Bananas tied in nooses of black string were found this morning. The three locations, a shuttle bus stop at les anderson hall, in front of the mare graden center and near the east quad building. Its the first full day on the job for the universitys Government Association president , who is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority referenced in this incident. We have the statement by the newly sworn University President , it reads in part, i impror all of us to unite in solidarity with those impacted by the situation. We must show those in the community that bigotry, hate, and racism cannot and will not be tolerated. Now, American University released a statement confirming again where these were found. They deplored this, they said that theres an investigation under way. They are reviewing video that they believe may have captured part of this and they said they will address this further with the student body in the next 24 hours. Live in northwest, washington, jackie, thank you. The u. S. Marshall service is now taking over the search for a maximum security inmate who has eluded police in maryland for a fourth day. 28yearold david watson was being transported from prison in sauls bur toe a Mental Hospital in jess up. That was friday. When he freed himself from handcuffs and a waist chain and ran off into the woods. Watson is serving a 106year sentence for attempted murder. Theres now a 10,000 reward in this case. Were working to learn more about a fire that investigators tell us may have started with a fight between a husband and wife. First responders found the couple in their Stafford County home this morning with injuries from that blaze. One of them had to be airlifted to the hospital. This was the result of a domestic situation between a husband and both injured by the fire and both have been taken to regional hospitals. Deputies say the husband and wife are the only people who live in that house. Well, the protesters came from Dupont Circle, malcolm x park, arlington, all finding their way to the white house today to rally against the Trump Administrations immigration policies. Just one of a dozen may day marches. Meagan fitzgerald is at the white house with details. Reporter wendy, theyre calling for policy change. They want the Trump Administration to protect undocumented workers that dont have criminal histories, from being deported back to their native country. You can see just over my shoulder here, thousands of people are here at lafayette park, they are chanting, listening to speakers, being motivated, hoping that this white house hears their message. From large crowds in Dupont Circle reporter to malcolm x park, may day protesters made sure their message was heard. They want the Trump Administration to stop deporting immigrants that dont have criminal records. To fight against the injustice that the groups are going through, especially with the new president ial regime. Reporter there were rolling closures as they marched toward lafayette park. Once the crowd arrived chants grew louder and they were met by notable speakers by dnc chairman tom perez, and members of congress. I want to make sure that trump gets the message that we do not support his politics, we do not support his agenda. Reporter opponents say theyre wasting their time and want citizens to accept that President Trump won the election, but activists like elise bryant believe these demonstrations will insp im here because Martin Luther king marched. Im here because rosa parks sat down. Im here for all the people who sat at lunch counters, and nobody thought that would make a difference. It made a difference, and this will make a difference. Reporter now, organizers of this protest say over a hundred local businesses supported the march by closing their doors and coming up at 6 00, youll hear from one of those owners who says deportation efforts are already starting to impact business. Jim . Meagan, thank you. The government will remain open until the fall thanks to a new trillion dollar budget deal that has democrats and republicans claiming victory. While it does boost spending on border security, it does not include any money for a southern border wall. The agreement also maintains funding for planned parenthood, sanctuary cities, obamacare subsidies. Republicans are touting the 25 billion in additional defense spending. When the fiscal year starts the end of september, we will have infuse the president s priority. This is a down payment on border security, on his ability to rebuild the military and repealing and replacing obamacare will address a lot of the other health care issues. The house and senate are expected to vote on the funding bail lat bill later this week. A rough start to the week for people who woke up to find that someone smashed their windshields in montgomery county. Now a group of teenagers facing charges. Pat collins is in gaithersburg on this monday evening. Pat . Reporter wendy, when some people in gaithersburg got in their car this morning, this is what they saw. It was a wind field smasha rama. Car after car after car, windshields knocked in. How did they move so fast . It was like militarylike precision. Did they use a baseball bat . Did they use a golf club . No, come over here, t at this car. Theres a shoe print right here on the hood. It appears they jumped on the hoods of the car and kicked in the windshields with bear feet. Bare feet. When mikel went to drive his kids to school this morning, this is what his car looked like. Hey, dad, why are the cops here . And next thing i knew, we saw this one and that one and that one. Reporter one right after another. When maria saw her car, what went through your mind . Oh, my god, feel so bad. Almost crying. Reporter liz borrowed her parents car and parked it here last night. This morning she found it this way. I felt guilty more because it wasnt even my car. It was my parents car. And you were using it . Yes. And you parked it here . Yes. And look at it now . Yeah, yeah. What do you make of Something Like this . Its unfortunate. But no one got hurt. Thats the most important thing. Reporter the honda accord, the hyundai, the nissan, and over there a gmc truck. One after another after another, smash, smash, smash. In all, 36 cars vandalized in two apartment communities along christopher avenue. It happened around 1 00 in the morning. A short time later, Police Arrested three teenage boys, one 14, two 15, all three charged with destruction of property. Now to add insult to injury, it appears the teens also smashed the windshield of a tow truck. A tow truck that could have been used to take away the wounded cars. Coming up at 6 00, more about the foot detectives, more from the victims, broken glass, broken hearts, all coming up at 6 00. Wendy, back to you. Pat, do you know if insurance will pay for vandalism to your car like this . Your deductible. Some people have policies that will cover it. Some people have 500 deductibles. They have to put up the 500 bucks. Some people have no clause here that will cover it. But ill have more about that because it could be that the parents of these teens could be financially responsible for all the damage done out here. Well see what happens in court. There you go. All righty. Thank you, pat. Theres your deterrent. In the next couple of weeks, youll see new parking meters along your national mall. Starting in june, youll have to pay to park along the streets that border the mall. Its about 1,200 spots that are currently free. Revenue from the meters will go toward programs that enhance the mall visitor experience. These new meters will also be the first in the district to be in effect all year, including sundays and holidays. Speaking of meters in d. C. , the source of confusion and now the rules surrounding them are changing yet again. What you have to pay more attention to when youre parking. Plus, call it bittersweet, were going sugarfree, folks. All this week, how you can still join us, its fun im julie carey in Loudoun County where the Trump Administrations secretary lunches with students, before making an announcement about School Lunch Standards that some fear will roll bac nutritionk woman i have a masurprise for you. Are you . Man you have a surprise for me . Narrator at dominion, 1 in 5 new hires is a veteran. And when theyre away, they miss out on a lot. But they wont miss out on financial support. Because we cover any difference between their military pay and their dominion salary, and continue benefits for them and their families. Why do we do it . Because our vets sacrifice enough. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Stand by me. Are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Still tracking storms, storm team4 starting to fire up towards Fauquier County, right down 15. Heads up into Loudoun County, especially western loudoun. Around warrenton, seeing showers, and notice whats happening just down to the south. Were tracking this area, a couple of very strong, even one severe storm moving our way. Well see these move through over the next couple of hours and continue to keep you posted. Im back in seven minutes. Yay woo those are parents protesting as the Trump Administrations new agriculture secretary says its time to make School Meals Great again. He stops by a Loudoun County cafeteria today to announce hes easing up on some obamaera School Lunch Nutrition rules. As julie carey says, some parentre move. Reporter a grandfather of 14, new agriculture secretary sonny perdue looked at home lunching with Catoctin Elementary School students. Just a week into his new job, he says theres a problem with School Lunch Nutritional rules that cut back on salt, require skim milk only and more whole grains. He says too much food is going in the trash, and fewer kids are eating school lunch. Meals cant be nutritious if they arent consumed. If theyre put in the trash. Reporter but outside cat objectic elementary, some parents and others demonstrating their displeasure with a plan to back down from School Lunch Nutrition standards put in place during the obama administration. This flexible term just means were lowering the standards and taking away the Healthy Lunch Program that Michelle Obama started. Reporter purdue signs a plan to tighten nutritional standards further. This is not reducing nutritional standards whatsoever. Its pausing here to evaluate whether or not the progressive standards are moving even further are appropriate or not. Reporter but this local pastor and mom of two kids who eat school lunch fears backing away from Higher Standards will make for less healthy kids. When we relax the nutritional value, then we pretty much relax their opportunities for the future. I mean, healthy kids, unhealthy kids have a problem learning. Reporter but here in Loudoun County and much of our area, the revised rules probably wont make much of a difference because these places already meet or exceed the stricter obamaera nutrition rules. In Loudoun County, im julie carey, news4. So in our nbc washington flash survey this evening, who do you think this School Lunch Programs . The feds, the state, local school boards, parents, or no one . The opinions are split down the middle. Join the conversation on aur nbc washington facebook page. On the same subject, three years ago, a news4 iteam investigation discovered that 60,000 low income students in our area skipped the free lunch offered at School Every Day and that cost the School District millions of dollars. This investigation found the students were not happy about the federal requirements for healthier options. Social pressures, and they have access to fast food outside of the school. Those were factors in not claiming that free lunch. All right, we have started, folks. In case you havent heard. We are cutting back, cutting back seriously on sugar. Im in there, the morning team, Aaron Gilchrist too, started out this morning, first thing after grams. It hurts a little bit. This is only day one. But we can do it. Reduce sugar we can, doreen. Im not doing it. Doreen, who is doing the challenge too, and we may be holding personally responsible for kicking this whole thing off. These donuts are for later. Cutting sugar is good for all of us. It is. As you know, too much added sugar in the diet can have serious consequences for your health. It can lead to heart disease, diabetes, even possibly some types of cancer. The u. S. Da sounded the alarm saying on average a u. S. Diet was high in sodium, saturated fat and added sugars. Sugar can be very tempting. Its everywhere, and it can be hard to avoid. There are the naturally occurring sugars, the ones in fruits and some grains and vegetables. Then theres the added endocrinologist at George Washington university hospital. Sodas, snack packs with added sugars. Yogurt has added sugars. All those types of things, like a yogurt may appear healthy, but its not healthy if it has 28 grams of sugar in it. I started paying attention to the sugar in my diet years ago because a Family History of diabetes puts me at risk. So when they signed up for the sugar challenge, i joined them. I love dessert. I dont think about it. I eat and drink what i want to. Must be nice. No, no, i just dont worry about it. I should be. Im aware. So just to quit cold turkey, im a little worried. Im a little worried im gonna hit somebody. [ laughter ] that is what happens if you cut sugar out, you get pretty cranky for a week or two. I know. Im going to be insufferable. Youre telling me, i be problematic. And somebody brought a big pile of donuts to the set. And they decorated them with tiny halloween candy. I can resist all of those things. But giving up things like chocolate, ice cream, wine. Thats going to be tough. But a week, we can handle it. I think its a great learning opportunity. Im reading labels in a way that i havent in the past. We were just talking about skim milk. Skim milk is loaded with sugar. I thought i was doing myself a favor. It has fewer calories, but its got a lot of sugar. Im finding all this candy everywhere. I mean, everywhere i look, theres Little Things of candy everywhere. Shes just taunting us. Tomorrow, meanwhile well meet one of dr. Erhards patient who is cut out sugar in january and he and his results. Thats coming up tomorrow. Well show you first hand the reason why. Thanks, doreen. High School Students are taking the next step to further their education. National College Signing day. Still ahead, susan hogan joining us with ways for you to pay for it all now that the schools have been chosen. And keeping track of those storms out there. Dougs up next with a weather alert. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month onlinefor the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com all right, we need to talk to doug about how close are these storms and how severe will they be. Well, theyre coming close right now. Just down to our south and west, already seeing some showers and a few rumbles of thunder now into parts of our area. The Severe Weather will get here over the next one to three hours. Lets take a look right now. The storms in a line from all the way up towards new york, right on down to pennsylvania, in through West Virginia and now, in portions of virginia and North Carolina too. In our immediate area, not much. We have some showers. Wouldnt be surprised to see a rumble of thunder from this, just to the west of leesburg, through the blue ridge. Look at this area to the south. Couple of severe thunderstorm warnings here. West of richmond, but on this track, these will be towards the d. C. Metro area. So heads up in that region. Right now, not a lot of lightning associated with these, but there are at least two. Theyll be moving up into your region over the next hour or so. 8 00, a few scattered showers and thunderstorms. During that time frame, the biggest potential tonight is wind damage. Not expecting too much in the way of tornadoes or hail. Although could see heavy downpours along with lightning as well. By 10 00, more towards the chesapeake bay, few showers through the evening hours and waking up tomorrow with plenty of sunshine. Now theres cloud cover across the region. And also starting to see some breaks of sunshine. Temperatures at 81 degrees, winds out of the south at 21 miles per hour. A very breezy day. We mentioned this wind to you last week, saying we could see 30, 40mileanhour winds. If the storms move in, the winds could gust up to 40 to 60 miles per hour. Thats why were track warm side. 83 huntingtown,