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Insomnia, relaxing techniques, ensuring the room is dark and quiet, avoiding coffee or alcohol before bedtime, no television, no internet, and no texting. >> we can become psychologically dependent to anything we take for sleep. >> reporter: for patty, sleep returned when she worked through the fear and anxiety of not sleeping. shes now up to five hours. precious sleep for so many of us, so hard to come by. tom costello, nbc news, washington. tonight theres news of a change you might notice so...

Carlton hotel robbery, but just last week a jewel thief from the notorious pink panther gang was sprung from a swiss jail. this theft has many of the hallmarks of the smash-and-grab tactics that the pink panthers are known for making jewellers worldwide uneasy. we caught up with a few at a trade show in new york. >> i dont know who is going to buy these stones. >> reporter: one family has been at this business for four generations. ballpark just with this ring, this necklace, this necklace and t...

Might help their patients heal up faster. we have a report tonight on the latest attempt at this. its about allowing your best friend to stay with you at the hospital. our story tonight from nbcs stephanie gosk. >> reporter: 15-year-old kyle wilkerson is spending the summer with his constant companion, his 100-pound chocolate lab reese. its been a tough year for this teenager, in the hospital more than two months, and recovering from a heart transplant. carls cardiologist was concerned. >> he wa...

>> the studios were discarding these negatives over all of these years. so we gave them the negatives, and people came to the store and bought photographs. >> reporter: icons from virtually every genre captured in the moment and on the sets of some of the most famous motion pictures of all time. "frankenstein." "king kong." "the wizard of oz." >> when the studio was promoting a movie they would shoot onset behind the scenes. >> reporter: stewart shyman, one of the owners who bought the collectio...

We have a story tonight that deserves our attention. a story about protecting children in the event of a fire in the home. there is an emerging body of science telling us what a lot of us parents already know -- kids sleep more soundly than adults. it can take a lot more to wake them up and smoke alarms may not be a match for a sleeping child. we get our report tonight from our nbc national investigative correspondent jeff rossen. [ alarm ] >> reporter: its the sound we rely on to wake us up in ...

And all i could feel is that my grandparents had to have been very happy. >> reporter: the elegantly restored brownstone has been part of deborahs family for six generations. after converting it to a bed and breakfast several years ago, deborah began to look for ways to entertain her guests and build community. bassist eric lemon was looking for a way to revive the days when the neighborhood was the it place for jazz. >> it had a strong developed community since the 40s. i think the hip-hop worl...

Activists say helicopters, tanks and heavy artillery slaughtered 57 people. but the regime is also known to deploy the shabiaha, meaning ghost in arabic, armed thugs loyal to president bashar al- assad. this amateur video reportedly shows shabiah beating and torturing an unarmed man. residents say the houla massacre on may 25th that u.n. observers confirmed began with shelling from the u.s. army, but it was shabiha, they say, who plunsdered the town at night, committing most of the murders. vill...

Astronomers believed they could use the transit of venus to answer one of the most pressing questions of the age, which was the size of the solar system. but they also knew that their measurements would improve navigation, which was, of course, important for trading and naval power. >> reporter: scientists decided that by measuring the timing and angles of venus crossing the sun from various points on earth that they could calculate the distance from earth to sun. but this triangulation required...

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We are working to stop it. >> the agency has installed computer filters to flag suspicious returns. are you getting a lot of calls like this today? >> yes, we are, its been really bad this year with the identity theft. >> this may have happened to you, too. what did they say to do? what do you do next? >> its apparently a long process. first im told i have to file this form. its an affidavit. i have to prove to the irs who i am. then they say it could take months to unravel this mess. meantime, ...