ludwig admits foster care is not a perfect option but he says one option we certainly do not have isn. dan harris, abc news, new york. >>> researchers say they've reached a milestone in the battle against aids in africa. truvada, a drug already shown to help gay men also works for heterosexual men and women. the hiv toll in africa is staggering. more than 6 million people are already taking aids drugs, but 9 million more are on the waiting list. >>> a legal loophole that is allowing an admitted child molester to watch child porn in jail has washington state authorities outraged. because weldon gilbert is acting as his own lawyer he is entitled to review the evidence, and that evidence includes more than 100 videos seized from his home showing gilbert's own acts of abuse. >>> a man of accused of stalking halle berry remains in jail on $150,000 bail. richard franco pleaded not guilty to stalking but he was ordeded to stay at least 500 yards away from the oscar-winning star. franco was arrested on monday after allegedly showing up at her home three days in a row. in one instance berry s

ludwig proposes. that before removing an obese child from his or her home, state officials would provide the parents wi s with counselin education. but is there any way to guarantee that state government officials will actually take the intermediate steps before they take that big step of removing a child from the home? >> the state has no incentive to take a child away from their parents unnecessarily. >> reporter: but he cannot guarantee they won't. nor can he guarantee a child sent into foster care will actually improve. when anna marie regino was taken from her parents in albuquerque, new mexico, she didn't improve at all. she was later returned to her parents and diagnosed with a genetic predisposition. >> it did more damage to my daughter. if they really did care about that child, they would take more effort to stay with the family. >> reporter: dr. ludwig admits foster care is not a perfect option. but he says one option we certainly do not have is inaction. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> s

david ludwig, published his opinion in the "journal of the americanwee medical association" this week. ludwig claims the parent is not to blame for the child's chiob obesity, but rather government intervention can support thert whole family.ve a critics say obesity is not a big enough risk to remove a child from his or her home. childhood obesity has been linked to breathing problems, diabetes and heart disease. seven states already have lawsth that allow the removal of a child due to overnourishment or severe obesity. a wendy, is this an acceptable role for government?ble >> there's a tendency when we see a problem to look at it in isolation. then come up with unreasonable solutions like putting a tax on food. w that would penalize everyone. instead, we need to look at thee whole problem, it's not only lik overeating, it's things like watch can tv, video games, t whether it's a child or adult you're more likely to eat more.e i think we need to deal with it a holistic problenot think that the government is the solution. >> you know, i agree that we need to deal with the holistic probl

to that ludwig guy in the seventh. wow! halfway that left field bleachers 2-1 game.s way to brian wilson in the 9th. double play ball. this will end it. 2-1 another 1 run win for the giants. they are able to split the 4 game series. okay. to some sad news dick williams as manager of the a's led the first professional championship passed away at the age of yoochlt williams managed in the major for 21 seasons with 6 different clubs. but he will be remembered here for what he did in 1972 and 1973. leading the a's back-to-back world series titles. hall of famer williams died at his home in las vegas. >> from somber to tragic. earlier tonight in the a's rangers game a fan fell to his death. it happened in the 2nd inning. rangers outfielder josh hamilton retrieved ands to add foul ball to the stands. he caught the ball plummet 20 feet head first between a gap in the wall and stand. fan who has not been identified taken to local hospital where he was pronounced dead. i mention the josh hamilton was the player who threw the ball into the stands. one can only imagine how he f

the ensuing blaze burned the ludwig house to the ground, but not before the ludwigs got out, and hundreds of neighbors rushed to the scene. all, of course, were exposed to smallpox. with this improbable chain of events so reminiscence of mrs. o'leary's cow starting the chicago fire of 1871, the camden smallpox epidemic of 1901 began. well, camden city officials jumped into action. they set up a municipal pesthouse, and the board of education announced that all public school children must be vaccinated immediately. but what did that mean exactly? well, vaccination a century ago was conducted not this a private pediatrician's office under the trusted hand of a family physician, but often outdoors, right? in clinics, schools, workplaces and the like. the process involved taking ahold of someone's arm, a bare arm of course, taking a very sharp lancet or needle, scoring the skin usually drawing a little bit of blood but not too much and then taking some vaccine material which was made up of it's a live cow pox virus that had been, literally, harvested from infected sores on the belly of a calf

ludwig hit zito to make it 2-1 giants. that was it. 4 hits, 1 run, 7 strikeouts.ght game since coming off of the disabled list. he does this thing. he is 3-up. the giants end up with a split with san diego there. >>> it was a great day for wilson. they had a junior giant rally there at at&t and wilson, give him credit. he bought gloves for a thousand kids. got them tickets for tonight's game from the boys and girls club. >> a kid asked me, why do you have a big beard. i don't know how to answer that. because i do. it grew. >> yeah. wilson, of course, headed to the all-star game. he's going to get a lot of attention. that beard, how colorful. if you lose, shave it. this guy is a big deal right now. >>> levy, day 6, the tour defrance. going down against the guardrail. he is 1:23 back of the leader. now, maybe you're not a tour de france fan, but you check to see out where he is. he is in 31st place. >>> we had a cell phone go off today at the tennis open. [ laughter ] yeah. her cell phone

robi ludwig is here to analyze some of her behavior.ey anthony as the prosecution delivers its closing arguments. >> counsel went to great lengths to connect as we already had, the duct tape in this case to the anthony home. on that, we agree. that duct tape on caylee anthony's face, came from the anthony home. getting past the fact that there is just no conceivable reason why anybody would put duct tape on the face of a dead child. i said it before, people don't make accidents look like murder. that's absurd. >> judge jeanine: all right, prosecutor linda drain-burdick had harsh words for casey. dr. ludwig, are you there? >> i am here. >> judge jeanine: okay. let me ask you, in response to the prosecution in closing arguments, what do you think the jury is thinking? >> it is so hard to figure out what the jury is thinking, because we done have the benefit of looking at their -- we don't have the benefit of looking at their faces and getting the sense of how they are reacting to the prosecution, defense, casey anthony. it is a little lik

robi ludwig is a psychologist. joey jackson former prosecutor. dr.ig, how do you explain a mother's absence to three 5-year-olds? what to do you say to them? >> i think what you say is first, you want to underscore they are safe. and be honest without giving too much detail. you want to say something like we're looking for your mommy now. we have really good people trying to find her. you are safe. we are here for you. we'll let you know something as soon as . certainly not go into gory details before you have any information. you don't want to scare the kids. >> judge jeanine: let as talk about the fact the police are saying the husband cooperating. it is not like he's trying to make it look like he's helping. what does that tell you about him? >> he's disturbed the fact that he isn't covering up. if he were not involved, wouldn't he be happy police are looking for his wife? wouldn't he be happy there's television attention? not every case gets that kind of attention. clearly, he's adversarial. he's angry. he's annoyed and irritable. and he can even

the blaze burned to the ground but not before the ludwigs' got out and hundreds of neighbors rushed to the scene. of course exposed to smallpox. with this improbable chain of events that's reminiscent of mrs. o'leary counting of the lanterns are in the chicago fire of 1871, the camden smallpox epidemic of 1901 began. camden city officials jumped into action. the son of a municipal pesthouse in the board of education announced all public-school children must be vaccinated immediately. what did that mean exactly? well, vaccination a century ago was conducted not in the private pediatrician office under the trusted hand of a family physician, but often out of clinics and schools and workplaces and the like. the process involved taking someone's arm, taking a very sharp needle, scoring this can usually drawing a little bit of blood but not too much, and then taking some vaccine material, which was made up of life cowpox virus that had been literally harvested from infected soars on the belly of a cow. let's take a moment to think about that. taking that into jabbing it into the score in th

david ludwig says today in a prestigious medical journal in certain carefully selected situations someerica's estimated 2 million extremely obese children should be taken from their parents. we spoke to him via satellite. >> taking a child away from their parents is a drastic action. should only be used as a last resort. but when we have a 400-pound child with life threatening complications, it may not be any great choices. >> reporter: abc news heard from two dozen experts and all but you three disagreed including art kaplan. >> if you were a child who was mored bily obese and there was a risk your life would be shortened. >> i would say can't you help my parents. >> that is exactly what dr. ludwig proposes, before removing an obese child state officials would provide the parents would counseling and education. >> is there any way to guarantee that state government officials will take the intermediated steps before they take the big step of removing a child from the home? >> the state has no incentive to take a child away from their parents unnecessarily. >> but he cannot guarantee th

sandoval making the play, back handed to get ludwig -- that preserved the tie. they go all the way to the -- 14 the inning and na, it e who earlier had hit a home run, sends the crowd home. second long ball the game. the giants 10th walk off win. it's over. giants win 6-5. >>> the mariners going for the sweep against the aa who would have thought sizemore would be the leading hitter? there goes his third homer of the year. it was a big lift for that man. seven scoreless innings, era of 2.1. they are going to texas for a four game series. >> roger clemens. >> goodness. the clemens trial started today. he is a accused of lying when he denied using performance enhancing drugs. jury selection started and is expected to be done by next week. attorneys read the list of former players who could be required to testify. barry bonds, sammy sosa and others. >>> a number one ranged american facing sweden, solo with a shut out streak until this. 35th minute. the free kick deflect off usa and in sweden -- their biggest win in world cup history. >>> the wednesday night top fiv

ryan ludwig doubles. bartlett scores. headley on his heels. play at the plate. there. 4-1 game in the fourth. nate's fifth of the year makes it 4-3. he wasn't ton. pablo sandoval riding a 16 game hit streak. coming in to make it 17. torres scores. crawford behind him. ties the game at five in the 8th. see you. game winner! his first career walkoff homer. first career two-run home game. had two rbi. g-men win it. that is what you call a full plate of torture. >>> a's and mariners. big day for scott sizemore. jason, vis thir his third of t. geguillermo perhaps the best ge of h his career. 7 shutout innings, 5 ks. seattle hitters baffled all afternoon. comes through again. base hit to center. scores pennington. high heat to end the 7th and fired up. combines with joey devine and andrew bailey to shut out seattle. 2-0 your final. >>> women's world cup soccer action today. usa versus sweden. the loser gets the always dangerous brazil in the quarters. face painters out in force. 35th minute. sweden, lead, 1-0. sweden in front 2-0. bad luck for usa. usa makes it a game

s good latest in a long line russians alexander ludwig and. made some of the first strides in constructing the incandescent lamps in the eighteenth seventies using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved filaments extended relatively short life of electric bulbs first to forty then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulbs still in use today were already emerging fluorescent lamps appeared in the thirty's college and lamps at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact fluorescents or c.f.l. were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency gallium nitride light emitting diodes made the scene in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency and quite possibly making l.e.d. the lighting of the future. it was that great future that brought out the big shots the octagon factory opening governor o

ludwig says putting children in foster care temporarily could be more ethical than surgery.cting in the children's best interest. >>> you're going to notice a lot of cloud cover out there, right meteorologist christina loren. >> no one says meteorologist like you, laura garcia-cannon. you're exec right. it's so dense in spots it's creating that mist, that foggy drizzle to be more scientific. as you can see right now on the golden gate bridge we are completely socked in. this the one and only bridge socked in at this point. we're going to keep watching all morning like. mike and i will be busy. foggy conditions anticipated for the next few mornings, really thick fog at least through friday. that's because we have another area of low pressure back behind the one that's really kicked in that on-shore flow. this guy is now going to perpetuate what on-shore flow we already have for the next few days. that means much cooler than average weather continues across the bay area. take a look at how much cooler than average we were yesterday. 66 degrees in danville. normally 89. saving

ludwig suggests putting extremly obese kids in foster care.se in the body mass index in 99th percentile. an 8-year-old, 50 inches tall who weighs 100 pounds. this pediatrician says it is an attempt to help that comes too late. >> by the time that we are thinking of taking them out of out of hot we missed the boat. when their body mass starts to increase we need to intervene then. it is a sad day when we have to intervene when their body max index is at 99th percentile. >> reporter: this clinical director helps place kids in foster homes. he says removing an obese child from their home could do more harm than good. >> the incidence of child removals, itself, is traumatic. it is -- it does set back treatment. the child has to deal with being -- being torn away from their family. and anxiety, depression. >> but he admits in rare cases, moving in with a foster family might help an obese child. but some question whether putting an extremely obese child into temporary foster care will give them the tools to succeed when he returns home. >> without h

ludwig? >> thank you. you said your bottom line has been a big deal. that is not going to happen. are you going to be willing to go back to just raising the debt ceiling? >> i think i have been consistently saying in the press room and everywhere that it is important for to us raise the debt ceiling. we don't have an option on that. so if that is the best that congress can do, i will sign an extension of the debt creeling to take it through -- debt creeling to take it through 2013. i don't think it's enough. we should do more. the bare minimum, the floor of what the american people expect us to do. so i would like to see us do more. when i meet with the leadership tomorrow i'm going to say let's do more. if they tell me that is the best they can do, then i will sign an extension that goes to 2013 and make the case to the american people we have to continue going out there and solving this problem. it's the right thing to do. it's time to do it. we can't keep putting it off. >> you suggested that speaker boehner didn't return phone calls this afternoon. can you elaborate on that? >

with us now, psychotherapist robbie ludwig and ron kurs, aol small business executive editor.come to both of you. >> you in the movie? >> i think i will see it. i've had wonderful bosses, including the ones i have here. we'll talk about that in a minute. but let's talk first about -- let me ask you, what's the difference between a demanding boss that gets under your skin and abusive boss. >> we were talking a little bit at the break. the basketball coach, bobby knight, a hall of fame coach, screamer, yeller, demands the best of his players. as you saw in the case of bobby knight, it can cross the line. there's sexual harassment, verbal harassment. the hr department is there for a reason if you think it's crossed the line, maybe take it to them. >> we know about the hr department. but here's the deal, unemployment, 9.2% right now. a lot of people think it's not a good time to stir things up and go after the boss. >> it's true. you always want to work with the person that is in charge of you and make the most out of the situation. if you feel it's really bad, assume your boss co

david ludwig who wrote that provocative commentary in a prestitious medical journal. >> it's not rightat he's doing becauseeo get better you need to be with your family and haveveupport instead of having doctor doctors surround you. >> reporter: this family has never recovered from the trauma. what's your response to a case like that? >> well state intervention is no guarantee of a good outcome, but to do nothing is also not an answer. >> reporter: the doctor says children should only be removed in the most extreme cases and that state officials should first offer counseling and education to parents. >> it should o oy be used as a last resort. but when we have a 400-pound child with life-threatening complications, it may not be any great choices. >> reporter: we should say while many oppose his proposal everybody agrees childhood obesity is a massive crisis in the country with 2 million extremely obese children in america right now. that's the estimate. this doctor at the very least got us talking. >> got us talking but do you want 2 million in the foster system that has its own issues

>> this was a commentary written by david ludwig who is one of my go-to guys on children and obesitystion, if parents can be separated from their children for underfeeding them or for abusing them, is there a line in the sand to be drawn when parents are overfeeding their kids and leading to childhood obesity? and in some states, california, iowa, indiana, pennsylvania, new york there is precedent for removing children under the guise of abuse. now, is it a slippery slope? yep. the medical emphasis is all over the cause of that. >> especially putting children into a foster care system which, star, you put out isn't necessarily a better situation for many kids. >> it's probably one of the worst situations. i actually got to do some interesting research on foster care in america, and one of the worst places you want to be able to put kids right now is the foster care system. we really need to ask the government for intervention on the front end of the problem rather than the back end and get rid of the food deserts in open communities, emphasize a physical education back in the school

robi ludwig is a psychotherapist who recently explored the issue at length. >> yeah, we did. >> yourat perhaps they shouldn't be exposed to and in some cases they don't even know it's bad, it just seems like it's part of common language. >> there's different levels of cursing. there is a difference between when they curse in general and when they curse to the parents. either way you have to establish rules and you have great advice. the first one you say is if your child swears, don't overreact. >> right. i think it is important not to shame your child because you want to give your child the benefit of the doubt. you want to educate them first to let them know, swearing is not what you want to do, how we talk, impacts how people experience us. when kids are younger, you can do it in black and white terms, "we don't swear in this house." care.com did a survey which found that 90% of parents really do try to control their swearing in the home so that kids are not modeling poor behavior. >> of course they do because they want to fit in, they want to be cool and they want to look like gr