dr. richard besser on what the fda is saying tonight. >>> and a made in america victory. remember your outrage when we discovered the american uniforms were made in china. tonight, the big reveal, on what

dr. besser on what the fda is saying tonight. >>> and a "made in america" victory. remember your outrage when we discovered the american uniforms were made in china. tonight, the big reveal, on what they look like now. and who is making them.

dr. besser on what the fda is saying tonight. >>> and a "made in america" victory. remember your outrage when we discovered the american uniforms were made in china. tonight, the big reveal, on what they look like now. and who is making them. >> "made in america." >>> good evening, on this thursday night. diane is on assignment. and we do begin with the dangerous windchill warnings in place for the night ahead. for nearly 200 million americans today, the temperature never got above freezing. and take a look at this, tonight. a massive and deadly pileup in indiana. trucks and cars tangled on the road. traffic backed up for miles. and the problem is, it's so cold, all of the snow and ice isn't going anywhere for days. from the midwest to the gulf, tonight, this arctic blast is far-reaching. and a number for you. 35,000 flight cancellations this month alone. twice as many as normal and counting. abc's gio benitez, leads us off with the dramatic ice rescues playing out across the frozen nation, tonight. >> reporter: from the arctic midwest to the frozen northeast, peopl

dr. besser with us now. rich, a lot of people are going to look at this and wonder how a 29-year-old healthy mom can die of the flu. >> it's so sad. it makes the point that anyone at any age can die from the flu. healthy, young adults tend not to get as vaccinated as frequently. they weren't around the last time a virus like this was circulating in the community. so, they don't have existing immunity. >> she believes behind three children. you were telling me that one of them has been diagnosed with the flu. >> one has the flu. the others have been vaccinated. it's a point for everyone watching tonight. if the flu is in your community, it's not too late to get vaccinated. >> and this particular vaccine covers this strain? >> it covers this strain. it will take two weeks to be fully protected. within a matter of days, you'll have some protection. >> all right. still get the shot. rich, our thanks to you, tonight. >>> and now, to the growing fallout for new jersey governor chris christie. tonight, new details

dr. besser, thank you. >>> lot of other news overnight. a bit of a tough segue, ron claiborne take it away. >>> good morning e everyone. we begin with breaking news from saudi arabia. a city made an emergency landing. it skids along the runway there, it was traveling from iran. there was a problem with that plane's landing gear. >>> medical marijuana may soon be legal in new york state. governor andrew cue moe will use administer powers to allow 20 hospitals to treat medical treatments. marijuana otherwise would remain illegal the state. cuomo. >>> the u.s. guard is riding to the rescue or attempting to ride to the rescue or sail to the rescue in about antarctic. a chinese icebreaker got stuck in the ice trying to get the tourists. >>> and new york city is well of course known for its traffic. a small plane making an emergency landing on a major highway, in this case, the major expressway in the bronx. it experienced engine trouble. some road workers very alert, saw the plane descending, blocked traffic to clear the interstate. the plane w

dr. besser, thank you. >>> lot of other news overnight. bit of a tough segue, ron claiborne take it away. >>> good morning, everyone. we begin with breaking news from saudi arabia. a saudi airplane made an emergency landing. this amateur video shows the fiery landing. it skids along the runway there, it was traveling from iran. 29 passengers were injured. officials say there was a problem with that plane's landing gear. >>> and medical marijuana may soon be legal in new york state. according to the new york times, governor andrew cuomo will use administrative powers to allow 20 hospitals to use marijuana to treat certain medical conditions. marijuana otherwise would remain illegal the state. >>> and the u.s. coast guard is riding to the rescue or rather attempting to ride to the rescue, or sail to the rescue in antarctic. where those ships are still stuck in ice. a chinese icebreaker got stuck in the ice trying to get the russian ship with 52 scientists and tourists. >>> and new york city is well, of course, known for its traffic. a small

dr. richard besser, shows us something else that really works. >> reporter: on the flu season battlefieldyone around you is a potential enemy. firing their germs like ballistic missiles. we set out to answer once and for all, how can you best stop your sneezes? and not get everyone around you sick? is it with your hands? or into your elbow? we put together a demonstration. laid down a long paper ruler, set up high-speed cameras, and rinsed our mouths with food coloring so we could see where the sneezes landed. we put on protective suits to keep the dye off our clothes. and did everything we could to incite a sneeze. i even sniffed cat hair off my producer's scarf. i'm very cat allergic. i couldn't sneeze. but two of my producers, elara and marcus, found a way. tickling their noses with these leaves. and we're off. round one. marcus plays the rude guy, sneezing without blocking at all. look at that dye. we found a small part of it landing almost 11 feet away. round two. elara covers her mouth with her hands. just like mom always said. she can't block it all and some of it landed 3 1/2 feet

dr. richard besser. passing a kidney stone can be excruciating.he pain is said to be worse than childbirth for men. what is bezos likely going through now? >> yeah, i feel for the guy. kidney stones, when you have solid material forming in your kidney, or in your tract, some of the small ones you can pass on your own. but a large one is excruciating the pain they experience. >> this whole conversation makes me want to go in a fetal position. what i can do and men do to avoid this? >> you know, if it runs in your family, there are particular type of stones, they may want to put you on a special diet. there are certain medications that people will go on. they want to increase the amount of fluids you take in. kidney stones are pretty common. about a million visits to doctors every year. 1 in 11 people have kidney stones. it's a common problem. if it runs in your family you want to pay attention to it. >> is there anything that you can do, basic work in terms of your diet, nothing too extreme? >> not really. they form when your urine gets really conc

dr. richard besser on what the fda is saying tonight. >>> and a made in america victory. remember your outrage when we discovered the american uniforms were made in china.

dr. besser is here to look at how severe this year's strain is and how you can prevent it. >> and a littleirl stuck in a washer after trying to find a perfect spot to hide during the game of hide & seek. how did she get locked inside and how did they get her out? that's coming up. and on a lighter note, check out this reaction. [cheers and applause] >> what celebrity gave her a gift so grand he had this over-the-top screeching response? the answer, thing about reveal coming up on gma very soon. >> wow. sounds like a celebrity i want to know. that's good news, right? >> exactly. >> dan, thank you very much. >> thanks. >> an iowa science teacher conducted an experiment on himself on how eating mcdonald's every day for 90 days would affect his health, the results surprised his students. john lost 37 pounds eating nothing but fast-food from the golden arches for three months. he restricted his calories to 2,000 calories a day and sid within the recommended allowances for nutrients with karbs and proteins and fat. >> i didn't go to mcdonald's and only eat salads. no, i had sundaes, i had ice cr

dr. richard besser, abc news, boston. >> nothing getting through? sneezes, you get the tissue up in time and your hand is a little -- >> yeah, i've had them all. don't think i want breakfast anymore, by the way. >> completely lost my appetite. >> sneezes travel at 100 miles an hour. the speed of that stuff is 100 miles an hour. >> if you don't have a tissue around, you're not ready to go. >> yeah, this is what i do if i don't have a tissue. they say it's the best one to do, i guess, if you don't have the tissue and then you get it all over your -- i would rather wash my hands. at least i don't have it on my suit. >> that's true. but if you forget and touching door handles and -- >> i like to turn around the opposite way and then just let it go. but probably in the office that's bad because the guy in the cubicle behind me -- there you go. coming up, another one-in at the airport that has alec baldwin in an uproar. >>> and is "the bachelor" changing the rules as he looks for love. we'll have in-depth analysis next in "the skinny." >> announcer: "worl

dr. richard besser. >> reporter: on the flu season battlefield, everyone around you is a potential enemy.we set out to answer once and for all, how can you best stop your sneezes and not get everyone around you sick? is it with your hands or into your elbow? we put together a demonstration. laid down a long paper ruler. set up high speed cameras and rinsed our mouths with foot coloring so we could see where the sneezes landed.dt coloring so we could see where the sneezes landed. coloring so we could see where the sneezes landed. we put on protective suites to keep the dye off our clothes. and did everything we could to insight a sneeze. i even sniffed cat hair off my producer's scarf. i can't sneeze. but two of my producers found a way. tickling their noses with these leaves and we're off. marcus played the rude guy. sneezing without blocking at all. look at that dye. we found a small part landing almost 11 feet away. round two, elar covers her mouth with her hands. just like mom always said. she can't block it all and some landed 3 1/2 feet away. look at that on all of elar's hand. disgu

dr. besser is with us. i want to show video. a mom who is surfing all nine months of her pregnancy. terrific. anything that could put you or the baby in jeopardy, tumbling off a surfboard, getting hit by that surfboard, it's dangerous. >> what do you recommend? what about the crossfit? >> the extreme crossfit i worry about. anyone starting an exercise regimen, whether you're pregnant or not, check with your doctor. go through it. doctors used to say no exercise in pregnancy. now, it's the opposite. exercise in pregnancy is good for your heart. it's good for your mood, sleep, flexibility. it will help you through labor and delivery. it's a good thing to do. you have to be careful. >> if you're already doing something, you keep doing it? >> as long as it's something safe. anything involving balance. horseback riding, skateboarding, roller blading, skiing, i would avoid those. the weight will shift your balance. the joints get loose because of pregnancy. you have to be careful. >> what would you suggest for pregnant women of all ages, shapes, sizes, weights? >> so you know, if you like

dr. richard besser shows us how our bodies react to this air. >> this temperature you have to completely bundle up. you want to make a sealed envelope of air around your body to keep you warm. we took these pictures with a thermal camera. the red is heat coming off this man. you can see his face and neck are giving off heat. what's more, look closely. you can see where the zipper of his jacket is leaking heat. if you lose too much heat there's a real danger of hypothermia. you need to wear many thin layers. he's standingout side, he takes off his gloves and look what happens, the heat, that orange/yellow, over the course of one minute disappears much that's the beginning of frostbite. his fingers losing all heat and his body is protecting itself and keeping it in the core for the essential organs. you can't have any exposed skin in this kind of weather. >> today another cold day as well for much of the country. stay with abc news throughout this extreme blast of cold air. live team coverage coming up on "good morning america." >>> vice president biden has phoned iraq's leader over the sp

dr. richard besser with five things you can do for your health. >>> first, a live check of the top stories developing this morning, here they are. >>> good morning. i'm bianna golodryga and happy new year. we begin with those new year's celebrations still on tap today, the parade in philadelphia and a number of college footbabotball bowls. >>> the cleanup started in times square where 1 million celebrated in times square. sanitation crews cleaned up some 50 tons of trash and abc's rebecca jarvis has more on last night's events across the globe. >> reporter: new year's celebrations rocking around the wor clock and the world. the first to welcome 2014 auckland, new zealand and australia. then to asia, hundreds gathered at the great wall in beijing, china, for a colorful light show. only to be topped by dubai, which set the first world record in 2014 for 500,000 fireworks in 6 minutes, dazzling 60 miles of shoreline. in moscow, russia, majestic fireworks lit up red square. at big ben in london, england, revelers chimed in the new year. in scotland, three days of new year's festivals. >> it's

dr. richard besser is here with all of the specifics. good morning, dr. b. i want to talk first the positive news, a lot of flu activity down. >> yes. >> significantly. >> yes, you know, a week ago it was 20, now it's down to 14. which is a good thing. other good news, it appears there are fewer hospitalizations this year than last year but last year was a really bad flu year. they're still seeing flu cases all over the country and that could continue for another six weeks or longer. >> saying that 90% to 95% of the vaccines are gone so at this point, how can we tell people where to get a vaccine? >> so 95% have been distributed by the companies so they're out at doctors' offices or pharmacies or they've been given to people. >> doesn't mean they're gone-gone. >> doesn't mean they're gone-gone but you may have to look a little harder. there's a great website. flushot.healthmap.org and put in your zip code and will tell you which stores in the area have the shot. give them a call first. before you head over there. there should be one for whoever wants it. >>

dr. richard besser. we think we're bundled up. but we're losing heat. >> in this temperature, you want to completely bundle up. we took a pictures with aer the mall camera. look at this. the red, the heat coming off this man. you see his face and neck are giving off heat. look closely. you can see where the zipper of his jacket is losing heat. if you lose too much heat and there's a real danger of hypotherm hypothermia. you need to wear thin layers. and where a scarf under that zipper and wool or synthetic fibers. >> seal off the middle part of your body. and you have images showing how frostbite begins. >> yeah. this man is standing outside. he takes off his gloves. look what happens. the heat, that orange/yellow, over the course of one minute, it disappears. that's the beginning of frostbite. his fingers losing all heat. his body is protecting himself and keeping his heat in his core for his essential organs. you can't have exposed skin in this weather. >> thank you, rich besser. >>> and next, big news, tonight, from overseas. t

dr. richard besser back here with us tonight. there was some good news here. >> this is good news.earchers looked at older men who had mild to moderate alzheimer's who were already taking drugs like aricept. they gave some a high dose of vitamin e and others a sugar pill. they found that those who were given the vitamin e were able to take care of themselves, take a bath and get dressed for a longer period of time. >> what was it about vitamin e? >> they don't know for sure. take a look at this. it takes place inside the brain. there are chemicals called free rad kls which damage the brain tissue. vitamin e destroys those chemicals but there is a caution. it can have serious side affects, especially in people who have heart disease. it's only shown to be beneficial in people who already have alzheimer's so don't take it without your doctor. >>> from your health tonight to the economy now and what a year it was if you were lucky enough to have retirement savings in the market. on the final day of trading for the year the dow closing up 72 points, an all-time high, the dow gaining 35

dr. richard besser, lays out what patients should know. >> reporter: crushing pain. a blackout. the race to get to the hospital. you are trying to survive a heart attack. but if you arrive at the hospital at night, or on the weekends, you have a 5% higher chance of dying. that means an extra 2,000 deaths a year. it's not that the heart attacks are any different. it's just the timing. the mayo clinic looked at the records of 2 million heart attack patients, from 42 studies. the key to treating their type of heart attack? a balloon that clears their clogged artery. but those arriving to the e.r. at night, or on the weekend, received that treatment 15 minutes later than those who came during normal business hours. >> there are fewer staff or resources at night or weekends. that's true. >> reporter: meaning the solution could be as simple as staffing. >> so, rich is here. this is about staffing at hospitals? what's a patient to do? >> well, the first thing. if you think there's any chance you're having a heart attack, dial 911. you never want to drive yourself to the hospital. and i

dr. richard besser. and, rich, you have images that show, we think we're bundled up. but we're losing heat. >> in this temperature, you have to complete bundle up. you have to make a seal of air around your body to keep you warm. we took a pictures with a thermal camera. i want you to take a look at this. the red, the heat coming off this man. you see his face and neck are giving off heat. look closely. you can see where the zipper of his jacket is losing heat. you can see where the stitching the letting heat out. if you lose too much heat and there's a real danger of hypothermia. you need to wear many thin layers. each one is another heat envelope. and wear a scarf under that zipper and wool or synthetic fibers. >> so, seal off the middle part of your body. and you have images showing how frostbite begins. >> yeah. take a look at this man. he's standing outside. he takes off his gloves. look what happens. the heat, that orange/yellow, over the course of just one minute, it disappears. that's the beginning of frostbite. his fingers losing all heat. his body is protect

dr. richard besser, wants to talk more about these dangers, specifically what you do. >> it's very concerning. you know, if you look this weekend, green bay, wisconsin, the packers will play in their game, if you factor in the wind, it's going to get down to 40 degrees below zero. that's a remarkable temperature. very dangerous. i went outside this afternoon, with a thermal camera, you can see in red here, everywhere that the heat is getting out. and these are pictures of me, without my hat, my gloves, my jacket open for a period of four minutes, see the red, that's heat escaping if you're not completely bundled up, the wind pulls the heat away. that's a road to hypothermia. now, this is what you see, when frostbite sits in. and it's frightening. you take off your glove over the course of one minute, the heat in red has left the fingers, and it's soon to be frostbite. >> so any part of you exposed even your chest in a sweater can lose heat so rapidly. >> you're losing it from everywhere. >> if you think you have frostbite, what do you do? you don't put your hand in warm hot water? >> hot wate

dr. richard besser, steps into the lab to tell us. >> reporter: here's the challenge.ion, in a season of cold and flu, what's the best way to greet each other to protect ourselves? a handshake? a fist-bump? or a high-five? we asked a group of volunteers at the university of maryland to help us find out. for our experiment, i'm patient zero. my hands covered with thousands of e. coli bacteria, which will transfer pretty much like the dangerous kind of germs that get you sick. these e. coli aren't harmful. when we began, all of their hands were completely germ-free. i shook hands with all of the volunteers in group one. then, they pressed their hands into special plates that were incubated overnight. and here's how i passed on to the first volunteer in line. she has almost as many as me. so, let's watch what happens as she shakes hands with the next volunteer and so on and so forth. look at this. it takes four handshakes for the bacteria transfer to significantly decrease. even the last person in line got enough bacteria from my hands to get sick. let's compare that to a

dr. richard besser is here with five things you can do for your health. >> i'm going to guess lots of waterhis morning. >>> first, a live check of the top stories developing this morning. here they are. >>> good morning. i'm bianna golodryga, and happy new year. we begin with those new year's celebrations still on tap today, the mummers parade in philadelphia and a number of college football bowls. >>> well, the cleanup started early this morning in times square where an estimated 1 million people celebrated the new year. most were confined to the secure area with no heat, no food and no bathrooms. sanitation crews cleaned up some 50 tons of trash, and abc's rebecca jarvis has more on last night's events across the globe. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> reporter: new year's celebrations rocking around the clock and the world. the first to welcome 2014, auckland, new zealand, and sydney, australia, where fireworks lit up the skies for more than 1.6 million revelers gathered at the iconic sydney opera house. then to asia, hundreds gathered at the great wall in beijing, china, for a colorfu

dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. >> wow.> completely different person. tourette's, you have a lower range where people can control the symptoms and learn to channel some of that. then you have extreme cases, which is what he went through. incredible. 200,000 americans diagnosed with tourette's syndrome every year. >> robby was on 42 different types of medication. at one point the side effects were so extreme he attempted suicide three times. >> we're glad to see he's doing much better now. >> absolutely. >>> coming up, hangover helpers. >> the new products and ideas to help keep the next day headaches and queasiness at bay. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations. ♪ my it hurts ♪ my head hurts and i don't love jesus. it's that kind of morning ♪ >>> well, here's a topic that a lot of you were probably pretty familiar with yesterday. hangovers. everyone has thought of how to cure one, greasy food, pedialyte, even the hair of a dog? >> the story is probably a d

dr. richard besser, first the twins' story.ght. one giving up sugar, the other, fat, the goal to find out which is worse for you. both doctors, alexander could not eat carbohydrates. and chris was allowed only a little bit of fat. in an experiment, the 35-year-old self-proclaimed gluttons were allowed to eat as much as they wanted and exercise the same amount for one month. the results, both lost weight but were miserable in the process. what they discovered is the real reason for weight gain isn't because of fat or sugar alone, it's because of the combination in processed foods. their recommendation is to try and avoid these processed foods and stick to natural foods. don't get rid of fats and sugars entirely because then you lose all the flavor. what's the fun in all that? joining us now our chief health and medical editor, dr. richard besser. so what do you make of this experiment? >> well, i think it's great they did it. here you have identical twins making changes and questions that a lot have. is it fat or sugar? i agree

dr. rich besser. this strain is h1n1. what do we know about this strain? >> this is the same strain that in 2009 spread around the world and caused the pandemic. they don't cause uppandemics bu they cause a lot of flu. we have to take it seriously. >> does it look like we're heading into a particularly bad season? and what can our viewers do about it? >> you can't tell how severe the season is going to be. but that uptick tells us we're in the middle of it. it's not too late to get vaccinated, even in the areas seeing flu. you want to get the vaccine. you want to do a lot of hand washing, cover your cough, stay home if you're sick. and this year, i'm calling for more fist-bumps than handshakes. i think you can cut down on spreading the germs. >> what about elbow-pumps? >> even better. hands are the way the flu gets transmitted. if we cut back on that, you may stay healthier. >> you and i could make the elbow-bump very cool. >> i don't know if you and i will make it cool. yeah. >> i think you're on to something. >> my kids do not give me much cool cred. >>

dr. richard besser is here on the latest with this deadly strain. first of all, we were thinking about the families who lost their loved ones. they were young and had no underlying health issues. >> so incredibly sad. you know, it's very hard to predict who is going to have a bad case of flu. usually it's the young and elderly but here you had someone who was sick since christmas. someone else just sick for five days and they were young. and you have to ask why people in this age group. there's a couple possibilities. healthy young adults in the past have been less likely to get the flu vaccine. and for the past five years it's included protection against h 1 n 1. it's not complete protection but it's some. people who are older and born in 1950 or earlier were exposed to some strains of flu that may give them some protection to this strain out there now. >> how do you know, rich, if you have this particular strain of the flu? >> this year, 97% of all the flu that's out there right now is the h1n1 strain. if you have the flu that's what you've got so

dr. richard besser. rich, tell us what's going on here. >> this is a dramatic rise. flu tends to start in the southeast and spread from there. over the course of one week, it went from just 6 states to 20 states. every region of the country is seeing high flu activity. >> what type of flu? >> this is the same strain that we saw in 2009 with the pandemic. the h1n1 strain. the good thing is that's included in the current vaccine. the bad news is that tends to hit healthy children and adults more than some of the other flu strains. >> so are you thinking we're going to have a serious flu season? >> it's a little early to know that. i would take precautions. it's not too late to get vaccinated. not too late to practice good hand washing. do fist bumps instead of hand shakes. try to cut down on the chances you're going to get it. >> i would imagine the temperatures and the fluctuation in the temperatures can't help. >> it actually increases the risk of transmission. low humidity, flu viruss stay in the air more. we crowd together. share the virus. all the travel. that lea

dr. richard besser in to rank the best ones and tell you which diet will work with you. >> we also ask viewersthe country joining the dress trend, kaley cuoco. is it cuoco? >> cuoco. >> thank you. kaley tying the knot on new year's eve in a pink dress. i love that idea and we'll take you behind the scenes on her walk down the aisle. >> look at that. we'll let people weigh in on that. oh, gosh, are we going to get josh back here ever? >> i don't think so. >> maybe one day. we miss you, josh but glad that you were there and had a great time. i know you have to bring us the top developing stories, josh. >>> i got to say i miss you guys too and i will definitely see you in the next few days at some point. i have to believe my flight is very much delayed. >>> we have a lot to get to, but we have to begin with the record cold. it is now being felt by more than 185 million americans. blowing snow stranding more than 500 amtrak passengers on the tracks outside of chicago for hours overnight. buses were finally brought in to carry them to a frozen chicago. >>> also in illinois, nearly 400 cars and truc

dr. richard besser. >> you talk about frostbite. what you see is whitish or gray color to the skin. a firm or waxy feel. a numbness. you don't know you have it, you too have look at the people around you. >> hypothermia is very serious. how do you know you're going to that situation? >> normally it's 80 degrees. if it drops to 85 degrees that's hypothermia. babies may have bright red skin. >> how long does this take before any of it sets in. you saw the temperatures ginger said are coming. we're dealing with this for days to come. >> what concerns me is not just the temperature but the wind. it's a matter of minutes, you can have frostbite set in, you can have hypothermia. people indoors without heat can get hypothermia. >> with a few seconds left, a lot of kids playing in the snow. what do you do. it's not hot watt never. >> you want luke warm water to warm them gradually. that will prevent damage and burns. >> hippothermia. get help? >> to a doctor right away. >>> let's get the other top stories from bianna golodryga. >> good morning, everybody. good morning to everyone at home. w

dr. richard besser with this next story on what happens to our bodies when it's this cold outside. >> ina sealed envelope of air around your body to keep you warm. we took these thermal pictures. you see this man's face in red. that is where he is giving off heat. you can see the zipper of his jacket is leaking heat. even the seams are letting heat out. there's a real danger of hypothermia and you need to wear many layers. wear a scarf you should that zipper or wool or synthetic fibers because cotton lets the heat out. take a look at this man, he is standing outside. takes off his gloves and look what happens. the heat, that orange/yellow, over the course of just one minute, it disappears. that's the beginning of frostbite. his fingers losing all heat. his body is protecting itself and keeping the heat in its core for essential organs. again, you can't have any exposed skin in this kind of weather. >> interesting stuff. you've seen lots of pictures of frozen streets and bodies of water over the past few days, but here is something that's pretty mind-blowing. >> take a look at these froze