dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor.were driving in the car this morning to school, we heard on the radio, pregnant women, you may want to skip that warm weather vacation. you heard the quote into the last commercial break when they said an explosive rate. how frightened should people be? >> look, i think we have to be a little concerned. number one, i'm critical of the cdc. just today a couple of letters went out by some of the congress leadership telling the cdc, hey, what's going on? again, 4,000 cases in brazil over 2014, 2015, perhaps many more because they just started counting. and 4,000 cases of children born with microcephaly, okay? this is a very lethal type of condition in newborns that are born with small brains, small heads. so these children are going to be, are going to have a lot of difficulty. when you look at the transmission rate of zika that is happening in the different countries, about 22, 23 now, all from south america, all through central america, the caribbean, many cases including here in new yo

dr. manny alvarez is back. this is an important story. it starts this week. you were telling me you are registering to be a practitioner to dispense medical marijuana. listen, i think medical marijuana plays a significant positive role for a lot of patients when you look at cancer survivors, people with epilepsy, people with fibromyalgia. there's proven scientific knowledge that it works. ernie: it is effective? >> it is effective and it is going to help a lot of people. i'm a little disenchanted with the program in new york because it's -- ernie: what concerns you? >> what concerns me, we don't know how many physicians and how we'll register. we made phone calls to see how do you register. ernie: why is there so much confusion? >> i think -- listen. this is a bureaucracy. i think albany is making sure that all the t's are crossed and everything because you don't want abuse. this is a system that's going to work where the patient goes to a physician. the physician examines the patient and calculates that he or she needs the medication, gets a prescription and

dr. manny alvarez.... is fox news senior managing health editor. he says our gloves, scarves and coats... have the potential to spread germs. alvarez says: "they're very exposed to virus's and bacteria from ecoli to.... you name it." the solution.... doctors say... is to wash your least once a week... and clean your coats as well. alvarez says: "you're contaminating your coat when you cough into it... saliva..... falls onto it." mos says: "i never wash my gloves." mos says: "do you wash.... (answer) every week when i do the laundry." mos says: "now i'm going to think about this all night." sorry, we're just trying to spread some helpful information... instead of spreading germs. around 70 bushfires are burning across southern australia. fire specialists and crews from other parts of australia will arrive in that part of the country by tomorrow to help the local fire service battle the fires. several small towns have been under the threat of an ember attack... but so far no homes have been lost. about 44 of the fires burning in the north and northwe

dr manny alvarez/physician: "you're contaminating your coat when you cough into it... saliva..... falls onto it." experts say you should wash your gloves, scarf, coat and hats at least once a week during the winter. check out these pictures from near richmond. fire crews rescued a dog stranded on an icy pond this morning. it was there for an hour. they went out with ice rescue equipement including a special suit that keeps them warm and dry if they go into the water crews used an get the dog safely off the ice. the fire department says their biggest concern in situations like this is if they don't help the dog --- someone else will try and put themselves in danger. this is video of president obama's motorcade sliding on the roads in our nation's capitol. usually traffic is cleared out for the presidential motorcade --- but not during yesterday's snow storm. the drive from joint base andrews to the white house usually takes 25 minutes. last night it took an hour and ten minutes. meteorologist ashley baylor tonight: increasing clouds. lows: mid to upper-20s. winds: light north. frid

dr. manny alvarez is fox news senior managing health editor.rves and coats have the potential to spread germs. >> they're very exposed to viruses and bacteria from e. coli to viruses, cold viruses you name it. >> reporter: the solution doctors say is to wash your gloves and your scarfs at least once a week. and by the way, clean your coats as well. >> you are contaminating the coat. you're coughing into it, touching it maybe a little saliva falls into it. >> i never wash my gloves. >> reporter: do you wash your scarves and your gloves? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: how often dodd it. >> every week. when i do the laundry. >> i'm going to think about it all night long. >> reporter: oops much sorry about that just trying to spread some helpful information instead of spreading germs. linda schmidt, fox news. >> plenty of things police will pull you over for but have you ever heard of this one. >> we're looking at over there. >> i was reading. >> why were you doing that? >> apparently a james paterson novel just too good to put down for one driver in m

dr. manny alvarez will tell us what the risks are here at home and what you need to know before you travelh it. david: dr. manny knows. and more shocking details in the crisis in flint, michigan. new government e-mails showing state officials arranging deliveries of purified water for themselves while telling the public the water was safe to drink. melissa: amazing. but first stocks soaring into the close. the dow up about -- look at that. 382 points to end the week in the green on wall street. here's a look of where we are ending the day. the s&p 500 up 45 points. look at the nasdaq. up 2.4%. david: meanwhile all 30 dow components are -- let's go to lori rothman at the new york stock exchange. a sea of green. >> you said it, dave. great to see you guys. all right. so we've got a second day of a stock market rally. though, it's still going to worst down as the worst month for stocks since just last august. looking a lot worse, though, a couple of days ago as you know.

dr. manny alvarez joins us with more on this. next up, we have the power of oprah.he sent out this tweet yesterday praising weight watchers, saying eat bread, lose weight. what, #come join me. and included on the tweet was also a video where she says she's already lost 26 pounds on the program and she eats bread every day and look what happened to weight watcher stock. up 20% yesterday and that made oprah $12 million. yep. it's $5 million a pound, by the way. and a fresh quinnipiac poll out of iowa. bernie sanders, leading, and martin o'malley, and latest poll taken two weeks ago, monday you have the iowa caucuses. >> thank you very much lauren simonetti. take a look at dow futures, i don't know if we've done that yet. where we're likely going to open this morning. down 60 points. holding right around the 16,000 level. why is the market going down? because oil is down this morning, and they're still in lock step for a long time. we're at 30 bucks a barrel. at 10:30 eastern, we'll find out how much oil we've got in storage, that could move the market all over again.