lockett died in a prisoner of war camp in 1951 a year after he was captured. a memorial service will be held on saturday. >>> vcu a moving forward to find ways to fight obesity and diabetes. the richmond times reports the school is building metabolic chamber to conduct several studies on temperature and body fat. researchers are focused on the two types of fat, the brown fat which reps regulate body temperature and burns more energy p than white fat. several studies show that white fat can behave more like metabolically active brown fat in cold temperatures. p. >>> a new survey says the average family will spend about 9 the 9 $900 on prom this year that includes tickets cars, clothes and food. the high are your family income is the less you plan to spend. families with am incomes of $50,000 or more plan to spend just under $800 on prom. those with incomes less than $25,000 will spend almost $1400. >> $1400? >> i would guess the logic is if you're well to dos you're less likely to care about some of the big things that a family that isn't as well off would real

lockett's farm or also known as double bridges, general gordon's sixth corps and humphrey's second corps will attack. again, tomorrow we'll go into the detail there. consequently here at sailor's creek, spelled correctly on this map, general lee will lose 7,700 men and eight confederate generals. most of those are prisoners. what that resulted to be is somewhere between a fifth and a quarter of lee's army are no longer part of his army of northern virginia. they are taken prisoners. unlike those who surrender at appomattox they will go to prison camps and remain there until all confederate forces throughout the country will surrender which usually isn't until the end of may. that's what happens to them. also there was a strategic item right in here that was of high importance to both armies. that is high bridge south side railroad crosses valley of appomattox river part of the new state park. can you walk out there. if you looked off to the side you could see some of the original pillars of the original bridge from the civil war period period. what happens april 6th, a little earlier in

firefighter jarrell lockett carried her out of the house. she was taken to the hospital in critical condition. one week after the call, he visited the young woman in the hospital. she's doing much better, breathing on her own. >> very emotional. she was crying and happy to see me all at the same time. i had to hold everything back not to shed a tear. it was real touching. we was hugging each other. i was so happy she was doing well. >> darcy spencer "news 4 today." >>> the major league baseball all-star game is coming to d.c. in 2018. several sources confirm that the league will officially award the game to the nationals tomorrow. the team submitted a bid earlier this year to host the game. >> go nats. >>> coming up in the week ahead, tomorrow the nationals play their home opener against the new york mets. you'll have to walk through metal detectors to get inside nats park. first pitch at 4:05 p.m. live coverage of opening day beginning on "news 4 today" at 4:26 tomorrow morning. >>> also tomorrow you can head over to the national zoo for ea

finally, lockett's farm, double bridges, this is where general gordon's corps will attack. consequently at taylor's creek -- consequently come here at sailor's creek, general lee will lose 7700 men and 8 generals. most of those are prisoners. but that resulted to be is somewhere between a fifth and a quarter of lee's army. no longer part of his army of northern virginia. they have taken prisoners and unlike those that have surrendered at appomattox they , will go to prison camp and will remain there until all confederate forces have surrendered, which is not until the end of may. that is what happens to them. there is a strategic item right in here that was of high importance to both armies. that is high bridge, where the southside railroad crosses the valley of appomattox river. it is part of our new state park. you can walk out there and if you look off to the side you can see the original pillars. of the original bridge from the civil war period. what happens on april 6 earlier in the day the union cavalry with a group of inventory will attack the high bridge in try to g

lockett's remains will be flown to rich mopped this weekmond this week.e died in a prison car camp in 1951. memorial service will be held saturday. >> reporter: it may an definitive step toward a more fraternal and secure world. >> that is pope francis on easter sunday weighing in on the drafted nuclear agreement with iran. that is one of the many messages of peace in the pope's easter mass at the vatican. he spoke to thousands who gathered in st. peter's square and condemned persecution of christians worldwide, including the massacre last week of kenyan students at the hands of islamic militants. >> translator: i think in particular of the young people who were killed last thursday at garissa university college in kenya. >> the pope also prayed for peace in libya, iraq and syria. >>> the first family celebrated easter at alfred street back test church in alexandria. the pastor acknowledged the president during the service and also encouraged every to give the first family some space telling the congregation, quote, this is not selfie time, let the brothe

court considers its three drug lethal injection method following the botched execution of clayton lockettwho took 43 minutes to die. the 61-year-old mailman who entered restricted airspace to land his gyrocopter on the capitol lawn in a protest calling for campaign finance reform says attention has focused too heavily on his methods, rather than his message. speaking after he returned home to florida, doug hughes said money in politics should be the real concern. >> we need to be worried not about whethereoeoeoeoneeoan fly into d.c., we need to be worried about the piles of money going into congress. >> do you consider yourself a patriot? >> know, i'm a mailman. amy: and dr. irwin schatz, who became a lone critic of the now-notorious tuskegee syphillis study years before it was exposed in the press, has died at the age of 83. for four decades until 1972, the u.s. government studied the long-term effects of untreated syphilis on poor, black men. after reading the study -- reading of the study a medical journal in 1964, schatz wrote -- "i am utterly astounded by the fact that physicians all

when the clayton lockett exclusion went off the rails last year in oklahoma representative mike christian rethinking its whole approach to how it kills people. >> and then the execution was carried went off the rails, rethinking the whole approach to how he kills people. >> the excuse was carried out, the skugdz became problematic. there were some issues with that. we got potential after that. off to a good friend of mine that i have known for years, that i grew up with. very intelligent college professor said can you help me find a solution to a problem that exists not only in oklahoma but across the country and that's where we come up with the concept. >> nitrogen hypoxia. what these two high school friends came up with that they're calling nitrogen hypoxia is a way, basically, to go back to killing prisoners with gas. but instead of killing prisoner wes cyanide gas, until arizona did the last one in 1999 instead of cyanide gas, they now want to use nitrogen gas. kates osbourn, our producer went to oklahoma to ask how this would work exactly. >> so the process from here would be that th