some of these very important issues but it just didn't happen. the person of interest in a hate crime at american university, campus police say they're following tips and leads to find out who hung bananas on nooses and marked them with aka a well-known african-american sorority. and now, more frustration among several student groups of color that planned to meet with administrators. word that the meeting wasn't happening spread very fast. >> i'm live individual when i woke up to that text this morning. it was all caps. this is ridiculous. >> reporter: a university spokesperson says administrators wanted to include other student leaders and that the timing for the meeting just didn't come together. the university invited students to a small community meeting instead, not open to the media. a student who was there said staff talked about how to address these recent

fall. phil capers is worried about the future of black students at au. >> these types of incidences i think it would discourage black students from coming to american university. >> reporter: he too disappointed about the meeting that hasn't happened so far. >> this stuff happens more and more. so i think it was a bad move on the administration i think. >> reporter: these student groups have a list of demands including much more transparency from the administration here at the au, wendy. back to you. >> moments ago i spoke with that new president of american university student government, taylor dumpson. she is the first black woman to hold that post and also a member of the sorority targeted with that ugly comment. and the day this all started was her first day on-the-job. she's satisfied she says with the university's response to this.

it's as good as i can be during the situation. i feel supported by whether members of the organization reaching out to me from alaska to tennessee across the country. it's been an amazing outpour of support and i'm really thankful. i'm also thankful to members of the student body and to faculty staff and administration for all of their help. >> what would you say to those students now who say i'm out of here? >> as a student here there freshman year who wanted to transfer that staying at au was one of the best decisions i ever made because i think at the end of the day going through the adversity that i faced have molded me into the person i am. i wouldn't wish this any other place because i don't think i would truly be who i am in front of you if it weren't for american university. >> she's from maryland. she's studying law and said her parents raised her to be a leader and now is her time to raise to that occasion.

at 2:00 tomorrow at the mary gradeen center which is the student center they're holding a community meeting and she said everyone from the d.c. community is invited to come and participate because they want to have a discussion and they want to talk about protocols and they want to communicate. so and they want to listen. so she's encouraging everyone if you want to attend 2:00 tomorrow at the mary gradeen center. >> good for her speaking out. a strong message here today. >> very poised, very bright, bright young woman. >> you'll have more at 6:00. >> only on news4 at 5:00. a series of crimes involving stolen vehicles and stolen firearms. this evening two teens are facing charges and we're learning that those guns belong to a police officer. news4 pat collins outside einstein high school in kensington with the latest on this story. pat? >> jim, a teenager in a stolen car with a stolen assault rifle near a school, a fast

this to a quick and peaceful end. 18-year-old mario alvarado, a student at einstein high, arrested near the school and charged in connection with the theft of an assault rifle that belonged to the cops. here's how it went down. thursday, april 27th, milton avenue in silver spring, the blue mazda car was here and then it wasn't: thursday night your mazda car was parked on the street, right. >> yes. >> reporter: friday morning it was gone. >> saturday april 29th another victim this time it's the rockville city police. an a.r. 15 assault rifle similar to this one taken from an unmarked police car along with five fully loaded magazines and a shotgun. >> we have assault weapons and a shotgun stolen and those are out

>> reporter: monday it all comes together at ienstein high school. a school resources officer sees a teenager walk into the school, he's caring a black plastic bag. a short time later he comes out of the school no bag. the officer gets suspicious. he watches as the teenager gets into a blue mazda car. the officer makes a traffic stop, the teen begins to run, the teens arrested, police search the car and what do they find in the trunk, that assault rifle and all the ammunition. >> thankfully we had the sro there, you know, who potentially could've stopped a tragedy because we don't know what this individual's intention was. >> reporter: now police say when they searched alvarado they found a key to that stolen mazda car in his pants pocket. oh, and about the stolen shotgun, they say they found that in a stolen pickup truck

parents reacting to all this coming up at 6:00. wendy back to you. >> thank you, pat. he is still on the run, that escaped prisoner in maryland, five days now but they thought they got a tip, a good one so the search intensified. it happened both in the air and on the ground after someone reported seeing a suspicious man in an area where he was last seen. david watson has been on the run since friday when he managed to escape from a state hospital slipping out of his handcuffs and out of the waist chains. authorities just held a news conference sharing details about the tip they received this morning that triggered the new search. this time around the clifton perkins hospital center in jessup. chris gordon is live there now to tell us how it's going. >> reporter: police say they have ramped up this manhunt based on a call they got this morning from a local employee in this area who says he saw a man be

run road here in jessup. the man was reportedly wearing a white hard hat and a safety vest either neon yellow or orange in color. that man ran as soon as he was spotted. >> right now we have reason to believe that the person who was spotted by the 911 caller this morning very well may be dpafd watson and also that was reinforced when we learned that a hard hat and vest had been stolen from a nearby storage building. >> reporter: a helicopter flies above the woods. search was prompted by a single unconfirmed report, a siting of an unknown male. police have been looking for escaped prisoner david watson since friday when he got away from two corrections officer who transported him to the perkins psychiatric hospital for evaluation. watson faces charges. he's serving a sentence of

murder. there's a reward for watson who has distinctive tattoos on his face, neck and body. today at this nearby 7-11 a customer thought she spotted watson. >> i saw a white gentleman with tattoos. he was a skinny guy. not sure if that's the guy you're talking about or not. i saw somebody in here that just left. >> reporter: jessup elementary spent the day on lockdown. a place where someone may have stayed in the woods because of bedding found there. police search near train tracks along a creek bed where footprints were found. police opened manhole covers searching drains and tunnels. why police believe they are closing in on escape prisoner david watson. back to you. >> we'll see you at 6:00. big day there. fbi director james comey says if he had to make that

it came to reopening the investigation into hillary clinton's e-mails just days before the election. democrats on the senate judiciary committee grilled comey today about his late october letter regarding clinton's e-mails. they also asked why he didn't disclose the investigation into possible ties between the trump campaign and russia. >> it makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election but honestly it wouldn't change the decision. i thought it was very important to call out what the russians were trying to do with our election. it's a separate question from do you confirm the existence of a classified investigation that has just started to try and figure out are there any connections between that russian activity and u.s. persons. >> comey reiterated today that he stands by his testimony before the house that there was no surveillance of trump tower prior to the

moldy biofilm. that's what seems to be eating the jefferson memorial. this is not science fiction. it's a stereoyou're only going to see on news4 and tom sherwood is reporting it. it's a new effort to clean the surface of that once gleaming monuments draws hundreds of thousands of visitors and they're going to clean it with lasers. >> the toms jefferson memorial one of the most magnificent places here in the capitol. but good ole thomas jefferson memorial it's exterior is blighted by a mold that has spread all over the monument in recent years. efforts failed to find a cleaning chemical that wouldn't damage the stone, granite and marble. the u.s. parks service is seeking firms that are expert in chemical free laser cleaning. if all goes well, the project should be done by early next year. in the district, tom

news4. >> plenty of sunshine across the region. take a look at our tower cam right now. beautiful conditions with the plenty of blue skies. not a cloud in the sky. but boy, are things going to change in a big way as we move on through the next 24 hours and really over the next two weeks. we've got a monster of a storm down to the south. that's going to bring a lot of rain and much cooler weather in our region. temperatures the next couple of days may be going up but right back down. big storm moving in. heavy rain. this will be early friday morning but starting tomorrow night, a major pattern change. you know the 70s, 80s and 90s. we're not going to see any more of those for maybe two weeks. same thing with the sunshine. we can say bye-bye to that as well. my complete forecast in ten minutes. >> thank you. fairfax county wants to be a leader in self-driving car technology and they're taking steps to get there now when we come back, the roads all ready be

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dangerous. you're filling up your car at the gas station and early this morning, a man was killed when someone tried to rob him as he was filling up his car at the exxon station on silver hill road in suitland. megan fitzgerald is there now with reaction from someone who knew this victim. megan? >> reporter: wendy, ceasele watkins said he lived right next door to wane describes the guy as a really friendly guy who didn't have problems with anybody. which is why he says he is shocked that he was murdered at this gas station behind me just minutes from his home. it was just after midnight when this exxon station on silver hill road turned into a crime scene. police say 27-year-old wayne pope had just gotten out of his car. >> detectives believe the suspect was trying to rob the victim. during that struggle ensued and the suspect shot the victim killing him at that location. >> reporter: police spent hours at the location collecting evidence. >> he was a nice young ma

we went fishing. >> reporter: watkins is known wayne pope for the last 20 years. he says wayne loved his family and would always come back to the neighborhood to visit his mom. >> his mother was very attentive to him. she loved her son and i believe he loved her, so i think it's going to hit her really hard. >> reporter: a family is now left grieving for the loss of a 27-year-old man while police try to figure out who killed him. police say this suspect is believed to be in his teens or his 20s. they say he was last seen wearing a black backpack. they're asking anyone with information about this case to contact police right away. back to you. >> thank you. so they keep on keeping on with the sugar-free thing they're doing here at news4. many of them are doing it including our morning coworkers. >> we're trying on the late night. we have been having

smack talk with our sugar colleagues. i did leave some cupcakes while they were asleep as a token for my appreciation for them or maybe some sabotage as it were. this week we've also been taking a close look at the health benefits and the risks of added sugar and doreen gentzler who is knocking out of the park this week. >> i don't know about that. we know too much sugar is bad for your body, diabetes, heart disease, what about your brain? this is the part that really gets my attention. studies have shown that sugar consumption can release dope amine that's a chemical that signals award and that can make sugar addictive. it can have long-term and damaging effects on our brain as well. >> people that have higher levels of intake of self-reported int

artificially flavored beverages had a three times increased risk in later life of stroke and desha. >> artificial sweet nerz made news but the link between sugar and dementia and alzheimer's disease has been around for a while. heather snyder is the director of medical operations at the alzheimer's association. >> there has also been prior research that's looked in different animal models that suggested there may be a linkage between sugar intake and some of the underlying biology that we know is involved in vascular and alzheimer's disease related dement dementias. >> just a few years ago a study done at harvard showed people with above normal blood sugar levels had links to dementia. the link between the body and the brain says heather snyder is not really surprising. >> we know that sugars interact with our blood veflz and blood know and heart health and that also impacts our overall brain health as well. >> to be very clear, this whole area does need mor

between sugar and dementias but researchers are continuing to study this and hope to discover more. >> wait, wait, wait. one good turn deserves another. >> smell these puppies. >> we got special deliveries here. >> oh, my goodness. this is what got me off the wagon monday night. >> look at that. >> you're dead to me. pepperoni sausage. >> let's pretend we don't even smell this, okay? >> i'm not doing this. >> five? it was so nice of you to leave us cupcakes, we thought good turn deserved another. you can't just have the pepperoni, you have to of the hawaiian. >> this week is only half way over, just wait. >> revenge as you said is a dish best served cold or sweet. >> fyi, there's a lot of sugar in the pizza sauce so don't think this is going to be okay. >>

>> pete left the weighingen first night. >> i heard about you and the cookie. >> one cookie. >> one cookie. >> i'm going to referry this. >> everything they give you, you can't eat just send it over to me. >> whoa. >> now it's all gone. >> saw that coming. >> are you doing sugar-free? >> heck no. >> there you go. >> you'll never see him tonight. >> stay strong, you guys. >> stay strong. >> hi, wendy. >> look how good you are having been up for 32 hours straight. >> is this your pjs here? >> it's my nightgown. >> let's get back to the news. >> bye, darling. >> you know this is what did me in. >> they know our weak. >> they are evil, all right. >> pat collins tomorrow. >> tomorrow morning, pat. he's lost 20 pounds. >> i kn

>> he lost half of a pat collins. >> he's got his only personal advice about going sugar-free tomorrow morning on news4. >> would it hurt if i just smell it? >> don't smell it. we're going to go to a very break and then we're going to have weather because big changes are coming up in our forecast, heavy rain heading your way and so is doug ka

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okay. we're back. i'm going to talk because they're mouths are full. doug's on his third piece. >> that was sausage, bacon and pepperoni. >> mine is just cheese. >> just cheese. you're being healthy. >> normally i don't do carbs a lot any way. >> me either. >> so this is the meat pizza. this is totally fine. i'm going to put that right there. >> because we got some stuff to talk about, some serious stuff. in a couple of days we're going to be getting some heavy rain. >> this storm is really going to change everything for us for the next two weeks. >> really? >> it really will because this pattern is going to set up and we've got this huge drop of low pressure off the coast and these sunny skies that you're looking at. they're gone. we're not going to see much in the way of sunshine close to two weeks. 65 degrees right now,

of the north 17-mile-per-hour. we have the sunshine. that sunshine helping to create some nice numbers. we're still below average today. 64 currently manassas. 65 down towards culpeper. it's a little bit on the cool side especially when you consider the winds. now down to 25 d.c. 17 manassas. that tells you that winds are coming down gradually through the rest of the evening hours. if you're heading out toward nats park looking good there. 62 by 9:00. make sure you take the jacket. maybe the sweater here at 11:00 because we are going to see as you're leaving the game that's when it starts to get cool. nothing on the radar. but look at this storm. right now nothing in our area but here it is back to the west. and what's going to happen, this storm is going to move down across our region bringing a lot of rain and then it's going to sit across the northeast in a trough set-up that

>> look at all this cool air up toward the north. we're going to get on the warmer side of things but the cool air will move in and it's going to stick around for quite some time. tomorrow, i'm not anticipating rain early in the day. most of the day looks dry, although here come the clouds. clouds coming in through 5:00 we are dry. tomorrow night, here comes the rain around 11:00. we start to see it moving in and it gets heavy at 7:00 a.m. there could be some rum bells of thunder. we could see rainfall coming down right around the morning rush. it sticks around through till about 10:00. tomorrow, one more day of okay weather. 69 degrees, clouds moving in. dry through the day. next ten days, look at these numbers. 75 on friday with that heavy rain early and then we're only into the 50s and low 60s. more like pittsburgh weather, yeah that's exactly what we've got. cool and cloudy next ten days. i'm coming your way, you

the pizza. you don't care to see us. >> i do love the pizza. >> pewe're pepperoni to you. >> they're anticks cost them their children. >> people are still weighing in on facebook on that one, plus d.c.'s mayor and a bunch of kids. it was supposed to be a feel good moment. why it turned into tough questions instead. >> and his job is to keep fairfax residents safe. tonight the police chief shares his experience when he became a victim. >> i had extreme pain in my lower back, excruciating pain from the front of my forehead

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>> announcer: you're watching news4 at 5:00. >> and welcome back at 5:30. a push by fairfax county to become a leader when it comes to those driverless cars. and "the washington post" food critic shares his spring dining guide incognito. >> but first she slams into the back of a car that was in front of her going about 45-mile-per-hour and today that fairfax county woman pled guilty to driving drunk because in the other car fairfax county's police chief. todae

ver about that case. david is outside police headquarters, hey david. >> reporter: this is police headquarters right here but the chief he spent most of the day just across the street in that building right there, the fax fair county courthouse. he was preparing to testify against that drunk driver who hit him back in december but at the last moment she pleaded guilty. >> today i'm still angry. i pray for the defendant, this is horrible. i hope it's a lesson learned that it never happens again. >> reporter: nearly five months after christy crashed into the back of an unmarked police cruiser she is back in jail after pleading guilty to dwi. her blood alcohol was more than three times the legal limit. >> when i had to get out of the car, she was stumbling around and i had to balance herself on the car. >> reporter: at the time officer dale healy was new on-the-job. this was his first drunk

crash responded to and to learn his boss was the victim. >> i was just shocked as anybody else to realize rolling on scene that the chief was involved in the accident. >> reporter: the chief remembers just sitting at that stop light and habit likely lessened his injuries. >> i had just taken the head rest and clicked it back against my head, put my hands on the steering wheel to take a meditative breath because it was a long day and the next thing i know my world was just being lifted literally. >> reporter: her car was going 45 miles an hour. his neck protected but once the adrenaline subsided. >> i had excruciating pain. >> reporter: within moments he began consulting with the prosecutor. a few minutes later the defense agreed to enter a guilty plea. deputies took he had gar into customer did i to start serving her f o

>> i did catch up with james love. he's the defense attorney representing edgar. he calls this an unfortunate situation. hopefully his client is going to get some treatment and that she's looking forward to putting all of this behind her. >> david culver thanks so much. >> we're learning that an ann arun dell county police officer has now been arrested for soliciting a prostitute. detective brian houseman was arrested last night and taken into custody. while he was on duty he made sexual advances even assaulted suspects and witnessed during some of his police investigations. police tell us they started an investigation into houseman's alleged misconduct back in april, but that the incidents date back to november of 2016. >> here's the story of the week, a couple in frederick who posted what they call prank videos of them screaming at their kids have now temporarily

custody. >> want to play games? let's play games! >> mike and heather martin uploaded hundreds of videos to a youtube channel and made thousands of dollars in them. they scream profanities and film the kids fighting each other. the couple says the kids were in on it but last month they apologized for what they call terrible parenting decisions. i'll say. prosecutors are still trying to decide whether the martins will face any charges. >> parents across the country struggle to find child care that is affordable. here in the district today the mayor was there cutting the ribbon on a new child care facility but while there she was hit with some tough questions. mark segraves was there and has this report. >> reporter: it started off as a typical ribbon cutting event for

bowser was using the occasion to highlight her proposal to fund more day care facilities in the district. >> that initiative is aimed at the creation of 1,300 more faint and toddler slots across the district, so an investment of $15 million. >> reporter: when mayor bowser opened the floor for questions it was a grandmother in a crowd, 68-year-old virginia benjamin who spoke up first. she helps her son and daughter-in-law care for her first child, she wants to know what the mayor is doing to create more affordable day care options for families. >> child care has to be more affordable. >> that's part of the reason we're doing this to increase the supply in the city and we hope that that prices act the way they normally do when they're more supply tha

out the cost. >> i don't think she really answered the question. >> reporter: after the event bowser provided more specifics more reporters. >> our programs are aimed at changing the financials for providers to help them be able to open so some of the grants that we're proposing will help with opening but we're also looking for more government sites that we can build out and make the cost space less expensive. >> reporter: benjamin says she has a selfish reason for wanting more affordable child care. >> it's just so expensive. when would i ever get another grandchild. >> reporter: mark segraves, news4. >> we're just a couple of hours away from the puck drop between the capitals and penguins, of course no love lost between these two. plenty of hits last week and talking this whole series. today that talk smack talk it was continued. sherree burruss is live in pittsburgh, tell us about the latest war of words

hey. >> reporter: all this back and forth between is a telephone gone wrong. you tell one person something, they tell someone else and in the end they have to say what you said. it's usually wrong and we're going to set the scene of how this all started yesterday. >> it should be nasty. it's the playoffs, so that's the way we like to play, it's the way we like to play. >> jay beagle said the playoffs should be nasty that's the way they like to play. >> if he thinks that's clean then he's an idiot. >> ouch. >> that hurts. that's not very nice, but i mean, i guess he said what he said. i didn't comment at all on the hit. the hit obviously was not intentional. so but i do like nasty playoff hockey.

i'm hurt deeply, you know, and i don't know if he wants to sell it, we can always play some mario. he knows where find me. >> beagle not one for bulletin board material like that but as for the play that started all of this, penguins sid any cross by out with a concussion. >> consider it a high tech neighborhood watch. facebook is taking steps to police what you see in your feed. >> and the future of driverless cars on display here in northern virginia. how fairfax county is trying to become a leader in the self-driving car

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residents of green spring retirement home paired up with the school to mentor these students. it's called grand involved. it's a program that helps the students do well and the volunteers contribute to the community. >> they just love it when you can pay special attention to them and the teachers have such a big job and so many children that need special attention. it's just wonderful to be able to contribute that. >> thank you for helping us with our math and our reading and. >> thank you for taking the time with us and helping us have a growth mind set. >> they're helping us to learn and to offer pass all our tests. >> fairfax county hopes to have this program in all of its elementary schools soon. >> so we're going to simulate a near collision here. testing out new smart car technology. i'm adam tuss. come along for a

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cool new car technology in fairfax county today. these cars can do everything from tell you to slow down, they can warn you about a potential accident. it's like my having my mother sitting right next to you. northern virginia wants to be the leader when it comes to developing new car technology. our transportation reporter adam tuss takes us for a ride. >> reporter: when it comes to new car technology, they say information is like oil. it's amazing what cars can do these days like avoiding a collision. look at these two cars they were talking to one another to avoid that collision. cars that can talk to one another. >> warning. >> reporter: and cars that can talk to the road. >> road work ahead. >> reporter: that's where we're headed in the coming years but this technology on display on a closed course. >> it's indicating that it

explaining a new feature, sensing a car ahead that's stopping fast and being able to react. >> he's going to hit his brakes hard. we'll be notified here. >> cars braking ahead. >> even if there were multiple cars in front of us we would still get that information. >> reporter: the safety administration is moving to mandate a lot of these features something they believe could save lives. >> there's about 32,000 deaths on the road. if you take that down by 80%, how many of those are saved? >> technology that we've grown. >> reporter: here in fairfax county the push is for real world information that can make our trips better. you may not know but some major routes are already equipped with technology that can share information with selected cars. >> it's on interstate 66, a portion of 66 and the parallel routes of 29 and 50. we also have a few devices on route 7. >> reporter: ahead at 6:00, new car technology groups are trying to collect so much information about how we drive t

we'll tell you how in fairfax county, adam tuss, news4. >> would you ride in a driverless car? that is our nbc washington flash survey, more than half of you say no and you don't want them on the street either but there's still time to vote. just go to the nbc washington facebook page. >> thousands of new hires will help facebook crack down on videos and posts featuring criminal, violent and questionable content. the move by the social media giants in response to stinging criticism facebook has received for not responding quickly enough to murder streamed live on the site. that includes an execution style murder in cleveland and the killing of a baby in thld. the company wants to make the video easier to report so it can take action quicker. >> our city is a foodie destination. some of the big names chefs expain

with the weather as nice as it is it's also great to dine outside right about now. who better to check in than "the washington post" food critic tom seats ma who we cannot see his face and most of you can't spell or even pronounce his name and you just came out with your new spring dining guide. what's really floating your boat this year? >> what's really fun is this is a chance for me every year unlike the fall dining guide, this is the time of year when i take the pulse check of almost 30 or so restaurants and i go back to favorites, i go back to places that haven't been reviewed for perhaps decades like latama. so it's really fun for me to offer the highs, the lows and the sort of tweens on the dining season right now. one place i really like is called the restaurant at

farm. and the chef is cooking like a rock star right now. he has 40 acres of farm and garden which is his pantry and he cooks in a greenhouse setting overlooking hills and the potomac. it's certainly worth the drive. >> we just want to let people know because you have to visit these restaurants incognito so that you can -- so they don't give you special attention that's why we can't show your face. >> sure. >> i noticed. >> i'm in witness protection program. you know what? i'm never anonymous when i eat with you wendy. you blow my cover. >> i notice there's a lot of ethnic food on this list. is that just my imagination? beyond italian and asian. there's some really interesting countries that are being highlighted. >> you bet. my top ten list i've got a balkan restaurant,

downtown is moroccan. we've got cuban and bindaas. it really underscores the fact that washington is a dining destination, you name the country and we probably offer a taste of it. >> how do you get in to these restaurants? i feel like they're taking -- it's like a lottery to get in or you have to stand in line, almost takes an act of congress to get into some of these restaurants. are any of them starting to take reservations. >> that's my biggest complaint. waiting in line. i love this shoe box of a japanese restaurant but it does require that you be there if you want to be first in line. you should be there at 4:30 or so in the afternoon. a lot of these places do take reservations, though. i think the larger places certainly do. the

want to dine. >> all right, tom. it's so good to see you. can't wait to read all the details of injure delicious new list and i can't wait to see you again, how about that. >> thank you. look forward to it. >> he makes us all wear goatees when we go out to dinner with him. >> and glasses and wigs. >> sometimes i'd like to be incognito too. >> when the weather turns south on us like it's about to. >> by friday morning some heavy rain coming our way. the pollen count is very high. we need that rain to wash the pollen out of the air and out of your hair. >> tree pollen is in the high range. grass is high, weeds low. but right now nothing on storm news4 radar. the big storm doug and i have been talking about that's in the mississippi river valley. moderate to heavy rain, now arkansas, east

louisiana. this is on a track to come right into our region here by the time we get into late thursday night. this is as of 1:00 a.m. friday morning. heavy downpours starting to move into the shannon doa valley. 4:00 a.m. through 7:00 a.m., heavy rain, all this area in the yellow and red. those are some heavy downpours, maybe some thunder and lightning as well. these will be coming through right on the morning commute on friday. looks like 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. is going to be the heaviest amount of rain. then it moves off to the east and things settle down and make a little sunshine breaking out in the afternoon. how much rain will we get? all this rain you see in the purple and red, there is the scale. we could have over two inches of rain in many locations. we may have some flooding, may have some streams and creeks coming out of the banks. maybe some high water on some roads on friday morning so keep that in mind. tchlds right now in the 60s. 65 at reagan national and by dawn on thursday, tomorrow morning the

roads and staying dry for the afternoon commute as well. right around 70 degrees. look at the big change after the rain. on saturday and sunday, it'll only be near 60 degrees. certainly unmay like and feeling more like march than may. just a chance of a few sprinkles next week and warmer by the end of the week and that's the way it looks. >> interesting. >> we're approaching prom season. safety is on the mind of school officials as you can imagine. >> always. a story you want to bring your teenager in to watch. >> it's a situation no parent wants to find their child in. i'm tracee wilkins coming up on news4. students learn the hard lessons of wt canha

shenand >> students in prince george's county got a sobering look at the drgz of drunk and dris tracted driving. tracee wilkins with more on their crash course among safe driving. >> reporter: you see how he's struggling. >> our hope and our goal that we can get students out and engage them in how to be safe driving. >> reporter: students learn the consequences of what can happen if they're lucky enough to survive driving drunk. >> now the legal limit is a .08 so this is definitely way over. this is over triple the limit. >> they also learned what it's

so sorry but your son's being killed in an automobile accident. >> reporter: prince george's county listened to anita talk about her 17-year-old son who drank at a party, drove and died just days before his high school graduation an 18th birthday. >> he drove about a mile and a half and he lost control of his car, went through a fence, flipped the car and he was flown from the car and killed instantly. >> they heard what the crash did to his friends. >> it's been six and a half years and still extremely painful for me. >> it was -- just really hard to believe. >> i did tear up because it's like -- you always think that something like that will never happen to you. >> reporter: the point was made. >> if you know you cannot drive, if you know you did something, do not drive. do not put yourself or somebody else life in danger because you're trying to get to a

>> if just one student comes away saying i'm going to make a different choice, then i feel like it's been important enough. >> reporter: prince george's county has the highest number of fatality due to traffic accidents because of that police say it is that much more important that these young drivers understand what can happen behind the wheel. in prince george's county i'm tracee wilkins, news4. >> now at 6:00 a college student at the center of controversy tonight. she's sharing her story only on news4 after bananas were found hanging from nooses on campus. >> five days in and the search intensifies tonight for an escaped inmate in maryland. the new clues left today near the scene and why police are confident they will catch him soon. >> plus the fbi director defending the actions he took days before the election, why he says he had to do it even though it made him nauseous later. >> announcer:

starts now. >> first tonight, two teenagers arrested for a series of disturbing crimes. >> it started with a report of a stolen car, then a break-in involving a police officer's gun. days later, it came to an end near einstein high school in kensington. >> pat collins has the story you'll see only on news4. >> reporter: doreen, that teenager with a stolen assault rifle and five mags of ammo in a stolen car here on the campus of einstein high school. when all of a sudden a smart cop moves in and shuts the whole thing down. mario alvarado, an 18-year-old student at einstein high, arrested near the school by police in a stolen mazda car. in the trumpg of the car investigators say they found an assault rifle, a rifle similar to this one and five