China. China well take you live to the to t special send off ceremony. And later, a shocking shock confession from a former teen heart throb. Hear David Cassidy opening up about t his battle with dementia. Tia good day at 9a starts now. We got a lot to get to on aet t tuesday everyone. Tuesday back at it after the long lon holiday weekend. Eend we say good day d. C. Tuesday february 21st is the date. Im holly morris alongside allison and steve. Teve maureen has the morning off. Of. Well have much more from tht national zoo. Panda express has arrived. Rr the panda first is just chillin right now. Shes sleepy. Hes resting up for the big journey shell gtio fromng uo washington all the way halfway h touchup in a and Bob Barnard Isa there for the special zen off zf ceremony. So well check in with breob inb just a couple of minutes keeping very close eye on bao bao. She needs to be active now n she sleeps on the plane. Pla right. Right. Thats a long ride. Ide. Exactly. First before we get to any of af that normally well check inheck with Tucker Barnes but first wew have to talk about traffic tff because thats an issue. I. First day back from holidayolid weekend came to crawl inawl i Northern Virginia after a deadly onecar crash along route 28 overnight. Nit a woman in the car involved was thrown from the vehicle. Ic a man was also hurt. Hur he is now facing dui charges. Rg. The road is now open but thehe backup lingering for hours thisi morning. Not much better on metro. Et there were major delays on thest red line this morning after aftr work car derailed overnight. That left trains single trackinn about Judiciary Square and noma gallon lou yet university until just about an hour ago much nowh that thats out of the way lety talk about the weather because b that is definitely one brighty e spot thats out there. Th today. Little less sun, temperaturespee might feel a little warm but definitely doesnt feel like our normal february. Ruar tucker is back with a check ofhf the forecast. Cast. Hey, tuck. Uck hey, guys. Ey, bao bao its like shes going tt disney land. Disney all shes known is family. Y shes going to get there and bed like, hey, panda man. Hey, hey. Ey thats the whole reason shee going back. I know. [ laughter ] to be on the prowl. If thats pretty gross. Im just saying. G [ laughter ] 44 in washington. To thanks allison for breaking itt down. Winds out of the eastutf thet southeast at five. Soheas wind chill 42. Nd chi2. Yeah, its not of course the t february cold were used to,d t, although it has been a little le cool out this morning and cloudc cover making for beautifuleautul sunrise it will be a partly too mostly cloudy day. Day you can see the clouds we have e across the mid atlantic well hold temperatures down justnus little bit from where we wereree yesterday and the day before. More like upper 50s to 60s today. Should be dry day even with with cloud cover and winds out of tht east here lock cooler than yesterday. Te heres quick look at youruick ly tuesday forecast. Ouy fore and well go 50s, upper 50s to0o about 60 here in the city withiy mostly cloudy skies. Dry today. Oday. Ill be back momentarily withtaw the seven day and weve got lots and lots of spring on it. Ring oi so if you love the 70s, we had a couple days ago, theyll be back. I do. Thanks, tuck. Happening right now President Trump is at the National Museum ofent tr africanamerican history and culture this morning. Or this comes as the president si enters his second month inonth i office and developing overnightg he filled another cabinetet sitition. Our Melanie Alnwick is live from the National Mall with thelith latest this morning. Mng good morning. Reporter the president side trump has spent his first monthm fulfilling his promises to theo American People and one of thoso is a visit here to the nationala museum of africanamericanri history and culture. Large contingent of security here. Here. Dc police as well as all those snowplows forming a securityity barrier all the way around thedt mu after this visit, of course, theres some lunches and other meetings that President Trumpntu will take part in includingnclug later this afternoon meeting meg with the National Securityity council and his new nationalio security adviser. Now in florida yesterday it wasa a typical surprise announcement that President Trump is known tw for a hastily called potty towpw op to reveal this pick for F National Security adviser adv Lieutenant General h mcmaster. Mcmaster fought in both iraq war wars as chant of the armys integration Capability Center but mcmasters job was ton capat predict future threats and and americas capability to meetilyo them. He also wrote a book that calle out the us governmena bot for wt he called lies that led to the vietnam war. War general mcmaster will remain onn active duty while leading thedit National Security council. A man of tremendous talents n and tremendous experience. Nce i watched and read a lot overve the last two days. Ay he is highly respected byct ever were very honored to have him. Id like to what privilege it is to continue serving our our nation. Im grateful to you for that tha opportunity. Reporter and theres also action expectedr t andoday onoy Homeland Security the whitete house expect to do sign off on new orders that would hire 10,000 more ice agents and put 5,000 more Border Patrol agentse in the feel. Hospital priority now for dhs as written out in these new memosem the removal of criminal aliens focusing on those charged with w or convicted of crimes including abusing Public Benefit programsr and so back out here live here on the National Mall, again wege saw early this morning presidene trump arriving with his daughtee ivanka, theyre being shownho around the museum by director do lonnie bunch, dr. Ben carson c along with them as well. With tm we know there are four floors ii euis museum. Lots to see no indication yetioy how much time theyll spend herr on the National Mall. Back to you guys. You gu very much. , th 9 06 isve the time. Time. Developing overnight, bombom threats were called in to at least 11 jewish communityom Centers Across the country cou yesterday including centers inrs tam park houston and chicago. Since the start of the yearr nearly 60 Jewish Centers haveav received threats. Ts the fbi is investigating. Ivanka trump who converted toedt jew dee i released thissed thi statement on twitter last night. Meanwhile some more bad newo forme mile low yann populous. Hes been diss invited from fro appearing at the ace they are uses conservative political polc action conference. Cpac chairman says he was disss invited because in a video he is seen condoning pedophilia. Ophil. His comments have also caused ac him to lose his 205 tee thousann book deal with shy simon and a schuster of the. Hu the capitol could be at risks of losing 1 billion in federall funding a cut in mon sanctuary cities like d. C. So how is d. C. Preparing . Paring earlier this morning allison haha chance to speak with theh t citys administrator forat f insight. T. What you have to realize is,z in terms of what can be withhele or what the impact is, it row ir reel deal pence on what thiss administration does. Does theres some grants we get as a any other state gets across thee country formula grants set ins e law and sot we think that thehe Administration May have a tought time removing those kinds off dollars. Llars. Exactly what the fiscal impactlt will be and then what the resulting cuts might be or impacts to programs its toos early to see. What were focused on is makingk sure that we live up to the values that are important to our residents. It is still unclear exactlyle which dc agencies could beou be affect the by a cut in funds. Un he said it was too earl totot see a dollar amount and what anw agencies as he mentioned. As mn all right. You see it on the screen now. Ow theres no turning back. Ack. Its happening, folks. Clock is winding down on bao and just about an hour she willl go to Dulles Airport where a private plain waits to carry her to her new home in china. Fox5s bob barnard wanted to see her topple that top tier. Ier bob barnard is live at the a t national zoo with the detailsai much shes taking a little restr now. Good morning. Reporter heygood, allison ad gang. Good morning. Yeah, she can sleep on the plane so i dont know why shes not uu and about but she has been. B in that video you showed thatd t was like a seven teared ice cake they gave her yesterday. Stday that was yesterday at the zoo in the shape of chinese pagoda anda she wowed the crowd as she as played with it, knock it apart and ate it and her face got alll red when she was licking the dye colored ice now as you see thisi is live picture of her here. Shes just chilling out werechl told by zoo officials in about 15, 20 minutes theyre going too take her inside. Ins they will get her in the cratenr and move us out of this panda exhibit area to where at about the crate on a forklift headingt to the truck i can show i washo picture of the truck that awaiti her out front. T this is the video. Ths th theyve been training her. Been a this is bao bao. Inthiss bao this is video of her gettingti used to the crate that sheste t going to be in for the 16hour o flight that leaves around 1 30 this afternoon from dullesulles directly to china which is in central china. Ral ch shell have about a twohour th truck ride when she gets toso china. So this is it. Sos is and this is a fascinating shotho right up close. Clo this is the crate that will take her to china youll see as they hand crank the gate open shell go in there and through theere h holes in the background theree,e they have been able to feed herr she will have inside this cratee were told 55 pounds of bamboo,o some apples and Sweet Potatoesot and theyll be able to feed her water through those holes. Rougho you can see her there. Here. Thats what the zoo the zookeeper and then theres ahers veterinarian who are going fly f with her and theyll be able toe kind of give her nourishment water through the holes and through the greats there but but then shell have the bamboo andn apples and Sweet Potatoes with her in the crate. Te theres a photo of the trucko ou that will take her downn connecticut avenue throughugh woodley park on her way out toyt Dulles Airport leaving here her again at about 10 15 thishis morning, guys. Uy we plan to have a car following her and skyfox will be up aboveo and there she is much shes juss chilling out. Probably has no idea after threr and a half years shell bel leaving today the only homey hoe shes ever known and some peoplo on our facebook life have beene saying does she get a chance too say goodbye to her mother andotr father who are in adjacent compounds. Nds. The answer is no. Shell be put in the crate. Mei xiang and tan didnt hernth father and mother have no idea i theyre daughter born three andd a half years ago at the zoo is o going to leave. Ea staying behind will be bei bei b who is about 18 months old and d we are told that bei bei iss already begun has beg weaning process and will move into this compound which hasco been bao baosmpou alone. This will be bei beis home anda theyll have the three pandaan bears remaining here in three tr different yards. Guys, and there she is gettingsg ready to say goodbye to washington, d. C. Bao bao leaving for china laterr today. Hopefully not having travelge remorse right there. Contemplating. Bob, you know, it sounds kind of cold not being able to, you knoo v that last contact with her mom and dad. But has she really had a lot ofo interaction with them since sin shes been in this separate enclosure . Do they really hangg out together . He reporter not at all. They have separate yards andar a separate indoor spaces. Bei bei is still with mei xiangg his mom but hes 18 months oldnd and were told very soon will be separated. Its been about two years sinces bao bao has seen her mother anda father who are right here at the zoo. Wow. But they just do not interacr at all. At all theyre right next door. Door and the compounds are veryre vy similar. These outdoormi yards and then t indoor pens if you come here her later this afternoon the zoo is closed till noon. Cl if you come here thisos afternon and bao bao is gone, you will see tian tian, may junk and bei bei hes a lot smaller but growing and already weaning frog his mother. S er again will take over this pen any day now basically. Im pretty sure i think thata the babies are actually takeny n away from the father right aftea birth and theyre just with thet mom. Mo thats just the nature o things. Reporter thats right. Thin now shete hr as to get used o social interaction when she goes to china shell be in the midst of a whole bunch of pandas, pda right, bob. Right, b reporter yes, thats true. Theres a chance were told that shell meet her older brother br tyshon who left here in 2010. 01 thats funny. Thats fu the last one to leave here. And they will start breeding her so bao bao will become a motherr herself but in china. Not here. He. Shell never come back basically. Sica but shell have what were toldl is a good live in china, and inn fact the chi be here as she leaves the national zoo. So the top representative fromam the government of china will bel here at the zoo this morning too say goodbye to bao bao as well. L i was hearing one report that they said where shes going its the best bamboo in the world. Shell be okay then. The [ laughter ][ thanks so much, bob. So m bob thanks, bob. Thanks, bob in the meantime other newsthw this morning. D. C. Self proclaimed salsa queen found dead in her bed afteredft night out on theown. Ow well row wine to the crime. Nora brother seeking justice fof his sister a decade after thatea murder. The tabloids are calling it a star mangled banner. Mangled ban well show you the bigne mistakm behind the vicepresident durinn his visit to brussels. Russels. Stay with us much its 9 14. 4. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house th 150 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 40 songs, and jan can upload 180 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. Get 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month for the first year. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Z25eiz z16fz y25eiy y16fy we invited women to a spa to test a new body wash. Dish soap. 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How could someone do this to nori . Nori theres times i want to wakeo up and just call her. I want to hear her voice. Vce i want to go out and have a h drink with her. Er we always went out and had our o wine together. And you cant. t and theres nothing you can do. I completely understanding ofano the facthat shes gone. Which i wasnt before. Bor reporter after his sisteris was killed, carlos struggleded with his emotions he closed the restaurant on u street and movev to houston but it didnt last. As something was pulling him back. In a sense i felt i didnt d want to give up but i needed ada break and it didnt work. Idn w. I had to get back to d. C. Reporter he reopened thehe restaurant on connecticut avenue. And kept calling police and prosecutors. Osec whats being done to close the case . Case . Any updates . Where are we . Any developments . And it sort of kind of went the same way fof the last seven years. Years reporter on halloweenloween night 2009 a saturday nori workr the early shift at the at restaurant before slipping outsp for the evening. The self proclaimed salsa queenn of d. C. Wanted to dance. Reporter she went to the toe rum ba cafe on 18th street stree where she had been dating the owner. Before heading to the russia house and then to bravo bravo. Ra where she met up with herit h regular dance partner, but she t didnt stay long. On and took a cab home. Thats nori walking into the woodener lobby 2 30 in the0 he morning. Morning. She stops brief toll talk with t someone at the front desk before checking her male and walking wi down the hallway. Wh from nori, carlos heads to the apartment monday morning butng b gets no answer. Wer. And by monday afternoon, he, he feels something is terribly wrong. Thats carlos and his younger sister blanca checking in at the front desk when carlos and hisss sister made it inside her 11thet floor apartment here at theat t woodener, they found her in bed wrapped in a comforter she was w still dressed in her underwearer but she had clearly been murdered. When homicide investigatorsto arrived and began to examine the body, they found somethingomethg chilling. Something that shook the veteran investigators. They discovered all of herall h fingernails had been cut off apparently in attempt to keep k police have getting any dna. To me its just incredible to see and to really understanderad that theres someone that can do that. That is unique. Reporter what happened inppi those first couple of days . Coupa well, the first couple ofir u days, we were able to definitelt conduct numerous interviews. We just did not arrive at the t point of developing a truee suspect in the case. Ase so even today, were hoping that someone will come forward with any information relative to what happened. Happ the cause o