but i talked to the head of autism for the cdc and they think some of this is more children with autism and that's concerning. >> thank you, rich. >>> we were curious today about the percentage of autism occurring in the united states and whether it is higher than the rest of the world. here's what experts told us. they said that autism occurs around roughly the same rate in every country around the globe. but the u.s. and south korea do the most testing, so the most absolute numbers appear higher. >>> and now, we turn to a new day in america, the first day of spring. though for millions of us, it doesn't feel like it at all. there's a picture that says it all. the snow surrounding a beleaguered sign that says, zero days till spring. >>> and take a look at this, the difference from a year ago, last march 1st through 19th, the red represents warm temperatures. spring reawakening the earth. but tonight, the alternate universe, the country is covered in dark blue, a spring starved nation is shivering. >>> and now we turn to a headline about your job and what kind of personal information yo

we hear about autism in many different circles.wo, clinicians are recognizing autism much more frequently. both of those factors are certainly playing into the increased numbers that we are seeing. >> reporter: the experts say more research is needed to know for certain whether other factors are involved in the ever growing numbers of american children being diagnosed with autism. >> aiden, where's the lollipop? >> the lollipop. >> yeah. >> reporter: robert bazell, nbc news, new york. >>> and where our weather is making news tonight, a whole lot of americans need reminding tonight it is actually spring -- at least the calendar tells us it starts today. with the jet stream dipping way down, a lot of temperatures are way below normal for this time of year. wind chills around zero this morning in parts of the midwest. and across the northern half of the country from coast to coast really the snow cover is hanging in there. there's yet another winter weather system setting up for this weekend in the plains and the rockies. what a diffe

melissa's son was diagnosed with autism a year ago.n his 4th birthday. >> i think we started noticing differences in him as early as 9 months old. >> say mama. >> reporter: by age 4 he wasn't even potty trained and he was barely able to speak. >> he wouldn't walk by himself. i had to carry him or put him in a stroller. he wouldn't eat by himself. i had to feed him. if i didn't, he wouldn't eat. his main method of communication was screaming and pointing. he never would play with me. i remember arturo would come home and try to play with him and he was like, i can't get him to play with me. i said, you have to try harder. >> reporter: the official diagnosis was terrifying. >> you have this baby and you have all of these hopes and dreams attached to him. you want him to have this fulfilling life. then in one moment, all of that gets robbed from you. >> reporter: that was the nightmare. >> my camera got broke. >> reporter: a year later arturo speaks in full stepses and goes to a regular preschool. >> in my mind there is no way he would be

autism is a case in point.tudies show early intervention is important and children can improve dramatically but the gold standard treatment can run tens of thousands a year. a third of u.s. states do not require insurance companies to pay so, of course, they don't. georgia is one of those states a group led by three mothers decided to fight for more help. they are fighting for a bill called ava's law. this is ava. this is her mom, anna. they are at the state capitol in atlanta. >> i met a mom whose daughter was diagnosed two months ago. >> reporter: it's late february, day 23 of the 40-day lawmaking session. >> if it could be voted on -- >> reporter: megan recently adopted a 10-year-old boy with severe autism. melissa's son was diagnosed with autism a year ago. on his 4th birthday. >> i think we started noticing differences in him as early as 9 months old. >> say mama. >> reporter: by age 4 he wasn't even potty trained and he was barely able to speak. >> he wouldn't walk by himself. i had to carry him or put hi

. >> autism itself is on the rise. think we can put this all on better recognition and better identification of children with autism. something else is going on, too. >> experts say the key is to identify as early as possible especially among kids with mild symptoms and that allows them to get specialized care much more quickly and make a in many cases enormous progress. >>> new clues tonight about what causes autism. dr. richard besser reports on that. >> reporter: another clue into a cause of aah at this time many. researches in sweden found the older a grand it is father was when had children the more likely the children would o be to have children with autism. for father the risk went up 1.8 times. for mothers the risk went up 1.7 times. it is already known that one piece of the puzzle of autism is the age of the father starting at age 30. ray siegel. >> figure out if there is a genetic factor. >> his sons oscar and hugo both have autism with different kinds of struggle from reading social interactions. moms pass o

one was in just milder cases of autism. so there's a whole autism spectrum. but the mild cases, the concern is they may be getting missed, and they may be getting missed until they become older children. that was a sort of second group. so children getting diagnosed later. you can diagnose autism as young as 18 months. many children aren't getting diagnosed until their second, third, fourth grade. finally, boys more so than girls. four times as many boys as compared to girls. we don't know exactly why that is. but those are the three things that jumped out at me. >> i guess the bottom line for a parent at home, is this cause for concern? >> i don't think you can say, look, obviously based on what we're seeing today there is something that's happening in the environment. it's obviously causing more cases of autism. i just don't think you can say that. despite the fact that the headlines are going to say, you know, 1 in 50 as compared to 1 in 88, this is now 2% of children in america. i still think that, you know, we know that the numbers are high. we know that

. >>> still ahead for us tonight, a major new report about vaccines and the risk of autism. tonight, doctors try to reassure a lot of worried parents across this country once and for all. >>> and later, in their own words. what marilyn monroe wrote to a friend in her darkest days and a big fight among divas on paper. >>> we mentioned health news about a very controversial topic, autism and childhood vaccines. a great many parents in this country believe there is a link and increasingly they are refusing to have their children immunized. but tonight there is brand-new data that adds to the case for vaccination on schedule. here with our report, our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: despite years of research proving vaccines do not cause autism, nearly one in ten parents delays or even refuses to vaccinate their children. >> one of the questions i get asked is, is there any relationship between vaccines and autism? >> reporter: a new report in the journal of pediatrics says there's no cause for concern and that getting multiple vaccinations, even on the s

. >> research shows 1 out of 88 children is diagnosed with some form of autism. the study did not designate specific regions where a link between pollution and autism was strongest. >>> let's bring in chief meteorologist jeff ranieri and a gray monday. >> it sure is. give you my thumbs up on that. we need some of these gray changes. it's hard after the weekend we had where conditions were in the 70s. we had widespread sunshine. we'll get rainfall in here and that's going to be great news with a lot of the bay area now starting to slowly set into some drought conditions at least we think by may. doppler radar is dry as it scans around. the huge change as we've noted from saturday and sunday is that widespread cloud cover. everyone right now with clouds here from santa rosa down to san jose and we're also noting an onshore wind. 5 to 10 miles per hour. that was good enough to help cool our temperatures down mainly with widespread 60s at this hour. let's get you live outside on this monday. you can see those areas of mid and low level clouds here across san jose. ki

it says increase comes from children over 10 diagnosed with mild forms of autism. >> autism is on the rise. i don't think we can put this all on better identification of children with autism. something sells going on too,. >> experts say this may be a combination of genetic and environmental factors. they say the key is to identify as early as possible. especially among kids with milder symptoms because they can get help these day as louing them to get care quickly. >> stores in the santa cruz started charging a quarter for paper bags today. the county band plastic bags last year charging 10 cents per paper bags but now, increased to 20 dronts get attention. they want to keep plastic wag bags from harming marine life in monterey bay. >> the boortd of supervisors approved a ban with members saying they didn't want to give people the impression it's okay to smoke. e cigarettes contain nicotine and chemical buzz produce a vapor rather than smoke. stores that sell them will be required to buy a tobacco retailer license. >> going back to weather we've talked about rain here, first day of s

. >> piecing together the autism puzzle.ren may be more at risk than others, and why some countries including the u.s. seem to have more cases. an important insight for parents. >>> later this half-hour -- the food truck trend involving small culinary businesses on wheels, who is willing to invest big money on rolling restaurants. seen a lot of them in new york too. waiting for a hungry public. >> learning much more about the big changes coming to late night talk shows, the latest development involves jimmy fallon, jay leno and signature show making a big move in "the skinny." >>> first there is breaking news in the mideast. two rockets were fired from gaza hitting southern israel. >> the disturbing act of violence comes as the president pushes for peace while warning enemies. here with more is jonathan carl traveling with the president. >> reporter: the president arrived in israel in a good mood, the open mike capturing his banter with benjamin netanyahu. he was even joking about red lines. but the issue couldn't be more se

so, you know, i think the hammer home message here is autism is common. if you ask most experts to say what is the true prevalence rate, they're going to vary a little bit on their numbers. if you ask most experts is the rate somewhere between one and 50 and one and 200 most are going to say, yes. >> all right. professor zachary warren, thank you for shedding some light on this study for us. >>> now, first on cnn they have alleged al qaeda ties. they have a price on their heads. and they're american. the state department is offering $5 million apiece for information leading to the arrest and conviction of omar shafiq hamamy and mustafa and their faces are on posters and match books in somalia where the two are believed to be working for an al qaeda affiliate. >>> he might not have been president but for 20 minutes yesterday john boehner was the most powerful politician on u.s. soil. how did he spend his time? >> free cigarettes? >> in the u.s. nothing at all for happy hour? >> nothing. >> okay. >> my interview with the speaker of the house is next. plus,

it was flat when you look at children with severe autism.t does point to better recognition. >> the doctor says that genes and environmental factors should be looked at and he believes these results show an urgent need to focus on autism causes, prevention, and treatment. >> mike nicco is keeping an eye on the sky looking no rain. >> open up the weather window and i will show you where it is looking to the east bay you can see the lower clouds working out of the north bay and across the central bay. to give you a timeline for when this will exit our neighborhood and if you can fly out of sfo without any delays. >> new policy for a popular pharmacy chain is causing outrage. >> san rafael, south bay, pleasanton, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. in ukraine there were punches, choking and more in parliament with a huge fistfight in parliament. lawmakers had to suspend the session until they could control order. >> my goodness. happening now, general motors is recalling nearly 27,000 cadillacs and bicycles nationwide to fix a problem with

it was flat when you look at children with severe autism.does point to better recognition. >> the doctor says that genes and environmental factors should be looked at and he believes these results show an urgent need to focus on autism causes, prevention, and treatment. >> mike nicco is keeping an eye on the sky looking no rain. >> open up the weather window and i will show you where it is looking to the east bay you can see the lower clouds working out of the north bay and across the central bay. to give you a timeline when this will exit our neighborhood and if you can fly out of sfo without any delays. >> new policy for a popular pharmacy chain is causingfeh$n >> san rafael, south bay, pleasanton, and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. in ukraine there were punches, choking and more in parliament with a huge fistfight in parliament. lawmakers had to suspend the session until they could control order. >> my goodness. happening now, general motors is recalling nearly 27,000 cadillacs and bicycles nationwide to fix a problem with the autom

an intense manhunt now under way. >>> diagnosing autism. the new numbers are shocking -- 1 in 50 children now affected. but there is a lot parents should know about these new numbers. >>> watching your weight. outrage over a new health plan at a big drugstore chain where employees are told to turn over personal information or pay a heavy price. >>> and the line that's been a recurring joke among a lot of women which is now a serious business. women which is now a serious business. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. in geopolitical terms the president is spending the night in a dangerous neighborhood. there is no such thing as a routine presidential trip overseas. tonight the president is overseas on a very cautious trip. he's in israel for the first time as president. the timing isn't uncommon. his predecessor george w. bush waited for the last year of his second term. presidents reagan and bush 41 never visited as president. this trip was never supposed to be about breakthroughs. more

. >>> if you see lights in your town in april don't be surprised it's part of autism awareness month. deborah villalon has how one mom has lit the cause. >> reporter: it's still catching on and the idea is to shine a light on autism. >> when my son was diagnosed i didn't know anybody who had autism. >> reporter: co-owner of a hair salon, she speaks to a will the of people and next month she will let these blue lights speak for her. framing the windows of her business and others at this nevato shopping center. >> we can put it around there. i think will go all the way around. >> reporter: to mark the united nation world autism day, landmarks around the world glowed blue including the identical tower, the empire state building -- the ifell tower, the empire state building. this park not as iconic but still a sill bomb when a blazing blue light goes up and autism posters around the mall. >> everybody knows someone in the spectrum. it is prevalent. it is something to learn about. learn how to behave appropriately. learn the right kind of questions, i think it's time. >> reporter: son ramp

. >>> if you see lights in your town in april don't be surprised it's part of autism awareness month.deborah villalon has how one mom has lit the cause. >> reporter: it's still catching on and the idea is to shine a light on autism. >> when my son was diagnosed i didn't know anybody who had autism. >> reporter: co-owner of a hair salon, she speaks to a will the of people and next month she will let these blue lights speak for her. framing the windows of her business and others at this nevato shopping center. >> we can put it around there. i think will go all the way around. >> reporter: to mark the united nation world autism day, landmarks around the world glowed blue including the identical tower, the empire state building -- the ifell tower, the empire state building. this park not as iconic but still a sill bomb when a blazing blue light goes up and autism posters around the mall. >> everybody knows someone in the spectrum. it is prevalent. it is something to learn about. learn how to behave appropriately. learn the right kind of questions, i think it's time. >> reporter: son rampl

researchers collected data on 256 children with autism and 750 children without it. they were all born between 1994 and 1999. >>> facebook may not be the friendliest social site for older people. a new study looked into 84 non-commercial facebook groups and found all but one including a negative stereotype with people over the age of 60. quite a few descriptions banning older people from driving or shopping. they say the research paints an uncomplete picture of how people use the site. >> details on the lives of the biggest celebrities in the world is going up for auction. >> a letter exposing the bad blood between the beatles. a woman may be consider the greatest sex symbol of all time. taking a look outside right now is shaping up to be a soggy night. leigh glaser has the rain and when to expected a break from the showers. >> on the men's side one-half of the final four is set. another shocking and speaking of shocking, [ female announcer ] why settle for plain bread? here's a better idea. pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits in just 15 minutes the light delicat

dave jones prop yog yoesing regulations to force insurers to pay for therapies for autism.akers pass that had law but say they're getting complaints treatments aren't covered. treatments can cost up to $50,000 per year. >> well, ice skaters around san mateo looking for a new place to glide. ice center is preparing to close at the end of may when it's lease at the bridgeñ) poit center runs out. the center says it's not renewing the lease now. they have their eye on a grant ready for development. the park and regulation committee will hold a hearing april 3 to consider that proposal. >> from thin mints to us us mint local girl scouts >>> coming up showdown at sea. looking into the tactics of a save the whales campaign. why a judge declared pirates telegraphing the future of one of berkeley's color streets. >> and a police department learning to fight crime with fitness. >> i like it. all right. well, the bay area girl scouts at the nation's capital today but wasn't selling thin mints but pitching silver dollars. >> that is the young scout standing next to a silver dollar. >>

behavioral differences i remember from my childhood though i didn't know they were autism.how i'd had struggles, i tried to advise him as best i could based on my experience, being the same way. >> cubby, i want to talk to you in a second. john, if i could ask about that. what were the behavioral things you recognized. cubby, i'm fascinated this, again, as part of a neuroscientist, what were you looking for? >> well, first of all, i'd say i wasn't looking for anything. like any parent, you always hope your kid's better than you, he's brighter and cuter and smarter, but when i would like go with his mom and we'd put him down at day care, there might be two or three other kids right on the floor next to him, and i sort of thought well maybe this would be like pouring goldfish into a tank and cubby would be in there swimming with them all mixed up. but he wouldn't do that. cubby would stay by himself. that made me remember my own time as a little boy and how i wanted to engage the other kids and have friends and i didn't know how. i couldn't tell. was cubby wishing he could do

. >> cameron has autism. he as as perger's which is on the autism spectrum and his dad started a band and he is in it. >> cam has always been a happy individual but he really hasn't ever found his place. when you put the sticks in his hand and he gets up on stage and he's with his friends that are now a band, it's really pretty amazing transformation. >> they have performed at the hard rock cafe in phoenix. they won an award for, you know, best young band. >> playing live in front of crowds really makes me feel good inside, like a really good feeling because i get to do what i want to do and we have a lot of fun. >> yeah, i mean this is awesome because this is home for him now. this is his escape. he can go up there, be with his band and rock out. he's pretty good. >> and we've seen how music helps someone with autism. >> i've been playing the drums for about three and a half years now. the band members have really become my friends in that short amount of time. just really fun to experience that. >>> some pe

. >> new statement on autism shows more cases than ever. one in 50 schoolchildren has autism, which includes language, social, and behavior challenges. the centers for disease control says this means a million americans children may have autism and they attribute the new higher estimates to high are awareness. the survey may impact the amount of time and money spent on supporting autistic kids. >> sugar drinks contribute to more than 180,000 deaths each year. researchers from harvard use data from health surveys around the globe and found sugar drinks linked to thousands of deaths from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. critics say the researchers made leaps to conduct the airlinements to the beverages. >> they have a brand new stadium, and now santa clara city leaders want a super bowl. next, we will crunch the numbers and reveal why it won't come cheaply. >> popular chains say they will take their fish natural. what you will not find next at the seafood counter when you shop. >> tracking showers across the bay area this is activity in o

res researchers reviewed data involving 256 kids with autism and 752 without.y compare the two groups and concluded that neither the number of vaccines a child gets before age 2 nor the number of vaccines a child gets in a single day were associated with developing autism. >>> there's a new treatment option for the 24 million americans who have type 2 diabetes. the fda has approved a new drug made by johnson and johnson. it works by blocking the reabsorption of sugar in the kidneys. no word on when that drug will be available. >>> we have to get our rain gear out. it's such a nice day. i can't believe rain is on the way. >> it is on the way. a huge contrast from today. so, yes, get ready this weekend for the major changes. details on when the rain moves in and when it moves out. here is a live look at san bruno to san francisco. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier? at chase we're pioneering innovations that make banking simple. deposit a check with a photo. pay someone with an

. >>> autism affects thousands of children in the bay area. one family in the south bay is embracing a different method to help their autistic son. good dog autism companions is a small nonprofit that provides essentially trained golden retrievers to autistic children. this 7-year-old from san jose is known to run away because of his autism and his parents say they've exhausted all the typical options to help him. then they heard about good dog. but one of these goldens cost $10,000. tonight the rolandos held a fund-raiser in los gatos. >> there's so many other things these dogs are trained for. providing deep pressure to children who have sensory needs. they can also help keep the child distracted from negative behaviors. >> what the dogs do is prevent the boy from running away by blocking him. >> that's right. >> if you'd like to donate to the rolando family and help their son, logon to gooddogautismcompanions.org. >>> a marathon used to be the ultimate way to push your body to the limit. but there's a new trend. they're called spartan races

. >>> autism more widespread than ever. why they say one child on every school bus in america has the disorder. >>> place of honor for a piece of history. we'll tell you why this big chunk of the berlin wall is standing in an office parking lot and where it's heading next. >>> a live look outside. beautiful bay bridge. you see it there, glistening in the distance. kind of a wide look at t rain coming down. christina is checking that storm and also the morning commute with mike. 6:10 right now. for your first day? yeah. ♪ dad: you'll be fine, ok? girl: ok. dad: you look so pretty. ♪ i'm overprotective. that's why i got a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. >>> welcome back, everyone. several supermarket chains, including whole foods and trader joe's say they will not sell jeannetgenetically engineered s. it is engineered to grow twice as fast as normal and would become the first genetically modified animal to reach dinner tables. >>> a new study is shedding new light on the prevalence of autism here in the unit

it is different than autism. different than zero palsy -- to repro policy -- cerebral pasly. i thank you as always my dear friend for coming up here. so thank you for taking time to be with us. i have been told that everyone has a chance to fully but you and you have the chance to challenge us, and we will take it that way and we will do so. are excused at this time. thank you very much. this closes the hearing portion of hr933. i see no further witnesses, so we will close the hearing. vice chairman dr. fox. committee grante the department of defense and veterans affairs and full year continuing the appropriations act of 2013 and closed roll. the rule provides one hour of debate equally divided by control of the chair and ranking minority member on appropriations. the rules which all points of order against consideration of the bill. the rule provides the amendment printed shall be considered as adopted and the bill is amended shall be considered as read. the rule is all points of provisions against the bill as amended. finally, one motion to commit with or without constructi

. >> my autism doesn't define who i am. i define my autism. you. you give my son hope. jeff: then he found a fortune and gave it back despite degree homeless. your life is really turned around. you have a job. >> yes. [captioning made possible by cbs television distribution] [applause] jeff: hello. hello! roll it! a little bit about me. i'm recently married. i work with my wife on this show and i'm learning how to be a dad to two amazing kids in a blended family is. i'm hosting a talk show because there is a lot to talk about. welcome to the show. have a seat. thank you very much. so happy to have you here. one of our last shows. we're not being renewed. in a few months we'll be off the air. these are peshes, precious days that we must share together. today on the show, two people who i think will inspire you. i hope they will inspire you. we have the very first miss america contestant with autism. it is an amazing story that reminds you not to give up on your kids. let them surprise you because they will. we have miss montana, alexis wineman

but for someone with autism, that's not an option for him.t. >> reporter: here is oakland's creative growth. a nonprofit art center for the disabled. a free program for people with all levels of talent. given a chance to express themselves. in a world where that isn't always easy. >> them been seeing as being outsiders. if you bring somebody into a context and you say, tell me about your life, and they do it through art, it's amazing what opens up. >> look at my paintings. >> reporter: william scott's work is also in the collections of top museums. >> i taught myself how to paint. i taught myself. >> he has a beautiful soul and he really wants to change the world. >> reporter: in many ways his art really has changed his reality. a man with autism who doctors said had little chance to ever make a living. >> how much would this sell for? >> reporter: this would be probably a,0 $4,000 painting. the money goes back into the supplies they use. many choose to have all proceeds go to creative growth. >> this is a god send. this place is i think very

a man with autism who, doctors said, had little chance to ever make a living. how much would this sell for? >> this would be probably a $4,000 painting. >> reporter: artists here are offered half the sale price. the rest goes back into the brushes, fabric and paint they use. but many like dan and kara miller choose to have all proceeds go to creative growth. >> this is a godsend. this place is, i think, very important to him and his happiness. i'm just so happy that he's here. >> i think what would it be like for him if he didn't come to creative growth? he would be probably somewhere watching tv or sitting in a room by himself. what a lost life that would be. what a missed opportunity. >> reporter: not just for dan miller, but for all of us. kristen dahlgren, nbc news, oakland. >> that's our broadcast on a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> selling prescriptions at gunpoint, a

i was going to do a chapter -- i am and kids on the spectrum of autism andace perers and targeted or initiated into perpetrating, which i dealt with last week, are perpetrators and aggressors, so i wanted to work on that so i'm working with kids and with aspergers and autism and one thing that struck me is we need to be able on the flip side, so i'm now writing to kids when you are the one that has more of a thick skin, whatever you want to call it, how do you interact with kids who are more sensitive? just how do you do that? how do you recognize the signs when you're around somebody that does calibrate and has a different definition and what bothers them and what doesn't and if we can do that and i'm asking autistic kids and asperger's kids and normal kids and what are the things that trigger these things and what can we do and i want you to know what i am doing right now and i am working with boys and i finished the porn section and honest i'm doing all of it and why do girls send naked pictures and this week we're creating concrete strategies and scenarios so they can picture wha

if an older father had a daughter he was 79% more likely to have a grand child with autism. if he had a son he was 67% more likely to have a grand child with the disorder. another study shows one in 50 school-aged children was diagnosed last year. that number has risen significantly in the last five years. >>> doctors say allergy sufferers are in for what could be one of the most difficult in years. grass allergies are the most common and can produce pollen well into june. doctors say they are seeing a spike of patients coming in during the past two weeks. your first strategy should be minimizing your exposure to pollen. >> if you need to be outdoors then i would recommend after coming in washing your hair or changing your clothes. if you are outside try to limit the amount of time that you are outside and be careful of the early morning and late afternoon. >> the dry weather we had earlier this month is contributing to the early release of grass pollen. to make things worse wind can spread grass pollen for several miles. >>> a local egg farmer is joining the fight against h

. >> we're able to express ourselves, but for someone with autism, especially the level he has, that's not an option for him. and here he can do that. >> reporter: here is oakland's creative growth. a nonprofit art center for the disabled. a free program for people with all levels of talent. given a chance to express themselves in a world where that isn't always easy. >> they've been seen as being outsiders of society. if you bring somebody no a context and say really tell me about your life, your story and they do it through art, it's amazing what opens up. >> this is my paintings. >> okay. >> reporter: william scott's work is also in the collections of top museums. >> i taught myself how to paint. >> reporter: yeah. >> i taught myself. >> he has a really beautiful soul and wants to change the world. >> reporter: in many ways, his art has changed his reality. a man with autism who doctors said had little chance to ever make a living. >> how much would this sell for? >> this would probably be about a $4,000 painting. >> reporter: wow. artists here are offered half the sale price. the r

. >> doctors reveal new finings on children and autism.you need to know. >> humans acting like animals caught on camera, what beachgoers are accused of doing to seals and the response to city officials to make sure this never happens >> our breaking shot of the morning, firefighters are battling a fire that spread to three homes, now, after a call at 3:30 this morning. we will hear from the crew on seen and what is going on there. right now, or in a couple of minutes we will hear what is going on. >> stretch of beach in san diego is off limits to beachgoers after a hidden camera caught shocking cases of people abusing the seals in a terrible way. the camera recently caught two women harassing pregnant seals at night. the camera also captured people punching and kicking we the seals even sitting on them. the mayor of san diego has issued an emergency order to keep people off the beach at night until the official end of the season in may. the camera was set up in january so researchers and the public could actually watch the joyous process o

they will donate it to autism research. why that cause?dy raised like 1.8 million through the in three years, so imauto just teaming up -- so i'm just teaming up. we did that routine if you come in, share, and like it. they will donate a dollar and we $25,000 in 24 hours. >> clayton: why did you join that cause? was there something about autism awareness that you felt needed more attention and get the word out about it. >> a couple people on twitter have been following me, adams, they have been telling me what such a great job i have been doing raising money and all the different things that i do. i raise money for breast cancer. i raise money for p car. and it just so happened that white castle was already doing autism. i just want to help out. >> alisyn: that's nice. >> clayton: now the future. because you make this amazing video and goes viral. we will tweet this out so more people can like it and raise awareness for autism. a lot of attention as nose guard that doesn't usually happen. michael strahan has like four shows. right? regis a

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the number of kids diagnosed with autism has jumped and a lot.'s according to the government survey which found one in 50 school children has the disorder. that's up from a previous estimate of 1 in 88. federal health officials say the new number does not mean that autism is occurring more frequently but that doctors are apparently diagnosing it more often or somewhere in the middle. especially in kids with milder forms of the disorder. also worth noting here the new statistics comes from a phone survey. those surveys are not always as accurate as others. if this one is, it would mean that at least 1 million children have some form of you autism. such numbers do influence how officials spend limited public health dollars. privacy advocates are crying foul tonight after one of the nation's biggest pharmacies announced that all of its workers on company healthcare must tell what they weigh. or pay a penalty. the policy from cvs care chargy don't report the weight, fat, glucose levels and other data. patient rights or patient privacy rights tells th

boys are at much higher risk of developmental onset disorders like autism, dyslexia, stuttering, earlyizophrenia. one of the common things is impairment in either speech or language. and the fact that we found that this protein is lower in the male brain when it's developing, 'cause remember, we looked at young children, suggests this might be one piece of the puzzle that increases their vulnerable to these developmental disorders. >> hopefully they'll take this research and go forward and see if we can use this to help in the fight against autism? >> absolutely true. we're trying to understand why is it lower in boys, in other words, how is it regulated and develop therapeutics around that. >> fascinating. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >>> and prepare yourselves. up next, how a popular zoo in new york is hoping this fuzzy face will convince people to open up their wallets and save an important exhibit. you don't want to miss this [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's to

children has autism.utism in 1 in every 88 kids. researchers say the results don't necessarily mean that autism is occurring more often. but it does suggest that doctors are diagnosing autism more frequently, especially in children with problems. also, parents were surveyed in the second study, whereas the previous one relied on >> big tobacco companies are breathing a sigh of relief, tonight. the fda is scrapping a series of graphic warning labels for cigarettes after deciding not to challenge a court ruling that said the shocking images violated free-speech protections. these are some of those graphic images. they include a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat; a baby next to a cloud of smoke.and diseased the fda will propose new labels, but that could take a few years. according to the centers for disease control the percentage of adult americans who smoke has declined since 1965 from more than40% down to just under 19% in 2011. the cdc says cigarette smoking is still the leading cause of "p

children have autism. figures are press the previous government study that estimated autism is one of every 88 kids. researchers say the results and not necessarily mean that autism is occurring more often. but it does suggest the doctor diagnosing ought to the more frequently, especially in children with problems. also, parents or survey in the second study, whereas the previous one relied on medical and school records. >> prince been obama and president abgas told a joint press conference at the presidential compound. >> good morning welcome back to the kron 4 morning news. taking a live look at conditions in walnut creek. for most of us is a clear starts to the morning we have areas of fog and cloud cover. turning our attention to our day planner mainly sunny skies and to the afternoon. temperatures will be in the '60s as we head into tonight. clear conditions will stick around. it will take temperatures back down to the '50s. we could pick up '30's with the overnight hours. tomorrow more sunshine. your