Midday Roundup: Theater shooter worried doctor, but not enough

Hindsight. The psychiatrist who treated James Holmes before he opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, killing 12 and wounding 70 others, was so concerned about his mental state that she broke patient confidentiality standards and called his mother. Dr. Lynne Fenton said Holmes told her he was having homicidal thoughts as many as three and four times a day, but never said he was building an arsenal or planning a specific attack. Fenton testifed Tuesday during Holmes’ murder trial. He faces the death penalty if convicted. Fenton told the court Holmes’ mother said he’d been shy and socially awkward for years, so she didn’t think he was having a new psychotic break. She said in his therapy sessions, Holmes appeared anxious, hostile, bizarre, and so worrisome that she contacted University of Colorado police. But Fenton said she didn’t think she had enough evidence to commit Holmes to a mental facility.

Teen inspiration. The Colorado teenager who lost his arm in a shark attack last weekend at a North Carolina beach said he won’t let the accident ruin his life. In a series of videos released by the hospital where he’s being treated, 16-year-old Hunter Treschl said he never saw the shark before he felt it bump up against his leg. The shark also bit his arm, which doctors had to amputate below the shoulder. “I have kind of two options,” Treschl said. “I can try to live my life the way I was and make an effort to do that, even though I don’t have an arm, or I can kind of just let this be completely debilitating and bring my life down and ruin it in a way. Out of those two, there’s really only one that I would actually choose to do, and that’s to try to fight and live a normal life with the cards I’ve been dealt.” A 12-year-old girl also lost her arm at the elbow after a shark attacked her about 90 minutes before Treschl was bitten. Her parents released a statement saying she is doing well.

Arms race. Russia is expanding its nuclear arsenal amid tensions over increased fighting in Ukraine. Tuesday’s announcement is just the latest escalation of a Cold War-like arms race that started last year between the former Soviet nation and the West. Several days earlier, U.S. military officials announced they would move heavy military equipment into NATO countries in Eastern Europe and the Baltics. After watching Moscow gobble up parts of Ukraine, Russia’s neighbors have expressed concern they could be next. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is more concerned about an increase in European missile defenses than about the U.S. decision to store arms in Eastern Europe. But Putin’s deputies warned if the United States decided to put troops on the ground in those countries, Russia would respond with its own military ramp-up.

Bad decision. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was high when Afghan nomads captured him and turned him over to the Haqqani terror network in Pakistan in 2009, according to a former CIA operative who was running a network of informants in Afghanistan at the time. Duane Clarridge said the first reports he received were sketchy, but clear on one detail: “That an American soldier, along with two or three Afghan soldiers, had been captured. They were using the Pashto word ‘diwana,’ which in this case meant high on hashish.” The Obama administration has staunchly defended its decision to trade Bergdahl for five high-level Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay last year. Bergdahl is facing desertion charges in an Army court-martial proceeding.

Unsafe food. The Food and Drug Administration has issued its final ruling on trans fats: They’re not safe for human consumption. Food manufacturers have until 2018 to remove the partially hydrogenated oils from processed foods. Beginning in 2006, researchers determined trans fats contributed to cardiovascular disease and harmed consumers’ health. Since then, many manufacturers have voluntarily removed them from their products. Food companies started using trans fats around the turn of the 20th century. They do not appear naturally in unprocessed foods.

WORLD Radio’s Mary Reichard and The Associated Press contributed to this report.