the f.d.a. opened a hearing today to decide whether to end its approval of the drug avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. the drug costs nearly $100,000 a year and there's serious doubt about how well it works. we asked dr. jon lapook to introduce us to the people whose lives are in the balance. >> reporter: liz cleary and her husband bob were newlyweds nine years ago when they got devastating news. liz had breast cancer and then, 18 months later, the chemotherapy stopped working. >> the cancer had metastasized to my lungs. you could make me cry right at this very moment just for thinking about how i felt at that moment. >> reporter: so, as a last-ditch effort, doctors decided to try avastin which kills cancer cells by choking off their blood supply. cleary credits the drug with keeping her alive for the past five years. >> within two and a half months of treatment scans showed no evidence of disease. so the five spots that were still in my lungs were gone. >> reporter: but accordin

the f.d.a. will require e squall uva and uvb to get a sfp number. the f.d.a.t how long protection lasts. good-bye unblock, no more waterproof or sweat proof. now water resistant will be in minutes. today's claims are confusing, misleading. >> i think that's unfair. they need to know what you are putting on your skin. >> reporter: the f.d.a. today proposed but did not make final a ruling that would ban any advertisement of spf greater than 50. >> the higher the number, the pro protection joo. 97 with 30. 92 with 30 and any bigger number pretty much just hype. >> well, that would be terrible not to believe them. i mean, are they lying? >> new rules take effect in a year. until then, the f.d.a. says it's buyer beware. john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news >>> it appears water bills in palo alto are about to go up 12 1/2% despite the wet winter and the best conservation efforts in 19 years. there are two reasons. the water comes san francisco's hatchach akee. officials want to replace he have revenue lost because of all the conservation efforts. the hike impacts reside

the f.d.a. center for tobacco products has simply exploded. the administration's budget justification to congress states, quote, f.d.a.'s experiencing an unprecedented and dramatic surge in staffing and facilities needs that will cause the f.d.a. facility requirements to exceed the scope of the 2009 master plan. i understand that. the f.d.a. is expanding. does good work. we're not criticizing it. but one area of the f.d.a.'s budget that is growing way too fast under this administration's budget is the brand new center for tobacco products. again, this agency, this center did not exist in 2006. in the f.y. twelve agriculture appropriation -- 2012 agriculture appropriation committee it has reductions sought by the republican majority. the same fiscal restraint should be applied to the center for tobacco products. we're talking about appropriation levels going back to 2006, 2009, 2010. so all i'm asking, let's move this back to 2009. an f.y. 2012 budget that was requested by the f.d.a. tobacco's ac

f.d.a. we believe that policy decisions at the f.d.a. should be based on science and not on any irrelevant consideration. as much as officials at the f.d.a. claim that their decisions are based on sound science, their recent actions give us pause. for example, two months ago chairman upton along with chairman lucas and chairman graves sent a letter to the f.d.a. regarding the potential banff anti-microbial animal drugs and the lack of scientific support for that action. this potential ban has caused significant worry among our nation's producers -- the chair: the gentleman will suspend. the committee will be in order. the house is not in order. the gentleman can proceed. mr. lance: thank you, madam chair. this potential ban has caused significant worry among our nation's producers, veterinarians and consumers. the chairman finally received a response from the f.d.a. last friday, and the f.d.a. refused to answer the questions about a scientific basis for their actions. claiming that the matte

arsenic the f.d.a. says it's a carcinogen but i don't believe them why else would they be telling us for years that it's ok to feed it to chickens. for sixty years chickens in america have been fed arsenic and the f.d.a. zone studies say that arsenic in chicken meat is ok to eat. maybe that's right sort of lucius you know this one's a little light on the arsenic actually. you know but that's better but i know what you're thinking don't you wish there is a way to arsenic up your beef to don't worry the f.d.a. is is one step ahead of you you see they really can't get the full benefit of the arsenic in chickens by feeding it's of them because apparently they they poop too much of it out. i know no discussion well then the big all the arsenic going to waste or is it. they're not you know what they feed cows and back are you the operations. that's right cows get to eat arsenic laced chicken poop and then so do you see this is what the f.d.a. refers to as the circle of life so who is behind all this well the

and an f.d.a. advisory board report this month found there was universal agreement that the current aers data base is outdated and inadequate to the tasks" of fda. but even with that inadequate system aers picked up reports of 2,500 deaths linked to but not necessarily cause by quinolones between 1997 and 2010. another 45,000 reports of negative side effects were reported in that same time period. and dr. flockhart says that means only a small number of adverse drug reactions ever get the attention of fda. >> fundamentally, it's a voluntary thing. so a doctor placed in the unusual position of having to report an adverse reaction in a patient usually that he or she has prescribed the drug to. so there is an inherent conflict. >> reporter: concern about the adverse side effects of quinlolones got national attention some years ago when philadelphia writer stephen fried's wife became psychotic and developed seizures after taking just one pill. >> just one pill that morning and we were launched into thi

now, second point, an f.d.a. hearing, i'm concerned about f.d.a.'s ability to do food safety and take on this big mission and here's why. you hear the figure, a very high number that we are concerned about, but 20% of those illnesses from known pathogens and come from neurovirus. the c.d.v. hhe c. tells us that appropriate hygiene is the appropriate method to promote illnesses. and it's best accomplished by thorough hand washing. . in the budget request there's no mention of neuro virus. i believe that's relevant. second point, terms of salmonella, the second highest cause of illness is salmonella but under its authority the existing authority before the food safety modernization act was passed by the house, f.d.a. updated its own food safety as respects salmonella and they're saying that according -- this is according to their own press release in july of last year, that as many as 79,000 illnesses and 30 deaths due to consumption of eggs contaminated with salmonella may be avoided. that was last year. that was before a new bureaucracy and this bur

oh excuse me you might have heard about the two thousand and bill allowing the f.d.a. to put whatever they want on cigarettes by the way this is the same food and drug administration that has been responsible for ensuring all the food and drugs in the united states are good for you and since they can find a way to convince you that smoking cigarettes is healthy they finally resorted to this warning and cigarettes are addictive ok i mean now i know this from personal experience since i spent in iraq a lot it's hard to worry about cancer with mortars falling all around you and can you imagine a soldier in afghanistan getting this fix of the good smokes from home having to look at something like this warning smoking can kill you now i'm totally against smoking but if every cigarette is the equivalent of an orgasm for you and totally worth the cost that's for you to decide so imam feisal can but i'm pro freedom against forcing cigarette manufacturers or anyone making any product to put any kind of government mandated warning other product whatsoever so if the government is

as well of anything that would probably be healthier than most of the corn syrup stuff crap that is f.d.a. approved and government sanctioned but you know there's one thing that i haven't heard you talk about it's i know it's not something that that's a major theme on your web site natural news dot com but you know for me and for miles fitness and sports oh shoot all right we've got some technical difficulties here in the studios and we're going to try to get mike adams back on the line here soon as we can but there's something that he's produced on his website that i think is really amazing i'd like to share with you called the sheeple quiz all right so it's as he puts it it's it's a fun quiz to find out how smart or gullible your friends really are so this is a way to find out if they're independent thinkers or just zombie minded sheeple like the rest of the flock so it's it's kind of kind of an obvious one with the first thing here is the purpose of the mainstream media is to a keep you informed or b. feed you misinformation while keeping you distracted from the real issues our world i

and there is one time in f.d.a. budget request as it was related to food. f.d.a.'s always seems to be ready to take on new initiatives and yet, it doesn't seem to be tackling the food safety challenges that we have right now in an orderly fashion under its current budget. the c.d.c. statistics, which we got through hearings, goes back to that 48 million food-borne ill necessaries, 128,000 hospitalizations and high numbers. if you look at 311 million americans eating three meals a day, that would be 933 million meals eaten each daily or 340 billion eaten each year. if you do the math on this, the food safety rate is 99.9% safe. why is that relative relevant. something is working without the f.d.a. and without the nanny state saying we are in charge of everything. and that is the nanny sector. but food processing companies are very concerned about food safety and their customers' safety, because the way you keep your customers coming back to buy more is to keep them happy. and that means to keep them safe and it would be hard for me to believe that some of the leadin

i think everyone knows including the f.d.a. that the f.d.a. doesn't have the resources and personnel to monitor brand name and generic drug manufacturers, that the f.d.a. relies on the manufacturers to bring it to the f.d.a.'s attention if their labels aren't up to speed. the court assumed in this decision that the generic manufacturers were under a state law obligation to petition the f.d.a. to change their labels and the court said nonetheless this federal law that gives them a federal obligation preempts state law tort liability claims. so my disagreement with the details is about just how comprehensive the federal scheme is here and i think that the presumption, not just the presumption against preemption in general but where states have long regulated and some tort liability cases at issue are areas in which the state has long regulated and the federal government hasn't regulated as comprehensively as i understand some of your comments would suggest. >> we are almost out of time but i hate to wrap things up without something said about th

but in terms of amendments to add more money to the f.d.a. or to food inspection, that really didn't happen on the house floor. host: once again let's look at some of the numbers, what makes up the agriculture bill, including money for food stamps and the w.i.c. program as we listen to robert, who is joining us from imperial, missouri, on you on our line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you guys doing? host: fine thank you. caller: i'm totally aggravated with the subsidies. it's like a previous caller said i'm in the same boat things go bad, and i have to suck it up. i think they need to look at the whole thing the way they subsidize other people and other companies. one of the things that i find aggravating is one of our recent -- one of our news channels did an investigation and they were showing these empty fields and lots, and they were land owners, and they said these people they had a list of them that are receiving subsidies as farmers. i think the smallest amount was like $33,000. then it went up to quite a b

last november, the f.d.a. unveiled the 36 images that would be considered for inclusion on every cigarette pack in the country for graphic health warning labels and today we are publishing the nine selected. these graphic warnings labels represent the first major change to cigarette labels in 25 years. the final nine images were selected based on a number of important criteria. we took into account public comment from across 1700 stakeholders including experts and industry, some of overwhelm whom submitted scientific research studies. we also conducted a national study of our own to gauge people's response. actually the largest study ever conducted involving some 18,000 participants. we examined how effective the proposed warnings were at communicating the health risks as well as the warnings in terms of its ability to encourage smokers to quit and to discourage nonsmokers from ever wanting to smoke. consider this. a pack a day smoker will see these labels more than 7,000 times a year. and kids who are under t

the f.d.a.d warning labels with color graphics. the graphic campaign is designed to take any glamor out of cigarette smoking and shows images such as this one. another label shows a mother holding a baby with smoke being blown into the child's face. these warnings would cover half the surface area of a pack of cart ton. the f.d.a. will decide by next week which images will appear on the packages. >>> the american cancer society reported a drop in cancer deaths in the united states. figures show 900,000 fewer people have died from cancer since 1990. that's about 22% fewer cases in men and about 14% fewer cases in women. it is due to better detection, treatment and fewer smokers. those with the least education are more than twice likely to die from a cancer compared to those who have more education >>> and consumer lap.com says it has found troubling results when it tested 38 multivitamins. 8 contained too little of a newt crept and three improperly listed ungreed cents and ingreed cents. ingredie

and f.d.a. had established two different standards and this amendment simply seeks to fix that, to give an identical outcome from two different agencies that resulted from different interpretations of the hatch-waxman act of 1984. inventors should not have to guess. we give a clean deadline. i ask my colleagues to support this amendment. the chair: the gentleman from michigan has 45 seconds remaining. mr. conyers: i yield all the rest of my time to scott garrett, the distinguished gentleman from new jersey. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for the remaining time. mr. garrettette: it covers drugs and products that must be approved by the f.d.a. with the extension we're talking about here, the patent office and f.d.a. has interpreted it in two different ways, creating uncertainty that has led to miscalculation. it is consistent with the court ruling that when the f.d.a. approves -- provides final approval after normal business hours, that 60-day clock begins on the next day.

the f.d.a. says women should know that breast implants are not life-time devices. the longer a woman has implants the more likely they are to have medical complications. starting in july, verizon wireless will stop offering smart phone and tablet customers unlimited data plans. according to the "l.a. times" the largest cell phone provider will move to tiered data plan charging customers different rate for limited use packages. you may remember, at&t, verizon's biggest rival scrapped the unlimited data plans in june of last year. now charges $25 a month for two gigabyte of data and $10 for each additional gigabyte. no word on what the tiered price package for verizon will look like. >>> today at 3:00 on 7 live, how young is too young to be putting on make-up? a 5-year-old how-to tips are going viral on the internet. then at abc7 news at 4:00 -- >> we really did slim you. >> michael finney shows you which slim suits actually do what they say. and take off inches. in the 5:00 news airs following the president's speech on the war in afghanistan. you can watch the presi

the f.d.a. says women should know that breast implants are not life-time devices.he longer a woman has implants the more likely they are to have medical complications. starting in july, verizon wireless will stop offering smart phone and tablet customers unlimited data plans. according to the "l.a. times" the largest cell phone provider will move to tiered data plan charging customers different rate for limited use packages. you may remember, at&t, verizon's biggest rival scrapped the unlimited data plans in june of last year. now charges $25 a month for two gigabyte of data and $10 for each additional gigabyte. no word on what the tiered price package for verizon will look like. >> we'll be right back. ha you called to switch us to anthem yet? honey, how can i call now, i can barely hear a thing with amber's band practicing. ♪ you're right, we've had enough. but i know exactly what to do. you take care of the music and i'll switch us to anthem. sometimes you just have to pull the plug. ♪ sorry, grandpa, we'll try to keep it down. i just... give it to me. ♪ [ femal

last november, the f.d.a. unveiled the 36 images that would be considered for inclusion on every cigarette pack in the country for graphic health warning labels and today we're publishing the nine selected. these graphic warning labels represent the first major change to cigarette labels in 25 years. the final nine images were selected based on a number of important criteria. we took into account public comment from plksly 1,700 stake holders, including experts and industry, some of whom submitted scientific research studies. we also conducted a national study of our own to gauge people's response to graphic cigarette health warnings, actually the largest study ever conducted involving some 18,000 participants. we examined how effective the proposed warnings were at communicating the health risks as well as the warning in terms of its ability to encourage smokers to quit and if they discouraged nonsmokers, particularly kids, from ever wanting to smoke. consider this. a pack a day smoker will see these labels m

the f.d.a. said studies of its proposed medicine to treat vision loss from macular degeneration met its goals. the treatment has yet to be approved, though. shares popped 5%. and we saw a series of earnings warnings. owens-illinois makes glass containers. its warning gets blamed on higher-than-expected manufacturing and delivery cost increases. lawn care company scotts miracle-gro says it can't make up for a slow spring, and steel maker nucor's guidance for the second quarter came in below forecast. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: it has been tough to own stock in a financial company. the group is the worst- performing stock sector this year. tonight's "street critique" guest finds some of the concern overblown, but not all. she's hilary kramer, editor of gamechangerstocks.com. >> tom: one area where you think it is overblown when it comes to finance is morgan stanley the investment banker. down 14% the past year at a 52-week low a week ago. why do you think the worries are overblow

answer the courts and the f.d.a. still suppress them also rick since it was an exile from jennifer curry desert cannabis also the person there be from the early one nine hundred then jani was right the show needs to be an hour long it is always over too fast so i agree and i guess that's all the time we have a person i'd so united for washington d.c. will see attacks on one atom or versus the man. assures that so much of it there is millimeters even exist in the real serious ok in the new game outside interest in this continent is immense rich in natural resources in a growing middle class china at the u.s. . the official allocation to your money so no one called touch from the point you substitute. life on the. video on demand. comes an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. machine on the key jobs cong. the sanitation and free credit cation free. storage free. range and free. free stereotypes free the sold free blogs just plug in video for your media projects a free meal dog a hearty dot com. fish fish. fish fish fi

the f.d.a. gave the company 15 days to clean up the plant that makes keebler and famous amos cookies. inspectors found traces of listeria at the plant earlier this year. kellogg calls food safety a top priority and it says the facility will undergo a comprehensive cleaning. >> tom: sara lee will spin off its international coffee and tea business, but will keep its north american meats business. the firm had previously said it would spin off both businesses to create two separate publicly traded companies. the meats business, maker of jimmy dean sausage and hillshire farms products, will cut costs while it continues to consider price hikes. sara lee expects the split to be complete early next year. >> susie: investing in a college education-- tonight's commentator says the economic evidence shows it's a no brainer. he's jamie merisotis, president and c.e.o. of the lumina foundation. >> we hear a lot these days about what the experts think about jobs, about education and about our economic future.

when notice of f.d.a. approval is sent after normal business hours, the combination of the patent trade office's calendar day interpretation and its new counting method effectively deprives applicant of a portion of the 60-day filing period that congress expressly granted them and applicant could lose a substantial portion, if not all, of its time for filing a patent trademark extension application as a result of the mistakes that's beyond its control, an interpretation that imposes such drastic consequences when the government errors could not be what congress intended. that's the end of the judge's statement on why he ruled as he did in this particular case. congress did not intend those drastic consequences that happens as a result of a difference between whether or not you are making an application to or an application from an agency. in other words, there shouldn't be any difference. congress did not intend the consequences that can come from such a different application of the law. so the court clari

in a unanimous vote today an f.d.a. committee recommended revoking approval of avastin for breast cancer patients. studies showed it didn't work well and has dangerous side effects. some patients pleaded with the committee to keep the approval insisting avastin had saved their lives. stopping mortgage payments does not necessarily mean immediate eviction. how some people are living in their homes for free, next. ,,,, >> p >> pelley: we got new perspective today on just how bad the mortgage crisis has become. in our new poll, 40% of mortgage holders told us in the past three years, making payments has become more difficult. 15% said they had missed a payment. jim axelrod has found many homeowners have stopped making payments altogether but they're not moving out. >> reporter: the sweet life ruben martinez lived on this block on staten island almost came to an end four years ago when he and his family were just days away from eviction. >> i lost it. everything at that moment just fell apart. and... >> reporter: low point

you ask whether transgenic fish is available in the marketplace as far as i understand right now the f.d.a. is considering whether to approve it or not the food and drug administration they're having a great deal of difficulty because there is not a lot of science that says transgenic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there's a lot of concern about the environmental impact if the transgenic fish escapes and they all escape these animals are born to escape if this vicious cage what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population these fish are bred to grow faster or be stronger and they have a tremendous advantage over the wild fish population. i don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's children and the government needs to become more active and at the very least label it so we know what we're the. it's just so unfair for people to work in ignorance even though they care even though they want to know if the government doesn't cooperate. we're all victims of big one of the major

the f.d.a. rejected a new drug application for the treatment from pfizer and pain therapeutics. pfizer fell almost 3%. pain therapeutics shed more than 42%. the medicine uses technology from durect, which lost a third of its value. and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: hewlett-packard hopes this time is the charm for its tablet computer business. h.p. takes another swing at apple's ipad and other touch- screen tablets next week when it releases its touch-pad. this device is bigger and cheaper than h.p.'s most recent tablet effort, the slate. the big difference: it's the first tablet to run hewlett packard's own operating system. h.p. inherited the web o.s. software when it bought palm last year. the touch pad enters a competitive market where apple has had a long lead, especially in terms of software applications or apps designed for tablets. apple's ipad dominates with more than 90,000. google's android system has about 100. the vice president of hewlett- packard's web o.s. developer relations business unit. richard kerris is confident in h.p.'s market position. >> applica

also in the drug business, optimer pharmaceuticals is the first drug maker in a generation to get f.d.a. approval for a medicine to treat the intestinal infection known as c-diff. shares jumped almost 12% on almost 10 times its average volume. c.e.o. pedro lichtinger is waiting to see how big the market may be. >> there are 450,000 patients that are reported as having this disease. there are significant number of other patients that are not reported. so estimates take it as high as three million patients. >> tom: no pricing for that medicine announced yet. monday mergers were delayed because of memorial day. chemical company ashland will purchase international specialty products for $3.2 billion. shares jumped 11% to a new 52- week high. easily. we're seeing continued buyouts in utilities. the biggest electric utility in vermont-- central vermont-- will be bought by the canada-based fortis, paying $35.10 per share. shares of c-v jumped more than 40% on the deal. just below that deal. the total price tag comes in at $700 million, including debt. power of a different sort-- solar power eq

shares have been on a wild ride as it has tried to get f.d.a. okay for its medicine. two other firms working on similar treatments also fell. vivus and arena fell by 3% and 2% respectively. these two have been unsuccessful bringing their drugs to market so far. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: more on tonight's top story. while the nation's headline unemployment rate is just over 9%, dig deeper and you'll find the situation looks much worse. here's the math: start with may's unemployment number, 9.1%. throw in discouraged workers, or people so fed up with looking for a job they've given up, and that rate moves above 10%. add the under-employed-- people taking any job they can get, despite their skills-- and the real unemployment rate jumps to almost 16%. and for many people, the job hunt has gone from weeks to months. almost half of unemployed americans over the age of 16 have been without a job for 27 weeks or more. >> tom: here's what we're watching for next week: our friday "market monitor" is lew piantedosi, lead portfolio manager at eaton vance mana