a very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we begin this hour with new details about the victims and also the gunman in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university. first, the three people killed who have now been identified and so young, 20-year-old brian fraser, 19-year-old arielle anderson and 20-year-old alexandria verner. the 43-year-old gunman we ve learned apparently did leave behind a note and a criminal history that includes a gun charge, but what is still unknown this morning, the motive, and also how he got the firearm, which was reportedly used in the shooting. you look at pictures of their kids you think of their poor families. also ahead this morning, former south carolina governor nikki haley makes the first stop of her 2024 presidential campaign, we re going to take you live to charleston, south carolina, and just in a key report shows that retail sales surged in january, beating expectations. more signs of a ve
of a shortage of drugs, and fleece apparent end in sight. cnn is getting an exclusive first look on the report on the shortage. the report shows more than 8,000 patients a year aren t getting the full treatments that they need from the life-saving drug bcg because of that shortage. it is, actually, the drug of choice for a he very common type of bladder cancer. medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us now. why the shortage? erica, there are shortages of so many different drugs out there, and this is one of them. one of the sponsors of this report says it is heartbreaking talking to patients who are told, well, we should give you for your bladder cancer is this many doses of this drug called bcg, but we can t do it because there s not enough of it. bladder cancer is a no cancer is good, this is a particularly terrible one. a 30 to 40% recurrence rate, which is very high. so let s take a look at what s going on with this drug. again, it s called bcg, and some
i can t. then i looked at these statistics. i did my own research on it. who knows. we don t know what s going on there, but just to see, sort of the recurrence rate is so high. i just couldn t sit with that, for me. what you are describing is something happening right now, somewhere in america, a woman is going through making this tough decision. you can t want to have it at all. after all the data came back and you looked at it and talked to your doctor, you decided it was the best thing to do. for me. i know i have gotten some criticism, i m sure from people who said what i have done was way too radical. i looked at my family and i just thought this is the smartest thing for me to do. this is my best chance of not having to deal with this ever again for as long as i live. that s what i knew and had to do