This is al jazeera live from new york city and im tony harris and former president jimmy carter is getting radiation treatment this afternoon for cancer that has spread. The 90yearold spoke candidly about his illness earlier today at the Carter Center in atlanta. I just thought i had a few weeks left. But i was surprisingly at ease. Ive had a wonderful life, ive had thousands of friends and ive had an exciting and adventure existence and i was at ease, but not my wife. This is the god of my worship and i will be prepared for anything that comes. Wow, carter called his pain so far very slight. He also said it is still not clear exactly where the cancer began. The 39th president did not give a prognosis but said radiation treatments will continue for the next couple of months and earlier Randall Pinkston spoke to a medical doctor about carters diagnosis. President carter announced today he had a very slow growing malignant melanoma and with slowgrowing cancers is this insidious and years
Thank you for joining us, im ken rosato, and you are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Good morning everybody. Happy friday. If youre about to head out the door, grab your umbrella. You are going to need that. We have rain across the area, we have temperatures in the upper 70s. Its a morning where we start out with a muggy morning out here and a morning where were looking at whats going to be these showers and thunderstorms. 76 right now and passing through the area, its muggy. Were looking at the line from kingston to poughkeepsie down the toms river. Western jersey is shower free now and so is manhattan. Theres a little shower coming across Staten Island heading towards brooklyn and queens. Theres showers and thunderstorms up there at newburgh, and those are heavy along 84 and 87 and back to our west, drier, cooler air for tomorrow, which will be delightful. Well talk about that coming up in just a moment. Im doing okay. Southern state parkway, different story,
Through the temperatures we will be feeling today in the south bay looking at highs up to 96 degrees in san jose. 103 in gilroy. For the east bay up to 107 in antioch. Livermore, 108. Oakland, 86 degrees. 83 in redwood city. San francisco with some mid70s there and the north bay up to 104 degrees in novato. Well be talking about the high heat and Tropical Storm harvey coming up as we head over to mike. A roadside fire in the south bay. With the high temperatures a big alert will track down what exactly is going on. This morning it is a small roadside fire just off 237. Not a major impact. Those types of situations are more harrowing, potentially more harrowing if the temperature gets up there and we do get a fire. Northbound 101, a roadside crash there as well out of lanes but im tracking this as chp arrives. Back to you. Thanks, mike. A story still developing and will be for days and months. The houston metro area, home to nearly 6 Million People is under water as Tropical Storm harve
Get more details. Vanessa one person is dead and another is hurt half they were hit by a car here in waltham. The crash happened this morning near a Large Office Park on wyman street. Fox 25s jim morelli live in waltham now and jim, many people are out there complaining about crossing this particular roadway. The reporter they sure are. This is unsignalled crosswalks, and people are complaining that these are treacherous. Now, all of that have said, investigators have not determined at this point what caused this tragic accident. The darkness, the weather, some of the factors investigators are looking into after a fatal pedestrian accident in waltham. It happened on busy wymouth street involving two men attempting to cross the street. Both parties had just gotten off the bus and were attempting to cross of the street when they the reporter a 65yearold man from watertown does not survive of the impact. The other, a 70yearold man from boston is seriously injured. Both men worked in the F
To realize the danger. Kelly o shea still has the bag full of treatment as they have tried everything to stop the horrible rash. She and her fianci, curtis prescott, were pulling weeds that an apartment complex the week before an emergency doctor agreed it was probably just poison ivy and a few days later, it exploded. It looks burn. Reporter is the painful story dermatologists have been hearing all summer , red sores, burning blisters and misery as they come into contact with wild parsnip. 85 . Reporter the toxic plants can be found almost anywhere. Bike trails, ditches, homes and nonhazardous flower. It was terrible. The itching was unbelievable. With yardwork underway, they want all of us to be aware. It looks like a pretty yellow flower. So if your kids are out there picking dandelions, they will bring them into the house and not now. You would not want a child to get a. As these plants they wont look the same but they are very dangerous. Dermatologists say if you think your kids,