They willing to gamble . If i have to choose between losing my job, or losing my kid, what would any mother do . Reporter tonight, the promise this is what you give up when you start using cannabis. Reporter the risks. We dont know the potential sideeffects. We dont want to make their seizures better and make their lives worse. Reporter and the families caught in the middle. Its awesome. I dont feel like a monster anymore. One kid, one day of no suffering is absolutely worth it. Reporter growing hope. Good evening, and welcome to dateline, im lester holt. Should medical marijuana be legal . Does it work . For which diseases . For doctors, its about the science. For lawmakers, its about politics. But for the families youll meet, its so much simpler. Its about their children. Heres harry smith. Reporter three mothers and their children. On this winter day in virginia, they have a big hill to climb. Each child is desperately ill. Each has a form of epilepsy. No one else that i knew had a
Losing my job, or losing my kid, what would any mother do . Reporter tonight, the promise this is what you give up when you start using cannabis. Reporter the risks. We dont know the potential sideeffects. We dont want to make their seizures better and make their lives worse. Reporter and the families caught in the middle. Its awesome. I dont feel like a monster anymore. One kid, one day of no suffering is absolutely worth it. Reporter growing hope. Good evening, and welcome to dateline, im lester holt. Should medical marijuana be legal . Does it work . For which diseases . For doctors, its about the science. For lawmakers, its about politics. But for the families youll meet, its so much simpler. Its about their children. Heres harry smith. Reporter three mothers and their children. On this winter day in virginia, they have a big hill to climb. Each child is desperately ill. Each has a form of epilepsy. No one else that i knew had a kid with seizures this bad, and no one knew how to tr
For me. Reporter at least for some it was enough to have fun. The snow blanketing a little bit more than expected today on the beltway by Tysons Corner on 270 headed north. No plows or caution signs would slow down. While the gas station, drivers would brush off windows. If you are from somewhere else as they told my photographer that it is not that bad. You dont even need a coat. Im from pittsburgh originally. So youre used to it . Im used to it. Reporter it was time to go home. They didnt even want to hang out with me. Are you kidding me . People cant drive. Youve got the slushy stuff on the road and the visibility is minimal, you know, its not a good thing to be out of here. Reporter the good thing for now is the snowfall to stop the wet roads, but again be cautious of possibly freezing on the roadways here, the Highway Administration is traveling that tonight, which will be safe. All right, thank you. Great advice. Were going to move on. Make sure you download the wusa9 news app. Y
Were head today richmond to convince lawmakers to pass the bill. Im peggy fox, the story coming up. A slippery night could get even worse by morning. Good evening. Im lesli foster. Those temperatures are hovering right around the freezing mark and black ice is is a threat for the Early Morning commute. First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt is here to tell us if youll need extra time in the morning. Probably a good idea. In fact we with extend our yellow alert until 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow because were adding fog to the forecast. Temperature is 3 t 25 in gaithersburg, 34 in leesburg and 36 in manassas, still 36 in d. C. But as we mentioned earlier you dont have to see the temperatures exactly 32 for ice to form. What is black ice is . It looks wet but its actually frozen. Thats black ice. Slowdown and also be careful walking. Your driveways will freeze first so be careful walking to get the paper or walking the kids to the bus stop tomorrow. Lets talk about visibility down to one mil
Diane . Leon we are now learning new details into what happened out here. We are being told that one of the suspects was hit several times by gunshots and he is now in Critical Condition. Were told it started here behind me at the Capital One Bank as the Armed Security guards were trying to take money inside to the bank, apparently those two suspects approached them and tried to rob them and at some point as the Armed Security guards are trying to get away, they ended up here across the parking lot in front of the Grocery Store. Thats why you saw those images earlier out here of the armed guard truck here parked in front. Authorities said one of the suspect fired the shot and thats when the two dunbar security guards started firing back hitting one of the suspects involved. The sheriff tells us a witness inside the Grocery Store saw the suspect running about 100 yards away to get to their car to take off. Because were so choice to the Fairfax County border Loudoun County authorities al