Womens Basketball Team get a gold medal. Matt lauer grills ryan lochte over the scandal in rio. Tucsons own bernard dagat going for gold at the age of 41. Simone biles getting another honor. The contrasts between the game in sochi and here in rio. Monsoon 2016 blowing back into the valley with dust and rain. Exclusive video of a murder suspect in court. The hunt for the serial his victims want the shooter caught. 12news at 10 00 starts right now. Good evening from rio everybody. What a memorable night here tonight. Team usa an Womens Basketball clinches the gold medal. And two of its brightest stars brittany and diana part of the Phoenix Mercury coming home to the valley with some major bling. I got a chance to speak with diana exclusively tonight. In Womens Basketball. So, about putting on the usa jersey that makes you kneel like you have a lot of people behind you. I have been lucky to do it four olympics. Four gold medals. I have been really lucky. You are farther of a very select g
Team usa or the conduct of the vast majority of its members. We will further review the matter and any potential consequences for the athletes when we return to the United States. On behalf of the United States olympic committee, we apologize to our hosts in rio and the people of brazil for this distracting ordeal of what should rightly be a celebration of excellence. Jimmy fiegen has release adrian advised statement of securing his passport to return to the United States. Well have more on the story in the morning. Usain bolt will be running his final race 4 x 100 relay tomorrow night. When people ask me what its like to win an olympic medal, i tell them, you already know. The medals youve earned are all around you. Your bronze. Your silver. And Liberty Mutual insures them all. Liberty mutual is proud to insure every team usa medal won in rio, just like we protect the medals youve earned in life. Liberty stands with you. 12news at 10 00 with mark, now. Team 12 tracking the big picture
To phoenix. A cancer patient secretly records his visit to a vad. And that doctor is shockingly blunt about not being a fan of the va. He also tells the patient, he thinks his job is impossible. Retired sergeant first class, steve cooper served in the army for 18 years. He was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2012. Since then, he has filed a treat his cancer. He has also become an advocate for patients. In june, recording his doctors visit. 500 patients. 500, so its impossible. Its valuable to hear from the employees themselves that the system doesnt work in terms of infrastructure. Reporter using a recorder on his cell phone, steve cooper an appointment, which he said was impossible by phone. The nurse who meets with cooper seems to agree. It is a nightmare. It just irritates the living hell out of me. I think were entitled when we call the va, that someone answer the phone. Cooper then meets with a doctor. That i needed for follow up care. Reporter the doctor expresses his desire to
Looking at pornography, it wasnt enough for him. Then it led to going out and kidnapping me. Pornography made my living hell worse. Good evening everyone. Elizabeth smarts horrific story told before, but never like this. Smart was kidnapped in Salt Lake City back in 2002. Held captive for nine months and rap she is giving out graphic details about how porn made her living hell worse. Team 12s Trisha Hendricks dives into the mind of an addict and asks should pornography be treated as a Health Crisis. Reporter we are hearing from an addict who started the recovery froze years ago. Im recovered, not cured. Reporter speaking only with adepiction. It is a Health Crisis for me. Reporter he asked us to refer to him as robbie. I am a member of a local 12 step fellowship that supports sex addiction. Porn was my gateway drug. Reporter he is weighing in on what Elizabeth Smart said about her abductors. He knows how damaging the addiction can be. It can affect people in a damaging, robbie stopped
Protesters hoping that hit will subside. Were fired up and we cannot take it no more. Reporter that is the message that she has and her other classmates had as they walked out of class. The girl was sent home after wearing a black lives matter t shirt. It violates the school policy. Since then her daughter and others have faced racial intimidation. There were racial slurs. Reporter Cheyenne Mcneal felt the mood change last week. I get a lot of dirty looks. Reporter the tension on campus goes well beyond one student wardrobe choice and needs to be addressed by the administration. Is the way it was handled policy. They are not out here saying we do not want to go to school, we want to be treated fairly in school and be protected in school. Reporter William Pitts , 12 news. Now to the other hot headlines, up first, new information on a bicyclist killed. Thomas butler is the man that was killed. Police say that a car hit the 35yearold. Investigators think that the driver was impaired. Auth