commissioner. monica wilson took these pictures of him in a meeting. he had a long legal pad. he normally takes lots of notes. i look over and see him scribbling swastikas over and over again. he flips the pages, continues to scribble additional swastikas. >> there have been some things that happened during your year t and half thhe did talk about at the town meeting last night. there have been some incidents that she's had to deal with, but those were not incidents that had anything to do with her resignation. >> upper maboro spokesperson ray feldman says while the racism has been a challenge, she resigned so she could spend mori with family. her progressive did get some pushback. >> she's about not accepting the status quo, shaking things up, and thatot ofas people. >> reporter: very litt has changed in the small historic town. it's the county seat for prince george's county and now predominant african-american county. tonga was proposing plans for

economic growth and expanding the town's limit. >> who are we going to have in therg next that's goin to fight like that and better this community like that? we really ha to pay attention. >> reporter: in her resignation letter, tonga said i a writing to inform you that effective friday, june 21st, 2019, i will no longer be serving as mayor and president of the board of commissioners. i am truly excited about what the futuretoolds for the and what the future holds for ma we both embark on new journeys. we did ask her for comment. today.clined any comment but folks in this town are talking about what's happening here and a lot of people talking about trying to support her, but i am told by a number of people who know her that she's selling her home and leaving theounty. reporting live, tracee wilkins, back you to all in the studio. >> tracee, hank you. we've got some breaking news sympathizer hasto oursi been ordered jailed in d.c. news 4 i-team investigators

scott macfarlane broke this today. he joins us now with more from ee live d. scott, what are you learning? >> good evening. we know the man's name is jeremy stmavenson. forly he's charged with dealing ugs, but late today the feds told a judge more whil askin be held in custody. the prosecutor said stevenson showed videos of isis on his cell phone in a crowded d.c. bar. th say he's made death threats and searched for phrases like how to join isis and isis police head cut off. the photos you're seeing were issued in court today showing drugs, phones and images of stevenson allegedly ming hand signals connected to isis. there are other crimes alleged in the court filings. the feds say stevenson called 911 and threatened to shoot police at the d.c. police seventh district. heads also accused and charged with dealing drugs and he's accused of cheating the fare on a metro bus at the oncostia station. that's what brought him face to face with law enforcepont. no rese from his attorney, but late today they ordered him

held in custody pending trial on the drug charges. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane. wendy, back to you. >> thank you, scott. a maryland couple says they're devastated following the death of their son who was an aspiring rapper he was shot earlier this month and died lastot night. live from police headquarters with this story. pat. >> reporter: wendy, rapper tonys vegthey say he loved his music, that he loved his family, that he made friends everywhe he went. tony vegas dead atow he had a h is ushig.er: and then forinlis. ly it real is.

poreap:> eredrt tinha tth'sis d heights parking lot anged her life. you see, that's where her son was shot. last night he died in the hospital. >> i can't eat, i can't sleep, i can't t, i can't go to work, i can't even leave the house right now. i keep thinking that he's going to come through the front door, and he's not. >> reporter: the victim an toto walker, a rapper. he went by the name tony vegas.e he was th father of a 7-year-old girl. therwere two menn the car when it happened. tony and another rapper, they had just recorded a song. they were in that honda car in the parking lot. the engine was running. shots fired. davion dead on the scene. tony taken to the hospital.

he survived a couple days. he was pronounced last night. >> for him to go like that, you know, he had too much love for tho many people for him to go like . >> reporter: last august tony's cousin was shot and killed in d.c. he, too, was a rapper. so far, nomotive inhis double murder case. jim, back to you. >> pat collins. thank you,at. the bodies of a prince george's county c this evening. news 4 was first to report the deaths of nathaniel holmes and cynthia day in the dominican republic last month. their bodies found inside a hot room at the bahia prince resort. preliminary autopsy resorts say the couple died of generalized organto failure.

cology reports will take at least another month to complete. family members say they want nother autopsy done be they are skeptical of the mdoinican republic authorities. these recent deaths are reopening wounds for another family. david harrison from brandywine maryland died while he was on vacation with his family in the dr last year. harrisonbe had at the hard rock hotel and casino in punta cana when he unexpectedly passed. that's the same resort where they reported a manrom california had died back in april of this year. across northern virginia voters are casting ballots in primaries to decide which candidate is going to represent eir party in the fuel. julie carey live from marshall look at some of those key es today. jules. >> reporter: hey, wendy. n northern virginia we're looking mostly at democratic primaries, but what is striking about some of them, the number of challengers to long-time

incumbents. those challengers saying they are impatient. it's the commonwealth's attorney race getting the most attention. stamos is facing a in fairfax county, a n similar story. th the commonwealth attorney being challenged. in both challengers benefitingealthy out of state d. both claim the incumbents ast e justice reform. this arlingtonmi voterl agrees, casting a ballot for tafty. >> a more fair process for the adjudication of arlington commu. i think he's been too tough and i'd like to see a change. >> reporter: police in both jurisdictions have me out strongly for the incumbent prosecutors. their opinion weighs heavily with this retired arlington teacher who is sticking with the hcumbent.

>> i didn't li the challenger was saying things that weren'tnecessarily true. they were twisting her thoughts and beliefs. and the their f policeofficers support him. i think that's important. >> reporter: in fairfax county, fewer voters willing to reveal who they are backing, but some of them, too, looking for change in the commonwealth attorney's office. >> i was looking at how could somebody think differently about it and i definitely was looking for that seat. >> but the biggest race in fairfax county, maybe even in the region, the fairfax county oard chair's race. that seat coming open for the first time in more than a decade. i'll take a closer look at that. back to you. >> julie, thank you. donald trump, jr., will be back occuup on capitol hill tomw behind closed doors with the senate intel committee. the president's eldest son expected to h revisit previous infamous on the now

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bluer. they're the color of wendy's dress. it's so cool. >> it's pretty eat. >> it's kind of a funny day yesterday with dreary conditions. rainfall. we had a front that moved through and it took away not just all the rain and clouds,

but all the pollution in the atmosphere. these are like canadian blue sk be uslos ok out there now. a picture perfect day. temperature wise sitting at 81. now down to 79. winds out of the northwest at 14 miles per hour. it's been gusty. we've seen winds gusting 2es 25 miln hour. especially early this morning. there's a little chill in the air this morning. 76 gaithersburg. everybody looking beautiful. no rain at all. no clouds. storm team 4dar is dry. let's take a look at the wider view. notice we've got clear skies,e' but already got clouds moving back in. that's from another storm system down to the south and west. this is actually part of thest t am moving in ahead of two storms. one, a big storm up around minneapolis bringing them a lot activity of shower and another storm down around the dallas area. these two storms are actually going to merge righte ect way t

e isgooin tg some heavy rain in parts of the area. we're going to be watching that closely. tomorrow, however, no problems. no rain tomorrow. 78 degrees. more clouds and sun. we will see some sun, but more clouds tomorrow for sure. still pretty nice. more clouds late in the day. we'll sose clouds increase all day along ahead of that storm system. more cloud ver for sure. a.m. rain on thursday. let's talk a little bit more about that. high temperature of 82. a lot of cloud cover tomorrow night. here's 11 okay tomorrow night. no rain. if you've got dinner plans or games, no problem.wa ch what happens here around 3:00 in the morning. here comes the rain making its way on through here. even some heavier rain in and around 7: right through the d.c. metro area for the mornin.g rush. morning rush onhursday could be a mess out there. a little bit of a break maybe and tend o chance for thunderstorm activity. during the thternoon on sday, the upper level pressure area comes in. rain in the morning. chance of stronger storms in the

afternoon on thursday. thursday kind of a mess. look at 7:00. dealing with a little bit of rain and some shower activity. that sets us up for another beautiful day. friday jy,t like toda sunny, high of 80. 86 on saturday. and take a look at this. we're talking another heat wave. we've got a couple 90s in there. sunday, machine, tuesday, and well.riday as the pattern looks like it wants to change back over to that heat. making its way our way. >> all right. thank you, doug. only 4 on, a local family takes on a large toy maker after their child dies while ing one of their products. susan hogan ins us with the details of this. plus police called on a 10-year-old child who handed out play money on a school bus. and that is a home coming that we're going to take you to.

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>> announcer: you're watching mews 4 at 5:00. a look at s of our top stories. an accused isis sympathizer cked up in d.c. the feds tell us jeremy stevenson posted isis videos, made deathhr tts online. formally he's charged with dealing drugs. court documents reveal information linking him to the terror group. no response yet from his attorney. a project to build more express lanes i-95 is under way now. 10 miles of new lanes are being added tofredericksburg to stafford. once they're complete in 2022, they'll run from fredericksburg to the d.c. line. >> the mayor of upper marlboro has resignega tonurner was the first african-american leader. she's been the target of racist attacks and bullying. she said ins not the r for

resigning. she's stepping down spend more time with her family. now at 5 ti:30, maplay mon controversy. >>-y a 10ear-old african-american boy with a learning disability brought fake money on a school bus. his mother says he was singled out because he's a minority. >> how police and school officials are rowponding n >> little boys of color are being targeted. >> tiffany kellytarted a petition complaining that her isabled son, who is in fourth grade at the montgomery county public school, was questioned by police in the principal's office without notifying her. her petition complains of overpolicing of people with disabilities and blacks.fo law ement and the secret service were called. she says he brought play money tha he got from amazon.com on to the school bus giving some to friends. >> a piece of it fell on the ground. apparently the bus driver f

the money, conferred with his supervisor, and they decided to call the police >> she shared these pictures of the money with red symbols on it and lines through the $00 denomination. >> when it comes to children that are minorities, we know that their discipline looks different than children that are not minorities. >> the montgomery county public school system said it is our practice to call police is there is evidence of them trying to use counterfeit money trying to purchase something, but that wasn't the casein this inciden and the police should not have been called. we brought her petition with her complaint about overpolicing minorities and people with disabilities here to the montgomery county police headquarters. wwere told that investigators followed standard operating procedures in this case. >> we're investigating an incident. we're not investigating anything. disability or race, we're basing

everything off the incident. once we figure that out, we'll move on, because there wasn't anything there. >> tiffany kelly says she wrote her petition which has morehan 400 supporters so far because she wants schools to call parents, not police. reporting from montgomery county, chris gordon, news 4. >> after being questioned by police, tiffany kelly tells us her son will never play with that fake money again. >> john ltewarthed out at lawmakers during a hearing on capitol hill as they discussed the september 11th victims compensation fund. the former daily show host has been a long time advocate for 9/11 first responders. congress authorized a fund that goes through december 2020, but already more than 20,000 survivors have made claims for cancer and otherpi restory diseases. stewart called out empty chairs at today's hearing accusing members of dragging th ir feet on legislation that would extend that fund for ather 70 years.

>> why this bill isn't unimous consent and a stand alone issue is beyond my comp prehension. >> it's worth noting today's hearing has been slated before a subcommittee which includes 14 of the 41 judiciary committee members. o members missed the hearing. others came and went throughout as they d as amazons hq2 prepareto move in, they're planning to fight homelessness. they're donating $8 million.es the r will go toward fighting homelessness in seattle, the company's headquarters. starting today amazon willalso match employee contributions for 20 select nonprofits that addressed housing and homelessness. deployments are a tough time for families. always tough and especially hard on the kid whose count down the

days when mom or dadill come home. le girl here li in northern virginia, that wait is finally ov us toda today's sweet surprise in fi spd. >> reporter: it's story time inside mrs. belcher's kindergarten class. to e youngsters are anxious learn what story will be told, but there's an even bigger mystery to unfold. who will be this week's mystery reader. spoiler alert. it's this guy. lieutenant commander, u.s. coast guard member and father just ck om aorseas, ready to recommence dad duties. >> we talk on face time as much as we could when i was in the middle east and every day she told me she m misses and she can't wait to see me. >> she is 6-year-old kaley and nothing can spoil the surprise. >> our mystery reader today is kaley's dad. >> after so much time away, that first hug, that first kiss might not seem real.

>> i'm so happy and it's a great day for our family. and it's a great day to see my daughter. >> i was so excited to see daddy from a one year and three day trip. >> that's right. this 6-year-old was keeping track of dad's deployment. >> i've been counting down the days. >> there's no such thing as a -- >> the sacrifice so many military familiesake are not lost on the little ones. every birthday, holiday, and bedtime story missed has an impact. >> when you become a parent, thi number one thng you want to do is be present in your child's life. it's so hard to not be able to be there day in and day out. >> now with dad home, she has big plans for the summer ncluding her 7th birthday. right now she's taking things one day at a time. a guardsman home and a family back together again.ap that's a h ending. cory smith, news 4.

>> thy wasn't the onl surprise of the day. kaley aso surprised her dad with news that there's a new dog in the house making it a little more crowded than when he left. a it's always good to ask for dog when one parent is oute of th house. >> exactly. surprise on you. it's thesen of a end of a s. new rules for security officers in one school district. i'm george wallace in a ashburn. we had our look at the quarterback battle. how do they fe y. >> here'sour humidity forecast for the next six days. a lot ofil sme, however, doug and i are tracking roain back and i are tracking roain back into the area and taking

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a flag honoring prisoners of war is once again flying outside the montgomery county ex utive office building here in rockville. theun k-- they had taken it dow yesterday, but the move meant to be inclusiveom upset se veterans. county officials acknowledged the issue and aed additional ringlets so both flags kdso up today. the pride flag will fly until the end of the month. the last week of school in maryland and one local schoolst dirict is already looking ahead to increase securit for next year. news 4 i-team reporter scott macfarlane in our newsroom to explain what they're goo.ng to d >> a memo issued tonight by the superintendent of montgomery county public schools details a series of sec ity upgradesthat are expected soon after school'n reope september. w fitness requirements for school security the memo calls it fitness for

duty, but it will beef up the star star standards for those security jobs. they will work with the county to increase staffing for after school activity. and ao increase the number of gang prevention meetings that will include the school district and county law enforcement. school resource officers had seized guns from students on school gound. there's one other note with state education officials in maryland. they've now required every school in the state to review a every building. they are due at the end of the week. weow do kn montgomery countyy recenmpleted sessions in that county. back to you. s scott, thank you. an infantleeper tied to at east 30 deathings. >> coming up, susan hogan has the story of a local family suing after their child became one of the victis. it's an historic african-american cemetery in the middle of one of the microsoft

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you may recall it being in the news a few weeks ago. susan hogan has been workng the story. she has the latest on these developments. >> this is the lawsuit that was filed just a few days ago. inside thisheartbreaking details of a little boy who died while sleeping right next to his father. the lawsuit says 5 month old ezra overton fell asleep in a rock and play simar tohis one. his father says when he woke up, ezra appeared to have pushed himself into a standing position and then his face was pressed against the fabric. unable to breathe, ezra died of su location. theawsuit claims fisher price knew about these dangers of their product and knew about the deaths and injuries which had occurred, but continued to sell millions of rock and plays insisting they were safe. in april fisher price announced it was recalling more than 4 million models of rock and play sleepers. since the product was introduced

in 2009, over 30 babies have died after rolling over while ai unrestrned or under other circumstances. now, ezra's parents s he was probably restrained and so the only label warning about suffocation hazard was hidden from view. news had reached out toi fsher price and itsarent company mattel, but we have yet to receive a response from the com iny. >> that so disturbing. >> it was so sad reading it. and 30 babes since it was introduced in 2009. so we're still following the story. >>susan,thank you. the u.s. women entered the world cup as one of the favorites to win the tournament and t ay thefending champ showed why, the u.s. racking up 13 goals, including 5 from alex morgan. the most goals ever scored in a single game in women's world cup history. up next for the surks they'll be facing chile on sunday. we have an mr today

expected to confirm that torn achilles for prince george's county native kevin durant, suffering the injury in last night's nba finals. first he's played since suffering a calf injury in early durant's free agency has been a hot topic, but with thi expected 9 to 12 month recovery, that injury could have a significant impact on his financial future. >> boy, that was tough to watch last night. well, haskins or keenum? who will be the rskins week one starting quarterback? no one has an answer yet, including head coach jay gruden. as news 4's george wallace seports, both new qbs have been trying to lin, learn, and let their play do the talking. >> the off-season program coming to a close here in redskins pa k. the teams had four weeks of on field work to begin the lengthy process of getting readt forhe 2019 season. the competition will be focused on all summer will be the quarterback battle between case keenum and dwayne haskins. both feel they made strides

since day one. >> i love the system. i really do. i think jay's done a great job putting it together. it's really well presenicd. the communation is really hiod. so i tnk i can thrive in it. us i want to p to the next level. pi'm always trying toush to that next level. >> it's a team effort. he definitely hangs on to the quarterback coach and coach wil tellu he does a great job of helping me out. i just want to win. a lot of arterbackguys in the building. they help me out a lot. they're very supportive of me and i appreowate that. >>omes the break before training camp, but haskins knows there's no time to relax. >> i'll be here all july. i'll be here studying, coming i, every day lifting, watching film, grabbing guyswo to out with and find a way to get better. whether that's rehabbing or studying, throwing routes,

whatever it is. >> the team reports to richmond in sixeeks. in ashburn, george wallace. news 4 peorts. >> ancifically that first day of training camp, thursday, july 25th. they only hope the weather willa be like i today. but it's always cooking when they get full action in. >> today they had a beautiful day. >> it doesn't get any better than this. i think we've got a couple more days like this. morrow more clouds, then friday a day just like this. we've got another day of rain coming up during the day on thursday. some of that rain could be heavy at times, e especiallyly thursday morning and then again possibly late. let's take a look and show you what we'reow dealing with we've seen nothing but blue skies all day. look what's coming in. we've got clouds to the left side of the scene. those clouds moving in from the storm system that's going to be tomorrow n.ht into thursday a beautiful shot out there towards national harbor. there's the clouds again as we look off to the north and west.h mid togh level clouds. 79 degrees currentsly.

temperatures dropping through the 70s intohe upper 60s. still a mild night tonight. but a quiet night all across our region. 76 gaithersburg, 79 manassas, and over towards fort belvoir. notice the country. on the cool side for sure. no 90s anywhere across the entire eastern halfof the nation. we're very cool because of the fact we saw that cold front come through yesterday. now, here's the clouds right there coming in across our region from the next stormem systhat is now moving up from the south. here's the storm yesterday that came through and brought us all the nasty weather with therain yesterday. now i'm tracking two storms. one to the north, one to the south. these are going to be coming o togetherer our area tomorrow giving us mo clouds tomorrow and then rain tomorrow night. le's plan it outor you. amelia and i have beenooking this all day long. we really do think tomorrow is going to be a pretty nice day, but the rain moves in for the thursday morning rush. >> your wednesday day is dry, but you might be waking up to rain on thursday. it could be heavy in spots.

not the case tomorrow morning. a gorgeous start. 62 degrees. mostly to partly sunny skies. clouds do build in toughout the day. but great to run an errand on your lunchtime or just eat lunch outdoors. degrees around noon. high of 78. tomorrow evening 7:00 p.m. we'll stiry at 74. rain moves in after midnight on wednesday. here's 2:00 a.m. notice those showers starting to push intohe ea. this is this thursday morning commute. at 5:00 a.m. i'll be he filling in for chuck who is enjoying some time off. notice pockets of heavier rain. this continues until about 8:00, 9:. then betwe about 3:00 and 6:00 we'll have scatterednd showers a thunderstorms moving through the area. we can see gusty winds and maybe a bit of hail out there later on the day on thursday. something we'll be keeping an eye on. it sets up for a gorgeous thursday. low humidity, a nice breeze.

next chance of rain on thursday comes on sunday. the iced tea meter not all that high. think of medium iced tea wednesday, friday, friday. it's ging to beust fine. saturday large father's day upgrading it to an extra large with highs around 90 >> it's going to get hot. did you see amelia's face when she said she's going to be doing the morning show?'t that wasn -- your face was extremely excited. you're happy to wake up at 2:00 in the morning. >> afterrr wake up tomo morning at 1:00 a.m., i'll be fine after that. actually, can you getas this lt radio hit for me? >> yes. go home, have a good nig wake up tomorrow morning. no problem tomorrow. amelia is doing the rest of the week in the morning for you. check her out tomorrow morning. 78 on wednesday. 82 on thursday. here's the heat she was talking about. 92 on sunday. large iced tea for monday and tuesday as well. chance of showers or storms as well sunday, monday, and tuesdaw with a heate making its way our way. >> thank you.

still to come fom the classroom to the cemetery. n >> the lesso in history that turned into a call for action and t localhe

an african-american cemetery in the heart of one of the most affluent neighborhoods in our region has become nearly forgotten, overgrown, run down over the years. but when some local high school

students learned about conditions at the cemetery, they decided to do somethingbout it. news 4's mark segraves has the story you're on going to see on news 4 about the mt. zion sem te terry in georgetown. >> reporter: it's the final resting place for between 8 to 10,000 people, mostly african-americans who lived in worked in d.c. from 1808 to 1950. the mt. zion cemetery looks more like a graveyard for tombstones than an actual cemetery. lisa baker is working to turn it into a memorial park so those ried here will not be forgotten. >> congressional members and e they built th buildings. it feel sos sad that we have not been able to say their names or remember them. >> alicia butler, a history

teacher, helps her opportunities research the historic cemetery, which was part of the underground railroad.he >> this is w they put bodies when it w too cold to dig. >> runawayes slav would take refuge inside this crypt. when students saw the condition, they wanted to take action. >> it makes me feel distraught because it is ruined and run down and it has to do with my histy. it's not cleaned up. >> porter: so today the students put on work gloves and filled trash bags with debris and weeds as a way to pay respect to their past. >> i feel kind of a connection to thesople because they're black like me and they lived here in way harder times. >> reporter: the students also learned the history of the mostly white well-cared for oak hill cemetery right next to the african-american cemetery. >> i think it shows a little bit of how our society treats our is hry today. >> reporter: at the mt. zion

cemetery in georgetown, mark segraves, news 4. >> now at 6:00, an abrupt resignation. tonight new details emerge on racist comments that forced upper marlboro's first african-american mayor to stepd n. trouble in paradise as another maryland family questions their loved one's death in the dominican republun. the ual circumstances urrounding his death as new numbers show the impact it'svi hang on tourism. this isis sympathizer living in our nation's capital busted by the feds. the incident on metro that led tos arrest. and turning pain into purpose. >> you're hearing this or rewatching this or you' alive and breathing right now, you are clearly borderline indestructible. >> how one man isurning his smartphone into a support group r people all around the world. >> announcer: news 4 at 6:00

starts now. we begin tonight with the sudden resignation of a small town mayor.en >> she's be the victim of racist attacks and bullying, but the mayor claims that's not the reason why she's stepping down. >> prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins broke the story and joins us from upper marlboro with the exclusive details in this ongoing saga. tracee, what's going on? >> reporter: well, a lot has changed here inrince george's county over the years. it's now predominantly an african-american county, but there have not been a lot ofc nges here in the county seat of upper marlboro. some thing this new mayor was working on and her are saying that may have been part of the problem. >> no one as a whole in the entire community knew these things were happening until last night when she just resigned.