dr. rebecca, thank you for being here with us. you can get more information on breast cancer at wusa9.com. click on the buddy check page. mike? >> thank you, andrea. weather time now. we're talking some serious possibilities of a severe weather alert later today. starting in the 4:00 hour. >> the critical time will be 4:00 to 9:00 which means the big evening commute on friday. it could be a mess for some folks out there. here is a look at your day planner. in the morning, no major problems. mostly cloudy conditions. temperatures close to 80 degrees. by noon, around 84. mostly cloudy. a chance for showers and storms. by 4:00, we'll see storms. a lot of locations. by 8:00, it will be more widespread and numerous. satellite radar picture showing us right now, it is dry. but look out to the west. we've got all of this energy coming through, also a front kind of stalled right now and slowly, slowly moving south late tonight. here is a look at live doppler 9000 hd, it is quiet around the immediate d.c. metro area but late today and even

dr. rebecca andrews. she's a primary care doc at the university of connecticut health center and she was talking about the new annual screening coverage where she had a -- one of her patients which is a big, huskey guy. they used to kind of razz each other. she did the soup de nuts checkup. she did a urine test. she found a tiny speck of blood at the lab which they were concerned about. turned out he had bladder cancer. because they were able to detect it so quickly, because of that annual checkup and the cancer screening tests that are now covered under medicare, it was a day surgery, in and out and really very nonintrusive event that cost a fraction of what it would have been if he had not that checkup to detect that cancer early. she had at least two other patients because of the new affordable care act annual checkup where they detected cancer and, again, were able to intervene at a low cost compared to what it would have benefited a new full-blown case. mr. tonko: representative courtney, we are talk

the only two people inside the house when rebecca was found dead was rebecca. and dr.cknai's brother adam. we've been told by the sheriff's department that adam shacknai, the brother who lives in memphis had just come into town tuesday, the day after the 6-year-old boy was injure. presumably to offer family -- offer family support. there's been reports that there was a either in the house between when the 6-year-old boy was hurt and when the 32-year-old woman rebecca was found dead. they are trying to determine what happened in those days before her naked body was found hanging from a balcony inside this mansion. >> greta: john, thank you. >> coming up, just after midnight casey anthony walked out of the front door to an angry crowd. the latest is coming up. >> why did senator santorum take a swipe at senator mcconnell? what was that swipe? senator santorum goes on the my cream is what makes stouffer's fettuccini alfredo so delicious. i think you'll find it's the vegetables. deliciously rich. flavorful! [ female announcer ] together at last. introducing new stouffer's

rebecca. and i spoke to dr.ally 30% to 40% of epilepsy cases are due to an area in the brain where there's a localized abnormality or a lesion. those are the candidates for this type of procedure. it's not seizures of unknown cause or where there's multiple areas in the brain. >> sit expensive? how much does it cost? >> actually this procedure is about 25% to 30% less expensive than the open procedure largely because these patients, again, they're out of the hospital much shorter period of time. >> other than a family history, what puts you at increased risk? >> a lot of things can put you at increased risk for a seizure disorder. anything from head injury to head trauma to brain infections like meningitis or encephalitis. stroke or dementia. you can even see this in newborn babies sometimes after birth. very exciting work being done in texas children's. >> dr. jennifer ashton as always, thanks. keep watching. this is "the early show" on cbs. sfl "cbs healthwatch" sponsored by one a day women's. the multivitamin

dr. kim mulvihill with what you need to know. >>> reporter: like most of her friends, 11-year-old rebecca has a cell phone. >> i like call my mom, you know, after activities, text my friends, see what they are doing. >> reporter: her mother knew there could be a link between radiation from cell phones and brain tumors but wasn't concerned. >> i'm one of those, if everybody is doing it, it must not be that bad. >> no. it's jordan. >> reporter: she is happy to hear about a new study that cell phones don't appear to increase the risk of brain cancer in children and teens. switzerland researchers looked at hundreds of brain cancer patients and found they were not more likely to have been regular cell phone users. however, the study only looked at childhood brain tumors and not the long- term risk. >> the question, the child that begins using the cell phone at 7 or 12 when they are 47, after four decades of using the cell phone, is their risk of developing brain cancer higher? >> reporter: there is speculation children may be more susceptible because their skulls are thinner and more radiation could penetrate the brain tissue. exper

dr. jennifer ashton has the latest. >> reporter: like many other 11-year-olds, rebecca greenwald can't live without her cell phone. >> fifth grade, all of my friends have it. fifth grade, from the start to the end people kept getting them. >> reporter: rebecca's mom bought her a cell phone despite seeing possible reports that cell phone has a link to brain cancer. >> in this case it wasn't something that really bothered me. >> reporter: but now she is relieved to hear about a new study that found cell phone use does not cause brain cancer in children and teens. researchers in switzerland found children who use cell phones are at no greater risk for brain cancer than those who dent use a cell phone. examined records with children with and without brain cancer. th experts like dr. keith black believe more research is required. >> what we know is that the microwave radiation from cell phones will penetrate deeper into the child's brain and more of the radiation goes into their brain because the skull is thinner and scalp is thinner. >> 75% of teenagers are using cell phones up 45% since 2004. >> the question is the chil