Fall. Phil capers is worried about the future of black students at au. These types of incidences i think it would discourage black students from coming to American University. Reporter he too disappointed about the meeting that hasnt happened so far. This stuff happens more and more. So i think it was a bad move on the administration i think. Reporter these student groups have a list of demands including much more transparency from the administration here at the au, wendy. Back to you. Moments ago i spoke with that new president of American University student government, taylor dumpson. She is the first black woman to hold that post and also a member of the sorority targeted with that ugly comment. And the day this all started was her first day onthejob. Shes satisfied she says with the universitys response to this. Its as good as i can be during the situation. I feel supported by whether members of the organization reaching out to me from alaska to tennessee across the country. Its been an amazing outpour of support and im really thankful. Im also thankful to members of the student body and to faculty staff and administration for all of their help. What would you say to those students now who say im out of here . As a student here there freshman year who wanted to transfer that staying at au was one of the best decisions i ever made because i think at the end of the day going through the adversity that i faced have molded me into the person i am. I wouldnt wish this any other place because i dont think i would truly be who i am in front of you if it werent for American University. Shes from maryland. Shes studying law and said her parents raised her to be a leader and now is her time to raise to that occasion. At 2 00 tomorrow at the mary gradeen center which is the Student Center theyre holding a Community Meeting and she said everyone from the d. C. Community is invited to come and participate because they want to have a discussion and they want to talk about protocols and they want to communicate. So and they want to listen. So shes encouraging everyone if you want to attend 2 00 tomorrow at the mary gradeen center. Good for her speaking out. A strong message here today. Very poised, very bright, bright young woman. Youll have more at 6 00. Only on news4 at 5 00. A series of Crimes Involving stolen vehicles and stolen firearms. This evening two teens are facing charges and were learning that those guns belong to a Police Officer. News4 pat collins outside Einstein High School in kensington with the latest on this story. Pat . Jim, a teenager in a stolen car with a stolen Assault Rifle near a school, a fast this to a quick and peaceful end. 18yearold mario alvarado, a student at einstein high, arrested near the school and charged in connection with the theft of an Assault Rifle that belonged to the cops. Heres how it went down. Thursday, april 27th, milton avenue in silver spring, the blue mazda car was here and then it wasnt thursday night your mazda car was parked on the street, right. Yes. Reporter friday morning it was gone. Saturday april 29th another victim this time its the rockville city police. An a. R. 15 Assault Rifle similar to this one taken from an Unmarked Police car along with five fully loaded magazines and a shotgun. We have assault weapons and a shotgun stolen and those are out reporter monday it all comes together at ienstein high school. A School Resources officer sees a teenager walk into the school, hes caring a black plastic bag. A short time later he comes out of the school no bag. The officer gets suspicious. He watches as the teenager gets into a blue mazda car. The officer makes a traffic stop, the teen begins to run, the teens arrested, Police Search the car and what do they find in the trunk, that Assault Rifle and all the ammunition. Thankfully we had the sro there, you know, who potentially couldve stopped a tragedy because we dont know what this individuals intention was. Reporter now police say when they searched alvarado they found a key to that stolen mazda car in his pants pocket. Oh, and about the stolen shotgun, they say they found that in a stolen pickup truck parents reacting to all this coming up at 6 00. Wendy back to you. Thank you, pat. He is still on the run, that escaped prisoner in maryland, five days now but they thought they got a tip, a good one so the search intensified. It happened both in the air and on the ground after someone reported seeing a suspicious man in an area where he was last seen. David watson has been on the run since friday when he managed to escape from a State Hospital slipping out of his handcuffs and out of the waist chains. Authorities just held a News Conference sharing details about the tip they received this morning that triggered the new search. This time around the Clifton PerkinsHospital Center in jessup. Chris gordon is live there now to tell us how its going. Reporter police say they have ramped up this manhunt based on a call they got this morning from a local employee in this area who says he saw a man be run road here in jessup. The man was reportedly wearing a white hard hat and a safety vest either neon yellow or orange in color. That man ran as soon as he was spotted. Right now we have reason to believe that the person who was spotted by the 911 caller this morning very well may be dpafd watson and also that was reinforced when we learned that a hard hat and vest had been stolen from a nearby storage building. Reporter a helicopter flies above the woods. Search was prompted by a single unconfirmed report, a siting of an unknown male. Police have been looking for escaped prisoner david watson since friday when he got away from two corrections officer who transported him to the perkins Psychiatric Hospital for evaluation. Watson faces charges. Hes serving a sentence of murder. Theres a reward for watson who has distinctive tattoos on his face, neck and body. Today at this nearby 711 a customer thought she spotted watson. I saw a white gentleman with tattoos. He was a skinny guy. Not sure if thats the guy youre talking about or not. I saw somebody in here that just left. Reporter jessup elementary spent the day on lockdown. A place where someone may have stayed in the woods because of bedding found there. Police search near train tracks along a creek bed where footprints were found. Police opened Manhole Covers searching drains and tunnels. Why Police Believe they are closing in on escape prisoner david watson. Back to you. Well see you at 6 00. Big day there. Fbi director james comey says if he had to make that it came to reopening the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails just days before the election. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee grilled comey today about his late october letter regarding clintons emails. They also asked why he didnt disclose the investigation into possible ties between the Trump Campaign and russia. It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election but honestly it wouldnt change the decision. I thought it was very important to call out what the russians were trying to do with our election. Its a separate question from do you confirm the existence of a classified investigation that has just started to try and figure out are there any connections between that russian activity and u. S. Persons. Comey reiterated today that he stands by his testimony before the house that there was no surveillance of trump tower prior to the moldy biofilm. Thats what seems to be eating the Jefferson Memorial. This is not science fiction. Its a stereoyoure only going to see on news4 and tom sherwood is reporting it. Its a new effort to clean the surface of that once gleaming monuments draws hundreds of thousands of visitors and theyre going to clean it with lasers. The toms Jefferson Memorial one of the most magnificent places here in the capitol. But good ole thomas Jefferson Memorial its exterior is blighted by a mold that has spread all over the monument in recent years. Efforts failed to find a cleaning chemical that wouldnt damage the stone, granite and marble. The u. S. Parks service is seeking firms that are expert in chemical free laser cleaning. If all goes well, the project should be done by early next year. In the district, tom news4. Plenty of sunshine across the region. Take a look at our tower cam right now. Beautiful conditions with the plenty of blue skies. Not a cloud in the sky. But boy, are things going to change in a big way as we move on through the next 24 hours and really over the next two weeks. Weve got a monster of a storm down to the south. Thats going to bring a lot of rain and much cooler weather in our region. Temperatures the next couple of days may be going up but right back down. Big storm moving in. Heavy rain. This will be early friday morning but starting tomorrow night, a major pattern change. You know the 70s, 80s and 90s. Were not going to see any more of those for maybe two weeks. Same thing with the sunshine. We can say byebye to that as well. My complete forecast in ten minutes. Thank you. Fairfax county wants to be a leader in selfdriving Car Technology and theyre taking steps to get there now when we come back, the roads all ready be technology that talks to cars. Also tonight, a routine stop for gas takes a deadly turn. The search for a killer who picked his victim at random. And folks were in day three of our sugarfree challenge today. How it could impact your body and more specifically your brain on a longterm nobody does underwater stunts, sylvia. Except me, of course. This is my stop. Adios if youre a stuntman, you cheat death. Its what you do. E fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Numero uno its something we do all the time and we dangerous. Youre filling up your car at the gas station and early this morning, a man was killed when someone tried to rob him as he was filling up his car at the exxon station on silver hill road in suitland. Megan fitzgerald is there now with reaction from someone who knew this victim. Megan . Reporter wendy, ceasele watkins said he lived right next door to wane describes the guy as a really friendly guy who didnt have problems with anybody. Which is why he says he is shocked that he was murdered at this gas station behind me just minutes from his home. It was just after midnight when this exxon station on silver hill road turned into a crime scene. Police say 27yearold wayne pope had just gotten out of his car. Detectives believe the suspect was trying to rob the victim. During that struggle ensued and the suspect shot the victim killing him at that location. Reporter Police Spent Hours at the location collecting evidence. He was a nice young ma we went fishing. Reporter watkins is known wayne pope for the last 20 years. He says wayne loved his family and would always come back to the neighborhood to visit his mom. His mother was very attentive to him. She loved her son and i believe he loved her, so i think its going to hit her really hard. Reporter a family is now left grieving for the loss of a 27yearold man while police try to figure out who killed him. Police say this suspect is believed to be in his teens or his 20s. They say he was last seen wearing a black backpack. Theyre asking anyone with information about this case to Contact Police right away. Back to you. Thank you. So they keep on keeping on with the sugarfree thing theyre doing here at news4. Many of them are doing it including our morning coworkers. Were trying on the late night. We have been having smack talk with our sugar colleagues. I did leave some cupcakes while they were asleep as a token for my appreciation for them or maybe some sabotage as it were. This week weve also been taking a close look at the Health Benefits and the risks of added sugar and Doreen Gentzler who is knocking out of the park this week. I dont know about that. We know too much sugar is bad for your body, diabetes, heart disease, what about your brain . This is the part that really gets my attention. Studies have shown that sugar consumption can release dope amine thats a chemical that signals award and that can make sugar addictive. It can have longterm and damaging effects on our brain as well. People that have higher levels of intake of selfreported int artificially flavored beverages had a three times increased risk in later life of stroke and desha. Artificial sweet nerz made news but the link between sugar and dementia and alzheimers disease has been around for a while. Heather snyder is the director of medical operations at the alzheimers association. There has also been Prior Research thats looked in different animal models that suggested there may be a linkage between sugar intake and some of the underlying biology that we know is involved in vascular and alzheimers disease related dement dementias. Just a few years ago a study done at harvard showed people with above normal blood sugar levels had links to dementia. The link between the body and the brain says Heather Snyder is not really surprising. We know that sugars interact with our blood veflz and blood know and heart health and that also impacts our Overall Brain Health as well. To be very clear, this whole area does need mor between sugar and dementias but researchers are continuing to study this and hope to discover more. Wait, wait, wait. One good turn deserves another. Smell these puppies. We got special deliveries here. Oh, my goodness. This is what got me off the wagon monday night. Look at that. Youre dead to me. Pepperoni sausage. Lets pretend we dont even smell this, okay . Im not doing this. Five . It was so nice of you to leave us cupcakes, we thought good turn deserved another. You cant just have the pepperoni, you have to of the hawaiian. This week is only half way over, just wait. Revenge as you said is a dish best served cold or sweet. Fyi, theres a lot of sugar in the pizza sauce so dont think this is going to be okay. Pete left the weighingen first night. I heard about you and the cookie. One cookie. One cookie. Im going to referry this. Everything they give you, you cant eat just send it over to me. Whoa. Now its all gone. Saw that coming. Are you doing sugarfree . Heck no. There you go. Youll never see him tonight. Stay strong, you guys. Stay strong. Hi, wendy. Look how good you are having been up for 32 hours straight. Is this your pjs here . Its my nightgown. Lets get back to the news. Bye, darling. You know this is what did me in. They know our weak. They are evil, all right. Pat collins tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, pat. Hes lost 20 pounds. I kn he lost half of a pat collins. Hes got his only personal advice about going sugarfree tomorrow morning on news4. Would it hurt if i just smell it . Dont smell it. Were going to go to a very break and then were going to have weather because big changes are coming up in our forecast, heavy rain heading your way and so is doug ka narrator to do time is what is right. Ralph northam. Army doctor during the gulf war. Volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. Progressive democrat. 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This is totally fine. Im going to put that right there. Because we got some stuff to talk about, some serious stuff. In a couple of days were going to be getting some heavy rain. This storm is really going to change everything for us for the next two weeks. Really . It really will because this pattern is going to set up and weve got this huge drop of low pressure off the coast and these sunny skies that youre looking at. Theyre gone. Were not going to see much in the way of sunshine close to two weeks. 65 degrees right now, of the north 17mileperhour. We have the sunshine. That sunshine helping to create some nice numbers. Were still below average today. 64 currently manassas. 65 down towards culpeper. Its a little bit on the cool side especially when you consider the winds. Now down to 25 d. C. 17 manassas. That tells you that winds are coming down gradually through the rest of the evening hours. If youre heading out toward nats park looking good there. 62 by 9 00. Make sure you take the jacket. Maybe the sweater here at 11 00 because we are going to see as youre leaving the game thats when it starts to get cool. Nothing on the radar. But look at this storm. Right now nothing in our area but here it is back to the west. And whats going to happen, this storm is going to move down across our region bringing a lot of rain and then its going to sit across the northeast in a trough setup that look at all this cool air up toward the north. Were going to get on the warmer side of things but the cool air will move in and its going to stick around for quite some time. Tomorrow, im not anticipating rain early in the day. Most of the day looks dr