The education i was on the board of the Charter School became fascinated by what was going on partly because i think education is so important i think it is our best hope for addressing and equity inside it society and breaking that society a multi generational poverty. There was a mystery that i wanted to solve essentially which was what happen when kids got to high School Everything seemed to fall apart scores seem to be improving at the elementary level and i would go into classrooms and the kids either looked engaged but when you went into High School Classrooms it was a different picture and the scores were not improving. Nobody seems to understand why although there has been a lot of attention on the high school problem. When i stumbled upon really, i cant say i solve this mystery myself but i stumbled upon the fact that the real problems in the problems of the parents in high school. Its different than the Elementary School. Once i realized that and i realize that despite all of
We have a long time. Reporter so what theyre doing in the meantime, theyll swap out the pandas. Take one and keep it warm and feed it and do it testing and then swap them back out. They think they have the second panda, they dont know how it will work. But as you said, theyre being careful here. This only happens once in every two 50 of the time when pandas are born and theyre not much more certain about it in the wild when theyre born, but the survival rate has diminished somewhat because the panda has trouble taking care of the two panda bears. Now the ones that they have gotten are vocalizing well as is mei xiang. And they think things are going to go okay. And right now, they dont know the gender. They have cant tell yet. Thatll be a little while off. Live at the Smithsonian National zoo, derrick ward. Yeah. I think theyre so small. 188 grams apiece. A great day to go see bao bao because shes turning 2 today. The little babies are trying to steal her thunder. A wonderful day to get
News4 today starts now. Welcome back to news4 today. Im david culver. Im angie goff. Right now, at 9 00 a. M. , pandemonium, one of the viewers saying, pandapalooza. I like that one. People are bursting with excitement over the new twins here at the national zoo. We have new information from the News Conference that just wrapped up. You can hear them there. Smoke and alarms going off at a metro station. Why metro insists everything is just fine. Will he or wont he . The popup meeting indicating Vice President biden may make a run for the white house. A lot to cover. We sure do. We want to start with the two new panda cubs. Thats right. Mei xiang had twins. We are putting everything we learned about the little ones on the nbc washington app right now. Theyre the size of sticks of butter right now. So we have two sticks of butter. We have news4s derrick ward live at the national zoo where they say everybody is excited. But youre hearing from officials and theyre very cautious too, right
The way to germantown. Chuck . All right, outside, back to school. Everybody wants to know will you need to put the umbrella in the backpack . Yes, you will. Heres the live picture of the sky this morning. Still waiting on sunrise about 30 minutes away. But theres nothing on storm team 4 radar so were dry this morning. Current temperatures mid to upper 60s in the twes earn suburbs. Near 70 from the bayside area communities into the inside of the beltway. Commuter forecast, mild and dry here for the next hour or two. Sunny and plenty warm from 8 00 to 10 00 this morning. Nothing to worry about early on, but after lunch time today, after about 3 00 or 4 00, there will be a chance for showers and thunderstorms coming through as a cold front comes our way. Todays high up near 90 degrees. Back to you. All right, chuck, thank you. 6 01 now and today its back to school for thousands of students in the district. As you finish preparing the lunches and backpacks we want to let you know about so
28yearold david watson who escaped from a van taking him to a hospital in jessup. Chris gordon has the latest on the search. Reporter well, pat and jim, police tell me they are planning this search hour by hour. Lets go up overhead to chopper 4, as we tell you just recently they expanded the grid, the wider area now overwhich they are looking for the escaped prisoner. And theyre about to have to make the difficult decision of deciding whether to continue the search tonight, once it gets dark. The search team has found articles of clothing that the escapee was wearing when he fled into the woods. So they dont know exactly what he might be wearing right now. They dont believe he has a weapon, but he is considered dangerous. Hes currently serving a sentence of more than 100 years in delaware on attempted murder in addition to the delaware charges for conviction, hes also currently facing charges in another county for attempted murder. Reporter this evening, 28yearold david m. Watson is on