caplin estimates the shark was about 16 feet long. that was just days before tracking data showed a 12-foot long shark in the same waters. >> another reason to stay in the pool. >> oh, boy, what a difference 24 hours decan make -- can make. yesterday we were dealing with six to ten inches of rain in northern anne arundel county. nothing like that this afternoon. the clouds out there will break away through the overnight and our skies will clear and our temperatures will fall. it's 82 at reagan national. the winds out of the northwest at 15 miles per hour. earlier today 86 degrees. frank this date is -- average for this date is 87. and 100brf" degrees but not until sunday into monday next week, but limited at a 30-40% chance. for the overnight, mainly clear and comfortably cool. 57-63. winds out of the north and west. tomorrow looks great. partly-cloudy skies, 80-85 degrees. it will be dry friday and saturday. nest best chance for pop up showers and thunderstorms on sunday into monday and tuesday and temperatures will gradually reboun

to pay for treatment and travel and in audition to a push for getting medicines to market faster, caplin says regulators can make changes to facilitate the use. >> they can be a little more flexible, probably need reform to say if people die taking experimental drugs, we won't hold that against the drug in terms of the approval process. we want to know but we're not going to penalize you. >> reporter: to focus on compassionate use has rose to the a federal level. any changes may not come soon enough for 15-year-old natalee troller and others battling diseases with no good options. >> every day that we don't do something or don't try to fight the cancer, that's another day that the cancer can grow and get worse, so we just always feel that in the back of our mind that pressure that there is a time limit. >> meg terrell is with us. meg, you mentioned that the federal government is becoming more interested in compassionate use. what if any changes are brewing? >> there aren't good numbers how many of these requests get made and how many are denied. the figures were from the fda. that means

. >> reporter: jeanette caplin made a conscious effort to praise her children for being good and lay off the negativity. but she admits it wasn't easy. >> thank you, guys, i love it when you help me. >> your first impulse is to keep complaining, keep yelling, or, just criticizing in general. >> reporter: caplin says she never could have anticipated her kids' reaction to the positive reinforcement. >> they started actually behaving even better. the more you call them out on what they're doing well, they seem to want more of your praise and instead of the disappointment that they'll get from you when they're misbehaving. others say parenting involves more balance between the carrot and the stick. it is necessary to have the positive reinforcement, in addition to. >> there is an absolute need for balance. you need to let them know when they have done something wonderful. and you also need to let them know when they have done something you will not tolerate. >> reporter: caplin says there are times she needs to draw the line. >> if there are insults. there is hitting. that won't be allow

art caplin advised drug makers on compassionate use. >> people who take experimental drugs are often sick. the odds of getting better are rare. >> reporter: there is bad outcome in a patient much sicker than others could affect the drug's chances of approval and another factor they must consider, supply. >> they might have as much as a tiny thimble of that drug and if they give it to a dying person, they can't complete the trial to get the drug on the market to get to anybody with the disease. >> reporter: companies saying not having enough data in different forms of cancer, including in kids, an issue that set natalee back. there are also ethical considerations. >> who do you say yes to? who do you say no to? >> reporter: they say making a drug available through compassionate use could potentially slow a drug's pass to market and there is always a concern a drug won't work. the compound for lithe disease failed. >> they are not real drugs yet. it's just hope to being real hope for patients and we want to prove that something is actually false hope. >> reporter: for a patient like na

. >>> joining us on set an arthur cap lip, director of med -- caplin, director of medical ethics to talkbout this. there's an ethical angle. you wrote about this in the "the washington post," and it got a lot of attention. if ebola is an international crisis, why is the experimental drug, zmapp, why is it used on two americans, but not everyone who is affected in africa? >> yes, it's a great question. i think a lot of people in africa are asking the question of the the answer is kind of simply - it's not prejudice, discrimination or america's first, the group that sent the missionary workers over tracked it down and asked. they asked and the company said okay. >> aren't race and funny part of that, a privileged part of that. it had an advantage having someone behind them to ask. no one in rural ginny would have an operation looking for them. it would be useful if we have a system to, have rules and a system for accessing the drugs. we don't have that. >> there you go. ebola - it's awful that it kills people, but to put it in perspective, aid alone takes more than a million lives. why the

caplin and one of my favorites kerry washington and julianna margulies. house of cards good as., yeah. -- all right. what about the drama series nominations, the big one of my favorites of all time this is in that list of course breaking bad and whole host of great shows in there. >> breaking bad, game of thrones. house of cards. breaking bad final year even though it seems like it was a lifetime ago it wrapped up. it's still one of the most critically acclaimed shows in the last couple years. a lot of people saying it's going to go out with a wang and take home the top prize. >> it should. we always look forward to these great acceptance speeches a lot of greats among the imrats. what's terrific of all time. >> one of my gave rift was the late great elaine stretch who just passed away this july last year one of highest rated segments of the show took a lot of criticism because they instead of having one segment, they spread it out throughout the entire show and led the executive producer of modern family saddest awards show ever. this year they have a special tribute to robin w