from the institutes of medicine to the world health organization, we know that reducing the consumption of junk food by kids, like my daughter, could save billions of dollars for overstressed public health system. this includes community health advocates and individuals. i want to thank our stellar department staff for their hard work for many, many years to address the equities in the food and varmint in san francisco and to make sure that access to healthy food is a human right in our city. this is also the product of another key coalition of activists that have been helping to create healthy nutrition in our area. also, there is our city attorney and others, but especially to one for the hard work the last person imagines is from my staff. she had to be part community adviser, part want. , and we would not be here. this is to create healthier choices and more equitable environment. thank you. president chiu: supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: i have not expressed my support except for when it has come before us for a vote. by the coverage that it has been getting in the main

the institute of medicine says the average person is getting enough vitamin d even though experts have warned for years that most americans were deficient. and a tiny bug caused nightmares across the country. >> one bedbug can grow to 30,000 in six months' time if not controlled. >> reporter: dr. kim mulvihill, cbs 5 healthwatch. >>> also more about those bedbugs. they have invaded not only the bed rooms but the tiny insects shut down major retailers and offices and bedbug summits were held across the nation offering new ways to kill them. they will be around for a long time. >>> a danville family has been reunited with an unusual member of fair family, a 5-foot-tall dinosaur stolen from the lawn of the johnson home earlier this week. a neighbor recognized it from the news and contacted the owners. >> just kind of with a good friend of all of ours and we loved her and we are just very happy that she is back and we hope she can enjoy the people. >> the dinosaur was hid n behind a tree not too far from the johnsons home. the family reports she was found in great shape and she is still we

the institute of medicine which sets out guidelines for the daily recommended intake assert supplementsas come up with recommendations on dosage. it says most adults 19 to 70 need to upper usage from 400 to 600 international units of vitamin c per day to keep healthy. those over the age may need as much as 800 units for example, 3 ounces of canned tuna is about 200 high u.s.. the recommendations were based on the finding of nearly 1000 published settings on friday. they concluded that vitamin d was excellent for to been bones and muscles strong. although studies have linked and indeed of fighting heart disease, cancer and diabetes they said there's not enough evidence to recommend vitamin d for those purposes. doctors warn too much concrete and overdose of calcium in the blood causing kidney and heart problems. don't take too much. although some light is the best source nutritionists recommend getting it from foods such as the oily fish like to know and salmon, milk, egg yolks and fortified cereals and supplement the rest. vicki live beyond his kron 4 news. >> speaking of that and d int

but that's the two to three times what the institute of medicine is recommending. >> reporter: he keeps his levels in check. >> i am cautious about what i eat. i can have the build-up. >> reporter: because he doesn't want to have to sit on the sidelines again. besides milk, other good sources of vitamin d include fatty fish like salmon and eggs and then the sun. sunlight when it touches your skin enables skin cells to make vitamin d. if you're fair skin, about ten minutes is enough for most people. >> thank you very much. >>> a small family-owned grocery chain in the bay area is shutting its doors and laying off its employees. right before christmas too. the market is going to close five stores in the coming weeks. the chain reportedly owes $1 million in back represent on the san francisco locations aloan. neighbors not only upset about losing the local market, they are worried about the jobs along with it. >> these are employees that we see every day, day after day. and they are people that have gotten to know my kids. you know, it's sad to think they are going to be out of work. >> i

a new report from the institute of medicine says that that's not always true. and it says -- much of what especially women have been told about vitamin d is a myth as well. our chief science correspondent robert bazell has more on the new findings. >> reporter: when it comes to bone health, there is no debate. calcium and vitamin d are critical. but today's report holds surprises. in a world where there's calcium in dairy products and it is added to everything from tums to orange juice, many people including older women, don't need calcium supplements. >> many individuals will be able to obtain these recommended dietary allowances from diet. >> reporter: the other big news? vitamin d, we get it from exposure to the sun, certain food and from supplements. in recent years, research has suggested vitamin d might lower the risk for all sorts of conditions. including various cancers, heart disease, diabetes and auto immune disorders. because we tend to spend less time in the sun given the worries about skin cancer, many people have been taking large doses of vitamin

and the institute of medicine has tried to deal with that, have they not? yes and the world health organization too, so in the 1970's they were advocating against using the term abuse, even though the american psychiatric association adopted that term which is unfortunate because then that gives rise to the term abuser, naturally. and that was the warning actually, back in the '70's that was saying, this is what's going to happen is that you're going to you're going to generate this term by using that term. so what do we replace that with? so there are, there are a couple of things that i see i, i wrote about in that paper and papers since then, is to use, for example, if someone has a diagnosable substance abuse disorder, to use that term, substance abuse disorder. if we're talking about it generically, we might refer to individuals with a substance-related problem or substance- related condition. another term in other countries that have been used is substance misuse. so the misuse of a particular drug or alcohol. and so these are three ter substance-rela

institute of medicine, an arm of the national academy of sciences. it found the average american gets enough vitamin d through sun exposure, multi-vitamins, and a diet rich in fortified foods. it also found no proof that "mega-doses" of vitamin d can cut the risk of colon cancer, as some have claimed. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: for the first time since republicans won control of the house of representatives four weeks ago, president obama sat down with the congressional leaders from both parties today to plot the path forward. newshour correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> reporter: the political summit lasted two hours, twice as long as planned. afterward both sides struck a cordial tone. the president called the session productive. >> i thought that people came to it with a spirit of trying to work together, and i think it's a good start as we move forward. the american people did not vote for gridlock. they didn't vote for unyielding partisanship. they're demanding cooperation. they're d

the institute of medicine says the average person is getting enough vitamin d even though experts havened for years that most americans were deficient. and a tiny bug caused nightmares across the country. >> one bedbug can grow to 30,000 in six months' time if not controlled. >> reporter: that's right. bedbugs invaded! biting people not only in their bedrooms. the tiny insects shut down major retailers and offices and bedbug summits were held across the nation offering new ways to kill the bloodsuckers. experts predict the little critters will still be around in 2011. >> boy, quite a year medically. we have a lot to look forward to. i can't even go there with that story. no. so we'll see what we have for 2011. hopefully lots. happy new year. >> thank you. >>> it is the lowest it's been in more than two years and that could be a good thing. why fewer people are filing for unemployment. >>> new rules for revelers. police laid down the law for one bay area city. what was tolerated in years past that just won't fly this new year's eve. >> if you are going to be a globalized company, you ha

those standards will be set based on the recommendations from the institutes of medicine.ime. but the reimbursement rates for schools will go up element immediately. they'll get six cents more per meal and the school lunch administrators have been asking for the money for a long time. they say it will make a substantial difference in their ability to buy better quality products and put healthier, more nutritious meals on the table. so i think some of the stuff we'll see will happen very quickly. >> good. good news. peter, thanks so much for joining us today. appreciate your work, appreciate you. >>> and president obama on another note stunned mike huckabee, the former presidential candidate, said the president obama self-destructed when talking about the tax deal. we'll talk about that next. exhilarating to drive and worry free to own. celebrate this holiday season with the gift of platinum. jaguar platinum coverage: five years or 50,000 miles of complimentary scheduled maintenance, and no cost replacement of wear and tear items. visit your jaguar dealer during the platinu

a doctor of the national institute on drug abuse says there is a connection. she says pot has been rebranded as a relatively harmless medicine. and kids believe it. >> we are showing an increase on daily use of marijuana on all school grades 8, 10 and 12. >> reporter: there is a spike in kids using marijuana according to the institute. high school seniors now prefer dope over tobacco. >> there are more marijuana cigarette smokers in 12th great than nicotine cigarette smokers. >> reporter: teen brains are still developing and using drugs, even pot, can cause damage, even hook young kids. >> those kids that start taking marijuana before age 17 are much more likely to become dependent not just on marijuana but a wide variety of different drugs. >> reporter: medical experts say marijuana has become a big problem among teens in the bay area n part, because pot has become so normalized. you see it all over the news and it's often at home with parents using it to relax. you may suspect your kids smoke dope but you may not realize how much. >> thank you, kim. >>> baby boomers now make up the majority of men and women who are divorce

to provide government service which i did at the national institutes of health where i learned that researches even more exciting than medicine. then devoted my life to sign seven mack. >> what will fans of science learn about politics from reading your book and welfare is a politics learn about science? >> question. people who simply admire the scientific process will begin to realize how important and interesting and difficult the interface between science and the public cares and pays for it and congress that oversees a candy. those interested in politics will see a political action does influence the scientific process. science depends on wealthy people to a certain extent but depends much more heavily on the way the government supports and pays for science and as a political process we have to encounter directly whether stem cells research or thinking about how to improve the nation's health or simply providing funds for scientists of the nih and the national science foundation to do their work. >> you're book is laid out in four parts, becoming a scientist, doing science, political science, and continuing controversy is

jonathan sinnett, director of institute for global help and chairman of the department of preventive medicine. university of southern california. i would like to thank you and all of your colleagues for all the hard work that you have done. being here today to release this report is very special to me. i have been working publicly on various -- with various partners toward a tobacco free society since i was a medical student. it was a very important part of my tenure. the new today is very special to me -- the new today is special to be in a personal way. when i accepted this position, my mother died of lung cancer from smoking. she started smoking because she was a girl and she was not allowed to smoke and her twin brother did. as an issue was able to, she started to smoke. it took her life. i now watch my uncle, a world war ii veteran and survivor, said tied to an oxygen tank struggling for every breath. prevention is a foundation and prevention is a foundation of my work as surgeon general. i want to prevent families from suffering the effects of tobacco use, either personally or for their

california institute from regenerative medicine that the agency created by voters to supply 3 bye for stem cell research over ten years. >> bee received grant for $20 million and that kind of funding is not available from the conditional sources. >> alan is president the center >> basic is going really well. >> funding was held in the courts for abo three yea while religious groups, but they have shelled out a billion dollars to researchers and universities all over the state. >> making th golden state the leader in stem cell studies. >> california is just a massive amount of energy which in total is largest in the wor. >> of the nine research centers, two of the largest is here in the bay area. stanford and u.c. san francisco. they were attracting stem cell researchers from around the globe. the emphasis is sharing research between labs and between institutions. >> even across institutions, we've reached out nationally and to pull the best scientists together. so to do that you will be just denied. >> stem cell research building received morthan $43 miion from the state and additional $75 million was chipped in by a private donor. it will be the largest facility in the na

jonathan sinnett, director of institute for global help and chairman of the department of preventive medicine. university of southern california. i would like to thank you and all of your colleagues for all the hard work that you have done. being here today to release this report is very special to me. i have been working publicly on various -- with various partners toward a tobacco free society since i was a medical student. it was a very important part of my tenure. the new today is very special to me -- the new today is special to be in a personal way. when i accepted this position, my mother died of lung cancer from smoking. she started smoking because she was a girl and she was not allowed to smoke and her twin brother did. as an issue was able to, she started to smoke. it took her life. i now watch my uncle, a world war ii veteran and survivor, said tied to an oxygen tank struggling for every breath. prevention is a foundation and prevention is a foundation of my work as surgeon general. i want to prevent families from suffering the effects of tobacco use, either personally or for their

jonathan sinnett, director of institute for global help and chairman of the department of preventive medicine. university of southern california. i would like to thank you and all of your colleagues for all the hard work that you have done. being here today to release this report is very special to me. i have been working publicly on various -- with various partners toward a tobacco free society since i was a medical student. it was a very important part of my tenure. the new today is very special to me -- the new today is special to be in a personal way. when i accepted this position, my mother died of lung cancer from smoking. she started smoking because she was a girl and she was not allowed to smoke and her twin brother did. as an issue was able to, she started to smoke. it took her life. i now watch my uncle, a world war ii veteran and survivor, said tied to an oxygen tank struggling for every breath. prevention is a foundation and prevention is a foundation of my work as surgeon general. i want to prevent families from suffering the effects of tobacco use, either personally or for their

institute which. different. minister is a different state federal and subject. and to make a system of children's protection but once again going back to the state of the nation address. there prioritized children access to medicine but i mean given precious scale it's a very tough task. in your opinion to have any proposals that would make that easier is the basic institute for child care for medical service first of all this is. medical care center if the region has such center this is the nation is different. because based on this you can take different kind of medical care and services if you don't have such medical center so they were think is impossible in this region so our main task is to build such a regional medical care. they were to join and. the next step is to build such medical care centers in every town and there is. so in this situation we can go in here a child of the russian federation necessary. musical care less the whole thank you very much for this interview thank you for their attention. the next government to build bridges with. europeans frustration is mounting is jewish and feeds rising salaries drop twenty refusing to pay for politicians mistakes as a result of london so it was the res

medicine but i mean given precious scale it's a very tough task. in your opinion to have any proposals that would make that easier the basic institute for child care service. medical service first of all this is. because such send this edition is different. because based on the. different medical care and services if you don't. so they were impossible in this. main task is to build such original music. in. the next step is to build. musical care. thank you very much. for the things. we use special church. became their brothers. were previously. was. was just so moving in a free flight he lived only next to the border with gaza and egypt but also. peace. they are responsible for themselves. but also for their loved one. take any real. legal. street. the week's top stories and a look back at today's news here on our t.v. a commemoration for a football fan and since bloody clashes as thousands riot in moscow and st petersburg already say nationalists incite the violence and. exit polls in kosovo's first parliamentary elections suggest the democratic party of kosovo headed by the current prime minister has the lead but observers say while the albanian majority supports the ruling coal

institute which. different. minister is and different state fairs are all subject. to make a system of children's protection but once again going back to the state of the nation address. there prioritized children access to medicine but i mean given russia scale it's a very tough task. in your opinion to have any proposals that would make that easier is the basic institute for child care service for medical service first of all this is. medical care center if the region has such center this is the nation is different. because based on research you can take a different kind of medical care and services if you don't have such medical center so they were think is impossible in this region so our main task is to build up such a regional medical care center as they were to join and after the next step is to build such medical care centers in every town and there is city so in this situation we can go in every child of the russian federation necessary. musical care parlous the whole thank you very much for this interview thank you for the attention. as you watch this tape. i can only imagine the fear and the despair that you face for this is being recorded for viewing only after the disappearance of god's people from t

of points now. there are medicinal benefits toit. christensen is nothing but bearnaise public -- her institution is to affect public opinion. in 1937, people like the dupont found out -- as we know about eli whitney because of the cotton gin. it was going to do the same thing. before the cotton gin, everything was made from cannabis. with the decorum decatur, it made it easy and cheap. it was going to take lumber out. the whole thing has been a dis information campaign because it is not economically viable. host: manipulation, the caller says. guest: one of the things that we do have to face a lot of times -- this belief among the public, sometimes in terms of the information that is provided by organizations. one of the things the science has been very strong in is providing evidence, providing data, guiding the statements based on data. that is why the agency has taken a more conservative approach. even in discussing the issues of marijuana -- let's be factual, rather than taking the data beyond what it shows. we provide the data. whether someone chooses to believe in the data or not, that's something we cannot influence.

of belt-tightening internally. that is oftentimes the impetus for tough and needed medicine to be delivered internally. but obviously, an omnibus would let us function at much higher levels, allow us to institute programs needed, such as cyber com and so forth. so obviously, we've got to figure out how to work this. the problem with the omnibus, of course, is it included money for the second engine. >> right. >> it would have been nice had they stripped that out. >> one more thing on public opinion. barely the american public barely approves of the idea of leaving combat troops in 2014. if that number continues to go down, how does that impede your work? i know -- everybody says public opinion. but you can't have the american public against this war for you to be successful in this war, is that correct? >> chuck, obviously, you want support in the homeland. that is our -- our troopers need that. if you look at polling, though, they clearly support the men and women in uniform. they may not be wild about the mission, and that's understandable. we have been doing this ten years. but go back to the fall of 2007 when congress was considering tying with withdrawal -- fixed date for withdrawal to co

of over 50,000 pounds. working-class students that want to do medicine, like in my constituency, maybe put off from going to university and following their dreams. this may make universities an institution for the rich and not for the talented. [applause] >> can we have somebody from wales? who have we got from wales? the young woman here. >> i am from -- how many of you go to university? how many of you agree to this issue. the same -- i disagree because some families may be able to spot for their tuition fees that may not as they might have more bigger families but people with a bigger families would stop their children from going to university -- would you stop them from having more children? from my point of view, i would say to stop them -- stop the tuition fees getting higher and some people might not be able to afford them but the people who can't, you should think of them more than the people can. [applause] >> what about the se? the young gentleman here. >> leon from buckinghamshire. may i point out that the government had promised that should university tuition fees rise, there will be enough money be it from student loans or more scholarships and universities to cover the cos