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here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪ the west and south are baking under triple-digit heat temperatures, with no end in sight. >> it's hotter and hotter every summer time. >> norah: and as vermont and new york begin to assess the damage from massive floods, the area is also bracing for more rain. >> still pumping water out days after? >> yes. ♪ ♪ >> norah: multiple passengers and flight attendants our introductory flight to florida hit severe turbulence. >> she flew up in the air, like matrix. the only way i can think to describe it. ♪ ♪ >> three people are dead, 14 others s...

here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪ the west and south are baking under triple-digit temperatures, with no end in sight. >> it's hotter and hotter every summer time. >> norah: and as vermont and new york begin to assess the damage from massive floods, the area is also bracing for more rain. >> you are still pumping water out days after? >> yes. ♪ ♪ >> norah: multiple passengers and flight attendants injured after a flight to florida hit severe turbulence. >> she flew up in the air, like "matrix," is the only way i can think to describe it. ♪ ♪ >> three people are dead, 14 o...

First phase of registration shows patients need average of one year to be diagnosed, while two-thirds are ‘severely disabled’.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration regulators on Tuesday approved a first-of-a-kind drug for a rare form of Lou Gehrig’s disease, though they are requiring further research to confirm

Now as we speak to bring this into a therapeutic cure and develop bio markers for the disease. it's been exceptionally helpful. >> i tried to wrap my head around the science. maybe you can explain why is it to hard to cure als? and maybe what is it about this particular breakthrough that's been so beneficial to your research? >> i'd be glad to. in about 97% of als patients we've known a protein called tdp-43 teams to leave the nucleus of a cell. the nucleus of a cell is where all of your dna is held and you can think of it as like a library. what tdp-43 does is acts o as this special librarian...