dr. jon lapook has more. >> reporter: experts suspect this deadly e. coli strain comes from contaminated fresh vegetables but officials are unable to pinpoint the source of what they're calling supertoxic bacteria. >> the thing that's striking is how quickly it has spread and it makes public health officials very concerned that we haven't seen the peak yet. >> reporter: stephanie lucas' two cons have been hospitalized with the infection which can affect the entire body. she says her boys may have eaten contaminated cucumbers, lettuce or tomato. there have been a growing number of anti-bacterial infections around the world. this is especially virulent causing kidney failure in roughly one-quarter of patients. more than twice the rate seen in similar infections. >> normally these infections hit children and the elderly much harder. this outbreak seems to be hitting everyone hard. >> the fda says it is stepping up inspections of fresh produce imports from europe. officials noted there have been very few shipments of tomatoes, cucumbers or lettuce from ger

dr. jon lapook. >> mary kathryn haas is one of more than a million americans this year who will come down with shingles. >> it was red and blistery, itchy. >> reporter: the rash wasn't her only problem. throughout her month-long outbreak, haas was in severe pain. >> it's a constant burning pain with an occasional, like, zap, like, you know, somebody taking a hot poker to you. >> reporter: shingles is a recurrence of chicken pox. so if you had chicken pox as a kid, like 95% of american adults, you're at risk. the difference is the end of the rash is not always the end of shingles. >> that irritation of the nerve doesn't always go away very quickly. sometimes it doesn't go away for years. >> reporter: that's something margaret phillips knows all too well. the 81-year-old new yorker got shingles 13 years ago. on a 0-10, what was your pain. >> 11. 12. >> reporter: only after her doctors at st. luke's roosevelt hospital center implanted an electric stimulator in her spine was the pain messengerrable. she say now it's a six. you're constantly in pain. >> every second of the day. >> reporter: fo

dr. jon lapook on the excitement around a new approach that is extending lives. and 67 years ago, ted morgan was faced with a decision: save himself or help a wounded buddy. we go to normandy on this anniversary of d-day to hear about his choice. >> he kept saying "get out of here, morgan, they're gonna kill us." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we start tonight with the wars in afghanistan and iraq. this has been a day of u.s. casualties in iraq and it is also a day that president obama met with his advisors about the future of u.s. involvement in afghanistan. he's facing a tough decision on whether to pick up the pace of u.s. withdrawals or stay the course. we'll go first to the battlefield. cbs news correspondent mandy clark is with the 101st airborne in paktika province, afghanistan it's right on the border and this is what the fight is like for u.s. troops trying to stop the enemy from crossing into afghanistan from their hideouts in pakistan. >> reporter: fox company headed out at dawn on

dr. jon lapook on the anguish over avastin. we were promised an end to special interest giveaways in washington. but nancy cordes found congress is still handing out favors. nearly half of americans live near a nuclear plant. lucy craft with japanese families learning what americans should know. and... >> i miss you, chance, i do. >> reporter: chance keesling died in iraq, but his family didn't get a letter of condolence from the president. elaine quijano on the american troops and an honor denied. >> i feel that to the core of my being this is about justice for my son. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we're beginning tonight with what is, for women with breast cancer, a matter of life and death. the f.d.a. opened a hearing today to decide whether to end its approval of the drug avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. the drug costs nearly $100,000 a year and there's serious doubt about how well it works. we asked dr. jon lapook to introduce us to

dr. jon lapook, thanks so much. kentucky is a long way from iraq, but two iraqi men living there have just been indicted on charges they conspired to send weapons and money to insurgents back home. here's justice correspondent bob orr. >> reporter: prosecutors say two suspects arrested in bowling green, kentucky, were hardened on the battlefields of iraq. now waad ramadan alwan and mohanad shareef hammadi have been charged with 23 counts of attempting to provide material support to al qaeda and conspiracy to transfer stinger missiles. alwan, the alleged ringleader, is also accused of conspiring to kill americans with weapons of mass destruction. the f.b.i. says alwan's fingerprints have been matched up in the lab to two latent prints lifted from a bomb component recovered in iraq in 2005 shortly before alwan's capture by iraqi authorities. court papers do not say when alwan was released, but in 2009 he and hammadi both came to the u.s. as two of the 54,000 displaced iraqis who sought refuge here over the past five y

dr. jon lapook tells us a new tool is helping patients and doctors make decisions about end-of-life care.od evening. >> reporter: good evening, harry. this is one of the toughest issues confronting our health care system. 25% of all medicare spending, more than $100 billion, occurs in the last year of life, in part because patients get aggressive and expensive treatments that don't work. >> give mom a kiss. >> this is a card from my son, henry. >> reporter: 53-year-old bernadette wilson treasures each moment with her family. now more than ever. >> he actually came to me and said, "miss wilson, it's cancer." i said, "you got to be kidding me." >> reporter: it's a brutal moment that takes your breath way. diagnosed with advanced diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, wilson is now talking to her doctors about her final days, which is difficult for them as well. >> it's relatively easy to formulate a treatment plan and discuss that and focus on that. it's much harder to, again, discuss the limitations of our therapies and the fact that we're all going to die. >> reporter: to make this pa

dr. jon lapook found that the results can be remarkable. >> reporter: in 2007, bill schuette was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. seven different chemotherapies failed. he was told nothing more could be done. >> i basically was looking at going to go home and make arrangements is what the doctors basically told me to do. >> reporter: but then he heard about something new, an experimental drug that targets a certain type of lung cancer based on its genetic makeup. tests showed he was a candidate. his rare form of non-small cell cancer has a genetic mutation called a.l.k. that fuels cancer growth. the new drug, crizotinib, works by blocking this abnormal gene causing tumors to shrink. >> one of the very first things they'll tell me is how much they feel... they feel so much better after starting the drug and they feel so much better than they ever did on chemotherapy. >> reporter: from preliminary results presented over the weekend, more than half the patients were alive after two years. that's more than four times the usual survival rate. >> i'm able too get back on a bike and do a lot

dr. jon lapook on the excitement around a new approach that is extending lives. 67 years ago, ted morgan was faced with a decision: save himself or help a wounded buddy. we go to normandy on this anniversary of d-day to hear about his choice. >> he kept saying "get out of here, morgan, they're gonna kill us." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we start tonight with the wars in afghanistan and iraq. this has been a day of u.s. casualties in iraq at