they have the same heart. jamie colby coming up next and i'm john roberts. thanks for watching. >> . >> jamie: fox news alert. new information just coming in on a pair of attacks in afghanistan that killed at least six americans today. a car bomb targeting a convoy in the province filling three u.s. service members, two american civilians along with an afghan doctor. the u.s. military report, another american citizen died in an insurgent attack in eastern afghanistan and all of this comes as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey arrived in afghanistan. he's there to assess the level of training american troops should provide afghan security forces after the 2014

withdrawal. another fox news alert to tell you about, tracking developments now in north korea, as some newly surfaced video revealed the nuclear armed nation is reportedly ramping up its military. hello everyone, i'm kelly wright. >> jamie: and so are we, kelly. i'm jamie colby. welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters. the video released on north korea state television and reportedly shows leader kim jong-un firing a gun as he inspectors various military exercises. today another show of force, too, and state television releasing video of thousands of north koreans in quote, combat ready positions. attending a mass rally that is going on across the country. hundreds of south koreans continue to exit, meanwhile, from a joint industrial complex amid new reports that the north placed two missiles on mobile launchers that may be the medium range, the

ballistic missile. it's believed to have an estimated range up to 2500 miles, capable of striking not only our troops in south korea, but also u.s. bases in okinawa and guam. david piper streaming live from seoul, south korea. david? >> reporter: hi, jamie. yes, north korea isn't missing any opportunity to show that it's getting ready for war. it's now revealed that its boosting artillery shell production. north korean television showed the country's young leader kim jong-un urging workers to produce more shells. that once war breaks out they must destroy the enemy quickly with a sudden strike and high quality artillery and shells to make sure a rapid preemptive strike is successful. the south korean capital of seoul where i am now is not far from the north and easily within rocket and artillery

range. it's thought they have artillery pieces trained on seoul now. and north korean told that embassies in pyongyang should be evacuated by april 10th if the crisis escalates, and those in the north korean capital hasn't made a decision. and the u.s. has no diplomatic presence there. north korea often tests missiles aon important dates. and born on april 15th. and in bellicose statements, they have threatened attacks. and the obama administration is down playing fears of war here. the white house said they wouldn't be surprised if north korea launched a missile and south korea confirmed the north moved two missiles to the east coast this week and could be planning a missile test. in theory, the missiles could

reach the u.s. territory of guam, which the north has threatened to attack. now, the u.s. is sending a missile defense system to the u.s. island, and it has already got ships stationed in the area, and south korea has sent two ships to sea to intercept any missile. back to you. >> jamie: david piper live in seoul, south korea, kelly. >> kelly: a year and a half since kim jong-un was declared supreme leader of north korea and hasn't wasted any time in making a name for himself. and kim caught the u.s. off guard by successfully firing a long range rocket. they claimed they put a weather satellite into orbit, but the u.s. believes it was a cover for technology. and in north korea conducted the first and most powerful nuclear test as well and a month later north korea canceled the 1953 armistice that ended the korean war.

weeks later pyongyang declared a state of war with south korea and now we have the two medium range missiles sitting on the coast capable of reaching the u.s. troops in guam. >> jamie: all be taken very seriously. the question, how will the u.s. continue to respond to the threat? i sat down this week for an exclusive pentagon interview with army chief of staff ray o dchod ierno to discuss this. you're sending in bombers, ships. >> many miscalculate the capability and will of the united states and i believe that they will do this in a way that we sustain the capability and capacity and i would suggest-- be very careful miscalculating and misjudging what our capability is. >> do you have judgment that kim jong-un has what he says.

>> being a new leader, there's he an unknown about why he's doing this, and what does it mean? it's incumbent on us to watch it it very carefully and to see what mitigating actions we can take. >> jamie: much more with my interview will air tomorrow starting in the 11 a.m. hour, that's only on the fox news channel. kelly. >> kelly: looking forward to that. well, police in texas arresting a man for threatening a district attorney, in the same county where two prosecutors were recently murdered, i should say. robert alan miller is held on 1 million dollars bail. he is the second person arrested this week for making similar threats. kaufman county is on edge after the murders of district attorney mike mclelland, his wife cynthia, along with the murder of his assistant d.a., mark hasse. police do not believe either of this week's threats are related to those murders.

>> and manhunt is going on for a member of a white supremacist gang wanted in the murder of colorado's prison chief. police want to question thomas guolee. he may be armed and dangerous. guolee's mother is urging himself to turn himself in. >> i know that he needs to turn himself in. i don't want to visit a grave. don't stay on the run, the more things can happen even if you're not involved in them and your name could come up. so turn yourself in and get it over with. >> and yesterday police arrested james lohr, a fellow member of the same white premises gang and he has the words "hard" and "luck" tatooed on his face. and they were in contact with evan ebel, the prime suspect and killed in a shootout with

police. >> a group of family of and sandy hook, headed to washington, and the goal of speaking with every senator who is not for tighter gun legislation. and meet with them as lawmakers come from spring break as they help push through connecticut's gun laws. those bills signed were the toughest in the country, just signed by the state's governor on thursday and barack obama has invited the group to attend his speech monday in hartford. >> kelly: how about in? a new battle budget i should say, going on right now in washington. president obama now saying the proposal that he will release next week isn't, quote, his ideal plan, and early reports, however, of entitlement cuts included in the plan are drawing criticism from both republicans and democrats. and molly henneberg joining us live with more details about

this battle that's going on over the budget. >> hi, kelly. president obama said today that his budget is a quote, compromise, but so far, republican leaders don't see it that way. the president will unveil the details on wednesday, but it's said to include some tax hikes. and some cuts to the growth of social security and other benefit programs. here is what the president said in his weekly radio and internet address. >> my budget will reduce our deficits, not with aimless, reckless spending cuts that hurt seniors and middle class families, but through the balanced approach that american people prefer and the investments that a growing economy demands. >> republican house speaker john boehner seen here with the president last november, said the president already got the tax increases he wanted at the end of last year and now it's time for spending cuts. as for the president's expected cuts to social security growth, speaker boehner said, quote, if the president believes these modest entitlement savings are needed to help shore up the

programs there's no reason to be held hostage for tax hikes. that's a way to lead the country forward. and the president is getting criticism from the left flank. bernie sanders who caucuses with the democrats, is urging the president not to cut future social security increases, and many people will be disappointed if the president, caves on the item. >> kelly: and he says it's not his ideal plan. we'll follow the developments. thank you. >> jamie: what's the next step in this budget battle? let's bring in our political panel, fair and balanced, a former media spokesperson for former president george w. bush and christy, a former spokesperson for governor howard dean, president of new heights communications. ladies, welcome. an all-chick chat. see how it goes. let me ask you christy what we can expect with the

president's plan? >> well, i think what he's put forth is something na any first-year law student who has taken a negotiations class will tell you it's not a good idea. he's basically put forward what his last best offer is, he's put it first-- he's put it forth first. so basically what he's asking for is cuts to social security and medicare which is going to make a lot of democrats howl and a lot of republicans pretty happy and asking for modest tax hikes as we know is going to make some republicans unhappy. so it seems like he's starting from a pretty unusual place. >> jamie: if that isn't a compromise that would work then, mercedes, what other options are there? >> look, he's in a tough position. when you look at what he's put forward, it's going to be trying to bring in the republicans, trying to sell it to the democrats. you're already seeing the liberal democrats attacking the president, you're seeing the republicans cautiously seeing where he's going to go next, but the tax hikes are going to be very difficult.

the president just got 1.7 billion dollars in tax increases in the beginning of this year. and what we're seeing is, if you're looking where the economy is going, i mean, it's sputtering along and we know that tax hikes is not going to be the solution. and it's goisomething he's not bringing in the budget. >> jamie: and the tax hikes already, the republicans argued that's what the president asked for and what the president got. if he's going te tax hikes now, where does it end for those folks out there already hard-hit. what can they expect? is he coming forth with everything he wants this time? >> well, i think we're being a little misleading on the fact with speaker boehner, we've had $2.50 for every dollar, so 1 1/2 trillion dollars in spending cuts has happened,

only about 600 billion dollars in new revenue. so, it's really not been a balanced approach up to this point and what we've been cutting, job training, medical research, law enforcement, critical, important government programs that we do want to invest. in what it sounds like what we're hearing on the republican side, all spending is not good spending. that's what we're hearing. >> at this point, let me ask you, mercedes, your report card on what the president, we expect him to announce, what it means for the american people, as it stands right now, and if you're not in agreement with what he wants, what does work? >> i think he's taking his eyes off, you know, the goal post here. i think what you're looking at, you know, we've seen nearly half a million people drop out of the labor force. we're seeing that again, an expansion of government programs, we're seeing already the payroll increases that have obviously impacted these job numbers that we've seen just in march. i mean, our economy is

sluggish, so he threw in the stimulus money back in 2009. it was supposed to lower incredibly the unemployment number. we're not seeing that. so, again, it's honing in on the fact we've got to look where the economy is. this budget is clearly no balanced approach at all. we're seeing it's skewed towards the tax hikes and there's no net spending cuts associated with the budgets and bringing back 1.2 billion dollar for the sequester cuts so in essence is not taking the approach of reining in the spending, effectively reducing the deficit and i think he'll have a hard time selling it not only to his party, but to the republicans. >> jamie: christy, it's hard to make everybody happy, why is it complicated? you have numbers that you're spending and numbers that you want to raise to get that spending, but you also have this deficit that grows by the second, how do we get it under

control? and why is it that this president cannot put forth a budget one time that really gets us on the path to equalling it out? >> well, sure he has. i mean, that's not really fair, jamie. >> i'm not stating an opinion, but why come back now with more when in fact, we've already had some tweaks to the budget and tweaks to entitlements? >> why would he come back with more tweaks to entitlements? >> i'm going to agree with you on that point. it's going to make a lot of democrats angry and it has. the truth is the president seems to be forgetting he's actually in a position of power here. he's the person just reelected fairly handily, americans love and feel passionately about social security and medicare, and in the policy, too, the fact that social security doesn't add a dime to the deficit. we've said this again and again. it's financed differently, by the fact that people are paying into it their entire lives. so, it's something that seems like it's going to annoy

democrats and not attack the deficit problem. >> jamie: let me let mercedes weigh in on that, it's interesting, christy is saying that the president's policy is not correct. >> well, i mean, i would agree in terms of that it's just not enough for the enentitlement reform. when you look at the budgets, our entitlements are eating away at our budget and in fact, also increasing to our deficits, so, to say that and then we-- the big elephant in the room is obamacare. with the tax hikes coming with obamacare, with all the regulation, i mean, we're looking atmajor impact on small business and the economy in general. he's not focused on the fact that we need to be creating the jobs and getting people off the government program and that's the opposite effect we're seeing with this president. >> jamie: i have to leave it there. maybe that's a topic for another segment. i hope to have you both back. thank you, great to hear both of points of view today. kelly. >> kelly: and very good to see

what's going on there. the world watching for north korea's next move. leaders in pyongyang warning that some diplomate's time is ending for them to leave the country or the government won't guarantee their safety. and what does it say about the previous threats? ambassador john bolton. >> jamie: new twists in the jodi arias murder trial, i don't think a trial has been followed this closely. what a former. >> julie: are is saying about the case. >> kelly: teachers are clashing with police and where the protests turned violent. [ kate ] many women may not be absorbing the calcium they take as well as they could because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption.

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>> time now for a quick check of your headlines. there's a juror removed from the jodi arias trial and now she's speaking out. >> i didn't appreciate the negative comments and some people thought that i came to court for attention. that does not mean that's who i am and all the time that know me, they know that's not true. >> jamie: well, the woman known as juror number 5 was kicked out of the case after discussing and being accused of discussing the trial with

other jurors. meanwhile, teachers are clashing with police and it's going on in mexico. they've already blocked a major highway for hours. they're protesting several new educational reforms imposed by the government. you might want to think before you go to ikea for lunch today, but they are withdrawing, kelly, don't do it, moose lasagna, who knew from the stores across europe after detecting traces of pork. ikea previously removed meatballs after they had traces of horse meat. hope you already had lunch. >> well, in today's installment of beyond a dream, we focus on education. did you know statistics show that every 26 seconds a student drops out of school? i know, it's very hard to believe and fathom that.

one is fighting against the staggering drop-out rate. this is their story. >> on february 1st, 1960 fourth students from north carolina amt go to sit down at a lunch counter and demand to be served. in 2013, four black students who are now welcome at the lunch counter sit down and can't read the menu. how did this happen? >> noted educator, dr. howard fuller, one of the founding members of the black alliance for educational options is deeply concerned about the state of education among black students. against the back drop of gains made during the civil rights era fuller is trouble by the trends of today. >> we're now killing each other on the streets in chicago, in detroit, and milwaukee. i mean, we've got children who can't read, can't write.

i've got to do something about that. >> he's not alone. several hundred concerned parents recently rallied in new orleans to show their support for parental choice and making sure their children have equal access to high quality education. high school of performing arts student from st. louis, minnesota presenting their song and video, urging students to be more, be more than a statistic, challenging them not to drop out, but to finish school. >> we have more drop-outs than graduates and we're trying to stop that from happening. >> kelly: black students came from all over to orlando, florida to learn how to fulfill their dream by going to college. the symposium is the largest gathering of educators of reform. and a single mother wants a better choice for her two

young children. >> where i come from we don't have the-- we need something better, i have small, young kids and all they know is violence. >> kelly: a successful business owner of jackson, mississippi once thought it was impossible for black students to be falling so short in education. >> and the kids in my neighborhood and parents and come to find out there was a 70% drop-out rate in the neighborhood. parents, even poor parents want a choice and why should only rich children have a choice. >> kelly: the work is applauded not only by workers and parents, but-- >> can you fight for the greatest gift that god gave us, the gift of our children who deserve so much better. >> i'm a doctor, a ph.d., coming out of a housing project in milwaukee, wisconsin. the only thing that got me to the point that you and i are

having this interview is an education. >> kelly: with an education, all things are possible. they're fighting for charter schools and home schools and fighting for scholarships for low income, working class black families, it's gaining bipartisan support in congress. >> jamie: thank goodness he is. great story, kelly. well, we have new jobs numbers. they're pretty dismal and we want to tell you what companies are not hiring enough to get the economy going. >> plus, we are watching the delicate situation unfolding in north korea as the rhetoric heats up. ambassador john bolton weighs in next. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness?

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attacks in afghanistan. and killing three service members and two american civilians. and comes as chairman of the joint chief martin dempsey arrives in afghanistan to assess training ahead of the 2014 withdrawal. and president obama is pitching cuts to entitlement programs to all the tax hikes in his budget plans. some republicans are calling the move too little too late. and nuclear talks between iran and six world powers have failed to reach an agreement, that according to the u.s. foreign policy chief. iran is demanding release from sanctions before any possible deal with iranian. >> jamie: back to our top story today and probably for days to come. north korea double down on aggressive rhetoric in a series of threats that came this week, including ramping up its military. today we're getting new

military of the regime organizing massive rallies with many carrying posters, including ones that reads, quote, all-out war, punish the u.s. and their followers without mercy. the situation both the white house and the state department are watching very closely, not to mention the military. elizabeth prann live in washington, hi, elizabeth. >> reporter: you're right. jay carney reiterating that north korea is only making its self more isolated from the rest of the world and undermining any attempts at peace or economic development. >> we've obviously seen the reports that north korea may be making preparations to launch a missile and we're monitoring this situation closely and we would not be surprised to see them take such an action. >> reporter: a state department official also saying there's really no need to act in haste when dealing with the rogue country. >> we all know that this is an unpredictable regime and an

unpredictable situation. again, our posture remains to take prudent measures, for both ourselves and our allies, but to continue it to urge the dprk to change course, but it will continue their isolation. >> reporter: and north korea warned embassies, such as british and russian embassies in pyongyang to evacuate their facilities and do so by the 10th of this month. the first time in months we've started to see a little more action. north korea placing two missiles on launch pads tucked along the east coast. the biggest threats are those missiles hitting japan, south korea or of course, the u.s. bases in guam. now, nations across the world not taking these threats lightly. the u.s. has beefed up military defense systems and guam sent two more ships to sea on the east and west coast.

>> jamie: appreciate that, elizabeth. good to see you. >> reporter: you, too, thank you. >> kelly: and let's turn to former ambassador john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n. and fox contributor. good to see you. let's get to the heart of this. as you know, this is latest threat and about 200 countries have embassies in north korea and the u.s. isn't one of them, but you've got the u.k., rush and they say their safety cannot be guaranteed after april 10th, they're prepared for this, but should everyone be taking these threats seriously? >> i think when you have a regime that's in our terms, is irrational as north korea, it would be very imprudent not to take at least the possibility seriously, that north korea would do something that would constitute military hostility. i don't think that's honestly what they're up to. i don't think that that's their objective, but there's

no way we can be certain and that's one of the reasons why dealing with this regime is so dangerous and the risk of miscalculation is so high. we cannot appeal to them in terms that we think rational. in your report going in, people said, well, if they continue on this course, it will simply continue their isolation and it won't result in a better standard of living for their people. you know, they've been isolated for 60 years, they couldn't care less whether they're isolated or not. their people are perennially close to starvation, they don't care about increasing the material benefits for the people. that alone should tell us that their thinking is very different from ours and therefore, when we see the belligerent steps and hostile rhetoric, although in our terms it may seem senseless, in their terms, they have something in mind. we just don't know what it is unfortunately. >> kelly: why do you think they're doing this in the first place? as you mentioned they're going

through their own poverty, a lot of that is self-inflicted. why not be more concerned about their economy and why are they doing this? >> well, i think their objective, as best you can piece it together, is they are trying to get the rest of the world to accept that they are a nuclear weapons state and by that, to end the sanctions that have been imposed on them and to allow them to do what they want to do and keep their nuclear welcomes. the pattern they saw was pakistan and india, which detonated nuclear devices in the late 1990's, sanctions were imposed aen then lifted and we accept pakistan and india as nuclear weapons state. that i think is what north korea wants and its own perverse way of thinking, they're using this belligerent rhetoric and cutting off ties with south korea and threatening to launch missiles as a way to get the rest of the world rather than put up with this irrationality why don't we accept that they are a nuclear weapons state. i think that would be a great

mistake, but i think that's what the north koreans are trying to do. >> kelly: as we heard in jamie's interview with army chief of staff, the general, he said i would advise against any miscalculating to respond, to deter, anything provocative launching a missile against guam or threatening south korea. let's talk about kim jong-un of course the leader of north korea. he's only 30 years of age. is he doing this all of this on his own or listening to hardliners within his regime? >> it's an important question and we don't have a good answer to it. it may be that kim is the, you know, the third in a line of hereditary communist dictators, that's a unique situation in the world in and of itself, maybe he's in charge of north korea. it may be that he's simply a figure head and the military is in charge or it could be a hundred different variations

of that in between. that's one of the reasons why it's so difficult to understand exactly what their logic is, because their leadership structure is not transparent and we really don't know the balance of power within it. one would have to say that it looks like a year into office this could be an effort to try and prove himself and that's why, for example, launching these missiles that we've just heard described, is being prepared for launching, could be a way of showing his determination to withstand pressure from the outside. and you know, given the guidance systems of north korean missiles, anytime they put a projectile in the air, we have to be worried about it. >> kelly: and indeed you're right. ambassador, thank you for sharing your perspective with us, and we can only hope we can get beyond the precarious situation. ambassador john bolton, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, kelly. >> jamie: i appreciate the mention of the interview, it was unique to sit down with

the general it talk about what the u.s. is doing and capable of doing. one of the things he addresses tomorrow in our exclusive interview at 11 a.m. eastern is given sequestration, how capable are we of responding and does kim jong-un, he questions, need to prove credibility to his people and others after the threats he's already made. >> kelly: and keep in mind, we're very credible and i think he said it distinctly, do not miscalculate the power of united states in responding. and the world. kelly, thanks. >> kelly: a new jobs report being released and the numbers are not encouraging at all. in fact, just down right flat. our next guest explains why he thinks the president's policies are having a major impact on jobs here in america. ♪ [ instrumental ]

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week, they are not the good, not good at all. and employers adding only 88,000 jobs last month and that's the fewest in nine months. well below the six-month average, and they actually need to add at least 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth. and on top of that, the unemployment rate fell to 7.6%. at first glance, that may seem like good news, but only fell because more folks stopped looking for work. it's discouraging. and ed butowsky from chapwood investments, joining me. how bad is it? >> it's bad. relative context, the reason it's important that everyone follows this and not just be a spectator is because the jobs market is really a key indicator of the strength of the economy. the economy is strong. we're going to have more business and more economic abbictivity and as a result mor money going into the

government in the form of tax revenue. if we don't have that, we're forced to print money to pay for entitlements and the expenditures. and it's important for not only the united states, but around the world. so this week was bad, but where is it going? >> well, that's a great question. you said, you gave a statistic that's spot on. just 125,000 jobs needed to keep pace with, you know, from the number of people entering the work force or the birth rate in terms of how many jobs we need, but we really need 300,000 jobs a month for at least a year to get us healthy. so if you look at 88,000, that's really, if this was a score in class or in some university, that test would get a 29. we failed miserably. and you know, what are we going to need to do to turn it around? a lot of things. the reason that people aren't hiring. the number one reason the surveys say is because of obamacare and lack of clarity on the business front. >> jamie: you know, that 29 grade in red at the top of the

paper and bring to your parents and have explaining to do. the president doesn't have reelection coming up and he is set to go and time to turn it around. what does it take? >> what it takes is a very pro base environment and it takes for somebody in the administration to hit the control-alt-delete and if we keep doing it we will not change it. the president will continue to get the 29 on the score card, maybe lower because there's no good reason for anyone to hire because they don't have a clear understanding of the future. obamacare is expensive and the regulations are expensiven you see it over and over again and it's starting to happen. we see it's not working and what upsets me the most is that we see it, but we're not willing to go out and change it and that's concerning and all americans should be very concerned that the president's not willing to change his posture on any of his positions.

>> jamie: on the one hand, you want to see a change, if that's possible. >> yes, we do. >> jamie: on the other hand, i want to ask you, you're right, more jobs, more tax revenue for the people who are already working, maybe won't have to experience as many tax hikes as i was trying to discuss with the panel, it's one after another, potentially. what other indicators are impacted by jobs numbers? >> well, really, everything. i mean, jobs is a key indicator and use an understanding of the growth domestic product number that's going to come out as well. everything really plays off of that. i always say that the jobs numbers is the springboard for economic activity. if you have a good jobs market everything gets better and we'll be able to build roads and have more tax revenue and not necessarily have to print money and devalue our currency, that's another reason everyone needs to think about this. if we don't have the money and we're 1 1/2 trillion dollars short every year right now between a trillion, just on how much we spend, and in the interest on our debt so we have to come up with a 1 1/2

trillion more dollars and what we're doing now is printing money devaluing our currency, if we get the economy going, we get more tax revenue into the government, we're not going to have to do that. >> well, you've got our attention, ed. >> ed butowsky, always good to have your opinion on these things, this is a biggie. take care. >> thanks, jamie. >> kelly: it is a biggie and it can increase your high blood pressure. we'll talk about that. high blood pressure a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke and the numbers are on the rise. dr. somati is here with a stunning new report and what's behind the increase. bjorn earns unlimited rewas for his small business take theseags to room 12 please. [ garth ] bjors small busiss earns double miles on every purchase every day. produce delivery. [ bjorn ] just put it on my spark card. [ garth why settle for less? ahh, oh! [ garth ] great businesses deserve limited reward here's your wake up call. [ male announcer ] get the spark business card from capital one and earn unlimited rewards. choose double miles or 2% cash back on every purchase every day.

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>> very important topic right now. the numbers are indeed shocking. brand new numbers showing nearly 30% of americans have high blood pressure. the condition is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. dr. david somati a member of the fox news medical a-team and the chief of division of robotics at mount sinai hospital is here to weigh in and in full disclosure, this is something i battle with, hypertension, high blood pressure, it's a devastating illness if not treated.

>> you're right. high blood pressure is one stop before we get to stroke and heart attack and other things and this is important. now, the c.d.c. this week came up with the news that between 2005 and 2009, the number of high blood pressure has risen by 10%, which is really a striking number. >> kelly: that is striking because there's so much awareness about it now, yet, we see the numbers continuing to go up. even though the awareness has gone up. what's the cause for that? >> we have a huge epidemic, kelly. 30% of the country suffering from blood pressure and many risk factors, many segments about salt intake. the american heart association is taking only 1500 milligrams and we're taking double that, that's one of the major risks for high blood pressure, obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol. and one of the major secments, you may not taking the requisite salt, but from the processed food and meat and

you've got to pay attention to that anthes really important. knowing your blood pressure is even more important, you know? exactly what's going on. now, blood pressure comes in two numbers, a lot of people knows this. 140/90. if you have that blood pressure or higher, three times, why do i say three times? you run up the stairs to see your doctor, you're five minutes late, you're jogging up there, you get there, the nurse draws your blood pressure if it's high that's not a correct number, you have to repeat it. it's three times you have blood pressure over 140/90 you're in trouble and you need to fix it. >> kelly: what about stress, is that causing some of it as well? >> there are many studies how stress can effect blood pressure. just coffee doesn't cause blood pressure. if you have blood pressure, we can exacerbate that, but it doesn't cause blood pressure. so, you know, i think that diet and life style changes and that's one of the big things that we talk about. don't jump to any of the blood pressure medications, change

your diet, exercise, what you're eat ago cut down on the salt. and diabetes and cholesterol, anything to block the artery and the heart as to pump more, but diet is a big part of it s. >> kelly: diet and exercise. my blood pressure is 120/70. without it i'm in trouble. >> and there are studies if you reduce the amount of your blood pressure by 5 millimeters you can reduce the risk of stroke by 37%, that's huge. watching what you're eating and add a little exercise to the regiment will help save your life. if you're not good and don't reduce, exercise or eat right and you're on the blood pressure medications from a young age on, any risk to your liver or anything else? is there, you know, 'cause with every pill there's a poison. >> so, absolutely, and a lot of these medications have side effects and you want to be careful about this. that's why going to the right doctor, jamie, there are four

different types of blood pressure, beta blockers, and others, and you have to know which is good tore diabetic versus congestive heart failure and watch out for the side effects. >> jamie: it will change over time. i don't know if we'll talk about blood pressure, but we've got great topics and house call, and dr. siegel and dr. somati will be there for house call. >> other exciting news. >> jamie: see you then. >> kelly: thank you for joining us everyone. >> jamie: that will do it for us. the journal editorial report is next. kelly brought to be with you today. >> kelly: of course always to be with you. >> jamie: have a great day everybody. take care. [ kate ] many women may not be absorbing the calcium they take as well as they could because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption.

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