there is no cure for alzheimer's disease. early detection and medication can ease the symptoms, but do not target the cause. however, there have been breakthroughs in manipulating the genes that cause alzheimer's, giving hope for new therapies. >> the personality changes and memories fade. those are just two characteristics of alzheimer's disease. over a century ago, malawi's alzheimer's discovered what happens in the brains of those affected with the illness. proteins known as plaques interrupt transmissions. nerve cells began to wither away. scientists have yet to find a cure. as the number of elderly increases, so does the number of alzheimer's patients. one key problem is that the disease is often recognized too late. the eye offers a chance of early recognition. scientists have found that the plaques that kill brain cells also build up on the retina. scientists hope they can inject a patient with a fluorescent compound that shows up in a non invasive imaging process. a lot of research is still needed, but an early diagno

her symptoms are the same as for millions of alzheimer's sufferers around the world.but ofelia's disease is very different. she was always going to get it. she carries a mutated gene passed down from her mother. a cruel inheritance that's been in the family for years. since their mother died her older sister aura has run the household. she tells me that of 16 brothers and sisters, eight inherited the disease, four have died so far. ophelia and her brother gustavo's now need full time care. >> ( translated ): well, for me it's very hard. because you think for who is it more difficult, for oneself or for the sick ones. maybe we can say that they don't feel anything. but the truth is that you don't know what they feel. >> reporter: in and around their town of don matias they are not the only family suffering. as many as 5,000 people in antioquia carry the mutation. if they have children half of them inherit will the gene. usually the disease strikes at just 49 years of age-- here the elderly watch the young die of alzheimer's. it's thought a single basque settler brought

there are so many, 5 million people with alzheimer's, and one of the stabbing things about alzheimer's which incidently if you are working in a traumatic brain injury area you can do that while you are working on alzheimer's because there are common threads. the stunning thing is the new york times came out with an article six or eight months ago basically saying that the last 30 years of research and the great institutes of research in this country have produced absolutely no progress whatsoever on finding the cure for alzheimer's, not prevention, slowing it down for testing to find out if you have it, although that may be on the way. the stunning figure now comes along. injuries sustained by concussions. made one poignant by the fact that they come so early in life and can have such terrible consequences you decided not to do what you have spent your whole life preparing to do. not necessarily typical. a wise decision. i want to throw this at all of you. you could develop the 50-pound helmet, and all it would do is more securely, i think, unless i'm wrong, is more security make sure

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a brand-new study shows mice injected with human brain tissue from alzheimer's patients developed alzheimer's disease, but mice subjected to brain tissue from healthy humans showed no reaction. >>> citibank will start charging customers $15 a month if they don't carry a minimum balance of 6,000. customers with that mid level account will be charged $20 month if they don't maintain a minimum balance of $15,000. >>> number two, your costco membership is going up. america's largest wholesaler will raise its fees by 0% starting november 1st. that means most memberships will go up $5 to $55. those executive fees will increase from $100 to $110. >>> number one tonight, don't drive with expired tags in d.c., or you could be arrested and put in jail. it happened to a maryland woman. aaa is outraged by the law. the agency wants the d.c. council to review the practice. even one council woman is now questioning that policy. that's tonight's fox 5 top five. >>> thank you, shawn. a beautiful week of weather. feels great. >> everybody's happy, and everybody's really happy because it does look like it will

we need to do the same for alzheimer's. we have the potential to create the same success that's been demonstrated in fights against other major diseases by making alzheimer's a priority, we can cut down on both the financial an human cost of this disease so i'm proud to stand with my republican colleagues and talk about the issues that seniors and their families are dealing with every day and we can find solutions. thank you. mrs. hartzler: thank you, lady. i share your commitment and the heart wrenching reality of alzheimer's and our need to focus on it here. our next speaker is from the great state of washington, representative jay me he rer rah butler. of ms. beutler: i believe we need -- ms. beutler: i believe we need to protect the rights of our nation's seniors, the right to access what they spend their entire working lives paying into, the right to know that programs that exist today will be there when we need them. let's talk specifically about this. the right to make choices. in my corner of the country in southwes

he's an alzheimer's patient last seen in august. >> we've been holding search parties, we get up when the sun comes up and go back in at midnight, we search through the woods. the police brought out the sniffing dogs, we lost his scent around mount pleasant golf course. >> he's an alzheimer's patient and a diabetic, call police if you see him. >>> they were trying to do god's work, but neighbor's say they have to do it somewhere else. what could be happening in their own backyard. >> reporter: a campaign to fight against bullying kicks off in anne arundel county today. a look at the big names joining the campaign. >> what would you say is more frightening? charlie sheen or anthony weiner? both coming to your door asking for candy. these may not be for kids. >>> let's go to new york for latest in business news. >>> topping america's money, apple after steve jobs. he died yesterday at the age of 56. the stock increased 100 fold. there wasn't much affect when he step down this summer. microsoft may be thinking of taking over yahoo. they're one of several potential suiters. >>> today bank

and we do that with alzheimer's. registryan alzheimer's where people leave their brains to be studied, just like you have had. you learn from that. but that does not do them any good. i want to raise two questions. one is, to the medical side of this, do you think i am wrong? you think is just because it is a relatively early discovery? to be quite honest, i did not know at all that somebody who had played soccer could get this until i watched the movie about the wedding when we beat china back in 1980, and that incredibly powerful player that the chinese all stayed away from because she would just flatten them. she had chronic fatigue syndrome. she did not have a brain concussion of any sort. and and you see soccer a lot. all of us watch soccer on a lot more. and you see people using their heads and you do not know whether the bands are on them are not. it is amazing, the ignorance of the american people, about this problem even though we know much more than we did know about it. i want to know right off the bat how

and we do that with alzheimer's. you have an alzheimer's registry where people leave their brains to be studied, just like you have had. you learn from that. but that does not do them any good. i want to raise two questions. one is, to the medical side of this, do you think i am wrong? you think is just because it is a relatively early discovery? to be quite honest, i did not know at all that somebody who had played soccer could get this until i watched the movie about the wedding when we beat china back in 1980, and that incredibly powerful player that the chinese all stayed away from because she would just flatten them. she had chronic fatigue syndrome. she did not have a brain concussion of any sort. and and you see soccer a lot. all of us watch soccer on a lot more. and you see people using their heads and you do not know whether the bands are on them are not. it is amazing, the ignorance of the american people, about this problem even though we know much more than we did know about it. i want to know right off t

john bagley is an alzheimer's patient and has diabetes. his family is very worried about him tonight. >> we have been holding search parties, we get up when the sun comes up and we go back in at midnight. we have looked through the woods, the police have brought out the dogs and we love his sense around mount pleasant golf course. >> he has been missing two months and he is an alzheimer's and diabetes patient. he needs treatment. in you know where he is call police right away. >> a bit of a health scare in ocean city. one of the town's premiere hotel hotels is ending their season three days early. three were in the hospital with the disease after a week of staying at the hotel. now its not clear if they got it there but according to the health department tests suggest the bacteria is in the hotel's water. cultures won't come back until the end of next week. symptoms are similar to pneuomia. symptoms set in two to 14 days after being exposed. it can be deadly and requires treatment from a doctor. >> all right the state will give $18 million

seem to reduce dementia and alzheimer's symptoms journal of alzheimer's disease reports on adding benefitstecting part of reducing blood pressure for years a link shot between hypertension and dementia high blood pressure contributes to lower blood circulation in the brand finally drugs and candy adults and kids cannot tell the difference starting out as simple experiment turning into a major controversy for medical community, to seventh grade students found 15 teachers and one out for kindergarteners cannot distinguish candy from drugs that look the same common mistake mixing m & m's with coricidin results presented at american academy of pediatrics meeting doctors agreed they to do a better job educating parents about the need to keep all medication out of children's reach >> up night time temperatures dipping into thirties this week full forecast next and don't know where but downplayed today'sdown for a few days i already went christmas shopping and won't get a single bill! what!? yeah, i used kmart layaway - i'm making small payments over 8 weeks. kmart layaway is the easy way to pay

>> his lawyer says his mind is sharp, he does not have alzheimer's.w signs of that. it was his girlfriend used that as an excuse while he was holed up much of the day. most people said he was very friendly but occasionally he would get cranky and she would say, charlie has early signs of alzheimer's. >> any indication he was talking to people in the criminal world while he was on the run or still is now? >> there was evidence early on during his first couple of years on the run he had numerous contacts back in boston but by 1997, the fbi, you know, formally, officially acknowledged he was a long time fbi informant. at that point things changed for him and a lot of his cohorts changed against him. >> one of the theories why whitey got caught is osama bin laden. you know osama bin laden was number one on the fbi list. he was killed and could they put more focus on whitey bulger? >> absolutely. i think he was concerned about that. we know from neighbors who used to see him out in the morning and in the night walking he became sort of issecluded when osam

the association received $175,000 in donations from this weekend's whop to end alzheimer's. >> now your insta-weather forecast with meteorologist john collins. >> a bit of a chill in the air today. it was nice despite the below normal temperatures. there are some clouds to the west. it is generating rain. it is not cold enough for snow. we will see a change in the weather over the next 48 hours. let's see what happened today temperature wise. yesterday was stuck in the 40's. today, the inner harbor made it to 54. 63 is typical for this time of year. we missed the mark yesterday because of all of that snow in some areas. annapolis is now 53. was minister is 45. in the 30's -- westminister is 45. temperatures are going to tumble once again. we will get down to freezing once again. new england has gotten from under the wind and the snow. they got it much worse of their then we got it here. here is the new is-- there than -- worse up there than we got it here. early tuesday morning, moisture. until then, we are in good shape. 28-35 the overnight low. winds and dry air, the temperatures will

what has changed us, we are now helping alzheimer's.a lot of help and we are doing that because we know people who have alzheimer's and i'm not too far away! so support alzheimer's. okay? >> excellent. wonderful. you have made a couple of thousand dollars on the original video and you'll only make more so a great cause. thank you guys for joining us here this morning. great to check in -- >> but we haven't seen it. >> the check is in the mail, as they say! >> chris, chris, chris, thank you so much for having us on. we love you guys. >> we love you as well. continued success. >> bye-bye. >> and good health. >>> if you're looking for a good [ mom ] hey guys. guys... [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls with cinnabon cinnamon are an irresistible sunday morning idea. nothing calls them to the table faster. sunday morning ideas made easy. in 15 minutes, [ female announcer ] you call that bread? you can serve some warmth with your bread. and some flavor with your bread. and some layers with your bread. if you're serving bread honey,

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what has changed us, we are now helping alzheimer's.a lot of help and we are doing that because we know people who have alzheimer's and i'm not too far away! so support alzheimer's. okay? >> excellent. wonderful. you have made a couple of thousand dollars on the original video and you'll only make more so a great cause. thank you guys for joining us here this morning. great to check in -- >> but we haven't seen it. >> the check is in the mail, as they say! >> chris, chris, chris, thank you so much for having us on. we love you guys. >> we love you as well. continued success. >> bye-bye. >> and good health. >>> if you're looking for a good halloween movie we have a bag full of frights for you. this is "the early show" on cbs, >>> if you love scary movies now is your time. halloween is the best time for a good old-fashioned thriller scare movie. if you've seen them before they are never as scarey the second time around. >> lindsey powers is here with some of her favorite movies and some you probably haven't seen yet. paranormal activity 3

my mother has alzheimer's, among other things. if i did not have -- if we did not have adult day health care center, can you imagine what her day would be like? being at home possibly by herself all day. or in a nursing home away from her friends and the care providers that do all the things that i cannot do, all the things i do not know how to do. i am here standing strong with my mother, because i realize i made times she stood strong with me. please, please, state of california, do not close adult day health care centers unless you want folks like my mom to be at home, either by themselves, without friends, or in a nursing center. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. good job. thank you could i am sure you spoke for a lot of families right there who are counting on adult day health care to be there. we are about ready to wrap up, but i am going to get the crowd fired up and ready to go. you know how the president always talks about getting fired up and ready to go? are you fired up, ready to go? [cheers and applause]

can alzheimer's disease spread like an infection?re going to break down the results of a new study. don't miss tonight's health alert next. >>> and also ahead,es is me street is known for taking on tough topics in ways children can understand. a new special is creating a buzz. don't miss how sesame street is battling childhood hugger still ahead tonight. hunger. still ahead. think about it. with everything you do... it's nice to have a vehicle that can keep up with you. it's the chevy season of doing. now qualified buyers can get 0% apr for 60 months plus $1,000 cash allowance on the 2011 traverse, which offers 8-passenger seating and received a 5-star overall vehicle score for safety. get to your chevy dealer today and get that list done. >> in tonight's health alert, federal health officials report that 18 people have new died in that listeria outbreak from eating cantaloupe. at least 100 people are sec now in 20 states, including virginia and one person in maryland died last month. jepson falls in -- farms in colorado recalled the

we don't know whether it involved alzheimer's disease or dementia or anything like that. but clearly, the people here very, very shaken. >> at approximately 10:00 a.m. this morning the husband of a patient receiving rehab services entered the building to visit his wife. a nurse heard shots fired and discovered both the husband and wife deceased. this is a terrible tragedy and we are deeply grieving for the family. our immediate concern is the well-being of the family, our community and staff. we take the security of our residents very seriously and believe this is an isolated incident. >>> the family of the victims has been notified. the police are still here, they are kind of detailing what happened. they plan to release names later today, as soon as we get them, we'll release them to you. back to you. >>> jury selection is underway in the murder trial of brittany norwood. norwood is the woman accused of killing jayna murray in bethesda. it is a crime that shocked that community. andrea mccarron is outside the courthouse in rockville with more information. >> reporter: j

patients who exercise have a lower rate of alzheimers disease. >> i love to be out here around the people. kind of give you something to do, something to talk about. >> i think walking is the number one priority. if you don't walk, i wouldn't be around long. >> they meet every morning and walk a couple miles around the building. the club is so popular, they formed a dancing and singing group as well. a group of seniors from montgomery county can call themselves national senior wii bowling champions. they call themselves the unbewiiables. the teams bowler of the year had 54 perfect games after getting eye surgery. >>> d.c.s biggest hockey star is immortalized. mad dam tussauds honored alex ovechkin with his statue. he was on hand to see the new wax version of himself. the museum took 250 measurements and pictures of ovechkin. it took three months to complete. wayne gretzky is the only other hockey player to be turned into a wax sta which you. that's all for "news4 this week." i'm chuck bell.

if your grandmother with alzheimer's wanders away, you can track her. again, these go on sale next week. and it generates a map. like you see a google map. it generates, kit tell you where she is so you can follow her. >>> is this technology new? >> it's interesting. shoes aren't new and gpss aren't new but putting a gps in a shoe is a new idea. there are other company doing similar thing. putting a gps in a bracelet that is locked so they can't take it off. you know where your relative has gone. right there, that has a gps in it. there are little modules that you can put if someone carries a bag. you put in it and you can track them that way. there are a couple of different ways of doing this. >> i guess you have to make sure they're not taking them off. >> right. chances are they won't take their shoes off so that's true. >> gps in sneakers. >> you can feigned anyone. if you're worried your spouse is cheating, strap them on. >> elizabeth, thank you. >> not as useful. >> not at all. >>> still ahead, cnn takes you to the exact spot where moammar gadhafi

could have a direct connection to alzheimer's. what happens to folks with alzheimer's? we need to be forcing everybody to continue all the research and good stuff that is being done to understand the brain. positron emission tomography and what that allows us to do at looking at concussions. put up the slide real quick. the first one about brains. this is a picture using positron emission tomography. three brains from three different in individuals. this shows us this is an injury. on the right is your normal brain. 20% of the energy created by your body. that is what it looks like when it is functionally normal. 15%-25% of the energy created by the body is burned in that brain. the brain in the center is an individual that hasn't comatose for five days. that is what their brain looks like. he a soldier is comatose on the battlefield, we are getting them to medical care. with two minutes in 42 such as much to go on a field 100 yards long -- somebody told me it is 55.79 yards or something. clusters the with 55. 55 yards wide with cameras and ankles and doctors and everyb

diabetes and all time tears are also -- alzheimer's are also related to smoking. >>> adhd is the most commonned diagnose for children as a disorder. new guidelines make it possible to manage adhd with kids between the ages of 4 and 18. the new guidelines suggest that they first try behavioral intervention with group or parent training. and it requires a team approach because it is a chronic condition. >>> it started out in new york city and quickly spread to other cities, including here in baltimore. everyone turned out around the world to answer a call and saturday. we'll take a look at some of the other cities out there. >> reporter: i'm sherrie johnson. i'm live in columbia where speed cameras are up and running this morning. i'll have a live report. [ female announcer ] having grands! biscuits in the morning is easy. just pop 'em in... then go about your business... and in just 15 minutes, your family can enjoy warm fresh from the oven biscuits. grands! warm ideas made easy. ♪ in the rhythm of my weekday flow ♪ ♪ something new -- ooo! ♪ just what i want ♪ prepared for me and ready

now a medical report confirmed she is suffering from a form of alzheimer's and placed her under the legal guardianship of her family. >> it is a deeply disappointing decision. i will find it very hard to break the news. for her it would be completely unbearable. >> the saga may appear to be over, but it probably isn't. her legal fight back is already underway. >> family feud over billions of dollars in france. when you think cuba and cars i bet it is those fabulous 1950's chevys that come to mind. cuba has finally relaxed its ban on private car sales between individuals. all of the soviet vehicles that came in before 1990 can now be traded legally. >> during the time of the former soviet union owning a car was the biggest sign of power in cuba. they soon became the most popular cars on the cuban road. this is cuba, old american cars in excellent conditions. but they are outnumbered by the hundreds of thousands of russian cars that are a reminder of soviet times. >> according to official figures there are 50,000 cars on this road. it is simple engineering and durability make them popular f

. >> tried to look at issues of senior nutrition programs, alzheimer's research, even housing policies that allowed our buildings to become more senior-friendly. also looking at how to support senior services, neighborhood- by-neighborhood programs that allow aging in place. people who are getting older helping each other stay in their homes and communities longer so that they can contribute as long as possible, as opposed to institutionalizing them. >> i support working families, livable communities, definite drawn support for the small business. even in my district, there are pockets of poverty and many people of work. so it is also about supporting those under employed people, small businesses in this difficult economy. >> there are a lot of vacant storefronts, so we are trying to find people to read these spaces. there is a bookstore over there. this way there are a lot of businesses that have been closing. >> i support the small businesses versus more chain stores that seem to be coming in to some of the vacant storefronts. i am trying to be sensitive to the local merchants becaus

these are walking shoes to help find wandering patients who are suffering from alzheimer's an dementiauilt in gps transmitters in the heels. there are other tracking devices out there. but since patients tend to take off, gps bracelets, the shoes are said to be more effective. they will retail in the united states for about $300. buyers will need to set up a monitoring service. if you're interested, the brand is called gtx. carol, back to you. >> pretty cool. christy live in hong kong this morning. thank you. >>> the occupy wall street movement has taken on a life of its own. but just how will americans view the protests and what does it mean for democrats and republicans? we'll take a closer look. that's just ahead. fore! no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to... get in the way. not anymore. ink, the small business card from chase introduces jot an on-the-go expense app made exclusively for ink customers. custom categorize your expenses anywhere. save time and get back to what you love. the latest innovation. only for ink customers. learn more at chase.co

. >> cbs bigad shaban reports the goal is to heold off the diseas like alzheimer's. >> reporter: at 90ntally. >> we need to be careful using this. >> reporter: some studies say both are necessary to slow progression of the alzheimer's he was diagnosed with three years ago. >> we can't reverse anything that is already there, but we can definitely slow it down. all the way to the end. >> reporter: in august, physical therapist mateo martinez opened mind and mobility. >> and ten. great job. >> reporter: a ft. laueds detail gym that offers physical exercise usually covered by insurance and mental exercise the cost of $19 per session. do you think it's helping your ability to remember things? >> yes, i think so. it's fun, you know? i enjoy it. >> reporter: martinez believes his dual program which includes memory quizzes and puzzles. >> the mind is a large component of mobility. it's that willpower of to do something and for a lot of individuals that are in that geriatric population. >> reporter: nifty after fifty has a dozens locations in southern california alone. >> it challenges your bra

. >> researchers believe these stem cells hold the key for treatments of disease like alzheimer's and parkinson's. when they are extracted from the cells, the embryos are destroyed. when they can be considered human embryos? that question was at the center of a legal suit. the european court handed down this definition. >> each human egg cell at the point of fertilization, each on fertilized human egg cell into which a mature human cell has been transplanted, each on fertilized human egg cell might start developing and dividing constitutes a human embryo. >> that means researchers cannot patent am really stem cells either. greenpeace, which challenged the pact in germany, hailed the court's decision. >> we welcome the european court of justice's clarification of the issue that human embryos enjoy a high level of protection against commercial interests. they cannot exploded by industrial or commercial interests. >> the scientist at the heart of the legal storm says the ruling will hurt european researchers and push stem cells science to the u.s. and asia. >> this decision virtually con

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reduces the diseases like obeesty and the heart diseases, the most obvious ones and what struck me is alzheimer's disease that comes later or doesn't come when you cycle a lot. it keeps your brain fresh and going, i guess. and what also is very important that work absenteism is reduced for people that use the bike more often. as it comes to lifestyle, of course we also have lifestyle. cycling in the netherlands is not so much a lifestyle as it is here in the u.s. but cycling offers more joy and happiness, less traffic noise, cleaner air and better social integration. yesterday during the bike ride i noticed that the americans, the san franciscans who cycled with us, they met a lot of fans. they were constantly waving and saying hi, hello, and how are you? and in a car, well, with the speed you're going, it's difficult to recognize who you're approaching and to say hi, the car is on the next block. on the bicycle you can see each other, wave, call each other in the evening saying well, what were you doing at the wiggle? economic benefits -- well, all these benefits i mentioned are also to be trans

>> i have a kind of alzheimer's for his own work. today, too many people remember what they did, forget it all and start again. >> as twice the age of his xh competitors, it has made him rich and virtually ly irreplacable at chanel. >> there is one designer karl lagerfeld says could replace him. our designer to watch. >> fashion's man of the moment is heir ackerman. he first presented his namesake line in 2002. lakely, he is the designer everyone in fashion is talking about. >> who is your woman? i don't want to think there is only one woman or to analyze her like one category. that means you are not democratic. i think she belongs to all kinds of women. >> ackermann's most resent collection for spring 2012 was the toast of paris. >> he has such a sense of color. it is really extraordinary. not since yves san lauren have i seen such colors. >> a man who shows his colors on a long runway taking his time so people can see him. he is also karl lagerfeld's pick as the man to replace him at chanel. >> reporter: how does that feel? >> how

medical reports have confirmed liliane bettencourt is suffering from a form of alzheimer's, and she has been placed under a form of -- under the authority of her family. >> it will be very hard to break the news. for her, it will be unbearable. >> the saga may appear to be over, but it probably is not. liliane bettencourt's legal fight-back is already underway. >> van gogh painted beautiful stars, cut his year, and then killed himself. it is the story every child learns in art class. the only hitch -- it may not be true. a new book claims he was accidentally shot by a teenage boy obsessed with the wild west. >> nobody else produced pictures like a vincent van gogh -- like cinvenvincent van gogh. his paintings are famous, as is his life story. he cut off his ear. he was a troubled soul. the authors of this book are contesting that he was shot by a 16-year-old boy with a cowboy fixation. they argue that the bullet that wounded the artist was fired from a distance and entered his body at an angle that suggest van gogh was not the one who pulled the trigger. >> he went with his back of pain