Too common crime. We ride along with a man who keeps our Washington Capitol safe. Doing some digging and they found a troubling number of local gamblers who are abandoning their kids in the parking lot. The casino craze is growing. So are the number of people tempted by the flood. The casino craze is spreading in maryland. The lights, the excitement. Too hard for some to resist. New years eve amid the life and roar inside of the live casino, Police Arrested 24yearold alicia brown. They say brown left her 4yearold child alone in the car outside for eight hours. While she went inside to gamble. Police say the child was found hungry, cold, and crying. Brown was charged with child abuse. We heard what happened that day, the news4 iteam started digging and checking Court Records and gaming commissioning documents as well. That happened several times. Statewide and nationwide in recent months. Watch this surveillance camera footage. Would moms walking the casino floor at the Mardi Gras Casino floor on a sunday evening. Eventually gambling. Their four children left alone locked in the car outside. One two women told police she had gone inside to use the bathroom. The both of you were inside gambling. You checked in at the players club and started playing slots. The Court Records show prosecutors filed neglect charges. We found at least six other cases of abandoned chirp in the past year at maryland casinos alone. Lee of them at maryland live and two more at ocean down casino, eastern shore. Both cases happening in the heat of the summer. A safety group kids in cars found about 60 more cases outside of maryland in the past four years. Including at a casino near pill del. A man arrested for leaving his 12yearold grandson alone in the car and illegally parking the car in the lot. It is a dangerous crime no matter when it happens. Safety groups say the maryland live case from new years eve is particularly alarming. Subfreezing temperatures that day. Never leave your child alone in a car. Not even for a minute. Outdoor temperature is about 15 degree. The group save kids helped us show how little the car doors and windows alone good door closed and windows close. Protect an abandoned child from the cold. 22 degree. Kate says hypothermia hits children faster. If a child is experiencing hypothermia, whats that child peeling . In the earliest stages of hypothermia, like yound i we start to shiver. Our bodies are saying how can i keep you warmer . So kids cant shiver fast enough to warm their body temperature up. Operators of the new casino set for Prince Georges County will use surveillance to prevent gamblers from abandoning kids. As for alicia brown, she still has custody of her child but face as Court Appearance later this mop there are safeguards in place. The casino has a 200person Security Team and surveillance cameras inside and outside the parking lots and garages. Leaving a child unattended in one of the cars, Contact Police immediately. We have an interactive map showing cases of children being left in cars and casinos online at nbcwashington. Com. All you have to do is click on investigations. At first glance this might seem like a class for a couch potato. Thats not the case at all. This teacher of this Language Arts class of bell monday Ridge Middle School in Loudoun County has swapped out the desks in favor of couches and coffee tables. It sets the mood for something completely different the way kids are learning. We are coming in here and reading and just writing. They werent connecting with it. We wanted to find a way where a student felt more comfortable, more at home and more likely to engage in the discipline we were teaching. He tells us what to do for and we sit down on the couches and we do it ourselves on our own pace. Not too fast or too slow. At your own pace. Thats cool. Sounds good to me. The program could be expanded to other classes if it is helping students to learn. Good will coming out of the traj at the navy yard shooting. Martin of annandale was one of 12 people shot and killed september 16. This community isnt forgetting about he or his family. David culver shows us how they are getting a helping hand with home repairs. Is. The annandale home is undergoing renovation. The lower portion of the d drywall. Water was seep something and the drywall had to go. It is something mart write would have taken care of for his family. Wherever there is immediate thats where you find marty. A husband and pear of three girls, one of the 12 killed in septembers navy yard shooting. His passing so sudden he month only left behind grieving loved ones but also a long list of things to do. We are just helping him to do all of the things i know were on his todo list. Neighbor and friend, john rutherford, has been calling on fellow Church Members to lend a hand. They soon realized that the repair costs were adding up. John turned to annandales Home Depot Assistant manager. Come on in and maybe give us a contribution. Give us merchandise at cost. I can do better than that. I can come in to the project and provide merchandise materials and get you a volunteer team to take care of your project for you. The folks at home depot gave them more than they imagined. They provided a dozen employees working over the course of three days and some 6,500 worth of supplies. John says that this is more than rebuilding a home for martys wife and daughters. I really hope that this is helping the healing process and we can come alongside of her and just care for her and care for the girls. Honored to have the opportunity to reach out and take care of this family. In annandale, virginia, david culver, news4. They are covering the costs of the home renovations. Landmark with an unmistakable look may be getting a bit of makeover. These are the drawings for a new visitors center. Washington monument and as you can see, it is a big change from what is there right now. The new building would be a lot larger and would be made entirely of glass. The project is still in the approval stage. It would cost about 5 million to complete. It has become a popular form of communication and now it could save lives. How one local company is using texting to combat human trafficking. A k9 with cancer. We meet one of alexandrias finest dogs thats inspiring hope