New developments from that huge earthquake in central italy. Its causing even more problems this morning. The biggest one, aftershocks striking the country right now. A magnitude 4. 3 magnitude collapsed at least one building in the town of amatrice this morning. The death toll is at 241 people right now. Thats actually less than what officials were saying this morning, but still a staggering number. At this hour crews are leading dogs through the streets to try to find any survivors and recover any bodies in the mess. Italian leaders say it is possible to give an estimate of how many might still be missing right now. Some of the most dramatic moments have been the scenes of rescuers pulling survivors from the rubble in italy. We saw what was likely the most intense and rewarding scene like that this morning. Take a look at this, rescuers pulle a pile of rocks and debris. People clapping as she was pulled from beneath all of that. Amazingly she seems to be okay. People applauding as the rescuers as i mentioned pulled her from that debris. This is in that town amatrice where basically every building has cracked or collapsed in some storm. Cleanup right now in the midwest where at least eight tornados caused major damage. Buildings lifted off their foundations in ohio and parts of indiana hit very hard. Ta tammy laettner has a look at the damage in kokomo just north of disappearance. Reporter mother natures wrath caught on cell phone video in indiana. Oh, my god, starbucks just got blown over. Reporter in the town of kokomo, a tornado taking down a starbucks with customers still inside. Theyre trying to get in the building. Reporter and then released. Everybody got out okay. Tee together and got the doors off, got them out. Reporter eight tornados confirmed in the state. The intense storm system bringing loud cracks of thunder and spawning massive funnel clouds that left behind a twisted path of devastation. Im glad youre all right. Reporter george penna took shelter in his bathroom as his home collapsed around him. I said dear lord, if its going to be my last month, make it quick and not very painful. Reporter he made it out unharmed but his neighborhood is nearly destroyed. Im just glad my kids werent here. Reporter Late Wednesday indiana governor mike pence left the campaign trail and headed home. Well be here as long as we need to be. Reporter this morning, a familiar heartbreak. A community again picking up the pieces. Lets check on the weather. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell joins us here. Hey, the Severe Weather threat has now traveled well to our north and west. We will not need to worry about Severe Weather around here for today. We are watching an increasing number of clouds, though. Heres Tysons Corner in the distance there under a mostly cloudy sky. Weve seen a couple of raindrops out here towards the Shenandoah Valley, nothing heavy. A couple sprinkles along the Virginia West Virginia border. These drops are coming eastbound but theyre drying up as they do so, so not everyone is going to get rained on today. Our rain chances inside the d. C. Metro area down below 20 . Current temperatures thanks to the increasing clouds have leveled off a bit. Were around 82 degrees now. 82 in washington and fredericksburg, 79 out west in winchester. Your mostly cloudy for the next couple of hours but these clouds will scatter on out and well be left with plenty of sunshine to finish the day. As a result it will be plenty warm. Then your thursday evening, partly cloudy, 83 at coming up in a little bit ill let you know a forecast for the nats game tonight, the redskins game at fedex field tomorrow and the whole weekend outlook. Well see you in a few. Thank you, chuck. An attempted Sexual Assault investigation under way in loudoun county. Deputies say it happened on the washington and old dominion trail. The victim said she was walking on the trail about 8 30 wednesday night when she was approached by two men. They allegedly pulled at her and her clothing before physically assaulting her. Were told the suspects left after a bicycle road buy. Anybody who may know anything about the suspects is asked to call police. If you see a lot of flashing lights around the pentagon right now in the next several minutes or so, we dont want you to be concerned. Theres a major emergency drill happening there right now. The Pentagon Force Protection agency says youll probably see it if youre driving on washington boulevard or anywhere along route 10 close by there. Police and firefighters are acting out what would happen if a helicopter crashed on the again, it is a drill. It should be finished by this afternoon. Metro leadership is digging into the details of recent rail troubles this morning. The board is meeting to talk about last months derailment at East Falls Church and to discuss the problem of operators running red lights. It comes one day after a federal investigation revealed problems at the rail yard. The report says workers have not been properly securing rail cars, which has led to rollaway incidents. Meanwhile, another d. C. Transportation option is celebrating an anniversary. The d. C. Street car will mark six months of service on saturday. Transportation Officials Say more than 400,000 people have taken a trip on the street car since february. Now, starting next month, it will also run on sunday. Mylan will help patients pay for their epipen treatment. This comes after the drug maker received c hikes for the drug. They laid out a plan to expand its Patient Assistance Program and offer 300 savings cards for its epipen twopack. There is no change, though, in the price of the treatment. Right now repairs are under way yet again at the washington moniment. The landmark will be closed until midseptember so for two or three weeks to fix the elevator. The National Park service also tells us a more extensive repair project will start soon after. That could take eight to nine months. D. C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes norton says it is a long time but a step in the right direction. Its easier to take that it may close down for almost a year to be totally fixed than to have it closed down periodically and not know when thats going to happen and when it will end. The price tag on the elevator repair could hit close to 3 million. Happy birthday to the National Park service. They are celebra 1 check this out, this is the google doodle. Lets see, is it going to go for us . I think its going. There we go. It shows off the sites on several of the National Parks around the country. One of the most iconic National Parks is right here in the district of columbia, the National Mall. Thats where we find Megan Fitzgerald live where they just did something record breaking. Tell me about it. Reporter they did. I can tell you thats probably the biggest highlight of the morning. There was over 1200 people that gathered here on the National Mall and they got in formation to create the National ParkService Emblem of the arrowhead. A lot of folks got here bright and early and they say they will continue to celebrate well into the weekend. It was a busy morning here on the National Mall. Wristband. Reporter wristbands were in high to where the logo is. Reporter the wristbands are color coded for a reason. This is one of the green umbrellas. Reporter participants will be strategically positioned on the National Mall for a historic reason. Were going to attempt to create the Worlds LargestNational ParkService Emblem, the arrowhead. Reporter if you hadnt noticed, its a celebration out here. The weather cooperated, so its a fabulous day and wonderful opportunity to celebrate all the good things that the park service does. Reporter they are celebrating its centennial and in great fashion. In the crowd of participants, we found aiden and his brother, brendan. Im wearing all the badges ive earned over two years. Reporter and over the last several years, he and his family have gone to over 100 National Parks, so they understanding the significance of today and why these landmarks are so important. Peaceful, calming. It gets my mind off of things for sure. Ive had a lot of problems last year and it helped me a lot going on these trips. National parks around the country mean Something Different to everyone. How many browns . 11. Reporter which is why so many came out to say thanks. Its here not just for us that are here today but for our children and their children in the future. Reporter now, there is a birthday bash that kicks off at 5 00 tonight in constitution garden. Thats where theyre going to have comedy action live music, food, and a beer garden as well. Then tomorrow morning starting at 10 00 a. M. Its geared more towards the kids. Theyll have a Scavenger Hunt and all kinds of games out here at the National Mall. Back to you. But is there cake . That is the real question. Meagan fitzgerald, thank you so much. Coming up, new attacks from donald trump, why the republican candidate for president is now calling his opponent a bigot. Up next, women wearing full body swimsuits banned at this world famous beach. A look at whos fighting the ban not ready for the first day of school. The problem keeping the large dmount of ki today frances highest court is deciding whether a ban on burquinis is illegal. Several spots have banned the hijab or head covering, including these beaches in cannes. Critics call it antimuslim and discriminatory. The french Prime Minister says its a symbol of the enslavement of women. The court will make a decision in the next two days. New information following an attack at the American University of afghanistan. This morning the u. S. State Department Says they have no reports of any american citizens killed or seriously hurt. 14 people were killed in the attack at the school yesterday, including several students and police officers. Two gunmen were also killed. The university has been closed until further notice. Turning now to decision 2016, where donald trump has a new attack line on hillary clinton. Hes now calling her a bigot. Meanwhile, clinton is expected to give a detailed response later today. Nbcs tracie potts has the latest. Hillary clinton is a bigot w votes not as human beings worthy of a better future. Reporter donald trump is going after the africanamerican and latino vote by claiming democrats have done little to improve the lives of minorities. Clintons response comes this afternoon in reno. Shes expected to argue what she told cnn last night, that trump is shifting republicans who are disturbing extremist views. Someone who is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia. Reporter clinton insists her meetings as secretary of state with donors to her familys foundation broke no laws or ethical rules. Theres a lot of smoke and theres no fire. Reporter she calls trumps shift on immigration desperate. Instead of mass deportations, trump says hes now willing to work with immigrants who came here illegally but want to change. Jobs, wages and security for americans. Reporter his Campaign Says expect more details in the next two weeks. And we could find out more today when trump sits down with latino and africanamerican leaders in new york. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. It is a popular way to get over a fear of heights for some, but now a woman is dead after falling off a delaware zip line. Officials say the 59yearold woman fell to her death at the go ape zip line. She fell 40 feet to the ground. The attraction was closed after the accident and now multiple Police Agencies are investigating what happened. Days after a federal report revealed teachers allegedly abused and humiliated preschool children in Prince Georges County, news4 has learned of past investigations that found issues with the headstart program. In 2013 a letter to the board of education listed several naup compliances, among them criminal background check files for 103 of its staffers were inaccurately kept. And several classrooms had undesirable or hazardous materials. All of the problems were corrected by january of 2014. They have a very high standard. You are not allowed to have any uncorrected deficiencies. Last week the federal government stripped the county of its headstart grant money. Five board of education members are now calling for the board chair and vice chair to step down. Thousands of students in Prince Georges County are missing out on the first week of school, and that is because they arent immunized or still havent proven that they have been vaccinated. According to policy, they have to stay home from school until then. The deadline was tuesday. The first day back. The number is about 6300 but that does not mean they a immunized. It could mean their information is not in our data system, so our nurses are looking at this information every day as parents bring in the information to them. If they can prove, then theyre in school. If they cant prove they have immunization, they are excluded until they can prove it. Required vaccinations are for diseases like polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox and hepatitis b. Can parents save money on backtoschool shopping . Molette green takes a look. You have your colored pencils, your binder notebooks. Reporter School Supplies fill the room, pencils, paper, backpacks. This family is mostly ready, except for the school uniforms. No, im not done at all. I havent even done the uniforms yet, were just getting started. Its a long process. Reporter Patrice Jones is getting three children ready for school in crayons. Reporter and counting every dollar spent. Between the three of them, i probably spend close to like 700 to 800 on uniform shopping. Reporter in the debate, uniforms versus regular clothes, for this single mom it comes down to dollars and cents. I prefer uniforms just because its consistent and i know what theyre wearing the next day. But as far as expenses, i think regular clothes would probably be cheaper. Reporter the two younger ones will wear uniforms back to school and thats okay with 10yearold antonnette who will practice Fashion Design on her brand new sewing machine. In the future i want to have my own business and in order for me to have my own business, i need to do good in school. Reporter for many Parents School uniforms doesnt mean saving money but it does cut down on the peer pressure to wear labels and keeps the focus in the classroom. Afford the cost of getting students back in class, we are still taking donations for backpacks for kids. You can call us to make a donation throughout the day. Weve got some folks that are standing by, all smiles. Hello, ashley brown, aaron gil kr aaron gilchrist, we see you. Thanks for lending a hand. You can also text nbcdc to 51452 to help us help the community. A new hurricane is in the atlantic and forecasters are keeping an eye on another tropical system. A look at the area especially vulnerable. Plus alarming numbers out of ohio. The drug problem that is killing an average of eight people a day. Tropical activity in the atlantic continues to ramp up. The National Hurricane center is closely watching hurricane or Tropical Storm now, i could say, gaston and one other storm system still forming. The storm system has people in louisiana on edge. They are still recovering from last weeks massive and devastating flooding. Right now some First Responders in baton rouge will be given temporary government housing. Those First Responders, firefighters, police, they have been busy rescuing people, flood homes were in trouble too. And so gaston just now downgraded, right, from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm again. Yeah, just as of the 11 00 a. M. Advisory, back down to Tropical Storm and likely going to stay there at Tropical Storm strength for the next couple of days. More important than anything else, staying out in the middle of the atlantic ocean. The next area of low pressure were going to carefully keep an eye on might end up taking on the name hermine over the next 24 to 48 hours. Heres the satellite loop out over the atlantic to show you where these two systems are, way up on the top lefthand side of your screen, thats miami, florida. The first system you see there to the lower right of miami, that is the system that may end up becoming hermine. This is gaston, way out here in the middle of the atlantic. It was a hurricane, you can briefly see the eye of the storm, but now becoming a little bit more disorganized. This one, though, because of where it is and the general direction its going, its generally speaking tracking off to the northwest. As a result of where it is and where its trying to get of a threat. Sorry about that, the pause point didnt do me any favors there. But where its going, it could, could be a named system impacting somewhere in south florida in the late sunday, early monday time frame. After that well see where it ends up potentially in the gulf of mexico. But theres a long way between now and then. As far as the immediate near term future for us, clouds have been increasing over the last little bit. There are a couple of raindrops out here, nothing heavy. No