to a lot of things youre going to want to see. Hes got 2016 potics, bill and hillary clinton. Its going to be interesting. He talks about areas he thinks he can work with the president that might be surprising. We look forward to that. Meet the press in ten minutes. You can catch it every sunday near on nbc 4. Right now we want to turn our eyes to the weather and the arctic chill that wont let up. Its going to get worse before it gets better. Bitterly cold air later on monday. It will last through thursday morning. So another deep freeze is heading our way. As far as School Delays and cancellations go, the days to look out for would be Tuesday Morning and wednesday morning. Now, today, beautiful sunshine right now. It will remain on the cold side. On the satellite and radar, not tracking clouds in maryland. Some clouds make their wye to portions of virginia. Clouds increase throughout the day today. Plenty of clouds around this afternoon. Well see mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures right now pretty much everybody is finally in the 20s. Washington upper 20s. 21 gaithersburg, 28 easton, 21 fred ricksburg. 20 in martinsburg. Your hourly temperatures you can see through 4 00 were going to warm to 32 degrees. That will be our high. Look at what happens. 6 00 p. M. , 8 00 p. M. , 10 00 p. M. , temperatures dont move. Steady temperatures overmight. Thats good news. For tomorrow morning, your monday morning it wont be so cold. Temperatures tomorrow morning in the mid to upper 20s. Throughout the day, plenty of clouds around on future weather. Also we cant rule out the chance of a rain or snow shower during the day. 11 00 a. M. Notice the chance of rain. Everybody has the chance of a quick rain or snow shower tomorrow. Only about a 30 chance of that happening. That chance associated with a cold front. That front is going to pull our temperatures down tomorrow evening allowing the arctic air to make its way to the area. 11 00 tomorrow winds pick up. Temperature of 36 degrees. During midday and afternoon hours, the chance of a rain or snow shower. Other wise, high tomorrow 36 degrees. Tomorrow evening temperatures begin to plummet. So i want to walk you through the temperatures tomorrow afternoon on into the evening hours. You can see as we hit 2 00, that will be about our high temperature. Look at what happens by the evening commute tomorrow. Temperatures are in the 20s. Some locations back to the west already in the teens. Right around midnight tomorrow, already down to 17 degrees in washington. 11 degrees in fredrick and 17 culpep culpeper. Temperatures continue to drop. Tuesday morning youll wake up to temperatures in the Single Digits in the suburbs, 12 for those of you in washington. In addition to that it will be breezy. When you factor in winds, this is how it will feel Tuesday Morning. About 0 in washington, suburbs, anywhere as low as 5 to 10 below 0. High temperature tuesday of only 17 degrees. Wednesday 20 below average, high of 24. On thursday, mid30s. Looking like well get relief friday and saturday. The chance of rain saturday. Isnt it sad when 40s look good . Its sad. At least were getting 40s. Thanks amelia. Theres a push to let you drive 75 a Big League Star will be at the washington auto show today. Outfielder jason werth from 1 30 to 3 00 this afternoon meeting fans and signing autographs. Hell be there with childrens popular tv show characters like captain planet. Tickets are 12 for adults, 5 for kids. The show wraps up sunday. A change in pace for maryland on some interstates. Legislators are looking to increase the speed limit to 75 Miles Per Hour to meet the suggested pace of most highways in the state. A similar bill unanimously passed marylands house last bill. Those confusing nutrition labels might be easier to understand soon. The fda is looking to make a cohesive labeling system with clearer measurements and serving sizes. 42 of working age adults read the labels. 60 of older adults check the label before they buy. Nutritionists say its a smart idea with more taking an active part in their health. We look at history. More and more people are starting to look at labels. Theyre looking for a reason. We want to make sure they can use it to make healthier labels. The current labels were introduced in 1993, two decades ago. This is what we learned from police about the deadly shooting at the Columbia Mall. The shooter is 19yearold Darion Marcus Aguilar of college park. He shot and killed 25yearold Tyler Johnson and 21 year old Brianna Benlolo before he turned the gun on himself. Police believe he bought the weapon, a 12gauge shotgun in december in Montgomery County. They found two homemade explosive devices they dismantled. As far as motive, police are not shedding light on that. Theyre investigating the relationship between aguilar and the victims. Meantime Columbia Mall is set to reopen tuesday. All the people rushing out running for their lives yesterday, if they left belongings behind, they can pick up at the pnc bank today. Weve got a hotline on our website, nbcwashington. Com. 4107303302. We tweeted that number out. Thanks for joining us everybody. Samsung and h. H. Gregg are teaming up to get your home ready for the big game. Get close to all the action and save 1500 dollars on samsungs ultra High Definition 4k led tv. Plus, samsung 60inch led tvs start at only 999. And samsung 55inch led tvs start at just 799. Get to h. H. Gregg now, your samsung headquarters for the big game. See it all at h. H. Gregg. Com. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running television program, this is meet the press with david gregory. And good sunday morning. Big week coming up here in washington. One of those moment where is the president has a huge audience and a chance to speak directly to that audience with his state of the union address. My big question through all of this is how much political clout does he actually have left. The outspoken republican senator rand paul is here this morning. Hell talk to me about it. Speaking of republican politics, a lot of discomfort this week about some comments made by former president ial candidate Mike Huckabee over what he described as

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