breaking at 11:00, authorities call this man a mass he appears in court afr twin mosque attacks in new zealand killed people. new details on the massacre tonight. we have live team coverage on the tragedy.

how local muslimsg are com together to remember the victims. the border battlea up as president trump does something he's never done before. > theymped the body on the side of the road and also set him on fire. and new information on a gang-related murdernd a local mother grieving the loss of her. 16-year-old s news 4 at 11:00 begins with breaking news. a white supremacist w hated muslims and immigrants appeared in court to face charges that he gunned down 49 people. >> brenton taran is accused of targeting two mosques in the deadliest shooting in modern new zealand history. in court today he showed now emotion, now new zealand law doesn't allow us to show you his face. >> but we already know a lot about his alleged act of terror that has the country's prime minister promising to change gun chws. nbc's rd engel begins our team coverage. >> reporter: it was no accident

that new zealand's deadliest errorist attack began around 1:45 in the afternoon. a gunman storming this mosque i wh was packed with hundreds of muslims performing friday afternoon prayers. >> could hear screaming and crying and i saw some peop were, you know, dropped dead. >> reporter: witnesses say the attacker came in through the front door wearing all black. police say he had at least two assault rifles and a shotgun. >> i saw in the main room on the right-hand side, there were 20-pluslepe some of them were dead, some of them were screami: . >> reporte survivor managed to escape. his shirt covered in blood. >>od the b is spilling on me, splashing on me and i'm thinking, oh, my god, oh, my god, it's going to happen to me now. >> reporter: witnesses describing the killer. >> was wearing a black helmet with the big machine gun. >> reporter: on that helmet the gunman had a camera. this image taken in his car as

he arrivedt t mosque. he live streamed 17rayed horr b into men, women and children, stalking from room to room, stopping only to reload.h then got into his r, drivings thr driving three miles away to launch another dell rampage. later police rammed his vehicle where they found explosive devices. that's the suspect being taken into custodn two intelli sources tell nbc news the suspect is 28-year-old brenton tarrant, a white supremacist who posted an apparent manifesto of anti-musli anti-immigrant conspiracies. >> this is one of new zealand's darkest days. >> reporter: just 5 million people live in new zealand where many police officers don't carry weapons. >> many of those who will have been directly affected by this shooting may be mignts to new zealand. they may even be refugees here. they are us.

the personas who perpetuated this violence against us is not. >> reporter: richard engel, nbc news. >> now, our team coverage continues tonight in sterling, virginia. these mourners gathered to pray for the victims. >> news 4 shomari stone spoke to people who paid respects atthe adams center and tells us security at the vigil was a top concern. shomari? >> reporter: good evening. it was a sense of solidarity, unity here at the adams center mosque behind me. loudoun county iff's deputies had extra patrols at this mosque and others throughout nthern virginia. tonight the muslim community is grieving. a prayer service at the ada center mosque in sterling, virginia. paying tribute tothe at least 49 people killed in a terrorist attack at two mosques in new zealan >> it hit very close to home.

we're at a mosque right now. >> reporter: this woma and her daughter are thankful. >> this kind of response, it will give us comfort. >> reporter: are offering support to their heartbroken community. >> there are people from all over behind us, from different places of worshipere to ng port us, so we're fee very supported. >> reporter: the worshippers in new zealand were attending friday prayers when the gunman opened fire. >> my heart ached when i heard out this very horrific tragedy, and, you know, so it was just obviously concern about, you know, copycats. it angers me, but it also concerns me. >> reporter: loudoun county chair at large, phyllis randall says hate-filled rhetoric is responsible for the seemingly endless terror attacks. >> when you think about what happened at charlottesville, you think about mother emanuel hurch in south carolina. you think aboe attack on the synagogue last -- a couple

of months ago and you this. it just keeps happening over and over. >> hate is just not going to make us move forward. it's just not helping anything.r orter: now, the adams center is advising muslims tovi staylant during these difficult times. live here in sterling, shomari stone, news 4. >> shomari, thank you.> nbc's pete williams joined us on the set today to discuss the rising threat from extremism and whi supremacy around the globe and here at home. >> just the threat of this kind of right-win white supremicism is growing around the world. more and more attacks are being committed in the name of white supremicnd white nationalism. 50 people were killed in the united states last yea according to the anti-defamation league,y people associated

with white supremacists or white -- right-wing ideologies, and that would include the people who were shot at the pittsburgh mosque in october. so it is, thy, a global threat. >> stay with news 4 for continuing coverage on the new zealand mocsque shootings a for more on how that country is geresponding to the tra, open our nbc washington app. turning to our weather now. we enjoyed temperatures the 70s today, but don't get used to it. >> don't do it. as much as we want to. storm team 4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer tells us colder air is on the way, folks. he joins usth that closer look at the weekend. we needed today to be a weekend. >> we uld love it if this great weather we saw today, a high of 78 ydegrees, actua fell on a saturday or a sunday. ovuldn't that be nice? no, cold airg in just in time for the weekend. sure was quite nice across the area. off and on sunshine, but that allowed temperatures to get into

the upper 70s. annapolis hit 80 today. here is the cold front, though, making its way throu the area. kicked off showers and thunderstorm active. an roundel ntc baltimore and philadelphia. now that you can actually see the colder air shifti on in here. notice the temperatures, 66 d.c., 54 hagerstown, 39 -- i'll show you just how cool things get and believe itor not, guys, there is actually a chance of rs snow showe in two days. >> oh, >> no thank you. thanks, doug. breaking news now. d.c. police say an officer is on the way to the ospital after being hit by a car. >> news 4's jackie bensen is live on the scene f us. jackie, what can you tell us? > reporter: wel a very close call for a d.c. police officer here just a short time ago. we're going to show you what the scene looks like here on o

monte avenue in northeast washington. we're told there was a carjacking in the area earlier tonight. the officers stopped whatthey believed to be the car jveked hicle and during that traffic stop, the car jacked vehicle took off, striking the officer. we're told hell was act bundled into a police cruiser and taken to a local hospita t id by an official here on the scene that he is going to be okay. which is very good news. in addition to that, police were able tostop that car jacked vehicle a short time away. as you can see, it is a very active scene h and it's unclear at this point if anyone has been arrested, but they do have that vehic that was car jacked earlier tonight in custody. a d.c. police officer going to be okay aftering hit by it. live in northeast washington, jace bensen, news 4. >> that's good to hear. jackie, thanks so much. leon harris here at the live desk in the newsroom. theorder battle is back in

congress' court tonight. president donald tru said that was proud to use his first veto today on a bill blocking his declaration of a natiol emergenc that emergency order redirects billions of dollars away from other projects proved by congress to fund construction of a southern border wall. trump made oe vetoicial in an oval office signing ceremony. flanked by law enforcement officers and parents of americans killed by undocumented migrants. the president insists that he's not angry with republicans who stroke ranks and voted aga him today. >> thank you very much. now, i want you toote your heart. do what you want to do. i'm not putting any pressure. i'll let them know when there is pressure, okay? and i toldem now. when i need your vote, i'm going to let you know. i didn't need the vote because we all knew it was going to be a vet >> it is unlikely there are enough votes to override today's veto in either buhouse, speaker nancy pelosi says the house will vote on march 26th. veof course we'll have ge here. jim, back to you. >> all right. leon, thank you. nbc news political director

chuck todd says democrats face an uphill battle to block the national emergency. he talked with us tonight on news 4 at 600. > on one hand you can sit here and say, oh, 12 senators rebed him. on the other hand, i actually think the power he has over his part shows yo it only ended up being 12 senators. if you look back at the rhetoric of many of these republican years s going back a few in the obama era, these are the concern of executive overreach. so on paper if this were a secret ballot, i think the number, yoould have had probably 90 senators. >chuck interviews democratic senator and presidential candidate amy klobuca.r in i you can see that, as always, on "meet the pre" sunday morning at 10:30 right here on nbc 4. new at 11:00, a herndon man is behind bars after a sizeable bugun and drugt. it all noticed when police noticed a car hanging around in reston. they found brandon hernandez and two passengers.

t car smelled of marijuana. when searched, officers found more than a pound of pot,long with a handgun, ammunition, thca cartridg cash. detectives searched hernandez's thatre they found seven home. loaded weapons linked to several burglaries a r armedberies in the area. they also seized hundreds of thc pe pence. thc's an active ingredient in marijuana. heitandez being heldut bond. a teenager escaped el salvador for a better life hered in the unstates, but he couldn't escape his past. >> the violent attack took place where our victim w stab as many as 100 times. >> five suspected ms-13 members charged in the horrific cass.

the latest now on the gruesome gang-related murder of as church teenager. the mother of the 16-year-old victim says he suspected he was about to be murdered. >> news 4's jackie bensen spoke to her hoursefore news broke of multiple arrests in her son's death. >> reporter: five suspects, 100 stab wounds. police say 16-year-old jacson pineda chicas once thought of the five suspects. a clique13f m gang members.

showed up for a gang meeting ate this hon varnum street. cson's body, which had also been set on fire was found in a wooded areaof stafford county, virginia, by a passing sheriff's deputy. jacson's mother, we're not identifying her for her safety and that of other family members says the student had been forced ngto the gang when the family was li in el salvador. she says he fell back into its clutches after he was targeted by neighbrhood bullies. speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ]

>> reporter: news 4 by phone to luis cardona who works r the montgomery county government, who helps young people seeking to leave gang life. >> remember, they're trying to fill that void. if they don't find it in their own hefamilies,re going to seek it out in the streets. >> reporter: one suspect jailedg in prince gs county, the other four in virginia waiting extradition to maryland. bensen, r park, jackie news 4. tonight, firefighters are evacuating people as they continue to battle aiv ma nine-alarm fire in boston. heavy fire and smoke were reported throughout a casketc pany just after 3:00 p.m. today. all five companies were ordered out of the building and off the roof after they arrived on the scene. aerial footage shows firefighters attacking the flames from above, using several ladder trucks. a portion of the city's ain rvice was suspended in the area at the request of the fire lepartment. this next story sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it's not. ae fully grown moos wanders

outside o house and fell through a basement window right into a bed. a house guest and a young childp were sng in the same room at the time. they weren't hurt just a little sken up. e moose was in good shape, too. wildlife officers electronicilized the moose and move her through a state stairwell and into a trailer. she was released back into the fost this afternoon. a little woozy. >> imagine waking up do you that. my goodness. >> that's a shocker. one klaas of fifth graders from washington are honoring the legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. a great beacon and light of hope. >> one by one these students at watkins elementary school recited a line from dr. king's famous "i have a dream" speech this afternoon. they stood in the same spot where dr.ing stood in 1963 on

the steps of theincoln memorial. these kids have been studying about the civil right's leaders life and legacy. >> dr. king did a lot for us. he gave us freedom. and he made this speech so everybody could support him, so everybody cot freedom. >> the reading of the speech is usually done in january. closer to mlk's birthday, but weather pushed it to today. this an annual tradition that's happened for the last 15 years. >> pretty poweul field trip. >> wonderful thing. >> a whole lot nicer weather out there than ijanuary. >> yeah, 100%. i moon, not just that, the warmestay we've had all year, the warmest day we've had in four months. it can g on and on, but it won't go on and on. >> too bad. >> if we walk outside right now, you'll notice a difference. even coming back from the winds have alreadyd. shif blowing out of the south instead of the west. that means cooler air making its way in here. a beautiful shot tonight. camera really doing the city

pretty good justice. >> that is beautiful. >> isn't that gorgeous? it really looks nice. we saw great skies tonig as well. current temperature 66. thwest at e wind, n 20 miles per hour. again, northwest at 20 miles per hour. all day it was south. ethat's why we so warm. you can see what's happening. the cold front's already moving through. run..c., 59 instead, it w david nichols with the fade. at one point, fsu went on a 13-0 run. uva loses to a team other than duke for the first time all season. >>ow. >> more march madness. george mason taking on saint -- dominic welch nails the triple. he had 20 in this one. masontl trying to bback. james hartwell, good looking three here. makes it aneight-point deficit,

but it was a little too late. kyle laughlin, step back "j," he had 20. ends with a 68-57 run.go and we t to talk about ourx, phillies and blue jays, harper gets nailed by a 96-mile-per-hour fastball from torontorookie trent thornton. he's done there for awhile. turned out to be a bruised right foot, butra xs were negative. manager gabe kapler said heoo isn't worried. this was his fourth game. 0 for 5 so far thiri , certainly during that regular season, i'm sure that $330 million will prove valuable.s final ho note, howard's dream of making the ncaa tournament endedsoday they lost to norfolk state 75-69.n, good though, by kevin nickelbury and his team. >> we lay it all out for march d

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