welcome to "news4 this week." >> hi everyone i'm veronica johnson. we're going to show you the more interesting local stories making news this week. among them new wheels days after a hartless crime. a little boy has a new wheelchair in his independence back. plus from the council to the strip club the surprising new venture jim graham is getting into after decades of public service. and second chances. we meet shelter dogs who are getting ready for a new home thanks to some trainers who need some healing of their own. but we begin with the story that had the entire nation talking this week. a florida man landed his gyro copter on the lawn of the u.s. capitol. he is now on house arrest in

florida. the flight is raising major questions about the security of airspace above the district. news4's 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 you'd never expect to see. certainly not after 9/11. a 61-year-old 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 what's stopping someone else who has bad intentions? >> reporter: norad said they didn't know the flying lawn chair was there until, well, after it was there. on the hill congresswoman

eleanor holmes-norton says she's concerned about overreaction by security officials. >> this is the people's house and senate and it is where they come. we don't 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 didn't enough advance notice, should have listened to guys in tampa more. no this is a gap that needs to be fixed. >> reporter: i'm 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 joshua's story.

11-year-old 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. he's really happy to use it. prince georges county police say the thief who stole joshua's wheelchair is heartless and they will continue to search for that person. well there's 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 re-election.

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. that's 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? >> that's something we're 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 he's going to do now? >> i don't know. >> reporter: he's 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. >> we're 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 they're 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 ship's 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. they're 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. there's no baby bonding here. the goal is to keep them in tune with the wild as much as possible. >> i'm trying to transition to bowl feeding so i don't 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. >> they're cute but wild. if you see an abandoned baby animal in the wild, don't approach it. call wildlife officials for help. well they've 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 he's a high school student and a stand-in parent. the huge surprise a northern virginia teen got for making so

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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. she's a trail blazer who spent years working at the pentagon. frank braxton just turned 100. he's happy to talk about the things that he's seen over the years. >> what's 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, he's 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 she's 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 didn't know you could do that with a dog. >> he's done a 360 on me. like i never sought therapy, never at home stuff like that. to be able to talk about my problems. >> it's like -- it's like we're able to bring a certain peace to everyone involved. >> reporter: on this day, miley and alfie are graduating. they've completed their training and they're 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. i'm like oh man, i'm going to end up writing something really nice for this dog. >> reporter: after today's graduation the inmates gave the dogs to their new owners. >> thanks for training my dog. >> he taught me a lot of stuff.

he's helped me learn how to -- something, let them go and know it's 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 9-year-old 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. >> he's amazing. caleb will continue the family tradition, headed to west point this summer. phenomenal. it's 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.

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edition of "meet your street" as she tracks down the origin of livingston road. >> reporter: on all my "meet your street" adventures there's a road i'm asked about again and again. time to learn a little something. we're 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 you'd 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, it's 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, it's 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 it's named for, but i don't. >> 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. it's 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 didn't rebuild that next time because it was just enough. they'd had enough. >> reporter: the mill is gone now, but the name remains. in prince georges county news4. >> love those. from melissa. he's 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. living with chronic migraine

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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 zoo's giant panda when she's ready to mate this spring. the zoo says this is the first time it's 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 wasn't 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.

let's see if they're really bold enough to stand up and admit to being bullies. that's the first part. you know if you can have people admit to it and take up to their responsibilities and ownership, i mean that's where you start from and there figure out how you need to nip it in the bud. >> that's right, fess up. jackson has been doing this for eight years and is still in touch with some of the kids he's called up over the years. well, that's all for "news4 this week." i'm veronica johnson. thanks for joining us. we leave you with time lapse video of lightning. you know what i'm talking about. from our severe storms that moved through this week. until next time remember be safe be kind be happy. bye-bye, 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