The event center. Reporter where the inaugural muhammad art contest and art exhibit was coming an end including a 10,000 prize for the winning cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Katrina pierson was inside when the shots were fired. We all knew there was a chance something bad may happen. Reporter we are learning more about simpson convicted of lying to federal agents five years ago about his plans to join a terror group in africa. There are also indications of a message on social media with texasattack 30 minutes before the shooting. Jay gray nbc news garland, texas. We have new details coming into the newsroom about the organization thats at the center of this attack in the dallas suburbs. Were learning that the American FreedomDefense Initiative has ties in our area. That organization has a long history of courting controversy by targeting muslims. The American FreedomDefense Initiative is listed as an antimuslim hate group by the southern poverty law center. Last nights event promised a 10,000 prize for the best cartoon of muhammad. The group run controversial ads on subways and buses in cities across the country including here in d. C. Investigators trying to figure out if the shooters targeted the event because of the mockery of muhammad. Back to you. Thanks wendy. Over the weekend, somebody walked up to a new York City Police officer and shot him in the head. That officer has now died. Today, other officers lined up to salute the ambulance carrying the body of 25yearold brian moore. As it left the hospital today. Moore was shot on saturday. He and his partner both of them in plains clothes approached a man they suspected of carrying a gun. The man who they believe shot him is named demitrius blackwell. Theres a tense scene in baltimore where crowds gathered following reports that police shot a young man while arresting him. That was not the case. It happened where the rioting took place last week. Police say they chased a man who was spotted carrying a gun. There were initial hots the man was shot in the back but police say the man dropped the gun in the chase and it went off. Hes happy the charges filed so quickly in the case but still work to be done. Nbcs lester holt sat down with grays family for an exclusive interview. They just gave me a little more confidence and the States Attorneys Office and people that n that area. But as far as Law Enforcement itself i just feel still the same way that i felt when i first found out what had happened. Lester holt will have more from the interview coming up on the nbc nightly news at 7 00 tonight. Now to a story to see only here on news 4 with a fight over a brand new condo building in the district. Because of the controversy, crews are now tearing the new building down against the owners will. The building is at the corner of 17th and d streets northeast. Not too far away from rfk stadium. It sits on top of an old water and water sewer system and thats the problem. Mark segraves is there. Mark . Reporter yeah you know this is one that really has residents in this neighborhood scratching their heads and wondering how could this have ever gotten to this point. Look at the brand new fourstory multiunit condo. Its coming down because of whats beneath it. Is the reason theyre going to tear it down. I watched it go up. Now im going watch it come down. Reporter neighbors wondering how it could happen as demolition crews hired by d. C. Water are gutting the brand new multimillion dollar building. A complete waste of money. Its a complete waste of time. A complete waste of labor. Reporter the developer says they had all the proper permits from the city to build the condos but d. C. Water says the building is in danger of causing catastrophic damage to the aging water tunnel that runs beneath the new condos. Its a little surprising they would be issued permits in the first place to build something on such a main focal point for the water supply. Reporter the developer filed suit in d. C. Supreme court to get the demolition stopped. In Court Documents the developer says they had all the proper permits and d. C. Water knew of their plans to build here but never opposed the permits until after the building was nearly complete. Long before the issue with the sewer was brought up neighbors raised concerns about the project and asked city officials if the developer had proper permits in the first place. We raised the issue of illegal construction because the building was humongous. Reporter the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission couldnt get straight answers from the agency that issued permits. It turns out they were. In a written statement, d. C. R. A. Said it issued the permits and insists the developer filed a false application. The sad thing is that the owner has spent a large amount of money. Stupid. But now that i find out why it makes complete sense but why didnt they know anything about it before they allowed the guy to build it . Reporter and that is really what may be become the multimillion dollar question. How did d. C. Issue the permits not knowing that this water main was underneath . A spokesman tells us that they became aware once there was an actual rupture to the water main and came out to repair it and thats when they went to court and said theyre going to have to tear down the building. The building is definitely coming down. The question is who will have to pay for it . That will likely be answered by a judge. Back to you. Thanks. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton says she will testify before members of congress about that attack on a diplomatic come pound in libya. Four americans were killed in that attack back in september of 2012. A special panel is investigating. They wanted clinton to appear before them twice, once to answer questions about benghazi and another time to answer questions about her use of a personal email account. Clintons lawyers says she will testify but only once. That hearing could happen as early as may 18th. List of republicans running for president just grew by two. Former hewlettpackard ceo Carly Fiorina and retired neuro surgeon ben carson are joining the race. Neither candidate has ever held an elected office before. She released a video announcing her run. Carson who lives in baltimore made his announcement from his hometown of detroit. News 4 im sorry, minutes ago, School Officials in Prince William county responded of the safety concerns of a seventh grader. She was attacked by classmates on her way home from Lake Ridge Middle School in woodbridge last week. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey is there where Officials Say it is safe for the student to return but her mother says she is not so sure. Julie . Reporter well the victims mom started sounding the alarms weeks ago telling officials the daughter was threatened on social media and at school. Then last week the mom says some of her daughters classmates made good on the threat. Theres candy in one bag, school work in this environment for a middle School Student attacked by a group of girls on the way home from school last week. Her girlfriends were making a special delivery today. The victim is now in a neck brace because of an injury she received. We have agreed not to show her face. The 13yearold is home from school for the Third Straight day because her mom fears the attackers might still be in class. After this happens, i cant just walk away and say its going to be fine and send her back to school. Reporter sarah is especially frustrated because she warned School Officials earlier last month that the daughter was being threatened by another girl and documented the concerns in this email. I was assured by the school the counselors and the vice principal, if they were going to do this they would have done it. Reporter her daughter was attacked confronted and punched by one of the girls. When my daughter was able to get the girl in a headlock and couldnt punch her anymore, two other girls jumped on her. Reporter she said other students told there would be a fight rolled video on the phone. The daughters friend called 911. Now her mother just wanted School Officials to hell her its safe for her daughter to return to school. My daughters at home. I want to be sure that the situation is taken care of. Reporter the Communications Director says hes barred from discussing individual students but tells me quote, they have taken this very seriously and the principal is very confident the girl is coming into a safe school environment. Now, School Officials tell me conferences are planned this week with all the parents involved and Communications Director says quote, there will be further resolution of the issue at that time. By the way, the students tell me today that two of the three girls involved in the attack have not been in class this week. Back to you, now. Thanks julie. News 4 learned that the state Department Employee accused of trying to solicit a child for sex now has a new lawyer. His name is daniel rosen, the suspect, that is. Arrested in february on charges of solisciting a minor and arrested again weeks later on unrelated charges of stalking and voyeurism. Rosen was a top Counter Terrorism official. He was supposed to be in court in Fairfax County today. That case was continued until late july because of the change of counsel. Its video that landed a local Police Officer on the other side of the law. Why hes in trouble for what he did to a student on camera and whether the student in the middle of it says its enough. And uncertainty at an iconic washington building. A collapse at the waertdgate. Im tom sherwood in northwest washington. Wisconsin avenue lots of speeding traffic. New speed cameras here and around town to slow people down. Temperatures in the 80s today and watching a cold front back to the west for a chance of storms. Ill show you when they can move in theres new reaction tonight to an awful story. Two delaware teenagers are still in Critical Condition six weeks after being poisoned in a family vacation. A contractor working for terminix accused of spraying a banned pesticide at the Virgin Islands resort where they were staying in st. John. The family released a statement saying today theyre confident those responsible will be brought to justice. Terminix the epa and other agencies are investigating. Speed cameras all over the district popping up. Five new added to the dozens in service. There are questions about whether the cameras really make sense. Tom sherwood talks with a city leader supporting the cameras and wants a change in the speed limits. Reporter on some city streets it feels like a racetrack. Despite all sorts of caution signs. Pennsylvania avenue southeast. It can be a speedway with sudden stops. Thats a reason the speed cameras in the 3000 block. Its just been activated. Right here for church sundays, they just fly right on through. Reporter its one of five new cameras going into effect today with a 30day grace period of warning tickets. They join dozens of other cameras spread across the city. Council chairman says speed cameras are important for safety. But should be moved around more often to surprise speeders. Camera revenues have fallen sharply. They slow down and speed up after seeing the cameras. Reporter he says some speed limits are set too low lie a lot of motorists rightfully upset over the speed limits and some places the speed limits really are not adjusted to the conditions of the road. Reporter 2600 block of wisconsin the pollingers welcomed the camera worrying about grandchildren soon to walk through here. Our grandchildren down here and up the hill and alone next year. Watch the cars coming from up the hill and make sure that they see you. Reporter in the district tom sherwood news 4. People return to work at the Watergate Office complex today. Many sent home on friday after that big parking garage llapse. Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the floors to crumble and doesnt appear anybody was killed here. Crewa preliminary search and doing a more extensive dig. Residents of watergate west spent the weekend without hot water and air conditioning. It was a nice weekend. Wouldnt have been good to be without air conditioning. Warm and sunny and lovely. 84 yesterday. 84 today. Maybe 85. If we did, warmest day so far this year. Lets say it was 85. Warmest day this yore. More like june than may. Really does. One of us here has their convertible down. You noticed that . Not me. Not me either. Take a look. Show you whats going on outside right now. A beautiful, beautiful afternoon. Plenty of sunshine. Look at the numbers. Sitting at 82 degrees right now. Winds out of the south at 10 miles per hour. Humidity not much of a factor although its a little bit on a hazy side and seen some of that hazy sunshine today. Look at the numbers. 86 in leesburg. 81 in winchester. The cool spot still at 75 and annapolis at 76 degrees. Gorgeous. Nothing on the radar right now but this is what were watching. Any time we get this warm this time of year average High Temperature around 72 talking about 10 15 degrees above average, you know somethings going on. We have plenty of sunshine from boston where they hit 83 First Time Since midseptember down towards raleigh and the eastern seaboard. Beautiful. Look at the west here. This is a cold front making the way our way. This is the cold front to come through tomorrow and make the way down and then move right back up toward the north and not seeing the colder air from this and we will see a good chance for thunderstorm activity. Not tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning, no problem. A day very much like today, at least early on. Plenty of sunshine early. Temperatures soaring. And thats when we see the showers develop as the front moves in. Watch what happens around 4 30. There it is. Culpepper culpepper, d. C. Baltimore and annapolis. A good chance for storms and thats one round. Looks like this computer model trying to give us yet another round and it tells us we have a good chance for storms in the evening hours tomorrow. Could coincide with the evening rush and could slow us down a bit. How strong . Not anticipating Severe Weather but we could see a strong storm or two with heavier downpours just like last week. 83 degrees in d. C. Tomorrow. 82 in martinsburg. 85 down towards fredericksburg and cooler. Good day today to get out there for golf. Tomorrow just as nice. 66 for 7 00 a. M. 9 00 a. M. Around 71 degrees. Play early if you have a 5 00 tee time. That impact forecast tomorrow on the low side for sure. Only thing is the storms but it will be quite warm and quite warm for the foreseeingible future. Next four to seven days. Thats what we have see here. Another chance 0 storms on wednesday. High temperature on wednesday of 80 degrees and another cold front and bringing temperatures below 80. Still 79 but below 80. 83 on friday. 86 on saturday. 87 on sunday. The weekend looking very nice. Maybe another isolated shower on saturday. All in all, a pretty good sevenday forecast and one of the best we have had here in the last couple of months. We need the warmer weather. Looks like its finally here. Must feel good to share a forecast like that after the winter we have had. I love sharing. We love hearing it. Coming up tonight, the convicted marathon bomber in tears for the first time. Well tell you about that. You want a smooth safe road . Then you want this thing driving down the street. Im adam tuss. Boston marathon bomber tsarnaev cried in the courtroom today. Its the fooirs time theres been any demonstration of emotion from him. Tsarnaev wiped tears from his eyes as his aunt sobbed uncontrollably on the stand. She was so upset the defense moved on to another witness to give her time to compose herself, the same jury that convicted tsarnaev in the bombing is deciding whether he should get the death penalty. Mr. Paul vance is remembered tonight for dedicating more than 40 years of his life to ensuring that children got a good education. He died on saturday at the age of 83. In 1991, dr. Vance became the first africanamerican educator to lead Montgomery County schools. He agreed to come out of retirement the next year to lead the d. C. Public schools and served in that role for three years. You probably drive on some rough roads for your commute but one road crew is fighting back with a hightech and pricey laser vehicle. Transportation Officials Say this milliondollar truck pays for itself. News 4 transportation reporter adam tuss explains. Reporter call them the road doctors. Laser systems, camera systems. Reporter maryland state highways automated road analyzer costs over 1 million. Its mission, giving you a better ride. This is the same camera they use for the nfl in the football games. Reporter it analyzes processes and tells crews what needs to be fixed so efficiently that crews say it pays for itself in manpower hours alone. All right. You wont find any rock stars getting out of this vehicle but you might find a transportation reporter. Hey, this thing costs over a million bucks and helping keep the roads you drive safe and smooth. Every year george and terry drive all across the state about 12,000 miles. I dont know my sons birthday but i know every road in maryland. Reporter yep, you heard that right and he is not joking around. Whats the roughest road . Is there like one road in the state that stands snout. Montgomery in pc county. Reporter theres just too much traffic in our area. Theyll wait until school is out to take a close look at the road. Maryland is one of only a handful of states to own anaran and they have two. The team says please be patient. Little bit of courtesy could be appreciated. Reporter in