i m on the list in my own mind. you have a tougher schedule than some of those women. you re on my list. our favorite story of the day this morning, you want to talk about a very brave little lady. she is battling cancer, but that is not stopping her from helping others who are battling as well. get your tissues out for this one. this one is going to break your heart. you ll see very quickly why this is our favorite story of the day. just turning her disease into something very, very magical. and i cry easy. i m just waiting for it. your tissues are right there. thank you. before all of that, the sisters were taken to a tennessee hospital to be checked out, but they appear at this point to be unharmed. the man police say kidnapped the girls and killed their mother and older sister is dead. abc s yunji de nies reports on the very latest from mississippi. reporter: it all ended here in the woods behind this church in guntown, mississippi, just a few miles from adam mayes
unfortunately. i m not on that list. i m on the list in my own mind. you have a tougher schedule than some of those women. you re on my list. our favorite story of the day this morning, you want to talk about a very brave little lady. she is battling cancer, but that is not stopping her from helping others who are battling as well. get your tissues out for this one. this one is going to break your heart. you ll see very quickly why this is our favorite story of the day. just turning her disease into something very, very magical. and i cry easy. i m just waiting for it. your tissues are right there. thank you. before all of that, the sisters were taken to a tennessee hospital to be checked out, but they appear at this point to be unharmed. the man police say kidnapped the girls and killed their mother and older sister is dead. abc s yunji de nies reports on the very latest from mississippi. reporter: it all ended here in the woods behind this church in guntown, mississip
o neal. abc s yunji de nies reports. reporter: in a sea of caps and gowns, he s hard to miss. and as shaquille o neal walked across that stage he showed his enthusiasm as only someone over 7 feet tall can do. the four-time nba champion is an academic all-star. after leaving lsu early for the nba, shaq went back and got his bachelors, then a masters and now a doctorate in education. kick your feet up and just lounge on an island for the rest of your life. why this passion for education? three reasons why. i promised my parents i would. two, i wanted to continue my education. and, three, i wanted to challenge myself. the hardest part was getting back into high school mode. you know, the high school teacher said you re going to read six chapters over the weekend.
they are considering an insanity defense. abc s yunji de nies reports from suburban houston. reporter: verna mcclain trembled as she walked into the courtroom. she told the judge she cannot afford a lawyer. you own a house? no, sir. you own a car? no, sir. reporter: the judge appointed two state attorneys and set a bond hearing for monday. her defense team says she should be released to tend to her three children. she has no prior criminal history. this her involvement, which is the degree of it is yet to be determined, would be an isolated incident. reporter: mcclain has been charged with capital murder for shooting 28-year-old kala schuchardt and kidnapping her 3-day-old baby boy. police a mcclain told them she recently miscarried and planned to pass the baby off as her own. her attorneys will plead not guilty. there are many times when people confess to things that they, in fact, did not do under
long as you drop it off safely. sometimes a church, a police department, a fire department, things like that. there are other alternatives. exactly. disturbing story. in other news now, police in the wealthy san diego suburb of coronado are looking into two deaths, both inside the very same mansion. last wednesday the mansion s owner s girlfriend was found dead. late sunday the owner s son died from injuries he suffered after falling down the stairs. investigators say the 6-year-old s death was an accident, but they re calling the 32-year-old woman s death suspicious. they have not yet ruled out suicide. the extreme heat is being blamed for more than a dozen deaths this week across the midwest alone. so far more than 1,000 record highs have been broken this month. as abc s yunji de nies reports, lakes in texas are drying up due to the heat. reporter: the images are astounding. where water should be, now only cracking mud and dry dust. and the exact same thing is happening a