elizabeth cohen our thanks to you.back. >>> we're learning more this morning about the brother of leila fowler. that brother is now under arrest there the stabbing death of his 8-year-old sister. fellow student and a school administration source say the 12-year-old boy was suspended for five days earlier this year after bringing a pocket knife to school. cnn's dan simon is live in valley springs california with the latest on this investigation. good morning, dan. >> good morning, john. the fact that he brought that knife to school and was suspended is sort of a noteworthy development given the fact that he's accused of stabbing his sister with a knife. we're also getting a better sense of what may lie ahead for the suspect in the months ahead. chris piper knows the 12-year-old suspect from gym class. you say he made threats to you and others? >> yeah. >> reporter: can you tell me about the threats? >> he'd say like i'll stab you if you don't -- he'd just say he would stab us, messing around. >> reporter: he called the

let's go to cnn's elizabeth cohen in atlanta right now. give me a sense of what kind of injuries, what kind of damage normally you will see from a tornado like this. >> people have actually studied this. what they found is that people are either injured by debris, by things flying at them, or they're injured from the actual impact of the tornado, the tornado picking them up and putting them down. the injuries are sort of roughly half and half they found in some studies. it's a huge array. you could be injured just a scrape or you could have a crush injury, a part of your body could actually be crushed. so it's a really huge array and one of the most common injuries is actually stepping on nails in the aftermath in this phase of a tornado. >> funny you should say that. standing right by my food is this log with these nails sticking up here. i don't know if you can see that. i had to look out as i saw this. that's a common injury. you have to be careful here. overnight people have been digging through the rubble here, elizabeth. we were speak

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cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us to break it all down for us. who won? what's the best sunscreen? >> all right. i have the list of the top three sunscreens according to consumer reports. and i must say when i was at the store before going to the pool with my kids yesterday i brought it with me because you're confronted by this huge array. you don't know what to get. here are the top three according to consumer reports. up and up sport spf 50 that's a spray from target. equate ultraprotection spf 50 from walmart. and copper tone water babies spf 50. you'll notice walmart, target, not necessarily the most expensive ones. and actually we have some examples here that i'll show you that show you these price differences. and for example, here's one kiss my face, $3.96 an ounce. $3.96 an ounce. versus this hawaiian tropic which is $1.5 an ounce. now there's nothing wrong with the kiss my face. they just said that it gives actually less protection for more money. we reached out to the kiss my face folks and they said the active ingredients in our minera

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us live from atlanta. ngelina had this brca gene and what do the results actually mean? >> you know, the results can be very complicated, and i'm sure she had a great genetic counselor and doctor to walk her through it. this is a test that looks for a variety of breast cancer genes. and different genes mean different things. you may carry a faulty gene and it doesn't matter, you're totally fine. you may carry a faulty gene and have a much higher risk of getting breast cancer. i'm going to read her words from her "new york times" piece about what happened to her. she said, i carry a faulty gene, brca1 which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. my doctors estimated that i had a 1 in -- that i had an 87% risk of breast cancer, and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in each case in the case of each woman. sorry. so in other words an 87% increased risk of breast cancer. so she made a decision that a lot of women make, which is i'm just taking these t

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elizabeth cohen joins us now to talk about her decision. tell us more about this gene mutation and what it means and why it then guided her towards this decision. >> right, so we all have breast cancer genes. we have them. even men have them. when you have a mutated version of it, it means that you likely will have an increase of getting breast cancer. the amount of that increase depends upon which mutation she has. she has one that gives her an 87% chance of getting breast cancer. i should put that in the past tense. she had. so she got her breast res moved. so now she's not 100% free of that risk but she has a little bit of breast tissue left under her arms because they always leave some. so now she has less than a 5% chance. if you have a family history of breast cancer or ovarian cancer, you can talk to a genetic counselor, is this the right move for me. >> do we need to get tested, have a gene test or is it so rare that that is something that not all of us need to do to find out if we will get breast cancer. >> so great that she's come

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elizabeth cohen joins us now from atlanta. elizabeth, how would this work? exciting this is. this is something that science nerds have been watching and waiting for for more than a decade. embryonic stem cells can be turned into virtually in the cell in the body. what's really exciting about this recent happening here is that it would genetically be identical to you. so imagine if, let's say, i had a heart attack and i needed fresh cardiac muscle to replace my damaged cardiac muscle, you use these stem cells to make cardiac muscle that is genetically identical to me. it's lot elizabeth cohen written all over it. nobody else. that way my body won't reject it. as for the how part that you asked, it's really theoretically this would work quite simply. take some of my skin. turn it into a embryo. what they do in the lab is turn that skin cell into an embryo and develop stem cells from that embryo and then turn it into virtually any human body part they want. >> wow. it does sound science fictiony. how far away are we from actually accomplishing this? >> we are q

our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here.about. >> but we have to do it. >> i admire you to do it. >> the reason why stds at epidemic levels despite the things that doctors and public health folks have tried to do. folks in high tech said we will take it upon ourselves to get rid of stds as much as we can. i wanted to talk about a couple of different apps and web sites. i have this app on my phone. not that i need it. i'm married and not worried about this. that said, you have a rash on some private part of your body that you're wondering, hhmm, should i get this checked out? but you're too embarrassed to go to the doctor. you can go on this app and take a photo of your rash wherever it might be, and send it in and for 40 bucks, doctor will tell you. you can see this one, they say you have herpes. then you know that you have it. of course, they encourage you together a doctor in person as well. but then you know it and you get an answer. >> anything else? >> the look on your face! i know. it's so embarrassing. it's so difficu

cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now. abeth, how does someone with zero experience delivering a baby pull it off? >> i know. really in modern times, right, that sounds like how in the world did she do that. we forget sometimes that women delivered each other's babies for a very long time before doctors and midwives came along, and if it's a pretty easy birth, it's really not such a big problem. not something you'd ever want, but not necessarily such a big problem. as for the not breathing, doctors tell me that's actually relatively, you know, common. that actually happens with some frequency, and if you pick up the baby, sometimes that jostles them into breathing. we heard that what michelle knight did, according to the police report, she put her mouth over the baby's mouth and breathed into the baby's mouth, which was so incredibly smart. doctors are telling me that's such a smart thing to do. in a hospital, we'd put a mask over the baby if we needed to. she did what she could do in that situation. it was the next best th

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen at the cnn center in atlanta with more on the effort to , what type of injuries can we expect to see there? >> you know, zoraida, if you look historically at the kind of damage that other tornadoes have done. about half of the injuries are going to be from flying debris. especially wood. because so many homes are made out of wood. that they're used to dealing with that kind of issue. and then the rest would be or much of the rest would be people who were actually hit by the tornado. where the tornado actually lifted them up. dropped them down. and that's a different kind of trauma. but also obviously a severe injury. so these injuries can range from relatively minor, hit by some wood that needs to be taken out of your skin or whatever. to obviously really, really major, i mean we're talking about major trauma here. zoraida. >> elizabeth, i want to talk a little about the folks trapped under the rubble. i know that this is all you know changing by the minute here. we're looking at all of the responders there on the ground, going through all

>> elizabeth cohen, thanks very much.na jolie had, and whether it might, repeat, might be right for you, visit cnn.com/empowered patient. >>> happening now, the irs faces a criminal probe for targeting conservative groups. the attorney general defends obtaining reporters' phone records citing what he calls a leak that endangered american lives. russia accuses an american diplomat of espionage and backs up its claim of a bizarre display. i'm wolf blitzer, we want to welcome the viewers in the united states and around the world. world. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> an irs scandal, a full criminal probe. we're getting new information, the attorney general, eric holder, announced earlier today that a joint investigation with the fbi and the internal revenue service, which admits targeting conservative groups with extra scrutiny is now under way. the cnn has also -- cnn has just obtained the treasury department's inspector general's report on what the irs did. and it isn't pretty. ou

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen, what happened?e the doctors haven't explained it all. but what we know from the slayier website and from classic rock magazine. let's take a look at some of the basics here. he allegedly had a spider bite on his arm. it appears it was more than a year ago. he had surgery to remove dead tissue and he says when he got that bite he could see the flesh corrupting. that's a quote. and he was an hour away from death at that point. so that's -- you know, that's what's been out there. but again, we haven't heard from his doctors so we don't know exactly what's happened. snoopt. >> i don't want to know if i want to know what flesh corrupting really means. is the spider bite linked to his death or not? >> we've been talking to experts about this and they say it is extremely unlikely it's the spider bite that caused his death. they say it's almost implausible. they say first of all studies show a lot of people think they have spider bites when they have some other kind of skin thing going on but it's not a spi

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us.ive for the brca gene. two had the blood test. one of them had a spit test she said costs $99, that other test is sometimes $3,000, sometimes $4,000. a., i want to know, what can you do if your insurance company doesn't cover that expensive test and then i want to talk about this other test they mentioned. >> okay. so if your insurance company doesn't cover this test, genetic test, or say you're uninsured, what you can do, go to myriad, the company that makes the breast cancer genetic test, and you can ask them for financial help. here's the deal. myriad is the only company that makes this breast cancer gene test, and so they have a monopoly. so they have vowed to help women who can't afford to do it themselves. so keep them honest, to borrow a phrase from a friend, and make them live up to their commitment. say, look. this is a test which can cost up to $4,000. i need your help. help me pay for this. go ahead, john. >> go ahead, elizabeth. >> i was going to say, the women in the piece

cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now. okay, so how does this work?htforward. you go to the website, this has been set up by pfizer and you put in your information and here's the important part, brooke. you still have to have a prescription. >> you to hahave to have a prescription. instead of going to the drugstore and bringing it in and sitting and waiting, you put in your information and they'll contact your doctor for you, or you can mail in a prescription, a couple of different ways to do it. you still have to have a prescription. >> in a whole other layer to this, there is a bit of a problem with counterfeit viagra. >> a problem with counterfeit a lot of drugs. viagra is one of them. so you don't want to get counterfeit viagra. it could have no active ingredient in it, it could have a third of the active ingredient. you want the real thing. what's interesting here, though, is that this -- viagra is expensive. if you don't have insurance, it is about $400 for 15 pills. so that's a lot. the stuff that you see online, when you don't need a prescript

and also joining me here in studio, elizabeth cohen, our senior medical correspondent.he public announcement earlier this year, saying after taking the pageant stage that you would have both of your breasts removed. i'm curious, have you booked the surgery? >> it is one of those things where i wanted to make sure i was in the best mental and physical state before i undertook this, you know, pretty drastic decision. i gave up my miss gk tigd.c. ti june 9th and that's when i'll delve in this, find the right surgical staff for me. i have my entire calendar booked out. it is a big decision. and it is something that you shouldn't go into lightly and i think it is an incredibly courageous thing that angelina has come o and been so candid about this. >> and same to you as well. >> thank you. >> when you read the opinion piece from angelina jolie, she talks about femininity, and, you know, listen, you're beautiful, you're in the business of beauty, talk to me about how you arrived at this as you call it a drastic decision that would forever change your body. >> i think she said

. >> senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen visited carmen and her new boyfriend and heard theirdible story. >> don, for six years carmen tarleton lived withen extremely disfigured face. her doctor told her about a new procedure called the full facial transplant. carmen loved her husband, but when their marriage fell apart, he attacked her. dousing her with industrial-strength lye. her beautiful face destroyed. deep burns on over 80% of her body. more than 50 surgeries saved her life, but doctors couldn't erase the scars. you're the head of a major burn unit. have you ever seen a burn injury like this? >> never. never seen anything like this. >> reporter: then doctors at brigham and women's hospital came up with an idea. how about taking the face from a woman who died and giving it to carmen? in a 15-hour surgery, doctors replaced carmen's skins, muscles, tendons and nerves with those from the donor. for the first time carmen is revealing her face three months after her surgery. how does it feel from going to having this horribly scarred face to having a face without scars? >> it

our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us from the cnn center. h, a lot of people like that little extra dash of salt on their food. so does this mean you can start feeling less guilty when pouring on the salt? >> you know what, wolf, i have to say not really. i hate to be a big bummer, but that's the answer. and when you see these numbers, you'll understand why i say that. so, right now americans eat on average 3,400 milligrams of salt. the recommendation has been to get down to 1,500. this new study from the institute of medicine says, you know, that 1,500 number is kind of low. we're not really sure it does anybody any good. and in fact it might actually hurt your heart to go that low. so the institute of medicine says you may not need to go down to 1,500, but the reality is americans were never really anywhere near 1,500 to begin with on average. so i think that when you look at this study, what it says is maybe we don't need to go as low as we thought, but americans weren't going that low anyways. >> so how much salt should we eat? i raise th

i want to bring in elizabeth cohen to talk about this.sounds very basic bare bones two women here in a very stressful, stressful situation. >> oh, absolutely. you can't even imagine what you would do in that situation. but what's incredible and what this brings to light is that before there were doctors and mid wives, women delivered each other's babies. so that's what this woman was forced to do without any training whatsoever she was forced to deliver the baby. again, still even in some parts of the world that's the way it works when you don't have medical professionals available. >> there was a complication by all accounts in this case though. >> complications may be too strong of a word. i was talking to obstetricians this morning saying, look, babies often stop breathing after birth. you do a couple things. you can jostle them around to stimulate them a little to get them breathing most of the time. or you can give them a mask with some oxygen. what's interesting and i'm going to quote here is that apparently according to the police

i want to bring in elizabeth cohen to talk a little bit about what they're calling this texas mom a miracleout this story it was almost unbelievable to even imagine what had happened, but tell us about this. you talked to her extensively and her heart was not beating when she was delivering. >> that's right. so if we back this up for a minute this woman's name is erica, she's a mom who lives in texas. i talked to her at length this morning. she uses the word miracle both in terms of her own survival and her baby. so what happened is she's a high school english teacher, she's 36 weeks pregnant, so about eight months pregnant. she goes into a friend's classroom and says i feel faint, puts her head down and collapses. her friend has the students in the classroom run and get the nurse. the nurse and the athletic trainer come in and start doing cpr on her and using the defibrillator in the school. we're looking at the pictures. that's baby elena and her daddy. you can see she's still getting oxygen, but she's doing well. but to back up to the story, the nurse said this woman's heart is not beati

i want to bring in elizabeth cohen to tell us whether or not there is real.ore. >> it is real. it is a real diagnosis. we were talking to one expert who explained it, ints kind of like dyslexia of the face. you can see individual letters in dyslexia but it doesn't make a word. if i have face blindness i might see pretty green eyes, bright shiny teeth, beautiful woman but i'm not sure who it is even though i've known you for years and seen you every day. it's not being able to make sense of it and put it to the. doctors think it's much more common than people think and there's a continuum. some people don't recognize their own face in the mirror. other people might be, i'm not great with faces. >> so what causes this? do they have any idea if they -- >> they have no idea. some people have it since childhood and other people have a stroke and it brings on face blindne blindness. but they really have no idea. >> can you do anything, treat it, or just have to apologize, say, sorry. >> unfortunately some people just are really to some degree paralyzed by this and

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me live now. great story for other women out while this is a preventive surgery would says it seems extremely drastic. is this the kind of surgery for everyone who may be in that same category? >> ashlee, it's not that drastic. she had a gene that meant she would have an 87% chance of getting breast cancer at some point in her life. that is a really, really high risk. most women choose to remove both of their breasts. a study done doctors were asked if you had this gene mutation what would you do and more than half of them said they would have their breasts removed. as you mentioned, it's not the only option. some women who carry this faulty gene say i want to keep my breasts. i don't want to get rid of them because maybe i won't get breast cancer so those women might have mris and mammograms on a frequent basis and start very young. they might also take drugs tamoxifen that can decrease their chances of getting breast cancer. what she isn't the only option but i will say the surest option. she is

." >> reporter: cnn senior medical correspondent doctor elizabeth cohen withus today - she has been on angelina's - she has a 87 percent case in getting or we should say had when.12 >> catherine: here's what we've learned about jolie's medical timeline. the actress underwent her double mastectomy on february sixteenth at the pink lotus breast center in beverly hills. it is an eight hour operation. is to remove the breast you later." >> reporter: >> and may be inappropriate for them to undergo genetic testing. toll search for mutations. informing us and she has a high risk percentage of four or bearing cancer or breast cancer. 87 is on the high and rain of the range. i think it's of very personal decision. how she lives with how she can live with the decision. >> jacqueline: 90 degrees in santa rosa as we look ahead tomorrow and thursday cooler weather is expected. tomorrow and should state largely key clear with clouds later in the day. we will rebound friday with slightly warmer and drier conditions. the radar so showing clear conditions. a storm to the north of us epigenesis edging t

she sat down for an exclusive interview with elizabeth cohen. that put together. how she got injured is so awful. her estranged husband doused with her industrial strength lye. doctors said, wow, maybe we can give you a face transplant. it took a long time to find a match, but they did. this whole concept of having a face that belonged to someone else that passed away -- here the interview. >> reporter: carmen tarl ton loved her husband, but when their marriage fell apart he attacked her. her beautiful face destroyed. deep burns on over 80% of her body. doctors couldn't erase the scars. >> you're the head of a major burn unit. have you ever seen a burn injury like this? >> never. never seen anything like this. >> reporter: doctors came up with an idea. how about taking a face from a woman who died and givening it to carmen. in a 15 hour surgery, her muscles and tendons were repl e replaced with those of the donor. >> how does it feel to go from a scarred face to a face without scars? >> i'm thrilled with what i've got. >> reporter: she doesn't j

. >> joining me now, to talk more about face blindness, elizabeth cohen.ace it, or you don't know where you met them, but this is face blindness, what do they see? >> it's like what a dyslexic sees when they read. they may be able to identify individual letters, but when you put it this is from one of the doctors we talked to about this. you can see this, christine. you know that's a face, right? two eyes, a nose, mouth. you know it's a face, but if you're like me, you probably can't figure out who is that? it's upside down. you know it's a face, you see the features. when we turn it right side up, you can see, lindsay lohan. wrote pretty quickly apparent. that's what people with face blindness see. they see individual features, but can't put it together to grasp the face as brad pitt put it. >> brad pitt is going to get testing for this. what will they do? >> carnegie mellon offered to test him what would you do if he walked in tomorrow? they would show him a series of famous faces, bill clinton, tom cruise. >> or brad pitt. >> he really is in the series

. >> i want to bring in elizabeth cohen, our medical correspondent, and, you know, police, they toldters you can't ask tough questions about exactly what happened to these women just yet. why are police so concerned about that? >> there's some debate about how early, how often, and how intensely you ask these people to retell their stories. these women have, what, nearly ten years worth of stories to tell. you can only imagine what happened in that house, and some people want to talk about it. it's therapeutic to talk about it over and over again, both to a therapist, to the family, or even to the media, but for other people they're not going to want to do that. i think what he is saying is let's hold off before we ask them for the terrible details. >> as police are questioning these women, how are they going about it? are psychologists standing nearby and counselors? >> yes, absolutely. there are psychologists standing by working with police officers so they can ask the right questions. not rush them too quickly to retraumaizing themselves by telling the story and making sure whatev

cnn's elizabeth cohen, our senior medical correspondent, joins me live now in atlanta, and also a womaner than most to what angelina jolie is going through, victoria flynn. victoria, you have gone through this, you have the brca gene, you had both your breasts and ovaries removed. so many people want to know when you learn of all of this overwhelming information, is it a no brainer just to make that decision to have both your breasts and ovaries removed or does this take you a very long time of soul searching. >> for me, it was a no brainer. but i think it is important to know that relates to my personal story and because for years prior to that, for 20 or so years prior to me making that decision, i had lived without my mother, who had died when i was 13 years old from breast cancer at the age of 39. so you live through 20 years or so of your life without your mother, and you almost think there is this time bomb ticking that -- and you ask yourself, am i going to live to 39? when the genetic counselors came to me with this information and my sister as well, and with this -- these risks

senior medical student elizabeth cohen is working it for us. what are you finding out here? >> let's take a step back and talk about sarah's situation. the reason why as you said wolf she has a slim chance of getting a lung is that she is a child. there aren't a lot of pediatric lungs out there for transplants. and so what her parents want is to put her on a list for an adult transplant and that lung would be modified to fit her smaller frame. that's possible but here's the hitch. she will be at the bottom of the list so that adults who are healthier than her and aren't near death the way she is would get those lungs before she would. so today the news is that secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius sent a letter to the organ procurement and transplantation network and asked them to review this policy. asked them to take a look at it. let me quote exactly from her letter. she said, i ask that you pay particular attention to the age categories currently used in lung allocation and review the policy with the intent of identifying any potential improvements to