f.d.a. was ready to say yes but the president's secretary of health and human services said no. wyatt andrews has our story. >> reporter: for five years, plan b, the emergency contraception drug, has only been sold without a prescription to women 17 and older. the issue is should that be changed? and the drug made available with no prescription to younger girls. when the f.d.a. looked at safety studies, it said yes. but it was directly overruled by kathleen sebelluous, the secretary of health and human services. her denial stunned many public health proponents. >> i am flabbergasted. >> reporter: susan wood, a former f.d.a. official, says women need over-the-counter access because plan b prevents pregnancy only if taken quickly. >> so having any kind of barrier means perhaps we wait a day. perhaps we wait a few days. and by then, the product no longer can help prevent unintended pregnancy. >> reporter: what made the denial so unusual was the level of public disagreement. secretary sebelluous

f.d.a. looked at safety studies, it said yes. but it was directly overruled by kathleen sebelluous, the secretary of health and human services. her denial stunned many public health proponents. >> i am flabbergasted. >> reporter: susan wood, a former f.d.a. official, says women need over-the-counter access because plan b prevents pregnancy only if taken quickly. >> so having any kind of barrier means perhaps we wait a day. perhaps we wait a few days. and by then, the product no longer can help prevent unintended pregnancy. >> reporter: what made the denial so unusual was the level of public disagreement. secretary sebelluous said she was protecting teenaged girls, chef whom reached childed bearing age at 11 years old and the evidence, she said, did not show those who might use this medicine can understand the warning label. f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg directly contradicted that, citing studies that adolescent females understood the product was not for routine use at grubs pharmacy i

nobody knew what the f.d.a. going to do but nobody expected the secretary of health and human services to overturn the decision by the f.d.a. what happened was the f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamberg reviewed the evidence and said, yeah, it was okay to approve this company's request to sell plan "b" on any stores and grocery stores, drugstores, right next condoms or sperm sides. but secretary sebelius stepped in and said no, i don't agree that decision. >> brown: just remind us the state of play here. plan "b" has been approved for use without prescription by women over 17, right? so what was this about? >> well, any woman who's 17 years old or older can walk into a pharmacy and buy plan "b" without a prescription but they have to prove that... their age to the pharmacist. but anybody younger than that still has to get a prescription and women's health advocates, family planning advocates hoped to make it easer to-to-get so that any women of any age could get it brout without prescription a prescription. it wou

in the last meeting on the flavor saver to me which wasn't terribly successful commercially but the f.d.a. scientist went through a long present taishan about all the analyses they had done and her concluding slide was the flavor saver tomato is a tomato so they had not found any substantial differences except for the addition of the one extra gene that actually decreased the rate at which they went soft so they extended the the shelf life and indeed that was the conclusion so they had no reason to regulate it on the basis of safety. no one gets up in the morning saying i want to go buy a genetically engineered food they offer no benefits no more nutrition no more flavor no nothing they only offer risks. that's all they offer to the consumer and so the average person of course rational person would say why would i buy a food that offers me no new benefits but only risks so it was critical critical for the industry to get these foods out without anyone knowing because if they knew they were obviously choose not to buy them. i don't know how many years of testing you would feel comfortable

today, the f.d.a. was ready to say yes but the president's secretary of health and human services said no.

the f.d.a., food and drug administration, food safety modernization act became law in general of this year, january 4 of this year. it was necessitated by a continuing series of incidents such as the october, 2009, stephanie smith incident which i will tell you a little bit about. she's a children's dance instructor from minnesota and became partially paralyzed from e. coli. according to a "new york times" article, "the frozen hamburgers that the smiths ate which were made by the food giant cargil were labeled, quote, american chefs selection, angus beef patties." yet, confidential grinding laws shows that the hamburgers were actually made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in wisconsin. the ingredients came from slaughterhouses in nebraska, texas and, get this, uruguay, and from a south dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with, get this, ammonia, to kill the bacteria. stephanie has sue

h.r. 2405 enhanced the flexibility of f.d.a. while strengthening their emergency use administrative functions. and these provisions are a significant step forward on a framework for f.d.a. to develop better policies and guidance in emergency situations. in addition, i was appreciative of the bipartisan effort to address the special needs of peed at rick populations -- pediatric populations in emergency situations. it was clear there was some gaps in our nation's public health emergency strategy for children and i'm confident we took an appropriate approach for filling in these gaps. so i really want to thank representatives mike rogers and gene green and their staff who offered the base bill and continued to work to strengthen its provisions. i want to thank the staff of the energy and commerce committee. of course, my chairman, mr. pitts, who have collaborated in a bipartisan manner to further enhance the bill. they've worked hard to accomplish the goals of our members as well as stakeholders and so strengthen its provisions. i

the very much yet the industry out of f.d.a. because right now f.d.a. and the industry are all in big pharma are almost synonymous and i do think conflicts of interest if they were removed would make a huge difference in the transom or room in that once the the danger with the direct to consumer advertising is a lot of the drugs should not have even better because they're dangerous and one of course is the the a.d.h. to talk them all the cancer on. this is a fairly good example that martha thanks so much for being with us tonight well thank you so much i enjoyed it very much thank you and a great article great research are doing now thank you now everything you know about big pharma and the marketing of designer drugs is right almost. with the global backlash against corporatism picking up steam the one percent has something up their sleeves to keep power it's called americans elect americans elect runs a website where and it intends to let its members or delegates as they're called elect a third party candidate by voting online it takes three million s

it is the first time that the white house has overruled an f.d.a. recommendations. >>> it is chillily, snow in parts of the state. the weather forecast is coming up in 2 1/2 minutes. first, a look at the mid-day stocks, followed by the powerball numbers from last night. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, . >>> after an yesterday, up to 72 yesterday afternoon. 40 at marshall. 26 is the dew point, humidity at 56% and the west wind at 12 and barometer is up at 30- pointtroke point 24 and cold out in oakland now. 36 in cumber land and 42 down on the shore and in the metro area, 41 in the nation's capitol and 37 in west minister and 43 in bellaire and rock hall. the winds from the west, the double digits have been around all day. the winds from the north west and washington dc and over near the river, it is gusting higher up near 20 miles per hour or so on an average, but up to 50 mile-per-hour gusts since the morning hours. the quick brush we had with the winter weather is to the east, there bass a clearing after midnight and the ice moved up i 95 and the sun came up a

an f.d.a. panel approval for an anemia drug sent shares of affymax soaring, up 36%. volume jumped 20-fold. it goes to a full regulatory review in march. in commodities, oil dropped below $100, falling 2% to $98 and change per barrel. that's its biggest loss in two weeks. metal prices also fell with traders pointing to anxiety over europe. gold and copper fell more than 1.5% each. with the european central bank not buying bonds, that put pressure on inflation sensitive gold. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: an early christmas present for ford investors-- the auto maker announced its dividend will return after a five-year absence. as ford's sales and financial condition get healthier, the company is reinstating its quarterly dividend of five cents a share. with about four billion shares outstanding, that quarterly payment will be about $200 million. ford's big rival, general motors, has not yet decided to restore its dividend. >> tom: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: we'll see the october trade balance and get a first look at the university of mic

the juice industry insists that its products are safe, but the f.d.a. says it will review its safety standards for juice. is there a connection between college sports teams and violent gangs? what a cbs news-"sportsaners. illustrate" investigation found >> pelley: for young people in tough neighborhoods, college sports can be a ticket out, but some student athletes have a hard time leaving their trouble behind. cbs news chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian and "sports illustrated" magazine have been looking at the influence of violent gangs on college sports. >> reporter: in 2007, brandon johnson charged straight out of dominiquez high in compton, california, and into the starting lineup at the university of washington. today, the 22-year-old johnson sits in a southern california jail, facing murder charges in connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old suspected gang member this summer. johnson, who has denied all charges, is accused of being in the words of a prosecutor in the case, "directly affiliated with the infamous bloods gang." >

americans no longer die in droves from food-borne diseases as they did before the creation of the f.d.a that we breathe in our cities. we also use government to protect ourselves from unscrupulous business practices. government protects us or should protect us from being ripped off in final frauds or exploited by lenders or tricked by false advertising or harmed by defective consumer products. and government protects us in other ways. it protects us in the work place. a century ago, 100,000 workers died every five years on the job, often because employers didn't really care whether they died. at a time there's only 40 million people in the labor force, today, 5,000 workers die a year in the labor force, which is much larger. because of government, fewer americans are dying on our highways. since the federal government stepped in to regulate auto safety in 1966, the auto fatality rate has dropped by 400%. seat belts, air bags, regulated by government, mandated by government, have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. americans want government to play this protective role, but for decades

that's the advice of santa donna let's move on because this is advice for people that like to party the f.d.a. has approved a pill that promises to take the edge off of situations like this to a great. great movie and now there just might be a cure it combines a thousand milligrams of aspirin ok that doesn't sound like rocket science one hundred twenty milligrams of caffeine neither does that and a stomach soothing agent into effervescent tablets taken the morning after a night of heavy drinking claims to knock out multiple hangover symptoms in just fifteen to thirty minutes how is this any better then a cup of coffee alka seltzer and some aspirin gives you a better this is a. test of the. aspirin and they're calling this blowfish that's the name of the hangover was called blowfish so it's a it's a branding marketing thing. you know you don't really take this with. some water and you know it's the same thing it's just one more drug for the drug industry to market b.s. yeah i mean this is. so shannon what would you offer except new hangover pill that you know claims to be a cure for greasy foo

so the f.d.a. was created for the purpose of making sure that the prescription drucks that we get and or the food that we get is in fact safe for human consumption. i think that is absolutely critical function but i will look at that bill to see if i believe there is, as you seem to think, some discrimination on what would otherwise be very healthy food and milk or milk is what you were referring to specifically. but i will look at that and see what i think about that. but i will tell you, i believe the food and drug administration per forms a critical function for a safe america when you have 315, 325 million people in america and probably % of them has any real idea where the food they eat comes from. but i will talk to you about it. ok? and now that i am not distracting you, maybe the baby will be happier. >> thank you, congressman. my question is you're talking about the attacks earlier and insolvency for medicare, medicaid, social security. i was wondering those agencies, those programs are at

last week, the comment period on the f.d.a.'s draft guidelines closed.y heard from the public and i'm sure they heard from countless americans, i urge them to go back to the drawing board and ensure they do not limit americans' access to dietary supplements. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from connecticut rise? ms. delauro: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. delauro: at a recent horse sale in kentucky, one sold for $8.5 million as part of the sale of the late so you haddy prince's farm. three of the saudi's other horses also sold for seven figures, a total of 22 horses were sold that day for $1 million or more compared with only eight sold in 2010. every millionaire who purchased these horses benefited from a republican sponsored taxpayer subsidy written into the last 2008 farm bill. it allows them to recover the cost of the horse. even as they call for more budget cuts, republicans used that bill to transfer wealth. nearly $500 million from the pock

. >> in way to know which way the f.d.a. will go but the history has been in favor of relaxing restrictions. >>shepard: great britain has made the move? >>guest: they took it to a new level. the british pregnantty -- pregnancy advisory service urged women to get a packet of plan with b before they hit the holiday parties. go online, sign up and a nurse calls you back and you can get the packet for tree. critics say this is nothing more than a vulgar campaign aimed at increasing promiscuity. >>shepard: thank you, john "horny for the holidays." jon corzine went from being the governor of the state of new jersey to oversee the biggest wall street failure in year and may have to answer to employee whose say he lost millions and millions of their money in the process. plus, not too hot, not too cold, the latest planet discovered outside our solar system could be just right. do they have humids on that planet? that they just found? are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperia

i am more concerned about the sugar but i am concerned whether the f.d.a.the epa rap is aware of how much there is in this substance. >>trace: and whether they put the juice maker's feet to the fire, they are not concerned about the natural arsenic but concerned about the man made arsenic which comes in the form of pesticides. ship ship the doctor's health concerns are zero. one part a hundred is 1 percent, and one part for 10,000 would be .01 percent, and now we are at a billion. anyway, bringing in dr. london running her own family practice and assistant professor at cornell mold college in new york city, very well respected. i can't figure out why i'm supposed to give a damn. >>guest: arsenic over time causes lung cancer, skin cancer, bladder canner, in 24 hours of ingesting, in pregnant woman it goes into the fetus. so this is something to care about and children, because they are developing, the cancer risks are unknown and repeat exposure is a problem. >>shepard: the difference between 23 part as billion and three parts a billion according to the othe

she overruled a ruling by the f.d.a.how to use the emergency contraceptive safely. >> police in california releasing a chilling 911 call as a woman shoots and kills a guy trying to break into her house. here's the tape. >> where is he at? oh, my god. >> you can hear the terror and desperation in 66-year-old donna hopper's voice. it turns out the person she shot and killed was 37-year-old jesse, a man with an extensive criminal history. hopper has been cleared of any wrongdoing. she was the first -- that was, by the way, the first time she'd ever used her gun. >> wow. >> the principal who suspended a 9-year-old boy for calling his teacher cute has resigned. he threatened to fine or demote him and never gave him a chance to apologize. he was suspended for two days after being overheard to say that his principal was cute. -- teacher was cute. >> back in the day, you said teachers might have been cute. can only imagine what you would have said. >> who knows, i think steve was way out of control. >> those were the days. got a

scott gottlieb has some answers and he used to work for medicare and was an f.d.a. commissioner and peter suitorman says he has answers, a medicare specialist at reason magazine. we're going broke, today people my age getting old, living longer, we're toast, what are we going to do? well, i can tell you what congress is going to do, which at least in the short-term is keep spending your money. keep spending taxpayer money. >> they're not going to cut the doctor payments. >> they're not going to cut the doctor payments, we go through this every year, sometimes several times a year. what congress does, wait until the last minute and oh, no, what are we going to do. take a last minute vote and then vote to continue paying doctors at the rates that we've been paying doctors and don't let them take the cut. >> i agree with reality. only way to bring european style health care to the united states, what doctors are making. if you look at them relative nations, doctors here just earn more. >> so people would say, so what? doctors make too much money, europeans seem happy w

scott gottlieb has some answers and he used to work for medicare and was an f.d.a.r and peter suitorman says he has answers, a medicare specialist at reason magazine. we're going broke, today people my age getting old, living longer, we're toast, what are we going to do? well, i can tell you what congress is going to do, which at least in the short-term is keep spending your money. keep spending taxpayer money. >> they're not going to cut the doctor payments. >> they're not going to cut the doctor payments, we go through this every year, sometimes several times a year. what congress does, wait until the last minute and oh, no, what are we going to do. take a last minute vote and then vote to continue paying doctors at the rates that we've been paying doctors and don't let them take the cut. >> i agree with reality. only way to bring european style health care to the united states, what doctors are making. if you look at them relative nations, doctors here just earn more. >> so people would say, so what? doctors make too much money, europeans seem happy with their he

if f.d.a. was anywhere near as competent as usda is in terms of inspections we wouldn't have these problems. but frankly -- the department of agriculture should be regulating it. mr. conyers: do you think this bill should go further, then why would f.d.a. need to have 3010 be made more likely to kill regulations that control jobs and health? mr. peterson: we're talking about a bigger issue here, but all this bill does is it gives folks a better chance to understand what actually is going on here. this whole food safety issue has been a big problem because people are off on tangents that don't have anything to do with reality. salmonella exists in all kind of products. it's going to be there. it's always going to be there no matter what you do. what -- the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. peterson: so you can determine the salmonella before it gets in the food supply. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: mr. chairman, first, i want to than

>>clayton: the quote from the f.d.a.'e vast majority of samples are very slow but we want to minimize the exposures as much as we can." here is dr. oz reacting to this new news. >> i think all the major players in this argument, the ones that were critical of the early studies have come to an agreement that we have a problem with apple juice. there is a question for the parents, why would you buy apple juice for your kid that might have more arsenic than your tap water? >>clayton: the other question is the other juices, right? grapefruit juice? >>guest: and looking at parents and saying, what do we do? look, apple juice or any kind of juice in general, small amounts is not a big problem at the present team, but a lot of people are advising, especially if you have children younger than six, limit the amount of juice consumption, especially in infants do not give them any juice, and, also, change brands because they are all over the place. 5 percent of the different brands that were tested exceeded the elements so i would a

it's become more urgent just this week when the f.d.a. approved for over the counter sales of a drug that kills a developing baby. and health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius did make it so that one has to be 17 to purchase what has been termed abortion in a bottle. and now, think about this for a moment. if you have a daughter, she has to have parental consent to take an aspirin at school, but the government was on the brink of letting her purchase a pill that will kill her unborn child with neither your consent nor approval. this is insane. so the gift of life movie illustrates why each life matters, by seeing things through the eyes of people whose mothers contemplated or even attempted to abort them. by the way, all audience members here today are going to get a copy of the movie, "the gift of life" and i think they will enjoy it and he they take it home with them. now, if you want more information on getting one for yourself or maybe for christmas gifts, go to "the gift of life movie.com and go to mike huckabee.com and

. >> now, we don't know how the f.d.a. is going to go on this but historically speaking they have been in favor of relaxing the rules, so maybe they dual it again tomorrow, shep. >> over at the united kingdom. there is this push to get people to buy plan b in advance of the holidays. >> not buy it, shep, but get it free. the british pregnancy advisory service has launched a campaign aimed at people who do a little bit too much kissing around the mistletoe, get their free pack of plan b just in case. women, girls go online fill out a form and get a packet from a nurse. critics have called this campaign incredibly vulgar doing nothing more than overtly promoting promiscuity. the advisory service trying to have a sense of humor about the whole thing. the web site is santa cumss.org. a lot of people don't think that's very funny, shep. >> jonathan, thanks. armed, dangerous, looking for vengeance. u.s. marshals have been desperately trying to hunt down an escaped prisoner. a man said to be hunting a couple people himself. just