Thunderstorms. This stuff here will not affect us. Its the stuff here. If i hit it hard again, ill have to buy a new one. Sorry. As it moves north and east, we have the scattered storms. With this atmosphere, we just need one or two rogue thunderstorms that could turn tornadic or severe. That is a possibility and why we are on the weather alert. The future cast shows us moving in at 7 30 to 8 00. Different models have a little different solutions. But clearly the threat is there. Later tonight, it all moves out with the rapid clearing overnight. You will love the weather the next couple of days but we aint out of the woods yet. We are on duty in the Weather Center and we will keep you posted all afternoon. Jonathan thank you very much. The tornado outbreak responsible for significant damage. But incredible rescue took place. A Good Samaritan comes across a flipped truck with a father and the mans infant trapped inside. Watch. Give me the baby. I need help. Give me the baby. Here. My god. Take the baby. Give me the baby right here jonathan those are all Good Samaritans working together to get a man and his baby out of that truck. There were other kids in there as well. They got all of them out and started c. P. R. Right away on the one child that didnt appear to be breathing. Its going on with the rushing water, thunder and lightning, all of it. The father and his children were rushed to the hospital. According to the doctors, all of them will be fine. Thank goodness for all the Good Samaritans. Alison wow that is heartstopping video. Meanwhile, look at this. We showed you some of this at the beginning of the show. Just south of the rescue you just witnessed, this is the damage fromdoon. One of four twisters that killed at least families are picking up the pieces of what is left of their homes. Nancy not just there. Arkansas flooding is responsible for sweeping two children away in rushing waters. The search continuing in Madison County at this hour. One woman was also killed in arkansas. Several states are under water today. Jonathan its not just the rain or the tornadoes. Talk about wideranging problems. Look closely. That is all snow and ice building up. That is what was going on in part of south dakota. The crews having to knock ice off the power lines to prevent outages. Several states actually rolled plows back out over the weekend because they were getting inches of snow on the ground. No matter the weather, do not get caught by surprise. You can download the stormwatch7 weather app to get updates wherever you are. Free. A great resource to have. You can find it on google play and also at the app store. Alison also today, this is the 1st of may which means may day protests. Nancy the fight for fair labor laws. In recent years in the united states, revamped immigration policy. Stephen tschida has bonn monitoring protests in d. C. All day. Stephen we are in front of the white house. Demonstrators arriving, hundreds if not thousands. There were marches through the capital. The message here, opposition to President Trumps policies on immigration. The proposal to build a wall. And the deportation of undocumented immigrants. Where are you from . Virginia but today we are marching to the white house. Stephen why are you here . Because my country treats people with dignity and my country needs to stand up to make sure that everyone is welcome here. Stephen thank you very much. Gin, two protests. The other marcher to criticize the District Of Columbia government. Well explain thatin reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Jonathan thanks for that. The new york city protest across manhattan resulted in some arrests. One group went from Grand Central station to bryant park. Others stormed and marched right through the macys in harold square. Nancy meantime, overseas, demonstrations are ongoing there with another reaching a flash point. Police in riot gear using tear gas to try to control some of the crowds. Some fires even set by the protesters during the clashes. Alison back at home now, a racist message left at american university. Today the school sent the letter out to the community describing the hateful message left behind. New at 4 00, Richard Reeve is in northwest with the students reaction to what was found there. Rich . Richard yeah, alison. A lot of shock, concern by students and the administration here. This is a diverse campus. We are close to the campus there appears to be nooses hung on three different locations on campus. In the nooses, bananas and a sign with the letters aka. That is the initial for alpha kappa alpha, an africanamerican sorority on campus. Word spread quickly on social media about what happened. The nooses discovered at a shuttle bus stop outside anderson hall, the mary gray center. No one claimed responsibility. But the students here are very, very concern. As a black woman on the campus, knowing i could share classes or exist in the same space with people who think this is okay or appropriate to do is sad and devastating to me. Richard the administration released a statement that says in part, these racists, hateful messages is no place in our community. The safety of our students is paramount. The a. U. Department of Public Safety is investigating. The tiin on campus. Students begin exams soon. A lot of folks trying to concentrate on what they are doing. Campus police are investigating who may have done this. Coming up at 5 00, we will hear more about the investigation and what the students are saying about this. Reporting live, Richard Reeve, abc7 news. Nancy thank you. Your kids may be wondering what is for lunch . Its changing at school. Abc7 Northern Virginia bureau chief Jeff Goldberg was at Catoctin Elementary School in leesburg when the secretary of agriculture announced the new flexibility for what the children are served. Jeff plenty of people are not happy with the changes. Youll hear from them in a moment. But first, the secretary of agriculture sonny perdue says kids are throwing away the School Lunches because they dont like the taste of them. So his goal according to the press release is to try to make School Meals Great again. Secretary perdue this afternoon signing procl Catoctin Elementary School in leesburg. He and the kansas senator pat roberts having lunch with the kids at the school beforehand. Here are the three big changes today. Number one, the federal government will now delay requirements to lower sodium amounts in School Lunches. They will also allow redemptions for schools unable to serve 100 whole gains. They can now serve 1 milk instead of nonfat milk. The changes would roll back rules promoted by former first Lady Michelle obama. Outside the school today, parents and grandparents protesting the changes that they believe will make the lunches less healthy. We are going in the right direction. This is a rollback and we are going backwards. This is not acceptable. Its not reducing nutritional standards whatsoever. Its pausing here to evaluation whether or not the progressive standards of moving further are appropriate or not. Jeff the changes are they will be in place for next school year. To 17 20172018. You will hear from a mother later who took her children out of school today because she didnt want them to be part of the event. In leesburg, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Alison thank you. Developing now in austin, texas. Several stabbed on campus. One person is now confirmed dead. Three other people were rushed to the hospital. Their conditions possibly serious. This is according to reports we are getting out of austin today. One person has been taken into custody. But that is all we know now. When we get more information, well have an update for you right here. Nancy also developing at the hour, out of texas, firefighters shot at and one hit. This is the scene in east dallas. Very Little Information has been made available at this point, including the firefighters condition. A lot of information is still being filtered through. Crews say, though, they were called to a home when suddenly they came under fire. The shooter, we understand, i still on the run. Jonathan we are getting new details tonight in a deadly shooting that took place at a pool party in san diego over the weekend. Michelle marsh is at the live desk. What are we learning about what happened . Michelle the latest incident in the abc7 newsroom the gunman is 49yearold peter selles. He was a bankrupt mechanic and upset after breaking one his girlfriend. He is accused of opening fire at an upscale san diego apartment complex, killing a woman and injuring seven others. The victims are six africanamericans and one hispanic but Police Say Race was not a factor. They were celebrating a Birthday Party when the shooting began. The guest of honor invited the alleged gunman to join them. That is when police say he started firing. Police shot and killed him after appeared to reload. A lot of people screaming. Thin about a minute about a minute later, more shots and more people screaming. Michelle two of the victims are in Critical Condition but they are expected to survive. From the live desk, michelle marsh. Back to you. Announcer donald trump, sworn in as president 100 days ago. America has rarely seen such success. Alison all right. Now to President Trump and his first 100 days. He raised eyebrows again over the weekend. This time over Andrew Jackson and the civil war. In an interview with the Washington Examiner trump said he wonders why issues could not have been worked out. In addition he made claims that sounded like jackson had a role in the civil war despite dying in 1845, 16 years before the war. Meanwhile the administration celebrating the first 100 days. Donald trump sworn in as president 100 days ago. America has rarely seen such success. Alison so President Trumps Reelection Campaign unveiled a 1. His first 100 days in office. It boasts the confirmation of neil gorsuch to the supreme court, trumps tax cut proposals and his efforts to create american jobs as successes. Tomorrow night at 7 00, right here on newschannel8, an interactive onehour special. The first 100 days. Recapping the 45th presidency so far and looking ahead. Jonathan well, coming up next for us at 4 00, what is in the budget deal just passed by congress . Alison also this three. Two. One. Zero. Lift off. Alison an Early Morning secret mission. What is on board this spacex rocket . Okay. This is it . Is your mic on . Nancy kelly rippa with a new cohost on life. Her cohost choice is next. Steve im steve rudin. Gravelly point. No thunderstorms, at least not right now. Meteorologist doug hill coming up. 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Nice to see you. Hi, partner. Hi, partner. Kelly walked out alone for the last time. After a monologue, tease and commercial break. She shared her secret. She took to social media last night to tell fans the announcement was coming today. In the cover of darkness, a hat and hiding on the seat of the car, he snuck in the studio this morning. He replaces Michael Strahan who left last may for g. M. A. Blindsiding kelly. Several people filled in over the year, including seacrest. Jonathan what doesnt he do . Exactly. Social media reacting. They always have something to say. So we will turn it to lindsey mastis. Lindsey a lot of people talked about this today. Some of Ryan Seacrest famous friends are proud of him. Look at the comments. Jennifer lopez tweets Chris Harrison from the bachelor calling at it great combo. Anderson cooper says, you get to join the best person i know. Cant wait to watch. Ryan seacrest agrees and he calls kelly one of his favorite people ever. After the show today he tweeted to kelly saying, thank you for making it easy. A lot of people talk about the has been trending all day long. Alison fun to watch. They both have a lot of energy. [laughter] thanks. Switching gears now. Take a look at this. If you are a frequent flyer, this is terrifying for anyone and not what you want to see inside an airplane. 27 people hurt on board the flight. Russian flight to bangkok. They were thrown around when the plane hit the turbulence. They suffered broken bones, head injuries. We are told that luggage as well as the food and drinks from the cart were just strewn all over the cabin. Three, two, one. Jonathan spacex launched a satellite this morning. Its for the National Reconnaissance office which developers maintain is a spy satellite. Do, we have no idea. They are not going to tell us. They refused to even reveal the size of the satellite. Nor would it say what orbit it was heading to, what color it is, or smells like or anything else. Its a spy satellite. Nancy we are getting a look from space at the Severe Weather system that is moving across the country right now. Nasa releasing the satellite images showing the strong storms moving across the central state. The deadly storms are blossoming over the middle of the country. Some Severe Weather alerts for our system here in town as well. Doug the storm is way out west. We are not dealing with the storm system. We have a cold front attached to the storm system that is coming through. We have shower and thunderstorms and maybe Severe Weather later tonight but the clear chance for the widespread outbreak is well north and west. On the map, garrett county, maryland, pennsylvania, new york, those areas are und it extends way up to lake ontario. That is one area. We have severe thunderstorm warnings in effect and one little Tornado Warning in upstate pennsylvania. Now in our local area we have had a lot of winds today. A lot of sunshine. A lot of cloudiness. It feels like something is in the wind. And indeed, later tonight, scattered showers and storms. But for the next few hours its the gusty winds and mild temperatures blowing things around. I know that. I saw steve rudin at Gravelly Point. Its blowing around. There is not enough product in your hair today, steve. Im just saying. Steve its blowing around all over the place. We have a good seat here on the g. W. Parkway. We are getting a little bit of a beating because the winds are beginning to pick up. Its gusty winds at that. Look at the map. I will show you what is going on with the wind gusts. 25 to 35 miles per hour. The windy conditions are going to stick around for the next even once this front passes us later tonight it will stay on the breezy side tomorrow. But there is good news here. At Gravelly Point and at Reagan National airport, it appears there are no travel delays and no airplane delays right now. The planes are still coming in on schedule. It will take a while to get here but the planes are all stacked up behind me. And things are going along here okay. We just have to keep thunderstorms out of the way. We head back inside to chief meteorologist doug hill. He is tracking the line, where they are and where they will move in the next few hours or so. Back to you. Doug a few isolated showers brewing now in south side virginia. Way below charlottesville and even farther south. The heaviest amounts are along the cold front. That is still west of the mountains. You can see the skinny line here. This is all severe stuff. This area is spinning up the tornado in northern pennsylvania. More in new york. Looks as tug but a little farther south and west, only a little after 4 00 in the afternoon. We have time for more showers and storms to form and move to the metro area. We think that is what will happen in the balance of the evening. However, the enhanced area of the thunderstorm, the Severe Weather possibilities has been pushed farther west and north again. Well away from the d. C. Metro. We are in a slight risk now. I think that is the way it will stay through the evening. A slight risk for most of the area. A little enhanced risk north and west. The future cast shows by 7 30 tonight well have a Pretty Healthy line of nasty storms to the west and southwest of the area. They may diminish as they approach at 8 30 to 9 00. More rumbles possible tonight. Clearing skies overnight. Then a couple of great days coming up. Tomorrow, sunny and breezy and 76. Sunny, 71 on wednesday. Partly sunny with a