mia rodrigues reports. >> reporter: it's well before sunrise and johnny agar has already been awake for. >> hopefully we can just have a good time today. >> reporter: johnny was born with cerebral palsy. but it's not stopping him from joining nearly 2,000 other competitors for a half iron man in florida. >> people in wheelchairs are as capable of doing things if they want to be if they put their mind to. >> reporter: johnny's partner in the race, his father jeff who will push and pull his son for hours, 73 miles of biking, running. their first attempt was at the world iron man competition in hawaii last year where they didn't finish. so they kicked their training up a notch. >> the most vital piece is the soul and the heart and the drive. and that comes from something that's bigger than you. >> reporter: johnny finding inspiration from michael phelps, taking the swimming lemgened and creating this video of him imitating his hero side by side, struggling, pushing, and overcoming. michael phelps tweeting out his support to johnny and following up with an encouraging phone call. >> he's a

minerva rodrigues hasn't seen her siblings in 44 years. she ran away when she was 16.rs ago her family tracked her down to portland, oregon. at the time she didn't have the money or nerve to come home. when she heard her terminally ill brother asked to see her, she had to make the trip. >> i had to see them again. i'm terrified of planes. i have to see my brother. >> the family can't make up for all of the lost time, but they plan to make the most of the years ahead. let's get the seven-day forecast, adam joseph. >> temperatures are back closer to normal but nice for the upcoming holiday weekend. you can see the changes near harrisburg and north potsville. light showers breaking up. as the boundary passes through, it's a lot of clouds and isolated showers and winds shift. ithe ak cam showing a lot of people in shorts, tee shirts, taking advantage of "dining out" doors or grabbing ice cream with the kids. 68 in philadelphia. 69 trenton. wilmington, 62. the warmer spots, reading and allentown. warmer as you move away from the wind off the water only in the 50s cape may a

rodrigues the latest shut down with a hamstring injury.r, dario, the birthday boy scores 14. sixers up 10. bucks beat them up in the fourth. sixth straight loss. two games left, season ending wednesday. >> flyers beating up on sergei in columbus today scoring twice in the first, two goals, 90 seconds apart. 2-0. in the second, on the powerplay, jake voracek first powerplay goal in months, flyers win 4-2. they won six straight at home. their most in 16 years. flyers end the season tomorrow at home against carolina. alicia, back to you. >> check this out, a fisherman in north carolina dreamed about reeling in the catch of a lifetime. his wish came true. earlier this month he was fishing when he realized there was a fish on his line. for five minutes he struggled to reel in the catch. it was like she was looking at me saying, ready for a ride? >> another fisherman saw him struggling and helped him out. >> they pulled a roughly 50-pound musky out of the water. they had to get a picture before setting her free. he said the whole experience was

congolese park ranger rodrigue katembo, who went undercover to document corruption and bribery in the illegal push to drill for oil in the oldest national park in africa. this is katetembo, explaininingw hehe was arrested and tortureder over t two weeks durg g his invevestigation. >>>> they took me a a gunpoint. they tieied me up and s startedo beat me e very hard. they td me i hadad brush into my country and i would have to be killed today. i told them into my colleagues hahad are ready died. i died today, it is not a problem. i am prepared to die. amy: the goldman prize winners also include slovenian farmer uro macerl, who organized against the burning of poisonous waste near his farm, and the australian octogenarian wendy bowman, who faced off against a multinational coal mining company and won. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on saturday, hundreds of thousands took to the streets around the world in a global march for science that was endorsed by hundreds of scientific institutions, environme

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