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Florida. The flight is raising major questions about the security of airspace above the district. News4s pat collins has some mixed reaction from capitol hill. This was a breach of security of the capitol that could potentially have been very serious. And we need to understand why he was able to kind of get on to the Capitol Grounds in an aircraft with nobody stopping him. Reporter it was something youd never expect to see. Certainly not after 9 11. A 61yearold man piloting what he described as a flying bicycle, buzzing into our city and landing the contraption undetected on the lawn of the capitol. It has people in our city shaking their heads. If he can do it whats stopping someone else who has bad intentions . Reporter norad said they didnt know the flying lawn chair was there until, well, after it was there. On the hill congresswoman Eleanor Holmesnorton says shes concerned about overreaction by security officials. This is the peoples house and senate and it is where they come. We dont want more restrictions to get into the Capitol Grounds than there are now. Reporter michael ohalnan is a Homeland Security expert with the brookings institution. He has a different point of view. This is not something you sort of poopoo away and say, well we didnt enough advance notice, should have listened to guys in tampa more. No this is a gap that needs to be fixed. Reporter im pat collins, news4. A little boy has his independence back just a week after a thief took it from him. Joshua romera is 4 years old and in is Surveillance Video of someone stealing his wheelchair last weekend. A couple days later, a nice surprise. He got a new wheelchair thanks to another boy in maryland who has touched my joshuas story. 11yearold Emanuel Marshall saw what happened and decided to donate a wheelchair he had outgrown. How do you feel giving your old wheelchair to joshua . Well i i feel happy. Thank emanuel for donating the wheelchair for joshua. Hes really happy to use it. Prince georges county police say the thief who stole joshuas wheelchair is heartless and they will continue to search for that person. Well theres not really a good way to lead into this next story. Former d. C. Council member jim graham is going into the nude dancing nightclub business. Tom sherwood got the scoop on the new Business Venture from graham himself. Reporter you know this jim graham on the d. C. Council 16 years, defeated for reelection. Out of office last january. What did he do next . Well cue the music. Which one would you like . Reporter cue the laser lights and the fog machine. Thats right. Jim graham is becoming a nude dancing imbpersario. I decided to go into the Night Dance Club industry. Reporter in his old ward starting sunday graham will host sunday night male nude dancers for gay men and thursday night male nude dancers for women. Are there nights for women to watch women . Thats something were actively exploring. Reporter the coop restaurant on 11th street where graham was having lunch, customers here were a bit surprised by the new gig. You know what hes going to do now . I dont know. Reporter hes going to open basically a strip club on george avenue. Good for him. Reporter the house has been in business since 1979. In a neighborhood that is fast gentrifying. The former public official who also consults on homeless and drug abuse issues knows to keep the neighborhood happy. Were going to do the right thing by the neighborhood no question about it. Reporter in the district tom sherwood news 4. Prince georges county is now closer to getting the largest collection of holocaust artifacts in the world. The u. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum broke ground on the shipell family collection and Conservation Center. The 80,000 square foot warehouse will be built near route 50 and 301. Museum leaders call this the most important building project the museum will ever undertake. Holocaust survivors who donated items hope when theyre no longer around the collections will tell their stories. May the treasure fall into good hands. May history attest for us. Well we know today that thankfully that treasure did fall into our good hands. The collections and Conservation Center is named for the Holocaust Survivors who donated millions for the project. It helped bring french troops to america and turned the tide of the revolutionary war. Now a replica of the tall ship is returning to the u. S. For a special journey. It set sail last weekend from france and will arrive in yorktown in june. From there it will make 12 stops including alexandria annapolis and baltimore. Alexandria will host a series of events from june 10th to the 12th to celebrate the ships arrival including tours of the replica. Right now, some virginia scientists are caring for some challenging babies. Two black bear cubs were orphaned within a week of each other. One was found sleeping under a porch. Its mother was nowhere to be found. Theyre now living both of them in the Wildlife Center in shenandoah area. Women take turns feeding the cubs from a bottle. Three times a day. Theres no baby bonding here. The goal is to keep them in tune with the wild as much as possible. Im trying to transition to bowl feeding so i dont actually have to use the bottle anymore and that will greatly reduce our Human Interaction time. When i went to grab him, he threw a temper tantrum which is great. Theyre cute but wild. If you see an abandoned baby animal in the wild, dont approach it. Call wildlife officials for help. Well theyve seen a lot of change in their lifetimes. And now some of them are sharing their experiences with us. When we return we sit down with d. C. s centenarians. And hes a High School Student and a standin parent. The huge surprise a Northern Virginia teen got for making so many sacrifices. Lets say this is your tv and these are the channels you pay for with cable but these are the types of channels you actually want to watch what if you could pay for what you want, and not for what you dont so you could get kids channels sports. Or entertainment mix and match, or get them all. Now fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv starting at 74. 99 including internet and phone. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. A celebration of wisdom and long lines in the district. The guests of honor were all 100 years old or older. The office of aging held its annual centenarian luncheon. 40 residents met the age requirements this year. Corporal alice dixon is 108 years old. Shes a trail blazer who spent years working at the pentagon. Frank braxton just turned 100. Hes happy to talk about the things that hes seen over the years. Whats the best part about being your age . Just looking back and seeing the change. He looks good for 100. This is the 29th year of celebrating d. C. s oldest resident residents. Abandoned dogs that have been rescued are getting some basic training by inmates at the patuckset institute. It started by washington animal and rescue league. As wendy regal reports, it helps the animals and the inmates learn some valuable lessons about life. Reporter this is alfie, hes five years old and he can count. Alfie, sit. One. Three. Good boy yay reporter and this is miley, not even a year old, but shes a good girl. Fetch. Good girl. Reporter alfie and miley are homeless dogs from the washington Animal Rescue league who have been living with the inmates at this institute for the past ten weeks learning to be loved and learning to trust. I think that these dogs bring them some level of joy and feeling. You know the humanity. Reporter two inmates work with each dog throughout the weeks and the league sends their animal behavioralist every tuesday to help them. The inmates who we are not identifying learned something deep and vital as well. Looks at me in his eye we connected. I didnt know you could do that with a dog. Hes done a 360 on me. Like i never sought therapy, never at home stuff like that. To be able to talk about my problems. Its like its like were able to bring a certain peace to everyone involved. Reporter on this day, miley and alfie are graduating. Theyve completed their training and theyre being adopted by employees at the institute. One of the inmates who worked with miley wrote a song. Even far apart in a different place the song that was first thing that i thought about when i first got her. Im like oh man, im going to end up writing Something Really Nice for this dog. Reporter after todays graduation the inmates gave the dogs to their new owners. Thanks for training my dog. He taught me a lot of stuff. Hes helped me learn how to something, let them go and know its going to be okay. Reporter learning trust, confidence, love and fortitude, and discovering that sometimes you have to be lost to be found. Good job. Very good. Since the program started in september, the inmates have trained several dogs and more will be heading their way. An emotional reunion for a virginia teen and his military mom. Caleb parsons was receiving military child of the year award from Operation Home front when his mom Staff Sergeant showed up. She was deployed to qatar at the same time. His father is stationed in florida leaving caleb a stand in parent to his 14, 16, and 9yearold siblings. I want to hug him the next 24 hours and not let him go. He helps with their homework every day, drives them to boy scouts swim class, takes them to friends houses every week. Hes amazing. Caleb will continue the family tradition, headed to west point this summer. Phenomenal. Its a road that stretches from the district well into maryland but its history is a bit of a mystery. An all new meet your street next. And the national zoo is hoping for a new panda cub. The new technique they are trying this year to make a rare birth a reality. Dude totinos blasted rolls. Sweet. Totinos blasted crust rolls. Yeah. Flavor at full blast you say avocado old el paso says. Zesty chicken and avocado tacos in our stand n stuff tortillas. record scratch you say stand n stuff tortillas old el paso says. Start somewhere fresh yeah, im married. Does it matter . Youd do that for me . Really . Yeah, id like that. Who are you talking to . Uh, its jake from state farm. Sounds like a really good deal. Jake from state farm at three in the morning. Who is this . Its jake from state farm. What are you wearing jake from state farm . [ jake ] uh. Khakis. She sounds hideous. Well shes a guy, so. [ male announcer ] another reason more people stay with state farm. Get to a better state. Its a road that winds its way through our area. Its roots are in the district but it also stretches to prince georges and charles counties. Our traffic reporter opens up the history books in this edition of meet your street as she tracks down the origin of livingston road. Reporter on all my meet your street adventures theres a road im asked about again and again. Time to learn a little something. Were headed to the Prince Georges County library infor a lesson on livingston road. This took a little digging. Reporter its history has been hard to figure out. You have to search all of the small presses. Reporter meet colleen thornby, librarian in the maryland room. Where do most of these books come from . Reporter she knows almost anything youd want to about the state. I actually was asked this question a few months ago, and had problems finding anything at that point. Reporter the perfect person to help us uncover more about the mysterious livingston road, its now filled with homes and businesses. The road originated in washington that area there called stanton town, with sections running through prince georges and into charles county. It was once a main highway between washington and indian head. Went back did some more research and this time i found while not primary source documentation, its enough information to pretty much say this is why it was named livingston road. Reporter as the suspense builds we ask around. I should know what its named for, but i dont. Maybe someone from history, a male perhaps. Reporter it seems all the segments of livingston road built bit by bit over the years were named for one family. The beginning of livingston road in the d. C. Area starts near what was a very large estate at the time of a family named livingston. Reporter take a look at the 1878 atlas. The road just next to the estate of ann c. Livingston. I did do a lot of digging on her. Reporter old census shows livingston lived there with her husband and four children. She had 10,000 worth of real estate in 1870. And i believe 500 worth of personal money. Reporter she was from washington. Widowed just a few years later, livingston moved to maryland. It puts life into history because it becomes personal all of a sudden. Reporter years later the mill road was born its current root from 197 to New Hampshire avenue. Its one our librarian gets questions about every now and then. Throughout the 1800s it was home to gun powder mills. There were consecutively three different gun powder mills on powder mill road and it blew up three different times. Reporter several people were killed. They didnt rebuild that next time because it was just enough. Theyd had enough. Reporter the mill is gone now, but the name remains. In Prince Georges County news4. Love those. From melissa. Hes known for his skill on the field, but redskins star Desean Jackson has another strength confronting bullies. We visit a d. C. School with him, next. 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Visit botoxchronicmigraine. Com to learn how to save on your treatment. Talk to a headache specialist today about botox®. Chase freedom. The card is for the essentials. The cash back is for the fun. Chase. So you can. The national zoo is taking an unusual step as if prepares for breeding season for the giant pandas. The zoo just received a frozen sperm sample from china. It will be used to inseminate the zoos giant panda when shes ready to mate this spring. The zoo says this is the first time its ever used a frozen sample from china. You can read more about why they took this risk in our nbc washington app. Just search panda. A special treat for students at an Elementary School in northeast d. C. A visit from redskins wide receiver Desean Jackson who was there as part of a bullying prevention program. He wasnt just talking, either. Jackson actually called up bullies to the stage to ask them why they did it. An interesting approach and diana asked him more about that just after the event. You know everybody in the crowd can see, okay these are the people that are supposed to be the bullies. Lets see if theyre really bold enough to stand up and admit to being bullies. Thats the first part. You know if you can have people admit to it and take up to their responsibilities and ownership, i mean thats where you start from and there figure out how you need to nip it in the bud. Thats right, fess up. Jackson has been doing this for eight years and is still in touch with some of the kids hes called up over the years. Well, thats all for news4 this week. Im veronica johnson. Thanks for joining us. We leave you with time lapse video of lightning. You know what im talking about. From our severe storms that moved through this week. Until next time remember be safe be kind be happy. Byebye, everybody. We begin with breaking news right now. A powerful earthquake rocking the capital of nepal. We want to start with what we know. The u. S. Geological survey just upgraded the earthquake to a 7. 9 magnitude. Nepal police says at least 108 people have been killed in this quake. It hit around 2 00 this morning our time but noon nepal time. The usgs reporting after shocks of magnitudes of 5 and above. Several avalanches reported on mt. Everest after the earthquake hit. Everest

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