Bao bao needs mama back in china. Four things to know about the weather today. President s day, hail to the warmth. Another day with temperatures more than 15 degrees warmer than average. Our final february freeze might already be in the rearview mirror. We have not been below freezing all weekend. I dont see subfreezing temperatures for the entire remainder of the week. There is finally some needed chances for rain coming. It may impact the weekend. Well detail that coming up. An marching into april. Temperatures will stay way above average. It will feel more like april than march for sure. More about todays forecast. Lets go over to sheena. Good morning. We have some mild temperatures. If you have not walked outside just yet, you dont need the heavy coat. 44 degrees is the temperature right now. Mild start. By 7 00 a. M. , we should be in the upper 40s. A lot of sunshine today and cooperative weather if you have outdoor plans president s day. If youre grilling out, milder by noon. 60
That flight is 19 hours long. Talk about long. Shell be on a personalized fedex plane though with a vet. Reporter bao baos neighbors are sad to see her go. Spray painted graffiti just down the street from the zoo captures their feelings. Using black and white spray paint the artists simply drew a picture of bao bao giving the peace sign with the words bye bye bao bao. Its been six years since the first panda born at the national zoo was sent back to china. Bao baos older brother was born in 2006. And in 2010 he too was sent back to china. Now because of his high profile birth here in dc, he is considered one of the most famous pandas in the world. He now lives at a panda facility. He reportedly mated for the first time last year. Apparently a late bloomer. A southeast dc man is beat ton death with a bat and have charged an elderly woman with his murder. Stephanie gailhard is live with more on the victim. Reporter i spoke with the victims best friend. He tells me they bonded over their
When a young man knock to do the door of her home he pushed himself in. Reporter this began a burglary and saw that would last three hours. She said the man started by rummaging for cash, taking 40 before duck taping her hands head and mouth i said would you do this to your mother or would you like somebody else to bother your mother like youre doing me . He said. Reporter according to reynolds, the suspect removed her clothing and threw her face first on to the bed. She tried to kick him in the groin. Maybe i really hurt him. I dont know. And i really dont care. Reporter the 88yearold then said she relied on quick thinking to ward off a sexual assault. Thats when i told him they had hiv and my husband died of it. Which was a lie, thats when he got out this piece of wire that he had rolled up in his pocket with the tape and everything and tied my ankles together. Reporter this violent incident occurred just five days before is a similar Home Invasion took place 14 miles away in east br
Lesson she to can teach us all. Sharing her story only with eyewitness news. Good evening im Ukee Washington im jessica dean. That attack happened in the typically Quiet Community of. Eyewitness news alexandria hoff tells us how a womans quick thinking saved her even more pain. Taped up with duck tape. s and i bit it all off. Reporter helen should not be under estimated. 3 00 p. M. February 17th, she just returneded from the store when a young man knock to do the door of her home he pushed himself in. Reporter this began a burglary and saw that would last three hours. She said the man started by rummaging for cash, taking 40 before duck taping her hands head and mouth i said would you do this to your mother or would you like somebody else to bother your mother like youre doing me . He said. Reporter according to reynolds, the suspect removed her clothing and threw her face first on to the bed. She tried to kick him in the groin. Maybe i really hurt him. I dont know. And i really dont c
Michelle the president s cabinet grew today. The u. S. Senate confirmed retired neurosurgeon ben carson as the new secretary of housing and urban development. An hour after carsons confirmation, they voted in rick perry as the secretary of state of energy. Perry famously forgot the name of the department in 2012 when listing agencies he would eliminate if elected president. He said eliminating the department would be a mistake since then. President trump spent the day aboard the uss germed r. Ford speaking to members of gerald r. Ford speaking to members of the naver i navy. He also discussed an Expansion Plan to increase the navy. Alison right now police are investigating a threatening email sent to a woman in winchester. Michelle she is the leader of a Government Watchdog Group working to protest president trumps agenda. Alison but as Richard Reeve reports th it was alarming. I dont alarm easily. Richard for lisa holiday, founder of the Watchdog Group indivisible winchester it began