They willing to gamble . If i have to choose between losing my job, or losing my kid, what would any mother do . Reporter tonight, the promise this is what you give up when you start using cannabis. Reporter the risks. We dont know the potential sideeffects. We dont want to make their seizures better and make their lives worse. Reporter and the families caught in the middle. Its awesome. I dont feel like a monster anymore. One kid, one day of no suffering is absolutely worth it. Reporter growing hope. Good evening, and welcome to dateline, im lester holt. Should medical marijuana be legal . Does it work . For which diseases . For doctors, its about the science. For lawmakers, its about politics. But for the families youll meet, its so much simpler. Its about their children. Heres harry smith. Reporter three mothers and their children. On this winter day in virginia, they have a big hill to climb. Each child is desperately ill. Each has a form of epilepsy. No one else that i knew had a
Losing my job, or losing my kid, what would any mother do . Reporter tonight, the promise this is what you give up when you start using cannabis. Reporter the risks. We dont know the potential sideeffects. We dont want to make their seizures better and make their lives worse. Reporter and the families caught in the middle. Its awesome. I dont feel like a monster anymore. One kid, one day of no suffering is absolutely worth it. Reporter growing hope. Good evening, and welcome to dateline, im lester holt. Should medical marijuana be legal . Does it work . For which diseases . For doctors, its about the science. For lawmakers, its about politics. But for the families youll meet, its so much simpler. Its about their children. Heres harry smith. Reporter three mothers and their children. On this winter day in virginia, they have a big hill to climb. Each child is desperately ill. Each has a form of epilepsy. No one else that i knew had a kid with seizures this bad, and no one knew how to tr
Anything in the negative i like to look at a tragedy as being seeds for the future of the community. Two brothers are in custody for the shooting. Grabzell was 38 years old. A loud argument on a north philadelphia street led to a shooting this morning. The victim was shot in the leg by a man that came out of a nearby home and got involved in a fight. John rawlins is live at the scene at 15th and poplar with the latest. Reporter hi sara, this is the francisville section of philadelphia and the investigation is a work in progress. Police say they have not publically identified a suspect. The incident did generate a big response when it was thought that the shooter barricaded himself in a home across the street. Central detectives investigating the scene of the shooting sometime before 8 30 there was a loud threat argument on the streets between men and women and a man came out and got involved and a man was shot and taken to the hospital. Its thought that the shooter ran into the townhou
You can also join us on twitter. You can go to facebook. Com cspa n. We will begin with the bbc website, they are doing uptotheminute reporting on this attack in turkey. This is what they are reporting so far. This attack has killed 41 people, injured 239, three attackers opened fire near eight terminal entrance. A terminal entrance. The Prime Minister believes it is the Islamic State that could be behind these attacks. It also says in their reporting this morning that the pope has condemned what happened at this International Airport. He said he was praying for the victims, families, and the turkish people. He asked the crowd to pray in silence. The bat that is from the bbc website. Here is the list of other people and their nationalaties that were fatally wounded in this attack. One was from jordan, one from tunisia, respect stand, iran, and the ukraine. In california, republican scott, you are up first. What is your reaction to this attack in turkey . What do you think it means to t
Responsibility for a man who stormed a popular gay nightclub in orlando, armed with a handgun and an assault rifle, though there is no evidence they were in contact with him directly. Witnesses describe what happened. After the second shot, there was a pause and then it just started shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting and thats when we knew something was wrong, everybody dropped to the ground and people started running. It just happened that quick. That quick. Nobody knew. Its just like somebody else some normal person like you walked into the club and it just just happened. We see quite a few gunshot wounds, but nothing to this scale. Just takes over when you see the coroners van pulls up, it just all takes it all comes to light and i just want to wake up from this dream. I just want this to be a dream and im going to wake up any minute. Bless his heart. We all want it to be a nightmare and have it end. Police say they took out the shooter, 29yearold omar mateen. Orange county, flo