a number of patients have adhd. often discussed in the media, but there is a significant unmet need. we have a number of products that fit the needs of these patients. >> you mentioned international expansion. is that going to be the focus for shire? >> actually, before we make the acquisition, our rare disease as ms. had more success in the u.s. we are pretty focused on expanding internationally. we are doing very well. still, the u.s. is the most important market for us and also the most profitable market for us. >> thank you very much for spending time with us, dr. flemming ornskov. the chief executive of shire. a potential $13 billion deal regarding general electric. g.e. we have details coming up on "taking stock." ♪ ♪ >> this is "taking stock" on bloomberg. i am pimm fox. reportingnews today general electric is said to be in talks to buy alstom, the french builder of trains and power plants. bloomberg's managing editor of deals jeff mccracken joins us. tell us what you know. >> we just learned literally in the

this is for the 6.5 million american children who have been diagnosed with adhd.-thirds of them in this country today are being given amphetamines. we have no clue -- >> otherwise, they'll be kicked out of school. >> we have no clue if the long-term consequences of that for these kids. >> alzheimer's, diabetes, adhd -- we're going to hit all the diseases out there and attribute them to grains. but please stand by once more. up next, we'll talk about the secret places where gluten can be found. >>> welcome back. did you know that just because something is wheat-free doesn't mean it's gluten-free and that gluten can be hiding in beauty products, medications, even hair care products? that scares you, especially if you don't know you have a gluten sensitivity or allergy. i spoke earlier with my sister, christiane at, a gluten aficionado. >> we grew up eating so much bread and pasta and breadcrumbs on top of macaroni and cheese. >> who's to say you can't eat that now and still be gluten-free? >> a lot of people cut wheat out of their diet and say they're gluten-free. b

he denies that claim and his mom says he has adhd and borderline asberger's syndrome. >> the ipad give away is back and begins today. >> the buzz word is coming up. you have to be 18 years old and a us resident to enter. stand by for the ipad mini give away. >> what you are looking at is an owl cam. somebody bought a home in arizona and the owls were living in this tree. the tree they discovered was getting old. they decided to build something to stabilize the tree so that the owl could stay there as long as they wanted to. they said at one point the bark started falling off the tree so they tried to screw that in. so here you can see the owls in their home scameras set up. these are the babies. mom and dad are not home. it is part art installation and part pest side. it looks cool. they put a sculpture in their yard. one of the people who helped to develop the whole thing is jeff and we have him right this minute by skype. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> you work with national ge graphic. what got you involved in this project. through a long-term friendship with the current owne

advocacy, it happened in high school and college, being a youth with chronic medical conditions and adhd, i witnessed firsthand that disconnection in your community and what that means when you don't feel like you can actively participate or that your voice is not being heard. and i just want to issue a challenge to everybody here, everybody listening and everybody online to take a moment and just think, if you don't think you can participate, challenge yourself and call us because everybody here on this council, everybody here on this council has said the same thing. i don't know if i can do this, and here they are. so, i am issuing that challenge to everybody here, everybody online, everybody listening. come forward, talk with us, let's see what you can do. >> thank you, derek. okay, we are back to public comment, item number 10. i have no cards filled out. so, any further public comment today? >>> my name is larry juicy edmonds. i ran for mayor in '99 and i was homeless here and i got eight votes [speaker not understood]. i know that god has given everybody a special talent and it's u

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and this film is about a small school in vermont where the kids suffer from dix lexia, adhd, a wholeces that makes their passage through school very challenging. but each year the school for the 35 years it has been in existence has challenged the kids to first mem orize it and then publicly recite the gettysburg address. >> stephen: and they compete against each other to be the one without gets to do this. >> no, no, they all do it they all mem orize it, and they have all-- . >> stephen: but does somebody win, isn't there a winner, is there a winner? because it sounds like you're having child fights against each other. just 50 children. >> exactly, no, no, there is a middle school and a high school, first, second and third. but they're all winners because they overcome this, look, we don't do any mem orization in school any more. we used to mem orize a lot of stuff. >> i didn't do it before. >> we actually have a clip of the film. let's take a look. >> we have divided the gettysburg into five paragraphs for learning. >> four score and seven years ago our fathers-- brought forth on t

there is you know the rates of autism and asthma and adhd and all kind of hazard illnesses have gone off and can't be explained. there was a synthetic field that was put in in chicago and 30,000 resurfaced tires which carry... in california, and somehow, you know, people think that it is safe for my kids to play on and i want to see, again, pregnant women and vulnerable communities protected. >> you mentioned system wide that law because the united states has never filed a precautionary principal. >> there are a lot of parents out there and a bipartisan group that deeply care about their children and the future generations and you know, no one's profit margin can justify. >> okay, thanks again for it, we appreciate it. >> okay. >> so we can go on to the next item? >> i was just going to ask that perhaps our community of public health and the committee, and could just also get a report from the department on the specific issues. >> okay. >> yes. >> and the next item on the agenda is the finance and planning committee report back. >> good. >> good afternoon commissioners. >> and the fi

the have dyslexia, adhd, whole alphabet soup of learning differences. in our society, is one of the psychiatrist in the school says, we think we celebrate individuality, but we don't. we want conformity. these kids have been bullied and marginalized. the greenwood school is often a place of last resort. they don't say your glasses half empty or empty. what you do well, we can teach you how to overcome this, and a disproportionate number of ceo's of fortune 500 companies are just let it. -- are dyslexic. that meant the strategies they have developed to circumvent these differences, initial differences, turned out to be such novel strategies that it makes them advance when it comes to other areas of their life. that is the good news that these kids can escape this is if the gravity of this prison. they can have a new birth of freedom, just as lincoln can say we can outgrow this unbelievable hypocrisy that we inherited at our founding, the idea that we could have 4 million human beings on by other americans and still brag to the world that we are about equ

the court was till she fears there would be no one to take care of him keeping diagnosed with adhd and she had borrowed with their own family about his treatment. the psychiatric report said her mental capacity to reason the situation calms the choices open to her or severely diminished. in a statement read to the court the boy's father mark ryan said diane moore was the last person left made a mistake it no grievance with that she wished her well. he said the loss of his son was traumatic but she was trying to get on with this line forensic psychiatry is dr helen o'neill said diane ward had been treated for depression for more than twenty years she said she was still at risk of suicide did not even begun to grieve the loss of her son or deal with how he died. she has never been to his grave and has been in the central mental hospital in some drums synths her rest. she said she would require intensive treatment and support in a wide range of areas for some time to come. mr justice byron white said he was considering a non custodial sentence but it would be highly inappropriate to relea

bullying him he says he's been bullying since the beginning of the school year he's been diagnosed with adhd. in february he skieded to record audio of what's happening using his ipad his mother contacted the school to do something about it, they ordered christian to delete the recording then reported him to police for owe poe ten shall wire tapping. . >> i try to do the best that i can. and it shocked me. doi not understand. >> the judge ordered him to pay a fine and cover court fines. he will appeal this matter. >> a houston father is speaking out after a disturbing surveillance video showing a man breaking into his home then prowled around the baby's room. >> it's enough to get any parent goose bumps a burglar snooping around your baby's room while you sleep. >> he was inside >> look at the home surveillance video. the guy shines a light right at the little boy in the crib before he moves on to other rooms in the house. >> when i looked i was infuriated. i was upset. >> he believes the bhar climbed p through a window at his home he says he and his wife slept through the break in. he think

adhd medication. but if you take it it's like 15 cups of coffee. you can basically stay awake all night. it's not supposed to be used for recreational abuse. but the drug companies make it easy to go and say i can't focus in the quickly give you medication. where do you stand on the morality of that? is immoral to lie to a doctor should get the medication? we all have some focus problems. is it okay to exaggerate? and if your friend exaggerates, to exaggerate yourself? kinnie virally pilfer non? right now you can go to wikipedia. you can change the value and quality. it's a strange word, ray. there's lots of things like that the grayscale is much more nuanced. finally, dishonesty is much more press than the media. if you think that everybody else is doing that, it creates situations where we situations where we have a sense that everybody else is doing it to a higher degree than it is. if you think about something like athletes taking drugs, the moment you think everybody else is doing it, you might as well do that. i think it is more common. i don

you know that some kids, perhaps bipolar kid or kids that have adhd, that they are going to be more susceptibleg off the tracks, right, dropping out of school, running away from home, so we are very worried about copy busting the kids. so far, we have not seen any increase of driving while high. think we have i got the regulatory framework doing a pretty good job. but we are not claiming success. bet i keep saying, let's cautious. let's not claim victory. a war on drugs was a disaster. i did not want to be the first. i did not want jimmy fallon to be saying things. for a state.un >> how long do you think it was going to take for colorado and other states experimenting with legalization, whether they will now others should follow suit? >> i think it will take a couple of years. he went to track the behavior of the youth. when we take a poll, most adults, if they used to smoke pot, and they are still smoking pot, and they are paying taxes. are those that are trying pot. the thing that we are worried about is kids, and that is a legitimate concern. >> does colorado become a gateway state for other

i have adhd. this has been very challenging. i do not understand a lot of scientific staff. i have a short question. tobacco ise fda said healthy for you. it is good for you. thank you fda. we believe you. that is not a question. that is a preface to my statement. [laughter] wrong. to me what is andave weeds, we have tests are yields not five, i appreciate the drought resistant crops. we want to increase our yield. toxins,ed poison roundup, on our crops and their cotton to kill the weeds and the pesticides. is this correct? -- the court, we or the cows and the animals digest the products that have these super with pesticides. is that going into us or is it not? residues ofting the the roundup. we are consuming roundup. your kids are consuming it. is that not true? all sorts of pesticides, including roundup will stop one of the problems with them increasing is the fact that large amounts of the same crops are being planted without a scattering of other crops. when you get past, there is a huge feeding ground. there are lots of ways in which modern art or culture has become --

, according to a new report, nearly one in five soldiers had a mental illness, such as depression, adhd before even listing in the army. why is this happening to our service members in. >> well, there's a twofold problem. one is obviously the men call health and combat stress related issues. and is this' additionally the problem that during the search, specifically dow jones the search, the enlistment and the standards were lowered where frankly we brought people into the military that never should have been there to begin with. >> thank you for having us. >> coming up next, immaterial prisoned until further notice. sex offenders not given the benefit of the doubt, google and the world brain >> it would be the worlds greatest library, under one digital roof. but at what cost? >> google could hold the whole word hostage... google and the world brain only on aljazeera ameria this is the 900 page document we call obama care. and my staff has read the entire thing. can congress say the same? there's more to it. >> evey saturday, join us for exclusive, revealing, and suprizing talks with the

, according to a new report, nearly one in five soldiers had a mental illness, such as depression, adhd before even listing in the army. why is this happening to our service members in. >> well, there's a twofold problem. one is obviously the men call health and combat stress related issues. and is this' additionally the problem that during the search, specifically dow jones the search, the enlistment and the standards were lowered where frankly we brought people into the military that never should have been there to begin with. >> thank you for having us. >> coming up next, immaterial prisoned until further notice. sex offenders not given the benefit of the doubt, the unusual therapy in commitment centers next. called civil commitment, and in 20 states you can be locked up and held indefinitely, for a crime you haven't yet committed. may sound like science fiction, but this is reality for sex offenders. in march after a florida girl was raped and murdered the state made it tough for such offenders to get out of prison. >> it's wrapped in high sky barbed wire. no one goes in or gets out

. >> they have applications to help things like adhd, problems problems like smoking. >> you will becontrolling your systems and answering your telephone. that is 20 years in the future. >> but now, just remember to breathe. in san francisco, cbs news. >> feeling calm already. the head bands begin shipping next month. >>> watch the page. it's levitating. >> reporter: a lot of us went from the hot latte to the ice latte. san jose, 84. santa rosa 83. 86 still in livermore. not the high. that's right now. oakland 80. san bruno 82. couple things i wanted to point o. it is not warm every where. check out kentfield. you are in the mid 80s. very warm there. then, check out the san francisco zoo. and check out lafayette elementary school. you will feel the strength warmth tomorrow and thursday. 55 in napa. oakland 56. campbell in the low 60s overnight. livermore 56. sun comes up at 6:15 tomorrow morning. big center air the yager of of -- area of of high pressure. seattle will 9481 tomorrow. that tells -- will be 81 tomorrow. winds go clockwise around high pressure. once it goes north, it giv

i want to go to this young lady. >> it is hard for me to because i also have adhd. i have one question. are gmos good or bad? [laughter] >> the question gets to the essence of the question. are gmos good or bad? >> you might think that is a planted question. that is my daughter. she is a 10-year-old. i think there is not a problem with gmos. they are neither good nor bad. it is a process. as i was saying before, you can use genetic modification of organisms to create things that are really horrendous and you can use it to create things are beneficial. we need to think about that. that's an issue with the labeling. frankly, before i was thinking about it, and this is a few months ago, i thought it made a lot of sense. but when you start thinking about it as a project, and jeff has said a lot about food i would like to know. i would like to know what food uses pesticides. i would like to know whether that food has been growing where people are paid a living wage. what country does it come from? what you're asking for is an inventory of the entire food system. it would

you know that some kids, perhaps bipolar kid or kids that have adhd, that they are going to be more susceptiblelling off the tracks, right, dropping out of school, running away from home, so we are very worried about the consequences for kids. so far, we have not seen any increase of driving while high. at this point, i think we have got the regulatory framework doing a pretty good job. but we are not claiming success. what i keep saying, let's be cautious. let's not claim victory. the war on drugs was a disaster. i opposed legalizing, i did not want to be the first. i did not want jimmy fallon to be saying things. that is not fun for a state. >> how long do you think it was going to take for colorado and other states experimenting with legalization, whether they will follow suit? >> i think it will take a couple of years. we want to track the behavior of the youth. when we take a poll, most adults, if they used to smoke pot, and they are still smoking pot, and they are paying taxes. those that didn't aren't interested in trying pot. the thing that we are worried about is kids, and that is a le

they suffer a learning difference, dyslexia, adhd. a whole alphabet soup of stuff. some can memorise it but are terrified to speak it out loud. particularly a big crowd. public recitation - some of them have language difficulties that make it hard to memor ice are speak. it's a boarding school for kids that should be at home, and they are held together by the loving kindness of the school, and the sooup imposition of the gettysburg address. the kids help each other. it's inspirational what takes place. >> especially on the day when they go in front of the public and speak about it. let's see that. >> that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain. >> the nation under god will have a new burst of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people val not perish. >> so that is beautiful max. i took that with my smartphone because i realised we were covering the parent reactions while they were giving the address. when i saw him coming back and i knew that max knew the speech cold, but was terrified about doing it in public

, according to a new report, nearly one in five soldiers had a mental illness, such as depression, adhd before even listing in the army. why is this happening to our service members in. >> well, there's a twofold problem. one is obviously the men call health and combat stress related issues. and is this' additionally the problem that during the search, specifically dow jones the search, the enlistment and the standards were lowered where frankly we brought people into the military that never should have been there to begin with. >> thank you for having us. >> coming up next, immaterial prisoned until further notice. sex offenders not given the benefit of the doubt, consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a pro

. >> the boy has learning disabilities, including adhd. he's been in a special ed class with kids with behavioural problems. he has never been a problem in class. his mother testified that her son has been bullied. a fellow student tried to burn himway cigarette lighter. what is the school's excuse for not taking action before we got to this. >> honestly, i can't figure it out. i was at the hearing. the dean of students was there, the vice principal of the school was there, i did not hear an excuse that made sense to me. >> when asked about the boy hit with spit from other kids, the isn't principal testified saying: >> am i living in a twilight zone, in an alternate yup haves. how is being split -- universe. how is being split on not bullied >>. >> twilight zone - that's the phrase the boy's mother used. i can't figure out how spit wads and has lipping the students is not -- hassling the student is not bullying. my definition - it does. >> ppz is one -- pennsylvania is one of 12 states that requires permission from all parties if you are t

it may be dyslexia, disgraphia, executive function, adhd, a whole alphabet soup of stuff. some of them can mem rice it, but are terrified to speak it. particularly in front of a crowd, which they are asked to do. that's the other component. public res tigs. some of them have language difficulties that make it hard to memorise or speak. they help each other, it's a boarding school for kids at home, and they are sort of held together by the loving kindness of the school, and the superimposition of the gettysburg address, and the kids help each other. they emerge from the struggles, and it's an amazingly inspirational thing that takes place. >> especially on the day when they go in front of the public and speak about it. let's see that. >> that we hear highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vape. >> that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom. and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. [ clapping ] [ cheering and applause ] >> so that is beautiful max. i took that with my smart phone, becau

this company was built on the adhd product. this is a well-run company. it could be an aquirer and also could be bought out. if you're buying shire pharmaceuticals. it's a company that's made its name by attracting and retains top. it pays its people well. another company i want to very much quickly a they specialize in the -- if this drug can do at least a year of good sales, this could be a potential target. i think endo health solutions has been named as one of the acquirers. >> thank you very much, buddy. we'll see you again. >>> we don't know what companies would be taken out, you've got some ideas, but if you need another example, why it pays to watch cnbc back in january at the health care conference in san francisco. we interviewed those two companies, aggios, interimmune. since then two of the best performing names year to date in biotech. can i just say one thing? when you mention endo, that is known as the son of valeant, because it has former valeant experts. it's more of an acquirer, the way people look at it. >> meg, thanks as always. >>> le

a test was written for adhd which was not autism in children and the children are deftly displaying behaviors of autism. guest: i hear this every day. integratedack to the approach. if child is i graced it -- diagnosed at age two. the reason we need to invest in , whether insurance coverage or a private insurance company or other mechanism, the business you work for, we know between ages of two and five, we can make a dramatic difference in the development of a child. if that child is not eligible for insurance coverage, here she will have entered kindergarten with no therapy. public schools inherit the -- with, some widths significant special needs. the school does not want to deal with them but they will not release the kids because they get reimbursed by the state government. people in the system are actually working against each other. she is exactly right. the parents end up being the child's only advocate. they have to go back year after year to their school district to fight for the right kind of for services they deserve. if we had a strategy that brings together policymakers, the res

now, shier makes an adhd drug, and it has that irish tax base, and it would be a $40 billion acquisition, essentially as a defense, making allergan too big for valeant to buy. so this is the idea that this analyst is floating. it has the tax synergies, the big drug, vyvanse, and we'll see if they -- >> does it pass the smell test, that something like that is possible? >> it's definitely possible, the way this analyst, ken, outlines it. he thinks what they'd have to do is issue more shares, more debt, and pay with it with cash on hand. it's possible. the synergies, though, aren't as high as valeant are saying they would get by buying allergan. this guide puts it at $1.25 billion in synergies versus double that, which is what valeant is saying it will get. >> what does your experience tell you what the end game will be here? does the deal as it currently stands end up going through, you think? >> that's the way most people seem to think. valeant is a very, very seasoned buyer. this would be the biggest deal they've done. >> that's for sure. a serial acquirer. >> yeah, you know, they're ver

the boys there, only boys, 50 of them, have dyslexia, adhd, a alphabet soup of learning differences, asked to memorize and then publicly recite in front of a few hundred people lincoln's gettysburg address. we embedded ourselves for three months a year or so ago and watched them learn it. the trials and tribulations, the fights, the disagreements, the helping each other and it begins to remind you that in this republic of ours words matter and they endure. this is in my opinion the greatest speech ever made in the american english language by a president who is doubling down on the declaration. he was creating a declaration 2.0. first one said all men are created equal, but the guy who wrote that owned 100 human beings. four score and seven years later he's coming back to the site of the greatest battle and saying we believe we can the birth of a new freedom. on the first anniversary of 9/11 what do we listen to? not new speeches from politicians. we listen to something that has nothing to do with 9/11. we listen to lincoln's gettysburg address. these kids take on something we don't

(yelling) >> narrator: last year, christel was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and adhd. >> ♪ a hundredother(bleep) can't tell me nothin'... ♪ >> narrator: after a classroom fight, she was sent to an alternative school for disruptive children. ♪ put it in your kidney got a new ls 450 ♪ ain't no keys in this do-hicky... ♪ >> narrator: now she stopped showing up and has just been summoned to court for truancy. >> this is all coming down on you. you know which way you're heading to? piggie, do you like it? are you sure? because we're back in the court again for the truancy. if they got to, if they feel like they have to, they could lock you up. is that what you want? this is stuff that they can do because you gave them permission to. look at me. just think. if you graduate, go to a college, this is something you can talk about with pride because you can share your stories with other kids. you'll be one of the hood project kids that proved a whole lot of people wrong, and i know you can. i know you can. your family, we know you can. can't nobody do nothing about this but you. that's it, jus