nine years ago i received a bone marrow transplant at the john hopkins hospital in baltimore and ever since then i have been cured of sickle-cell anina. >> your whole life changed? >> it did. i went from spending most of my time in the hospital, being on different forms of medication, various blood transfusions, platelet transfusions. if you can think of any symptom i'm one of those and can definitely say that now i'm postsickle-cell anemia that i live a normal life. >> so bone marrow transplant in the cure for this disease? >> yes. well, it was for me, anyway. but it is the cure. >> is that "the" cure, dr. o'neil? >> bone marrow transplantation as well as gene therapy are the two main ways of curing someone of sickle-cell disease. >> uh-huh. >> do doctors test for this when babies are born and do they need to? >> right. so currently in the united states, all 50 states undergo newborn screenings. so sickle-cell disease is one of the screening tests that we do. >> uh-huh. >> the importance is identifying whether or not you do have sickle-cell disease or trait at the time that your chil

. >> the family is profoundly grateful to all of katie's doctors at johns hopkins hospital in maryland and here in new york, columbia now morgan stanley children's hospital and katie's home nursing care five days a week and, of course, port authority police and liz's coworkers, she is a special education teacher and katie just holding her hand, elise, the strength, the strength, she is an adult now and she was not expected to get past five years old, three to five years old blessed by pope john paul ii. >> unbelievable. i know. no tears. we are just going to talk weather. i know. keep it moving. >>> so we have amazing weather thanks to some high pressure. a live look outside. we have a little bit of sunshine out there. that's kind of been the case all day. we have had sunshine peeking out but for the most part we'll call this a mostly cloudy day. we are still sitting at 71 degrees which is our high on the day. 74, it's a 30-year average what we consider normal. we didn't get there today. that's unusual. we have been above average for so many days this summer but not today. the interest

cars season a retired neurosurgeon who spent his year at johns hopkins hospital gaining notoriety for successfully separating conjoined twins joined at the head. cars season currently second in the republican party polls though he trails donald trump by double digits. he will speak today at noon. >>> you might say it's a political issue here, san francisco city leaders taking step to ease the housing cries. mayor ed lee is going to announce a flu affordable housing initiative later this morning. skyrocketing rents and new construction in places like the mission are forcing so many families out of the city. housing advocates have made many calls for the city to increase the amount of affordable housing options for low and middle income families. >>> the end of burning man means the beginning of longer lines at the car wash. there are pretty deucy cars here. people returning from the desert party in cars covered in dirt and mud and vis inside and out. workers are calling them ghost cars. it costs $100 for a burning man cleanup. that apparently is the going rate, that is compared to the

carson is a retired neurosurgeon who spends his career at johns hopkins hospital. he gained notoriety in 1987 for successfully separating conjoined twins joined at the head. cars season currently second in the republican party polls though he trails donald trump by double digits. he will speak at the mark hopkins hotel at noon. >>> lawmakers returning to capitol hill after their month long summer recess and critical issues are going to be up for debate like keeping the government running. the government runs out of money on september 30th. also needing to be resolved, a half billion dollars going to planned patient hood. the congress must also vote on the iran nuclear agreement. all signs point to approval. the republican controlled congress is likely to pass motions disapproving the deal but president obama has the support he needs to retoe that. >>> we may be in the dog days of summer but there is a grumpy cat taking over the game of baseball. where this happened and y why. my name is jamir dixon and i'm a locate and mark fieldman for pg&e. most people in the com

carson is a retired neurosurgeon who spent his career at john's hopkins hospital.arson is currently second in the republican party polls, though he trails donald trump by double-digits. carson will speak at the mark hopkins hotel today at noon. >>> a squirrel found dead near lake tahoe reportedly tested positive for plague. the california schoquirrel's bo was found in august, the test results only came back last week. humans can get the disease if they're bitten by an animal. more likely it's flees. if caught early enough, the plague is treatable. >> new research finds that the west nile virus is it a persistent problem in the u.s., but it is not growing. the same number of west nile cases are reported each year, it's the most common mosquito born illness in the u.s. west nile virus has been found in eight counties. so far, one person in california has died of west nile virus. experts say less than 1% of west nile patients ever develop a serious illness. >>> new federal guidelines will help doctors more accurately describe medical conditions for insurance companies

and great decisiveness, remember, ben carson was the youngest head of the division at johns hopkins hospitalthe history of the hospital. he did brilliant world class neurosurgery on siamese twins in his 30s leading a 70-person operating team for 22 hours. these three people are remarkable in their general ability to learn, their general ability to master things. very difficult but all three are remarkably smart. >> let's look outside of those three, you've got ted cruz and senator rubio and john kasich and jeb bush and where do you see them fitting into this? >> there's almost a contest right now between -- and cruz is kind of, by the way, the one guy who bridges both. he's in the senate but he's really not of the senate. i mean, he's worked extra hard to make sure that he's an outsider in the senate. so he's almost -- when i count votes, i count him as the fourth outsider rather than -- >> i agree, another insurgent candidate. >> we've seen good friends of ours, rick perry and scott walker drop out who are absolutely talented people. but this is not a year where that by itself is enough. so

cars season a retired neurosurgeon who spent his career at johns hopkins hospital.e gained notoriety back in 1987 for successfully separating conjoined twins that were joined at the head. cars season currently sitting in second place in the polls amongst gop contenders though he trails donald trump by a significant margin. cars season going to speak at the mark hopkins hotel today at noon. >>> while cars season in the bay area republican presidential hopeful mike huckabee is going to be in kentucky showcasing his support for jailed clerk kim davis. davis right now is spending her sixth day behind bars for refuse to go issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. huckabee also hopes to have a face-to-face meetings with davis sometime soon. >>> the stock markets back to work after a three day weekend. >> scott mcgrew, lots of bay area folks are ringing td wells today. >> they are. double play today. nyse this morning it was men's warehouse, they have an executive office in fremont, they are look all spiffy, the dow the second worst week of the year last week, doing mu

he became the chief of pediatric neurosurgeonry at john hopkins hospital and made medical history thererst separation of chinese twins. in june of 2008 he was awarded a presidential medal of freedom which is the highest civilian honor in america. and in 2014 the gallup organization in their annual survey named this gentleman as one of the ten most admired men in the world. he now seeks your vote as president of the united states. ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome dr. ben carson. ♪ >> thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thank you. ♪ thank you. thank you very much. thank you. i love enthusiastic crowds, you know? it makes up for my low energy. you know, i got to tell you something about america. you know, i've visited at least 57 different countries. and i -- i am always so pleased when i get back here. because america has been so good to me. you know, i was born in pretty dire circumstances. grew up very poor. had a bad temper. i was a terrible student. all the things that probably would have precluded success in most other places. but here in america the opportunities

carson, who was a noted pediatric neurosurgeon at johns hopkins university hospital in baltimore, hisrevious views on abortion, trump said, were horrendous. what do you make of this? this attack between trump and carson is getting ugly. >> well, you know, first of all, wolf, i have to say historically this is what ps in presidential primaries. it happened with reagan and bush, kennedy and johnson, obama and hillary. this is what goes on with this. i think people tend to take some of this with a grain of salt. the specifics will get sorted out. i do think as i recall the other day or the other week dr. carson was under attack not from donald trump but his actions relating to abortion as a doctor. i don't have the details in front of me. in other words there's grounds for controversy, i suppose, if you want to get into this. i just don't think that you get into somebody's religious faith, which dr. carson is starting to do here. that's a bad way to go. you can't possibly determine somebody's -- the degree of faith or their personal relationship with their creator, as it were. >> dr. car

hospital was damaged. general hi hopkins -- jeremy hopkins says it need to be addressed. >> there's issues of hi jean and sanitation. more importantly, the staff in the hospital did not feel safe this is indicative hon structures and health delivers where we estimate 50 million yemenis need access to basic health care, and are not getting it. the trade routes have become hampered by the conflict, and so essential supplies are no longer flowing in in the private or public sector. it's a huge amount. alongside other imported goods like food and other its, no longer flowing into the country >>> the bodies of five bahraini soldiers have been flown home. the coffins were carried by an honour guard. the soldiers were killed on friday in which 45 soldiers from the united arab emirates also decide. they were part of a saudi-led coalition fighting the houthi rebels >>> 21 iraqi soldiers and popular mobilization forces were killed in a string of attacks. the i.s.i.l. controlled capital of anbar province, and eight killed in a camp eas

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during that bombing, a unicef hospital for women and children was damaged. jeremy hopkins, the head of unicef in yemen said the widespread humanitarian crisis in the country needs to be addressed. >> the bombing has escalated over the last few days and while the hospital itself has not been hit, what tends to happen is that the windows and doors of the structures nearby any bomb sites are damaged. there's flying glass, and then there's other issues of hygiene and sanitation related to that. more importantly, though, is that the staff in the hospital did not feel safe to remain in the hospital overnight. this is just a much broader impact on civilian structure, on health services across the country, where we estimate that 50 million yemenis need access to the basic health care and they're not getting it at the moment. sort of a related challenge is the restriction on commercial imports coming into countries, so the trade groups have become hampered by the conflict and so the essential drugs are no longer flowing in as they did before in the private or public sector, which h

hospital, women and children, have been damaged. general my hopkins joins us from sanaa.jeremy hopkins, can you hear me? >> yes, i can. >> can you describe the kind of damage sustained by this hospital in particular? >> welling the bombing escalated over the last few hospital has not been hit. what happens is the windows and doors of the structure near any bomb site are damaged. in the hospital, that is serious, there's flying glass and other issues of hygiene and sanitation. what is important, is that the staff in the hospital didn't want to remain in the hospital overnight. that is the hospital for the nation, for maternal and child health. what that meant is that in the middle of, for example, a woman being in labour, the staff from forced o abehindon the opt. women in labour - there were 20 babies incubated. we had to find other hospitals, and some took their newborn babies home. they felt they had no choice. they were confident about the hospital, a much broader impact on the structure, health services across the country. we estimated that 15 million yemenis need acc

a unicef hospital was damaged during the bombing. jeremy hopkins is the head of unicef and said the widespread humanitarian crisis in the country needs to be addressed. >> the bombing has escalated over the last few days. while the hospital has not been hit, what tends to happen is that the windows and doors of the structures nearby any bomb sites are damaged and there is flying glass and then the huge hygiene issues that relates to that. the staff in the hospital did not feel safe to remain in the hospital overnight. this is just a much broader impact of civilian structure. 15 million yemenis need access to basic health care and are not getting it at the moment. there is restriction on imports coming into the country, so the trade routes have become hampered by the conflict and so essential drugs are no longer flowing in as they did before in the private or public sector alongside all the other imported goods such as food and other basic items, which are no longer flowing into the country as they had in the past. >> thailand rejected a new constit

second year the ride to conquer cancer will be supporting johns hopkins kimmel cancer center, memorial suburban and howard county general hospitals. thousands leave mlk for mount airy. >>> passengers walk off a plane li this, bandaged and bruised but their flight didn't crash. we'll tell you what happened that led to their injuries. >>> coming up, a bizarre story about a woman taken hostage. how police say she escaped, how she knows her captor and what the subject used a blow torch for. >>> fake i.d.s so good, they're considered a national security threat. how they wound up on a local cop's door s >>> welcome back. at least 17 passengers on a flight from hawaii to the philippines are recovering after getting hurt when their plane went through bad turbulence. one passenger says heç felt a sudden jolt. those who didn't have their seat belts on got hurt. clear air turbulence as it calls happens when there are no clouds. it can't be detected by site or weather radar. >>> a 21-year-old man is behind bars this morning, charged in connection with a series of freeway shootings thatter it fired people across phoenix last month. s.w.a.t.

he retired from john hopkins university, one of the best hospitals in the world, so obviously not just an okay doctor. he's a major, major pediatric soo neurosurgeon. i went to john hopkins university myself, so i have to be honest. i'll be above the fray on that one, but the fact of the matter is that trump, to his -- he points out i wasn't going to attack him. you can't simply deport 11 or 12 million people, and raising the issue of domp trump's fate. he only responds. he goes on the counterattack after he's attacked. he was attacked first. >> there's a lesson for some of the other campaigns. the intensity with which donald trump punching or counterpunches is driving the tempo. some of these other campaigns when he goes after them with a relentless thach that is somewhat effective. . ben carson sees trimping, and the -- he-day-old go with an ideological frame, instead an eadvantage yell cal appeal. that's the core of his support, and he wants to continue to grow it. there may be some evan yell cass that are supporting donald trump on other issues. >> when donald trump, s.e., has gone

even at johns hopkins, when he was often confused as being an orderly at the hospital.alizes that this country has come a very long way. he realizes that our pockets still exist but believes there is a better way. he believes a young boy like himself can rise out of detroit, out of the sticks of poverty and become what he is today. there is no excuse for anybody. he understands it takes two parents. he understands that family is important. hard work, sacrifice, discipline. yet, give people the opportunity to realize the american dream. you've got to give hope, not pessimism. >> he has a loyal supporter in you. come see us again, armstrong williams. >> thank you, alex. >>> more ups and downs than a political campaign. mmmmmm yoplait! ♪ oh! good news everybody! there is now 25% less sugar in yoplait original. say "adieu" to that sugar. because it still tastes good ahhhh yoplait! today something is being built into bounty. dawn. bounty with dawn. what a novel idea! just rinse and wring so you can blast right through tough messes and pick up more. huh aren't we clever... th