of course, we get these geyer warnings coming out this morning about meat, still the centerpiece of most american diets. the world health organization reviewing the data and finds troubling links to colon cancer and possibly other cancers, as well. abc's linsey davis with the details. >> reporter: alarming news about foods so many of us eat every day. bacon, hot dogs, lunch meat, all now classified in the same category as cigarettes and asbestos. they can cause cancer, according to the world health organization, and that's not all. the w.h.o. advisory committee also finding that unprocessed red meat is probably carcinogenic. the report, which was based on an analysis of more than 800 studies, asserts that simply eating 50 grams of processed meat each day can increase the risk of colon cancer by 18%. here's some food for thought. the 50 grams cited in the report is the equivalent of 1.8 ounces of meat. but a typical deli sandwich has more than 4.5 ounces of meat. and this is what 1.8 ounces looks like. according to the report, 34,000 cancer deaths could be attributed to diets high in proc

we went through, we went through a lot of these stations, geyerations and stereos, about it being a missile or not, and a lot of work that was done at that time to draw the conclusions that we did was similar to the work that the dutch have done to draw the conclusions that they have. >> the dutch found clear evidence, especially in the bodies of the pilots, the people in the cockpit, that indicated that it was a russian missile. ukraine does not escape unscathed here. the report blames them. the ukrainians saying they had sufficient reason though close the air space over eastern ukraine. does the ukranian government deserve blame for not closing the air space? >> yes. they do deserve some of the blame, as do the airlines as well. this was a hot bed area, and a lot of people know about it. the red flags should have been up. and they weren't. >> why didn't the airlines take action. why were they continuing to fly over a war zone dism. >> it's not just malaysia, a lot of airlines were flying over it. it's a convenient route. sometimes we continue to do the same old thing just because we have

and it was at that point that we had president buchanan having conversations with justice taney and geyer. >> can you tell me what the decision is going to be or did he in fact try to influence the decision? >> i think initially it was about timing more than anything else but later he began to talk more substantively about what the nature of the decision might be or should be. >> here is something we would find absolutely outrageous today. i read that for his swearing in he wanted to announce the outcome of the case for his inaugural address. >> yeah. he is deeply invested in this question about congress's authority and the question about to what degree and under what terms slavery will or will not be able to continue and to spread into federal territories and he doesn't quite take that thunder and we can imagine taney's own sense of propriety, right, over the court and over what in the 19th century is its own dramatic scene, which is the reading of these opinions from the bench of the supreme court, lasting many hours. there's an important theater and an important status, right, that com