news4's kristin wright talked with tourists about the changes. >> reporter: new security restrictions at the white house. the south side fence and sidewalk there no longer accessible to the public. the secret service says it's to keep fence jumpers and others who shouldn't be there off the grounds. >> it's sad, but i'd rather be safe. >> reporter: lois davis remembers a different time not that long ago. >> i know that we could drive right through pennsylvania avenue and stop the car and take pictures out the window. >> reporter: the secret service says keeping people away from the south side fence gives officer a better line of sight to detect potential threats. tourists on that side are forced back about a hundred feet. >> it's pretty -- let's put in this way, unfortunate when you cannot get close enough to take a decent picture. >> reporter: but with the potential threat the landscape at the white house is forever changing. those old pictures, distance memories. >> i have on the little bench in front of the step and we like to re-create pictures from the last trip that we were here.

news4's kristin wright tags along with middle schoolers who are starting to think they could also belongcollege. >> follow me. >> reporter: planting the seed that they belong here. >> i want to come here. i definitely want to come here. >> reporter: prince george's county middle school students on the campus of buoy state university. >> to encourage them to see education as a vehicle for doing what they want to do positively in their lives. >> reporter: lesley cruz said she can see herself at buoy state one day. >> i'm going to be the first person to go to college in my family. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the pep rally at buoy state is a reward for seventh and eighth grade erds jackson academy and massey academy. officials say truancy at the three targeted schools is down while attendance is up, from 70 to more than 90% in three years. >> good morning to you. >> reporter: states attorney angela personally congratulated them. the three schools are part of the "i belong here" truancy reduction initiative, a partnership between the state's attorney's office, buoy state, and the school district. >> thi

kristin wright tells us what tourists are saying about the most recent changes. >> reporter: not a day goes by that tourists don't stop and take pictures at the white house. the photo many hold on to and cherish forever. >> and i remember being, like, one foot from that fence and taking a picture with my daughters. we never forget that. >> reporter: but with more restrictions and more barricades, a good picture, much less, a selfie, is getting harder to come by. >> and now i'm a hundred-some feet away, trying to reach up high enough to take a photograph. >> yeah, you can go up there. >> reporter: on their way to the white house, the harold family hit the secret service's new security restriction at the south side fence. you can't walk up to the gate anymore. the sidewalk there now closed to the public. >> it's disturbing. i thought they had already had blockade to keep people away from it. >> reporter: the secret service turned others around too. their first time in washington, the harolds didn't mine taking the longer walk around on a beautiful afternoon to get to the front of the whi

kristin wright, news4. >>> she says she feels like an outsider in her neighborhood, and now we know why. what the i-team discovered after digging into this woman in this commercial. targeting short-term rental sites. >> i'm julie carey at loudoun county freedom high school, where trevor la master's picture is on this wall of fame. he wrestles and plays la crosse and he's done it all on one leg. coming up, the story he'll be sharing with students from across the state. >>> the temperatures we've been waiting for. 84, 85, those are the highs across the area today. tomorrow, though, we get a lot warmer. we're breaking records, baby. it's a friday. se >>> a tv commercial slamming the popular airbnb has d.c. neighbors angry tonight. after we confirmed the neighbor in the ad is really an actress. >> i'm tired of feeling like an outsider in my own neighborhood. >> the tag line claims the woman feels like an outsider and maybe that's because she really lives in new york city. the ad presents her as a long-time resident of historic anacostia. saying that airb gretta fuller, a real resident, says

i'm kristin wright. now police are at the exxon on mcarthur boulevard. so is darcy spencer. darcy, what is going? >> reporter: we are trying to figure that out. so are police. this is mcarthur boulevard. right across the street can you see the bmw that crashed over the embankment. police confirmed to us this is part of the crime scene. take a look just down the street. this is the exxon gas station we weal our area stop to get gas. this is part of the crime scene but police are still trying to figure out what crime happened here. the video we want to show you first is of money. apparently drop bade man still on the loose. man ran through the area with bag of money. some of the bills were flying. according to the witness, men were arguing and they held them until police arrived. the second man is being questioned by police. why did the man hold the suspect not knowing he was armed. >> he said, your cousin isn't getting away it and you owe me $10,000 and you will bring me to him. but they were scheming. that's why i was asking for help. he was ao because we're going to get cau

news4's kristin wright has more now on how police are trying to piece together her final moments. >> reporter: this is all very sad. te'yja chase's family said she was outgoing and now they're trying to sort through this. it was her mother who saw the sketch and knew it was her child. it was a family in this neighborhood that tried to save her. we now know the identity of a young woman murdered on easter sunday in prince george's county. te'yja chase was only 17, many years of living to do had her life not been taken. some of the teenager's final moments unfolded on spring dale police say she was stabbed and wounded, knocked at a front door for help, it was 8:15 in the morning. a woman in the house who asked that we not identify her, says she can't stop replaying what happened in her mind. >> i opened my door and i saw a person laying in my front yard. >>> police are still looking at how and why she ended up in the neighborhood. >> we tried to ask her her name and tried to -- we tried to understand, you know, what happened. i made the call to 911. >> reporter: police say knowing who

kristin wright, news4. >>> a rare total solar eclipse happening this summer.o miss it, folks. the first total eclipse visible from coast to coast since 1918. check it out on the summer solstice in june and the u.s. postal service is celebrating it with a unique stamp. this forever stamp is the first of its kind to use heat sensitive ink. touch the stamp with your finger and the heat transforms the image of the black-out and the eclipse -- >> it reappears. >> it reappears when you remove your finger. there's also a map on the back of the stamp showing the eclipse's diagonal path across the u.s. so use your finger, do not try to lick that stamp. i wouldn't. that's pretty cool looking. >> and probably that's the safest way to see an eclipse. i remember we had to make these contraptions, little boxes. >> and in our area, you'd want to head down to charleston, that would be a good spot to view it. >> road trip, june, charleston. >> reservations now for dinner. >> and a good christmas present, the stamps are for me. i'll take them. >> check her off the list. got it.