sanjay gupta md" starts right now. [ sirens ] >> this is a drug overdose call. every 19 minutes in the united states, someone dies of an accidental overdose. >> this is crazy. not a single solitary one of these people has to die. >> we're used to thinking of it starting here, looking like this. but something happened in this country. and now increasingly, it starts here, in your own home. >> went to sleep, he had no idea this was going to be his last night on earth. >> were misusing perfectly legal prescription drugs. taking a deadly toes. dose. ♪ [ phone ringing ] >> this is deborah. >> hello. i'm a little concerned i may have taken something that wasn't good for me on accident. [ phone ringing ] >> i took methadone from my grandpa. >> okay. >> and they were ten milligrams. >> what you're listening to are actual calls at the washington poison center in seattle. >> just drowsy, okay. >> and lately, more and more of them sound something like this. >> yesterday i took about 90 milligrams of perkocet. >> oh, you did? >> 6:00, i wasn't really thinking, and i did a b

sanjay gupta.emotional story for all of us and parents around the country, including me, i'm a parent to 5 year olds and you're a parent. what do we tell our kids before they go to school tomorrow? >> the one thing i think is important and your kids don't really know yet what has happened but so many kids still find out, john. it's important to realize that even with the tv off, talking to other people, as you say, it's a story that has really everyone in the country has talked about. you have to assume that your kids are going to know something. i think at that point to be transparent. i have a 7, 5 and 3-year-old. my 7-year-old asked me the names of the children. they want to humanize this immediately. that's just their instinct, i think. then to fill in details as is appropriate for the age. i mean, obviously, not being too graphic, but also not, in any way, not being truthful. so, she ask eed about her own school and if it was safe. i reminded her this never happened to daddy's school, mommy's

sanjay gupta. he's on the phone now.rse of a follow-up exam today, secretary clinton's doctors discovered a blood clot had formed stemming from a concussion she sustained several weeks ago. she's being treated with anticoagulants and is at new york presbyterian hospital. her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues associated with her concussion. they will determine if any further action is required. this is your baillie wig, hearing that, what do you say? >> couple things jump out right away, don. first off, this sounds like it's a follow-up exam as opposed to her going in for something specific. i know she was at home, we reported on this at the time she hader concussion, at that time the doctors were comfortable with her being at home. she goes in for a follow-up exam, they discover a blood clot is all they say and they are treating her with anticoagulant medication that requires her to be in the hospital for 48 hours. most likely this is a blood clot that's located in her legs known as a

sanjay gupta. she was just cleared to return to work this week, and now this. >> first of all, there are a couple things that are important. admittedly, the details are vague, don. it sounds like she went in for a routine exam, they found a clot, a blood clot, they did not specify where this clot was located. she's hospitalized on blood thinners, anti-coagulants, as you mentioned. these are important points. from a medical perspective, first of all, finding this on a routine exam means that she didn't go in for some particular new problem or concern. and the fact that she's on blood thinners, specifically for this, really suggests to me -- as a neurosurgeon we see this all the time -- that this is not a blood clot that's located in the brain, but rather somewhere else in the body. probably the legs, for example, and that's something you would typically use anti-coagulants for. i think what was tough to decipher was that they said this was related to the concussion, but not so much as a result of th

sanjay gupta.neurosurgeon, as our viewers know. >>> at least technically speaking, the united states at midnight tonight will go over that fiscal cliff. that's because the house of representatives is now adjourning for the day. will not consider any legislation that may pass the united states senate. at least till tomorrow. so technically the u.s. is going over the fiscal cliff. although if the senate passes legislation and the house follows suit tomorrow, practically speaking, it won't have any impact. because tomorrow being january 1st, a federal holiday. much more on both of these stories coming up. there's other news we're following. including the former president george h.w. bush. he is now out of intensive care. mary snow is monitoring that. some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what's the latest, mary? >> a spokesman for mr. bush says his condition has improved and he's been moved to a regular hospital room in houston. he's been hospitalized for more than a month.

. >>> on december 19, 2011, benjamin gupta, a law and mba student at george washington university, dieduddenly. mysteriously. he's no relationship to me, but when his family got word, they spent hours trading phone calls. they were in stunned disbelief. >> there was a message from his mom, and she had left three messages for me so i knew there was something wrong. >> i received a call from my mom. i didn't answer, but then i got a text message from her, which is very unusual. >> and i called her back. and i said, what happened? and she says, it's ben. he died. i just -- i didn't have any of the information. >> i finally said, how did this happen? and she said he went to sleep the night before and he just never woke up. >> he's always smiling, every picture he's smiling. >> for days, ben gupta's family was desperate for answers. what killed him? he was only 28 years old. he had recently been given a clean bill of health. how could he just not wake up? >> and then the thought went through my mind that maybe it was some sort of a brain aneurism or something must have happened. >> but his f

sanjay gupta and this is "the next list." >>> we're now at the mit media lab. the media matter group is the group that i have founded when i arrived at the lab as faculty. >> mary came as a student in computation. at the secondary masters level. we don't tend to hire our own. you know, it's just a principle. but mary was so exceptional that when we had a big search for a position in the media lab, she came out on top. clearly, clearly excellent. >> the immediamedia matter rese group was founded two years ago as a design lab that's dedicated to exploring design that is explored by the biological and natural world. how can we reinterpret 3-d printing that generates or suggests a new design language that's informed by the environment? when you think about other systems in nature, one often thinks of the spider web. so the spiders are creatures of the environment that generate silk and with that silk, they do lots of things. they create trailing routes, they capture their prey. they wrap their prey. they wrap their eggs. so they generate silk for various functions.

sanjay gupta after the break. i gave birth to my daughter on may 18th, five days later, i had a massive heart attack. bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. now, i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ woman ] learn from my story. ♪ >>> we will move on. we will never forget. we will, in many ways, become stronger from what has transpired. and we will get better. >> the connecticut governor speaking at a memorial. touching memorial last night. hundreds of people crowding into the high school here where the president was as well. saying that we will get better. must have town will get better but they will be forever scarred. the emotional toll that this will take not only on the people here but people everywhere. just a personal anecdote, i don't live far from here. i have two small children in an elementary school. we have been getting regular updates and e-mails how our school will be handling this and our district will b

sanjay gupta. he is joining us now. now, sanjay, you have been taking a very close look, potentially at the mind of a killer. >> yeah, and that question, why, wolf that you ask, it is hard to say for sure whether there is ever going to be a satisfactory answer to that. but there are several things that medical experts and investigators are going to look at, including specific patterns. we looked at ten of the most widely studied cases, tragedies, i should say in history. and take a look at what we found. first thing you notice when you look around newtown, everyone has that questioning look, why? what did we miss, if anything? no answers yet. just hindsight. to try to make some sense of the tragedy here in newtown, be connecticut, medical investigators are also looking at evidence of patterns, not talking about clothes or even life-style, but rather looking for evidence of specific plans could give some clues as to what was happening in the person's mind and in their brain. it is hard to know, because thankfully, there

sanjay gupta is still with me.e're going to talk right now to an expert in childhood trauma, she is the director of terror and disaster programs at ucla duke center for children. dr. brent, thank you very much for joining us. what is the most important advice you give parents whose children may have experienced trauma, horrific event like this? >> the parents are going through just tremendous amounts of stress. and it is important for all of us to give them as much support. they have a lot of demands on them right now in terms of how to talk to their kids right now. how to provide those comforts. and there is great people in connecticut and all around that know what they're doing that can lend support to them at this time. and doctor, it is sanjay gupta, one of the things that come up here quite a bit, is the children who are in the school, you know, how long will the symptoms and the concerns about ptsd last for them? >> we have learned from other types of events. i have worked at santana high school and other sch

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sanjay gupta joins us now. of all, can you explain what asperger's syndrome is and how it typically presents itself? >> asperger is on the autism spectrum. they use the term spectrum because it's vague. all sorts of symptoms with this. but asperger's considered the highest form of functioning of autism. they have a hard time making eye contact. strong social connections. again, anderson, you and i talked about this, there are people running major companies in this country who have come out and said they also have asperger's. you can be highly functioning with this. but it's hard to characterize symptoms. >> i know people with asperger's, oftentimes, they're experts in one particular realm or particular interests. are socially awkward. is there any evidence at all that autism disorders, which are not mental disorders, are linked to violence, planned violence in particular? >> there's not. i don't want to dance around the edges here at all or beat around the bush because this has come up quite a bit. since we sta

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"sanjay gupta, md" starts right now. >> hello and thanks for being with us. as you may know, i spent the past week immersed in what might be the most upsetting story i think i've ever reported. i want to start by saying, the kind of horrible violence we saw in newtown, connecticut, it isn't new. in fact, the worst school attack ever took place more than 80 years ago in bath, michigan. there was a consolidated school, the pride and joy of that community. it also meant increased property taxes and a farmer became angry about that. so for weeks he put dynamite under the local school and then eventually blew it up. 38 children died. and then he killed himself with another load of dynamite. we'll never truly know for sure why he did all that or what made the young man in newtown unload a rifle into a classroom full of first graders. but i've looked at other school shootings and they just might provide some clues. first thing you notice is when you look around newtown, everyone has that questioning look. why? what did we miss? if anything? no answers yet. just hind

sanjay gupta, here with us now. posttraumatic stress disorder, that is going to be a huge problem?> it is. we are used to talking about this in the context over adults but it can happen in children and it can happen quickly. i think that's two things people don't always realize, how the children behave now, how a lot of these things are implemented that you've been talking about with people over the last couple of days, is going to make a big difference, if certain conversations are had, if special care is taken to make sure that children are sleeping well, for example, they are going to be able to cope much better in the long runs, you can predict, you know, certain likelihood of success in terms of that coping by what's happening the next few days. >> we think of posttraumatic stress disorder, troops coming home from afghanistan or iraq. this is obviously very different from that. what are the symptoms what should we be looking forward to? this is a very serious illness? >> adults, you think about things like hyper vigilance, difficulty sleeping, almost hasty reaction. in childre

the next list with sanjay gupta starts right now. >>> they're innovators, game changers, people pushing themselves, moving us all forward. they're the next scientists, musicians, poets, the next makers, dreamers, teachers, and geniuses. they are "the next list." >> max little has a bold idea. what if doctors could detect parkinson's disease simply by the sound of your voice? max little is close to proving just that. he says one simple voice test can determine if someone has parkinson's. all you need is a telephone. >> we've got an ultra low cost way of detecting the disease. >> he calls it the parkinson's voice initiative. he's testing voices from around the world to fine-tune his algorithm. he's collected over 17,000 voices and counting. how confident can you be that person has parkinson's? >> 99%. >> that's pretty incredible. >> now if he succeeds, he could change the game for parkinson's patients and for doctors. what makes this discovery even more incredible, max isn't a doctor. he's a mathematician. i'm dr. sanjay gupta and this is "the next list." >>> my name is max little, and fo

sanjay gupta for a look at what's ahead on the bottom of the hour on "sanjay gupta md." good morning, sanjay. >> good morning. >>> the leading cause of accidental deaths in this country isn't car accidents. instead, perfectly legal prescription pain killers which kill more people than cocaine, heroin. we'll look at how disturbing easily it is to take a deadly dose and how warning labels don't paint a true picture. we have that ahead at 7:30 a.m. eastern. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion. because just one 200mg celebrex a day can provide 24 hour relief for many with arthritis pain and inflammation. plus, in clinical studies, celebrex is proven to improve

sanjay gupta. ur chief medical correspondent. you have done a lot of work in most traumatic stress. are children's brains capable of overcoming this more easily than adults or do you find the opposite, does it affect them for the rest of their lives? >> they both can be affected by post-traumatic stress disorder, but kids are resilient. the same sort of episodes are sort lived. so just as your guest was saying, a lot of times it could be very subtle things. a little bit of regression, for example, in terms of development and temper tantrums. something that seems unusual, but oftentimes it could be more short-lived. i saw something very interesting, soledad, and we talked about this before. sleep can oftentimes be one of the first big -- sleep can be a very powerful predictor overall of how someone copes in the long-term. so even last night, tonight, parents watching and making sure their kids are getting sleep. i know it sounds like a simple thing, but if you look at the study, it's a powerful predictor how they will cope in the long rung. >> reporter: i want to go back to erik fish

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sanjay gupta is here. sanjay what is going on here?n with the coating and now should they be worried? >> the story goes typically they take this and over the last several years what doctors have sort of been concerned about is that that in some patients it doesn't seem to work. what they -- what the doctors thought and a lot of people have thought is that was due to something known as aspirin resistance. what this study -- this new study today, wolf, sort of was looking at is what exactly is aspirin resistance, something that is real at all, or could it be caused by the aspirin itself? you saw some images there. this is the uncoated aspirin. and over here is the coated aspirin. and what this study basically says, it says, look, it is that coating that has been the problem. it is that coating that prevents the aspirin from being absorbed in a way that allows it to do its job. they studied 400 healthy people over a period of time. on some days they found the aspirin worked pretty well. on other days it didn't. that's why they have come t

gupta, sanjay gupta goes inside the violent mind for answers.brain contain clues about why killers snap? challeg environment. unless you have the right perspective. bny mellon wealth management has the vision and experience to look beyond the obvious. we'll uncover opportunities, find hidden risk, and make success a reality. bny mellon wealth management >>> welcome back, everyone, to this special edition of "early start." as people in newtown and around the world try to make sense of the tragedy there, the biggest question, of course, is why? why did the shooter target an elementary school? why did he gun down 20 6 and 7-year-old kids? chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has been following this. >> reporter: first thing you notice around newtown, everyone has that questioning look, why, what did we miss, if anything? no answers yet, just hindsight. to try and make some sense of the tragedy here in newtown, connecticut, medical investigators will often look for evidences of patterns, not talking about clothing exiles or musical preferenc

sanjay gupta tells us her prognosis and it depends where the blood clot is. that's coming up. >>> joe johns here in washington, d.c. where we are following the fiscal cliff negotiations. we just heard from the president of the united states here in washington, saying that a deal is within sight, but it is not done. he urged his supporters to keep the heat on congress until it's done. he focused among other things the fact that this deal would extend tax credits for families, extend the tuition tax credit and other things. also expressed concerns about cuts to social spending, which have not yet been worked out. so we're following all of that, and waiting to hear more about these outlines of a deal that have started to emerge. deb, back to you in atlanta. >> joe, also said that he would prefer to have done a grand bargain, but he's willing to take right now what he can get. late last night, when talks seemed to have broken down, vice president joe biden swooped in to help get them restarted. biden took an urgent call from mitch mcconnell, and the two agreed to

sanjay gupta joins me now.esting this past week that apparently the calls or questions into this autism speaks, this hot line, is up like 130%. so obviously people are talking about that, people have questions. is the fact that this shooter reportedly had asperger's, is that relevant? >> i think it is not relevant. >> you don't? >> i think probably just need to come out and say it the way you asked it and i answered it, it is not relevant to the discussion. >> why? >> it is not associated with any of these types of behaviors. when i think -- to the extent it is raised in the context of this, people are saying could autism somehow have caused this sort of behavior and it just doesn't. this has been studied. there is a study that is one of the most quoted studies with regard to some of the behaviors of people with autism. asperger's is on the autism spectrum. out of 132 people in that study, 3 people had episodes of some sort of violence, but they were always reactive violence or outbursts. what was seen here was

sanjay gupta introduces us to one of them.hoa became a famous baseball player and manager. >> joe torre is one of the most successful baseball managers in the past 40 years. >> they are just running into each other and i can't tell you how happy i am. never have been this happy in my life. >> just as he was reaching the pinnacle of his career, he began opening up about his childhood. growing up with an abusive father. >> my older sister ray came into the dining room with a knife protecting my mom and my dad was going into the drawer in the dining room to get his revolver. i did witness that. i still remember vividly going-over to my sister and grabbing the knife and putting it on the table. >> for young torre who was expected to be inducted into the hall of fame, baseball became his sanctuary. >> i had low self esteem. i played baseball and had an opportunity to go someplace to hide. >> what are time do you have to be in class? >> today he is giving back. providing a real sanctuary for other abused children. >> the perpetrator

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we'll talk to a former cia officer about that and sanjay gupta. plus an activist inside syria and what he has to say about the potential threat, next. oç=Ñp >>> syria's government is under scrutiny tonight as the world awaits the a sad's next move. as we told you last night, nbc news is reporting that syria's actually loading chemical weapons in to bombs. cnn has not confirmed the nbc report. all of this comes amid a string of opposition victories. recently they took control of key oil fields, saw advances in aleppo and reports suggest they surround the capital of damascus. one opposition spokesman told cnn they started what they believe to be the end battle of this war. if the intelligence on the chemical weapons, though, is true, the latest advances by the opposition seem to add incentives to the syrian government to use them. the assad regime denies having chemical weapons, and claims the reports are being used to justify an international invasion. after more than 20 months of fighting and more than 40,000 civilian deaths, the civil war appe

sanjay gupta joins me by phone. it was expected he would be going home for christmas. still in the icu. how dangerous is bronchitis and the fever for someone his age? >> reporter: the age plays a big role here. bronchitis is something that can be easily treated and oftentimes -- some of the times it needs antibiotics to treat it. in you and me it would be a pretty easy thing to treat. he was on the general care floor and went back to the icu with the fever indicates that the bronchitis was not completely treated or came back. and both of those things we take seriously. as you might guess the biggest concern might this turn into pneumonia. bronchitis an infection of the airways and pneumonia an infection of the lungs. but it is important he is talking to his doctors. he is joking around with his doctors, shows his spirit and shows he is not needing assisted breathing or a breathing machine and that is a good sign. >> as we said, he has been hospitalized right now for more than a month. to a lot of people that sounds a very serious. but right now he is in guarded conditi

sanjay gupta explains. >> reporter: i rode along with craig a min.kes an overdose call, the usual suspect is a painkiller. >> what sort of impact have you seen here in seattle? >> if you pull a group of people together from this community, someone in that group is going to have had a friend, a loved one that's either had difficulty with a prescription drug or potentially died from that. >> reporter: the unit responds to 45 calls a month for overdee overdeess. this is important. it can be difficult to tell if it's a painkiller or heroin because they come from the same ingredient and do the same sort of thing to your body. >> aside from needle tracks in the arms, someone who has had an overdose of pain medication like that or heroin, they could look very much the same. >> absolutely. they could be unconscious from a medication that they think is relatively safe for them because instead of getting it on the street, they get it from a pharmacist. >> these people are suffering from chronic pain. they know that a little bit of pain medication helps. so may

sanjay gupta joins me now. i find this incredible, this little girl, emma whitehead, alive today because of this therapy. i don't understand how this works at all. how does this actually kill the cancer? >> this is something people have been talking about for some time and have used in forms, but in a nutshell, it's teaching the body's immune system that cancer is foreign, it's bad, and should be attacked using the body's immune system. different than using chemotherapy to achieve those goals. you take out some of the body's immune cells and basically reprogram them. you put genetic material into them that teaches the cells to attack that cancer. what's interesting here is they're using a deadened form of the hiv virus to transport that genetic material into cells. hiv very good to getting to cells. they're putting the genetic material sort of as a piggyback on to the virus. and they're putting the t-cells onto the body and it attacks the cancer. the person oftentimes gets very sick. their immune system gets bl

sanjay gupta, a neurosurgeon himself, he's here. sanjay, she's obviously not feeling well. she must have fallen, i assume, hit her head, and suffers a concussion? >> yeah. the first thing -- the fainting preceded the concussion. one of the most common things is you have somebody who becomes dehydrated. that's one of the top reasons that would come to mind when somebody else thinks of a heart condition but they said she had a stomach virus. to faint to the point where she hit her head, she didn't brace herself so sounds like she was really -- the fainting spell was quite significant. with a concussion itself, doesn't mean you necessarily lose consciousness. what i read into the statement specifically is that they are allowing her to rest at home. if they had said that she needed to spend the night in the hospital or something else, that would clearly be of more concern. but this sounds like something she should recover from just fine. it's obviously unfortunate and the stomach virus can make somebody dehydrated to the point where you get that faint, that's a concern. being t

sanjay gupta joins me. he has been looking into that. you've been researching commonalities.t are they? what have you found? >> one of the first things that these medical investigators, forensic investigators will do is try and figure out do they fit a particular type. and they almost always do, which is interesting. there are typically three types that we're talking about here. someone who actually has psychotic tendencies, someone who has psychopathic tendencies, or someone who has been heavily traumatized in youth. jared loughner, for example, somebody we reported on quite a bit. he clearly had psychotic tendencies. and one of the columbine killers had clear clues dating back of psychopathic tendencies. he had sadistic behavior. he had been delinquent with his parents quite a bit. and i don't know if you remember this, anderson, but he was laughing at the time that he was actually committing these murders at columbine high school. the point is that hardly anyone ever really just snaps. we have the benefit of hindsight in these situations. but the real point here is that we

sanjay gupta is joining us by phone. last week, it was expected the former president would be going home for christmas. and now we learn he's in the icu. what does that tell you and how dangerous is bronchitis and the subsequent fever for someone his age? what are the potential complications here? >> the age plays a big role as you may guess. bronchitis is typically something that can be easily treated. some of the times it needs antibiotics to treat it. but in someone like you and me it would be an easy thing to treat. the fact that he has had the bronchitis and then he was on the general care and back to intensive care unit with a fever probably indicates that the bron bronchitis was either not complete treated the first time around or came back. it was treated but came back quickly. we take those seriously. as you may guess, the biggest concern might turn in to pneumonia, an infection of the airways, pneumonia being an infection of the lungs. that would be more serious. one thing i read in to the statement, he is talk