Woman in the passenger seat of the truck and then that pickup truck took off. It was here, 2. 3 miles away, that the driver found the police and got the help for his wounded friend. Now, the gunman is still at large. The woman is expected to be okay and, again, this came to an end in front of the langston golf course. Now back to you. Thank you, pat. We continue to learn more details about a death in Prince Georges County. Police hope an autopsy will help them figure out what happened to a man after they found his body near a creek in college park. Were told someone found the body in a wounded area behind the burger king on route 1. The victim is in his 20s. Investigators do not suspect any foul play. We know the two more victims at the deadly explosions in Silver Spring and they are both children. They are identified as an 8yearold, david morales, and 3yearold fernando. Work continues to identify the remaining victims. The blast at the Flower Branch apartments, officials tell us it was caused by a natural gas buildup in a basement meter room. In an exclusive sitdown interview with news4, veteran Police OfficerPeter Newsham talks about being named interim police chief for d. C. He was chosen to sit in when cathy lanier steps down from the highprofile job next month. Tom kierein has more. Tom . He doesnt officially start until september 17th but the chief already is ready. Whether crime is up or crime is down, Peter Newsham has been rookie but rising in the ranks, working side by side with former chief Charles Ramsey who took over a troubled department in 1998. We had a very, very Bad Reputation at the time chief ramsey came in. He was able to change that around. Reporter and chief cathy lanier since 2007. If you ask me what her legacy is, its the fact that she made us as an agency be more responsive, to be more empathetic and work every day to have our Community Trust us. 27 years on the force who earned a law degree in his spare time, picked by Muriel Bowser to continue in that position. I intend to be as visible as i can be. Im not cathy lanier. Im Peter Newsham. I hope the community will see me for what i am. Reporter hes not sure how long the interim job will last but wants to be considered for the permanent job. I intend to participate in that process. Mayor bowser is someone who can step right in. Shes running for reelection starting next year for 2018. He goes way back. Youre right. Let me ask you about Union Response. Any reaction from them to this . Yes, we have Union Response coming up at 6 00. We talked to the head of the union and they are looking for somebody who will be an officers chief, somebody who will be right there with them. They had some battles with chief lanier but they are hopeful about chief newsham. And the mayor has another big post to fill, the chancellor of the school. Positions in place as she gears up for reelection in 2018. Thank you, tom. See you at 6 00. We want to take you to Prince Georges County now. All of the excitement of the first day of school. Nearly 130,000 students are coming home tonight telling their parents the first day of school stories. Prince georges county is the second largest district in the state of maryland. The ceos of the school says he believes more people are flocking to the Public Schools because they have a growing list of specialized programs for students. It has been a rocky start to the year for the Prince Georges County school board. Several members are calling for their leadership to resign after the federal government pulled funding. Tracee wilkins first broke this story on twitter. Shes been working to get reaction. What have you found out, tracee . This le letter, accusations about the school board not doing the right thing and not telling Board Members about the investigation that they feel the entire board should be a part of. Reporter school Board Members are calling for resignation of the school chair and vice chair after a federal investigation into the systems Head Start Program called the School System to lose its funding for head start. The threepage letter says, while legally, individual members of the board cannot and must not make unilateral board decisions, the board chair and vice chair do so regular lly. This is after they knew about the drastic reports of child abuse and mistreatments and the countys head start but briefed the entire board on the allegations of the ongoing investigation. I got the same call on that same fda to be terminated and it was a surprise to me, too. Today, dr. Kevin maxwell says while he knew the program was under investigation for allegations of teachers abusing and mistreating students, he didnt know the programs more than 6 million in federal funding would be taken away. The county executive fought to create a hybrid school board consisting of some now members he appointed including the chair and vice chair positions. He had to this say about the members, wanting them out. Hes done a great job. Dr. Maxwell, weve seen improvements in the school, Graduation Rates are up, improvements of Early Childhood education and so were going to move forward. Reporter within this letter, there is some criticism of the ceos leadership. Specifically on the leadership of the school board. Coming up at 6 00, more from the county executive as he says that he believes in the chair of this board and doesnt have any intentions of having them removed. Tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. Tracee, thank you. A reminder, you can have kids get a great start to the year. Tomorrow at the Apple Federal Credit Union at the Kingstown Branch in alexandria, well be there from 6 00 until noon. Were also taking donations online. Just search backpacks for kids on the nbc washington app. High testimony yesterday was only 88. A very nice morning and waking up to numbers in the upper 50s in some of the weather. 70s and 80s. Some very nice weather. What will we be seeing the next couple of days . Low humidity. But the heat returns and then we see the humidity comes back in. Another heatwave and prolonged heatwave with temperatures that could approach the midto upper 90s once again and then tracking the tropics. Well talk much more about that in the next ten minutes. Sounds good, doug. Thanks. The battle of the beltways moves from baltimore to d. C. Tomorrow and theres going to be official guests throwing out the first pitch. Katie ledecky is one of the biggest stars winning five medals, four of them gold. Katies stay will not last too long, though. Shes headed tost Start College this fall. Only on 4 00 tonight, challenges for the new private Ambulance Service to help improve 911 Response Times in the district. We found the company is not living up to the districts expectations. Why the fire chief says there is more to the story. Plus, counterfeit cash. A wild chase and then a crash. The series of events that put a pregnant woman and her 2yearold in danger. And president obama getting a firsthand look at the damage that forced thousands from their homes in floodravaged louisiana. The prayers of the entire nation with everybody who lost loved ones. We are lets start over here compwith this aluminum bed. Eds. You put your toolbox up here. Whoa thats a big hole. That is unbelievable. Now lets check out the roll formed steel bed of the silverado. Same spot, same empty toolbox. Took it way better. 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Now, Police Believe that the man under once but twice but five times since the beginning of august. Now, while the images captured by photographer Aaron Sutherland showed the defaced art, someone wrote the word jew on the rat which is painted in the crosswalk here. It was very quickly removed by an Organization Called the downtown d. C. Business Improvement District known as a bid but every time they removed it, it kept coming back. He attacked the crosswalk in various ways, one time once, one times three, one time nine rats were defaced at every corner. And so it was really just it felt very relentless. But at the same time, you know, speaking for the Operations Team and for the bid in general, we decided equal amount of relentlessness. Reporter the man in custody who has no fixed address, hes accused of painting swastikas on the starbucks here in chinatown. Jackie, thank you. A man who has been on the fbis radar is accused in a stabbing that left two people wounded in virginia. Police tell us he attacked a man and woman at an apartment complex in the roanoke area this past weekend. Law enforcement sources say the fbi previously looked into his travels, including an attempt to go to syria. They believe the attack was random and that farooki may have had Mental Health issues. They found no signs of any care inspiration. President obama is on his way back to washington after touring the widespread flood damage in louisiana. The president met with residts say he took too long to make it down there. Chris lawrence is here with details. Hey, chris. Angie, president obama says he wanted to assure the residents of louisiana the government is there for them. He toured a neighborhood in baton rouge hit hard by the floods. Mr. Obama met with residents. The floods damaged about 60,000 homes and killed at least 13 people. Given that level of death and damage, critics say the president should have cut his vacation short and traveled to louisiana before now. I guarantee, nobody on this block, none of those first responders, nobody gives a hoot whether youre democrat or republican. What they care about is making sure they are getting the drive wall out and the carpet out and theres no mold building and they get contractors in here and start rebuilding as quick as possible. President obama praised the job that more than 100,000 people have applied for federal assistance and as of now, the support is up to 127 million. The president encouraged all americans to do what they can to help folks in that area. Jim . Chris lawrence. New polls out from the president ial race according to a new survey monkey poll. Hillary clinton is maintaining her lead over donald trump. Clinton has an 8 lead over trump, among all registered voters. Shes had similar margins since the end of july. The poll also shows trump lagging far behind among nonwhite voters. Only 8 of africanamericans support trump while 87 support clinton. And only 22 of hispanics support trump. Trump is trying to keep the focus on Hillary Clintons email problems and is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton Foundation and says clintons policies actually hurt them the mo as tempermentally unfit to serve as president. She will give a speech on thursday that will paint trumps philosophy as dangerous. They will continue to try and Court Republican voters by saying that trumps candidacy should concern all americans regardless of party. One of the third Party Nominees for president , dr. Jill stein of the green party says she thinks she can win this november. But she also says without more exposure, shes not holding her breath. Stein spoke here in washington today calling her campaign the only one that isnt compromised by big money. She also pushed for a spot on the debate stage come this fall. We think its really critical now more than ever that we have an open debate and actually put more choices in front of the American People who are clamoring for National Polls to earn a spot in the free president ial debate. Five new cases of zika concerning to officials now in florida as the virus moves north. And the first cases were in miami but we have learned today thats not the only area affected. The situation in tampa that has officials worried now. And family members of aeaf d you probably remember where you were when the ground started shaking. Its been five years since the 5. 8 magnitude earthquake shut down the National Monument for three years. It still needs 22 million to repair the stone work damaged by the quake. Right where i was when that happened. Right here in the Weather Center when it happened five years ago. Out there right now, nothing like that, actually. One of the more beautiful days that weve seen in quite some time. Boy do we need this after the temperatures in the upper 90s. Normal temperature this is time of year. Winds out of the southeast with the sunshine. All in all, a beautiful tuesday across our region. 84 in warrenton and 80 degrees in gaithersburg. Without humidity, its gorgeous. Oakland, only at 72 degrees. Nothing on the radar. Not expecting to see anything either. Its dominating the entire midatlantic. Not much in the way of midatlantic. You get back to the west, though. This is a warm front that is making its way our way. It will move in and bring us the heat that moves back in. 90s again as early as thursday. Something else were watching active. We have fiona that has died off. We had gaston which is way out in the atlantic. Its expected to become a hurricane and stay out way in the atlantic. A fish storm, that was expected to be. We have this area of disturbed weather. Where does it go . If it interacts with the islands they have a hard time getting their act together. Many of the computer models brings it towards the bahamas and parts of south florida. Again, this is way too soon. Well have to wait and see what happens with it. Its on our radar. It will get here in the next ten days. Now, temperatures tomorrow, going to be hot again. 88 degrees. Not index. All in all, wednesday is looking good out there. High temperatures, 86 in l las platas. Lets look at the tenday forecast and show you that the heat builds back in. Up to 93 on thursday and 95 on friday and 93 on saturday. Wouldnt be surprised if we were warmer than these numbers. Sunday, still 5992. 95 on monday. Look how long we are in the 90s until next week and then we look towards the tropics. Those tropics would come in not here. It would be back towards wednesday, thursday and friday of next week. Much more about this coming up at 6 45. Well see you then. Doug, thank you. A call for answers about the skyrocketing price of the epipen. The new concerns today about what it is costing us to get well. He was a suspected of passing counterfeit bills at a wegmans grocery. He took the police on a wild chase that ended on this interstate ramp. The surprise that police found in the car, just ahead. Private ambulances have been running 911 calls for four months now. 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 giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 800 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. Minutes ago, we told you about a woman who was shot on the streets in d. C. Only on news4, our tom sherwood sat down with the interim police chief when cathy lanier retires next month. I hope that the community sees me for who i am. The one thing youll want to consider when it comes to college. And how young is too young. Ahead, well hear from a man who found out that his 5yearold is expected to walk nearly a full mile to get to school. And what the School System is saying about it. And a d. C. Man is locked up tonight. When police finally stopped him, they discovered a pregnant woman and toddler car. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey is live. Reporter it came to a crashing end on the ramp to i66 east. At a nearby Grocery Store they were called about a man and a woman trying to use phony money. It all started at this wegmans where he used counterfeit money to take a purchase. Heres how it ended. A crunchedup 2004 jaguar on the back of a tow truck. The call came in just before 4 00 p. M. On monday. A couple was suspected for using counterfeit bills there before. The management said he used a counterfeit bill. Suspicious person used counterfeit money. Reporter the Police Showed up quickly and the suspect took off, turning from Government Center parkway on to monument e, the driver had gone