carboni, elizabeth cohen at cnn. how are you.w what the death rate is for your babies at pediatric heart hospital and yo program? he also wouldn't answer the parents' question, why did so many babies die at st. mary's? last year a team of doctors from the state of florida's children's medical services evaluated the program. it was at the request of st. mary's which sought to "evaluate and identify opportunities for improvement." the head of the team, dr. jeffrey jacobs, professor of cardiac surgery at johns hopkins found st. mary's was doing too few surgeries to get good at it. how few? in the united states, 80% of children's heart surgery programs perform more than 100 surgeries a year. each procedure giving them valuable expertise. but the review of st. mary's pre gram shows in 2013, the hospital performed just 23 operations. it is unlikely that any program will be capable of obtaining and sustaining high quality when performing less than two operations per month. dr. jacobs wrote. >> elizabeth cohen joins us now. the hospital

we get the latest from cnn's medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. elizabe elizabeth, this is a dangerous mistake. >> reporter: absolutely. one toxicologist put it as a major problem. the reason why is the heavy metals. cadmium and arsenic and lead and mercury. when you compare the levels in the sludge to the epa acceptable levels. arsenic, ten times. lead, a reading of 11,000 teams of what is considered acceptable level by the epa. the toxic metals can cause conditi kidney and other problems. what we don't know is how many people drink from this water and did it reach the people before the warning was given to shut it off. if health problems emerge, it would take years, if not decades. christine. >> besides drinking, what else is this water used for? it is a sad issue. a beautiful part of the country. what do they use the river for? >> reporter: they also use the river to irrigate crops. another big problem. the plants absorb this. especially cadmium. that is one that toxicologists told me it just eats it up. we don't know how much of the water went

cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. he first obvious question is, really? the plague? >> i know, it sounds so crazy, right. it basically never went away. fleas still have it. you rarely hear about in the the united states because, well, basically people don't live with rodents in their house for the most part so fewer rodents mean fewer fleas mean less plague. so let's look at plague 101, exactly what it is. so the plague is a disease carried by rodents and their fleas and people get it by being bitten by one of those fleas. you can also get it after handling an infected rodent. now, thankfully, john, human-to-human transmission is rare because then you could possibly get an epidemic. it hasn't happened in the united states since 1924, hum human-to-human transmission. >> well, we're just talking one or two or a handful every year? >> right. a handful every year. so let's look specifically at what's happen ed by the numbers. four cases this year, seven cases annually approximately. it varies from year to year. now califor

we have more from medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. >> this is a major problem.on why is the heavy metals in the sludge. cadmium and arsenic and lead and mercury. christine, when you compare the levels in the sludge to what is considered the epa acceptable levels, mercury at ten times the acceptable levels. lead, a reading 11,000 times acceptable level by the epa. now these toxic metals can cause cancer and kidney problems and developmental problems in children. what we don't know is how many people drink from this water and did it reach all of these people before the warning was given to shut it off. if health problems emerge, it would take years if not decades for them to come out. christine. >> besides drinking, what else is this water used for? to look at the pictures, it is so sad. it is a beautiful part of the country. it looks like it is spoiled. what do they use the river for? >> you know, they also use the river to irrigate crops. christine, that is another big problem. the plants absorb this. especially cadmium. it is really toxic. cadmium is one that e

joining me is cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen.s posting that this motion sickness drug helped her with morning sickness and that's where the trouble began? >>. >> no, that's not the trouble. this appears to be a pill that is for morning sickness but what she didn't do is talk about the side effects, risks, who shouldn't take it. you know in those ads where everyone starts talking about really fast and all the things they say when they talk fast in the ads, she didn't talk about that in her post so let's look at what she did say in her social media post she wrote "my doctor prescribed me diclegis and i feel a lot better. i'm so happy with my results. well, the fda caught wind of this and said the social media post is false or misleading and entirely omits all risk information. and the company said in a statement they acknowledge that its communication s including i social media need to be in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. ashleigh, they say this company knew what they were doing, these rules are clear that they h

i'm elizabeth cohen. i'll show you how to become an empowered patient. with the help of world-renowned patient safety expert dr. peter pronovost, american cancer society chief medical officer dr. otis brawly. acclaimed fiction author dr. abraham verghese, and more. stay tuned. this hour could save your life. at number 25, baby security breach. the woman in this surveillance video, jennifer latham, tells her family she's expecting a baby when really she isn't. so she decides to steal one. take a look as she changes into nursing scrubs, enters a baby's room, comes out with a bag under her arm. a baby is in that bag. the impostor nurse actually gets off the premises with the child, despite an alarm on the baby. >> the alarm went off as it was supposed to. the woman just managed to get out the door. >> the baby is gone, missing, for almost 2 1/2 hours. until a police officer spots the getaway car and pulls the baby snatcher over. >> that's a newborn that you have back there. >> listen as jennifer lies to the officer, telling him the baby in the car is hers.

. >>> plus, one hospital is responding after senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen uncovered anfor babies in their pediatric heart unit. imagine - she won't have to remember passwords. or obsess about security. she'll log in with her smile. he'll have his very own personal assistant. and this guy won't just surf the web. he'll touch it. scribble on it. and share it. because these kids will grow up with windows 10. get started today. windows 10. a more human way to do. 40% of the streetlights in detroit, at one point, did not work. you had some blocks and you had major thoroughfares and corridors that were just totally pitch black. those things had to change. we wanted to restore our lighting system in the city. you can have the greatest dreams in the world, but unless you can finance those dreams, it doesn't happen. at the time that the bankruptcy filing was done, the public lighting authority had a hard time of finding a bank. citi did not run away from the table like some other bankers did. citi had the strength to help us go to the credit markets and raise the money. it's a b

elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. hour of "cnn newsroom" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> and we're following a top story right now. jared fakele will plead guilty to child porn or worse. >>> according to reports the quarterback was not happy with how the first day went. we'll talk about that. >>> and good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin with that teenage prep school student retaking the stand to face the upper classman she says raped her. she says 19-year-old owen labrie sexually assaulted her as part of the so-called senior salute, a competition to see which upper classman can rack up the most female conquests. the defense claims the pair never actually had intercourse, but the prosecution says they can disprove that using labrie's own words. >> shortly after the assault, [ bleep ] messaged him asking him did you wear a condom. you'll ask -- you'll see his responses that he sends back. are you on the pill. i think you're okay. we should be good. i pu

. >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> that's all for us at this hour. "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we'll begin with the breaking news about jared fogle, once the face behind subway, the sandwich chain campaign. he is probably going to be headed off to a federal prison for a long time. still to be decided, just how long. how many years after pleading guilty a short time ago in a federal courthouse to charges of receiving child pornography and also to charges of traveling for the purpose of paying for sex with miners. keep it here on cnn. in just a few minutes, the federal prosecutors who agreed to the plea deal involving jared are going to make an announcement and take reporters' questions presumably as well. we'll take that news conference as soon as it goes live. it's supposed to start at 12:30 eastern time, about 29 minutes from now. we just got this statement from jared fogle's wife. it comes to us via her attorney. katie fogle says this. "obviously i am extremely

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. >> elizabeth cohen for us there. >>> an an ty abortion group says they have more videos targeting plannedarenthood but a u.s. judge has blocked those recordings from being released. we'll tell you about this coming up. >>> plus, why a police union wants a former officer charged with murder to have his job back. >>> new details in the case of a former police officer charged with murder for shooting dead an unarmed african-american driver. there are no charges for two other responding officers. jason carroll has more on the case and we should warn you, some of the video in his report may be disturbing. >> yes. >> are you okay. >> i'm good. >> we're learning no criminal charges will be filed against the two university of cincinnati police officers who arrived on scene to assist raymond tensing after the shooting death of samuel dubose. the hamilton county prosecutor say nounsing a grand jury heard testimony from officer david lindhdavid and chose not to indict them. tensing's attorney said he was being drag ed by dubose's car and feared for his life. >> no video we have shows any driving but