Spokesperson told news 4 the university could not comment on the lawsuit. It went on to say the university has been and remains committed to diligently investigating any such allegations to ensure safety for our students and facul faculty. Three weeks, three nooses found on schools grounds. They found a noose hanging from a light in a courtyard yesterday morning. News spread quickly and caused a lot of concern among students and staff. Some students were texting their parents to make them aware of it. Parents were calling the school. Were hoping that our students here realize the severity of these incidents and realize they certainly have an impact on members of our community. School noose was placed on a light spot. You may remember a banana from nooses on the campus of American University last week. It left many students concerned about their safety. The university has hired a doctor to discuss this. Today a man accused of a brutal murder on a metro train will be in court. Today the judge will get a Mental Health update on the suspect. Today mel franklin heads to court on dui charges. Hiding in the woods. Franklin was in his koujty owcod car. This was the third time crashing a county vehicle. News 4s Tracie Wilkins will be in the courtroom. 4 33. Now for a developing story. Were learning more about an fbi raid in annapolis. The president of Strategic Campaign group said the investigation is connected to a lawsuit filed after the race for Virginia Governor in 2013. Former Virginia Attorney general sued the firm after he lost that race to terry mccullough. He claimed the company and a Political Action committee raised more than 2 million from donors but only gave his campaign about 10,000. The lawsuit was eventually settled. Its not clear exactly how the raid is connected to that case. Lets turn now to President Trumps revealinger lester holt. At the heart of it was the russia investigation. His contention comey told him three times that he was not under investigation. Was it a phone call . Did you meet face to face . I had a dinner with him. He wanted to have a dinner because he wanted to stay on. He asked that dinner was arranged. I think he asked for the dinner. And he wanted to stay on as the fbi head and i said, you know, consider t well see what happens, but we had a very nice dinner and at that time he told me you are not under investigation. Well have more take aways from lester holts interview with news 4s tracie potts in a minute. Four things were learning about comeys firing. One current and one former fbi agent says he did not seek dinner. Sources say it was requested by the white house and comey would er in that same interview the president said he had planned to fire comey all along. That contradicted previous explanations from the white house. Meanwhile, on capitol hill acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe disputed another white house assertion that comey had been fired because he had lost the confidence of the rank and file. Administration Officials Say they were told he would not be greeted warmly. Now to a story affecting every person trying to move around our region. Governor larry hogan is leaning hard on marylands attorney general to take the next step on the stalled purple line. The governor is looking to compel a federal judge to issue a ruling in the purple line lawsuit. They say 900 million is at stake if the purple line doesnt proceed. For the second weekend in a row, a wet forecast. The bridge is just south of the potomac on southbound 95. Vdot is rescheduling the work for next weekend. It will start on friday night at 10 00 and will add congestion to 1 and minuteville road. The bridge has a hole in the deck that needs to be repaired. The bridge carries 71,000 vehicles per day. We have to do it. It is a must win for the Washington Wizards tonight. Celtics leading the series. If the wizards win, theyll force a game seven. That will give them a chance to get to the eastern finals and play the reining mvp champs, the cleveland cavaliers. Always find our self in these situations. Makes it more exciting. Im going with exciting. Like the weather. Of these game sevens. We could say the same about the weather though. Wow. Wow. Harsh. Did you see the bus coming . What does that mean exactly . Not the weather people. You guys are winners. Forecast. Youre not talking about us making the forecast but the actual forecast, right . We do have improvements as we go into sunday. Aaron, that is the day with the sunshine like your yellow tie. Nicer weather for mothers day just in time. Heres the radar, showers around charlottesville. This is the weather pattern down to the south and west. Lets look at the temperatures. Good morning, chuck. Good morning. Youll need that insulated temperatures only in the 40s and low 50s. Not a mild rain be at all. More of a marchlike 46. Winchester, 52. Frederick, maryland, planning out your friday. Mainly clouds and a few showers around the morning hours. Cloudy skies all day long. Notice the temperatures in the 50s. Thats 15 to 20 degrees cooler than average. Not a lot of steady rain until after about 3 00 4rks 00. Your friday night likely to be on the rainy side as well as your saturday morning. Well detail that. It is traffic time. That means melissa mollet. Good morning. Taking a look right now at a new problem on 4. One issue in bound and one outbound. In bound at woodyard, a crash blocking the left lane. Outbound afterward road, all lanes blocked because of a poll and a wire down. Outer loop at little river turnpike, still have the emergency hanging around. Right lane is blocked. Inner loop before connecticut avenue, we look okay. Do have some road work hanging around here. 95 in another metro safe track surge just a few days away. Look at the stations that will be closed and the rippling impact for riders. It may look like a flying horse but grateful may be more like it. The dramatic rescue, look at him, that played out on a deep hillside. Hi, im coming live from the airbase. Wanti introducing the fios gigabit connection with download speeds up to 940 megs that are 20x faster and more powerful than most people have. Incredibly, its 79. 99 a month for one year. Comcast charges you 89. 99 for a triple play that only offers 200 mgs speeds. Switch to the most powerful internet at the most revolutionary price. And well give you tv, hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for 2 years all with a 2 year agreement. So act fast. Go to fiosgigabit. Com this is a pretty unusual rescue. Take a look here. Crews in Southern California actually hoisted a horse to safety. Now they believe the horse and its rider fell from 300 feet down a hillside. The rescuers had to put a harness on the animal and lift it to safety. The rider was taken to the hospital. The horse, as you can see flying here, appears to be in pretty good condition. Almost. That poor horse. Call it a chance encounter. 93yearold woman living in an independent residence in bethesda has known one of the servers there for years. It wasnt until two weeks ago that they learned it was mexico city. Daniel mentionedre parents were from and thats when sherry put two and two together. Daniel is sherrys best friends son. Do you follow me . The two friends lost touch decades ago but their bond it seems lives on. The feeling of theres a link. Theres a strong bond thats been missing for a while and we now have it. Sherry says this is why its so important to get to know people because these could iince are fascinating. This is a facetoface encounter and you cant figure it out. She even threw a baby shower for him. What are the chances . Pretty cool stuff. 4 43. Most of you probably are only seeing a little drizzle outside this morning. Just in case though yeah, its going to change especially if you have friday night plans. Cloudy. 53 in the district. Cool. More rain coming tonight and into the weekend. Chuck and i timing of it. Stay tuned. President trump offers new insight into his plans to repeal socalled obamacare. The new sound coming in from lester holts ex good morning, everybody. 4 46 on a friday morning. Were stuck in the cool, wet pattern for today and tomorrow, but back in a few more minutes with a tenday forecast. A bubble of warm air and sunshine. Ill have details of when the warm air gets here coming. The United Airlines flight evacuated. A critter on the flight. Reaction still pouring in from President Trumps interview with nbc news. He produced major revelations on several topics. News 4s tracie potts is live. Good morning. What are some of the big take aways from what the president had to say. Reporter probably the biggest, eun, are contradictions 2009 the vice president. The president planning to fire the fbi director all along. And hes talked about the impact of all of this on the russia investigation saying that he wants to see a full and thorough investigation done nkts you know that im not under investigation. Personally. Im not talking about campaigns, im not talking about anything else, im not under investigation. Did you ask him to drop the investigation . No. Never. Did anyone from the white house . No. In fact, i want the investigation speeded up. Reporter the president even said theyve already got some people that theyre looking at to replace comey that they think will complete that investigation. Asked the president about what he said in the white house rose garden as the republicans were celebrating passing the health care bill. Reporter interesting. He looked around and said, wow, can you believe im the one here. Listen, this is how he describes it. Do you still have moments where you think, how did i get here . I think everybody does. I think when you become president its very special. When youre in the white house, its very special. I had all of my republican friends who have frankly been in politics their whole lives and done a great job, congressman, senators, et cetera, but i did. I looked around and said, sorry, folks, can you believe its me. Reporter so President Trump there still expressing some surprise at the outcome of the election three months into the job. In this exclusive interview he made quite a bit of news, aaron and eun, contradicting the rationale for firing the fbi director. The president set the record straight, it was something he planned to do all along. Tracie potts live on capitol hill. 4 49. New results from the latest nbc News Survey Monkey online poll. The majority of americans believe the firing of james comey was not appropriate. 54 disagree while 38 thought it was appropriate. 46 of moerns said comey was fired due to the russia investigation. 24 said the clinton email investigation. The poll was conducted online from may 10th to may 11th. It had a margin of error of 2 2. 5 . You can see much more of lester holts interview starting at 7 00 after news 4 today. Mandatory evacuations in parts of georgia this morning after wildfires continue to rage out of control. Residents in the southern half of Charleston County georgia are people in western Nassau County in florida are being warned to be ready to go at any time. Firefighters are working incredibly hard to get this thing under control, but the winds are making it increasingly difficult to get this under control. In all, 140,000 acres have been consum consumed. A new era official begins at the d. C. Police department. Chief Peter Newsham will be sworn in this afternoon. Newsham has been on the force for 30 years. A Prince Georges CountyPolice Officer is facing serious charges for irinterfering with with a case. A grand jury has indicted the officer for intimidation, suspended without pay a States Attorneys Office did not provide many details. It would only say that he interfered with an investigation which dates back to 2015. Hes worked for the department for nine years. The fbi says a teenager accused of murder told her 15yearold victim i will see you in hell. Chilly testimony came in a hearing yesterday for 17yearold venus romero hiroheta. She was the lead attacker of alexandra revis. They found her body in february. Investigators believe revenge is the motive. She blamed the Gaithersburg Police that she was to blame for the killing of her boyfriend. Metro surge number 15 starts on tuesday. This will start on not one, n two but five stations, new carrollton, landover, cheverly, deanwood and minnesota avenue stations. They plan to run three shuttles to the closest blue or silver line stations. Its expected to last through june 15th. Be sure to give your selfplenty of extra time on tuesday morning. Well, we had to start right here in Prince Georges County. Now nba superstar kevin durant is giving back to the community that helped with his career. He will stop at the wreck center. They raised 60,000 to update the basketball courts at the center where he played as a child. Kevin durant has always given back. He asked for no fanfare. He does it because he knows its the right thing to do. Im a big fan. Hes an everyday hero. Except hes a hes not doing it for a shoutout, hes doing it because its the right thing do do and he has a platform that allows him that opportunity. Good for him. I have a platform to tell you about a rainy friday night or saturday. Or dont. I also have the same platform to tell you mothers day looks good. Sadly, a lot of rain friday night and at least the first half of saturday will be through the night. Probably not taking place unless it can take place in the rain. A lot of rain down to the south and west. Already plenty of showers. Those wont be bothering us but there are one and two drops out there. Cloudy, cool and damp to get your morning started. Heres this is our High Resolution model that updates each and every hour. Very consistent keeping us cloudy with not a lot of rain between now and about 3 00 or 4 00. After 3 00, heres the rain showers starting to move into the d. C. Area. Steadier rain lurking to our south and west. That arrives here for your friday night plan. So anything after 6 00 or 7 00 likely to be dealing with some moderate rain. Temperature wise in the 40s and 50s now. High today around 58 degrees. 100 chance youll have rain. The nats were not able to play the orioles and tonights game, they may be able to get it started but i dont really think theyre going to be able to get it finished. What about the warmup i was promising . Starting to turn the corner on mothers day, back into the 70s. Slight chance for a shower on sunday afternoon but we turn the corner monday. How about a 90 degree day coming up thursday of next week . We have the coming later. Melissa is playing hard ball. No pink or blue outfits for her. I was very worried about what i wore today. Dont want to be giving ideas in the head. Ramp to 270 southbound, the ramp is blocked because of the crash here this morning. In bound 4 after woodbound. 95 southbound from 32 to the beltway, on time. Big look at the beltway straight ahead. Thank you, melissa. Cant wait for the big reveal. Were working for you if you still need to buy a gift for mom. Youre running out of time, folks. Were looking at some of the hottest gadgets mom might want. Also ahead on 5, a noose found at a school and Police Need Help findinghe pers ton introducing the fios gigabit connection with download speeds up to 940 megs that are 20x faster and more powerful than most people have. Incredibly, its 79. 99 a month for one year. Comcast charges you 89. 99 for a triple play that only offers 200 mgs speeds. Switch to the most powerful internet at the most revolutionary price. Get fios gigabit connection for 79. 99 a month and well give you tv, hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for 2 years all with a 2 year agreement. So act fast. Go to fiosgigabit. Com this is not what you want to hear when youre on a plane. A scorpion was spotted on a United Airlines flight from houston to ecuador. Id probably jump out of the plane. This is the second time in less than a month that a scorpion was reported on a united flight. It crawled out of a passengers clothes as the plane was preparing to take off. Paramedics were brought on board and determined that the passenger was not stung and caused the flight to 3 1 2 hours late. Whew. For everybody who forgot or pro crakras stcrass city nated, crunch time. Mothers day is right around the corner. We have high tech gift recommendations for mom. First up, if your mom says you dont call enough, have alexa do it for you. Amazons echo devices can now communicate with each other. The new echo show has video conferencing. If your mom loves cooking, update that crock pot. Dont buy your mother a crock pot. Just a pro tip. Heigmight like that. It has wifi. You can control it from anywhere. No. No. Protest. You can make sure the food wont burn by going to your app and quickly changing the temperature setting. One idea capturing moments. The polaroid snap makes an instant print and copy. Please dont buy your mother an appliance this mothers day. Camera is nice . Okay. Yes. Stay with us. News 4 today continues now at 5 00 a. M. News 4 today starts now. Jewelry, perfume. Flowers. Flowers, chocolates. You follow me . Not a vacuum. 5 00 a. M. Right now. Good morning, everybody. Im aaron gilchrist. Im eun yang. Right to your weather and traffic. Melissa has an eye on roads and traffic. Well go to chuck and sheena for the forecast. Not a pretty day to be outside. That being said, its not a total loss of a morning. No, thats true because its cloudy and its going to stay cloudy for most of the day. And then as youre about to step out from the friday night plans, thats when it will come back