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that's really how cdc grew. but at the same time, i think there was a general feeling that infectious diseases were really conquered. it was really sort of a mopping up operation that we were about. the fact that malaria had disappeared from the united states, and we conquered smallpox in the americas in 1971 and worldwide in 1977, sort of lent us confidence that really, there wasn't much that we couldn't do. as a result, the center began to diversify, to broaden its focus. and so we expanded into chronic disease areas. the national institute for occupational safety and health was incorporated into cdc in the early 1970s. much more recently, we've gotten into areas surrounding injury control and prevention. and of course we realized in the last few years that the infectious disease agenda is not over. certainly it's not in the developing world where it still causes a very heavy burden. apart from what aids is doing as probably the most egregious example that we've seen in our lifetimes, having surpassed malaria

in cdc to your question supervisor wiener with those funding reductions we're looking at 17 thousand reimbursed contacts as a result of those reductions and we do have estimates so we can and will share what that translates to in terms of numbers reimbursed new cases of hiv. so i will leave it at that unless there are additional questions? >> colleagues any questions? >> and before we go any further. >> i apologize that i have to step out thought he meeting but there was a problem with the way this was calendared normally this committee allows for another supervisor to set in that allows a quorum and something happened here so that didn't happen. i also want to thank the chair of the committee for giving me the opportunity to say a few words about this. again, it's my pleasure to work with supervisor wiener. but i think we have an obligation to make sure we protect the safety net and there are different degrees of vulnerability and when he look at the kinds of funding

campus is the director of the cdc tom friedan.e have been talking about the strain of flu. why are you so concerned about it? >> on with one hand we are reassured because there is no person to person transmission documented yet. we have great discussion with the authorities and work on getting more prepared for stains of flu or other pandemics. it's a strain of oh influenza that causes severe disease. it doesn't seem to cause disease in the birds. so we can't identify it in birds and stop it in the animal hosts. it does have some aspects that suggest it could evolve into something that could spread person to person. >> should people in the united states be concerned? >> there is nothing different that the average person in this country needs to do. there is a lot we are doing to make sure we do everything in our power to be as prepared as possible for every scenario that could happen. that's what we are doing day in, day out. >> putting it all together your level of concern when you compare it to previous novel viruses, how would

but cdc and nih were not looking that the issue at all. they had crumbs falling off on to the table of their budget for so many years and now we have mobilized. we think it must go to the next level which is significantly more funding and lee and his organization have been have been very powerful. >> i think anybody knows this is a terrible indictment of our value system in thi country that the nih doesn't get more money. i mean medical research is extremely expense and i have you're broke too. the autism society of america according to my literature is you're broke and if you're broke that means your influence is weaker? >> i would say we're not broke, we are doing okay. it's just that we need more money so we can do more for the community. the community right now is tremendously under served. and what our -- what we do is advocate and support. educate the public and as well as trying to services in t improvement and research. that takes money. our emphasis is going to the government and asking them and showing them the statistics and dem

but health agencies around the globe, including the cdc, are working 24/7, just in case. that's because if contagion begins, hong kong is key. this is one of the most densely populated places on earth. you have one person who comes into a diner like this with the flu and coughs, half the diner could get sick. this flu began among birds and all over this country, there is a race to contain it. the number is rising. 43 infected. 11 of them dead. most believed to have been in contact with infected birds. officials monitoring more than 1,000 close contacts of those who are ill to see if they get sick, too. the urgency here because bird flus can change and it's possible it will start spreading from person to person. we're learning more about it. in people, it causes high grade fevers, leading to confusion. a cough turning to total respiratory failure. other systems begin to break down -- the kidneys, muscles. scientists believe this flu might not be treatable with the only weapons we have against flus -- anti-viral medicine. and remember, we have no natural immunity to this st

so the cdc's picture of the crisis was always a week or two behind. which is an eternity when a pandemic is underway. around the same time, engineers at google developed an alternative way to predict the spread of the flu not just nationally, but down through regions in the united states. they used google searches. now, google handles more than three billion searches a day and saves them all. google took 50 million of the most common search terms that americans use and compared when and where these terms were searched for with flu data going back five years. the idea was to predict the spread of the flu through web searches alone. they struck gold. what you're looking at right now is a graph, and the graph is showing that after crunching through almost half a billion mathematical models, google identified 45 search terms that predicted the spread of the flu with a high degree of accuracy. here you can see the official data of the cdc and alongside of google's predicted data from its search queries. but where the cdc has a two week reporting lag, googl

and then also want to highlight the drop in cdc funding so this represents the funding moving forward. thank you and good afternoon supervisors thank you so much for having us here on behalf of the hiv centers. hiv continues to test us so the funding has gone down dramatically over the last dozen years and ultimately it is impacting the clients at risk living with hiv and aids. and yet i want to talk about the silver lining because as we are in partnership with the elected leaders in san francisco we've continued to create some innovative protection and prevention. i want to tell me this is called the garden cascade otherwise known as the garden can say candy. almost a million folks are living with hiv. and you continue to go down less and less phone calls are engaged in care and those are the folks that at that point hiv transition reduces dramatically. what's pretty incredible is that we've tested will 8 hundred and 62 folks and found them positive for hiv and 50 percent of those have reached an undetectable environmental load because they've had the comprehensive services our commu

besser with late word tonight from the cdc. he's standing by. >>> on alert. the first major storm of the spring, moving fast tonight. more than a dozen states to get hit with severe weather. meteorologist ginger zee on the tornadoes. telling us, it's not a matter of if, but when. and the 80-degree temperatures coming, too. >>> to catch a thief. watch this. the airport worker caught on tape. the moments that passengers put their luggage on the conveyor belt, his rummaging through it. tonight, authorities say his wife was in on it. >>> and what a rush. watch the performance of the 7-year-old on the field. this way. that way. and then, he was off. >> in midfield. listen to this crowd. >> the careers and the tears, the parents who never thought they would see what happened next. >>> good evening. thanks for being here on a sunday night. we begin with the growing concern over the new strain of bird flu. it is spreading in china. and it has top scientists here in this country worried because of what they've seen it do. six people have died in the last week. china r

that theer countries cdc teamworks and in africa. in asia, based out of bangkok, we are working from the burmese border into nepal. this is a human issue that touches our soul. here are photos of work from the pediatric ward in the sudanese border. pharmacy and supply room. ande are clinic shots services that are provided. the idea is to intervene at an early phase to maximize the health. ands for their own interest the benefits of their receiving communities. tb screening is a big part of what we do. there is a lot of epidemiological i cities. -- activities. warfield investigations when there outbreaks of cholera due to heavy rains in a drought of malariaepidemic where rains bring in mosquitoes. this is an example of investing in laboratory structure. dadaab's population can be over 300,000. yet it was neglected to some extent by the national government in terms of infrastructure and laboratory capability. cdc invested heavily in turning the above before pictures into after pictures. interventions. i will wrap up by showing our trea

and the cdc and the state department have not issued any travel warning. tonight, we talked with the santa clara health department. >>> protective suits slaughtering pigeons and chickens. six people have died out of the 16 who have fallen ill. the virus, a brand new strain called h7h9 has been discovered. so far the virus has only spread from birds to people. >> breathing with the r respiratory secretions of these animals. if you just walk by and they're across the street, that's not going to cause any exposure. >> the doctor says there have been no confirmed cases of human-to-human infection. >> it has not transmitted, as far as we know, from human to human. so that's the most critical thing. as long as you stay away from where you potentially will get infekted, you're going to be safe. >> those traveling to shanghai from the bay area do not have to cancel their travel plans. rather, use common sense while you are there. >> if you're traveling over there, do not go to a market and hang out with the live poultry. that's how it's being transz mitted. >> one

here you can see the official data of the cdc and google's predicted data, where the cdc has a two week reporti lag, google could spot the spread of the flu almost in real time. strikingly google's method does not involve distributing or contacting physicians' offices, it is built on big data, the ability to harness data through novel insights and valuable services. let's look at another example. a company, in 2003 a computer science professor was taking an airplane and he knew to do what we all think we know to do which is he bought his ticket well in advance for the day of departure. that made sense but at 30,000 feet the devil got the better of him anti couldn't ask the passenger next to him, and paid considerably less and asked another passenger how much the person paid, even though they both bought the ticket. he was upset. who wouldn't be? put a computer science professor, not only does he get upset, but what he realizes he didn't need to know the reasons on how to do that when you should buy it in advance when there's a saturday night stay. in stead realized the answer was hidden

and the cdc is working on a vaccine just in case. >>> are san francisco firefighters more susceptible to breast cancer? the department wants to study breast cancer rates among its female members. the department applied for a study grant from the breast cancer research fund. it's hoping to conduct a study on 80 of its 250 female firefighters. the research will compare the firefighters' blood samples to those from women outside of the department. >> every time a firefighter walks into a building, a fire they're exposed to, an array of toxic chemicals. and the problem is, the -- through studies, actually the centers for disease control did a study a few years back and identified some chemicals that had the ability to permeate the protective equipment. >> very interesting. fire officials say they're extremely troubled by the higher than normal incidents of cancer among its firefighters between the ages of 40 and 50. the department expects to learn this summer whether it's awarded the grant that they've applied for. >>> the weekend is here. let's check the forecast. happy friday, jeff. >>

the cdc has begun early work on a vaccine to be ready just in case this reaches our shores. david. >> thank you. >>> china in the news this evening because america is asking leaders to step up. secretary of state john kerry asking china to use its muscle at this critical moment with north korea. a powerful show ofday while in south korea a very different kind of show. bob woodruff from seoul again tonight. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry visited north korea's only ally today, asking chinese leaders to calm their neighbor down. >>at t powers, china and the united states could work effectively to solve the problem. >> reporter: china and the u.s. vowed to persuade north korea to give up its nuclear weapons program but china has not pressured norta nearly as hard. refugees pouring over borders with repercussions. on the streets of pyongyang today theyere honoring the 100th by of kim ill-sung. it could be used as an excuse to conduct a missile test that has the region and the world on edge. in seoul today a completely different picture, 50,000 fans celebrated with the

the cdc says the vaccine project is only a precaution though the virus is a worry. it will take at least a month to create the vaccine. >>> just released documents show there were concerns about james holmes' mental health before the aurora shooting. his psychiatrist warned the university that hoems was homicidal and a danger to the public. the attack left 12 dead. according to the arrest warrant officers found explosives, booby traps and an die depressant drugs inside his apartment. >>> another high-profile killing of a law enforcement officer. he was shot dead while questioning a suspect. it happened inside the police headquarters last night. the suspect was also killed. the dead police officer, eric smith, had a long and accomplished career with the department. >>> the search for two dangerous prison escapees have come to an end. they were found in a barn near the prison. authorities were led there after a pawnshop clerk called police. someone was pawning jewelry left in a stolen car. >>> president obama delivers his budget next week. one white house official say

you were at the cdc, you've hunted down deadly viruses and you've been talking to them about this. >> yeah, they are worried. i talked to my friend who heads up the flu division. i've never heard her more worried about a strain of bird flu. that's why they're reacting so aggressively. in china, 400 labs and 500 hospitals are on the look-out. poultry markets in three cities are closed. 20,000 birds have been destroyed just in case. all because a new bird flu has infected 24 people, and seven of them are dead. bird flus are not unusual, but they can only move from one bird to another. this virus, h7n9, seems to have mutated. now able to leave birds and attach itself to human cells. the darkest fear? the virus mutates again and again, and begins to jump from person to person to person. and then an infected person could get on a plane in shanghai. it's not hard to see what happens next. a pandemic, spreading across the world at the speed of a cough or sneeze because we have no immunity to the new flu. >> it seems so far away, but as you point out, it can move so fast. >> yeah, i've been t

of course came to us from the cdc. you helped lead efforts on flu before. so, how concerned is this team tonight? >> reporter: well, you know, i've been on the phone with cdc. this is what they do best. they are jumping all over this. they are preparing the virus so manufacturers can make a vaccine if that's need. they've developed a diagnostic test, so americans go to china, they can be tested to see if they have this. and they're alerting people, what to watch for. because you never know which way one of these outbreaks is going to go. >> you'll keep us posted every step of the way. rich, thanks to you tonight. >>> we're going to turn to another headline tonight causing controversy. so many american families weighing in with their own opinions. how young is too young to have access to emergency contraception, known as plan b? tonight, a federal judge has brought the debate to a head, ordering the fda to lift its age restriction, allowing women of all ages, teenagers, to get that contraception over the counter. no doctor's visit, no prescription. here toni

that is kind of what we saw that has not been analyzed by the cdc yet.se results were just the raw data of that. they usually come out with a report in about two years. what was reported was that overall about 11% of children, the parents reported that someone had ever said that they have adhd. that is different than a diagnosis of adhd. so it may be an overestimate. it does not increase from the last survey, which we saw in the, where 9.5% of children. it has gone from 9.5% to 11%. in 2003, and have gone from 7.8% to the 11%. this is probably an overestimate. in 2007,, the cdc numbers reported 6.2% of children in that state had the disorder. when you had kaiser permanente have the physicians do a study where they looked at their patients who that a formal diagnosis using the formal criteria, they only had 3.1%. so the cdc numbers from the parent survey said 6.2%, and the physicians actually diagnosing it only found 3.1%, we can see that this may be an overrepresentation of what is going on. host: our topic for our last segment -- dealing with adhd. here

which is the number of minutes that the cdc recommended for children's to be physically active. physical education, physical activity during school, physical activity before and after school. i am proud to be a part of shape up san francisco because we're working on many of those areas save routes to school, walk and bike to school. in fact this morning we celebrated a media day at the our elementary. this was the district wellness he wish the board to pass a resolution that urges all schools to become active schools. thank you very much. >> next i have a lady to speak on allocation of funds for parents and services. two minutes. >> good evening superintendent and the committee the board of education. i'm a member of the ss e. i'm a pta member. the certain with the fund allocation is one

i was interested in finding out, is the cdc or any other programs working on health promotion projects that continue to work with those refugees when they come in because, for cultural reasons, they be some of the men do not go to the clinic to get health screening stunned and some of those people are found out to have diseases and later stages and health education in general? i'm interested in finding out if there initiatives working on that. >> that is a great question. we have, in the last five years, built up the domestic side of our refugee program, and in the last year, have funded grants to 10 states that have large receiving populations and are working closely with refugee resettlement -- the office of refugee resettlement. it does not and. this is continuing upstream. there are a lot of cost effective solutions on the disease side. we have been doing screening for some of the major chronic diseases. downstream, there is more to be done, but there are a lot of activities, health education promotion, tapping into programs. one thing is identify the needs at the community level a

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the committee is charged with mooment be bond revenue see any - the cdc meet to review and discuss the proposed policy to establish the projects under the 2011. give the restriction of the bond composed by the voters. we have some projected additional costs to the bond project as a result of higher results. the district commissions an independent third party economists to assess how the project would impact the administrative cost and two it have a legal opinion the legal higher propose would not violate the propose. it's based on purely statutory. it's not based on the ability of the district to serve as the engine or the potential to create jobs for the public. the cb oc requests to the district are motivated that clearly day that a higher policy can be implemented given the absence and the aubs absent of any case authority that is directly on point that authorized the policewomen's of a local higher policy. the cbc is further concerned that any additional expenditure of funds due to hire policy is inconsistent with the bond issues approved by the voters and my colleague will discuss

to the idea of resistance, h7n9 is resistant to the early antivirals like, and the cdc has a sample ofiruscepstive to the new virals tamiflu that worked against it, but there's another sample which shows troubling signs. here's mike shaw from the cdc labs. >> may be a small part of it that looks like it was trying to become drug resistant, but wasn't quite there yet, which shows us that the potential is there of something we have to be alert for. >> they are on the alert for that already. one case of this detected outside of china in taiwan, a man who spent time traveling in eastern china. here's the worrisome part, he didn't have any contact with birds. >> thank you, john roberts. we thought it would be interesting to look at companies within industries that could be impacted by the bird flu. let's show you some of those. we have the chicken producers, of course, tyson foods, interesting, higher in today's trading, pilgrim pride, standardson farms, a pop of 4%. adam: look at yum, beat earnings, missed revenue slightly, and it's so big in china. china sales down 20% because of bird flu

cdc has a virus from china. they're working on it. it's not going to be easy. >> it's hard to make a virus -- it's hard to make a vaccine, the virus is responding to early treatment. that's good news for people getting sick. and let me ask you one, quick question, rich. you're in hong kong. what is the mood like there? are you starting to see any level of panic set in? >> i'm not seeing panic. hong kong has dealt with bird flu before. i'm seeing a call in the newspapers for closure of the live bird markets. that was something they wanted to have done in the past. and now, with this new outbreak, they're calling for it again. >> dr. rich besser, the former acting director of the cdc, on the front lines of this virus again. dr. rich, thank you. >>> a lot of other news overnight. as always, we go to mr. ron claiborne. good morning, sir. >> hi, dan and bianna. we're going to start with good news for your wallet and all those americans out there who drive cars. gas prices are falling again. prices at the pump dropped 7 cents a gallon in th

. >> the cdc and the state department have not issued any travel warnings for now. state officials consider this to be a low risk as the virus is not being transmitted from person to person. >>> are san francisco firefighters more susceptible to breast cancer? the department wants to study breast cancer rates. the department applied for a study grant from the breast cancer research fund. it's hoping to conduct a study on 80 of its 250 female firefighters. the research will compare the firefighters blood samples to those from women outside the department. >> either time a fire fighter walks into a fire or is exposed to toxic chemicals, the problem is, through studies, actually the cdc did a study, and identified some chemicals that have the ability to permeate the frothi i protective equipment. >> they are extremely troubled by higher than normal incidents of cancer. the department expects to learn this summer whether it will be awarded the grant. >>> up next, giants fans feeling the magic as the orange and black comes back to town. we'll have highlights from the big

the cdc wasated to t breathing sigh of relief. a simple virus was susceptible.ust yesterday when i was at the centers for disease control they get another sample of the virus which they found absurd mutations that had they continued would have rendered tampa of flu and religions that ineffective. >> this one had been able to overcome the final -- final sp that could have become resistant to the drugs. have not gotten there yet, we can tell by looking at it that it was on its way there. >> that would be problematic. >> would be problematic. >> reporter: thankfully the centers for disease control just made available diagnostic to public colleges across the country to start monitoring a real-time basis for h7m9. at the beginning you mentioned that guy from taiwan who came down with the disease. a very troubling aspects to that. he says he had no contact with birds. they don't know how we got it. u:eaving aside the possibility then that he gutted from person to person contact, let's go back to that issue of vaccines because having a vaccine available and having suff

and more from the cdc.p police, we have just got flown centers for disease control they're monitoring a new strain of bird flu. we have been hearing about this. they say they are now getting a vaccine ready for this bird flu just in case. the world health organization reports there have now been five deaths in china from a new bird flu virus. it could be treated with tamiflu but the cdi c on the case. preparing for another strain of bird flu. the question is can it be transmitted from birds to humans? and if so, how difficult to do that? if it can be, it could be serious. we expect to learn more about this in the days ahead. for now, though, the cdc warning, they're getting ready, including a vaccine, just in case. we're all set to bundle your home and auto insurance together. i'll just press this, and you'll save on both. [bell dings] ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, llllet's get ready to bundlllllle... [ holding final syllable ] oh, yeah, sorry! let's get ready to bundle and save. now, that's progres

a new study out just a few weeks from the cdc shows that 69% of u.s.y talk on cellphones and one in three read or send text or emails while they are driving. police say that is habit that could have deadly consequences. we're live in south san francisco this morning. >>> 5:35 right now. they are looking for a man who shot two people in the mission district aboard a muni bus last night. it happened on mission street near valencia around 10:00. a woman was shot in the stomach and man was hit in the leg. it's not clear what promted the shooting. police say they are looking for any information on a man with long curly hair wearing a black beanie. he was last seen running away from the 14 mission bus. >> san francisco list have arrested two people and detained three others for shooting a man at a park last night. it at on campbell avenue. 24-year-old victim went to the hospital emergency room with a leg wound. he was last reported in surgery with life-threatening injuries. they arrested two suspects blocks from the shooting scene. >> eric: we are learning n

a director from the cdc will be among health officials traveling to china this week to help authorities respond to the bird flu outbreak. it comes as 11 fresh cases are reported bringing the number of confirmed cases to 60. so far no cases in the u.s. >>> at least one woman is dead after being buried in an avalanche in washington state. the search has been suspended for a missing man from another avalanche that hit another group. >>> a police officer has been fired for using a target resembling trayvon martin. >>> a man was left partially paralyzed and with severe brain damage after a concussion during high school football practice in 2008. >>> it is a girl for former first daughter and "today" show contributor jenna bush hager. margaret laura hager was born saturday night in new york and will be known as mila. congratulations to all of them. >>> how high can the markets go? the dow and s&p both set several new all-time records last week and in fact in less than four months the s&p has already blown past targets set by some analysts for the entire year. there is also a whole lot of earn

carnival cruise line says a ship that fails a cdc inspection is rare for them and they are fixing the. >>> it is 5:48. investigators in contra costa county are revealing details of a financial aid scam at a community college. it happened at the san pablo campus. a couple in richmond recruited 20 people to enroll in classes and apply for financial aid. the couple took 25% or about $675 of the $2,775 the students received in financial aid. but the students never went to class. criminal charges have been filed against everyone involved. >>> san francisco is the first city in the nation to participate in washington to workday. mayor ed lee plans to walk to work in about three hours and meet up with nine city supervisors along the way. he will walk from high school da plaza to a coffee shop and then to city hall. several businesses are offering free bees to walking commuters. >>> time now 5:49. so far it seems quiet. like i could walk on the freeway. >> you know if you did, you would get stopped. [ laughter ] you know actually it's funny you mentioned that, just a little while ago i heard

carnival cruise line says a ship that fails a cdc inspection is rare for them and they are fixing theblem. >>> it is 5:48. investigators in contra costa county are revealing details of a financial aid scam at a community college. it happened at the san pablo campus. a couple in richmond recruited 20 people to enroll in classes and apply for financial aid. the couple took 25% or about $675 of the $2,775 the students received in financial aid. but the students never went to class. criminal charges have been filed against everyone involved. >>> san francisco is the first city in the nation to participate in washington to workday. mayor ed lee plans to walk to work in about three hours and meet up with nine city supervisors along the way. he will walk from high school da plaza to a coffee shop and then to city hall. several businesses are offering free bees to walking commuters. >>> time now 5:49. so far it seems quiet. like i could walk on the freeway. >> you know if you did, you would get stopped. [ laughter ] you know actually it's funny you mentioned that, just a little while ago i he

the former director of the cdc, dr. richard besser live in hong kong this morning. dr. besser, tell us about this fresh case and why it worries you so much. >> right, dan, so this is a 7-year-old girl. she was hospitalized in beijing with severe pneumonia. her parents both worked in the live chicken business. but what concerns moo he is what you showed on that map, the distance between shanghai and beijing. it was able to travel that distance without leaving a trail of dead birds. most kill birds as well. china will need to do a lot of screening of healthy birds if they learn the extent of which this virus is spreading around the country. >> you know, when you were at the cdc, you tracked other outbreaks in particular the swine flu. how worried are you about this one? >> oh, you know, whenever there's an outbreak of a new infectious agent like this you often -- you don't know whether it's going to peter out or grow into something big but you often only get one chance to try to knock it down. there's some very worrisome things about this virus causes disease and we don't

the cdc says this strain, the 87, appears to be limited to china. more than a dozen reported cases there so far. six have been fatal. officials say there's no evidence yet that it spreads from person-to-person. they say they'll monitor the situation closely. dr. william schaffner joins us now. good to see you. >> hi, greg. >> this is the h-7 but we well remember the h-5. it spread to 15 countries, causing more than 600 millnesses. could this new h-7 morph into something like that or worse? >> that's what everybody is worried about but there's no evidence of easy human-to-human transmission so this remains a bird flu that occasionally gets into a person. when it does, it's serious, spout far, no widespread transmission. thank goodness. >> could it change, though, from contact with birds or even poultry, to human-to-human contact, and thus spread quickly? >> that's why we all have our seatbelts on because it could change. it could mutate. it could pick then capacity to go person-to-person readily and that's why already the early stages of vaccine prep

family spread it to another human or they both acquired it from an infected bird. >> reporter: the cdcs to public health offers and racing to develop a vaccine. now word one sample of the virus they got in from china was showing signs of mutation that had they continued, could have potentially rendered front line antiviral drugs ineffective. >> if this one had been able to overcome the final step, it could have become resistant to the drugs. it hadn't gotten there but we could tell by looking it was on the way there. >> that would be problematic. >> it would. >> we're very close to a perfect storm. a deadly virus, new in humans, no vaccine and could become resistant to our front line antiviral treatments. if it develops broad, easy transmission between humans, it could be real trouble. >> shepard: john, thank you. the former cia director, david patrice is visiting professor at the city university in new york. the chancellor says his students will have a chance to learn from a, quote, distinguished leader. general petraeus resigned after the fbi found he had an afared with his biographe

that is according to cdc. 6.4 million children have received an adhd diagnosis at some point in their lives. that is jump of 53% in the past ten years. rise could be a sign that the adhd diagnosis and medications are being overused. >> eric: still to come. >> cheryl: first family on a roll. >> eric: holiday tra dig is >>> coming up at 3:00, dying to be beautiful and the white house pulls an april fool's joke. special message from the president that did not happen. at 5:00, state mammogram goes into effect today. it could improve conditions of women. >> an easter tradition this morning. >> how cool is that? and helping with their easter egg roll. they were on the south lawn. >> story telling by the president and dances and games a from the egg hunt they are chief but michelle obama was sticking to her campaign reminding the kids to eat veggies. >> eric: to wash it down. >> that is going to do it for us. >> who wants to be a millionaire >> who wants to be a millionaire air is of walking to give a breast cancer survivor a lifetime-- that's definitely a fair trade. whoo! you walk with fri