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. >> bob bazell back in our studios in new york. back here in pittsburgh, summit just getting underway. the dow finished down 41 points. >>> when we come back, how many people love baseball and can't live without it? we might have found the answer here earlier today. i do. you could be losing bone strength. can i get it back? (announcer) ask your doctor how to help treat osteoporosis with once-a-month actonel. actonel is clinically proven to help increase bone rength to help prevent fractures. so you can get back some of what you lost. do not take actonel if you have low blood calcium, severe kidney disease, or cannot sit or stand for 30 minutes. follow all dosing instructions. stop taking actonel and tell your doctor if you experience difficult or painful swallowing, chest pain or severe or continuing heartburn. these may be signs of serious upper digestive problems. promptly tell your doctor if you develop severe bone, joint or muscle pain, or if you develop dental problems, as serious jawbone problems have been reported rarely. t

bob bazell, as always, thanks. >>> president obama goes into crucial meetgs on afghanistan strategy and policy with an endorsement today from the new chief of nato. at the white house nato secretary general rasmussen said the president was right to hold off on additional troop deployment until strategy revisions are determined. the president will meet with senior military and diplomatic advisers tomorrow. he is considering shifting course in the now eight-year-old afghan war. >>> suspected terrorist najibullah zazi appeared in new york court for the first time today. the man alleged to be at the center of this al qaeda plot to set off bombs in the u.s. entered a plea of not guilty to terrorism conspiracy charges. authorities claim he received training in pakistan and was acquiring materials to make explosive devices. >>> if the feds wanted to do something about distracting driving other than climbing in the car with us, what could they do? >>> questions about where the stimulus money went. what some are calling a net gain. you've wantedo quit smoking so many times, but those days came a

. >> miracle of the jet age, bob bazell has traveled from north carolina to our nbc affiliate in minneapolisre, kare 11. i asked to talk to you because i wanted to put a fir point on something we talked about last night. this bombshell finding. this flu season, some kids may require four flu shots in all or four nasal sprays. can you put a finer point on this and what parents can expect? >> reporter: absolutely. i double checked with the cdc. some kids will need more vaccinations. that's the ones that have never been vaccinated before for seasonal influential. all kids under 10 need two swine flu shots. the ones without seasonal flu will not need a booster -- sorry, if they haven't they will need a booster. >> we'll keep going at this. thanks. >> reporter: we will, indeed. >> when "nightly news" continues, a whole new way of seeing something we are already familiar with. way of seeing something we are already familiar with. we had a mouse. what? where? don't freak. it's gone. how? who did it? i did. with one of these. this is a mouse trap? yeah. it's a new kind of mouse trap from ortho. home

bob bazell will answer as many as humanly possible online and here on the broadcast tomorrow night. >> we have had so many celebrity deaths to report of late. we learned tonight, the latest is henry gibson. depending or your generation, you may know him as the off beat poet fm roan and martin's "laugh-in" on nbc or as the judge on "boston legal." he was an air force veteran. his biggest film role was "nashville." henry gibson died of cancer at his home in malibu. he was 73. >>> when we come back, the best kept secret in america. these days, a secret no more. in america. these days, a secret no more. i've had asthma forever. i've had asthma for 5 years. 10 years. i used to wonder why my controller medicine wouldn't help prevent... ...help prent my symptoms from coming back. i just figured it couldn't get any better. and then i found out something i didn't know... i found out there are two main causes of asthma symptoms... ...airway constriction you feel and inflammation you may not. most controllele don't treat both. so my doctor prescribed advair. advair treats both main causes to hel

. >> bob bazell, thanks as always. we'll take a break. when we come back, crossing the line.he fallout from a star athlete's angry outburst. i've had asthma forever. i've had asthma for 5 years. 10 years. i used to wonder why my controller medicine wouldn't help prevent... ...help prevent my symptoms from coming back. i just figured it couldn't get any better. and then i found out something i didn't know... i found out there are two main causes of asthma symptoms... ...airway constriction you feel and inflammation you may not. most controllers don't treat both. so my doctor prescribed advair. advair treats both main causes to help prevent symptoms in the first place. (announcer) advair contains salmeterol. salmeterol may increase the chance of asthma-related death. so advair is not for asthma that's well controlled on another controller medicine. advair will not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be taken more than twice a day. talk to your doctor about the risks and benefits of advair. if you take advair, see your doctor if your asthma does not i

. >> bob bazell, thank you. we'll stay at this topic as we get more and more information from the government. >>> we shift our focus now tonight to the american south, where days of torrential rain have caused major flooding as you may have heard. as much as 20 inches of rain now fallen in the atlanta area since friday, and more rain is expected. at least five people are dead in this, including a toddler swept away by floodwaters. our own rot mott reports tonight from the atlanta suburb of austell, georgia. >> reporter: when it rained, it often poured. as much as 20 inches since friday, leaving water nowhere to go but higher, shutting down roads, swallowing entire ball fields, tossing park school buses like toddler toys, trappi tm in their homes. >> everybody's in their homes hollering and screaming. >> there are older pple in reporter: driving was frustrating and perilous at times, with at least three motorists swept to their deaths in flash flooding. throughout atlanta -- >> that rain has been coming down in o

nbc's chief science correspondent robert bazell joins us from new york with more on all of that. hi, bob>> hello, sue. how are you? >> good, thank you. this is an important vaccine. >> the aids vaccine was given to 16,000 people in thailand and 31% of the people who were getting the vaccine fewer got infected with hiv than were getting it. that's not enough to make a vaccine. but it is something that's the first important development in what has been a miserable string of mail fur wasfailures. this is -- what this will do is reinvigorate the field and give people at least hope to get funding to go on with it. this is certainly not a vaccine yet. >> but it does take them in reading some of the articles that are out there, it takes them kind of in a different direction than they were going in the past. it's only a 31% success rate certainly, but it does take them in a different direction. it may give them -- >> it takes them -- indeed. it takes them in a direction they don't even understand yet because a lot of things happened in this trial, and it's a trial of human beings, not monkeys or