while breanna's mom and dad have recovered, breanna is still having a rough go of it. this is six months after diagnosis. she still struggling to walk. her dad has to carry her to the kitchen table in the restaurant to go to bed at night. because people down syndrome had of a weaker immune system. there's little research into that part of the condition. today's testimony social why it's so important to fix that. people down syndrome have remarkable differences in their health but there me into some of the most common health threats that we deal with. the naturally resistant to most all forms of cancer, rarely have heart attacks and high blood pressure is almost unheard of. so it could help scientists fight cancer and address heart attacks which affect so many of our loved ones. we need to do more to help those with down syndrome to delete longer and healthier lives. i didn't know back in the 50s the average age was only nine. were making tremendous progress but we need more. we want people in down syndrome to live well past their 60s. my talk about dimension alzheimer'

the other, jack abernathy, remains president of the company. >> mason: thanks, breanna. police in florida are searching test test test heat waived of weach has centersthe threat of new wildfires from san diego to dash. >> here is jamie yuccas. >> annalise tansy wanted to go to the beach in santa monica. >> we thought better ways, at santa monica and eating some good food. >> noirldz a good idea when beaches get cool those winds could gust to 40 to 60 miles per hour, and this has firefighters concerned wildfires will start under the intense triple digit temperatures. >> kind of like a perfects storm. >> eric scott is from the los angeles city fire department. engines and aircraft will be ready. >> we predeploy engines and other resources, we can hit it hard, hit it fast and we can keep these fires small before they get out of control. >> red flag warnings the highest alert for fires are in effect from santa barbara to san diego. more than 85 schools from san diego will close because of lack of air conditioning. coronado schools were closed today because of heat. the heat

. >> and to drill down on those experiences that you are describing, we'll go to breanna sitting nextu, you were with your four month old baby and you encountered a difficult situation. briefly describe what happened. >> yes. so we were frying from atlanta to new york when i asked for ply stroller after a five hour delay. and the normal protocol is for them to retrieve strollers and wheelchairs, however i was rejected by a crew member who said she was not able to get my stroller. and when i asked for the stroller again, and told her i was unable physically really to leave the plane without the stroller because i had this four month old who is sleeping at this time in my arms, along with three bags, she said she is unable again. and she says okay we'll get the captain. and it was my understanding i was thinking that the captain was going to come over and a mel yat the situation. however, when he came over, he was very aggressive. he was very disgruntled and pointed a the me if i didn't get off his plane whrks the other passengers rebordered after this five hour delay, i would be not be

. >> hey, breanna.far as questions go, the invest is going to barrel a lot of that out, but these guys were special forces operating in a very at-risks cou country doing is dangerous work, working with indigenous people to stand up on their own and push back against isis. that is dangerous work, it is very osteer and very remote. we are going to find out these guys were doing exactly what they need to do to keep us safe in an at-risk country. >> why are we not hearing more about it from the government? >> well, i think the nature of this work, it is a bit different than a lot of the other special operations forces that are out there. it is not the direct action nighttime strike thing that seems to garner a lot of media attention. what this work is is more long-term, it's more bottom-up kind of work. working with indigenous forces over a long period of time. and frankly, brianna, it is use in a place far away from any kind of natural support. the country has been doing this for 50 years in places like co

breanna is with us now, not only the senior national correspondent on cnn but military wife.ch for joining me. and let's go back to last week. i was a way. you were filling in for me sitting in this anchor seat when the white house daily briefing began. and it was that general john kelly started talking about the process of what happens when a soldier's body comes in to dover. and you started thinking about your husband. >> yeah, and i imagine a lot of military family members were thinking the same thing. gold star families and blue star families. and as you know, brooke, it was something that we weren't expecting. we thought it was going to be a normal briefing, then general kelly was describing what happened. and his point in doing so was to remind a lot of people who don't necessarily have a connection to the military exactly what military families and gold star families are going through. so it was really difficult to listen to. i really struggled to keep it together and was just hoping he went on for several more minutes so i could compose myself and get out of it and do

. >> i'm breanna skagen. >> i'm russell bleck. >> we got engaged -- on september 10th in new york. we were sailing and he popped the question. we were celebrating the engagement and we got free passes to the festival. >> thursday september 28th was actually my boyfriend's birthday we went over to the top golf hit some golf balls. >> i spent my day at -- national personal training institute, at school. >> on thursday i was doing a lot of laundry. >> we actually went to work that epn carrier. he seemed like a very ordinary person who didn't mix well with others, very few people knew much about him. >> i thought this guy is so into himself and i've never met an individual like that ever, where you couldn't create some emotion one way or the other. >> paddock's girlfriend was marilou danley. he met her at a casino in reno, nevada, the atlantis. she worked there as what's called, a casino hostess, for high end players in the video poker area. toolgt they world and comped with all kinds of ameties.eplight to the philippines. after she arrived federal agents discovered he had been wiring

. >> reporter: bleck and his fiance breanna are two of the many survivors of the mass shooting at the route 91 festival. bleck famously captured some of it on his cell phone. >> that was an ar! >> reporter: and though the shooting stopped nearly four weeks ago, for him and so many others, the incident isn't over. >> i wake up from a nightmare and just ran down this hallway. i'll just run into this closet and shut the lights off and shut the door and put my body against it so no one can't kind of come in and -- >> reporter: his fiance was too emotional to even to speak us. >> it took me two weeks, three weeks now to be able to look at her. and just, the sheer fear you know, on her face, that's something that you're never going to forget. >> reporter: but bleck is troubled by more than the visceral memories he has of that night. like other survivors we spoke to, he's also disturbed by what he considers the lingering questions, the missing answers about what really happened. >> the question that troubles me the most is the timeline, i want to know what happened. >> reporter: the official

autoimmune conditions but exhaustions of the immune system leading to more -- like the example of breanna with lyme disease. what you know, thises a ect of the down syndrome can be modulated with f.d.a. approved drugs with the conditions. we are testing immune therapies with the conditions. if you were to invest in more research, chances are there may be drugs that can be repurposed that would help with other conditions. with people in down syndrome. i am very optimistic an effort in research will pay off big dividends. mr. cole: thank you. in the limited time i have left, i want to address a question to ms. whiten and mr. stephens which is you have seen dramatic changes in the last few years. what are the most important changes you've seen? what are the changes you would like to see in terms of quality of life for people with down syndrome? mr. stephens: i can go first. ones we would like to see is better health care because n.i.h. needs to fund this research. why? who were ople like us born differently need better because like i said in my and about alzheimer's l i have said, those are

i'm breanna kieler in for brooke baldwin. cnn is learning two bipartisan senators, one democrat, one republican, say they have reached a deal in principle on health care. now this time patty murray, a democrat, and senator lamar alexander, a republican, are reaching across the aisle. and their goal is to stabilize obamacare rather than, as the president has requested, just let it implode. during a news conference a short time ago, president trump said he endorses this deal in the short-term. listen. >> apparently, lamar alexander said he made a deal with patty murray to stabilize obamacare. has the white house been involved in those negotiations? and will you support that deal? >> yes, we have been involved. and this is a short-term deal, because we think ultimately block grants going to the states is going to be the answer. that's a very good solution. we think it's going to not only save money, but give people much better health care with a very, very much smaller premium spike. and you look at what has gone on with that. a

. >> i'm breanna skagen. >> i'm russell bleck. >> we got engaged -- on september 10th in new york. we were sailing and he popped the question. we were celebrating the engagement and w t eefr he stiv.e >> thursday september 28th was actually my boyfriend's birthday we went over to the top golf hit some golf balls. >> i spent my day at -- national personal training institute, at school. >> on thursday i was doing a lot of laundry. >> we actually went to work that day and we flew out here to las vegas. >> on thursday, stephen paddock drove away from his home in a gated retirement community in mesquite, nevada. >> what we know about stephen paddock is that he is a 64-year-old compulsive gambler who worked as an accountant, before that he was an irs agent, he even worked as a postal carrier. he seemed like a very ordinary person who didn't mix well with others, very few people knew much about him. >> i thought this guy is so into himself and i've never met an individual like that ever, where you couldn't create some emotion one way or the other. >> paddock's girlfriend was marilou danle

. >>> thanks, breanna. did he mean war? was he just making a joke? was he doing the old look the squirrel thing? the "the lead" starts right now. the commander in chief surrounded by his generals teases that it is the calm before the storm. what does that mean? and how unsettling might u.s. troops and their families find those comments? >>> it could become a hurricane, it could be heading for new orleans and little time to get out. out of no where hurricane nate becoming a major threat to the gulf of coast. here we go again. >>> plus new updates as to the mass murderer as to why he may have opened fire. >>> good afternoon everyone. welcome to "the lead" i'm jake tapper. we are awaiting the press conference from the las vegas metropolitan police department to update the public in the latest into the massacre there which left 58 dead and hundreds more wounded. we'll bring it to pu as soon as it begins. but we'll begin today with the politics lead and crippic remark by president trump that might be fun, were he not the commander in chief at a time of se

. >>> thanks, breanna. did he mean war? was he just making a joke? was he doing the old look the squirrel thing? the "the lead" starts right now. the commander in chief surrounded by his generals teases that it is the calm before the storm. what does that mean? and how unsettling might u.s. troops and their families find those comments? >>> it could become a hurricane, it could be heading for new orleans and little time to get out. out of no where hurricane nate becoming a major threat to the gulf of coast. here we go again. >>> plus new updates as to the mass murderer as to why he may have opened fire.

breanna golodryga visited. >> this is truly the city that never sleeps.ike the human brain stem. the survival bunker pulls in information, makes sense of it and passes it along to the brain or our country's decisionmakers. there's also good reason cheyenne mountain is known as america's fortress. >> it is the nerve center for the blanket of defense for the u.s. >> that nerve center is here in colorado springs, an impenetrable fortress beneath 2,000 feet of granite. colonel robert mousse commands the mission support group at cheyenne mountain. >> we provide 24/7 global watch on all ballistic missile threats. the centers that are global are feeding data into cheyenne mountain that is processed and disseminated to national leader. >> this complex was built at the height of the cold war to defend against long-range soviet bombers. cold wars tensions have thawed, but russia and china are developing technology that could disable or destroy america's satellites and north korea has launched a litany of missile tests. >> is this facility still equipped to handle w