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Were a target for vandalism and in a show of support one group decided to hold a passover dinner. Stephanie ramirez has the story. Reporter on the Christian Day of easter there is a jewish dinner happening inside a muslim mosque. [ singing ] reporter this is a jewish passover dinner called the sadr which tells the story of how the israelites fled persecution in egypt. My eldest said dont take it off. I dont want something happening to you. Reporter this is a bringing together of different faiths, even christians, even sterling, virginias mosque. We love our country and want to help people to be more prosperous and thrive and something the Jewish Community has been in the leadership of in welcoming a stranger. I think this year we felt it was especially important just because the Jewish Community, the muslim community, immigrants and refugees have been targets of terrible hatred more than ever before. Reporter its a tradition these two muslim and jewish leaders have hosted a decade now, only this year they also included immigrant and refugee activists. We arent resettling jews anymore or rescuing jews anymore. Theyre taking our Jewish Values out to the world. So yes, the passover message which is the message of feeding refugees in the desert resonates completely with whats happening with the federal government now. Reporter this was her first sadr, the Group Sharing their concerns and common goals. Pretty much the whole idea is to showcase the love and support that we as human beings have for one another. Thats so much as we should. Reporter in sterling, virginia, stephanie ramirez, wusa9. Tonight we can tell you some there learned they have more in common than initially thought. The passover story of moses and israelites is a principle also shared in the muslim quran and christian bible. In cleveland, ohio, the search is still on for a suspect who claimed to be on a killing spree today. I killed 14 people. Im about to keep killing until they catch me. Steve stephens broadcast at least one of the alleged murders on facebook leave. Police have identified the victim as 78yearold robert godwin, sr. His familiar said they would have given anyone the shirt off his back. I dont know what im going to do. Its not real. I feel like my heart is going to stop. Its going to stop. Now police have not been able to confirm that any of the other alleged shootings happened. No other victims considered armed and dangerous. Friends say he has suffered with Mental Illness over the years and used to work in a Behavioral Health agency as a caseworker. 10 years ago today 32 students and faculty were killed at Virginia Tech. It is the Deadliest School shooting in modern history. Today the campus came together to remember those lost. The candlelight vigil was held. Names of each of the victims was read aloud and a former leader spoke about his experience. There are certain moments in your life that youll always remember where you were. That was that moment for me, that signaled the start of a blur of emotions, events and witnessing the worst but ultimately the best in humanity. Members of the corps of cadets will stand guard near the candles until they were extinguished at 11 59 they are tonight. Our peggy fox was a virga him and kept in virginia alum and kept in touch with some of the families who lost loved ones who say they found peace through the steadfast love of friends and family. Reporter this is a precious piece of video for the reed family, their oldest child with their little sister. Not long after the video was taken mary reed was a freshman at Virginia Tech when she was killed in a massacre. The baby colleen is now 10 and part of a happy brood that has grown by one, with four kids at home and one in college at uva. While peter reed has become an advocate for universal background checks and stricter gun controls, at home the family always remembers mary. The kids remember her in their bed rhyme prayers. They remember her basically in everything we do. We have our pictures. We talk about things ma like and wait for the butterflies to come out as kind of a symbol. Reporter memories of Erin Peterson are everywhere for her Close Friends and mother. She always greeted everybody with a big hug and a big smile. She was a real happy kid. Its like a bomb going off in your life and i was standing really close to her and the bomb went off. So we were completely blown up and we had to figure out how to put ourselves back together, you know, one piece at a time and in doing that youre preoccupied with putting yourself back together. What you dont realize is that in any bomb people who are standing close get hit by shrapnel. Reporter that shrapnel inflicted pain in so many, but slowly her Close Friends helped her get through with constant support. What did that mean to you . How did that help you looking back now . Well, back then you dont know what it means to you, right . But now it meant everything to me, you know. Reporter peggy fox, wusa9. Now celeste and her late husband started the Nonprofit Organization the Erin Peterson fund which provides scholarships and mentoring for at risk students at westfield high school. D. C. Police searched for a suspect and a motive in a stabbing on capitol hill. Police found the man suffering from a stab wound just after 2 p. M. Officers were in the area headed to a crash when he was discovered unconscious near the intersection of maryland avenue and c streets near stanton park. A knife was recovered at the scene. Anyone with information should contact d. C. Police. Meantime Prince Georges County police are also investigating a stabbing, this one happening in forestville. Officers were called to the 3300 block of springdale avenue just after 8 30 this morning where they found a woman suffering from stab wounds. She was taken to a nearby hospital but later di contact Prince Georges County. Police. An Egyptian Court clears a Washington Area woman of child abuse and Human Trafficking charges. She, her husband and six others were arrested in 2014 on charges of kidnapping and Human Trafficking. They were all aid workers at a nonprofit hayazzi founded to help treat children in cairo. Today an Egyptian Court cleared the defendants of all the charges in the case. Her release comes two weeks after egypts new president visited washington and was praised by president donald trump. We did reach out to her brother who responded to us via email. He said this is probably one of the best days of his life and that he cant wait to see his sister. Howard, its looking cooler tomorrow and meteorologist burn Howard Bernstein rd bernstein says well be dealing with showers in spots. If youre going to be outside the first half of the day, keep in mind we could have a passing shower. You say cooler, yes, but not cold. Today 89. Tomorrow well still be in the 70s to maybe near 80 in a few spots which is way above average. We should only be in the 60s, 68 now in reston about where we should be for the high, 72 in rockville, still 76 here annapolis, the naval academy, winds still coming offshore, not onshore, so theyre at 77. Tracking showers tonight, been heavier rains in parts of West Virginia and ohio, a few Flood Warnings earlier. Im also watching this activity here in toward western maryland. Now its been coming out of Garrett County and weakening moving east. Look at the cell from morgantown. This stuff holds together, sometime in the next three, four hours or so it will be coming through the region, but we are tracking these showers now east of cumberland moving east about 30 miles an hour, hancock at 11 27, inwood at 11 58 and lighter showers made it in toward frederick county, toward libertytown and carroll county. Ill come back in a few minutes. Well talk about mondays shower threat. Ive got a sevenday forecast with 80s for highs and 60s for highs. Ill break it down when i see you in a few. Vice president mike pence is in south korea. Today he visited a military base near the border of north korea. The visit comes one day after the regime conducted a failed Missile Launch. Vice president pence landed in south korea sunday where he visited u. S. And south korean troops. Hours earlier after parading its military strength north korea launched a missile, but it failed exploding almost immediately. This mornings provocation from the north is just the latest reminder of the risks each one of you face every day in the defense of the freedom of the people of south korea and the defense of america in this part of the wor reporter President Trump spent part of his Easter Sunday attending a Church Service with family in florida. He was briefed about north koreas failed Missile Launch saturday. He took to twitter saying, our military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever before. Frankly, we have no choice. His National Security advisor commented about the president s views on north korea. The president has made clear that he will not accept the United States and its allies and partners in the region being under threat from this hostile regime with nuclear weapons. Reporter republican senator john mccain said the situation in north korea might be the first test of trumps presidency. This is really very serious. This guy in north korea is not rational. His father and grand father were much more rational than he is. Reporter President Trump returned to d. C. A few hours ago. Hell take part in mondays white house easter egg roll. If you stay with us, coming church is asking for help with a problem they say has gone on for years, trash dumped on their property. You may find it hard to believe how much it will cost to get rid of it all. Plus its only a Destination Wedding if you make it to the destination, right . Hear from a bride and groom to be who say united booted them off their flight on their way to the big day, but the airline says thats not the whole story. Were learning more about the little calf april the giraffe gave birth to yesterday. You may not believe how tall he is already, a spoiler some 60,000 people from across the globe packed st. Peters square at the vatican today to celebrate easter mass with pope francis. The pope developed a somber easter message to the crowd calling this weekends suicide bomb attack in syria the latest despicable attack on refugees. He also urged World Leaders to avoid escalating disputes, a message some say is an important one amid rising tensions between the United States and syria and north korea. It was wonderful for the pope to say that. I believe the pope has immense world authority. I love that he is a very unifying figure for not just the catholic world, but the entire world and amongst all christians and all faiths. Pope francis reiterated his support of refugees, Human Trafficking and talked about the exploitation of children. Look at this video. Its a monstrous mountain of trash found in a churchs backyard and the price tag to get rid of this is close to 1 million. How did all this happen and can this small church survive the mess . Here is the story. Reporter on a day of joy, jubilation and certainly celebration for even the smallest of er sanctuary into the sun to see a burden buried behind this church. This is now our responsibility. Reporter this is only steps away from the new life worship center. The Capitol Heights congregants say somebody nearby is dumping all of this illegally, but the church has no proof. Its almost like you get hit in the gut, takes out your breath. It goes down about 18 to 20 feet. There is dirt that has been packed on top of the trash and then they piled more trash on top of it. Reporter the growing pile may put a stop to the growing church. While some see trash, others see a new building on this very spot. Jd program, our literacy programs, assisted living center, our school and we really want to bless this county with just a lighthouse really like giving life back to this county. Reporter but before they can build this has to go, a price tag thats coming close to 1 million. That could end the church as they know it. Now theyre asking for help, for yo move this mountain. If theres someone thats listening that wants to come forward and help or to take responsible, wed be more than happy to take the assistance because we need it. Reporter a helping han not to just take out the trash, but hand not to just take out the trash, but for a higher purpose to minister to a congregation for years to come. In Prince Georges County mike valerio, wusa9. Hopefully that church gets the help they need. Congregants will start the cleanup by picking up pieces by hand, but the church says the process becomes dangerous as volunteers run into dangerous materials. New time to talk some weather here. Today was pretty hot. Tomorrow is a few degrees cooler you say. Yes. Well be 10 degrees above average but not 20 degrees. It will be very warm. Were talking showers at some point . Well look at first alert doppler in a minute. We could see showers tonight and midday tomorrow before it all moves south of washington. I want to my make is gone. I took the headache is gone. I took the medicine. Tree pollen is very high. Got to 89 degrees, nobody hit 90. The average is 67 this time of year. I forecast the high 85 and were not going to get to 89 and we did. I missed. The difference was 4. I needed a 4degree guarantee today, but that is good for the arlington Food Assistance center. We will give them 100 like we do every time we miss. Tomorrow im forecasting 77 for my 3degree guarantee. Tonight were watching a couple showers, some heavier ones out to the west, lightning and in under, Flood Warning on the ohio st southeast and as it moves east its loses some oomph. Its the that hard towards areas to the north. Around hancock it will be there in a few minute, around 11 31, oakland West Virginia and Clear Springs by 11 57. A couple showers in the cells, moderate one near libertytown headed towards westminster of temps mainly in the 70s still at this hour with a few 60s out there and 50s in the mountains. So the front will come through slowly and until it passes weve got that shower threat. We might see a yellow alert go up tomorrow morning. Well start at 4 25 here, so tune in early, but by midday here comes the front, showers here midafternoon well south of us and drier air builds in for tomorrow night, tuesday and first half of wednesday. We have a chance of a show later wednesday. Tonight mild, muggy with spotty showers, 60 to 65. It should be a High Temperature for this time of year. Tomorrow morning isolated, if not spotty showers, temps in the 60s. In the afternoon some sun returns to the north, a few showers south, mid to upper 70s. It looks really nice tuesday. After a school start high around 70. By wednesday well be in the upper 60s with perhaps a late shower, could be a stray shower thursday, but warm, back in the 80s. I think well be in the 60s next weekend with a decent chance of showers. We dry out friday but looks a little wet sunday. Temperaturewise not looking bad at all, loving it. Awesome. So its hard to believe that april the giraffe gave birth to her calf more than 24 hours ago. We were all like when is she having this baby . Its even harder to believe how tall this calf is considering hes only been alive for what, a day now . I got a little question for you, howard. Now tall do you think my height, 5 1 2 feet or so. I dont know. Thats not saying much, but yeah. Youre a little close. He weighs in at about 129 pounds and get this, already stands at 5 9 inches tall. Im shorter than the baby giraffe. And he started Walking Around about 45 minutes after he was born, just incredible. Wow. At least 1. 2 Million People watched the live birth on youtube. It was a long wait. This thing started back in february. Yes. We were waiting anxiously for april to give birth. She gave birth two months later finally. They are both doing well. They are. I just found this whole birthing process so fascinating. I watched the video. It was so cool. Its nature. Very fascinating. Coming up hear from the couple who said they were kied did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Ascomct business. Bu foilt r business. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download sp. Eeds ble only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com the united friendly skies continue to look a little less friendly tonight to this houston couple. Its not like we tried to jump up to a rs we were simply in economy row a few rows in front of our economy seat. A marshal came back not more than two minutes later and removed us from the plane. We got to the gate and asked why and they said because we were in the wrong seats and being disruptive. That houston couple said they were on their way to get married. They say they were kicked off of a united flight. Michael hull and his fiance boarded the flight 1737 to costa rica saturday, but hull said when they got to their seats, another passenger was in their row napping. The couple moved to another row, but united said that was a premium row and the couple had only paid for economy seats. But united is responding to this and released a statement saying the couple repeatedly tried to sit in upgraded seats and did not follow directions to return to their assigned seats. The airline did get the couple to costa rica this morning. Their wedding is planned for thursday, so theyre just in time. Meantime united da company policy. Crew members can no longer displace customers who already boarded a plane. The change comes after passenger dr. David do was dragged from a full david dao was dragged from a fully seated united flight. It was a Public Relations nightmare. Under the new policy a about crew member must make a crew member must make ride booking at least one hour before departure. Fans were invited to hunt for easter eggs in the outfield at nats park. The inaugural hunt included special eggs which had golden tiets inside that are redeemable for exclusive nats items, jerseys and auaptogrhed baseballs. The Easter Egg Hunt wasnt the only thing we hope to make a tradition. Lets hope Bryce Harpers walkoff home run becomes a tradition every game. Our proprietary material automatically adjusts to your weight, shape and temperature. So you sleep deeply, and wake up feeling powerful. Tempurpedic sleep is power. Find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic. Com now wusa9 game on sports with Frank Hanrahan brought to you by xfinity. Been a long two years for the Washington Wizards starving to get back in the playoffs and make people take notice that they are a legit contender. We took notice today. Wizards taking care of atlanta, the team that knocked them out in 2015. 114107 the final. John wall was awesome, so was markieff morris. Game two in wednesday night downtown d. C. You see the sign, it says wizards win. Im diane roberts. Well hear from the players coming up. Should the caps be concerned . The top seed heading now to face toronto on the road series even 11. Caps say what, us worried . Nah. Sometimes you win overtime games. Sometimes you lose one. The latter. One shot in overtime, its all it takes. We getone punch. They get one punch on three. Here we go. Here we go with bryce harper. The legends grows walkoff style, nats beat the phillies, game that you call right here on wusa9. More to come on overtime. Showers tomorrow and well be drying out. Thanks for joining this is game on overtime. How far could the wizards go in the nba playoffs . It starts with an opening round series in atlanta and the wiz want revenge from a few years ago. Great center catch. Its over. The capitals are trying to erase years of disappointment with a run at the stanley cup, but already cause for concern . That is the greatest thing i have ever seen. The nationals got drama from guess who as they wrap up their series with the phillies. And we share a special story on how basketball can cross borders and create life lessons for some local kids, all this and more next on game on overtime. Looks like they

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