dr. david agus has an update on the flu season. i'm anne-marie green.ews." ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good morning. welcome to wusa9. today is friday, january 10th, 2014. good morning, i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike haiduk. a new coach, gruden, in town. more on that, coming up. we start with howard, and there is some sort of precipitation, right? >> reporter: yeah we have light rain moving in before it transitions to rainshowers. long week, first 5-day week many people have done in like a month, right? let's she you the forecast, through midmorning we are concerned with light freezing rain, especially west of us and northwest of us. we should be comfortably above freezing at 34. and then the showers, it is not going to be an all day rain. but looks like a lot of showers this morning there may be a break midday and more this afternoon with showers midday, more south and east of dc than north and west. let's see the winter weather advisory. that covers everybody now, goes until 9:00 if you are east of route 15. but in frederick, and west, your freezing rain advisory goes u

dr. david agus has an update on the flu season. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news."i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> >>> here's another look at this morning's top story. new jersey governor chris christie fired a top deputy and apologized for massive traffic jams engineered by his staff as apparent political payback. christie says he had no prior knowledge of the plan. a federal prosecutor is investigating as is the new jersey legislature. and as you can imagine governor chris christie's traffic jam scandal is rich material for late night comics including david letterman. >> i liked the chris christie press conference, number ten, the shocking revelation of traffic corruption in new jersey. what? number nine, blame the whole thing on getting drunk with dennis rodman. number eight, more profanity than "the wolf of wall street." number five. christi had no idea the bridge connected new jersey to new york. number four, the appearance by the fake sign language guy. remember that guy? and the number one highlight of chris christie's press conf

dr. david agus, a friend of the show and top cancer doc and a big proponent of that show as well, a good friend of mine, and author of a new book "a short guide to a long life." thank you for being here. >> it's a pleasure to be here. >> people start thinking about this time of year more than others, and you emphasize very important things in the book that the patient does need to take control and take the reins and do legwork before the appointment. some examples you give, take your own blood pressure, take your own pulse, chart these things. when you tell people that, how specific should they be? should they do it at a particular time of day? how often should they be measuring these things? >> listen, in today's world, the time with your doctors, three, four, five, if you're lucky, ten minutes and the role of the doctor visit should not be to gather data but to analyze data. the notion that you go to your doctor at 1:00 and they take your blood pressure is kind of crazy. you should check your blood pressure when you get up in the morning, at night when you go to bed, when you are pisse

dr. david agus, a friend of the show, top cancer donning and a big proponent of that approach as well, a good friend of mine, he is the all the other of a new book, it's called "short guide to a long life." doctor, welcome back to the program. >> thank you, sanjay, it's a pleasure to be here. >> thank you. you know, a lot of people start thinking about this more than other times of the year. they make doctors' appointments, for example this time of year. you emphasize some very important things in the book that the patient really does need to take control, take the reins and do some leg work before the appointment. some of the examples you give, take your own blood pressure, take your own pulse, chart these things. when you tell people it that, how specific they be? should they do it a particular time of day? how often should they be measuring these things? >> listen, in time in the world, the time with your doctor is three, four, five, if you're lucky, ten minutes, the role should not to be gather data but analyze data. the notion you go to your doctor at 1:00 and check your blood press

dr. david agus is here with a prescription for living longer. we all need that.w you his list to do and some of the things to avoid. it goes from everything from taking vitamins to having children to brushing your teeth. that's ahead. >>> and an nfl player is making explosive accusations against the minnesota vikings. chris kluwe said the team released him last season for supporting same-sex marriage. he sat down with ben tracy at his california home. >> reporter: chris kluwe was one of the best punters the minnesota vikings ever had. now, he's known for more kicking up controversy. kluwe released a letter online late last week alleging the vikings cut him in may of last year after he publicly campaigned for same-sex marriage during the season. it looks like the basis of a lawsuit. do you plan to sue them? >> a lawsuit isn't on the table. like i said i have nothing against the vikings organization itself. i would like it to acknowledge, yes, i was doing my job and i was let go because of these reasons. hopefully we can make a change with the nfl as a whole to ens

dr. david agus a contributor to cbs joins us this morning.ked at, naproxin doesn't seem to have the heart attack risk of the others. >> why would the government be essentially doing a 180 on this? >> it was initially a warning on a whole class of drugs but now looking at the data, we can go back and tees out each drug showing naproxin isn't as at risk as the others. people need to take pain meds. >> why is naproxin safer other than it is? what makes it safer that others don't? house is it different from aspirin? >> it's great question. aspirin is a different class. motrin advil, they hit a certain avenue. naproxin is different in that it doesn't cause clotting caution heart attacks. >> what do you use? >> i try to stay away from pain meds as much as possible without getting hurt. >> you do take your aspirin every day, we know. >> you're right. >> you're not suggesting that people who have certain cardios should. use these drugs, are you? >> no. what we're indicating is low dose a couple days' use doesn't cause a problem. chronic use of higher

dr. davis agus is with us this morning. good morning david to be talking about this morning. replace mnlts bodyment body parts. a heart? >> it's growing. trachea has gone into patients. what you see is an ink card rack. it goes into this printer. it has a two-chamber heart. you say big whoop and then all of a sudden you look under the microscope at the heart and it beats. so that's the power of it. you put cells in the right structure and they actually function. we'll see these all help us to live h longer and better. >> you're a big proponent of a lot of these apps. >> right now. you can check your blood pressure every day and all that data can go to your doctor. i can now take my smartphone and put my fingers on it and get an ekg reading. and i can take it anymore and send it to my doctor. so the notion to have to go to the doctor's office to generate data and talk about it is out. you're going to generate it at home and then discuss it with your doctor when you get there. it's going to bring a much more powerful interaction. >> that's valu

dr. david agus looks at the flu and other matters. s brought by the cdc this morning? >> good morning, gayle, clarissa, and charlie. 7.5% of u.s. deaths are related to the flu. this year it's a bad one. >> how does it compare to last season? >> well, this year it's h1n1 or swine flu cl means it hits young kids or young adults much more strongly than others. that strain is in the vaccine. only 40% have approximately been vaccinated so we all need to get out there and get vaccinated. under the affordable care act, vax seens are covered with no payment at all. >> i'm just reeling from the statistic that ten children have died. what should parents be doing to help protect their children? >> well when you get the symptoms and the flu, you need to stay inside. don't go to work. don't spread it to others. you're right. kids dies of news happens only with certain strains so we need to pay attention. there are newer technologyies that are getting excited that could help. google has flu trends. they look at when people search for fever, running

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