right now on news 4 this week, a wor zone warning. the speed camera ticketing more than 300 drivers a day. > a breakthrough that could save many lives. oy kidneysnce considered unfit for transplant may now make the cut. and you have the pencils and the new back packs, but is your child physically and menlly ady to return to class? >> we're working forou to help you get your family ready for school. >> announcer: welcome to news 4 this week. >> hello, everyone. i'm leonharris. back to school season is inri fl swint now. some virginia and d.c. students are already in class. more of them will be returninge next but as you cross off the items on your school supply list, don't forget aboour child's physical and mental health

needs. news 4's justin finch begins our team 'scoverage. talking with a doctor about things parents can do now to set up children for a healthy school year >> reporter: vaccinations and doctors exams are your usual requirements for students enrolling in school. bu don't let that be your child's only time seeing a doctor. in a or example, they're sport or want to start one. in that case, you should make an appointment.>> ou want to make sure that the heart is in good shapth that ey're ready to take on the sport. >> reporter: dr. kirkee newman yoef of children's national hospital is also a pediatric surgeon. he recommends routine back to school doctor's visits saying they grow more important as your child grows older >> having t conversations in those meetings maybe giving the child some alone time with the doctor so i they have any questions to build that relationship, so there's trust. >> reporter: for par of kids with allergies or other health

concerns, a back to school checkup can also be critical. >> if a child gets exposed to something that maybe they rea to, you want to have that plan in place whether they need, you an epipen, to get out of the trouble they're in, or they ed to go to an emergency department. you want to have that plan. you wt the school to know where to send the chilf >> reporter:'s your child's the first time or going to a new one, you may want to go to ease the nerves. >> they've seen the school, they know where the bus hegoes, to be dropped off. they have it in their mind, this isn't so hard. i can deal with this. >> reporter: justin finc news 4. >> some area schools are increasing or changing their security practices f the scho year. a virginia commonwealth university poll comey out this week shows that 76% of virginians believe their school is safe or very safe. but the state is split on how to keep those rates up. 36 believe that addressing

mental healths is most important. 41% say that increasing security should behe priority. 20% say they believe that mental health services and added security are both important. news 4's david culver takes us to fauquier county where armed guards are a part of n their safety plan. >> reporter: students are to seeing school resource officers like officer tyndall. new faces will be walking the halls all in an effort to keep your kids safe. frau o mailer isne of those new to the school. we caught up with him near warrenton. >> when i got dressed today, i'm like, i'm starting my new career. >> reporter: his new job, a school security officer or sso. he agreed to the position a day after he retired from virginia state police. he was a trooper for 29 yea. >> a lot of times in my previous job, we're reactives and t job i can be proactive. >> every one of our schools will

have at least an armed school security officer within that building. >> reporter: superintendent dr. david jacks says in high schools like kettleherun, t new ssos will often work alongside a sheriff's deputy resource officer like officer tyndall. >> good morning. s>> reporter: dr. jack i looking for candidates with a law enforcement background and those who can connect with young people. >> our school resource officers to now have good relationships with students. we expect and anticipate the ssos wl do the same thing. >> reporter: students like harperay they wanted more security especially after parkland. knowing this c will be i their halls. >> now we know officer kent wiln be somewherease of an emergency, we have someone else that wille able to get to us, help us out. >> reporter: he's take ing it all in, getting to know the school and community he'll protect and sv w hout the badge. in fauquier county,avid culver, news 4. >> news 4 is working for you, helping your family get ready for the schoo year on nbcwashington.com, you'll

find tips for saving money on school supplies and advice on getting kids bk on sleep schedule and tricks as well for organizing your famil. calend search back to school on our website. a northn virginiairl has quite a story to tell about her summer vacation because she helped deliver a baby in an apartment bathroom this week, and get this, she's only 10 years old. as newto4's shomari explains, she says that youtube helped her to find out what to do. >> i have a new cousin abe i'll excited when he comes home. >> reporter: khloe is a smart, quickhinking0-year-old in fairfax county. >> i read a lot and i write down a lot of str:f. >> reporhe's at home with her 21-year-old aunt dominique tuesday afternoon. dominique isn't feeling well. lks in the bathroom. suddenly -- >> she screamed my name saying, khloe. and i came. she's like, there's a baby. >> reporter: you rerd correctly, a baby. dominique gave birth in the

bathroom. >> she got in the bathtub and had the baby othe floor, but e had lost a lot of blood so she fell down and she passed out. so i grabbed the baby. i called 911. >> reporter: khloe takes action, cuts the umbilical cord, wraps and holds the baby. >> w tt do when a child is sick. >> reporter: you may ask how does she know wha to do. the internet. >> i watch youtu videos. >> reporter: moments later medics arrivend drive dominique and her baby to anova irfax hospital. meanwhile khloe's mother comes home. >> is this real, is this happening now? did i walk in the right hous >> reporter: you are in shock? >> very much so. >> reporter: that's because no e one knew dominas pregnant. >> she didn't tell anybody. i thought it was just her regular stomach. >> reporter: why didn't you let anyone know you wereant? >> i was scared. >> yeah.ter: scared? >> reporter: in a phone interview from her hospil bed, dominique tells me she's now

relieved. she and her newborn baby are healthy andesting thanks to khloe. >> i'm very proud of her. that makes me feel good. >> that makes me happy. >> reporter: in fairfax county, i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> big ups and a hh five to khloe. coming up, our i-team uncovers parking problems at a va center. heroes being forced to walk the length of three football fields to get

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one year ago, beltway speed cameras arrived in prince george's county and they are paying off for the state big time. we looked at the construction zone near the suitland road bridge. speed limit there, 55 miles an hour. an hour go 12 mile over that, a camera takes your picture and that happens more than 300 drivers a day, more than 120,000 tickets have een issued, costing drivers nearly

$5 million. >> there are still far too many motorists who are speeding with abject disregard for human life d limbs in this work zone. >> the construction near the suitland road bridge is expected to lastar for two mors, and that means the cameras will bemo there for tw years. when we comeback, we are working for your health. a new option that could radically change kidney donation processes here. meet a man who is thriving after receiving a kidney that, up until now, wasn't considered healthy enough to be healthy enough to be transplanted. aggressive yellow.

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>> when i'm hooked to a machine for four hou, three days a week, which after treatment from the dialysis, after being off that machine, my day was pretty much done. i mean, i coun't do anythin at the house. all i could do was get in the bed and rest. >> elliott stevens is talking about the kidney dialysis that kept him alive while he waited for a kidney he's a married father of two, active in his church for many years, a long career delivering packages for fedex.is when kidneys started to fail in his 50s, everything changed. with that dialysis schedule, he couldn't work. he couldn't travel. >> it just drained my body.t i couldo things with my daughters and go out with my wifeo dinner and things like that. >> but then about 15 months after he went on th transplant list, he got the late-night phone call he'd been hopin for. >> and it was georgetown hospital asking me that they said they found a match for me

as far as a kidney, would i be interested in it. and me and my wife, we embraced, and we were thankful. >> but there was a catch, and a big one. the donor kidney was infected with hepatitis c. it's a vir that can slow destroy your liver. stevens had to make a quick choice, reject the offer and spend years waiting for another donor, or take the infected kidney and spend the next three months taking medication to cure the hepatitis c. >> i took the chance, you know? becae i looked a my daughters and my wife and i said, you know, i want to spend more time with them. >> and so we looked for ways to not waste those kidneys. the last thing we want to do with 100,000 people waiting for kidneys is to waist aste any of. >> doctoral aleksandr drer gilford is dr. at georgetown university hospital. his team managedstevens'

successful kidney transplant. >> we wouldn't want to give it to just anybody. for example, patients who don do well on dialysis, who have exceptionally long times to wait, they're patients -- their onlyhoice for transplant y be to get hepatitis c positive kidney. >> mr. stevens was a candidate for thenf iected kidney only because he already h hadatitis c from a childhood blood transfusion, he says. now more than a yea after his transplant, he has a newidney and he's free from hep c. tthere are two thingst make this a life line for a lot of people waiting for kidney transplants. one, there are powerful new drugs available that can cure hepatitis c quickly and with few side effects, until this new study followed people who volunteered to take the hepatitis c infected kidneys. after treatment, all of the people in the virus.re free of >> which wasemarkable. >> dr. gilbert and the team at georgetown are helpful about this chance to help more people

who need kidney transplants. but before they can do that, more research is needed to confirm the results of this small study. lliott stevens has all the proof he needs and he wants to spread the word that this option works. >> i just feel grateful to give back wha someone hadiven me, and that's a second chance at life. >> that was doreen gentzler reporting. there's a lot more information about kidneys transplan georgetown hospital's website. we posted a link at cwashington.com for you there, so check it out. veterans struggling to get help tell a news 4 i-team they are often forced to walk long distances just to see their doctor. it turns out it's a because of huge parking problem at the va's medical center here in d.c. scott macfarlane and the i-team show us how even with an n'pointment, some military heroes say they caalways get to their care on time. >> reporter: getting most places takes just a little longer for

sequoia pointer these days. >> when you have a traumatic situation happen to you, you just, you just don't recover as fast as they think. >> reporter: three decades after serving in the u.s. army poiiger is fing another battle. he's recovering from aro stke, and still struggles to use his left arm and leg. youet aside 30 minutes just to find parking. >> just to find parking, yes. >> reporter: 30 minutes? >> yes, at least 30 minutes. >> reporter: but getting to his e d. ntments recently at cv a. medical center has turned into a lesson inie ps. you watched this. does that seem reasonable to you? >> no, not reasonable at all. >> reporter: the trip to the v.a.ars a mhon for her husband. we watched him unload the scooter then make the long trek from the back of the lot just to get inside. >> he's going to have to fight through the traffic, fight for a parking space, and t he's going have to fight to get in there and go wherever he's going and walk those halls with them. they're long. >> very long. >> reporter: when we first met

jonathan warwick, he was trying to navigate over a hill to his car in the v.a. parking lot. >> he just had two hips replaced. you have a fractured spine. did itu, occur to i shouldn't be walking this far to get to my doctor? >> you know, yes, i shouldn't have to be warrilking that far. >> reporter: the news 4 i-team und they had to walk distance after distance for a spot. we measured from the back row to the front door. more than 3ld/2 football fie each way. a third of a mile round trip. construction is underway on a new garage and they hope to open it by march. but in the meantime, there remains a confusing bottleneck of cars circling for spots. on this day the i-team watched patients dumped their cars on a grassy hill. drivers forced to unload their scooters before backing into nonaccessible spots. >> sometimes if i have a noon ap wintment, iould leave here about 8:00.

>> reporter: 8:00 in the morning? >> yes. >> reporter: manyays they tel us the lines spill off the grounds, adding to the congestion, they say,re a food trucks blocking drop-off space an back space to the entrance. >> parking access is something we hear about a lot. >> reporter: heather of paralyzed veterans of ameriis say thi a growing complaint at v.a. medical center. >> some veterans may not even be trying to go. >> exactly. >> reporter: internal records obtained by the i-team say they are aware of the problem, alling it an unacceptable deficiency and identifying dozens of parking issues at medical centers nationwide. >> it is a challenge. >> reporter: the martinsburg v.a. center has upgraded its parking lot and making changes einside to m the building easier to navigate, something jeffillers says takes time. >> modifying it to make it compliant isn't the thing to do and requires major investment. >> reporter: there is this big list of needs nationwide. does that surprise you? no.nfortunately,

>> reporter: she says the v.a. needs to be more mindful of thet impact constn can have on the veterans. >> setimes the small things are even more important. >> reporter: no one from d.c.'s medical center w uld talk to on camera. they told us the new garage yhould open as scheduled march and they've added shuttle service to help patients who can't findepots i meantime. that shuttle doesn't work ir you. >> no,t doesn't work for me because i carry a scooter. vi>> reporter: lng some like sequoia to fendhaor theve selves in this parking battle. scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> the i-team began askingv.he medical center in d.c. about these parking problems back in ju this week the center told us that they added some new shuttle buses to melp patientsove around that but at medical centers across the country, v.a. records show more than 5,000 accessibility needed. are open the nbc washington app and see the i-team series about problems inside the v.a g ju there and search veterans. 100 years ago women couldn't

vote, but one joined the marines. coming up, we take you to a new exhibit dedicated to honoring a century of service by women in the marine corps.

this week markshe 100-year anniversary of the first female marine. now the stories of women marines are coming to life in a newn exhibit arlington national cemetery.rs visito will see portraits and r memora memorabilia from different generation ands different wars. >> i hope people will come to see itor what it is. the history enclosed in this building spans not a long period of time, but what we have accomplished is huge compared to anything else, i think. >> a portion of that exhibit is dedicated to otha mayjohnson, the first female marine. later this month the women's

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