president one day. >> and that's going to do it for me in washington, and kelly wright and jamie colby will take it from here. tune in fox news sunday tomorrow with bank of america senior strategist david axle rod. check for your local times and channel. thank you for watching, make it a great day everybody, see you next time. a weather alert. threats for severe weather alert across the country. welcome to america's election headquarters. i'm kelly wright. >> i'm jamie colby, i can smile, things are better for the folks in the path of hurricane isaac. the remnants are inland from the gulf. the storm, take a look at it. the heavy rain and approximately west, still. that could be news for farmers struggled on to the most devastating drought in more than 50 years. the damaging winds though could spell trouble. >> yeah, i really it would be

great if it could come in and soak in and the rain is not going to hurt anything, we don't need a lot of rain, hopefully keep the wind out and rain coming nice and soaks in and doesn't all run off. >> chief meteorologist rick reichmuth, live in the extreme weather center. i can't believe you're still at it. and spent the night together covering the storm. >> it's true. >> we did. is it good news now for the folks in that area? they need the rain. >> on the big scale it's good news jamie. they will get the rain and fill the reservoirs, it helps with the winter wheat crop they'll plant and get it ready for next year, for the most part, the corn crop from this year, that it's too late for that and also when they get in there and try to till the ground, and get those crops out of there, if it's too wet. that's not necessarily good right now either. so, this is the drop.

where some of the worst of it is here across parts of the plains from paducah stretching up. illinois, indiana and everything to the west of that. now, take a look where the rain is going to be falling, over the next couple of days and right kind of in partially in the same area, so, it's good news, but where you see the reds, those are maybe four to eight inches of rain and as they were saying, a slow soaking rain, and this will probably be more quick than that, which means we're going to see that, where the ground is that dry again, and absorb that water that quickly and see, we are going to see more flooding and seen these across missouri and arkansas and a few more of those pictures unfortunately, around areas of illinois and indiana. and the other threat with this, a tornado threat the last number of days, the storm has been from parts of the north and off into the plains and another threat today. less than a threat tomorrow, but today from parts of illinois towards the little rock again, and we stand to see that threat from tornados and damaging winds and hail not a threat.

one other thing going on, jamie, it's so humid across parts of the south and especially from the standing water still yet. and then temps up around 90 degrees and feeling like 100 and extremely humid and uncomfortable and especially for people who don't have any electricity and are dealing with not having ac to help them out with this. a couple of things from the storm that we're watching unfortunately, jamie. >> is summer about to leave us? >> and it's beginning the meteorology season and fall are three weeks ahead. in theory we're going to be getting there, very, very soon. >> i hope we get a little bit of fall before we get that winter. >> thank you. >> thank you for all the weather departments, kelly. >> great work as well and we're getting word now that a second person in mississippi has died as a result of hurricane isaac. a 62-year-old woman was killed after a tree fell on her car, bringing the death toll now to at least seven people. and including two people found in a florida ravaged home in

louisiana. nearly a million people are living without power and jonathan serrie is live from new orleans with the latest details there, jonathan? >> yeah, right now, one of the main priorities is restoring power and at peek, the storm, during the storm, about 900,000 residents were without electricity and crews have been working 24/7 trying to restore electricity. and they've restored electricity to a little more than half of the people who lost it, but still, more than 400,000 people are without power and also, thousands of residents have been displaced from their homes, and many of them living in shelters and many more staying with friends either because the homes have been cut off by flood waters or roads leading to their homes have suffered severe damage. and we went to a line of people who were driving up to collect emergency supplies, crews handing out ice, water, mre's, meals ready to eat to

the residents who have been displaced and they describe what it's like living without electricity, what it's like not having air conditioning, and here is how they've described it. >> immeasurable. every day gets a little bit worse. it's really hot. i slept in my truck last night with the activision and air conditioner, going to sleep, it was so hot. >> on friday, g.o.p. presidential nominee, mitt romney visited laffite, louisiana, hosted by louisiana governor bobby jindal who has taken an active public role as he did a while back on the gulf oil spill and the white house announcing that president obama plans to visit this region on monday. back to you guys. >> and we appreciate the update, thank you. >> sure. >> sometimes you find interesting things after a storm and that happened with hurricane isaac and dredged up the skeleton of an old ship in gulf shores, alabama.

over the years, they've uncovered the same ship wreck several times, although historians differ on its origin. some say it's a civil war blockade runner and others say it was used to smuggle liquor during prohibition, kelly. >> well, to the campaign trail now, governor mitt romney and his wife ann hitting the crucial battle ground state of ohio before heading to florida for a rally with running mate paul ryan and laying out the broad themes of the election fight into cincinnati and the case of a second term for president obama. >> one of the promises he made was he was going to create more jobs and to date, 23 million people are out of work or stopped looking for work or underemployed. let me tell you if you have a

coach that's 0 and 23 million, it's time to get a new coach. >> and with the latest on what's happening with mr. romney, steve? >> reporter: hey there, kelly, yeah, it will be romney and ryan in jacksonville. before they got here, they campaigned separately in the state of ohio this morning and ran a clip of mitt romney in cincinnati and the surrounding area north and cincinnati torn dayton and also along the ohio river east, are tallies that are relybly republican and romney has been there a couple of times the course of the last week. while he was talking, it was interesting, talking to them. it was interesting that he brought up a line that echoes the obama camp in '08. an obamaesque line. >> united we put neil armstrong on the moon. united we faced down unspeakable darkness. united our men and women in uniform continue to defend freedom today. i love those people who serve

our great nation. >> that exact sound bite was later redistributed to the campaign to the members of the media and wanted us to take a look at that particular sound bite and paul ryan was campaigning in ohio and in a different city in columbus, ohio state university of miami ohio football game and last time we checked, significant rsity of miami he graduated in ohio. when they get here it's expected to be a large turnout here at the jacksonville landing and the rally is put together most of the morning, so far, jacksonville is more of a conservative area and in the reliable republican pair tri and we've been told by political leader after political leader in various states that this is going to be a turnout election. so you need to make sure not only you get the undecided, but maybe the soft supporting vote to be out there to be gotten and make sure that you energize your base, if you will, and maximize or

absolutely run the table in the territory that's friendly to you, that will seem to be the case in jacksonville today. >> yeah, for reasons you just stated unity might be the battle cry for the romney-ryan ticket. jamie. >> kelly, thanks, does governor romney and ryan hit the campaign trail running and they're going up against a major push for voters in key swing states or does each candidate really need to focus on the trail. angela mcglowan is a fox news political analyst and. >> thank you, jamie. >> we know that the swing states are important. and i wonder if they're the same states critically important this time, does anything change? >> well, change is the fact when you have mccain-obama the economy was better. gas prices were not as high. so, what the candidates need to do, my candidate, mitt romney, needs to focus on

solutions. what are you going to do to create more prosperous america and change my situation. that's what people want, and no vote should be taken for granted. this race, jamie, is going to be so close, that it could come down to one state, like it did with bush-gore and like it did in 2004, with ohio, bush gained four more years by winning the state of ohio. >> it seems, doug, each has planned their strategy in terms of where to campaign very carefully and the dnc will have their chance to have the stage this week. what does president obama need to do in terms of specifics, because at the rnc, governor romney and congressman ryan, they were very specific about 12 million jobs and what they'll do to turn the economy around and who they are, as human beings and as americans. >> well, jamie, you raised exactly the right question, bottom line, the president needs to outline his vision and his agenda, for the second

term, and he's been noticeably silent on that, and while his record is one that's tough to defend, i would dare say that he's not really told us other than offering some class-based solutions around taxes, what he intends to do, how he intends to create jobs, how he intends to revitalize the economy. and angela gave you a hint as to something we are going to hear. i think the obama campaign will disagree with her assertion that things were better when mccainen rah against obama and i think obama will blame george bush as has done previously. >> angela, go ahead. >> and former governor bujeb bush, stop placing the blame. that's what he wants president obama to do as the leader of america right now. do you think he's going to say i'm going to do things differently, come the end of the year when the tax cuts expire we're going to see an

immediate pressure and problem especially for small business, that means less jobs. >> if i were giving president obama advice, if i were a democrat strategist, i would say what doug just said, talk about the issues. talk about what you're going to do and doug, he should not blame president bush. he has to take responsibility and that's what-- that's what presents true leadership. when you take responsibility for what you've done, you can only blame the former administration so much and the bottom line is this: nan nancy pelosi passed all of obama's policies, and she was the best speaker for the policies and doug, we're in a worse place than we were back then when we passed both pieces of legislation. the bottom line, obama needs to talk about solutions, stop with the race baiting, stop with the division, stop with the class war fathre, people are sick and tired of that. >> and what's more persuasive

that your policies and records have not worked or promises from the president that things will change? >> i mean, honestly, people want a definitive plan and they want action. >> well, jammy, i agree with you, they want plans and they want action, but a lot of cynicism as angela told us about president obama and his record and we certainly heard that from president obama and paul ryan. bottom line, what i think we're going to see more than any of us would like are negative ads and attacks on the republicans, because bottom line, it's tough to make the case that obama has an agenda. i don't think he's going to take the very good advice angela gave which is to acknowledge that things haven't gone as well as they have and angela, anytime you want to join the democratic party we'll welcome you as a strategist and a supporter. >> you know what, doug i left it in 1993 and haven't looked back, but doug, obama does have a plan he says if congress would do his to-do

list and pass his job plans and other multi-billion dollar plan, then we'll be in a better place, but, no, he has made a presentation what he has to do. >> he has a secret weapon angela and that's bill clinton. and bill clinton, as you know, whose that and wednesday night we'll hear bill clinton talk about what he did and himself and his record. >> we will see, doug, lots of powerful speakers on both sides and america is paying close attention, it's a dead heat right now. thank you, both of you. >> thank you so much. >> as angela and doug mentioned, the speeches coming up. fox news is america's election headquarters. on monday we'll see a preview, tomorrow on sunday and all week long, fox news will bring you the action through thursday night where president obama officially accepts his party's nomination. >> a memorial service being planned as legendary astronaut

neil armstrong is laid to rest. they were laid to rest in ohio. in 1969, americans crowded around their television sets to watch armstrong take the first steps on the moon and many people remember that, utterly the famous line, one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind and friends say despite his accomplishments he was a very humble man. >> he was the embodiment of everything this nation is about. there's a mountain, what's on the other side. there's a body of water, what's on the other bank. that's neil armstrong. >> neil was a reluctant hero, it was never about him. the reward he got was service and from taking on challenges as an engineer and figuring them out. and doing his duty. and he appreciated the fact that, you know, people were grateful to him, but, he expected nothing in return. >> and he will be missed.

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>> welcome back, everybody. it's a major medical scare and it happened at yosemite nam park. up to 10,000 campers may have been exposed to a deadly disease. anna koiiman from the news room. >> reporter: two people are dead and two more visitors who stayed in a campground at yosemite national park have contracted a fatal mouth born virus and up to six, 010,000

more people who stayed in the calm bins between june 10th and august 24th could be at risk. it's carried in the feces, saliva of deer mice and other rodents and they say that it has a six week incubation and more than a third of the people with the disease will die. it begins with shortness of breath and progresses to respiratory failure, we have to put patients on mechanical ventilation and machines to support their breathing. >> park officials closed the so-called luxury cabins on tuesday, saying the double wall design made it easy for mice to nest between the walls and a report from california's health department rodent infection efforts should be increased after visitors fell ill. the state says that while officials took steps to deal with the rodent problems,

there are problems given its location, and campers are worried. i did think about it and i know i had my dad calling me and knew we were staying here and worried about it. >> it seems like low risk, but if you get it seriously. definitely something we have been talking about. >> two ep demologists are is trying to figure out why the rodent population is larger and how much of the population actually caries the virus. >> jamie: better to have that news, thank you. kelly. >> kelly: and how has a howard graduate become the chief of medical affairs at one of the largest health care in the country. hard work, and along the way, americans taking greater responsibility with your health. if you're constantly battling chronic illness, it's harder

to look at life beyond a dream. >> look in the mirror and see someone who knows you more than anyone else. yes, you're the doctor in the mirror. >> the doctor is on a mission to empower people to take charge of their health. in his book, the doctor in the mirror, he takes a common sense approach to helping people understand the power they have, in taking charge of their health. we've got to take a look in the mirror and look at the person who has to become the best doctor that we can possibly be for ourselves, and then, let that doctor do a great job in working with other doctors, as we put together a health care team. >> the doctor's council is based on 40 years experience as a doctor, including serving in a leadership role with the american medical association, former commissioner of public health for the nation's capital and now, one of the most senior clinicians of the united health group which serves 75 million members, it provides him with an in depth view of national health issues. >> when you really boil it

down, given the huge array of challenges that are confronting not only the health of the nation and economic consequences of that, but when you boil it down it's now the individual, it's the person and we have got to, as individuals, take charge over our own lives and our own health. >> one of his chief concerns is health disparities among african-americans and hispanics, and the doctor says for people of color, obesity and diabetes are skyrocketing. and adds a tsunami of preventible chronic illnesses, the potential of pushing the nation into deeper debt. >> so that means that we have to fight at the level of community, recruiting etch is, civic associations and recruit business leaders and everyone is fighting together to attack local high priority prevention problems. >> one business taking heat to the doctor's call is broader brothers, a top hair company in atlanta and the brothers sponsor an annual hair show

that brings 60,000 cosmetologists to a convention every year. and they've challenged african-american women to take better care of their health by getting hair cells that are conducive to exercise. >> as i interview women and go around and talk to them your hair style is lovely, but are you going to work out. many times, no, i'm not. these cosmetologists know exactly how to keep you looking beautiful and gorgeous and also be able to work out on a regular basis. >> the doctor is creating a substantive conversation about health in america, as a physician focusing the nation's attention on helping individuals succeed in getting healthy, staying fit and living their best lives free, a preventible chronic illness. >> what i have experienced, all of my life, is the experience of preventible misery and suffering. and people who are dying too soon who didn't need to and who are screaming out in pain when they don't have to. >> very true. and the doctor is issuing a challenge to all americans,

all of us, for pursuing good health. fearful if we're not successful, believes that the nation and individuals will suffer sad consequences. >> a great point, kelly, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> a brand new report is raising serious concerns for millions of kids headed back to school. what you should know about the chemicals in school supplies, a member of our fox medical a-team will weigh in next. >> plus, president obama campaigning in the critical battle ground state of iowa today. the second visit to the hawk eye state this week. we're there live next. you know why i sell tools? tools are uncomplicated. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping's easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicated. no. come on. how about... a handshake. alright.

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>> welcome back. it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. explosions rocking cities across syria. new amateur video showing the bombing rebels, strong holds across the country and the government claims they beat back an attack on the north. and captured a regime based in the east. >> and the u.s. is reportedly striking another blow against terrorists in pakistan. pakistani officials are saying u.s. drones fired a barrage of missiles killing at least five suspected militants on the afghan border. >> and isolated in the middle of the u.s. the remnants of hurricane isaac making trouble for the chosing watching weather radar

and we'll bring you any updates. >> president obama hitting the battle ground state of iowa today. holding the first of two rallies beginning in des moines in just under an hour and the president is making a second visit to the state this week as brand new polling shows his lead over republican nominee, president obama is beginning to lag. and ed henry live in des moines with the president in the leadup to the dnc. ed, great to see you, i want to ask you, it sounds like republicans are trying to take away some of the spotlight? >> they are, and you know, this is being called by the obama camp the road to charlotte as they get ready to head to the democratic national convention, wednesday. a lot of the other party leaders get this sooner and so will paul ryan, the republican vp nominee. not to charlotte, nonetheless,

but he'll be doing that doing what vice-president biden had planned to do. he was going to florida before tropical storm isaac came up and threw off the plans. the bottom line, paul ryan and the republicans, fighting for the ballot grounds, even as the president tries to keep north carolina in his column one of a dozen key battle grounds both sides desperately want and bottom line as you mentioned iowa is very important here as well. this is the third time, just in the last three weeks, i've been here with president obama, one of the trips was a bus tour where he spent three full days here on the ground and even though there were just six electoral votes, that gefs gives you an idea, the obama advisors, they're going to fight for every electoral votes. and the romney camp says they believe it shows the president is on defense, and iowa propelled them in 2008 in the caucuses and won it in the general election and thinks the president is defending turf he won last time and the obama response to that, the president is defending turf

because he had more than 350 electoral votes in 2008. but he had, you lose some and still get the 270 needed to win. the challenge for mitt romney right now is he's got to flip a lot of the states, like iowa, like north carolina that the president carried in 2008 if he's going to get to 270, jamie. >> jamie: and the enthusiasm and crowds on the ground, ed, what are you seeing? >> well, i'm seeing right now, live pictures. senator tom harkin is firing up the crowd got at least a couple thousand people and some just arriving, and hear the shouting and trying to fire up the crowd and the president out in a few moments and he's facing the question whether there's enthusiasm gap and young people that turned out strong for the president in 2008 and why is' been hitting college campuses by the way going back to colorado another state he's been hitting live late tonight and we will be there tomorrow where the president has a rally in boulder. obviously, the university of colorado big there. he's struggling to make sure that he gets some of the young

people there in 2008. might be disappointed about the economy, wants to make sure they're there this time again, jamie. >> ed henry, we're glad you're there, tracking the president today. thank you so much. >> good to see you. >> well, there was a bombshell ruling in the state of ohio, a federal judge granting a request from the obama campaign and democrats restoring to voters the option of casting a ballot in person during the final pre-days before the election. attorney general plans to appeal sometime next week, it's important to note that ohio is among 32 states plus the district of columbia that allow voters to cast an early ballot by mail or in person without having to give a reason. what does it mean for a fair vote in november. jing me now, former ohio secretary of state. kemp net blackwell, sir, good to see you, thank you for being with us. >> good to be here, kelly. >> kelly: the mike dewine says

he's going to appeal, what is the chances are having the judge's ruling overturned? >> i think it's probably 50-50, but regardless of what the courts decide, the bipartisan election officials in our 88 counties will be -- will be prepared. we've done this before. and i think what the legislature and the secretary of state were attempting to do is to sort of clear the deck, three days before the actual execution of the election because it's an enormously human enterprise, over 10,000 precincts, 50,000 volunteers and election workers, and millions of a vote-- and millions of voters, and what they wanted to do was to make sure that we could concentrate on getting it right on election day, in a bipartisan way. in the contracts basically say we keep things in place as they were, i'm sure they'll get the job done in a

bipartisan way as they have done for years. and if in fact they uphold the change in the procedure, that will mean that people will have a uniform system of voting, everybody will be playing by the same clock. with the exception of those on inactive duty, on active duty in the military. >> kelly: the military personnel and their families as well and the obama administration made the convention, wait a minute, have to make it available to all voters and making it feel discriminating against those who will be minorities. in 2008, sir, you recall that more than 93,000 early ballots were cast and you were talking about the extent of this massive type of voting and how much person, how much money and how many personnel have to show up. this decision is significant for the president and they're likely hoping for another large turnout in ohio which is

seen of course as a crucial battle ground of both the republicans and democrats. and what's at stake, in your opinion, for the romney ryan ticket. >> look, you just underscored what the challenge is for both campaigns. more than likely, this election in ohio will fall within what i call the margin of litigation. and that means that it's probably going to be just that close and we're going to have a boat load of lawyers on both sides challenging various procedures and practices and vote counts. and given that context, what you want to do as the chief election officer is to make the election day operation as clean and as fair as it possibly can be in a bipartisan way and that's something that people don't sap underscore enough. our system is a bipartisan system, neighbors working with neighbors, church members working with church members,

and they happen to be evenly divided and democrat and republicans and when they are allowed to do their job, they do it well. >> sure. >> that's what we need on-- in a very close election. >> and secretary blackwell before i let you go. i want to talk about ohio because as you know, it's a key battle ground state, a swing state that both camps are trying to win this because of the electoral rich, 18 electoral votes out there. how do you think the romney-ryan ticket should actually campaign in ohio to win and make a surprise win, right now, president obama has a slight edge over him? >> well, i think you're going through the southwestern part of the state where we have many coal miners and workers who basically feel that they are being trashed by president that is anti-coal. and you underscore the fact that this president has been actively opposed to religious liberty and has taken on the

catholic church. i think that there-- that the president has put so-called reagan republicans back in play and blue collar workers are there for the grabbing. >> thank you, sir, i think you laid it out very well. kenneth blackwell, former secretary of state of ohio, thank you for sharing your perspective. >> good to be with you, kelly. >> kelly: all right. >> two big automakers teaming up to build a different kind of sports car, it's green, it's fast, it's affordable. did they do it? gary gastelu is checking out the 2013 skien sos and showing off fancy driving. >> it's the most anticipated hybrid car of the year, not the kind you're thinking of. not even close, you see the skien srs is the product of a joint venture between toyota and subaru that has building

the best affordable a sports car in the world and good to see they didn't set the bar too high. to clear it, they kept the car small and the weight low. and allows the rear drive coupe to get by with 200 horsepower tucked way down in the chassis, extremely low center of gravity translates into excellent handling. precise steering is practically hard wired into your brain and everything is perfectly placed into the cabin including the gear selection for the close ratio transmission and the emergency brake not for parking, but for doing this. >> and the srs is something of a tribute to the rear drive toyota corolla of 1980. still popular today. and it had to be good at traction and stability sports systems, and disabled independently to turn up the fun even more. if you don't count the subaru

version, called the brz, the fr-s no haggle price of $25,000. the only options an upgraded stereo and an automatic transmission, if you actually consider the latter an option in a car like this. for the sporting intentions, the fr-s is practical car, with great visibility. and comfortable on road ride and reasonable fuel economy, thanks in part to help from another hybrid. believe it or not, those are the same tires you can get on the toyota prius, chosen not because of the high quality efficiency, but they're a little slippery and helps to do this. in englishtown, new jersey, gary gastelu, foxnews.com. >> jamie: he's a show-off. if you want to learn more, foxcarreport.com. >> kelly: the chairman. federal reserve board calling our economy far from satisfactory.

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>> to the economy now, a stern warning this week from the federal reserve. chairman ben bernanke calling the u.s. economy quote, far from satisfactory and making it clear that his agency will take new action to give the economy is boost. the nation's unemployment rate hasn't improved. jobless at 8.3% in july.

what do the feds plan to do? will it be enough? let's can ask the founder and manager of car guile investments. thank for being here. >> thank you. >> we know that the feds did what we call quantitative easing. or qe 1, 2. if they did it again would it help? did it work last time? >> the fed chairman stepped up and quoted some articles or fed research that showed that, it actually stimulated the economy by about 3% on gdp and created 2 million jobs. but even the chairman admitted that those statistics are somewhat questionable. because you have to make some assumptions to what would have happened in the absence of quantitative easing. now, quantitative easing drives down interest rates, they're buying securities and artificially lowering the rates and the amount they're lowering rates is quite a bit. and the short-term rates

should be about the rate of inflation, so, somewhere around 2%, currently they're at zero, so it really punishes people that are savers and pension funds and retirees, while trying to help borrowers, and we just don't know what impact that has if the savers had more money to spend. >> could it impact the inflation? >> well, you can't have measurable inflation without wage inflation, so with unemployment above 8%, there's too much competition for jobs which means we can't have that measurable inflation and we know that because you look back the last two years, and crude oil prices at $100 per barrel and yet there's been no measurable inflation, without a wage inflation, there isn't anything that the government can measure as far as inflation goes. >> and it sounds great that they may lower interest rates, but are the institutions lending? are they making it easier for people to borrow? >> well, i think the people that are qualified buyers have

actually borrowed as much as they want to at this point. and we've had two rounds of quantitative easing, if gdp is 15 trillion dollars and they have stimulated the economy by 3%, that means 450 billion. so, you know, that's a return of about 25 cents on the dollar. so, we've tried it, i applaud the chairman for trying it and there's too much liquidity in the system now. we need government just to back off, let the economy do what it does, which is clear the prices, and reallocate assets and then we'll have a situation where interest rates go back where they should be, and it will help us all and i think in fact, stimulate the economy through higher interest rates. >> and some experts say that's what we should have done from the start. keep an eye on it. we really appreciate your thoughts. my pleasure, thank you. >> he's a smarty, kelly. >> kelly: he is indeed. students out there are smart, but now days, just days away from the start of classes

could call all the brand new school supplies be posing a risk to their health? dr. david somati with what you need to know. @

>> for kids as they head back to school.

a new report drawing nationwide attention and researchers fighting high levels of toxic chemicals as school supplies. dr. david somati, is a member of the medical a-team and chief of robotics at the mount sinai medical center. doctor, this is troubling for a lot of parents with children going back to school. let's talk about toxic chemicals. how are they entering into a child's school supply? >> you know, it's a really great information. because even my own kids started the school and i'm concerned about this. a nonprofit for health environment and justice and basically look at the products that the kids use, starting from lunch boxes to backpacks, to rain coats, to rain boots and looked at 20 products and what they found was that over 80% of them. they have more chemicals, something called fatalates and it's been banned in europe because there are a lot of studies that may cause cancer,

and it's really toxic, especially for the kids, and we talked about it in the house, may show up in lipsticks, in nail polishes, products and shampoos. so this is not good news and i think we also don't know the right level. f.d.a. has never really come up with a right level. how much you have to have. >> kelly: are they a derivatives of plastics? >> they're part of the vinyl, parents should know look for labels that says pvc-free products. one of the good things, it's not as derivative of vinyl and that's dangerous. >> kelly: so mom and dad look for the warnings. >> some an unavoidable. if they're chewing on rain coats and part of the backpack or knapsack, stop it and get one of the pvc-free products. >> kelly: you mention some things were unavoidable. what i thought would be unavoidable now would be whooping cough and apparently it's back.

massachusetts alone has probably the largest single case going right now and i thought with vaccinations this would be out of the way. is why is this reoccurring? >> another place that impacted by this is new york city and we're seeing that about over 975 cases just in 2012, which is 30% more than last year, and the question that you asked is really excellent. why is this happening? and some parents don't believe in getting these vaccinations for whatever reason, whatever their opinion is, the other thing you need to have five vaccinations, two, four, six months, 18 months and another bootster at four to six years old and that booster shot is extremely important and a lot of parents may or may not get that. >> kelly: what's your advice for parents right now. >> excellent. i personally would call one of my doctors and see if i need a booster, i'm in contact with my kids, in school and bring that pertussis, can cause whooping cough, so we as

adults, who are in contact with the kid, we may actually need to get one of the booster vaccinations and certainly, make sure that your children are immune and get the vaccinations. >> good advice. >> jamie: i would read up more certainly on the school supplies, before we go request i cannily, college, meningitis vaccine controversial, yes or no? >> a lot of the vaccinations go through a lot of tests and the side effects are short-term and a lot you read on the blog, not sure-- >> talk to your doctor. see you back for sunday house call next week. >> that's right. >> jamie: thank you so much for joining us everybody, i'm jamie colby. >> kelly: i'm kelly wright. thanks for joining us, the journal editorial report is next, in the meantime, have a great day everyone. >> jamie: take care. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. tap into a single pool of shareable data

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