"news4's" doreen gentzler shows us how it works. >> it with us like a sharp jabbing pain in my flankarea and just tried to ignore it. >> reporter: and that pain didn't go away and jesse holliman, just 15 years old at the time, had trouble figuring out what could be wrong until an mri revealed a diagnosis rare for kids his age. chronic pan korr pancreaticitis. a severe inflammation of the organ that helps us digest food and regulate blood sugar. >> a long term that there's no good outcome for living with that disease. >> when the pancreas stops working as it should, producing insulin like it should regulating our blood sugar can make patients diabetic. it can also lead to cancer. >> they say if i waited another year or so, i would have had cancer and there would have been nothing for them to do. >> they say the treatment for pan cree a tie it is is also risky. >> they become literally addicted to narcotics. >> he would go to school on meds. he would be spaced out during school but physically being there. >> reporter: looking for another solution jesse and his family turned to speciali

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. >> good evening, i'm doree doreen gentzler. >> it ended in a hung jury.nd this was the one prosecutors were hoping to build their other cases on. right now the streets of baltimore are mostly empty, protests we have seen have been peaceful. people united in prayer to take a stand against the kind of violence we awe back in april. >> another group marched around baltimore city hall and courthouse and we saw arrests there, but not the riot gear or the tear gas that we saw last spring. we have team coverage beginning with the protest, jackie benson. >> reporter: this area known as penn north is still reeling from the unprecedented unrest in may. tonight, people are hurt, they're disappointed, and they're confused. >> one city, one person. >> reporter: members of a coalition of community and religious leaders together with many residents of the neighborhood came together at the intersection of west north and pennsylvania avenue. >> they don't know what's going to happen from here. you know, what's the next step? you know, they don't have a voice. they feel li

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. >> i'm doreen gentzler in tonight for wendy rieger. we are learning details about the pair who police say opened fire on a holiday party killing 14 and wounding 21 others. sources tell nbc news the male suspect syed farook may have been in touch with others in the los angeles area who have expressed jihadist views. >> we've also learned tonight this attack could have been much worse. the suspects had 1600 rounds of ammo on them, thousands more inside their home along with a dozen pipe bombs and materials to make ieds. >> an fbi team from washington traveled to california to reconstruct the shooting and the evidence is on its way here to be analyzed. >>> this is not your average investigation. we have multiple scenes. we have many victims and it will take time. we cannot rule anything out. >> back here in our area, president obama ordered flags to be flown in half-staff in honor of the victims. you can see them at the white house and the u.s. capitol lowered earlier today. >> president obama spoke with the mayor of san bernardino and to

doreen gentzler with how it works. >> hi, chris and wendy.s in special cells on your pancreas called eyelet cells. new technology is letting doctors remove those cells, put them in the liver and allow patients to live pain-free without a pancreas. >> it was like a sharp, jabbing pain in my, like, flank area just tried to ignore it. >> reporter: but that pain didn't go away and jesse homan just 15 years old at the time had trouble figuring out what could be wrong until an mri revealed a diagnosis rare for kids his age. chronic pancreatitis, a severe inflammation of the organ that helps us digest food and regulate blood sugar. >> a long-term that there is no good outcome for, living with that disease. >> reporter: when the pancreas stops working as it should, producing hormones like insulin to regulate our blood sugar, it can make patients diabetic. bank ratitpancreatitis also lea cancer. >> if i would have waited another year or so vild had cancer and there would have been nothing that they could do. >> reporter: the treatment is also risky. >