At the Shopping Centers entrance well wishers left flowers and momentos as a memorial to alison and adam. Realtor mike hagan is taking it especially hard. The killings happened right outside his business. It hit me as soon as i skipped the parking lot. Oh, its just young people only, 24 years old, prime of her life and some idiot takes her out. The Franklin CountySheriffs Office released some new information about their investigation. They determined Vester Flanagan fired 17 rounds from a glock pistol. They say the attack appears well planned and premeditated. It appears flanagan acted alone and shared his plan with no one. Despite all the notes he left, there is no indication where he was heading or what he was going to do next and based on his writings, it is apparent that flanagan closely identified with people who committed domestic acts of violence and mass murder as well as the 9 11 attacks. Virginia Governor Terry mcauliffe visited the wdbj studio today to talk privately with the staff. He then talked with the media and addressed his support for universal background checks for gun purchases, but he also noted that flanagan passed a background check. Meantime Alison Parkers father said he is making it his mission to try and change gun laws. Andy parker said he spoke with governor mcauliffe about his concerns, but as of this afternoon he had not heard from senators cain or warner. Former music teacher lawrence joins had been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing elementary students. He taught at 11 different schools. Andrea mccarren was in the courtroom when he learned his sentence. Andrea . Reporter jan, lawrence joins wore a green prison jump suit and was not shackled in the courtroom. Not once did he glance at one of his victims who sat in the front row just steps away. At one point music teacher lawrence joins wept as he apologized for the crimes he committed against 14 of his students at New HampshireElementary School in silver spring. It seems like crocodile dealers wiping away tears from his face making an apology to no one thats there. Reporter the judge called the crimes outrageous. Records reveal he repeatedly videotaped girls in his classroom as young as 5 years old and later photo shopped their faces onto pornographic images. The majority of his victims were in kindergarten through 2nd grade. In order to gain the trust of children and of parents and of fellow teachers and administrators one has to be a master manipulator and this particular individual did. He manipulated them for over 27 years. Reporter one father spoke about the impact on his family as his now teenage daughter cried softly in the arms of aryl live. He said, i a relative. He said, i feel like i killed us all. He destroyed everything. Joins will be back in court later this year facing rape charges for a sexual relationship two years long he allegedly had with a middle School Student. Reporting live from Rockville Andrea mccarren, wusa9. Andrea, thank you. Several of joins victims filed civil suits against the School Teacher and School System alleging that the district failed to protect them. Florida governor declaring a state of emergency as erika heads closer to the u. S. She packed winds up to 50 Miles Per Hour knocking down trees and forward lines in puerto rico. The storm caused deadly flooding and mudslides thursday on the caribbean island of dominica as rivers overflowed into the streets. If erika does intensify into a hurricane, it would be the first in florida in a decade. Reporter here free sand bags are given out to residents as they prepare for Tropical Storm erika. Residents are taking advantage of this as you can see. More than 1,000 bags have been given out. Just in case getting ready because it says that it will come with lots of water. Crews have been setting up pumps to keep the water from flooding miamis beaches. First alert meteorologist Howard Bernstein joins us now. Whats the latest on erikas track . Erika is a disorganized mess, but its got all sorts of things to overcome if its going to threaten florida. They problem do the warning via Emergency Declaration like that to roll some assets, but its probably better safe than sorry. I dont think it will be too big of deal when it gets there. On satellite imagery its not that impressive, thunderstorms here and there. Ill switch you over to visible sat right. Can you make out the center satellite. Can you make out the center circulation . A little swirl there. The problem is this thing is very close to land with hispaniola that could disrupt its path. The track could weaken it to a tropical depression or kill it entirely at cuba. If theres anything left of it as it gets over now towards sunday night, maybe a weak Tropical Storm near key west. This thing could end up in the gulf of mexico and regenerate. There may be nothing left of it here. So well track it, but the threat from erika now i think a lot less than it was 24 hours ago. Ill be back with our weekend forecast in a few minutes. Ladies, back to you. A former prep School Student was acquitted of felony rape charges today, but the jury did find 19yearold owe been labrie guilty of owe been labrie guilty of owen labrie guilty of lesser Sexual Assault charges. It was called the senior salute where seniors try to have sexual relationships with new freshmen. Sky9 flew over the funeral procession today for the firefighter from Prince Georges County killed in a motorcycle accident. J. R. Harrison was a 29 year veteran of the Baltimore CountyPolice Department and promoted to lieutenant in 2009. Police say the 63yearold was on his way to his bowie home after work at the time of that crash. D. C. Police are trying to bring this violent summer to an end. Mpds all lands on deck initiative hands on deck initiative started at 3 p. M. This afternoon and runs through sunday, but the violence continued overnight. There were three shootings in southwest and southeast, but all four male victims are expected to survive. Were tracking metro tonight and the agency says it was a combination of human error and equipment problems that caused the train to derail earlier this month at the smithsonian station. The root cause of the problem was the failure of fasteners that hold the rail in place plus the technician inspecting the track deleted the defects from the report believing it was just a routine problem. Nobody was hurt, but if you were in that mess, you know a lot of people were late to work because service was interrupted. Hank silverberg has more details for us coming up at 6 00. For the first time in nearly two years the nsa can once again legally collect the phone records of millions of us. A federal Appeals Court today overturned a december, 2013 injunction against the program. The court ruled the plaintiff did not have the right to sue because he couldnt prove his records were actually collected. Starting in november phone companies will retain the data and the nsa can only access info on specific individuals through a court order. Well, the big reveal by the national zoo today, the panda cub is a boy. Bao bao has a little brother and they didnt have to look very far to find out who the daddy was. Its tian tian. Was really any question . Surae chinn gives us the rest of the details and the reaction from the zoo. Reporter the excitement at the national zoo is overflowing knowing that the new little cub is a boy and dads a local guy. Thats a stud. That is one stud. Reporter its official. Tian tian is now the father of three healthy panda cubs, tai shan, bao bao and the newest cub. Oh. I didnt know that. Reporter thats not all. So we just learned the new panda is a boy. Im a boy like the panda. Reporter the small boy cub makes big noises. For the panda team its music to their ears. Every time you hear that cub squealing you hear those big healthy lungs on it and its telling mei xiang that its hungry, that it wants to nurse and best of all, what we see is when the cub squeals, mei pay attention. Reporter the cub that didnt pays attention. Reporter the cub that didnt survive was a fraternal twin, also a boy. After a necropsy doctors discovered food in the lungs and preliminary test results suggest it died of aspiration pneumonia. That means the cub most likely choked on some food while being bottle or tube fed and the lungs got infected. The national zoo and its fans are focused on the living cub and the rest of his healthy family. I wished him a happy fathers day i mean really. He has to be very proud. Look at his abs. Hes got good abs. Reporter youll have to wait until january to see the new panda in person and as for a name, they may follow bao baos lead. She was named when she turned 100 days old. At the national zoo surae chinn, wusa9. Now the panda team said they had no other choice but to alternate the cubs with mom and with bottle feedings because if they didnt do that either both of them may not have survived or the result would have been the same. After several days of steep drops and big climbs the stock market stayed on a relatively even keel today. Thank goodness. At the end of trading there were mixed results among the major stock indexes. The dow fell about 12 points. The s p 500 was up about 1 point and the nasdaq gained 16 points. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. Searching for the driver in a hit and run that left a Prince Georges County mother dead, scott brooms emotional interview with her family coming up at 5 30. Plus katrina 10 years later, did the government do everything it could to help the people in new orleans . We hear from residents who weigh in. And a local father shares his story about leaving the big easy after the storm for the clear skies in Northern Virginia. Every cup has a story. Dunkin kcup packs in my life were a good fit. A single serving for myself, its pretty special. It is like having a dunkin store in my home which is what ive always dreamed of. Bring home delicious dunkin kcup packs today. Your coffee, your dunkin. Dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter. Put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. Former president george w. Bush traveled to new orleans today to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. Some residents say the federal government was too slow in responding to the disaster. Others point out the Bush Administration provided more than 140 billion to help the gulf coast recover. The darkness from a decade ago has lifted. The Crescent City has risen again and its best days lie ahead. The mayor of new orleans called bushs visit a moment for healing, a moment for commemoration and a moment of thanks. A Northern Virginia man is plunge those counting their blessing among those counting their blessings tonight after surviving a deadly hurricane. After leaving new Orleans Richmond davis is now enjoying the beauty after the storm. Reporter the day the levees broke new orleans was forever changed. From churches to mosques to synagogues, americans all across the country today paused to pray for the communities and lives lost to hurricane katrina. Reporter nearly 2,000 lives were lost and thousands more turned upside down. Some things are like seared in your mind, you know, the trash, the smells, you know, just the helplessness that you had. You just was one of many faces that was trying to get out of there. Reporter prior to katrina the thought of ever leaving the big easy was never an option for Richmond Davis, a single father of three at the time. New orleans is the only city that lived in your heart. Reporter but seeking Higher Ground for his family, richmond was among the evacuees who went from the superdome to sterling, virginia. Wusa9 caught up with the davis family 10 years ago as they were living out of a hotel. It was just sort of fresh to come up here out of being from one of the poorest environments to coming to one of the richest counties in america was an eye opener. Reporter it was in sterling where richmond realized his potential as a parent, a practicing deacon and a Maintenance Mechanic at nih. I was like man, whatever i have to do to stay here, im going to do it. Reporter 10 years removed from one of the worst natural disasters in u. S. History, Richmond Davis has found Higher Ground, married once again with five kids. Of the three who were once displaced, his oldest daughter rashonda is a bank teller in atlanta. Richmond jr. Joined the air force and britney just went off to school at old dominion. Life is subject to change like for me overnight. A big wind came, a big storm came and it looked like the baddest day of my life that i could have ever had and once the gray clouds left, you know, the sun came out for me in so many ways and allowed me to see how Beautiful Life can be. Reporter nick giovanni, wusa9 news. Thats a great story there. Katrina was a category 3 when it made landfall. Imagine a stronger storm, would they be able to handle it . Would that city be able to handle it . Probably now that theyve rebuilt the levee system, spent 14. 5 million, but the whole heartache was because the original levee system wasnt built properly and it failed. If it had been built properly, new orleans wouldnt have flooded like that. The core of the storm went into the mississippi gulf coast. New orleans was brushed by it. They had winds 80 miles an hour, but they did not take a direct hit. Theres still some gulf towns still trying to rebuild all these years later. I was down there five years ago and there was still so much on the east side of town, the 9th ward, still looked like a ghost town. We got a little system out there now, talking about erika. Thats a weak system and i think other than some rain toward florida its probably not going to do much the way its looking now. Ragweed season and if you suffer from that, you know it. Its high today. Mold spores have come down to moderate, same as yesterday with trees and grasses, low. What a nice looking evening, 82, dew points in the upper 50s, so its still comfortable out there. Thats going to change when the temps and humidity creep up through the weekend. The wind direction is now coming out of the south slowly increasing the moisture. Lots of 70s off to the east in Southern Maryland across the bay, near 70 in the mountains and a beautiful 79 at front royal at this hour, fredericksburg a little warmer. Our weather headlines for you this friday evening, summer is not over. Im going to tell you now dont expect weather like this in august to last and even the first half of september can be awfully hot and it looks like were going to head toward a hot stretch of weather starting sunday. Low 90s, theyre going to be back by sunday and theyre going to be around for much of the next week coming up. The humidity creams up. We need some rain. Creeps up. We need some rain. Its been really dry and the rain chances stay low, so you better be watering if you care about it. Marlins are in town for a weekend set, 82 at 6 00 at nats park, temperatures falling through the 70s and a real comfortable time to be watching baseball in washington. High pressure still dominating near binghamton now, but as it shifts away the winds shift to the south and bring the moisture back. Theres not much to show you. The drier air will depart replaced by slightly more humid air, but we just dont see much popping here tomorrow on our futurecast and even sunday, for that matter. Maybe a few more clouds try to creep in here, but a quiet weekend coming up, maybe a good weekend to run over to the shore, not too many more of these left, right . 80 degrees on saturday, bite your tongue im hearing, 85 on sunday and monday a little warm, 87. Around here tonight clear to partly cloudy, could see a late patch of fog, upper 50s in the cool spots, 68 downtown, south winds at 5. Decent saturday 60s and 70s, comfortable in the morning, a little hotter top afternoon but still not too humid, 85 to 90. So if youre headed up toward baltimore tomorrow night for the football game, its going to be great for that. Sunday stray afternoon storm, 92, same on monday, 92 and as you look at the sevenday forecast, those temps stay in the low 90s, nighttime low 60s and 70s, going to feel more like july than september. Straight ahead what police want you to know as kids in Montgomery County head back to school next week. Just another reminder, plus one Smartphone Company gets ready to offer up a sweet deal to get potential customers to switch carriers. Ill tell you about that. And Apple Unveils big upgrades for popular devices. Ill tell you about it in tonights consumer alert. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those minivan . We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life, state farm is there. Back on wusa9 with a crazy scene out of miamidade, florida. A car landed upside down in a become yard swimming pool. We are told several people were inside, but everyone got out safely and there were no serious injuries. This happens more often than you might actually think. An suv ended up in a california backyard phenomenon just three days ago pool just three days ago. School starts on monday for students in Montgom