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Brussels say they heard explosions. He was shot in the leg. A fingerprint in a raid earlier this week led police to this neighborhood today. Investigators believe abdul salaam slipped away in the chaotic hours just after the attacks and frustrated the police tracking him time and time again. So this being hailed as a big get now in europe and here by the United States government as well. French president Francois Hollande was in brussels. He said more people were involved in the paris attack than previously thought. Were hearing more from an erican defector from isis in battlefield. Virginia native. He said he doesnt share the message for anybody who may be group. The American People is the the life in mosul is really bad. The people were controlling religion. He traveled through turkey and linked up with isis in syria and was transferred to mosul. He is still being held by kurdish forces. What were learning about that isis fighter. A stray bullet fires from a rooftop in queens hit a car with ankids inside. Investigators are out here searching this housing complex behind me. They say st ebody fired from the rooftop there, hitting several cars, including one with two children in the back seat. This woman was behind the wheel. Also her oneyearold granddaughter and her four month old cousin in the back seat. A stray bullet just missing them. She was turning left when police say someone fired several times from a nearby roof. The queens grandmother knew right away it was gunfire. The bullet shattered her back window, then landed in the drivers seat. This red minivan and taxi were also hit. The grandmother and two children were not the intended targets. She told us the incident, as you could imagine was frightening. They shoot, boom boom boom boom. Reporter how many did you hear . Im not sure. More than once. Us more than six gunshots. I dont know. Reporter was this the most frightening thing that ever happened . Oh yes. Im more concerned with the babies. Reporter both children were taken to the hospital for evaluation and are expected to be okay. Police out here searching for whoevers responsible. Meanwhile, parents are demanding action tonight after not one, but two guns were found in two different schools in queens. In fact, in just three days time. There is a different weapon now being smuggled into schools at an alarming rate. Reporter parents who send their children here to ps 40 say theyre very concerned after police say a fifth grader brought a loaded gun to school this week. And a new report shows that the number of weapons seized overall is going up. He was threatened with a lead pipe by two boys. Parents to rally outside city hall. Their report shows that the number of weapons recovered in new York City Schools was up by 25 last year. Something has to be done. Kids who would go to school, get an education, but now we have to worry about guns, not just at the high school but now at a prek school. Othats ridiculous. Reporter richards little sister is a student at ps 40. Earlier this week a fifth grader brought this gun to school. Just two days later, police say another student, a 15yearold at work Early College academy brought a gun to school. Its mind boggling at a Public School for a child to have a gun, a loaded gun. C reporter despite the discov y of two loaded weapons in school this week, the nypd says so far this year there have been four guns found in schools. The last fatal School Shooting was 26 years ago in east new york. Fired a gun in school was 15 years ago. A larger issue appears to be knives. The number of knives seized in city schools is up 25 year to date according to the nypd. Parents need to do a better job in talking to their kids and not blaming the school or someone else. Reporter a spokeswoman for the department of education says, quote, schools must be safe harch vens, staff and families. New information tonight about a suspicious envelope sent to Donald Trumps son here in new york. The gop president ial front runner apparently the target of the threat. Andrew, what have you learned . Reporter well, chuck, Donald Trumps son son eric lives behind me. Small amount of white powder on it. Preliminary tests show its talcum powder. The letter was postmarked in massachusetts. They are all taking this seriously. The nypd kept a 24hour stake out outside trump park, the luxury highrise where eric and laura trump live. It is here he received a letter that was postmarked in boston, contained white powder and a threat, either trump quits the race for the white house or next time wont be a harmless letter. I spoke with one of eric trumps neighbors who wasnt rattled at all. I live in the safest building in new york. One thing about living in a truch trump building, its 100 safe. Reporter other new yorkers we spoke with said what police marks a new chapter in a president ial campaign thats already led to violence against antitrump protesters. It seems like a three ring circus frankly. Its wild. Reporter the candidate himself did not respond to requests for comment. And on twitter he stuck strictly to attacking his opponents. He tweeted lyin ted cruz lost all five races on tuesday. Lindsay got zero. Law enforcement sources say they would typically advise anyone who receives a threat like this not to talk about it publicly, but with donald trump you never know. He next has a speech scheduled for 7 00 in utah tonight, just days before that states primary. While were talking about the campaign trail, the gops efforts to stop trump continue arizona, utah and idaho are up for grabs next tuesday. John kasich refuses to step aside, hoping that more wins will make him the consensus candidate eventually. Also democrat Bernie Sanders took aim at trump in idaho. The truth is that donald trump is a pathological liar. You cannot have a president whom the American People cannot trust when he speaks. Sanders opponent Hillary Clinton is close to our area tonight, hosting a private fundraiser at a home in connecticut. Governor christie would like a freeze on nonprofit hospitals. More than a dozen municipalities have filed lawsuits seeking payments from these nonprofit court ruled that Morristown Medical Center was not entitled to an exemption. Part of the m line is going to be temporarily shut down for repairs next year. It will affect riders between at the myrtle avenue in bushwick. This is the only chain next to any job. It going to be hard. I might have to take some buses, which is going to cut into my time before i go to work. The work on the m. Is expected to be finished before the l train shuts down in 2018. A scare in the air when Lightning Strikes. Hear from this stunt during a High School Pep rally. Whwat he saya went horribly inwrong. Answering silly and seemingly harmless quizzes on. 4 investigates is Digging Deeper into a Lightning Strike of a plane flying into la guardia airport. The plane was flying to new york from raleigh, North Carolina when it was hit. Just got hit by lightning. This is a look at the flight path. You can see the plane circling before approaching la guardia airport. You can see the plane bypass that airport to land at jfk. We spoke to one passenger. I just so happy we landed all safely. And all of us were saying to each other, we made it, were good. We did some digging. Built to withstand Lightning Strikes. Experts estimate that every commercial aircraft is struck by lightning an average of one time a year. As for this plane we called Republic Airlines to find out if that plane is back in service. The faa is investigating. A stunt man talking about the brush with death that left him severely burned. Ricky charles is on the mend now after accidentally setting himself on fire during a High School Pep rally in florida. This is video of that incident. He says he has been eating fire for 35 years, but this time he used an excelerant that he hadnt worked with before. He was burned on his arms, his face and his legs. Im okay. Im not going to stop doing this. This is my life. Play with fire. It was not a pleasant scene. Not at all. We have to go back to the weather now. At least it looks like its kind of trending toward better news for the weekend. Yeah. I dont think this is going to be anything like we saw earlier in the year when we saw blizzard conditions. Were going to get a snowstorm in some areas, accumulating know in other areas, just a mix thats sloppy. Its not the way we like to ring in spring. Thats for sure. Scattered showers tonight. Thats the first thing we have to deal with. Those will be out of the way during the overnight. Chilly weekend temps. Mercury goes down. Its going to feel like were further back in winter and not on the first day of spring. Snow now for sunday morning. Right now temperatures in the as you head out, we run from the 50s to the 40s. Widen out the picture. Chillier in monticello. But everywhere else relatively in the same neighborhood of the 50s to mid 50s. Look at these wind gusts. 28 in fairfield county. 33 Miles Per Hour in west hampton. And close to 30 Miles Per Hour in monticello. It makes that temperature feel cooler. Now lets talk about whats coming our way. Heres the energy source. Its going to swoop down into the gulf. Its going to pick up some moisture. Its going to work its way up through the delmarva peninsula. What happens from there . The two tracks are still existing, but weve come up with our own estimations of what we believe is the best chance for whats going to happen in our area. Lets zoom into sunday morning at 6 00. Much of the area is under cloud cover. By noon you see a wide area of rain and you see the snow rain line. Keep in mind, some of this area pre reflecting rain right now is going to have embedded snow in it. What this model works off of is surface temperatures. Sunday night at 7 00 p. M. We all have snow. 1 00 a. M. It begins to work its way out. By early monday morning it is gone. Snow totals, a coating to two inches to the north and west. Two to four is a good idea for the bullseye for us. St. By the time we head to monday afternoon, it is all gone and out of the way. Look at that, back into the 60s as we head to next week. Well go through all the details. While the forecast is looking a little bit better, public works in westchester arent taking any chances, prepping the plows and salt spreaders and snow shovels to deal with the one last blast of mark . Reporter we thought we were there. We thought we hit the finish line. We were focused on spring, flowers, getting outside. Now we have to change gears. Now we have to talk about shovels and salt. Salt trucks on stand by here at the dpw yard in yonkers. This isnt is the first spring snowstorm rodeo for the commissioner of public works thomas meyer. He knew better than to store the winter gear just yet. Snow shovels are making a surprise encore next to the outdoor Patio Furniture here at value drugs. These tables and chairs arent going anywhere. People know their Patio Furniture will stand up in this kind of weather. Well just leave it out. Reporter down the street at crestwood pizza. Hopefully they have suvs. Otherwise they use mine. Reporter theyre ready for the storm. Good news is it will probably melt fast. But it does make things reporter like while blooms are bursting at this nursery here in white plains, these teams are making preps, reinforcing the greenhouses for protecting the plants. Well throw frost blankets over any crops that have arrived just so we dont get bud burst. Reporter if youre concerned about your plants, take steps to protect them. What does that mean . Carla says what you want to do is cover those plants with plastic or a brown paper bag or a blanket. Make sure you remove it quickly. This weekend, make sure youve got an ice scraper in the car. A connecticut woman viciously attacked by a chimpanzee. You likely remember that story. Shes helping doctors study treatments that could help our troops. She says the face transplant she received a few years ago has given her new life. Doctors will study how her body handles experimental treatments so that some day they can help Wounded Soldiers who may also need transplants. Coming up, another major tuna fish recall because of life threatening contamination. First, a waitress with a style all her own gets stiffed on a tip. Wait until you see the heartless message that was scribbled on the receipt. Chuck, weve got a Warning Police say a man with a gun pulled a woman over pretending to be a cop. Weve got a sketch of the suspect. Also, the city slapped with a lawsuit over this deadly crane collapse what one ofe he injured victims is now seeking. And tough enough performing eight shows a week on broadway. What if youre still in middle school . The fbi warning drivers about the threat of car hacking. An alert issued jointly with the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that vehicles are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. The fbi says to make sure that your Cars Software is up to date and exercise caution when connecting to a third party device. In fact, last year the iteam dangerous car hackings can be. You can watch the full report on our website. Most people leave a tip at a restaurant. But a customer in iowa left a crude and rude comment about the waitress instead. Tonight that waitress is speaking out. Taylor beaks says this is what she found written on the receipt left by a customer at zombie burger. Tips are only for normal looking people. Beaks describes herself as an individual and weird but didnt think she deserved to be stiffed on the attack. I felt like i was in middle school being bullied. The restaurant says beak is a great employ and is eemployee. A consumer alert. Today there is a second tuna company issuing a recallu. Five ounce cans of light tuna in oil and in water. The tuna may have been under cooks and could make you sick. Bumblebee tuna issued a recall over contamination issues as well. Newark is getting ready to test the water in all of its schools for lead. But there is now concern about lead in many other school districts. 4 investigates finds out whats armed, dangerous and a fraud. The search for a man who police say is posing as a cop. A Woman Told Police that a man driving a car with a flashing light pulled her over. She quickly knew something was wrong. Police want to make sure that man is caught. Reporter most of us when we get pulled over by an unmarked car, we know what they look like. Usually its a crown vick model. The one that pulled this woman over was a blue four door taurus. That was suspicious enough. But the man behind the wheel was no cop. And what makes it even more frightening, as you said, he had a gun. She was a little suspicious as to whether or not he was a real police officer

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