austin's brother, creighton baird, is one of the rope swing engineers.ob is to make sure everyone survives to tell the tale. >> to actually jump, you need two ropes. you always want a back-up rope when your life is on the line with something like this. you only mess up once. >> to build the rope swing, the crew is riffing off existing hardware left by past climbers. >> and there were five bolts placed on the arch in the '80s. we attached the two ropes we jumped onto webbing to attach to the five anchor points. >> they're taking every precaution but it's still a risky endeavor. a rope could break. a bolt might come loose. they're taking a slight misstep could land someone over the edge, onto the unforgiving rocks below. >> if i would have slid maybe another foot and a half, it's 150 feet straight down. >> it's a close call. >> i got careless, i wasn't thinking, and i made a mistake. luckily i just brought brand new climbing shoes with rubber on the bottom. i was able to recover like a boss and live to do the rope swing. >> everything is in place for the m

like villanova to be the bread winner of the conference or do you like it if xavier or butler or creighton has a good year year after year? do you want someone to carry the reigns? >> it's an interesting question. our coaches would tell you anyone in our league is capable of beating any other team. take this year by way of example. i thought going into the tournament that perhaps xavier was the deepest team in the league, perhaps the most talented team and playing some same level, if not better than villanova. but as you know in the one-and- done format, you win or go home, it's all a matter of playing the best basketball at the right time and, you know, winning six games and villanova fortunately was able to do that. >> big east tournament will still remain at the garden once again. next year, the acc tournament will be at the barclays center. is this one of those things where this will actually help your tournament because everybody's going to be thinking college basketball at that time, or is it taking away from the people attending the big east? >> i think having them here only enhance

it's been raining all night long in creighton and livermore and dublin.o, mill valley and san francisco. we will look for this to taper off about the noon hour. a 1 on the storm impact scale. spotty showers tomorrow. no rain tonight and another chance of rain by wednesday. >> thanks for joining us on the abc7 morning news. i'm chris nguyen alongside lisa argen. the news continues online, facebook, twitter and on all your mow guilty device was our d. bc7 news app. "good morning america" is up next. see you at 8:00 a.m. with more news. dogs - sure can be messy. but with nexgard, their flea and tick killer doesn't have to be. nexgard, the vet's #1 choice for dogs, is a delicious, beef-flavored chew that kills both fleas and ticks. so it's easy to give, easy to take. reported side effects include vomiting, itching, diarrhea, lethargy and lack of appetite. use with caution in dogs with a history of seizures. why mess around? for powerful flea and tick protection, ask your vet about nexgard. the #1 choice of vets for their dogs and yours. ♪ ♪ as long as you lov

"the loudoun times-mirror" reports a former member from creighton corner elementary is accused of misusing $13,000 from the pta. according to the paper, been filtered in and out of a board member's account over a five-month span, and that individual still not been charged. >>> in the race for the white house, it's the eve of the wisconsin primary where some of the candidates hope a win could mean a big momentum boost. both parties are holding primaries tomorrow with 96 delegates up for grabs for the democrats, 42 for republicans. the most recent polls show a tight race between hillary clinton and bernie sanders with a slight edge for sanders. for the gop ted cruz is leading donald trump. but looking at the delegate count, both cruz and sanders need big wins to catch up to the front-runners. right now clinton leads sanders in the delegate race by a margin of about 700. and in the republican race, trump has a lead over cruz of 275 with john kasich a distant third. kasich actually has fewer delegates than marco rubio who did when he suspended his cruz are pushing for kasich to follow suit and

. >>> it's a pta embezzlement investigates under way this afternoon at creighton's corner elementary school in loudoun county. the loudoun times mirror says the investigation involves missing money. $13,000 and a former pta board member. the pta contacted mon office when the money was discovered missing. >>> starting today you can drive a little faster along parts of i-70 in maryland. the new speed limit is now 70 miles an hour up from 65. it applies to the stretch of i-70 between howard county and route 144 in frederick county and the segment between frederick county to the maryland/pennsylvania line. however, driver beware, the speed limit near the city of frederick will remain at 65. the change is the result of a new law that went into effect last year. >>> mending metro. "first at 4" y," why a high-rang board member is not happy about the direction the agency is taking. >>> plus a tribute to a hollywood legend narrator: all that political mail might be overwhelming. let's simplify. only one candidate has been endorsed by the washington post: kathleen matthews. as a journalist and

creighton is illegal and tennessee. the cdd oil is legal in all 50 states. there going after that now. why is it that the alternative method of pain control are being targeted as well, you know, the chronic pain issue is real. i'm in recovery from alcohol i do watch everything that i take in. what is your opinion about these alternative drugs? >> guest: chronic pain is a difficult issue, as you know from your personal suffering. one thing that we have been seeing at the cdc is a tremendous rise in deaths from prescription drug overdoses, and when we look into this issue, it appears opiate prescribing is really sword. the past 1515 years we have seen a quadrupling of prescribing for opiates and a quadrupling of accidental deaths from overdoses. recently the cdc issued knew prescribing guidelines for physicians another primary care practitioners intended to help them reassess whether starting a person on opiate painkillers, to think about what the long-term goals are. there is not good data about those types of drugs helping chronic pain. on the other hand som