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dr. john torres >> reporter: like so many americans, darrell foss is worried the active life he's alwaysbe thrown off course by his memory problems diagnosed as mild cognitive impairment. >> so conversations get to be a little difficult because i'm trying to remember a word, and i can't remember the word. >> three, two and -- >> reporter: tonight, new encouragement for him and his wife mary that there are things people can do that may prevent or slow down mental decline. the respected national academies of sciences reviewed the past seven years of research looking for good evidence about what might work and what doesn't. >> there are probably three areas that indicate that there may be something we can do to influence our cognitive aging. >> reporter: here's what you can do. control high blood pressure especially in middle age. exercise. resistance training or aerobics two to three hours a week at least. and do cognitive training. us techniques to help you remember phone numbers, names and dates. more targeted than those costly popular computerized brain training programs. >> the nationa

dr. john torres, nbc news, rochester, minnesota. >>> it's been a week filled with scorching temperatures,ch of the u.s., but it's also sweltering across the pond where the uk has been suffering through a heat wave. yesterday london recorded its hottest june day in more than 40 years. some boys there are so fed up with the heat, they're getting international attention for wearing skirts to rebel against their school's strict uniform policy that bans shorts. cool. >>> when we come back, a moving moment on the diamond when a wounded police officer makes a diamond when a wounded police officer makes a triumphant retur ♪ depression is a tangle of multiple symptoms. ♪ that's why there's trintellix, a prescription medication for depression. trintellix may help you take a step forward in improving your depression. tell your healthcare professional right away if your depression worsens, or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens and young adults. do not take with maois. tell your healthcare professional about your med

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dr. john torres, nbc news, cleveland. >> always something new coming out. all right. >>> bobblehead artwork. this is during the nationals game. >>> a lot of folks are asking, is that wet, cool weather going to continue into june? sh >>> ryan is going to go deep to left. >> the nationals have pretty good players. ryan zimmerman gave them the eighth win in ten games without harper who is serving the three-game suspensionor pitcher. >> some people are having fun with this whole situation. a man in northern virginia has a lot of bobble heads. he makes houses for them. so he pulled some stuff together and recreated the brawl. harper's helmet is on the ground there. can you see it? >> i see it. it looks pretty cool. >> is it just me or is the strangest thing about this story the fact that he makes houses for the bobbleheads? >> it's an interesting twist. >> i want to see that. how big are they? >> that's what i'm wondering. >>> i've got to tell you, just look behind us. light clouds, blue sky. >> and now we're at the start of hurricane season. june is usually qui

dr. john torres is working on this story for "nightly news" tonight. dr. torres,s too good to be true.this a short-term or long-term fix? >> you're right, for felicia, it was too good to be true. she didn't think it would work as well as it does, and it's been working fantastic for her. it's basically a medium-term fix. it gives people pain relief for about 6 to 12 months. this is one of the points she made, for somebody living in chronic pain for five years like she has, that 12 months can be life-changing. for her, it's changed a lot of things. you'll see tonight on "nightly news" with lester holt, she's able to get out, go grocery shopping. and it's radio frequency, they use that to freeze the nerves. it stops the pain signal from going back to the brain where we register all the pain. so she's feeling no pain in the knee at this point. everything works normal. she can climb stairs, she can go shopping. she can do the things she wants to we saw that felicia has -- or had arthritis. does it work for other knee-pain issues, and does she need more treatment say in a year or so? >> it d

dr. john torres, nbc news, new york. >> announcer: now nbc bay area's microclimate weather certified mostaccurate in the bay area by weather rate. >> you're still sticking with that rain this week, maybe rain? >> possibility versus likely. i'd say right now it's more possible as opposed to it will happen. we still have a couple more days time. the fact we're talking about a chance of showers here in june is a little unusual. show you that in the seven-day forecast in addition to a little bit of a warm up as we start the workweek. outside right now, san francisco fog free, got the warriors colors there up over downtown. 54 degrees. speaking of the warriors outside oracle, we have again those partly cloudy conditions, 56 degrees, bit of a wind out of the west, up to 15 miles per hour. dublin in the 15 mile per hour now, same trend in san jose, 59 currently in san jose. and as the temperature starts to warm up, air quality specifically in the east bay valleys dropping back into the moderate range. we'll see this for monday. likely tuesday. but not a spare the air situation as we get the work

dr. john torres. you hearing from people in ohio, sort of ground zero of the health care debate? >> yeah, hey there, andrea. a lot of folks are concerned about losing health care benefits, especially those who were given health care with this medicaid expansion a few years back. we spoke to one 28-year-old who decided to stop working full time to pursue a college degree and told me yesterday that if somehow she loses her medicaid coverage, that she got through this sxapexpansion, she may hav quit her studies and go back to work full time. she wants to get a college education so she can get a better job, hopefully work for an employer that will offer her affordable health care. the real concern is this opioid crisis gripping the buckeye state. you might recall we want to show you this image that the police department here released last september, graphic video, and it shows a couple in an suv with a small child, little boy in the back seat, the couple passed out from a drug overdose, the police release

dr. john torres, nbc news, lake park, minnesota. >>> metro riders are getting a thank you today, what they are being thanked for. >>> plus it's the tenth anniversary of the iphone since the iphone came out, chewing gum sales have actually dropped. the theory, well, because people now stare at their phones at grocery store lines, they don't pick up the gum. we're going to have more -- >> that makes a lot of sense. >> tell you more about how >>> check out this tornado video in iowa. it was one of at least three tornados that touched down in the state yesterday. several homes damaged in this. fortunately, no injuries have been reported, though. >>> five years ago, we added a new word to your vocabulary. derecho. >> if you were in the area, it was a storm and a name that a lot of folks draper takes a look back at that historic event. >> reporter: mention the word derecho here in the washington area and you're sure to get a reaction. people are instantly reminded of the historic derecho that happened on june 29 of 2012. it killed a total of 13 people, left over 4 million homes without power for

dr. john torres.that. >> you bet. >> meanwhile, back here in d.c., tickets to tonight's congressional baseball game selling at a rate of $500 for per hour. the organizers saying they are on track to raise more than a million dollars. that is going to charity here in the d.c. area. katie beck is here, and it sounds like they will have quite the crowd tonight, katie. >> reporter: lots of emotion and expectation that people will be coming to show support support in solidarity. this is a long-standing tradition in washington, and this has been going on for 100 years here, and the truth is this is the only bipartisan annual event where democrats and republicans come together and put aside that rhetoric and they play ball together. one representative said today, this is when everybody wins. this is a game where everybody wins, and people will be looking forward to seeing that after yesterday's events. as you mention the money that has been raised for charity, a lot of lawmakers had concerns saying this need

dr. john torres. good to see you. unresponsive wakefulness. take us more into that.s the person in a state oof consciousness? >> they used to call about persi persist tach persistent vegetativeness. so right now he's at the state where he's essentially able to open his eyes, look around, but he's not registering anything. and he's getting no response to anything they are doing to him. >> and the chances of recovering from something like that? >> chance of recovering, especially listening to the briefing yesterday, he has extensive brain injury, he won't recover brain function at this point. it's been 17 plus months. so he's at a state where he will probably be for the rest of his life. >> can doctors reverse diagnose this and try to figure out -- look at his current condition and try to figure out how he ended up in that condition? >> reporter: are they sathey sa he had cardiac arrest, he didn't get the oxygen to his brain. so on step one, respiratory arrest, step two cardiac arrest and he didn't get the blood flow to his brain. what they don't know is what caused th

john torres is here to tell us about it. hi, dr. torres.s somebody who wants to lose 40 to 60 pounds. they're obese or beyond obese. they tried other weight loss procedures. medical weight loss techniques. exercise. diets and things that haven't worked for them. and it's for somebody that can't have surgery because they have other medical conditions. >> it's not a surgery.t it is e. >> it's scarless. they put you under general anesthes anesthesia. they put a tube through your mouth. they pleat the sides of the stomach. they make it into a tube about the size of the banana. you eat less and you have less calories and that causes the weight loss. >> is it general anesthesia? do you go completely under? >> it's general anesthesia. but they send you home the same day. you recover after a couple of hours and go home right away. much less invasive. >> you go home. but you don't bounce right back. what's the recovery like? >> a two-week period of drinking liquid diet. that's to let the sutures settle in, the tissues heal a little bit the and you g

john torres is here to tell us about it. hi, dr. torres.nts to lose 40 to 60 pounds. they're obese or beyond obese. they tried other weight loss procedures. medical weight loss techniques. they've tried exercise. they've tried diets and things that haven't worked for them. and it's for somebody that can't have surgery because they have other medical conditions. because this is much less invasive. >> it's not a surgery. but it is endoscopy. which is quite an ordeal go through. how does it work? >> it's scarless. they put you under general anesthesia. lay you on your side. they put a tube through your mouth. the doctor sees the stomach and sew up the sides. they pleat the sides of the stomach. they make it into a tube about the size of the banana. you eat less and you have less calories and that causes the weight loss. >> is it general anesthesia? do you go completely under? or kind of a light sedation. >> it's general anesthesia. but they send you home the same day. you recover after a couple of hours and go home right away. it's again, less