pelley: she'd get out of the wheelchair?: uh-huh. >> pelley: and walk away from it? >> keith erickson: uh-huh. >> pelley: erickson and her husband keith are not people with a lot of money, so in desperation, they sold their home in order to wire $15,000 to morales. the ericksons say they arrived in a rundown mexican clinic for a scheduled spinal injection of stem cells, but morales gave her a stem cell i.v. instead. >> keith erickson: so, he ended up coming in and hanging an i.v. off the tip of her thumb that was barely viable. >> pelley: muna, show me with your hand, if you can, precisely where that i.v. went in. right at the tip of your thumb. >> muna erickson: yes. >> pelley: what did you think? >> keith erickson: i thought about taking my wife and taking her home, but she was so set on getting these stem cells, i... i think she would've had a complete mental breakdown if... had i just boarded her back on a plane. >> pelley: muna, did you get somewhat better? >> muna erickson: no, i got worse. >> pelley: back in monterrey

we're not just serving wheelchairs. wheelchair users need to be served, of course, but those services provide assistance to all sorts of people. scooters, other people, power chair users. there's a ramp on market street. bicycles, you see a bicycle behind our friend here. we see shopping carts, grocery carts, homeless carts, trash carts. not too many horse-drawn carts, but we see a lot of bicycles in the city and more and more demand to provide bicycle access and most disabled access up on the public right of way provides services for all of these different kinds of users. bye-bye baby buggy, multi baby carrier strollers. they would have a tough time without that curb ramps or without other --. >> this is a great slide, lawrence, because it helps us avoid that trap of looking at accessibility in terms of us and them. accessibility is really about all of us. it's about temporary disabilities, permanent disabilities or just ease of motion, of movement through the environment. >> we are really a city of small businesses. r

wheelchair or not, there's all sorts of stuff. here are wheelchair users going into a small store. these very small mom and pop corner stores are very difficult because of the need to have a lot of goods in there to make the business work. this is a real challenge. this is a store on mission street where they have actually figured it out. the aisles are nice and comfortable, minimum size but comfortable. she's going in, she can turn, she can get to the counter. it may not have the lowered transaction counter we're going to see in a counter here where someone who can't reach up to the full height of the counter can do business. that's a very cheap and easily achievable standard of improving disabled access. here is another counter with no lowered counter area. this is a sushi shop on kerni street. very open, very accessible, but it doesn't have a lowered area to do either service transaction or for other kind of seating. inside the cala market -- now, markets are required to have at least one checkout stand of a sufficient width for people in wheelchairs to use. and that checkout co

. >> reporter: they compete as a professional wheelchair tennis player. the 21-year-old tennis athlete practices with players three times a week without fail. >> translator: wheelchair tennis is one of the most physically demanding sports for people with disabilities. but that also makes it a very rewarding challenge. >> reporter: when she's not playing tennis, she wears artificial legs. she lost both her real legs four years ago. an american shell missed its target and landed directly on her house. >> translator: i was standing here and all of a sudden my back got really hot. i don't remember anything after that. >> reporter: the blast killed her two older sisters. though she survived, the shock of losing her sisters and her legs became too much to bear. she became speechless. she didn't leave the house for days. >> translator: every time i woke up, i realized that it wasn't a dream, and that it had really happened. >> reporter: the american shell destroyed her life, but she still keeps a memento of the tragedy. >> translator: i don't know why i kept it,

jerty looked for second hand wheelchairs to look for those that needed them. unfortunately he diedof a heart attack in 2008 right after delivering one of his chairs. his many patients thoughtheir hopes died with dr. jerty. they lived on in the heart of his wife she asked the christian organization to help supply wheelchairs for their neighborhoods. >> it is not like the ones in the ty. they are equipt with these tires, simil to what you would find on a mountain bike. the recipients can move around the rugged terrain. >> people like are this man that lost the use of his legs at age 7 from polio. he is now 70. >> i feel sad for my broth. he always wanted to go out and see places. he cannot do it with his improvised whechair, he, himself made. he had no choice than to be confined in his small hut. >> she made sure she got one for her brother. he received a more important gift, salvation through jesus christ. >> thank you lord. thank you to all the people who help us. >> i am so thankful operation blessing gave us this opportunity to work with them when things hap

because i sure am tired of sitting in a wheelchair, and my body is aching, and i'm so weary.s be my ticket to heaven? >> reporter: her motivation for persevering, she says, is all the people she's able to help. >> i need a reason to get up in the morning, and my big reason is to help other families like mine, other people with disabilities, other special needs moms and dads, to encourage them and strengthen them, to help them want to face life head on. >> reporter: she says she won't allow herself to spiral into doubt and despair. ♪ y-m-c-a >> i'm not going to go there. i'm not going to go there. i went down that dark, grim path when i was a teenager and first broke my neck and wanted my girlfriends to bring in razors to slit my wrists or their mother's sleeping pills or whatever. i'm not going to go down that path again. it's too horrible. >> reporter: ken tada says it's been hard watching his best friend go through so much. >> i've often had several guy friends of mine who i've said, you know, if i ever go to war i'd want those guys in my foxhole. the first person i'd want

because i sure am tired of sitting in a wheelchair, and my body is aching, and i'm so weary.s be my ticket to heaven? >> reporter: her motivation for persevering, she says, is all the people she's able to help. >> i need a reason to get up in the morning, and my big reason is to help other families like mine, other people with disabilities, other special needs moms and dads, to encourage them and strengthen them, to help them want to face life head on. >> reporter: she says she won't allow herself to spiral into doubt and despair. ♪ y-m-c-a >> i'm not going to go there. i'm not going to go there. i went down that dark, grim path when i was a teenager and first broke my neck and wanted my girlfriends to bring in razors to slit my wrists or their mother's sleeping pills or whatever. i'm not going to go down that path again. it's too horrible. >> reporter: ken tada says it's been hard watching his best friend go through so much. >> i've often had several guy friends of mine who i've said, you know, if i ever go to war i'd want those guys in my foxhole. the first person i'd want

i ride wheelchair. i'm out there all shifts. i'm out there not just in the daytime. i'm out there at night and out there doing my job. i'm the only full-time director that they have. i know what's out there. i know from a rider perspective that we look out for people who work at night who are gone due to budgetary concerns. i want to put those back in place. and hopefully with the full board as soon as possible. i'm looking forward to working with cheryl. believe me we will get the job done. we have to be independent in our thinking. we have to be looking out for the citizens of san francisco. mainly i want to say this, we want to make sure that each and every one of us is making sure that

she is 48 100 pounds and is in a wheelchair paralyzed from the waist down. she called 911 yesterday from the area we are. she told chp she had fallen out of her wheelchair and was having chest pains, they transferred that to the fire department and they went in search for her but it came up empty. they started a search. they set up a command post and 30 volunteers searched the area. but they have not seen her. it is still unclear if maybe she was able to call someone else for help or somehow was able to get somewhere and get help but certainly at this point police are worried about her and want to make sure she is okay. they are hoping anyone who might have seen her give them a call. we are going to stay on top of this and will keep in contact with the police department and let you know if there is any updates but certainly this is a mystery and they want to make sure she is okay. claudine wong, ktvu channel 2 news. >> a livermore father is in jail this morning on suspicion of stabbing his 14-year-old son 11 times. it all happened yesterday when 48-year-old

wheelchair. >> do you ever wake up in the morning and forget that you have parkinson's for a moment or two. >> not now. not recently. because my every waking hour is terrifying. >> but on the morning of the surgery cybil was confident. even as nurses fitted her with a head frame to help guide surgeons during the operation. and as they wheeled her to the x-ray, she was in good spirits. >> deep brn stimulation comes down to one thing. location. to help pinpoint the region of cybil's brain where he would be working neurosurgeon roy bakay used magnetic resonance centre imaging. finding the target area holds the key to sib will-- cybil's future. if the stimulator s planted correctly she may finally be free of the tremor and pain that have haunted her for years. but if the place suspect off, the results could be devastating. >> finally, the doctors think they have placed the electrode in the exact location that will help cybil. when they turn on the stimulator she suddenly shows an astonishing range of

she said she fell out of her wheelchair and needed immediate help. volunteers were searching the area for several hours and were not able to find her but claudine wong now tells us authorities have now found her. she will have all the details coming up at 6:30. >>> also the chp wants to knowy a teenage girl jumped out of a moving car on a freeway. investigators think she may have jumped out after an argument with her boyfriend. the girl was treated for minor injuries then released to her parents. her boyfriend is in jail this morning, he is facing charges of resisting arrest. >> some homeless people say a mcdonalds is trying to get rid of them by eliminating its dollar menu. jade hernandez joins us now from san francisco with more on the story. >> reporter: good morning. a buck used to go a long way at mcdonalds. it used to get you a god size mcdouble. not anymore. we are live at this mock donald's in the height ashbury neighborhood, the only mcdonalds which has done away with its dollar menu. the sign says no trespassing, no lightering and a 30 minu

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i am very aware of the challenges faced, especially with the disabled community and wheelchair users and the bus system. it is always so important to remember -- to let everybody to have access to the system. there are times when i actually really enjoyed riding muni, and i would not want anybody to feel that they do not have that same opportunity. sometimes it can be frustrating, and sometimes it can be incredibly rewarding, and i think everyone should have the right to enjoy those rewards. supervisor alioto-pier: just something to throw out there, that our beautiful historic line down at the embarcadero, for example, is not particularly accessible. there are parts of our system that really are lacking, and i do not mean this in a flip way, but i do think that members of the mta, it would behoove them to take a wheelchair and spend a day in a wheelchair on san francisco public transportation system because it is a much different experience. it would be a learning one, as well. supervisor campos: thank you. colleagues, any other questions? great, why don't we open up to public commen

that they are god's chosen people. >> it wasn't offi easy for the nba players to control their wheelchair but the game was good fun for both ses. >> we were gointo play with them you can see them all over the world. >> israeli children will watch their favorite team. having these evangelil christians come here and interact withthe people and do the sports camps and work with the disabled veteran association is wonderful. new in some of the americans like dwight howard senior this was a profound experience. >> this is one of the most exciting events i have had in my life. to be here representing the usa and the howard family, it is great. >> with israel aligne sports power internional came with a word of encouragement for the president of israel and israelis everywhere. >> i said at half time, i could giveyou money, i don't have any, i could give you weapons, you don't need any. i fear not for the lord thy god is with ooe. >> they leave as ambassadors. >> you can walk the walk and experience the love of the chosen people in the mann has made me for the rest of my life committed and true pa

. >> i was in and out of wheelchairs'. >> all the not ease her discomfort until she met dr. david cohen. the 48 year-old says that from 2001-to thousand seven, he performed three surgeries on her neck and back. been a car accident. >> we were just completely rear ended. >> she is out of that wheelchair, at banks to a doctor she considers a brilliant. >> key change my life completely. -- he changed my life completely. it is shocking that it happened to my surgeon. >> she even posted a message on her facebook page, calling on her friends to pay. >> he was my knight in shining armor. that is why i was devastated to hear about the core that happened to him. >> she hopes that the doctor who was there for her knows that this great patient is now pulling for him. >> i want him back on his feet as soon as possible. >> he is described as well respected and methodical. she tells us that he was always honest with her, never sugarcoating her condition. >>> nightline will have more on the rash of high-profile shootings. that comes your way at 11:00 -- 11:35 deceiving. >>> we are on storm

so we stopped, the laser is trimming help, help, help me put the lady in a wheelchair in my car it wentng for more. the hope when they realized there were as seniors home i told him i gotta get back in the house there something in my house i have not finished searching the home. and the very last room was a lady in a hospital bed on oxygen catheter on and just completely but the window and there's five is behind me a hospital bed were about to go to the door because of the normal door sort out the restaurant, a reporter in a wheelchair roadsides. all in all six women the and is being 93 years old or in some arrested by a son the even and driving them to a hospital as well i rows on my kids help people as you can everybody did we try to do it would be a better place. >> >> meanwhile kron4 is a dream kelly shows as an up close look at one block where three homes were leveled by the fireball. from this direction and it looks like a fireman on this street. three homes used to stand here now they're gone this is where the left of the front yard it is all dry gas, debt killed by the heat of t

the 11-year-old was wheelchair-bound and bedridden.uscle cramp cramps and spas were so painful he couldn't walk or even sleep. >> we were seeing doctor after doctor and this is a stack of business cards of all the doctors that we saw, and no answer. >> reporter: jake's parents, nancy and jeff silverman, agniedz over the case. >> he only lost it one time. >> reporter: what happened. >> i said, jake, come on. are you sure you really can't, like get up and you can't walk and he just looked at me and said, "mom, don't doubt me." >> reporter: the silvermans finally found an answer in boston with dr. sharma. she diagnosed jake with distonya, a neurological movement disorder causing sustained, involuntary muscle contractions. still relatively unknown disease even though it's the third most common movement disorder diagnosed, more common than huntington's lieu gehrig's disease. >> would say year we're 50 years behind where epilepsy was in terms of understanding the disorder and treatments. >> he had deep brain stimulation, surgery which implan

even though i live life to the fullest and look as though i'm just sitting down in a wheelchair, i have to always worry about pressureores from constant sitting. i worry about my osteoporosis advancing in my bones for not standing and bearing weight, which led to a fracture of my leftemur. i worry about my scoliosis getting worse, curvature of the spin common with people with spinal cord injuries. i have advancing nerve pain and adder complications. i am one of millions of americans living in various diseases and conditis that no matter how hard we try affects how we live our lives. the first time hope actually went something to me and became sort of my religion was when i saw what human embryonic stem cells can do. a year after i became paralyzed, my doctor and stem croyle scientist,oug kerr, who was at johns hopkins at the time, showed me a mouse that was once paralyzed and now can bear its weightnd take steps. at that moment i realized that this is science i couldn't ignore and it gave me a feeling of hope i wanted to fight for. which brings me to another point. it's frustrating to h

. >> she is esther vergeer, and her game is wheelchair tennis. by now it should be called vergeer tennis, that's how completely she owns this floor. she's won every singles match she's played since 2003, nearly 400 in a row. >> she doesn't bother with losing, so i could take a few pointers and she's amazing. >> no one, man or woman, owns as many championships as vergeer, 101 consecutive titles, four u.s. opens, six australian opens, four french opens, three paraolympic titles. and those are just her singles victoriesment she has plenty more in doubles. sunday yet another title, vergeer's fifth u.s. open. 396 in a row, what do you do for an encore? >> yeah, it's kind of amazing. >> reporter: none of this might have happened except for a medical mistake. >> i never played tennis before my accident. i hardly played any sort. >> reporter: at the age of eight, vergeer had an operation that went bad. she was paralyzed. >> that made me sad. i started to ask my mom those questions, why me? >> reporter: four years into rer habilitation, vergeer tried whee

the stefani family, your typical family but for almost a year their dad has been confined to a wheelchair. abc2 news lament williams has the story of how they are getting a well deserved gift from ravens running back willis mcgahee. >> reporter: what does an nfl running back, a college football coach, a high school football coach and a former collegiate player have in common? >> they have a connection as far as being on the football field, just being part of a great group of guys. >> reporter: joe stefani is a former football player and ravens fan. in 2009, two disks in his lower back bulged and compressed his spinal cord. the pressure along with an infectious abscess left him a quadriplegic. bills started to mount and for he and his family, living in a home not handicapped accessible made life even more difficult. >> we're in desperate need of renovations to the home to make our lives listenable. >> reporter: he played football at loyola and collegiately at towson. during his playing days he had no way of knowing the football that he played would be the tie that binds his recovery and co

no more power driven wheelchairs' for marathon runners. under our new law, we are making it easier for law enforcement officials to see health care claims data from around the country in one place. combining all medicare claims into a single searchable data base. we are getting smarter about analyzing those claims in real time to flag potential scams. this is a technique that credit card companies have been using for years. if 10 flat screen tvs are suddenly charged to my credit card, they will know that something is our right. they put a hold on the payment and call me right away. we should be able to take that same approach 11 provider segment 10 times as many claims for oxygen equipment as a similar provider just blocks down the street. it is about spotting fraud early before it escalates and the cost grows. as we step up our efforts to stamp out fraud, we will hold ourselves accountable. the president has made a commitment that will cut improper medicaid payments in half by 2012. not all of these improper payments are fraud. but we nee

. >> a fellow ended up in a wheelchair and needed to make his home wheelchair accessible. >> reporterthing don knows he'll likely have to do in a few years. he has muscular dystrophy. both givers and receivers called this approach to banking a game changer and joe dimanty hopes to complete the circle. >> maybe one day i'll be an investor. >> leslie says this election process is detailed and you've got to have very good credit with a score of at least 660. tomorrow morning at 6:12 a.m. has more on how the borrowers are screened and get on to see how they'll decide before they invest in you. >>> all right. are you ready? >> are you prepared. >> you've been telling us a few days. >> got my oars ready. >> not exactly a surprise. tonight, overnight, we're looking at rain and thunderstorms, heavy after midnight and starting to pick up in intensity just a little bit. low temperatures don't do much, between 60 and 65. winds will pick up east southeasterly and will really pick up in the morning. let me show you this, you can access it anytime on the web at wusa9.com. and you can download the i

she called 911 yesterday afternoon telling them she had fallen out of her wheelchair, had chest pains needed help. but when authorities got out here they couldn't find her. someone we talked to was pretty sure they had seen her. we called concord police. they found her asleep with friends. this is what she said. are you okay? >> yeah. i'm fine. why? >> reporter: people were looking for you after you called 911? >> i was having really bad chest pains. >> reporter: and you didn't wait for the firefighters to get there? >> i was right here. >> reporter: you were having chest pains down under here? >> i don't know why they didn't send the ambulance instead of these idiots. >> reporter: where did you tell them you were? >> right here. >> reporter: you said underneath the overpass? >> yeah, underneath the freeway. >> reporter: she told police that she did not want any medical help. police tell us they did search this area, specifically the area where they found her this morning. they say they searched it extensively yesterday. multiple agencies looking for amanda sloan. she insists she was

accessible site and there are very few of those and those are meant specifically with people of wheelchairs. were you even aware of that? >> no. >> reporter: he quickly moved his truck. joyce bridges says she also has problems with her back and knees. >> i never really paid attention honestly. i know it's a handicapped, but i never noticed the van accessible park. i really never noticed that before. >> reporter: james hopkins who also says he has problems with his knees told us he knows the spaces are specifically meant for van lifts. >> i am aware, but also i'll be parking on this end keeps me from getting a whole lot more dents in my vehicle. >> that's disappointing and irritating. >> reporter: page says more than anyone, other disabled drivers should know how important it is to protect designated spaces for those who really need them. >> i understand that there are other vehicles that can use that space. i'm not saying it's reserved specifically for me, but it is reserved for those who drive vans with lifts. >> reporter: page says there's one way metro can crack down on the problem and t

. >> reporter: she is esther vegere, her game is wheelchair tennis, by now should be called vergere tennis sport. she's won every match she's played since 2003, nearly 400 in a row. >> she doesn't bother with losing. i could take pointers. she's amazing. >> reporter: no one, man or woman, owns as many championships and she does. 101 consecutive titles, four u.s. opens, six australian opens, four french opens, three paralympic titles, just singles victories. she has plenty more in doubles. >> she's a fantastic athlete and brought a new level of understanding and exposure to the sport. >> reporter: none of this might have happened except for a medical mistake. >> i never played tennis before my accident. i hardly ever played any kind of sport. >> reporter: at age 8, she had surgery to correct defective blood vessels near her spinal cord. the operation went bad. she was paralyzed. >> that mad me sad sometimes. i started to ask my mom the questions like why me. >> reporter: four years into her rehabilitation she tried wheelchair tennis. she was 12. she's been close to invincible since. >> it's

i would have to make it wide so that two wheelchair's could go in. if i try to consider that, then this desk would have to move backwards. so let's not blow this out of proportion, okay? let's not blow it out of proportion. because there are a few people who basing they are doing the right thing, who may think that speaking on behalf of all the physically challenged -- and i pay attention to all our deliberations, and you have not. you are not a commission, but as a body, you do serve the constituents who are disabled, especially the elderly. i appreciate that, and you should not give any cause to the press and to those who really do not understand about ada issues to have a debate that does not take us to a better place. thank you very much. supervisor chiu: are there any others members of the public that wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, unless there are any other questions to staff -- yes, supervisor alioto-pier? supervisor alioto-pier: i just wanted to make a comment on one of our speakers. i wanted to

if you are in a wheelchair, a shower curtain would be a barrier. thinking about the door to the bathroom. you want to have a nice, white door. 3 feet would be very nice. even a little bit larger bathrooms are you could maneuver in it would be helpful. >> let's look at some six. we got an e-mail from some of who watches us online who had a question about whether or not there are any downside to getting one of these vessels sinks, one of the six that sits on top of the counter. >> that is one of the reasons i like j.c. plumbing. they have a great selection, and i can make my point. let's compare these two six. this is a bowl shape, and this is a ceramic that comes straight down. the disadvantage of this -- and it is very beautiful and makes quite a statement -- and i alluded to this before. it is about cleaning this, and coming year. getting down here, that is difficult to do, so that is going to be more difficult to clean. this is a good one. again, clean lines that come straight down. there is no difficulty cleaning that. >> would someone call that

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dog desired. >>> he may have spent most of his life confined to a wheelchair.t stopped him from becoming an extreme sports star. he became the first to perform a double backflip in a wheelchair. aaron, good morning. are you nuts? now i'm reading the research on you. you started rehearsing, practicing this stuff at the age of 14, right? >> when i landed the first just single backflips, yeah. >> you used to watch your brother in the park doing stuff and thought, gee if he can do it, maybe i can do something? >> yeah, why not? i've got wheels, too. >> they call you wheels. what's harder on you, the toll on your body, the physical toll, or the toll on the chair. you've got to go through a few of those. >> a mixture of both. it's really bad when you have a messed up shoulder and a flat tire. >> you have had some issues with your rotator cuff, right? >> yes. >> how did that happen? >> the double backflip. underrotating and falling forward and putting your arms out. just jams them up in there. >> you've sort of pimped out this, right, the wheelchair? >> yeah, yeah. th

and contacted my insurance companies, and just something as simple as a wheelchair ramp, ttey have nois no coverage for that. >> she will have to be in tte hospital becauue i don't have a wheelchair cigar younger sister maddy. >> we are close, we like to be %->> wwnts emily home the gloati hope for her to be home soon.ú iiwould like to see her home. >> maddy is pij at the fund raiser friday to benefit her %-kathleen cairns, fox 45 neww t 10:00. >> and that fund raiser will be held tomorrow night from 6:30 to 10:30p.m. at our lady of perpetual help on i'll chester road in ellicott city. >> finally, we are less thaa three days away from the ravens home opener. from m&t went to the staddum. they had food and fun to pump everyone up for sunday showdown againsttthe browns. >> e are 1 and 1, coming home. we are going to be 2 and 1 after beating the browns. that's a guarantee by me. >> i hope we make it to the -uperbowl, take it all. %->> and fans are howing off their purple pride on our website. the chambers famill is rocking to the ravens. they are playing rock bands during halfftime. >> a

so much foot traffic that there is no room for a wheelchair or walker to go by. >> san francisco is a lively street life, it can be an issue with people with visual disabilities as well. they have these diverting barriers on other side of this tables and chairs area. if people can find thraeur way around it without getting tangled up, it is still fully accessible. >> we don't want anything special. we want people to basically adhere to the regulations and laws as they are on the books now. people can also, just be cognizant if they have stuff on the street, they thaoed to have 48 inches so we can pass, think outside your own spectrum of yourself that there are other people you need to share the sidewalk with. we will all get along better. >> although san francisco is a hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. that doesn't mean we can't continue to improve upon ourselves. >> the public has a clear are -- of travel. we can't be every to make sure that is the place. we have to rely on the place. call 311. give them your name. that goes into a data base. >> it i

we but the lead in the wheelchair in my car. >> it went door to door looking for more to help when theyd there were at the seniors home where they up a few more of the elderly women into his a one of the women's cars. they're being told by fermenta affected the area but he had a feeling there might be another person left in the house. get back in that house there something in my dad telling me i haven't finished searching at home. at the very last row was a lady in a hospital bed on oxygen. catheter on and completely and i'd look out the women in there's flames behind me and i said oh my gosh hospital bed with it through the door it because it's normal door so three the specter of butter in a wheelchair and brought her roadside. >> in all six senior women in the youngest in 93 years old or in some part rescued by him and his son they even ended up driving them to the hospital as well. >> was taught my kids help people if he can carry if everybody did what we tried to do it would be a better place. >> in san leandro kron 4 news carried >> investigators looking into the wealth on this pie

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. >> there were no justices in wheelchairs'. turned to my mother who was walking with me at the time and said to her that it was my dream to become the first u.s. supreme court justice in a wheelchair. >> ivans family says he has always been an inspiration to them. >> he taught me to persevere and go for our dreams and all that. >> we have always been proud of him anyway, but the fact that he has accomplished so much the spot of the challenges in front of him, we are very proud of him. >> ivan graduated from college with honors and went on to get a law degree. he says his dream is still to become a supreme court justice. >> somebody needs to retire. there have been a lot of retirements lately, so i think i just have to wait my turn. >> if you like to vote for ivan, you conduct your web site, b.g.e. you can go to our website, wbaltv.com. >> we will recap our top stories, still ahead. >> dr. david cone and was shot and wounded this morning my man distraught over medical news about his mother. >> maryland's colleges and universitie

they're your typical family, but for almost a year, dad has been confined to a wheelchair. abc2 news lamont williams has a story on how the family is getting a well-deserved gift from ravens running back willis mcgahee. >> reporter: we have a connection on the football field, just being part of a great group of guys, i love to play sports. >> reporter: joe sclefani is a former football player and ravens fan. a disc in his lower back bulged and compressed his spinal cord. the pressure from the bulging disc, along with an abscess, left joe quadriplegic. for joe, his wife monica and two daughters, living in a home not handicap accessible made life more difficult. >> we're in desperate need of these renovations to our home to make it liveable, to make our lives normal. >> reporter: during joe's playing days, noway knowing the football he played would be the tie that binds his recovery. a makeover was made on joe's home to make it accessible to his knees. >> they'll see their daddy not confined to a medical bed or a wheelchair, they'll see daddy in a wide open space, interacting

residents will have more space because we do have a lot of people that are handicapped and have wheelchairs. all of that can be in consideration. i don't think that anyone who necessarily fight a hospital coming in but i heard some concern about the job. it is people in this committee. the community would love to have jobs in this area. even though they think that they have a voice, we are having the contention of 2010. if they would like to donate funds to us and our committee, we will be happy to accept the donations so they will be part of our community service. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a resident in the tenderloin and i work as an organizer. a lot of good points have been made about people's concerns and the opposition. i will not repeat what has been said. will we allow business to come into the tenderloin but not allow us to do business? a lot of us are low income without insurance and i don't understand how an entity can come in and only serve people that live outside of the neighborhood. i don't understand how that is fair. there will be a lot of jobs. the question is, whe

. >> meanwhile, a patient of the doctor who was shot said she was in and out of wheelchairs until henged her life. suzanne lives in maryland and she said between 2001 and twetch dr. david cohen performed three surgery on her neck and back. she had a degenerative disk and then was in a car accident. all the advice she received did not ease her discomfort until she met dr. cohen . >> he was my knight in shining armor. that's why i was so devastated. i want him back on his feet as soon as possible. he certainly got me back on my feet. >> after the doctor was shot, susan posted a message on her facebook page urging her friends to pray for him >> the shooting led abc to air a warning before last night's bre broadcast of the season finale about a man who shot and killed several workers at the fictional hospital before committing suicide. for more on this story log on the tbd.com. >> still to come on "good morning washington". backtracking on metro. why you may not get a break on smart trip cards. >> and wait until you hear bizarre demands by a gunman. >> first, any more rain on the way? ad

you have kids in wheelchairs who come at 7:10, and they cannot get up to reagan what is going on? your job is to make sure these schools were. >> your time is up. >> the same thing is going to happen next year. >> you get additional time for translation. >> i have been immigrated to the united states for two years. i know all your time is very valuable. i do not want to waste your time. i want to summarize your experience. please give me time to finish. i remember when i first came here. because of the education system is quite different where i am from. it is very hard for me to get to know this. there was a chance i got to know about the event coordinated by the interpretation unit. it may be a workshop for the cantonese-speaking parents, so i decided to attend. the workshop was very helpful, and the speakers were very good at explaining the information. in short, the workshop was very helpful to us. it impacts mae into for dissipating in my child's school. ç-- into participating in my child's school. i was very excited that the interpretation once again put together this works

on that point, i would like to see as people love wheelchairs' is instead of having all of the nice stuff in the boat house is to do something about the paging on the path because it is difficult for people who have mobility issues. that is all i have to contribute. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i have been listening on both sides today to try to find some understanding for myself. i don't see a distinct or clear vision of the direction of what the department's would like. they are separate things. ortega's is coming in with some money to develop capital and to improve things. i have a question about what really needs to be improved. i did not really see the representation of that. it seems seeing subjective as to what we want. do you want to have it be something that is an enterprise situation versus seven years the people who have been running it? those are very distinct. one of the missing parts of this is the evaluation criteria which involves the length of the leases and what money is coming in. icy capital improvements that i don't see what is coming into the city. tha