. >>> and i'm barbara harris. we have new information on the latest security breach at the white house. what we know about the person who scaled and cleared the fence late last night. news 4 midday begins right now. >> i'm aaron gilchrist starting us out in the storm center with amelia siegel. what a difference a couple of hours can make. it's beautiful outside. >> gorgeous but there's a greater likelihood we're dealing with strong to severe storms later today. so you're looking at severe weather as we those this orange. there's a greater likelihood those areas are indealing with severe weather. that includes just about everybody. potential for strong winds that could lead to isolated wind damage and hail. the threat in the d.c. metro area starts around 5:00. it starts at 4:00 for areas to the west. keeping the close eye for the potential of strong winds that could lead to damage across the area. heavy rain and small hail. the time period will be this afternoon and evening. there are flood warnings in effect for s

i'm barbara harris. coming up, the first court appearance for the man responsible. >> i'm adam tess russian president vladimir putin spent hours answering questions, some very serious, but a mom's request for a puppy is among the questions getting the most attention. >>> i'm storm team 4 meteorologist, gorgeous spring day under way but clouds are closing back in and rain will be moving in later. >>> right now on capitol hill a look at the worst government jobs. do you or someone you know have one of these jobs? find out, news 4 midday starts right now. >> i'm molette green at the live desk. new video just in shows us the tough ride on metro's green and yellow lines. metro just tweeted moments ago this message -- no longer single tracking. but passengers there are still caught up in the delays that have lasted throughout the morning. this video we want to show you shows the emergency vehicles in the area. we told you about a track problem at the fort totten station that prompted metro to initially suspend

barbara? >> all right, molette. >>> today a maryland man will learn how long he'll spend behind bars for causing a deadly crash. amman lyle driving drunk on lee highway last year when he slammed into a car at fort myer drive in rosslands. the 24-year-old driver of the chrysler was killed. lyle had just gotten his license back after having it suspended a year following a dwi charge. >>> heading to the cherry blossom festival this weekend, in luck. gorgeous out there. look ak the blossoming buds. in peak bloom tomorrow through tuesday we expect. festival organizers expect big crowds too around the tidal basin and national mall. early morning is probably the best time to beat the big crowds. tweet us pictures or send them to us using snap chat. >>> right now you can buy tickets to the first round of the washington wizards' home playoff game. tickets just went on sale. you can buy them online or any ticket master location. dates and times of the wizards first games released after the regular seaso

get this barbara. when asked if they would use pot if it were legal, 69%, nearly 70% said definitely not. >> thank you. >>> we have new video just in to the newsroom of a plane that skidded off the runway in japan today. more than 20 passengers were injured when the plane went off the runway and then turned around after landing in hiroshima and shut down the airport. a-320 has 74 passengers on board. everyone was evacuated and no serious injuries were reported. they told emergency responders part of the aircraft may have touched the huntway in the landing. more from the live desk. back the you. >> thank you. >>> a surprising tweet of "people" magazine about the health of rita wilson. the actress and wife of tom hanks has breast cancer. she's undergone a double mastectomy and surgery. the health crisis forced her to take a leave from "fish in the dark" play and in a statement to "people" she said quote, i am recovering and most importantly expected to make a full recovery. why? because i caught this ear

barbara? >> thanks kristen. >>> one of the biggest beer companies in the country is apologizing for a new slogan some are calling offensive. look at this bud light label. it says "the perfect beer for removing "no" from your vocabulary for the night." well critics say that phrase raised concerns about alcohol-fuelled rape culture. the brewer says it intended the label to be a fun way of invoking its ongoing up for whatever advertising campaign. anheuser-busch quickly tweeted out its apology, as you can see there. "we missed the mark on a new bud light bottle and we regret it" they said. >>> it was a white-knuckle morning and you and all of us watched nik wallenda's latest death defying student. the daredevil walked on top of a 400 foot high orlando eye. you see it right here. he had no safety harness, no net, no balancing bar. he walked outside the rim of that wheel which is just six inches wide. you can check out this view from his gopro camera that was on his shirt there looking straight dow

barbara? >> sounds good tom, thank you. >>> place your bets. any day now the duchess of cambridge will bifrth to a prince or princess. kate middleton is expected to give birth to her second child within the next two weeks. right now you're betting prince george is going to get a sister. book makers say up to 90% of all bets being taken on the sex are gunning for a princess. alice is the run away favorite name with 3-1 odds followed by elizabeth, charlotte and victoria. and a look at what's being said about the possible trip to cuba for the pope coming up after the break. >>> any minute now, president obama and the italian prime minister will take to the mics for a press conference. the two are meeting to discuss support for the ukrainian government's forces batting pro-russian separatists and on efforts to defeat the terror group isis. the prime minister is also pressing the u.s. to support his economic policies. italy is currently facing a recession. >>> meanwhile, the white house is keeping an eye on a court case taking place in texas. appell

barbara? >> thank you, chuck. >>> google is about to face a challenge in court from a major player in the european union. tomorrow the e.u.'s competition chief will file a complaint saying google has abused its dominance online. the complaint claims google illegally rigs its search results. reports say european regulators may start investigating how fair google's android software actually is. >>> today the quest for the stanley cup begins at the verizon center. the capitals will take on the new york islanders in game one of the eastern conference divisional playoffs. check out the tweet from the caps they're reminding you all to rock the red. alex ovechkin and company are hoping they can outmuscle the islanders and they have to deal with star center john tavarez who has the second most points in the league, we can do it. we found tickets for tonight's game on stubhub, not too bad, around $40. the caps tweeted if the game goes long they'll stay open until 1:00 a.m. with access to metro stations

cooler tomorrow as well barbara. a look at the temperatures in about 10 minutes. >>> just a few minutes ago we were talking about japan's prime minister addressing a joint session of congress. there was more glitz and glamour at last night's white house state dinner. president obama hosted prime minister shinzo abe and his wife last night.

barbara. >> thank you. right now a chance to get you caught up. >> starting with funeral services for grace man. the university of mary washington student was killed last week. police arrested her roommate. she was in court where asked about a public offender. next appearance in may. >> very serious investigation. police turning the finding over to the state attorney a week from friday. >> that's nbc's tom castillo reporting on the death of 25 year old gray in baltimore. appears his spinal cord was severed during an arrest with police. six baltimore police officers are now on paid leave. >> another tough morning commute. this is a tweet from northern virginia chief. >> it is a big night for the washington sports fans. caps and wizards in playoff action. >> take a look at our current temperatures. much cooler today but no rain. the question is what can we expect for the rest of the day? >> well for the rest of the day we're going to warm up to highs near 70 degrees. so noticeably cooler than yesterday. espec

barbara? >> all right, eun. thank you. looks like a lot of fun there. >>> heading over to the national zoo for easter monday notice extra security there. zoo officials have enacted a sweeping new measure for busy days like today. this is partly due to the several violent incidents in the past on easter monday events there, always a big day there. new measures could include bag checks and metal detectors. officials say they'll evaluate the new measures in a couple of weeks. melissa? >>> barbara, still ahead, stories trending online from the "rolling stone" to the washington capital, watching "news4 midday." >>> i'm molette green at live desk. new this morning, the highest court in the land just block eded a push to sue the government over his ordeal in a cuban prison. getting word the u.s. supreme court rejected an appeal from alan grose to sue for negligence in a $60 million lawsuit. this backs up a lower court's ruling that the government is immune from such claims. the former government subcontractor argued he wasn't pro

barbara? >> thank you. >>> now many of you have probably seen the images of the unarmed man in south carolina who was shot in the back as he returns from a police officer. that officer is in custody this morning charged with murder. nbc's tracie potts explain how cell phone video led to his arrest. the report has graphic video, we warn you. >> reporter: brash barbara, protests today after the video surfaced. the justice department the fbi, is looking at it along with local authorities, because in that video and we should warn people that it's graphic and to many may be disturbing. you hear the eight shots. you see walter scott go down and then you also see officer michael slager run back to the position where he was originally shooting grab something and drop it at scott's feet. the mayor says this officer made a bad decision and that is why he is now charged with murder. meantime the family is speaking out saying without the cell phone video, some of the facts may have never been known. they

i'm barbara harrison. we'll tell you what the gunman asked the victims. >>> i'm molette green at live desk. listen up, you drive, you text you pay. the transportation secretary is getting that message out today. >>> and in indiana, the change now made to religious freedom bill that sparked controversy across the country. i'm eun yang. >>> and i'm storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. beautiful day. blustery wind. later, rain arrives tomorrow. >>> breaking news. dozens shot and killed. 65 wounded, and more than 500 still unaccounted for in kenya. right now it is unclear how many hostages are in the hands of masked gunmen who stormed a college campus near the somalia border. witnesses say christians were singled out and shot on the spot. those who could, ran for their lives. kenya's president just ordered 10,000 new police recruits to fast-track training. the al shabaab terror group claimed responsibility. >>> the wife of a man found murdered in a d.c. hotel room is thanking police for making an arrest in

>> yeah unfortunately, barbara. it's not going to rain all weekend but probably on the parts of the weekend you care most about -- saturday afternoon saturday night into sunday morning. hour by hour for the rest of the day today, sunshine and that gusty northwesterly breeze. temperatures l get up to about 60 degrees today. that's ten degrees cooler than average. and then over the next couple days into your weekend today sunny, breezy 59. tomorrow rain likely tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening especially and then rain lingering at least through your sunday morning. it could be sunday mid-afternoon before we really get the rain drops turned off. >> thank you, chuck. >>> all of us keeping our fingers crossed this morning waiting to hear more on the status of nats first baseman ryan zimmerman. look that the tweet from baseball analyst peter gammons. it says ryan with zimmerman dealing with plantar fasciitis, one of the game's best deserves better. come cast sports net confirmed the condition. the report says zimmer

i'm barbara harrison. a look why emergency crews were already stretched thin in that area. >>> i'm molette green at live desk. pictures you will only see on news 4 this morning. three bald eagles and what we're learning about possible egg letts. >>> and i'm eun yang. it is good friday. a look how people around our area and the world are observing the holy day. >>> i'm storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. rain moving through the metro area. could get thunderstorms later today. >>> i'm molette green back at the live decksk. a massive firefight in louisville. look at the giant smoke and flames that filled the sky there at the ge appliance park plant. 100 firefighters called in to battle this thing. one building destroyed when the roof caved in. this is a company holiday today. so not many people there and not hearing about injuries yet. right now there's a shelter in play order issued to nearby residents urging them to get to an inside room and shut off vents. seeing ash as big as lunch boxes found on plan

. >>> and i'm barbara harrison. new information this morning on how much the airline lufthansa knew about the psychological state of the copilot on the plane that crashed in the french alps. >>> i'm melissa mollet a suspected bank robber escapes custody at a virginia hospital. now the u.s. marshalls begin an investigation into what went wrong wrong. >>> and i'm meteorology tom kierein. a warming trend. what's gone on over the last few days. >>> and "news4 midday" starts right now. >>> just this morning, a 10-inch noose found hanging from a tree on campus at duke university. we want to you look at this photo of a thin yellow rope posted on social media, and news about it also spread when the story made it into the school's daily newspaper. it was taken down just before 3:00 a.m. one blogger on tumblr wrote, the durham north carolina campus is a hostile environment for any and all people. two weeks ago white male students chanted a lynching song to her. after that incident university leaders sent out an e-mail affirmi

. >>> i'm barbara harrison with new information on pope francis. we already know he's headed to the u.s. in september but in an announcement just afew hours ago, he confirms another stop that's sure to get the world's attention. >> i'm eun yang following what you're doing to help earth day. news 4 midday begins right now. >>> new developments as we're learning. a plan to shoot down people on their way to church. this was a plan that was thwarted in france. we're getting video in from a news conference held by the interior minister in paris talking about the arrest of a 24-year-old computer science student yesterday morning. he apparently had been planning to attack one or more churches in france. we know police say they found several weapons inside his car, several weapons inside his apartment in paris. he's an islamic extremist from algeria who apparently had already been flag bid authority there is in france. they knew about him about a year ago and had been keeping an eye on him. he apparently shot himself in the leggen accidentally called an am

. >>> i'm barbara harris. and the big political news not one but two candidates for president kicking off their candidates today. >> and new information on a family being investigated again for what they call free-range parenting. the mother explains what happened when police took her children into custody. >> i'm chuck bell. we have sunshine today but heavy rain in the forecast for tomorrow. i'll time that out for you. news 4 midday starts now. >>> a developing story right now. the search is on for a man police say murdered his wife in a maryland dunkin' donuts. take a look at this picture right here. it's of 24-year-old bhadreshkumar chetanbhai patel. he is from hanover. anne arundel county police say witnesses told them patel struck his wife multiple times with an object before fleeing the dunkin' donuts. it's a shop that both of them apparently worked at. patel is now wanted on several charges, including first degree murder. if you know anything or have seen him, please call police. >>> we've got breaking

barbara? >> chuck, thanks. >>> kim kardashian says her family is still adjusting to step dad bruce jenner's transition from man to woman. in an interview with abc's diane sawyer jenner says he is transgender. during an interview with matt lauer on the "today" show kardashian says the process is one big learning experience for their family. >> you know until that transition is done we've learned what you do refer to him as him. but bruce has always been really really good at explaining everything to us even though it's really new and these have been newer feelings -- not newer feelings for him but for us to digest. he's done a good job walking us through it. >> she says the family has experienced every emotion possible dealing with the news. kardashian says she's proud of bruce for the new role he will take on by helping others who identify as transgender. >>> a developing story out of virginia. early-morning gunfire in stafford county leaves one person dead. what police are making public this

. >>> i'm barbara harrison and right now you can get your ticket to a caps playoff game. we'll show you how. news 4 midday starts now. >>> i'm meteorologist chuck bell. it's a mostly cloudy day outside. storm team 4 radar has rain drops in southwestern pennsylvania aiming into western maryland. the rate they are going, they will be in the met are at about 5 hours from now. a couple light showers across southern maryland. this is a much steadier batch of showers arriving between 4:00 and 5:00 this afternoon. right around town, though, we're all dry. al bee it cloudy outside. a a couple sprinkles in st. mary's. temperatures are relatively mild. we're in the mid-60s between now and the arrival of the rain drops, we get a little sunshine and temperatures will trend upwards through the rest of the afternoon. >>> angie goff here at the live desk. we confirmed a a teen being treated in the hospital after being shot has died. we just found out that the boy was 16 years old. he was shot late last night near 37th street. still, though no word on who shot him and why. more informati

barbara harrison news 4 for wednesday's child. >> if you have room in your home and your heart for kim or another child who's waiting, call our special adoption hotline. the number is 800-2-adopt-me. you can also search wednesday's child on nbcwashington.com. what a cute girl. >>> the pop star who took >> that is a tough break. but britney spears is okay, as you can see. the pop star took a tumble during last night's "piece of me" vegas show. she tweeted out over the show that it was just a fall and she's okay. she's fine. this is not the first vegas stage mishap for the singer this year. back in march she made some headlines when a hair extension fell out during a live performance. hate it when that happens. she also called out a heckler during another show there. >> that didn't happen to you on the morning show? >> the hair every now and then you have to grab it and put it back in there, melissa. >>> the road to the 141st kentucky derby stopped by the "tonight show." take a look. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> okay release the puppies! and they're off right there! >> of course jimmy fallon broug

barbara? >> we will continue to follow the story. thank you so much, aaron. the fairfax county search and rescue team has arrived in nepal now. the team will help search for survivors. they're trained to deal with structural collapses as well as perform rope and water rescues. one of the areas that team could begin working is a small town near the epicenter of the nepal earthquake. officials say 250 people are missing from that town after a mud slide earlier today. the quake hit on saturday. authorities say more than 5,000 people have died and 10,000 are hurt. at least four americans are among the dead but others are still missing. despite the weather, all the remaining climbers that were stuck on mt. everest were rescued today. 450,000 people lost their homes in that earthquake. >>> d.c. voters will begin voting in a special election for two council seats. the ward 4 seat was left empty when muriel bowser was elected mayor last year. polls are open from 7:00 a.m. till 8:00 p.m. >>> children waiting for a school bus nearl >>> take a look at this video from in