i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news 4 i can help. >>> a murder for hire plot under investigation tonight here in fairfax county. the details rathebi rre, and it involves the victism an armed robbery and the suspect' mother. i'm going to walk >>> breaking right now. a federal judge issuing a temporary restraining order that would stop the release of this downloadable blueprint for 3-d printed guns. eight democratic attorneys oeneral filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking block the company from making the plans available online. this austin, texas-based company had reached a settlement with the trump administration in june that aowed it to make the plans available for download. stay tuned for breaking updates here on news 4. amelia? >>there's the latight now, wendy, on storm team 4 radow. s moving into our area from parts of southern virginia as well as from the west back into west virginia and far western maryland, but we're still going to be mainly dry for at least a couple of hours, eveo until 9:30, 10:00

tracee wilkins joins us. she's at the national harbor. what a scene.ines around the building. .y goodness. >> reporter: y t was unbelievable, but cannot wait to show you what's happened here now. look at that. no more line. theople who were in line are now all inside of the store. they have been taking in there like ten by ten so the flks you see wandering around in there, those are the folks at the very end of the line. they actually got that line taken care of. unbelievable because it went all the way past almost to the aylord from where we're standing here at build-a-bear and arents coming up knocking on the door and hoping th a will let them innd saying no, not right now. here's what it looked like earlier. what number were you in line when you first got here? >> easily probably lke 500. >> these parents are super parents or bhab they are super cheap. >> hi birthday is july 26 so we're like he'll have to pay $1 for build a parent. what parent wouldn't want to the ait in line for that? >> super something, possibly super committed as they ar ong the

prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins says buyg fireworks in the district doesn't mean youf in surrounding countie t >> in ordeo avoid scenes like this one prince george's county have madeireworks laws easy to remember. >> here in prince georges county all fireworks are illegal. can you not have any that would make a snap, pop or boom. >> that's tough. with certain kinds of fireworks, legal next door in d.c. and msty ds located closed to the maryland border, and while it b m okay to purchase it in a neighboring state, you cannot bring it here into prince george's county and use that fireworks. >> red devils, liberty. >> that's something this man is well aware of. his stand features fountains and fireworks that don't leave the ground. >> you cross the line, get pulled over, locked up, whatever. >> while he knows the law he leaves it up to his customers to do the right thing. >> what you going to do? we can't tell themto come over here. can't tell where they live what. n they take them across the line. that's on them. we can't control in a. >> officials are askingfamilies jus

news 4's tracee wilkins is in college park now with a look at the charges. tracee? >> the state's attorney says that this alltarted at this bar, dore evening, and with a chance encounter between dodd and the victim who has not been named, but it's h whatpened after they left that's now being called into quesion. dodd calling it consensual sex, but alleged victim and a grand jury is calling it rape. >> whether an individual is o intoxicatedr not it's not an excuse to take advantage of that person. >> reporter: former university of maryland basketbal player d'mante dodd is facing rape chges in an alleged assault that happened in college park last year months after his prosecutors say it all started over drinks at terrapin's turf bar in college park. >> the victim in this case w out with friends celebrating halloween, went to a bar where she encountered mr. dodd for the first time and he apparently began to get her alcoholic beverages, and she had numerous to the pointcaintoxition. >> the state's attorney office says dodd then took the young woman to a friend's apartme

tracee wilkins continues our team coverage from hyattsville where ty are getting ready just in case. tracee in is. >> a lot of monitoring going t arou county. right now we're getting harder rain than earlier when it was th spitting rain, and we have darker skies here. this is part of thehe reason t are monitoring roads and pumping stations. the fact that it's very quiet right now is good news. it means that these pumps have not been triggered to get that water o of the anacostia river before the banks overflow but we've seen in some areas standing water. no fun getting the mail in this. >> it's really dangerous. r >> reporter:ain is working fast, but it's not enough f all of the rain sitting over prince george's county. one neighbor here on queen anne bridge road tells me the was this high this morning. as you can see, it's muchh lowe the prince george's countyepartment of public works continuing to monitor the low-lying areas trying to figure out when it's time to close the road. in aition to prince george's county public works monitoring roads like this one, county officials have pp

tracee wilkins is live in college park withdeew lopments in this case. tracee? >> we have covered damonte dodd when h wasart of the university of maryland basketball team and was star andd a bit of a now it's looking at these serious charges for alleged rape, and as you sd he's accused of getting a girl drunk and then allegedly raping her. it all started here at this bar last year. now when d'mante dodd played here at the university of maryland before graduating in 2017, he considered one of the more outspokenplayers, a bit of a team leader. dodd is currently playing for ofessional basketball team in mexi . according to the prince george's county state's attorney's office row apartment in a friend's pin apartment. the basketball player wasre sted in atlanta last night on his way back from mexico and is expected to making his way to maryland shortly. here now from the state's attorney's office and dodd's attorney as well. >> mr. dodd was interviewed,nd he admitted to the sexual activity but said it was consensual. obviously these are very troubling circumstances

our countyea bur chief tracee wilkins has the story. >> we're still identifying victims. there's still a host of images and faces that a the police still reviewing. >> 35-year-old former basketball coach and substitute teacher christopher spates is sentenced to more than 30 for child abuse and child porn charges. >> he offered his home to those children and should have come over to his house and used his house to film em, to abuse them. >> psecutorsay many of spates' victims played for the south county sports academy where he coached. >> others attenchdl at bradley heights elementary and capital heights where he a substitute teacher. >> he was so sinister that he also conducted ache that allowed him tocc gainess to children who are growing up in single parent homes. >> reporter: spates admitted to the crime after the media company drop box reported seeing an abundance of child pornography in his account. as also sentenced to 30 years in federal court. >> the 150 some odd files that were on his cell phone, his computer, have, unfortunately, found their way across the world

for me is running out thousand of students in prince george's county as tracee wilkins shows us. the kids don't get themu imnizations soon they won't be allowed tgo to class. >> maria is enjoying the last of summer fun before her son hits the third grade. >> reporter: her daughter is going to kindergarten which means kindergarten immunizations. >> thanks to her health insurance the daughter is read to g >> we're going to see the doctec, yeah, but bause we have insurance and some people here don't have that service. >> no insurance is part of the reason. some 6700 sixth graders in prince george's county were not immunized at the end of the school year. the school system tried to help. unfortunately that wasn't successful and parents did not return the consent reforms which allowed usmmo iize all the children for free. >> there's a push to get the word out in latino communities. >> we're going to town hall meetings and letting the community know that now is the time to get immunizes. >>istorically having immunizations done on time has been a problem for prince georgel. county sch a

bureau chief tracee wilkins says maryland state h police sayt swerved his vehicle in an attempt to hit his ex-wife's boyfriend they say. he was released on his own recognizance. before that arrest, hart had been on suspension without pay back in april. he was charged with forgery and theft after allegedly signing his ex-wife's name on a check to pull money from aoint account. according to police, hart has been under investigation for other matters since the beginning of this year. from the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez. >> thanks, erika. >>> new today the man accused of killing five pple at the "capital gazette" last month in annalis has officially been indicted. jarrod ram w is chargedh five counts of murder as well as attempted murder and saumt. ramos is accused of opening fire at the "gazette" on june 28th and killing five staff members. investigators say he held a grudge againsthe paper aft a report about a harassment charge against him. >> first and o only news 4. a paycheck problem in the district. th district thought it had concerning governmentth employe. problem just got a lot

tracee wilkins, news 4. >> if you feel a business is operating without a license, consumers can file complaints with thean mar board of cosmetologists online. we have the link on our nbc washington app. search salon complaints. always look for that license. neveeally thought about it. >> you'll have to live with whatever happens tlore for a time. >> let's get back to the forecast. it's a wild one, folks. >> amelia and lauryn standing by. inu told us about a new severe thunderstorm wa who is under that one right now? >> a new thuerstorm warning berkeley, west virginia and also portions of washington county in maryland. this is concentrated toward frederick and loudoun county. >> a lot of heavy rain. as we look tohe east, a lot of lightning around the baltimore area. here is the latest o this severe thunderstorm warning. if you hear the beeping, that means we're getting a new severe thunderstorm warning in. this is in effect until 5:30 last night, including brunswick, myersville, midal town, also under that severe thunderstorm warning. here is the latest on radar. if you've been watchi

in green belt, tracee wilkins. back to you in the studio. >> nothing helpsbo a neiood like generosity of people. >> thanks, tracee. >>> a lot of nats fans breathing a sigh of relief right now. >> oh, yeah. baseball's trade deadline passed ten minutes ago and bryce harper is still a national. >> here we go. >> dave johnson joins us from the desk. tell us more on what this means for theda nats. ? >> reporter: one thing it means, the debate will probably go away, right, leon? the debate seldom does on any subject in this town, but as you mentioned, pryce harper is still on the washingtonna nat. keeping harper is not a cure-all. this is a nationals team that's nderperformed and one thing is clear. on july 31st nats president and general manager mike believes in this team and it potential for october baseball and not trading harpers proof of that. nats would not be in the playoffs if they started today. still, a lot of work need to be done to make theon se and clearly the nationals think that's possible. harper's future

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in laurel, i'm tracee wilkins, ws 4. >>> right now, the annual white house holiday cookout and picnicy for military families. president trump and the first lady areosting the independence day celebration on the south lawn. there is a ot offood, music and when it gets later, the guests will have a spectacular view of the fireworks on the mall. >>> now to the crisis at our border. tonight, we simply do not know how many migrant children remain separated from their families. as of monday, the department health and human services is no longer providing specific oformation on the number separated children in custody. the most recent number we have is from june 26th when federal officials said 2,047we children in custody and separated from their parents. week, asame day last judge ordered the government to reunify the famies. we do not know how many families have reunited since then. this as nbc news has learned a new government dective gives parents a choice, leave the country with your children or wiout them. jennifer johnson reports. >> reporter: as thousands of immigrants are sworn in a

in upper marlboro, tracee wilkins, news 4. >> metro says hundreds of bus operators purposefully showedp for work today stranded tens of thousands of riders. they are in the middle of contentious con.act talks metro says this was all a protest and the gm talked about suspensions or even possibly firing employees who repeatedly show up lateor work, but the unio says if the gm suspends anyone for showing up late, all 9,000 employees they represent will take a three-day suspension, essentially a strike. it's worth noting that none ofin this is comg at a good time because of major league baseball's all-star events unfolding in the city as we speak. >> mm-hmm. >> a lot of people are eited about the all-star events or oncerned about the weather, amelia. >> and i really don't think they need to be concerned, especially for the he run derby on new england. tuesday for the big all-star game i'm more concerned and more so for our t crew dore setting up and has to be there all evening long. on tuesday that game could see a delay and i think they will be able to get it in ultimately no roblem. if t

news 4's tracee wilkins joi us live from annapolis. a pretty tough day for some we would imagine? >> reporter: a very toughe day. crpe is down and people able to go inside the building for the first time sin the shooting. they had to replace walls and windows. this is very difficult. for many who frequent this office building, this is going octo be a s, and that process began when they got to go back through those doors today. >> it just hit close to home. >> reporter: they say they had to pay tir respects a a memorial created to honor the lives of five "capital gazette" employees murdered in a mass ooting. >> a lot of these things happened. it happened in florida, and it happened in places where it's not your hometown. >> reporter: they like many people didn't know the victims but the sampsons passed the capital offices at 888 westgate regularly. >> when it hits your hometown it makes it a reality for you that it can happen anywhere. >> i don'tave any words to tell you how terrible i fell. >> reporter: dine guerriere knew wendiwi ers, one of the journalists killed. >> i'm a twin

reporting live, tracee wilkins, back to you a in the stewed yes. >> thanks, tracee. a long night for folkshere. unt on news 4 to get you safely where you need to go in the morning. 'll alert you to any trouble spots on your commute, and chuck and sheena will tag team your "news 4 today" starts at 4:00 a.m. >>> president trump brought hma in america showcase back to the white house today, and it comes amid trade w disputesith other nations. vice president mike pence spent time meeting with small business owners from all 50 states. now the businessesake everything from denim to garden hose nodsles to custom gingerbread cookies. business owners say they are proud to make products in the u.s. butome still need to import raw materials. >> and if yourom wine from california it cld include amount ofart criminaparticles in the napa valley wine that were produced after the japan nuclkr meltdown b in 2011. the study shows red wines have higher levels than say a rose or white. the radiation is far too low, however, to hurt you. the same thing happened to the sines in france in

prince georges county bureau chief tracee wilkins now with the important reminder before you light theon your celebrations. >> if the money is flowing that, yeae have a good day. >> reporter: delonte rush has been selling fireworks in d.c. for nearly 20 years. at alls he's well aware of his customers don't necessarily live in washington. do you think u get some maryland folks here? >> all e time, yeah. >> reporter: in order to avoide scen like this one, prince georges county has made fireworks laws easy to remember. >> here in prince georges cooknty, , all fires are illegal. >> reporter: and that's tough with certain kinds of firewor legal next door in d.c. and many tands located close to the maryland border. >> while itay be legal to purchase it in a neighboring state, you cannot bring it back here into prince georges county. >> reporter: you can, however, attend a publ fireworks display like the one planned for green bell. >> people can picnic and grill heth. recommend you get early if you want to scope a place out because it does fill up rather quickly. liberty. ils, >> reporter: so

bureau chief tracee wilkins is live where officials are hard to stay ahead of the rain. tracte?> repor we're here at eatm edmonton pumping station. there are five pumps at thisn. st you're looking at three of them. they pump hundreds of thousands of gallons o water. during this storm event that started last saturday, these pumps have been triggered but not right now. lete show you over there in bow. this is queen anne bridge road, and this road had standing water earlier this morning. it was coming up as high as almost a foot and a half for people who were walking in that water, living along that in low- area. it started to dissipate a little bit just when we left a couple of hours ago, but still an area that the county is monitorg just a they are also monitoring what's going on here at this station. rme bottom line here is that we're seeing stos that are much heavier than they used to be. >> i've been with the county for yer 35 years, so in my time here,h, we've had heavy storms, but today's storms in the lastee 15 years like they are coming down harder and quicker, and that --

reportingive in annapolis, tracee wilkins. back to all of you in >> thank you. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. the suspect's stalking victim now telling her story, and it is chilling. wendy riegger is i our newsroom with that angle. >> her name is laurie, and she asked us to whoeld her full name and asked us to whoeld her locatian andd to be masked so no one could see her identity. the. >> even though ramos is behind bars thi woman i still afraid of him. >> i would be afraid that he could show up anywhere anytime and kill me. he is very cold. hecus veryted and he is very intelligent. i still don't feel safe. i know he's in prison. i know he can't come get me today, but i have been tormented and traumatized anderrized nk soong that it has i t changed the fiber of my being. one thing that do feel now is that he can no longer. silence >> despite her fear, she says she isg speak up now in order to help other people who have been victims of stalking. >> thank you. >>> "nbc nightly news" checks in with thetaff of the "capital gaze

at national harbor, tracee wilkins, news 4. >> new developments after a sires of security scares thatrch. local government agencies are reiving explosi devices in the mail along with long rambling notes. today the man is accused of sending them and was ruled trial.tent to stand the man lives in washington stayed but a competencyat evaon shows he has schizophrenia. he has to undergorement before this case is allowed to ove forward. >> a car struck a 10-year-old girl in southern maryland yesterday, but tonight it's one of the girl's family members and not the driver of the car who is facing charges. that cras unfolded in lexington park after the girl bought some candy from i ance cream truck. news 4's chris gordon has our hstory. >> t evening an ice cream truckanrom her company drove down yorktown road. the driver tells me this is not the truck wherehe little girl bought her candy before being hit crossing the r roadning home. her family tells me her name is journey. the st. mary' county sheriff's office says she was struck by an suv driven by 72-year-old linda glaser. >> that child pur

i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >>> news 4 begins with a storm team 4 weather alert. these dark, ominous clouds over capitol hill. stm team 4 tracks more heavy rain. we've been in weather alert mode for five days now. it's not letting up yet. >> yeah, here is a shot from our drive cam in north potomac. ood warnings in effect for parts of northern virginia and maryland through tonight. a f wsh floodch for just about everyone until tomorrow morning. >> chopper 4 up over t monocacy river in frederick as we watch for more potentialng floo some areas have gotten more than eralot of water over s days. when is all of this going to end? >> enough is enough. doug and amelia startin things off for us from storm center hey guys. >> coming to an end overnight tonit and into tomorrow. we're no longer going to have to worry about this, but the next couple of hou we definitely are. >> flood warnings postedun for es up in virginia and in through northern maryland. >> this is a reston camera, just nasty out there. the dulles toll road lucky nasty. just a nasty, nasty night for sure. o

at national harbor, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >>> just a few hours away from the home run derby atns are ready for bryce harper in action this evening. leon harris is at the park with more on that and theai that's come and gone and how is it looking now. people -- must be getting crowded down there by now. the crowd has actually made its way inside, so we don't see nearly as many people outside right now, and the rain hasle actuallyed up, so if they are inside they are in their seats and not hiding out underneath the porticos. let'sope it stays that way. bryce harper, everyone expects this to be therycearper show. earlier we said he'll be playing right field tomorrow night. turn out he'll in center field for tomorrow night, and that's going to be center stage for him and for all the fans of his who are going to be here to watch him knock these balz out of the park. heroes one thing that fascinans you w you learn about the players it's what motivates him. metimes they just wanto put on a great show for their hometown fans and other times tere's certainngs like friendly rivalries lik

prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us live at national harbor where customers there are a bit more lucky. 's pretty unusual for us to say breaking news and we're talking abo a store promotion. this is something that has impacted people across the united states and canada if you can wrap yournd m around that build-a-bear to this generation and previous generations kee hat the cabbage patch kids to my generation andhen they are giving away for $1, $2, $3 depending on the age of your kids folks are lined up here like at this one. folkin national harbor waiting to get in there and get a build-a-bear that cost as much as their child age is. let me show you what it looked --ow it looked at montgomery mall just a little bit ago when folks were told that although they were in that line and in a long line that they actually needed to leave because they had too m people standing in the line, so the people who were in line they were allowed to go ahead and get a build-a-bear and the folks that were told they had to leave, well, that's what they did and there was a bit of confus

kevin burrows told tracee wilkins eubanks grabbed him byo thet tonight and threatened to beat him up. here's what he said about the compensation package. >> i do not support wasting tax dollars that could have gone to the classroom or to our school system. n>> we have not b able to talk with board member eubanks will about the alleged incident. the board appointing a new acting chief ecutive officer, mon da goldson. the board will work with the county executive to tap an interim ce we'll continue to follow the story for you. >> more breaking news. four peoplebb s tonight after a soccer game in montgomery county. chopper 4 caught the ambulances rushes victims away from the scene on new lamp shire avenue. police response backed up traffic on the avenue. we just learned no one was seriously hurt >>> concerned residents spoke out about what they call policeu misc in d.c. >> video captured one incident last month.s critay shows officers stop and frisk several black men on a street corner. shomari stone has the community's demands. >> reporter: >> reporter: james thomas is concerned about t

bureau chief trace we wilkins on the seen.o doubt a very moving day for them. >> reporter: a moment of silence in newsrooms across the country et 2:33, including our own. people who w paying honor to the five who were killed in this building behind me but for the people of who live here in annapolis in anne arundel county, that moment of silence was about finding healing. you can see e in thes and you could hear in their words afterwards just how important it was for them to be together, folks who knew the people who were killed inside of this building. we spoke with one of thoseer work and also the county executive here at anne arundel county. >> without freedom of the press, we're nothing as people. i'm a county employee, and this could have easil been us. these were my friends,ur colleagues. >> i think it's important for us to remember as a group, as a ccounty. >> omunity has been in shock for the last week. it's still soard to process this act of pure evil that happened here in our otherwise loving and close-knit community

five lives were taken in the annapolis community that news 4's tracee wilkins joins us live n. tracee, explain for us, if you will, the immense impact of thoseew silent moments. s> reporter: this was very important, todaoment of silence, especially for people who live here because since this tragedy that happened here at 888 bestgate we've been doing a lot of talking and asking why did this happen? there's been a national debate sparked to prevent this from happening again and at some point words just aren'tnough. when you've run out of words and out of tears, there'ssilence. >> our community has been in shock for the last week. >> reporter: these anne aruel county employees are gathering togeth, together in honor of five rivals senselessly taken away at their town newspaper just down the street a week ago. >> these were my friends, my colleagues. i think it's important for us to remember as a group, as a county,he losses and then embrace them going forward. >> i want to share it with other people here that know about the tragedy. >> reporter: marjorie roth, a county worker,en n

afterching out to news 4, our bureau chief tracee wilkin did some digging. she found out the owner of that waldorf salon does not appear to be licensed in maryland. >> it feels so coarse. >> the texture -- she fried my hair. it's lik fried. >> christina coates says after a year of natural hair she wanted blond edges like this. she saysfter havinger hair done at aleyda's salon in waldorf --y >> head was getting hot. when she started washing my hair, i could hear her mumbling. i jumped up and i saw all of this a is in the bowl and i'm left with this. > reporter: the owner says christina had previous color in her hair and didn't tell her. n>> customers come for the first time. usually they know what kind of process this person is doing beforehe >> reporter:onfusion revealed a much bigger issue. i checked sta records. it appears the owner doesn't have a license to a operate maryland. hair in >> do you have a license to operate a hair salon in maryland? >> yes. >> how long hav you had a license? >> i be having, i have license from new york. >> reporter: she says

news 4's tracee wilkins takes us there. >> reporter: these prince george's high school students are buildingoday had a special guest. ivanka trump, president donald trump's daughter and senior adviser visited the national securitygr p created by theal natiecurity foundation and their goal isui to a stronger s.t.e.m. woforce. r many of the students babies of the president obama era, hard separating the headlines and the politics of today'shite house from this visitor. >> i don't agree on the things that donald trump has to say about people in this community and how people -- i think that america andequal i in this world. >> reporter: but for kennedy, a student interested in s.t.e.m. with her eyes set on dentistry this, too, was a leasing exsfwle experience. >> when she came if i was surprised and was interested to see how her thoughts and ideas were on the s.t.e.m. program and i wasn't going to letum donald interfere with all this stuff and, you know, let my mindset be free. >> reporter: this particular summer camp actually has a waiting list every year. students in prince george's county are

news 4 tracee wilkins is there live with today's story. >> reporter: this accused gunman has impact a lot of lives, and everybody who uses this building, works here,oes to doctor offices here, they are also going to be impacted, and this is a process, and for many it begins with entering this building again. the crime tame is down and 888 betgate is opened for business. paulillespie a photographer for the paper describes living through the deadly shooting as shotgun fire fhiw around >> i'm under my desk thinking can't believe this is actually happenings. >> rorter: jarrod ramos planned the killing spree and he says he can't belve he survived it. >> i was thinking i'm going to die. >> i had left 20 minutes before it all happed the other day, and i got a text from somebody, are you okay, and i saiec what the are you talking about? >> doug potash works on the third floor and is among workers back at the building today all trying to get back to what they were doing before a gunman entered this building killing five people. >> the weekend was le a shock weekend, and now you've got to moven

bureau chief tracee wilkins found out the owner may not be operating legly in maryland. >> thext e, she fried my hair. it's fried. >> reporter: cistina coates says a year after natural hair, she won'tndik edges le this. she said after having her hair down i waldorf, her hair started falling out. >> my scalpng was get hot. she took me out and started washing my hairment when she m started washi hair, i could hear her mumbng. i jumped up and i saw all of i this the bowl and i'm left with this. >> reporter: the owner of the salon is the problem is sristina had previolor in her hair and did not tell her. >> every single kouft her comest in for f time, usually they will know what kind of products, what kind ofs process t person do before. >> reporter: i checked state records. it appears the owner does not have a license to operate the salon or do hair in maryland. >> the state of maryland is 't saying they d have record for you having a license to >> i have everything my records, everything 3450i records. >> from new york or here? >> reporter: she said this her new york license. we couldn't

tracee wilkins is live right now with an update on this case and on the response which has been overwhelming. tracee? >> reporter: overwhelming in a great way and you can see what's left after the flames went through the apament complex. 11 families displaced, and the community is already working to try and make this situaon better for the people who have been impacted. wait until you see what they have done. the stuff in this room represents a new beginning for people who suddenly lost everything. >> i saw from the beltway howin nse the smoke was, and when i saw it i just broke down. >> reporter: lisa jordan was rushing home and it was too late. her frankly park apartment was soaked with water dage. the apartment above her is gutted by fire. now she's 1 of 11 families displaced. >> every now and then i try to gekeep myself er, and then i feel like the sensation is you know you want to go home and you car:t. >> reporicole webb and her family are living between their car and a hotel for now after they were also displaced. i was traumatized because he said the apartment was on fire and him and

tracee wilkins, news 4. >> still to come tonight, metro is cracking down onsickouts and on late nslls. our traportation reporter adam tuss takes a look at this ongoing fight and the impact it's having on riders. >> and a young man using pennies to pay tribute to heroes. he and his mom tell me why he's so passionate about america in this week harris' heroes. >> and even though we've had low humidity levels it's important to remember it's extremely hot and even deadly iide of a car. today's temperature insid car would be 133 degrees aerftt. >>> all ri now, welcome to my favorite part of the week. we're always touched by the lengths that parents will go ti for t children, and recently a mom wreath into us about her son who deserved to be one of harris' here owens,s. his name is conor ickes, 16 years old and born in russia and already knows the freedom that we enjoy here came at a great price so conor came up with an idea to v showerans just how grateful he is by placing pennies on their tombstones. conor's pennyro pject is this week's harris' hero. >> a penny doesn't seem like much, but

bureau chief tracee wilkins has our report. >> no words that could ever describe our loss, but he'll be missed. >> reporter: 22-year-old giovanni little was known for hismile and outgoing personality. he was studying business and marketing withspations of starting a clothing line. >> he had his whole life ahead of him. he was in college. he -- he was doing the right thing. >> reporter: sunday evening giovanni was shot and killed in front of his ft. washington home. >> he was his mother's only son. >> reporter: the shooting so brazen, and there were a number of witnesses who called police with a description of the getaway car. >> there were people in the area wereaw what happened a able to give a good description, and we used that information to quickly apprehend the two suspects. >> reporter: 25-year-old i everving silva and 24-year-old guilni. >> he wasrimming with potential, very charismatic and social and had greathe intentio. ad a very giving heart. >> reporter: as the investigation continues the question is why. why was this is young life taken just this t way? >> i senseless. y

inportive in college park, l tracee wilkins. back to you all. >>e, meanwh another publicity headache for the university of maryland. todayhe school released document confirm it's gottenlt le subpoenas in relation to federal corruption. dave johnson wabl have more t the case later >>> turning now to our forecast and an end to our stringf 90-plus degree days. ameliarar is in the storm center with a look at what we can expect for our fridayen g. good looking night, huh? >> beautiful, jim. relief isoving into the area, and can you see it moving in and on the maps i'll show first one isolated shower out there around the shady side and diehl area. this already petering out. the wider image, usually don't draw fronts on this, but this is a cold front and it's humid and muggy north of the front. it's more comfort and and this th the w that we want after what we've had for the last eight days around the this front bringing more comfortable air to areas like frederick and herstown. these are the dew point temperatures and this is the humidity. we want dew

in prince george's county, tracee wilkins, news 4. >> the next smer camp in our area happens next week in columbia, maryland. they are held all across the country for free. the national security agency and the national science foundation provide the necessary funding. for more information visit nbc washington app and search gen cyber. >>> we're asking for your help to support our schools. it's almostime for our annual backpacks for kids initiative. this year we hope to give out at least 4,000 backpack to elementary school students in our area, and if you would like to help bring new backpacks, school supplies or a donation to the woodmore town center inlen arden next thursday. >> the museum's dirtor calls it the most visited hall and the most visited natural history museum. today the smithsonian gave us a sneak peeke ins the feature t-rex exhibit. it's been closed now for renovations for the past four years. crews have been expanding the hall and putting the dinosauto a more historically pose.te smithsonian officials tell us even though dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago, e c

crucial time as maryland voters consider if additional gaming revenue should go to our bureau chief tracee wilkins has been covering mgm from the very start and has your first look inside. >> reporter: if youike poker. >> i like the expansion. i'm looking forward to playing and getting into a game. >> reporter: you're going to love what mgm national harbor has done. w >> so whatve done is we've added a additional seven pok tables to the second floor. currently we have 46. >> i like this overall. >> the new00 38,0 square foot space is on the second floor above the current casino. it costs $48 million toe, cre and in order to operate it, mgm has hired some 250 new employees. they say most of them are from prince george county. >> 46 poker tables, a cage and then the sck bar and a bar. that requires that because we're open r:/7. >> repor there are also 262ad tional slot machines in this space and mgm is winning the revenue race and with the expansion it's just a few games away fro largest competitor maryland lives. >> but based upon the demand of our customers, we knew we could grow that and knew we

upper marlboro, tracee wilkins, news 4. police officer already on suspension is in trouble again. captain thomas hart was arresyed erday. police say he assaulted someone who he knew. hart is a-y r veteran of the prince george's police department. he was already suspended for two months after accused of forging a signature so he could withdraw money from an account he shares withis ex-wife. only on news 4, a man once arrested and banned from theec districtse he jumped the white house fence is accused of anotherit brazen sec breach. scott macfarlane broke the story online just a few minutes ago. he's in our newsroom to tell us how it went down this time. scott? >> court records say the u.s. secret service arrestedonathan tran of california yet again. white ar h jumped the house fence and stayed on the wwn for 1 minutes and made it to a toor of thte house before he was arrested. two secret service employees lost their job shortly after. this all happened a couple months after president trump's inauguration. in a plea deal he was sentenceda to probation ordered to stay out of d.c. acc

. >> prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins spoke with one resident who called the flyersl. >> reporter: still scked by its words, donald showed me the anti-semitic fer he found outside his home. >> talks about how you shouldn't be associated with them, within 200 yards. it goes on and on. >> reporter: he and his wife among the many laurel residents who got the offensive flier and confused by its jbled declarations of hate. >> to act as commander in chief of the united states of america. really? >> when you start reading it, it's absurd. it's vile. it's hateful. but it's also stupid. >> on july 2nd, we started getting calls around 8:00 a.m. for anti-semitic materials that were found -- residents were reported it found in their yard and things. >> reporter: laurel police say are investigating the distribution of the flyers as hate crime. >> it's not representative of laurel and we'rega invesng this to get to the bottom of it. >> i was a religionac taught hebrew scriptures for 40 years. it really update me. >> reporter: donald is hop tg it last time he finds something like t

in d.c., i'm tracee wilkins, news 4 >> while some of us enjoy traditional fireworks, others will enjoy fi with drones this year. intel is partnering with travis air force base in california. it will o put a drone light show instead of fireworks. >> cool. >> drone light shows have been entertaining crowdsldt disney wond at the olympic game. drone shows are becoming quite a popular form of entertainment for large crowds. organizers say it's a safer alternative as well to fireworks. spectacular stuff. >> it is. >> i love that, and it doesn't scare the wildlife or your dogs. >> yeah. >> it makes sense. >> yes, it does. >> so how is thattorm looking up around gaithersburg or whatever? a lot of lightning up theree lier. >> a lot of lightning and rainfall. this storm is right around gaithersburg and montgomery village and only right now.ra ing some activity in virginia. looking at the latest computer models and ju lookin at the radar, a l of storms should fizzle out by 6:00, 7:00 at the latest. eemoving west and can youhe heavy rain right now around gaithersburg and at this point it's east of

. >> news 4'sracee wilkins has been covering this sto for us from the beginning and she's live inin annapolis atonight. >> tracee>> well, over the last week we've all bee having conversations about how could something like this happen? for peoplen this community they have been searching for healing, sharing their experienals andng to one another, and at some point words just aren't enough. >> i would like to ask everyone to jn me in a moment of silence, prayer or reflection. >> reporter: when you've run out of words and out of tears, there's silee. >> our community has been in shock for the last orweek. >> repr: these anne arundel county employees are gathering together, together in honor of five lives senselessly taken away at the town newspaperdo ju the street a week ago. >> these were my friends, our colleagues. i think it's important for us to remember as asgroup, a county the losses and then embrace hope going forward. >> i want to share it with other people here that know about the tragedy. >> reporter: this moment and this moment is important for marjorie rock who happened to be on the secd floor of 888 b