similar story. i didn t exactly know what i was looking for but when i noticed it, i knew it was important. dr. rhodes says pay attention to any change, dimples, thickening, discharge, and get it checked out it may be nothing but for some like me, it could be life-saving. let s go, mom i hope tonight, lester, tha sharing my story helps others know how important it is to pay attention to your body i know it s not easy turning the camera on our personal lives. first of all, i m so glad you did. how are you doing? i m doing well. i have great doctors they are optimistic and so am i. that s what we want to hear thank you. ahead, the new lawsu and emotional new interview with a family whose toddle tragically died in a cruise ship fall her grandfather charged but tonight, why the family says the cruise line is at fault. also, ahead, a hacker tapping into a security camera in the bedroom of an 8-year-old
we re going to turn now to a story that is frankly very personal for all of us here at nbc news our correspondent kristen dahlgren sharing her own battle with breast cancer and how one of her own reports helped her discover the signs many women miss. hi! i wasn t thinking about breast cancer at all. i had just had a mammogram that was negative, and then a story i had done a few years ago really saved my life. nbc s kristen dahlgren. i thought it was just a routine assignment a new breast cancer study. 1 in 6 patients have symptoms over than a lump. i remember at the time thinking this story is going to save lives and i just had no idea the life it would save would be mine. fast forward to this summer, and i noticed a dent in my breast. it was more like a thickening, it just felt different than everywhere else. i thought back to that story and i knew that i needed to see a
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doctor and within a few days, i was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer ugh, it s like a kick in the gut. i have a 3-year-old. i have a lot to live for, and it s definitely been the hardest thing i ve ever been through here we are at chemo, just been feeling a little tired the hair is gone, but seems that the tumors are shrinking, so doing its job. i think without that story, i may have waited and i can t even think what would have happened if i had waited. oh my gosh, hi. i went back to the mayo clinic to see dr. debra rhodes, the breast cance researcher i interviewed for that story i m here because of you. if this story saved me, how many other women are out there? in almost every case in a patient who has found her own breast cancer, she ll tell me a
family of a toddler who plunged to her death on a cruise ship. there s no way you ever can move on. i think it s just a matter of finding how to get through the day. the grandfather charged in her death but the family says the company could have prevented it. the chilling video, a family s ring camera taken over by a hacker, watching their 8-year-old daughter. who is that i m your best friend. i m santa claus. how to protect your family. our correspondent revealing her own battle with breast cancer. the symptoms many missed that she spotted thanks to a story she reported on. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone was it a hate crime after all? riveting surveillance video shining light on yesterday s deadly new jersey gun battle the shooter is appearing to target a kosher grocery store in jersey city where they staged the shootout as dozens of children huddled in fear at a synagogue next door.