dr. besser right now. i never heard of melanoma on the brain before. >> reporter: that usually begins as a skin cancer. 4% of the time, it can spread in the body and unfortunately, the brain is one of the places it can go. >> you were telling me today, there is hope for the president. >> reporter: i think there is. he's a very active 90-year-old. he's getting cutting edge treatment. radiation he got to his brain to target those areas with cancer. he's getting medication to boost his immune system, which is much less toxic than tradition am che chemotherapy. and the idea here is not a cure, but to allow him to live as full a life as possible. i think we have every reason to share his optimism. >> rich, thank you so much. we are picking for the former president tonight. >>> meantime, another medical headline. there is a new study tonight finding that aggressive treatment for what some doctors say is the earliest stage of the disease may not be necessary to save lives. every year, 60,000 american women are di

dr. besser shows us how it spreads. >>> the fight that breaks out on a flight to chicago. passengers recording it all, revealing what ignited the whole thing. >>> too close for comfort, the scare for taylor swift. >>> good evening and it's great to have you with us tonight. as we come on the air, our team is on the ground in cleveland tonight. the republican candidates arriving at this hour. the first big debate about to begin. and the video coming in late today. you can see there donald trump touching down, about to take center stage, the man to beat, well ahead in the polls. saying he's no debate, but our tom llamas asked, did you prepare at all. look at the lineup tondight, the ten con tnders. let's great straight to tom llamas on the ground where he talked to trump just a short time ago. good evening. >> reporter: good evening. tonight you can feel the electricity out here. usually it's for the cleveland cavaliers and king james that play here but tonight it's for the republicans with all eyes on trump. will he falter, will he fielt and can anyone break through? >> rep

dr. besser is next. >> welcome back to "upclose." a legionnaires' outbreak in new york city has killed at least a dozen people. more than 100 others have been infected by the bacteria. at least 20 cooling towers tested positive. but to be clear, we don't yet know the exact towers that are actually responsible for infecting the people. we're gonna talk about it, taking a closer look. joining us in the studio is abc's chief health and medical editor, dr. richard besser. rich, thank you for joining us. it's thursday. this is airing sunday. but this is what we know right now. 121 cases. that includes the deaths. no additional cases since august 3rd. 10th straight day now. it'll be 13 by the time we go on air of any new cases. is this over? >> it's over. it's over. you know, it doesn't mean there won't be more cases of legionnaires' disease in new york city. each year, there are up to 300 cases. but this outbreak is over. and there are number of reasons you can say that. if you look at the curve of cases, there was this steep rise that wa

dr. besser is standing by. first, cecilia vega. >> tonight, an urgent call from the mayoroff new york. >> symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath. if you have these symptoms please immediately seek treatment. >> reporter: five new cases of legionnaires disease in the past 24 hours alone. in all, 86 people infected, 7 deaths. an outbreak traced back to five contaminated water cooling towers. experts say the airborne bacteria can spread from large air conditioning systems, showers, even public fountains. this is one of the locations in the bronx where legionnaires' diseases started from a contaminated cooling tower on the top of this hospital. it's an invisible mist that travels up to seven miles away and the people who contracted it were most likely doing exactly what i'm doing right now, just walking in the neighborhood around new york's residents are worried. >> it's very scary! >> reporter: and now, another case in detroit. 58-year-old debbie kidd complained of a migraine last week. last night,

dr. besser will start answering your questions right now. in a twitter chat. tweet him directly and also find extended coverage of the legionnaire's disease outbreak online at abcny7. >>> let's take you outside right now with meteorologist lee goldberg and looks beautiful lee right now. and the question is how long is it going to last and how much of this can i just soak up before rain and other problems show up? >> i think a lot of it occasioning up. there's a lot of ways instability in the atmosphere is released sometimes it's clouds and sometimes it's storms. sometimes it's just a gusty breeze and that's kind of what we have right now. is we get sort of in a transition right now. leaves have been blowing around and 20, 25-mile-per-hour wind that's what we've had during the afternoon right now kind of in-between gusts at this hour. but it's warm and a nice breeze especially out of the straight sun it's pretty nice. here's a look as we look downtown and over toward the park. right on toward the east side. you see more of a deeper blue sky? just indicates some

dr. richard besser. now we hear the state is getting involved but do we get a sense, dr. besser that everything is a little more under control than it was three weeks ago when it started. >> i think we are getting there. there are a number of good signs. if you look at the numbers, there was only one new case that's and -- case today and that's the lowest number we have been seeing. the number of cases occurring each day new is a good sign this is declining. the cooling towers that the health department thinks are responsible for this have been cleaned and i think the health department has every right to believe the cooling towers were the cause of this. if that's truly the case we would expect that over the next week or so the number of cases would continue to go down and this would be over. >> so what can we expect then in the next couple of days? >> a lot of action. as you heard, the governor is providing resources to help testing of buildings, the mayor has -- is requiring that all buildings with cooling towers be tested and cleaned, that's going to go on, there are 29

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dr. richard besser about the alternative treatment the former president is undergoing to fight his cancerarly half a dozen firefighters >>> live from the kgo tv broadcast center this is abc 7 news. >>> here are the headlines where you live. a fire has charred 2,800 headacheers. sky 7 hd was over tesla fire. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony was there and tells us only an unoccupied house has burned and the fire is 25% contained. across our state cal fire information officers tweeted there are now more than 11,000 firefighters battling 15 major wildfires. to our north in washington state fires burned more than 88,000 acres. 40 miles per hour winds are making firefighters' jobs extra tough. abc 7 news reporter lauren lyster tells us the governor is calling the wildfire conditions unprecedented. >> reporter: crews face fast moving wind as they continue to battle a wildfire raging in central washington. the blaze turned deadly near the town of twist. >> it was a hell storm and the winds were blowing in every direction. >> reporter: three firefighters were killed and four more were injured, on

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dr. richard besser. >> we've got to get an update on legionnaire's disease. no new outbreaks today, but where do we stand in terms of the outbreak? >> legionnaire's disease can take 14 days from the time you're exposed to the bacteria to when you develop symptoms. so it depends on a couple of factors, one, they found five cooling towers that have legionella, cleaned those towers. the last day that the cleaning took place and then you count two weeks after that so we are still in that window where i would expect we are still going to see more cases of legionnaire's, it doesn't mean transmission is still going on but it means that there are people out there and if they have symptoms they need to be seen right away. >> good to know, 14 days. >> a viewer wants to know how accurate are temperature readings from ear thermometers? >> it's a pediatrician one of the most frustrating parents can do is take their child's temperature and there are a lot of ways you can go. first step back and review the different ways you can take a temperature. first mercury thermometer

dr. besser joins us now this morning. and, dr. , first of all, when we think of melanoma, we think of skin cancer but melanoma on the brain? >> that's right. melanoma is cancer in cells that makes pigment. 74,000 cases per year, 98% of those occur in the cells in our skin. 4% of the time they're going to spread through the body, and unfortunately when it spreads, the brain is one of the places it goes. >> and as i mentioned, tremendously upbeat. but what is the treatment he faces? >> they found four spots on his brain so underwent radiation therapy yesterday directed just at those spots hopefully sparing the rest of his brain and getting a drug that will stimulate his own immune system that will fight this off and he's gotten that and that's less toxic than the chemotherapy usually given. >> you were telling me with this there's hope here. >> there really is. the goal here isn't for cure. it's to allow him to maintain the active life he has and it was so inspiring to so many people yesterday to see his ease and the way he's going i

dr. besser expects carter to do well because he's in good health for a man of his age. >> remarkable reallywell, the former governor of maryland was in san francisco today hoping to jumpstart his presidential campaign. democrat martin o'malley participated in a panel discussion at brigade, a tech startup. o'malley talked about investing more on stem education. while he said he supports innovation, he said tech companies must not skirt worker protection. >> people sometimes work three different part-time jobs has to be accompanied with a conversation about how we create shared security so that if something happens, a person doesn't find themselves without any safety net, without any health care. >> o'malley is far behind hillary clinton and bernie sanders, but his poll numbers in iowa are climbing, although they remain in the single digits. >>> on the republican side, presidential candidate jeb bush is defending his use of a controversial term. bush campaigned in new hampshire today and was asked about his use of the term "inca babies" some people describe that term to describe children born

dr. besser expects carter to do well because he's in good health for a man of his age. >> remarkable really, the former governor of maryland was in san francisco today hoping to jumpstart his presidential campaign. democrat martin o'malley participated in a panel discussion at brigade, a tech startup. o'malley talked about investing more on stem education. while he said he supports innovation, he said tech companies must not skirt worker protection. >> people sometimes work three different part-time jobs has to be accompanied with a conversation about how we create shared security so that if something happens, a person doesn't find themselves without any safety net, without any health care. >> o'malley is far behind hillary clinton and bernie sanders, but his poll numbers in iowa are climbing, although they remain in the single digits. >>> on the republican side, presidential candidate jeb bush is defending his use of a controversial term. bush campaigned in new hampshire today and was asked about his use of the term "inca babies" some people describe that term to describe children born to

dr. richard besser reporting for us this noon. >>> today the fbi is looking into the security of the private email server that hillary clinton used when she was secretary of state, clinton's lawyer says the agency wants to make sure the emails were properly secure. and they want to make sure that she did not receive and send classified information on unsecured emails. >>> the roster for the first republican candidates debate is out now, organizers say that the candidates were picked based on recent polling data. ten of the 17 republicans will take part in tomorrow's prime time debate. getting the highest poll numbers and taking center stage is donald trump, jeb bush and scott walker, chris christie just made it in at number nine and the seven other candidates did not qualify including former pennsylvania senator, rick santorum will take part in an earlier forum. >>> coming up a live look from center city from our temple camera. the sun is shining and less humidity out there, we'll be back with your full accuweather forecast. >>> this week's fyi philly, about taking advantage of the final wee

dr. besser will trach your questions throughout the morning. you can tweet him @drrichardbesser. >>> the trial by north carolina police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man looking for help after a car accident. the officer charged with voluntary manslaughter and lawyers say he was acting in self-defense and mara schiavocampo is here with the story. good morning, mara. >> reporter: good morning, the victim a former college athlete who moved to the area to be closer to his fiancee. during the trial the jury is expected to finally see the telling dash cam video which has never been released to the public. this morning, charlotte police officer randall kerrick faces a jury and voluntary manslaughter charges accused of shooting and killing former florida a&m scholarship football player jonathan ferrell in 2013. >> four shots in rapid succession when jonathan is ten feet away. >> reporter: during opening statements prosecutors say the officer who is white used excessive force in shooting the unarmed african-american 24-year-old ten times

dr. richard besser. rich, they discovered this during surgery on his liver a few weeks back. what does this tell you? >> cancer from many different parts of the body can show up in the liver. doctors are going to be working to figure out where did this come from, and then at a cellular level, what made these cancer cells turn cancerous. only at that point can they determine what's the best treatment as well as his prognosis. >> still too early to tell but we are all pulling for president carter tonight, rich, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to new outrage this evening after a texas police officer was fired for fatally shooting this unarmed high school football star. about to head off to college. the surveillance footage showing the 19-year-old at a car dealership stumbling, authorities say acting erratically, damaging some of the cars. police answering the call but it's what happened when they followed the suspect that wasn't captured on camera. tonight that officer says the police chief acted too quickly in firing him. abc's ryan owens in texas. >> reporter: from the

dr. richard besser will be back with more on the outbreak on world news with david muir, can you catch hiser "action news" at 6:00. >>> now to meteorologist, adam joseph, as we wrap up this epically long heat wave. >> the humidity is dropping as we speak. it's still humid in the southern parts of area from the shore to southern delaware but a break is on the way. >> as we look right now, 1r9 degrees if philadelphia and new york city 88 but buffalo and binghamton 60s to 70s and clouds and on and off showers and the heat continues, washington to richmond in the middle 90s. as we take a live look now from our hd camera at society hill, notice a couple of clouds out there, a blue sky and westerly dry wind, meaning the heat index, is the same as the air temperature of 91, as we take a scan at double scan live radar, there are a few showers popping in richmond. there could be a couple of thunderstorms in southern new jerseyth delaware but most of us will stay dry and we'll track the end of the heat wave and when it could officially break in the seven day, coming up in just a bit. >> thank you ad

dr. richard besser right now. so jimmy carter 90 years old otherwise in pretty good health besides the cancer. what are his options at this point? >> i don't think he's going to be limited so much by being 90 years old by what type of cancer it is. that will determine a lot. is it pan kri pancreatic cancer or colon or liver -- >> his father and three siblings all died from pancreatic cancer. >> i think that's probably the most likely because of that. >> rich besser, thanks very much. >>> to that bombshell for oscar pistorius dropping just two days before the olympian was set to be released from prison after serving ten months of a five-year sentence for shooting his girlfriend to death. justice officials in south africa blocking his early release and terry moran is in johannesburg with the very latest on that story, good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, amy. what's happened in this case comes as a blow, a crushing blow to oscar pistorius. he was so close to getting out of this prison he could probably ta

dr. richard besser here right now.more scientific -- >> yeah, we're going to show a demonstration. we don't know if the reason you get stressed is something called mirror neurons, neurons in your brain that are triggered by someone else's stress or that sense of empathy but we want to show a demonstration with heather. heather is hooked up to all kinds of monitors. she has a heart rate monitor, something for respiration on her hands and measuring sweat and facial movement and she's been looking at stressful situations that don't involve her. they involve other people so there's someone on a roller coaster, a baby crying and a couple fighting and we're monitoring all of those vital signs while she's going through this, but earlier this morning we did the same thing, we had stefanie preston, who is a stress researcher at the university of michigan do these measurements and let me show you what one of the images we got of her printouts here and what you see here, this here is facial movements, and she was looking at a chi

dr. richard besser. thank you for joining us to talk more about this. a lot of folks think of melanoma as a skin cancer. a lot of folks were surprised that it spread to his brain. >> that's right. melanoma is the skin cancer that we worry the most about, cause the is most skin scan ser deaths. there are 74,000 people that get melanoma each year a small percent go on to be metastatic. when they do, one of the places it goes is to the brain. when they die it is often due to the metastasis in the brain. >> tell me about his treatment and what it includes? >> he is getting a lot of new treatments for metastatic melanoma. he is getting radiation to the brain. when you think about radiation to the brain, it used to be radiation to the entire brain that has severe side effects from that. here he is getting directed radiation to those four spots. those spots are tiny. we never used to be able to pick up spots that small. they are optimistic that picking them up that early will be helpful. he is also getting medication to boost his own immune system and fight th

dr. richard besser about this yesterday morning. >> what's he say?ng we think about or talk about that often, but here we are. now we're being educated, so it's an opportunity at least to be educated. >> sure is. >>> well, coming up in our next half hour, renters from hell shown on videotape allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars in valuables. the fingers are pointed at an airbnb guest seen going into a room that was off limits. >>> but first, the new musical direction for one direction. the latest hints about the boy band's new sound and upcoming album. you're watching "world news now." ♪ nobody can drag me down ♪ nobody, nobody, nobody can drag me down ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our ab ♪ ♪ i'm not scared of the dark ♪ you never seen it look so easy ♪ >>> oh, it was a big morning. one direction sharing their story on "good morning america" yesterday. that was in central park. it was a packed house. fans waiting in line throughout the night and the wait list of 20,000 people to get in. >> and they got rained o

dr. richard besser climbed to the top of a tower to show how bacteria spreads. >> reporter: it's shot out of these giant fans into the air. if it's contaminated with legionel legionella, it could travel for as far as seven miles. >> reporter: the city's health commissioner ordering all building owners to test and clean their cooling towers within 14 days or face a misdemeanor. the disease is not linked to water towers like these that store tap water or to home window or central air conditioners like these. the people who died all had other health issues, as well. but the scary part is everyone who contracted this disease got it by just breathing in the air in this neighborhood. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> you know how they got the name legionnaires'? >> this was an interesting factoid i did not know. >> from 1976. apparently, the american legion convention in philadelphia where 34 people died. that's where it came from. >> nasty stuff. they need to get this under control. a lot of people fearful in new york city. >>> coming up here, we've got an emotional good-bye. jon stewart's l

dr. richard besser. ericka, what do you think about this? >> the first thing to remember from the study there is no one size fits all way to discipline your kid. every kid is different. it's about knowing your kid. the second great thing is that we're now hearing time-outs can be a good thing and we should realize when it's appropriate. the study had lots of interesting information. that small demographic of moms felt -- many felt negotiating with your kid, talking them through their tantrum or the upset period was a good idea but interestingly enough in the long term that method may not be so helpful. >> when they're teenagers and talk back, i know. >> definitely doesn't work. so you're a pediatrician, how does this stack up with what you recommend? >> it's in line. there is no one way to did this. there is a whole variety of tools so in addition -- there's times when you want to negotiate and compromise but there are other things you should know about. the first one is called natural consequences. so you have a little child there. you go i

dr. richard be sshgs besser will tell you the truth. >> yesterday the fda approved the female viagra called addiy. >> first the name female viagra doesn't apply well. viagra treats a physical condition where a man can't get or retain an erection. this is for a woman with low sexual desire. it's controversial because the fda looked at it twice before and rejected it. they rejected it because one it's not all that effective. people who take this drug, women who have taken this drug, report an extra one sexual encounter every 1 to 2 months. there's concerns about side effects here. if it's mixed with alcohol you can have low blood or it can lead to drowsiness and dizziness. while it's good to have one that impacts sexual desire it isn't that effective of a product. if this is something that you suffer with you want to talk with your doctor. women who try this drug recommend don't try it for more than 6 months because only about 10% are benefitting. if you're not benefitting you don't want to stay with it. >> wow. it's very controversial. some people felt the fda was bullied into approving this

dr. richard besser here with the story. good morning, rich. >> good morning, george. you know, new york is in the midst of the largest legionnaires disease outbreak in its history, the second outbreak of the deadly disease just this year. and people are asking why. this morning, a major public health warning about the growing outbreak of legionnaires' disease in new york city. 86 people already contracting the infection. 7 deaths so far. >> symptoms include fever, cough and shortness of breath. if you have these symptoms, please immediately seek treatment. >> reporter: legion is a type of severe pneumonia caused by breathing in water vapor that contains the legionella bacteria. the bacteria is not spread person to person but usually traced to the air-conditioning cooling towers on large buildings. during hot summer months if the towers are not properly maintained, the bacteria can multiply in the water that's used to cool the air. so this is a typical cooling tower. the air is sucked in here, it goes through these filters, evaporates and goes shooting out the top. if