flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr van amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snowy wilderness as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lawn or doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in the tundra they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native new nets reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest village so all medical problems simply fixed here in the tent that i shoul

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dr. lee van nokia cure, adjunct assistant professor at lsu health science center in shreveport. sample size, 200 sample, 198 samples, not very big for a scientific study. >> well, it is a relatively small study, that's for sure. you know, once again it is hard to detract for the consumer. i feel sorry for the consumer like he said/she said. they talked about this bacteria which has food poisoning, mimics appendicitis. the then the council said, well there are some nonpathogen nick forms to it, which is true. so it really comes down to what you can do for the consumer. it isn't just pork. we hear about stuff with ground beef, beef, any meat, has the potential to cause food poisoning and has bacteria that can be transferred to humans so. jon: isn't the answer here just to make sure that everything is well-cooked? >> exactly, jon. so that's the key. proper food handling. don't cross-contaminate. if you have a plate of, you know, ground pork and then you cook it, don't put it back on the plate. don't cut up your vegetables where there will be juice from the pork. and make sure that

dr. fell in may with the help of two medical vans and five e m tease.see where he is now on his road to recovery. that is 4:00 today on kron4. coming upper and about three minutes from now we have new information about an air strike. also an update on the condition of forty-niner is alex smith as he had a concussion and there were questions as to whether not he would be in today's game. also keeping our eyes on wall street this morning were the dowel is looking great where it is up 150 points.

she used this hood when she put it over her head. >> narrator: the jana van voorhis case would be the first trial since the days of dr. kevorkian to test the nation's laws prohibiting assisted suicide. >> let's take a look inside, exhibit 91. >> narrator: a guilty verdict in arizona could mean the end for final exit network. >> they knew exactly what they were doing. >> the final exit network does not aid people in committing suicide. they provide information, they provide comfort, and that is all that they do. >> narrator: but in a move that was seen as a shocking betrayal, wye hale-rowe, one of the network's most experienced exit guides, pled guilty to a lesser charge and agreed to testify for the prosecution. >> were you talking to ms. van voorhis about suicide? >> i talked to her about hastening her death, yes. >> one day, i forced myself to read through the statute over and over again. at about the fourth time, i was convinced that i would fry. i mean, i really thought that i would be found guilty. i thought the spirit of the statute included any kind of thing that could be interpreted as assist, and that it was

she used this hood when she put it over her head. >> narrator: the jana van voorhis case would be the first trial since the days of dr. kevorkian to test the nation's laws prohibiting assisted suicide. >> let's take a look inside, exhibit 91. >> narrator: a guilty verdict in arizona could mean the end for final exit network. >> they knew exactly what they were doing. >> the final exit network does not aid people in committing suicide. they provide information, they provide comfort, and that is all that they do. >> narrator: but in a move that was seen as a shocking betrayal, wye hale-rowe, one of the network's most experienced exit guides, pled guilty to a lesser charge and agreed to testify for the prosecution. >> were you talking to ms. van voorhis about suicide? >> i talked to her about hastening her death, yes. >> one day, i forced myself to read through the statute over and over again. at about the fourth time, i was convinced that i would fry. i mean, i really thought that i would be found guilty. i thought the spirit of the statute included any kind of thing that could be interpreted as assist, and that it was

to talk about this morning, among our guests chris van hollen is back, russel honore is with us, jordin sparks is with us, joe heck, kurt boournlg, dr. sanjay gupta, dutch ruppersberger, and "twilight" actress, elizabeth reaser. it's thursday, november 15th, and "starting point" begins right now. >>> morning. welcome, everybody. our starting point this morning, those escalating hostilities between israelis and palestinian militants, threatening to trigger a full-scale mideast war. israel is targeting hamas sites in gaza with air strikes, while militants fire rockets across the border into southern israel. the tipping point for this new violence was israel's assassination of the top hamas military commander. brings us right to sara sidner. she's live for us in gaza city. sara, good morning. >> good morning. yes, we've been seeing air strikes again and again here in gaza city. we've seen more than a dozen air strikes since we've been here, which is a few hours. on the other side of the border, we've been seeing rockets coming in. we're talking about dozens of rockets since the targeted killing of ahmed al jabari, the head of hamas' mi