dr. jon lapook. >> i want to emphasize that i'm not the first lady's physician. i have no inside information. but it's good news that we heard the phrase "benign kidney condition." now, a benign condition could be a benign growth or less likely it could be a benign collection of blood vessels. repeporter: dr. lapook said the procedure is used to cut the blood supply to a growth so it shrinks and stops growing. the nature of mrs. trump's ronign growth was not disclosed. stere are several kinds of growths, and most are not life- threatening. it typically takes about a week in the hospital to recover from the procedure. >> the symptoms of that could be blood in the urine. it could be pain if there was some bleeding into whatever the growth was. >> reporter: just last week the lrst lady launched her "be best" initiative to help children. >> together let's encourage children to dream big, think big, and do all they can to be best in everything that they do. >> reporter: dr. lapook says it is typical for a week of imcovery time needed after an embolization because it's

dr. jon lapook. >> i want to emphasize i am not the first lady's physician i have no inside information. we heard the phrase benign kidney condition. now, a benign condition could be, a benign growth, or less likely it could be a benign collection of blood vessels. >> dr. lapook said the procedure is used to cut the blood supply to a growth so it shrinks and stops growing. the nature of the beknown growth was not disclosed. there are several kind of growths, most are not life threatening. it typically take is a week in the hospital to recover from the procedure. >> the symptoms of that could be blood in the urine, could be pain if there was some bleeding into the, whatever the growth was. >> just last week the first lady, launched her be best initiative to help children. >> together, let's encourage children to dream big. >> dr. lapook says it is typical for a week of recovery time, needed after an embolization, common for inflammation, fever, and bleeding to develop. president trump tweeted, mrs. trump who is 48 years old is in good spirits. after a successful procedure. jeff. >>> the c

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dr. lapook. we were in the green room. she said, dr. lapook is your doctor?who i was. >> now i know you've given her a colonoscopy. >> i would want to say publicly i never revealed that. you did. >> i know, i know. i did. i'm okay with it. you always said to me it's 99.9% preventable if it's caught in time, so this is a big deal. put it in perspective about what these numbers really mean. >> the numbers are really astounding. we're talking about screening another 21 million people and the reason is that -- even though we're doing better, we're doing great with screening and removing these precancerous polyps before they become cancer, using colonoscopy and the rate is going down. at the same time they've been going up and up and up in younger people and if you were born in 1990, you have twice the risk of getting colon cancer as if you were born then. why is that. and there are certain groups, blacks, alaskans natives, american indians who start off, it's great to be more aggressive in those groups too. >> quickly, jon, is there a warning sign? >> a warning s

dr. jon lapook does this kind of screening. as we know, so, jon it is only five years. but you are talking what, tens of millions of people included here. >> yeah, and the reason why they're doing this, is that there has been good news and bad news. good news with screening has been for people over age of 55, the number of cases, deaths has gradually gone down, down, down. colonoscopy. the bad news is that for younger people the number of cases has increased dramatically. if you were born in 1990, you have twice the risk of developing colon cancer as if you were born in 1950. we don't understand why that's. american cancer society, data says let's move down the age of screening. save lives. >> an amazing number. always colonoscopy. >> the best test the one that gets done. stool test for blood, dna. flexible, virtual colonoscopy. whatever a person would do best test. >> ask your doctor. lot of information right there. dr. lapook, thank you very much. >> coming up next, did the president of the philadelphia 76ers set up anonymous make the most of a few minutes with ky nat

dr. jon lapook is following it. >> reporter: the 16 diseases tracked by the c.d.c.lude well-known illnesses like lyme and zika, which have seen a dramatic rise since 2004. this deer tick, found especially in the northeast, spreads lyme disease, which accounts for more than 63% of the illnesses tracked. lyme disease cases have doubled to about 36,000 a year, and the bed.c. says because of under- tporting, the real number is closer to 300,000. diseases carried by mosquitoes, , ke dengue, chikungunya, and zika, were seen in sharp spikes. in 2016, there were more than 40,000 cases of zika, mostly in ics. territories, especially puerto rico. j glor: and jon is here now. jon, tripling sounds very alarming. why is this happening? >> reporter: a number of possibilities, jeff. for one thing, climate change may be playing a role, with warmer temperatures leading to longer breeding seasons. haey spread geographically. and you remember that the world is getting smaller, so during the zika epidemic, there were infected travelers who brought the virus up here from places like mex

dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: the report of an ebola case in the city of mbandaka means the virus has arrived in a densely populated area. until today, the 44 possible cases and 23 deaths have been limited to the remote rural area of bikoro, but bikoro lies near the heavily-traveled congo river, which connects travelers not only to mbandaka to the north, but to the capital city of kinshasa, with more than nine million residents, to the south. the fear is, if the virus reaches large urban areas, it could spread quickly, with devastating consequences. in 2014, a major ebola epidemic in west africa killed more than 11,000. since then, an experimental vaccine has been developed and 4,000 doses have arrived in the congo, with thousands more to follow. the plan is to immunize the more than 500 contacts of infected people, in an attempt to stop the virus from spreading. this time, health officials are all over this, and they're coordinating their efforts, and that includes using this vaccine. now, this vaccine was experimental, but it was used successfully in 2016 during that outbreak that was in gu

dr. jon lapook. >> a report of ebola case, means it arrived in the densely populated area. the 44 possible cases and 23 deaths limited to the remote rural area bikoro. bikoro lies near the congo river, connects the travelers to mbandaka but to kinshasa with 9 million residents to the south. the fear is if the virus reaches large urban areas it could spread quickly with devastating consequences. in 2014, a major ebola epidemic in west africa killed 11,000. since then, an experimental vaccine has been developed. and 4,000 doses have arrived in the congo with thousand more to follow. the plan is to immunize the 500 contacts of infected people in an attempt to stop the virus from spreading. this time health officials are all over this. coordinating their efforts. and that include using this, vaccine, now this vaccine was experimental, but was used successfully in 2016. during that outbreak that was in guinea. they're doing everything they've can this time to avoid making the mistakes of 2014. >> an underreaction last time, john. they're trying to prepare as best they can this t

dr. jon lapook has been following this story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the details of the settlement are still being finalized. wednesday wednesday, michigan state trustees approved the terms. they insist their fight for justice is far from over. >> it feels like a huge victory. >> reporter: she was sexually assaulted when she was a member of team usa from 1995 to 2000. she was one of the first elite gymnasts to publicly accuse him of abuse when we interviewed her for "60 minutes" last year. >> there's stuff you just can't take back. the trauma that's been done has been done. most of us will live with it for the rest of our lives and no amount of money can change that. >> reporter: the settlement will cost michigan state university $500 million. $425 million will be split among 332 survivors who sued the university. the other $75 million is set aside for victims who may come forward in the future. >> we're going to be working extra hard to make certain nothing like this ever happens again. >> reporter: msu kept nassar on its payroll disspeed coespite c.