healy and mr., in addition to the nicotine what are the other ingredients in the liquid nicotine? >> speaking to the blu product, the five key ingredients are propose lean gliokohl, glycerin and vegetable glycerin, distilled water, nicotine and natural and artificial flavors. and. >> and in our product it's nicotine, probe line gliokohl, glycerin and also flavorings. >> are any of those other than the nicotine harmful substances? >> so we've tested our products, and we support the, the fda's harmful and herbally harmful -- potentially harmful testing for these products, and we're submitting our results to the fda and are very comfortable with the results that they are orders of magnitude safer than combusted cigarettes. >> but as to the substance itself being harmful or not, i didn't understand your answer. >> so the substances are generally regarded as safe in foods. they haven't been tested in terms of epidemiological studies and inhalation in humans over large periods of time. >> do you headache

healy, the president of blue e-cigarettes. the market leader for sales and marketing in the e-cigarette industry. we welcome you. members of the committee, i am jason healy, founder and president of blu e-cigarettes. is a privilege to talk about the new product that has tremendous potential to reduce tobacco-related harm and disease and hopefully play a role in limiting traditional cigarettes. back in 2008, i tried my first electronic cigarette. as a smoker, saw tremendous opportunity for myself and other smokers. i immediately saw this innovative product could provide an alternative to smokers who enjoy smoking or who struggle to quit like myself but do not want the negative effects of traditional cigarettes on their health. health. digital cameras once were for the film industry. it is a good decision. i'm not alone of public health experts have looked at different approaches. it will make great progress because we need a policy. different types of nicotine use occupy different points along what f.d.a. calls a continue you u

healy? >> yes. >> let's go back to you, mr. myers. if that is the case, what argument can they make in order to keep these products on the market or targeted towards children? >> it's the reason we are concerned about the kind of marketing that we have seen and the use of flavors that have gone to children. >> for many, the thought of santa claus brings back cookies and big, white beard. most children would not think of santa needing e-cigarette. other examples like blues, mr. cool, bring back flashbacks of similar strategies used by traditional companies. mr. myerss, do you think these images could appeal to young consumers? >> i think there's no question about that. it's a generation of consumers who are protected from this kind of advertising. it's the first time they will see them. >> do you think it's a coincidence it's called cool in the same way that kool cigarette was the entry level for a kid to finally reach camels, but a softer entry for the kid to go kool and move on to the harde

healy. and now mr. craig weiss, who is the president and ceo of njoy electronic cigarettes, the second-largest presence in the e-cigarette market. >> members of the committee and mr. chairman, thank you very much. my name is craig weiss, and i'm the president and ceo of njoy. njoy is an independent electronic cigarette company with no affiliation to the tobacco industry. we are proud to state that our corporate mission is is too obsolete the tobacco cigarette and the death and disease that it has left in its wake. i would like to focus on what i believe unites us and our company with the members of this committee, with the fda center for tobacco products, and with dedicated women and men in public health. we look forward to a day when combustion cigarettes are no longer part of the american landscape. we are appalled at the toll the tobacco epidemic has taken and continues to take each year in this country, including 480,000 adults americans who die prematurely each year from tobacco-related illness. th

andrew healy has been a lifeguard for 44 years. so you yourself have been stuck in them? >> sure. you know, no lifeguard hasn't been in a rip current. >> how to escape? rip currents are often no wider than 30 feet. >> we tell them swim left or right, parallel. then you're out of the force of the water bringing you out. >> rr: that advance saved randy's life. there were no lifeguards on duty when he was swept away. >> it took me about half an hour to get out of the rip current and i was about half a mile from my blanket, but i made it out. i was a little winded. you just have to, you know, believe that you're going to milwaukee it and everything is going to be okay. >> reporter: now, even if you're just wading in the water up to your knees, all it takes is one wave to knock you over and you can be swept up into a rip kurnd if there's one nearby. so you always want to make sure there's a lifeguard on duty, especially this weekend, if you're planning on head into the water. lester? >> all right, thank you. >>> in a georgia courtroom today, some disturbing new allegations were aired a

andrew healy has been a lifeguard for 44 years. so you yourself have been stuck in them? >> sure.lifeguard has ever been a lifeguard hasn't been in a rip current. >> how to escape? they are often no wider than 30 feet. >> most people we tell them swim left or right, parallel because then you're out of the force of the water that's bringing you out. >> that advice saved randy's life. there were no lifeguards on duty when he was swept away. >> it took me about a half hour to get out of the rip current. i was about a half a mile away from my blanket, but i made it out, and it was a little winded. you just have to, you know, believe that you're going to make it and everything is going to be okay. >> even after hurricane arthur passes, rip currents could still be a threat for several days. joining me now is dr. ellen prager, a marine scientist. she's on skype which is a good thing. we can see her. good morning. >> good morning. >> here's the big problem. a lot of people don't know how to spot a rip current in order to get out of the way. how can you see one in order not to get sucked i

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neil: healy is back in capitol hill, creating what republicans had said was a republican crisis.are beginning to wonder if we have gone from making it too easy to get home to making it to cut. among those in the latter group. lewis, you are one of the early individuals in packaging the less than pristine mortgages that became the focus of this his attention. but you argued then as you do now that most of those folks were dutifully paying off the mortgage is. >> it was not a function of this but the nature of the way that the loans would be packaged and the mortgage structures more than a credit quality. >> so are you saying that we can try the other way with these numbers? >> we were much too conservative and i think that there is a general consensus that we have gone from one extreme in the context of credit to the far end on the context of credit. >> giving you an example back in my parents time, they didn't even have credit scores like we do today. but it was really something you had to work for. then we let that switch a little bit and many argue that we are kind of getting b

andrew healy has been a lifeguard for 44 years. so you, yourself, have been stuck in them? >> sure.ou know, no lifeguard hasn't been in a rip current. >> reporter: how to escape? rip currents are often no wider than 30 feet. >> most people, we found swim left-to-right, parallel. then you're out of the force of the water bringing you out. >> reporter: that advice saved raen randy torrent's life. there were no lifeguards on duty when he was swept away. >> it took me about half an hour to get out of the rip current and i was about half a mile from my blanket, but i made it out. i was a little winded. you just have to, you know, believe that you're going to make it and everything is going to be okay. >> nbc dylan dreyer with that report for us. rip currents could be a threat for several days. joining us now via skype is dr. ellen prager a manner scienti, t and author. if you can identify a rip current and you're in a rip current, that which you should do? >> that's right. when you get a rip current, it's a very strong narrow jet of water going from the beach offshore and your first reac

andrew healy has been a lifeguard for 44 years. >> so you yourself have been stuck in them? reporter: how to escape? rip currents are often no wider than 30 feet. >> most people we still them swim left to right parallel because then you're out of the force of the water bringing you out. >> that advice saved randy's life. there were no lifeguards on duty when he was swept away. >> it took me about a half hour to get out of the rip current and i was about a half a mile away from my blanket, but i made it out. and i was a little winded. you just have to believe that you're going to make it and everything is going to be okay. >> that was nbc's dylan dreyer there. she adds that even if you are only in the water up to your knees, you can still get caught up in a dangerous rip current if you get knocked down by a wave. >>> ahead, planes, trains, automobiles. the best way to get to grandma's this weekend as hurricane arthur deals an unexpected blow to a lot of travel plans. she keeps you on your toes. you wouldn't have it any other way. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a

i think that the challenge we have that has healy caused a spike is that the significant security challenges in the central american countries themselves. and the fact you have smugglers increasingly recognizing they can make money by transporting these folks often in very dangerous circumstances to the border. take advantage of the compassion of the american people. recognizing that we're not going to simply leave abandoned children who are left at our doorstep but that we have to care for them and provide them some basic safety and security while we determine where we can send them. but you know, i think one of the most important things we can recognize, this is not a short term problem, this is a long-term problem. we have countries that are pretty close to us in which the chances that children are just far, far worse than they are here. and parents who are frightened or are misinformed about what is possible are willing to take extraordinary risks on behalf of their kids. the more that we can do to help these countries get their acts together, then the less likely we are to have a proble