dr. nancy snyderman explains when it's something to worry about, when women shrink with age, and what can be done to prevent it. >>> and later, a remarkable scene at the white house today. highest honors for some living legends. >>> back now with some important advice for women, who are concerned about getting shorter as they get older. a couple things here. height loss has been a constant for aging women. it can be a sign other health risks, and we now know there are things that can be done to prevent it. here is our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: 60-year-old carmella got the message early in life and has been a long time believer in strength training. >> the core is the heart of stability. and from there you're able to then strengthen and improve on your balance, on your flexibility, even on your muscle toning. >> reporter: most women over 40 don't know what carmella knows and they pay the price. it's common for a woman to lose two inches by the age of 70 and 3 inches by the age of 80. due to weak muscles and the flattening of disks in the vertebral columns. >>

dr. nancy snyderman. >> 911. >> hi. >> reporter: the voice of a desperate mother in fishers indiana. >> on technology today. he's just crying and really upset. >> reporter: her 17-year-old son chris turned violent when she took away his computer. so brooke mcsweeney called the police. >> reporter: he punched a hole in this wall? brooke says her son is an addict hooked not on drugs or alcohol but internet games. how did you decide it is an addiction and not just a bad habit or something that

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dr. nancy snyderman nbc news, new york. >> we are back in a moment. with a digital revolution helping a great american city on the road to recovery. >>> amid all the headlines that have come out of detroit, there is a glimmer of hope a quiet digital revolution underway a small piece of the pie helping it find its way on the road to recovery. we get the story tonight from cnbc's brian shackman. >> reporter: detroit, today there is a lot more hustle and bustle than two or three years ago. >> it is a great american city that has become a symbol of urban decay. >> reporter: back then between the near collapse of the auto industry and the general decline, unemployment reached 18%. but now? >> it feels like the entire city is in the midst of a renaissance. >> reporter: that's right. detroit and renaissance together. unemployment remains high at 10.5% and the blight is still here but something else is here too optimism. >> i think we can compete with boston, new york, chicago. >> reporter: that is billionaire dan gilbert. the chairman of quicken loans is tal

dr. nancy snyderman is nbc's chief medical editor.of us were inconvenienced d by power outages, but some people are in it really bad straits and it's starting to take a real emotional aal toll. >> you can see it literally in people's eyes, the exhaustion and fright. i've talked to more parents who said on monday and tuesday they, themselves, were so scared but they felt they had to be stronger because the fright in their children's faces was extraordinary. and now from the inconvenience of no power, no water, to really being cold and the disruption for a lot of kids still no school and then what is monday going to bring? >> and also, a lot of folks have never had to ask for help and this is a time where you need help. but it's difficult. >> it is. you and i have lived in california. so we understand what preparedness is. we think like earthquake people. and i would have to say that on the east coast, people don't necessarily have that same preparedness aspect. so even though there are warnings, people find themselves caught off guard

dr. nancy snyderman here with us. first of all, how is jordan doing up to now?oing all right. the bone marrow transplant seems to have taken and right now she's staying put in new york city. we have posted new pictures and an update on the website so people can check in on her. >> i also presume we're going to get people who say i want to help. i know you're a doctor, not a lawyer. and it was admirable to watch your control sitting across from mr. boo. where do you think this goes? >> i'm not putting my doctor hat on. i think this was a well meaning law, but the technology has now improved such that if you can get bone marrow stem cells out of blood by doing a blood stick, why not help people and compensate them for a day's work or with housing vouchers. the reality is the no-show rate of over 50% is astonishing. and for people of mixed race, a bone marrow match is even tougher. so we have to increase the pool, but we have to make sure that people understand there is a real incentive to show up. i'm not so worried about paying people and compensating them. i thi

dr. nancy snyderman, nbc news, new york. >>> we're back in a moment with something that happened today that hasn't happened in nearly 40 years. something that hadn't happened in 39 years. the tournament didn't end on sunday. play was halted due to rain during the final with rafael nadal leading djokovic two sets to one. joke vich up a break in the fourth. maria sharapova tomorrow the women's championship yesterday. catch the conclusion to the men's final tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern on the nbc sports network. >>> britain's prince philip is out of the hospital, back at home tonight in time to celebrate his 91st birthday with his family. the queen's husband spent five days in the hospital, being treated for a bladder infection. he missed part of his wife's diamond jubilee celebration, marking her 60 years on the throne. >>> this weekend a rare public appearance by former congresswoman gabby giffords in arizona for ron barber, one of her former aides. he is running for the seat she gave up earlier this year. giffords now lives in texas where she is still being treated for the injuries she

dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: decades of running, biking and competitive sports took their toll on sara kate loman's body. >> the pain was grueling, grinding, constant. i could not get my knee in a position of comfort. >> reporter: now at age 54, she's one of about four and a half million americans walking around with an artificial knee. >> people at work said to me, you know, gosh, you know, we enjoy working with you but we've never seen you smile so much. they didn't know me out of pain. >> reporter: loman is part of a growing trend, people opting for knee replacement surgery earlier in life. >> there were times that this procedure was only done for people who were older than 65 years of age. >> reporter: not anymore. the number of baby boomers getting total knee replacements tripled in a ten-year period. and even though there can be complications, nearly one in 20 americans over 50 is walking around with a new knee. what's behind the increased demand? well, experts point to a few factors. america's obesity epidemic, aging athletes not taking care of their aching joints, genetics, and

dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: orthopedic surgeon dr. larry drr does more than fix bones for a living. for years, operation walk, the charity he founded, has provided free surgeries for thousands of vulnerable people around the globe. now with tough economic times in this country, dr. dorr is bringing his charity home. during a recent two-day span, he and 60 other orthopedic surgeons operated on uninsured patients, replacing their bad hips and knees. >> these people all have lost their hope for their tomorrows. >> reporter: 85 people have regained the ability to walk for free in what would normally be a $30,000 to $50,000 operation. this recording artist needed both hips replaced. in the '90s, terry had her own band and hit song that climbed the charts. then came difficulty walking and pain. terry couldn't even stand up long enough to sing. >> feel like you're 100 years old, right? she gave private lessons instead to pay the bills. steven robertson's pain was so severe, he contemplated ending his life. >> when things narrow, you start fe

dr. nancy snyderman on the story in the news today about pregnancy, the flu, and autism. >>> and behind the wheel, tonight how women are taking the lead. this has to do with a huge change that has happened slowly on the american roads. nightly news begins now. >>> good evening, the damage, both personal and political, continues to pile up following the resignation of the director of the cia, retired four-star general david petraeus. easily the most celebrated general officer of a generation. and now, the questions are rolling in about the extramarital affair that led to all of this, about the e-mails that led the fbi to petraeus. and how much further this all goes. we begin our reporting of the story tonight with nbc's andrea mitchell in our washington news room, good evening, andrea. >> reporter: good evening, brian, new questions tonight on why the fbi did not tell the president or the intelligence leaders about the involvement of petraeus's acknowledged mistress for months, even on new allegations on how it began. we learned today on what was in the e-mails to jill kelley, the family fri

dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: this seven-day cruise was anything but a pleasure. hundreds of sick passengers and crew members aboard the luxury "crown princess" were hit by a most unwelcomed party guest, the norovirus. >> it's been a nightmare. we lost two full days of our cruise. >> reporter: another ship "ruby princess" docked early after more than 100 of its passengers and crew became too ill to leave their cabins. >> captain came across and made a few announcements about there is a sickness on the ship. >> they didn't want us to touch anything that somebody else might touch. >> reporter: here is the norovirus under a microscope. it thrives in moist environments, and medical experts say its easiest route of transmission, close quarters. >> because everyone is jammed up so tightly together, it's so easy for that virus to spread one person to another. those people spread it to four others. those four spread it to 18 others. >> reporter: and it's not just cruise ships. in new jersey, more than 150 students contracted norovirus at rider and nearby princeton univers

dr. nancy snyderman introduces us to a fellow physician who believes listening is good medicine and she's doing something about it. >> reporter: dr. rachel remen is changing the way doctors doctor. >> 20 years ago there were a number of articles published one after the other which documented the unintended consequences of medical training that our young doctors were becoming cynical, hostile, alienated, depressed, burned out. and i want to do something about that. >> reporter: dr. remen create ed a course for first and second-year medical students but this one without textbooks. she calls it the healer's art and teaches that the best practice of medicine is about connecting with your patient, requires more listening than doing, and is about more than a cure. >> healing is about evoking from people their resource, their inner strength, their capacity to respond to the challenge of the disease. i get them to reflect on their own lives. >> reporter: the course she created at the university of california san francisco 20 years ago is now in place in half of the nation's medical schools. and m

dr. nancy snyderman, as always. >>> up next, teens texting at the wheel. tonight, we're learning just how common this dangerous habit really is. >>> tv viewers may remember the ominous public service announcement from years back. it's 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are? well, these days, perhaps the question should be, do you know what your children are doing? every few years the centers for disease control surveys this nation's high school students about some of the risks they take on a regular basis, the kind of things parents suspect and fear the most and nbc's tom costello has our report. >> i made a mistake. if i could take it back, i could take it back. >> in massachusetts, 18-year-old aaron deveaux is sentenced to a year in jail for texting while driving and killing a 55-year-old father of three. now a cdc survey on risky behavior finds a third of all high schoolers admitting that texted or e-mailed while driving over the previous 30 days. >> it's frustrating while we're making great progress in increasing seat belt use and reducing the

dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: it may sound surprising but new research presented today suggests somethingsimple as the way we walk could be an early warning sign of decline. >> subtle motor changes that you can detect may be a warning system to kind of let you know there might be some abnormal pathology in the brain that could lead to cognitive decline later on. >> reporter: researchers looked at the relationship between brain function and the gait of a person's walk. measuring things like speed, rhythm and stride. while changes in walking are expected with age and slowing down does not necessarily a cause for concern, people with alzheimer's and those with less advanced cognitive impairment walk slower than people with normal mental function. >> we may be able to catch cognitive decline at an earlier stage by focusing in addition to their thinking abilities to their walking abilities and their motor abilities. >> reporter: it's been generally accepted that regular physical exercise can improve health as we age. now studies are looking at which types of activities are most effective and w

dr. nancy snyderman. >> you're a happy americperson. to your family. >> don't you love thanksgiving? >> it's a miserable forecast. >> dr. nancy snyderman, thank you. "time" columnist joe klein next on "morning joe." [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- what starts with adding a friend... ♪ ...could end with adding a close friend. the lexus december to remember sales event is on. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> well, i think the election changes that. it's pretty clear that the president was re-elected. obamacare is the law of the land. >> but you won't be spending the time next year trying to repeal obamacare? >> there certainly may be parts of it that we believe need to be changed. we may do that. no decisions at this point. >> welcome back to "morning joe." that was house speaker john boehner essentially admitting that with the re-election of president obama, obamacare is here to stay. but while the election may have put an end to the political debate over the president's health care law, what has not yet been decided

dr. nancy snyderman looks at what is going on. >> reporter: for parents like linda cardalli whose two sons have adhd, the past few months have been rough. >> we have not been able to get my sons' adhd medications. we were told that it was on back order and they had no idea when it was going to come in, become available. >> reporter: she's not alone. there is a nationwide shortage forcing parents like linda to drive from pharmacy to pharmacy. she even rations pills to her sons on weekends. the demand for the medications is higher than ever, with more than 51.5 million prescriptions written in 2010. that's up 11% from the year before. why is this happening? there are more patients, fewer companies making pills, and production glitches. and there is a growing underground market for these drugs with college students using them as performance boosters. >> somehow the government, i think has to get involved and monitor the medication more closely so that the people that really need it and that have prescriptions for it can get it. >> reporter: complicating the issue, the drug enforcement adminis

dr. nancy snyderman reports on how a former president who's been scared straight and almost died for his past habits is doing his part for some of those kids. >> reporter: with nearly 25 million american children overweight or obese, the war is being waged on the front lines. >> drink your milk. >> reporter: a major anti-obesity initiative launched in 2006 has found its way into 13,000 schools, most of them in urban districts, changing its menu from frozen to fresh, from sugary sodas to fresh squeezed juices. the one thing i notice you don't have, i don't see a fryer anywhere. >> oh, no. this is what a kitchen looks like in a school. there are no fryers. >> reporter: and you might be surprised to learn who is behind it. >> hi. >> reporter: former president clinton's emergency heart surgery several years ago forced him to take a second look, not just at improving his own health but others as well. >> why do you see the investment in these kids as so important? >> children need enough food, the right kind of food to grow and to develop their bodies and their brains. and then if they don't

dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: 29-year-old morgan thompson was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma three years ago. >> it is a very shocking thing to have to deal with at any age. but at 26, i was not prepared for that at all. >> reporter: one in every 46 women under the age of 40 is diagnosed with cancer, and during the most fertile time of a woman's life, the treatment to cure that cancer, chemotherapy or radiation, can leave a woman infertile. but with improvements in cancer treatments, there's also interest in preserving fertility in cancer treatments. >> i always knew i wanted to be a mom, i was going to have twin girls and a little boy. i had everything perfect in my head. >> reporter: morgan was referred to a fertility expert at new york medical college who specializes in an experimental technique called ovarian tissue cryopreservation. freezing precious ovarian tissue before cancer treatment begins. >> the ovary is removed through a key hole procedure. and it is taken through a specialized process, which involves treating the tissue with anti-freeze substance. we preserve the ova

dr. nancy snyderman, has more on this latest case and whatever everyone needs to know. >> last week, lana celebrated the birth of her twins, ian and abigail, but just 13 hours after leaving the hospital, she was rushed to greenville memorial hospital in south carolina. >> she just kept getting worse. >> unrelated to her pregnancy, she contracted a bacterium that causes a rare condition commonly known as flesh eating bacterial infection. no one knows how she got it. >> we are asking people to continue to pray for her and lift her up. >> in another case, 24-year-old amy copeland continues to fight the very same infection. the graduate student suffered a large cut on her leg after a homemade zip line snapped and she fell into a river. she's still critical. surgeons have already amputated one leg and may need to remove her fingers. this type of infection could be caused by several types of bacteria, but they all have one thing in common, a deadly toxin that destroys the body's tissue. >> as it breaks down the tissue, it has a high way, an aggressive highway it can zoom up and spread to the re

dr. nancy snyderman, nbc news, new york. >>> this being super tuesday night, back to politics. we have another call, and the beat goes on for rick santorum. oklahoma tonight in his column. so there you have it, the very latest. we'll take a break. we'll continue right after this. ♪ supercalifragilistic- expialidocious ♪ >>> one of those songs that makes you happy when you hear it. and roger sherman wrote a lot of songs like that during his lifetime. he wrote "supercalifragilistic- expialidocious," "it's a small, world," "chim chim chiree." many of them co-written with his brother richard. they both have a star together on the hollywood walk of fame for their work with disney. robert sherman won two academy awards in his time, one grammy. he died in london on monday at the age of 86. >>> the president today paid tribute to donald payne, the democrat from newark, new jersey, the first black congressional member elected from that state. he died of colon cancer having served until the very end. he was elected in 1988 to fill peter radino's old seat. he was a trailblazer that advoca

dr. nancy snyderman has the story tonight. >> reporter: while will turner is in the hospital, he's still in good spirits. >> that's wonderful. these cameras are unbelievable. >> reporter: texting his kids to let them know he's okay after being rushed to the energy department short of breath. >> it was a completely different experience than i've ever had before. >> reporter: different because this tech-savvy senior is in the new geriatric department spearheaded by physicians, including dr. ballman, whose grandmother was sent to a regular energy department after breaking her pelvis. >> it's frustrating that no one seemed to be paying attention to her, that she was kind of lost in the shuffle. >> we have 70 million baby boomers who are going to be turning age 65. those baby boomers have increased health care needs. and the emergency departments have to be ready. >> reporter: this is a new trend. getting to an aging population of americans, and improving their medical care in the emergency room. and they're doing it by catering to the specific needs of baby boomers and their parents. >> just

dr. nancy snyderman, new york. >>> up next, why another kennedy is facing charges tonight. >>> tonight the pakistani government has begun to demolish the infamous compound where osama bin laden spent his final years hiding and where he was killed by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s last year. crews in the city moved in late in the afternoon with cranes and jackhammers and flood lights. pakistani officials say plans for the site include a park with green areas and benches which they say will be built within a month. >>> and tonight, robert f. kennedy's youngest son is facing misdemeanor charges after a fight at a suburban new york hospital. it started when douglas kennedy tried to take his 3-day-old child outside for a walk. nurses say they tried to stop him because he wasn't allowed to take the newborn off the maternity floor. one nurse claims he twisted her arm and another is seen on the surveillance tape being knocked to the ground. kennedy says it was the nurses that attacked him. >>> and john hinckley, the man who tried to kill president ronald reagan three decades ago, has a request. he says he'd

dr. nancy snyderman, nbc news, new york. >>> overseas tonight, a big headline from the war in afghanistan. u.s. forces have halted training of some afghan police for at least a month after a rash of insider attacks. members of afghan security forces have killed dozens of coalition troops this year, at least 12 in august alone. for insight on what this means for the mission there, i'm joined by nbc military analyst jack jacobs. colonel, doesn't this undermine the whole basis, the rationale for the american mission there? >> i think it does. if our mission is to train the afghans so that they can defend themselves then this halt touted by the government as being only a temporary halt and only for some units, really does undermine our mission. if we are to train the afghans then stopping training now makes it appear that we are through with that mission. >> the focus here seems to be on afghan police in particular. why is this trouble so pronounced with police? >> the police are corrupt by and large, very poorly trained and very difficult to train. don't forget this is a country that relies

dr. nancy snyderman, thank you. interesting story.ling for sheryl crow, of course. >>> up next, remembering the master of science fiction. >>> and the space shuttle "enterprise" has finally come to a stop. >>> the shuttle "enterprise" has landed tonight after an amazing journey up the hudson river on a barge, across the concrete canyons, the new york city skyline, statue of liberty. and finally, hoisted by crane onto its new home, the flight deck of the "u.s.s. intrepid" the world war ii aircraft carrier that is now a museum. the "enterprise" of course, was retired with the nasa shuttle program last summer. we put more of the stunning images of this day on the hudson river journey on our website nbcnightlynews.com. >>> the visionary writer ray bradbury has died. born in illinois, transplanted to l.a. at a young age. he couldn't afford college but was a voracious reader, ended up basically living at the library. sold his first story to a magazine at age 20. but it wasn't until ten years later that "the martian chronicles" helped move h

dr. nancy snyderman. >> 13-year-old jordan needs a bone marrow transplant. she has a genetic disorder that destroys bone marrow and increases her risk of cancer. >> the transplant scares me. i've known people that have actually passed away afterwards. >> reporter: the bone marrow transplant is jordan's only hope for survival, and to encourage more people to donate her mother doreen wants them to get paid, but there's a problem. her plan breaks a long-standing law that makes it illegal for donors to profit from their gift of life. >> as a mom, i'm willing to do whatever it takes to help make that possible. >> reporter: so doreen flinn has become the lead plaintiff in a landmark case to change that law. >> bone marrow is just like anything else in the world. it's valuable and if you compensate people for it, you're going to get more of it. it's just that simple. >> reporter: doreen's need for bone marrow is particularly dire. years ago doctors told her the best chance for jordan was a transplant from a sibling donor, so doreen and her then husband turned to in

dr. nancy snyderman, thank you. >>> still ahead, as "nightly news" continues, one of the worst days in american history. mrs. kennedy's secret service agent, the man who climbed onto the back of the car with her, opens up in a rare conversation about what he saw that awful day. >>> now to an extraordinary new memoir from a man who had a front-row seat to one of the most exhilarating and heartbreaking times in american history. for four years, clint hill was jackie kennedy's secret service agent. he was there with her that day in dallas and all of the days before and after it with a remarkable view of unforgettable moments as they unfolded in our history. for 50 years, he vowed never to write the story until now. >> there were many, many happy times, but there were very sad times, very depressing, and painful to do it. >> in 1960, agent hill, code name dazzle, was assigned to protect the incoming first lady, jaclyn kennedy. >> from the birth of son john -- >> well, i was pacing the floor like an expectant father, and i had only known her for two weeks. >> to vacations in hyannisport. >> they wer

dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: 25-year-old paul myers has been smoking since he was 15. he has always liked the ritual. >> i grew up as a musician. so i was always around kids that wanted to play music and smoke cigarettes. >> reporter: he is one of the 88% of smokers who start in their teens and then are hooked as adults. a new report today from the surgeon general says teen smoking is an epidemic. 1 in 4 high school seniors regularly smoke cigarettes. while cigarette smoking has decreased over the decades, that decline has slowed. >> the rate of decline in smoking has gone down over the last few years because government investment in anti-smoking programs has actually gone down. >> reporter: the numbers out today are staggering. 600,000 middle school students smoke along with 3 million high school students. most shocking, more than 1,200 americans die every day due to cigarettes. but for every death at least two young adults become regular smokers. >> ironically, young kids are not that worried, teenagers are not that worried about long-term health consequences. >> rep

dr. nancy snyderman reporting there. one last note on that. martine wilkshire wears the number 7 on her uniform and says it makes that date a positive in her life. that is our broadcast for this monday night labor day. thank you for being with us. i'm kate snow. brian williams will see you tomorrow evening from the democratic national convention in charlotte, north carolina. for all of us at nbc news, good night. >>> late word this afternoon on a new estimate for reopening the dumbarton bridge.

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dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: 60-year-old carmella got the message early in life. and she's been a long time believer in strength training. >> the core is the heart of stability. and from there you're able to then strengthen and improve on your balance, on your flexibility, even on your muscle toning. >> reporter: most women over 40 don't know what carmella knows and they pay the price. it's common for a woman to lose two inches by the age of 70 and 3 inches by the age of 80. due to weak muscles and the flattening of disks in the vertebral columns. >> most of the height loss we see in women is preventable if we start early. >> reporter: now, carmella is teaching other women what has kept her long, lean and powerful. it's all about building muscles and keeping them strong. the women in carmella's class are clearly seeing and feeling the benefits. >> i know i'm walking taller. >> reporter: at 74, loretta is a believer. >> i want to stay strong. my mom lived to almost 99. i want to beat her. >> reporter: that also means knowing your risk factors, including entering me

dr. nancy snyderman. the party girl drip. >> so this is like the newest, hottest thing in hollywood apparently. if you become drunk the night before, you can hook yourself up to an i-very with minerals or vitamins in it and people say it makes them feel better. so here's the straight on it. this is for the worried well. you don't have enough problems in your life, go looking for something that has no medical benefits. it will give you expensive urine and my advice to people simply is, if you need something to deal with the fact that you got drunk the night before, don't get drunk. >> exactly. that's the only cure there. >> waste of money. >> we'll talk about sheryl crow battled breast cancer six years now. now she's came out last week saying she has a benign brain tumor. >> she's an amazing woman. so she couldn't remember lyrics onstage and sort of laughed it off to being 50, then had a follow-up and incidental finding was that she has this brain timer. they do increase in number as women get older. but t

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