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WRC News4 Midday February 20, 2017

Time to go away. The 3yearold giant panda leaving for china tomorrow and getting a special sendoff here today. Molette joins us live from the national zoo. Reporter hey there, take a look, bao bao is putting on quite a show. Shes been climbing from tree to tree trying to scratch an itch, i believe. This is a day thats all about bao baos fans. She wows the crowd one last time, the final day to say bye to bao bao, so many snapped a picture in her national zoo yard. Some came dressed in panda ears with back packs and other gear and some brought more sentimental treasures. Ive had outfits for her but this one reporter ann lane witt came with her special stuffed panda and tears in her eyes. Ive been watching her since ten minutes after she was born. She is my baby in a lot of ways. From the very start her fans rooted for her survival. And three and a half years later, shes on the move. Love her so much. And i watched her when she was on the panda cam. Shell be fine but yeah, but its hard, going to miss her. Memories are forever. Her birth, on august 3rd, 2014, only the size of a stick of butter made headlines and made us fall in love. Every birthday a celebration that pushed her closer to her next chapter thousands of miles away. Sorry to see her go. The Fedex Panda Team makes final plans to fly her home as part of the Conservation Program with china. Cubs must make this trip by age 4. Some are hopeful for a reunion one day. Beacon of hope between china and the u. S. And were hoping the chinese will find it in their hearts to send her back perhaps to new york or looking to get pandas in 2020. Reporter back live with bao bao put on quite a show. Shes in a playful mood and the fans love it. Were eating all of this up. Zoo keepers say this time of year is the best time for her to make the 16hour flight during the cooler weather. The zoo is opening tomorrow at 12 00 p. M. To give the Fedex Panda Team time to get her on that flight, get her out of here on that flight in the morning. Were live here from a very crowded panda scene here national zoo. Bye bao bao. A pair of popular eagles could soon be parents again. Last night the American Eagle foundation announced that an egg was laid at the national arbore temperature tum. It could take 30 days for the newest edge to hatch. Going to see a lot of that happening soon with this kind of weather. Tis the season, right . Sheena, it feels a lot like spring today. I was going to say its already feeling like spring outside. Its going to continue as we go through the afternoon. Believe it or not, really this entire week is going to be unseasonably warm. Were up to 63 in the district. It is warming out there. Heres a look at the rest of the area. Mostly upper 50s and low 60s on the map. 53 quantico. Gaithersburg, 59 numbers will be continuing to rise for your president s day. A lot of people having today off. Heres the outlook if youre exercising, sunny and mild lunch, youll need sunglasses and it will stay sunny all day. Nice and dry and if you have dinner plans out tonight, its going to stay mild. Like i mentioned, ill show you how much warmer it will get this week and also i do have the forecast if you are going to say bye bye to bao bao. President trump will head back to washington after spending the weekend at his florida estate. It was a working weekend for the prtd. While speaking to supporters at the Campaign Style rally. Jay gray has the latest. Reporter President Trump begins the week still searching for a new National Security adviser. The president has said very clearly, that the new nsa director will have total and complete say over the makeup the nsc. Reporter over the weekend of the maralago resort, the president interviewed four candidates to replace fired nsa chief michael flynn. As pro muslim immigration rallies continue across the country, the white house is set to unveil a new executive order for a reinstated travel ban while new draft memos signed by the Homeland Security secretary, outlines to speed up deportation plans for undocumented workers. This will have a rippled affect, affecting legal immigrants and u. S. Citizen as well. The president says the measures are aimed at getting criminals out of the country. Get them the hell out of here. Bring them back to where they came from. The president also continued his attack on the media. They have their own agenda and their agenda is not your agenda. As his administration controversial agenda. And the debate over immigration could intensify with secretary of state Rex Tillerson as well as Homeland Security chief john kelly set to travel to mexico later this week. Jay gray, nbc news, washington. Happening now, people across the country are preparing to take to the streets to trally against President Trump. It could be a similar scene so what ke saw in places like chicago yesterday. Its part of the not my president s rallies today. Some of the biggest protests are expected to take place in philadelphia and los angeles and rally scheduled for washington at 2 00 p. M. Thousands of people are expected to head to George Washingtons virginia estate by the end of the holiday weekend. Some folks celebrated early at mount vernon. This morning there will be a wreath laying at washingtons tomb. Wednesday would have been the 285th birthday of the the u. S. Postal service is kmemrating the birthday of john f. Kennedy, a forever stamp was dedicated about an hour. Youll be able to buy the stamp at post offices across the country starting tomorrow. About a year from now, visitors to monticello will see the bedroom of sally hemmings, Thomas Jeffersons slave. The story believes he fathered four of her children. Its now being restored and will include artifacts found on the property as well as furniture from the era. The lights are expected to be on again tonight at the washington monument. Last night that was not the case. National park Service Electricians had to fix the lights that illuminate the monument. The red aviation lights were working normally. This is the third time theres been an issue with lights there. The monument is closed until 2019 for elevator repairs. E morning for a missing d. C. Teen. Take a good look. Police say the 16yearold went missing from maryland avenue near tenth street northeast last thursday. She hasnt been seen since. If you see her or know where she is, please contact police. Theres much more ahead on news 4 midday. Including a look at your credit card and how you use it. What you may need to know if youve been using the same one for a while. The National Park service is celebrating president s day by letting you into its more than 400 parks for free. Thameans things like entrance fees and commercial tour fees are waived, that could save you 3 to 30 bucks, there are a lot of National Parks in the backyard you can check out today. Today is president s day and first major sales holiday of the year. A lot of retailers are having store wide sales so clear items left from the holidays and one of the biggest car buying holidays of the year. Comparison shopping site fat wallet said you can find significant savings on Home Appliances now through march. Before you hit the stores today were working for you to tell you just how to spot whether is something is really on sale. Theres always something checkbook. Org found perpetual sales are on the increase. Kohls and macys are the worst offenders, they lure you in by advertising special low prices that are the same price most of the year. Dont get sucked in about a special offer or sales price, often the sales price is going to be around the next week or next month. Sears disagrees with the findings and says it complies with advertising laws and macys says its pricing varies for each item and kohls didnt respond to request for comment. If youve been using the same credit card for the past decade, youll want to check this out. How you can score some deals with a simple switch. Obviously Credit Card Companies want you to dump the old and switch to their new. Whats in your wallet. Millions of us arent interested. A new credit cards. Com survey of a 1,000 consumers found in many wallets the old or very old. 30 Million People said theyve gone at least a decade without changing their go to credit card. Credit card. Coms matt shultz says at 20 million have never changed cards. If you havent reshoped your card in the past couple of years, you might be missing out on really great deals. Reporter c nbcs kelly grant says competition has reached the point that nearly all have raised rewards and signup bonuses while luring thieves and Interest Rates. Youre getting zero for Interest Rates some some cases roughly up to two years. Reporter even with staying with your current card, at least do comparison shopping. You can use better terms with your current credit card issuer. And be more willing to switch. Chris clackum, nbc news. Getting stuck between baltimore and richmond on 95 can be a real headache. Theres a not so secret route that some drivers take along 3401. The Virginia Department of transportation is making sure that route doesnt also become clogged with cars. Vdot is trying to push the more scenic highway as an alternative and the hope is to push more cars in that direction which three huge interchange products get under way on i95. Vre is considering making a ride to work more expensive and want to hear what you think, a 3 hike would take effect on july 1st. The price for an amtrak stepup ticket would go up 2. The first hearing at noon at the crystal city marriott in arlington and an evening that same day at the Commons Community center in burke. While spring is not here yet and if youre already thinking about summer and travel plans, you may want to budget a little extra for gasoline. Prices are expected to inch upward. Right now gas prices are pretty steady, about 2. 28 per gallon per regular here. Thats the same as the national average. The prices are about 50 cents higher than they were a year ago. Aaa says expect to see higher prices soon as refineries switch the gas to the summer blend. Food allergies can be frightening for kids and its scary for you when you have your your kids have them. Were kicking off a week about your health and food. Doreen gentzler talked to people trying to prevent nut allergies before they get started. One of the most serious Food Allergies out there is to nuts, especially peanuts and it can be hard on kids and parents. That was very difficult because i to ingredients and i would pick stuff up and buy it taen go home. And i really had to read the ingredients even look for peanut oil. Peanut is the most concerning allergy we have because it is the most fatal or potentially fatalal earl gee in the united states. So by that i mean in terms of all of the Food Allergies, it is the one most likely to cause severe reactions in the united states. New guidelines on how to handle peanuts in a childs diet shook up conventional thinking last year. The most recent study has looked at introducing peanuts early in order to prevent development of peanut allergy. Sasha started slowly and so far so good. Started with they suggested a tea spoon of Peanut Butter and weve been giving her that and Peanut Butter cookies and sandwiches, no reaction. Speak with your doctor about your childs diet. They will probably want to run tests and look for other allergies and well ask you about your background as well. Were talking about food all week. Tomorrow well look at gluten free diets, healthy or just hype. Well have your news 4 for your Health Report tomorrow and get more details in the nbc washington app. In other news for your health, countrys leading pediatrician says women who use opioids during pregnancy need to be helped not punished. Improving strategies like Prescription Drug monitoring and treatment programs. Experts say women have to be able to discuss drus ug without the fear of punishment. For people with autism, the challenge with communication and social skills can make it difficult to find their place in the workforce. But thats changing at one American Company which has found build a career and fulfill their dreams. Nbcs ann thompson has the details. After working his way through college at a recycling center. Jeff gephart is on a career path at ford. Applied for 1,000 or more jobs. Reporter his job search took a year and a half until he discovered this joint effort by ford and the Autism Alliance of michigan to employ adults with autism. It is estimated as many as 80 to 90 of the adults like jeff are unemployed or underemployed. Do you have a natural apt tud for . Ive always been good with numbers. Reporter jeff is using his skills in the automakers Products Development division. Kristen says ford looks for jobs that are highly structured and require great focus and then strain the new hires and their coworkers. Helping them understand to communicate in a very direct style. That was one of the key learnings they had to learn about. Jeff is one of fords first four hires under this program that will now expand to 24 this year. The company says its been overwhelmed by the positive response of its employees, many of whom have family members or know someone with autism. An opportunity that is his mothers dearest hope. I think finding a place where he fit in has been both of our dreams for him for a long time. And have a career path sort of tied into that is just everything the whole package. Jeff is now focused on his future and savering the experience. The best part of working here is the people absolutely. Reporter when inclusion is job one. Ann thompson, nbc news, dearborn, michigan. A reunion on the basketball what some are saying about kevin durant and his old teammates. How long will this wonderful spring weather last . Sheena parveen will break it all down for us. Time heals old wounds here hopefully. Kevin durant left the Oklahoma City thunder for the golden plays with former teammate russell westbrook, especially this one. Analysts are saying its possible they made peace. Even their allstar teammates cheered them on. The game was pretty epic, record setting, the western conference beat the east 192182 and Anthony Davis scored 52 points. John wall did get play time and scored 12 points there. Now that the allstar game is over the wizards are coming back home and play the philadelphia 76ers this friday night. The nationals get back into action this week with their first spring training game. Brice harper and max scherzer are dealing with High Expectations for themselves this year. News 4s carol malone shows us what they are up to in florida. Reporter it only mean one thing, the and baseball is back. Opening day is six weeks away. Full squad workouts are under way for the Washington Nationals who are ready to rise and shine this spring. Right now a lot of people think you have the team and tools and have world series as a goal. Has that been the message, met with the team what did you say to them . I cant say everything but you know but i did tell them that a were in a position to win. Weve got a lot of economy tigs and a lot of depth and we come here to win. Were not going to take any president ene president prisoners, you cant think about your window, what we have to do today and boom, what we have to do tomorrow. In west palm beach, florida, carol maloney, news 4 sports. Looking good. Its going to be a fun time when baseball gets rt oh, yeah. Were more than ready for spring. And tomorrow were hoping theres good weather for bao baos farewell. There will be good weather. Its bitter sweet the weather so so nice, were saying get out and say bye bye. The weather today feeling like spring. Its really nice outside and hopefully youre able to enjoy the weekend. Theres bao bao, 1 year old, what a cutie pie. As we go through the rest of the day, bao bao had an cake. By 4 00 p. M. It will be warm out there to see him. 67 degrees. Feeling like spring. 10 00 tomorrow morning when bao bao leaves the zoo for china. The weather will be cooperative, upper 40s. President s day looking gorgeous, weather. No freezing forecasts so well stay unseasonably mild. 63 already in the district. 63 in quantico. Frederick and gaithersburg, 59. We had 60s on the map and those will continue for the afternoon. If youre grilling out by happy hour time, around 67 degrees. Dinner time, 63. Staying dry. Heres a look at future weather. We go through this afternoon nice and dry and sunny and more clouds tomorrow and stay dry. Wednesday well start to increase the rain chance, especially south and there is a possibility that we could see showers early thursday morning. Well be watching this closely but look at these numbers, thursday, 74 for a high temperature. Thats about 25 degrees above normal and better rain chance as we start off the weekend. More details coming up. A lot of folks are celebrating the weather in our area but thats not the case to our west. Look at the rough weather system moving through california when we come back. California are being dump d on right now. A lot are worried about their safety. People stuck in floods and mudslides and more worries now about that eroding dam. Nbcs miguel from San Francisco. Reporter were on the leading edge of this massive storm system. Its expected to drop 5 inches of rain and 65mileperhour winds. The start of a twoday weather maker. This morning Northern California is bracing. The rain and wind are just arriving in a region already pummeled by a series of deadly storms. Across the bay area, and in sacramento, rivers will rise and roads can flood and more dangerous mudslides like these are in the forecast. In the town of maxwell, neighbors are rescued from a flood over the we

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