[marching band playing] josh mankiewicz: graduation at the university of utah in salt lake city, home of the utes-- a time for selfies, smiles, and celebration. go, utes! josh mankiewicz: in may 2019, 8,500 graduates and their families packed the university's huge arena. lauren mccluskey should have been here, too, receiving her degree in cap and gown, as happy as her classmates. except she wasn't. and the story of what happened and why is as sad as it is eye-opening. this wasn't one of those things where it was out of everyone's control. it wasn't like a natural disaster. how many times do women have to call for help before the university of utah realizes, you know what? we ought to step this up. josh mankiewicz: what are the two of you thinking at that point? i couldn't really fathom what had happened. neither of us slept at all that night. josh mankiewicz: it's a story that could so easily have ended differently, if just one person had stepped up, if just one more phone call had been made, one dot connected. instead, the repercussions of a preventable murder would continue for year

. >> will and togo up here and struggle academically and go to junior college and the university of utah, you know, as a kid, i've never dreamed of anything like this. >> reporter: he joined cleveland's staff last season, and reunited with donovan mitchell, who he helped become an all star during their time together in utah. >> they do not really necessarily get there on the floor without them and their influence, so i appreciate it. we have developed such a great relationship. it is like a brother to me and it is great to have him on staff and for him to coach for his all star here in the hometown is special. >> how about that for praise? >> and that is why he is who he is and as much as he gives me the credit that it is also him. allowing him to be vulnerable and coachable. >> reporter: bryant was a pretty good player back in the day at the high school. and he credits his coach, putting him on the path that led him from oakland to the nba. >> when i say that, what does that mean to you? >> i wouldn't be standing here in front of you. and for me, it is something i say they saved my life

university of utah and one other study shows that it can cause unilateral loss of vision.needs to be verified. something we need to be concerned about. bryan: okay. dr. marc siegel, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> great to to see you, bryan, always. bryan: you too. secretary of state marco rubio in israel talking about how to handle hamas and iran. we're live in tel aviv with the details next.ei ♪gh ♪ if i felt stuck. i tried, and tried again. lost weight, gained it back. but zepbound means change. zepbound is for adults with obesity, to help lose weight and keep it off. activating 2 naturally occurring hormone receptors in my body, zepbound works differently. it's changing what i believe is possible when it comes to weight loss. it's changing how much weight i lose. up to 48 pounds. and some lost over 58 pounds. ♪ don't take if allergic to it, or if you or someone in your family had medullary thyroid cancer or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck. stop zepbound and call your doctor if you have sever

we held a hearing in research park at the university of utah working labs that was going on right behindcan you share how important clinical labs art and expand upon the a.i. model mercy has used how it's increased your bill to define diseases? >> thank you for the question what diagnostic labs are little different than screening labs yet they are extremely important. the screening labs are trying to cast a broad net. the diagnostic labs and procedures there's also imaging, breast mri that can help nail down a lot better, with better accuracy what is going l on. those are critical to the overall workflow and process. again, what we've tried to do as a leverage from screening tools. ellie is a breast cancer as an example. by taking a survey one can sort out whether they are at increased risk if it could benefit from more than just a mammogram but a breast mri also done on an annual basis. they have a lot greater sensitivity for picking up early breast cancers with that. so, the combination of this screening test in the diagnostic tests are extremely important. >> thank you i yield back. >

of dollars. but critics say it could also jeopardize lifesaving research and innovation. joining us now is utah state universityprofessor ron gilliam. thank you for joining us. so you are part of a research team that was recently awarded an nih grant of $2.5 million to study listening therapy for children. so tell us more about the work that you have been able to do with this nih funding so we study children with developmental language disorders. >> these kids have difficulty learning complex vocabulary, complex sentences. they have trouble telling and understanding stories. they have trouble learning to read and write. our study is designed to look at and compare what we believe is an impactful. intervention that we have designed, and to test it in a rigorous manner. i'm really committed to this concept that's evidence based practice. and so we're really doing the best we can to look at the the evidence that supports the different kinds of. communication outcomes of the the language intervention practices that we have developed. >> so what is the direct impact of this nih funding on people. and could you do yo

universal and unilateral change to the funding structure of grants. it would amount to, i think you said about a $40 billion cut that would affect institutions, research facilities, people working on research everywhere from utah to alabama to massachusetts that has been frozen. what in terms of what the effect of that would be on american research and american ingenuity, innovation, like what is your understanding from working on this case? >> it would be total devastation. lives would be lost. and folks seeking care to cure to address cancer. both adult and pediatric cancer, ptsd, our elders dealing with dementia, you name it. the nih is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, close to 40 billion. and this administration on a late friday night decided, with no thoughtfulness, to quickly cut a portion of that funding billions of dollars, which would affect academic research institutions and research institutions of all types all across this country. in a blue state or a red state, it doesn't matter. and not only not to do it thoughtfully, not to give any notice to those institutions, not to get them, give them time to prepare. so i, along with 21 other ags, stepped up democratic ags to go into