Person caught on camera the night someone strung bananas as American University. A meeting to address the hate crime has been cancelled. Students walked out of yesterdays town hall chanting their demands. Frustration began to boil over today after a meeting was called off between au administrators and several student groups of color. Kristen wright is live in northwest right now with Fast Breaking developments with this story. Reporter kpamz are going on right now but there is still that unease. Today in a statement we heard from the student who was in many ways at the center of this whole thing, tailer dumbson is the new Student Government association president. First africanamerican woman to hold that position. Shes also an aka, the is a roert named in that hateful banana incident she shes not surprised by these quote heinous actions, but i was disappointed to realize that in this day and age we must be prepared for the challenges and that were once our parents and grandparents to bear. We must be committed to tangible and long lasting change that exists beyond just words. We must move beyond town halls and protests. This is the person of interest in this weeks hate crimes at au. Campus police are following up on tips and leads that have come in since they put the Surveillance Video out late yesterday afternoon. And we confirm today that the fbi Civil Rights Division is helping with the investigation. I would like to think based off the au committee that it wasnt someone from american universi university. Reporter there is a 1,000 reward in the case. Now coming up today on news4 at 5 00, why some Students Group of color, pat, are ups that administration is handling some of their concerns and that has to do with that meeting you spoke of today. Back to you. What is it they want the administration to do . Reporter these students say that they want more transparency. They feel theyre having been incidents well before the incident that happened with the bananas and they feel like the university has not addressed even those incidents and they dont get that followup. They dont know what happens to students when bad things occur so they said they want more transparency from the administration here and they also want better protocols in place on what to do when situations, particularly those involving race, happen, pat. All right. Were getting new reaction from people outside of the au campus. Troy johnson more later this hour. Chris. This is obviously getting attention from all over the country at this point. Here at home on the manhunt for abescaped prisoner in maryland. After someone spotted a suspicious man in the same area where the prisoner was last seen. Right now authorities are searching the woods around the Clifton PerkinsHospital Center in jessup. The inmate escaped from the hospital grounds and has been on the run for some five days. Chris gordon joins us with more on this new search. Chris . Reporter we are awaiting a News Conference momentarily from the Howard County police to update us on todays search for escaped prisoner david watson. It has been a difficult day of searching. Police and dogs are in the woods right now. Earlier today chopper 4 was overhead but air space was restricted by police early in the days search reporters and camera crews were blocked from covering searchers on the ground. A helicopter flies above the woods around Clifton Perkins hospital. Todays search was proprietied by a single unconfirmed report, a sighting of an unknown male. Please have been looking for david watson since friday when he got away from two Corrections Officers who transported him to the perkins Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation. Watson faces charges. He is serving a sentence of 100 years in delaware for attempted murder. Theres a reward for watson who has distinctive tattoos on his face, neck and body. Jessup Elementary School spent the day on lockdown with all activities kept inside. Police found what they call a nesting place, 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 searching drains and tunnels. Now we are expecting a News Conference updating todays search momentarily. We are monitoring the situation and well be bringing you any new information as soon as we get it. Ahead at 5 00 tonight, well hear from a resident of this area, why she believes she may have spotted escaped prisoner david watson today. Pat back to you. Thank you, chris. Now to some of the other top stories were following for you at this hour including a shooting in Northern Virginia. Prince William County police say a man was shot and wounded today at this town hall in woodbridge. This is near the intersection of royal court and pheasant lane. The incident does not appear to be a random act. The victim is expected to recover. An historic meeting at the white house is renewing hope for peace talks in the middle east. Palestinian leader despite decades of failed efforts to achieve peace between the palestinians and israelis. Trump says he will do whatever is necessary. Heres a live look at capitol hill where the president spending bill is heading to the house floor for a vote. The president is calling the one trillion dollars measure a win for the american people. Top democrats successful blocked funding for the border wall and punishments for sanctuary cities. For the first time director james comey is explaining in detail why he reopened the investigation into Hillary Clintons private email server just days before the election. During testimony on capitol hill, mr. Comey said he had to tell lawmakers about those emails that were found on the computer of former congressman anthony weiner. It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election. Comey went all in all he thinks it was the right move. Yesterday clinton said comeys decision played a big role in her loss. Now to a story you will only see on news 4. Two teens facing charges in connection with a series of crimes in montgomery county. This all came to a head near Einstein High School in kensington. Police say behind the wheel of a stolen car they found a student along with a stolen assault rifle. The gun had been taken from a rockville detectives vehicle just a couple of days before this and a short distance away they found another stolen vehicle with a shotgun also taken from that detectives car. We have a police car thats broken in to and you have assault weapons and a shotgun stolen and those are out on the street. So obviously thats a huge concern for us and thankfully we were able to recover those weapons and nobody was rt teens in the stolen car as mario alhave a radio. The other teen is a minor. We are just a couple of days from a night that is popular at bars and at mexican restaurants but police have a warning this afternoon. What you can do to make sure you have a safe cinco demayo. Thousands of family have their personal information compromised. Were seeing a lot of sun. A great day today. But that all comes to an end as this monster storm moves in tomorrow night into friday. Your updated forecast. I know i dont like it. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. 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If you can identify the man in this picture call park police. It was working 4 you in the Community Letting folks know how they can stay safe on sinkco demayo. The is launching its third year sin codemayo the goal is to permit drunk driving on the hollywood. Last year used silver ride instead of driving home impaired. Cars without a reality. First at 4 00. Which part of our area wants to put those to the test on local roads. And starbucks unicorn frappuccino is a thing of the past but maybe not those wild colorful drinks. What theyre creating now thats not on the menu . Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Fairfax county says its on the cutting edge when it comes to county wants to lead the selfdriving car revolution. Some of the latest tech is on display. Reporter when it comes to new Car Technology they say information is like oil. Its a amazing what cars can do these days like avoiding a collision. Look at these two cars they actually were talking to one another to avoid that collision and as these cars drive around and drive off theyre sending out information to the road and to the other cars about whats ahead of them. For instance, this car right here might brake in front of the other car and then the car in back of it gets an alert that that car is actually braking hard in front of it and then it gives an alert to the driver to slow down. Thats the kind of technology that were talking about that is going to become mass produced in cars and also new Technology Like taking your hands off the steering wheel, letting your car drive b thats coming on line in just the next couple of years. Well take you inside all the new Car Technology that was on display here in Northern Virginia and why Northern Virginia may a leader when it comes to the selfdriving car revolution. This story got would you ride in a driverless car . We want you to weigh in on this on the washington flash survey. So far more than half of you say no and you dont want them on the streets either. Theres still time for you to weigh in on this. Go to the nbc washington facebook page. All week theyre going sugarfree. It looks as if some folks, sugary sabotage going on behind the scenes. They came into work to find cupcakes waiting for them at their desk. Who could do deed. It just kicked up a notch. Starbucks has been celebrating spring by rolling out all kinds of new frappuccinos with every color under the sun. And of course theyre all packed with sugar. Last month it was the unicorn frappuccino that filled our gram feeds and then there was the dragon frappuccino. So this week theres something new. The pink and purple and green colored mermaid frappuccino. Its a vanilla bean base blended with freeze dried blackberries and drifld with a toasted coconut sauce. Its not on the menu but if you ask your local ba ris ta will make it happen for you. They also deliver hence the fact that we got these could have phys sitting right here on our desk. Im passing mine over and im trying not to do sugar. I love sugar. I am not giving it up. Im going to give it a try. Drum roll and your facial expression is interesting, doug. Up hum. So yours, chris. This tastes nothing like coffee. Is there any caffeine in this . It takes like 100 sugar. Sugar and what else. Like bubble gum. I also smell a waft of i dont know. Is this a thumbs up or thumbs down . My kids would love this. Im not drinking it but they would love it. I like the taste of coffee. In this one the sugar is overpowering. I agree. Theres definitely some seeds in here. I got some berries. Excuse me. Its definitely a seed. Here you go, doug. Lets talk weather coming up. A lot of sunshine out there today. That sunshines gone tomorrow and its gone and it may not come back, guys, for weeks. Im not kidding. Plenty of sunshine now. Bright blue skies across the area. Take a look at the current temperature. 66. Winds out of the northwest at 16 miles an hour. Its a cool day. Very nice afternoon. That wind is blowing just a little bit. Current temperature 63 leesburg, only 59 in winchester, 67 down towards fredericksburg. I mentioned the wind, temperatures about 5 degrees below average. Winds gusts upwards of 30 miles an hour. So its still a rather breezy day but all in all its been a nice one on this wednesday. Your diamondbacks taking on your nationals tonight. 65 degrees at 7 00. It is going to be a cool night for a game. I would definitely take a jacket. Hopefully we can get a win. No rain to talk about no to whats happening out west. This is going to be a major storm because not only is it going to bring us a lot of rain. It is going to change the pattern for weeks here. Right now you can see all the rain moving up and look at all the cold air making its way down from canada across the area too. That storm moves our way and it does gives us a good chance for some rain. All the warm air is way down to the south. Atlanta at 83. Everybody else in the 50s. You see whats coming here, first we will get a little bit on the warmer side as that storm moves in. Tomorrow starting off with some sunshine and here comes the cloud cover. Wee see the clouds around noon and they get thick during the afternoon. All day tomorrow well be dry. Im not worried about any rain tomorrow through about 7 00. Here comes the rain to the south and by 11 00 we got the shower activity around and look at the heavy rain early on friday morning. That friday morning commute is going to be a mess due to the fact were going to see that heavy rain and we could see easily one to two inches of rain in parts of the area. Re back to the west maybe more. Even shower activity through 10 00. Tomorrow, not a bad day. Sunshine early, clouds moving in and dry through the day. The rain moves in on friday and again, it is heavy at times. Late thursday into friday. Heavy at times with a high of 75 on friday and look at this. Temperatures in the 50s. We will be running 15 degrees below average as we head into the next week and the pattern stays there, this is mostly cloudy if not all clouds all the way through next week with another chance of rain next saturday. Not the nicest may. We just went through the warmest april ever. May will not be the same. Wow. Its like they reversed themselves, we flipflopped this year. Yes. They were photos that ignited a backlash against the paparazzi now the royals familys getting involved in this. The royal lawsuit just filed and our first look at what Prince William felt when he found out. A washing the narrator the time is always right to do what is right. Ralph northam. Army doctor during the gulf war. Volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. Progressive democrat. In the senate, he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound antichoice law, and stood up to the nra. As lieutenant governor, dr. Northam is fighting Ralph Northam believes in making progress every day. And he wont let donald trump stop us. So you can stop calling them d. C. 4 and d. C. 5. The newest bald eagles in our area now have real names, honor and glory. Thats what voters chose in an to it. Theyre being raised by their parents, mr. President and the first lady. There is a third eaglet in our area. That one was named last week, the name spirit. The caps are just a few hours away from another huge game against the penguins. And if theyre going to even up this series, theyre going to need another big game. Sherree burruss joins us now from pittsburgh to tell us about the extra motivation for the cavs goalie. Reporter he does. Theres three fans here in particular that have been cheering for braden hopy his whole life. I met his mom, dad and aunt and they decided last point in fly out to pittsburgh from canada to come watch the series. I asked mom and dad if they were still excited to see their son playing on this level and they said and bradens following in his dad foot steps by playing goalie. He never played for nhl but he played in high school and college. When it came time to pick just one braden chose goalie. And i kd him today what it means to have his family here in the building for the playoffs. Its more fun for them. They get to enjoy it and watch some games but for me its the same mind set every day. It doesnt make a difference with circumstances or anything like that. Its focusing on what i do on the ice and what we do here as a team. Your mom wants to know when youre going to put a i love mom on your helmet, any plans . No. Reporter so no shout out to mom on his helmet but he does have the name of his two children. Game one i saw him reading the names of his children and kissing his helmet before tt live from pittsburgh, sherree burruss, news4 storts. New developments on the campus of American University just days after bananas were discovered hanging from nooses on campus. Its bringing a lot of negative attention to the school but its also putting a is a roit in the spoight onetl announcer news4 at 4 00 begins with breaking news. Its 4 30 and we are starting with the breaking news. The house just passed a spending bill to make sure the government stays open through september. It totals just over a trillion dollars and now the senate has until friday to take its vote on the spending plan. We want to start with the battle over repealing and replacing obamacare. Republicans say they are getting closer. The big Sticking Point has been how to cover all these preexisting conditions but there are signs a new amendment when ease some of the concern. Blayne alexander live with late details from capitol hill. Reporter good afternoon to you. The white house says the president is not forcing a vote on health care and says gop leaders will only go when they feel they c