charged with capital murder. a fourth suspect cornelius clark was charged with obstruction of justice. police around the country are on edge. according to the national law enforcement memorial funds, the number of officers ambushed and killed last year was three times higher than the year before. but hattiesburg s mayor says he does not think dean and tate were targeted. i think we had police officers in the wrong place at the wrong time. and someone who didn t want to go to jail would rather shoot his way out, that s a sad commentary commentary. reporter: these are the first police officers killed in this town in the line of duty in more than 30 years. a memorial service is planned for later today. gabe guttierez, thank you very much. and brokaw talks about how he broke the biggest stories of his life to the most important people in his life. he joins the table next. scott: hello! nbr: scott - we re concerned. you just fed your lawn earlier this spring
has been like no schedule i ve ever seen. how tough is and by the way, we all have very long days. how can it you adjust to having to slow down for a second and an extraordinary life? meredith thinks she didn t step in enough. i ve had some momentum from the time i left south dakota. and i just can t resist the opportunities that come to me. during the course of having cancer, i went to normandy berlin. he did not stop. so i would pull myself stoeg. together. last fall, i did go hunting. you re never cured, but you have maintenance. and i m on a drug right now that is going help keep it stable for a long time. i m still dealing with however, some of the bone issues. remarkable thing about this to me is that those of us who
are privileged enough to get to know tom didn t really know any of this was really happening. you did keep it close to the vest. what was the decision there to keep it just between you and meredith? well, look there is an oxymoron in american life there is no such thing as a humble anchor than. but i really have always felt that just because i m in this great position i sthoont go around beating my chest and saying look at me look at me. and i really wanted other families who didn t have the advantage that i did and approach it from their position. meredith would often say to people got a bad back, we ll talk to you about it later. i was on a cane for a while. and the objective at the end has been to let families know what happens when somebody in the family gets cancer. we just did a dateline the other night with all three of our daughters the roles that each of them played and we tried to really signal to other families who don t have the advantage that i do financially and acces
still an optimist. the concluding line of the book is life what s left bring it on. i m ready for it at that point. tom brokaw, tom s new book a lucky life interrupted, a memoir of hope it s out tomorrow. thank you so much tom. my pleasure. up next u.s. security officials sounding the alarm on how the internet helps terror groups recruit and spread their message. is it time for websites like youtube and google to do more? we ll talk to a member of the house homeland security committee, congressman peter kin. your pet. could you love him any more? probably not. but now you can give them even more when you save with sentry® fiproguard® plus. with sentry® fiproguard® plus, your pet is just as protected against fleas and ticks as with frontline® plus.
sharing his experiences. you share stories for a living. you share stories because it s what you do. but tell us about sharing this story with your family. well, when i was diagnosed, which was a big surprise in the early fall of 2013 i was really blind sided by it. i ved had the luckiest life you can possibly imagine. things had never gone wrong. and when i hit 73 this year it just kept on going. biking across south america, bird hunting and doing other things in africa and then i went to montana and i kept falling in the river and i had this persistent backache and i got to the mayo clinic and a really, really smart guy that looks over me generally, an internist, something s up. and i had multiple myeloma. and the first thing hematologist said to me, other people die from this. frank reynolds of abc