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 as the largest killer of people in africa, is tuberculosis, for which we've had good drugs, haven't used them wisely or enough in years past to reduce some of the problems that we're seeing today. and that's getting more and more serious now with multiply resistant strains of tuberculosis. tuberculosis is the most common infectious agent worldwide, and that has not changed. that is, of course, particularly true in developing countries, and particularly in asia, where the burden ofuberculosis is heaviest. in a number of the industrialized countries-- and the united states is perhaps the best example-- we've had tremendous success in controlling tuberculosis and did so up until the

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 as the largest killer of people in africa, is tuberculosis, for which we've had good drugs, haven't used them wisely or enough in years past to reduce some of the problems that we're seeing today. and that's getting more and more serious now with multiply resistant strains of tuberculosis. tuberculosis is the most common infectious agent worldwide, and that has not changed. that is, of course, particularly true in developing countries, and particularly in asia, where the burden ofuberculosis is heaviest. in a number of the industrialized countries-- and the united states is perhaps the best example-- we've had tremendous success in controlling tuberculosis and did so up until the

the centers for disease control and prevention report one in 30 middle and high school students say they smoked the candy or fruit-flavored cigars. percentages rise as the children get older to nearly one in 12 high school seniors. in maryland the sale of cigars and cigarettes, flavored or otherwise are illegal to those under the age of 18. >>> be sure and check back in with eyewitness news at 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00. there's growing concern about a potentially deadly mosquito problem. inside the man -- the minds of man's best friend. new research that suggests dogs have emotions similar to ours. that and more at 4:00 an "dr. phil." stay with us. ,,,,,, we all have our little tricks. mom swaps one of my snacks for a yoplait. i don't mind, i mean it's orange crème. and when mom said bobby was too edgy... 'sup girl. i just swapped him out for tyler. 'sup girl. mom never questioned bobby again. two can play at this game. [ female announcer ] swap one snack a week for a yoplait. and everybody wins. yoplait. it is so good. >>> welcome back to eyewitness news. the big thing here is the temperatur

. >> reporter: a recent study by the centers of disease control and prevention found women are being misled with information on multiple websites. >> we found 25 active wreb sites that posts less. a few of them had data it back up their claims for safety. >> reporter: the problem is some of the sites have conflicting information. one site said a popular antihistamine was safe to take during pregnancy while another site cautioned more research was need. that lack of research is a critical part of the cdc's findings. their study reviewed 245 products with 103 components that were listed as safe on various sites. in 42% of the cases, researchers were unable it determine the risk to the unborn child. >> it's in the necessarily that the medicine on these lists are dangerous, it's just that we don't know if they're safe or not. >> we really aren't able to do studies where we give half the women a certain medication and half the women a different medication to acelts safety. >> the confusion is compounded by the fact that certain drugs are safe only during certain times of the pregnancy. >>

. >> how do you know -- >> they'll handle high-risk recalls and the centers for disease control and preventionity to fight the outbreak of disease. so they're only dealing with high-risk outbreaks. all the other things going on -- >> we are heading into the peak of the flu season and, you know, this is when we find out there is a new strain we have to get. >> yeah, exactly. >> it's frightening when you break it down. it's not only, you know, our health but also research and other things like nasa, right? >> nasa has taken a big hit, you know, we do have five astronauts on the national space station supported by 600 workers at mission control but the other 16,000 nasa workers will be furloughed. one of the things i do forecasting the weather i can't do my job without my government. we have thousands of national weather service employees employed by n ochoaa and they w be employed and stay staffed. they're considered essential employees. >> here's what's frightening to me. for anyone who is about to take a flight somewhere, the faa is going to furlough about 3,000 safety airline safety inspector

according to the centers for disease control and prevention, nearly 250,000 kids and teens went to emergency rooms in 2009 for traumatic brain injuries, including concussions. >>> health experts blame a large whooping cough outbreak on a discould have that i clusters of children were never vaccinated. more than 9100 californians came down with whooping cough or pertussis in 2010. ten infants died. it marked the biggest whooping cough outbreak since is 1947. researchers found higher infection rates in areas were parents opted out of the vaccine for personal reasons. the study appears in the journal "pediatrics". >>> new this morning, a just-reare leased report is suggesting that california cities stop holding their municipal elections in years without big state or federal election he is. the study is from the green lining institute, an organization that advocates for racial justice. it concludes that offyear municipal elections cost more per voter and tend to draw disproportionately small numbers of minority voters. san francisco holds its mayoral contest a year before the presidential electi

the centers for disease control and prevention says 42 people have been hospitalized. that is about double the normal rate. some of the cases were resistant to apartment particulars so people could not be easily treated. this outbreak is connected to foster farms chicken produced in california. look at these numbers, p61367 and p6137a and p6132. we have these numbers on our website. >>> tonight a group that helps californians sign up for the affordable care act has had tremendous response despite problems in other states. covered california says 29,000 people applied for coverage over the last week. it is a market place designed to help navigate the process. people in other states have had problems signing up mainly because of computer glitches. the group released the numbers earlier than planned to miscounter information on the process. now president obama is expected to nome name -- to nominate janet yeland. she is the vice chairman of the fed and she knows the bay area well. she works at the university of california berkeley and she works as the ceo at the bank of s

the centers for disease control and prevention recalled furloughed employees to deal with the outbreak that sickened 300 people. foster farms hasn't issued a recall. >>> supporters say a new law allowing children in california to have more than two legal parents will help children who are risk. it enables a judge to recognize more than two legal parents. supporters say it will be used only under rare circumstances such as if both legal parents are incapacitated. >> we give judges the discretion to recognize that on the ground fact if not recognizing the additional legal parent would hurt the child. >> the law was prompted by a case in which a girl's two mothers were unable to care for her and her father was deemed not a legal parent. >>> university of california at berkeley chancellor paid a special visit to students. the goal is to reach out to high school students and help them prepare for college. >> take the challenging classes. start now. challenge yourself at the highest level right now. that will help you make the transition to college. >> officials say the school made great str

the centers for disease control and prevention says 42 people have been hospitalized.hat is about double the normal rate. some of the cases were resistant to apartment particulars so people could not be easily treated. this outbreak is connected to foster farms chicken produced in california. look at these numbers, p61367 and p6137a and p6132. we have these numbers on our website. >>> tonight a group that helps californians sign up for the affordable care act has had tremendous response despite problems in other states. covered california says 29,000 people applied for coverage over the last week. it is a market place designed to help navigate the process. people in other states have had problems signing up mainly because of computer glitches. the group released the numbers earlier than planned to miscounter information on the process. now president obama is expected to nome name -- to nominate janet yeland. she is the vice chairman of the fed and she knows the bay area well. she works at the university of california berkeley and she works as the ceo at the bank of san

cause of death for young people in dc ages 10 through 24, according to the centers for disease control and preventionknow that one in four teens doesn't feel safe in his or her school, according to the study by josephson institute of ethics? tyler: we're going to talk about all of this and how violence and bullying affects teens today on what's good dc?. i'm tyler. rachel: hey, i'm rachel! sierra: and i'm sierra! tyler: and here's our dj, illa jams. wassup, illa jams? [music playing] rachel: violence and bullying are a major issue in schools in dc right now. sierra: let's hear from some teens whose lives have been affected by violence in their schools. cathy lanier: earlier today, around lunch hour, in the school, there was a fight that broke out among students in and around the cafeteria in the school. school resource officers along with school administrators did attempt to break up the fight. during the course of that, the assistant principal was struck, so one arrest has been made in terms of the assault of a principal. as that fight was going on and officers were trying to quiet down that fight,

according to the centers for disease control and prevention, insufficient sleep is a public health epidemicit is linked to motor vehicle crashes, industrial disasters and medical and other occupational errors. people who don't get enough sleep are also more likely to suffer from chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, depression and obesity. recently uc berkeley researchers found that not enough sleep also contributes to excessive worrying. sleep deprivation amplifies anxiety by firing up brain regions associated with eemgtsal processing. the same brain processing happens in those with anxiety disorder. findings suggest that sleep could help with many illnesses. that study is in the journal of neuroscience. we have dr. winston chung you with us in the studio to talk about why quality sleep is to critical to our health. he is medical director of inpatient psychiatry at california medical center and works at the guisal school of medicine. nice to have you here. >> thank you for having me, cheryl. >> you went to med school, you're a doctor u. probably didn't sleep at all. >> there wer

18 states have been sickened by the outbreak and most in california.e the centers for disease control and prevention says 42 people have been hospitalized. that is about double the normal rate. some of the cases were resistant to apartment particulars so people could not be easily treated. this outbreak is connected to foster farms chicken produced in california. look at these numbers, p61367 and p6137a and p6132. we have these numbers on our website. >>> tonight a group that helps californians sign up for the affordable care act has had tremendous response despite problems in other states. covered california says 29,000 people applied for coverage over the last week. it i market placep to help navigate the process. people in other states have had problems signing up mainly because of computer glitches. the group released the numbers earlier than planned to miscounter information on the process. now president obama is expected to nome name -- to nominate janet yeland. she is the vice chairman of the fed and she knows the bay area well. she works at the university of california berkeley and she works

the headquarters at the centers for the disease control and prevention quite quiet right now. the building behind me normally a flurry of activity, about a few hundred people inside there right now. the cdc has roughly 13,000 employees around the world, 50 states, 50 countries. 68% of them are on furlough. that leaves about 4,000 who continue to work. if you -- if you want to look at what the cdc does, if we look at the cia, which protects america from, say, the bad guys around the world, creates a sort of under the ground cover for all of us, that's sort of what the cdc says. they take the health pulse of the country and make sure that everybody here is nice and safe and infectious diseases aren't going everywhere across the country. one interesting thing, the pledge to the american people of the cdc is to be a diligent steward of funds entrusted to the agency. they can't do that right now because washington can't pass a budget. i'll bring in a guest here. this is barbara nelson. thank you for joining us here today. you work at the cdc. tell us about influenza. all of the inj

the centers for disease control and prevention says the number of children on the autism spectrum in.s. has increased tenfold in the past four years. in some cases, those with the disorder are nonverbal, struggle to communicate even with their parents. finding a voice, there's an app for that. a teen named joey. hi. >> hey, christine, we were lucky enough to spend a day with joey. he's got supportive parents and teachers. and they helped us understand how technology has changed his life. take a look. ordering a sandwich has always been tough for joe. he's 18 years old and he has autism. >> joe doesn't talk. he hasn't spoken to us. >> he expressed himself by pointing. >> do you want yogurt or grapes? >> that's what he could eat and where he could go. even the bathroom. he could get agitated at times, even violent. >> he was biting himself, which a lot of kids on the spectrum will do. and i think that comes out of frustration from not being able to communicate. >> put paper plates on the table. >> but a year ago, his communication skills improved. for the first time, he was able to get

it's it's staggering it's devastating and it's just unnecessary the united states for disease control and prevention predicts that forty forty two percent of americans will be obese by twenty thirty now obese is not five pounds overweight. twenty posts right easily that twenty plus and then of course when you're looking at this problem it's not just about oh americans are obese this is going to affect everything from our health care our economy our energy independence because the process bood requires a tremendous amount of awful where you may go bush obama campaign let's move. i think what she's doing is cute you know the prez. change lucy i think it's great that you're getting out the message and there's rallies and people show up and they have fun and that's awesome and i've been to a few of them. you need to change policy here we're deregulating food so that big business can start owning coopt that are genetically modified again change with the subsidy dollars are going to start incentivizing the deregulation or the i'm sorry by the use of all forms no because they're not incentivized to do so w

died from accidentally taking too much a set amount of feen according to the centers for disease control and prevention fifteen hundred deaths over ten years may not sound like a lot but just consider how some of these people died take davie bombing a twelve year old kid who took liquid tylenol to cure a sore throat back in one nine hundred ninety nine after just a week on the medicine he began to vomit blood and the emergency room doctors told him he had suffered severe liver damage and just a few days after that he was declared brain dead lab work showed he mistakenly took just four tablespoons more of the medicine per day than he was supposed to and then there is antonio bennett who once worked as a special assistant to george h.w. bush in one thousand nine hundred three he took tylenol after coming down with the flu and while he never exceeded the maximum dosage he did occasionally drink alcohol. after a few days bennett was in a coma on life support and in need of a liver transplant now keep in mind at the time nothing on the box warned about the risk of drinking alcohol while taking the medicine

researchers with the centers for disease control and prevention found that 830 kids to die from so relatedn october 2004 and september 2012. and 43 percent of those children were otherwise healthy and most of them had not gotten a flu vaccine. the money was the most commonly reported complication among the kids who died. the cdc " recommends that all children six months or older get the flu vaccine every year. >>mark: the 49ers an historic wembley stadium in london taking on the lowly jacksonville jaguars. colin kapernick made the most of his trip across the pond and the most of the hapless jaguars. kapernick threw for 164 yds and one touchdown and ran for 54 yds and two touchdowns. frank gore also ran for two scores. the 49ers improve t witr jacksonville, their fifth in a row, while the jaguars' remain winless at 0-8. it was the eighth regular- season nfl game at wembley stadium, the home of england's national soccer team and the second this year. 52,950 at the coliseum fans rocking their hollowing cost of a few days early. for the raiders steelers' game first play from scrimmage terrell

52% of our employees at agencies from the national institutes of health to center for disease control and preventionda are now furloughed, can't do their job, can't deliver important services to citizens across this country. and most of the work around the affordable care act is either paid for by mandatory money, a stream of funding that's already sort of prefunded or they are actually working on specific benefit issues like medicare and medicaid changes as part of this law. so the affordable care act is not shut down because of the government but because of the streams of funding. so the shutdown needs to be over. more importantly we need to make sure that this maneuver of the house republicans to hold the country at ransom doesn't then kick over into the debt ceiling discussion. that would shut down the economy. this shuts down most of the federal government. step two would be to shut down the economy and send us careening toward a recession. that just is a ransom price that is way too important for the president even to consider. congress needs to do its job. pass a budget, pass the debt ceiling

disease. >> translator: there is nothing to do. the government does nothing. and no one is helping us. >> reporter: a world away in the u.s., the centers for disease control and preventionlanta has been studying this unexplained disease since 2009. >> it's a troubling disease it affects children ages 5 to 7 who are well before that, and they start getting progressive bobs of their heads, which gives it the name nodding disease. >> reporter: this doctor has been traveling to the 'em poff riched region for years. studies the symptoms of several hundred children looking for a cure. there have been lots of studies including environmental toxins, exposures to chemicals during war. we have explored lots and lots of those clues, we still don't have the underlying cause. >> reporter: first discovered in the 1960s, nodding syndrome zins to spread. this little boy in uganda will most likely die soon. he suffers from seizures, his mind is slipping away. >> translator: three of my children already had the disease. two already died. he won't last much longer. >> reporter: it's not uncommon for parents to tie their children to a tree or in a house so they want wander away and fall in

people don't realise what the center for disease control and prevention do every day - they are about prevention and civiling what is going on with -- sur veiling what is going on with our viruses around the country. a simple scenario - if there's a pandemic a third of the people working there will be able to work. that doesn't make me feel safe. i don't think the american public should be safe. we are not trying to fear monninger. let meet get specifics about this. monitor and tracking. how does that help to prevent the spread of flu, or does it? >> let's think about this. remember a couple of years ago we had the h1 n 1 shot. when the regular flu vac een was produced, we didn't know about h1 n 1 at the time. because of the surveillance we got everything together and offered a shot to cover h1 n 1. i was on the board that publy sissed this. without the surveillance, the vak seen would never have been produced or saved all those lives. >> when we point on the surveillance of the flu, and put it on the program or it gets out on the website, it raises awareness of the flu, and people go

according to the centers for disease control and prevention, nearly 250,000 kids and teens went to emergencyooms in 2009 for traumatic brain injuries, including concussions. >>> health experts blame a large whooping cough outbreak on a discovery that i clusters of children were never vaccinated. more than 9100 californians came down with whooping cough or pertussis in 2010. ten infants died. it marked the biggest whooping cough outbreak since 1947. researchers found higher infection rates in areas were parents opted out of the vaccine for personal reasons. the study appears in the journal "pediatrics." >>> new this morning, a just-released report is suggesting that california cities stop holding their municipal elections in years without big state or federal elections. the study is from the green lining institute, an organization that advocates for racial justice. it concludes that off-year municipal elections cost more per voter and tend to draw disproportionately small numbers of minority voters. san francisco holds its mayoral contest a year before the presidential election. in los angele

the salmonella outbreak from california has become so serious now the centers for disease control and preventionad to call back about 30 furloughed workers including 10 who work in the food division to help handle that outbreak. the salmonella that was linked to raw chicken for three foster farms in california has infeaffd nearly 300 people in 18 different states. >>> so much for plans to take families thousands of dollars. it turns out obama care spending is set to increase drastically over the next ten years. >> joining us with the details of what this means for your families diane macedo from the fox business network. >> president obama made several promises about the affordable care act one big one was that it would lower national healthcare spending. in 2009 he said it would save typical family an average of $2,500 in the coming years. obama care will increase healthcare costs by hundreds of billions of dollars instead. according to the centers for medicare and medicaid services from 2012 to 2022 healthcare spending is projected to grow 5.8 percent every year for a total of more than $620 b

the centers for disease control and prevention will be severely hampered spotting and investigating outbreaks and finally most of the department of education would shut down. if this shut down lasts longer than a week, that would severely hamper finances to the schools and universities. the longer it lasts the harder it becomes. >> thanks john. paying active members of the military even if the government shuts down and president obama signed legislation less than an hour ago, doing just that. fort campbell on the border of tennessee had been are planning for the delay, and john, what are you hearing about that? >> john certainly a sigh of relief, as the president signed the military pay bill. they will be paid but may be delayed. certainly a concern about what would happen to those contractors, the civilian federal workers, at fort campbell and around the country. it is a wait and see game. we are waiting for secretaries of homeland security and defense which workers will be furloughed. at this point they are looking at a list of people who are essential, people who have a direct line of supp

centers for disease control and prevention has furloughed 9,000 employees.on barbara reynolds, the cdc is much less able to track multi- state disease outbreaks including the flu. flu season is underway right now. 'we are not doing flu surveillance, and we are doing more limited surveillance for other diseases.' and it will have lasting effects, as the cdcs ability to warn populations most at risk for becoming sick and its ability to create next years flu shot has been compromised. current flu vaccine production is complete. the shutdown will not impact your ability to get a flu shot this season. as for food safety, the u.s. department of agriculture will continue inspecting meat production facilities with full time inspectors. but the food and drug administration which is charged with overseeing both imported foods and medications - will halt that task. without inspectors, who typically monitor 80% of the food supply, all items will pass through without oversight, potentially landing items in the grocery store and on your table that may cause food borne ill

the centers for disease control and prevention funds the program covering clients who are genetically female. blair says that's discrimination. >> this is about social justice. this is about holding public organizations accountable to do the right thing. >> blair did eventually get her mammogram and she doesn't have breast cancer. now she's suing so others like her won't be refused potentially life-saving screenings. >>> a drunken chase with real consequences. a bay area law student learns his punishment after a wild las vegas night. >>> we'll take you back to washington whe we're awaiting a house vote on ending the government shutdown. up next, we'll look at the deal and who may have come out on top. >>> sunny with a little bit of cloud cover across the bay. the sun continues to set. a live look from the emeryville camera. the full forecast coming up in 15 minutes. a berkeley law stooe student accused of beheading a bird at a las vegas hotel is headed to in prison. he was sentenced to 190 days in a nevada state prison. during his trial, security video showed the man and other berkele

medical research will be disrupted, which means the center for disease control and prevention could takeonger in investigating outbreaks. most of the department of education will close. if the shut down lasts longer than a week, that could severely delay funding to local school districts and colleges across the country. in all, nearly 40% of the federal budget is affected by the shutdown, but that does not include the president or any members of congress, who will all continue to collect their salaries without delay. morgan. >> thanks so much, erika. those government workers with no job to go to and now if the shutdown lasts, no way to pay their bills are understandably annoyed. we talked to some of them about their growing frustration. >> hey, hey, ho, ho, that is not the way to go. >> this is the sound of u.s. federal workers everywhere. >> congress get your act together or get out. >> they are worried about lost income. >> it takes a lot of money out of my pocket and my family's pocket. >> they're angry with congress. >> if i behaved the way they do right now, i would not have a job.

$7 billion every year -- that's more than the entire annual budget of the centers for disease control and preventionompanion report by the national employment law project found mcdonald's alone costs americans $1.2 billion annually i paying its workers insufficient wages. last year the top 10 largest fast food companies alone eight more than $7.4 billion in profits. >> while ceos are raking in record profits, in august, fast food workers went on strike and 60 u.s. cities in the largest protest of an almost year-long campaign to raise service sector wages including mcdonald's and burger king. the workers say they want to unionize without retaliation in order to collectively bargain for $15 an hour living wage, more than twice the federal minimum. longtime fast food workers went on strike in new york city. >> i have been in five schools since 1999 on and off and in 2013 i had a couple of other jobs in between. no mattere most part, what job i get, it always starts back at $7.25. that is statement among wage. minimum wage.te it is a matter where you work. that is the irony. it is not just fast food. pe

at the centers for disease control and prevention, which tracks multistate outbreaks, about 68% of workers were furloughed. 30 were recalled to respond to the outbreak. at the fda, about 45% of staff are furloughed. the usda's hotline for safety issues related to meat and poultry is closed. in japan, radiation levels in seawater around a damaged reactor at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant have hit their highest level in two years. the plant operator said contaminated soil was displaced by pressure as workers pumped chemicals into the ground in an attempt to harden it and prevent water from leaking into the ocean. on wednesday, the operator said six workers were doused with radioactive water after an employee mistakenly detached the pipe connected to a water treatment system. in france, the constitutional court has upheld a ban on fracking, the gastrointestinal, saying the measure legitimately protects the environment from the damaging effects of blasting water and chemicals deep into the earth. france first band fracking in 2011 despite pressure from the gas industry. thanrth dakota, mo

according to the centers for disease control and prevention, insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic

. >>> the centers for disease control and prevention, the two-week delay made the annual battle against flu more difficult. >> it was a mistake to shut the government. once that mistake was made we did everything we could to protect the public's health legally and that's what we did and i think we kept things going as best we could. we are tracking flu not as intensively because of the shutdown but we will have information out in the coming days and the bottom line is our current flu shot seems to be a great match with the current circulating flu so get a flu shot. >> there were other signs of recovery from the government shutdown. >> three, two, one. >> crowds cheered as the national zoo reopened in washington today. zoo officials said they needed an extra day to prepare after being closed or the 16 days. the skeleton staff had kept the animals fed during shutdown. the shutdown would have a last being effect on science and nature. mary woolly is the head of the largest national health and research foundation. what are some of the most critical programs affected? >> there's certainly mo

accelerating, with new outbreaks of kpc and the rise of ndm-1, last march the centers for disease control and preventionecided it was time to sound a loud alarm. >> we now turn to health news tonight. >> there's a warning from the cdc. >> new and extremely dangerous. >> superbug, it's a deadly nightmare bacteria. >> that even the cdc has called it a nightmare. >> a nightmare? at first i thought that was someone else's hyperbolic headline. until i saw it was the cdc. >> the cdc is usually very straight-laced and doesn't use words like that. >> hoffman: if this is a really big public health problem, who's in charge of this problem for the united states government? can you tell me who's in charge? >> who's in charge of resistance? >> hoffman: of antimicrobial resistance and fighting it, and it's a threat to public health, right? >> it is a threat. >> hoffman: so who's in charge with dealing with that? with coordinating it? >> well, i think that the issue of who's in charge of combating antimicrobial resistance speaks to the fact that this is a very, very complex problem. so there's not one single group tha

the centers for disease control and prevention now says the contamination involves seven strains of salmonella including some resistant to antibiotics. it's sickened 278 people in 18 states, most in california. 42% of the cases required hospitalization. until inspectors find the exact source of the contamination, the chicken is still being sold in stores. foster farms says the chicken is safe when you fully cook it. you can find out more information on our website, abc7news.com. >>> a health warning this morning about one of the hottest selling weight loss products on the market. health officials are urging consumers to stop using oxy elite pro. this dietary supplement has been linked to several cases of liver damage. health officials are investigating dozens of cases of hepatitis, liver transplants and one death. mostly in hawaii where the product is sold in stores. it's also sold online. so the warning is goipg out to consumers everywhere. the cdc could not be reached for comment because of the government shutdown. >>> new this morning, the clothing retailer that recently fired its founder a

the centers for disease control and prevention says the contamination involves seven strains of bacteria's sickened 278 people in 18 states, mostly here in california. 42% of those cases required hospital care. until inspectors can find the exact source of the contamination, the chicken is still being sold in stores. foster farms says chicken is safe when fully cooked. you can find more information on our website, abc7news.com. >>> a natural gas pipeline that has san carlos officials worried will remain shut down despite objections by pg&e. they've ordered the utility to keep pipeline 147 closed while it investigates whether the pipe poses a danger. on friday san carlos officials persuaded a judge to step in and ordered the pipeline shut down after an internal memo from a pg & e engineer expressed concerns it could explode just like the deadly incident in san bru nrk o. it runs on britain avenue between highway 101 and interstate 280. >>> 5:09. oakland a's return home to play a fifth and deciding game tomorrow evening in the divisional playoff series against the detroit tigers. a's lost

what's also important is the centers for disease control and prevention, which limits the ability -- which has to respond to disease outbreaks and prevent the spread of seasonal flu. hey aren't going to be reopened. the health services administration, which improves mental health access across the country, there are things that this government does and i'm pleased my republican colleagues are starting to understand why government is so important. and that's why we shouldn't have this closing down of government and reopening it piece by piece. this is an effort to hold the government hostage until the unreasonable demands to deny health insurance to american families is met. and that is a demand that we will not give into. let the house vote on a clean bill to fund the whole government, not the piecemeal approach we are considering today. it's a gimmick and poor policy and you should understand something else, mr. speaker, they aren't giving f.d.a. the full funding. they are still continuing the draconian sequestration cut which took $200 million out of f.d.a.'s budget. if they love it

out of things like education and social services and health and n.i.h., the center for disease control and prevention, all those other things. now, again, we heard a lot of talk by republicans on the senate side that we, democrats, were violating the budget control act by coming in at a higher level than what sequestration called for. at the same time, the republicans on the house side violated the budget control act by not taking 50-50. in other words, the budget control act said that if sequestration goes into effect, then the cuts have to be made 50% from defense and 50% from nondefense. the ryan budget, what they did in the house, they left -- they left defense whole and took everything out of, as i said, everything else, mainly out of health, education, labor, that pot of money. so i guess what you would say is both sides violated the budget control act. no. both sides had their approach on how to deal with the budget control act. the budget control act is not the ten commandments written in stone for all eternity. it's a law. and when we have laws around here, periodically, guess what? we chang

now the centers for disease control and prevention is scrambling to call back some furloughed workers to contain this outbreak. how serious is this? could more of this be to come? deputy secretary shalala joins me and you have a new book. the name of it is? >> i watched and obama tweeted. 200 years of pop culture and the white house. dagen: is this the exact type of scenario or situation you would fear would happen when we are in shutdown? >> this kind of thing is happening all the time. there are 3,000 annual deaths from food borne illnesses that costs $70 billion. this is a serious thing that is ongoing. how does the government deal which workers do you choose to furlough? indications of the parks department the administration is making as difficult as possible. this is not something to play around with. these are workers who need to be guaranteed to be protecting the american people. dagen: 30 workers have been called back. the cdc is running with the third of its staff. two thirds of staff have been furloughed. one thing that did jump out, the computer network, pulse net that conn

also impacted by the government shutdown, the centers for disease control and prevention which will halt flu season gets underway. every fall the c.d.c. monitors the spread of flu and figures out how to direct vaccine programs around the country but now the agency is putting that on hold. the c.d.c. projects approximately 140 million doses of flu vaccine will be produced for the 2013-14 season. they say last year just 42% of adults and 52% of children under the age of 17 received a flu shot. c.d.c. recommends everyone get vaccinated by this month and that's what we had jenna did. take a look. jenna: i don't like getting shots ever for the flu. i like marjorie. she's making me feel confident. she's like just relax. jon: she's got a very gentle manner and you didn't cry. >> you're a hero. jenna: thank you, marjorie. that is so cute. it's like my favorite color. were you a little nervous, jon? jon: i don't want to cry. >> she looks like a very nice lady. jon: look at that smile. jenna: rebecca, how many of these are doing a day? >> 50. jenna: januaice dean is hecklin in the background. >> b

they're talk -- they're missing the center for disease control and prevention. the c.d.c. is the premier public health agency not just in america but in the world. the people who work there protect america from threats to our health and safety like infectious diseases, chronic diseases, outbreaks of foodborne disease. as of yesterday, the c.d.c., the premier public health agency in the world, is shut down. all of their labs are closed. the scientists are furloughed. the expert hot-lines that physicians and the public call for information are turned off. are turned off. the emergency operations center is on a skeleton crew for emergency response. maybe that should give us some comfort. but the c.d.c. is not doing any disease monitoring. so who's going to so unthe alert if they're not -- who's going to sound the alert if they're not doing the monitoring? and, you know, i have to add, you know, viruses don't just break out when the government is open. i'll never forget what our former chairman of the appropriations committee, under whom i served some years ago, mark hatfield,

. >> researchers with the centers for disease control and prevention found that 830 kids died from fluted complications between october 2004 and september 2012. >> and a 43 percent of those children were otherwise healthy and most of them have had not gotten a fullbacks as a nation. >> newmont was the most commonly reported complications among the kids who died. >> the cdc recommends that all children six months or older get the flu vaccine. >> alameda county sheriff's that detectives are conducting a criminal investigation into a nursing home that closed on thursday and left behind 14 sick and elderly patients. >> paramedics were called to the valley matter residential care center in castro valley on saturday. >> when they arrived, they found a note this on the door from the state department of social services ordering the site to be closed. >> paramedics also found a bit written patients attended by a handful of staff members who stayed to help them, despite not being paid. >> the staff members who stayed included a cut, a janitor and a single caretaker. >> the patients were transpor

and i'll point out again today, the center for disease control and prevention is closed down, closed down. why is that important? well, we're now in the flu season. more than 200,000 americans hospitalized from flu each year. in a mild year, 3,000 people will die in a severe year, that can rise to 50,000. that's ye why c.d.c. monitors wh strains are circulating around the country, which communities are being hit the hardest, how they can contain it, keep it from spreading. they aren't doing that now. they're shut down. they're shut down. food safety -- 12 days ago 162 people in ten states became ill with hepatitis-a because of eating frozen berries. right away the c.d.c. tracked it down, isolated it, recalled it, found out that it was pomegranate berries from turkey. well, 162 people got hepatitis-a, but not any more. i can tell you, the c.d.c. is not out there doing this now because they are a shut down. that was just 12 days ago. what if we have another outbreak of food poisoning? how fast will it spread? how many people will have to get sick? is that what this congressman from iow

do you know the centers for disease control and prevention will stop its seasonal flew tracking program. -- flu tracking program. they will furlough 9,000 employees. my understanding is they've brought back some of their employees. but i've got to tell you, they're not getting paid. and they're standing sentry. david johnson of san francisco is a c.e.o. of gigagen which does immune system research to help organ transplants succeed. the n.i.h. awarded him a small business grant of over $1 million and he's already hired staff, but he can't get the funds until the shutdown ends. so here is a private party, a c.e.o. of a company that does immune system research to help organ transplants succeed. how many of us have read about some of our people who get into trouble because their body rejects the organ? here's a guy out there getting $1 million from the n.i.h., and he can't get the funds. i'll tell you, it's shocking. why did they shut the government down? they don't like the health care bill that's helping so many people. now they don't even talk about it. now they talk about cutting social

will we see, i wonder, a bill to fund the centers for disease control and prevention?lic health. a widespread salmonella outbreak in chicken, only to discover it is proving resistant to antibiotics. so far the salmonella outbreak has sickened at least 317 people across 20 states and puerto rico. obviously, an antibiotic resistant salmonella outbreak is always bad, but the government shutdown has stripped the cdc fo foodborne diseases division. we may be missing something. we have a blind spot. anyone want some chicken? the federal courts are working, too, for now including the supreme court, which we'll get to soon. they'll all expect it to remain fully staffed, even though they could run out of funding by next week. once that happens, the chief judge of each district court will determine which employees are essential. the workers will not be paid until the shutdown ends, but they are guaranteed their salaries. domestic violence shelters, which are housing women and children, whose nutrition benefits are in jeopardy, may soon need to turn those survivors away. that cou