dr. barbara william skin wer the active american clergy. we've just had our first su we brought women who have been working for a year now on a tour with -- for the black on econom security, sustainability for women and girls, education and global empowerment. names you know like susan taylor th we all came together last week having really come after a year and a half of working on listening sessions and trying to get a handle on we want to do. one thingd upnd ready to fight. so our coalition would be focusing on something called power to vote. the kindsbe going on when it co workers rights. we haveo labor pulling together. camilla brown is a board member and also actively a partner of ours. when it comes to voting rights we're working with the lawyers' committee, all of the women wore issues around voting rights are led by women. kind of a lack of -- when you look at the people running issues around voting rights they're women. ju project, forgot -- of course barbara arnwine. we

really need that help along because the parties have been bought and paid by those in this yeah but dr barbara it sounds like there's that issue of the government is choosing what needs are i want to continue this conversation it's really interesting we have to go to break quickly but we will come back in just a moment and have more with benjamin barber sr and. and still ahead we're going to talk about banks because no no banks were created in two thousand and eleven so was that because there is not a desire or a need for new banks or is that because there is a monopoly by the too big to fail well debated the first carrier closing market numbers. it really has put a picture of me when i was like nine years old on the show look through. my confession i am a total get of friends that i love crime and hip hop is a pretty. but it was kind of it but yesterday. i'm very proud of the role the belgian she has played. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so. easy to understand it and then you glimpse something else and she hears you some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if

dr. stephen hopping. welcome back. >> hi, barbara. >> good to see you.ell us exactly -- for those that don't know and i suspect there are not too many people that haven't heard of it, what is liposuction? >> liposuction is fat reduction. last week we talked about breast augmentation. now we are talking about fat reduction. that's a -- very popular procedure that is a procedure getting safer and safer. can't be done under just local anesthesia or sometimes requires general anesthesia. >> who is a good candidate? >> best candidates are people that are not overweight. people that are close to their desired weight. localized areas that don't respond to the diet or exercise. for men, tummy love handles, women, thighs, tummy, arms. >> we have been talking about people who -- and a lot of us know who we are. who -- are up and down. i mean, we diet and we exercise but we are always -- have this 10, 15-pound weight problem. tends to seek a level. what about those people? can you get rid of that extra -- >> i think liposuction -- it is not great for weight loss. o

dr. korsch contends, just compound the problem. barbara korsch: television watching is the single thing that has been consistently associated with obesity. and there have even been some really interesting studies that if a child is just just watching television, where they tend to sit very passively, usually also snacking, that their metabolism actually goes down. it's a little bit like hibernation. in recent years, the health risks of obesity and the cultural obsession with slimness, have developed into a $33 billion industry. weight loss pills, fad diets, and dietary supplements promise miraculous results. joanne ikeda: there's nothing over-the-counter that you can buy that is going to melt the fat off your body. yet, day in and day out, you open women's magazines, you open newspapers, you go to the shopping mall, and they're selling products that claim to do this. i recently went to the supermarket, picked up a couple of popular magazines and a couple of supermarket tabloids, just to see what was being advertised. some of my favorites w

dr. weiner, thank you very much. >> thank you, barbara. >>> 11:52 is the time.g up, we'll break down president obama's march madness picks. >>> plus, meteorologist tom kierein will be back with another check on how long this warm weather is going to last. >>> hi. tomorrow morning on "news4 today," the madness begins. what you need to know about our local teams in the big dance. >>> plus, the future of food. the gadgets that could soon make your morning routine >>> the reds skins are already making a splash this off-season. the skins have signed two wide receivers less than a day after nfl's free agency began. they signed pierre garcon to a five-year deal. also they reached a deal with josh morgan. he's from this area and was a star at virginia tech you may remember. he broke a leg early last season while playing for the 49ers. washington is apparently looking to bolster its defense. espn's adam chaster is reporting that bears free agent safety brandon meriweather is meeting with the team today. >>> got your college basketball bracket filled out yet? president ob

barbara professor ameritas. he's co-director of the preventative defense project, a research collaboration of stanford and harvard universities. dr. perry received his b.s. and m.s. degrees from stanford university and his ph.d. from penn state, all in mathematics. we're delighted to welcome the wonderful lee perry, who is here. sam nunn is co-chairman and chief executive officer of the nuclear threat initiative. a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. he served as a united states senator from georgia for 24 years, from 1972 through 1996. now he's retired from the law firm king and spalding. senator nun served as chairman of the senate armed services committee and the permanent subcommittee on investigations. he also served on the intelligence and small business committees. senator nun's legislative achievements include a program which provides assistance to russia for securing and destroying their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. he attended emery law school where he graduated with honors in 1962. and we're delighted to welcome coll

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barbara, back to you. >> sounds like it. okay. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> have a great day. >>> approximately 18 million adults in the u.s. are alcoholics. this's no cure for alcoholialco. dr. joshua joins thus morning with a closer look at the medications and how they work. good to see you again. let's talk about first about what is alcoholism. what's the difference between just drinking a lot and being an alcoholic? >> being an alcoholic, difficult question. i think really what people are looking for is what number of drinks should somebody have to say that they are in the safe zone versus they have an alcohol problem. in general, i think if you are averaging two or more drinks per day, 14 drinks per week, you likely have an alcohol problem. and remember, when we are talking about drinks, glass of wine, we are talking about the amount of wine you would get in a restaurant not filling up the cup to the top. lot of people say well, i only have two drinks per might when, in fact, they are filling up like a mug with alcohol. that's -- you have to realize that even drinking two drinks of alcohol per day has negative consequences for your health. negative effects on your sleep