william marrone, everyone, we are taking your calls live. dr. marrone, medical examiner, forensic pathologist and toxicologist. joining us from madison heights, michigan. welcome. it is good to see you again. doctor. doctor, if her toxicology reports show marijuana in her system, how shortly before this ill-fated trip barreling down the interstate with a bunch of kids in her car, how shortly before that trip had she smoken pot -- smoked pot? >> it's very specific. in a general sense when a doctor tests a patient they test the marijuana metabolate of chronic users. in the toxicology report they test the active thc. so it would have been within 20, 30 minutes to an hour right before she died that she was smoking. it was the active marijuana that was measured and was very high. >> become to sophia hall, wcbs news radio, 880, the little boy, brian schuler. do doctors believe he will make it? >> according to a news conference i want to last week with the father, daniel schuler, and his attorney, the father says that he is doing much better. and hopef

joining success fdic shachairma bill isaac, and our guest host, done marron.is point that was one of the most chaotic times we have seen in the banking industry. now almost every weekend you're talking about another bank failing. where do you see this finally failing? >> i think we're going to continue to have an increasing number of fail you'res over turt two years. even if the economy stabilizes, we still have two years of banking problems ahead of us. if the past is a predictor. these are lagging indicators. it takes a while to work the problems through, even after the economy recovers. so i think we'll have an increasing number of fail you'res over the next two years. not anything like what we dealt with in the 1980s where we went through 3,000 bank and thrift failures. it's not going to be anywhere near that magnitude. >> although you're talking about some pretty big bank failures. colonial of the fifth largest. what kind of stress does that put on the fdic's funds? >> the numbers are bigger today because everything's bigger today. but the fact is, we los

marrone? >> a responsible course is not to keep the drugs in their bedroom and not to have an unlimited supply. if you're treating addiction out punitive. you're checking to see they're not mixing. because it's a propofol cocktail with everything that is going to be the undoing here. and michael jackson may have been mixing things that mr. murray was out of control with. >> let's show -- now, these -- i home. talking about. doctor you don't have this stuff around like michael jackson's right. look at things, the names, traz doen, clonazapam, they're all in the same family. respiratory hip knottics that reduce respiratory rate and can cause respiratory arrest. he's mixing all these and on top of that he's getting the propofol on a regular basis. that is not how you treat somebody with addiction. be very simple. be very short. >> let's get a kuecall in. la toya's with us in texas. la toya, your comment or question sneer. >> caller: yes, i'm just commenting on the fact that the doctor had access

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william marrone, toxicologist, medical examiner.octor, i'm not sure how much of ow conversation you've heard, but we know blood alcohol on this woman .19. pot found in her system. also, more alcohol. it hadn't even been metabolized yet. yet we've got a lawyer saying tooth abscess, diabetes, lump on her leg that was traveling in her system. is there any way those factors factor into this? >> everything comes down to this. the amount of alcohol and the amount of cannabis was positive together. and they make each of them more potent for having poor reaction time and making poor judgments. these are not the kind of things you want to have, even if you're healthy. >> okay. guys, let's take a quick break on this, and we'll take some of your calls. folks out there have any thoughts, 1-877-tell-hln is the number. so more on that coming up. >>> also this story. and this one's going to get you. we have the nurse of the year in connecticut. 2008 nurse of the year. there she is, nurse betty. treated patients, gave injections, gave medical advic

marrone, how likely is it even with some one that is an alcoholic for it to show up in your liver? >> you know it depends on their genetics. i have seen livers in young people and they're firm and hard like a rock and yellow that ear very alcoholic. i have seen beefy red livers and it just, it depends. >> to dr. janet taylor, medical doctor, psychiatrist, dr. taylor always wonderful to have you. what do you believe is going through the father's mind? now he is dealing with a horrible, horrible loss. at the same time, he is out there claiming he knows nothing about the booze, nothing about smoking pot before she gets behind the wheel with his children in the car? >> well i hope that he is thinking about the quality of their relationship and looking at the possibility maybe she was depressed. bipolar, something he is missing in the sense it is not just medical. >> what does that have to do with absolut vodka? >> if she is depressed. one way people cope is to drink. not looking at the possibility was this a suicide attempt? was she trying to kill herself and unfortunately these kids?

our lineup today includes our guest host, don marron.e'll be speaking with bill isaac, as well, together his take on what financial regulation is right now and we're going to be talking about how the luxury motels are making it through the economic downturn. johns ubeross will give us the pulse of the high-end consumer. weekly jobless claims coming out at 8:30 eastern time. becky, squawk is coming up at the top of the hour. back to you. >> wasn't it corzine who was badly injured in that car crash a couple of years ago? >> it was. he wasn't wearing his seat belt at the time, but he has come out and been a strong advocate in favor of seat belt safety since that time. but he's doing great. he's looking really good. >> that's when i was living in the states. he looks great, fantastic. we look forward to that show. bertha, let's send it back to you. >> thanks very much. we still have more on this program. we're going to take a look at the trading day ahead. right now, let's bring in robert pavlik. you know, it's an interesting headline that w