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 don t know the potential side-effects. we don t want to make their seizures better and make their lives worse. reporter: and the families caught in the middle. it s awesome. i don t 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, i m lester holt. should medical marijuana be legal? does it work? for which diseases? for doctors, it s about the science. for lawmakers, it s about politics. but for the families you ll meet, it s so much simpler. it s about their children. here s 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
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 don t know the potential side-effects. we don t want to make their seizures better and make their lives worse. reporter: and the families caught in the middle. it s awesome. i don t 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, i m lester holt. should medical marijuana be legal? does it work? for which diseases? for doctors, it s about the science. for lawmakers, it s about politics. but for the families you ll meet, it s so much simpler. it s about their children. here s 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 ki
tomorrow about 50, mostly cloudy the next chance of rainfall tomorrow night . breaking news out of out of akron bowes discovered inside of abandoned home on mercer street the medical examiner says they appear to be helen discovered by a homeless man today, a forensic team has been called into examined them in more detail, check back with us on-air and online on air and online for the latest details. a cleveland group helping animals rescued from a rural property in southern ohio, some of the images may be unsettling, but it the video shows humane society rescue team at the property in adams county last cats somewhere underweight others were injured they were forced to scavenge for food, the owners are facing charges they told prosecutors they were trying to operate as rescue beginning with good intentions 20 years ago but the volume of animals became too much. i don t understand why people don t ask for help, why they don t see what is going on around them and then ask fo
will look closer for clues about what went wrong. again, yellow line service does remain suspendedt. coming up in my next report at 6:00 what the ntsb will be looking for in the train involved in yesterday s episode. reporting live at l enphant plaza, adam tuss news4. she worked downtown and was just taking the train home like she did every day. this evening we re learning more about the passenger who died in yesterday s underground emergency. news4 s pat collins is live in alexandria where the woman lived. pat? reporter: wendy, every day, every day for years and years she would take that yellow line train from her home down into d.c. to her job. every day. yesterday that commute cost carol glover her life. the woman killed in that metro incident yesterday identified by family members as 61-year-old carol glover seen here on her linkedin page. she died during that smoky electrical malfunction yesterday on the yellow line at the l enphant plaza station. carol glover lived
alabama, andrea mccarren, wusa9. we may have to wait a couple weeks to find out those answers. thank you. former d.c. coplinwood barnhill will spend years in prison, but he cop linwood barnhill will spend years in prison, but he could have gotten even more time. reporter: i m bruce johnson. a judge just handed a d.c. cop who was prostituting teenage girls a seven year prison sentence. this enables the witnesses to move forward. reporter: both prosecutor and defense attorney at federal court told the judge the victims never knew that barnhill was a cop. that awayed into the judge s reluctant agreement that weighed into the judge s reluctant agreement to accept the plea deal, but one of the victim s lawyers is telling a very different story and threatening to sue the city. he actually pulled a gun from underneath the seat and bragged about being a d.c. police officer. reporter: barnhill will have to register as a sex offender and serve 10 years probation when