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Well, good morning. Thanks for joining us on this Friday. A lot to get to today. Big Commander's win. Everybody riding that high this morning and wearing their Commander's gear across the newsroom. We've also got to talk a little bit about that chill in the air this morning. My goodness. Headed into work and it was quite windy out there. Yeah. So, Jacqueline, we're already seeing a lot of the winds making their way in towards our area. And that's really going to be the big thing as we head in towards the rest of our Friday, right? So it's going to be the winds that lead to much more of that colder air. Pushing on in, so expect a cooler and breezy day as we'll see temperatures really just getting back to the upper 40s, low 50s throughout today. So yeah, not much of a warm-up for us as we continue to see some cloud cover over top of us. We're going to talk about how that impacts the weekend here in just a few minutes. Over to you. All right, Cesar, we'll talk to you then. Thank you. The D.C. community still in shock and mourning after a mass shooting in Logan Circle. One person was killed inside of a Vita Fitness. Four others were injured before the suspect, a local doctor, turned the gun on himself. Our Melanie Alnwick joins us live from Logan Circle with the very latest. Mel, a very different scene from what you arrived to yesterday. But what's the latest as of this hour this morning? Yeah, calm and somber out here this morning. You know, just outside of the apartment complex and the Vita Fitness, people are leaving notes of love and support. They're also discussing ways to thank the first responders who rushed in toward danger to stop the shooter. Dozens of people gathered at Logan Circle last night, then walked to the scene here on 15th Street, lighting candles. Laying flowers and writing notes to pay tribute to the victims. Ward Two council member Brooke Pinto lives in the neighborhood. She talked about how the community is putting their arms around each other. We have neighbors who've opened up their homes to residents from the Metropole who have been displaced. We have businesses who have been giving away free items. We have had really everybody come together because this is terrible for the victims. It's terrible for everybody who is in Vita. It's terrible for everyone who lives in Metropole and this entire community. It was 8 a.m. Thursday when the suspected gunman, 55-year-old Dr. Matt Lambert, first shot and killed 46-year-old James Stewart, the building's property manager, inside Vita Fitness in the 1500 block of 15th Street Northwest. Investigators say Dr. Lambert then returned to his seventh-floor condo in the building above the gym, firing several rounds from his patio, hitting four more people. Authorities say Lambert barricaded himself inside the apartment, fired at responding officers, and then with a gas line started a fire inside his unit. Police negotiators tried to communicate with him for more than an hour. Officers eventually heard a gunshot inside the apartment. And when tactical officers entered, they say they found Lambert dead from that self-inflicted gunshot wound. Now, on a social media account, you heard us talking about this early yesterday. And this is now we have a little more confirmation and things that we can actually show you. You can see here a post believed to be Dr. Lambert's early Thursday morning saying, quote, my manifesto is my engineering report. Now, that appeared to be tied to a 20-month lawsuit. Lambert filed against his condo building, the Metropole, over alleged water damage and mold. Now, people inside the Vita Fitness yesterday told us that the shooting did appear targeted and that this investigation that we're learning now has supported that. But, you know, back out live here, we may never know. Uh, why Dr. Lambert started shooting from his balcony on the seventh floor there down at the people below. We just, we have no idea at this point, we can still tell you as far as their conditions, one victim remains in critical condition. The other three are expected to be okay. We'll send it back to you. All right, Mel. Thanks for the latest update there. Meantime this morning, we're also hearing from witnesses about how those chaotic moments unfolded. We spoke with Gary Coates, who was inside of the Vita gym when the shots rang out. I've never heard anything this loud in my life. And that's it. I knew it was a gunshot. There's no question about it. You would have known it was a gunshot. I forgot. But never heard anything that loud. And I knew it couldn't have come from the right. That would be the stretching area. And I just looked to the left. And at that particular moment, I saw the gunman. Coverage on the Logan Circle mass shooting. You can head over to Fox Local Washington, D.C., our app there. You can scan the QR code there on your screen or visit fox5dc.com for more information. Our reporters who are on the ground, all of our coverage from yesterday is there, as well as witness recounts of what happened, including the one you just heard from that witness there, Gary Coats. In other news this morning, Prince George's County Police investigating a deadly single vehicle crash. Officers responded to Campus Way North in Kitchener Court around 10.30 last night where a man was pronounced dead at the scene. Campus Way North remains closed this morning between Elders Hollow Drive and Kitchener Court. Well, the headaches also continue this morning for tens of thousands of Microsoft users hoping to check their emails. Microsoft reporting outages affecting Outlook and Teams with users having trouble accessing email and other services. The company has since restored Teams functionality, but the Outlook issue still affecting many Microsoft 365 users this morning. Reports of the outage started around 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Microsoft blames unavailable servers that are straining its systems as it works to restart them. Happening today, a federal judge will hear arguments over whether to block the Sunday closure of the East Potomac golf links. The Trump administration pushing for a major overhaul. A separate order remains in place stopping crews from cutting down more trees around Haines Point. The administration had claimed that the tree cutting was routine maintenance. However, the judge did not buy it, saying it was part of renovations without court review.