siegle mentioned how he used to smoke and that he stopped. what about if you stopped 15 years ago, 10 years ago, you still are at risk for lung cancer, right? >> that's an excellent point because the effect on smoking actually stays in your system for about 15 to 20 years. so if you haven't started, don't even bother to do it. if you are smoking, go to 1-800-quit-now. and if you fail the first time, it doesn't mean that you can't go back and really stop smoking. now, i think the engineering and what these companies have done, billions of dollars in really engineering behind creating new cigarettes. what is a cigarette today in 2014 look like compared to 1968? it's phenomenal what they have done. the filter that they use makes you -- so these are three things that they have done. meaning open up your lungs so more smoke goes in. they're using material that can go straight to your brain much faster. and also the amount of nicotine that they are using is a lot more. so it's addictive, easier access and affecting your brain and the addictive part

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mark siegle, professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center.reat to see yo let's start with the system. overall there are some systems that are terrific, some v.a. hospitals, but across the country, this looks like just a disaster. >> let's start with what it is. the v.a. system is a form of socialized medicine. why? because the government hires the doctors. it builds the hospital. and it hires the nurses. it sets the standard of care. now, if you're on a salary, lou, it might not surprise you to know that the amount of care is variable. there's no incentives. there's no one saying you see more patients, faster, you do a better job, we pay you more, that's not so. i've worked in v.a. hospitals and i am here to tell you that the care is variable. there are some heroes there and there's plenty of slackers there. it's variable. and no matter what is being said right now, this system cannot be fixed easily. most veterans -- >> i have to tell you t only places i've been, they have worked like heroes to me and the people taking care of our veterans h

. >> cfi west gate resorts was founded by the well-known real estate mogul david siegle whose extravagantife was documented in the movie "the queen of versailles". >> she was dedicated to her job. she was smart. she had a great personality. everybody liked her. >> still with cfi westgate today, in 2006 john willman was jennifer's boss. >> within a year we promoted her to a project manager. >> the 24-year-old was loving life in orlando and wanted to plant some roots. >> jennifer had asked us to help her find a condo. >> at 2006 it was the height of the housing market. >> shannon butler is an investigative reporter. she's worked in central florida for 16 years. >> jennifer's condominiums were right near a new mall that had gone up, this big, beautiful mall. >> we're standing at jennifer's condominium which she purchased in november of 2005. if you look around, it's a beautiful place. the condos are beautiful. >> there was so much constructions going on that there just wasn't a lot of people that lived there. >> i know a couple of the workers that worked in the complex made some cat calls at

let me bring in cnn tech correspondent lori siegle. hackers getting our information? >> unfortunately, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it's getting easier and easier because much of what we do is online. we're shopping online, we're sharing more of our information on social networks. and what we've seen as cnn money, in general, is hackers are just getting smarter. and they're collectively organizing. and so that's why we want to focus on cybersecurity and putting out this information out there. and one story we're going to have coming up this week is a hacker who was actually able to hack a traffic light. i kid you not. check this out. >> so i just press this. i shall start sending fake data. here you can see in the detections column, there's a number that's increasing. that's the amount of cars. they are supposed to be detecting. >> reporter: so essentially you can make a traffic light believe that there are more people on the ground and potentially change to one color or another color because of that? >> right. it's like in

mark siegle joins us now.0,000 children expected to cross illegally this year and 2014, along with the kids comes some sickness. what are we looking at? >> i think that this is a big public health crisis that's emerging. we talk about a problem with illegal immigration, but we're not talking enough about the medical side of this. if someone comes into the united states as a legal immigrant, we screen them for tuberculosis and for all kinds of diseases. we usually catch it before they come in. if they come in illegally, we're faced with a situation where they're living close together, there is a lot less very good public health measures in place. we're having a scabies epidemic among them. that's skin condition with intense itching and rash due to a mite and it's highly contagious. and ten to 25% of the immigrants coming in this way have scabies. tuberculosis, we thought we were stamping that out in north america. it's now reemerging. multiple drug resistant tuberculosis, which is harder and harder to treat. de

mark siegle, author of swine flu, the new pandemic, joins us now to discuss. is now really cause ago ton of concern given the situation of tens of thousands of kids moving through this nation illegally. what are we looking at here with h1n1? >> it's indicative of the fact that these children and the people coming in can't be screened. this child had a fever for several days and nobody knew about it and nobody checked him. so now the flu spreads after about four days, four to seven days. he's leerily going to -- leerily going to spread it to people around him and health authorities are sending in 2,000 doses of vaccine. but the problem with the vaccine, which i completely agree with that move, but the vaccine takes two to three weeks to work. in the meantime, flu may spread to people around. >> and given the number of children and adults that are in these camps together right now, quantity alone and the ability to just contact somebody else and be able to contract this is high, i would imagine. >> 25%. and we're talking about a strain of flu that is particularl

i actually think that the global recovery is in mid-siegle. that, if you think the economy in the u.s. is being sustained by the middle class, you're wrong. it's being sustained by central banks. >> we're now, just now, seeing those gains in housing hold wealth that are for most households. >> even though the ratio has declined and a lot more investors might be exposed to the household wealth than in the past? >> they are saving more. >> investors are more exposed than in the past but most americans rely on their homes and jobs for their wealth and those two things are better today and trat jectry is better today than it was last year. >> i would say in all of this that the investing horizon, meaning why stocks or some yields on bonds are fine is that i don't think a lot of these companies require a massive middle class recovery, and that's a totally separate issue. >> the market clearly doesn't. we've seen that. >> and i think that continues to be the case because a lot of these companies are able to cherry pick from the best areas of economi

mark siegle thankfully is here with some advice. thanks for coming.s. this one is surrounding allergies. they're beating me up this season. why are they so bad? >> because it was such a cold winter. you know what happens when it's a really cold winter, all the pollens hit at once of the it's supposed to be trees first, then grass, then ragweed. but this year, bam, it's all happening at the same time. 40 million allergy sufferers, it's a vortex this year. people have got to do smart things. stop trekking the pollen into the house. don't exercise in the middle of the day. get your sheets clean. this is the practical stuff. on top of that, we have some natural remedyies. there is something called butter bur like antihistamines. hot tea, green tea. tea with eucalyptus to open up your sinuses. neti pots. saline spray. >> i'm wondering about the potatoes. >> this is so that if you -- the cool cucumber or cool potatoes, try it on me. if you put them on your eyes like this, it feels great. it decreases the inflammation around your eyes that you get from aller