Pandas from China en route to Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo (1 Viewer)

[Politics - CBSNews.com]

Two giant pandas are on the way from China to Washington less than a year after the National Zoo said goodbye to a pair of pandas that were on loan from China.

The pandas — Bao Li and Qing Bao — departed Chengdu and arrived in Anchorage at 10:07 p.m. EDT Monday, according to plane tracker FlightAware.com. From there, the bears left for Washington's Dulles International Airport and were scheduled to land at 9:55 a.m. EDT on Tuesday.

"Something *giant* is coming to Washington, D.C. via the @FedEx Panda Express," the National Zoo said in a Monday post...

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