🌱 Robot For Hospitalized Children + 80-Year-Old Saved From Fire

Hey, neighbors! It's me again, Sean Peek, your host of the Norfolk Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and very warm. High: 72 Low: 39.

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Here are the top three stories in Norfolk today:

1. A new exhibit inside Old Dominion University's Barry Art Museum hopes to "highlight the intersections between art, science, and emotion" and "[ask] how robots can help us better understand our own humanity." The exhibit, titled "Motion/Emotion: Exploring Affect from Automata to Robots," will feature a prototype of a robot designed to help hospitalized children. The robot, "David's Project," is named in memory of 13-year-old David Carey who passed away after battling leukemia. (wtkr.com)
2. Last week, workers with Virginia Natural Gas and a pipeline construction company saved an 80-year-old woman from a burning home. The workers saw fire in the Norfolk residence and rushed down the street with extinguishers, then rescued the older woman who was trapped inside. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation. (WAVY.com)
3. A Dominion Energy lineman was shot in his leg while working downtown overnight. The Dominion crew was reportedly replacing an underground transformer when the victim was struck by gunfire around 1:47 a.m. early Friday morning. Norfolk police report the victim was hospitalized for a non-life-threatening injury, and two others suffered minor injuries unrelated to the gunfire. (WAVY.com)

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Today in Norfolk:

• Knight Hawks Of VA - LGBT Life Center (8:00 PM)
• Ann - Little Theatre of Norfolk (8:00 PM)
• Church Street Jazz Series- Lindsey Webster In Concert - Attucks Theatre (8:00 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Find the next love of your life this Valentine's Day — take a look at these adorable adoptable pets in Norfolk. (Norfolk Patch)
• A Norfolk man arrested in a July police chase is now facing new federal charges related to machine gun possession. (WAVY.com)
• Though deaths attributable to the COVID-19 virus are less common across the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport metro area than they are nationwide, this is not the case in some parts of the city. (24/7 Wall St. - Norfolk)

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— Sean Peek

About me: Sean Peek is a writer and entrepreneur with a degree in English Literature from Weber State University. Over the years, he has worked as a copywriter, editor, SEO specialist, and marketing director for various digital media companies. He currently co-owns and operates content creation agency Lightning Media Partners.