welcome, today my come padre talks about tv journalism. and we'll hear from jose hernandez, nasa astronaut about what it's like to look at the earth without borders. ♪ we begin today with the dreaded d word, diabetes. there's a -- starting in one hour in san jose, to talk about this disease, and do some health screening and what not. with us today, is jesse dela

cruz, with the american diabetes association and lisa chan is a nutritionist, volunteer with the american diabetes association and soon to teach growiyoga, i' learning. welcome to the show. let's talk about in depth about diabetes itself, because you see the numbers, you work with the folks. how impressive lent prevalent is it? >> diabetes is quite frightening, as you know. we're looking about overall in this country, nearly 24 million people with diabetes in the united states. as we sit here today. every 20 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes. so think about that. if we were to sit here right now and count to 20, by the time we reached 20, someone in this country will be told by a physician they have diabetes. so every 20 seconds. if you look at that, you're looking about 1.6 million people per year. get the news about diabetes. so as for prevalence, nearly 8%

of the u.s. population has diabetes. so i would consider that to be an epidemic in this country. >> doesn't matter if you're latino or asian or african-american? >> no, it does not discriminate, unfortunately. it hits all communities. prevalence, in some communities, a little bit more. for instance, if we look at the latino community, we have a high prevalence of diabetes there. if we look at the more vulnerable segments of our society, let's look at children, for instance. of all children born in the united states in the year 2000 and after, one in three will develop diabetes in their lifetime. now, think about that. stop to think about it. one in three of all children born in this country in that year and after, will develop diabetes. >> you're here to scare us today, aren't you? >> absolutely. but, you know, if we look at it closely, the matter gets worse. let's go into our ethnic communities. of all latino children born in the united states in the year 2000 and after, 50% of them will get diabetes in their lifetime

if things don't change. so you see, that's the key, day monday. that's the key to -- the message we want to present today, that diabetes, though prevalent, though an epidemic in this country, and though those numbers will come true, if we don't do anything, we still can change the future of diabetes. we know the future. 24 years from now, the numbers for diabetes will nearly double refuse prevalence in the united states. the cost of diabetes in the next four years will nearly triple in this country. so if we make no changes, we're heading down the road for a health catastrophe in the united states. and diabetes will certainly lead the way. >> but we can do something at home, and that's why you're here, lisa, because you can help us out and tell us what we can do at home, maybe some things that we're not doing. what can we do at home? because is it a preventible disease? can i start doing something to make sure i don't get it in ten years? >> there's two different types

of diabetes, type one, where the body doesn't create the insulin to process the sugars we eat. and then there's type two diabetes, which is preventible, where the body is actually producing the insulin, but it's not being registered by the body. so the body is putting out all this insulin, but it's not being checked through the body. and helping make sure that your blood sugar levels are even. so the first thing that we want to do is start with education. your children need to know how the food that they're eating will affect their bodies. and then how they can make the changes to be healthy. >> and i know that -- i mean,is hard to get the processed foods away from kids. but is that where it starts? >> a lot of it has to do with processed foods. i think for people in our communities that have parents from other countries, it's really important for them to remember what is healthy about the foods that are from their own countries. a lot of the kids that are

trying to assimilate here, they look at the commercials on tv, and what are they seeing, mcdonald's and all their friends and the people around them are eating mcdonald's. and that's what they think of the typical american diet. well, compare that to maybe what you're eating at home. fresh rice, you know, beans. you're getting a lot of nutrients that aren't in those happy meals and things. so, again, showing the difference between what you're getting from the happy meal versus what you can get at home is a big thing. >> do you find it -- what you're doing with the american diabetes association, the more you're educating families at home that they're starting to maybe change that trend, jesse? >> i think that's -- i think that's true. i do believe that the more we -- we make people and families here aware of diabetes and how to prevent it, the more success we're going to have in preventing diabetes. and it's not -- it's not really a great task to prevent diabetes. it's more our attitude and how we look at it. for instance, i was at a school

a couple months back, about 600 people there. and i asked a question. how many of you here know three ways to prevent diabetes, if you do, raise your hand. so all these hands went up, right? okay, great. now, how many of you practice all three of those ways? and all the hands went down. so -- and in that sense, we know what's good for us, damon, but we rarely do it. and that's how come we have to continue to create awareness and education regarding diabetes. and we have to do so in the home first. we have to do so with parents and with children or vice versa. children educating the parents, which is possible. it's not selling the kids short. and so i think that's very, very important, and i see that we're making progress there. and we have to continue that progress, because the children are most vulnerable. i think a segment of our society, we have got to do something in the home, in the kitchen, in the kitchen, to start changing the perception of how we live to our attitude on what we're going to do with

ourselves. for instance, we have a child coming home from school. one of the first things they do is grab a snack. next thing, they run up to the family computer, get on myspace, whatever these sites are, and spend hours and hours working on these, or playing around with these or surfing the net, right? >> no more playing ball outside, and you're going to have a soda pop, hamburger, chips there, and this is what we have to let families know. this is not the healthiest thing, a bag of chips i guess this high -- i don't know the exact weight. but you get a regular bag of chips and you're going to have about ten teaspoons of fat. so you have ten teaspoons of fat you can consume in a bag of chips and then you throw in a soda pop with the sugar and the calories and that's your snack, right? on a computer, you're not moving around, no physical activity. so you're not doing yourself any good. >> and so there's where we have

to start, in the family home to get that message there. and in that way, we can change the future of diabetes. if we don't, the numbers i gave you will absolutely come true. >> it's amazing. well, it's happening in under an hour, there is the information on your screen. it's actually owe the date is wrong. it's actually today there at the national hispanic university. log on to the website, diabetes.org. we'll be back to talk more about what is happening. stay with us. jerry brown's good. but what really happened? cnn -- not me -- cnn says his assertion about his tax record was "just plain wrong." jerry brown went out there and took credit for the fact that the people of california voted for proposition 13, which lowered taxes, which he opposed. and now he's going around taking credit for it. he raised taxes as governor of california. he had a surplus when he took office and a deficit when he left. he doesn't tell the people the truth.

wore're talking about diabes here. and lisa, you made a good point when the lights were off about this not being a hopeless situation. there is hope there. >> yes. so, again, this is a very severe problem that has really been unprecedented. you look at the one in three children born in the year 2000, and they won't live to the life expectancy their parents are going to live to. so people ask, what do we do about it now? what can we do now with our

children to prevent that? and it starts with small steps. if you have a family that's going to mcdonald's two or three times a week, because it's the family dinners, what they like, it's not saying well now you have to go to the grocery store and rechange your entire schedule, eating schedule. instead, let's focus on what we can do. so instead of, you know, taking the mcdonald's and just eating it right away while you're going back home, hold the bags and make it a family event. be more aware that you're actually spending time to eat that food. so granted, it is mcdonald's, you know, it is going into the house. but let's start with the actual act of eating. the more aware you are of what you're putting into the body, the more you'll be aware about your fullness cues. and, you know, maybe you don't need two hamburgers, maybe you only need one. >> o come on. >> so -- and, again, education is also really important. and that's a trial and error

process, too. when you look at little kids learning new foods, of course fruits and vegetables, you should never force a child to eat something they don't like. and it's actually going to take about 20 tries sometimes before a child will actually like a new food or fruit or vegetable. the thing is, if it's at the house, then it's there and the child knows that it's present, and that it's part of the meal. so if they see the parents eating it and enjoying it, they may not like it the first time, they may not like it the second time. but if you keep on introducing a fruit or a vegetable, eventually they'll be curious about it and might want to try it, too. so always providing your children options. >> well, thank you so much. those are great i hope so tips. what's going to be happying in the next hour. >> well, presented by the american diabetes association and our friends at tell amundo. a mariachi group for the parents, a zumba dance

celebration. i expect you to go on stage and help out, right? and we're going to have a dance group. it's going to be an awful lot of money. but for the kids, as well, we're going to have a group of clowns there shall a lot of balloons there, face painting. so what we have here, damon, is family entertainment with a strong message on diabetes. we're never going to lose that message on diabetes. so it's a combination, family fun, festivity, strong education, diabetes. we have got to change the future of diabetes. and not only in this country, but in various ethnic communities, as well. it's crucial to us. >> thank you so much for scaring us straight this morning. thank you for your input. really appreciate it. rchs thank you, damon. >> it's happening now over at the national hispanic university, starts in less than one hour. . ring ring. progresso.

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he's known as the godfather and also back at channel 11 with us here. welcome back to your old stomping grounds. >> thank you. my pleasure to be here. >> what has the -- we're here to talk about a program that you all are probably familiar with. but before we get to that, i want to talk about how we're doing in the news business right now, because the way things are developing, we're not doing things the way you studied journalism. we're not doing things the way i studied journalism. bloggers have a big influence. the radio journalists are now rolling, and most every station has them. what are your thoughts on the evolution of your former industry? >> i think the bar has been lowered. i think that when you have a professional journalist and a professional cameraman or camerawoman going out to cover a

story, it's better if they each focus on what they're doing versus what is happening now, which is to send one person to do all duties. ask that's just not what brought television journalism or the journalism we knew of television, that's not what brought it to the pinnacle that it reached. so i'm -- as someone who i think went through the best years of television journalism, the '70s, the '80s and the '90s, it's painful to watch. i'm able to watch it now, because i'm retired, not that i'm home watching news, but i'm able to watch it when and if i want to. and it's -- it's bothersome to see what is happening. i understand the reasons it's happening. i understand that it's economic.

but when you lower the bar on something that is part of democracy, it's painful. and the essence and the best of journalism is part of democracy. and to see the bar lowered for that is painful. >> wow, your comments are eye-opening. you carried a press pass that you probably have the authority to still carrie one. i carry a press pass wherever i go, and when i talk to kids, i tell them it's like an officer's badge. your duties of the press pass is paramount to everything else when you're out on the street. when we were talking about bloggers and some people who are out there representing themselves as media, they don't have a press pass. and so there is a -- is it a fine line, or is the line black and white there, that those who don't have that press pass who are bloggers, maybe, they don't have the scrutiny that we should have as journalists. >> it's not a fine line.

it's a very, very defined line between what they do and what journalists do. the press pass is your license to report the truth. to tell the viewer what it is that he or she was not able to be in front of, to be a witness to. and we are there, their representatives, for an event that happens. so to lower that expectation, that license, is to lower, again, a part of democracy, which is a full, you know, one of the elements of a full democracy is a complete, complete freedom of the press. and if you start watering it down, and in different degrees for different reasons, then i

think we're diminishing what the founding fathers intended for the freedom of the press. >> very well put. let me lighten the mood a little bit. and i think this question is timely, given what's happening in arizona. tell us real quickly, if you can, the story when you decided to go back and help your buddies pick some crops and the border patrol arrived. >> i was picking pears where great america is today, and ins agents showed up, and started -- you know, with all due respect to those immigration agents who are reputable, the ones who showed up that day did not fit that description. and they started harassing those of us who were picking pears at montague and what today is 101 and montague.

so because i had this reaction to that, having been an immigrant child, i asked my partner working the same tree if he would -- when they would get to our tree, we'll pretend that he didn't -- that i didn't speak spanish. or rather that i didn't speak english. and so we kind of played with it. the agents asked for our green card, and when they came to me, by that point they had harassed enough people. so i pretended i didn't speak english. and this other guy was trying to do a degree of interpretation for translating for me.

and finally when they asked for my green card, i said i had one, and it was my american express card. you know, since then, i have read several incidents of that. but i didn't copy that from anybody. that was -- i don't know if it was original. it was original for me. and the agent wasn't pleased, but i proceeded to tell him why it wasn't -- it wasn't fair, it wasn't american to do what he was doing. >> and you don't leave home without it. ladies and gentlemen, it's right around the corner, it's a special scholarship program, it's an august 7th at the windom. after this next break, we'll be back and talk about this fantastic program. stay with us.

way to go astronaut hernandez. we'll hear from him in a bit. but first, what's happening in your comunidad. celebrating a special day.

and here's our address for next week. pick up a newspaper and support your bilingual weeklies across the area. we thank you for sharing your sunday for us. we leave you now with nasa astronaut jose hernandez. >> 5, 4, 3 lip lip. >> what's it like to be up in space and looking at this beautiful planet without any borders? >> it's just an amazing feeling. i'm very surprised that it had to take me a trip out of this planet to realize that, you know, once you look down on the planet, that we really are just one. that borders are artificial, are put by humans, and that really, if you look at it from the perspective, the privy had the perspective i had, to look at our planet, we're really just

one. and i'm sure that if we would be able to get our politicians up there to have that same experience, once they return, i think the world would be a much better place to live in. >> i know every astronaut gets to pick a wake-up song. why did you choose what you hose? >> i chose two songs. the first one, that one i chose for two reasons. the first one is -- it's an ode song from the era of my parents, and that's to honor my parents. and the second one is because mexico, even though i was born here in the united states, mexico has a -- accepted their second astronaut and it's a tribute to them for accepting me as such. and the second song was by gloria estefan, because you listen to the words of it, it

has a different perspective, i'm sure, from how she wrote it to how i saw it up in space. and consequently, a good story on that is that that same day that the first song played in space, i received an e-mail from gloria thanking me in space, so i thought how cool is that? >> so you went on the mission into utter space, you're back on solid ground, back on earth, it seems like our on another mission, educating kids, talking to kids, talking to adults about the importance of so many topics. tell us about your -- your second mission as a civilian, as an astronaut here on earth. >> my second mission is to touch the lives of people, so that we can motivate them to, you know, keep going forward. what motivated me to become an astronaut was when i was a senior in high school, and this is when i heard the news that the first latino, dr. franklin

dios got selected as a nasa astrona astronaut. he had the same humble beginnings i came from, he struggled the same way, as english as a second language, just like i did. and i said, man and i hadn't met him, yet he had this profound impact on me. and so my thinking is, well, what if i can actually meet kids in person? i mean, and have a bigger impact than it had on me. and consequently, i've taken that as a mission to try and reach kids and say, they have to get interested in stem areas, science, technology, engineering and math the mat i think so, because that's what's going to keep our country going forward. and in order for this country to succeed, we have to engage all segments of society, including the latinos, the african-americans, the asians, everybody has to get involved. and so that's what i'm doing, is trying to promote stem, so our kids get interested in science, technology, engineering and math.

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