andy roesgen has his story. >> reporter: here is landis, look at the finger roll. >> reporter: at firstnce this 6'6" starting guard from florida has it law, a mean drive, quick feet, a killer 3-point shot. >> line drives. >> reporter: but when coach ryan marks was considering recruiting landis anderson for his division ii team, something seemed off. >> i keep moving the phone like closer and closer, and after a minute, i'm going he really -- like he is only playing with his left arm, like what is the deal here? >> reporter: anderson has a neurological disorder that allows him just limited use of his right hand, but a disability, his mother was having none of it. >> i remember struggling to tie my shoe and saying mom i can't do it, and she got on me about it. >> reporter: she learned to tie her own shoe with one hand just to prove it could be done. >> it was my mom that showed me that tough love, and pretty much taught me i could do whatever i wanted. >> reporter: and it didn't hurt that both of his parents played collegiate basketball. during a stellar high school career, landis was alw

but i'm happy. >> reporter: andy roesgen, al jazeera. >>> what a good kid, huh? another student is using technology to try to overcome her disability. she is home bound, but uses an ipad attached to a robot to attend school. lisa fletcher reports. >> reporter: ariana is in the first grade. but as her dad helps her get ready for school. things are noticeably different. >> you ready? >> i'm so pumped up. >> all right. here we go. >> whoo! >> ari has what is called spinal muscular at trophy. it is a disease linked in with muscular dystrophy. basically her muscles will get weaker as time goes on. arms up. >> up. up. up. >> reporter: despite her rare health condition, she is still able to go to school with her peers. >> ari what did you write? >> dream. >> dream, nice job. >> reporter: this is how she sees her teacher. >> they both have long a sounds. >> reporter: and this is how her teacher sees her. >> ari can you show me. nice job. >> reporter: via a robot. the unit is basically an ipad security mounted to the top of a device similar to a segue, and ari controls it

al jazeera east andy roesgen is following the latest for us. >> reporter: richelle the justice departmentas said that the city was using its traffic stops as a cash cow. pulling over minorities and charging them with mine your traffic violations and then getting them into court for more fees and even jail time. last month they say we'll agree to changes, but only with some revisions, because the original proposals, they said would bankrupt us, and we couldn't afore them. the justice department was having none of it. they filed a lawsuit against the city and said the cost of these changes no excuse for not doing them. so last night the city council essentially backtracked and said, okay. we'll accept all of the original proposals and changes with no revisions and now a federal judge will have to sign off on it. >> what caused the city council to change its decision? >> the member we talked to last night said look, we were just looking for clarification on these things. we wanted assurances that the costs would not be overwhelming to us, and we got that. and also that the federal government