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Right now at six, a community in mourning. It's very surreal, very somber. D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood still reeling from that deadly mass shooting. Live team coverage this morning of what we're learning about the gunman and his victims. And we're hearing more from witnesses and residents now forced out of their homes while police investigate. Here we go. Keep that jacket handy this weekend. The D.C. region will see a dose of some cooler temperatures. Is that cold weather officially here to stay? The Fox 5 weather team is tracking your hour-by-hour forecast. Third down and ten. Going deep again. The neighbors. And a much-needed victory for the commanders. Reaction from fans following the late-night win on the road. Fox 5 at 6 a.m. starts now. I want to say victory Monday, but we're... We're still on a Friday, right? Got it. But nonetheless, it'll make Monday maybe that much better. But good to be with you. Congrats to the Commanders last night on a late-night win over the Giants. Appreciate you being with us here on Fox 5 and streaming on Fox Live. Up against the wall, they still pull through. Sure did. So we'll celebrate that any day. Good morning to you, and good morning, Taylor and Annie May. Good morning. Yeah, good morning. What a flip of a switch in the weather for this morning, right? It's cool, it's gusty, but we've at least kicked the rain out of here. So it's going to be kind of a blustery end to this week, and temperatures really aren't going to budge much at all throughout the daytime. Expect for it to feel like the upper 40s to low 50s. It's going to be gusty at times, too. We'll keep that chill in the air also all the way through the weekend. Annie Mae? Thanks, Taylor. Taking a look here at your traffic for this Friday morning. Pretty typical of a Friday. You're not really seeing too much. It's a lot of people working from home, headed on their vacations, whatever they're doing. We're looking at weekend metro service changes. This is affecting Saturday and Sunday. One of them, we'll take a look there at blue modified service. That's trains running between Franconia-Springfield and Foggy Bottom only. I just looked to the left. And at that particular moment, I saw the gunman. It was like within probably two seconds of the shot. We're hearing from more and more people who witnessed yesterday's mass shooting in Logan Circle that happened inside a popular gym before the gunman fired more shots from his apartment balcony. One person was killed and four others were hurt. The gunman took his own life. And we have live team coverage for you this morning. Stephanie Ramirez is live with more reaction from those impacted as well as those who were evacuated from their homes because of the investigation. All right, let's start things off with Melanie Alwick, who is following the latest on what we have learned in the last 24 hours about the gunman and the victims. Mel. Good morning. Yes, still investigative work to be done here. We've seen a very visible police presence out here on 15th Street and we've seen some officers going inside the building as well and out front, people leaving notes of love and support. Now, we do know that last night, dozens of people gathered in Logan Circle. You can see them here. Then they walked to the scene. They were carrying lit candles, they laid flowers and they wrote notes to pay tribute to the the victims. Ward Two council member Brooke Pinto lives in the neighborhood. She talked about 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 Vida. It's terrible for everyone who lives in the Metropole and this entire community. It was 8 a.m. Thursday when the suspected gunman, 55-year-old Dr. Matt Lambert, shot and killed 46-year-old James Stewart, the building's property manager inside Vita Fitness on 15th Street Northwest. Dr. Lambert then returned to his seventh-floor condo in the building above the gym. Armed with three guns, he fired down from his balcony, hitting four more people. Barricaded inside his apartment, Lambert fired at responding officers through the door And then with a gas line, started a fire inside his unit. Police negotiators tried to communicate with him for more than an hour, then heard a gunshot inside the apartment. When SWAT teams entered, they found Lambert dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On a social media account, believed to be Dr. Lambert's, you heard us talking about that yesterday, but we can show it to you now. A post early Thursday morning saying, quote, my manifesto is an engineering report. That appears to be tied to a 20-month lawsuit Lambert filed against his condo building, the Metropole, over. Alleged water damage and mold. Now, people yesterday inside the Vita Fitness told us they believe just the way things played out, that the shooting was targeted, because clearly if you had a gunman in the gym trying to shoot a lot of people, there were plenty of other targets there, but he only shot the one, that building manager, and then went upstairs, but we'll never know why he fired down on the people here below. Again, we may never know, but we do know that one is still in critical condition and the other three are expected to survive. Now let's go to my colleague Stephanie Ramirez with more on the after effects and how people are dealing with it. Good morning, Mel. We know that not only were people traumatized by what they immediately saw and experienced, heard, but also plenty of residents in the Metropole building also impacted as well. Now, we're at the Steed Park Recreation Center, dark and quiet at this hour, but this is where the city set up a reunification site. Before the residents impacted, this was as of Thursday afternoon, we know a little over 40 people registered who live in the Metropole building who were forced out. Remember, DC police described the suspect at one point cutting a gas line and starting a fire in his condo. People in the building were immediately evacuated. We know sprinkler systems went off and drenched the building. Authorities told Fox 5 the building's 75 units were impacted. And many people, we're told, were displaced. Those residents who came to the Steed Park Recreation Center were offered food and shelter. We are hearing of neighbors not just coming together in the aftermath, but coming together during the emergency as well. That's what one witness described, too. Doesn't live in the building, but described being in the gym. Jerry Coats saying he witnessed part of the shooting and didn't want to run out in the same direction as the gunman. Now calling another gym member who helped him out an angel. He took me out to the garage exit, which was on the ground level, and we came out, and by the time I had walked a block and a half, more gunshots came, which I believe were near the front of the building and on the side of the building. So he may have helped me avoid being involved in the second round of shooting. I don't know. I just know that Vida handled us well, and I know that Mike, who is now my angel at Vida Fitness, got me out of harm's way, and I just feel really bad about the guy who was killing his family. And guys, a lot of stories we're hearing of people coming together. You did hear Councilmember Pinto talking about businesses opening their doors to help their neighbors as well. The Red Cross is also assisting, offering, among different things, gift cards for food as well. Marissa? All right, Stephanie, for our complete coverage on the Logan Circle mass shooting, please head over to the Fox Local Washington, D.C. app. You can scan that QR code on your screen or visit our website, fox5dc.com, for more information. Fox Local is free for your phone and smart TV. I wanted to get that coverage in before we got a chance to take a look at weather and traffic, but let's get to it now as we take a live look at Frederick this morning. Turn things over to Taylor. Yeah, it's going to be a chilly morning for sure, and we also have the strong gusty winds on top of that. Fortunately, the brief rain showers We saw yesterday have moved out. Temperatures right now are in the 40s for most of you. We do have that persistent breeze out of the north and west, still popping up with some very isolated showers. But again, that's on its way out. The rest of today will just be kind of cool and breezy, also kind of cloudy upper 40s around noon. Same deal around 5 p.m. Anyway, thanks Taylor. 608 taking a look here at your traffic. If you're headed out the door right now, this is the Dulles Hill Road. Both east and westbound should be completely clear for you this morning. If you're traveling to and from the Dulles Airport inner loop of the Beltway and main lanes is about 12 minutes there. 95 towards the Dulles Hill Road. So that portion of the Beltway is going to be green for you as well. This is the area between Gainesville and the Beltway is about 21 minutes. 66 traveling eastbound. Finally, no incidents reported here. 95 northbound Quantico towards the Beltway is around 30 minutes deep. Today, a federal judge will hear arguments over whether to block the Sunday closure of the East Potomac Golf Course. The Trump administration is pushing for a major overhaul of all of Hains Point. A separate order remains in place stopping crews from cutting down more trees around Hains Point. The administration had claimed that tree cutting was routine maintenance, but the judge doesn't buy that story, saying it was part of the renovations being done without court review. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is launching his own bid to becoming Senate Majority Leader. He posted on X last night saying, in part, quote, in this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people and fueled by political corruption. He goes on to say, to deliver, we need new leadership. That's why I'm running for Senate Majority Leader. Now, that announcement comes after some newly elected Democratic senators have declined to support Chuck Schumer's reelection bid. Schumer says He welcomes any discussion about the future. of the caucus and the work ahead. The election for Senate Majority Leader may not happen until December. Microsoft outage dragging now on to another day. It's been more than 18 hours for some. Thousands of users still struggling to access their inboxes. And it's not just email either. Your Teams links and Teams calls might be down. The disruptions have impacted a wide range of projects involved with Microsoft 365, including Outlook email. Teams, AI assistant co-pilot, Microsoft says the servers are straining on the systems. It's working to restart them. The Associated Press says the issue is also impacting users overseas, not just here in the United States.