Extra Time: Tension about Adams' political future builds, patient defies odds after rare transplant

NEW YORK (WABC) -- In this edition of Extra Time, we detail the tension building about Mayor Eric Adams' political future, Hurricane Helene strengthens as it takes aim at Florida anda cancer patient defies the odds after a rare transplant.

As for weather, sunshine will be in short supply for the next few days with a couple of showers on Thursday and a stray shower south on Friday.

Other headlines from Wednesday's show:

A medical milestone.

Surgeons perform a groundbreaking, double-lung transplant on a woman battling cancer.
Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully performed a "first-of-its-kind" double-lung transplant on a cancer patient, giving her a chance at survival when she was told she did not have much time to live.

Knicks Legends team up with students to break ground on a revolutionary new school

In the Bronx -- a group of basketball greats helped break ground on a new charter school in honor of an Knicks legend -- Earl "the Pearl" Monroe.
The facility will be co-ed, tuition-free and 400 students -- all from the Bronx.
It will be located on Elton Avenue in the Mott Haven section.

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