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defendatow defendatow defendatow fendatow defendatow defendatowremove them. heecomes mea thg weun iquewill from the white house. the white house is in some sense trying to ignore him but has also made direct shots at him hiding libehind his on, using religion as a crutch. he mentioned his faith when he gave the speech on the floor. about why he felt he had to follow the facts that had been presented to the senate and vote for the president's removal from fice. >> kuala do you think there could be political repercussions for romney. when it comes to the it us h >>ow thisere is no question. percussions for him, his state. tat has to be of concern. the president mentioned as such. i think he is getting supporem
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fromrats. it's interesting to watch. it was interesting to watch the silence that came out of the senate. people that had known him for years, respected him for years o had not forward to affirm for him in anway. we will see how this plays out. he is willing to take the he. he made that clear. >> definitely. this week ron probably did see, the president gave the third state of the union address. we have seen presidents dating back to reagan use a that as way to honor americans who have distinguished themselves. this speech seemed totake it to a new level when it came to bed that and reality tv vibe. is rancor, paship. what was the reaction in dc?>> we have not op talking even with everything. people are still talking about trump snubbing pelosi when he did not shake her hand
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and she dropped the honoring way when the president was introduced. most dramatically, the ripping of the speech. in beeen we saw dramatic moments. sympathetic people in the gallery getting some kind of recognition. many c people of color, african-americans. the president reaching out campaigning. doing it in a way that was inclusive. of freedom to rush limbaugh in the gallery he had milani a hang that around his neck. there was no way you could stick it to democrats, liberals around the country at by doing that with rush. he's been diagnosed with age 4 cancer. he is sympathetic person and i respect at this ment.
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nonetheless s not a chair that went up from both sides of the aisle. >> definitely not. for lizzy had the last word ripping the speech. i want to move to the democratic presidential race. we did not have the iowa careus. we may never ly know the outcome. given that debacle. we have seen pete and bernie wh called victory. does the strength of the different candidates tell you about where the races.>> the rf mance of joe biden. itopened a derate lane that pete has taken going into new hampshire. we will look how it plays out opens up an opportunity for michael bloomberg. he is looking at wrangling the morate voters. e is inplbig msg elme whe they played in iowa, new hampshire. the pete bernie debate will get
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more and more heatedas a comes to california cop people already voting. 15 million ballots went out. more votes than in the fi t four statcombines. this will be a place where they will throw down. we will see how moderate and progressive work out. as kuala said, people are voting in california. we have new hampshire, south carolina, nevada still to come. where do you think joe biden, elizabeth warren stand? ont. th both seemed in the andacies are to some degree in question may be on life-support. joe biden needs to havecaa tehe have. if he does and it will be tough to bounce back. south carolina was a s popularity. itugh for biden.
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it may be his last chance in the next 2 weeks to t back on the winning side. it looks like a heavy left. elizabeth warren may benefit by people stepping back and saying bernie sanders is to socialist, admittedly, gladand bracingly socialist with a me largercan public or the larger democratic voting public. she has a lien to run in and she has to recover the momentum. as you noted, she lost. michael bloomberg, betting on california, how is he looking question mark >> his events had been filled. 200 people. there. 20 dooffices.@of ements. he will aggressive. thank you both so much. >> thank you. concern mounts
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over containing the coronavirus epidemic. twzen countries infecting n 31,000. mostn china, the epicenter. more than 600 have died. here in the united states there are 12 confirmed cases cl ing 4 in the bay area. health officials declared a public health emergency and announce drastic measures to contain the spread including citizens who recently traveled to china. joining me from washington, dc is the congressman. >> glad to be here. >> y are a doctor, lawmaker. you ever saw a hearing on the epidemic. can you talk about how you want to communicate to the public in versus not causing panic.>> it's important for the public to understand that while there
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is a risk, the relative risk to americans is low. vigilant. n, we arbeing our cdcrk, g with hospitals. making sure they have the latest information. public health professionals are doing routine screenings as travelers return. people show up with symptoms. were doing a great job. olving. t said, it rapidly a week ago we saw the trump administration implement what restrictions around banning non- us citizens returning from china. quarantining people who are en american citcoming from a region where the outbreak began. what is your sense on whether that was rolled out properly. hallenbeck?>> it caught a lot of public health officials ke me and the administrative
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one thing that came out of that hearing this week. travel bans will not be ve effective. you still have goods, services, planes arriving from china. we know the virus is no longer confined to a particular region. countriewing up in lots of you cannot ban all travel from everywhere. there is better methods. very quickly come up with better diagnostic tools to do rapid diagnosis. the travel ban probably isn't going to work. >> what would you like to see the trump administration to?>> the first, use evy tool, t resourmake sure we get our cdc public heth officials, epidemiologist to the epicenter. we have the best trainein the world. that's how we can get the best information. secondly, what we learned from the 2014 ebola crisis. you have to have a command
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structure. multiple agencies will be involved. you have to have a single individu in charge that n coordinate cross agcies as well as international response. that's constantly in communication. what the most concerning thing in terms of containing the virus? how the chinese government deals with it? how global the world is in terms of travel? >> a little of both. the fa, the world is interconnected. people travel, goods and services move around the world. the erreal corighnow, we don't have the best informatio in terms of incubation time in terms of how it is transmitted from human human. in terms of can you transmit this when you don't have symptoms? are we only infectious when we have symptoms? that's why it's important for us to get personnel into china at the epenter, study it,
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understand can't do contacts. so we know what we are dealing with. what your sense on how cooperative the chinese government is being in terms of letting americans, other nations send scientists. >> cdc has been asking send personnel. chinese have been slow to respond. my understanding, trump had a y conversation yesterth the chinese premier. hofully the chinese willwork with us closely. we have the best personnel. this is not criticizing china. it is now a globalepidemic copy endemic. we should all be working together to figut how to best get ahead of it. we are troubling stories around the against chinese people. to the public whit comes to age that type of thing.>> my message. this is a virus. it doesn't know lture, where the person was born, in china, in the u.s. we have to make
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sure we don't overreact. it's never appropriate for us to single out a particular ethnic group. >> elk magrove congren composition, thank you so much fojoining us. two thank you. this week the centers for disease control started shipping out coronavirus test kits scientists work around the world to develop a vaccine. orining me is docharles an infectious disease expert and professor in san francisco. thanks for being here. a bu time for you. can you explain what is coronavirus and why is itng ous? when you hear symptoms, other on this benign. a runny nose, fever.>> coronavirus is a group of virus known as common cold virus. seasonal viruses you see year
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after year. symptoms you would get, fever, nasal congestion, runny nose, cough. but, as for coronavirus along with other virus, a subset, i soividuals may get very sick. most people will do fine. bell nojust have upper respiratory illness. some people will get sicker. the coronavirus can thuse pneumoni can be life- threatening. we are hearing about not necessarily the rihig patients getting sicker. is there something about the strain that makes it more dangerous? do we know?>> we have to vidistinguish this coros from the seasonal coronavirus is. we have 7 known. for our seasonal. these we see ye after year.
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it is actually thoughnaseasonal corus is comprise up to 10 up to 30% of all respiratory infections. common cold, 10 to 30% caused by coronavirus. this is a new virus. as best we can tell, arose, in rly last year. late vember. recently there was an animal, human transmission. occurred in china. of virus that has never been seen in humans. as a result there has en more concerned. we don't know. you been us working on rapid diagnostic testing. this has been challenge. how close do you feel you are. sh that something we would widevelop rapid diagnostic testing. the cdc has a test they are g running, screenr patients, individuals returning from china who may have been in effect. this is a test that typically you have a patient, individual
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who may have symptoms, y have been returning that is infected. the sample get sent, usually an nasal swab. it gets sent to the cdc. you get an answer in 24 hos. thin a day. we are working on a test where we c get an answer within one hour. i want to develop a test where you can take the sample and do the testing at a patient's bedside, in emergency room or in e future and airport. where you want screen patients that may have been exposed returning from china. o how close? >> ve the test working. it is currently in a research laboratory. the nextstep, test in a clinical laboratory. engage with the fda. they approve aldiagnostic testing. they do have a fast track halfway.
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especially urgenpublic health care needs. especially diagnostic. >> what about a vaccine? th do you think would be possible to have a vaccination?>> certainly. there has been a huge drive. vaccine is the best way to prevent virainfections. especially because they can be ubiquitous. as you know the influenza vaccine. a vaccine not 100% effectivye ever is still helpful. it can decrease the number of infections. there's been a lot of interest in the vaccine. we had interest from the sars outbre00 which occurred in ccine developed. was a sars it was never used because the outbreak was over. i suspect there will be more opportunity for vaccine developers thitime around. the new coronavirus has caused more cases, many more than
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sars. in the meantime, we see mandatory quarantines as a way to prevent spad in the u.s., a broad. do you see the quarantines as an effective way of halting the spread? >> the ort answer. it is unclear. we don't know whether or not quarantines that china placing, extensive. they close the entire city. there is an extensive quarantine that preve to cough from erdit locations. it's unclear whether quarantines are going to be able to stop an outbreak like this. i think we will know in a few weeks. there has been a hit or miss, issue with quarantines. once you put a quarantine place and prevent travel. you prevent the badly needed
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medical supplies, resources you outbreak and previt from spreading further. it remains to be seen. it's a doub edge sword. >> doctor charles, thank you so much.>> thank you. and new kqed radio documentary explores e killed her 3-d daughters. during the trial they said she suffered from post partum pstihosis. it can sos lead to deadly violence. most of the u.s. hasn't caught up with medical silence. a recent law requires screenings of w moms for postpartum. joining me is the producer of ed ril. tory, producer, your story documents the heartbreaking story. tell us about cal and her husband.>> they were a normal
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couple. they met in a doughnut shop. they both lovee dodgers. they fell for each other quickly. they got married. they had kids quickly. 3-d daughters in less th three-year's.>> carol is now serving a life sentence in prison. you talk to her at the prison. does she understand?>> in some ways it is a mystery to her. the doctors believe she had postpartum psychosis. what is common with psychotic experience is that your brain isn't really working. your thoughtaren't forming. your memory, it can be hard to fo memories. for carol. she says she n'dot esthat day. e
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it couldbecause of what happened, she was in this psychotic state. but also, carol seems to me quite detached. that can be common with the for her this was. ce. she loved her children, she loves being a mom. th is extremely difficult for her. >> does she understand they are deceased? >> i think she does. she rationally knows. sometimes i talk to her and she talks about them inthe present tense. >> people are becoming familiar e th postpartum. th no legislation to en between that and psychosis. >> they eyare related, both occur after childbirth. doctors believe they are caused childbirth. changes related to theytwo different conditions. postpartum depression is more
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common. about e five will experience. postpartum psychosis, one in 500. >>ot that unusual. >> some doctors think it's undercounted because of symptoms. there not classic psychosis with llucinations, paranoia. in ostpartum women it's confusion, disorganized thoughts that i was talking msout. because sympcan wax and wane doctors sometimes miss it. >> family members. how about violen? >> violence is rare. postpartum psychosis, depression are treatable. with medication koch treatment it can go a. if left untreated it can be severequickly. lot of moms might feel at some point that they are a bad
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mom.>> overwhelmed.>> if you are psychotic, delusional, it becomes a fixed belief. some moms truly believe they are a bad mom. they would be better off dead. sometimes that extends to well maybe my kids would be better off with in heaven. >> heartbreaking. ed you analprison records. likely 100 serving sentences for killing their children. the vast majority in the first few years after kids were born. talk about why they are in prison aw state law defines insanity, murder. >> insanity is a legal term. the definition we use in california was written in 1840 through a. it says a person is insane if they can't tell the difference between right and wrong. our understanding stof rtum illness is recent.
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doctors don't always recognize symptoms of postpartum psychosis. it has only become mandatory to scre in the last couple of years. the law does not fully capture the understanding that we now have of some of the conditions. some gets a filtered through moral test. >> was she allowed to introduce evidence? >> she did. she did present evidence of postpartum psychosis. the law is so narrow, the way it is written there is not a lot of latitude for how j can interpret. >> other countries treat this differently. ere is any chance we can k change state laws to mirror how we look at it in the eu.>hein countries they treat the offenses as a separate tegory. it's considered more manslaughteras opposed to
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murder. i think the s. is far from reaching that. there are steps some states are trying to take where they can reduce the sentence. >> april, we will keep an eye out for the rest of your reporting. thank you so much. you can hear april's radio documentary. that willfor us. itthanyou for nd joining us.
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