yasmin morgan—griffiths has been following one cancer patient on his histotripsy journey.s a guinness world record—holding skateboarder but he had to retire from competing when he was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer three years ago. it can affect cells in several organs of the body, including the liver. it turns your life into a roller—coaster. just absolutely terrifying. you don't know how long you've got whatsoever. peter's liver tumours are so small and widespread they can't be removed through surgery. he had several rounds of radiation therapy and chemotherapy, but these took a heavy toll on him. fatigue, energy levels, really heavily hit. i had my review and they basically said i was not responding to the chemo. but then, peter was offered the chance to undergo a new cancer treatment at stjames's hospital in leeds. histotripsy is a type of focused ultrasound which destroys tissue inside the body, completely noninvasively. it's much more precise than treatments which use heat or radiation, meaning it can better treat tumours which are small and widespread in vital

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and he says now he doesn't know where he feels safe yasmin. >> thank you, morgan. we appreciate it. i want to bring in colorado state representative deny askar, who serves as democratic majority leader. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. give us your first impression of what we are hearing on the ground in colorado in this incredibly horrific shooting at this gate nightclub. >> i think folks are devastated. you hit the nail on the head that as much as we are shocked by what happened, we are not surprised, given the rhetoric that's been happening across the united states in the last few years that's been escalating. >> you put out a statement i want to read for some folks. for that sense of safety being shattered by this unspeakable act of violence impacts of the entire lgbtq community. on trans day of remembrance, we've already been grieving the hate crimes that too often claimed the lives of lgbtq people simply because of who we are. we must take urgent and meaningful action to reduce gun violence and prevent crimes that target and kill lgbtq community. talk to me

yasmin morgan—griffiths has been following one cancer patient on his histotripsyjourney.ily hit. i had my review and they basically said i was not responding to the chemo. but then, peter was offered the chance to undergo a new cancer treatment at stjames's hospital in leeds. histotripsy is a type of focused ultrasound which destroys tissue inside the body, completely noninvasively. it's much more precise than treatments which use heat or radiation, meaning it can better treat tumours which are small and widespread in vital organs like the liver. us—based tech company histosonics is running the most advanced histotripsy trial to date. there's tiny, nanometre—sized micro bubbles that naturally exist within tissue and when we hit a focus point with the ultrasound, it excites those bubbles and those bubbles expand and collapse and they mechanically destroy tissue. patients will awake from their procedure and generally most times not know that they were ever treated. the team is going to be using standard ultrasound to identify where in peter's body the tumour is. then they w

yasmin vossoughian in for hallie jackson. good to see you this afternoon. i want to start with nbc correspondent morganheske standing by in colorado springs. morgan, if you will, take us there, inside of course, the first court appearance from the suspect earlier today and i understand we are learning more details about the alleged shooter as well. >> reporter: we are. this was the first time that the public was able to see this accused shooter that left five people dead, more than 20 injured, in the shooting that took place late saturday and it was conducted via video, which is normal in this case. authorities calling it an advisement hearing. video showed the suspect in a wheelchair, seated in between two attorneys, we do know that he is currently being held without bond. as far as these charges that have been discussed, an important distinction here, in that he was arrested on five counts of attempted murder, five counts of murder, and five counts of bias-related or hate crimes. we anticipated hearing formal charges today. that didn't happen. and here's the d.a. explaining why. take a listen. >> for