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turned up in the entirety of this case. but that's not the case. the forensics institute which has been testing the bone, they found it in an area that wasn't far from where natalee holloway's last believed to have been on this island. but once they tested it, first they determined that it was human, so it's strange enough that this jaw bone with a molar attached would be found here on a beach. that's another question. whose is it then? but then once they compared the molar to nataliele holloway edental records, they realized, okay, its eye not her and they did further dn after the analysis on it just to make sure and, again, that confirmed that this does not belong to natalee holloway. so we're basically back to where we started 5 1/2 years ago. there is no evidence in this case, the mystery is still there. >> so does this reignite the search and the interest to find
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evidence? also, what does will do to investigators who may have in this two week time span had time to talk to joran van der sloot? >> reporter: we don't think they did. they said we don't believe he'll tell us anything. so there's no urgency to talk to him. he's in jail in peru on a murder charge there. and, in fact, he's accused of murdering a young woman on the anniversary of natalee holloway's death. that would have been the five year anniversary. but it doesn't reignite anything because there's no evidence and there are no new leads in the case. but we're going to be asking prosecutors more questions about that. you know, it's tough to follow because every now and then something like thisevitably it be nothing. some people not in this instance it might be something just because it was taking some time and they were being very tight lipped about it, but now we know the results.
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>> and as you say, a lot of people did anticipate maybe something different out of this and now a new disappointment no n for her mom. michelle, thank you. >> we'll shift gears and switch to a much different note. and it's about a royal revolution. will and kate have gone ahead and set the date. from the moment prince william and kate middleton made their engagement official, the questions started coming. when will they tie the knot, where will it be, what will she wear? now at least two of those questions are answered. the date, april 29th. and the place, westminster min westminster abby. >> this is their church and this is where they want it to take place. >> queen elizabeth's wedding and core nation were held at westminster.
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the church itself is steeped in history. it's been around since the 13th century. weddings cost a bit more these days. wedding of this century is expected to run about $40 million. prince charles and the middletons reportedly footing that bill. but security could cost another $20 million. and that will be up to the taxpayers. >> this wedding will contribute billions of pounds to the british economy, so i think it's great news. >> reporter: let's worry about the dress then. who is going to design it, what will it look like? >> it actually could be egg anything, but the one thing i'm pretty certain about, probably not going to look like diana's dress. >> a lot of questions to figure out. standing by live is neal sean. this is big news. we have clarification as to dates and also now to where it's going to take place, but, since there were pictures, do people
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have -- they had a head start knowing where this was likely to take place, the wedding. >> reporter: well, really where else could it be? of course it's the number one place that royal weddings more or less have taken place. we all remember prince charles and diana, but you couldn't do that wedding there. and i think actually we're thrilled finally that we've got a date. the waiting is over. everybody is now looking towards the dress, the hair, the makeup. is the queen busy making the cake to try to make money? you never know. seriously, we have to get money to make it look respectable. kate is down in wales doing shopping. >> are the middletons financially capable of meeting
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prince charles halfway with the costs? >> reporter: like hosting the oscars. get real. they don't have any money. so the middletons are middle class. certainly not in the rely ps of the royal family. so what will they end up paying for will be some gesture. it may be something along the lines of the flowers or maybe the champagne. but when you look at the size of a wedding, who from a normal family could afford to pay for this? the que royal family will take on the bulk and the taxpayer will dig deep? >> you've given me a new goal, to try to host the oscars. >> reporter: why not. >> thanks for the insight. appreciate it. >> we shift gears to a
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developing crisis. the united states, russia and china will calling on hostilities to stop after north korea bomb boarded south korean island killing at least two marines. for now the pentagon says it appears the shooting has stopped, but there's no guarantee it won't start again. jim miklaszewski joins knee f s fill us in. explain how u.s. military officials are trying to dissect how north and south korea are reporting what happened. >> reporter: south korea annually conducts these kind of exercises on that's land off the west coast of the korean peninsula. and they informed north koreans of the date and time that the exercise would be conducted as is required. just about the time that south korea started its exercise, firing its own artillery, north korea opened up with about a three hour barrage of as manies 100 artillery shells aimed it at
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the island which killed two south korean marines and wounded several others including some civilians as we understand it. now, south korea responded immediately, firing some shots in north korea's direction and scrambling some f-16 warplanes over that area. those planes did not drop or fire any weapons. but the u.s. military is pretty much in a crouch position right now. the last thing the u.s. military -- u.s. government wants to do is send the wrong signal to north korea that there's some kind of u.s. military response plan to what happened here today. that would send -- that could be misinterpreted by the north koreans and only escalate not only the tensions, but the violence there. that's the last thing anybody wants to do right now.nels are the u.s. wants to go. >> senior military officials are calling today's attack provocative and alarming. translate that for us.
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all rig >> reporter: provocative because just like the incident in march when a north korean submarine torpedo the boat killing 46, that, too, was considered provocative and alarming action. but the hands of the south koreans and the u.s. military were tied at the time because everybody knows that if there were a sizable military response against north consider rkorea, explode in to all-out war and nobody on the south side of the conflict wants that to happen. >> jim miklaszewski, thank you, jim. want to shift gears and let you take a peek at something we're watching. a bird's eye view of what's taking place in philadelphia, pennsylvania. this is a developing story as we are watching. the philadelphia spectrum is about to be demolished. now, this is not an implosion, but it's supposed to be
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demolished today and we're taking a look from the chopper there. nbc affiliate there giving us the bird's eye view. do we know what time it's supposed to take place? this hour. anytime this hour. should we put up a tick down clock? no. we're not going to put up the tick down clock. see, don't you just love this? but it says enter to win. but we'll continue to watch it. moving on. fewer people will be randomly selected for those controversial pat downs that you've been hearing about in the media and for those who do have to go through the procedure, john pistole released a video remi reminding passengers of all their options. >> you have important options that we want you to be aware of. you have the option to request that the pat down be conducted in a private room and you have the option to have that pat down
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witnessed by a person of your choice. >> tom costello is in our washington bureau and joins us. everybody is all upset about this and a news poll released, 68% said investigating threats is more important while 26% want to protect their vie vaprivacy. but 50% say the pat downs go too far. that seems to be the tsa in a tough position to give all of us the safety that we need and also give the airlines the safety that they need, but people are saying, you know what, this is just too much. >> it's a balancing act and i had say not everybody says it's too much. as we have done our own, you know, just ad hoc polling of our own out on the airports, an awful lot of people come up and say it's the price we pay for security. yes, there are people who feel like it's over the top. but let me give you some statistics here that i think are rather telling. the tsa says only 3% or fewer than 3% of the people who are-of-sorry. a jackhammer just went off in
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this building. it's a bit distracting. another statistic. of the 99% of the people who go through the full body imaging scanner, fewer than 1% of the people who do, complain about it or opt out. so the vast majority of people are going through the scanner, they're not complaining about it, and only a tiny fraction of people ever opt or go through that pat down. there have been widespread complaints about these pat down as being evasive, as being entirely too personal. the tsa says it is only going to tweak it ever so slightly. it will reduce the number of random pat downs, but it's not going to replace the policy for either the full body scans or the pat downs because it says that the terror threat right now from al qaeda remains very real and very immediate and they're concerned about al qaeda's
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attempts to bring down planes especially going into the holidays. >> and i know we'll be talking about this tomorrow as some groups have encouraged for national opt out day to take place as we start to ramp up toward the holiday itself. so we'll see you tomorrow unless you're off for the holiday. >> i'm on call, you know how that goes. so tsa and the airlines are all underscoring tomorrow is going to be an awfully busy travel day and they're hoping that most people would prefer to get to grandma's house on time rather than stage a protest and probably miss their flight or cause others to miss their flight. >> we shall see. tom, good to see you. people in georgia are calling a cold and calculated murder. a father of two shot to death right outside his son's plea school. he had just dropped off his 2-year-old son when a man walked up to him and started shooting.
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this man was targeted? >> reporter: if they do, they're being pretty vague. they do say they're going to be investigating russell n snyderman's business dealings ands his work with charities. he was dropping off his so that at this preschool. when he was walking back to his car, police say another man walked up to him and shot him at point blank range. his brother was detailing what this has done to the family. >> my niece and neff new will never know their father. my sister-in-law has had an entire life time of dreams ripped from her. our whole family has lost it brightest light and we don't know why. >> reporter: the police department has released a sketch of the man they suspect has shot
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russell snyderman. obviously they're looking for tip. the family has issued a $10,000 reward hoping to generate tips and hoping to get information that will lead to a capture and conviction of this killer. >> tom, thanks so much. remember those secret talks between the taliban and afghan government about putting an end to the u.s. led war there? it turns out the taliban wasn't at those meetings. plus smokers not need apply. we investigate. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart are teaming up to bring you a low-price medicare prescription drug plan called the humana walmart-preferred prescription plan. it's a new plan that covers both brand and generic prescriptions and has the lowest-priced national premium in the country of only $14.80 per month and in-store copays as low as $2. when you could save over $450 a year, you can focus on the things that really matter.
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what's happening in philadelphia. fans have gathered to pay homage to a building about to be destroyed as they make room for a new concert hall that will be coming to the philadelphia area. the spectrum a south philly institution since 1967. it will be cleared and the space will be used for philly live, an entertainment area, bars, shopping, restaurants. going to be also adjacent to where the sports complex will be over to the right of the screen that you see there. it's kind of the in the same area. but also people are going to be able to take a brick away from this as they're going to be selling parts of the old spectrum after the wrecking ball hits today. the flyers, the 6ers, as many sports fans know played there for a long time and also concert fans will be aware that the grateful dead performed there. a lot of people have memories,
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but they say this is going to be happened, controlled destruction, in the next couple minutes or so. we'll bring it to you right here on m sflt nbc. so could lighting inleave you out of the loop on the job front in strict new policies that keep smokers off their hiring list. is this a good business decision or civil rights violation? jo gentlemen, thanks so much for joining me. smoking has already been banned inside the workplace for health reasons. and then it was banned in bars and in restaurants for the same reasons. and now this is going as far as to say that health issues aside, maybe, andrew, you can explain this. isn't a form of black listing and something that goes against most all of our civil rights? >> i don't think it's really an issue of black listing. you don't have a right to smoke at work. and i'm not sure that's the best way to frame the issue. really we're talking about an
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idea that's not very helpful for businesses across america that are struggling with enough on their hands right now. we certainly don't have a debate about whether smoking is a crisis, whether the cost of health care is a crisis. what i think this debate is about is whether this somewhat marginal practice is really the direction that employers should be going across the country. >> but in a world where we have unemployment rate at almost 10%, if the person i'm competing against is a smoke and the business doesn't want to hire new because they're against smoking, aren't i the likely candidate to get the job? >> that's certainly a factor. it behooves people not to smoke no matter what. we're bearing the cost of their deadly habit in a million different ways as a society. i think ceos that i work with that i represent are trying to
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solve big problems. and they need big solutions. this is one approach. it's not very practical. p it leads to all kinds of unintended consequences. one being that i guess we're all -- if we're working at a company like that supposed to take a urine test with our interview, supposed to report on if we see a co-worker on the weekends smoking at a party, where does this really go and isn't it really just a did distraction when there are so many best practices that companies are using that actually work to deal with what we all are going to agree is a very serious problem? >> professor, why would any business want to institute such a policy like this? >> two very good compelling reasons, one is for every smoker that you don't hire, you can save over $12,000 a year, money which could be much better spent providing more benefits for your nonsmoking benefits or ultimately hiring more moi es.
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second for the same reason that probably an anti-gun organization or animal rights organization would not want to have -- employ somebody who is a hunter in his spare time, hospitals don't want to hire somebody who is a smoker off the job and have the people checking into the hospital, have to stand there in front of somebody reeking with tobacco smoke. the problem you're suggesting that it does not work. there are dozens of studies showing asking people to quit doesn't work. it's now been going on for 30 years. a growing number of companies are refusing to hire smokers. they want a smoke free workforce just like they have a drug free workforce and every service is coming out saying that's what the public works. you can see it all on our websi website. >> but drugs are illegal and that's why your employer doesn't want to be doing drugs. smoking is legal. >> that's not why employers are not in the law enforce the business.
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employers are concerned about the bottom line. smoking costs almost $200 billion a year, most of which is paid by nonsmokers in the form of higher taxes and head insurance. that's probably 100 times more than all the cost of illegal drugs. employers are not hiring smokers because it costs too much and it presents the wrong image. you don't want to go to a gym and be checked in by somebody behind the desk who weighs 300 pounds. you don't want to go to a hospital and be checked in or be told by somebody who is trying to get you to improve your health habits who is reeking of tobacco smoke. >> so last question. do either of you smoke? >> no. >> i don't smoke. and by the way, i wouldn't want my employees smoking. but that doesn't mean that i want to offer a urine test at an interview or, frankly, to pre-screen people who look overweight because they'll cost more on our insurance. the real question is -- >> andrew you know most don't require blood tests or urine tests. you also know that it isn't
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working. and just yesterday on the radio, you said that your organization hasn't even taken a position on this issue. so you're talking from personal point of view. all i'm arguing is not that that somebody thoo do it, but they should have the freedom to do it if their good business judgment as employers responsible for the bottom line they find that it is better not to hire smokers. >> that's true, but as long as smoking is legal, professor, people will be able to legally smoke as long as they want to. >> but they are pot required to be hired and no employer is required to bear the $12,000 a year cost of hiring smokers. that's the very big difference. >> it's a great debate. >> my issue, john, is that i'm -- >> andrew, i hate to cut you off, but we're out of time. gentlemen, we'll have to have you back on to continue the conversation because obviously it can go a long longer than the time we've allotted. but thank you both for coming on today. the next time you get a statement from your bank, you might want to take a very careful look at it.
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some wicked weather is wreaking havoc. this tornado touched down outside chicago. five students and a driver were hurt. another twister ripped roofs off of barns and homes in wisconsin. as many as seven struck. thousands still without power. and more heavy snow is expected for washington state. roads are slick. at least three defendaaths are blamed on that storm. >> so to vaccinate or not? the debate up next. plus, brace yourself for this next one. the world could be running out of chocolate. say it isn't so.
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here's a look at some of the top stories. qantas will resume flights of the a-308 this saturday. the pentagon says no service members were discharged from the military last month for being openly gay since the new "don't ask, don't tell" rules were adopted. the vatican is clarifying the pope's comments about prostitutes and condoms. pope benedict says male and female prostitutes should use condoms to prevent transmitting diseases not just males as previously stated. and border officials seized more than a ton of marijuana in arizona on friday. it was hidden in a vehicle with a camouflage cover. >> well it if you haven't checked your bank statement in a while, it may be time to take a closer look. some say they're paying more
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fees than ever even after the government passed new laws to protect consumers. lisa myers is in jacksonville with more for us. >> so this is your son's statement? >> correct. >> reporter: what put peggy over the edge was wher hensn her son charged $2 just to check his account balance before he withdrew money from his bank's atm. >> so to try to be a responsible banking participant, they penalize you for $2. that's wrong. art and when he used another bank's atm, he sometimes paid $6 or $7 to get $40 in cash. all the fees have eaten away at money he earned over the summer. >> $2.95, $2, $2.50, 2.$2.95, $. >> it's insane. >> reporter: the last straw, the bank recently added a monthly pay of $8.95 for what had been called totally free checking.
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she says parents can no longer teach children to trust banks. >> now you tell your children about a bank to warn them off on all the con games and scams and the knick nickel and diming that goes on. >> reporter: fees have gone up across the board. >> fee increases we're seeing on everything in monthly service chargeses to overdraft fee, even a it tm fmc atm frees. >> reporter: if you want an account that pays interest, the average minimum balance required to avoid fees has soared from $511 to $3883. some consumers who weren't watching their statements closely have learned the hard way. barbara nelson was shocked to discover she'd been charged $6 to $12 a month by her bank jpmorgan chase because she didn't use her debit card enough. basically an inactivity fee.
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>> it makes me really angry because they're charging me for not spending my own money. >> reporter: eventually monds of service fees and a new annual fee drained her account. triggering an overdraft fee. in all she paid $118 in fees on an account she didn't use once this year. >> the banks are making huge profits off small potatoes. so hundreds of millions of small potatoes like me. >> reporter: a chase spokesman says we encourage customers to check their statement every month to ensure they're aware of all the activity, including service fees. the banks argue that they're merely charging customerses for the services they use. and with increased regulation, industry spokesman scott talbot says the banks' costs have gone up, necessitating higher fees. what do you say to consumers who feel they're being gouged by their bank? >> one, shop around.
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two, understand your contract and make sure that you understand when a fee will be charged and you can work to it avoid those fees. >> our thanks to lisa myers for that story. want to take you black to what's taking place in philadelphia. the philly spectrum is being torn down today. as you see, the ceremonial wrecking ball is taking some of the first shots there of the building itself. as we were reporting earlier, this has been a long awaited process for them to tear down what used to be where the 6ers and flyers played, also a stadium where a lot of concerts happened. a lot of people have memories of the grateful dead. they performed there, as well. people that are big fans of the old philly spectrum going to be able to get a chance to have a piece of it in their home in the best way of capitalism itself. they'll be selling off parts of the building, bricks to everybody that wants some. people will be able to find them on dwlt line later today and that way everybody can have a piece of to take home. but waiting to see the wrecking
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ball go. i've been jinxed by this story three times how. i have. waiting for the wrecking ball to do something. the stop of ttop of the show, l the show, now at 36 after the show. and it will continue to haunt me. we'll move on, but i'm watching you, philly spectrum. we will get you. we will get you. all right. so on a more serious topic, it could be a real game changer in the fight against the tread of hiv. a new and it i retro viral given to gay men to reduce their rick of infection by at least 44%. men who faithfully took the drug every day saw their risks decline by 95%. robert bazell joins us. the drug is called truvada? >> a commonly used hiv drug for treatment around the world. >> and so now how is it being
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watched and how are they using it to benefit people that currently do have aids but also -- >> no, no, it's to take people who are not infected that are having sex or using drugs or mostly are having sex with somebody who is infected to prevent infection. so you can think of it as more of like a chemical condom in the sense that it's providing protection. and this is important because condoms don't always work right, people don't always use them, and more important in the large parts of the word and this was just a study on gay and by sexual men, but there are large parts of the world where women don't have any control over what their partners do. so if you can give them something they can use to protect themselves from infection, it would be empty powering. >> just to be cheer, ilear, it' being used to treat infection? >> it is. but this was a different use of the same drug. it did prevent infection with the numbers you cited. in fact president obama just came out with a statement from
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the white house saying he was impressed by the results and he hopes that they will limit the spread of aids in the future. the u.n. came out with a report and said that even though the rate of aids infection in the world is slowing down, 33 million people rin effectare in. so anything that can possibly reduce the rate of hiv infection is a big step forward. >> and researchers were concerned that this might give people a false sense of security. >> that's always been the case with anything that you use that's prevention. but prevention messages didn't always work and all the men that were in this group were given condoms and counsel to use safe sex, so this happened even more than that. >> more research to come. >> and watch the wrecking ball. >> can you tell that i'm flustered by this? >> i want to say and see. we'll see what happens. >> you want to see it, too. it's haunting my hour. >> its e's just hanging there.
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>> we're do co-anchor coverage. you are now our wrecking ball correspondent. >> you could call it science. >> it's picking up. >> there you have it. >> wow. bob bazzal, you are my lucky charm. >> i hope so. >> it takes it first strike. thank you, sir. so glad you were here to help me get through that, but we are watching the if i would lphilly spectrum behind the brilliant bob bazzal. and they're starting with the glass. they didn't go with the bricks. >> i'd go for the glass, too. take your easy shot. >> and keep all the people on cable news waiting. >> absolutely. >> all right, bob, thank you very much. so it's flu shot time once again. doctors all over the country are urging everyone to get a shot in the arm, yet more parents are deciding against all kinds of
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vaccines for their children including protection for potentially deadly diseases like measles as well as whooping cough. we have dr. max and barbara fisher with us. thank you both for joining us. i want to start with the good doctor here. according to the cdc, about 90% of children in the u.s. are fully imun immunized, so it's a small percentage opting out, but explain how dangerous it is to say i'm not going to do this to my kids. >> it's a double risk. one is to the risk to the child in terms of letting the child be exposed. and if they get the disease, being able to expose children who are not vaccinated from getting them ill. so it can have a domino effect. >> explain some of the key
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reasonses th that parents decid opt out. >> today america mandates the use of more vaccines than any other nation in the world. and today almost everybody knows somebody who has gotten really sick after getting one or more doses, there are 69 doses of 16 vaccines the government recommends. that's a very powerful community experience who are all telling the same story. and when parents look for vaccine pore, which they can get today with the touch of an iphone or the click of the mouse on a computer, what they find is that there is not good science, there are no big studies like the big heart and cancer studies, that takes a look at health outcomes following the use of vaccines. we use twice as many vaccines today that we used 30 years ago and we have twice as many children today that are suffering with chronic disease and disability than we did 30 years ago. we also have one of the worst infant mortality rates of all
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developed nations. and parents are asking he's questions. and they're not getting good answers.the's questions. and they're not getting good answers.he's questions. and they're not getting good answers.she's questions. and they're not getting good answers.ehe's questions. and they're not getting good answers.e's questions. and they're not getting good answers.'s questions. and they're not getting good answers.s questions. questions. and they're not getting good answers. >> all three of us were immunized as babies, but at the rate they're being immunized now,doctor, maybe break down some of the myths to facts. >> basically there is good science, there's good science showing how certain conditions, for instance, autism, which the public heard a lot of claims that vaccines claim autism, lots of good science disproving this relationship. in any good vaccine study, there's follow-up data, thousan thousands upon thousands of information. the statements that because we're seeing more medical problems in children and we're giving more vaccinations, somehow one causes the other, obviously is a false statement. as far as we know, there is no causal association. what people need to do is go to reliable sources of information, probably first starting with the child's fish, and then going to
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places on the enter sunset, but they should be reliable places on the internet. it's very simple, you can go to a lot of place, people can make claim, but you need to make sure the claims are valid claims that are assumed by science. if you don't understand the science, if you don't understand how to enter pretty it, then get somebody to help you. >> barbara, when we talk about some of the risks, though, and especially for new parents, explain when the risks youth way the benefits. >> congress evolved it in 1986 and since then, $2 billion have been paid out to children and parents who have been hurt. medical literature shows they do call brain inpracti practicinin and death. we don't have long term studies to look at outcomes. this is a study that parents
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want done. this is a study we've been asking for for 30 years. and until it's done, parents that have more access to information than any parent misprevious generations are not going to be simply blown off when their children regress after getting one or five or ten vaccines in one day. they're simply not going to take -- >> what vaccineses do you support? >> nvic.org has always supported the information being given to parents about the benefits and risks of vaccinations -- >> what vaccinations do you support? >> we are a consumer advocacy organization. we don't tell people to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. we take an informed consent position. that is u.s. and health care consumer have the right to be in whiched by all medical risks. and be able to make an informed voluntary decision. >> but you endorse no vaccines?
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>> we do not make recommendations. we're not medical professionals. we endorse the principal of performed consent which means you should get information from many different sources, not just nvic. go to the cdc, the manufacturer's websites and read the inserts that by law must list the vaccine reactions that have been reported. >> can i add something here? >> yes, doctor, go ahead. >> first of all, just because a manufacturer lists something that occurs after a vaccination does not mean that the vaccine caused it. by law they're only gated for list anything that happens after a vaccine whether there is a relationship or not. number two, the issue of doing a study between vaccinated or unvaccinated leads to an ethical issue. it puts them at risk for preventable diseases that basically we've gotten rid of in our country. one of the difficulties is we're
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called a mature vaccination society. we don't see these preventable infections and, therefore, we don't recognize as much as we used to the hazards and horrors that can occur. >> i think for a lot of new parents out there, we provided them with interesting topics today and also with putting the onus in their court to figure out the proper research. barbara, as you say, do the research. i want to thank both of you for coming on. we'll be back right here on msnbc. we have cookies and raspberries. awesome. what's the first thing to do at a tea party? do the tea. okay. i can do that. put it in your cup. ladies first. thank you. men with skirts second. introducing cisco umi, together we are the human network. cisco. love you guys. [ male announcer ] don't let aches anslow you down. morning
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now showing benefits in humans. the next step is to see if the drug can stop cancer cellses from spreading out of the prostate. i have a warning for chocoholics out there. your habit is about to get much more expensive. experts say a worldwide chocolate shortage is looming and the crisis could make chocolate as expensive as caviar. jane wells is live in los angeles to explain. >> reporter: hey, thomas. dressed up just for you. i'm at a very fans is candy facility. here in this station it is covered with chocolate and they are saying that cocoa could become a scarce commodities as farmers switch to something easier and more profitable. the chocolate research association in the uk says that chocolate -- cocoa supply is not keeping up with demand. one predicts that the candy bar could eventually cost $11. really?
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well, ceos of chocolate companies say relax, but they do say demand is growing in markets like india and china. >> demand for chocolate does continue to go up and worldwide today, the consumption is 3.6 million tons a year. in the 70s, it was a million and a half tons a year. >> and if cocoa becomes scarce, it becomes more expensive, people will plant more of it. you've got 15 degrees either side of the equator that people can plant cocoa. >> reporter: the point is that that is exactly what they say, market forces will prevail. and farmers in vietnam are actually starting to plant cocoa. back to you. >> a big market. are you at the cs candy? all right absolutely. in fact, this facility was used by i love lucy, they patterned that favorite scene on this facility. >> chocolate for lunch today.
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