she says her doctor in indiana suggested essure.implanted into the fallopian tubes. >> potts says she was in so much pain she had a hifterectomy to get rid of it. last week bayer pharmaceutical said the essure is safe but will stop selling it at the end of the year due to declining sales. but potts is wondering did essure last 16 years on the market in part because bayer was paying doctors millions. a cnn analysis of a federal database shows from 2013 through 2017 bayer paid a total of $$2.5 million to 11850 u.s. physicians in connection with essure. >> that's a lot of money. for a device that has caused so much trouble. >> the payments for consulting and other services are legal. but many health professionals question whether they are ethical. dr. mart martin mckari is professor of surgery at johns hopkins. >> that looks like a bribe. >> but bayer disputes that saying it clab rates with health professional to help improve clinical practice in patient outcomes potts isn't sure. >> i'm dr. cindy bass ski and i perform a simple proced

bayer pulling the birth control device essure off the market.awsuits. the growing popularity of private facebook groups where women convene to share side effects and horror stories and a brand-new documentary, what women need to know this morning. we'll talk to dr. ashton. ♪ i got lovesick blues >>> and from the aisles of walmart to live in times square, the yodeling kid is here live. meet mason ramsey, his nickname is lil hank williams and this morning you'll hear why as he's saying -- >> good morning, america. [ cheers and applause ] >>> first time on morning television and he nails it. good morning, america. hope you're well this thursday morning. >> we love him already. we are excited to have young mason ramsey with us. this video of him performing in a walmart went viral and now he's got a record deal and i have a suspicion that he might be going viral again today. >> i heard him yodeling in the "gma" hallways around 5:30 this morning. we are in for a treat. he is right here in times square, everyone. mason, come on out. we cannot wait for

. >> we saw a video in germany, u can go a live yourslam, nobody puts essure on you, and because of this we said we'd go. and we'd go from turkey to raqqa and the first two, three, four mont we were tnking, yeah it's true, you can live your islam, we don't see anything bad. >> it s 2014 wn the islamist terror group took control of the syrian city of raqqa. they made it the capital of their self-decred caliphe, setting up a reign of terror. from here they planned attacks in other parts of the world. they enforced their extreme interpretation of islam with public beatings and executions. sandra says her husband soon started to have doubts. >> me, i didn't know anything because i was at home all the time. and like i say before my husband came sometimes home and said, there are a lot of bad things in the islamic state, we have to go. but he didn'tell the he say it's better you don't know what's happened. he just told me, we have to go. >> but getting out of raqqa was a lot more difficult than getting in. especially as a u.s.-led coalition was now waging war on i.s. while trying to leave syri

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bayer is facing 16,000 lawsuits over essure. what did you hear from the women?body. so you can have migraines, tremors, ticks, es rts of thing happe and you don't actually associate it with the device. >> let me ask you about what bayer says. it says that 40 published studying involving about 200,000 women demonstrate the safety but were not discussed in the film. this is what they say. what is your response to that? >> one of the things we learned is that most studies are funded by industry. as a result, they're very, very biassed. and one of the big problems with a lot of these studies is essure is planted for life. the studies follow women for a short term. a lot of these symptoms come up 5, 10, 15 years later. the results were devastating. it was shocking what i was hearing from the women. and the point that struck to me in the film when you said new doesn't mean better. new really means unproven. i thought that was a very powerful message. >> yeah. we found that hip implants in the '70s are as effective if not better than the newer and later ones. they had

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the decision comes after the food and drug administration restricted sale of essure in april.ently implanted device is linked to health problems, persistent pain, allergic reactions, the piercing of the uterus. patients currently have the device implanted and are having problems, contact the physician right away and figure out the appropriate steps to take. >> thank you so much, michael. >>> fans of a popular japanese anime series are blocking to san francisco. abc 7 news was there as the den of rage popup store opened. people lined up to buy exclusive from the main character, for the red panda. people came to see more than just what items they coul up. >> the special thing today is the fact that the creator will be here for the first time ever. she's so elusive, i guess you would say, you can't even find a picture of her online. i tried for a week and couldn't find one. >> the character was created by the same company behind hello kitty, huge obviously. the store will be open through the end of the month. >> a texas baby is getting free food for life and a guaranteed job afte

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essured by ice to do >> they did appear for some amount of time that she was being pressured to sign a document that would authorize her deportation. let me say this, but he is not the only person who brought this piece of paper to my attention and to the attention of other media outlets. of time wheneriod many parents were being shown a piece of paper, and their options were basically -- i think this is where the confusion lies, because most of them said to me, and i did not see the piece of paper, they were telling me this -- option one was, do you agree to be deported and reunited with your child outside? option two was, do you agree to be deported but reunited with your child before? option three was, do you want to speak to your lawyer? this is how it was explained to me. the questions that arose from that are the parents were, ok, if i sign this this as i agree, will i be reunited with my child or not? and it seemed to be the oma topped in for reunification, some form of deportation, either before or after. that was very confusing for them. that he would obviously check off the