tisha thompson, news4 i-team. >>> breaking news right now into our newsroom out of prince william county. a single propeller plane crashed into a back yard in bristow. >> we are working to learn new details. we know that the virginia state police are responding to the scene and we'll bring you more details. >>> turning to a great day yesterday for -- >> all the pets. >> all the pets, all these cute little guys here. we want to thank everyone who helped us clear the shelters. preliminary at the 24 participating shelters indicate guess what? more than 1,000 animals and counting were adopted. and we'll have some more exact numbers next week. this is a great event. it wasn't just in our area. nationally about 16,000 animals found forever homes yesterday. i love that. >> yeah. if you need to walk the dog, you might want to get out there and do it soon because later on today it will be kind of -- >> yeah. that's the trend as we continue on into the workweek. walk the dog early and then again as the sun starts to go down because it will be hot. i saw somebody tweet out a picture on instagram of

tisha thompson, news4 i-team. >>> vester flanagan faxed what appears to be a 23-page manifesto to abc news shortly after the shooting today. abc says he cited the charleston massacre as his tipping point and reportedly praised the virginia tech shooter. today, governor terry mcauliffe brought up virginia tech on wtop radio. he said it's time to strengthen gun background checks. >> think of virginia, we had one of the worst tragedy is ever at virginia tech. we had a horrible history. common sense. the answer to the blogger, yes, i keep trying, but it doesn't see the light of day doesn't get through the jeep assembly, doesn't get through the house of delegate, they don't want any changes. >> mcauliffe says he will continue to pressure the general assembly to take up that issue. >>> we are also learning more about those two young journalists that were killed and their professional lives brought them happy inspects their personal lives. wendy rieger with that side of the story. >> if you've ever worked in a small office you know what it's like, your co-workers quickly become your family.

tisha thompson, news4 i-team. >> thank you, tisha. >>> turning back to our weather now.oug is live in edgewater, maryland. you picked a great night for this, doug. >> oh, i picked a fantastic night. did you say doredoreen, i don'te to do the 11? >> no i did not say that i want you to come back and join us. bring some of that good food. >> she want knows come back so bad. >> no. >> uh-huh. yeah. yeah. oh. oh. >> tell her to come here. >> yeah, you come here. we will all do the news from here tonight at 11:00. well, with me right now, we have got renee, they call her nae nae, figure that out a second. i got it. and they call you jo jo, so i have been -- picking up all the nicknames here. and you were the one that asked us to come out here. this is your mother-in-law's house. why did you want us to come out tonight? >> because we are life-long washintonians so we are avid fans and is we thought -- i have been talking about doing this for years and years and hospital done it, this year was the year, so it all worked out. >> got to come to your house. you love it here, becaus

. >>> the news4 i-team has been looking into the shooter's troubled workplace history and tisha thompson joins knew from the newsroom with that angle tonight. tisha? >> reporter: vester flanagan is the shooter's legal name but many people on television use a different name on air and flanagan was no different. his tv name was bryce williams. like many tv reportersá÷?Ñ loo for a job, flanagan posted his resume reel online, showing snippets of what he considered some of his best work. the news4 i-team found the reel posted on youtube a year earlier when flanagan started at wdbj in roanoke, the station put out a press release calling him a veteran reporter, saying he worked in greenville, north carolina, savannah, georgia, and tallahassee, florida. court records said that flanagan should florida station 12 years earlier for race discrimination and retaliation, alleging he was called derogatory name buys newsroom staff n documents, the florida tv station said it fired flanagan because he failed to properly perform his job in a satisfactory manner and later cemented the suit. his tenure in r

. >>> the news4 i-team tisha thompson got exclusive access to the drug enforcement administration lab on the front lines of the new synthetic drug war. get a look inside in our nbc washington app. just click on investigations. >>> new tonight, d.c. police chief cathy lanier said tips from the public and good police work are hoping to close some of the city's open murder cases. police made three arrests for homicide in the last 24 hours. the most recent case just this past saturday. it was near howard university. chief lanier is urging people to continue sending those anonymous tips, and to engage with officers in your neighborhoods. >> i will not be shouted down because i'm telling the truth. >> meanwhile, a small group of protesters tried to interrupt mayor muriel bowser this morning while she was announcing her plan to fight the rise in murders in the district. protesters with the black lives matter movement say they fear a police crackdown on poor communities. bowser specifically denied reports that police would enter homes searching for guns. >>> president obama is back in the dis

tisha thompson, news4 i-team. >>> you want to be a communications major, here's why.me of thrones" fans you can study the tv show. uc berkeley is offering a film studies class based on the show. it just finished the fifth season. a ph.d. student asked for permission to teach about it back in season one. he's teaching the game of thrones class for the summer and he said it's his best attended class in years. imagine that. >> i could have used some tutoring on that show. i started to watch it. with my husband, because he read the books. i just couldn't -- it was so many characters, so many story lines. it was really good. >> go online to read the synopsis. >> i could have used the class. >> yeah. "house of cards" is my show right now. i love it to death. >> i have to say "game of thrones" i don't watch that one. >> you need to get outside today. >> yes, absolutely. so today we're looking at nice weather. low humidity. highs today just a touch warmer than yesterday. looking at mostly sunny skies. i love this picture, taking a shot at the studios here. you can see the fla

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. >> and that was tisha thompson reporting. the dea gave us a break down of each of the new variations what it looks like and how they keep evolving atom by atom. you can see it on the nbc washington app and click on investigations. >> you can get the weather on the nbc weather app. we have amelia now live in person. >> you're doing the live facebook stream. >> we are. go to our facebook page. we're live and we're showing you behind the scenes. >> i saw somebody ask about the weather. and there you can see her phone set up. ask about the weather at the nats game today. it will be humid there. right now, i'm tracking a lot of clouds mid and high level clouds across the area. i think these are going to thin out as we get into the midday and early afternoon hours, providing some sunshine. but overall, it's looking like we'll have more clouds and sun today. yesterday, was really nice. we had lots of sunshine. it was very comfortable outside. here you can see the latest satellite and radar image. the clouds streaming in from the sou