:00:11. > :00:15.Friday afternoon's Newsround update. Stick here for some of this. The
:00:15. > :00:25.oldest hip hop crew in the world. And your favourite Helen Skelton
:00:25. > :00:28.
:00:28. > :00:31.since Prince George. After two years of waiting, experts at Edinburgh Zoo
:00:31. > :00:35.say there are strong indications that Tian Tian the panda is
:00:35. > :00:40.pregnant. If she is, the cub will be the first giant panda to be born in
:00:40. > :00:44.the UK. Martin's been at the zoo to find out more. Tian Tian and Yang
:00:44. > :00:47.Guang are the first giant pandas to live in the UK for 17 years, and
:00:47. > :00:51.since they moved into Edinburgh Zoo they've become two of Scotland's
:00:51. > :00:54.biggest celebrities. But today they're even more popular than
:00:54. > :01:03.usual, because keepers here think that the female panda, Tian Tian,
:01:03. > :01:12.might be pregnant. If she does have a baby it'll be the first time a
:01:12. > :01:15.giant panda cub has ever been born in Britain. For the species it is
:01:15. > :01:22.very important. Both pandas are here as an extension of the captive
:01:22. > :01:25.breeding programme. There are so few of them left. Any new cub is
:01:25. > :01:28.incredibly important. The pandas were given to the zoo in Scotland
:01:28. > :01:33.from the Chinese government in 2011. They're only there on loan for ten
:01:33. > :01:42.years, and each year the zoo has to pay �600,000 to keep them. But since
:01:42. > :01:46.the star attractions have arrived, visitor numbers have gone up by 50%.
:01:46. > :01:52.It's a big achievement for us to get pandas in the first place. If we
:01:52. > :01:56.were to have cubs, it would be the first in the UK. There is a bit of a
:01:56. > :02:00.buzz about it and everyone is excited. If a cub is born it will
:02:00. > :02:04.officially belong to China, so will have to go back when the loan is up.
:02:04. > :02:12.Tian Tian and Yang Guang have already tried to mate twice, so the
:02:12. > :02:16.keepers hope this time will be successful. To California now, where
:02:16. > :02:19.over 1,000 people have been forced to flee their homes because of wild
:02:19. > :02:22.fires. More than 20homes have already been destroyed by the blaze,
:02:22. > :02:26.which has been spreading quickly because of the hot winds in the
:02:26. > :02:30.region. It's the second big fire to hit the area this summer, and
:02:30. > :02:33.experts say it could be the worst to hit the area in history. Next, after
:02:33. > :02:37.five years, CBBC's very own Helen Skelton has announced she's leaving
:02:37. > :02:40.Blue Peter. The presenter will leave along with her pet dog Barney at the
:02:40. > :02:46.end of September. Yesterday we revealed that the 37th Blue Peter
:02:46. > :02:49.presenter will be Radzi Chinyanganya from CBBC's Wild. And lots of you
:02:49. > :02:52.have been sending us your favourite moments from Helen's time on the
:02:52. > :02:56.show. Hannah, from Cheshire, says, I really enjoyed the tight rope walk!
:02:56. > :03:00.Blue Peter will never be the same without you. And Aidan, from Dudley,
:03:00. > :03:04.says, my favourite moment was when she went to fly with the Red Arrows
:03:04. > :03:07.because I love them. Thanks for sending all those in! Time to
:03:07. > :03:11.introduce you to the world's oldest hip hop crew. They're called Hip
:03:11. > :03:21.Operation and are made up of 37 senior citizens aged between 66 and
:03:21. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:47.96 years old. Ricky's been checking When they came and asked me to come
:03:47. > :03:51.I said, no, I can't move my legs. They said, that's OK, we will put
:03:51. > :03:58.you in a wheelchair. I started off just wanting to get the older people
:03:58. > :04:04.out of their houses and dancing in the street. So I went around and
:04:04. > :04:13.approached anyone who were 65 years or over and had a pulse! We like a
:04:13. > :04:21.family now. It's amazing, every week and every month we seem to get
:04:21. > :04:25.closer. So do the crew always get on? There's no big dramas. All the
:04:25. > :04:29.time I have to tell them to stop calling me after 11pm. This weekend
:04:29. > :04:35.they're travelling to Las Vegas to take part in the World Hip Hop Dance
:04:35. > :04:42.Championships. They face stiff competition, so are they nervous?
:04:42. > :04:46.No, not a bit of it. And to old to be nervous! That's all from me, but