bao bao is now 18 months old. for panda, that's like 18 years old on the human spectrum. bao bao is ready to be separated from her mother for longer periods of time and also eating on her own. today she was perched up on a tree proving she ready for a little independence and mayjiang doesn't seem to be experiencing anxiety. >> 18 months human separation if separated, traumatic for the kid. sounds like just the opposite. >> reporter: for zoo visitors growing pains. the guests don't want to see that mother/daughter bond broken up just yet. >> going to see all of them i hope and see her come down out of that tree. >> reporter: bao bao seems to be in a tree-climbing phase these days but this is all very important for her, because in a few days bao bao will be sent to china as part of the agreement with china. reporting live at national zoo, richard jordan news 4. >> thank you, richard. >>> today virginia delegate joe morrissey asking for his things back. federal agents seized case files and computers from morrissey's law office as part of a search warrant. today a judge in virgin

bao bao's case. she's eat a lot more bamboo and other solid foods and spends about six hours every day on her own away from her mom, usually up a tree. bao bao is only the second panda born at the national zoo to surve to her first birthday. way to go bao bao. > that' all for "news4 this week." i'm veronica johnson. thanks us. we leave you with a unique way to plow snow a motorized toilet ca lucy. until nex time we safe be ki at clorox 2 we've turned removing stains into a science. now pre-treat with clorox 2! watch stains disappear right before your eyes. remove 4 times more stains than detergent alone. >> right now on news 4 today, a bitter cold start to the first half of your weekend. chuck is tracking a wintry mix for the second half. he is timing up the snow and the roller coaster temperatures for the next week. >> even though the inc. is dry to pay thousands of government workers, the reloaf could be short-lived. >> we will find out how the cuts will be for one budget. first off, good morning to you. >> welcome to news 4 today on this saturday. it's a chilly start. it's like 18 degrees outside when i started rolling in

bao turned 18 months old today. you might think what's the big deal, right? turns out 18 months is the age panda cubs typically stop nursing and start living separately from their mommas. >> the zoo said bao bao weaning process a few months ago. she eats bamboo and other solid foods and spends about six hours a day apart from her mom. >> that means she spends 18 hours with her mom. [ laughter ] >> that's true. but 18 months and they're on their own. we take years, don't we? >>> something big is happening. s♪omething big ♪ >> pretty damn thrilling. >> have you stopped smiling yet? >> no. >> our oscar night partying with the winners after the show. >> we celebrate the ones who made it. >> plus -- >> it's awesome, so is this. >> the making of the musical moment. >> and the moving performances. >> this is an academy award. >> worked with a vocal coach every day. >> can i see the ring? >> he first gave me a ring pop. >> when i was 16 years old, i tried to kill myself. >> why this oscar could be a game changer. >> i tried to be, you know, an activist. >> equal rights for women in the united states of america. >> also -- >> my next victim is you. >> the photo bombing the fashions, who nailed it, who

bao is eating more bamboo and other solid foods. i cannot get enough of bao bao. show me her playing in the snow eating doing exercises. >> just roll that video instead of anything else. >> happy birthday. >>> 4:39 is our time. here is a live look over the district. cloudy could is skies to deal with but fairly warm 38 degrees. >> yeah cloud like a blanket holding in some of the warmth from yesterday. right now storm team 4 radar showing scattered flurries west virginia virginia, maryland. just passing true from time to time. not accumulating at all. just a few scattered flurries over the next few hours. hour by hour today watch out, we'll be getting below freezing by around 8:00 this morning. so what is wet now turning to ice. by noontime blustery winds down to the upper 20s. a little sunshine. mid-20s by late afternoon. then over the next 24 hours, the temperatures continue to drop. by 8:00 p.m. down to the low 20s. then down to the teens by 11:00 tonight. and by this time tomorrow morning, it will be down all the way into the low and mid teens. a look at how mu

bao bao is coming up on a milestone. how the baby panda is coming into her o. >>> 10:08 your time on this sunday morning. here is what's happening in the week ahead. tuesday, wednesday and thursday you can go to a meg that touk about how much you pay to ride vre. the company is considering raising fares by 4%. >>> in the week ahead you can find out how to protect your kids from measles. the national press foundation is holding a program to explore the harm symptoms and factors that influence outbreaks. the program begins at 9:00at's at the national press club on connecticut avenue northwest. it will last until about 4:00 in the afternoon. >>> tomorrow the giant panda cub at the national zoo will turn 18 months. can you believe it? that means bao bao is close to reaching a milestone and will begin learning separately from her mother. the zoo says she began the weaning process more than a month ago and is eating bamboo and more solid food. >> got to let her go. >> clearly the pandas love the snow. any more of that come? >> no. most of the accumulating snow threat is done for the week ahead. we could get flurries tomorrow morning. great pictures lots of stuff coming in on social media. this is haley in gaithersburg. amanda and her friend were out taking out the cross country skis. that's the world war ii memorial in the back way. one of the best way to see them all is on snow skis. here is your seven-day forecast. it will be in the 40s today. temperatures will be falling during the day tomorrow. windchills back below zero by tomorrow evening into tuesday morning. a very cold week ahead. maybe a flurry chance on wednesday ahead of the next arctic front which had high temperatures again below freezing thursday and friday. >> relen

bao turns 18. 18 months. which means it's almost time for the cub to move out. just like us. 18 you gotta go! zookeepers say bao bao already eats many meals without her mom and her time apart will continue to increase until she's ready to be completely on their own and they expect that to be sometime in early march. she's expected to go to china when she turns 2 years old. >> what a cutie. monday morning did not start with postings on pandas. bao bao, or any other animals for some facebook users. the social network was down for two hours for users on the east coast and in the midwest. the company isn't commenting what may have caused the interruption. >> it might be nice for something to interrupt the cold weather here. might be nice for us a little bit? >> maybe by wednesday we'll warm it up to 40 degrees for one day. but yeah the short term six to seven days it will stay on the cold side. let's get started right now with current temperatures around the area. mostly in the 20's now after mid 30's earlier in many spots. 27 in frederick. down to 22 in hagerstown and 19 in cumberland. colder air is on the way being a

bao. >> she turns 18 months old today which is sort of independence day. 18 months is the age panda cubs stop nursing and can start living separately from their moms. bao bao began the weaning process naturally a few months ago so she should be able to start living alone in march. >> takes her 18 months and takes us 18 years. >>> straight ahead the latest on the search for three missing school girls feared to have joined isis. >> a father's emotional response when his daughter was mauled to death by a pit bull. >> a county council member with ties to a neo-confederate hate group refuses to talk about his anti-gay robo call made in the final days of a political campaign. >>> maryland state prosecutors investigating a mysterious anti-gay robo call made according to the candidate target of the call. the eventual winner of the race is not talking about it because of the onknowing investigation and that's where scott broom picks it up. >> despite his well documented ties to a neo-confederate hate group. on youtube he talks about secession. his ties to a hate group called the league of south. natural anthem he plays is "dixie." and here he is on a recent podcast

bao. she serves 18 months old. this is an important milestone because the zoo says this is the age when giant panda cubs start eating on their own. the zoo says bao baoegan the weaning process a few months ago and it should be finished by early next month. he's now eating more bamboo and other solid food. >>> we're tracking breaking news. a crash and car fire causing a mess on i-95 in northern virginia. melissa is tracking the backups. the effort to clean up the sdwpt accident and your other tral times. >>> the vacation your kids have been begging for may have to wait. the price hike that just took effect and how much more you'll have to pay. >>> plus helping your family save some money without taking time to clip coupons. two more items that are cheaper for you to rent. my tin man has a big toe the size of a house. the lion is small like a toy poodle. and has webbed, duck feet. my scarecrow has wooden teeth... and his clothes have tubes on them. and that's dorothy. she looks like me. everyone has a favorite movie. now people with visual disabilities... can find theirs. introducing the first talking guide. from xfinity. >>> year tracking be problems

daughter bond broken up just yet. >> i'd like to see her come down out of that tree. >> reporter: bao bao seems to be in a tree-climbing phase these days but the separation from her mother is very important from her, because in a few years she'll be sent to china to live the as part of the agreement with the chinese government. at the national zoo, richard jordan news4. >>> it impacts more families than ever before but brand-new information about how you could counter your family's peanut allergies. >>> running out of time, many local homes could soon be left in the cold. we'll it will you what you can do to help them out. >>> it ease easier to qualify for shipping for target. online customers only have to spend a minimum of $ta to get it. this is half the price they charged before. target announced the cut follows an enthusiastic response to its free shipping during the holidays. it also comes as target is working to get a competitive edge against amazon and walmart's online shops. >>> new at 4:00, a major discovery released moments ago about peanut allergies. it's in a study in the "new

bao bao coping with the colder temperatures out there. megan? >> reporter: well barbara, it was just 14 degrees with a wicked windchill when we started our day at 3:30 this morning. it is now up to a balmy 21. so still pretty cold. we've been talking to folks all morning long. needless to say, most people not too keen on this cold snap. we did find one person or really i should say critter who thinks this cold weather is just great. waiting for the bus in the dark at 5:30 in the morning. just 14 degrees, and a windchill that made it feel like -- >> this is siberia. very very -- this is the worst this year so far. >> reporter: at least he eventually got on the bus, and headed to his heated office. construction workers, the great outdoors it's their office. nowhere to hide out here. ditto for tourists taking in the sites. >> it's definitely a little uncomfortable. not too bad. >> reporter: did you bring the right clothes? >> yeah. i'm good. >> reporter: a sweatshirt? >> that's fine. yeah. >> reporter: over at the museum putting up a new exhibit banner. not much fun on a day like this. >> we had to take our gloves off because we had to feel putting in the banner here and you just -- had to take turns and get our gloves back on. hands in our pockets so we could warm up again. >> reporter: while we humans may be miserable, the pand taas at the zoo are happy. they actually like the cold. we found bao bao sound asleep up in a treenchts there's nothing better than coming to the zoo on a cold snowy day and waginge ing watching our pandas play outside. they love days like today. >> reporter: unfortunately, 2340od news here. we are expecting the cold weather to stick with us a while and in fact get colder. can you imagine that? >> no i can't. it is chilly out there today. thanks a lot, megan. >>> women, you use them daily. computers, but how cyber savvy are you? today the president hosts a summit on cyber security. it kicks off at stanford university designed to increase cyber security are for the government u.s. businesses and for you the consumer. >>> president obama is doing everything he can to reach mow len yams to make sure they sign up for his health care plan. >> the deadline for signing um for -- the deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- february -- >> like any other wednesday. >> that's not right. >> the president agreed to do this individual glow which

bao bao turns 18 months old. there she is frolicking in the snow. this is a big deal because the stew zoo says that is the age when giant panda cubs start eating on their own. baoan the weaning process a few months ago and it should be finished by early next month. she's now eating more bamboo and other solid foods. babies start weaning, some a six months. so she's -- >> humans or pandas? in human humans right. so she's kind of right on track. >> if you say so. >> she just gets big really fast. >> a big difference there. >>> 5:11 your time. here is a look at national harbor. the water too cold to do anything with that, but the picture is pretty. >> the temperature is killing me here because while we started off warm it's just going to drop. let's check in with tom kierein, weather and traffic on the 1s at 5:11. >> and we saw that live camera view a lot of ice still on the potomac. scattered flurries around this morning, western maryland a few scattered flurries shenandoah valley up near hagerstown. south and east of the metro area. a few flurrys trying to reach the ground. but it's above freezing. most locations in the mid to upper 30s. but some colder air will

that means bobo is reachingw bao bao will be leaving her mother. >>> 9:27 now. after a man's shooting death by local police we'll tell you the chaungs some police officers in northern virginia are making to be more up front with the communities they served. >> you've traveled across bridges lots of times, you've never seen a bridge like this. what you missed all these times. >> it probably looks something like this out your window, a whiteout or >>> right now on news 4, we're taking a nice drive along bethesda maryland looks like one of the side roads. you can see there's ice and slush covered. a lot of slick spots. a lot of drivers heading out this morning, factor in extra time. standing water also a lot of problems. a lot of the catch basins clogged up by the snow. the good news is temperatures are a tad bit warmer than what we've been seeing the biting temperatures all week long. more single digit temps are right around the corner. >> the biggest problem you might have is walking to your car. >> a lot of the sidewalks totally covered. where you see the paveme

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that means bao bao is close to reaching a milestone and will begin living separately from her mother. the zoo says she began the weaning process a few months ago. she's now eating more bamboo and other solid food. >>> today you can see a tribute to dr. martin luther king junior. the gospel choir will perform living the dream, singing the dream. reverend c.t. vivian will receive the humanitarian award. it happens at 7:00 tonight. tickets are still available. >>> today the lidge dare ryne 2340e bar and pump house in georgetown is saying good-bye. it's holding its farewell party ahead of next weekend's closing. the bar opened in 1988. the current owners are renewing their lease on the property. on thursday the owners will hold an auction s off the furniture and other items. >>> we'll miss it. coming up don't get comfortable filling up on cheap gas just yet. why concerns about disasters like this could drive up prices at the pump. >> the good news this morning, the rain is moving out, but another arctic blas >>> this just in a real dire situation to report. right now rescuers are working