. >> living with parkinson's disease-- a story frontline correspondent dave iverson and his family know firsthand. >> i hadn't thought that it would happen, but it has happened. >> parkinson's affects a milln americans. >> i have a mindset that i am going to... not let this blankety parkinson's get me down. >> and it's been front and center in the debate over embryonic stem cell science. >> this bill would support the taking of innocent human life, so i vetoed it. >> you know, when you're talking about the potential to heal and cure so many and it not going forward, it pissed me off and i wanted to do something. >> michael j. fox. >> now the politics have changed, but the quest for a cure continues. >> how close are we? we're a lot closer than we were ten years ago. a lot closer. >> tonight ofrontline, correspondent dave iverson tracks the pursuit of parkinson's and his own family journey. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and cather

. >> my name is bob iverson. i am an architect in the city.rtant. they say the pool is twice the size when it is 100 square feet smaller. i guess numbers do not really matter in a discussion like this. this is our last opportunity to work on the waterfront and create a wonderful space. i feel this project is shortsighted. it calls for a financially stressed, self-serving port. there is a small self-serving development company with many tax breaks. it does not provide, as the tagline, a real attachment to the waterfront. look at this -- a wall of buildings with an insignificant path and a small, shadowed water park 15 feet from a busy street. it is a dull project with condominiums and oversized raw edge. it will not create an attachment to the waterfront. it provides benefits for the three involved partners. you are asking the people of san francisco to believe they are reconnecting with the waterfront and will reap benefits from the wealth created. it will only benefit those closely associated with this project. finally, we have heard the proc

. >> jonathan lee iverson is living that dream. >> welcome to the greatest show on earth!-american ringmaster at ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circus. >> you know, one of the things i always tell people about circus life and especially here at the greatest show on earth is you don't play a ringmaster. you don't play a trapeze artist, you don't play a daredevil. you are these things and everything you do in your personal life centers around what you're going to do later that night or three times on saturday. >> it was the chance of a lifetime that suddenly appeared just after he graduated college. >> this opportunity to be the ringmaster of the greatest show on effort was prefrnsented to m. it was history. i thought this is a great pickup line. ringmaster. >> i think i fell in love as soon as i saw him. it's not only the person, it's when he's on stage as a ringmaster he takes care of the arena. he's so charismatic. yeah, he's amazing. but he's a great person too. >> jonathan's brazilian-born wife is a dancer and line captain with the show and they have two children

since the aba mrjer, only allen iverson has more in a finals debut. the thunder win 105-94, the franchise's first win in a finals since '96 when they were still the sonics. lebron james had 30 points in a losing efforts. the most ever for him in the finals, but in the fourth quarter, just seven points on two of six shooting. game two crucial of course for the heat, only three teams in nba history ever have come back from a 2-0 deficit to win the finals. series resumes thursday, tomorrow night in oklahoma city. >>> yankees and the braves last night in the atl. top of the eighth, yankees down 4-0. alex rodriguez up with the bases loaded, hits one to left, that sneaks out of the yard. that's a game-tying grand slam and a-rod matches lou gehrig's all-time major league mark for career dwrand slams with 23. yankees added a couple more from nick swisher, they're on top of the a.l. east. they've got the best record in the american league. >>> more disturbing details coming out in the child sexual abuse case against former penn state assistant coach jerry sand

in temple hills, officials closed the evergreen supermarket on iverson street. we snapped photos of what a store employee agreed appeared to be mouse droppings and a chewed up bag. finally in bethesda, more white table clothes that has been rated as one of washington's best. they suspended divino's citing a severe cockroach infestation. officials shut down five road vendors. except for those all got reinspected and are now back in business. if you want to be first to know about closures, follow me on twit er. i'm russ ptacek, 9news now. >> so whether you know of health dangers, corruption, government waste, 9 wants to know too. send us an e-mail. >>> so as we reported earlier in this newscast, the problem of distracted driving is getting so bad the government is trying to figure out ways to crack down on people who insist they're one of the exceptional humans who can work a mobile phone and a car at the same time. such people are exceptional but not in a good way. >> yes, anita, you know you see it all the time. you come up behind somebody on the road. the car i

f >> 18-year-old patrick iverson walk add cross the stage to get his diploma from san diego's scrippsch high school. he was paralyzed after being hit by a car when just a toddler. >> it took six hours of therapy every day for three years to make this big moment possible. and now, he is thinking ahead to his college graduation. >> maybe do jumping jacks at college graduation. i don't know. and i can't commit to that one i don't know. i'll come up with something cool, though. >> he never let his physical challenge get him down, learning to surf when he was just eight years old. >> fantastic. >> yes. >> and want to share the story now another abc 7 top scholar, seven high school senior was this and and each one gets a thousand dollar scholarship. >> the profile on a big career in politics. >> there is sort of a out reach team. >> i archbishop mitty high school ask will be going to the university of chicago in the fall. >> this top scholar wants to use skills to make change. through political advocacy. >> i'm only 17. i can't vote. but i recognize that there is a place for me in the polit

. >> bob: this is a story in 1995, patrick iverson, 14 months old run over bay car and crippled. sports like rugby, kayaking. he promised everybody paralyzed or not he'd walk to get the diploma at graduation. look at this. he walked up. got out of the wheelchair. i went to this and i thought what a kid. >> bret: medical miracle. >> bob: absolutely. congratulations. >> greg? >> greg: i had bill maher jokes but i didn't want to get in trouble so i'll replace bad part with the name of dana's dog, jasper. how many bill maher does it take to screw in the light bull? you have to remove the bull problem his jasper. what did bill maher say when he told the doctor he had lightbulb in the jasper? he said turn it on and look for my piano. >> that is it for "the five." >>> welcome to "red eye." st's like franklin and bash without franklin or bash. let's go to andy levy for a pre game report. what is coming up on tonight's show old sport? >> close your eyes and bow your head, america. new york state senate stops an attempt to de criminalize small amounts of marijuana. what are they, high? and

. >> bob: this is a story in 1995, patrick iverson, 14 months old run over bay car and crippled. sports like rugby, kayaking. he promised everybody paralyzed or not he'd walk to get the diploma at graduation. look at this. he walked up. got out of the wheelchair. i went to this and i thought what a kid. >> bret: medical miracle. >> bob: absolutely. congratulations. >> greg? >> greg: i had bill maher jokes but i didn't want to get in trouble so i'll replace bad part with the name of dana's dog, jasper. how many bill maher does it take to screw in the light bull? you have to remove the bull problem his jasper. what did bill maher say when he told the doctor he

in temple hills officials closed the evergreen supermarket on iverson street for a rodent infestationwe snapped photos of what a store employee agreed appeared to be mouse droppings and a chewed up bag. finally in bethesda more white tablecloths at a restaurant listed as one of washington's best, the vino cafe and lounge on wisconsin avenue. inspectors suspended them, too citing a severe cockroach infestation. in prince george's county officials shut down five unlicensed roadside vendors except for those, all the establishments passing reinspections and are now back in business. you want to be the first to know about closures, follow me on twitter or facebook. i'm investigative reporter russ ptacek, 9 news now. >> all right, top? >> great weekend, gorgeous, summer-like. >> love it. we've had such a nice spring, you know. it's just been gorgeous. >> except for june 1st every day has been below average. that's kind of nice. here's the deal. it's going to warm up, but it won't be humid tomorrow. it will be a little more humid sunday but certainly bearable. i think even derek will give th

. >> i can't believe you led in with iverson. not a game.ys, thepac supporting president obama, i should say, is out with a new ad today. peter, we have a quick flip. this shows that one issue is for the obama administration or campaign. it's for the going to go away. >> romney and bain capital shut this place down. they shut down entire livelihoods. they promised us a healthcare package. they promised to maintain our retirement program. and those were the first two things that disappeared. this was a booming place and mitt romney and bain capital turned it into a junk yard just making money. >> we haven't third the end of bain capital. >> we won't. you could use bain. this doesn't address whether or not bain is a -- whether or not romney used bain to just enrich the investors. the point here is how they were corporate citizens and i think bain had tested this. this is a potent message. then you don't have to debate the larger issue of should a company like this exist? exactly how much should he make? did he enrich himself at the others? the