And thats the severe cell over parts thats over to stanford. This is a future scan that shows how the radar will look. By 5 00, all the action is over long eye land. A little leftover new york city. An awesome wind gust map because you can see the front and wind gust over 30 milesanhour near the stronger storms. Heres what you need to know storms south after the next few hours ask a brief heavy downpours and gusty small hail, and it turns cooler tonight. Guys, the threat for new york city points north and west is over the next hour, and well skip to long island and new jersey. Accu weather in a few minutes. Liz and dave. It got dark out there. Thanks, lee. We have more from a local home where they firsthand coming up at 4 30. A scare on campus. A Connecticut University taking steps to protect students after an assault was reported in the area. Fairfield university urging its students to stick together as it investigates the Sexual Assault of a student on the way to the library. Reporter aj ross live in fairfield with more. Reporter david, this is a Small University of a couple of thousand students. Students received text and emails about last nights assault and theyre on heighten alert as Police Search for the suspect. We got the Text Messages through our phones this morning, and we got a followup email as well. It was a nerving message sent to the entire student body at Fairfield University early tuesday after a young woman was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted while walking from the library. Its scary to have that happen on our campus. Because this town is nice. My school is so nice, and its just sad that, you know, this happens. The victim called police shortly after the attack around 11 00 p. M. Monday night and told investigators she was lured from a path on campus to the woods where she was assaulted by a male in his 40s. Last evening we had officers, k9 officers searching the area. Unfortunately we were unable to locate the individual. Theyre urging students to use the body camera. We encourage students to travel in pair. Meanwhile, students says theyre be on guard and their thoughts remain with the victim. You never know what happens so keeping the students informed is the best way to handle it. In addition to the full time campus 24hour escort service. Aj, ross. A warning for students and children. Police in Westchester County searching for a man who they say tried to lure a 10yearold girl. She was playing outside her home in greenberg when a man driving a white suv pulled up. Police say he was attempting engage the child with a conversation about his grandson. A man investigator says is the figure in the nypd corruption probe is about to appear in court. Hamlet is accused of running a scheme out of the hudson river cafe in harlem. Hes accused of obtaining 12 million on false presense false pretenses. Connecticut are its the fourth multi state tuesday primary in the race for president. 172 republican delegates up for grab while 464 at stake for the democrats. Polls in connecticut will remain open until 8 00. Our coverage begins with abc elizabeth hur. David, first lets talk about that alliance between cruz and kasich, losing steam and running out of time. That alliance isnt looking good. As for the front runners, tonight, theyre hoping to widen their delegate leads with big wins. The two republican rivals turned alis sending mixed messages. This is the only campaign that can and will beat donald trump and then clinton. Cruz and kasich who promised to stay out the way of each other in the primary states are im not going to tell anybody how to vote. Their goal was to collaborate to stop donald trump from clinching the 1237 delegates hell need to secure the nomination. Trump set they ought to both drop out of the race so we ought to unify the republican party. Even suggesting in a tweet democratic sanders, run as an independent. Sanders is facing an uphill battle with four out of the five states voting today being closed primaries meaning independence cannot vote, and sanders has yet to win a single close primary, but sanders is battling to fight on. Were in this race until the last vast is casted. Those i have the greatest respect for senator sanders, but what he saying just dont add up. I have 2. 7 million more votes than he has. In fact, with polls showing clinton and trump favored to do well in the five states voting today, most of the candidates have already moved on. Focusing on the next big state to vote, indiana. Were live in philadelphia, im elizabeth herd for channel 7 Eyewitness News. Thank you, elizabeth. The polls in connecticut open until 8 00 p. M. And well have complete primary result on Eyewitness News at 11 00. Police are searching for another suspect for a slashing. A suspect and another man got into an argument on the 6th train. As the suspect pulled a knife, the victim grabbed it and cut in the hand. He got off at grand terminal the suspect ran off with a green package. Investigators are hoping Surveillance Video will lead them to a suspect in a violent road rage attack in is getting back into his car after the attack saturday night. The two men had pulled over on the Upper East Side after an incident on the queens bureau bridge. The victim got out of his car to confront the suspect and was stabbed 11 times. Right now, he remains in critical condition. A new information and new video this afternoon in the case of a man robbing businesses along rhode island. He struck an 11th time at a subway store in new hyde park. Police say his string of robberies began in march, and the reward for his arrests now up to 10,000. The 11th establishments robbed consist of two subways, one 7eleven and two car bells. Its county wide from ocean side to pico park which is 16 miles between the two. Has been seriously injured in any of the robberies. A search on for a woman in Staten Island accused of snatching a hockey stick out of a boys hand and snatching it from him. He Boy Tells Police he and his friend were playing hockey when a woman yelled at them for making too much noise and the woman grabbed the hockey stick and hit him in his leg. New york city mayor de blasio unveiled his plan. It totalled 80 billion and comes it includes 70 million to build a police prepre a police precinct. One of the biggest, most praed out police presinks in the city is theres been a desire to create a new precinct to allow for faster and better response in the neighborhood. The mayor also announced new plans for dealing with the health care of new york. Saying he warrants to target health care before they require a trip to the emergency room. His budget is 2 billion to the hospital program. Among the changes, the citys aiming to improve funding, part of that plan includes making sure everyone has access to insurance. Another part of the overhaul targets local health care centers. City hall wants to see longer operating hours and higher this is to curve the massive financial short fall expected in the next four years. Stocks are remaining closing at 7,990. Did he go too far . Coming up, well tell you what one lawmaker said thats prompting outrage in the bathroom debate. Plus new information of princes estate. Why his sister is asking the court for help. He it is 4 13, and with thunderstorms threatening parts of the area and gray skies overhead, we have a look at traffic on this tuesday afternoon. This is the brooklyn, queens heavy near 45th street. The lincoln tunnel looking at 20 minutes delays. Fortunately no big problems at the gorge Washington Bridge to report at this time. Outrage North Carolina over a homophobic remark made by the state general. State senator buck newton urged a crowd in raleigh, to quote, keep our state straight. Those were his words. It came during a state law that limits limitations to the Lbgt Community and restricts bathroom room to the sex written to whats written on a persons birth certificate. Johnny manziel got the news he was dreading. A grand jury indicting him in the assault case against his exgirlfriend. The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Cleveland Browns in march for inconsistent play and off the field issues. He could face jail time if convicted. New at 4 00, First Lady Michelle Obama is in manhattan to celebrate the decision by some of the High School Seniors to pursue higher education. Mrs. Obama chose to celebrate her third annual College Signing day in new york. Its apart of her reach higher initiative. Shes joined by celebrities like ben and melissa mcarthy. The guest of honor are the 4,000 local High School Seniors in attendance who have been accepted to college or a professional training program. We all know that completing your education passed high school is the most important thing you can do to reach your dreams. While you might be in awe of us, let me tell definitely true. Mrs. Obama tweeted out photos of her and her husband and Vice President biden wearing shirts to show their college pride. Oklahoma bracing for storms that could bring damaging hail and tornado. Large chunks of hail predicted to fall in the region known as tornado alley. Some schools cancelled classes for the day already. The same storms blew away canopies in southern california. Knocked down skaf folding. We have storms moving through our area. Not nearly as violent as those, but we have thunderstorms in our area. Theres a small connection to that system, but its worse in the middle of the country. We should be wind suppressing the thunderstorms. Folks gathering their umbrella. Its not terribly windy, but were following storms. Watch new jersey, that will go until 9 00. Apart of that likely to be dropped early just because of the way the thunderstorms are moving around the area right now. I do think well be talking about showers and storms over central and southern new jersey. Theres lightning new berkeley and gorge Washington Bridge, thats not a fun ride. Were down to 56. Normal high in the middle 60s. Parts of the area had been near 80. Look at the temperature range and we highlighted it yesterday. Its 78 in clinton new jersey. A few miles to the north and closer, its in upper 50s, so an incredible range of 40s and 50s. The front is philadelphia right now. Thats incredible. So at 7 00 tonight, showers will be around, but i think it will be south of new york city at that point from the city north and west, well dry out. Clouds slow to break. A fair amount of sunshine. I think theyll be partially cloudiness over central and southern new jersey. Lets get back to the thunderstorms. One now getting into toms river. Lightning light thing. The severe cell has gone strong where they dropped the warning, but a strong cell phone approaching stanford. We move to the north near summits and Berkeley Heights and another one moving to jersey city. Its a good downpour on the east side. Theres downpours along over to parts of brentwood new jersey. A big picture shows the front settles to the south and its a few more hours we have to deal with it. Look at the future cast. I want we have long island and new jersey, but north and west is drying out. With a front nearby with a heavy downpour through 8 00 on the jersey shore. Nicer to the north. More sun to the north. As we go into the day on thursday, a front tries to come back increasing cloudiness and rain could sneak into our southwest suburbs before a front. Heres what you need to know. Thunderstorms will exit early this evening over it turns brisk and chilly, so have your coats. Its going to feel chilly during the evening. Places in the 70s will drop into the 50s. Sunny and nice tomorrow. Patchy clouds in central new jersey. And then tomorrow night, partly cloudy and cool. 46. Coming up at 4 30, that front is nearby on friday. We have to forecast more clouds and do you need your umbrella and will this get out of way for the weekend. David and liz, the west side, but severe storms are to south where its warmer. Well track it in another few minutes. Look at the kids behind you playing in the rain. It cant be that bad, right. Exactly. We want you to know were following breaking news where the white house is on lock down according to the Associated Press. Heres a live picture. Limited information about why the lock down was put into place, but Associated Press reporters say that secret service is keeping them inside the press room. As soon as we learn more information about the situation that is happening there, we will bring it to you. Youre looking at live pictures at the white house where theres an apparent lockdown in place. We follow other news of the day. It was supposed to be a fun ride on a roller coaster, but what a dad caught on camera was terrifying instead. Well tell you what went wrong. Of the weather that lee was talking about. Youre going to hear if your family outing is magical for all the wrong reasons. You may be muddling through allergies. Try zyrtec for powerful allergy relief. And zyrtec is different than claritin. Kelly ripple returned to her morning talk show after speculation in the fire storm. She discussed the up roar over michael what transpired over a few days have been extraordinary in the sense that it started a conversation about communication, and consideration. You love this show. You love the fans. You love this staff. I love you. And im so happy youre here because you brought me here. This show has been transforming for me. We have learned michaels last day on live will be on may 13th before he moves down the street to gma. A new documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary of star trek in a unique way. Its a personal look into the life and career behind the actor who brought us mr. Spok. Its call for the love of spock. Theres only one person who can play mr. Spock. Reporter hes apart of Popular Culture and to inspire so many to pursue science. One of the things that struck me, i think, the most, was the impact of so many people. Mr. Spock has been apart of adams life since childhood. There may be no better place to talk to him than here, next to the prototype of the Space Shuttle named for the star ship enterprise. Did your dad get a lot of satisfaction out of the fact this is called enterprise . Oh, yeah. The star was here in 2012 when he shuttle arrived on route docked on the hudson river. By then, the actor had long sense made his peace with his most famous role. I think he really had a philosophical point of view, which is that spock created opportunity for him to express himself armor at thises he expressed himself artistically. He had a role as a family man. My father was career oriented early on, and family was really secondary to him and he later in life, he was fortunate that his focus was the family. Father and son with a few months into making for the love of spock, when the star was diagnosed of terminal cancer and died 8 weeks later. It was a way for me to work through the mourning process and staying close to him in a way. Fans will be able to get closer to spock this summer. The Star Fleet Academy experience opens in july. Im sandy keen on, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Fascinating man. Great pictures there. So what will happen to princes assets. Well tell you why theres questions over who will take over his fortune and estate. Plus a familys close call after Lightning Strikes and ignites a fire in new jersey. And a woman caught on camera driving her car around with a dog on frantically trying to keep up, were going to we continue to track Severe Weather that could be heading our way. Parts of new jersey under severe thunderstorm watch. Lets check with meteorologist lee goldberg planning it out for you. Thankfully the thunderstorm heads towards new york city weaken. So theres low clouds and the rain clouds. Were a cool 54. Youll need your jacket in some places. Other places in the 70s. New Severe Thunderstorm Warning that came out now for Southern Ocean county near stanford until 5 15. You can see the showers over new york city and Nassau County and theres the severe thunderstorm headed toward stanford. Thats moving out after that. A few strong storms south this evening. Brief heavy downpours and turning cooler later on. Ill have another storm update in a few minutes. Lee, thanks. Were learning details about a familys close call after their home in new jersey. Lightning hit a tree and igniting a fire. Jeff has the story. Reporter you know, the odds of this having is higher if youre next to the tallest trees in the area. This huge pine tree and this is a great example of why you should never stand up a tree during a thunderstorm. Look at the damage. Several millions of vaults spreading tree bark across this yard, and all the way across the street here. This is incredible. It exploded the tree and needless to say for the Family Living in the house was a close call. It sounded like a gunshot in your ear. It was the loudest noise ever. I heard static in my ear from the lightning. Brian was as close as you could get to a Lightning Strike just before 3 00 this i started hearing fire alarms and i heard my mom run downstairs and told me to get out of the house. Theres a fire. The lightning traveled through a tree and it caused a fire. My neighbor ran over five minutes. Hes a fire chief. A real hero. That volunteer firefighter is art. We spoke to his wife about the ordeal. He was responding to the other fire and saw what was happening here and went in with the extinguisher and went in with that situation. The lightning caused damage to the home easy it caused damage to the homes electrical system. Heres more irony about the system. The firefighter who lives next door who responded to the fire was responding to another fire caused by lightning right down the street. Look