kimberly: straight ahead, asling mother nature's fury severe weather sweeps through the nation's midsection. to a local school by the agriculture secretary is attracting protesters and extra security. the former vice president goes to new hampshire to set the record straight about his future political plans. >> now, abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. kimberly: feeling the brute force of nature across the nation's midsection this weekend. good evening. and kimberly suiters. fourople are dead in states after flooding and tornadoes, but the threat is not over. reporter:

howling wind to raging water, parts of five states under siege from the elements. in texas -- >> there's a tornado crossing the road in front of us. reporter: this giant tornado rolling into canton. tragedy was averted on prom night by this quick thinking dj. >> i said it is going to be a direct hit, reporter: 20 people went into the bathrooms and storage closet and wrote out the storm without a scratch. automobile dealership and its entire inventory of new cars is now a junkyard. this couple helpless as they record the tornado that destroyed their new home. >> glad to be alive. reporter: residents banding together to help each other pull through. >> we are lucky. i don't know if we will ever get it cleaned up. reporter: in

the desperate search for an 18-month-old girl and four-year-old boy trapped inside of a truck swept away by floodwaters. >> right now i think we are looking at a recovery. we are hoping for the best. water wasfor some, the only escape route for the flooding. this pregnant woman and her husband taken to safety by boat. this man swam from his sinking truck. rivers and creeks continue to rise. richard cantu, abc news, new york. severey: we had a few weather warnings in our area, but otherwise warm and sunny. plenty of people crowding the potomac river to enjoy it. tonight it is dry, but changes are coming. meteorologist josh knight has the first look at the forecast. josh: for us tomorrow, we are part of the slight risk category for severe thunderstorms tomorrow.

colorlow, the enhanced pennsylvania and new york. slight is the bottom end of the scale, but something to be aware of tomorrow. the good news is most of the day is dry. into the evening, monday, specifically after 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. is when we might have weather. downside to the cloud cover we have tonight is we could be waking up with patchy fog. this is the low pressure that is bringing us the cold front. the cold front just to the east of jackson, bringing us rain and storms tomorrow. on the backside of that system, snow in nebraska and parts of kansas. we are not talking about anything like that for us, a slim chance of storms tomorrow. upper 60's, patchy fog, 70's in the daytime. in the evening is when we are tracking storms. coming

they should be moving through your neighborhood to timeout when you need to be ready for the stronger weather. kimberly: download the and getch 7 app forecasts and severe weather alerts right on your phone, available in the app store in google play. from capitol hill, congressional leaders from both parties have agreed on a bill to keep the government funded through september. the measure includes new defense moneyng and would also be for border security, but none of it would go towards building a wall. there is also an additional $2 billion for the national institutes of house and an extension of expiring health insurance benefits for coal miners. more than 48 hours after skipping guards in jessup, maryland, inmate david watson remains on the loose. the 28-year-old is serving a sentence of more than

in delaware for attempted murder. he has also been charged in y, go county, maryland -- wicomico county, maryland, for trying to kill police officers. hase obviously feels he nothing to lose and he is a dangerous individual and we are taking every precaution we can on the eastern shore. kimberly: law enforcement across the country are keeping a close look out for watson. there was also a $5,000 reward for any leads. arlington county police identified a man investigators say drove at and hit an officer and led them on a chase. this is brian williams, facing a long list of charges. the police arrived and found william sitting in a car. when they approached, he backed up, then went forward, hitting an officer, then sped away. to columbianged him pike and will to read drive

running. officers chased down and arrested him. they don't believe he was involved in a fight in the first place. an investigation under way after a motorcycle crash in prince george's county. it was a 32-year-old man for stop investigators say he was on the landover road ramp trying to turn onto central avenue when he skidded and collided with the guard rail. agriculture secretary a set to visit a leesburg school tomorrow, but the trip is generating support and controversy. anna-lysa gayle explains. anna-lysa: monday, some students at catoctin middle school will spend their lunch hour with the secretary of agriculture sonny perdue. the department of agriculture says he is set to announce regulatory flex ability for the national school lunch program. purdue has not outlined the changes, some p

the previous standards established by former first lady michelle obama. the county supervisor will join the leesburg democrat for protests against the visit. a school board member is expressing concerns about the planned protests. organizers say the protests will be civil. we apologize for the technical difficulties. opposed toe as include data about the certification about school meal programs. it is down at the moment with the message that the usda's improving the site and some information is off-line, having to do with school meals. you may remember the scene in february, protesters blocking education secretary betsy devos from entering a school in southwest d.c. she eventually went

through another entrance. one man was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer. from the whites house chief of staff. reince priebus was asked about the president's desire to meet it easier to sue reporters. >> that would require as i understand it a constitutional amendment, so is that something he wants to pursue? it's something we haven't looked at, and how it gets executed or whether he goes anywhere is a different story. kimberly: those comets are not sitting too well the with some members of congress. one said, "we americans will fight any efforts to abridge the freedom of speech or the press." and a california democrat said, "this is marching america down the road to authoritarianism." anger over president trump's white house visit to the leader of the philippines. the stat

september, the leader of the philippines compared his killing ishdrugg annex with jews people in the holocaust. schedule may suggest otherwise come up and joe biden insists he is not running for president in 2020. he tried to shoot down speculation that a democratic dinner in new hampshire. you guys, i'm not running. no speculation. look, look -- said he is more than willing to campaign for candidates and raise money, but he is not thinking about running again. elected toatina congress is calling it quits. the florida congr

the miami area republican has served in the house for nearly 30 years. democrats say they will flip her seat blue after hillary clinton won that district by more than 20 points. shot at random, coming up, a frantic search in l.a. to get a couple of the streets after they are accused of randomly shooting at people. plus, going on strike, which phone company -- well, you see it -- trying to avoid a strike.

right now, a manhunt in southern california following a deadly shooting across los angeles. one person is dead, three others shot randomly but are recovering. what we do not know is why they were targeted. a man and woman carjacked a green suv. two hours later they started spraying bullets at pedestrians while driving by. >> the victims we

re randomly picked and these attacks were unprovoked. kimberly: the vehicle was found abandoned. the police have questioned a man and woman matching the descriptions of the suspects. no word at this hour if they had been arrested. an improvised explosive device killed an american soldier in iraq this weekend. the pentagon said the blast killed a special lieutenant weston lee while on patrol near mosul. u.s. forces are helping iraqi soldiers liberate the city from isis. this is the second u.s. totality since the operation began six months ago. civilianson found 362 have died in u.s. air and artillery strikes in iraq and syria since 2014. while some human rights groups say the number is far higher, the pentagon said it cannot investigate all of the reports because of conditions on the ground. the military is still

in march that was claimed to have killed more than two utter people. -- 200 people. problems on the tracks for metro. prince george's county firefighter spent part of the afternoon investigate reports of smoke inside of a tunnel between capitol heights and addison road metro stations. that close the capitol heights station for about an hour for stop this morning, and working insulator caused problems between friendship heights and van ness stations. the train's single track for several hours until the problem was resolved. two of safetrack 14 started on the green line. from now until may 14, there will be no green line trains running to college park. bus service will be available between stations. now 7 on your side with the consumer alert, a race against the clock to avoid

strikes, one involving at&t workers, the other, workers at bloomingdale's flagship store in new york. 21,000 at&t workers may walk off the job monday. they gave notice of the possible walkout friday. the protest hinges on their contract. the bloomingdale's retail union contract expires at midnight. the sides have not reached a deal. the sticking point, how employees are paid when customers find a product in the store but later purchase it online and the employee gets no commission. heres a breezy, warm night , a record-breaking weekend. josh: it was come in the 90's yesterday. dulles tied their record today. evening, that is when we are talking about the chance of thunderstorms. just the way this has set up

through and the atmosphere just kind of primed for thunderstorms , we have the risk of severe weather. starting off, a nice shot of the national harbor. just really a very comfortable evening. it stays that way until tomorrow morning. the temperatures begin right around 70 and a lot of places, upper 60's. spitting outure here, bringing snow on the backside of it. what it is doing is creating a cold front through parts of mississippi. that is pushing our way tomorrow. that is providing the list for these thunderstorms as we get into monday evening. right now stillwell to the west, so not getting anything from that. we are looking at the boundary front coming across today now starts to push back to the north. as the warm air moves in, 63 degrees further to the west, about

starting off the morning comfortable. they little cloud cover in the morning. watch how this fills in quickly. a lot more cloud cover tomorrow. not quite as sunny as this weekend. 0, isolated showers in the shenandoah valley, but not too much across the d.c. area. a little breezy, cloudy, but dry. 3:30, a little more rain, but it's after 6 p.m. that the storms move in. just along the blue ridge, 7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. monday evening, fredericksburg, warrenton, parts of latta county. p.m., that is when it's moving across d.c. we carry that across the district, pushing into the bay at about 10:00. that

about 6:00 until 10 p.m. for the severe thunderstorms. tuesday, a lot more sunshine, still breezy, but the temperatures finally turn comfortable, not as hot. with the severe storms come a chance of damaging wind. heavy rain. it does not last long. a tornado not out of the question, but not really likely for stop could get some hail if we get any cells that get off on their own, but the wind is the big thing. 70's, near 81 degrees tomorrow. after the 81 tomorrow, we start trending back downward until thursday. the temperature stay warm. the best days are tuesday and wednesday, just a little breezy tuesday. towards the end of the week, bringing back the rain chances, lingering into thursday although into saturday. kimberly:

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eastern conference some i finals, the wiz looking to get off to a good start against the celtics. mission accomplished, in the first quarter at least. john wall connects. they led 16-0 at one point. boston came back, but the wiz mounted their own comeback. down three. late in the fourth, washington behind nine. al horford with the baseline jumper. the wiz drop game one. >> our defense slipped a little bit, we lacked a little focus, and we give up a lot of threes. there was just way too many to chances of oner new him a very slim when that happens. >>

the initial action of them attacking us. watching live, i don't think there were a lot of contested threes, so we have to do that next game. robert: tune in next four abc 7 "sports sunday." we have redskins wide receiver terrel prior, plus a longtime washington sports journalist joins us in studio. the fun starts at 11:356. -- at 11:35. the nationals pounded the mets today, 23-5. we will have those highlights as well. 25-3. my goodness.

kimberly: a big announcement expected tomorrow. islooks like kelly ripa finally getting a permanent partner. she had to donate we today that she will announce her new cohost during her show. -- she hinted today during a tweet that she will announce her new cohost. biden flashed joe his sense of humor today. he said the only reason he said yes to being a professor at the university of pennsylvania is

the slowest one the family, followed by this -- >> i insist that you call me professor from now on. i'm the benjamin franklin professor of -- anyway, i'm a big deal. kimberly: biden is keeping busy. his longtime friend and advisor said he is now a happy warrior. a final look at the forecast coming up.

"awe"ly: her4e is your moment of the weekend, these adorable puppies digging into a birthday cake celebrating the humane society's birthday on saturday. the dog-friendly cake was not the only good part. they were all adopted into new homes on the same day.