Allison barber is standing by at washington medstar hospital. Well go live to the scene first. Dehlia . Reporter nick, First Responders will tell you they always prepare for Something Like this. They know when they run into danger, there is possibility they will not make it out. Still, it is not easy to deal with the loss of one of your own. Dc lost a hero today, according to the mayor. Lieutenant kevin mcrae died after fighting a fire at this apartment building, ninth floor apartment in the building. The fire was knocked out within a half hour, but it destroyed three apartments, sent four people to the hospital, including two firefighters. Were told lieutenant mcrae collapsed inside the building. Everyone else evacuated the 10 story highrise safely, after a neighbor banged on apartment doors. I was sleeping and i heard a loud bang on my door and i came to see that the hallway was dark. Im smelling smoke, and i was ushered out very promptly. Been there over 27some years. Shes doing okay . Shes doing okay. But all of her stuff is damaged. All of her stuff is damaged. Reporter traffic, we can tell you, will be blocked off for sometime. You can see still a very active scene. Dc fire crews are still here and are investigating. Weve also seen agents with the alcohol, tobacco and firearms agency. They are investigating. We have not confirmed if this is a crime scene yet. However, people on the scene, Emergency Responders that ive spoken to have said they do consider this a crime scene and a lot of the residents who were evacuated, not allowed to go inside just yet. Thats the very latest here from northwest. Dehlia gonzalez, wusa 9. Our thoughts certainly with lieutenant mcraes family. Stay with wusa 9news and our website. Well have continuing coverage as the city mourns his death. Turning our attention now to baltimore, police there will have body cameras by the end of the year. Thats the announcement today from baltimores mayor, Stephanie Rawlings blake. She is also asked u. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch and the department of justice to begin its investigation now into the Baltimore Police department. The request comes a day after mayor Rawlings Blake met with attorney general lynch in charm city. They spoke about the circumstances of the past several weeks and the broader issues confronting not only baltimore city, but the nation. At this hour, marylands governor is speaking out about the freddie gray case, specifically. Larry hogan is addressing the state of emergency in baltimore, set moments for now, you can see him making his way to the podium right now. Thats state of emergency declared last week. We are following this press conference and well have more on what he has to say, coming up on wusa news at 5 00. Meanwhile, s for princes rally for peace in baltimore set to go on sale at 5 00 p. M. Prince announced plans for the event at the Royal Farms Arena following the recent unrest in the city over freddie grays death. A portion of the proceeds will go towards baltimorebased youth charities. Meanwhile, in the wake of m those protests over Police Brutality in baltimore, lawmakers are wanting to confront policecommunity relations. A Community Meeting will be held tonight at 7 00 at mount inan Baptist Church in clinton. New information in the investigation of a germanwings airliner that crashed into the french alps earlier this year. Weve now learned the copilot, Andreas Lubitz rehearsed the same maneuver on an earlier flight the same day with the same crew. Tina krous has the latest from london. Reporter crash investigators say the copilot who deliberately slammed a jetliner into a french mountainside practiced the Suicide Mission on the same plane just hours earlier. In the First Official report since the march disaster, officials revealed 27yearold Andreas Lubitz put the plane into descent mode five times in 4 1 2 minutes and brought it up again, just like during the fatal flight the captain appeared to have left the cockpit. [ Foreign Language ] reporter the chief investigator said he couldnt speculate what was going on inside the german copilots mind when he repeatedly set controls to the minimum setting of 100 feet. Cockpit data shows the plane did not drop sharply, suggesting people on the flight from dusseldorf to barcelona might not have noticed any change. Just two hours later, with the same crew and new passengers headed back to dusseldorf, investigators say lubitz carried out the same maneuver, but this time, he crashed the plane, killing himself and 149 others. Tina krous, cbs news. Investigators still dont know why lubitz crashed that plane in the first place. But German Authorities say he researched suicide methods and cockpit Door Security online the week before the crash. Now to our forecast, Howard Bernstein is tracking thunderstorms later on in the day . Yeah, well see stuff pop out to the west now. I do think by mid to Late Afternoon this is when well be tracking some showers and storms, probably not as strong as yesterday. We dont have a yellow alert, but thats a borderline situation. Stay up on the weather this afternoon, especially if youre west of washington. I want to zoom in. Theres a lot of stuff going on in pennsylvania. In the last hour, over toward areas right on the mountains, west of i81, you see that area starting to develop. This is what well start to watch early. Then i think more activity in southwest pennsylvania will head our way. If youre out in the Shenandoah Valley west of woodstock, new market, this will drift over toward 81, 11 here, over the next hour, hour and a half. Then well have to watch for it mid to Late Afternoon here in dc and especially west of town. Certainly warm enough. Well be in the low, if not mid 80s. Difference today is more of a northeasterly wind and a lot more humidity. It is a muggy, muggy afternoon out there. Future cast shows the activity here by afternoon, likely to be popping. We see the yellow, orange and red. Thats the showers and storms im talking about just to the west of frederick by 4 00, down maybe sneaking in toward charlestown, winchester, some toward the blue ridge. Might see a little bit of activity on delmarva. Then this moves to the south, potentially even bigger by 6 00 p. M. So again, borderline yellow alert. Well watch it. Montgomery county seems to get it. As it gets toward dc, doesnt have the punch as we get towards 7 00, 8 00 p. M. There could be a delay if youre headed out to nats park. Low to mid80s. Settling down overnight. More storms, more heat in the forecast. Ill have your sevenday in a few minutes. Nick, back to you. All right, howard. We want to go back to our top story, developing story, the twoalarm fire in northwest that ended up claiming the life of a firefighter in the line of duty. Allison barber joins us live from the hospital with more. Allison . Reporter as you know, that firefighter who lost his life, his name was lieutenant kevin mcrae. He was 44 years old. He joined the Dc Fire Department back in 1989. Hes been a veteran with this force for well over 20 years. The mayor just spoke to us and told us a little bit about that man. Take a listen. Today is a day to mourn the passing of the lieutenant and comfort members of engine 6 who lost a brother ana leader. Lieutenant mcrae is the 100th member of the department to perish in the line of duty. Reporter the last firefighter who died in the line of duty was in 2007. That firefighter was actually a cousin of lieutenant mcrae. The mayor said the fact they already lost another Family Member in a fire makes this that much harder today. The family is at the hospital. The mayor spoke with them. Lieutenant kevin mcrae leaves behind a wife and three children. We know one other firefighter was brought here to medstar with injuries. He has since been released. Two other civilians were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries. Nothing seems to be completely serious right now with those injuries. They say everyone seems to be doing just fine. What we know about lieutenant mcrae is when he left the building, he had been inside fighting the fire for about 50 minutes. His fire engine was the first on scene. They said he left the building, then collapsed outside. It seemed to be from cardiac arrest. In terms of exactly how he died, they will still be investigating that. Reporting live, allison barber, wusa 9. Allison, thank you. Well, at this hour, crews are still working at the site of a sewer leak in oxen hill t could take days before the leak is repaired. The leak was discovered near the 100 block of north huron drive in oxen hill this past sunday. Crews estimate the sanitary sue overflow will exceed 10,000 gallons. The contractor is setting up equipment to pump waste water around the leaking section of pipe. Again, wssc officials warn it could take days to complete the bypass operation. A day off for students at a Silver Spring elementary school. Sky 9 was above flora singer elementary where flooding occurred inside overnight. It appears a water pipe gave way. Meanwhile, the university of maryland is about to give students one more reason to choose wisely when selecting their majors. The cost of tuition is about to go up for some of them. Nikki burdine explains from college park. Reporter the possible tuition increase at the university of maryland wouldnt affect every student here, just those in three majors. Computer science, engineering and business. Not surprisingly, those students arent happy about the idea. Thats ridiculous. Kind of sucks. Why do we have to pay more . Reporter for students like kenny, gracie and alyssa, news of the tuition increase was not what they wanted to hear. Especially for gracie, who is paying for school herself with student loans. It makes no sense. Reporter and kenny, whose parents are paying for two engineering degrees at umd. They dont need the increase. Reporter the differential will be phased in over four years. Current juniors will pay 700 more next year. Sophomores, 700 more next year, plus 1400 more your senior year. Freshmen, a 1400 increase your junior year and then a 2800 increase your senior year. Future students will pay 2800 increases their junior and senior years. University president wallace lowe says the money will go right back into those programs to hire new faculty members and upgrade facilities. Why the need . President lowe says those three majors have seen huge increases in enrollment. We did find one student who says she agrees with the proposal. I was actually thinking that they should pay their own different tuition, because in linguistics, we use white boards and paper. I dont want to have to pay more for whatever technology they need for their classes. Reporter the board will vote on the proposal today at 2 30. In college park, im nikki burdine, wusa 9. And the board will also vote on a systemwide increase, we understand, of 5 . Still to come, weve all seen michael j. Foxs very public battle with parkinsons. Well learn more about that devastating disease from a local highprofile attorney who is also battling the illness. Plus, investigators take a closer look at the two men who opened fire at a controversial comic competition and their possible. New questions this afternoon about the gunman of sundays shooting at a cartoon display in texas. The two werent considered the most likely to pull off an attack. Isis has now claimed responsibility for the incident at the free speech event featuring cartoons of the prophet mohammed. Some terror investigators are skeptical. I really think its a sign of weakness on isiss part, a reflection they see their momentum has slowed a bit. Investigators say they are now looking into the gunmens contacts and online activities. Now we would like to welcome back a familiar face here around broadcast house. Joarn jim gross was our legal commentator on divorce issues, for one, for several years, until his life was turned upside down by parkinsons disease. Hes here today to talk about that with us. Great to have you back. Thank you. Really appreciate your time here. If you could, certainly several public figures that are associated with this, muhammad ali, among others, michael j. Fox. But if you could, take us kind of behind the battle that goes on behind the scenes with this disease. Well, im not sure its a battle. Its just trying to get the most out of your life and the quality of life with the problems of movement and Involuntary Movement and tremors, which are controlled usually with medication. And several stages associated with the disease, but what impact has it had, would you say, on your life so far . Well, i think the first thing i said when the doctor told me i had this was, and these pills will cure it . And he said no, they wont. They will treat the symptoms. So its something that never goes away. But the, probably the second question i asked him was will i have to give up racquetball . Ive been playing racquetball for 30 years. And theres a group of friends that we play every saturday morning. And he said no, exercise is good for it. So what we found out, what i found out and other people that play racquetball that have parkinsons is that the symptoms go away while youre playing on a cure . You mentioned the medicine. Theres no cure. Science and doctors do not know what causes it. They do not know how to cure it, although theres a lot of fox has his foundation that he started that is trying to research for a cure. But theres nobody knows how to cure it yet. But racquetball, helping the cause there. That is good to hear. Weve actually established a league of people with parkinsons that play racquetball now on a regular basis. Were trying to recruit more members for that, for that sport. Were certainly happy to get the word out there and definitely keep us posted. We wish you the very best. Thank you. Thank you. Absolutely. Well we back in one moment. When we return, well check out wild weather around the. In the last 24 hours, the Lone Star State witnessed two tornadoes touch down in central texas. The first tornado lasted several minutes. A second then developed right behind the initial one. Fortunately nothing that drastic, i would imagine today. No. Howard bernstein, you are tracking thunderstorms making their way . Yes, its hot and humid, temps in the low 80s already. Well be talking about heavy rain making showers and storms once again. Maybe not as much as yesterday, so borderline. We did not go with the yellow alert. I want to show you doppler. We are picking up a little activity towards the blue ridge and Shenandoah Valley. The stuff to the north is missing us, but its the stuff out west thats starting to develop. I do think southwest pennsylvania, so well watch that. Clearly, along the blue ridge west of i81 here, starting to see showers pop. Heavy one over sperryville right now just developing in the last 20 minutes. Everything is drifting slowly toward the southeast. You see northwest of new market. So this is all the activity we have now, but i expect more as the afternoon wears on. Kind of hazy out there. I mean, its muggy. Ill have temperatures by 4 00. If we get hit by a shower or storm, a raincooled 64. Looks like well pop back to the low 80s by 6 00, then back into the 60s getting into the evening hours. We are looking at more showers and storms this afternoon. Better chances will be west of dc, west of the potomac, west of i95. Nats could have another delay. A little cooler for thursday, 70s to 80 or so. Looks like the heat returns for the weekend. Mid80s, maybe upper 80s by early next week. Next best chance of storms after today i think will be maybe monday, but theres still a chance for storms on mothers day. Right now, getting toasty with 80 in town. ve got upper 70s in many areas, with 81 in frederick. Not a bad looking day. Just feeling more like, i dont know, sort of approaching the mid to late june timeframe, not early may, with a temperature of 80 and the dewpoints the mid60s. It is sticky out there. Big storm in the middle of the country. More Severe Weather here. You can see how the moisture is coming in from texas all the way to the north. Then weve got developing low pressure off the florida coast. Not quite a true tropical system, but this could bring rains and winds towards the coastal carolinas. For us, the front up here will drift toward us. Southwest pa, see how much sunshine is back here right now . Storms form here later on, likely moving toward us for the mid to Late Afternoon. Could affect that dmiewt. Could affect after work, after School Activities as well. 82, if not 84, 85, the way were going, with scattered thunderstorms. 50s and 60s tonight. Tomorrow, a little cooler, around 80. On friday, warm again, 84. Weekends, and weve got the nats games both days here on wusa. Mid80s. Chance of a storm on sunday, mothers day. Then by monday and tuesday, upper 80s. Looks like monday may have a better chance of storms than tuesday. Were going outside, learning about spring planting, when. Carol jacobs from bell nursery joins me on this beautiful day. If is amazing out here. Were getting ready for this wonderful weekend. Its mothers day. I brought you all kind of great things for mothers day. The countdown is on, time ticking to get that gift. Weve got great containers already planted up, beautiful colored pots. We have the drop and bloom, which if you have your own container, you drop it right in there. Floferl roses, lastminute gifts for mom, lots of things you can plant by yourself and beautiful hanging baskets. Lots of color and everything is available at the home depot. Stop by your home depot this weekend and get ready. Cant go wrong with roses. How about for someone thats not, lets say a flower novice . Whats the clutch gift for mom to make it look like you know what youre doing . Drop and bloom or already made. Either are beautiful and easy and you can be supersuccessful and impress anybody, especially mom. Its all about the colors that pop this time of year. Absolutely. Celebrate all the bold colors. Pinks, purples, turquoise, everything, the reds, every color available. Carol jacobs, appreciate the the news at noon. We appreciate you stopping by. See you again coming up at 5 00. Jack come on, somebodys gotta be home. Pick up, pick up. [ line ringing ] oh, come on yeah i need help i need the police this is a matter of life and death kyle dad . Dad . doctor this our car crash victim . Nurse yes, doctor, he was just sent in from the e. R. Just now. Kyle his names jack abbott