Out. Someone reported hearing gunshots inside building one. Thats the iconic building for this facility with the tower. Now, everyone on the ground of the sprawling campus was ordered to shelter in place and teams from the military began a systemic search of building one, assisted by some Montgomery County police teams as well. Now, all 20 stories had to be searched. As you might imagine that did not happen quickly. It took almost four hours for shermgt in place to be the allclear being given. It turned out to be nothing, but no one is criticizing the person who made the call, as we hear from Montgomery CountyPolice Captain paul starks. Given the times we live in and this facility we wanted to ensure that while we didnt have any indication at the time, except for the call, we want to be able to set up a perimeter and make things safe for the thousands of people on this campus. Reporter now, one of the things that did happen is all nonemergency applications and nonemergency appointments here were canceled for the day. They were treating this like a snow day and things should be getting back to normal tomorrow. Now for more on reaction from the people who were actually inside when this happened, we go to news4s meagan fitzgerald. Megan . Reporter derek, there certainly was a sense of calm here among the patients and the employees who showed up here, that many of them were trying to get in right over here at gate two. They were arriving here to get treatment or to go to work when they were told that there was a possible active shooter inside the building. Now, we spoke with many folks who were sitting outside of gate two trying to gather information from coworkers who were inside. One employee showed us the text message he received, telling him of a code white, and a possible active shooter. But many of the people we spoke with were relieved to see the heavy Police Presence giving them a sense of reassurance that the situation was under control. It wasnt until around 2 00, so three hours after building was on lockdown, that patients and employees allowed to leave. We had a chance to catch up with them as they walked toward the metro. Metro. We here theres an active shooter alert, told to get inside under cover, get down. So thats what we do. A lot of calm because a whole bunch of military veteran, combat veterans, so we are all kind of all of us have experience. Reporter we spoke to some veterans who said people were shaken up. But on the whole they were getting regular updates throughout the lockdown situation, letting them know whats happening. Meagan fitzgerald, thanks. As we mentioned, for several tense hours, employees and patients remained in safe areas. One worker by the name of sam we contacted on periscope called us to explain how they were getting information. The intercom system is computerized that lets us know that you know they get our feedback from us and they let us know if we are in immediate danger or safe or not. The walter reed facility is huge, the campus stretches across nearly 250 acres and 7,000 people work there. Every year, more than 28000 patients visit the emergency room. With the scene at the National NavalMedical Center comes four days after the navy yard was put on lockdown. Last week, an employee reported hearing gunshots and people were ordered to shelter in place. Officers swept the campus and didnt find any evidence of a shooting. Of course two years ago, a former contractor shot and killed 12 people there our coverage continues on our website. We posted the most important tweets and other social media posts from todays scare on nbcwashington. Com. Turning now to the weather on this monday. Storm team4 is tracking isolated storms and the chance for heavy downpours this evening. Storm team4 chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer is in the storm center with the latest. What we are looking at here pat, not talking about severe weather, i dont think. Could be one or two stronger storms. The biggest threat couric feel the atmosphere, going to be the very soupy air that could lead to downpours as we make our way through the rest of the evening hours. Storm team4 radar tracking the rain, see it all moving up from the south around our area. Storms developing right now in and around the d. C. Metro area but also just back to the west, back toward frederick county, martinsburg, back towards that area aroundism81. Look at this band through leesburg, portions of fauquier county, over 66 and then watch a couple of showers and storms south of the city of fairfax, these moving toward tysons, along the belt watch these will bring very heavy rain to the beltway within the next 10 to 15 minutes. Continue to monitor these storms as we move on through the rest of the night. One thing for sure we have got storms this evening, just hot tomorrow and then the storms return. I will show you when in my forecast. D. C. Police say they have caught the man responsible for that deadly stabbing on metro on saturday. A lot of you are expressing relief on our nbc washington base facebook page, as condolence for the family continue to pour in. Kevin sutherlands congressman in his hometown in connecticut posted condolences on his twitter page. Sutherland is pictured on the right when he was an intern for jim hines. Sutherland was going to meet friends for the fourth of july when police say jasper spires tried to rob him and then stabbed him. This happened on a train heading to the Noma Gallaudet station. Today the u. S. Attorneys office sent out a statement staying will continue to work with Law Enforcement part mothers vigorously pursue justice in this case. More on why spifrs released from jail day before the stabbing coming up on news4 at 5 00. Also working new information about a deadly Home Invasion in Prince Georges County. Police say a homeowner shot and killed a man who tried to climb through a window of the house early this morning. This took place in a gated community in Upper Marlboro on blue sage lane within the past couple of hours. Police say the two used used to have a romantic relationship. News4s strays wilkins will have more on that connection in just a couple of minutes. A little boy viciously beaten in hagerstown over a slice of birthday cake and now we have confirmed that he has died. Jack garcia was 9 years old an passed away yesterday from injuries he got from his mothers boyfriend. Robert wilson accused of beating and handcuffing garcia for eating a piece of birthday cake without permission. Police previously said they would pursue murder charges against wilson if that little died. The mother accused of abandoning her bay boyne the side of the road in maryland has been charged with child neglect and learning more about sandra mclairrys criminal history. Anne Arundel Police say she left her 6monthold daughter in pasadena a clergyman was coming home from Church Saturday night when he found the baby girl in her car seat. Child protective services now has the baby and she is in good condition. Mcclary informs court today and we learned she previously was scheduled to go on trial this week on robbery and Assault Charges from last year. Change of mind in a Chinese Restaurant today. We go inside the thought process of the woman accused of helping two killers break out of prison. Mass and meeting a mentor. We ride along with pope francis as he makes an good afternoon. Once again, everybody, temperatures warmed well up into the 80s no 90s on the map anymore, we had a 99 in fredericksburg an hour or so ago. Rain showers are helping just a smidge ton cool things down across the area. Rain showers continuing to dot the landscape all across storm team4. These are northbound rain drops now, showers moving into parts of fairfax county, headed into Montgomery County the next little while. The heaviest shower there on the southeastern corner of the beltway here, could slow down things a bit for the afternoon commuters. Follow the rest of the shower chances coming up in a few more minutes. Some intriguing new details this afternoon about the change of heart that led Joyce Mitchell to ditch the plan to be the get away driver for those inmates who escaped from prison in new york. Just hours before the planned escape, june 5th mitchell says she looked across the dinner table at her husband and realized he had been good to her. She says she knew if she went through with the plan inmate richard matt would murder her husband. A Law Enforcement official involved in the search tells the buffalo news that mitchell had a moment of clarity. She decided the only way to save her husband was to abandon the plan. Now, nbc news has not verified this report. Richard matt and david sweat escaped that night and spent three weeks on the run. Matt was shot and killed june 26th. Two days later, sweat was captured. News4 consumer watch has been warning us about how dangerous backyard decks can be and now, a family from Northern Virginia has been injured in a could i lapse thats making national news. They rented a beach house in emerald isle, North Carolina, and were posing for a Family Picture when some nails gave way. 24 people were injured when the deco lapse and everyone fell about ten feet to the ground. There were kids as young as 5 years old, people as old as 94. Celebrations as the pope takes to the streets of south america. His plans for the weeklong trip there and why his visit to the why are we watching this again . I pay for all these channels, so i make myself watch them all. Joey, ill watch anything except this. Except this. Go back, go back, go back, go back, go back, go back. Fios custom tv lets you pay for the types of channels you want, not the ones you dont. 100 fiber optics is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now for 79. 99 a month. Go online or call. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v right now, we follow a developing story of walter reed. A workweek came to an abrupt halt someone reported a gunshot and the Medical Center was put on lockdown for nearly four hours. We have a team of reporters talking to workers there. We will update you as soon as we get them. Breaking news right now coming into our newsroom. The South Carolina state senate has just voted to remove the Confederate Flag from the grounds of the state house capitol. Versus of Amazing Grace could be heard at the state house h a group of christians sang to honor the nine People Killed in a Charleston Church last month. This move sparked to take tank down the flag. We are hearing the state senate in South Carolina has voted to remove the Confederate Flag from the grounds of the state capitol. And jay gray will have a live report on the debate coming up in our next half hour. Hundreds of thousands of people filled a park in ecuadors main port city this afternoon for Pope Franciss first mass during his threenation visit to south america. The openair mass was fest tivg the crowd was filled with young and old. Francis focused his homily on families as the bedrock of society. Nbcs Anne Thompson has more on this visit. Reporter the key toe welcomed pope francis a hail of flowers, one of the many abundant Natural Resources in this otherwise poor country. Ed wind the winds took the popes skullcap before he got down the stairs of the plane. He noted the singular beauty of ecuador and manufacture suzed two things on this trip caring for the people marginalized by society and promoting socially responsible economic development. Beyond he can yad dore the pope will visit bolivia where almost half the population lives in poverty and paraguay populateded by Drug Trafficking and money laundering. All the krunts overwhelmingly catholic none are economic powers. In fact, they are far from it. These countries are minor countries in latin america. And thats why he is going to them, because he wants to be with these people on the peripheries. Reporter though the crowds will be different, the message will be the same when the pope comes to the states in september because he will meet with prisoner herbs the poor and immigrants then, just as he is going to do here in latin america. Im Anne Thompson in quito. Now back to you. At first it looks like any holiday on a crowded beach in california. Then you notice the plane making an Emergency Landing by the water. The plane was towing a banner ad went engine lost power. This happened on saturday the pilot decided to crash land on carlsbad state beach. No one really expecting an airplane to land on the beach. I think the pilot did a good job of picking a good spot to land, making sure that he waited to the last possible minute to touch down so that theres fewer chances he was going to hit anyone. There was one injury, a 12yearold boy suffered a big cut on the back of his head when he was clipped by either the plane or flying debris. It has been sunny and steamy for most of the day, but it looks like now thats about to give way to some rain maybe doug . Yeah, showers coming down fairly heavy in parts of the region. Not every will be see them but if you do, you will need the big umbrella. Not picking up on any lightning. Outside, show what you is happening around our area, mixture of sun and clouds, blue skies but on the warm side. 878 degrees today. Look that the heat index up to 95 degrees at the airport. So, thats where it is really hot and steamy. The rest of the area, not nearly as bad. Warmer at the airport. 85, hunting town, 82, gaithersburg, 88 fled rick 83 towards culpepper. We are seeing those storms. Here is storm team4 radar, all the storms making their way up the south moving through the region. Some heavier than others. Very heavy rain north and west of winchester, making its way back toward morgan county, West Virginia and down to the south looking at very heavy rain around Loudoun County. This rain actually moving to the north and west along the frontal roundry boundary. We will zoom in on the d. C. Metro area, along 270, some shower activity, look at these around the city of fairfax these will move through fairfax, up toward the Tysons Corner area, very heavy rain in and around that region where seven meets with route 50. Theres falls church idle wood, mcclain Tysons Corner going to see heavy rain the next few minutes a lot of people asking about the nats game tonight, i think we will get the game in not going to be an issue, yes quo, have a delay or two during the game because of showers. Tomorrow morning no problem, starting off nice on your tuesday tuesday afternoon, shower and thunderstorm activity toward the mountains, but watch what happens as they try to move out into the metro region. They just die out. Not expecting much in the way of rain tomorrow at all as we move through wednesday. We have the forecast on wednesday, 91 degrees 50 chance of showers, maybe a couple of thunderstorms as a frontal boundary moves toward the region. That front doesnt quite get here. The weekend, not bad, High Temperature upper 80s to around 90 degrees. Guys, warm and humid but not talking about any real heat moving in. We are used to it doug, thanks. A professional Football Player may be able to play again after a bad accident on the fourth of july. Jason pierrepaul plays for the new york giants and multiple reports say he seriously burned at least one of his hands while lighting fireworks in florida. The New York Post quotes a source with the giants who disputes speculation that pierrepauls fingerers were blown off. We now have a better idea of just how many people wanted to talk to soccer phenom carli lloyd after her record setting performance in yesterdays world cup final. The Womens National team tweeted some video of lloyd walking back to the locker room after u. S. Beat japan to win the title. Lloyd said she had 372 Text Messages on her phone. No doubt, many of them were congratulating her on the fastest hat trick ever seen in a world cup final. This morning, lloyd told the today show that her three goals still felt surreal. I will saver and cherish this moment for a little bit because its all the hard work has definitely paid off but credit to my teammates and Coaching Staff as well because without them, none of this would be possible. The teams first world cup championship win since 1999. As news4s david culver shows us a lot of cause for celebration in this area. Many of you showing love to the local ladies of team usa. Lets check out some of your tweets start with ali krieger, went to Forest Park High School in woodbridge. Taylor here tweeting out ali krieger representing nova, then head coach jill ellis actually grew up in fairfax, went to robinson secondary school, where the rams play. Ram athletics tweeting out, congrats, head soccer coach, jill he willicious the ram pride hashtag continues here we haven who says home of the champions has never been more true. Now, from robinson, ellis actually went on to the college of william and mary, my alma matter. Tribe athletics tweeting a photo of a young jill, see her there, she played soccer at william and mary next to jill today the world cup champ. The