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cse in mopinion what we're doink ough... the ltimore sun be taint partment uld continue every shooting. ltimesemy mb one" in apparently wanted for another crime. according to th baltimore sun, chistopher good is wnted for quetioning in thehoting of a woman on saturday. that incident happened on elmtree street near curtis avenue. last wednesday, police named good "public enemy number one" because he's charged with attempted rder of png website stpulacrime the tnet... f the woman shot and killed by police in the nation's capitol last week ay their sister did not have to die. now as ainsley earhardt repos, they areooking for
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earhar, fox news. it's the assault caught on camera... that made national headlines. now.. it turns out there was an undercover police officer just feet away from the biker gang attack on a new york city highway. a lawyer says the officer was off duty when he joined the raly that lead to this assault. you can see one of the bikers... 37 year old reginald chance.... using his helmet to pound on the window of alexian lien's s- u-v. attorneys say the officer pulled up as the bikers attacked the s-u-v b did not see lien pulled rom the
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vehic. the detective did not come forward about his presence until 3 days after the incident. meanwhile... we're now learning that chance at one time faced 25 years in prison but only got community service. arthur aidala says: "the put the case in front of a grand jury and the grand jury did what we call blewt out, they didn't charge him with the gun, they didn't charge him with a lot of the things he was found with." a fourth motorcyclist was also arrested in connection with the assault. police say 29- year-old craig wright faces multiple assault charges and unlaul imprisonment. in's wife says her husband was trying to protect her and their 2-year-old child when he fled. he wound up running over another biker, breaking his spine and both his legs. a florida man is in criticl condition this rning after jumping off a moving train. officials say he made the leap after realizing he left his cell phone on the platform. the man pulled the emergency
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cord, and as he jumped out of the emergency doors the train hit him. emergency crews rushed him to the hospital. abou50 people were on board in downtown west palm beach when it happened. for two- thousand dollars... you can live like a homeless person. this is the brain-child of mike momany... an out of work web developer. he gives three days tours.. of what t's like to be homeless. momy asks the wealy to sleep in a hostel and live on the streets. he calls this a course in applied... homelessness. critics are calling it poverty tourism. "you're gonna become homeless. you're gonna live for three days as a homeless person and see how that feels." "a tour of the homeless, i think that becomes awfully close to approaching a line where you're potentially exploiting." momany says customers can't take photos b can have thei movements to homeless hotspots tracked on g-p-s for security. she's at it ... again... but not in the
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ocean. now that her swim from cuba to florida is done... diana nyad is setting her sights on another challenge...swim ming for 48- hours in new york city. the event will raseoneyor people who ost their homes in superstorm sandy. after completing this latest challenge in a specially installed pool... she plans to take it to the boston marathon... on the anniversary of the bombing... and swim there to raise money for victims. but that's not all... after that... she plan to take the po to moore oklahoma... to help those people who were affected by a massive tornado earlier this year. coming up on the early edition... a man's body... fails him. 30:17 there were 5 doctors who never thought i'd walk agn." the miracle treatment... at's allowing him to walk again.
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twter silence this weekend from city police on four shootings paul gessler reports why tht was... and why it w't happen again. paul-- well, it happened because the city changed its social media policy. for a deparent that tweets out everything from handgun violations to mugshots... they moved away from tweeting about every shooting. a police department spokesperson said that's because setimes preliminary informatiois inaccurate. whil the department emailed media about four weekend shootings... the 40,000 twitter followers heard nothing of them. that drew heat from citizens
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and city leaders alike... here's councilman brandon scott yesterday... who is on he city's public safety committee. brann scott, city council: "this is an unfortunate stpe in the wrong direction becuase in my opinion what we're doing is ok with the tweeting about shootings but we should be taking it a step further." la monday, though... the baltimore sun reports the department would continue their social media shooting plicy. every shooting in city limits... will be posted on the city's very active twitter page. trnsparecny advocates say twitter is not the only plaform where the police are fallin short. it ca soetimes take a moth for the city t release comprehensive crime data to the public live from police headquarters, ((ad libing ws trogist))
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cells... but adult stem cells... that gives hope to disease-prone people. shauna lake introduces us. (--kg---) "alright. you ready to show ofthose legs a little bit? let's do it. ok." shawn wickard... (grunting) at the age of 42... (breathing hard) is working out. "9... 10... wow. excellent." not a big deal... unless you consider just a few yea ago the only thing he could do was wiggle his big toe a quarter of an inch. clip 2081 @ 4:30 if he sees someone else doing something, he wants to try it. 4:34 (more workout nats) clip 2084 @ 12:18 "what you see in shawn is someone who doesn't accept their circumstances. he just keeps moving foward." what we're seeing shawn do... comes after years of therapy, painand a personal drive to walk again. clip 2096 @ 24:30 i hate extra help. anyone knows me they know i don't accept help very well. 24:33 if i need help, it's a bad day. 24:36 and a new wave of modern medicine testing. clip 2099 @ 30:17 there were 5 ctors who never thought i'd walk again 15-years ago...
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shawn began to feel pain... overwhelming fatigue... and his health deteriorated quickly. clip 211801 @ 43:15 i woke up to a spinal disease called transverse myelitis. it's an autoimmu disease that causes the nerve ending to my spinal cord to deteriorate. :24 and in a little more than year... clip 2099 @ 30:02 was paralyzed from the chest down, from here down, paralyzed, not a movement." 30:07 shawn's body was failing him on many levels. clip 211802 @ 00:53 "i had a lupus stroke almost ten years ago. that the doctor told everyone i was going to die that night." he survived... but was le numb to life... both physiclly and emotional. clip 2118 @ 52:38 "with autoimmune, you have fatigue. excruciating, crushing fatigue." doctor after doctor admitted defeat in treating him. clip 211801 @ 46:01 i am a giant pain in the butt with doctors." until he allowed himself to becom an experiment of sorts... at the "national institute of health" in maryland. clip 211801 @ 49:42 "they flood the blood with stem cells." recent research has discovered a new level of blank cells - known as stem cells - in the human body. they are taken
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out of our bone marrow... and put back into the diseased ares of the body to regrow and replace the tainted cells. clip 211801 @ 52:12 it's crazy that they can manipulate the body and go hey, this part of your body is bad, let's fix it. adult stem cell treatment is showing promise in treating spinal cord injuries, heart problems, diabetes, lupus, parkinsons and multiple sclerosis. but the process isn't perfect yet... and recovery is still very slow. clip 211801 @ 53:58 the body hasn't worked for years and years and years and you can't just wake up and go step... you're going to fall on your fe. 54:04 for shawn... his stem cell treatment was six years ago. today... he's now walking up to a half mile on the treadmill. ip 211802 @ 1:40 i want to thrive, i want to live, i want to experience, i want to have and enjoy my life.." clip 211802 @ 1:10 "yeah. i'm a survivor 1:12 coming up in our 6 o'clock hour... taking advantage... of the affordable caract. the new probls americans trying to sign up f health care are experiencing this morning.
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center stage at baltimore police headquarters this morning.. as the btimore sun reports the department will begin tweeting every city shooting again. paul gessler: live from police headquarters to explain this policy. paul--- the baltimore city police departnt was one of the first in the country to use twitter to inform city residents of crime. this wkend, thoh... four shootings ocrred... with no mention from the city's twitter feed. a police department spokesperson said they stopped tweeting every shooting because sometimes preliminary information is inaccurate. while the media hearabout shootis like one in barclay area this weekend... the 40,000 twitter followers heard nothing of them. that drew heat from citizens and city leaders alike... here's councilman brandon scott yesterday... who is on the city's pubc safety committee. brandon sco, ty
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