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 tha