Heights Reaction Center park where it all happened. Mola lenghi has more. Reporter yes. Witnesses described several men ran through here, exchanging gunfire as children were playing on this popular playground. This is a place where you should have a happy face, not be shielding children from bullets. Reporter the Columbia Rec Center playground was happy until children and parents heard what they first othought were fireworks. Then this mother, who didnt want to be identified, came to a terrifying realization. I think two or three young men, and i saw a gun, which is when i realized it was not fireworks. Reporter she heard half a dozen gunshots and everyone started scattering. There were babies all over the park. We didnt even know where to run. Reporter she said when the shots rang out, parents grabbed any child they could reach, running behind cover, behind trees, bushing and sheds. You dont expect to run and collect children on a day at a park because you are running from gun shots. Repo who often comes with her two young kids to the park said officers never questioned them on what they saw, their preps was slow and lacking. Their presence was slow and lacking. How can you have this park here and not do anything about it. You cant have a Police Presence on every corner 24 hours a day. We think police do a fantastic job. But this is violence. They do make the rounds. Reporter this mother of two lives across the street from the park. Is this something you come to expect . No, certainly not expect. What surprised me is how fast it goes back to business as usual. Reporter and there should be nothing usual about a shootout on a playground. We did reach out to the metropolitan Police Department today about their response to todays shooting at this playground as well as the general presence here in this northwest d. C. Neighborhood. We have yet to hear back from them. I am mola lenghi for wusa9 news. Mola, thank you. If you have any information about todays shootout, call d. C. Police. We have new information about the man accused in the stabbing death of American University alum Kevin Sutherland. Jasper spires was in court for the first time on charges connected to the 4th of july murder on the metro. Garrett haake, you found two young men going in very Different Directions . Reporter that is exactly right. Police say by the time Kevin Sutherland and matthew spires crossed paths, his life was already spiraling out of control, fueled partially by the use of the dangerous synthetic drugs now plaguing the district. Charging documents describe a bloody, brutal splaying on the streets of d. C. Saturday. 18yearold jasper spires slabbed and slashed Kevin Sutherland more than 30 times after taking his cell phone, the kind of ragefueled Violence Police link to pcp like synthetic drugs. A Police Source told wusa9 news the department had information spires took synthetic drugs and it changed his behavior. On social media his friends speculated about the same thing. Online recordsw shospires had been a College Student . North carolina. Back in d. C. This summer things ban to unravel. Friends say he may have been homeless. Charming documents had no fixed address and it was a broad daylight a i assault. Police found him under the influence and waves an empty wine bottle. Today a friend criticized spires family for not coming to court with their son. If they cared about him, whether he was right or wrong, they would be here to support him. Reporter several friends told me online they remembered a Wilson High School grad that was smart and motivated with a good head on his shoulders. None could figure out how he lost his way or what role the drugs Police Believe he ay have played. He was a good, decent guy as far as i knew of him. Reporter late last week the chief told me roughly 30 of the arrests they are testing for the synthetic drugs are coming back positive. It is a big problem still looking for a solution. Reporting live in the northeast, garrett haake, wusa9 news. Thank you, garrett. The city Council Passed emergency legislation giving the mpd additional powers to shut down businesses selling the synthetic drugs but they are yet to send it to the mayor for his signature. A man is charged for trying to rape a Woman Working off Community Service hours. He is 32yearold germany simmons of laurel. He was overseeing the germy simmons of laurel. Detectives told simmons he told the woman if she had sex with him at a later date he would sign off of her documents showing she completed her Community Service. Tonight crews restored partial power to a highrise apartment in wheaton. The Fire Department will not have to evacuate the residents from the 15story building. For the second time in three days an electrical fire knocked out power to 1111 university boulevard west. A generator is supplying merge lighting to the highrise now and the fire emergency system is back on, but residents still cannot use the gas stoves or light candles. I would not say i am angry. I mean, we have a right to be angry, especially the senior citizens. I am a dialysis patient. It is a problem for me. The red cross has opened a temporary shelter at Blair High School for those that do not want to stay in their apartment. We had a bit of a break today, but the showers and storms are all set to come back tomorrow. It will be an active week. Chief meteorologist topper shutt is here with more on the yellow alert. Yes. It seems we get a day or two of rest inbetween thunderstorms. Well, today was the day. There will be showers to the west along i81. We could be seeing a couple of sprinkles as close as leesburg. Temperatures will be in the 70s. By 10 00 showers in culpepper and showers primarily north and west of town in the mornings. Most of us will have a dry commute to work. Showers will be getting closer to gaithersburg and poolsville. By 2 00 we see showers firing up out toward winchester, culpepper and manassas. At 3 30 or so they fire up and move through the metro area. We will come back and track them through the evening. They will stick around a little longer than you think and we will have the 3degree guarantee. Thank you, top. We have more on samuel ellis, now recovering at home after a single car crash that happened june 25th. The 18yearold passengers were killed. A 17yearold passenger was injured as well. Records show ellis was sited in march for possession of alcohol. The charges were to be dropped pending completion of a Alcohol Education program. Records show that ellis faces a Court Appearance in ocean city over an incident last month for a charge similar to disorderly conduct. Well, tomorrow morning local Police Agencies will escort the body of a brazilian colleague to the airport. The detective was killed in a bike racing crash last week while competing at the world police and fire games in fairfax county. Tomorrows Police Escort will begin at 10 00 a. M. On vine street in alexander and goes to the dulles airport. The comments donald trump made about mexican undocumented immigrants, it is now hitting close to home. Some do not want to see him making money off the hotel he is building in the northwest. Allyson rae has more. Reporter this is where the new trump hotel will be. It isnt built yet but it is already stirring up controversy. Mexicanamericans from maryland are coming over. Reporter in two days mexicans hope pennsylvania avenue will be filled with people, renouncing comments donald trump made when he announced his president ial bid. The comments caused a wave of companies to end their relationship with the mogul. This is one way we could hit him in the pocket. He is a businessman. So far it appears it hasnt done much to him. As more and more of us grow and protest, we will see how he hurts. We crossed the 2,000 supporter threshold. Reporter this man started a petition, calling on jose andreas to cell his plans to open a restaurant inside the hotel. Donald trump made what they consider false and offensive comments and there is no place for it here. But is it that simple. Some say it is not. Donald trump there say what he wants regardless of this boycott. Reporter he specializeds in 1st Amendment Law and teaches at ucla. He doesnt believe in what donald trump said but these actions worry him. It may deter other people, Small Businesses wondering should he contribute to some political cause. Reporter that he says is a slippery slope that could make people less engaged in political discourse. If they succeed the message will go out to people all over the political spectrum that the way to deal with people who disagree with you is by threatening to destroy their lives. Reporter garcia tells me he doesnt want the protest to drive the hotel away. He hopes it will elicit a apology and make donald trump reconsider the language he used if he wants to engage in the immigration debate. I am allyson rae rae ellison barber, wusa9 news. Thank you, ellison. Well, in a statement he said the comments he made were uncharacteristic of the donald trump she has come to know as a businessman. Coming up the search continues for a two people in a small plane that collided a fighter jet. And ahead, bill cobis accusers react to the 2009 admission he purchased drugs to give to women he wanted to have sex with. And the Confederate Flag is one step closer to coming down at the hows it progressing with the prisoner . Hell tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. As you were. Where were we . 13 serving 14 service if your boss stops by, you act like youre working. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. The Confederate Flag debate moves to the South Carolina house of rep senties tomorrow. The state gnat has already given the final approval to a bill that would remove the Confederate Flag from the front of the state house and governor Nikki Haley Says she will sign it as soon as it passes the house. She urged lawmakers to remove the Confederate Flag after a racist gunman killed nine black people in a historically africanamerican church in charleston last month. A law officer tells the Associated Press that a gun used in the shooting of a woman in a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent. The officer declined to give details but today the mexican immigrant juan sanchez pleaded not guilty to 1st degree murder in last weeks shooting. He shot the woman as she was sightseeing with her father. He is in the United States illegally and been deported five times for lesser crimes. Sanchez was on the streets under San Franciscos sanctuary policy. Under that policy city officials can disregard a request from the feds to keep someone in custody. The ntsb is investigating a rare midair collision between a military fighter jet and small private plane just north of charleston, South Carolina. This happened around 11 00 this morning. We have more now from South Carolina. Reporter the f16 fighter jet and the small private plane collided about 20 miles north of charleston. Debris rained down over a wide area of marshes and rice fields, a piece landed against a mobile home. Cliff camden was driving in the area when it happened. I saw a flash and looked up. It was right in front of me. As soon as i saw it was an explosion, a lot of black smoke, debris falling reporter the National Transportation safety board says that two people on the civilian plane did not survive. The Fighter Pilot is identified as marriage Aaron Johnson of the 55th Fighter Squadron from Shaw Air Force bait. He ejected just behind the tree line and appears to be okay. The experienced military pilot was in training exercises and in Constant Contact with air Traffic Control where the planes collided. There are a hundred factors that could be in play here. We will be looking into it to determine what happened. Reporter the ntsb and air force are investigating. A search is under way for the bodies of the two people on the small plane and what is left of the cessna. The victims are local residents and their identities have not been released. Well, bill cosbys accusers are speaking out after the newly unsealed Court Documents reveal the comedian admitted to giving sedatives to at least one woman, part of a sex assault lawsuit filed by a Temple University employee. The court asked cosby if he gave quaaludes to women with the intention of having sex. He answered yes and the accusers say it is proof they have been telling the truth all along. The haters that came forward that didnt believe me, now more is to be revealed. How dare they call her a liar when ten years ago he admitted this under oath. As women it validates what they have been saying for a long time, for years. In fact, more than two dozen women have accused cosby of drugging and raping them but the statute of limitations on most the cases have already expired. Cosby has denied the accusations and never been criminally charged but today bounce tv announced it is now pulling the reruns of the 1990 cbs sitcom cosby. Subway is suspending its ties with spokesman jared fogle after the fbi and Indiana Police raided his home, two months after the former executive director of fogles foundation was arrested on child porn charges. Electronics were removed from fogles house but he wasnt arrested. He became subways spokesman after he famously lost 24 a 5 pounds by regularly 245 pounds by regularly eating subway sandwiches. Picnic blanket, pets, food and friends showed up at Waterfront Park for the first ever sunset cinema movie series. Every tuesday night from now to august 4th you can check out the free movie set in the famous neighborhoods of georgetown. Tonights movie is st. Elmos fire, the 1985 coming of age story of a group of young friends navigating life after the graduation of the university in georgetown. Other movies in the series include no way out and the exorcist. Well, summer light viewing. Yes. Right there [ laughing ] it is not as scary as it was at the time. It is freaky. Yes. Are we ready for the 3 degree guarantee . You know what, we have a streak now of 1s there you go you are thinking this is good stuff. Oh, yes. 92. We forecasted 91 as the high. We hoped to get a bulls eye but with we missed it by 1. We are going for 87 tomorrow. It is still 82 degrees. This is a troubling number. 73 is the dew point. That is a very humid air mass. Winds out of the south at 9. A yellow alert tomorrow. Some morning showers but primarily north and west of town. Afternoon storms. Some could still be heavy. Unfortunately they will be in the wheelhouse of the commute so the commute will be wet for many folks on their way home. Here is the futurecast at 6 00 in the morning. We are still in the upper 70s downtown. There will be showers early on. Hagerstown, cumberland and romney west of i81. They will be light though, okay . By 8 30 or 9 00, 80 downtown. Mid 70s elsewhere. Most showers still confined to the mountains. By 1 00 a couple showers will peel off up and down i270 past frederick and hagerstown to the west. Things get interesting around 5 00. Most of the metro area around the beltway has showers. Now we see orange, yellows and reds south of town. That means heavier activity. By 8 00 still heavy activity through much of d. C. , up 270 and down 95. The storms dont just go away at sundevil even by 10 00 the away at sunset. Even by 10 00 there will be thunderstorms up near frederick so they will linger for a while through the evening commute and beyond. Day planner, dry through 1 00. 81 at 9 00. 86 at 1 00. Still 90 on friday with isolated storms. Our 91 today was the first time we hit 90 for the month of july and the first time in 13 days. Kind of surprised me, too. The next seven days isolated storms on friday. We kept saturday dry. It is heating up now. By sunday we are looking at temperatures in the mid 90s. Monday and tuesday 09s. On friday in ma 9s. On friday we will 90s. Pretty soon we will be able to talk redskins but it is july so we have baseball and plenty of it. Everybody has an offnight every now and then, right . It is how you bounce back that shows how good you can be. Coming up a look at Matt Scherzers rare moment. It is summer in the city this means break out the bands. The. Well, Matt Scherzer showed us one thing tonight, he actually is human. After an incredible start with his tenure with the Washington Nationals allowing just four hits in his last four starts. Scherzer had what we call an off night. It was his first start since the nono. It was his shortest outing at a national. 7 , hits 5 runs. Meanwhile reds pitcher johnny quato electric tonight, pitching a complete game allowing only 2 hits and striking out 11, ending with a 5zip. You can see fridays game in charm city right here on wusa9 news. It all begins at 7 00. Well, the orioles didnt fare much better in minnesota. A rough outing for the os pitcher kevin gosman, giving up 7 hits and 8 runs. Final score 83. Over the last 15 years since the tragic death of the Dale Earnhardt at the daytona speedway, nascar has implemented more advanced Safety Measures in all their tracks. They are working, as we saw this weekend in the horrific crash involving austin dillon. It was a hold your breath kind of omoment in the final laps. Dillon said his head set flew off; he can hear his crew members but they could not hear him to find out if he was okay. He said the worst part of it all was the fear his family had to go through. The hardest thing was talking to my brother. He was pretty upset after the wreck because he wasnt there to know that i was okay. He was watching from tv and had to call my mom and dad and get updates. You know, hearing him upset a while after the wreck kind of showed how crazy a wreck it really was. In a crazy wreck and very tense moments. We are glad he is all right. Well, time for this past weekends gnats series. Check this out. The fans as the bat goes into the stands. Quick are reflexes by a fan. Caught it and rewarded with a kiss who says chivalry is dead. We will see if they got married after this. Right he is her hero for that one. That is amazing. You talk about sometimes things going into the crowd and people arent paying attention. You have to pay attention. 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