Are struggling with racial issues. Now, sources tell nbc news while they think that Micah Johnson acted alone, they say it is possible that he had help. But so far, they havent found any lirvnk to extremist groups. From here, ill run upstairs to do a Facebook Live. Well have a retired homicide detective who will be answering questions. Pat, back to you. All right, chris. D. C. Police and city leaders standing in solidarity with the Dallas Police force today. They held a wreathlaying ceremony. Mayor bowser says its a small show of solidarity with the people of dallas. She calls for communities everywhere to work on their root causes of violence. Our community, like communities across this nation, must come together to ensure that we are invested in solving the root causes of violence in our community and ensuring that were going to deepen the trust between our Law Enforcement officials and between our community. Today, flags at buildings in d. C. Have been ordered to be at halfstaff. This is causing a Ripple Effect in our area. Our Meagan Fitzgerald spoke with a detective about how we as a community move forward. She joins us live with details. Reporter people in the community are fearful, if they interact with the police or get pulled over, that they may get stopped and killed. After seeing what happened in dallas, a lot of Police Officers are fearful that they now are a target. Officers were gunned down in dallas, many officers are saying that policing has changed. A retired homicide detective for the metropolitan Police Department is joining me. Its already a dangerous job each and every day. Now theres a heightened level of fear. Reporter he says the concern is that the policeinvolved shooting in louisiana and minnesota will prompt people to take their anger out on good officer who is are just doing their job. At midnight today, chief cathy lanier says she put safety precautions in place for her officers. We have increased security around our facilities and lots. Reporter and officers now work in pairs, something that she says will continue until further notice. This is not reflective of the way that everybody feels about the police or reflective of our community here. Were going to continue to come to work and do our jobs. Reporter friday morning, police just did that. A suicidal man was holed up in his apartment. Youre on the scene and trying to assist someone, you may get shot. That was always the case but you now you have to think about it more. Reporter and this 15yearold says the policeinvolved shootings of the last few days are the most recent examples of why and he so many others are afraid of police. After seeing what we just saw, some people cant trust the police now. Were scared for our lives. Reporter which is why they say theres much more work that needs to be done. The trust has to be built. Reporter a lot of people are asking, how do we fix the problem . Where do we go from here . Some things are already in place that seem to be working and well tell you what that plan is moving forward. Back to you. Meagan fitzgerald, thank you. Reporter organizers in the district right now are getting ready to march again. The forefront of their minds and mission. News4s chris gordon is at the Justice Department with more. Chris . Reporter well, behind me you can see people taking their positions. Demonstrators are here and this is after the death of five officers after the demonstration there against Police Shootings in louisiana and minnesota. Organizers are using social media to publicize this demonstration under the protests. They marched from the white house to the capitol. They are aware that the dallas gunman said that he was upset about the recent Police Shootings of black men. We have to realize and the that just because we have people in our community who are being killed with Police Brutality doesnt mean we can retaliate against other officers. Reporter the five slain Dallas Police officers were remembered here at the national Law Enforcement officers memorial. The chicago Police Department left five roses with a note saying god bless the police. New york police left a bouquet and a message, we stand with dallas. Dan stopped by to pray telling us his brother is a Police Officer. It seems like every day theres a story about the relations in this country and its troubling because we can do so much better. Reporter demonstrators are gathering here on the sidewalk in front of the department of justice for the 6 00 march. Theres a Police Helicopter overhead. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, why the police say you can e weekend of protests here in the city. Back to you. Chris gordon reporting, thank you, chris. Virginia senator mark warner called the murders a heinous act of violence. He wrote, injustice cannot be rectified by another act of injustice. Grief affects all of us. Warner posted yesterday about the minnesota and louisiana shootings saying acknowledging a widespread problem doesnt detract from the fear rather than trust. Those sworn to keep us safe. A viewer is live at Fairfax CountyPolice Headquarters. David, how has the tragedy in dallas affected, impacted officers there today. Reporter i can tell you the many officers ive spoken with today, they are saddened but not expressing their grief and at Police Headquarters here in fairfax, flags have been lowered to halfstaff. One Herndon Police officer said hes not dissuaded from doing his job. 14 years on the job, Herndon Police officer jay choy says hes only ever wanted to be in Law Enforcement. I think this profession is one in which you can make a big difference and the differences are priceless r. Reporter watching the images from dallas, it doesnt deter this husband and father of two. Outside Police Headquarters, Fairfax County, dhe what they could to show their support, unraveling this sign they made in an hours time. The message, fairfax stands with you. Th the support. We can come back from it. We will. We have a community that cares. Reporter Police Officers showing us their shrouded beiges, their show of support for the dallas officers. Weve got to protect the Civil Liberties of individuals. Reporter Terry Mcauliffe not only calling for support of Police Officers i will say theres also too many guns in this country. We need background checks. There are individuals in this indication who should not possess firearms. Reporter back in herndon, officer choi choosing a positive outlook, if only for his own family. I assume ill be home at the end of the shift and talk about plans for the next day. Reporter the police major here in Fairfax County says since 1976, six offic been shot. That is why five shot in one night is devastating. Thank you, david. The medical examiner has ruled the death of Philando Castile, the man shot during the traffic stop in minnesota, a homicide. They have also identified the officer as a fouryear veteran of the department. Castiles girlfriend says the officer shot him as he was reaching for his i. D. He had just told the officer that he had a weapon and a permit to carry it. Officers in that city do not wear body cameras. Our coverage will continue online in the nbc washington app. We have a map of the verified individu videos and photos. Our own Erika Gonzalez just arrived on the ground in texas. Watch for her reports today and throughout the weekend. We have a little bit of rain think. I missed the whole thing, doug. Has it blown over now. Were you in the makeup room, doreen . As a matter of fact, i was. Im only in there a short second. Exactly. And theres no windows in our makeup rooms. We are done with the rain in the d. C. Metro area. Could we see an isolated shower develop . Its possible. Most of the activity moves off to the east. Right around the quantico area and waldorf and Prince Georges County, no heavy rain. No heavy storm. A little bit of lightning, heavy rain. Thats going to be about it. The temperatures have fallen because of the rain. 79 in clinton and back up to 90 in leesburg and 92 in fredericksburg. Well talk about relatively cooler weather coming up for the weekend in a few minutes. For the second time this week, yet another young Northern Virginia man appears in court to face charges that he was trying to help isis. The mission in this case, to take pictures of possible targets. Coming up, what the suspects parents have to say. Plus, new fallout from a blatant disregard for safety. Find out who got fired for putting people at risk. And we have more Team Coverage on the traj dmgedy in dallas with a live report coming up next. We must believe that tomorrow will be better and it will. And we must love one another because, if woman i have a masurprise for you. Are you . Man you have a surprise for me . Narrator at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. And when theyre away, they miss out on a lot. But they wont miss out on financial support. Because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. Why do we do it . Because our vets sacrifice enough. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Stand by me. In the wake of the deadly attack in dallas, a security expert is on Facebook Live with Chris Lawrence and they are talking about which bridges need to be built between Law Enforcement and the communities they serve. Logon to nbc washingtons Facebook Page to join the conversation. Another Northern Virginia man is behind bars charged with trying to help isis. He later volunteered to take photos of potential targets in the d. C. Area. Julie carey is at the federal courthouse in alexandria where she spoke with the mans parents. Julie . Reporter haris qamar is his name and his dad is angry that hes trn education and aligned himself with isis. 25yearold haris qamar appearing in federal court to face the charges he provided Material Support to isis. When i went to his burke, virginia, home, his parents invited me inside. They didnt go to the hearing saying hes on his own now. If hes responsible, let him suffer, also. Reporter Court Documents reveal that his postings alerted attention to himself. He posted pictures of blood from beheadings, tweeting a prayer that europe would be conquered and auschwitz would be committed again. He said his cousin was in isis and qar needed photographs and videos of potential targets in the d. C. Area. He was under surveillance in early june as he drove with a confidential witness taking pictures of the pentagon and other promine d. C. Sites. Qamars interests in isis led to confrontations with his father who took his birth certificate away so he couldnt renew his passport and travel abroad. Today, his father angrily told me that his son has turned to crime because he was happy. I am not happy with him because he was not paying attention to his education. Reporter coming up on news4 at 6 00, ill tell you what haris qamar shouted at the pentagon as he drove by in the car to get those videos and pictures. Back to you. Julie carey, thanks. A metro train operator has been fired. General manager says the operator showed a blatant disregard for safety putting riders and workers at risk. Tuesday at the glenmont station. He put the track on the same tracks as an oncoming train and almost hit two track inspectors. To the latest in dallas where five officers have been killed and another seven wounded when one man opened fire during a peaceful demonstration. Well look at the three officers who have been identified including a transit officer for the city of dallas. Were live from Baylor Medical University with the latest of those who survived. Reporter this is the largest trauma one Medical Center which is able to deal with Mass Shootings and we have video here from last night, a very emotional scene. Many of the Police Officers showed up to pay their respects as two of their fellow officers came through the e. R. Here. And weve now learned the identity of three of those officers who have passed away. Patrick zamarripa was an iraq war veteran. He survived three wars. Michael krol, a former sheriffs deputy out of wayne county, michigan, and 23yearold brent thompson. Brent was just married two weeks prior. Three other officers, three d. A. R. T. Officers were injured. One has been treated and released and two are still here but were told the injuries are not life threatening. Back to you, doreen. Tammy leitner, thank you. And news about the victims to news now about the suspect. He had military training but for the first time were hearing about what happened during the standoff with police. Im tracee wilkins. After all of the violence that played out on social media across our country, why some here in Prince Georges County are turning to church for help. Th seeing someone killed on social media. Do not let this precipitate a new normal. I ask you to turn to each other, not against each other as we move forward. Lets support one another. Let us help heal one another. And i urge you to remember, today and every day, that we are one nation. What if we designed a stain for your deck. That not only looked as handsome as Charles Stephens barrel on his farewell voyage over niagara falls. Weather. No matter if the forecast is this. Or this. Or this. If a stain can make your deck beautiful and survive any amount of torture. Is it still stain . Arborcoat from Benjamin Moore ranks highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power. We felt rain come through the area and storm team 4 radar is tracking the storms from up around the jarretsville and Baltimore Area and Charles County and down into portions of Prince Georges County, too. Our closest area is down to the south. We can zoom in and you can see one storm around quantico. Heavy rain is moving into Charles County. Watching this area right here, its moving through extreme Charles County. Golden beach, watch out, youre about to get that over towards and all continuing to sag down to the south. Satellite and radar, showing you what is happening, its not an organized system, just a couple of storms moving through the region. This will move through and behind it theres not a lot going on here. Nothing else as far as storms. Well have cloudiness overnight as a result of storms to the west moving in. Thats going to be about it. Behind this, we get much nicer during the day tomorrow. At least lower humidity. High temperature or current temperature is down to 80. North winds at 10 miles an hour. The temperatures have come down but they are back up to the west. We saw the storm close to 90 in leesburg. Bull run coming in at 82 degrees. This is from our Weather Underground network around our region. As we move through the rest of the afternoon, were still dealing with humidity. Frederick, leesburg, all around 100. Quantico around the 100degree mark. What will we see tomorrow . Its still going to be hot. One more hot day. 94 degrees is what were going for. Still hot. Not as humid, though. Temperatures and humidity drops during the afternoon. That will help. 91 in leesburg and 80s back towards the north and west. Down towards the beaches, looking great the next couple of days. There will be a good chance for storms at the beaches tomorrow. Not a washout of a day. 84 on sunday and monday. Beautiful weather. Breezy on sundays but thats about it. But really nice. Next ten days, this is what were watching. 94 tomorrow and then look at sunday and monday. 89 degrees both days. 91 on tuesday and then take a look at this. Weve got a little heatwave coming up. That heatwave is lasting thursday, the hottest day at 95 with a good chance of look at next weekend. Two weekends now in the tenday forecast. Temperatures, once again, into the mid90s. The hazy, hot and humid weather wants to return. About five minutes. Thank you, doug. Now at 5 00 , a rockville woman is going to jail for the way she treated 66 animals. A reminder, we are keeping the conversation going on Facebook Live. Chris lawrence is answering questions with a retired d. C. Police officer in the wake of the shootings across the country. Join us on our Facebook Page. Police officers are guardians of the great democracy, the freedom of the protest, freedom of speech and expression. We are not going to let a coward who change our democracy. Were not going to do it. Ourcity, my son has meningitis b. But how did we end up here . His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis. Vaccine he had received. Until