much they care. i think anyone who has a child can t imagine what it would be like to lose one, so it s horrible. it s a very, very sad day. he knew a lot of people, and the a lot of people knew them so it s just hard for everyone. reporter: his best friend joined the marines together and dreamed of becoming police officers. have everyone s back and protect them, and so he died doing what he loved. reporter: his parents were clearly touched by their community s show of support. they say they couldn t be more grateful. thank you so much, truly overwhelming. reporter: just means a lot to you guys. it does. we know with all of you here how much josh reached out and touched all of you, and we can t say enough about the support that we ve gotten, so we just want to say thank you very much. reporter: a very emotional afternoon, and and friends and relatives are still walking down leaving the family house. they have quite a crowd over there comforting them toni
school band. nightly news begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. we re going to begin tonight with a crippling trend in america that simply cannot go on without taking entire families with it. if we all agree those who have health insurance is the lucky ones in this economy, that usually means someone has a job with benefits. listen to what we learned about the cost of being among the lucky. the cost of health care insurance premiums has now more than doubled for american families since 2001. but, of course, no wages are rising that fast. it comes down to the choice american families are being forced to make on a daily basis. as millions of families already know, it s too often between your money or your health. we begin here tonight with nbc s john yang. reporter: when jeri wood had surgery and radiation treatment for a brain tumor in 2002, her employer s health insurance covered nearly all of it. her out of pocket costs, about $500.
we re at 24 willie mays plaza. the giants were beaten by the dodgers 2-1. and this is a ball game that came down to really one pitch to matt kemp in the eighth inning. now, if this pitch had ended up being what you would have expected, a swinging strike three and a changeup in the dirt, then lincecum might have gone back in the ninth. here s what happened on this two-out, two-strike pitch. mike: a swing and bunt. this is a bad break. jon: stole second. mike: and it was so close. he could have been called out. it was that close. jon: and this was the base hit by juan rivera. just a ground ball, but right past lincecum. and that was the tying run, the only run the dodgers got against lincecum. if they don t get that run, if he swings and pitches, which is what usually happens when a ball is about to bounce in front of the plate, lincecum is ahead 1-0 and well we might have been talking about kershaw s tough night, who, by virtue of an error and an unearned run gets the