Of the most prominent figures in washington. John mccain has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, discovered after surgery for a blood clot. This is a video of the 80yearold lawmaker last week. Local doctors are sharing their insight. It is a very aggressive form of brain cancer and it normally has a grim outcome. Reporter youre absolutely right. People that know senator mccain says theres no doubt hes going to fight this with every ounce of his being. An expert here says the type of tumor that he has is the most difficult to cure. Senator john mccain, who survived torture as a p. O. W. , must again survive. Tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor, known as a gleoblastoma. Ucsfs director of oncology, says srurgery is not an option. They infiltrate into the normal tissue. Reporter political enemies and allies wishing mccain well tonight. Calling the onetime candidate for president a hero, patriot and fighter. God knows how this ends, not me. But i do know this. This disease h
Much ground today, it is chilly, cooler than previous days, so 29 in boston, 28 in beverly, 28 in plymouth, 21 in worcester, 23 in keene, New Hampshire. Already right around freezing, chatham down to hyannis, but temperatures barely move from there, so that means at 9 00 a. M. Temperatures still 30 in boston, upper 20s in the burbs, lots of sunshine out there this afternoon, noon Time Temperature from 31 in boston to 27 in worcester, 30 in portsmouth, New Hampshire and 32 in plymouth, and then during the afternoon we see temperature really peaking very close to freezing with some of the clouds backing toward the coastline as we go and slight risk that the clouds will actually spawn a during the cape. 28 to 36 highs, brightest conditions away from the coastline, thats where you will get walltowall sunshine. Today we have more widespread snow into the weekend and break it down coming up shortly and Julie Grauert with live drive time traffic starting with sky fox. Stages of the accident b
Not much currently in place to keep them against criminal actionance gangs there was a gang of one program that was shut down after a loss of federal funding. The group was run by cmpd and had an 8 member staff and worked oneonone with atrisk teens. So far, there have been no programs to fill that void. You can find out more about last nights arrests and the recent string of crimes in charlotte related to teenagers by going online to wsoctv. Com. Look for jims story there on home page. Major breaking news happening in belmont. Firefighters on the scene of a house fire here on clay street chopper 9 got this and being see the home has been gutted by the fire. Eyewitness News Reporter ken lemon spoke to crews who say there were people inside when the fire began but the people did make it out safely. You see firefighters hosing down the husk of the house right now. But it locks like it was very looks like it was very involved and the home has been gutted by fire. But we are hearing no one
Project. Is it worth the 68 billion price tag . And portraits in music from Louie Armstrong to bob dylan and Janice Joplin the fe and work of art king hes using foms kill americans. Bombs to kill americans, three died in the Boston Marathon more than 62 were wounded. Today, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came face to face with jurors who could decide his hate. More than 1,000 from the boston area are in the jury pool. Dzhokhar tsarnaevs attorney said it means he cant get a fair trial. Here is john terrett. Dzhokhar tsarnaevs defense attorney asked for the start of the trial to be delayed and moved away from boston. They were both denied. Choosing the jury for the trial could take several weeks. Reporter to his accusers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev confessed to the boston bombing in a handwritten note found in a bike. Security footage showed him leaving a back pack close to a young victim the youngest to die. To the defenders, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is the victim of an overbearing elder brother, now dead who they s
Go. I think leadership will make a difference and they understand in my realm and the security round everything as conditionsbased. We signed letters of commitment to provide finance, to provide fuel on and on and this is the same way we look forward in this area that could be conditioned space in everything we continue to do their ngos abide by the constitution and i think leadership can make that happen. I remember hearing we had where woman who is a leader of one of the ngos over there said the first indication over there that things are not going well will be the street. If you stop seeing women on the street so that does come back to the role of the Afghan National police. Are you confident that they are up to the task and if not how would we challenge them to do it better . The police have done much better on integrating women into their force. They are doing much better understanding how they deal with communities and Understanding Community policing. We talked about the highpro