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To significantly slow the debilitating disease which affects 5.4 million americans and is expected to jump to 16 million by 2050. but dr. anderson says the surgery has been extremely effective in canada where it has been performed six times on patients such as robert linton with early alzheimer s. if i can t remember something, if i just pause for one, two, three, seconds. it pops in. reporter: here is how it works, the pacemaker surgically implanted in the chest, wires are run under the skin to the skull, then deep into the brain, to deliver an electrical stimulation at a rate of 100 electrical impulses a second. what s exciting is our understanding of how memory works fits well with how the surgery might work. reporter: the device is used to fight parkinson s disease. for linton the doctor demonstrates the difference in his brain scans. ....
0 really, really dangerous and carries a high risk, the hostage him or herself could be injured or killed. you need some body at a high level to say i am authorizing this mission. reporter: knowing the risks the authorization came from the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general john allen. special forces landed by helicopter, setting off a fire fight, leaving several taliban fighters dead. joseph was air lifted to bagram air base, but the victory came at a price. the u.s. service member injured trying to rescue joseph, died of his wounds. the ultimate sacrifice to save the life of an american doctor who otherwise may have been killed. as a civilian hostage, joseph didn t have the same survival training or instincts as a soldier. in this case u.s. officials decided publicizing it could further endanger his safety and that is why it was kept under raps until the mission was over. her family confirmed that mexican-american singing superstar, jenni rivera died in a plane crash. the ....
degrees. good morning hereford 50 and woodbine at 46. now we look at the visibility this morning. it is reduced and we have an update in baltimore. four mile visibility and seven in easton and take it easy on the roadways. speaking of the roadways let s go over to angela whow a check and that s the who has a check and that s for the weather and roads. reporter: the big story of the fog and we talked about how quickly things can change on the roadways just as we got an accident on the bw parkway. police are trying to reopen a right northbound lane 295bw parkway at maryland 450 and we are getting reports of heavy traffic as folks are slowing down to get around that incident. here s a live look at bw parkway and baltimore beltway increasing in volume but moving at a pretty good pace. see the foggy conditions. a live look at wilkins avenue making the drive through catonsville increasing volume foggy conditions as always. we advice you extra caution and courtesy on the r ....
also this morning, a nationwide problem for school kids with attention from the commander in chief. president obama speaks out about bullies and takes his message to the cartoon network. and later this half hour the sweet 16 in the ncaa. who made it, who didn t, and who leads our world news now march madness brackets competition. but first, a popular boat race in central florida turned deadly over the weekend. three participants were killed after being thrown from their high-speed boats. wftv s ryan hughes reports from lake dora, florida. reporter: charles woodruff raised speedboats for decades. these are undated pictures of him on the water. his life ended on the water, according to a spokeswoman with the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission. his boat buckeye kid ran over the top of the boat shockwave operated by d. wisely. both men were thrown into the water. a rescue crew pulled them to shore. i seen them doing cpr on one of the men, and they ....
cars as severe weather hits midwest. good morning i am sherrie johnson in for mega and charley. let s start with lynette charles. lots going on. you have tornadoes and fog in our area. exactly. we have a moist monday out there. patchy fog is what we are talking about and rain moving toward the southeast. let s talk about the visibility issues that we have this morning. so we have about 5 mile visibility in baltimore more in easton frederick and 6 in york pennsylvania. heading out and about, make sure to have the low beams on. we look at maryland s most powerful radar as of now, and we are see we are dry for most part. but as we look towards the west, that s where we are looking at showers and thunderstorms into west virginia at this time. we are going to be dealing and monitoring the situation that s happening into the southern plains because once again they will have a severe weather outbreak that coming up but right now let s get over to angela with a check of the t ....