eli knew burger, he says the evidence in the kathy bush was was enough to put her behind bars, but thatan report suspicions without much tangible evidence and families are left to defends themselves under intense scrutiny. so here is the question, if i am a doctor and i am at all concerned or suspicious, don't i want to era on thro side of helg that child, don't i want to report right way? >> this is the dilemma fa doctors. the threshold for mandated reporting where you have to make a report of suspicion of child abuse to a child protection agency, that's threshold is set very low. >> reporter: but should it be? >> it's got to be, because otherwise cases will not be brought to the attention that they should be. >> she was crying hysterical. the family was crying. >> reporter: a case now in the spotlight is that of 15-year-old justina, of west hartford, connecticut. doctorate boston's childrens reported her parents. the parents and another doctor insisted she needed treatment for might ow might owe might owl disease, doctors believed it was all in the child's head made worse by her paren

that of florida resident kathy bush. her daughter jennifer who seemed constantly sick was 11 when her mom went on trial. >> to show the jury how many days each month the child is in the hospital. >> during the years her child was under treatment kathy bush became a media darling and even attracted the attention of then first lady hillary clinton. who attracted the attention of the country. hospitalizations often coincided with her mother's fundraising events. >> you can see this unbelievable amount of time this child had to spend when realistically there was no medical justification for her being in the hospital at all. >> jessica's abuse only came to light when nurses in two hospitals stepped forward with suspicion about the mother's behavior and her interaction with jennifer. >> we documented 38 surgical procedures, that have been performed on this child. some of them were very serious such as removing parts of the intestine, the gall bladder and things like that. >> systematically overdosed her child with a medication

. >> one of the most notorious cases was that of florida resident kathy bush. prosecutors proved she had systematically overdosed her daughter with a powerful seizure medication. >> this is a chart we used in child to show the jury how many days each month the child was in the hospital. >> during the years of her daughter's imnesses, kathy bush became a media darling, even first lady hillary clinton highlighted the family's medical struggles, but ultimately, the mom went to jail and the doctor turned out to be perfectly healthy. a case now in the spotlight is that of a 15-year-old taken from her parents more than a year ago after doctors at boston children's hospital suspected medical child abuse. the family, who says justinea also has the disorder claims it has been wrongly accused. >> it's almost never black and white in the complex cases. as a consequence, tragic errors occur on both sides. >> as for the hilliard family, they were investigated for medical child abuse. the allegations were found unsupported. >> there has to be a middle ground here and we have

think kathie lee is less than of an advertisement for wine and more of a psa -- [ laughter ] --of the two. speaking of which, this is great. on tomorrow's "today show", former president george w. bushil 24 portraits he's painted of world leaders. [ laughter ] this is true and if "the today show" likes them, they'll put them up on their refrigerator. [ laughter ] [ impersonating george bush ] "got one of my paintings on the fridge. mission accomplished." [ laughter ] i'm going to do all my best voices tonight. scarlett johansson -- jo-hon-son, oh my god. [ laughter ] that's her name right? she's not famous. so i shouldn't know it. [ laughter ] if she was famous, you'd have to know it. but fred and i were talking about sweden before hand. that's why i said that. [ laughter ] scarlett johansson went under cover in glasgow to pick up men and lure them into a van for her new movie "under the skin." she said she was able to convince them by -- oh, you got in the van already? okay, cool. [ laughter ] you didn't need any convincing? i love this story. a south carolina man had to be rescued by police after he got stuck in a ventilation shaft while trying to break into arby's. [ light laught

kathy in texas on our line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. saic runs the drone row graham. bush's uncle.y -- the drone program.tah spy center. fost: are you in favor o some of these domestic uses of drones? sellr: isn't that how they urine tests? for people who drive planes and now it's for baggers at walmart. host: it will be used for other purposes. let's go to alexander in ohio on our line for independents. good morning. caller: my concern is, why is nobody speaking about virginia 21 and how it pertains to the african americans? butthese people talking democrats and republicans. don't they understand that the republicans -- nobody is checking out the stuff. nobody is talking about that stuff. these things are very detrimental to the american society and the people. that's alexander in ohio. a few more headlines for you here. the lead story in the news journal out of delaware. bideney general beau announcing his plans to run for governor in 2016. also on the subject of the biden family, front page story in today's washington times. biden not even close to a white house researcherss as reader say he will stru