mom, my chest hurts. >> reporter: in 2017, attie suffered from acute pancreatitis, a life-threatening her liver to fail. >> as a parent to see, you know, them getting sick and the doctors saying we're not sure what the best course of action here is, that's -- that's, you know, it's a parent's worst nightmare. >> reporter: her family turned to cincinnati children's hospital for a necessary but dangerous surgery. the doctors had to remove her pancreas, a procedure with potentially devastating complications. >> this is a big deal. i said i don't know -- they're going to have to convince me whether or not this is something i'm willing to watch my daughter go through. >> plie. she's testing us. >> reporter: ultimately attie brav t ander hours, she woke up determined to make her dreams come true this holiday season, to star as clara in the christmas classic, and that's exactly what she's done. >> i kind of just wanted to prove to everybody, but mostly self that, like, i had surgery less than a year ago, but i'm here and i'm going to dance all of these eight shows, 110%. know what turns me o

trump has gotten for ringing him back in seems to have gone out of the window with the way he forced m attis out. mattis left a very respectful letter. will be interesting to see how president trump handles that in the months to come. if he decides to go after secretary mattis, as he has done against previous cabinet members sendyrical photos, it will shockwaves through the military. this is still a very respectful person in -- respected person in the military. he issident trump decides going to name call and pick apart secretary mattis, i think there will be a lot of folks in the military who will reevaluate where their support stands for the president. callingt's go to king, from baton rouge, a veteran. caller: good morning. i am a volunteer for the veterans and military. i was against the draft. now, i am against the pay in the military. highest paid people in the world -- what is the wall without the wall. -- guest: military pay is always a tricky issue. it is hard to say that troops do not deserve it. it is hard to say you do not want to give them more. but there are a lot of issues wit

he has been atty. general. before .e is likely to get a lot of support from the senate republicans. >>> former san francisco mayor willie brown was asked, in the world of donald trump does it matter who these nominees are ? >> not really, donald trump is being very focused, he made mistakes on his selection of independent potential thinkers. he is not interested in having anybody anywhere near him other than part of his team and how do you become part of his team? if you want to do anything you check with him first. >> more on that tomorrow morning at 6 am here on kpix 5. >>> the man who plowed his car into a crowd of counter protesters at a white nationalist rally in charlottesville virginia has been convicted of first-degree murder. 21-year-old james alex fields junior killed one woman and injured dozens of others when he drove his dodge challenger into the crowd. >>> we have also learned that it was friendly fire that killed the deputy last month in the mass shootings at a southern california bar. sergeant. ron hella

there's that idea sometimes well it just there you can't stop people are in pain and they want drug or atties there -- i know heroin addiction on the street methadone although argue against a substitute addiction on the other hand people can live on it and it's less destructive. is there anything like that that just waiting in the wings and that the drug companies themselves or others are resisting? >> no. there's no imagine pick bullet partly because of the nature of addiction. is people need different things. there are -- there are drugs that help some people. they don't help others, and very large number of people who have been been through process tell you you have to go through two, three, six times before you merge other side finally able to live post addiction but you never completely past it. but you know, there are two elements to this. one of them is to reduce the prescribing because it is all very well providing the treatment. to the people who already addicted two or three million people out there dependent on drugs which is a huge number of people. you know, we get locked into th

trump has gotten for ringing him back in seems to have gone out of the window with the way he forced m attist. mattis left a very respectful letter. will be interesting to see how president trump handles that in the months to come. if he decides to go after secretary mattis, as he has done against previous cabinet members sendyrical photos, it will shockwaves through the military. this is still a very respectful person in -- respected person in the military. he issident trump decides going to name call and pick apart secretary mattis, i think there will be a lot of folks in the military who will reevaluate where their support stands for the president. callingt's go to king, from baton rouge, a veteran. caller: good morning. i am a volunteer for the veterans and military. i was against the draft. now, i am against the pay in the military. highest paid people in the world -- what is the wall without the wall. -- guest: military pay is always a tricky issue. it is hard to say that troops do not deserve it. it is hard to say you do not want to give them more. but there are a lot of issues with h