just weeks later, joe biden was sworn into the senate at beau's bedside. as an adult, beau biden played a role in his father's political campaigns, introducing him onstage at the 2012 democratic national convention in charlotte, north carolina. >> in moments both public and private, he is the father i've always known, the grandfather my children love and adore, and the vice president our nation needs.

. >> reporter: the vice president was at his son's bedside when he passed away saturday. over the years, the vice president's office has been limited in details of what illness beau biden suffered. only recently revealing when he passed away on saturday that he did have brain cancer. he first became sick in 2010 when he had a stroke. in 2013 we know he was diagnosed with cancer. when he became disoriented on vacation and had surgery. two weeks ago, beau was admitted to the military hospital outside of d.c. there has been an outpouring of support. >> beau biden was a dedicated public servant and father of two. >> delaware is a better place because of beau. >> reporter: beau biden is the second child of joe biden. he lost his 1-year-old daughter in a car accident in the 1970s. sadly, he has been through this tragedy of losing a child before. president obama says he is grieving along with the biden family saying vice president, joe is one of the strongest men we ever know. he is as strong as they come. it is one of the things we love about him. it is a testament to joe and j

. >> reporter: john and christine, the vice president was at his son's bedside when he passed away on saturday. over the years, the vice president has been limited in details of what illness beau biden suffered. only recently revealing he did have brain cancer. he had a stroke in 2010. in 2013 we know he was diagnosed then with cancer when he became disoriented on vacation. two weeks ago, beau was admitted to walter reed military hospital. this is how they opened the senate floor last night. >> beau was known as a dedicated public servant and loving father of two and the devoted partner to hallie. >> our country is a better place because of beau. the world is a better place because of beau. >> reporter: beau is the second child of joe biden. he lost his 1-year-old daughter in a car accident in the 1970s. president obama says he is grieving along with the biden family. saying of vice president, joe is one of the strongest men we have ever known. he is as strong as they come. nothing matters to him more than family. it is a testament to joe and jill that beau lived a life that mattered.

that swearing in ceremony took place in that hospital at beau's bedside in that hospital in delawareecause of a terrible car wreck beau had survived but that claimed the life of his sister and mother. joe biden's wife and daughter. >> all but one of the newly elected members of the u.s. senate were important in on wednesday in washington. the one exception is 30-year-old joseph biden, democrat of delaware. biden's wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident on december 18 and both sons were injured. biden himself was not involved in the accident but since the accident he's been living at a hospital in wilmington, delaware, taking care of his sons. today the senate sent an official to the hospital to swear him in. >> i felt that i should be sworn this with my children. >> do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you are well a

he was five days in intensive care while i held vigil over his bedside. it was very difficult, very difficult time. i don't even like to really go there. >> kristy kiernan doesn't want to go back to that day in 2011 when her husband shawn kiernan overdosed on prescription drugs. >> it was the most terrible and horrifying thing i've ever been through. >> did you want to die? >> i just wanted to end that second. it was i want it to end. i want it to stop. >> shawn kiernan wanted it to end because the drugs that he hoped would save him were killing him. >> i just wanted it to end. i did something. thank god it wasn't permanent. >> 22 united states veterans kill themselves every day. shawn kiernan was almost one of them. like many vets, he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. also called p ts. for shawn it was the u.s. army, the jungles of panama. he saw too much after the u.s. invasion when riots, ambushes and casualties were a regular occurrence. >> there's the sad time of losing friends and people who you served with, and you start to questio

have been at his bedside again, this time he fought a losing battle against cancer.bvious painful loss of a child. can change the course of your life. i mean and not just for joe, obviously, for the children and his wife. but how it could impact the future of his career. >> that's true. i should add that three months after the kennedy child was lost her husband was assassinated in dallas. so it was not the end of tragedy for that family and pain. but that's true. for calvin coolidge calvin coolidge jr. was a son of the president who died in the 20th century. and he played tennis on the white house tennis courts. the whole nation loved this young man. but he didn't wear socks and he had tennis shoes and he developed a blister and developed blood poisoning. suddenly the whole nation learned about it and it was too late. the whole nation was watching this young man, the last few days of his life as he died. and a few months later when what is today we call the white house press corp asked calvin coolidge are you going to run for office. he sent back a hand written note

his parents stepped away from their son's bedside to give us an update. kyle pszenny was riding a skateboard when he was hit by a person who then drove away. >>> the students at pennsville memorial high school will all be wearing blue in honor of kyle pszenny. he's currently in critical condition, his parents tell us he underwent hours of surgery last night. the star football player was hit by a car early sunday morning as he was riding home on his skateboard. police say the driver of the hyundai elantra did not stop. witnesses say the impact threw kyle several hundred yards down the road. last night his parents stepped away from his bedside for a few minutes to give us an update. >> wed like to thank pennsville for all their support for kyle. we want to let you know he's in critical condition and that we ask you to respect the family with peace and give kyle time to please heal. >> understandably an emotional time for his parents. the high school's athletic department released a statement asking people to keep kyle and his family in your thoughts during

. >> i have been at his bedside every day and i have watched the blood, the sweat, the tears and seen all the pain he has gone through. joce: 60 surgeries the loss of his right leg physical therapy to hold on to his left. it has become normal for the family of the 27-year-old soldier to watch him fight. just not like this. >> it's like a slap in the face. joce: hunter's latest scar is courtesy not of war but with a battle with veterans affairs. this week the agency gave the sergeant a disability rating of 90%. short changing he says the remaining leg he can barely use. >> a lot of muscle tissue nerve damage ankle doesn't move anymore. joce: the hunters expected 100% disability given awful his injuries and they are not alone. bethesda doctor craig bash spent decades independently evaluating soldiers fighting their v.a. rating. eric hunter is now one of them. >> i can see he is underrated in a couple of areas that would make a big difference in his overall reading. joce: the difference 10% is a vast divide of benefits and would drop the monthly payment by $1000. but when the hunters wen

. >> reporter: kyle's loved ones spent the entire day at their son's bedside. he was struck by a hit and run driver and has been through hours of surgery. >> we ask you to respect the family with peace, and give kyle time to please heal. we thank everybody, and kyle's strong. >> reporter: the 17-year-old, a star football player and beloved member of this commune was skateboarding home in pensville when he was struck early this morning. the spot on the road where he was hit is now marked with line of spray paint. >> i heard a thump. thought maybe an animal got hit. >> reporter: witnesses who didn't want to be identified watched as the driver just spedoff. >> whoever hit them they sped off, as soon as they hit him they were on the gas and sped off. >> reporter: witnesses say he was hit by a hyundai elan tre the impact tossed kyle's body down the read. >> 2 or 300 feet. >> reporter: kyle's friends and families say he is a fighter and are demanding the driver do the right thing. >> turn yourself in. being out in hiding, you know it's terrible. >> reporter: police a

in the morning, some of the parents arrived to be by their bedside. >> translation: just a small child that went out to have fun, now on the verge of death. >> reporter: his 18-year-old daughter suffered burns to 90% of her body. >> translation: today it's with a feeling of sorrow that i visit these people injured by the powder explosion. the main purpose is to encourage relatives that we'll do our best to investigate who should stake responsibility. >> reporter: many from the crowd are suffering lung injuries, the cause of the fireball is being investigated, but police are questioning the organizers of the event. taipei's mayor announced a ban on the coloured powder used at public events >>> it's been 11 days since a gunman killed nine black church members in carolina since then protesters have been mobilizing over the symbol held by the shooter. a demonstrator who pulled down a flag is being hailed as a hero. tom ackerman has more. >>> bree newsome, a 30-year-old activist climbed up a 90 meter high flag pole outside the carolina state house on saturday and removed a piece of cloth, s

last moments of beau biden's death, which did sound peaceful with his whole family assembled in his bedside in the hospital just outside it will ward. he passed away lag weekend. according to hiss younger brother, hunter, he said that in those last moments the family was all embracing beau biden, by his side whispering i love you, i love you, i love you and then he described how beau biden took his last breath and passed away. there were a thousand people inside the church today for the funeral and the mass as well as hundreds that were gathered outside here in the streets of wilmington. one young girl with a hand-made heart glued to a popsicle stick. on that sign she said, "rest in peace, beau biden." martin? >> sundlen, thank you very much. >>> pope francis is wrapping up a day-long trip to bosnia herzegovina. tens of thousands turned out for an open-air mass in the stadium at sarajevo. he shared a message of peace with a part of the world that's seen more of its share of ethnic violence in the past. joining us from sarajevo is nic robertson. this is the first papal visit since pope john

joe biden was sworn in shortly after this the for first term in use senate he did it at hospital bedside. this is the first time a sitting please or vice-president lost a child while in avs last time this happened was 1964 when had to only her few ral arrangements when they're made public. >> more than 1,000 demonstrators are expected outside facebook's new headquarters in california today. the social media company requires user to create accounts using real names. that has incited people that say they're grad weenz navyit persons and other ak toyingts protest it's opposition to anonymous users. >> u.s. house transport committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on derailment of train. they were traveling -- they had not installed automatic speed controls ntsb said could have probabilityed the crash. >> you can win 188 million in wednesday night powerball drawing and jackpots drawing and jackpots mega millions. >> a lot of people right now don't think they won the jackpot. >> unless they consider rain jackpot material. we've had a lot this morning. stormtracker 6 double scan shows you thankfu

in the morning following the accident emotional parents of victims arrived to be by their bedside. >> a small child who had gone out to have fun. >> reporter: many from the crowd are suffering injuries the exact cause of the fireball is being investigated but police are questioning the organizers of the event. and taipei's mayor announced a ban on the coloured powder used at public event >>> now, an african-american american woman has been arrested in south carolina after climbing a state poll and removing the confederate flag. bree newsome and supporters say the flag is a symbol of white supremacy that inspired the church killings in charleston. nine black church members were killed in the attack. pictures of the gunmen holding the confederate flag were found online >>> all right. let's go back to one of our major stories, and that is the revelation that the suicide bomber that carried out the attack has been identified as coming from saudi arabia. we can talk to our correspondent in kuwait city. the kuwaiti authorities moved quickly on this and managed to find a few details about th

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senate he did so at beau's hospital bedside. this is the first time in more than 50 years a sitting or vice-president lost a child while in office. the last instance was back in 1963 when jfk had to bury his infant son patrick. the premature baby died days after birth. >> we'll have coverage on his life reaction on funeral arrangements once they are made public. >> two masked men named a man in philadelphia an shot him in the stomach. the robbers held up a 5-year-old man at gun point and the victim handed over his money and one of the robbers shot him anyway. he was listed in critical condition and no arrests were made. >> nsa lost authority as midnight to collect american's records in bulk for phone records. while all it went on ran paul went to senate floor blasting nsa domestic surveillance program and pledging to force sxlaition. the u.s. senate takes the marter up again when reconvenes at noon. even if a deal were reached it would take an entire day to reboot the servers. this leads america vulnerable to terrorist and oppon

senate at beau's hospital bedside. joe biden road a train between washington d.c. and delaware every night to visited his injured sons. he said it was important to kiss them good night. that tragedy more than four decades ago forged their family bond. >> you can reads more about beau biden on 6abc.com including reaction from those that knew him best along with photos of his life and career. >>> philadelphia police are looking for two mass suspect who shot a man in a suspect after robbing him. it happened last night north 18 street west oak lane section of city. the 52-year-old victim lives on the block. he was either getting in or out of his vehicle when the robber's approached him. >> for some reason, although he gave the perpetrators his wallet he was still shot. and it's unknown why he was shot at this time. >> victim is in critical condition. doctors expect him to survivech the robbers got away in green vehicle. police are interviewing several witnesses that called 911. >>> developing here, national security agency temporarily lost authority to collect american

he took the oath of office in the hospital next to three-year-old beau's bedside. >> one of my earliestemories was being in that hospital. my dad always at our side. >> reporter: a father and son with an incredible bond forged by tragedy and they would face another challenge in 2010. beau had what was diagnosed as a stroke. then in 2013, he began treatment for brain cancer. months later was given a clean bill of health but he quietly reentered the hospital for the last time this month. his dad never let on how serious it was. >> my dad used to have an expression. he'd say a father knows he's a success when he turns and looks at his son and daughter and know they turned out better than he did. i'm a success. i'm a hell of a success. beau y, i love you. so proud of you. >> reporter: beau biden died at 46, surrounded by his family, his wife, hallie and his children, natalie and hunter. >> biden's unexpected death raised a lot of questions about brain cancer and who's most at risk. for that we are joined by dr. natalie azar. is it easy to tell who is at risk for brain cancer? >> no. despite

beau biden's entire family was at his bedside at the end. funeral arrangements haven't been announced yet but he is entitled to military funeral honors. >>> coming up tonight on wusa 9, why the marines and local celebrities are teaming up to celebrate a deserving group of young men and women. >>> and people in the lone star state trying to recover from days of severe storms. we're going to have the latest get more only with cash flow insight, powered by pnc cfo a unique suite of online tools that all work together. get more efficiency... and insight into your business' cash flow. get more visibility into when customers view and pay invoices and how it impacts your current and future cash flow. get more time by syncing with your accounting software. then go home and get more sleep. get more with cash flow insight. only from pnc bank. >>> frightening moments in midtown manhattan this morning. the cable on a crane lifting an air conditioning unit apparentlily snapped, and the unit fell about 30 stories to the ground below. 10 people were hurt i

the morning following the accident, emotional parents some of the victims arrived to be by their bedside. >> just a small child who went out to have fun. >> his 18-year-old daughter suffered burns to 90% of her body. >> today it's with a feeling of great sorrow that i visit these people injured. the main purpose was to promise their relatives that the government will do its best to help them and we will investigate who should take responsibility. >> many from the crowd are also suffering lung injuries. the exact cause of the fireball is still being investigated, but police are questioning the organizers of the event. the local mayor announced an immediate ban on the colored powder being used at public events. june the death toll from the recent pakistan heat wave has increased to more than 1200 people. temperatures peeked at 45 degrees celsius earlier this month. almost 2,000 patients with heat related illnesses are still being treated. >> police in afghanistan don't have the weapons nor the ammunition they need to battle the taliban. they say foreign favorites are supporting the armed g

the morning following the accident, emotional parents of some of the victims arrived to be by their bedside just a small child who had gone out to have fun. now, on the verge of death. >> this 18-year-old daughter has suffered burns to 90% of her body. >> today, it's with a feeling of great sorrow that i visit these people. the powder explosion. the main purpose was to promise their realtives will do its best to help them and we will investigate who should take responsibility. >> many from the crowd are also suffering lung injuries. the exact cause of the fireball is still being investigated. police are questioning the organizers of the event. the local mayor announced a ban on the colored powder being used at pun events. erica woods, al jazeera. >> isil fighters have stormed several kurdish held villages close to the northern syrian town of kobane a day after kurdish forces announced they have pushedd they had pushed isil out of the town for the second time this year. they are going door-to-door searching for any isil fighters who may be hiding. at least three people are dead and 16 injure

the morning following the accident, emotional parents of some of the victims arrive to be by their bedside. >> just a small child who had gone out to have fun. now, on the verge of death. >> the region-year-old daughter has suffered burns to 90% of her body. today, it's with a feeling of great sorrow that i visit these people. the main purpose was to promise relatives that the government will do its best to help them we will investigate who should take responsibility. many from the crowd are suffering lung injuries. the exact cause of the fireball is being investigated but police are questioning the organizers of the event. the local mayor has announced an immediate ban on the colored powder being used at public events. erica woods, al jazeera. >> police in afghanistan say they don't have the weapons oram in addition they need to battle the taliban. they say foreign fighters are supporting the armed group as against territory in the north. the taliban is taking parts of at a time province next to kuduz which they already control. a report now from kabul. >> afghan officials travel by helic

his loved ones spent the entire day at his bedside. >> we'd like to thank pennsville for all your support for kyle. he's in critical condition. we ask you to respect the family with peace and give kyle time to please heal. >> reporter: kyle's friends and neighbors say he's a fighter. they're demanding the driver do the right thing and turn him or herself in. the high school's athletic department released this statement, police keep kyle and his family in your thoughts during this critical time. the family understands and appreciates everyone's concern for kyle and is extremely thankful there's been such an outpouring of support. speaking of support, we have learned that students today at the high school will wear blue one of the school's officials colors to honor kyle. nbc 10's katy zachry is on her way to the school. she'll have an update live in the next half hour. live in our digital operations center tracy davidson nbc 10 news. >>> this philadelphia teenager was hit and killed by a car that ran a stop sign last night this morning, the driver is under arrest suspected of being drunk be

> beau biden's bright future could only be stopped by a five year battle with brain cancer at his bedside the vis president jill daughter-in-law hallie now mourning and joe and beau's tight relationship on display in 2008 when the son introduced father at the democratic convention. >> my friend, my father, my hero the next vice-president of the united states. >> a genuine moment chairished by the vice-president. >> a father knows he's a success when he turns and looks at his son or daughter and knows that they turned out better than he d i'm a success i'm a hell of a success. beauy i love you. i'm so broud of you. >> president obama cancelled all events last night here at the white house to visit biden's at official residence in washing ton d. cx. president said beau biden was a frequent visitor of the whitehouse and close friend and man of honor. jim avela the whitehouse. >> a driver accused of injuring four is in court today attempted homicide carpals. he hit three officers while fleeing from an accident scene in olney last month. a fourth officer was hurt at second scene in west lobe l

senate beau was still recovering so the ceremony took place at beau's bedside. >>> meanwhile this is first time in 50 years that a sitting president or vice-president, has lost a child while in office. the last was in 1963, when john f. kennedy's prematurely born son died two days after birth. >>> as we said beau biden was a political star on the rise after two terms as delaware's attorney general. he announced plans to explore a run for the governor's office. "action news" reporter vernon odom has reaction from the close political community in delaware. >> reporter: even though family connections gave him an obvious leg up in first state politics beau biden was deeply respected in governmental circles. he was known as a hard working hard charging attorney general for two terms decorated combat veteran in iraq and devoted father and family man. many saw him as delaware's next governor. >> beau biden was beloved in delaware extraordinarily popular, in fact, the the most popular elected official in the state that is because of who he was and how he carried himself. i mean he work for i

his parents stepped away from their son's bedside to give us an update. nbc 10's katy zachry is live in pennsville with what they said. >> reporter: the parents of kyle pszenny, 17 years old who goes to pennsville high school behind me, they say he's in critical condition. they thank the commune for their support since early yesterday morning and this morning, just a few hours from now, the students here at pennsville memorial high school will wear blue in honor of kyle. 17-year-old kyle pszenny who plays football for pennsville is lying in a hospital bed this morning, just 24 hours after being struck by a hit and run driver. kyle was hit early sunday morning riding home on his skateboard. police say the driver of the hyundai elantra did not stop. witnesses tell us the -- police say the impact threw kyle several hundred yards down the street. now, one witness describes what he heard. he lives right near the scene. >> very bad shape, yes. whoever hit him, they didn't even stop. they hit him, as soon as they hit him, right back on the gas and gone. >> and l

just weeks later, joe biden was sworn into the senate at beau's bedside. as an adult, beau biden played a role in his father's political campaigns, introducing him onstage at the 2012 democratic national convention in charlotte, north carolina. >> in moments both public and private, he is the father i've always known, the grandfather my children love and adore, and the vice president our nation needs. >> sreenivasan: biden served in the delaware army national guard and was a military lawyer in the jag corps. he deployed to iraq for a year in 2008 and reflected on his service in a speech two years later. >> it's been the greatest honor of my life to wear the uniform of the u.s. army. i'm honored to be the attorney general, but i'm most honored to be a captain in the army. >> sreenivasan: in 2010 biden suffered a mild stroke, and three years later doctors removed a small lesion from his brain after he reportedly felt weak and disoriented. biden had remained largely out of the public eye in the last two years while battling brain cancer. beau biden died satur

. >> he was sworn in at the hospital at my bedside. as a single parent, he decided to be there, to put us to bed, to be there when we woke up from a bad dream, to make us breakfast. >> truth be told, the real reason i went home every night is that i needed my children more than they needed me. >> reporter: diagnosed with brain cancer in august of 2013 beau biden underwent treatment and was declared cancer-free later that year. in the spring of this year, the cancer returned. a hopeful biden still planned to run for governor in 2016. beau biden, husband and father of two, died at age 46. in a statement the vice president's office said, "his absolute honor made him a role model for our family. beau embodied my father's saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did. beau biden was quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known." the vice president discussed the heartache of losing a child in 2012. >> for the first time in my life i understood how someone could consciously decide to commit suicide.

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his parents stepped away from his bedside last night to talk with us and give us an update. they said he's still in critical condition, 17 years old, a star football player at the high school. was hit by a car early sunday morning riding his skateboard home. the driver of the hyundai elantra did not stop after impact. witnesses say that impact threw kyle several hundred yards down the street. he's a star football player here at pennsville memorial high school. he's known throughout the community. he underwent hours of surgery last night. local police tell us they do have some leads but they really need the public in inwith information, to step up and offer that information. any eyeweiss aitness accounts. coming up you'll hear from a witness about the crash. reporting live in pennsville katy zachry, nbc 10 news. >>> theage athletic department released this statement, saying please keep kyle and his family in your thoughts during this very critical time. the family understands and appreciates everyone's concern for kyle and is extremely thankful there's been such an outpouring

it is not the phone on your bedside table. it is still there. be interesting to see whether it is there five years from now. there always be a reason to have them for security reasons. this is one of my pet peeves. technology is so caught with katie you can't figure out how to work it. charlie: ian: i don't believe in the ipad mini. everybody travels with their own technology. i think that is not the answer to doing something technologically sophisticated. i would love for there not to be a phone in the room, to be an intercom. it is a loss leader. but that is something we're looking at now. charlie: in terms of an experience, what makes the experience. you want to sleep well, you want to -- but beyond that you want to be where you notice the quality of things, the art on the wall and the lobbying is whatever. ian: everybody knows when they are in a special place. arne: and they know when they are in a place that is not special. ian: it doesn't matter about your level of education, in the objective criteria. it is a visceral thing and we all kno

when he heard that she was dying, he wasn't very quick to go to her bedside, but he eventually did. it is a sad, regrettable end to an otherwise wonderful relationship between brother and sister. brian: we have some more video from wright state university and it has photos of the fort myers crash. let's run that get your reaction. [video clip] >> one of the interesting things we have in the collection is this photograph album. this was put together by a reporter for the new york herald. he took lots of photographs of orville flying at fort myer, virginia, in 1908 and 1909, when he was trying to stop the airplane to the army. it includes lots of photographs of the crash that orville was in that killed his lieutenant copilot. when orville had that crash, his sister katherine left her teaching job anderson back to health. david: one of the things people said about your book -- a tiny bit of criticism that the story has been done so many times, i'm sure you read that, did you worry about that in this process? david: not a bit. because, if anybody reads the book and thinks that the story

robert todd lincoln was at his father's bedside, but mary was not there. >> let's hear a call from sturg, florida. you there? >> yes. first, thank you for taking my call. i have enjoyed the entire series and i have followed it with margaret truman's biography of the first ladies. devotes quite a bit of time to mary todd lincoln and remarks that she ranks at the very bottom of the list. i don't agree with that, and i wonder how your commentators would also rank her in terms of first ladies. >> oh, boy. put it this way. i certainly would disagree with those that would rank occur at or near the bottom. it is a less than compassionate thing. i also think her years and her story is really unique in the annals of white house history. i think she is a unique figure. hundreds of years later, we are having this discussion and still debating her motives, it tells you that she is an important first lady. i will leave it at that. >> important because of the man to whom she was married? >> important because of the man, important because of the part she plays in the story that is still being debate

emotional parents of some of the victims arrived to be by their bedside. >> translator: just a small child who had gone out to have fun, now on the verge of death. >> reporter: his 18-year-old daughter has suffered burns to 90% of her body. >> translator: today it is with a feeling of great sorrow that i visit these people injured by the powder explosion. the main purpose was to promise their relatives that the government will take care of them. >> reporter: the exact cause of the fire ball has been investigated but police are still questioning the organizers of the event colored powder being used at public events. erica woods, al jazeera. >> scouts taking part in a 12 day trek. four scouts were swept away, three were found by staff members, the body of the last has been later. there has been a history of boy scout tragedies in recent years from lightning strikes to floods. kevin corriveau reports. >> things have improved on sunday that's an indication of things improving. five day forecasts monday looking nice, partly cloudy skies still above average. chance of thunderstorms it look

what escaped convict david sweat told investigators from his bedside. >>> and we'll have more on mystery copeland's major achievement. >> the thunderstorm watch remains in our area until 8:00 tonight and we are tracking a line from pittsburgh and the latest from timing and future tracker in the accuweather forecast. >> plus, jaime apody with eagles and phillies and u.s. women soccer when "action news" comes right back. >>> new fallout from the prison escape from new york the prison security and chief are off the job, they are being row placed as investigators look deeper into how david sweat and richard matt broke out. both were shot by police and matt dies and sweat is hospitalized from his bed he told them he used a hack saw blade starting in january to begin cutting cell block walls, before his capture a police officer walks by a tree stand that he was hidden in. and david muir will have more on the prison escape watch it following "action news" at 6:00. >> time for sports tonight, another day and another announcement for the phillies. jaime apody is live in the sport centers with the

in the morning, some of the parents of the victims arrived to be by their bedside. >> translation: just a small child that went out to have fun, now on the verge of death. >> reporter: his 18-year-old daughter suffered burns to 19% of her body. >> today it is with a feeling great sorrow i visit these people victims of the powder explosion. the main purpose is to tell them the government will do what they can to help them and will investigate who should take responsibility. >> reporter: many from the crowd are suffering lung injuries, the cause of the fireball is being investigated, but police are questioning the organizers of the event. the local mayor announced a ban on the coloured powder used at public events >>> coming down to the wire on reaching a deal with iran. next - why some u.s. officials doubt an agreement can be reached by the deadline. a failed space mission, why the latest problem could be a setback for the privatizing of the space industry. erica pitzi on the coloured powder used at erica pitzi erica pitzi >>> u.s. officials say a deadline for a nuclear deal with iran co

in the morning, some of the parents arrived to be by their bedside. >> translation: just a small child that went out to have fun, now on the verge of death. >> reporter: taiwan's president visited some of the victims in hospital. >> today it is with great sorrow i visit these people victims of the powder explosion. we will investigate who should ta responsibility. >> reporter: many from the crowd are suffering lung injuries the cause of the fireball is being investigated but police are questioning the organizers of the event. taipei's mayor announced a ban on the coloured powder used at public events >>> i.s.i.l. fighters stormed kurdish-held villages near kobane near syria. saturday, kurdish forces announced they pushed i.s.i.l. from the town for the second time this year going door to door searching for fighters left in fighting. the latest battles are in villages further south than east. 200 have been killed since thursday when i.s.i.l. launched its assault >>> cross border shelling by houthi rebels and forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. houthis attacked an oil ref

. >> reporter: back at the hospital the hoagland family holding a vigil by connie's bedside, was unaware there was a criminal investigation under way. until luke and beals paid them a visit. >> then they asked, you know if she had any enemies, if anyone would want to hurt her, if we could thing of anybody. and i couldn't think of anybody. there wasn't anybody. >> reporter: i'm guessing that the only thing stranger than hearing that your mom has been the victim of an explosion is hearing that it was not an accident and that it was direct directed at her specifically? >> i was like what? i couldn't -- i didn't believe it. i didn't understand it. and i started crying because i didn't know who could do that who would want to do that. >> reporter: what made a strange case all the more baffling occurred four days after the bombing, when a large fedex box was delivered to this san diego area high school addressed to one of their students. his name? jonathan hoagland. that got san diego's bomb squad scrambling. and it got the town's attention. >>> coming up -- connie hoagland wife mother and sur

. >> reporter: paul kept a vigil by her bedside and kept their edison colleagues updated with daily emails like this. "there still is not much clue as to the original infection, but if she continues to improve and gets well soon, i don't think it will really matter what the name of the problem was. i think we all can live with a mystery as long as linda's around to be mystified with us." how was paul when linda was sick? >> very concerned. >> reporter: worried? >> yes. >> reporter: eventually linda recovered enough to go home. paul fixed her gourmet meals, drew her a hot bath every night, and soon linda went back to work at the san onofre nuclear plant. but months later, she was in the hospital again. same strange symptoms. linda, again, recovered enough to go home and back to work, but she worried about a relapse. she and paul planned to meet with some specialists who might be able to help. on june 9th, 1994, paul emailed mary. >> it was, "gee, mary, i'm really worried about linda. she's wobbly and weak." >> reporter: paul wrote that she was mumbling incomprehensible stuff in her sleep ab

elton was even at ryan's bedside when he died in 1990. to this day, the singer credits brave teenager for his own awarenesst in aids and carrying on ryan's work--- educatingthe about the disease and finding a cure. "mr. rock hudson, has acquired immune deficiency syndrome..." rock hudson became the first major celebrity to go public so, the disease. in doing he confirmed that he was gay and to the world this was how hudson came out. shortly after his announcement, longtime friend elizabeth taylor a celebrity studded gala. "all we can do, at this point, havelp our friends who aids and the only way we can do that-- is by doing what you are ofng --by giving--giving support, money and love." in a letter read to the room, their thanked people for support and even the media for getting the word out about aids. "people have told me that the beenosure that i have acquired as having syndromeficiency alped to make this evening raises and that it will in excess one million dollars to help against the battle of aids. i've also been told that the medi

in the morning, some of the emotional parents of the victims arrived to be by their bedside. >> translation: just a small child that went out to have fun, now on the verge of death. >> reporter: his 18-year-old daughter suffered burns to 19% of her body. >> today it is with a feeling of great sorrow i visit these people victims of the powder explosion. the main purpose is to promise the relatives that the government will do what they can to help them, and will investigate who should take responsibility. >> reporter: many from the crowd are suffering lung injuries, the cause of the fireball is being investigated, but police are questioning the organizers of the event. the local mayor announced a ban on the coloured powder used at public events >>> climate activists from a number of religious groups gathered at the vatican, wanting to thank the pope for his publication on climate change. pope francis urged world leaders to sign a public agreement to limit greenhouse gas and linked climate change to contributing poverty around the world. >>> back here in new mexico a group of scouts were takin

. >>> he was sworn in in the hospital at my bedside.parent he decided to be there to put us to bed when -- to be there when we woke up from a bad dream, to make us breakfast. he traveled to and from washington four hours a day. >> by focussing on my sons i found my redemption. truth be told t real reason i went home every night, i needed my children more than they needed me. >> beau biden was a remarkable man. served in a combat unit in iraq. in order to keep his commitment to long standing commitment to children primarily back home in delaware. in his family's words, beau biden was quite simply the finest man any of us have known. i'm joined by ed rendell and john carney that both knew beau well and know the family well. congressman carney the representative from delaware, certainly know the depth of affection for this man and family. >> well i tell you, the delaware community is heart-sick. we have a hole in our heart with the passing, tragic passing, of beau. that little clip you just played just tears at my heart as we think about h

i can say when i was first injured, my father when he came to my bedside after telling me he loved mest thing he said to me brian, you need to find a way to pull yourself up find a way to get back out there, get to work. you can't let your kids see you sitting on your butt they would think that's an okay way to get through life. that's something that stuck with me something that i carried with me every day in physical therapy and carry with me still, every day going forward, it pushes me and drives me to make sure i'm always setting the best possible example i can for my children. >> i know you believe that a lot of your inspiration, your motivation to go forward has come from being with other disabled vets and watching the courage that they embrace as they get through their challenges. >> it couldn't be more true. when i think about the time i spent at walter reed i was injured by losing two legs and a finger. i know guys that are missing two legs two legs and an arm, two legs two arms that are burned blind, a combination of everything. and they're out there doing the most amazing th

. >> i would think when you come back in you immediately go to her bedside and see what is going on.i wish i would have. >> but you didn't do that? >> i didn't do that. >> bill would not have had to check on diane if as kevin said he was the one who killed her and when the crime lab reported on the first item sent for dna testing, the results seem to place bill directly at the crime scene. remember diane died as affixation. it showed bill's dna profile on a sample taken from her neck. >> we were a loving couple and slept in the same bedding to. my dna should be on her. >> a reasonable explanation for a bad fact but was it the truth. he reached into the tool box to assess credibility. he asked him to take a lie detector test. >> you agreed to take a lie detector test and you flunked the critical questions. >> i flunked certain questions. >> two questions and i won't paraphrase but they both had to do with whether you caused or death or knew what happened to her. >> one of the questions, did you cause the death of diane dyne bill's answer no. another question did you lie about kevin be

in the morning, some of the parents arrived to be by their bedside. >> translation: just a small child that went out to have fun, now on the verge of death. >> reporter: his 18-year-old daughter suffered burns to 90% of her body. >> translation: today it's with a feeling of sorrow that i visit these people injured by the powder explosion. the main purpose was to promise their relatives that we'll do our best to investigate who should stake responsibility. >> reporter: many from the crowd are suffering lung injuries, the cause of the fireball is being investigated, but police are questioning the organizers of the event. the local mayor announced a ban on the coloured powder used at public events >>> turkish police fired rubber pellets and water canons to disperse a crowd gathered in istanbul for the city's annual pride parade. police stopped crowds the scene of an anti-government protest movement in 2013. water canons forced people out of the area. >>> a bus full of schoolchildren crashed in belgium, killing an adult on board. it was carrying 40 passengers, and 34 pupils from a british

senate was sworn in by beaus a hospital bedside. >> one of my earliest memories was being in the hospital my dad always at our side. >> reporter: beau was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago and this spring he relapsed. the vice president became deeply personal at a graduation speech just days before beau checked into the hospital for the last time. >> my dad's definition of success is when you look at your son or daughter and realize they turned out better than you, and they did. >> that was nbc's kristen welker reporting. of course, you can counseledt on nbc 10 for complete coverage of the passing of beau biden. undod our news app for any new information we get and funeral arrangements. >>> checking out the top stories right now. fire officials are look into what caused a building fire in pottstown last night. one firefighter was injured when he was hit by some sort of object. the fire chef tells us his injuries are not life threatening. the being was being renovated and no one was inside. >>> a fire forced 17 people from their homes in chester earlier this morning. the fire sprea

the morning following the accident, emotional parents arrived to be by their children's bedside. >> just a small child who went out to have fun. >> his 18-year-old daughter suffered burns to 90% of her body. >> today it's with a feeling of great sorrow that i visit these people injured. the main purpose was to promise their relatives that the government will do its best to help them and we will investigate who should take responsibility. >> many from the crowd are also suffering lung injuries. the exact cause of the fireball is still being investigated, but police are questioning the organizers of the event. the local mayor announced an immediate ban on the colored powder being used at public events. he>> a heatwave in karachi has killed more than 100 people but temperatures are beginning to drop. highs are in the mid 30's, a relieve after 45 degrees. many are being treated. >> flash floods in india killed two endangered lions. the bodies of the lions were found in the forest in the western state. eight lions have died since the annual monsoon season began earlier this month. let's get a