the. and more help this morning for furloughed federal workers. the business offering free gas and how you can take advantage of the offer. and we've got some the way. all of this is pushing into our area as we head io the afternoon, but we're warming up quite a bit. we'll talk about how warm we get before the rain arrives coming up in a few minutes. "news4 midday" starts >>now good morning, everybody. welcome to "news4 midday." i'm aaron gilchrist. >> we are getting ready for the

arrivalig ofh winds. it's been pretty dry and it is right now at this hour but it's going to change later today. another change you'll notice also is temperatures. ro >> metgists lauren rickets joining us now to tell us about just how much warmer it's going to get today. it's like a heat wave. >> it is going toik feel a heat wave especially compared to what we were dealing withver the weekend. we're not looking at the prettiest of days right now. you can see we've got plenty of clouds out there. it looks like it's going to thiny second. however, most orain holding off. i am going to call for a little bit of drizzle, a little bit of mist possibly sprinkle passing by before the steady rain arrives and that won't arrive until later on tonight. now temperatures not quite that bad. this is about our normal day time high for this time of yeart lo mid-40s right now. we'll take this temperature right on upigo around 50 degrees but it's going to happen later on tonight and some areas may bewarmer. a lot of rain coming our way.

flood watches posted. we'lat sort all of out for you and talk about the rest of this workweek coming up in 20 minutes. >> all right. thank you. to right now you'll want avoid 17th street just it is shutdown because of a giant sin akholero that opened n the road there. this hole appeared at th intersection of d street and 17th yesterday. it's continued to growince then. crews shut down the road b aween c e streets. urs postedowgheep llak bthe.t'er no a big job. and some good news this morning for people who drive me many of the potholes we showed you earlier this week were patched yesterday afternoon and crews are at it on the bridge today to make more gh road to that r as thedrs into its 33rd day may be some movement on capitol hill. the senate plans to vote on t competing proposals tomorrow to

reopen the government and thi could be a big development since senate majority leader mitch mce wouldnl would sign. tracie potts has more details on pl two votes and no solution. for anybody to be proud of. >> reporter: tomorrow for the firstime since the shutdown the senate votes to end it. republicans will pitch the president's plan, temporary protection for a million immigrants if he gets money to build a border wall. ot why are democrats supporting the president's proposal -- >> reporter: because they have their own. reopen government for two eks, then negotiate border security. without support from the other side, both pla are expected to fail. >> people are saying, isn't there a way out o this mess. >> reporter: right now, there's just finger pointing. >> it's nancy pelosi. >> the speaker's position seems to be that she demands the unconditional surrender of the president on every position

involving the . shutdown that's unreasonable. it's ill logical and irrationalv >> you cannot the president every time we have an objection to say i'll shut down government until you come to my way of thinking. f >> reporter: t says the shutdown is making america less safe. >> the failure to fund the fbi making it more difficult for us to do our jobs, to pro the people of our country from criminals and terrorists. >> reporter: fd banks feeding furloughed workers now a daily symbol of onwashin dysfunction. so we may see votes in the senate and even in the house this week. speaker pelosi says they've got them scheduled aswell, but nothing at this point that has enough support to end the shutdownf the tracie potts, news4, president trump still plans to deliver his state of the union speech next week to a joint session o congress. that's despite letters from house speaker nancy pelosi

requesting that he delay the speech becau of theshutdown. the white house has requested a walk through inntipation of the january 29th address. and ow the constant back forth over funding bills and potential -- stopdi stu act. the bill would keep the government running if there's lapse in funding by automatically renewing government funding at the same levels as the previous fiscal years. some furloughed federal workers are getting hel filling up their gas tanks. >> and it's all thanks to a start-up trtt just s operating right here in d.c. >> we have details on is. good morning, nicole. >> reporter: good morning to you, aaron. some government workers are having to make some pretty b decisions in some cases whether to eat or to get gas, but today,

filled.com is making that decision a little easier. slowly coming in >> we were on a quarter tank of gas. >> reporter: willingly. >> tried to keep it at half and i'm at half right now. >> i need you to go on the other side. >> reporter: and in need, it's the government t shutdownt's outlasted previous ones forcing people to, among all things, run on empty. e upside to filled.com is a free tank of gas today. >>e're making it that's all we can do. >> reporter: scottwns the company. >> when the shutdown came around, gas is somethinghe need every 7 days. it's embarrassing that things like gas are now hard and you have tot bud and you don't know if it's food or gas this week. >> reporter: he posted on twitter this week dozens taking him up on the offer. >> my mother heard the news this

morning that said they were giving out free gas because we were trying to h figure out we were going to put gas in the car last night. >> reporter: because when the going gets tough, going just gets hard. >> reality hasicked in and savings is getting low. >> reporter: but all these lined up todayfu are gra and thankful for the good heart. >> thank you. >> reporter: who want to see others put it in drive and go. all right. so now you see trucks repositioning because the oneas truck now run out of gas, so they had two trucks, 450 gallons per truck and the second is now reposition. i can tell you, though, all of this will continue to take place until services run out. aaron, erica, back to you. >> that's a goodeed there. we're seeing people coming in to lend a hand.

alexandria city public schools is holding a hiring event today for people l gking back to work right away. they are looking to fill substitute teaching and tutor posions. the j fair is from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at george washington middle school. furloughedorkers are encouraged to stop by. resources for furloughed federal workers every day. check the app to find out where you can get help and where you can give help. just search shutdown. the mayor of south bend, indiana, is eyeing the white house. he posted a video to twitter this mornie saying thats launched an exploratory committee for 2020 presidential bid. take a look. >> the realityhe is's no going back and there's no such thing as again ithe real world. we can't look for greatness in the past. ght now our country needs a fresh start.he i'm mayor of south bend, indiana. >> according to his website, he

served as a lieutenant in the navy reserve during a deployment to afghanistan and for his ecounterterrorism work h earned the joint service accommodation medal. we have new details this morng about that standoff at a hoelital. police us one person died. officers were called just before 9:00 last night for a rort of a man with a gun. police say that man was a 64-year-old patient who was armed andhold-up in a hospital room. officers tried negotiatingit him but he refused to come out. a s.w.a.t. team was eventually called in but the patient shot himsel and died. nobody else was hurt. new at mid-day, fairfax county leaders have lifted a ban on some exotic amals. soon you'll be able to keep them as pets. th decision was made in last night's county board o supervisors meeting. >> i'm ready for my chin chilla.

>> there you go. right now a teen is explaining what many called hisi smirking this video as he faced off with the native american activist here in d.c. and the gift of motherhood, experimental transplant program that is changing lives.

this morng the kentucky teen at the center of a viral confrontation is doubling down his claim that he did nothing wrong. in the video you see him staring down native american elderth an phillips near the lincoln memorial last week. we are hearing fromiclas in an exclusive interview. he says it started when a group of hue brew israelites began yelling his classmates. that's when phillips says he tried to tdefuse situation by singing but then the teen says he wishes things had turned out differently. > now, i wish i would have

walked away. i didn't want to be disrespectful to mr. phillips and walk ay if he was trying to talk to me, but i wasai cey -- i was surrounded by a lot of people. i didn't know they had their phones out, had cameras and i didn want to bump into anyone or seem like i was trying to do something. >> at the same time, nicholas says he was not wrong for what he did do that day. >> do you see yourwn fault in any way? >> as far as standingthere, i had every right to do so. i don't- my position was that i was not disrespectful to mr. phillips. i respect dm. ike to talk to him. >> they" "to show expects to continue the conversation with both nicholas and nathan phillips tomorrow on the "today" show. this morning a teen is b recovering aftng stabbed hoside a d.c.er bathroom in northwest yesterday

morning. the victim's 15 years old. es police ad and charged a 17-year-old in the stabbing. students we spoke with tell us, they were scared and they were confused. >> they just put us on lockdown for two hours. no idea what's going on and people were scared. they were 'tlike, i dnow what to do. >> letters went out to parts after the stabbing. it reads in part, quote, we take the safety of our students very seriously. we are saddened by this event and we know this singular incident is not reflective of our community and values, end quote. a young min is f charges for stabbing his father to death in prince george's county. lice say david flores jr. wlled his father at their home on mondayn officers arrived at their house on cedar lane, they founden ther flores with stab wounds. he died at the hospital. his son admitte to the ime. no word on a motive though. a measure to decriminalize fare cheaters on metro is one

step closer to becoming law. we have shown you video of people cheating the system. under this new law, if you're caught, you would sti face a $50 fine, however you won't face jail time and a criminal charge. supporters of decriminalization say stiffer punishment unfairly targets poor people. mayor bowser cited with metro who says it loses between 25 and $50 million a year from fare evaders. the bill must now go through a congressional review before becoming law. ington county polic department has died that body cameras --ec hase that had body cameras are too expensive. it would be $300 a year. smaller police depaacments ross the country had decided they can't afford the programs. they're tooto expensive to sre and manage the footage. arlington police officials explained the challennot purchasing the technology, they

rote, it's implementing the program which requires upgrades to existing infrastructure and e additional staff to support it. the next time you drive by geor masonniversity you might see some of these guys crossing the street. they're actually part of a new self-driving robot delivery service for students. now anybody on campus will be able toll order from places like starbucks or dunkin' donuts. just download the app and place your order through there. e robots will deliver food within 30 minutes of the george mason is actually the first college campus to use these technologies apparently those things c hold something like three pizza,sa ds, drinks, because as a college student, you're eating salads. oh, yeah. >> don't bother to get out of the bed in the morning, just order it and the little thing will deliver it to you. williv it d to history class is the question? so this morning we are

hearing from the woman who donateder uterus that allowed the nation's first baby born from a transplanted uterus and is about the decision. >> bianca castro is in texas with the story of the miracle baby born one year ago. decisions, decisions. >> reporter: taylor and clint decided early on two kids and done. >> i was 32 and just had a second baby and i was like, i don't want to do that again. reporter: even though their family is complete they say they always woted help another couple start a family. theyeced against ser gatsy but when taylor saw an article on uterus transplant trial. what about this? can i do this? what do you think? >> reporter: she signed up to donate her uterus. >> i just want to see what i could d to help somebody that deserves it to be a gre mom. >> reporter: taylor was one of the first potential donors for the new trial in which docto would attempt what's been done successfully fewer than a dozen

times around the world. take a uterus from a healthy woman and transplant it into a woman born without uterus or who had it removed. >> that's all we're doing, we're trying to restore normalcy. >> reporter: these doctors are running the trial. with their medical team in place they opened the call for donors. >> it's more than just donating an organ. these women are donating the experience of pregnancy that's something that transcends the actual transplant itself. knowporter: taylor didn't the recipient but after the successful transplant they kept in touch t cards and letters. >> we were having dinner at our street andoss the we're sitting there and i'm reading the letter and i was like oh, my gosh, we're pregnant and they looked at me, like, we not me, but my receipt, she's pregnant. it's working. this is amazing. >> reporter: andth nine mon

later taylor got to h meeter wound sister as a miracle baby. >> i gave her a big old hug and that's a big deal becauset'm no hugger. and then sd han him over and it was just second only to yhaving own kids. >> reporter: because of an immeasurable act of >>kindness. that is something else. >> yeah. we'll change gears nowut talking a travel nightmares. the door issue that had airgene passen stuck for 12 hours. and this week's cold temperatures havead a big impact on everything from roads to waterpipes. a look at the damage left inside a local school.

ts> united airlines is reviewing one of flights that dozens of passengers are calling a nightmare. passengers onlioard thist from newark to hong kong last weekend ended up inoose y, canada, and they were trapped o he tarmac for more than 12 hour for light was diverte

medical emergency but once on the ground in frigid canada, door froze. crews couldn't get it shut and canadian customs was not staffed at that time, so everybody wass k on board. >>. frustrat there was an immense amount of cabin fever. >> a replacement plane eventually took the passengers back to newark almost 24 hours after they first took off. united says passengersere given reimbursement, hotels, compensation and meals. >> i guess that's enough? >> depends on how big that voucher was. >> we'll see, right? drinks theyany free had in those 24 hours. >> that could have been a good thing or bad things. frigid temperatures froze a sprinkler system in a school but it will not keep ks out of the classroom today. >> the frozen stem turned into this busted pipes sent waterll through parts of wheaton high school and so that black looking

water, that's notag se but its sediment that was blding up in the sprinkler system. crews were brought in to clean up clarooms and hallways. the air quality was tested. no problems have been reported. sorry, kids. school is open. and then tomorrow, let's add more rain to the situation. >> oh, yeah. >> it's going to be a rough -- a lot of rain coming. >> a lot of rain, an inch to inch and a half. we've already had two inches since januaryt, 1s almost eight inches since december 1st. >> let's jus keep going. >> why not? at least it's not snow i guess should say. >> you're absolutely right. >> if you're i a january, least let the precip be snow. >> we'llee a little warm rain tomorrow morning because those temperatures are rising as we head into tonight. tomorrow morning you could walk outside. 50s. shorts weather. tomorrow afternoon, gra that winter jacket again because we're dropping once again and

we'll be ithe 40s and 30s by tomorrow afternoon, very similar to what we experienced last sunday. we got the cloud cover out there right now. maybe a few sprinhees out as we get into the day. the steady rain arrives later o. toni and then we've got pretty blustery conditions for your thursday with the rain at least for the first half of the day. cold sunshine, maybe a flurry or two on friday and then saturday we're dry just cold. we'll have sunshine on saturday. current temperatures out thet rinow. everybody in the 40s. this is average highs for this time of year which is in the l to mid-40s. over the next 12 hours, look at temperatures. maybe a drop a little bit, but we'll stay in the 40s as we head through the afternoon an look at this. they actually come up throughout the afternoon and into the evening. few showerse h and there after sunset and we'll continue to moresome showers and some steady rain later on tonight. ow, it's also a little breezy out ther so we've got a few windchills. that wind will stay with usda tomorrow and even a little bit on your friday.

radar right now not showing much around ourar s. a few sprinkles possible. we're seeing wtery x, light snow out in the western maryland rea, but this is all due to a frontal system that's sweeping through our area. a warm front is to the south a w thm front is going to lift to the north a under that warm front to the south of that warm front a lot of warm air so that's why it's taking our temperature from where it is now up into the 50s by midnight. that frontal system will come through. we do have flood watch with an inch to inch and a half of rain possible. all the snow we have on the ground good-bye and with the frozen ground we have, we could see some flooding issuesrny tomorrow g. a few sprinkles possible as we go through your by 9:00, we're still mostly dry. erre comes the steady rain into the ght. could have some heavy rain especially tomorrow morning for that morning commute. temperatures tomorrow morning will be in the 50s and then they

start crashings we go through the afternoon. the rain moves out by early afternoon, maybe a few peaks of ater on. we'll talk about how cold it's going to get after that and into the weekend coming up in just a little bit. >> all right. a local mother mak a tough decision to help police. her son is now facing some very serious charge you'll hear what the teen is accused of doing. >> we lose our home. i'll be evicte furloughed federal workers are also being forced to make some tough decisions. this woman may have to between her home and her cancer treatment. more on the challenges ahead for her mily after the bak. fa

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get your human to visit wellsfargo.com/woof. what would she do without me? announcer: you're watching "news4 midday." as month two of the shutdown arrives so does a second payh period w no paycheck for 800,000 federal workers who are furloughed. >> that means the financial pressure is growing on families

hoices about hard what to give up and what to pay for. so far workers have missed out on $5.7 billion in salary, that does not include contractors. >> and that comes to about $7,600 per furloughed employee. >> or roughly 8% of their annual salaries. >> president trump has signed t billt guarantees back pay for furloughed employees once the governmentreopens. jackie benson has more on a life and death dilemma facing one federal worker in maryland, pay the rent o pay for her next chemotherapy treatment. >> so i don't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: she's living with stage t cancer diagnosed last summer for just over a month, th millersville, maryland, woman has lived without a paycheck. >> i still have medical expenses that are not covered by insurance, although my husband is a postal worker. we still need those, you know,

miscellaneous expenses that come with thised mical disease called cancer. >> reporter: 11 years of working to serve the amelecan pe rewarded by fear and apprehension at a time when it could not be more unwelcome. >> real live people are bei affected with real life day-to-day decisions and its just unfortunate. it seems sond unnecessary uncalled for and it's frustrating. and it's like we don't even he a say in it. >> reporter: 33 days without her paycheck now mns take choice, chemo and other medical costs, theife of a wife and mother, versus the family home. >> worstas scenario we lose our home, i'll be evicted and i have to go stayen with f or family or something. that's worst case and that's next month. i can't negotiate with my chemo. that has to happen, so if it's chemo or the rent, chemo wins. >> reporter: jackie benson, news4. if you would like to help

that famy, we've posted toformation how to do that in our nbc washi app just search shutdown. from civilians to military families, now the u.s. coast guard remains the onlyf branch the military not being paid to protect you right now. thats 42,000 federal workers wondering how they will get by.n our north virginia bureau reporter david culver shows us how coast guard spouses are making their plea. >> reporter: on a mission through the halls of congress, these spouses and parents of coast guard staff knocking on door. >> we know what it's like to be through thick and thin and we made the sacrifices but we neve t thought we'd have make the sacrifice of no paycheck. >> reporter: they have a savings to fall back on but she's here to help support younger coast guard members like jeff. >> he's 19. >> my husband is activ duty and i actually work for the coast

guard as a civilian. >> so who's getting paid in the family? >> neither one of us. >> and even those of us that feel like we're okay now, if it goes on that long, well, maybe we're not. ed>> reporter: loved ones o making sacrifices at home taking it to the front o line this showdown the u.s. coast guard falls under the department of homeland the ity rather tha department of defense and that's why they're the only branch not being pai during this shutdown. the drones were detecte neark new airport in new jersey yesterday. despite that, the agency says that it receives more than 100 illegal drone e reporh month. the culprits behind yesterday's drones haven't been caught but they could face criminal

penalties and fines. this video sparked outrage last week. two suspects attacking a dog walker in northwest d.c. as they try to steal her car. now we're learninbo more some links to other attacks and the role oneec s mother played in their arrest. meghan fitzgerald reports. >> i felt very safe ande i hav felt safe up until now. >> reporter: three violent attacks in the last month all in this neighborhood. >> i'm really disturbed. >> reporter: it has folks like maryg carlson think twice about her safety. >> but, yes, i'm being more cautious now, unfortunately, in this neighborhood. >> reporter: last thursday police say this two boys beat a 69-year-old dog walker with a pipe on uclid street part of the attack was caught on surveillance video whe suspect's couldn't operate the car, they grabbed her purse and took off. according to court documents, one day before this attack, the

teens grabbed a woman near sherman avenue dragging her t a back alley before throwing her down a stairwell and pulling out a knife saying, quote, give me your stuff or i'll killyou. woman in kicked the the stomach. they escaped with the woman's backpack. the first attack was last month. police say the teen suspects chasedowhe woman irving street before hitting her with a brick and stealing her purse and iphone. investigators say the mother of one of the suspects ihentified son from these images she saw on the news and convinced himo turn himself in. meghan fitzgerald, news4. so new details this morning on the two saudi sisters from virginia found dead in the hudson river in new york last year. the medical examiner now saysot they b died by suicide. investigators say the sisters traveled from a shelter in fall. ia to new york last they believe the sisters duct

taped themselves together befori goingo the river. detectives say the two were desperate not to return to saudi arabia. a judge is giving lawyers more time to put together an insanity defense for the man accuse of killing five people at the "capital gazette" newspaper this summer. jerry ramos was indicted o23 counts ofde mur ramos could serve out his sentence in a mental healthat facilityr than in prison. they say he was upset with the paper becau of an article. there is apparently a linkn betw excessive social medi a usend depression among teens. researchers from the uk say while apps can be a helpful tool to connect with their friends, too much time on social media can come with downsides. e connection isuch stronger for girls than for boys. many teens spend nearl five hours a day glued toir the phones. experts say those teens showed a

35% increase in depressive symptoms among boys and a 50% increase in girls. >> i think more girls are trying to to forhat instagram aesthetic than boys reallyar about. >> you have a higher image to uphold because of society. >> the study say a lack of sleep due to social medi could also play a role in the depressive symptoms. experts recommend setting a charging station in your home so that cell phones are not charged in the bedroom which can lead to distractions. >> good advice. serena williams will be laefg australia empty handed. seventh ranked won the next t games and ended serena's tournaments. she's s one grand slam title away from tieing the all-time record of 24. a powerful srm is headed our way. lauren is back with an update

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american played video games making the industry one of the fastest growing sectors. the industrygh provides r 220,000 jobs across all 50 states. with your cc morning business report, i'm frank holland. who can forge this? three years ago today we were buried in the blizzard of 2016, the official sno total out of reagan national was just under 18 inches. other parts of the rion saw ouwards of two feet. i don't know aboutguys, but it was a good time, good time for me. >> was it? >> yeah. >> were you off? >> no, i wasn't. it's so fun. i'm from evxas. i've seen that kind of snow in my life. >> really? >> it was awesome. no, no. amelia came and picked me up in her bigfour-by-four. >> i could go the rest of my life without that much snow. i'm good. all set. >> i was cold looking at that video. i remember they put me outside

and it was just like, i'll j ot stand here for 15 minutes. listen, i'm so glad we're not talking about things like that. i know you're not. in fact, for the next ten days i'm not seeing a lot of snowren the st. we do have blips on the radar where we can get a flurry or sno snow shower just big snow system coming our way. temperatures rise today and they crash through the day tomorrow and it's becoming windy tomorrow and it's breezy out there today and we' be having these winds today, tomorrow and through the day on friday. current temperatures now, this is about where we should be for our average daytime high. low to mid-40s right now and as we go over the next several hours, look atthis. those temperatures come right on

up, midnight we're in the 50s and then through the overnight we're in the 50s topping out in the mid-50s a by 7:00 a. then we crash by noon tomorrow as the cold front pushes tough the area. that cold front will bring us that rain b there's that cold front and a warm front is lifting through ourniir t. that's why we'll take those rise in temperatures but they crash behind that cold front. we are talking about a good amount of rain that's movingn after the commute tonight and it'll be with us through tomorrow, anywhere from an inch to inch and a half of rain coming our way. temperatures today in the 40s but we'll toput in the 50s during the overnight. weather alert for tomorrow as temperatrees crash andy through your friday. we'll show you the next five days coming up right after this. >> thank you so much, lauren. getting more forgetful with age. coming up, a look at what is fog. g your brain and a look at how far people are willing to go to get affordable medicine including across our southern border.

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welcome back. i'm eun yang. p e you a middle aged woman trying to kack of your cash and making plans and seeing them through, maybe you're concerned that you might be experiencing the early signs of dementia. we'll talk more about what could be going on here. so is this really brain fog or just the fact that women of a certain age just have a lot on their plate, they're working, they have children, they have all kinds of things going on and it's hard to keep track of so manythings. >> it's more than just all the things going on. there he been very few studies but there's been some look at this and what tyind is about 50% of women who are nearingme pause so sometime in their 40s to 50s will start experiencing some ofin this b fog and so we don't know exactly

what's going on in every situation but there are definitely some things to think about. the primary thing we're talking about here has to do with . estrog estrogen is the culprit. when estrogen levels start to drop that can cau some of these problems. >> and so how critical is it, th estrogen? is there anything you can do aboutt at that point? re t'sheomnget s chiognitive decline. that's what we' talking about in some cases. other times what we're talking about are people who have had what we'll call subthreshold adhd. maybe you've never been thewi bt organization and being able to stay focused, et cetera, but you've managed just fine forhe most part. now, as you reach that middle age level, your estrogen start to drop, that then leads to worsening attention issues. the reason being that estrogen is involved in increasing dope amin levels and dopamine is the primary neuro transmitter involved in focusing, very interestingly i even see this

with some of my transgender patient. ey are transitioning from male to female when they have adhd. when theyak startg estrogen supplements their adhd improves. when you havee to male, they start taking testosterone, their adhd will get worse. i've definitely seen this and t hes in my practice. >> even if you've never been diagnosed with adhd, there's no way you would have known that pis is what theblem is? >> right. you might not know. l i'mtle bit flighty but i've been managing. if you're in this age range andr starting to ence some of these problems, this could be what's going on. there are other things you need to think about so it's possible you have a troid problem. thyroid issues are particularly commonn women. hypothyroidism in particular and thatan cause slowing of cognitive processes. the interesting thing her is that if you have this problem,

there are some things you can do to fix it. one thing is you could talk to your ob/gynbout going o estrogen supplements so that can help during this transition phase for that ten-year period or so. of course, y need to talk to your ob/gyn because there are some prosnd cons to estrogen supplements. i will sometimes give women adhd medications so that's going tou r this drop in estrogen and drop in dopamin to help them function better. >> dementia is serious and don't want to mess around with that, so this sort of supplement, is that something you can look at too as a long-term solution? >> a lot of women are going to adapt and o they pass menopause, their brain is going to readapt andheiremory functioning is going to get better. this has nothing to do with dementia. these people aren't necessarily at increased risk of dementia. so what you want to do, you want to get it fully evaluated.

it's very rare for somebody inr th0s who's healthy to have early stage dementia. you want to get everything checked out. if you don't really know what's going on, it's possible that it's one of w these thingsre talking about today. if it doesn't improve, then you want to investigate further and see if, perhaps, there's some dementia going on. >> worth coucking thanks as always. >> my pleasure. the ever rising cost of prescription drugs has some american literally risking their lives just to pay l for ae saving medication. >> the cost of insulin for people trying to treat type one abetes is almost doubled in the last five years and that's leavingd some to h south of the border to get the drugs at a fraction of the price. >> reporter: it's 5:00 a.m. ins los ange a january morning, the month millions of american like robin cressman dread. becausheir insurance deductible resets to zero and

for a type one diabetic looking for life savings insulin, it's the most expensive time of the year. she's heading to the mexican border where we meet a about insulin in tijuana costing a fraction of what it does in the u.s. ust crossed the kborder. you're just typing in pharmacy in google maps and then off we go? >> off we go. >> reporter: they've decided it's worth the risk to go to one of mexico's most dange aus citi insulin prices in the u.s. have more than doubled. >> i need two ofox those b to get me through about a ar, that year supply of insulin in the u.s. would be $1,400. i bought it here for $104. >> reporter: wow. seeing these prices for the first time, she can't believe it >> it's you against the world. i feel like every singleto pers ising you from getting the medication you need. it's not fair. >> this is my americans and thi

is the exact same thing it com wi five of these pens in it. >> reporter: does thisook sketchy? >> nope. it's the exact same box that they would use it just has spanish on it instead of english. >> reporter: but insulin manufacturers warn them not to buy insulin in mexico. the drug companies als have programs to help patients but this group says, it's not enough. >> $45. >> reporter: in the united states this is -- >> $250. >> reporter: she just said that there are people thatome all the way from chicago because medicine is very expensive so they come here. drug companies explain t dramatic price difference is due to different health insurance. >> this makes me feel like we're stealing from them, from the fa pharmaceutical. >> reporter: the group spends

lessn $900 for what in the u.s. would cost more than 8,500. insulin they need to survive at prices they can afford. we are hearing a lot of stories about how our area are trying to help furloughed government workers. >> coming up, a celebration of national pie day that includes a free sweet treat for those impacted by the shutdown.

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apple, ,strawber sweet potato, whatever your preference, feel free to enjoy day, it's national pie day. >> we're heading to mom's apple pie shop. >> reporter: oh, yeah, we're baking pies from scratch, folks, with very little sugar as well. i want to throw thatin. dumping sweet for furloughed federal workers on this national pie day we're in the bakery at mom's apple pie shop with ebbie, the mayor came out, thank you so much. eva crenshaw is the owner here and her son is head baker and we've got felix over there, felix does lot here in this bakeshop. tell me what are we doing. >> i'm just puttinghe crumb topping on the apple pie and i'm going to add the crumb topping to our strawberry rhubarb as well. >> reporter: it's national pie day. >> it is. absolutely. national pie day for some start

in the field where we grow our strawberries. coming in in january, we're after a lull after our busyda ho time. it's nice to have another excuse to eat and celebrate pie. >> reporter: how many different pies are you baking on the regular? >> probably around 25. >> reporter: i love that you're offering sething sweet to furloughed workers. >> we're giving free pies away. especially here we get o a lotf federal workers. everyone goes through their struggle so a little thing we can do is, you know, a free sweet pie to those who come in today. >> reporter: yummyummy, yummy in our tummies. us k you so much for having in the bakery. all right. >> thank you for coming by. i reporter: backo you. let's get one last look at

our forecast. lauren? >> i think we're missing your having a little trouble hearing you. >> she was trying to tell us that there's a flood watch goiin effect at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow for all the rain we'll evening.tting this >> heavy rain after the commute. all right. thank you so much for uoining for this "news4 midday." we are back on the air firsts a 4:00 t afternoon. you can get news and weather updates any time with the nbc washington app. have a great day. we'll see you tomorr.

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