>> oh, my god, oh! >> >> oh, yes, fox news alert from easy street and unfortunately, this is not it today. >> kelly: which is why we're here. >> jamie: we would have come to work anyway, the numbers are in for the mega millions jackpot, millions dreaming big and visions of 640 million dollars or more, sparking at that ticket buying frenzy and lady luck, shining on three tickets in three states, lottery holders in illinois, kansas and maryland and hey, congratulations to you guys, give us a call. you guys picked the number that broke the bank, hi, everybody, i'm jamie colby. >> kelly: i'm kelly wright. welcome to a brand new hour inside america's news headquarters, the winning tickets each worth an estimated 213 million dollars, before taxes. and someone out there can look forward to a life of champagne and caviar, we hope. one was bought at a seven levin in milford mill, maryland, where peter doocy is

live with more. >> and, kelly, we don't know the identity of the winner here in maryland, but we do know that 7-eleven has seen this person because they know that at 7:15 p.m. yesterday, four people bought tickets from this machine. one of them was the winner, they don't know which of the four it was, but they know that at 7:15, somebody came in and bought one ticket, they let this lucky now red machine pick the numbers, a quick pick. and they walked out, with a winning ticket and again, we don't know who they are, we don't expect to find out today who they are, we know that seven september 11th here at this location is in line to connect $100,000 as soon as the ticket is put into the state and some paper work put through. know yesterday, a record setting day for the maryland lottery. and state wide sales just for the mega millions. 1,532 tickets were sold and the state lottery director tells the proceeds that they

get go to good causes. >> toward all the good causes and the state supports. our lottery revenue, which is about 30% of total sales, last fiscal year generated 519 million dollars. it all goes to the state general fund for the governor and legislature to appropriate and to support you know, everything from public education, higher education, and social services, protecting the environment, which is he very important in maryland, so it all goes to that common pool. >> reporter: and as you said, kelly, there are three jackpot winning tickets that got all five numbers and the mega ball. in new york though, 17 people are in line to collect a quarter of a million dollars each because they matched up the first five numbers and they didn't get the mega ball. in ohio 10 people got the first five. in massachusetts, five people got the first five and as you can see here, lucky machine over there, there's an atm that somebody very soon is going to have a very large

balance in. back to you. >> kelly: all right. peter doocy, thank you very much for that report, jamie? >> other news and another fox news alert. from syria this time. the regime of al-assad declaring the rebellion is over. and on the ground, pounding homes with artillery. kofi annan is urging syria to withdraw troops as part that have peace deal. here is the background for you, the uprising in syria began just over a year ago and it's been that long and the riots triggered by reports that school children were tortured by writing anti-government graffiti. 30,000 refugees have escaped and another 200,000 folks have been displaced and the rebellion lasted longer than any other uprising during the

so-called arab springs. >> kelly: and concerns over iraq's nuclear program, excuse he me. secretary of state hillary clinton announcing today. iran and six world powers agreed to meet in turkey on april 13th and mrs. clinton making the announcement following a security conference in saudi arabia. iran and six nations have been in turkey 14 months ago, but the talks ended after two days with no agreement and arguing the nuclear program is for energy and research purposes only. and there are new developments into the appropriate of afghan shooting villagers in the hands after american soldier, army staff sergeant robert bales charged with 17 counts of pre-meditated murders. and he's accusing investigators of stonewalling claiming that the defense team told they would have access to witnesses in a hospital, but discovered that the people had been released. >> and asking that question about afghanistan right now,

and people just get lost, i mean, so, that was our opportunity, i mean, i am concerned. my, my gut, from the standpoint is when the prosecutors are not cooperating, and that reason, they don't really have much of a case. now, i don't know whether that's true here or not. but, that's to the past. >> that's the staff sergeant's attorney again, and staff sergeant bales is being held at fort leavenworth in kansas. >> police in france arresting 19 islamic terrorists. . >> well, there you can see pt raid. they found assault rifles and other weapons during the raid and france's president saying it's not clear whether the suspects are part of an extremist network or acting alone, but he expects more arrests.

a deadlier spree earlier this month. an al-qaeda gunman murdering seven people before he was arrested by police. >> kelly: all right. let's look at the politics. wisconsin taking center stage ahead after critical primary on tuesday. three republican presidential candidates speaking today, at a faith and freedom coalition event and the stakes are raised as mitt romney picks up some big g.o.p. endorsements and doug mcelway is live with more details, how are you? >> i'm doing great. most observers and analysts believe that the clinching of is all, but inevitable. the real clear politics polls has romney up 7.5% in that state and 40% with santorum. 32.5 and ron paul at 6. romney's solid stature as the front runner, presumed nominee is allowing him and that's now in his camp increasingly

focused not on the rivals, but on the president. >> so president obama cannot run on his record. my question then is will he change his tune, his ideology, a lot of democrats were selling me after the 2010 election, like bill clinton, he's going to triangulate and work with you guys, just like, you know, bill clinton did in welfare reform. not this guy. >> and among at least one rival, newt gingrich, there's been a tactful tactical shift, that romney is likely the nominee. >> i'd be glad to help him defeat barack obama. if he couldn't get to 1144 then i think he'll see a different party discussion from that point on. i think we owe it to our supporters. >> romney's rivals were increasingly focusing on the former massachusetts governor's personal wealth agos a target and rick santorum honed in on the perceived weakness, we need someone who can talk to and relate to, not the ceo and

making jokes about firing people. and romney at bain capital, helped to create tens of thousands of jobs in the private sector, kelly. >> kelly: thanks so much for that. jamie. >> jamie: there are serious questions raised after that open mic moment between president obama and the president of russia, president obama talking about missile defense caught saying that he will have more, quote, flexibility after his election. listen to this. >> of >> well, now, some critics are asking is the president avoiding action on other key issues because it's the election season. and senior advisor to the iowa g.o.p. and communications director for the republican national convention and christopher han is a former aide to senator chuck schumer.

got to have this fair and balanced, not the first president to say i'd really like to help you out, but i'm in the election season. question is interesting, doug, what else is on the table that may not get done because the president is running for reelection? >> that's part of the problem. we just don't know. and for the president, you know, washington, you often hear that the only thing worse than a gaffe is telling the truth and certainly the president was telling the truth to say, when saying i need to get through this election before i can help you out and for a lot of people that demonstrates to the president, saying one thing privately and doing other things publicly and also, maybe, just another politician and that's not what people voted for him supported, that's not what he ran on as candidate obama in 2008. >> it's not just missile defense, issues like gay marriage, i guess, i could name a whole bunch. but, health care seems to be the one issue that the president is happy to talk about, in this reelection campaign and then there's the supreme court, who's going to

rule one way or another, so close to election time. how concerned do you think he is? >> you know, listen, i don't think he's concerned one way or the other, with the supreme court, other than to the well-being of this country. if the supreme court knocks down the health care law based on individual mandate we're going to be giving up the right to have preexisting conditions when we have insurance, and giving up the right for insurance companies to put a standard of care in place and giving up the right to keep our kids on our health insurance when they graduate college, but are still looking for employment. it's going to raise health care costs in america, now, i know republicans want us to think that in obama's second term he's going to round up the conservatives and make them eat broccoli and read darwin and things like that. but this man has governed as a centrist, we know that. >> jamie: is that good enough for the liberal base, that he doesn't have to talk about the issues that might be most important to them. if they have a question in

their minds on whether or not he's still the president for change that they want? >> well, i think there is some of that among the progressive base, but they are going to support him 100%, because they see the radical and extreme policies being bandied about in this republican primary. listen, republicans don't just want to have the government not pay for birth control. people like rick santorum want birth control to be illegal in america and like that scares most americans. >> jamie: and interesting you bring that up. particularly with rick santorum, many people say his view on issues such as contraception may be too extreme. is it too extreme for republicans or folks who wouldn't vote for him anyway. >> i think it's the later. i like chris a lot. i think we read different newspapers. i haven't seen a republican suggest that we shut down a cvs. and limit birth control. i want the same for health care for their employees that they do so in accord dan with

their faith and i don't think that's unreasonable. what we saw this weekend was telling, we sought the obama administration unable to articulate a reasonable defense of the key legislative accomplishment for this president. i don't think that the republican would have expected. we thought the administration would make a robust case for their health care agenda, but they really didn't and we saw the solicitor general really time after time get rebutted not just by conservatives, but we saw liberal members of court try and hem him along and meanwhile. >> doug. >> go ahead. >> the centrist president talks about advocating and raising taxes today and house republicans want to cut taxes for-- >> and first, this president cut taxes for small businesses more than any president prior to him besides clinton. aside from the views about birth control. rick santorum has said. >> jamie: you know. >> and he believes it's a license to do all sorts of perverted things, i don't know about that. >> jamie: that's not the issue i want to talk about. it's strategically what would you tell the president about

the issue, the question has been raised by the comment of his, it may have happened before, president clinton, certain things he didn't want to focus on. immigration is probably haute button issue, would you maybe advise the president to stay away? what do you think specifically he's he not talking about because of what he said in that? >> you know what? i think that's overblown. when it comes to foreign policy we've got to remember that politics stops the water's edge and president reagan did the same thing and talking about the evil empire and detant with the soviet union. we're going to talk about one way-- but as realists-- >> chris, you're saying it's business as usual. how do you think the people will respond, i know it's

important, but i don't attend to it right now. >> is it business as usual? >> that's not how candidate obama campaigned in 2008. that's what we're seeing from president obama right now. one reason why 2010 you saw so many independent voters who voted for barack obama in 2008 said we want to stop the run away spending and health care takeover. we want to stop the bank of america agenda and again, that's not just conservative republicans or republicans in congress, that's-- >> jamie, the obama agenda is a moderate centrist agenda and some people might even say it's center right. now, this election is going to be about one thing and one thing only and that's the economy and the president's got this economy moving in the right direction, so the republicans have to create a dialog the man might be scary in the second term. we saw the obamaville commercial that the santorum campaign put out and we'll see a lot of that in this campaign and i've got to tell you, the american people will have none of it and this president will be reelected in a walk,

barring some major economy or foreign policy. >> jamie: doug, last answer, thank you. >> i don't think any american who thinks that 14 trillion dollars in debt is centrist, obama, run away spending, run away debt and why voters in 2008 said we want to put a stop on it and a speaker boehner and a majority lead are cantor, not a speaker pelosi. kelly. >> kelly: and community rallies for trayvon martin, the unarmed teenager killed by a watch volunteer. we're on the ground in florida. >> jamie: newly revealed documents have shed light on the disappearance after utah mother now. we're going to tell you what they say about the case. . >> also, that if she were to die it may not be an accident if it appears to be one. go ahead and take a sip, and then let me know what the baby thinks of it.

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>> welcome back. imagine extra work without a pay raise and more responsibilities and health insurance and these are just some of the obstacles facing frustrated employees around the company and now some companies are beyond the paycheck offering unique work perks to find and keep that

good talent. anita voe gull with more details. hi, anita. >> hi, jamie, it's certainly hard to find a good job these days with a big paycheck and bonus. in order to get the good workers, companies are having to create a plan b to get the best and brightest and to stay competitive. >> we really are trying to keep the company in a place where you want to be and let's face it, we spend a good portion of waking hours here at the office working. >> and that's exactly why sop companies offer more than the usual health and financial benefit. they keep talented workers on board while helping to attract new employees. >> and at natural habitat adventures, the boulder colorado based company, they run free and he does the beer. >> we want to make sure the most important thing we do is invest in our staff. >> and some companies offset

heavier work loads. reduced 401(k) matching. they keep employees engaged and give them opportunities to blow off steam in the middle of the day and most people when they take a brief break are recharged and happy to refocus on the work at hand. >> workers at toy company mattel have half day fridays year round. fitness classes, a toy store and dry cleaning. >> and why drive down the street, bring it to work. >> and how about concierge service, at your desk medication and massage. adoption stance assistance, dog sitting and paid sabbatical after five years of service, maybe less money in your paycheck and less stress, too, jamie, back to you. >> jamie: you sold it anita. thank you, sounds great.

>> well, here is something to ponder when you're drinking your next glass of water. there are literally millions of people throughout the world are living without any access to clean drinking water at all. to change that, one ordinary american from north carolina rolled up his sleeves and got involved. the author of "wine to water" a bartender's quest to bring clean water to the world is helping to live their lives beyond a dream. water, it is more precious than oil. it is truly the fountain of life and where there is no clean water to drink or cook with, people die. >> people can go without food for a month or more, but we can't go without, without water for two or three days. >> doc henry of north carolina travels so many of the the most desolate and dangerous places in the world. to repair broken wells or build new ones to deliver clean water to people dying from thirst. doc, who grew up as a

rebellious son of a preacher worked as a bartender in raleigh, was a biker and musician. he discovered that millions were dying from the lack of water and the crisis gripped him causing him to take action. >> the most shocking thing when i first earned about it, what little was done about it and how little was out in the public. so, i decided, you know what? i might just be a biker and a bartender and rough around the edges kind of guy, but i'm going to do something about it. >> the first thing he did, he founded wine to water, selling wine to raise money and awareness of the tremendous need of clean water and the money he raised first. and believing that the christian relieve organization, could use the money to help provide water for people in need, but they first gave him a counter offer he couldn't refuse. >> he said, i it will you what, keep your money. how about you let me send you anywhere in the world and i'll let you, i'll teach you how to

go through the work and train you how to do the work and they sent me to darfur, and-- >> in his travels to places like darfur, where water and food remain scarce and the threat of violence, from the forces remains high, doc assembled a team of muslims and christian relief workers and worked through scary situations to complete the humanitarian mission in the middle of at war zone. motivated by the common hope to save lives. >> and i had to see the kids, they got to be children again, this war, not only was making them living in an area they didn't have clean water, but it was stealing their childhood and just to see how something as simple as clean water right there at someone's fingertips can have that much impact on a child's life is, it's a life changing experience for sure. >> doc has been working tirelessly to help with relief efforts in haiti where clean water has been needed since the country was rocked by

devastating earthquakes. in his book, wine to water, doc documents his efforts to save lives, hoping to inspire others to get involved. >> not just that, this water crisis is so terrible and needs to be addressed, but also that feeling it is for someone, even a simple country boy from the south, you know, how much it can change your life. >> dock henley living his life beyond a dream. >> kelly: thanks for doing that, doc. there are projects that you can get involved with as well. to help deal with the water crisis, to learn more, log on to foxnews.com, to get our link to doc's organization, water to wine. >> jamie: great story. also, perhaps some new developments on the disappearance of a utah mother. susan powell vanished bay back in 2009. and now, we're learning about suspicious evidence linked to her husband. also, still ahead, keep your seat belts fastened. you know the terrifying

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>> civil rights leaders are holding a massive rally and justice and arrest after the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. an unarmed teenager allegedly killed by a neighborhood watchman george zimmerman. steve harrigan is outside the sanford, florida police department. no arrests. >> reporter: no arrests yet and that's what people are pushing for. the rally of more than a thousand people have been going on outside of orlando. the rally led by reverend

jesse jackson and reverend al sharpton who spoke earlier. if there's no arrest, the shooter in this case, that it would escalate. and perhaps the economic boycott and those steps are unpopular with the local nacc and this group marched more than a mile down the road behind me over the past hour and during that march, you could see store owners and families come out to show their support. >> and it's not a hate-- or it's not a black or white thing, it's a right or wrong thing. you know, it's not hate i teach my kids not to hate i teach them to love everyone and i believe if the world had more love, less hate. then, we're a step closer to progress. >> reporter: and of course, the key question, as you mentioned, jamie, when will that 28-year-old admitted shooter george zimmerman be arrested and he claims he was acting in self-defense and that's in the hands right now

of the special prosecutor and she has given no public timetable on when that decision will be made. jamie, back to you. >> jamie: she's got quite a reputation and it's interesting. i've heard everyone say the fact, that the law in florida is peculiar and must be paid attention to as well. thanks, steve. a lot of people that showed up. and also some new details in the investigation into the disappearance of a utah mom. susan powell has been missing since 2009 and now, an unsealed search warrant shows police found susan's blood inside the family's home. her husband, josh powell told investigators it was red juice their son it spilled and found a letter that susan wrote, the title was last will and did hes tament of susan powell. >> and these are that susan did not trust josh at all and indicated that jash threatened that their children would not have a mother and a father if they divorced. and furthermore, this letter confirmed the marital discord

between susan and josh obtained by family and friends and susan wrote, if she were to die it may not be an accident even if it appears to be one. >> jamie: so different that they would release the details of this and josh powell was a suspect in susan's disappearance, but never been arrested and last month the story took another tragic turn, josh powell set his home on fire and killed himself along with those two children. >> some recent scary incidents raising new questions about safety in the skies. a pilot on a jet blue flight has a wild outburst, running through the cabin screaming about iraq, afghanistan, and al-qaeda. he was tackled and restrained by passengers, and a flight attendant, causing panic on an american airlines flight. listen. >> (screams) >> well, she was yelling at co-workers on the plane and reports say, or reports,

rather, say, she is bipolar and had not taken her meds. is there a system to spot the problems in advance? the former managing director of the national transportation saved board. shed the light and peter, good for seeing with you. >> kelly: bear with me, my voice is off and i'll explain that ask for forgiveness in advance. is it safe to fly? that's what many people are wondering not only with the pilot and the flight attendant, but what happened with air traffic contollers falling asleep on the job? >> these are both very rare events. particularly the pilot incident. boy, i can't think of one or two, you know, in the last 20 years, where the pilot has had-- been incapacitated in this way. so, these are very rare, and yes, it is safe to fly. we have the safest system in

the world. >> kelly: what about the safety sensitive position that a pilot, flight attendant, a mechanic, an air traffic controller occupy? i mean, these are very important positions, so, how do you actually put it out there to the public. look, it's okay. we can hear it's safe to fly, but how do you bring ease of mind, peace of mind to the flying public? >> well, let me talk about two initiatives that are in place and that have been in place over the past ten years, the first is a system called cockpit resource management crf. every commercial pilot. flight attendant is trained to take responsibility for safety on their own. and in the old days, they were a number of accidents that occurred because a co-pilot did not speak up and say, hey, we're getting into trouble. now, they're trained to interject and say, hey, is this the right thing to do? and in the case of the jet blue system, the co-pilot did

precisely the right thing. and the second thing is, that the companies and the employees are well aware that they're in a high stress situation. and you know, the employee assistance program, beefed up, but there's no question that after 9/11, flight crews, both in the front of the plane and in the cabin. their jobs change dramatically. and they're under a lot of pressure. >> kelly: indeed you brought out the crm, cockpit resource management and we saw the co-pilot of the flight where the pilot lost it and actually acting in the best interest, of the flying public and taking care of them and getting the pilot out there have and making sure he stayed out. >> right, and you saw the flight attendants reaching out to the passengers, to say, hey, we need some help, we need to take care of this situation. and the passengers responded.

>> you know, peter, i fly all the time. and what you said was reassuring to me and i keep thinking, okay, it's an anomaly and you figure so many flights on a daily basis, a weekly basis, a monthly, a yearly basis, the skies are very he safe indeed, but it does give one pause to say, do i want to be on the flight where the pilot, or the flight attendant, loses it? >> i understand that, but remember, you know, these are professionals and they know they have to report to duty ready to perform so-- >> what are the contributing factors to the fact that these particular situations they didn't perform? >> well, you know, we're going to investigate those, in the jet blue situation, they're looking at the cockpit voice recorder. they are pouring over his medical background, they're seeing if, for instance, within the last six months, the f.a.a. has approved the use of some anti-depressants

for the first time. i'm he sure they're going to look to see, was this pilot taking a medication that was approved? was he taking one that wasn't approved? was there anything in his medical that would have indicated that this was going to be a problem? you know, pilots over the age of 40 have to be checked twice a year by flight surgeons. so, the system will be examined. >> all right. >> but i think given the rarity of events, boy, it's working pretty well. >> and i would have to agree with you. thanks for joining us and shedding light on that and making the public feel more safe about flying the friendly skies, thank you. >> thank you. >> looking for a set of wheels? the south korean car marker-- or maker, kia, they have the great commercials, but resigning the 2012 rio, a sub compact that has an attractive price, but serious controls, and we put gary gastelu in it for a test drive.

>> look at 2012 key ha reheo, you may remember the old rio being one of the lamest, not bland. this anything but. the style, kia has become a design leader in the automotive industry in the recent years and the rio is as good looking a car in this class gets and even the interior has a neat and tidy design and upscale appearance and up poultry on the cheap side and the sheets are comfortable. and in a word, no. but for $14,000, quick as anything else on the road. and it does have a high-tech direction, four cylinder engine, good for 40 miles per gallon on the highway and while the handling is a sign. doesn't inspire sporty driving anyway, and instead. it's a relatively cush ride and a bluetooth available navigation and the voice

controlled system, that works surprisingly well. and plays lady gaga. >> of course, one thing that it does have in common with the old rio is 10,000 mile powertrain warranty-- in the 2012 kia rio, gary gastelu, fox news. >> jamie: gary's a lady gaga fan, now we know. if you want to learn more about the kia rio, go to fox car report.com. check it out. >> the u.s. is taking the lead against japan, germany and canada, but its title most americans may not be so proud of. and lawmakers say, it's really going to hurt u.s. businesses. when is it? coming up.

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though, the u.s. is on course for the highest corporate tax rate in the entire world. and what does it mean for u.s. companies and american jobs? the managing partner, and investment management. great to have you here. >> thank you. >> how did we get here? >> well, you know, we might have the highest tax rate in the world, but we also have the highest rate of lobbyists to washington to grant favors under the tax code. while our rate is about 35%, the average amount paid by corporation ises more like 25%. >> jamie: that's pretty high though and it eats into profits. into the ability to hire workers? >> worldwide it puts us in the middle of the pack, but the problem is not in the tax rate itself. but in the subsidies that are granted to corporations by the politicians, now, this is their power to raise campaign contributions that give tax breaks it different companies that are in their favor. but, actually, the taxes that

are raised are about 191 billion, from corporations, but, unfortunately, that means that some corporations pay nothing and some are paying 35%. and that's just unfair. >> let me ask you, are these corporate tax rates then administered fairly? >> well, the rate is fair, but, however, what is not fair are the different subsidies that are granted through deductions and through credits that make my tax more for making widgets than your products that perhaps is under governmental favor. >> let me play a sound bite for you. you're nonpartisan, so, you're here as an expert. so, two democratic congressmen talking about their position on these corporate tax rates. listen and then i want you to respond. >> the effective tax rates of the u.s. corporations is actually very low compared to their competitors which is why you have a situation where a company like ge is paying,

paying no income tax. >> obviously, a lot of countries, don't have the same deductions that-- and references that we provide corporations here, so, it's very tricky and take a public's rate and say we're losing our competitive position. >> all right, what do you think about that? >> well, a high tax rate and wanting to cut the high tax rate makes a very good sound bite and a good political statement to make, but we have to look deeper and we need to simplify the tax code and getting in a situation where it's fair, where profit is profit and it will be taxed at a lower rate if we get rid of the taxpayer subsidies and we pay our fair share. we're paying such high gas prices and the oil companies are recently facing new taxes that president obama announced

on these companies that already are trying to get the supply that could be more available, perhaps, if president obama released it or approved more drilling, so, the question, if it's so clear-cut and you're telling us that it pretty much is, how it should be be applied. why does the administration say this is exactly what this country needs? >> well, again, that's a little bit of class warfare, where we're going in and villainizing an industry and attacking it and allowing other subsidies to exist. americans companies are innovative and resilient and they will come up with a way to make a profit and so what we need to do is get rid of the taxpayer subsidies and let's get the companies compete on their own merits. i think that will make stronger corporations, better products, and again, it will end that conflict of interest that we have where politicians grant tax exemptions in exchange for campaign contributions. >> interesting, the taxes on one side and subsidies on

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>> the topic today. promising new studies could give hope to millions suffering from multiple sclerosis and clearing blockages and patient's veins help to ease some the symptoms. the doctor is a member of our fox news medical a-team and joins us now. and this is astonishing to me that there could be a break through. sfraul, explain what multiple sclerosis is. >> it means scars or lesions. for any moment whether we're walking and talking the brain and spinal cord, the creator of this body, how it's put together. so the signals have to go to the brain and come back, now, look at the electric cord, you have the wires, but there's an insulator around it. if there's any erosion in that, then we've still got it the message has to go through

the nerves and if there's any attack, by your immune system on something called mialin, the since lainsulator. there's tremor and coordination problems and visual problem. bowel issues and that's called ms, multiple sclerosis, an attack on your central nervous system, it's auto immune and no cure for it, see it in women between the ages after 20 and 40 and you can see the erosion. >> kelly: exactly. >> and so the message is not going to get through and a leak of the information that we need and that's what all the movement and coordination is out of whack. >> what about the latest study. what can you tell us about the findings of the studies and what kind of hope does it give? >> now something? this is not a big thing, unfortunately, for ms patients in my opinion. what they've done, come up with two studies in albany and

chicago on patients that have blood clots in their tech and using the balloon angioplasty, by removing the clots they notice some improvement. unfortunately, some of the patients would have gotten better anyway and patients were ms. and these are relapse rem remitting and i'm not convinced this is the way to go. for people watching this, i don't want you to go for balloon angioplasty as you listen. talk to your doctors and find out how they're going to help you. this is the first step of this study, it's a small study we need longer follow-up so i wouldn't jump into it. >> i was going to ask what your conclusions and recommendations were and you've handled that and some people get some advice. >> this is obviously a procedure and even though it's a balloon angioplasty and they've had some complications for this before i jump newspaper to recommend this. i'd say wait longer and there are alternatives before the steroids and physical and

occupational therapy and and alternative treatments before we do this. sorry, we need a longer follow-up for the study and perhaps in the future we get part of the studies. >> kelly: and let's hope we get that. dr. david somati. >> jamie: got to leave it there. and we'll see you tomorrow. >> kelly: apologize for my voice. hopefully next week better. >> jamie: we will rae see you tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team.