Latest. We start in southwest dc. What do you know . Reporter 295 is still shut down because of this deadly investigation. Right now authorities are trying to remove the body from that suv, that is in the middle of the highway right now. And as they investigate this shooting. Two people were inside the black suv that is riddled with bulletholes when someone in another car was shooting at them. Both the driver and passenger side windows are shattered, the driver inside the suv is dead and adult passenger transported. Dc police chief kathy lanier is not sure if this is road rage or something else. They are still searching for the shooter. This is obviously rush hour. A lot of cars were out here, people had to see something. A lot of times callers give us basic information. We want to get some more. If you did call in this morning we would like to you call back, 2027279099. So i can connect you directly with a detective. Reporter this all happened around 8 45 between 8 55. And there is that potential of witnesses who were on the road going to work during rush hour so they are asking people to who were driving during that time if they saw this black suv with virginia tags being followed to call police because there were a lot of people on the road who know they saw anything suspicious or if they saw this suv being followed. Live in southwest, ser ayi chin, wusa 9. A story from dc related to overnight robberies in several cities. We know a police chase through the district and then went into prince georges county, its related to the suspects in these robberies. Were told that shots were fired during a confrontation and then the suspects took off once again. There is no word on how many people have been arrested in this. Were trying to follow this story and bring more details as soon as they become available. Police are also working several shooting investigations this noon after a violent night in the district. Five shootings left four people injured and one woman dead. The woman was killed in a shooting that was around 9 45 p. M. Wednesday. In the 2700 block of good hope road in southeast dc. In the other shootings officers say three men and one teen were hurt. They are expected to survive. Were also following breaking news out of the Donovan Hotel murder case. Two women accused in the slaying of a capitol hill lawyer entered guilty pleas. Deborah is live at superior court with the details of that plea. Reporter they used to be a couple, now both will likely head to prison for a long time. One longer than the other. In court today when jamyra goldman was asked if she stabbed david methersmith to death she bit her lip and said yes. This is video from earlier, this glance into a surveillance camera that gave the investigation a running start. On her way to rob 30yearold the capitol hill lawyer at the posh hotel in a robbery disguised as a craigslist hookup turned deadly. Her girlfriend Dominique Johnson left court today in a dark shirt. With her family and lawyer after pleading guilty to conspiracy conspiring with the other suspect to rob him, with zip ties and waiting for him to return that february night. Police say he placed a craigslist ad looking for a same sex hookup. One answered it pretending to be a man and the widow sat in court. She was actually crying at different types throughout the proceeding and clutching what looked like a polished rock no doubt had some significance to her. Listen now to the lawyer for Dominique Johnson. Look, its a horrible unfortunate incident. Its a tragedy for all concerned. Nobody ever intended for this to occur and the my client expresses sympathy and empathy for the victim and the victims family. The two were scheduled to be sentenced on august 14th. How much time could they both face . Well find out more later on when we come back live at 5 00 tonight. For now live here at dc superior court, wusa 9 you can follow the developments and late get latest on our wusa 9 app. A student bloodied in march by agents was in a virginia courtroom asking for the charges against him to be dropped. Peggy fox with the latest on that case. Peg . Reporter markies johnson spoke on camera for the First Time Since the Court Proceedings started. Hes hoping the charges against him will be dropped but that didnt happen today because todays hearing was strictly for setting a trial date. Johnson and his attorney arrived just before the hearing in charlottesville general district court. A number of supporters from a local church were here, they believe his Violent Arrest on march 19th outside an irish bar was racially motivated. Johnson was charged with public intoxication and obstruction of justice. Officers say he was belligerent. In court the commonwealth argued for a twoday trial and the judge said it has to be a oneday, as long as it takes trial on september 30th. Heres what he said after the hearing. I want to thank everyone that has been supporting me through who has been a strenuous process and i hope that in the near future this process will end. Its endured a bit longer than we all expected but i believe justice will be served and i hope you will all stand with me until then. Thank you. Reporter the judge set a june 12th status hearing. By that time the commonwealth could file a motion to dismiss or decide not to prosecute. Well plan to be back here on june 12th to find out what happens. Live in charlottesville, peggy fox, wusa 9. A dc Elementary School teacher accused of sexually abusing a student had his trial delayed. Leroy ware, special Education Teacher is accused of fondling a 9yearold boy. His trial was supposed to start this morning. Its now been delayed until late june. He face twos counts of misdemeanor child sex abuse. A big tax hike is off the table now in prince georges county. Later today officials will be voting on a spending plan but it doesnt include that property tax hike of 15. 6 which proposed by county executive baker. That would have generated a projected 133 million amount to education but in the face of strict optician that increase opposition that increase was stripped from the plan. Erica with more on the weather. They are not on radar yet. But you can see popup showers on 9 futurecast in the next their way into the region. In the afternoon hours. Whatever we have today is slower than yesterday. Yesterday we had a pocket of energy that swept on through to the north of us. Today we dont have that same trigger, but we have plenty of heat and humidity. That is why we think were going to get some of these isolated thunderstorms to bubble up and dump heavy rainfall and the potential for frequent lightning. Notice by dinnertime the storms are starting to diminish a little but overnight we could see more showers. Currently its 86 degrees already in leesburg. 84 manassas and 85 Downtown Washington. Hagerstown is 82. When you factor in the humidity it feels like its close to 90 degrees and we have more 90 degree temperatures ahead in the first alert 7day forecast. More on that in a few minutes. The Washington Monument is closed now because of an electrical issue associated with the elevator. The park service says no visitors were inside when the elevator failed. Crews are working to fix it now though. The upgrade has started on the white house fence. Government contractors will be on the sidewalk around the white house for most of the day taking measurements and examining that fence. The secret Service Recently announced a plan to install a layer of sharp metal spikes on top of the fence to deter fence jumpers. Still to come drunk in the cockpit. A pilot tries to take off after having one too many and you will not believe who was in the copilots seat. Parking in the district got a little more expensive. Why and where youll be paying more. Welcome back. Parking changes approved for several dc neighborhoods now. The dc Council Voted to extend the hours that parking meters are in effect. In some of the citys busiest areas. They also approved an increase in parking fines as well. The fine for expired parking meter will jump from 25 to 30 and in Premium Parking zones across the district you will need to feed the meter now up until midnight. This all takes effect october 1st. Happening today the metro board will meet and on the agenda, could be talking about the future of those 7,000 series rail cars. Metro had planned to buy nearly 750 of them in all, so far just eight of them are on the tracks. Another 520 are on order but there is a nag involving the last 220 cars. Our News Partners at the Washington Post report that metro is awaiting federal approval now to scrap nearly 200 of the cars that are currently on the tracks. The board may have to scrap the 431 million purchase without that approval, however. Another meeting held tonight. The future of i66 is the topic. Vdot is going to talk about the Environmental Impact of widening the interstate outside of the he beltway. It will be tonight at 5 30 at the Oakton High School cafeteria. More hearings also next week. Disaster averted. A pilot who police say was drunk crashed the plane before it took off. The twin engine plane never got off the crowd veering off the runway at Melbourne International airport in florida. It went through a ditch and hit a shed. On board the 57yearold pilot, Christopher Hall and his young son had been charged with reckless operation of a vessel as well as child abuse. Environmental activists say they are fed especially and wont take it anymore. Details on what they are protesting against coming up. Not again. For the second time a deadly anthrax virus is shipped in the mail. Many are asking how this could happen. Mike, its another steamy start to the afternoon here in the metro area. A heat wave is possible in the forecast and we have the potential for more thunderstorm g a potentially deadly mistake by the u. S. Military. Pentagon Officials Say live anthrax bacteria was accidentally shipped to labs in as many as nine states. Craig boswell has more. Reporter the anthrax samples were supposed to be dead when they left a u. S. Army lab in utah but a live sample arrived at a lab in maryland last week. And now the pentagon says similar samples may have been sent to commercial and government labs in eight other states and south korea. No known risk to the general public and no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection. Reporter but the government is concerned about lab workers who may have been exposed. At least four in the u. S. And 22 in south korea are taking antibiotics as a precaution. Cbs news confirmed the Defense Department used fedex to ship the anthrax, the supposedly inactive samples are used for research and how to defend against biological weapons. If anthrax spores become airborne and are inhaled they can cause severe illness or death. After a relatively short period of time the person can become very, very sick, its largely a lung infection, first of all, and then the organism can actually get into the bloodstream and make you very, very ill indeed. Reporter all the samples sent from utah will be transferred to the cdc for further testing. Craig boswell, cbs news, the pentagon. This is the second mistake in shipment of live anthrax in the last year. Last june more than 80 people may have been exposed to live anthrax when a cdc lab sent it by mistake. First alert weather time now. Its soupy outside once again. That always leaves the danger of possible popup thunderstorms like yesterday. Our windows rattled at our house yesterday. And heavy downpours. Andrea said it this morning. They were hit or miss, we had lines of thunderstorms especially north of the beltway yesterday. Today its a scenario like when you put a pot of water on the stove and you dont know where its going to bubble up, everything looks more isolated today but we will see the thunderstorms develop. I want to give you a look at the allergy report before we go any further because grass pollen really started to become a big issue and tree pollen is rapidly declining so that is pretty much going by the wayside now. Your day planner, were going to see the thunderstorms continue to pop up as we head into the afternoon, right now were still clear on the radar but that will go by the wayside in the next two hours, i think well start to see the storms develop. Check the temperatures too, 89 degrees at 3 00. 86 at 6 00. Were going to reach a high of 90 degrees this afternoon. So there is the potential well have another heat wave on our hands if we hit 90 for the next day or so. That will be three days in a row of 90 plus. 85 now so we dont have far to go. That dew point of 68 degrees making it feel awfully soupy out there as mike mentioned, that heat index is once again a factor. 86 reston and germantown. 87 chevy chase. 83 andrews. Even along the water were looking at pretty warm temperatures. Satellite and radar, were in the clear now. The potential for Severe Weather is up into new england and upstate new york. Not affecting us here. But we do still have sufficient heat and humidity to trigger a few isolated thunderstorms. So you see that here on 9 futurecast, pretty spread out on the futurecast model but i think they will be more concentrated bubbling up cells. Its possible youll go through today without a storm. Could also be tomorrow without a storm but you see that potential here. 5 00 p. M. Tomorrow rain will be developing and that is because of the heat and humidity in place. On saturday were tracking an approaching cold front. That will eventually bring an end to the heat and humidity but in the meantime were going to watch a due more popup thunderstorms, most of the activity on saturday looks to be to the west of the metro area, in the mountains. Forecast for today, very warm once again, up to 91 in frederick. 90 Downtown Washington and leesburg. 92 in fredericksburg. Overnight tonight youre going to need that ac again. 66 for the low in leesburg, gaithersburg. 64 winchester. 67 manassas and 68 at andrews and 72 muggy degrees in Downtown Washington. So more isolated thunderstorms possible friday and saturday. Notice the highs remain near 90 degrees. Tomorrow though with a high of 87 in the forecast, i dont think were going to get that heat wave so three days, 90 plus, doesnt seem like its going to happen. In the first alert 7day forecast, more widespread thunderstorms likely sunday because were going to see that cold front make its approach. That is going to stir up more energy and produce that potential for the thunderstorms. After it moves through a big refreshing change. Lingering showers and storms monday possible but a high of only 76 degrees. Then were going to see temperatures remaining at or slightly above our average. Were going to see upper 70s to around 80 degrees as we head back to work and back to school next week. Its thursday, that means pet line time. We have a beautiful you australian shepherd mix with us. His name is sully. Tell us about him. Sully is about a year old, came from out of state in a shelter that was not planning on keeping him much longer so we rescued him. He came with his brother. Good for the brother but unfortunately for sully his brother was adopted leaving sully behind and hes very lonely. Does he want a partner . Another dog . I think that would be fine. And on his own. Hes not a dog for a first time dog owner. Hes high energy, perfect for someone who wants to run, walk a lot. A big yard would be fabulous. Hes going to want to chase that frisbee. He was decent in the car, not great. Hes not really comfortable but not bad. He whined a little but sat in the back seat and was very good. Sweet dog. Very nice. If you would like more information mchumane. Org. Stay with us. Welcome back. Environmental activists say they are fed up and dont want to take it anymore. Theyve been staging sitins and dieins throughout the week to send a message to the federal Energy Regulatory message. What is the message . Don wakeman, our guest with beyond extreme energy. I wanted to make sure it was correct. What is the message . The message that business at usual must stop. It must start taking health and human safety seriously when issuing gas permits. Youre talking about the l g tankers . That, pipelines, allowing the use of frack gas in the pipelines and compressor stations. Theres a network of that stuff that is being built. Ferk is supporting it and its causing human health and safety to suffer. The companies and people for this say its creating jobs, helping our against on foreign oil. To you you say its not helping its not helping us if its making us sick. Its not helping us if its causing communities to roll over and die. Its not helping us if its poisoning organic farms. Its not helping us if its having mothers with children with leukemia. So first step, if you can get a step forward in the right direction as far as youre concerned today what would it be to stop issuing gas permits. Stop allowing new projects. Take on the old projects and look real carefully at whether or not they are safe. So the concern is new projects moving forward you would like them to reexamine existing projects as well . Yes. Natural gas is supposed to be clean and safe. Natural gas is a climate killer. Natural gas puts methane into the atmosphere, that is much worse than carbon dioxide. They have to look at those issues. The sitins continue until . Friday. At this time. But well be back in the frontline communities and well be back. Well be heard. Thank you for your time. We appreciate it. That is it. Were back on our app 24 7. Angel hello, nikki. Nikki [ shudders ] all this light. Where am i . Angel it can happen sometimes. It can be a little confusing. You want to take a guess . Well, i am either dreaming or. Its the d. T. s or im dr