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cnn. new york. >> that's the calmest estest ek lep tick person i've seen. he "ac360" begins right now. good evening. thanks for joining us tonight. reaction and plenty of it tonight including from the white house just moments ago after the latest assault on human decency from the killers known as isis. calls of retribution in iman, jordan after terror group in incineration burning to death of captured jordanian fighter pilot. we say because we've not authenticated it ourselves but there can be no doubt at all about what these killers have done. burned this man alive after stringing jordan suggesting he was not already dead. now said he was killed about a month ago. the isis video, 22 minutes long
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shows a caged jordanian pilot burned to death and then remains bulldozed into the ground. >> should this video be authentic, one more indication of the viciousness and barbaric of this organization. i think will redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of the coalition to make sure that they are degraded and ultimately. >> this happened all with king abdullah in washington. a short time ago, wrapped up the meeting with president obama. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins us now. what do we know about the meeting? >> we're told by the white house that the meeting, in the meeting, the president expressed his deepest condolences to the jordanian king and agreed the vile murder, the words of the
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white house, the community's resolve to fight isis. you've allowed those expressions heard today this will strengthen not weaken the coalition. the king eager to get home and vice president biden and secretary of state kerry also present in that meeting tonight. >> are there any indications that this latest execution, this video could affect the u.s.-led coalition against isis? obviously in jordan a very important member of that and much of the video is really geared towards the airborne world. >> no question five in the coalition. white house has only heard more support than less support from coalition members for this fight against isis. and you're seeing that in the public demonstrations as well those people in the streets that you showed a few minutes ago, anderson voicing their support. in fact, calling for revenge. i tell you, this reminded me to some degree and i'm sure brought back memories for you too, the four american contractors killed in faluja an invasion.
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you can have the initial reactions but the cost of military conflict like this happen over time and this is going to be potentially costly for jordan and the other countries involved and that's really going to be the real test. is over time over the months and frankly years, it's going to take to fight this war, in the public and arab world in the u.s. continue to support this. >> we should point out the end of this video, isis puts on other jordanian pilots showing their names and allegedly, what bases they live on. jim, i appreciate the reporting. now let's go to jordan for the reaction there. jim karachi is there. there's a huge amount of anger. >> reporter: absolutely this is a nation in mourning tonight but we've seen a number of
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demonstrations here. angry and shocked by what they've seen. many cannot believe muslims would do this to a fellow muslim and the calls for revenge. they're seeking blood, they say, the life of him should not be wasted in vain. we have heard the jordanian government and the jordanian military saying earlier they will be doing as promised there is going to be a retaliation, something they say is going to be equal to the tragedy of jordanians anderson. >> we saw and heard the reporting, king abdullah heading back to jordan early. do we know what's expected to happen in terms of military action or other action? >> reporter: well anderson you've got these calls for
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revenge from the street. you've got the promises of retaliation from the government. whatever the government is going to do they have to act fast. there's so much anger on the street and so far, we're seeing this anger directed towards isis. but this nation there has been division, there have been mixed feelings about jordan's participation in the coalition with some feeling that this is not jordan's war. the country should not be taking part in the air strikes and this is why the country right now is in this situation and you have others who believe that jordan should be going after isis before isis comes after jordan in from the neighboring countries of iraq and syria. so right now, the feeling is that the government should act really fast before that anger may be directed towards the government with those sentiments of not wanting to be a part of the coalition. of course there are a number of options that the government that the king could take whether
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it's military action, o or a crackdown on isis supporters or sympathizers in the country. we've heard calls of jordanians calling for the execution of al qaeda and isis prisoners in jordanian jails. >> particularly the execution of the woman in jordan the failed suicide bomber in 2005. there have been calls for her execution. because she was one of the people, or she was the person isis was demanding the release of in return for the japanese prisoner and even jordanian, now previously killed. we'll see if there is action on that and if she's executed. appreciate the reporting. separately today, more evidence of the spread of isis. royal canadian announced two isis related terror charges. tounds score how it is in pulled out a bull tip to non-essential travel to the kingdom to steer clear of
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demonstrations. john mcguire traveled and now national security analyst peter berg nen and refired francona and untold stories from the fight against muslim fundamentalism. peter, this video, it is an escalation in the way they are murdering hostages. clearly, seems to be designed to shock and continue trying to dominate headlines to get attention. >> yeah but i think it's going to spectacularly. if you go back to the hoelgt bombings where female suicide bomber the isis wanted. they killed 60 people. most were attending a wedding. >> three different hotels in iman. >> it was a huge goal for al qaeda. the head of al qaeda at the time jordanian, almost an apology saying we attacked these hotels because israeli spies were frequenting them. that was the goal on steroids
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here where these groups position themselves as a defender of islam and muslims and yet the victims are overwhelmingly muslim and in this particular case killed a fellow muslim in the most grizzly way imaginable. as the jim foley execution precipitated the coalition against isis that we have i think this will participate more arab involvement against them. >> if it's true this pilot was in fact killed a month ago, this barbaric execution was a month ago, that whole, you know, charade of isis saying well bring the female suicide bomber to the border. we'll exchange. i mean all of that was just a complete lie. >> yeah. it was a particularly evil form of performance art. and terrorism is a form of theater where you want a lot of people watching and unfortunately, they've had a lot of people watching. in the long-term, i don't think it makes sense but i think they're digging their own graves in a sense. but, you know, it raises some uncomfortable questions about
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the hostages that they still have. are they can you negotiate at all with these groups since they haven't negotiated good faith in any case? >> karima do you believe this could backfire on isis? >> absolutely. i think this exposes isis for the cruel murderers they are, yet again, and it underscores the reality that the majority of those that they have killed have been other muslims and people of muslim heritage which is true jihadist groups around the world. >> that's what surprised me in reporting that she was hearing people in iman saying they were surprised this group would do this to other muslims. i mean this is not just the latest example of that. we have seen time and time again more muslims have been killed than anyone else probably. >> absolutely. i think back to my father's home country of algeria in the 1990s where as many as 1300 people killed in the islamic state of that day, the armed islamic group and say they dreamed of a
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bullet in the head as they have today. these have been murderers for a long time these jihadist groups and the most important thing now is people of muslim heritage around the world mobilize en masse against these movements, go after their ideology discredit that ideology. my father always said these movements trample islam under foot in the name of jihad and they represent a radical break with the islam of our ancestors and we have to go forward with that understanding. >> colonel, you know members of the jordanian military. what do you think this means in terms of their commitment to fighting isis? because, obviously, there are divisions in jordan. there has been criticism for jordan's involvement in the coalition against isis. do you think this cracks the coalition or strengthens it? >> well i think jordan's involvement is pretty much guaranteed right now. the king has to do something. i think he's going to have to be committed to some sort of action and do it very quickly.
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my concern isn't jordan right now. my concern is the other members of the coalition particularly the other members. the saw deesaudis are they going to continue the fight when they see how troops might be treated? fellow muslims. if any of them are captured they can expect this sort of thing. i'm hoping the coalition hangs tight together and i think a lot of that depends on just what jordan does. jordan has excellent capabilities. i spoke with some members of the jor danian air force and said they're ready to go obey the orders of the king and want to do something. they feel that they have a score to settle but i think, and i hope that they do this rationally and not out of something we have to be quickly. i think they need to do something correctly. i think they need to send a message. >> how vulnerable is jordan? they're a close ally of the united states. secret police used by united states in a variety of ways over
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the years. obviously, the end of this video basically is a target on the king of jordan not anything new but other pilots who may be involved in air strikes. >> they have extremely effective internal intelligence service and taken a firm line on islamic extremists. it's isis in iraq the founder jor dane yan. they have an extremist problem. not a lot of resources, a huge refugee population in syria and some extremists in there. it's vulnerable but jordan survive the arab spring well because it's all efforts on reform. i don't see isis the jordanian monarchy monarchy. >> parts of this is like a film and forcing this man, who's about to be killed to sort of wander through signs highly
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orchestrated from multiple camera angles. it seems like with each new killing, they're trying to up the ante whether that's because they need to try to grab the world's attention and beheadings are no longer shown and they have a young boy shooting two russians, russian prisoners and now death by fire. i mean it seems like they continue to kind of push the production values and up the ante of brutality. >> it's a kind of atrocity pornography, anderson. it's truly horrifying when you watch the video and you see them really relishing in inflicting suffering deliberately on another human being and in showing that suffering to the world, including unfortunately some members of his family may see that. and i think that is very deliberate. that's meant to inflict shock. that's meant to inflict terror. one of the greatest things we can do is refuse to be in fact terrorized to respond in a resolute and effective and
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thoughtful way at the same time. you know i don't believe much in revenge but people are calling for revenge today. the best revenge is in fact to dismantle, to defeat these movements, to discredit their ideology and not emulate them. i would hate to see jordan rushing into rapid executions. i think there needs to be thoughtfulness in the response. >> thank you, great to have you. up next more on the failed suicide bomber we've talked about. her story, how it may end shortly and many jordanians calling for retribution. and an attack outside of a jewish center we'll tell you about and those arrests in canada. we'll look closely at what's done to make sure the next incident does not happen here in the united states. when the moment's spontaneous, why pause to take a pill?
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breaking news. jordanian government not confirming reports that the failed suicide bomber isis have been trying to get back executed dawned there just a few hours from now. her story many ways mirrors the rise of the kind of over the top reality with beginnings of al qaeda in iraq and bloodthirsty leader peter pointed out. more now from brian todd. >> reporter: november 2005. rashidah al dada. little or no romantic connection to husband and married days before to make it ease your for them to get into jordan from iraq and get into iman. in a televised confession, al ra rawashawi made the admission. >> there were women and children.
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my husband executed and i tried to detonate my belt but failed. >> reporter: alrashawi was captured and killed nearly 60 people in three locations. reportedly motivated by revenge. >> we do know one of her eldest brothers was very close to an al qaeda commander and was given charge of some part of the region and her first husband was also a part of al qaeda and two of her brothers were killed, all killed by americans in the operations in iraq. >> reporter: one of her brothers killed was a top lieutenant of alkawi. that brother might have been the same rank close to aibagdadi. >> there's no leader she has leadership qualities. what she is is a propaganda
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piece. she is someone you put in front of the camera and says the right things and praises isis for even nine years later, never forgetting about her. >> reporter: brian todd, cnn, washington. >> let's dig deeper now. by former extremists. maajid nawaz, author of out of islam extremism. this latest act of horror by isis, the production values the bar barbary of it. >> this is a race to the bottom when it comes to gruesome depictions they're showing. if you remember they had the mass beheading and then showed a child purportedly killing somebody and now burning a man alive on camera. but really have to think about why they're doing this and why though peter bergen is correct. lose a large part of the jordanian audience. they're competing with those
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radicals across the world whether they join al qaeda or isil. it's a competition between people already primed to be jihadist who's going to claim the crown on jihadism. in that sense, isil is attempting to terrorists and i applaud your show for not showing the video. >> it's interesting. al qaeda in iraq when you look back the group that formed isis set to lose a lot of support among muslims in iraq because of how brutally they treated muslims in the area they controlled. do you see support for isis eroding because of this? talked about in jordan but elsewhere as well? >> yes, i mean i think there's a polarization now. whereas muslims, the faction of muslims who would previously be sympathetic to isis.
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they have a choice whether to join al qaeda affiliate in syria and all the evidence so far including cia assessments indicating that isil is attracting the foreign fighters and the aim to secure the territories they control in iraq and in syria and to raise money through the taxation system they put in place and to build the state with the combination of children and the offspring they're training as terrorists from within and the iraqis and syrians. commissioner of mass atrocities already primed for violence to recruit those and the foreign sighters fighters. they're succeeding to control their ranks. >> in the murders, i don't think i've seen any by fire. i might be wrong but i don't think i've personally seen them. is there a significance to the use of fire? >> there's an ancient
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theological dispute to traditional muslim whether the use of fire is permissible or not. long ago, with the actions of zubkawi, who found in iraq. many instances a lot of the traditional consensus around how one should behaif war. there's like for like retaliation. in this case the man, the hero they've killed. was a pilot and i imagine they would have taken the justification that bombs incinerate people they land on and would in a like manner. >> in that video, the sort of video sets up the justification for actions later on in the video. sort of makes the argument of that exact argument that you made. does it i mean do they seem to be desperate at all, after months of this coalition air strikes, do they seem as strong
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as they were before to you? >> well yeah. let's not forget they lost the battle against the kurdish forces on the ground at kobadi. but really it's supply of oxygen is the foreign fighters come in. it's abeelppealing to their target audience. their most successful asset they have is this propaganda that's why it's so important we don't glorify and don't do the work for them by showing propaganda and do work to challenge the ideology that lines behind it and i think in that sense, the jordanians will be much better primed to do that work but it also begs the other question which is we really do need troops on the ground to defeat isil and it's going to have to be arab troops america, the u.k. good providing air cover. as the kurds provided unless there's troops on the ground we stand no chance of defeating
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isil. >> people in jordan were surprised they did this against another muslim. nobody should be surprised. we have seen this time and time again. >> nobody should be surprised. it's as bad with a muslim. it's not really a point for discussion but of course as you've said several jihadists have been killing muslims since their inception and the reason for that is of course they excommunicate anybody that disagrees with them and anybody who fights with muslims or against them is excommunicated as well. >> maajid appreciate you being on. we dig deeper next. pamela brown sat down with head of counterterrorism talking about the possibility for terrorism here in the united states. and later, gary tuchman takes us to ashland, oregon a hot spot in the anti-vaccine movement. talks to parents about their doubts about the official line on vaccinated children. 3rd and 3. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets.
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recent convert to islam. becoming radicalized and traveling to syria, at least two of these three canadians dead and coming back motivated to kill allegedly. tops the list of concerns including fbi's man in charge of it rare talks to the media but spoke with the justice correspondent, pamela brown. >> reporter: have you seen people in the u.s. coordinating to launch an attack? >> we have seen individuals collaborate, of course. >> reporter: in the u.s.? >> yes. >> reporter: so are there isis cells in the u.s.? >> there are individuals that have been in communication with groups like isil who have a desire to conduct an attack, yes. >> reporter: that are living in the u.s. right now? >> correct. >> reporter: michael steinbach said it's a few individuals loosely associated.
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the deadly paris attacks. french citizens cherif and said kouachi with amedy coulibaly went on separate rampages. are you concerned in light of what we saw in paris there could be an american in the united states that may have similar training as the kouachi brothers that we didn't have visibility on? >> of course i am. i'm worried about individuals we don't know about that would have training and individuals that just see what happened in paris or other countries and want to follow with similar paths. >> reporter: how many americans are right now fighting training with terrorists overseas? >> i don't discuss numbers. i won't discuss specific numbers but i'll say the fbi in partnership with the intelligence community, we track several buckets of individuals. >> reporter: are you not telling us a number because you're not willing to or because you don't
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feel confident that we know all the americans who have come and gone? >> the answer is both. i'm not telling you a number because i don't want to tell you a number and i'm sure for underestimating the true number. we know what we know but there is a number that's greater we don't know like european partners. >> reporter: there is a case abu selha, the florida man who went back and forth to syria undetected. he ended up dying over there when fighting alongside al mizara. are there similar cases like that we've sort of lost track of americans going back and forth? >> i would be lying to say that there's not. >> reporter: steinbach admits cannot stop on the homeland. >> in the majority of cases, we know someone recognizes the change in behavior the radicalization that family member or friend chooses not to
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intervene and by not getting involved the story ends in a similar fashion and that's death. >> pamela fascinating to hear the interview. where are the parents in all of this in these kind of cases, do they know? >> reporter: that's one of the first questions i asked, anderson. when he told me isis is luring american teens young as 15 years old, they've seen the wide spectrum. they work cases with parents that are oblivious or in a state of denial or parents who actually encourage their children to link up with terrorists and in those cases, they hold the parents accountable but made it clear need the fbi's help in stopping this because isis is effective in pushing out a false narrative on social media, making it seem like it's disneyland over there in syria. that is a narrative that's sucked up by kids in the u.s. and very concerning. >> pamela brown, appreciate it. thank you very much.
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senior counterterrorism official phillip mudd. doesn't want to discuss the number of terrorists overseas. >> one thing you've got to thing about, in life you divide the world into two buckets. what you know which i was confident about. if you get an individual let's say in new york or chicago in direct contact with al qaeda member and we saw that when i was at the bureau you can put a lot of intelligence resources at the person. e-mail phone, informants. what you worry about in that situation is not what's showing up on your desk every morning because we had coverage of people like that and i was confident that the coverage was good. what you worry about is the people like from denver, 15-year-old girl. they don't contact the al qaeda member. they don't book a ticket to syria. they don't talk to family or friends about radicalization. in a country of 330 million people how do you find somebody like that? >> how do you keep track or discover somebody like that
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somebody just inspired by groups like isis but hasn't actually reached out, doesn't have a social media profile about it. how do you even begin to try to track that? >> not well. there's a couple of things you can do. the first is what pamela mentioned. hope that family or friends will tip you off. we had circumstances where that happened. most of what i witnessed in cases we closed is that the family didn't know. this is not similar for a 15-year-old drug user. if the kid is getting good grades how are you going to know? the kids radicalized i witnessed, a lot of families didn't know and not even until the kid traveled overseas on a ticket that acquired without the parental consent. so the family might be able to help. if you don't get the help you can look at triggers things like a kid who might be on a web site that has violent tendencies. that kid starts to talk about jihad in syria and iraq uses words to talk about violence but
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just think tonight, anderson how people in this country are on web sites that somebody is talking about that video of the dead jordanian? if you think in a democratic society, you can filter all that and find the right people it's just not that easy. there's no easy way. >> phil mudd, thank you. the measles outbreak. why some parents the signs. and late whitney houston, 20-year-old daughter found unresponsive face down in a bath down. what we now know about bobbi kristina brown's condition and her life on social media coming up. ght now? i have $40 $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all.
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outbreak of measles, a disease that was eliminated 15 years ago thanks to vaccines has repercussions including the shutdown of day care center in southern california. 114 people in the state contracted the people in january and the outbreak spreading. most cases in california including an infant that attended day care center with 24 other kids. the day care center now shut. in this case the infant is younger than a year old, therefore, too young to be
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vaccinated but the anti-vaccine debate that's taking center stage, politically and in communities around the country. gary tuchman met parents who think what vaccines they should receive and when they should get them. >> reporter: jennifer markel and husband have four children five to 15. >> i have chosen to vaccinate my children and not on the current cdc guidelines. built this barn all by himself. >> reporter: lynn barton and herself have two older children. her opinion about vaccinations. >> i think there are too many and they're given too early. >> reporter: both families live in oregon which has one of the country's highest rates of families who do not follow cdc guidelines of immunizations. and they live in and near the picturesque town of ashland, a 26.4% rate of kind gartenners
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exempt from vaccination and the least vaccinated city in the u.s. the reputation of the town of 20,000 people have become so well known, officials from the centers for disease control came here to hold a town hall meeting several years ago to ask parents why they were opting out of vaccinations. jennifer margel a journalist believes in some vaccinations but not others. measles, mumps, and ruebell la she does not believe in. do you believe you're endangers others? >> so i'm not endangering people in my community because my children are incredibly healthy. they have robust immune systems and they aren't spreading. >> reporter: how do people know to trust you and trust everyone else who doesn't vaccinate? how do we take your word? >> maybe give me a test and say, did you breast-feed your children and for how long, how
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often do your kids get sick and take them to the doctor? >> reporter: believes in some but not all vax in this cases. son got mmr but daughter only one because her daughter got sick from it. barton is skeptical of much what the overwhelming majority of scientists say about vaccines that they are safe and effective. why do you have reasons to disbelieve them? >> because i have been studying this issue for 20 years and i know that there are many many people who don't agree. >> reporter: there's a possibility you're doing selective study, this is what you want to believe and not necessarily scientific truth. >> i can only do what i can do but if you're saying do i always accept what someone in authority tells me and obey that? no. i don't think that it's my obligation to do that. >> reporter: regarding the endangers of other children around unvaccinated children she is not shy about declaring.
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>> i reject the premise that i have a moral obligation to my child's health at risk for another child. >> reporter: blunt in increasing dangerous talk. gary tuchman, ashland, oregon. >> joining me dr. sanjay gupta and seth manuga autism vaccine controversy, director of m.i.t.'s graduate program in science writing. parents in gary's report laid out the biggest concerns for parents choosing not to vaccinate, one is that there's just too many shots and given too early. what do you say? what does science say? >> we've heard that circulating quite a bit. the number of shots and people equate that saying is this too much of an insult to the child's body and their immune system? the answer is that it's not and in fact if you look over time you'll find that the amount of vaccine that we actually give
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has decreased. i have a graph i want to show quickly if i can, anderson. take a look. the graph on the left side reflects the amount of vaccine, the amount of antigen dating back to 1980. close to 3500 is the number there and it's come dramatically down over the last 30 40 years. and so we give a lot less vaccine despite the fact that the number of actual shots are higher the amount of mode is much lower and still you see the autism rates have continued to go up. we don't give as much vaccine as we used to and the idea this is an insult to the immune system of a young child just doesn't bare out. >> the idea of autism with a correlation, the amount of vaccines given dropped so precipitously, autism drop, but it's the complete reverse. >> that's why i find this graph telling.
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sometimes a picture worth a thousand words. we don't know why autism rates go up or what causes autism but look at the graph. that shows you another reason another argument as to why vaccines are not associated with autism. >> bluntly, she thinks the science is a fallacy, that there's the darkness study that showed among people with vaccines hearing a debunking of the risks, hearing scientific evidence makes them less likely to plan on getting the vaccine. it basically backfires. so how do you combat that? >> well i think what's interesting about that and that's of course true for a lot of conspiracy theoryists the more evidence showing the conspiracy is not true is intercepted by people who believe it as further evidence they're right. i think one thing that is good to remember when we talk about this is that the people who believe in the conspiracy are a minuscule percentage of the parents not vaccinating and those are a tiny percentage of
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parents overall. we still have over 90% vaccine uptake in the country. so we do have some parents obviously skeptical, but most of those who are skeptical are not die hards, not saying i refuse to believe science. they're parents who may have heard there's a supposed controversy here and are responding out of concern, but haven't looked into the issue and haven't really done the research. >> and you find that when you actually talk to parents and say, actually you know it's not as many parents as you think not giving their kids vaccines that actually helps convince parents, will actually okay it's not as big a controversy as some would make it. >> certainly. in my conversations with parents when they find out nine out of ten of peers are vaccinating, there's a sense of relief. i think because of how much this controversy is covered. and i understand obviously why it's covered, i wrote a book
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about it because because how much it's covered, oftentimes people get a sense this is a situation with 70% of parents vaccinating and 30% not. the reality of the situation is medical and scientific opinion is unanimous about this. and most parents in this country go with what their doctors and what scientists tell them is the best way to protect their children. >> i was interested to hear from the mom who say, my kids are incredibly healthy and my kids, you know aren't a danger to anybody. a, what do you say to that? i know you wrote an editorial at cnn.com. i just tweeted the link to it as well. tell me about that as well. >> first of all, it's great that the kids are healthy. it doesn't mean their kids cannot contract measles. it's a very contagious virus if they come in contact with someone who has it they can get measles and that would be that's difficult obviously if you're unvaccinated your likelihood goes up
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exponentially. >> so no amount of breast-feeding can impact the measles from somebody else. >> in utero and during breast-feeding you can pass on some of the anti-bodies, some of the virus fighting cells through breast milk into the body and those can last sometimes, can offer some protection but it's not forever, it's not the same as a vaccine which is teaching your immune system to make those anti-bodies themselves. i should point out as well this idea of herd immunity when you vaccinate somebody you're not just protecting that child but protecting other people around them they say for measles, you need to have at least between 83% and 94% of the population vaccinated. seth just mentioned 90% are vaccinated across the country but there are pockets, as in gary's piece, where 25% of the population is not vaccinated. schools in san diego where 52% of the children are not vaccinated and it's those pockets that potentially create such a problem. >> and again, check out the
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editorial on cnn.com. sanjay sanjay thank you. seth. read at cnn.com/health. up next bobbi kristina brown and how she spent the year since her mom died. needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do.
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daughter of the late whitney houston moved to a hospital. now at emory university hospital in atlanta. she was put into a medically induced coma after she was found unresponsive in a tub full of water in her georgia home over the weekend. bobbi kristina grew up and active on social media. alain machado reports. >> reporter: still haunted by the past. on january 29th just two days before she was found unresponsive in a bathtub, she tweeted about turning 22 in two months. adding i can't wait for the music and much more. there's talk about staying fit and pictures of her with nick gordon who she tweeted about marrying last year. but there's also plenty on her late mother whitney houston. earlier this month, a tweeted selfie with the words, miss you
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mommy, so much. loving you more every second. this past summer she posted a picture on instagram with houston tattooed on gordon's forearm, the tribute to you, moim mommy. we love you so much my lady. >> she's never came to my place and not talked about her mother. >> reporter: owns tattoo studio and created gordon's tattoo and appeared the houstons on our own. >> think about something happy. >> reporter: this was bobbi kristina's first tattoo her mother's initials forever inscribed on her wrist. >> it was pretty emotional. >> reporter: two weeks ago, cummings snapped this picture when bobbi kristina stopped by to get another piercing. she was happy, talking about an upcoming album and possibly getting another tattoo. the third anniversary of her mother's death still weighing heavily on her mind. >> i hate it.
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i hope she's okay. a lot of people have been asking about suicide and we've always answered the same thing. i don't believe she was trying to kill herself. not for a second. >> reporter: what caused bobbi kristina to become unresponsive inside her home, still unclear but what seems clear from thousands of tweets she is a daughter whose grief has not diminished with time. >> what did he say? >> we're investigating. bobbi kristina never has been married to nick gordon. we continue to request privacy in this matter. a source close to the houston side of the family also told us that bobbi kristina and gordon never married and we have not been able to find any records of that marriage despite what bobbi
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