testing many inspired by angelina jolie s decision to undergo a double mastectomy after tests revealed she was at an increased risk for breast cancer but there are some serious concerns now that doctors are not ready for the influx of new patients. laura engel live in the newsroom with the latest on the story. hi, laura? reporter: combination of the angelina jolie story and u.s. supreme court ruling that banned genetic patents opened a playing field for genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. women and men who have history of these two types of cancer are turning up in huge numbers in doctors and genetic counselors offices ever since. she is a yale cancer center and said she had 40% rise in calls to her office in one month alone. i think the thing we want to avoided, this is a great ruling by the supreme court. we re thrilled about it but we don t want the wrong tests to be ordered and really waste health care dollars.
what happened and not expecting what, not actually being aware of what was going on because i hadn t seen the news, excuse me, the news or heard anything, i tried to make our way to boston, and it was chaotic. we didn t know where we were going. i didn t ask the ambulance driver which hospital they were taking him to. we ended up at boston medical hospital where we then realized that he was at beth israel. and for three and a half hours i couldn t find my son, j.p.. i honestly thought he was dead because during the three and a half hours i couldn t find him, i found out that paul had lost his leg. so it was jenna: you ve talked about this as being the worst nightmare that you can imagine, and hearing you tell the story, we can certainly understand that. why do you want to be in court today? i just, when it happened, i didn t watch the news. i wasn t aware any of the news for the first month because, you know, we were living it. my boys, i was going back and
agree with the plan. so without an agreement students with subsidized stafford loans will face 6.% interest rates. many students who received the loans are from middle and lower income families and the average undergraduate will pay an extra $2600 this year in interest according to the congressional joint economic committee. as capitol hill manages to pass some kind of a deal before august there is a possible small silver lining. only a small group of students who borrow money for summer school will likely be affected by higher rates in place right now. most student loans are issued in august and september just before school starts. and anything the senate passes would likely retroactively apply, jenna. jenna: we ll see if they get it together. that $2600 is a lot of extras to pay when you look at your interest rates. we ll continue to watch the story, jo. thank you. thank you. jon: eye on the storm as we track tropical storm chantal and the flooding threat it poses to some of the mo
countries. plus the battle between wal-mart and our nation s capitol over the minimum wage and why it could wind up costing d.c. nearly 1800 jobs. we re live with that story. . . . . (girl) what does that say? (guy) dive shop. (girl) diving lessons. (guy) we should totally do that. (girl ) yeah, right. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy) you could eat a bug. let s do that. (guy) you know you re eating a bug.
washington post a wal-mart representative said and i m quoting, from day one we said this legislation is arbitrary, discriminatory and discourages invent in d.c. the chairman of the d.c. council said even at $12.50 d.c. wal-mart workers would be hard-pressed to make a living. $26,000 a year, which is $12.50 an hour with no benefits for a family of four is below poverty level. he is confident the bill will pass by an 8-5 vote this afternoon which leaves, leaves it one vote short of veto proof. mayor vicinity sense gray has not yet indicated whether he will exercise that veto power. again the vote coming late this afternoon. we ll be watching to see whether or not the mayor veto this is bill. jenna? jenna: really interesting story, doug. we ll watch it with you. thank you. reporter: okay. jon: new demand for genetic testing. it is pushing the limits of what