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improve how police and courts treat poor people and minorities. for breast cancer patients fiting the disease can be a war with debilitating side effects coming at them like friendly fire. dr. allen mask explains. >> i have run 13 marathon. >> reporter: amy loves to run. charlie planned on running last year's boston marathon, but in november no 2014, she found a lump in her breast, diagnosed as a breast cancer. the treatment plan was the a lumpectomy, radiation and back to her active lifestyle. >> i was not going to let this cancer, not let me run. >> reporter: doctors found another small invasive tumor, and recommended standard
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two months later sh equalfied for attempt -- she qualified for the attempt trial using a less toxic chemotherapy called tdm1. >> it has less side effects. >> reporter: he didn't lose her hair or no weakness or nausea, it tarts the site not the whole body. a trend in the development of new cancer therapies. >> dugs that don't cause a lot of quality of life problems and are also safe to give and affective. that's a win-win for everybody. >> reporter: she was able to run the boston marathon last year and not wince her once every three week infusions. >> god willing, this is the last time. >> this was the last stick. >> reporter: she sees it as a finish line at the end of a 14- month marathon. >> you hope you cross the finish line as a champion.
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the doctor, one of the best doctors we have. dr. mask, how promising is the trial drug for fighting breast cancer? >> it looks very promising. amy has finish herd treatments, the trial continues, the results are not completely in. dr. lisa says the predecessor trial was successful. it would be a great advance in fighting the non invasive type of breast cancer. that's a tumor that has not vied spread in to the surrounding normal tissue. we wish them all the best. we will follow along and keep you posted. >> until we get a cure, we to find better ways to manage cancer. february 29th, wral welcomes nbc and a loyal viewer from night dale saw the peacock spots featured during the super
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celebrate. >> that's betty, she painted the beautiful pieces 30 years ago and today she gave them to wral, her son elmer, brought her to the station this morning to meet our vice president and manager steve hamel. they are looking forward to watching the olympics on channel 5. if you have questions about the transition, visit wral.com/nbc, that site will help clarify the details of the change, we want to be clear, wral news is not moving. not. we are not moving. all of us are staying right here, on the same channel. i want to give you an idea, look at this here. two of these. this is stunning.
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there are two of them. we should name them debra and david. >> i like the idea. >> these are just absolutely beautiful, betty, hands painted, etched on there, it's just wonderful. thank you for making the effort you and elmer to be here this morning with us. have all the respect in the world for anybody with any art ability. >> i can't draw a straight line. >> cover my face with it. >> betty and elmer. i have been seeing a lot of peacock showing up in the newsroom now, too. paintings. >> we are not plucking them out
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know i have them. i have seen you close with it if. anyways, we got the coldest stuff to come yet. we will talk about that in a second. first the sky cam, as we look towards downtown, actually, are we looking? it was, but now we are looking the other direction. we are looking some direction there from the sky cam. 36 degrees with the wind west at 13 miles per hour. that's adding an extra sting to the 36, of course the cloud cover has taken away the sun this afternoon. despite that the air is dry, the dew point 12, humidity at 37%. the pressure is standard pressure at 29.92 inches of mercury, 1013.2 mill bars or 760-millimeter. temperatures across southern virginia, to the triangle area, rocky mount, in the 30s, not
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south, it is mid and upper 30s across the region. if we look at the water vapor, you can see the water vapor elements descending from northwest, towards the southeast, showing the trough over the east, looking out west, we talked about this last nite at 11:00, there is a circulation that you see here, that is moving almost straight north, off the western canada coast, a lot of energy in the upper atmosphere is moving northeast ward, up over the big ridge and going to come down the sliding board in to the eastern part of the united states. it's possible that one of the impulses could give us a flurry or two on friday. this is a rotation in the atmosphere. this is the upper area flow and shaded areas where we have areas of rotation in the upper atmosphere. you get rising motion. if moisture is sufficient you get clouds and precipitation on the other side, things sink. the air that is, and things dry out. look at this here , the fact we
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us now, showing us we have a big trough in the upper atmosphere overhead. it's going to depart later on this evening and overnight. tomorrow, we should have a full day of sun from start to finish, though it's going to be quite cold. here comes the next impulse, down the sliding board here, you can see that it's aimed at us, on friday morning about 7:00. moisture will be limitd with this. it is possible that it maybe able to generate a few scattered snow flurrys especially on friday morning and once it moves by, we probably don't have much to worry about in terms of precipitation from that point forward through the weekend, it is going to be awful cold, as yet another direct shot of arctic air comes down from eastern canada. we got our storm system to look at next week, that's represented by this thing here, it looks like it would be cold enough for precipitation to be in the frozen form, the
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by the time the main system gets here, it maybe too warm for anything but rain. can you imagine the coldest air mass of the winter and 36 hours after it peaks, it could be above freezing and raining. is that amazing or what? 34 degrees, breezy and cold, skies clearing, late tonight down to 20, tomorrow should be a pretty day, no clouds forming tomorrow. lots of sunshine, a high right where it was today at 40. on friday, that looks more ominous, snow flurrys in the morning. the weekend should be dry, awfully cold, and that low of 15 would eclipse the coldest low we had of 18. remarkably by monday night. it could be above freezing and raining. >> oh, no. i'm sorry. >> i know you hate that. >> sorry. >> thank you, greg. >> the massive recall involving air bags that could explode is
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which auto maker added 680,000 vehicles to the recall list. another live look as we are watching the traffic cameras, the vice president's motorcade is making its way towards the airport. a lot of traffic is stalled on i-40, here near the durham freeway as the vice president makes his way again towards the
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torance and peace. traffic is moving along the outer banks two sections of flooding. it was shut down because debris from overwash and standing water made the road impassible. the closure disrupted ferry service, things are on schedule. volkswagen adding 680,000 vehicles to the recall list. the auto maker notified the government about the vehicles from model years 2006 to 14, they will notify impacted owners about the faulty inflaters. today is one year since a shooting in chapel hill topped headlines across the country. how two college communities are honoring the lives of three students. the latest witnesss to take the snand the trial against travon -- stands in the trial against travion smith. the evidence they connected in
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