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. >> reports from years ago that dr. gupta followed up on about other doctors going on tour with michael jackson, giving him propofol while michael jackson was on tour for days at a time. up next, we'll speak with a pain specialist and anesthesiologist who was asked to consult on the case. also, on that scary swine flu report. do the numbers check out? possibly 90,000 deaths in america. who should be vac nated? will the bug roar back before vaccines can stop it. and kate gosselin opened up on "larry king live." her thoughts now about her husband jon. we'll be right back. >>> more now on what went into michael jackson's body on the day he died. dr. murray says he gave jackson valium on the morning in question. then he administered the and steethic propofol. somehow jackson ended up with what the coroner calls a lethal amount in his body. there were other drugs found nearby. it raises a lot of questions. anesthesiologist and pained me signature specialist dr. jason hymes who declined an offer to consult on michael jackson's pain

dr. gupta goes inside a crime lab to put cutting edge technology to the test. >>> he had one simple rule at "60 minutes" for making great television. reading about washington these days... i gotta ask, what's in it for me? i'm not looking for a bailout, just a good paying job. that's why i like this clean energy idea. now that works for our whole family. for the kids, a better environment. for my wife, who commutes, no more gettin' jerked around on gas prices... and for me, well, it wouldn't be so bad if this breadwinner brought home a little more bread. repower america. i hope our senators are listening. >>> we're 3u9 putting high-tech forensics to the test. more juries are relying on things like bite marks, fiber analyses, batistllistics test. we've heard stories of innocent people, convicted. to find out if cutting edge techniques lead to the truth, we sent dr. sanjay gupta inside a crime lab. here's his report. >> reporter: here is where forensic investigation begins. investigators cobble t

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dr. sanjay gupta, dr. nathan wolf, great to have you both with us. congratulations.e look forward to hearing more of what you find. >> thank you very much. >>> you can log on to ac360.com to watch an excerpt from "planet in peril." investigating how this deadly viruses spread. while there you can also find ways to stop malaria. >>> just ahead, the face of evil. charles manson on the anniversary of the murders. the killings, the cult and the crime that gripped a nation. >>> and a little later on, talk about an oops. a bad blowup. the unxekd outcome of a botched bltding implosion. >>> in tonight's "crime and punishment" report, charles manson and the killing spree that cut deep into the american psyche. with his followers asking for freedom and speculation of more victims, the story continues to make news today. we are going to bring it to you over this full week. ted rowlands takes us back to the crime that shocked the nation. >> reporter: the psychopath who carved a swastika on his forehead is 74 now. time has changed his face. but peer into the eyes. they are as dar

came from rather than just saying let's go on with more government. >> larry: before i go back to dr. gupta, do you want to respond? >> yes, i have a lot of respect for dr. paul, but one of the things i think he's saying is incorrect. the idea that the va system and also medicare being failures or not being popular are absolutely false. the r.a.n. corporation, a conservative think tank, recently published a study that showed excellent satisfaction with the va system. the kaiser family foundation actually showed that medicare is actually run more efficiently with much more dollars going for actual patient care than the private sector. and the other thing i want to touch on is this idea of freedom. we have less freedom when you are told by an insurance company where to go, where to get your treatment, where -- what hospital you need to get seen at. some patients need to drive extra distances because their insurance companies won't let them go to the hospital that's in their own neighborhood. if you had some type of single-payer system, patients would be free to go wherever they wanted. i woul

dr. gupta inside a crime lab to put cutting edge technology to the test. >>> he had one simple rule at "60 minutes" for making great television -- tell me a story. tk of america really has the market cornered on. let me make it easier for you. let me show you how i can make it easier for you. online banking is going to be your best friend; it's going to help you to manage your money. it has an alert system that can text message you. we have great new image atms. it will give you a receipt which has a copy of the check you deposited. you're in control of your finances. now when you talk about convenience, you measure us up to everyone else. well, you'll see we stand a head of the curve. >>> we're putting high-tech forensics to the test. more juries are relying on things like bite marks, fiber analyses, ballistics test. we've heard stories of innocent people, convicted. to find out if cutting edge techniques lead to the truth, we sent dr. sanjay gupta inside a crime lab. here's his report. >> rep

dr. sanjay gupta and nathan wolf. both joining us tonight.an, congratulations on this discovery. >> thank you. >> i know this is so important in the scientific community. for folks at home myself included, i listen to all this and think, malaria, where does the mosquito fit in here? >> sure. mosquitos permit malaria to move from animal to animal. hundreds of thousands of years a single infected mosquito who fed on a chimpanzee and later fed on a human that permitted this parasite to cross over into humans. >> that is amazing. you can trace it back from that one single mosquito that far. sanjay, medically, why is this so important? >> you mentioned a million or two die from malaria, 500 million get infected. i have had malaria. nathan has had it a few times. a lot of people get this. it is awful in terms of symptoms. more to the point and curious what nathan thinks about this, this idea if you isolate a path gen like this in chimpanzees, could you possibly be one step closer to creating a vaccine? we talk about mosquito nets and preventing mal

dr. sanjay gupta is in the newsroom to break it down for you. he worked in the white house, the last time an administration tried to push through health care reform. >>> but first we start with break news out of baghdad. six bombings in one hour and at least 75 people are dead, hundreds more are wounded in this. some blasts went off near government buildings. it is the worst day of carnage in the capital since iraqi troops took over. arwa damon joins us live from baghdad with the latest on the developments. >> reporter: good morning, don. it has been a really devastating day here in baghdad with that death toll that everyone fears is going to continue to rise. the deadliest bombings, as you were saying, are targeting iraqi's government institutions. two rock bombs, one exploding in front of iraq's ministry of finance, the other in front of iraq's ministry of foreign affairs. that one, by far, the most devastating, literally blowing through the facade of the ten-story building. we did manage to get down to the scene of that explosion. iraqi secur

dr. sanjay gupta and jeffrey toobin. cnn has confirmed that dr. murray is claiming he didn't know what drugs jackson was taking when he was hired. i want to play exactly what his lawyer told the "los angeles times." when he accepted the job he was not aware of specific requirement of medications that michael jackson was taking. do you buy that? >> it's an unusual situation that michael jackson and some of his drug use, some of the drug use that wasn't alleged but he admitted to was pretty well defined. >> if you had googled michael jackson, you could have found out he himself said he had been addicted at one point. >> i would say two things. one is most doctors prior to taking on a patient do a pretty thorough history of the patient, not a physical exam, at least the history. who is this patient, what is their past history, including drug use. given that this was so much out in there the public and obviously conrad murray must have known about michael jackson, it just doesn't pass the sniff test, so to speak. >> jeff, why do you think dr. murray's

dr. sanjay gupta went to find out. >> reporter: you're looking at the second busiest emergency room in thetate. they treat over 100,000 patients over a year. here's the thing, another to this doctor who runs the e.r., a quarter of them don't need his services. >> the way i would phrase is i think there are alternative sites of care that would be more appropriate. >> reporter: he means a primary care's doctor's office. >> the majority of users have a doctor's office and a primary doctor's office but come here because they don't have access. >> reporter: like kenneth mills, who's in pain from a bowling injury. >> i want to call my doctor but wouldn't be able to get in to see him. >> reporter: he is bruised and broken and could have easily been treated outside the emergency room. are you surprised you had to come to the emergency room? >> i wish i had a primary. i wouldn't have to wait as long. >> reporter: that's the issue. there aren't enough doctors. that's a real problem. we have more than 16,000 primary doctors short in the united states. only 6,500 doctors every year start in primary ca

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dr. son jay gupta on the scary swine flu report. do the numbers check out? possibly 90,000 deaths in america. who should be vaccinated? will the bug roar back before vaccines can stop it. dr. son jay gupta answers your questions. >>> kate gosselin opened up on "larry king live," exclusive interview about her marriage collapsing and her thoughts. with an epa estimated 32 miles per gallon. and up to 600 miles between fill ups. it's the most fuel efficient crossover on the highway. better than honda cr-v, toyota rav4 and even the ford escape hybrid. the all new chevy equinox. >>> more now on what went into michael jackson's body on the day he died. what he might have been taking prior and who got him the drugs in question. dr. murray says he gave jackson valium and two other powerful cousins on the morning in question. then he administered the anesthetic propofol. somehow jackson ended up with what the coroner calls a lethal amount in his body. as randi kaye reports, there were other drugs found nearby and other doctors named in a document. it raises a lot of qu

dr. sanjay gupta. >> amanda gutierrez? >> reporter: you're looking at the second-busiest emergency room in the state. they treat over 100,000 patients a year. but here's the thing, according to dr. niels rathlev, who runs the e.r., a quarter of them don't need his services. >> the way i would phrase it is to say i think that alternative sites of care that would be more appropriate. >> reporter: he means a primary care doctor's office. >> the majority of patients who are frequent utilizers at the emergency department actually have insurance, they have a primary care physician, but they choose to come to the e.d. because they don't have access. >> reporter: like kenneth mills who's in pain from a bowling injury. >> i want to call my doctor this morning but i wouldn't be able to get into see him. >> reporter: mills is bruised, not broken and could have easily been treated outside the emergency room. are you sort of surprised you had to come to the emergency room to take care of something like this? >> i wish i had a primary do

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dr. gupta, my question is, why doesn't the government make mandatory prices for the doctors and their services? that's the problem, they all charge outrageous prices and vary from place to place. will that change in a new plan? >> first of all, cindy, you're absolutely right. do you have the widely varied prices across the country. for example, you might pay $6,000 for an operation in one state and $17,000 for that same operation in a different state. so, there really is no set pricing. even when it comes to medicare, for example. what we're hearing are some specifics. for example, there would be caps on out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles and co-pays. there would be complete coverage when it come to preventive care, things like screenings and things that keep people healthy in the first place. but, again, to your point out of all the committees and proposed bills, we're not hearing anything about set pricing across the board. that's something that they're just not talking about. now, having sa

our dr. gupta aims to put their fears and yours to rest. good morning, everybody, i'm in for heidi collins on this monday, august 17th, and you are in the "cnn newsroom." >>> all right. let's get right to it. we have three storms to talk about. we've got claudette first on deck, a strong tropical storm, and then we have bill. bill's a bit of a stronger storm, could, in fact, become a hurricane later this week. and reynolds wolf right here watching both of them for you. including a third storm, that one named ana, that is a tropical depression. so, reynolds, you've got your eye on this activity. a lot of firsts weather wise. what are you looking out for today? >> kind of a historic thing here. this is the first time since 1984 we've had the a, b, and c storm at the same time. we see many of these forms in pretty quick duration. the one closest to us and that would be claudette made its way to the north, coming onshore in the parts of the panhandle and back into alabama, and i can tell you there are places in alabama and mississippi that coul

dr. guptasaw going under the anesthesia is doing just fine. he woke up shortly after surgery without any complications from the prop foal. >>> liftoff, take two. nasa planning to launch the shuttle "discovery" at 1:10 this morning. "discovery's" seven astronauts were already aboard the shuttle when the blastoff was called off. it's set to deliver thousands of pounds of equipment to the international space station. >>> do you know what, let's get chad in on this. chad, is the forecast better for tonight's scheduled lawnch? >> no, actually, yesterday was pretty good. it was supposed to be 80% launch and 20% chance of no. and we had a couple of showers right along the cape and we'll probably have more again for today and in for tonight. they were lingering showers. i don't see too much now. it might not be a bad time to launch, but the problem is you can't launch it anytime you want to, because the shuttle can't catch up with the space station. will there still be cloud cover left? will there stil

dr. sanjay gupta, thank you. >> thank you. >>> also more on health care reform.e or break month, in fact, as lawmakers get an earful from their constituents. we're going to check in on one of those forums. live pictures right now. going on in pennsylvania. we're back in just a moment. (announcer) illness doesn't care where you live... ...or if you're already sick... ...or if you lose your job. your health insurance shouldn't either. so let's fix health care. if everyone's covered, we can make health care as affordable as possible. and the words "pre-existing condition" become a thing of the past... we're america's health insurance companies. supporting bipartisan reform that congress can build on. heard you're getting free nights from hotels.com. how? well, funny you should ask. you see, after i book 10 nights, i get a free one. say i spend 2 nights at a big name hotel, 3 at a boutique, and 5 at a beach resort... and boom! free night. ( dings, monkey chatters ) ( in a baby voice ) aren't you a smart one? ( monkey laughs ) accumulate 10 nights and get a night free

dr. sanjay gupta in atlanta this morning with that.s surprising, in part because it's not just overweight children as you mentioned. but kids of normal weight even underweight, as well, looking at this pretty good link between television watching and increased blood pressure. and, again, we're not used to talking about hypertension in kids, but something we talk about more and more often as we talk about the childhood obesity epidemic. what they followed specifically, kids between the ages of 3 and 9 and followed them for a period of time trying to figure out what was going on here, what was the association exactly and found kids watching more than 30 minutes of television per day, which isn't much, it's pretty common for them to watch at least that much television, but they did seem to have an increase of blood pressure of about 6 to 7 points overall. when they tried to figure out why that was, a couple of things emerged. one is that what kids tended to eat while they're watching television. poor choices in terms of food, pretty unive

dr. sanjay gupta is actually taking some of your questions. health care reform and your college students. what you need to know. we'll get to all of that. >>> first we begin in iowa where a leading republican faces the prospect of a long day and short tempers. senator chuck grassley is holding four town hall meetings on health care reform. senior political correspondent candy crowley is in winter set. candy, once again this could get pretty heated. >> it could. but remember, first of all, that i was pretty used to political debate, that senator grassley has been around the u.s. senate for three decades, been around iowa a lot longer. he's a farmer here, native of iowa. he says he's been to -- hosted about 2,800 town hall meetings over the course of his senate career. so he's seen a lot and he's seen a lot of heated debates. he said last night he was talking on a local tv station that he's not worried that he actually sort of enjoys the give-and-take. he is a bit of a target simply because he is part of that small group in the senate finance co

dr. sanjay gupta, has more on this. >> there's blood everywhere.een a tough transition from fallujah back to small town america for marine veteran, matthew brown. >> you're constantly alert, looking around. is it a mcdonald's bag on the side of the road or just a bag? is someone trying to get me. it's different paranoia factors that weigh you on after a while. >> reporter: just 24 years old he joins the 1 in 5 iraq war veterans returning from combat with posttramatic stress disorder. ptsd. >> people knew i wasn't right in the head anymore. i wasn't the same person. and then i couldn't explain to them that there's no way i can be the same person after the things i've done and seen and has happened to me. >> reporter: his escape? abusing prescription painkillers and alcohol. at his worse, brown said he was drinking a fifth of liquor a day. >> the pain is always there, and it doesn't go away. but i was using way more than i was prescribed to and drinking on top of it. i was just, i guess, indirectly just trying to end it, end the pain. for a brief mom

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dr. sanjay gupta tonight from dublin. >>> more on the life of ted kennedy ahead, including a look at theies and candles he could escape throughout his life. >>> first, erica hill joins us with the 360 bulltin. >> one of iraq's top shiite leaders died today after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. he had been receiving treatment for more than two years. his body will now be sent to iraq for burial in his hometown. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki said al hakim was like a brother to him. >>> accusing governor mark sanford of serious misconduct in office. south carolina's lieutenant governor called on the governor to set down. andre bauer offering to take over if governor sanford would quit in the next few weeks, but the governor declined. holding a news conference a few hours later to say he will not be, quote, railroaded out of office, and plans to finish his term. >>> in california, smoke from a 750-acre wildfire northeast of los angeles is making it difficult to breathe. the good news, though, is that the flames are actually burning away from area suburb swos, so they're not threaten

dr. sanjay gupta. but first, candy crowley has the "raw politics." >> if it's okay with you, i'll get started. >> reporter: senator chuck grassley holds his 72nd town hall meeting of the year. what a year. >> we're here at a time when i sense that people are scared for our country. >> reporter: his town halls have been twice, sometimes three times as big as he's had in previous years. so many hands in the air, so many cross currents. >> i need to know what are you doing to these insurance companies that are just putting everything in their pocket. >> simple math, even for this southern iowa redneck? so we can cover the people who want coverage with a private policy. >> reporter: making his way through the questions festering in the iowa countryside, grassley is really in a minefield. why does he support cuts in medicare? he doesn't. will he support a plan with a government insurance option? no. and about those so-called death panels, a term critics use to argue against a provision they say will put the

convinced that the degree of neglect reaches the the degree of involuntary manslaughter. >> back to dr. gupta for a moment, sanjay, because i guess if it's involuntary manslaughter you have to say that this is a cardiologist, dr. conrad murray, he should have known better than to give michael jackson propofol together with these other drugs and it was his negligence, in effect, that resulted in what they're now suggesting is homicide. am i understanding that correctly, sanjay? >> i think that's a pretty fair description, wolf. recklessness is another word that i think would be used to describe this. if you think about the broad categories upon which people sort of risk causes of death, you have accidental, you have natural, you have suicide, homicide, and you have indetermina indeterminate. again, they know this wasn't natural given the amount of drugs that were in his system. was it an accident versus was it a homicide. that's really what they're trying to determine. i think, wolf, the way you stated it is probably exactly right. this went beyond sort of medical malpractice into gross neglig

dr. sanjay gupta. more news on cnn starts right now. >>> from the cnn center, good morning, t.j. how are you doing? making sure you had your microphone on. >> right. i see we're surviving well this morning. >> it's like clockwork out here. hello, everybody. welcome to the cnn saturday morning show. it is august 22nd. i'm betty nguyen. >> hello. i'm t.j. holmes. grad you could start your day with us. the president is talking about what he calls the myths about his health care plan. >> and then what to do with the prisoners at guantanamo bay. there is outrage from some communities saying no, no, not in our backyard. >> also this morning a story that's rocking the sports world right now. >> take a good look, folks. >> people are wondering is this a male or female athlete. it's a crazy key bait going on right now about that international track star's gender. we're going to get into that story this morning. >> but first we want to talk about big bad bill. hurricane bill, whips up powerful waves. look at this. actually some dangerous rip currents passing between bermuda and the east co

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dr. sanjay gupta helping to straight ten all o straighten it all out for us. appreciate it. >> thanks, john. >>> the cost of doing nothing. the staggering amount of waste in health care. i think it's millions? billions? think higher, way higher. tom foreman's running the numbers for-u keeping them honest. >>> also, the latest search involving michael jackson's doctor and the powerful drug that no one should get outside a hospital. jackson was reportedly getting at home. >>> as you have no doubt noticed, who could miss it, the debate over health care reform seems to be get louder each and every day. as the decibels climb, here at "360" we are committed to filtering out the racket and focusing on the facts. so tonight we are digging deeper on a new number recently thrown into the debate. $1.2 trillion. according to the accounting firm price waterhouse coopers, that's how much of our health care dollars are flat out wasted each and every year. it's also fully half of what the u.s. spends each year on health care. how could we be wasting that much money? and what'

dr. sanjay gupta, who is himself a neurosurgeon, joins me now from dublin, where he is attending a globalr summit, sponsored by lance armstrong's foundation. what type of brain cancer did the senator have and why was it so hard to treat? >> reporter: this type of tumor is a malignant glioma. like so many other cancers, it starts with a single cell that probably goes awry at some point, but then starts to divide. part of the issue with this part of tumor, the rate at which it divides is so much faster than many other cancers. this is a type of tumor in the brain, obviously. it does not spread to other parts of the body, but it just starts to invade other parts of the brain, anderson. we know with senator kennedy's particular tumor, it was located on the left side of the brain, the parts of the brain responsible for speech and parts of the brain responsible for his strength on the right side of his body. and that's why he needed that surgery while he was awake back last spring. but this is one of the fastest growing tumors of all, anderson. left unchecked, within three to six months, it usu

dr. sanjay gupta. want you to listen to a question about medicare that came up today when president obama held his town hall in new hampshire. >> okay. >> i am presently on medicare. i do have a supplement. if something happens to my husband, i lose the supplement and what will happen? i take a lot of medications. i have had a lot of procedures and how will medicare under the new proposal help people who are going to need things like this? >> the president answered that question. i am interesting to hear how you would answer that question. >> taking a step back, first of all, when people have lots of conditions or are on lots of medications, concerns about getting health care insurance later on is a big one. this whole idea of not discriminating on the basis of pre-existing conditions is something we hear about a lot. a couple of calf vee otts. discrimination on pre-existing conditions only works if most people have health insurance. they can help offset the cost of people with pre-existing costs. with

dr. sanjay gupta has answers, his insights coming up. "the insider." >>> health care reforms, how would changes made in washington affect you? you want straight answers, and chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta's here now to deliver them. it's great you have all of the answers. >> a lot of pressure. >> there's so much ground to cover. with all of this, because there's still so many questions, obviously. in fact, here's today's question. let's listen. >> caller: hi, my name's cindy and i'm calling from covington, georgia, dr. gupta, my question is, why doesn't the government make mandatory prices for doctors and their services? that's the problem they all charge outrageous prices and vary from place to place. will that change in the new plan? >> it's a great question. first of all, cindy, you're absolutely right. the sort of varied pricing across the country, you can have an operation in one state cost $6,000, $17,000 in another state for the exact same operation and that's under medicare. there isn't a lot of consistency already. wha

dr. sanjay gupta looks at how devastating those issues can be. >> there is blood everywhere.le difficult to talk about sometimes. >> reporter: it's been a tough transition from fallujah back to smallton america for marine veteran, matthew brown. >> constantly looking around, is that a bomb or just a bag, is someone trying to get me. different paranoia factors that wear on you after a while. >> reporter: just 24 years old, he joined the one in five iraq war veterans returning from combat with ptsd, post-traumatic stress disorder. >> people knew i wasn't right in the head anymore, i wasn't the same person. then, i konlt explain to them, there is no way i can be the same person after things i have done and seen and things that have happened to me. >> reporter: his escape, abusing prescription pain killers an alcohol. at his worst, he says he was drinking one-fifth of liquor a day. >> the pain was always there. . pain will never go away. i was using more than i was prescribed to and drinniking on top of it always just indirectly trying to end the pain for a brief moment or foreve

dr. sanjay gupta is here. he's going to be answering some questions. >> is it true that seniors will get counseling about end of life treatments? and what does that really mean? here's the part of the question that's most interesting. i've heard people calling it a death panel. sarah palin. but even that confuses me. all right. i've got to tell you, sanjay, i'm kind of embarrassed as a news anchor i would have to ask you whether the president of the united states is actually setting up a panel to decide what people should be killed and when they should be killed. but that's where this conversation has gotten to, so have at it. >> you know, the hyperbole here, i think, going out on a limb and saying this is hyperbole without question. you're getting e-mails. >> that's fine. the truth is important. >> this idea that you have -- the truth is important here. and if you look at the language of the bill, which i think is very important, identify done this. page 425, for people who pay attention to that sort of thing

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dr. sanjay gupta, peter bergen, and michael ware will be in afghanistan the week of september 7th.join us for "360" in afghanistan live from the battle zone. >>> it is the end of the road for the cash finish clunkers program. for good this time. the rebate portion ended earlier tonight. dealers have until noon tomorrow to submit those requests for refunds. >>> and the first family firmly in vacation mode on martha's vineyard, the president golfing today on oak bluffs' course. the press was invited to the first hole but after that asked to give the obamas, especially malia and sasha some privacy, anderson. they have 28 1/2 acres so they can find some privacy there. >> not too hard. he also plans to catch up on reading during his vacation, you can see the books on ac360.com. >>> up next, new information about cia interrogations during the bush administration. a report reveals techniques including threatening to kill one suspect's children and threatening to force another to watch his mother being sexually assaulted. are they tough but necessary tactics or just plain criminal? all sid

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dr. sanjay gupta takes a look at futuristic medicine in today's "vital signs." >>> dr. chung regularly sees patients via the wireless robot. he can see patients in the room from just about everywhere. >> let's go live. >> we're here controlling this robot in santa barbara. we're here in texas. dr. chung does this all the time. he can control a robot in this hospital or anywhere in the world. >> anywhere around the world. >> a high quality robot allows his head to move from side to side. and record images from all angles. there's a laptop and remote joy stick that lets the doctor zoom in and check a patient's pupils. vital signs. even examine their brain scans remotely. a surgeon could essentially talk someone through an operation as if they were doing it themselves in real-time. >> for more on this and other exciting advances in medicine go to cnn.com/vitalsigns. >>> authorities in southern california are trying to figure out who poisoned more than 20 horses and why. apparently they were given leaves from the highly toxic oleander plant. ranch employees found the leaves

dr. sanjay gupta takes a look at futuristic medicine the >> dr. chung sees patients via the wireless robot. >> let's go live. >> we're here controlling this robot in santa barbara. we're here in texas. dr. chung does this all the time. he can control a robot in this hospital or anywhere in the world. >> anywhere. a >> a high quality robot allows his head to move from side to side. there's a laptop and remote joy stick that lets the doctor zoom in and check a patient's pupils. vital signs. even examine their brain scans remotely. a surgeon could essentially talk someone through an operation as if they were doing it themselves in real-time. >> for more on this and other exciting advances in medicine go to cnn.com/vitalsigns. >>> the house has agreed to give the cash for clunkers program another $2 billion. the senate hasn't made a move yet. it's expected to take up the measure on monday. the white house denies reports that the program was suspended because money was running out quicker than expected. the program offers rebates for exchanging old gas

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dr. sanjay gupta of cnn joined anderson cooper last night to clarify this issue. >> the specifically looking that the idea of a medical profess n professional and a senior sitting down talking about living wills and different provisions, will they want certain measures taken near the time of death. all these sorts of things which sometimes happen in doctors' offices during routine office visits but sometimes don't, sometimes they're misunderstood and sometimes they're acted upon. i think that's what they're talking about here. having said that, we've been doing a lot of research on this particular issue. one thing that comes out and this came out of an article in the journal of the medical medical association. what is the impact of having this discussion, of a physician sitting down and having a discussion with a senior saying here are the various options near the end of your life. what the article concluded is people who have a discussion like that do tend to be less aggressive about their care after a physician spells out all of the different options. >> the aarp is running ads to dispel m

dr. sanjay gupta looks at futuristic medicine in today's "vital signs". >> reporter: dr. chung regularly see s patients via the wireless robot. he can see patients in a room from just about anywhere. >> let's go live, we're here controlling this robot in santa barbara. we're here in texas. dr. chung does this all time. he could control a robot in this hospital or anywhere in the world. >> anywhere in the world. >> reporter: a high quality camera allows the robot to move its head from side to side and record images from all angles. there is a laptop, and a remote joy stick that lets the doctor zoom in and check a patient's pupils, vital signs, even examine their brain scans remotely. a surgeon could essentially talk someone through an operation as if they were doing it themselves, in real time. >> for more on this and other exciting advances in medicine, go to our website, cnn.com/vitalsigns. >>> 31 toledo police officers laid off because of budget cuts are getting their jobs back. the city is using a grant from the federal economic recovery program to pay for the return.