Other climbers tweeting severals on the mountain are missing. 400 people trapped inside a collapsed ancient building. Also right now, there are some texas sized Power Outages in dallas. Tens of thousands of people there will be waking up to blinking clocks today. Storms battered the south last night. Take a look at some of this video. Pretty intense stuff we see coming through. You can see its just pouring, pounding the roads out there. Dealing with high winds, a lot of hail. The weather caused nearly 60,000 outages last night. Now, that number is closer to 50,000 right now. Take a listen to that. In kansas they had hail. Tornadoes also touched down. Take a look. In one spot hail the size of baseballs hit cars and peoples homes. Its supposed to rain in that area today. Now the Severe Weather system guess what headed our way. Storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell has his eye on it this morning. What can we expect this weekend . Good morning, everybody. Welcome to your weekend. We will not be facing that level of Severe Weather around here. We will be dealing with rain drops, but theres no chance for organized Severe Weather of that caliber here in our area this weekend. Rain drops, yes, Severe Weather, no. Take a check of it on storm team 4 radar this morning. Were mostly dry in the metropolitan washington area. Theres even a few wet snow flakes reported across pennsylvania as the temperatures are in the mid and upper 30s to the north. A little bit of false return coming out here on radar. If you live near culpepper, youve got rain drops this morning let me know on twitter. Ill report the rain drops accurately. Temperatures this morning in the coolest of the 30s in gaithersburg. 49 in washington. Plenty of clouds around. Temperatures mostly in the low to mid40s for the next couple of hours. Near 50 degrees around noontime it will rain on yourz saturday night plans and into your sunday morning. More about that part of the forecast in a few minutes. All right. Thanks chuck. Right now we want to tell you about a traffic situation. The northbound lanes of the g. W. Parkway are closed at spout run. A car drove off the roadway and may be in the water there. An investigation is just beginning. Southbound lanes of the parkway are still open. New this morning, investigators trying to figure out what caused a fire that forced several people from their apartments. This was in Montgomery County. The fire broke out on blackburn lane. Thats not lar from columbia pike. Overnight we see smoke billow from the building. The bulk of the fire is out. Well today protesters say theyll shut down baltimore. Demonstrators demanding answers over the unexplained death of freddie gray. Gray suffered a spinal injury and died in Police Custody after his arrest earlier this month. Stephanie rawlingsblake says she wants the protest to be peaceful. More on the errors the police made they say in their handling of gray. Reporter once freddie gray was arrested and placed into a police a van, they failed to put a seat belt on him, a violation of police policy. We know he was not buckled in the transportation wagon as he should have been. No excuses for that. Reporter police say gray appeared to be talking and moving in the van until the third stop. Among the questions was he given a rough ride. Jarring starts and stops that might have caused his injury. If someone harmed freddie gray we have to prosecute them. Giving too much information to you on the front now may jeopardize that prosecution. Reporter in the days since gray died of a spinal cord injury, protesters demanded answers. Including 11yearold david williams. Im worried about me dying. And im thinking my neighborhood is stressed out and crap and i dont want to die. Reporter now demonstrators promising to ratchet up the pressure. The cycle of black men being shot down gunned down having their backs broken. Reporter the mayor urged all protesters to remain peaceful. This community and this whole community is committed to seeking justice for mr. Gray. So if youre going to come here come to help us. Not to hurt us. Tom costello reporting there. Metro police needing your help to find the person who attacked a 69yearold man on a metro escalator. Investigators say the man argued with the teenager at the market station yesterday afternoon. And then you can see the teen spat on him and then started throwing punches at the top of that escalator. The victim fell and hit his head. Then the teen took off. The man was taken to the hospital and was treated. If you have any information on this attack call metro transit police. A former Montgomery County teacher facing sex abuse challenges. Otis wilson iii had a relationship with a 13yearold student. He worked in Silver Spring at the time. This is wilsons family leaving his first appearance in court yesterday. One pushed a news camera away. Another told us she found out about the charges that day. Very very upset about whats being said about my nephew. I dont believe its true but if it is true i wish he would have told somebody so we could have got him some help. This is the fourth sex offense incident at Montgomery County schools in the last two years. In an effort to make your neighborhood safer, there will be a Community Meeting today. Frustrated by the recent increase in violence in the areas. Therell be a meeting at the swift apartments on Georgia Avenue northwest. It begins at 10 00 this morning. Taking a look at the day ahead. Celebrities, journalists, politicians, theyre all coming together for the white house correspondents dinner. Its happening tonight. Among the big names in town right now, hes already performed at one party. This is always a big event here in this area. Jim hanley tells us who else youll see at the main event. Reporter the toughest ticket of course is the dinner itself. 26,000 seats. 260 tables. Already 1200 requests have been turned away. At 3,000 a table, it is an expensive room and it can be a rough room too. Especially if youre on the receiving end of a barb or if youre dishing out a roast. Are you going to take the gloves off or are you worried about offending anybody . I dont want to be too harsh, i dont think. But i will get a little tough heefr and there. Reporter president will be right beside you. Turns out he has to be there. He and i both now have to be there. We signed a contract. Thats tough. Hes a tough one to follow. Reporter were getting early word on some of the big names expected to attend. Donald trump, jane fonda, walking dead cast members, and stars like Kerry Washington of scandal. If youd like to follow along and see the latest on whats happening and whos here in town well be updating and posting on the nbc washington app. Going to be a big weekend. Id keep an eye on angies twitter feed as well. We dont do anything exciting. I got to work in the morning. We still have our eyes on nepal. A 7. 9 earthquake. Well bring you the updates on survivors and damage throughout the newscast here. And then after a widespread outage last night, what starbucks is telling customers wanting to get their coffee fix this morning. And bruce jenner tells the world she is a woman. Weve heard her side. Now were getting reaction wha new this morning, you can buy your favorite cup of coffee at starbucks without any problems following a computer glitch this morning. They fixed the register outage. Last night some Stores Closed early because of the glitch. We found places in our area giving out free coffee. Once again the Computer System is back up and running at starbucks, so bring your money. Yes, for all intents and purposes i am a woman. People look at me differently. They see you as this macho male. But my heart and my soul and everything that i do in life, it is part of me. That female side trending this morning, Bruce Jenners interview with diane sawyer. In an interview with abc news publicly admitting he is transgender. The word were seeing all over social media to describe his admission is brave. Jenners family watching at home together. Khloe kardashian posted a picture on her Instagram Account and she also said of jenner the 1975 games and it reads brave. This is actually a look at her twitter account. Kim kardashian said she was proud to be jenners daughter. Kylie and kendall also both tweeting support. His exwife kris also tweeted her support. Now, other stars and activists as you can see also lending their support to jenner today. Bruce jenner is beautiful, brave human being. Those words from ellen degeneres. Sending him lots of love. Hes saving lives and opening minds. Those words coming from the talk show host. And the queen of talk Oprah Winfrey saying all of us deserve the right to be loved for who we are. Bravo. Adam adam . All right. Thanks. 6 13 now. Coming up three words to brighten your morning. Free prom dresses. Where your teen can get one. After a night out partying how can you tell if youre legally sober enough to drive . How people are doing it from the palm of their hand from free. And expect rain coming want to update the breaking news of the morning. An earthquake rocked the capital of nepal. It was a 7. 9. Nepal police say at least 107 people are dead. It it about 2 00 a. M. Our time. People are trapped in an ancient building in the city. Several avalanches also reported on mt. Everest after the earthquake hit. Climbers are tweeting several climbers on the mountain are missing. Dont stop believing [ screaming ] yeah. Several High Schoolers are now home from the hospital after that scary scene there in indiana. We first told you about this at this time yesterday. The students were on stage performing the journey song dont stop believing when the stage collapsed underneath them. 17 teenagers were hurt. Its like a great Theater Department and they like try they work hard on it and stuff. Im pretty sure no one in a million years thought this would ever happen. The school says its still not clear why the stage collapsed. Investigators will be working to find that out today. There are new calls for a hostage the company says wienstein was a wonderful human being. Al qaeda kidnapped wienstein. Drones struck the compound and expected to hit four terrorist but found six bodies. One of those was wienstein. We all bleed when we lose an american life. We all grieve when any innocent life is taken. Wiensteins wife called the assistance inconsistent and disappointing. A new study finds researchers at the university of washington found that more people including women are drinking more. They say heavy drinking is up more than 17 since 2005. They also found more than 78 of adults over 21 drink more than one alcoholic drink a month. That study found the most binge drinking happens in the state of wisconsin. There are online tools to determine your blood alcohol concentration. You can actually enter your weight what you ate, how much you drank in this online tool. You can see its called virtual bar. The group called responsibility created this tool. Theyre now working to fight underage drinking and drunk driving. Were going to post a link to their site on nbcwashington. Com so youll have access. You can help your daughter get ready for prom and also save a little cash. Reston Community Center giving away prom dresses. It begins at noon in reston. The giveaway lasts until 6 00 this evening. Community members donated all the dresses youll see today. Tickets now sold out to the wizards next playoff game. You can buy an upper level seat on stubhub for 56 bucks right now. Not bad. Theyre going for a sweep of the toronto raptors. The caps also leading their playoff series which could end today if the team beats the new york islanders. Theyll punch a ticket to the second round if so. Theyre playing in new york this afternoon. Watch them at 3 00 p. M. Right here on news4. Great to have two teams in the playoffs doing well right now. Chance to wrap up the series both of them. It would be great. Exciting times for washington sports. Weatherwise, what is going on . I feel like were going backwards here, chuck bell. Its hockey playoff season. You have to have a chill in the air for hockey here. The chill has been around the last couple of mornings. Temperatures back down into the 30s and 40s again. Our average low temperature now is up to 50 degrees. It is on the cool side. Its a beautiful sky out there this morning. Heres the way it looks from our city camera. Early morning brightness out there. This will not last long. Clouds are coming in fast and rain drops are following right behind them. So enjoy this beautiful sunrise while we have it. 49 degrees at Reagan National with a northeasterly wind at 9 miles per hour. But temperatures are noticeably cooler out to the west and north. Its 41 in hagerstown and gaithersburg gaithersburg. 38 in petersburg and there are pockets cold enough to support wet snow flakes across central parts of pennsylvania. No snow flakes for us. Heres hourly temperatures. Mid40s early this morning. Up to about 50 at lunchtime today. Eventual high temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. Weather slowdowns, nothing to slow you down this morning. Rain drops moving in this afternoon. And by this evening, steady rain. That could make for a slow go on the roads. Timing of the rain drops. We could have a little rain before these, this is the steadier rain. 1 00 to 3 00 down to our south and west. I think everyone in the metro gets wet between 3 00 and 5 00 this afternoon. Northeastern maryland 5 00 6 00 7 00 this evening. Thats the time youre guaranteed to be wet here. You could have drops before then. Heres radar now, just what i think are mostly false returns and rain drops not quite making the ground here. But look at all the moisture and all the energy thats coming our way. Heres the weather in kansas yesterday. Severe weather in houston this morning. Severe thunderstorms possible down south today. If youre flying towards atlanta or chicago, plan for slow going on the major hubs. That could slow travel here into the northeast corridor as well. Heres future weather then. Cloudy and chilly this morning. We should all be under full cloud cover by lunchtime. Here comes the march of steadier rain by 5 00. Just down to the southwest sides of the metro area. But everybody should be wet by 4 00, 5 00 6 00 7 00 this evening. Have your storm team 4 weather happen ready to go. That way you can have the radar in your hand. Then sunday morning starts off with clouds. Hopefully into tomorrow we can get the rain turned off and we should be able to get sunshine back in here by the at least noon time or a little after noon tomorrow. Im not quite as optimistic as the computer is how fast we can get the clouds out of here. Today 100 chance of rain later on today and tonight. Tomorrow will be before lunchtime. We should be dry by lunch. Well see how much clearing we can get later on in the day. Then on monday partly to mostly sunny early. Could bubble up a stray passing shower. That wont be a big deal at all. Another chance for showers there on thursday. Sorry about having all that rain chance on your weekend. Somebodys got to wash the pollen off. Look at the plus side of it. Plus it is april. It is. Thanks chuck. 6 23 right now. Theres a struggle to address the needs of transgender students in Fairfax County. Even a small change in Fairfax County schools now taking a look at gender identity. The School System is considered adding the term to the nondiscrimination policy. Gender identity has become a big issue in the community where a local support group formed to help families. Reporter Roxanne Edwards started her transition 14 years ago. My spouse didnt know. One knew. Reporter now the transgender woman runs fourth fridays for the parents of transgender young people in Fairfax County and i dont understand. Edwards is pushing to include gender identity in their policy. Bullying is one of her concerns. Just so to be able to see those words in policies it says you might do it but its not something we dont accept. No one is entitled to take away my rights. I am not confused. I am not going through a phrase. Reporter Charlie Cranford identifies as a boy and girl. The teen is gender fluid. Why would you want to punish somebody for being who they are . Reporter the board heard Public Comment on a proposal to add gender identity to the School Districts nondiscrimination policy. Opinions at the podium were evenly split. Opponents are concerned a policy change could lead to mixed bathrooms. Providing such access is a safety issue. It endangers children and violates the rights of both students and parents. Reporter charlie is a junior at South Lakes High School and feels accepted. Theres a generational shift. Were seeing a lot more acceptance taking place. I think in some ways some of these issues are going to disappear. Reporter the school board will vote on the proposal on may 7th. A district spokesman tells me if the amendment passes they would hire a consultant to work out what happens with things like bathrooms and lockerrooms. Kristin wright, news4. We continue to follow the breaking news out of nepal at lee 100 people have died in an earthquake and avalanche there. Well bring you the latest on damages including tweets from climbers on mt. Everest where an avalanche hit. Reaction from a senator aide arrest. And chuck says dont walk out the door without the umbrella. Come right bac well begin this breaking with this breaking news in this half hour. A powerful earthquake rocked the capital of nepal. The u. S. Geological survey says the earthquake was a 7. 9. Nepal police say 108 people have been killed in the earthquake. Deaths also reported in neighboring india. The earthquake hit around 2 00 a. M. Our time. Thats about noon in nepal. Were also hearing 400 people trapped inside a collapsed ancient building in the capital city. Several avalanches also reported on mt. Everest after the earthquake hit. Climbers are tweeting several campers are on the mountain and missing. Earthquake is trending worldwide right now. These are the top stories. Today protesters say they will shut down baltimore. Demonstrato