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it. he also prays about it a lot. his outlook on life, he's just grateful to be alive and look forward to the next day and his future. he's looking forward to going to college and becoming an occupational therapist and working with children now. >> larry: understood. good luck to all of you. amazing. amazing. >> thank you. >> larry: see you tomorrow night with ryan seacrest and jamie oliver, quite a show. right now, anderson and "360." anderson. >> breaking news on democratic security concerns, one of the main reasons democratic lawmakers have been talking to capitol police and the fbi and why they met today to talk about their safety since passing health care reform. we want to be careful reporting tonight not to raise the temperature because, frankly, it's too hot. in the last few days we've seen
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racist and bigoted slurs hurdle and windows spat on and broken and death threats made. dana bash is here to discuss what happened behind closed doors. >> i''m told behind a closed meeting a democrat concerned about this on sarah palin's facebook page, top democratic political targets shown with rifle cross hairs and when a member raised it, there was an audib audible groan and one example how political rhetoric has crossed the line. they have now become real targets from citizens who are opposing them. >> reporter: it was anti-abortion democrat bart stupak's 11th hour deal that gave house democrats the ability to pass the health care bill. >> listen to this. >> stupak, you are a lowlife
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baby killer pile of crap. >> think about this, there are millions of people across the country who wish you ill. all of those thoughts projected on you will materialize into something that's not very good for you. >> reporter: he's gotten faxes like these, images of a noose and nazi sx insignia. stupak is hardly the only one being threatened. the office here and louise slaughter. >> someone hurdle a brick through my district off fins the dark of night. >> reporter: whoever threw that brick is a mystery but one person encouraging it is well-known. f mark wrote a message on his blog last week, if you wish to send a message that pelosi and her party cannot fail to a hear, break their window, break them
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now. >> and yet, he urged further action. >> i'm advocating broken windows and i suppose, vandalism. >> reporter: house members are so concerned about security, leaders called an emergency meeting with the capitol police and fbi and sergeant-at-arms. >> do you feel your members are at risk in terms of their security? >> yes. we've had very serious incidences that have occurred over the last 48, 72 hours. >> reporter: how are you dealing with that? what actions are you taking? >> the capitol police just briefed members. if they are in any way suspicious or fearful or see actions occurring, to report those immediately and the capitol police will respond and try to determine whether crimes have been committed. >> my wife and kids are at home. they're organizing protests in front of my house. we're getting death threats on the telephone. >> reporter: freshman democrat
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steve driehaus also voted yes on health care. before he did, the house mi minority leader john bainnboened he may be a dead man. >> they're engaged in rhetoric that goes well beyond the pale of what's responsible. they're inciting behavior and i think they should be held responsible for that. >> reporter: bainoehner declinen interview request. i know americans are angry over this health care bill and that washington democrats just aren't listening. go volunteer on a political campaign, make your voice heard but let's do it the rating way. still, democrats are blaming republicans for egging prote protesters on, like this over the weekend when republican steve king held up a poster of house speaker nancy pelosi, gave her a thumbs down and made a
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slapping motion across her face. we asked king about that. >> reporter: from was a moment we have seen you were up there on the balcony with a picture of the house speaker slapping it. >> that would be an exaggeration. that would be a melodrama. >> reporter: tell me your goal with what you did. >> my goal is to inspire people to stand up for the constitution, stand up for fiscal responsibility and stand up for the rule of law. >> reporter: king walked away before we could get him to fully explain what he meant to do but he did say he condemns any threats of violence. >> joining us, the senior "politico" writer. and author of "wingnuts." talking to steve king, he clearly was slapping, right or wrong, whether justified or not, he was clearly slapping the picture of nancy pelosi. for him to say that's an exaggeration is factually incorrect. >> you can tell, i was a little stunned. he said, i haven't seen the
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videotape. i started to say, well, you were there and didn't get a chance to finish that. the point he was trying to make, big picture, he believes there were thousands of peaceful protesters and the media are ignoring them. what i was trying to ask him about, he is one of the republicans that democrats say, wait a minute, if our leaders are going to do things like that, what do you expect from people. one other point, we said mark vand vanderboelt was the blogger and it is mike. >> apparently on capitol hill they were talking behind sarah palin's facebook page with the cross hairs on it. she also tweeted something i guess in which she said it takes come mon sense conservatives and lovers of american, don't retreat, instead, reload, please see my facebook page. clearly, the was speaking metaphorically. and those who see this could say, look, this is democrats overreacting, these are
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crosshairs symbolic on districts. >> that may have been a credible explanation or excuse before today when we've seen 10 democrats say they received death threats in the last day alone. at this point having crosshairs on a political map seems like not only an act of poor judgment and i think she should be called on to take those off. if she does not it's a sign of serious insufficient judgment. this is evidence of that at the moment. >> you have republicans saying democrats are actually fanning the flames over this. where are they pointing to for that? >> democrats were so blunt today they believe republicans are not doing enough, especially the leadership to try to tamp down on some of this stuff. the house majority whip, jim clyburn actually said on another network, he believes if people aren't condemning these actions, then you're aiding and abetting this kind of terrorism. republicans said, wait a minute, if you're going to yell at us using a rhetoric too hot, why
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are you calling us terrorists? i talk and to aide to clyburn, said he called the protests over the weekend akin to terrorism and speaks for itself. it goes to show you things are being ratcheted up. there were actually closed door conversations between democratic leaders and republican leaders in hopes of maybe putting out a joint statement. that didn't happen today. >> more in a moment. we'll continue the conversation after the break. what's happening on the line, join us at a krrc360.com. and what could leave seniors without their favorite doctors. they promised to fix it and it's not in the new health law and the question is why? keeping them honest. and dr. gupta, on the toll obesity can have on a teen's body. oh sure, we have plenty of employees that...
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continuing our breaking news, word a sarah palin facebook posting of a map of congressional districts of rifle skillful crosshairs taken up by the house democratic leadership is one more thing in the wake of health care reform.
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common sense kfrgts and lovers of america, don't retreat, instead reload. it has outraged a lot of democrats. back with dana brash and john avalon, author of "wingnuts." you talked to this guy dana mentioned, mike vanderboelt. i want to read some of what he said on his blog, pretty stunning stuff. if we do a proper job, break the windows of thousands of democratic headquarters across this country we might wake enough of them to make defending themselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary. >> subsequently, we've seen four different instances of bricks and broken windows at democratic headquarters. this is clearly encitement. some people have taken up that mantle. he is part of this movement we have seen called hatred movement. we birth of militia movement. we have seen 300% increase in
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the obama administration. >> he was in the militia movement in the 1990s? >> that's right. he's a leader. >> unexpected story, '60s left y vist and militia leader and became a 3%er, and through his blog, he's appears to be successfully inciting acts of violence we've only just begun to see and he has a larger agenda than these broken windows. >> i want to play a clip of him.
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>> there are a lot of blowhards out there and this guy sounds like a blow hard normally you dismiss as an armchair warrior, but clearly, he seems to be taking credit for some of this violence. >> that's right. when blowhards meet with paramilitary organizations which is what these hatred groups are, all of a sudden you have real problems. that's the language of survival. he's been talking to folks on his blog for some time to get ready for the big die off, heading towards a real conflict with the government, these folks predicting martial law, see themselves as patriots resisting the federal government. they have been predicting a violent opportunity against the government since the obama administration and sees himself as a patriot trying to stop a civil war and these groups want to defend the constitution by doing violence to it. >> we were talking earlier about
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security on capitol hill. not just concern there, members of congress going home for spring recess and that's where you're seeing it from a lot of these. >> steve driehaus, a freshman from ohio and said not only are there protests at his house in ohio, there is a protest planned specifically at his house, he's not alone in this, somebody published on a blog the home address. he said to his wife and kids, look, you have to stay inside. he said he's a little worried about it. i asked steny hoyer, the majority leader about it today and what are you telling these members to do? what specifically did they hear from the security folks? do the best you can to protect your families and kids and obviously if there are real incidents, you have to report it so we can come out and help you. >> dana bash, appreciate the report. and john avalon as well. next, why seniors might not
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we're keeping them honest tonight on a huge piece of the health care system the new reform law does not reform. leaving it unfixed could make it harder for millions of americans to find a medicare doctor. i will show you why it leaves it out of the bill. today a signed executive order reaffirming existing limits on abortion. that was congressman bart stupak's support and today, republicans took aim at them on the well of the senate. >> you can put lipstick on a pig, mr. president, this is still a pig. >> senator john mccain trying to block the fixes to the main bill. i will take you to the wall to show you polling. it shows you where people stand on health care changes. we showed you this usa gallup poll yesterday. 49% say passing the bill was a good idea versus 40% say it was
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a bad idea. let's look closer at the numbers, how they break down. you get a different picture. for people earning less than $24,000 a year, there's a lot in this bill for them. 65% to 23%, a 42 point margin. then the same goes for people with no coverage now, they like it, 58% to 29%. that makes sense. also young people, ages 18 to 34, many of whom can now stay on their parents' insurance, they also like the new law by a 27 point margin, but this is where it gets is inning, seniors 65 and up, the opinion does a 180, only 36% there call the bill's passage a good thing. 54% say otherwise. they already have government provided medicare, in other words, they have something to lose. keeping them honest, tonight, there is something they could in fact lose and lose it as early as next week. we're talking about access to doctors. doctors are actually going to lose federal money for treating seniors and deciding not to take
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medicare patients anymore. if congress doesn't do something about it soon, doctors could decide not to see them because they don't get medicare reimbursement. some democrats promised to do something about it. in fairness, democrats and republicans created the problem in the first place, temporarily fixing it, kicking the can down the road avoiding accountability this time around. this time around, democrats did have a chance to fix this thing for good in the health care reform bill and critics say they blew it. tom foreman is keeping them honest. >> reporter: doctors who treat medicare patients say they're facing a fiscal emergency decades in the making, a 21% cut in what the government pays them for that care. 21%. by almost all accounts, that could mean fewer doctors taking such patients yet democratic supporters of reform allowed that time bomb to keep ticking although keeping them honest, they could have fixed it in the new health care bill. >> the bill is passed.
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>> reporter: but they did make a promise. >> it's not in this bill but we will have it soon. >> medicare will become law. >> reporter: back in 1965, when president johnson created medicare for the elderly, doctors were allowed to charge pretty much whatever they thought was fair. over time, the cost ballooned. so in 1992, they came up with a formula that almost every one now calls a mess, because while the cost of care has steadily risen, the amount being paid to those doctors has fallen. time and again, congress has approved quick payments to keep physicians from bailing out of the program all together. dr. cecil wilson with the american medical association says that's like paying the exhibi interest on a credit card debt, t principle owed to those doctors keeps climbing. >> four years ago, the cuts were 3 to 4%, could have fixed this with $48 billion. now 21%, $221 billion to fix it.
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each year they postpone it makes it even more difficult. >> the problem is that price tag, $210 billion. if that had been part of the health where he form bill it would have pushed the total tab over a trillion, pushed up the deficit and almost certainly hurt the chances for passage. democrats didn't want any of that. now, they're considering a fix and with a public already nervous over spending. >> the house has passed a measure. the senate, convincing them is one reason dr. wilson was in washington. >> both sides of the aisle, both sides of congress, the administration knows, everybody understands this is a problem that needs to be fixed. >> reporter: do they also know it's an expensive problem. how confident are you they will deal with it now? >> they have to. if they don't, this program is going to fall apart. >> reporter: we'll see. for now, the formula says the next big cut is coming at month's end and the doctors are
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in the waiting room. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> under the new health care reform law, 32 million uninsured people will now be able to get health insurance, right? in theory, 32 million new patients will be able go to a doctor when they get sick. it's not certain all these people will really get to see a doctor. that's because there is a serious shortage of primary care doctors across the country. it's no secret why the shortages exist, fewer new doctors are entering primary care. the question is, what is driving them away? >> reporter: they are part of american lore, the country family doctor, primary physician, making house calls, fixing whatever is broken. that version of the primary care doctor has long since faded away. the thing is the modern day version may also be close behind which makes the woman you're about to meet an even more rare bree breed. >> hi, dr. gupta. nice to meet you. >> reporter: part of the reason
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i wanted to meet you because you're going into primary care. >> yes. >> i guess there's fewer and fewer of you. why aren't more of your colleagues choosing this as a profession? >> i think there's several reasons. one of the main reason is the prestige, the spotlight is not on family medicine physicians, don't have the same reputation the other doctors dine subspecialists. >> reporter: which will make finding doctors in rooms like this even harder. it's been 17 years since i finished medical school. over time, the number choosing primary medical school has slipped more than 50%. at the nation's largest medical school at the university of illinois, they graduated 314 medical students last year, only 20 chose primary care. last year, the american academy of family physicians predicted a shortfall of 40,000 primary care doctors. that was before the signing of the health care bill. what will health care reform look like without enough primary
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care doctors? >> we have nowhere near the number of primary care or family physicians we need to take care of the public. simply having an insurance card may not guarantee there is a physician whose practice will be open to new patients. >> reporter: why is that happening? one reason is plain and simple. it's money. the average primary care doctor makes $173,000 a year. compare that to $419,000 for cardiologists. or $335,000 for oncologists treating cancer. >> how much of this is about money? just compensation? >> i think that's a major reason why a lot of medical students aren't choosing family medicine. the potential for financial gain is not the same as those other fields. >> reporter: the health care bill does try to fix that. a 10% bay pump and addon bill considered in the senate has an
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even bigger increase, medicaid. and it has other incentives, expands the program to forgive loans to some medical students who go into primary care. even before all that goes into effect, there had been some signs of change. last week, when medical students around the country picked their specialists, the number picking primary care was up, for the first time in 13 years. >> we've had a huge debate about health care reform. what do we need to do to get this country on a healthy track? the foundation of that is primary care and family medicine. students took notice of that. they became excited, thinking about that primary care was once again a viable career choice for them. >> reporter: a viable career choice, because it may be attitude more than money. that's the real hope for fulfilling the promise of health care reform. >> sanjay gupta reporting and
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we'll be back in a moment with shocking statistics about kids in this country, many kids weight so heavy and dying early and some lives's cut by decades and we met a boy who made it his mission to change his own life. 250 pounds. and how much the white house is asking congress for aid to haiti.
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coming up, an amazing story, the mayor of mexico under a threat from drug lords, the deadline up tonight. christin christine. >> president obama is asking congress for $2.8 billion in emergency funds for u.s. reconstruction efforts in haiti following january's devastating earthquake. he sent congress that formal request today. the supreme court today staying the execution of a texas convict just an hour before his date with death. hank skinner's attorneys say dna evidence could prove he's innocent of killing his girlfriend and two sons in 1983. actor robert culp died today
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after hitting his head in a los angeles park. he was in the "i spy" movies. he was 79. the colorado man who falsely reported his son had floated away in a balloon last fall is now grounded. he's finishing his 90 day sentence with home detention. richard henne mu stay home at least 12 hours each day and can only leave for visits with his lawyer and the ankle visit will be removed april 4th. the search is on for a laundry thief in hartford, connecticut. a woman was caught on surveillance videotape grabbing items from clotheslines at an apartment building. the apartment manager says the suspect is very picky and carefully touches the fabric to make sure it's just the rig right --
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>> it's downey soft. i also like the fact she's checking out the video camera. is that a video camera? i will go ahead and do this. the beat "360" winners. daily challenge to viewers, a chance to come up with a caption bert than the one we put on the blog everyday. tonight's photo, actor ben stiller appearing at the apple store in new york as part of the meet the actor series. joey has captioned, no, i will not apologize for "night at the museum 2." i didn't see that one. i'm a fan. his full name was foot given, kp, cryptic, i wish this focker would shut up already. kp, beat "360" t-shirt. >> that was a meet the actor series. maybe she's saying "meet the parents" was more funny than meet the actors. still ahead, a 12-year-old with a body of a 50-year-old
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man, his obesity could be killing him. dr. gupta shows him the damage inside his body. will the wake-up call be enough. and the mayor of mexico, and the wake-up call that arrived in a bloody bag. e good bacteria. that gets your colon back in balance. i'm good to go! phillips' colon health. .
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this week in our series, "kids in peril, obese tin america," we're taking a look at a crisis that may be killing our kids. that may seem over the top, it's not. soar i
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soaring use of extreme obesity may be taking decades off the lives of kids. they're eating themselves to death. what do we mean? what is going on inside a child's body who is obese. what kind of damage is that food doing? you're about to see and a 12-year-old boy. "360" md, sanja gupta. >> reporter: as a father of three, it's an especially hard for me to hear these stories, their lives cut by decades. these are children, worst case sken nair yoves nearly one-third of american kids who weigh too much. behind all those stats and numbers are real stories. people are worried what we're describing could happen to them. let's go meet somebody. >> how are you? >> reporter: how y'all doing? >> good. >> reporter: just 12 years old and 250 pounds. tiger green has a story. call it the new american story. >> in our family, when you're happy, we eat.
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when you're sad, we eat. and when you just are watching tv, you eat. >> reporter: what did you eat? >> lunch, i have like a big 15 ounce steak or something. and like five sprites and stuff like that. >> reporter: five sprite, one meal. i'm almost scared to ask about dinner. what was that like? >> take lunchtimes five. >> reporter: it's hard not to smile but also important to realize tiger didn't get here by himself. he had help from the people who care the most. >> reporter: i have three kids. i'm the last guy in the world who preaches about anything nowadays because i know the reality. what were you thinking when you saw him eating that much? >> as a parent, you want to see your kids happy. mistak mistakeningly, horribly mistakeningly, when we were
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eating, we were happy and horribly that was good parenting. >> reporter: one startling fact, children with an obese parent are 50% more likely to be obese themselves. 50%. >> reporter: we think lot of people focus on what's happening on the outside of your body. have you ever focused what's going on, on the inside of your body? >> not much. >> reporter: that's what i'm going to show you today. we're going to this hospital and show you what's happening to your heart and liver and see what you think. >> okay. >> reporter: it's hard to believe this is a child's liver, all that white filled with fat. fat, not just on the outside of your body. that's happening inside your body. for me as a doctor, this is especially disturbing, because we see this with patients typically decades older. that's the top of your femur that goes into your hip and pushing the bone over here. you should have a nice lay over
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cartilage in between here, nice cushion. because it's so much weight that bone is pushed back, into that joint. that's going to hurt. your joints hurting is not nearly as frightening as what all that fat is doing to your heart. this heart is having to work so hard, that muscle is getting bigger and bigger, in the heart is a bad thing. after a while, it won't be able to work as well. >> it's scary, i know it could be happening to me as well. >> reporter: what we're talking about isn't theoretical. it's a really happening now. tiger told mae story that stuck with me. when he was in second grade, he started to have chest pains. doctors were concerned enough about his heart he ended up in a place like this, checking his heart and doing procedureses and testos try to find out what was going on, a second grader, all this because of overweight and obesity. can you imagine as a child ending up in a room like this, doctors are worried you might not be able to survive. >> you can have an early death
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of cardiovascular disease. >> when you say early death, are you talking about people in 30s having heart attacks? what do you mean? >> this is unprecedented. we haven't seen 8 year-olds with type 2 diabetes before. it's concerning and the good news is we can do something about it. >> reporter: tiger has already started. this is a good look. a lot of fruit. blueberries, strawberries, fresh vegetables. for tiger, it's an a point of immense pride. he's now 30 pounds lighter. he has another 30 to go. all those lost pounds are adding years to his life and changing his body on the outside and inside as well. they were rapidly aging a boy into a sick old man, way before his time. and that smile, well, it means he's peeling off the pounds, and those years. >> it's great he's been able to lose 30 pounds so far.
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a lot of this has to do with parents and what cained of food they're buying and giving to their kids. in this case, did his folks not realize their son was getting overweight? >> yeah. that will signed kind of silly after having watched that piece. about half of parents that have an overweight or obese child, they simply look beyond it. not that they don't see it, ignore it. in part the culture and see their friends' kids looking the same way and in part think it's baby fat that will disappear. it's also this idea of eat as comfort. >> yes. >> in anxious teams people tend to eat more and we've been through pretty anxious times. >> hearing of 6 and 7 year-olds going to the emergency room with chest pains and type 2 diabetes, how common is that? >> it's getting increasingly common. i don't want to overstate this. it is becoming increasingly common. you hear about people under the age of 10 having coronary artery
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disease. we had a study i was preparing for 3 years old with coronary artery disease. type 2 diabetes. when i was in medical school, we refer to that as adult onset diabetes. it is now often seen in children because of being overweight. >> just that video of the fat inside the liver, i didn't realize livers get that? >> i know. it's remarkable, fat can permeate just about every organ in the body. a lot of places you wouldn't notice it. with the liver, leads to significant inflammation, stops your ability to clot. staten drugs we talk about a bit. approved by the measuamerican ay of pediatrics for children as young as 8 years old. >> incredible. >> it's unprecedented but we also know we're at this unique time in our history. >> the fact he's been able to lose 30 pounds, he seems highly motivated. >> we'll keep an eye on him. >> thanks. our kids in peril continues
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tomorrow with our celebrity chef and dad oliver, known for fighting obesity in england and now in the united states. a quick preview. one of the big things you did in england was encourage and pressure the british government to change the food they serve to kids in schools. in your tv show here, you've gone to schools around the united states. i want to show our viewers what you found in talking to kids in schools. >> we will do a little test. all right. who knows what this is? >> potatoes. >> potatoes. you think these are potatoes? not potatoes. >> i don't know. >> do you know what that is? do you know what that is? >> broccoli. >> what about this? good old friend, do you know what this is? >> celery. >> what do you think it is? >> onion. >> onion, no. immediately you get a really
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clear sense that the kids know anything about where food comes from. who knows what that is? a pair, no. >> a turnip. >> i will give you the first word. >> egg. >> eggshell. >> i'm embarrassed, didn't know what the thing with the stalk was. >> a beet. >> to know kids who don't know what a tomato was is pretty scary. >> they didn't know what the potato was but as soon as you say french fries, they're all over it. we're at an important time in american history. governments need to start really investing in some of the damage done over the last 30 years. >> see the full interview with jamie oliver tomorrow at "360." join us logon a krrc360.com. the top politician in mexico, the drug cartel say these leave office tonight. the latest on drug violence. a killer whale deadly attack
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deadline. here's gary tuchman. >> reporter: the mayor of juarez, mexico it has the drug cartels that turned the city sa into a dangerous and violent place, the city with the highest murder rate in the world. the cartels want him gone permanently. >> the threats are real. they're not just intimidating, they're real. i have to take it very seriously. >> reporte >> reporter: mayor jose ferriz was told if he didn't quit his job by today, he would be assassinated. a bloody animal head came with a note. >> i know i have a lot of people who not only don't like me but would like to do something to me. >> reporter: that's why his driver carries and automatic rifle with him at all times. in public, like at this patriotic celebration, the mayor has elaborate security and he's not backing down. not only does he continue to appear at public events, he
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talks a lot about how the bad guys have ruined his city. >> translator: juarez is a lover of peace and peace is what we're lacking. >> reporter: during his three year term, the mayor fired hundreds of cops he believed were in bed with the traffickers. the police force is much less corrupt and angers the cartel and led to assassination is an intelligence the police and threats against the mayor and this specific one. >> reporter: mayor, how scared are you personally? >> i take all the necessary precautions i can take. >> reporter: i asked the mayor if it's safe to tour the city? so we go to a skateboard and bicycle park. it's not crowded but there are some kids having fun. nevertheless, even in this environment, he doesn't go anywhere without an armed guard although here, the rifle is left in its case. >> it's hard to have a normal
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life. it's extremely difficult. i love playing tennis. i haven't played in a couple years. i love going to the movies, i haven't gone to the movies in a couple years. >> reporter: he's a family man, a lawyer by trade. the mayor could quit tomorrow and live a less stressful financially lucrative life. as we travel in his armored vehicle, he said he's well aware a killer could target him at any time. i asked him about quitting. >> reporter: do you have any thoughts about that possibility? >> i won't step down my position. it's a very important position. what we're doing is extremely important for our city. if we don't do it today, it's going to be very hard to do it tomorrow. it's going to be double hard. >> reporter: the contrast in his life are surreal, the law abiding citizens of juarez want him to succeed, the cartels want him punished, they want him dead. gary tuchman, cnn, juarez, mexico. >> gary and "360" producers give
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a number of other stories we're following. check in again with christine romans. >> anderson, a delaware pediatrician accused of molesting more than 100 young patients pleaded not guilty in a delaware court today. he is facing a staggers 471 charges. the prosecutors say all of bradley's victims were girls except for one boy and they say they have the evidence to prove it. video of a deadly whale attack of the sea world trainer will not be released any time soon. a florida judge today let stand an injunction preventing the footage from being made public. the tape shows the 12,000 pound whale, tilikum, pulling dawn
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br brancheau into the water. these pictures were taken just prior to the attacks. the sling rider is being recalled after it may have suffocated three infants. this guy is one of the would be robbers who tried to phone in their heist. they allegedly called the bank demanding $100,000 be ready for them when they arrived to pick it up. the money wasn't waiting but the cops were. >> wamp, wamp. doesn't make any sense to me. a japanese reporter willingly agrees to be tasered. who would ever agree to such a thin thing. >> stand by. >> it's all done.
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just relax. >> we found this clip on live le leak.com. she was shaken up despite she was zapped. speaking of zapped reporters, i give you the man himself. the one, the only. >> i'm about to receive 50,000 volts of electricity. do it. >> agh! oh! it hurts. i'm about to receive 50,000 volts. >> rick is the taser master. let's see how they both fare in a side by side matchup. >> oh! a-ya! >> ah! >> relax. >> it hurts. >> we didn't save the best line. do we not have the final, the cherry on the cake? the icing. we don't? >> i'm about to receive 50,000 volts of electricity.
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>> what was the line? >> ag-a-a oh! it hurts. it's painful. >> i never get tired of it. >> but no one's dead. >> there you go, something to think about as you go to bed tonight. it hurts? not sure. see you later. i don't know where this is going. >> something to think about when you go to bed tonight. good night. at sharp, our goal
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on security concerns, new information on one of the main reasons democratic lawmakers have been talking to capitol police and the fbi and why they met today to talk about their safety since passing health care reform. we want to be careful reporting tonight not to raise the temperature because, frankly, it's simply too hot as it is. in the last few days we've seen racist and bigoted slurs hurdle and windows spat on and broken and death threats made. dana bash is here to discuss what happened behind closed doors. >> i'm told in a democratic meeting today about safety concerns, a house member talked about this on sarah palin's facebook page, top democratic political targets shown with rifle crosshairs. and when a member raised it, there was an audible grown, i'm told and it's one example how political rhetoric has crossed the line. they have now become real
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targets from citizens who are opposing them. >> reporter: it was anti-abortion democrat bart stupak's 11th hour deal that gave house democrats the votes to pass health care. listen to some messages on his voice mail. >> stupak, you are a lowlife baby murder pile of crap. >> think about this, there are millions of people across the country who wish you ill. all of those thoughts projected on you will materialize into something that's not very good for you. >> reporter: he's gotten faxes like these, images of a noose and nazi sx insignia. stupak is hardly the only democrat being threatened. vandalism at the office of gabby giffords.
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and louise slaughter. >> someone hurled a brick drawing my district office in the dark of night. >> reporter: whoever threw that brick is a mystery but one person encouraging it is well-known. mark wrote a message on his blog last week, if you wish to send a message that pelosi and her party cannot fail to a hear, break their window, break them now. >> and yesterday, mr. vand der boeing urged further action. >> i'm advocating broken windows and i suppose, vandalism. >> reporter: house members are so concerned about security, leaders called an emergency meeting with the capitol police and fbi and sergeant-at-arms. >> do you feel your members are at risk in terms of their security? >> yes. we've had very serious incidences that have occurred over the last 48, 72 hours. >> reporter: how are you dealing with that? what actions are you taking? >> the capitol police just briefed members.
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if they are in any way suspicious or fearful or see actions occurring, to report those immediately and the capitol police will respond and try to determine whether crimes have been committed. >> my wife and kids are at home. they're organizing protests in front of my house. we're getting death threats on the telephone. >> reporter: freshman democrat steve driehaus also voted yes on health care. before he did, the house minority leader, john baoehner warned, he may be a dead man. >> they're engaged in rhetoric that goes well beyond the pale of what's responsible. they're inciting behavior and i think they should be held responsible for that. >> reporter: boehner declined an interview request to directly respond. instead, issued a statement. i know americans are angry over this health care bill and that washington democrats just aren't listening. as i've said, violence and threats are unacceptable. he went on to say,
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go volunteer on a political campaign, make your voice heard but let's do it the right way. still, democrats are blaming republican lawmakers for egging protesters on, like this over the weekend when republican steve king held up a poster of house speaker nancy pelosi, gave her a thumbs down and made a slapping motion across her face. we asked king about that. >> reporter: there was a moment we have seen you were up there on the balcony with a picture of the house speaker slapping it. >> that would be an exaggeration. this is a melodrama. keep in mind, this is a melodrama. >> reporter: tell me your goal with what you did. >> my goal is to inspire people to stand up for the constitution, stand up for fiscal responsibility and stand up for the rule of law. >> reporter: king walked away before we could get him to fully explain what he meant to do but he did say he condemns any threats of violence. >> dana joins us now along with
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john avalon, the senior "politico" writer. and author of "wingnuts." talking to steve king, he clearly was slapping, right or wrong, whether justified or not, he was clearly slapping the picture of nancy pelosi. for him to say that's an exaggeration is factually incorrect. >> you can probably tell, i was a little bit stunned. he said, i haven't seen the videotape. i started to say, well, you were there and didn't get a chance to finish that. the point he was trying to make, big picture, he believes there were thousands of peaceful protesters and the media are ignoring them. what i was trying to ask him about, he is one of the republicans that democrats say, wait a minute, if our leaders are going to do things like that, what do you expect from people? i want to make one other point. we said mark vanderboegh was the blogger, his name is mike. >> apparently on capitol hill they were talking behind closed doors about sarah palin's
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facebook page with the crosshairs on it. she also tweeted something i guess in which she said it takes common sense conservatives and lovers of american, don't retreat, instead, reload, please see my facebook page. clearly, she was speaking metaphorically. and republicans and supporters who see this say, look, these are democrats overreacting, these are crosshairs symbolic on districts. >> that may have been a credible explanation or excuse before today when we've seen 10 democrats say they received death threats in the last day alone. at this point having crosshairs on a political map seems like not only an act of poor judgment and i think she should be called on to take those crosshairs off. if she does not it's a sign of serious insufficient judgment. it's the politics of incitement of what we are dealing with. this is evidence of that at the moment. >> you have republicans saying democrats are actually fanning the flames over this. where are they pointing to for that? >> democrats were so blunt today they believe republicans are not
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doing enough, especially the leadership to try to tamp down on some of this stuff. the house majority whip, jim clybu clyburn, he actually said on another network, he believes if people aren't condemning these actions, then you're aiding and abetting this kind of terrorism. republicans said, wait a minute, if you're going to yell at us using a rhetoric too hot, why are you calling us terrorists? i talked to an aide to clyburn, he said, look, he called the protests over the weekend akin to terrorism and speaks for itself. it goes to show you things are being ratcheted up. i can tell you, there were actually closed door conversations between democratic leaders and republican leaders in hopes of maybe putting out a joint statement. that didn't happen today. >> we will have more from dana and john avalon in just a moment. we'll continue the conversation after the break. also, what's happening online. join us at ac360.com. talking to viewers from around the world. keeping them honest, a
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skillful crosshairs taken up by the house democratic leadership is one more thing in the wake of health care reform. common sense conservatives and lovers of america, don't retreat, instead reload. it has outraged a lot of democrats. back with dana brash and john avalon, author of "wingnuts." how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america. you talked to this guy dana mentioned, mike vanderboegh. i want to read some of what he said on his blog, pretty stunning stuff. if we do a proper job, break the windows of thousands of democratic party headquarters across this country, we might wake up enough of them to make defending themselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary. he's taking credit for throwing bricks through democratic windows. >> subsequently, we've seen four different instances of bricks and broken windows at democratic headquarters. this is clearly encitement. some people have taken up that mantle. vanderboegh is part of this growing movement we've seen in
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america i call the hatred movement. we birth of militia movement. we have seen 300% increase in the obama administration. he is a lead over that movement. >> he was a leader of the movement in the 1990? >> yes. a leader. unexpected story. '60s leftist, and militia leader and now a 3%er and through his blog, he's appears to be successfully inciting acts of violence we've only just begun to see and he has a larger agenda than these broken windows. >> i want to play a clip of him. warning people with a violent confrontation with the government.
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>> there are a lot of blowhards out there and this guy sounds like a blowhard normally you dismiss as an armchair warrior, but clearly, he seems to be taking credit for some of this violence. >> that's right. when blowhards meet with paramilitary organizations which is what these hatred groups are, all of a sudden you have real problems. that's the language of survival. he's been talking to folks on his blog for some time to get ready for what he called tdo, the big die off, heading towards a real conflict with the government, these folks predicting martial law, see themselves as patriots resisting the federal government. they have been predicting a violent conflict with the government over the whole first year of the obama administration and sees himself as a patriot trying to stop a civil war and these groups want to defend the constitution by
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doing violence to it. >> dana, we were talking earlier about security on capitol hill. not just concern there, members of congress going home for spring recess and that's where we've been seeing a lot of these incidents. >> steve driehaus, a freshman from ohio and said not only are there protests at his house in ohio, there is a protest planned specifically at his house, he's not alone in this, somebody published on a blog the home address. he said to his wife and kids, look, you have to stay inside. he said he's a little worried about it. i asked steny hoyer, the majority leader about it today and what are you telling these members to do? what specifically did they hear from the security folks? they brought in to talk to them. they said, look, do the best you can to protect your families and kids and obviously if there are real incidents, you have to report it so we can come out and help you. >> dana bash, appreciate the report. thanks. and john avalon as well.
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up next tonight, keeping them honest. why next week, seniors might not be able to see the doctor they want to. they might have fixed the reform law but whether they broke a promise by taking it out of the bill. later, he might have the most dangerous job in north america. the mayor of juarez, mexico, he got a warning he would be dead in two weeks unless he quit. two weeks later, he is still mayor, and we will see how he is doing. ( music playing ) if toyota gets credit for being the most fuel efficient car company
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we're keeping them honest tonight on a huge piece of the health care system the new reform law does not reform. leaving it unfixed could make it harder for millions of americans on medicare to find a doctor. i will show you why it leaves it out of the bill. today a signed executive order reaffirming existing limits on abortion. that was congressman bart stupak's support and today, republicans took aim at them on the well of the senate. >> you can put lipstick on a pig, mr. president, this is still a pig. >> senator john mccain trying to
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block the package of fixes to the main bill. i will take you to the wall to show you polling information. it's interesting. it shows you where people stand on health care changes. look at the numbers. we showed you this usa gallup poll yesterday. 49% say passing the bill was a good idea versus 40% say it was a bad idea. let's look closer at the numbers, how they break down for age and income. you get a different picture. for people earning less than $24,000 a year, there's a lot in this bill for them. 65% to 23%, a 42 point margin. then the same goes for people with no coverage now, they like it, 58% to 29%. that makes sense. also young people, ages 18 to 34, many of whom can now stay on their parents' insurance, they also like the new law by a 27 point margin, but this is where it gets interesting, seniors, 65 and up, the opinion does a 180, only 36% there call the bill's passage a good thing.
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54% say otherwise. they already have government provided medicare, in other words, they have something to lose. keeping them honest, tonight, there is something they could in fact lose and lose it as early as next week. we're talking about access to doctors. doctors are actually going to lose federal money for treating seniors and deciding not to take medicare patients anymore. if congress doesn't do something about it soon, doctors could decide not to see them because they don't get medicare reimbursement. some democrats promised to do something about it. in fairness, democrats and republicans created the problem in the first place, temporarily fixing it, kicking the can down the road avoiding accountability for 18 years now. this time around, democrats did have a chance to fix this thing for good in the health care reform bill and critics say they blew it. tom foreman is keeping them honest. >> reporter: doctors who treat medicare patients say they're facing a fiscal emergency decades in the making, a 21% cut in what the government pays them for that care. 21%.
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by almost all accounts, that could mean fewer doctors taking such patients yet democratic supporters of reform allowed that time bomb to keep ticking although keeping them honest, they could have fixed it in the new health care bill. >> the bill is passed. >> reporter: but they did make a promise. >> it's not in this bill but we will have it soon. >> medicare will become law. >> reporter: back in 1965, when president johnson created medicare for the elderly, doctors were allowed to charge pretty much whatever they thought was fair. over time, the cost ballooned. so in 1992, they came up with a formula that almost every one now calls a mess, because while the cost of care has steadily risen, the amount being paid to those doctors has fallen. time and again, congress has approved quick payments to keep physicians from bailing out of the program all together.
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dr. cecil wilson with the american medical association says that's like paying the interest on a credit card debt, principle owed to those doctors keeps climbing. >> four years ago, the cuts were 3 to 4%, they could have fixed this with $48 billion. now 21%, 210 billion dollars to fix it. each year they postpone it makes it even more difficult. >> the problem is that price tag, $210 billion. if that had been part of the health reform bill, it would have pushed the total tab to a trillion, pushed up the deficit and almost certainly hurt the chances for passage. democrats didn't want any of that. now, they're considering a fix before an election, and with a public already nervous over spending. >> thank you all very much. frs >> the house has passed a measure. the senate, convincing them is one reason dr. wilson was in washington. >> both sides of the aisle, both sides of congress, the administration knows, everybody
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understands this is a problem that needs to be fixed. >> reporter: do they also know it's an expensive problem. how confident are you they will deal with it now? >> they have to. if they don't, this program is going to fall apart. >> reporter: we'll see. for now, the formula says the next big cut is coming at month's end and the doctors are in the waiting room. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> under the new health care reform law, 32 million uninsured people will now be able to get health insurance, right? in theory, 32 million new patients will be able to go to a doctor when they get sick. it's not certain all these people will really get to see a doctor. that's because there is a serious shortage of primary care doctors across the country. it's no secret why the shortages exist, fewer new doctors are entering primary care. the question is, what is driving them away? "360" md, sanjay gupta has that story. frs >> reporter: they are part of american lore, the country family doctor, primary physician, making house calls, fixing whatever is broken.
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that version of the primary care doctor has long since faded away. the thing is the modern day version may also be close behind which makes the woman you're about to meet an even more rare breed. >> hi, dr. gupta. nice to meet you. >> reporter: part of the reason i wanted to meet you because you're going into primary care. >> yes. >> i guess there's fewer and fewer of you. why aren't more of your colleagues choosing this as a profession? >> i think there's several reasons. one of the main reason is the prestige, the spotlight is not on family medicine physicians, don't have the same reputation the other doctors do in the subspecialties. >> reporter: which will make finding doctors in rooms like this even harder. it's been 17 years since i finished medical school. over time, the number choosing primary medical school has slipped more than 50%. if you want more of a scale of reference,
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at the nation's largest medical school at the university of illinois, they graduated 314 medical students last year, only 20 chose primary care. last year, the american academy of family physicians predicted a shortfall of 40,000 primary care doctors. that was before the signing of the health care bill. what will health care reform look like without enough primary care doctors? >> we have nowhere near the number of primary care or family physicians we need to take care of the public. simply having an insurance card may not guarantee there is a physician whose practice will be open to new patients. >> reporter: why is that happening? one reason is plain and simple. it's money. the average primary care doctor makes $173,000 a year. compare that to $419,000 for cardiologists. or $335,000 for oncologists treating cancer. >> how much of this is about money? just compensation? >> i think that's a major reason
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why a lot of medical students aren't choosing family medicine. the potential for financial gain is not the same as those other fields. >> reporter: the health care bill does try to fix that. a 10% pay bump and add-on bill considered in the senate has an even bigger increase, medicaid. and it has other incentives, expands the program to forgive loans to some medical students who go into primary care. even before all that goes into effect, there had been some signs of change. last week, when medical students around the country picked their specialty, the number picking primary care was up, for the first time in 13 years. >> we've had a huge debate about health care reform. what do we need to do to get this country on a healthy track? the foundation of that is primary care and family medicine. students took notice of that. they became excited, thinking
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about that primary care was once again a viable career choice for them. >> reporter: a viable career choice, because it may be attitude more than money. that's the real hope for fulfilling the promise of health care reform. up next, helping the people of haiti struggling after the earthquake. and one simple way to get them clean drinking water. i think natural gas is part of the energy mix of the future. i think we have the can-do. we have the capability. we have the technology. the solutions are here. we just need to find them here. the world was faced with a challenge. and lexus responded by building the world's first luxury hybrid. today, lexus has four hybrid models on the road...
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i'll be heading back to haiti in a few weeks to see what progress has been made and challenges. and we report on the progress in haiti and tonight, we report how a group of americans is helping haiti to get clean safe water to drink and they're doing it with one simple thing. the numbers are simply staggering, children dying everyday in haiti due to water borne illness, before the earthquake. there is no accurate count now. there is hope because dr.
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richard and his organization called potters for peace are now in the country. their fix, an ingenious hybrid, part clay pot and part water filter. >> it's made out of clay and sawdust. it's formed on a machine, it's made upside down. it's mixed with approximately 50-50 clay and sawdust. you pour dirty whatter in the top. as the water flows through the various cracks and crevice, it inevitably has to be passing by these particles of silver. these particles of silver, when they go by, it's like a light turns on. they radiate and they kill the bacteria. >> the bottom line -- >> it saves lives. >> the device is portable, can clean up to 2.5 liters of water per hour and costs as little as $15 to make. potters for peace is note only
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organization getting ceramic waters to haiti. a group that uses different mixture for its pots has expanded its operations across the dominican republic into haiti. how effective are these pots? according to two organizations that make water, water passed through comes out 99.9% clear and 100% drinkable. they're now being used in hospitals and temporary tent villages in haiti and around the world in sudan, honduras and afghanistan. >> i started thinking, you know what, if you made one filter and saved one life one day, that would be statistically insignificant. except if it was your kid. if it was your kid, that would be a great statistic. my kid lived. >> one simple thing. cleaning water and hoping to make the lives of the haitian people better than before. amazing, one simple thing. we'll be right back. it can happen anytime,
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this week in our series, kids in peril, obesesty in america, we're looking at a crisis that could be killing our kids. if that seems extreme, it's not. soaring obesity could be cutting decades off the lives of kids. in the simplest terms, they may be eating themselves to death. we wondered what's going on inside a child's body who's
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obese. what kind of damage is that doing? here's sanjay gupta. f coming up, an amazing story, >> reporter: as a father of three, it's an especially hard for me to hear these stories, their lives cut by decades. these are children, worst case scenarios of nearly one-third of american kids who weigh too much. behind all those stats and numbers are real stories. people are worried what we're describing could happen to them. let's go meet somebody. >> how are you? >> reporter: how y'all doing? >> good. >> reporter: just 12 years old and 250 pounds. tiger green has a story. call it the new american story. >> in our family, when you're happy, we eat. when you're sad, we eat. and when you just are watching tv, you eat. >> reporter: what did you eat? >> lunch, i have like a big 15 ounce steak or something.
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and like five sprites and stuff like that. >> reporter: five sprite, one meal. i'm almost scared to ask about dinner. what was that like? >> take lunch times five. >> reporter: it's hard not to smile but also important to realize tiger didn't get here by himself. he had help from the people who care the most. >> reporter: i have three kids. i'm the last guy in the world who preaches about anything nowadays because i know the reality. what were you thinking when you saw him eating that much? >> as a parent, you want to see your kids happy. mistakenly, horribly mistakenly, when we were eating, we were happy and horribly that was good parenting. >> reporter: one startling fact, children with an obese parent are 50% more likely to be obese themselves. 50%.
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>> reporter: i think a lot of people focus on what's happening, what you look like on the outside of your body. have you ever focused what's going on, on the inside of your body? >> not much. >> reporter: that's what i'm going to show you today. that's why we brought you to this hospital. we're going to take a look and show you what's happening to database your heart and liver and see what you think. >> okay. >> reporter: it's hard to believe this is a child's liver, all that white filled with fat. fat, not just on the outside of your body. that's happening inside your body. for me as a doctor, this is especially disturbing, because we see this with patients typically decades older. that's the top of your femur that's the bone right here that goes into your hip. it is pushing the bone over here. you should have a nice layer of cartilage in between here, nice cushion. because it's so much weight that bone is pushed back, into that joint. that's going to hurt. your joints hurting is not nearly as frightening as what all that fat is doing to your
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heart. this heart is having to work so hard, that muscle is getting bigger and bigger, in the heart is a bad thing. after a while, it won't be able to work as well. >> it's scary, i know it could be happening to me as well. >> reporter: what we're talking about isn't theoretical. this is really happening right now. tiger told me a story that really stuck with me. when he was in second grade, he was 7 years old, started to have chest pains. doctors were concerned enough about his heart he ended up in a place like this, checking his heart and doing procedures and tests to try to find out what was going on, a second grader, all this because of overweight and obesity. can you imagine as a child ending up in a room like this, doctors are worried you might not be able to survive. >> one of those kids who has an early death because of cardiovascular disease. >> when you say early death, are you talking about people in 30s having heart attacks? what do you mean? >> this is unprecedented. we haven't seen 8 year-olds with type 2 diabetes before.
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we don't actually know what's going to happen. it's very concerning. the good news is we can do something about it. >> reporter: tiger has already started. this is a good looking refrigerator. a lot of fruit. blueberries, strawberries, fresh vegetables. for tiger, it's a point of immense pride. he's now 30 pounds lighter. he has another 30 to go. all those lost pounds are adding years to his life and changing his body on the outside and inside as well. they were rapidly aging a boy into a sick old man, way before his time. and that smile, well, it means he's peeling off the pounds, and those years. >> it's great he's been able to lose 30 pounds so far. a lot of this has to do with parents and what kind of food they're buying and giving to their kids. in this case, did his folks not realize their son was getting overweight? >> yeah.
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that will sound kind of silly after having watched that piece. about half of parents that have an overweight or obese child, they simply look beyond it. not that they don't see it, they kind of ignore it. in part the culture and see their friends' kids looking the same way and in part think it's baby fat that may eventually disappear. it's also this idea of eat as comfort. >> yes. >> they both talked about this quite a bit. in anxious times, people tend to eat more and we've been through pretty anxious times. >> hearing of 6 and 7 year-olds going to the emergency room with chest pains and type 2 diabetes, how common is that? >> it's getting increasingly common. i don't want to overstate this. it is becoming increasingly common. you hear about people under the age of 10 having coronary artery disease evidence. we had a study i was preparing for, 3 years old with coronary artery disease. type 2 diabetes. when i was in medical school, we
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refer to that as adult onset diabetes. it is now often seen in children because of being overweight. >> just that video of the fat inside the liver, i didn't realize livers get that? >> i know. it's remarkable, fat can permeate just about every organ in the body. a lot of places you wouldn't notice it. with the liver, leads to significant inflammation throughout the body, stops your ability to clot. staten drugs we talk about a bit. approved by the american academy of pediatrics for children as young as 8 years old. >> incredible. >> it's unprecedented but we also know we're at this unique time in our history. >> the fact he's been able to lose 30 pounds, he seems highly motivated. let's hope he makes it. >> we'll keep an eye on him. >> thanks. our kids in peril continues tomorrow with our celebrity chef and dad of three, jamie oliver, known for fighting obesity in england and now in the united states. a quick preview. one of the big things you did in england was encourage and pressure the british government
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to change the food they serve to kids in schools. in your tv show here, you've gone to schools around the united states. i want to show our viewers what you found in talking to kids in schools. >> we will do a little test. all right. who knows what this is? >> potatoes. >> potatoes. you think these are potatoes? not potatoes. >> i don't know. >> do you know what that is? do you know what that is? >> broccoli. >> what about this? good old friend, do you know what this is? >> celery. >> what do you think it is? >> onion. >> onion, no. immediately you get a really clear sense that the kids know anything about where food comes from. who knows what that is? >> a pear? >> a pear, no. >> a turnip. >> i will give you the first word. >> egg. >> eggshell. >> i'm embarrassed, didn't know what the thing with the stalk
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was. >> a beet. >> to see kids who don't know what a tomato was is pretty scary. >> the other clip, they didn't know what a potato was but as soon as you say french fries, they're all over it. we're at an important time in american history. governments need to start really investing in some of the damage done over the last 30 years. >> see the full interview with jamie oliver tomorrow at "360." >> join the live chat right now at a krrc360.com. next, the big city mayor in mexico. f the drug cartel says he has to leave office tonight. the latest on drug violence. a killer whale deadly attack on a trainer caught on tape, we know that but will a judge let the world see it? to stay on top of my game after 50,
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marked man in charge of perhaps the most dangerous place on earth, the mayor of juarez torn apart by drug cartels. more than 500 people have been murdered in juarez. drug lords have warned the mayor he may be next. they've given him two weeks to leave office, tonight this is deadline. for our "crime and punishment report." here's gary tuchman. the mayor juarez, mexico hates the drug cartels, the city with the highest murder rate in the world. the cartels want him gone, permanently. >> the threats are real, they're not just intimidating, they're real, and i have to take it very seriously. >> reporter: mayor reyes ferriz said if he didn't leave, they would make him leave. >> i have a lot of people who
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not only don't like me, would like to do something to me. >> reporter: that's why his drive carries an automatic weapon with him at all times. and the mayor has elaborate security, and he's not backing down. he talks a lot about how the bad guys have ruined the city. >> juarez is a lover of peace, and peace is what we are lacking. >> reporter: the mayor has fired hundreds of cops, he believed they were in bed with the narco traffickers, the city's police force is considered far less corrupt. that has angered the cartel. and many threats against the mayor. how scared are you personally? >> i take all the necessary precautions i can take. >> reporter: i asked the mayor if it's safe to tour the city a
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bit. we go to a skateboard and bike park. it's not crowded, but there are some kids having fun. even in this environment, he doesn't go anywhere with an armed guard. >> it's hard to have a normal life. it's extremely difficult. i love playing tennis. i haven't played in a couple years. i love going to the movies, i haven't gone to the movies in a couple years. >> reporter: he's a family man, a lawyer by trade. he could quit tomorrow and live a less stressful, financially lucrative life. he's well aware a killer could target him at any time, so i ask him about quitting. do you have any thoughts about that possibility? >> no, i won't step down from my position. it's a very important position, what we're doing is extremely important for our city. if we don't do it today, it's going to be very hard to do it tomorrow.
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it's going to be double hard. >> reporter: the contrast in his life are surreal. the law abiding citizens want him to succeed. the cartels want him punished, they want him dead. gary tuchman, cnn, juarez, mexico. >> gary and 360 producers gave us a behind the scenes look at their harrowing trip through juarez, you can check out the blogs right now at ac360.com. why no one will be seeing the video of that deadly sea a reporter agreeing to get tasered. rick sanchez, you have competition. that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. talk to your doctor, and take care of what you have to take care of.
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a number of stories we're following, let's check in with christine romans. >> a delaware pediatrician accused of molesting more than 100 young patients, pleaded not guilty in a delaware court today. dr. earl bradley is facing a staggering 471 charges in connection with his alleged crimes. prosecutors say all the victims were girls except for one boy. and they say they have the evidence to prove it. video of the deadly whale attack of the sea world trainer will not be released any time soon. a florida judge let stand an injunction preventing the footage from being made public. the tape shows the 12,000-pound whale pulling dawn under the
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water. these photos were taken just moments before that attack. a massive baby carrier recall. the consumer product safety commission is urging people to stop using infantino's swing rider and slings. the slings may have suffocated three infants. see this guy? police say he was one of the two would-be robbers who tried to phone-in their heist. it happened yesterday in connecticut. the suspects allegedly called the bank demanding that $100,000 be ready for them when they arrived to pick it up. the money was not waiting, but the cops were. that's called criminal darwinism, isn't it? >> it doesn't make any sense to me. a japanese reporter willi willingly agrees to be tasered, who could do such a thing?
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>> it's all done. it's all over. relax. >> we found this clip online. the reporter looks a little shaken up. i give you, the man himself, the one, the only. >> i'm about to receive 50,000 volts of electricity. do it. [ screaming ] >> it hurts. it's worse. i'm about to receive 50,000 volts. >> let's see how they both fair in a side-by-side matchup. >> it's all over, relax. >> it hurts. >> they didn't say the best line. do we not have the final, the cherry on the cake? the