. >> i spoke with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen about survivor's guilt. >> elizabethclearly, there's going to be a lot of that? >> there is. on top of having lost a loved one there's a guilt that somehow you could have done more. even when you really couldn't have. it's just a natural human reaction, and there are so many stories. let's just talk about a couple of them in respect was a 6-year-old girl whose 7-year-old brother and her mother put on her life jacket and now those two, the mother and the brother, cannot be found. there was -- i mean, just -- >> how is she going to deal? once, i guess, she comes to terms or reez realizes her ent family is gone and she'll remember the moment they put that life jacket on her. >> especially for children. they often think they are at fault or sort of at the center of something, even when they're not. for a child or an adult, it's going to take a lot of convincing. a lot of talking from family, from friends, from professionals, if necessary, to say you are not at fault. there was nothing could you do. or if you think about a si

elizabeth cohen, cnn, atlanta. >> how do you define success? is it money, is it power?he calls a third metric of success. >>> seven years ago this weekend my next guest found herself lying on the floor of her home office in a pool of her own blood. she had collapsed from exhaustion, and this served as a wake-up call for her. ariana huffington and she's the woman behind "the huffington post" as well as the author of a new book called thrive. let me ask you something that may seem like a bit of a nonintuitive question, and you and i are -- you know, we both have an immigrant mentality i feel, but how important is happiness? don't take that on face value as a question, but is some degree of misery important for success? >> i don't believe that at all. i feel that what -- obviously every life has challenges, obstacles, even the most blessed one, but what you call misery often comes from our own thoughts. it comes from our own negative fantasies about the future. it doesn't come necessarily from what is happening but from what we think about what may happen or from the judgm

our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us.t is the psychological burden these families, these survivors are now carrying? >> i think we heard it best from that mom just now. where she said, i hate myself for this. i want to jump into the sea. it's the anguish of losing a loved one and thinking, was there something that i could have done, and of course there wasn't, but, still, we're human beings, we're not always logical. the guilt just takes over. the stories we've been hearing, wolf, are just so overwhelming. for example, a 6-year-old girl whose 7-year-old brother and mother helped her get her life jacket on, and now the mother and the brother now cannot be found. a mom by the name of catherine kim whose child didn't want to go on the trip and she encouraged the child and now she feels the guilt of encouraging that. also, a 71-year-old woman, a young man, a stranger, three ties tried to pull her out and on the third time succeeded. when she came out, what she said is why did so many young people die when i, an older person,

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us right now. good to see you, elizabeth. i think we're all mystified how anybody could survive at 38,000 feet, freezing temperatures. lack of oxygen. he should have suffocated at the very least. >> it just seems amazing he's not in the pressurized cabin. here are the two things going on at 38,000 feet or whatever altitude. number one, a lot less oxygen, right? you're way up so there's a lot l oxygen. our experts tell us in less than a minute he was probably unconscious. and the other thing, the temperatures are low. and that actually works in his favor because his metabolism slows way down. that may be why he was able to survive. amazingly how did he walk out thereof. the descent is gradual and he regained consciousness or he's young and really lucky. >> he didn't get out of the plane for about an hour. >> he walked out as we say, do we know necessarily he's completely okay or there could be lasting implications. >> no there could be lasting implications, the one that you would would worry about is brain damage. he had no ox

that young man had the composure. >> elizabeth cohen reporting live this morning.ou. >>> let's turn our attention to the suspect, alex hribal, 16 years old. yes, he will be charged as an adult. he faces four counts of attempted homicide, one for each person critically injured. the total number of victims reflected in the 21 counts of aggravated assault. he's also charged with possession of a weapon on school property. earlier on "new day," the teenager's attorney says both families and classmates are dumbstruck. >> he has never had any mental health problems whatsoever. he's never been in the juvenile court system. he was a well-liked student. he wasn't how some kids refer to other students as weirdoes. he's not. he's not a loner. he interacted well with other students. we're going to try to figure out what happened here. obviously there's a problem. you just don't leave and go to school and do what he did yesterday. the parents are horrified by this, naturally. this is not their son. they can't figure it out either. obviously there was some deep-rooted problem whi

elizabeth cohen, cnn, reporting. this weekend silicon valley will be on the international stage. h=b=o's new comedy series called "silicon valley" debuts tonight at 10 p-m. it's a satire of the techie culture. right here in the bay area. our own gabe slate got a preview. and talked with the creators and cast. if you want to live here, you have to deliver. hbo's silicon valley is about a handful of on a trip to new is living in one house called hacker houseful. it's cold soup. like alphabet soup but ones and zeros instead of letters. their engineers are developing a powerful new act that is starting to develop buds. --but this.. it is a little strange to have a big hollywood read couple premier were major celebrities and producers come. hbo pick to the fox theater to premier silicon valley hoping to generate some funds in the real pack community. they rolled out the red carpet for all those who attended the screening the creator is also behind king of the hill and office space. he worked as an engineer here in the '80s. that was a long time ago. he told me he worked hard to make s

i'm joined by elizabeth cohen from atlanta. elizabeth, give us a sense of what these patients are now facing. we hear stabs to the chest, to the abdomen, to the flank. these sound like some pretty serious wounds. >> they definitely do. when doctors use the words life threatening and penetrating, this is definitely serious. they also said that internal organs were affected. they brought in a liver surgeon into some of these surgeries. we are told that these teenagers, between 15-17, at this one hospital, that they are sort of towards the end of their surgeries, some of them. it will be brought into intensive care. jon, the doctors told us that they will survive. he thinks that they will survive but they were also very cautious. he said, these were serious injuries. this wouldn't necessarily be an easy recovery for these teenagers, at least some of them, appear to have wounds to their internal organs. >> wonderful news if, in fact, they do all survive. we were told gashes of up to two inches, very, very big. some of the victims, f

. >> let's bring in elizabeth cohen to walk through injuries and talk about this more. teresting to hear them. hope which is great. they are hoping elizabeth, some of these patients, they say five are fair or good. they're even anticipating they could get discharged today. >> that's right. michaela sounds like a wide variety of injuries. on one end people that thank goodness might be discharged today. the doctor said the patient as were in good spirits, doing well. he visited them. on the other end, you have three critical patients, injury to the spine, neck, abdomen injury. the doctor noted that two out of three needs more surgeries. there's one they're trying to figure out if that patient needs more surgeries. >> elizabeth, can you help us understand the other medical issue, the mental health of the shooter. we understand he was being treated for debrepression and or issues, on medications. he was evaluated for ptsd. what's the difference? >> that means the injuries from the stress you had in wartime or whatever situation you were in have lingered beyond what would be

cnn's medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. the guilt and grief apparently too much for the vice principal to bear. what about the families? what are they going through now? it's unimaginable. >> it is unimaginable. not only have they lost a child or they're missing a loved one, we heard that mom. it was so disturbing to hear her say, i hate myself for this. there's the survivor's guilt that can happen. there's no reason she should hate herself. she didn't do anything. but people still feel it. we heard these -- so many of these stories. the 6-year-old girl whose 7-year-old brother and mother helped her get her life jacket on and now nobody knows where her brother and her mother are. the woman named catherine kim. she encouraged her child to go on the field trip. and the child didn't want to go. and she said go. and now she feels terrible guilt. also, there was a 71-year-old woman who said a young stranger wouldn't give up on her, he tried three times to save her. here's the woman right here. three types he tried to pull her ou

elizabeth cohen reports. line nicotine is a poison and when its liquefied, it is highly concentrated. this person learned this the hard way when her four year-old son got a hold to it. >> i heard a noise, he had took the lid off of all of them. he had it all over him, he had even aided. >> her son bought a did all day long and was rushed to the emergency room. >> 215 in february alone, three and half years ago the cole's average once a month. the center for disease control stated that the liquid can smell just like candy. >> one mouthful of this for a child is like eating--four or five cigarettes. >> poison control specialists stated that you do not need to us swallow with to get sick. >> they start to feel sick, you can fill set within four to five minutes. >> they stated that they want a childhood packages and they're working with regulators. he did put some of the burden on the consumer. >> responsible behavior should be promoted and imports. the centers for disease control calls these the liquids are that

elizabeth cohen x plans how this works. >> doctors implanted this device to send an electrical stimulation spine. when he turns this on, he can't move on demand. >> it works just like that. ford, >> that is amazing. >> when this is turned off, he cannot even set up because his torso muscles do not work but when you turn it on, he is set up without any support. >> the first time i turn this on, it was exciting. it was a emotional because i was told that i would not be able to both my legs again. >> he is one of four patients despite their game, none of them to walk on their own. it works by activating one leg at a time. this is not the first time this has helped patients but this technique may become an important tool. >> i think that what is exciting as that we have opened up a round the possibilities of what we can do with people who are paralyzed. we have just scratched the surface. >> coming up on the kron 4 news. san francisco residents are fighting to raise the highest minimum wage in the country. why opponents say this is counterproductive. >> plus, two years after a teenage driver k

elizabeth cohen is here to reflect the diagnosis had yet to happen.clearly other things were going on. >> somebody is the military, we jump to it. he was being evaluated. but he had depression. a lot of people think of zplegs, you're lying in bed, barely get to work and that happens. but depression can become angry depression as one psychologist put it to me. >> how do you mean? >> angry defrepression meaning blame others. you especially see this in men more than women. you feel awful, but it ends up being turned outward and you blame others. and so that is also a very possible explanation for what happened here. >> but there are a number of people who suffer from depression in this country who have it more or less in check. what is it that is the catalyst for someone to then take that depression into rage, into violence. >> right, so glad you mentioned that. there are lots of people with post trautmatic stress, anxiety, depression, who contribute to the world and society and don't do anything like this. that's important to put that out there. but for

. >> senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. when i hear he fell out of the wheel well, it tells me he wasn't doing well in the wheel well of the plane. i don't care how old you are, how do you survive this? >> there's a chaps it might have been a little warmer. remember, he was in the wheel well, but he was in the plane. the plane is going to be a bit warmer. your body heat. all the machinery, the body, all of that. it is possible that it was warmer than that. but when you hear that, you think, to be 16 again, right? you can survive something like this. what happens is that when you aren't getting enough oxygen, yourimmedia metabolic processes down. when you're in that cold temperature, your metabolic processes slow down, so you actually need less oxygen. that may have helped him to be that cold. now you wonder, how did he regain consciousness? he probably lost kpgsness within a minute of being oxygen deprived. maybe he gradually got more oxygen in him with the slow descent. maybe it was enough time to get the oxygen back in hi

like agra giant monsanto argue the crops are safe to discuss this more i was joined earlier by elizabeth cohen its director of policy at the center for food safety i first asked her to talk about what this new bill does. well the language around it is that it's a great bill and it's for federal labeling that it will be a unified standard and it's everything that people want except it actually when you read it is nothing that any of the activist wants it actually codifies an existing voluntary standard which is something that has been in existence for the last thirteen years and no companies have said that they will no companies of labor g.m.o. is through that standard it also preempts all the states from any state from being able to label g.m.o. as themselves so it completely obliterates all of the grassroots movements that's going on out there it's just really not a bill that anybody wants to have it's so interesting because when i read the name of it it's called the safe and accurate food labeling at a time when i heard it said you know that kind of almost sounds like an anti g.m.o. bill so

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