dr. david somati, he'll tell you how to take care of yourself and your family as the serious flu season picks up the pace. rick? >> another fox news alert, this time out of aurora, colorado and a hostage standoff, four people are dead including the suspected gunman. this is video of the scene that we just got into the news room, police responding overnight to reports of shots fired inside a town house there. police storming the home after hours of negotiations that failed. the gunman died in a shootout with the police. you'll remember back in july of last year, aurora rocked by another tragedy when a gunman killed 12 people and wounded dozens more during a movie screening inside a theater there. we're following the breaking developments on this latest shooting. we'll bring you the very latest as we get it. >> jamie: meanwhile, a powerful earthquake rocking alaska overnight according to the u.s. geological survey, it was a magnitude 7.5 quake that struck 60 miles off the coast, triggering a tsunami warning for hundreds of alaskan and canadian coastline, the warning was canceled after no signif

dr. david somati, member of the medical a-team chief of robotics at mount sinai hospital, why is this happening> this is a fantastic news for all the cancer patients out there. the peak of cancer death was highest in 1991, about 20 years ago, we've seen a major decline, 20% as you mentioned is a huge number in this basically saving over a million people the last decade or so. so the reason why this is happening and mostly has to do with lung cancer, we see that the death rate has gone down. look at this, 215, over 100,000, and now 173 for 100,000, part of it's due to screening and debate the la last few years, for screening for breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer really works or not and this is the answer today. and you can see you have to get screened and that information is very powerful and knowing it early on, you can obviously do something about it, lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, has been a major part of this and that's a major improvement in life quality. >> wonderful news. let me ask you in particular about cancer, are less people smoking and that's why lung cancer

dr. david somati is the a-team, and chief of robotics, mount sinai hospital. it's an important topic. what can people do to prevent having the flu. >> kelly, the news is worse and worse and the key word is epidemic as you mentioned. we tried to avoid it, but the numbers on the rise. there's a state of emergency in places like boston and new york, so you really need to protect yourself and there are ways to really prevent flu and a lot of people called in and asked us exactly. and one of the first things to do get vaccinated. if you don't have the vaccine, now is the time. we're not at the peak and there's enough time to do this. the second thing, we want to make sure that you wash your hands on a regular basis. because of the cough and droplets, washing your hands regularly, clean up the viruses that might get into your system and the certain message that's important, cover your mouth. now, there's news that came out of mount sinai and i'm sure a lot of other hospitals, it's not mandatory for health care and doctors to get the vaccine, they encourage that. if

dr. david somati is here with us from the mount sinai medical center chief of robotics and doc, this is somethingit says if you do it before you're 40 years old, quit smoking, but if you even think you want to reach the age of 80 you can double your chances if you quit. >> yeah, the statistics are unbelievable. a simple way to think about this. you start smoking, and you're going to lose about a decade of your life, that's it the way it goes. it's a serious problem looking at about 45 million americans still smoking in this country. big, big numbers. and smoking not only causes lung cancer, but it really causes about 440,000 preventible deaths in this country. it affects your heart, it affects stroke. the biggest thing that smoking causes, is that it creates a lot of blood clots in the vessels and that's what really kills people. so the great study published in the new england journal of medicine looking at over 200,000 people over the course of eight years and what they're finding, the sooner and earlier you quit smoking, the better off you are. and you can gain some of great years back, how doe