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right now on "news4 this week," investigations going digital. ho a local maryland county is using digital forsics to solve crime cases. also a witness to history. a long-time d.c. journalistre ects on the 50th anniversary of the washington plays and the stories told about the lgbtq community. plus women giving back. aan local orgation helping to provide clothing for women, and how it inspired one woman to help others in need. >> announcer: "welcome to "news4 this week." >> hello, everyoneeo i'm l harris. there is a new team of cyber sleuths in charles county. the sheriff's office there just opened up the doors to a new digital forensics lab in

waldorf. as derrick ward explains, this new invtigative tool is the result of lessons learned from a disturbing case in the county. >> as technology grows, the sheriff's office and law enforcement entities have to grow alongha with technology. >> reporter: the charles county sheriff's office just unveiled its new digital forensics lab in waldorf. it's meticulous work. not as glamorous as a tv show but it has some big payoffs. >> from august2018 to may 2019 ourav analysts he examined nearly 500 devices covering all types of crimes. >> reporter: 20 of those cases were child-related investigations. it was a notorious charles county child abuse case that led to the creation of the unit last year detectives lenders that this man, carlos bell, had molested 42 children. he had taken pictures of some of the acts on his cell phone. >> everyone is using their devices for everything these da

days. the criminal element is no different. >> reporter: during the bell cevestigation to get at that critical eviden charles county had to farm the work out to the state police lab, which a means they to get in line with other cases from all over maryland. it took six months. >> but we no longer have to wait for an outside source. we can initiate these searches immediately. >> reporter: this work still takes time and investigators still have to secure the proper warrants to search a phone or computer, but the forensics investigators can be called on 24 hours a day, and ahat makes difference. they can alsoce enhan digital video from surveillance cameras, another emerging technology. it's moving counties like charles county into a safer future for its residents in. in waldorf, derrick ward, news4. the sheriff's office says they also plan to use the new lab to assist other counties with their cyber investigations. now, chen ites to the airport, how early do you get there? do you give yourself plenty of time or do you wait until t last minute and then walk right onto the plane?

that's a debate we have seen can split a family apart. transportation reporter adam tuss is finding out there are plenty of travelers on both ades. >> reporter: there two types of airport travelers in those world. those who get to the airport early. and those who don't. >> i'm not going to make it, i'm not going to make it. >> etely or la what is it? >> la, unfortunately. >> early, very early. my flight is at 5:30. i'm here at 1:00. >> reporter: the "atlantic" magazine wrote an article on this paradigm of punctuality. so of course we had to take a sampling here at reagan national airport. how early is early? hour, two hours? day before? >> i would say i like to get an hour and a half. >> reporter: donna's friend is the opposite, last-minute. listen to this situation she

found herself in while racing for a flight. >> the cab locked my baggage in the trunk. they locked the careys when they stopped to get gas. >> stop it. >> yeah, they lost the trunk key. the policeman tried to shoot it open. the policeman tried to shoot the trunk open? >> yes. >> reporter: somehow she made that flight with with her e. luggag now, psychologists have actually commented on this. they say it's not that the early airport arriver is really any different than the last-second airport sprinter. we're all just trying to cope with the anxiety of a stressful situation like flying in different ways. we heard from some families where husbands and wives will take separate cars because one wants to be early and the other late. maya is a late arriver. she hasn't been burned yet. >> everybody thinks i'm ridiculous. e how close are we talking? do your just walk straight to the plane? >> usually about with five or ten minutes till rboarding. >>orter: as for me, don't be

surprised if you see me running through the airport. at reagan national, adam tuss, news4. >> all right. just for reference sake, the officials at the airport, who should sknow, that you should be two hours early for domestic flights a three hours early for international flights. now, when you donate clothing, you often don't find it where it ends up or w ends up helping. this week, we introduce you to a northern virginia organization that gives a name and a story to every person receiving a donated piece of women giving back is this week's harris' hero. inside this store in loudoun county, you'll find dresses, shoes, purses, and some incredible stories of resilience, like nicole lewis' story. >> i struggle with 17-year drug ad pction. i wasgnant with my twins and i was tired of being tired. i ended up out here in the shelter. in turn from the shelter, i ended up here at women's giving back. >> you're coming here with

twins, with 3-week-old hetwins. >> w i first walked in the door, i was broken. >> reporter: even though many women who come here find themselves broken, the volunteers who work here are w readling and able to build them back up. >> we understand what clothing a means, wt it matters, how it can empower you and make you feel better. >> reporter: women giving back is a nonprofit organization that provides free quality clothing to women and their childr. caseworkers referred the clients to the organization. the entire staff is made up of volunteers like rebecca geller. >> helping women to look for clothes for their jobs, for their careers, for their lives, for their families. a lot ofre these women who have been survivors of domestic violence. >> reporter: this organization is all about women helping women ptting each other u for success in their careers and in life. >> we oftentimes forget that outfits andio professnal clothing does not come naturally for someone. >> reporter: the moms can also

ick up clothes and toys for their kids. >> she had a problem so we were looking for a dress for her and i ended up good for myself too. mind to t frees the be able to go find a job and go take care of housing and thehi other tngs that they need to do that are really important to get themselves on track. >> reporter: nicole now works for this organization as a volunteer. she said this place was a divine intervention for her life. >> for me it was everything. women giving back is part of my current foundation. after i came, they stuck with. me >> you came here to get clothes but left here with something for your soul. >> exactly, exactly. >> how cool is that? >> it's amazing. >> if you'd like to learn more about women giving, back just visit our nbc washington app and search harris' heroes. building relationships tween police and theommunity they serve. we'll show you. how d.c police are making some children's summer a little brighter.

plus a witss to history while at the washington blade. we sit down with a journalist who covered the lgbtq commufoty in d.c. r the last 50 years. lgb inye.c. for the last 50 ars.

as d.c. s tr as d.c. struggles to stop the onslaught of gun, violence some officers are trying to build relationships by building bikes. chris gordon reports from the d.c. armory in southeast washington. >> 100 bikes built by police from seven local jurisdictions. d.c. police chief peter newshom gets down to the nuts and bolts explaining why this is so important. >> all the things weo in the community building bikes, the different things we do in the schools withids is about building relationships with kids at a very young age. they loo p atice officers and know that police officers are people too and police officers ca be their friend. >> reporter: this project is national by the organization of black law enforcement executives.

>> we want to make sure that the community understandst law enforcement is a resource. a lot of times it's seen as an adversary, and we understand that while we're n perfect, we are not all bad. >> most of these people have never built a bike before and at's why they're working in teams trying to figure it out, but they all are hoping that they will do some good when these bikes are delivered to high-crime areas throughout the district, virginia and maryland. philip pinnel, executive director of the ana costa coordinating council tracks crime in ward 8. >> there are so many families in this community, they can't afford bicycles for the children, so i think it's a tremendous idea. >> reporter: these bikes built here in the d.c. armory can make a big f difference many local youngsters this summer. chris gordon, news4. 1969, a timef civil unrest in america. one of the movements gaining mentum was the fight for

equality within the lgbtq community. ahead, the d.c. reporter behind one of the first newspapers in the u.s. dedicated to the life and concern of the lgbtq community. plus, tracing your family roots. how doing that led some people from outside the u.s. to the smithsonian council in d.c. why? i can't handle beltway traffic anymore. i gotta get in the express lane. you're kind of freaking us out. you know what? just try waze carpool. it matches drivers and riders who are headed in the same direction - that way you can say hi to the express lane, and share the cost of the commute. but what about davide? and victoria? seriously. download waze carpool. you could end up riding with coworkers...gh or nrs. it's that easy. ride together with waze carpool.

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for 50 years the washington blade has been telling the stories of the gay community and its push for equal rights. and for most of that history, one reporter, lou, has had a front row seat at the revolution. as we celebrate pride month and the 0blade's 5 years as a beacon in this community, wendy rieger sat down with him to see what that history looks like through his eyes. >> reporter: what a fertile field was tilled in 1e summer of969. as the stone wall exploded in new york, unleashing the rage of the gay community

set up with the oppression, at a small office in d.c., the waington blade became one of the first newspapers ithe country dedicated to the life and concerns of the lgbt community. it was in thef midst o this surging civil rights movement that young reporter lou chibaro, would start writing. >> o of thessues that i was covering early was the problem of gay people having thecu ty clearances revoked if it came out that they were gay. >> reporter: he told their stories, but it was the coming plague that would decimate safe cover this community had relied on and stilled the futurf so many young men. and chibaro told their stories. >> the inner yue of discriminat and bias and families disowning some of their loved ones when they found out someone might be gay after the person learns they have a nilife-threate disease.

the hardest part, it's still unfortunately,e, is dealing with the dying. it became an art form for the blade. we hadn't done this before, about writing obituaries. i just lost count of the countlfs numbers o obituaries of people that we had to wre. >> theids crisis and the slow response of the government ignited more activism in the gay mmunity, and chibaro told their stories, not as a g reporter but as a reporter. >> one slogan we had at some point in the past was gay news, straight facts. >> reporter: for the lgbt community, these 50 years havet broughreat victories in employment.doption, housing, but chibaro knows there are still stories ttobe ld, like his most recent. a transgender woman murdered in prince george county. >> her father, who was the legal

next of kin, never had accepted her as a transgender woman and s considered herll his son. and in the funeral, he directed the funeral parlor to present this person as a man rather than a woman, as she had been living her life for at east 15years. >> reporter: for 50 years,mao words on so many pages, like footprints on a path, tell us where we are, while above a flower shop on 14th street, a new decade begins, and lou chibaro and the blade will tell its stories. >> there are a lot of celebrations going on throughout the month for pride. you can read more about them in our nbc washington app. just go there and search pride guide. now, news4 is working for you in the community with a kickoff of a summer food program in louun county. the program feeds students who rely on free or reduced-priced meals during the school year but

often go hungry during the summer when school is out. >> we'll have around nine other sites this summer where students can come out and enjoy meals. there's no eligibility. >> we found last year that the ids who came for the meals stayed. they got library cards. they became members of the library and we see them all year round. >> you can get thef locations o summer food programs in your area no matter where you live by searching summer food in the nbc washington app. d> thousands of tour groups come to. every year to tour the smithsonian museums, i'm sure you've seen them. just ahead here, the tour group from out of the country whose distant relative helped create the smithsonian institution.

> there's a family in town for a visit this week with some very special ties to one of washington's most important institutions. well, they hail from places like

england and canada. they have anto ances who was central to the shaping of america. news4's derrick ward reports. >> tour groups come and go at this smithsonian calf but this group has quite the chenection toinstitution. >> the more i'm here, the more i learn. >> not only about the smithsonian and about its wonders but about his own family. he's one of the distant relatives of e james smithson to tour the institution named for his famous relation. they started at the castle, the iconic center of the institution. smithson had no children, but when a nephew named as an heir died childless too, the fortune was left to the burgeoning united states, a new frontier for knowledge. >> it was a country that had none of that clartter, none of that rucksack of ancient rituals. >> it was the seed of so many

wonderful things. for the united states and for the world. so'm just astounded. >> reporter: a few in the family had an inkling about a connection. others had no idea. it wasn't until they read a certain bookhat it all started to come together. author heather ewing didn't expecthe resonance her book would generate. >> about a yearago they said they were reading the book, enjoying it and thinking about coming to see the smithsonian. >> it really is so special for us. to share it with all of our m familybers is pretty incredible. >> reporter: also incredible, the fact f that a twists of fate and genealogy and the wishes of a man who never visited america would conveee to givo much to the nation. >> she whe was a scientist and wanted knowledge as a free commodity. >> the institution is a shining example to that idea. >> reporter: on the mall, derrick ward, news4. >> just imagine the kind of

pre that family must have. speaking of family, surprises can come in small packags and big one too. for a little fairfax county girl, one surprise came from overseas. >> our mystery reader today is hailey's daddy. >> look at that. face lieutenant commander andrewyu el surprised his daughter. her kindergarten class has a mystery reader come visit them. yunkel who was a member. u.s. coast guard took on that role shocking little hailey after a year-long deployment in the middle east. >> when you become a parent, the number one thing you want to do is just be present in your child's life. so it'sd so har not to be able to be there day in and day out. >> hard to tell what that meant or who had that mean more to them.

she had a surprise of her own telling herad that there's a new dog at home. so the family is happy and g. growin well, that's it for "news4 this week." i'm leon harris. thanks for joining us. have a great week.

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