dr. sanjay gupta starts right now. >>> good morning. welcome to "house call." i'm elizabeth cohen sitting in for dr. january save gupta. we are pleased to be with you the first weekend of the year because we know you have plans. you probably plan on losing wagtd or eating better or cutting back on stress. maybe you are planning on having a few cosmetic procedures this year. well, we want to help you with all of that. it is a new year and we want to be part of your plan. we are only a few days into 2010, and if youfl resolved that this will finally be the year that you are going to get fit or eat healthier or stop smoking or join the gym, then this half hour we'll give you the tools you need to achieve your goals. that's where our guest comes in. his name is dr. jeffrey gardier. he is a clinical psychologist in a private practice in new york. now, jeff, you are going to tell us everything we need to know to start out right today. what is your number one tip, jeff? >> i think that the number one suggestion that i always make is instead of just talking about what y

dr. sanjay gupta. they were with us to begin the first hour, and they'll be with us to begin the second hour. anderson, this goes on and on. what happened in the last hour? >> reporter: well, the last hour, you know, there's no telling what sort of tragedies are occurring at night. you know, a lot of work is done during the day. at night a lot of aid workers go back to where they are staying. some try to -- some are able to work all night. these streets empty down. right now there are tens of thousands of haitians if not more sleeping in public parks, in open stadiums, anywhere they can. it's a routine, but nothing about this should become routine, larry. it shouldn't be routine that little kids will die tonight who don't need to die if they had some antibiotics, if there were enough doctors. they're turning away -- they're triaging still. they assess who has the greatest need, who is not going to make it and isn't worth trying to save at this point. there are still untold numbers of bodies out there t

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dr. sanjay gupta cnn chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon. what's the latest on the medical situation, sanjay? in the early days you painted a desperate scene. what's it like now? >> reporter: well, i think in many ways it's gotten better, but it's all relative, as you know, larry. a couple of things have improved. we have more personnel, surgeons actually on the ground being able to take care of patients. you're lookinged in one of the tents here. a lot of postoperative patients, patients that had operations including amputations. they're in tents like this outside a hospital. this is a good location to try and take care of these patients. lots of doctors, still short of nurses and physical therapists that are necessary. so there's work to be done. i have to tell you to your point it's a lot better than it was a few days ago, and it looks like it will be better a few days from now. >> heather mills, an affirm tee herself, will join us in the next segment. the amputations necessity at a timed by the crush injuries are the significant injury o

dr. sanjay gupta. they will be with us to begin the first hour, they will be with us to begin the first hour. anderson, this goes on and on. what happened in the last hour? >> larry: well, the last hour, you know, there's no telling what sort of tragedies are occurring at night. you know, a lot of work is done during the day. at night, a lot of the aid workers go back to where they are staying. some try to -- are able to work all night. there's a lot of logistical planning that goes on at night. these streets kind of empty down. right now there are tens of thousands of hatians, if not more, sleeping in public parks, in open stadiums, anywhere they can. there are people playing music behind me. it's become almost a routine, but nothing about this should become routine, larry. it shouldn't be routine that little kids will die tonight that don't need to die, if they had some antibiotics. if there were enough doctors that were able to treat them. they're turning away, they're triaging still. they're assess

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn chief medical correspondent and a practices neurosurgeon. what is the latest on the medical situation, sanjay? in the early days you painted a desperate scene. what is it like now? >> i think in many ways it has gotten better. a couple of things have improved. surgerying on the grount. in this tent, people who have had amputations, in tents like this hospital. still short of doctors and nurses. it is a lot better than it was a few days ago and even better a few days from now. >> larry: heather mills is an amputee herself. the amputations of the crush injury are the significant injury of this disaster. have we any sense how many amputations have taken place? >> it is hard to know. there are so many various locations set up. a lot of these places are performing amputations because someone has a crush injury and taking the arm or leg ends up being necessary. it could be 200,000 amputations. that is a staggering number. possibly as a result of this earthquake. they think 95% of people who have crush injuries, a lot of the patients in the tent be

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn chief medical koern and a practicing neurosurgeon. what's the latest on the medical situation? in the early days you painted a desperate scene. what's it like now? >> i think in many ways it has gotten better. it's all relative, as you know, larry. a couple of things have improved. we have more personnel, surgeons, actually, on the ground, being able to take care of patients. you're looking inside one of the tents here. a lot of post operative patients, patients who have had operations including amputations. they're in tents like this. they're actually inside a hospital. but this ends up being a good location to try to take care of these patients. lots of doctors. still short of nurses, still short of physical therapists which will be necessary. there's still work to be done. to your point, it's a lot better than it was a few days ago. it looks like it will be even better a few days from now. >> larry: heather mill, an amputee herself, will be with us. the amputations of the crush injuries have become the signature injury of this disa

dr. sanjay gupta is in a hospital at port-au-prince, he's a practicing neurosurgeon. i understand he performed surgery today on a haitian girl. what was it about? >> reporter: well, what happened, larry, is that i was actually got a call from the -- from one of the carrier ships off the coast of port-au-prince. they were saying and this acknowledges some of the problems going on here, they simply could not find a brain surgeon to perform this operation. kimberly, a 12-year-old girl, a delightful young girl was a victim as well. a piece of shrapnel that went through her skull into her brain. for several days was really not getting any care whatsoever. she was evacuated and taken to the ship, and that's when i was called and went to the ship to help take care of her. you know, obviously honored and delighted to do so. as you mentioned, larry, i am in a hospital. there's a critical need ongoing over here. there's no question about it. one thing that's so interesting, larry, with this natural disaster, obviously a lot of people died at the time of this earthquake. what's

dr. sanjay gupta. a lot of focus on aid from outside haiti.ital being operated by a pair of haitian twins. what's that all about? >> there is an assumption that most of the aid is coming from outside. but a lot of the haitian doctors who were there beforehand, they stayed. they stayed open for business as soon as the earthquake ended. this particular practice is run by two brothers, two twins, well trained. they trained in france and came back and decided to practice in port-au-prince. and three days after the earth wak quake, and started taking care of patients. i saw them driving around the streets when i got here. they were in their vehicle, picks up pakts off the street, and brings them back to their clinic. the aid is starting to slowly come in. they were adamant with me. it's eight days and we need to get up and full capacity. and it's not there. remarkable guys doing a lot. the community. >> larry: are more people better cared for day to day? >> absolutely. no question. as mump as we talk about how desperate the situation is down hire,

dr. sanjay gupta. he'll be back with us on a big two-hour special monday night. michael stewart is country director for hope for haiti. this charity has set up a makeshift mini hospital in the village creole hotel. how are they doing, mikey? >> today we're doing the best we can. we took in a couple more doctors from local organizations. we're partnering with another organization right now. other doctors should be arriving, some will come today, some tomorrow. our own organization is coordinating a large plane to bring in a lot of medications that we desperately need. we're a massing a critical situation to take care of more of the serious issues and supply those clinics because they have doctors without any supplies. after that we're focusing on the general hospital downtown which will be able to serve the most amount of people in the fastest amount of time which they've been hit very hard not only with their support staff but also with their doctors having yesterday, the day after four doctors showing up and only a handful of nurses and hundreds and hundreds of

dr. sanjay gupta. thanks.or the up-to-the-minute information about the disaster in haiti go to cnn.com/larryking. follow reporters on the ground, around the clock and link to their twitter accounts. you can do that, lots more, too, like send money. be back after this. >>> we're going to try to get some vehicles and start to tell people's stories to see where we can help and see what needs to be done. hey, ask our doctor about garlique, okay? garlique's clinically tested ingredient maintains healthy cholesterol naturally. eat right. exercise. garlique. >> larry: in a couple of minutes we'll be joined by ben stiller, the famed actor who will join garcelle beauvais-nilon in our studios to discuss haiti. joining us in new york, ted turner, the founder and chairman of the united nations foundation and timothy worth, the former united states senator, president of the foundation. the foundation has made a $1 million donation to the u.n. central emergency response fund. much money is still needed. what are you going t

gupta m.d." begins right now. >>> good morning, i'm dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to a place where we're going to help you to live longer and stronger. i'm going to be your doctor but also your coach and your guide. we're going to start with the news of the moment, health care. imagine going to a third world country and getting first class health care for a fraction of the cost. i went along with these patients to see for myself. remarkable stories. >>> also the segway, the inventor is a man, many call a modern day thomas edison. extraordinary views on health care. in fact, he thinks he has that solution. we'll tell you about it. elizabeth cohen thinks that having more sex is good for your health. we'll tell you all about it. let's go. >>> well, here we are. sanjay gupta m.d. it's a new journey for me and i'm delighted to be able to take it with you. we're going to do this together and learn a lot along the way. but we start with the ongoing battle over health care. your best option is going to a third world country to save money. >> we're all dressed, pack

dr. sanjay gupta in port-au-prince. we swing to ft. lauderdale, florida. soledad o'brien is back home, cnn anchor and special correspondent reporter. she's followed the journey of orphans from haiti to miami. there she is. what's the situation there, soledad? >> reporter: well, i got to tell you, you have never seen happier parents who just moments ago saw their adopted children come off that airplane. it's been quite a voyage. what an amazing reunion. i think the parents were tense because it was unclear if they were going to be able to get out. the paperwork was in order. these are infants, young children from the orphanage. the day started with them being choppered out of their orphanage and when they were choppered out of their orphanage they were then able to get on an aircraft which was over there and they were able to then make the flight from haiti. so it's been quite a process for these kids who now are in the united states. they were processed through immigration and customs. the whole thing has taken many, many hours start to finish, larry, but

dr. sanjay gupta. before we speak with him, though, we want to show you how sanjay examined and treated a 15-day-old baby after he was approached by the father of the injured child asking for help. watch this incredible moment. okay. i'm sorry. we don't have that video. what happened, sanjay? >> reporter: well, this was a situation that's playing out over and over again as you might imagine in port-au-prince. families and in this case, actually the uncle of a 15-day-old baby walking through the streets literally with this baby looking for help. any kind of help. in this case specifically wanted a neurosurgeon to look at this baby who they were concerned about having had a head injury. the baby obviously was in a home that was devastated by the earthquake. the baby's mother died in that accident and the father was simply too distraught to leave the home. eventually the uncle came, grabbed the baby and started walking the streets. someone aimlessly looking for help and ran into us, larry. at that point.

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn's chief medical correspondent, practicing neurosurgeon. a lot of focus from outside haiti. i understand that you reported about a hospital being operated by a pair of haitian twins. what's that all about? >> yeah, you know, i think there's an assumption that most of the aid is coming from outside, but in fact, a lot of the haitian doctors who were there beforehand, they stayed. in fact, they stayed open for business even as the earthquake -- just as soon as the earthquake ended. so this particular practice is run by two brothers. they are twins. both general surgeons. very well trained. they trained in france. decided to practice in port-au-prince. over the first three days after the earthquake, they immediately went there and started taking care of patients. 75 patients within that time period. i saw them driving around the streets when i first got here. i didn't know who they were. they were in their vehicle literally picking up patients off the street and bringing them back to their clinic and taking care of them. now, they are dependen

dr. sanjay gupta traveled to dr.as they call it, and looked at hits innovative inventions and his take on health care reform. >> that's right, that dean kamen does have his own idea factory. it's nightest thing. can you imagine having your own idea factory, being able to put these ideas out there and turn them into real life solutions? the reason i really wanted to talk to him is because his voice on health care is different from just about anything else i've heard. he said that it's not that we're spending too much money on health care, in many ways we're not spending enough. here's why. >> sir, how are you? >> how are you doing? >> terrific. come on? >> thank you so much. i'm so excited to be here. >> reporter: dean kamen is an inventor. on a bitter cold day i went to visit him in his home in new hampshire. >> well, actually just to give you a sense of how things are going to do today i thought i would light the situation up. so are we ready? >> this is how you start an interview with dean kamen. you've probably se

dr. sanjay gupta reports, the ads are causing some controversy. take a look. >> reporter: it's the latest youtube sensation. it's not a waterskiing squirrel or even a dancing baby, but a public service announcement about soda. ♪ some viewers may find this revolting, but new york city public health commissioner says it is starting to get people's attention. >> we have an epidemic of obesity we feel we want to respond to. we want to communicate with people in a way they understand. visual images are the way we communicate these days. >> reporter: according to the ad, just one soda a day can add ten pounds to your waistline over the course of a year. research from ucla con officials the link, saying that one soda a day puts you at 27% increased risk for obesity. >> they're calories people tend not to notice. >> reporter: the american beverage association says the hundreds of calories in sugary drinks can add up. but they wrote, "if the goal is to reduce the obesity among new yorkers, then this public education campaign should be baseded in fact, not

dr. sanjay gupta. let's economic in with ivan watson, a cnn course dents who has done noble work over the past few days. he reap ma rescuers rescued her in the last hour. what happened, ivan? >> this is an 11-year-old girl, larry, that we stumbled across like sanjay did with just people coming up and asking for help. in this case it was a mother who said, i'm by myself. i have one girl and she's struck and there's nobody to help. brother, please help me. we went to take a look, and, in fact, this 11-year-old girl was caught underneath the rubble of a house amid the bodies of an estimated 30 other people who did not survive the quake in the immediate surroundings in that same building. this girl was talking to us and she was screaming in pain and in fear. her right leg was trapped. we learned that shortly he after 6:00 p.m. local time finally after hours to days of efforts, they were able to find a small generator to run a small electric-powered saw, which was needed to cut through a metal beam to relea

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dr. sanjay gupta when he had heard that i was coming in. and he put it in a great way. he said, awful, indelible, fixable. and it's only going to be fixable if we keep our eye on it. as diana was saying, you know, it's an extraordinary thing to see an army having an agenda of peace. and they do it with such incredible intentions and i think the other thing that's really important, and i want to use a quick example, is when we went in to do food distribution, one saw in two days of planning, and the change that happened after the first day of it and so on, these people are so resilient and so able to take care of themselves, but this devastated city, it's too much for anyone. so it's going to take a very long time. and it's -- i think that it should be, it should be the central bar of nobility in human kind right now that we stay with this and that the american people support, as long as possible, the american -- i would like to tell all my lefty friends out there, these guys are doing an amazing job. and they're doing it with the greatest intentions in heart. in conjunc

dr. sanjay gupta, medical expert, standing by. it's a week after the quake. what is the situation with the medical care? is it better? >> it is better, larry, for sure, but that's a little bit of a relative term. it's nowhere near where it should be or i think where a lot of people expected it to be at this point. the problem has become pretty simple and defined itself. we're getting a lot more personnel, as far as we can see, on the ground, in these various hospitals, clinics we've been talking about. the problem more than anything else seems to be lack of equipment, larry. the types of injuries you see after an earthquake, these crush injuries, people need operations, they need various procedures, they need pain medications for just suffering, and still, remarkably a week later, larry, not a lot of that has arrived here or at least at the places that need it most. >> larry: do we have an answer as to why? >> it really seems to be a fundamental lack of coordination, number one. you know, supplies are getting to the airport but they're not getting into places

dr. sanjay gupta as well. new video to show you tonight.hungry people in an orderly fashion. didn't turn out that way. people shoving to get the food. no means to control it. >>> we'll look at rebuilding haiti. education system is collapsed. how is it going to rebuild? that and the stories of children ahead. what is their condition? those stories and more on "360." >> larry: anderson cooper doing youman-like work in port-au-prince, haiti. 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. another call for the haggards. boca raton, florida. hello. >> caller: hey, larry, how are you? >> larry: fine, what's the question? >> caller: i've watched you over the last couple years and i've found you've been arrogant and narcissistic in line of questioning. i think you should show the pastors a little more respect. >> larry: i'm sorry. >> caller: how do they rekindle their relationship? >> larry: how do they what? >> caller: how have they rekindled their relationship? >> larry: you write about it. what was the key to rekindling it? i'm asking that in a harsh manner. >> i

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn's chief medical correspondent, also a practicing neurosurgeon. i saw your piece earlier when you were out at the airport, looking at a bunch of supplies. why can't the supplies get from the airport to the interior? >> reporter: that's exactly what we're trying to answer. you know, we keep talking about this night after night. the fact the supplies are here in port-au-prince stuck at the airport. what's the problem here? i wanted to go see for myself. actually walk and confirm the supplies are there and then basically tell the guys, look, here's what's needed. they give me a bunch of splice a supplies. i walked out and gave them to the hospital. the problem seems to be -- seems to be easy to get stuff into the airport. seems to be doing a good job of that. there's no central distribution within the airport after that. organizations, whether from specific countries or relief organizations are supposed to come to the airport, supposed to come with a specific lot number and identification and then claim their supplies and walk out with it. somewhere

dr. sanjay gupta has our fit nation report. >> first of all, let me say no one is saying that you shouldn'tbviously should. there is a lot of negative health consequence of smoking. the study looked at what happens to the body in someone who does quit. large study, over ten years, i looked at 10,000 people, and they found that people who quit smoking have a 70% increase likelihood of developing diabetes within six years. and if you really take that a step further and figure out why, it primarily had to do with weight gain. these people who are quitting smoking also started to gain weight. on the average between 4 and 10 pounds and they also gained inches around the waist, an inch and a quarter that's abdominal fat, metabolically active fat, the worst kind of fat and can increase your likelihood for diabetes. that seems to be what happened here. if you look at what happens in the bodies of smokers, people who are smoking, they tend to have an increased metabolism, decreased appetite, they also specifically have decreased appetite for sweet foods. that's in part why they have the weight loss.

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dr. sanjay gupta takes a look in today's fit nation report. >> no one is saying you shouldn't quit smoking. you obviously should. there's a lot of negative health consequences of smoking. the study looks at what happens to the body in someone who does quit. large study, over ten years i looked at 10,000 people. they found people who quit smoking have a 70% increased likelihood of developing diabetes within six years. if you take that a step further and figure out why, it had to do with weight gain. these people who quit smoking, they start totd gain weight, on the average between four and ten pounds. they also gained inches around the waist, abdominal fat, the worst kind of your likelihood for diabetes. that seems to be what happened here. if you look at what happens in the body of smokers, people who are smoke pg tend to have increased metabolism, decreased appetite. they have specifically decreased appetite for sweet foods. that's in part why they have the weight loss. they don't eat as much. people who stop smoking, they tend to see the opposite, the metabolism starts to slow down. they

dr. sanjay gupta reports in today's "fit nation," the ads are causing some controversy. >> reporter: it's the latest youtube sensation. it's not a water-skiing squirrel or even a dancing baby. but a public service announcement about soda. ♪ some viewers may find this revolting. but new york city health commissioner dr. thomas farley says it is starting to get people's attention. >> we have an epidemic of obesity that we feel we need to respond to. we wanted to communicate in a way that people understand, and the visual images are the way that we communicate these days. >> reporter: according to the ad just one soda a day, about 100 calor calories, can add ten pounds to your waistline over the course of a year. and recent research from ucla confirms the link, saying that one soda per day puts you at a 27% increased risk fofr obesity. >> people tend not to notice. >> reporter: the american beverage association agrees that the hundreds of calories in sugary drinks can add up but says there was a better way to educate people. in a statement posted on its website, the ada says, quote, if the g