dr. fauci, few babies are now born h.i.v.-infected in the united states because their mothers are usually already on apt eye retro viral medicine. but when it does happen what's the normal protocol? what usually happens? >> what happens is that if you get good prenatal care, the mother if she's infected during the pregnancy would be treated just like you would treat any other infectedded person. both for her own health as well as for the fact that it would dramatically diminish the likelihood that that mother would transmit the virus to their baby during the period of peri-natal or during the birth period. to be extra especially sure that that doesn't happen, what you do is you then not fully robustly treat but the baby with one or two drugs which is not enough for a full treatment but enough for prevention. you do that for six weeks. if the baby turns out to not be infected, then you stop that... if the baby turns out to be infected you add the extra drug or two which will give a triple combination. that in fact would be the

dr. anthony fauci from the national institutes of health.hanks for coming in. >> good to be here, wolf. >> the chief medical officer of england is warning now, it is ominous, we may soon face a future without cures for infection. is that true? >> well, for certain infections. it is the whole issue of anti-mike kroeb yal bacteria. she gave annual report from the u.k. that mimics what we see in the united states. our own center for disease control and prevention last week came out with a report, a special edition of their weekly surveillance report and they refer to it as vital signs where they reported about the upsurge in a certain type of multiple drug resistant bacteria, called cre, which is something that's growing in frequency, and is quite threatening. there are about a million to three million hospital acquired infections throughout the year in the united states, about 20% of them are among drug resistant microbes, and in a given year, about 90,000 people die from drug resistent microbes, almost all acquired in the hospital. it is some

. >> dr. fauci says health facilities have to be very strict about infection control.quires employees wash their hands before and after every patient interaction. it also maintains isolation and having a dedicated staff deal with just these high-risk patients so the bacteria doesn't spread to the rest of the hospital population. >>> in this week's "human factor," dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to bruce feiler, a devoted husband, father and writer who overcame a rare form of bone cancer. >> reporter: i first met bruce three years ago when he was trying to rebound from a cancer diagnosis, grappling with the possibility of dying before his twin daughters, eden and tybee, grew up. facing his own mortality. >> i could just feel my body sort of slipping away. >> reporter: he makes an extraordinary request. >> will you help be their dad? >> reporter: thankfully, bruce and his family got through that. and today bruce has no evidence of cancer in his body. with all that behind him, he has resumed doing what he does best, writing. his new book is called "the secrets of happy fam

dr. anthony fauci gets tonight's last word. thank you, doctor. >> good to be here. >>> wanted. profiles in courage. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. let me start tonight with this. remember john f. kennedy's book "profiles in courage"? it's about u.s. senators who had to cast courageous votes that some of the people back home didn't like. such a vote is coming soon to a senator near you. the issue, gun safety. the nra is out there working gun owners loading them up with the worst case scenarios. if someone does a background check on you, count on that person to turn in your name to washington. next step, the creation of the national registry of all guns and name and address of all those who bought them. this means the pressure is now on the senators, alarmed, in a personal sense by those young kids whose lives were wiped away at 6 years old. will they vote what they think is right or buckle to the national rifle association and to second amendment fanatics? tonight we debate the profiles in courage. those u.s. senators for whom the gun

dr. anthony fauci gets tonight's last word. thank you, doctor. >> good to be here. >>> now with alex wagner is up next. >> the whole thing, universal checks, is a dishonest premise. >> wayne lapierre, meet youtube. we'll take the nra spokesperson on a trip down memory lane. >> 80% of nra members even say that they think we should have reasonable checks. >> the numbers don't lie, but are the lawmakers deluded? james carville and howard dean will discuss one nation under a gun. >>> marriage equality sees its day in court and republicans are forced to see the light. >> can you imagine the next presidential campaign, a republican candidate saying flat-out, i am for gay marriage? >> i could. >> all that hinges on the verdict, ahead. >>> the gop's best and brightest are out with their budgets. and they might just take the country to a scary, dark place. #runfromrand. >>> forget the shadow, punxsutawney phil may have the legal hammer coming down on his head. what's a little climate change when there are prognosticating groundhogs to w