transatlantic defense cooperation that is changing right before our eyes. but what we are also seeing a something that has haunted europe throughout the past which is a potential lack of unity. take britain, it has said it would consider sending peacekeeping troops to ukraine but germany is already saying that any such talks are premature. >> john: imtiaz, can europe get together and respond to what they see as the russian military threat, either politically or militarily? >> reporter: most european nations agree that they need to rapidly raise their defense spending if they have any hope of deterring this newly emboldened russia. right now nato members are mandated to spend a minimum of 2% of gdp on defense, and that is likely to rise to 3%. but it has to be said that europe has already overtaken the u.s. in military and financial assistance to ukraine since the start of the war by many billions of dollars. still it's ukrainians who continue to pay the ultimate

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>> we had ems here that had blankets on the heaters while we deployed the boat. we got them wrapped up, and then brought them back. >> reporter: a brutal winter storm system that thrashed much of the south this weekend left swaths of eastern kentucky underwater. >> we just got hit by one of the most significant natural disasters we have seen in our lifetime. and that's after seeing a lot. >> reporter: kentucky governor andy beshear towards pike county, one of the worst hit areas and warned residents that flooded roads can be deadly. among the dead, a mother and her 7-year-old daughter swept away after trying to cross this bridge in bonnieville. the hart county coroner tells cbs news that that flash flooding flipped the car trapping the two inside. we were there hours later when crews began rebuilding the bridge. at least 11 tornadoes touched down across five states. in atlanta, a tree tour through this house killing the 61-year-old man inside. >> got to the back of the tree

line. >> reporter: fire chief mason michael told us his biggest concern is safety. >> this situation we came on the positive end. that's not always the case, and that's not always the case with our responders. >> reporter: one other thing we notice, first responders left that truck behind. we are standing always away from it now as we are looking at about a foot deep of floodwaters here. they see that decision was deliberate, hoping to send a warning to anyone thinking about driving through. barricades blocking roads like this. john, maurice. >> maurice: nicole valdes in bowling green, kentucky, thank you. >> john: some same areas and kentucky are bracing for snowfall. >> maurice: lonnie quinn once again is tracking that one for us. lonnie. >> reporter: yes, a different sort of precipitation. look at what kentucky will be dealing with by the time we get to wednesday. you betcha, cold air and place

this time it will be snow and blanket the entire state anywhere north of georgia really will be dealing with the winter storm as it pushes on through the area and moving snow like i said because of the temperatures plummeting out there. and this one is not just confined to kentucky. anything you see here either in purple or light blue it's either extreme cold air warnings or advisories, zoom in on that number, that's a heck of a number in williston, north dakota, starting off wednesday morning. gentlemen, listen to this, that number 41 below zero is not a windchill, that's your actual thermometer reading. back to the kentucky situation you're putting snow on top of the ground. not rain, but some of that has gone more than frozen rain that will cause that number to exacerbate in the days ahead. >> maurice: we will be watching. lonnie quinn, thank you. >> john: parents desperate to help their autistic child discovery doctor with the right prescription. >> maurice: how he is putting old medicines to new uses in tonight's "eye on america." that's next. next. lp their autid

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>> maurice: president trump created the make america healthy again commission to investigate the causes of childhood diseases and conditions including autism. and as they search for a cause desperate parents are looking for treatments. for some it means thinking outside of the box. dr. celine grounder has tonight's "eye on america." >> reporter: there hasn't always been this much joy in mason connors world. his mom caroline's concerns began around his first birthday. >> he was not talking. no language. >> reporter: their pediatrician did not seem worried. >> i think he just thought he

was a boy and he would develop ad it would be fine. but at two years old he was diagnosed with autism. >> reporter: they looked for anything that would help mason. >> we started researching on her own and that's when my husband joe came across dr. frye and a research study he was doing. >> reporter: child neurologist richard frye is looking for many treatments that can help children with autism. he is studying at leucovorin, an inexpensive generic drug derived from the vitamin folic acid that is currently described to ease side effects from cancer chemotherapy. >> it can really have a substantial impact on a very good percentage of children with autism. >> reporter: in some kids folic acid, essential for brain development can't get in. leucovorin bypasses that blockage and can help some autistic kids improve their ability to speak. blastoff he has a rocket ship. mason's first word came three days after he started taking leucovorin at the age of three. the baby was? >> purple. >> reporter: purple.

currently doctors can only prescribe leucovorin for autism off label which means repurchasing a drug approved for one condition for another. >> we have done the science and the next step is we want to get more funding so we can actually get it fda approved. >> reporter: but there is one big problem. why haven't pharmaceutical companies invested in clinical trials to study leucovorin to treat autism? >> leucovorin is an old drug, and you can get it for a very low price. so nobody is going to make a lot of money on it. so there is no reason for them to invest. >> reporter: but there is a reason that 20-30% of all prescriptions in this country are off label. that's because they're more than 14,000 known human diseases with no fda approved treatment. >> i'm alive from a repurposed drug. >> reporter: dr. david fajgenbaum is proof of what is possible. a rare cancer like wellness almost killed him, but the

research into his disease led to a drug met for another condition. >> it's heartbreaking to think about drugs on the pharmacy shelf while someone suffers from a disease. >> reporter: his nonprofit every cure uses the power of ai to scour available medical data on both diseases and treatments to uncover potential matches. >> i think our system is flawed. there is a major gap where drug companies are great at developing new drugs for new diseases and we as a system are really lousy at looking for a new diseases drugs. >> reporter: mason is five now, and the plan is to start mainstream kindergarten in the fall. help towards a new path by an old medicine. for "eye on america" i am dr. celine grounder in phoenix. >> maurice: the cdc says one american child and 36 has some form of autism. it affects four times as many boys as girls. and in tomorrow's "eye on america" after those southern california wildfires, a

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and george's birthday was moved to february 22nd. >> maurice: washington went on to defeat britain, found the country, and become its first president. enough for congress in 1885 to make february 22nd a national holiday. >> john: which was for decades until 1971, when washington moved the birthdate to the third monday in february that gave us a nice long weekend, but do the math, it means washington's birthday never falls on washington's birthday february 22nd. >> maurice: and the dissing didn't end there. washington's birthday morphed into presidents' day. how did that happen? >> john: during the monday holiday debate in congress, a member from illinois, the land of lincoln trying to have washington's birthday renamed presidents' day to also honor lincoln, born february 12th. >> maurice: that was rejected, but the idea was now out out there. and in 1971 when that first monday g.w. holiday fell on the 15th much closer to lincoln's birthday than washington's, it added momentum to the presidents' day movement.

>> john: texas changed it states holiday to presidents' day, and more than a third of the states have done so since then. they did not agree however, on the apostrophe. before the s, after the s, order no apostrophe at all. >> maurice: and there is no agreement whether they are honoring more than one president. washington and lincoln deserving, but filmore and

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