this has the community on edge. brad: yeah. it has the community on edge. and the entire country is talking about it. governor hogan sounded off on it. the white house talked about it today. it was a rape. they say it is a horrible thing. but many are politicizing it and saying because the suspects are undocumented immigrants it's also a police call issue. a little while ago the superintendent of schools came out and held a press conference and distributed these dock minutes. all -- distributing the documents saying to them it's not political. they are here to teach students. >> while someone tried to make this in to a question an issue of immigration, what comes down is we serve every student that walks in the door. we are a public school system. brad: what

immigration concerns flaring up. according to the multiple sources the both suspects are undocumented crossing the border as unaccompanied minor minors. some telling us they don't know what to think now. >> immigration is a tricky thing. there are so many facets to it, it's hard to weed it all out. brad: yesterday, the white house included montgomery county on a list of jurisdictions that don't fully cooperate with the federal authorities. last night the maryland house of delegates passed a bill to make the state a sanctuary by prohibiting the police from any immigration-related law enforcement. the governor threatened to veto and the montgomery county officials seem eager to avoid the label. >> let me make clear. we are not a sanctuary county. we do cooperate with the

are people in the system that have committed terrible crimes. brad: again, an awful lot of anger and frustration. so many angles to the issue. one of the big complaints is the suspects in the rain o the girl -- suspects in the rape of the 14-year-old girl are enrolled as freshmen. the superintendent telling us they are technically freshmen but they were not in the classrooms with the victim and they didn't know her at all. is there any screening of students when they present at door, 18 years old from another country not speaking english. the answer is no. they have an open door policy. by policy and the state law. one document shared with the press. we will continue on the story. that is the latest from the school system at

brad bell, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. that attack even drew the attention of the white house. campaign trump campaigned to deport rapists and murders that enter illegally. >> that this occurred is shocking, disturbing and horrific. part he has made this is a crackdown the tragedies like this. >> called on the local municipalities to crack down on the illegal immigrants committing crimes. you can find the entire response online at wjla.com. jonathan: it appears that the united kingdom joined the u.s. ban in most of the electronics carrying aboard inbound flights. the u.s. ban covers the nine foreign airlines from ten airports and the eight middle eastern and north afternoon

countries. there are six in the u.k. british airways. laptop and tablets have to be put in checked baggage for fears terrorists could use them as explosives. cell phones are exempt from this. michelle: neil gorsuch was careful not to voice his own opinions on guns and controversial issues in the second day of his confirmation hearing. >> do you agree with the statements? >> it's out of the decision from the united states -- >> it's scalia decision. >> whatever is heller is in the law and i follow the law. >> you agree? >> it's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing respectfully, senator, it's a matter of it being the law. my job is to apply and enforce the law. michelle: another round of questioning before the judiciary hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. if

seat left empty since the death of antonin scalia. jonathan: the "cat in the hat" delivered a simple message to congress. hands off the pbs kids. president trump's proposal cuts funding to the public broadcasting and congress has not presented a plan of yet. michelle: the president meanwhile on the hill stumping for the republican healthcare bill. many republicans are on the fence that would repeal obamacare. the house is set to vote on thursday. jonathan: a year after the d.c. turned to the private ambulances to get help to critical patients faster a major change is brewing. sam ford breaks down the attempt to unionize. sam: for a year, they worked the d.c. streets transporting the less critical patients to hospitals so the d.c. fire and e.m.s. units are free from serious ones. now they want a union. polling going on today for 200

william schoolfield voted yes. >> i was trying to go to school for plobotomy but i couldn't. sam: in a joint letter to management, 20 a.m.r. employees announced the idea of unionizing. if president said we encourage employees to do what is right for themselves, the family and the company. not all are voting for the union. >> we have good jobs and we have great benefits. i don't feel the union will do anything to help or protect us in any way. sam: would it cost more none? and would d.c. that pays $12 million a year now for a.m.r. be willing to pay

if the costs go up, it's something that the d.c. government will have to consider. voting ended here at the a.m.r. headquarters. the voting will continue on thursday. the national labor relations board is conducting the election. reporting live from northeast washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. michelle: a hunt for a gunman tonight after a young girl was apparently caught in the crossfire of a shooting. 19-year-old ayana mcallister was home from north carolina on spring break when she went to watch a friend make a rap video in northwest d.c. last night. shots rang out and killed the criminal justice major. another bystander was hurt but not seriously. no arrests have been made. jonathan: a murder case that got national attention, now the family of the murdered d.n.c. staffer says the case needs a fresh look. michelle: first, though, a woman's parking lot rage nearly gets a family

how a pack of batteries ended up at the center of it all next. doug: spring like weather today but cold front moves it out overnight and we'll have colder temperatures for a bit. back slide to winter briefly. i will tell you what to expect coming up at "abc7

jonathan: the family of a murdered d.n.c.

the killer to justice. seth rich was shot to death in july in the bloomingdale neighborhood. police have no solid leads and they have made no arrests. rism's death fueled politicales. rism's death fueled political conspiracy online. they say he was mugged but nothing was missing. the family trying to raise $200,000 on go fund me site to have investigators to take another look. michelle: more on a massive fire that swept through kansas city suburb monday afternoon. three firefighters hurt battling the flames are out of the hospital. federal investigators joined in the investigation that destroyed an apartment building under construction. 200 homes were destroyed or damaged by intense heat and the burning debris. >> this doesn't make sense. we have a video to prove it. watch a woman run over five peek including children as she angry leave -- angrily leaves a wal-mart parking lot. she doesn't even stop to see if they are ok

minutes earlier the driver came in the store wearing batman hoodie and tried to return a pack of batteries. wal-mart said no and that sent her in a fit of rage. michelle: sauntering to wal-mart on horseback? that's new. what the cowboy said he hopedded to accomplish. >> don't do it. don't do it. a police officer losing control. the problem that the officer is

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michelle: this is video of a fight. they ride through the ditch and the motorcycle crashes and the trooper tries to arrest the rider. then a fight breaks out. seconds later the motorcycle rider's brother jumps in. tackles trooper, that is when the good samaritans join the fray and help arrest the motorcycle rider and his brother. jonathan: this police body

police officer off the job for what you are seeing here and facing the criminal charges. them is how it started. from the body camera of the officer in the middle of the brawl. >> at least two charges. >> did you go to law school? did you go to police officer school? >> if yaw won't to do something, do something, son. >> do something. >> did i not just touch you? >> did i not just touch you? huh? >> that was the point that the officer's body camera falls off but that is when the partner circles the neighborhood looking for a suspect came in and saw this unfolding. even telling the partner look, back off. the officer in the midst of the fight was arrested the next day. michelle: the long debated and the purpleline in maryland may face a potential death blow. as kevin lewis reports the president's proposed budget could derail the line before it lays a foot of

>> there is worrisome news for the purple line there. >> gregory sanders saw the headline on twitter. 13% cut for transportation in president trump's proposed budget. on the chopping block, the purple line to link bethesda and new carrollton. project cost $2.6 billion. >> i listen to the president trump inaugural address and he said we need to build tunnels, bridges, railways. i listen to his infrastructure plan. i think we might be seeing the director mulvane's priorities rather than trump's priorities here. >> purple line critic argue roads not rails are the future. others say maryland should pay for its own project. not the feds. >> they hope the word from congress and from the governor will all convince the president this is worth doing. >> this is certainly wo

already embrolling -- embroiled in a federal lawsuit. and depending on the proposed budget it could be a moot point. i'm kevin lewis reporting, abc7 news. michelle: happening now, metro closed the s-street entrance at the judiciary square station until 8:30. it's a security precaution while president trump attends an event at the national building museum. >> you see a lot of different things at wal-mart but you don't see this every day. no. that is a horse. a houston man found his way turning heads at wal-mart. keep watching. yep. he is riding to horse through the store. he said the odd decision came at the spur of the moment after riding his friend to wal-mart. i don't understand. the company was not immused and called it -- not amused and called at it stunt. the cowboy said he wanted to make people smile. >> he wasn't trying to hurt nobody or do anything destructive. you only

>> wal-mart on a horse. jonathan: the houston humane society condemning the odd ride. the customers seemed shocked more than anything else watching a guy ride a horse through wal-mart. michelle: this is texas. jonathan: ongoing. if you get online and you see crazy things at wal-mart. that might make the list. >> you can watch the videos all day long. doug: the worse of it, the horseshoe, the floor like that, 1,000 pounds. our story colder and watcher and cooler and warmer again. jonathan: thanks. doug: let's get started to look at it here. time lapse from the science center. 59 degrees there. cloudy in the morning but then it brightened up and blue skies. there goes the sun.

we will see a lot colder air moving in. we got to watch this afternoon. the severe weather from nashville to north of atlanta. this is not going to affect us on the southern end of the frontal system that will bring clouds late tonight and bring scattered showers overnight. what you notice the most is the much cooler air tomorrow and the strong winds developing as well. the future cast for the air temperatures show numbers hold at 60 this evening and dropping to the 50's. as the front gets closer and there are scatters around 1:00 to 2:00 in the morning it's still mild. then the temperatures will quickly drop in the 30's. gusty winds make it feel colder and that is the story throughout the day where the temperatures climb to 45 degrees. cold for this time in late march. then we get ahead to the wind chills to see the effects of the cold air and the wind together. it will feel like 20's in the morning.

mid-30's in the wind chills in the afternoon. we will pull out by thursday. still staying chilly with a high of 47. friday a warm front comes through. the front comes through friday morning and there is a chance we'll see showers and clouds friday morning but then through the mid-morning and the afternoon we will warm up to 57. as we get in the day on saturday, a big push of the southerly winds to push temperatures on saturday to 72. that is not a typo. 72. then a disturbance comes by saturday and sunday. maybe the rain. late saturday night. but rain is likely on sunday. 50% probability. lingering showers for monday and tuesday and then we might go to a warmer stretch of temperatures. back to 67 on wednesday. mid-60's thursday and friday. then in the month of april. that is the weather. robert burton. what do you have. robert: everybody is fighting in the nba including

wizards. and oshie with a career high

robert: start with the hockey. caps hosting the flames tonight. they have a huge pick me up. they lost five out of the last seven. that pick me up started with the win on saturday against tampa. oshie with the hat tr

it gave him a career high in the goals with 29 on the season. he says that is great but he has bigger plans. >> i want to make the playoffs. at this point in my career i think that is more important. it is nice. but just one steppingstone i want to reach before the playoffs. robert: the wizards played the boston celtics. more fireworks, shoving. celtics got the last laugh with the win. but the big scuffle between the warriors and the thunder in a jump ball. steph curry gets into it. westbrook makes his way over. green is in on the action. four technical fouls were handed out. finally sad news to report. former bulls g.m. jerry crause died

for the bulls dynasty. jonathan: steph doesn't usually do that. >> the guy he lost the cool on wasn't that important. it would have been a big loss. jonathan: there you go. michelle: okay. doug, temperatures going to drop again? doug: pretty much. that will happen overnight. the forecast tonight we will see the increasing cloudiness. chance of showers overnight and drop to 36. tomorrow we will recover to 45. even though the skies turn sunny in the day and the gusty winds. lose wind on thursday but it will stay chilly. 47 degrees. tonight at 11:00 we have the wind speed to look for tomorrow and talk about the wind chills and an impressive warmup on the way for saturday. maybe short sleeve weather. jonathan: 72, that is short sleeves. michelle: thank you, doug. "world news tonight" with david muir is coming up next. jonathan: thank you for watching tonight. see you at 11:00. have a great night.

tonight, the terror concern and the emergency security ban fears over possible explosives smuggled inside laptops and tablets. the new rules for passengers flying to the u.s. from eight muslim-majority countries. martha raddatz standing by. president trump's fight to take down obamacare -- the president's warning to republicans with the bill fails. in the hot seat. supreme court nominee, neil gorsuch, grilled at his confirmation hearing. the questions on abortion, and president trump's travel ban that hit a nerve. in. inferno investigation. more than a dozen homes damaged. firefighters describing the scene as a war zone. nationwide manhunt, the coast to coast search for a teacher and his 15-year-old female student he's accused of kidnapping.