another point is that the safety of the mmr vaccine doesn't hang on this one study.n receive these vaccines and no increased risk of autism. a recent meta analysis that looked across the studies suggest it seems to protect people against autism. the rate is lower among people who got the vaccine than people who didn't. >> the whistle blowers who is mentioned in the cover up theory has come out and said i support vaccines. i don't want my comments to be taken in that context. autism strongly encourages parents to have their children vaccinated. has there been push back on the organization? >> absolutely. we listened to the entire community and hear those voices and it's tragic. when a child is diagnosed and too often parents see this coincidence and they see the symptoms appearing around the time the vaccine is given. research has shown in the last couple of years that even though parents don't see it before then, there signs of autism before the vaccine and before a child turns a year of age. there signs and behavior if you do careful subtle videotape analysis and br

great shot of jacky bamm bamm from mmr. >> jacky bamm bamm. that's a good day. >> i mean, my favorite dj from mmr is matt cord, and peer air robert is awfully good, too. but we'll take bamm bamm. >> chris, that's got to be your next publicity photo for fox 29, the shades, the hands, and then show your earrings and at that time too like you do on the weekends, that should be your next -- >> that rocks. wmmr rocks, ya. >> all right. we need more sleep. thank you, sir. let's go to sue immediately. hi, sue? >> you know, i'm if the going to say the phrase great face for radio. ooms, i just did. well, listen, i used to hear it, too. we got a look at the seven day forecast for you, just to show you how much things are going time proof. you just got to get through today where the clouds will linger and the wind will be pretty gusty, very blustery day, 56 degrees all we'll manage for high temperature today even after the showers end this morning. friday's high, 67 degrees, we will still be breezy but sunny skies will make it feel a lot better. and will

mmr, well you know you don't let a bunch of an important facts get in the way of a good story. it mattered if something happened in november or september or was this creek or that creek. you can tell whoppers but you can tell little lies. this book on the other hand took me seven years to write and it took me years to research. every time i wrote a sentence i had to look up lots of paleontology, large -- lots of archaeology as much as there is. what primes me to consider this period which is the late plays it's the time when homo sapiens show up in the americas, at least in large numbers and it also marks the demise of the great mammoth, the sabertooth, the horses. they go extinct in the geo-lock it -- in a geologic second. it's really fascinating. what i was looking for to begin with was considering global warming and i didn't intend to write a modern story of global warming because it was a farmer story. i didn't want to write in a book but on the other hand it was a cardinal issue of my generation the collective damage we have done to the planet. it is going to read the open

i think the issues, in our country, the issue of autism and mmr, the measles, mumps, rue bell la vaccine is over. it doesn't really warrant big discussion. most parents have made the decision that that's been put to bed. we had to explore that in more detail for the american audience because that's still a live subt here. hpv is very high. i think it's 80%. which is it? hpv? >> hpv, for girl who is have completed the series is 38%. for boys who have completed the series it's 14%. so for girls, it's around 80%. so it's much higher. there are different forces at play. i think the distrust of authority is greater here in some ways. and this ability -- this idea that you can trust your own opinions and your own research is more dominant in terms of psychology here. so that's all been very interesting to explore that. at the same time, you know, the vaccine-he has tent moms are very brave and great. i said we won't ridicule you, we just want to show your story. they were so frank and so forthcoming and i'm very grateful to them. i'm not sure we got quite the same thing in australia. i think,

care advice, i don't know if she's yours, but she said -- when addressing the issue of whether the mmrak soon could cause autism, she said, i'll quote, as she does so eloquently, i'll take the freaking measles every time. what that tells you is that not only has she never seen measles, she doesn't know how sick it can make you, she forgot measles. we have forgotten what measles looks like, which is remarkable. i remember when i was an attending at children's hospital in philadelphia in 1991, we were in the midst of a massive measles epidemic. it centered on two fundamentalist churches in our city. now, this is 1991. this is 30 years into the development of the measles vaccine. we had 1400 cases of measles and nine deaths. we had five deaths in a continue-day period in february of 1991. i mean, our city was in a panic. and so, there certainly are those of us who understand the power of measles. for example, about 50% of children with meelss will have an abnormal chest x-ray. which is to say they'll have radiographic evidence of pneumonia if not clinical pneumonia. i like to think what w