>> This execution after the state board of clemency denied request for commutation and a superior judge found him to be executed.

>> A fourth dose of the Covid vaccine is safe and provides a, quote, substantial immunity boost and that boost to be similar or even better than a third dose and participants in the U.K. study had a median age over 70 and the second booster didn't appear to have any major side effects and generated an immune response and day 14 was higher than that of a third dose after day 28 with Moderna's booster slightly better than Pfizer's.

>>> Elon Musk will reverse the ban of Donald Trump if he buys the company and trump was ban in 2021 for, quote, incitement of violence at the U.S. capitol.

>> A hearing scheduled for nextTuesday.

They will hear from leaders in the intelligence community and a closed-door hearing on a Pentagon program after they released 150 quotes of aerial phenomenon back to 2004.

>> The governor recently signed bill to afederal infrastructure funds between casa Grande and chandler and thank you for joining us.

>> Great to be back.

>> SB1239, I believe it was.

>> Yes.

>> Talking widening I-10 south of the valley.

>> We couldn't afford U.F.O.

's for every citizen to fly back and forth and we can, however, add an additional lane and that is something that I've been work on for several years and it's taken a lot of conversation to having money in the bank, frankly, to be able to do this and we're in a great position with surplus to add that $400 million to hopefully, as we apply, to receive that megagrant to make this a possibility going into the next fiscal year.

>> And you have the $400 million from your legislation and a total cost will be under a billion dollars and you need that federal infrastructure funding.

>> No doubt about it and we've been working with our federal partners on this for quite some time just last December to give you a timeline and I cosigned a letter with Steven Lewis and senate Sinema to the director at Adot to make this is priority and this was a prior for senator Sinema in working on that funding, the federal infrastructure funding and governor Lewis also made it a very, very big priority for his tribe.

>> Talk about the Gila river community and it sounds gung-ho on this, huh?

>> I would tell you we would not be where we are today with the possibility, the light at the end of the tunnel not for his leadership, governor Lewis' leadership on this issue.

We have worked hand-in hand over the last several years on big projects, whether drought contingency program and I think when you get into the same rooms and begin to build trust with each other, whether the gaming impact and then moving forward, you can go ahead and sit around a table and discuss other issues that are very important to a community.

This freeway, obviously, cuts right through the reservation.

However, it doesn't really service at this time, the reservation.

As his community has grown, we need to make sure that we're doing right by the people at the Gila river community including more off-ramps and safer if anybody is familiar with casa Grande and the Gila river and dangerous interchange and the turn-off for the city of Maricopa to be, hopefully, done, as well.

There's a lot of things to work together on.

>> There's a bridge, Gila river bridge.

>> Replaced, yes.

And that was one of the things we worked on a couple of years ago and that was kind of an opening Salvo in budget processes and that's why we have those amount of dollars committed to the project and that bridge will be probably the most major portion of the entire project and we think about it, it is the length of it over a river that often does not run and whenever it does, it's a rage and safe for commuters.

This is about people that reside in one of the two communities to go to work and safely get home.

Safety is the number one priority on this project and for the people in my district that reside in pinal county or on a weekend or weekly basis, it's something that will be tremendously important.

>> 25 miles or so, casa Grande to candler and the 202 to south mountain?

>> Correct.

There will be multiple funding streams in this and the state of Arizona has their portion, the federal infrastructure monies will be a part of it and hopefully, we get that grant and then the Maricopa association of governments have a portion of this, as well, and a total team effort to do this.

When you think about this, 25 miles of a freeway, when you're adding the things we want to add, the HOV lane, as well, for a portion of it.

So it's going to be a tremendous project.

You know, I think route now, in ,we're talking about a million dollars project in that area.

>> One lane in each direction?

>> As you get closer to the metro area.

>> Construction set to begin, what are you looking at here?

>> Our hope and we have had such a good working relationship with our federal delegation on this that we feel extremely confident that we will qualify and we can go out to bid in the next fiscal year and begin without the federal dollars and that will push back the timeline quite a bit.

We don't want to be in that situation and we wanted Arizona to make a statement and that we can be there for the megagrant and secretary Buttigieg will be deciding that if the coming week.

>> Time frame for construction once a shovel starts, two, three years?

>> I would have to imagine and that's antidotal because there's still a couple of loose ends and we could look at I-17 and we approved that north of phoenix and that has gone out to bid and approved and the light work is beginning on that.

>> Everyone rides down there and rejoicing, but for two or three years, a lot of construction and I mean, what mitigation factors are in play?

>> First off, yeah, you're right, there will be an issue of the construction and much like from casa Grande to Tucson when the project was in the 2008, 2009 time frame and people will need to adhere to the rules of the road and I've talked to the governor's office and hopefully, we can unveil some sort of enhanced safety corridor and we will have enhanced enforcement of the laws in that area and we can have a safe highway until we get to where we need to be.

>> It's good to you have here and congratulations on the legislation and getting this done and we'll see how long it takes before it gets done.

>> I think the only thing left is go, suns!

[ Laughter ] >> That's right.

At 5:00, go suns and 10:00, we'll wonder what happened.

[ Laughter ] >> Thanks for having me.

>> You bet.

>> Up next, a new program to help native Americans get a higher education.

>> A program designed to help native American students graduate from college recently received a $6 million donation from freeport and it will go to scholarships and support services including mentoring, and enrollment counseling and those sorts of things.

We welcome Richard Daniel of education forward Arizona.

Good to have you here.

>> Great to be here, Ted.

Grade to be here to talk about scholarships.

>> $6 million investment and accessing higher education for American Indian students and tell us more.

>> One of the challenges over the last few years because of the pandemic is the access to college and I think a lot of the students have suffered and they haven't had access to education in the same ways the urban air s have and freeport developments $6 million over the next five years to 200 students, native American students from across the state.

What they have done is they've sided they wanted to increase the eligibility.

They were services four tribal communities and now they've increased it to 14 tribal communities.

And 200 students, 100 will be entering this fall who are eligible in the tribal communities and 100 next four and then 200 students.

>> I found five qualifying tribes and I was wondering if that was accurate and that will leave a lot out.

>> Five priority tribes.

>> And these are the priority tribes and initially, the way the program was set up is that they were servicing areas where they had the white mountain mountainApache tribes and the ss were eligible enrolled tribal members of the communities and now what has happened, it's provided a much more expansive opportunity for students across the state native American students from various tribal communities.

>> The funding goes to scholarships and also to support services and talk more about everything from mentoring to enrollment counseling.

>> One of the more important parts when just a scholarship program, not just about the dollars the student receives, but about the report and navigating that process to completion and one of the things we're concerned about at education for Arizona is the attainment and the achieved goal we've set for 2030 and students completing the degree or a bachelor's degree and associate's degree by 2030 and that helps in the and provides an opportunity for students so have a success adviser.

We'll provide an assigned success adviser who works wit students while in college.

From the day they enter until they complete, so this person helps them navigate and they meet with them on the campus and they help answer questions and provide orientation, leadership, opportunities.

They create student opportunities of the success networks on the campus where they meet other students because it's a family and one of the things that has happened in the organization is that our students become family and they work through the entire process to completion.

>> So it sounds like academy tracks, financial aid and that's involved, as well?

>> Definitely.

One of the things is we have milestones that students complete as a part of the success mentoring program where they complete the academic process and a career process and also the life milestones.

One of the things that's important, we want to access the career beyond college and so when they're done, we want them to transition into the workplace and we're helping them along the way to prepare.

>> Some of the programs and some of the services, has the approach to these programs,s , hasthat changed.

>> We had to take a pause from the in-person to pause and pivot to the hybrid model because of Covid and during that time, we learned a lot that we still could talk to students, communicate with them through zoom environment, through face-time and that aspect and didn't lose that face-to-face or that perm touch.

personal touch and we knew that our students were successful because they still had that person working with him.

That's the key, students need to feel someone cares about them and helps with that process.

>> Reaction from the tribal process?

>> They're excited and they're a proud to be considered for it.

We're trieding to get the word out and tremendous excitement but institutions to help, as well.

And working in partnership with the tribal communities and institutions and with students themselves to figure out how to be successful.

>> Talking post-secondary certificate, bachelor's degree and those kinds of higher education degrees.

>> As well as technical schools, if a student wants to go to a technical school, they provide that funding, as well.

Freeport wants students to be successful and at some point go back to the communities believe in sustainable communities want students to go into post secondary to come back and be a part of the communities sustain and contribute.

>> You're with education forward Arizona and last question, your role in all of this?

>> Chief operating officer and executive vice presidents to manage and find the resources so we can continue to grow.

We've been successful to be an organization that launched last August to look at the pre-K through the workforce population and looking at how to pipeline education so that we can make a difference for all students across Arizona.

from early learning to post-secondary and working with business and industry, as well.

So I'm trying to understand how we can continue partnerships and also bring that to the state in a successful way.

>> Congratulations on this, Dr. Richard Daniel, education Arizona, and best of luck to you.

>> Well, thank you.

Maining.

[ ♪♪♪ ] >> Testicular cancer hits about ten thousand men a year in the U.S. and a highly treatable cancer.

A doctor who not only treats cancer with testicular cancer and diagnosed himself.

Our monthly AARP sponsor segment to older adults in Arizona.

Welcome to Arizona horizon and good to have you.

>> Good to be here.

>> Testicular cancer, sounds like it's more pref lent than people know.

>> It's typically now a hereditary cancer.

>> Due to factors we're not familiar with.

There's a risk factor and that's what I had, and I possess that and it's one that's uncommon nowa days and in infant boys un-desended testicles not brought down after birth.

>> Are rates increasing over the years?

>> No, they're steady, as I understand it and they've been steady for many decades.

>> So often with cancer or any disease, more awareness and information usually leads to higher rates and people know what to look for and not much in this case?

>> Well, this isn't probably a cancer that most physicians would screen for.

There's not a test that you would screen for.

I became aware of my cancer because I knew that I had increased risk for it and I was performing self-exam and I discovered my cancer with self-exam.

>> So this was, I believe, 12 years ago diagnosed.

Talk to us about the process and everything you went through.

It sounds like surgery, radiation and more.

Talk to us about this.

>> Well, initially a diagnosis, I had surgery with removal of the testicle and establishment of the diagnosis and tests and I had a diagnosis of chemotherapy as the standard treatment and followed for a year and after a year, my cancer occurred in a lymphnode and radiation treatment at that lymphmode andd then it occurred and spread far enough where I required chemotherapy and then that took care of it and disease free ever since.

>> Congratulations.

>> Thank you.

>> It's interesting story in a variety of ways, not the least of which is that you are a doctor and you treat testicular cancer patients?

>> I do.

>> How difficult -- was it enlightening and what did you go through when you had to go through what your patients are going through.

>> I was familiar with what I had to undertake and I took care of men that had the treatment before me and I was familiar with it and that gave me an edge of expectations and understanding of it.

But I tolerated the radiation quite well and the chemotherapy that I had more of a problem with.

But I was even aware of what to expect with the chemotherapy because the chemotherapy that they used to treat this disease when it spreads is a tough drug regimen and effective.

>> Did it change how you treated your patients in any way or even the thought process involved?

>> Well, if it changed the way I treated patients, not so much in the nuts and bolts, but the way I interact because I oftentimes because I comfort them in ways that is helpful because I can tell them what I went through and by doing so, I can sometimes allay their fears and anxiety that they might be feeling or anticipation of something that's unknown because to me, it's not unknown.

I have experienced it myself.

>> And seeing it through a patient's eyes, and different now than before you were diagnosed, obviously?

>> It is, because now I truly can say when a patient expresses their uncertainty or their anxiety, I can say to them, I know what you mean because I do know what they mean?

>> We do a lot of stories on cancer research on this program and seems like a lot of break-throughs with certain types of cancers over the years and immunotherapy and as far as this type of cancer, do we know more?

Is it more treatable than in the past?

>> Well, the good news that I have for testicular cancer patients, it's always been treatable and testicular is one of the successfully treatable cancer.

The drugs have been particularly effective for the more difficult like melanoma and kidney cancer.

>> Anything on the horizon for testicular cancer or highly treatable as it is?

>> I think the goal of the testicular cancer makes the drug regimens less toxic?

>> Are we heading in that direction?

>> I'm sure we are, yes.

>> Well, Dr. Marshall Davis, Arizona oncology, congratulations on the remission and we wish you the best of health and thank you for joining us.

We appreciate it.

>> Thank you for your interest.

>> You bet.

Take care.

That is it for now and I'm Ted Simons and thank you for joining us and you have a great evening!

Coming up in the next half hour on Arizona PBS on break it down, unmasking frustrations with changing PPE advice.

>> How is everybody doing.