i'm peter newsham. i hope the community will see me for what i am and that is that i'm committed to this city. >> newsham wants to be considered for the permanent job. that's in our interview on news4 at 5:00. chris and susan? >> he sounds like his own man. can you tell us a little bit more about the issues he's going to face right off the bat? >> well, daily crime fighting is the bread and butter of the police department. there's been spikes in violent crimes here and there. he says he'll be right on top of it. the other thing is there's about 250 officers short in the police department, even as the city is growing, even as there is crime and more places that need more officers and the police department needs more of them themselves. >> tom sherwood, thank you. first at 4:00, a police shooting in the district that the police says happened as an attempted shooting in northeast and that's where we find news4's pat collins. hey, pat. >> reporter: susan, this is where it came to an end, right across the street from the langston golf course. this is where the driver hailed police to get help. inside the pickup was a woman passenger. she had been shot two times. police say a gunman wanted that truck. they say the gunman wanted that fancy motorcycle in the back of the truck. shots were fired. hear now from commander william fitzgerald. >> it appears it was a robbery attempt gone bad. >> reporter: what were the robbers after? >> the motorcycle in the rear of the pickup truck. >> reporter: now, it ended h the road. why? i'll have answers for you when we come back and thoughts from police on what brought this all on. coming up tonight at 5:00. now back to you. >> we'll look forward to that, pat. thank you. prince george's county police are trying to figure out how a man off of route 1 in college park. the man appears to be in his 20s. officers found his body this morning near a creek behind the burger king. they say he's not a student at the university of maryland and his body has been taken to the medical examiner. now to decision 2016, the battleground state of virginia is not much of a battleground anymore. 48% of voters in the commonwealth now favor hillary clinton and just 32% say they would vote for donald trump. even when you account for 4% margin of error, that gives clinton a huge advantage. this week, trumps talks about a deportation strategy similar to the obama administration by focusing on criminals first. before this, he was talking about a deportation force to address all 11 million undocumented immigrants. he says he still promises to build a wall along the mexican border and will unveil a strategy next week. clinton is doubling down on attacks of clinton during her time as secretary of state and the clinton foundation. we could learn more about the connections in the coming months when the state department reveals more previously undisclosed e-mails. former bill clinton said he would step down from the foundation's board if his wife the trump camp says that's not enough to address potential conflicts of interest. we'll have more on clinton's response and who is leading in the new national poll. a 60-year-old man is under arrest accused of defacing property. he's charged with defacing zodiac rat murals in chinatown and drawing swastikas on the windows of businesses. this happened earlier this month. remember this video of people shaking inside the washington monument? it's been five years since the 5.8 earthquake magnitude shut down the building for three years. the quake caused extensive damage to the stone work. after five years, they still need $22 million to finish the project. it on your phone from tracee wilkins. why members of the prince george's county school board wants the chairman and vice chair to step down. and members of the senate are demanding answering about the sudden, huge price hike for epi pens. we've seen beautiful weather the last couple of days b theut congress is demanding answers ab t cost of the epipens, the devices that can prevent shop. >> the maker is asking the costs to be investigated. members of congress say they are concerned that parents cannot afford the pens as they head back to school. they are blaming high deductible health plans that require consumers to pay more out of pocket for a lot of drugs. talking about extreme couponing, a man is accused of stealing $1,000 worth of newspapers just to get the coupons. the suspect stole about 160 bundles of newspapers from "the morning call" and then they would sell the coupons. u.s. medal winners returning from rio may be getting goo relief. the senate majority leader announced -- the house, actually, is going to consider legislation next month that would exempt olympic winnings from taxes. right now, american u.s. olympians are taxed on both the money they receive from the olympic committee for winning and on the value of their medal. house majority leader kevin mccarthy released a statement that reads in part, "the men and women who represent the united states exemplify the best of the american spirit. removing an unnecessary tax levied on their success is a no-brainer." legislation needs to clear the ways and means committee before it goes to the house floor. if you're heading to the nats park tomorrow, you'll get a special treat. we just found out that olympic champion and maryland's own katie ledecky will be throwing the first pitch when they take on the baltimo president obama is in louisiana today. his first visit since the flooding left thousands devastated. millions of kids got the toys in the happy meals but the fitness tracker is being relled. it'sca a to thrive in an ever-changing environment, companies must adapt. but one thing should remain constant - a financial relationship with someone that understands and cares about your business. to your company's needs. know that our dedicated teams of local experts offer insight to help you achieve your business objectives. see how working with pnc can help your company grow at pnc.com/ideas heal discovered five new cases of zika that are not related to travel. one of them is near clearwater beach near tampa. that's hundreds of miles from the miami beach area where most of the cases are right now. officials have started spraying for mosquitos in that area. and the bahamas has been added to the list for warning about zika. travelers are advised to use caution when visiting now. after facing a lot of backlash, president obama made his first visit to flood-ravaged louisiana today. he toured some of the hardest hit areas and promised that the government will support the people there. >> that's right. this is as donations for flood victims are lacking. sarah rosario has more about how the white house is doing its part to help. >> reporter: that's right, chris and susan. for many of the flood victims, the clean-up process is just piled high along the streets, this is just some of what president obama saw as he was touring the area. he's promising these residents to help them for months to come. after days of deadly flooding in louisiana, leaving thousands with nothing, forcing them out of their homes, recovery efforts are under way. today, president obama came to see it himself, greeting residents anxiously awaiting to see him. >> people's lives have been upended because of this flood. >> reporter: some say his visit is too late. but the federal money he's providing may be the only help that residents get to rebuild, help that more than 100,000 people have already registered for. the damage so bad that the fema director says he can't get to many homes per 80,000 homes that's affected, that's a lot of man-hours. >> the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt. >> reporter: it's the worst natural disaster since 2012 and donations are trickling in. >> we are going to need a lot more help. this community cannot recover with only the assistance that comes from fema. >> reporter: until then, the community is coming together to rebuild, hoping to get the help they need sooner than later. and when we talked about the need, the american red cross says so far it has received $7.8 million in donations for flood victims here. that may seem like a lot but it's less than a third than the estimated $30 million needed. reporting in baton rouge, sarah rosario, chris and susan, back to you. >> thank you, sarah. you know, here at home, we have just been blessed. it's just an amazing day. >> it's absolutely gorgeous. and is it going to last for us, doug? >> that's the big problem here. we all saw such hot weather and then as we talked about last week, some really beautiful weather across the area earlier this week. it looks like the heat will try to return. if you can get out there over the next day or two before the humidity comes back in, you'll feel pretty good about it. temperatures today, well below average and well below where they have been the last couple of days. two weeks ago, we were up to 100, 101 and today now we are at 81. a very nice afternoon. with low humidity, it's an extremely now, storm team 4 radar not showing any rain this week. as a matter of fact, look at the wider picture. we had our cold front move way down to the south. high pressure sits on top of us. our next area of low pressure is back to the west and it has a warm front. you can see it right here. that's going to try to move our way. it's going to bring us heat as we make our way in later this week. we're going to watch the heat come back into the 90s. something else we're watching, the tropics are getting busy here. we've got a couple of storms. fiona was a storm and no longer a depression. we've got gustav -- or, actually, gaston out in the open waters and then this right here, an open wave currently but is expected to have se kind of tropical development as it moves towards the u.s. and it's expected to come very close towards s the next couple of days and into next week. we'll watch it closely. where does it go, how strong does it get, those are a lot of questions to be answered. a few of the models bring it into florida and eventually up towards us with heavy rainfall. that's late next week. again, it has not even formed yet. that's something we'll watch very, very closely. for us, right now, the thing to watch closely, the humidity, which there will be none of it tomorrow. getting hot again. high temperature around 88 degrees as we move through the day tomorrow. another nice day but, yes, hot. the heatwave is coming. 93 on thursday. 95 on friday. 93 on saturday. 90s next week and then we start to see the impacts from that possible system could be off the coast, could be down to the south but it's something we're watching. it's in our forecast in the ten day. you can only get that by listening to storm team 4. >> get ready to sweat again. >> absolutely. you look at your computer, it freezes 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hacked. a woman paid $300 to get it fixed but she didn't realize it was a scam. how do we know? listen to this. it happened when she was online shopping, warning messages and alert tones began blaring from her laptop. >> the computer started beeping a loud, loud noise and i could not stop it. i thought, what is happening? >> reporter: the pop-up message, she had been hacked. she called the toll-free number on the screen. her. >> your computer has been compromised. you may have been hacked into, your e-mails and entire system. and i said, oh, my word, you can help me? they said, yes, absolutely. diane immediately agreed to pay $300 for tech support but as soon as she hung up she said -- >> something is not right here. >> reporter: she realized she had probably been scammed. so we called that same toll-free number and the person who answered was john located in the united states. >> we provide technical support for all of the devices. >> reporter: we asked if his support was legitimate or a big scam? >> no, sir. it's not like that. we are not doing that kind of business. >> reporter: it turns out it was a scam. he was not in the united states. he was in india and his name isn't john. we know this bus we tracked down the owner of the company by he claims unethical employees from india are to blame and they are the ones pushing the pop-up ads to lure unsuspecting customers like diane. >> it's pervasive. it's not just in the u.s. >> reporter: federal investigators say it's a growing scam that hundreds of thousands of 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 mass numbers of consumers and it's whoever will take the bait, essentially. >> i see something that says warning and something that says error. >> jesus, did you say warning? >> my good luck, ma'am. >> after we tracked down the tech company, the owner took down the website and the toll-free number to prevent becoming a victim, be skeptical of computer pop-ups or telephone calls warning you've been hacked and only use tech companies that you know. >> speak with them. >> absolutely. 129,000 kids went back to school today in prince george's county. we know the students were ready. coming up first at 4:00, the ceo tells us how busy the schools are. and mcdonald's your daughter wants to stay organic. your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. you want to stay free from artificial preservatives. and your debit card wants to stay on a diet. fill your cart with small victories like . great prices on over 800 items. eat well for less. only at my giant. know you can keep your financial big picture under control. know you can see how much you have to spend and whether you should transfer funds. know you can easily keep track of what you're putting away. and know you're budgeted for the great escape. thanks to virtual wallet by pnc. ♪ we're coming up on 4:30. several members of the school board are calling for the chairman to resign. they say they've lost faith in leadership. bureau chief tracee wilkins broke this story on twitter and she's been working for answers. >> reporter: more fallout after abuse is unvealed in the prince george's county head start program. now members of the school board are calling for the resignations of the chair and vice chair of their board. we were the first to bring you this story on twitter. a letter was sent to the county executive yesterday from five members of the school board saying they want to see the chair and vice chair removed from their seats after they believe they mishandled the information about program investigation. board members saying that they were never briefed or told about the investigation. they are saying that it was in fact within their agenda as a nonaction item when they should have been told what was happening to these children within the head start program. join us for news4 at 5:00 and 6:00 as we look at what is in that letter and hear from the county executive as they are calling for his chair who they appointed to be removed. >> thanks, tracee. this comes as the new school year is well under way in prince george's county. >> that's right. more than 100,000 kids are back in school. >> reporter: first day of school now in the books for the students here in prince george's county. nearly 129,000 students call prince george's county home and they are making their way back to their own homes after this morning as they arrived at school. pointer ridge elementary, some road the bus along with the ceo dr. kevin maxwell. this new year, fresh start, it's something that the administrators have been looking forward to. they say allegations of abuse against students and in one case losing funding from head start. their struggle is something that the ceo wants to put in the past. >> we're proud of the preparation that we have in place and of the teaching and learning. our teachers are so well prepared. these kids are so excited, talking about their favorite subjects, young lady talking about math and science, a young man about spelling. it's in full swing already. >> reporter: as far as staffing is concerned, they are in good standing when it comes to recruiting new teachers, bus drivers and staff to numbers, they had 30 spots to fill and that is positive. in bowie, maryland, david culver, news4. and when students in prince william county head back to school, a lot of them will be walking into a new building. charles colgan high school opens and can hold up to 2200 students. there's a performing arts center and an aquatics center right there on campus. jail time for a man who gave illegal butt injections to women. one of them died. vinnie taylor admitted to injecting silicone in to customers who wanted larger behinds. the procedures were done in hotel rooms in the d.c. area between 2008 and 2014. one of those women died two days after her injection. he was initially charged with first-degree murder but the charges were dropped as part of a plea deal. shannon seebert sold counterfeit tickets to concerts. even more importantly, he had a gun and templates for u.s. government i.d. badges. he's been charged with forgery and in possession of false government identification. if you bought a mcdonald's happy meal, heads up, the fitness tracker is being recalled for potential skin irritation after children wore the bands and reports of blisters. they are supposed to track physical activity. today, the consumer product safety commission announced the recall. the bands were distributed exclusively by mcdonald's and sold between august 9th and the 17th. news4 roached out and in a statement the company says, in part, we apologize to our customers who were impacted and for the inconvenience that this recall has caused. and if your kids have one of these fitness counters, check out the nbc washington app where we have instructions on what to do. metro transit police need your help to catch a cell phone thief. police say these are all people they are interested in talking to. they boarded a green line train sunday night and snatched someone's home and jumped off. a man is under arrest facing a series of charges. >> it started in the fairfax guard recognized regal taylor. he was chased through the parking lot of the fair objecti oaks mall before he tried to get on i-66. >> that's right. a woman and child were inside the car during that chase. hundreds of thousands of fish died in a massive fish kill along the new jersey coastline. those are floating atop the water. conservation officers believe the small fish were likely chased into the creek by bigger fish and then got stuck there during a stagnant tidal period dying due to dissolved oxygen levels in the water. a young man was swimming on the coast when he had a brain-eating ameeb ba. w another spectacular late summer day. low humidity, warm temperatures, another heatwave on the way. a look at when 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football. >> look at him go. >> he threw out a pitch at a baltimore orioles baseball game. >> very cool. donald trump's dramatic flip on immigration. >> at the same time, there's concerns that the clinton foundation is playing favorites. and a smash and grab. the smash left a lot of damage at a jewelry store. more on this luann bennett. after losing her husband to cancer, she raised three boys here in northern virginia and grew the family business. a single working mom who helped create over 1,000 local jobs, bringing people together to solve problems. i'm luann bennett. in business, you bring everyone to the table and work to get results. congress just doesn't get that-- there's too much partisanship. i approve this message because washington needs more common-sense problem solvers. hillary clinton gained an eight-point lead in the latest poll and both presidential candidates face new scrutiny today. >> clinton for ties to donors to her family's foundation while secretary of state and trump for stepping away from one of his most controversial campaign promises, to quickly deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. steve handelsman is covering all of this from capitol hill. >> chris, here's the irony. donald trump selling himself as the republican outsider is now using as his model of a leader who has the right plan for deportation president obama, the ultimate democratic insider whose plan now trump says he's going >> reporter: donald trump vowing only to build his wall. >> the wall will go up so fast, your head will spin. and you will say, you know, he meant it. >> reporter: he does not mean anymore to quickly deport 11 million people. he flipped on fox. >> the existing laws are very strong. the existing laws, the first we're going to do, if and when i win, we're going to get rid of all of the bad ones. >> reporter: the criminals known to police. the rest, trump says, will go through some kind of a process, like what president obama is already doing. >> what people don't know is that obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country. >> reporter: meanwhile, trump demands a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton, a reminder of the investigation in the '90s that got bill clinton impeached. hillary's newly released e-mails the clinton foundation. >> it doesn't look good. i know there are people in clinton's camp who thinks this should not have been going on, that the connection should have been severed a long time ago. >> she joked on jimmy kimmel. >> jimmy, my e-mails are so boring. >> reporter: as they are made public, which could take weeks, they will be searched for conflicts of interest or cover-ups. late this afternoon, an astounding analysis from the associated press, not using so much clinton e-mails but using her schedule which as any secretary of state has made public and donations made to the foundation run by bill clinton. that an amazing half of all of the private e-mails who met with hillary clinton while secretary of state, 85 individuals donated $156 million in all. foundation. fueling the charge that the price of admission for facetime with hillary clinton was donating to the charity run by bill clinton. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >> all right, steve. thanks so much. well, only on news4, the district's new private ambulance service hired to improve response time to 911 calls is falling short of the required arrival time. mark segraves has more. >> reporter: when the district signed the contract with amr ambulances to start running some 911 calls here about four months ago, one of the requirements in that contract was that amr ambulances arrive at the scene within ten minutes of being dispatched 90% of the time. but according to data provided by the d.c. fire department, amr has not been able to meet that standard. according to the chief, they only arrived within ten minutes about 82% of the time. and 9% of thee 15 minutes or longer to show up. now, coming up at 5:00, you'll hear directly from the chief about why he says even though the contract allows him to issue monetary fines to amr for not meeting the standards, he decided it would be unfair to make the company pay. in the district, mark segraves, news4. the number of traffic deaths is on the rise here in the u.s. more people are driving because the economy has improved and gas prices have dropped. traffic deaths are up 9% in the first half of 2016 compared to last year. part of the problem, distracted driving, including people texting behind the wheel. >> these are really dangerous behaviors. people know it. 46 states have laws that ban textings behind the wheel, yet people are still doing it. >> what is the easy thing to do? buckle up. half fatalities involve those well, you're not going to have to worry about the weather impacting your drive home tonight. >> i'm seeing thousands of raised hands out there and raise your hand if you want another heatwave. all hands just went down. another heatwave is coming to enjoy this while you can. there is the washington monument. look at the crisp visibility we have. just a few puffy clouds floating in a blue sky. there's another view of the sky as we look across the northwest urban forest in washington. there is the national cathedral. look at the visibility. fantastic. hardly any haze in the air. low humidity in place through the evening by 8:00 p.m. and a clear sky. we're back down to the around 7:00, 8:00 a.m., a dry and comfortable morning. by 10:00 a.m., upper 70s and then another nice afternoon. battle of the beltway tonight. a low sun coming in. the outfielders out in the right field, center field, will battle that low sun for the first part of the game. upper 70s by the seventh inning. great night for baseball at camden yards. no showers anywhere all the way to the bay and atlantic beaches. a glorious late afternoon on this august day. we have our storm team 4 weather underground temperatures. our n mid-80s across northern virginia and maryland and right in town and near the bay, low 80s. so a wonderful afternoon. now, here's our humidity that is going to be changing over the next day or so. it's going to be getting muggy and it will be muggy as we get into the weekend as well. so that humidity does return beginning on thursday and in to friday and so does the heat. thursday afternoon, low 90s. here comes the next heatwave. mid-90s on friday. no storms, though, as we get into the weekend. highs, low 90s. on monday, low 90s. potential tropical system getting closer to us bringing in moisture and afternoon storms on tuesday and wednesday. greater chance maybe of downpours on thursday in the 80s. and then the end of that week we will be drying out. we'll keep an eye on the tropical system. stay tuned. doug will have more on that the next half hour. well, we're working developing stories right now in our newsroom. the fbi is looking at a knife attack that left two people injured in southern indiana. the suspected attacker had been on the fbi's radar but at this point they've found no reason to believe that the incident is terror-related. part of the main street area in ellicott city is set to reopen soon. more on the challenges ahead as people try to get back to work. this is chris gordon at cal verton elementary school in prince george's county. we got an e-mail from a viewer who says he's concerned and frustrated because his 5-year-old, a kindergartner, has been assigned to a walking zone which means he doesn't get assigned to a school bus. he's complaining that his son has to walk over a long and >> kids don't play in the street because it's dangerous. how can a kid walk on his own, especially at this age? >> reporter: we've contacted the school and we'll tell you how they are handling the situation coming up on news4 at 5:00. back to you. >> thanks, chris. well, if you have plans to see aretha franklin perform, there's a refund coming your way. >> she's canceling her upcoming concert including this friday. the 74-year-old singer says she's respecting her doctor's orders to rest up until november. she had to cancel a show in vegas last year due to exhaustion. anyone who bought a ticket from the venue will get an automatic refund. students at howard university may notice a familiar face around campus this week. actor nick cannon is enrolled as a freshman and plans to graduate with he was reminded to be on time for class. cannon's character was enrolled in a fictional historically black college. nbc 4 is working for you in the community and we need your help to make sure local kids are ready to head back to school. we're teaming up with apple federal credit union in our annual backpack drive. >> meet erika gonzalez and amelia draper in kingstown. go to the nbc washington app and search backpacks for kids. a teenager has become the fourth person in the last 50 years to survive a brain-eating amoeba infection. >> hear his story of survival when we come back. you're watchi n geto washington d.c., our nation's capital, to ask this question: what presidential race is run right here in washington 81 times a year? the washington nationals geico president's race. geico is washington's hometown insurance company, and a proud sponsor of the washington nationals. a man driving a pickup truck misjudged his parking spot and barrelled through the store. customers got knocked down but the most serious injury turned out to be a fractured ankle. >> hard to believe. he beat the odds. a teenager in south florida has survived being infected by a kills most people. >> erica edwards explains how he contracted it and how doctors were able to save him. >> reporter: 2 1/2 weeks ago, this 16-year-old developed a headache so severe he couldn't stand anyone touching him. doctors at orlando's florida hospital for children realized he had been infected with a brain-eating amoeba. the outlook was grim. >> i have treated amoeba cases in the past. >> reporter: it's hard to say the word. they have been fatal. sebastian is just one of four people who has survived this in 50 years. it lives in warm, fresh water and only infects people when water is forced up the nose. it travels to the brain causing massive swelling. >> we are so thankful that god has given us a miracle t hospital. >> reporter: the doctors gave s sebastian a drug that arrived at the hospital within 12 minutes of diagnosis. it's not possible to say whether that's what saved sebastian. they acted quickly with other medications and used other tools by cooling the body and inducing a coma to ease pressure on his brain. 72 hours later, signs of the amoeba were gone. >> i saw him this morning. he's ready to go home. >> reporter: sebastian will need several more weeks of medication and rehab but is expected to make a full recovery. erica edwards, nbc news. a couple of stories you'll see only on 4 tonight, first, d.c. names an interim police chief and he talks only to us about his plans for the departmentft of cathy lanier. and evaluating the company brought in to help 911 response times in the district. why the fire chief says they are doing an excellent job even though numbers show they are falling short. we begin tonight with an unusual crime that wound up with a woman getting shot. hello, everyone. i'm jim handly. >> and i'm angie goff in for wendy rieger. this started as an attempted carjacking in d.c. police say a man fired shots when he tried to steal a motorcycle. we want to get right to news4's pat collins. a lot of moving parts to this story. >> reporter: indeed, angie. it happened around lunch time. a robbery gets violent. a woman shot and wounded twice. on the case, commander william fitzgerald. what do you make of something e desperate people are these times. daylight shooting, it's suddenly ridiculous. >> reporter: look at the shattered glass. that's where the bullets pierced through the truck and then struck the woman in the passenger seat. we begin this story at the ending. the place where the driver of the truck hailed down some cops to get some help for the wounded woman inside. it was on bening road northeast right on the street car tracks right in front of the langston golf course. and when the cops heard the call, they swarped the scene. police say this began blocks and blocks away in the 4600 block of bening road southeast, they say a gunman tried to steal that fancy black pickup truck and then he tried to steal the fancy motorcycle in the back. police say the gunman firedof