We begin this morning with breaking news in the district. Our tom sherwood just broke this on twitter and we sent out a breaking news alert. Assist police chief is taking over as the interim chief. We told you last week the chief is retiring next month. He has served as the assistant chief for more than a decade. Her last day is september 17th. We are also following breaking news in college park. Right now police are in the 8,000 block of baltimore avenue for what is being called a death investigation. A man in his 20s was found in a creek in that area. News 4 is headed to the scene and well have an update later in the news cast. More than 100,000 students experiencing the energy of first day of class. Schools are back in session and its been a everyone. We are live at Pointer RidgeElementary School, david. Reporter good morning. You may be able to hear it, or maybe not, its the silence. Its students who are actually in class now after summer break is over focussed on their studies im sure here at the Elementary School. A lot of excitement this morning but also here with the school ceo. Hes come to the school and hoping for that fresh start after what was a struggle of last year. Allegation of scandal and sexual abuse against students and losing funding for head start. He hopes to move past that. Were proud of the preparation we have in place. Our teachers are well prepared. These kids are excited talking about their favorite subjects, a young lady talking about math and science and a young man talking about spelling. Theyre in the swing already. Classroom door opens to the newest kindergartners these teachers have been planning. For the classroom we prepare maybe two weeks before we are scheduled to come in and then the first week that we come the teachers are scheduled to come in were working every day. Reporter these teachers are in Constant Contact to make sure their classrooms are ready. Were working in the evening times or on the phone until late at night. Reporter their dedication seen in their many years of teaching. I get so excited. I love it. Its my passion. Reporter this is the 34th for mrs. Burgess. Early childhood is the time you can get them to be life long learners and reporter despite their experience they too anxious about this the first day. Ive been doing it over 20 years. I still get nervous the first day. Reporter can you believe that, even the teachers get those jitters. Dr. Maxwell says when it comes to teacher vacancies and theyre in pretty good shape. 30 vacancies and he says thats a positive thing. All right. More of the news 4 team visited Pointer RidgeElementary School today. They gave out School Supplies collected during the backpack Collection School drive. Its filled with essentials to get kids on the right track this year. Theres still time to donate. Find the complete list on the nb w tomorrow and meet some of the news 4 team. We will be collecting at the kings town branch of the Apple Credit Union from 6 00 a. M. To noon. While youre there you can check out the storm team 4 x 4. Get ready. Cool morning for those kids heading back to school. How much are we gonna heat up today. Were gonna heat up a little bit but maybe just a touch below normal. Our normal for this year should be in the mid 80s. It was cool this morning. Im not complaining. I dont think anyone else was either. Maybe the kids were complaining because they were headed back to school and theyre maybe getting this view as this ey look out t window. 79 in washington and 75. Low to mid 70s across the board. Its a wonderful day. We are headed into the low to mid 80s withu there. However as i said earlier weve got a few changes in this forecast. It looks like we could warm up and the humidity is coming back. All good things must come to an end. Well let you know when to expect it coming up. President obama is on his bay to flood damaged louisiana. The governor is defending the president s decision not to visit until the initial response was over. 13 people have died and thousands remain in shoulters i lost everything. Its gone. Reporter this man has spent ten hours a day cleaning his flood damaged home and he still has more to do. He gets to you like you get real frustrated at times. Reporter his home was damaged by this months massive storm. In one neighborhood piles of belongings line the streets. In other areas people have been forcedto it was my life. I grew up there all my life. Reporter critics said the president should have cut short his Summer Vacation last week to focus on a federal response. I can tell you the president is focussed on the response on the ground and the peoples whose lives have been turned upsi upsi upside. Reporter the president has signed a disaster declaration. In louisiana the work continues. Were gonna be all right. Were gonna be all right. Reporter nbc news. As people try to pick up the pieces across louisiana, there are volunteers in virginia who are saving pets left stranded. Petta voluntarily tears made the 20 hour trip to baton rouge to pick up the animals. The animals are being cared for. The hope is to free up space at louisiana i need to do something and i need to feel like i was contributing how i can. Once the animals are cared for and in good health, theyll be put up for adoption. Critical work is now under way. It is the first day the citys historic main street has been completely shut down. For the massive flooding earlier there this month. More than 50 homes an businesses are boarded up. Crews have three weeks to fix whatever they can. Our news partner has said they have spent more than 12 million in clean up work so far. A man is accused of selling fake concert tickets and how would county police say theyre looking for more victims. The man sold counterfeit tickets to a black sabbath concert. When police took him into st they say he also had a gun and templates for u. S. Id badges. He is charged with forgery and possession of false government id. Call police if you think he sold tickets to you. Arlington county police are warning people to be careful when crossing the key bridge, this after a scarey attack over the weekend. A woman was grabbed and thrown into the grass as she walked from georgetown to arlington. It happened around 2 30 sunday morning. She fought off the attacker who ran off the bridge towards the district. Police are now can looking for the man. Metro Transit Police need your help to catch a cell phone thief. Take a look at this photo. These are people of interest in this case. Police say they boarded a green line train sunday night and snatched someones phone and getting off that train at or new information on russian athletes in next months games. 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Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. I wodont know where id be without itre so when i heard about conartists committing medicare fraud. It made me so mad i wanted to give them the old onetwo one, never give your medicare number to get a free offer or gift two, always check your medicare statements for errors these crooks think were clueless, they dont have a clue see more ways to fight fraud at medicare. Gov fraud in decision 2016 Hillary Clinton leads donald trump nationally. A brand new survey monkey online tracking poll shows clinton up eight points over her republican rival. The rates unchanged from the poll last week. While clinton leads in the polls the controversy around her emails continues. Edward lawrence has the latest. Reporter donald trump looks to revamp his immigration plan but part of it wont change. Were gonna build a wall folks. Reporter his Campaign Manager signalled trump will soften on deporting immigrants in this country already. He said he will separate immigrants into two categories, bad ones that would be deported immediately and everyone else Hillary Clintons plan amounts to total open boarders. Open boarders. Reporter meanwhile Hillary Clinton took time off from campaigning for an appearance on jimmy kimmel. Have you considered using facetime instead of email. Actually i think thats really good advice. Reporter her campaign is not laughing. Another 15,000 Clinton Emails were released by the watch dog jushl watch, emails that were deleted from her server but recovered by the fbi. It raises questions about why this massive deleash of records took place. Reporter they outline how big donors to the Clinton Foundation got access to clinton when she was secretary of state through her top aid. Some questions were directed through the chiefs of staffs and they asked for but they had access to Hillary Clinton. Joining me now Political Editor kerry dan. Hillary clinton cannot seem shake this email controversy. At what point will it take a toll on her. Its taking a toll on her in the polls because voters say theyre very concerned about this issue. The only reason shes ahead of donald trump is that voters have concerns about Donald Trumps judgment and his positions on issues as well. The big problem for Hillary Clintons campaign is set to be released before election day and that could mean theres headline after headline reminding voters about these concerns. Lets look into the survey monkey poll now. Donald trump lags behind clinton with getting minority support with 8 of africanamerican bed and 23 of asianamericans. We saw trump reaching out to minorities last night in ohio. Is there evidence that his outreach is taking hold. Not so far. Theres huge margins for Hillary Clinton with africanamericans specifically and hispanics and asianamericans and were seeing that in key swing state polls. The places where Hillary Clinton is running away from trump and places that have to be battlegrounds for republicans like colorado and virginia where you have a high minority population and College Voters that are turning against trump. Thats the reason why hes in such bad shape. Never a dull moment. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. The Virginia Governor has restored exfelons. Hes restored the Voting Rights of about 13,000 felons. It comes after the Supreme Court denied the governors order to restore Voting Rights. Each case is being reviewed individually to comply with the ruling. To me voting is a part of life and as roberts said once youve down your time and youve paid your fines and they put you back into society you should be part of society with all the rights that are given to society. Many republicans argue the effort is an attempt at stuffing the ballot boxes with democratic votes this november. We are now hearing confli conflicting reports about the suspect in a stabbing in roanoke. Police say the 20yearold was yelling allahu akbar when he stabbed someone at an apartment complex this weekend. That may not be the williams says federal Law Enforcement officials believe the explanation for the attack is the man was mentally disturbed not insiepired by cys a major redevelopment is causing confusion around the area of the white front mall. Its the physical changes to the area and the name. You can call the area the pike district now. News 4 went there to see if anyone would. Reporter it will change the way you look at traffic here along Rockville Pike. It may effect the choices you make for dining out and shopping. It may take time to get used to the new name. White flint is changing and so is Rockville Pike and in todays world of rebranding new things get new names. Its now called the pike district. It hasnt gone away. It just has a new name. We flint, tmarket and roads we jus have a new name. Reporter branding for the new name is a challenge. Where is the pike district. I dont know. It may be construed as North Bethesda but its really rockville to me. Reporter are you comfortable with pike district. Sure. Reporter come like the name but find it hard to remember. I feel like its going to take a while for everyone to get adjusted to pike district. Reporter you had to think there for a moment. Yeah bit yeah. I kind of forget it for a second. Reporter if that isnt confusing enough i went into two businesses located right next door to each other. One said their Mailing Address was rockville and the other said North Bethesda thats the latest from the pike district, back to you. Right now it is sure a weather will not last forever. Lauren is back with the start of rm waer conditions. Celebrating at the national zoo, a again again again again again . Again again General Mills is removing artificial flavors and colors from our cereals. So you can love cereal. Again new today russias ban from the place. The ban is punishment for a state backed doping program. The International Paraolympic Committee says there is evidence of manipulated doping tests related to the 44 russian athletes. An update to a story we brought you here on news 4 mid day. Four different sponsors are dropped ryan lochte. He could lose as much as 10 million for falsely reporting a robbery. We told you about speedo yesterday, since then ralph lauren, a skin care and Mattress Company have dropped lochte. He could face sanctions from usa swimming. One of our local olympians and one of our favorites Katie Ledecky had a special surprise for some kids at childrens hospital. Look at this picture here. She visited patients at the Childrens NationalMedical Center yesterday and specifically katie spent some time in the seacrest studios area. She answered questions about competing in the olympics and encouraged those kids to reach for their dreams. Raise your hand if you think you will be in tokyo coming up. Everyone raise your hands. Were all going again. The final five stopped by the today show this morning. Their time this rio has wrapped up but all the gymnasts are looking to the future. They are bringing home nine medals from brazil, 2020 in tokyo will be different because only four gymnasts will be allowed to represent each country. The final five say they havent had a chance to experience real life yet but are excited to go home and be reunited with their pets. They are so cool. Im inspired by them. I am too. One day i want to be like theyre good girls and obviously amazing athletes. They are. Fantastic. Thank you. I always remember the gymnasts, shannon miller. A great day to get outside and strive for that and its gonna be a beautiful day. Were going to keep it going however as i said weve got a few bumps in the road. It looks like the humidity is coming back into play. Lets show you whats going on out there right now. This afternoon gorgeous. High pressure is building into our area and giving us this beautiful weather. Wednesday were going to continue with that sunshine. Its going to be just a touch warmer but that humidity is going to stay in check so were not looking at that humidity really to come back in until we get into thursday and friday. All right. Alexandria up into the upper 8 they have a nice calm wind but everyone else is in the 70s. 79 in washington. All in all just a nice, nice afternoon in store because we dont have any rain in the forecast. If you are headed out make sure you go ahead and water that lawn and plants because no rain today. Its going to be wonderful with low humidity. Clear skies overnight. Keep the windows open. If you want to eat lunch outside looking good. Ride home perfect and dinner out will be wonderful as well. Tomorrow morning overnight lows keep the windows open, the 50s in the Shenandoah Valley. Tomorrow the temperatures are back in the upper 80s but well get warmer than that as we go through the end of the work week. Well let you know how warm were gonna get coming up. Today. She celebrated at a giant Birthday Party on saturday. In one year bao bao will enter to china to enter the countrys Panda Breeding program. Its going to be a send off. You can never get enough of watching them and talking about them. We love all of it. We sure do. Alarming new numbers showing the extreme danger we face on roadways across the country. Many of you have seen this picture, heart breaking. A wounded boy in syria. Were looking at the growing danger other c h welcome back right now. Its the first day of school for almost 130,000 students this morning. Students were greeted by 29 new principals in a School District thats growing. Its the second largest district in maryland. President obama is on his way to flood ravaged louisiana. During his visit today hell try suffered damage to their homes, schools and businesses that his administration have made their recovery a priority. We know who will take over the Police Chiefs job at least temporarily. News 4 broke the story on twitter just before 10 00 here this morning. The assistant police chief will be named interim chief. With heightened fears over the spread of zika theres another mosquito born disease thats worrying local health officials. Crews have sprayed for mosquitos after the west nile virus was discovered. People are asked to get rid of any standing water and use mosquito repellent. Most people dont develop symptoms of west nile but it can be deadly for some elderly people. Zika is spreading more in florida. Governor said there was a case of zika near tampa. There have been dozens of home grown cases around miami. Mike spears from our sister station shows us how its becoming a political problem. Reporter good morning from the international airport. The fight to contain the virus has turned political over funding and transparency. The mayor said he was blindsided by the Governors Office criticizing the mayor. The governor toured a school in the heart of one the zika zones and said he has reached out and said confirmation of zika cases takes time. The latest numbers from the Health Department show 37 locally transmitted zika cases here in south florida. No new cases yesterday and well learn today if that holds true for today. Roads across america are becoming more dangerous. Nearly ,0 of this year. This is according to the National Safety council data on crashes between january and june. Thats 18 more than this time in 2014. Another 2. 2 Million People were injured in crashes. Based on those rates the council estimates 438 people will be killed in crashes in the upcoming holiday. He never heard the sirens when Police Officers tried to pull him over. A vijle was held to remember daniel harris. Police tried to pull him over for speeding and Police Chased him back to his house. The man was shot. The family says theyre heart broken. He was a handsome man. He had a beautiful smile. It was easy to smile too. Great sense of Community Leaders say intensive training should be required for officers to learn to communicate with the deaf or hard of hearing. The fighting in syria has put children in harms way. Many have been skilled and others badly skard by the violence. Reporter in aleppo the songs and smiles never last for long. A little girl singing for her family in her home when the war comes crashing in. She wasnt hurt in the air strike, but thousands of syrian children cant say the same like this 5yearold boy whose dazed and bloodied face captured the world last week. His older brother was also hurt and died on saturday. Alep aleppos children are in crisis. 75,000 living in a war zone, no running this is what play time looks like now, kids playing war like this 11yearold boy. His father says his son has nightmares about air strikes. I hold him and kiss him and tell hims okay. On saturday the bombs fell on his home. He was inside with his sisters and his little brother. Four children gone in one night. I want our voices, not just my voice, but all of our voices to reach the entire world he says. I want the whole world to hear us. Nbc news, london. Five years later a look at repairs still taking place from the 2011 earthquake in our area. Not your typical rescue call, how a man got stuck between two buildings and how crews were able to free him. A man is in the hospital after police say his attempt to impress his girlfriends went terribly wrong. He fell three floors between buildings early this morning in pittsburgh. Rescue crews broke through a wall to free him. The man was stuck in a space 16 to 18 inches wide for about four hours. Goodness. He was alert when he was wheeled away. Police say he was trying to jump between the two buildings when he fell. It has been five years now and repairs are still going on. Were talking about the earthquake that hit our region five years ago exactly. August 23rd, 2011. You all remember this video. People inside the washington mon momentum shaking. Rubble and dust falling down wt the moniment took years to could be another decade before the scaffolding on the national ka theed ral comes down. We keep it going. I know the lawn is going to dry up and the flowers might dry up because we dont have a lot of rain in the forecast. Make sure you are watering everythi because small chances of rain maybe on friday and next weekend and thats about it. Look at this view. Its hard not to enjoy it even from sitting inside because its just beautiful, not a cloud in the sky right now. Thats our live camera from rockville. You can see temperatures feeling good. 79 right now in washington. I mean 70s across the board even in the Shenandoah Valley where he side with temperatures in the 50 this morning. Well warm up to the low to mid 80s today. You have nothing to worry about picking the kids up once they get off the school bus looking good. Hopefully theyll hang outside and play because the highs reaching into the low to mid 80s. Tomorrow morning is going to be chilly. Keep those windows open. Give that air conditioner a break. Temperatures tomorrow morning 50s once again in the Shenandoah Valley and then in the upper 60s here in d. C. You step outside the beltway and it will be a cool and crisp morning again. Its going to be nice throughout the day tomorrow. Temperatures will be a little warmer tomorrow than they were today, mid to upper 80s. Today topping out in the lower to mid 80s. A little bit above normal. Clear skies, comfortable humidity levels today and tomorrow. However that humidity starts to build back in on thursday. Youre going to feel it on then it will start to make its exit out of here on saturday. But it will decrease gradually. Thursday and friday will be about the most humid days we see out of this week. As we get back into saturday afternoon and suspected nday it more comfortable. We warm up and take it from the 80s into the 90s for day time highs. Lawmakers are getting involved in the controversy over the price of epipens and the changesoming to your shoppin cg its a great day for an adventure. Surprises are hiding around each corner. Come chase thrills that lead in every direction. Yet somehow bring us all back together. Busch gardens williamsburg and water country usa. Vacation packages start at 50 per person. A whole other world awaits. The retailers chief Information Officer says the aim is to enhance the customers experience in the stores. Target will devote more resources to items bought online and focus on the supply chain to ensure the stores are well stocked. Nbc 4 responds recently told you about a Computer Tech scam. Know with you have new information about the information we exposed and what the team find that was surprising. Susan hogan has more on what shes learned. Your computer is frozenened a a pop up message warns youve been hacked. A virginia woman paid 300 scam. How we know . Listen to this. It happened when diane hayes was online shopping. Warning messages and alert codes began blarg from her laptop. The commuter started beeping a loud loud noise and i could not stop it. I thought what is happening. Reporter the pop up message, shed been hacked so she called the toll free number on the screen. What diane heard next frightened her. Your computer has been compromised. You may have been hacked into your emails and your entire system. I said oh my word you can help me and they said yes absolutely. Reporter diane agreed to pay 300 for tech support but as soon as she hung up. I said something is not right here. Reporter she realized shed probably been scammed. So we called that same toll free number and the person who we provide Technical Support for all the devices. Reporter we asked if his services are ledge mattgitimateg scam. Its not like that. We are not doing that type of business. Reporter but it turns out it is a scam. John wasnt in the united states. He was in india and his name isnt john. We know this because we tracked down the owner of the company by phone. Hes actually in maryland. He apologized to us and claimed unethical employees from india are to blame and theyre the ones pushing those pop up ads to lure unsuspecting customers like diane. Its pervasive and its not just in the u. S. Reporter federal investigators say its a scam that people fall victim to every year around the world and anyone could be their next target. We have not seen any real targeting because they cold call its just whoever will take the bait essentially. Reporter the ftc has recordings to prove it. I see something that says warning and error. Did you say warning. Yeah, it says warning. It will be please do not try to click on any of them. Reporter after we tracked down the tech company diane called, the owner took down the website and the toll free disconnected. The red flags to prevent becoming a victim be skeptical of computer pop ups or telephone calls warning youve been hacked and only use tech experts from companies you know. News 4. How frustrating. As the School Year Kicks off the costs add up. Its not cheap to get kids ready for the year ahead. A study called the backpack index says the price of classroom supplies down for activity fees. Expect to spend 649 for elementary children and 1,500 for each high schooler. Thats a 7 increase since just last year. If you snapped a First Day School photo we want to see it it. Send if to us firstdaysafe. Its not the students were looking for, parents and teachers, we want to see you as well. This morning congress is demanding answers about the rising cost of a life saving drug epipens are used for people with severe allergies. They fix breathing problems and stop swelling during a potentially deadly allergy attack. Epipen packs used to cost around 60 in the late 2000s but theyre as much as 400. Now, senators are asking the company that makes epipens to say why prices have gone up so one wants the ftc to investigate. A new york representative has asked the Health Oversight committee to hold a hearing about the drug. Home safety important of course to all of us. After the break the technology that makes it easy to stay connected. It also makes it easy to we have an update on breaking news in college park. Police are in the of baltimore avenue for what is being called a death investigation. A man in his 20s was found in a creek in a wooded area not far from a burger king over there if you know that area. Police are now telling us they do not suspect foul play. Look for updates on the nbc washington app. Sometimes you might get that feeling the worries that someone is in your house, maybe taking stuff and going through it when youre not there. Jeff rossen says you can protect your home without it costing too much. Here is his report. Reporter good morning to you. Right now you are probably headed off to work or to run er ends leaving your house amendment. Home Security Systems are expensive but now there is a cheaper way to do it. We found the inexpensive easy to use products that hook up to your smartphone giving you some of them call the cops. This morning we show you how to protect your home for less. Real life criminals caught in the act. Kicking in doors and smashing through windows, ransacking homes, their every move recorded by homeowners. Its the latest Home Security craze, small cameras and simple apps that sense motion in your house videotaping intruders alerting you instantly and allowing you to scare the crook off all from your phone. Great for people like this m woman, a busy single mom on the move. Reporter im walking up to her house. Here is the home behind me. Its nice. Shes giving us full access today to test these products. Shes not home at the moment. Shes stopping for a cup of breaking into her house today and maybe breaking a couple of windows too, lets not talk about that. She doesnt know when its going to happen or how these products work. First up, rings so small it could fit in your pocket. Hook it up to your doorbell and download the app. Weve down stories about burgla burglars that come up and ring the bell and see if youre home and if not theyll break in. Well ring the doorbell. Right away. Someones at my door. Hello. Hi, im here to make a delivery. Im busy in my house right now. I dont need anything. Please go away. If i was a bad guy trying to get in i would walk away thinking someone was here. But what if an intruder breaks in through a window. This next of product comes with a camera cyou can put down in your home giving you full view of a room. Imng window right here. Here goes nothing. Okay. So now im inside the house. No ones home. First thing i would do is come over here and i see a big screen tv and i try to take this. Not so fast. Im getting a motion alert from my living room. En is watching every move. Get out of my house. I see you on video and im calling the police. Its recording every frame so police can use it as evidence later. But this next product called canary may be the most extreme. Watch what happens when i climb inside the house again. With one touch karen can sound an alarm. Wow. Theres the alarm. Listen to how loud that is. Its hard to believe all this noise is coming from this little it sounds like a real home alarm system. Thats not all. It will connect me directly to the police if i press this button. A direct line to 911. Simple solutions to keep the bad guys out. Some good ideas there. All the cameras are about 200 and the apps are free. One Important Note here just the cameras are not only for security, you can use them as a nanny cam or to watch your pets while youre gone as well. Those are good ideas. Weve been talking about this a lot. The start of the school year doesnt just mean your kids will be learning more, parents its also our time to study up. If you find you dont know the answers to those homework sk questions you are not alone. A survey found 55 of parents look up answers without telling their kids. It happens most only with math and science. 29 use smartphone apps. My son is in first grade. Im really in trouble. The older they get the harder its going to get. You always have the answer dont you. I try to. I was playing jeepdy yesterday. I hadnt had this since high school and i couldnt remember a thing. Highs today low to mid 80s. Its looking good. Its going to be an excellent night for a ball game. Tomorrows temperature a little warmer than today. Its going to be warm as we get towards the end of the work week. Youll start to feel the humidity on thursday and friday but looking great for the weekend with plenty of sunshine. Guys. All right. That sounds good to me. Thank you so much lauren. That is it for news 4 mid day. Thanks so much for joining us. Were back on air this updates atime. We tl stand by, everyone. We are live in five, four, three, two, one. Theres a time i look in the mirror all these lines in my face getting clearer the past is gone it went by. Wow. Alicia keyes singing aerosmiths dream on and if you noticed doing it makeup free. I am kit hoover. I am natalie morales. Shes s