david kessler is the former head of the f.d.a. he is "dr. no."etting america to kick its bad habits. >> kessler: we're living in a food carnival. these flavors are so stimulating, they hijack our brains. >> safer: kessler believes flavorists are accomplices, the hired guns of the food industry. >> kessler: they make food super palatable. >> safer: what's wrong with that? don't we want the richness of good taste? >> kessler: of course, food has to be pleasurable. it has to be desirable. but look around, morley. look around this country, and what do you see? ask the rest of the world how they view americans, and they will say, "we don't want to look like them." >> safer: are you saying that the food industry and the flavoring industry together are trying to make, and succeeding in making us, addicted? >> kessler: did the industry do this deliberately? no. it learned what stimulates. it learned what people want. >> bob pelligrino: there's no question we're trying to create an irresistibility and a memorability. i think, though, that there's then a l

>> how nasa's kessler telescope's mission, find planets or the --.pler has found, nearly 70 are earth sized. >> the indications from the data we have is that small planets are common. the galaxy makes them efficiently. so they're going to be abundant. >> the numbers are large enough. so there must be many billions of such planets in our galaxy. that's a happy surprise. >> reporter: how many are orbiting at just the right distance from the sun to support life? more than 50 candidates so far where life might be possible. what keppler can't do is detect life am so for now, that will remain just a guess. >>> rain is on the way. if you have travel plans, listen up. the west coast, lots of rain over seattle, oregon, and northern california am we're not going to see as much rain as we thought over the weekend. you can see some light showers in the 6:00-hour tomorrow morning. light showers possible in the north bay through the morning. in the 11:00-hour, continuing into the early afternoon. also continuing to the 2:00-hour. then the main band of rain is goin

so i'm not sure that meets webster's definition. >> glen kessler, always good to see you.nk you for fact checking for us. >> you're welcome. >>> cities all around the country are having trouble making ends meet, but in alabama, it's really bad. take a look at the front page of the newspaper. jefferson county, alabama, it includes birmingham, filed for bankruptcy protection after officials there failed to refinance $3.1 billion in sewer bonds. the chapter 9 filing was necessary after negotiations over those bonds broke down. >>> time for the "entrepreneur of the week." nina is using high-tech marketing to engage customers at her new york-based garnet wines and liquors. scanning the company's codes with their smartphones, her customers can learn about wines and get discounts. and nina's not alone. qr codes are now everywhere. for more, watch "your business" sunday mornings at 7:30 on msnbc. ♪ [ female announcer ] we never forget the nearly 12 million cancer survivors in america today... and the countless lives lost. we owe it to them to protect funding for cancer research, p

john kessler is an expert in stem cell science. he says possible applications for dental stem cells are limited. he says how they are stored and their quantity and viability present other problems. >> to think that this stem cell offers that potential is just not just a leap of faith. it's a leap over the cliff. >> reporter: as to whether dental stem cells could offer false hope to parents? >> oh, absolutely. there is no guarantee in anything in life. >> reporter: still parents can't help but wonder what if and they aren't deterred by cost, $650 to sign up plus $10 a month for storage. >> it's a good thing out there so why not use it? >> reporter: for adults, wisdom teeth can be stored but no dental stem cells are currently being used anywhere but in the lab. dr. kim mulvihill, cbs 5 healthwatch. >>> heavy rain is moving into the bay area and usually when it's ranging here it means snow in tahoe when it's raining here. if you are heading to the high sierra, you will need chains by tomorrow morning. we have your snow report coming u

media coverage had anything to do with fee-for-service protection the service would not comment but kesslerays that does not even sound right. >> they are not core fire security guards they're there to prevent a salt and assassinations so i am sure the secret service was a little displeased to hidden describe the protection in that way. >>justine: the secret service began protecting the president after president william mckinley was assassinated in the fall of 1901. they extended it to a major candidates after the assassination of robert kennedy in 1968. >>james: we have a break and a live look over san francisco this morning is colder out there that it was yesterday. when we come back, we have the latest on capitol hill or the debt super committee is still deadlocked this morning it looks like the markets will react strongly negative when the opening bell opens at 6:30 a.m.. we will have the latest coming up this morning. [music] >>james: the deadline had arrived in there is no deal yet. congress panel build the super committee will announce that there were kept in unsuccessfully. wednesda

. >> reporter: ron kessler has written three books about the f.b.i.g justice department lawyer was charged with cleaning up a corrupt division. >> hoover emphasized the need for professionalism, not hiring people just because they were friends with someone or family members. he established the fingerprint operation. he established the indexing system with the files. >> machine gun sharp shooting from a fast-moving car. >> reporter: he also established the f.b.i. academy to train agents in crime-busting techniques, making sure he got the credit. >> director hoover super sizing field practice, and the target might be a gangster car. >> reporter: in fact, the bureau's reputation and hoover's soared with high-profile takedowns of gangsters like john dillinger. but out of the spotlight the director was consolidating his power in another way. how did he go about collecting dirt on people? >> hoover, for one thing, would tell, for example, the head of the washington field office, i want material on congressmen, and they would include affairs that they might

ronald kessler is the author of, in the president's secret service.hington rrespondent for newsmax. ron will run video we have the construction project so viewers can see what we're referring to. what do you think we're happening there at the white house? >> i have found out what is happening which is, that they are building a huge underground top secret bunker, which is to allow the government to operate in the event of an attack, even if it is nuclear, biological or radiological. so that is a huge, huge step from what they have now which is something that could not be, that could not with stand any kind of attack. jenna: i'm looking at this construction and it is out in the open. for something so top secret, according to what you're saying, then why would it be so visible by everybody? >> well, you know they do have to excavate dirt. they can't hide that. what they're doing putting out a cover story just moving utilities around and that sort of thing. they had the same coffer story when they did a similar bunker at the vice president's residence the

>> reporter: this is the principle investigators for nasa's kessler telescope. mission, find planets similar in size to the earth orbiting their suns. so far it has been successful beyond expectations. of the 1,200 planet candidates keppler has found, nearly 70 are earth sized. >> the indication from data we have in hand is that small planets are common. that the galaxy makes them efficiently. so they're going to be abundant. >> the number is large enough. so there must be many billions of such planets in our galaxy. that's been a very happy surprise. >> reporter: how many are orbiting at just the right distance from the sun to support life? more than 50 candidates found so far where life might be possible. what keppler can't do is detect life. so for now, that will remain just a guess. so it's amazing. some billions of planets the size of earth just inside our own milky way galaxy. again, keppler can't tell you exactly whether they have life, can't even see their oceans. that's going to be left for spacecraft of the future to do, but it's found one planet, big