and thirsty or you can be thirsty and then nausea and here is a bottle of water and then they get nausea and they throw up an they're having trouble and they go unconscious and throw up. not so good. people die that way. the rule is nothing by mouth in the prehospital field and nothing by mouth and the treatment for shock is remarkably simple. lay them down and raise the fee about a foot and keep them warm and they're chilly and the brai doesn't feel it and they will feel cold and you want to keep them warm. your patient is never shiver an first thing is always seeing safety and don't go rushing in and be cautious when you approach them. norm, are you all right? if i can't tell he is breathing and i get closer and norm, are you all right? give him a shake. are you okay? if there is no response then yo have to look, wait a minute is he breathing? if he has a filing cabinet on top of him or covered with debris and maybe you can pull some of it away and evaluate hi breathing and put him in a tru traneutral position and neck injuries are rare and they are very dangerous but very rare an besi

. >> reporter: one morning four years ago, nancy was overcome with exhaustion, clammy sweat, nausea and unusual chest pain. >> i remember laying there thinking, it's a mistake, they made a mistake. this can't be me. i'm not the person that has a heart attack. >> reporter: 200,000 american women die from heart attacks every year. and an additional 42 million women live with heart disease, many unaware of the threat they face. >> the common myth is that heart disease and heart attacks occur only in men. and the truth is, in every year since 1984, more american women than men have died of heart disease. >> reporter: just like rosie o'donnell, nancy suffered a complete blockage of one of the main arteries in her heart, the type of heart attack, commonly called the widow maker. >> even that name implies this is a man's disease, a widow maker heart attack. >> reporter: but it isn't. and knowing how men's and women's symptoms can differ can save a woman's life. crushing chest pain is a well known symptom, as are sweating, anxiety and irregular heartbeat. but for women, it can be pain in the ja

there could be shortness of breath, as in ya nausea, vomiting, back pain.n fact, rosie was not sure it was her heart because it was not in that location. if you're doing your daily activities and suddenly it becomes more difficult, suddenly you feel like you just can't do the same things, whether it's due to shortness of breath or even flu-like symptoms, then you must consider that it might be your heart. >> so that's an important point. if you have some of these new symptoms nrosie's case, she felt clammy, she was as inuated, but if it comes on suddenly, it seems to be a red flag. how do you know when it's serious enough to call 911? because a lot of people think that's a big step to simply make that phone call. >> i think there is such a thing as women's intuition. really, when i talk to my patients and like rosie said, she had a feeling it was her heart. if you have a sense that you cannot breathe, that the pain is getting worse, i would rather you call and be wrong than not call and have a heart attack. >> let me show you, actually, we'll show you how t

for another 19%, the worst symptoms are mild, headaches, fever, nausea. but for less than 1% of people with west nile, severe symptoms, convulsions, paralysis, possibly even death. salvador is out setting traps, hoping the airlierial assault swatted down the danger. >> if there's less mosquitoes, good news. >> reporter: mosquito abatement programs are one of the most effective ways to battle this, but they're threatened by budget cuts. diane. >> now dr. richard besser. everybody's got a mosquito bite, is going to be worried. how many days before symptoms set in? >> it can be as short as two days or two weeks. >> two weeks? >> that's right. >> let's go over again, why are people over 50 more at risk, more vulnerable? >> well, for that severe disease, the virus has to cross over something called the blood/brain barrier, designed to keep infections out. we don't know for people over 50 if it's getting through easier or if their immune system isn't fighting it off. those people as well as people are high blood pressure or heart disease are at more risk for se

the 50-year-old comedian wrote on her blog that she had sudden nausea and some aches. instead of calling 8911 she did online research and took an aspirin. she went to a cardiologist the next day and learned her coronary artery was blocked and had to get a stent inserted. >>> here are some of the stories we're following on news 4 this afternoon. what if there was a way to warn you that another driver was about to blow through an intersection. the latest crash avoidance system is being tested, we told you about it earlier and nbc news went along for the ride. we'll show you how it works and little bit more detail this afternoon. then coming up at 5:00, first lady michelle obama sheds some light on the hectic schedule of the first family. a look at what gets them going and holds them back. those stories coming up this afternoon. we hope you'll join us for that. time for a look at our forecast. >> here's your seven-day outlook. wonderful pattern for the next several days with warm afternoon and sunshine and cool mornings, maybe some storms tomorrow afternoon. see you tomor

it's the scariest thing to see somebody like that.it began last month with a fever, nausea, and diarrhea.i thought i ccught the flu.but deborah's condition worsened, aad partial paralysis set in.i felt like i was paralyzed on one side. ii culdn't walk. that's when her husbann decided she needed to get to the hospital.i was scared, yeah. i try not to cry, because byy the time i got to the hospital, they told me that they didn't know what was wrong with her.with her sickness still a mystery, deborah neared death, and &pstopped breaahing.that was th scariest part, when her fever jumped up to 103, and they had put her in the icu.her husband wasn't sure sse'd survive.i didn't think one time she was going to get up. i didn't.but debooah won her struggle for survival.and only then did she learn what she had defeated: the est nile virus, contracted from a mosquito bite deborah doesn't even remember.after three weeks t recovering at frazier rehab, re-learningghow to talk and walk.i'm determined to get back to my normal self.dootors say deborah's case, while serious, is extremely rare.not develop wh

she says she suffered pain and nausea and other symptoms. she went to the cardiologists the next day coronary artery was 99% blocked. she underwent a stent replacement to release the blockage. coming up, the list of the best places to live in the west, and several maryland cities made the cut. and a change in the wake radiation therapy is given to breast cancer patients. summer st. it is much better. -- some are saying it is much better. >> we will take the forecast through the weekend in few minutes nice afternoon. 76 of the airport. >> "monti" magazine says that maryland is a nice place to live. in the issue granting the nicest places to live in the united states, the columbia-nella considered regents scores the highest and number eight. others making the cuts include algarve, gaithersburg, and and germantown. apple takes the throne as the most valuable company in history. the company's value surged to more than $620 billion. that happened on monday, beating the long-held records for market capitalization said from microsoft on 1999. the p

leukemia patient in texas who had been getting marijuana and had responded really well and not have nausea. so his wife went to the local high school, got some kids to score a joint, have her son's market before his next chemo treatment. he didn't grow throw up, and on the way home from he asked to stop and get a submarine sandwich, which lester could not believe. she told him. from then on, the doctor allowed him to smoke in the chemotherapy ward. so this is how the renaissance of medical marijuana started. the popular social use intercepted with serendipitously people who happen to be ill. another one was robert randall. he was young college student in the dc area. he had glaucoma. he was losing his vision. fairly rapidly. none of the available medicines were working. he went to a friends house, smoke a joint, walked home and noticed that the halos around streetlights that are systematic of increased pressure, were not there. every time he tried marijuana, his vision improved and the halos disappeared. so we started going -- growing it. he was arrested. he sued the government and he esta

symptoms include fever, nausea and diarrhea. >>> drivers continue to shell out the big bucks at the pumps. gas prices have risen 178 cents past two weeks.allon over the they're still 20 cents lower than in april. higher crude oil prices along with several refinery and pipeline problems are to blai. the drought has pushed prices up by increasing the cost of corn-based ethanol. >>> the federal government is stockpiling its freezer with more than $150 million worth of meat, fish and poultry. the department is buying it up to help with farmers and ranchers. president obama announced the plan in iowa including the purchase of pork, catfish, chicken and lamb. it will be used for federal nutrition assistance programs as well as food banks. >>> a man is thankful for his good nans tonight. how they came to his rescue when fire broke out in his own home no and a much different look in london today. nobody at olympic park. when the park will be filled with athletes again. >>> plus, who was your favorite on "dancing with the stars"? it's the best of the best coming up. details in a few minutes. the c

washington, d-c.listeria can cause potentially serious or life-threatening illness accompanied by fever, nauseaenters for diseaae control the centers for the centers for disease control and prevention says the number of swine flu cases is continuing to grow.kids are most vulnerable... accounting for 90--ercent so far.the strain of swine flu isn't a food-borne illness... so you can't get it from eating pork... you get it by being around sick pigs.the c-d-c says almost all of the kids infected recently... have handled pigs at state and county fairs. it's bben a year-and-a-half since she was shot during a meet-and-greet in tucson... and today... ormer giffords is waking up back in a. arizona.she and her husband... reeired astronaut mark kelly... bought a new hhme in tucson.for the past 19 months... giffords has been recovering at a medical facility in houston.giffords was one of 13 peopleeinjured in the shooting back in january 2011.6 others were killed. just last week... 23- year-old jared loughner pleaded guilty to 19 charges related to the incident. it's happened again... a chimpanzee that ran

. >> reporter: symptoms include headache, fever and body aches and can lead to nausea, muscle weakness and paralysis. the cdc says 80% infected won't have symptoms at all. >> i am asking all faith communities to please pray for no rain and light winds. >> reporter: appealing to a higher power amid plans to relaunch the fight against west nile from the air. janet shamlian, nbc news, houston. >>> syria's embattled president made a rare public appearance today. thousands of people staged antigovernment protests as the 17-month civil war moves on. ayman mohyeldin has the latest in turkey. >> reporter: president assad appearing on state tv attending prayers celebrating the end of the muslim's holy month of ramadan flanked by all of the president's men except one, this man, vice president. there are reports that he has defected which is a strategic blow to president assad. in recent weeks the syrian regime has seen high level defections. indication that the biggest challenge to the regime may be coming from within. this is how the regime is fighting back to survive pounding cities and towns

women, shortness of breath, nausea, jaw pain, back pain.gain, anderson, some of those things can be vague and unless you're thinking about it, you may not likely attribute it to a heart problem. >> she said her artery was blocked 99%. how exactly do they treat that? >> well, in her -- there's several different ways. people have heard of bypass surgery, for example, to treat this. in her case specifically they got an ekg. they determined that she likely had had a heart attack. then they did what's known as a heart catheterization. which i know you're familiar with. take a look here at what happens. once they went in there and saw that narrowing, that type of narrowing there, they decided to put in a stent. anderson, angioplasty means when they dilate the blood vessel. they put in a stent. they left it in to sort of hold that blood vessel open. >> she acknowledged she didn't call 911 immediately. she recommended i know on her blog site that people do that. that is what somebody should do, correct? >> i think there's really no question. it's i

they include cough, fever, shortness of breath and nausea. >>> oscar award winner clint eastwood added star power to last night's republican national convention. he discussed the difference between today and the night president obama was elected. >> everybody is crying. oprah was crying. i haven't cried that hard since i found out there is 23 million unemployed people in this country. >> 82-year-old san francisco-born actor and director received a standing ovation when he walked on the stage. during his 11 minute speech he talked to an empty chair that represented the president. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can not tell him to do that to himself. you are getting as bad as biden. >> president obama's campaign responded on twitter saying this seat's taken. >>> pentagon is threatening to take legal action against the former navy seal who wrote a book about the death of osama bin laden. the pentagon claims the author violated the navy's non-disclosure agreement by releasing classified information. the book, titled "no easy day" is due to be released next week. >>> people in alm

listeria can cause potentially serious illnesses, and parents should be on the lookout for fever and nauseawell, tax-free week is officially underway here in maryland just in time for your back-to-school shopping. now through saturday, you might have to pay maryland's 6% sales tax on shoes and clothing the cost under $100. for more information on which items are tax-free, head to our website wbaltv.com and click on slide shows. everybody enjoys of having to pay taxes while shopping for clothes, but most people do not enjoy having to try those clothes on. right? scott is reporting that there's no way to find a perfect fit without a trip to the dressing room. >> no breaking news here. shopping can be a pain. even if you know your size, clothes are still something of a mystery. but what if you knew your exact measurements in a way only a high tech futuristic body scanner could tell you? >> i think it will make people pause and wonder what is. >> that is the 3d scanner from body metrics, the first of its kind in america, sitting inside the bloomingdale's where 16 sensors direct from the microso

at the fire sent 1700 people to the hospital as many complained of coughing and nausea and psychological trauma. chevron will release details on a new office that response to their concerns. the goals to help people looking for medical care reimbursement. a simmering debate over how to ease overcrowding at and east a prison is boiling over. the sherrif pushing for a plan to make more space but opponents argue that there is already plenty and they tell ann mackovic that is just being taken up by the wrong people. >> we need to invest in people and not prisons. >> that was the message of dozens that can to speak against a plan to expand the detention facility in richmond, booing those that support it. the $3 million proposal would build a steel building on this property with 150 extra beds. >> as the sherrif of contra costa county, i will stand for the victims and that may mean putting more people in jail >> the space would ease overcrowding caused by new state policy sending people to come to jails instead of state prisons. right now almost 230 x inmates are housed in contra costa county.

headache, nausea, rash, pain, et cetera, just like flu and about 1 in 150 are the ones that will get some sort of meningitis, stiff neck and you have to go to the emergency room immediately and not now. how do we protect ourselves? which is a question you are asking. make sure you get the spray that has -- there are five "d", you need to remember. first something in the spray with d.e.e.t. and the second one is to dress up, the second "d" and cover yourself until you figure out what is going on with this and mosquitoes show up in dusk and dawn and if you don't have to be out there, stay indoors and cover and finally, drainage. any sitting water, swimming pool, drainage that can attract mosquitoes you want to be careful about. one of the big questions that came up, on twitter, is can i get the virus from casual sexual activity, kissing or anything else? and the answer is no, it is from a mosquito and it carries to it a humans. >> eric: bottom line, to be clear, how do you know you have it? you think you have the florida and how bad does it get? >> by the way i want to reiterate david

she said aches and nausea prompted her to do a search for symptoms in women.o'donnell took an aspirin and went to the cardiologist the next day. an artery was 99% blocked. and she had to have a stint put in. >>> rihanna just told oprah she has forgiven ex-boyfriend chris brown. but that's not good enough for the courts. brown is expected to go before a los angeles judge today. the court appearance to determine whether he has completed the domestic violence classes and community service he was sentenced to after beating up rihanna. >>> and so what if roger clemens hasn't pitched for a baseball team for five years. since his time with the new york yankees. the rocket who is now 50, signed yesterday for a minor league team in texas called the sugarland skeeters. the skeeters. his first game is on saturday. the game is sold out. in a workout with the team, clemens' fastball was clocked at 87 miles per hour. go, skeeters. >> we'll see if he still has it. >>> none of clemens' major league teams feature in our sports update. but that does not mean there's no baseball

it can be like rosie, muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, just feeling downright lousy and exhausted. she took aspirin. not too intelligently she waited 24 hours. anybody listening, take your aspirin, call 911. that's how you save a life. we are thrilled for her. >> we're happy to have her around. >> we sure are. >> as always, thank you. >>> up next, hollywood rocked by the suicide of a big name director. tonight friends say they may know why he chose to take his own life. ♪ if you're going to san francisco ♪ >> be sure to wear flowers in your hair. it was among the most beautiful and gentle of the protest era songs. scott mckenzie has died. that was his voice on "san francisco" back in 1967. while he went on to write "kokomo" for the beach boys he will always be associated with the anthem of flower power. he was 73. >>> the hollywood director tony scott has taken his own life. friends suspect it was the recent diagnosis of inoperable brain cancer that made him jump from a bridge in l.a. he directed "top gun" and the great "crimson tide" among other films. he is survived by his family

unexplained nausea. cold sweats. there's an unusual tiredness and fatigue.r dizziness or light-headedness. unusual pain in your back, neck, jaw, one or both arms, even your upper stomach, are signs you're having a heart attack. don't make excuses. make the call to 9-1-1 immediately. learn more at womenshealth.gov/heartattack. relieve the pain and itching fast with gold bond maximum relief anti-itch cream. cool and soothe pain and itch on contact. gold bond maximum relief. >>> welcome back to "our world with black enterprise." today we're talking about diversity in the workplace. joining us for this discussion are pamela culpepper, senior vice president of global diversity and inclusion at pepsico. gayle king, executive vice president and chief administrator at nationwide. and jackie winn, vice president of the global residency division of emc. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> so diversity's always been a hot topic, but on the whole is diversity better than it was 20, 30 years ago? are we more diverse than we were before? >> we are diverse i

>> she recognized the symptoms seen more frequently in women like nausea and sweating and she chewed an aspirin, it gets into your blood quickly. >> and then she went to bed? >> she went to bed. time management when you're having a heart attack, you dial 911. you don't go to bed. >> you were saying to me, embarrassment keeps so many people from going to the hospital? >> that's a big one, particularly in women, people are afraid you were going to go to the hospital and doctors are going to say it's just indigestion. there's no doctor, every doctor would rather see 50 people who have indigestion than this one who is really having a heart attack. you have to get over that. >> that terms of what happened before here, we hear 99% blockage. does that mean there's some symptoms she missed? >> here, you really have to listen to your body. if you're getting short of breath or tired going up the stairs or going for a walk and that's new, you have to go to your doctor. don't ignore that. >> again, don't let embarrassment keep you back. number one rule. >>> coming up here, not even a cage can ke

in the 1993 cryptosporidium outbreak, over 400,000 people became ill with diarrhea, cramping and nausea, and we also recorded over 100 deaths, primarily in the immuno-compromised community, and in particular, individuals with aids, or hiv infection. man: people were beginning to experience symptoms of diarrhea. it started to become more and more widespread. so the natural spot to look was drinking water. so tests were run on the water coming out of both of our water treatment plants. and we found cryptosporidium coming out of our howard avenue plant. man: milwaukee officials are shutting down one of the city's two water purification plants. biedrzycki: cryptosporidium is a parasite that's found in the gut or intestine of both humans and animals, and found in many surface waters throughout the globe. prior to 1993, it was not on our radar. it was not a reportable disease. narrator: epa standards did not safeguard against cryptosporidium, because it was an unknown threat. once it contaminated the water supply, the treatment plant had no capability to kill the pathogen. so it spread throug

she said she had sudden nausea and aches. before calling 911 she did online research and took aspi n aspirin. her coronary artery was 99% blocked and she had to get a stint inserted. o'donnell recently hosted the rosy show on the oprah winfrey network before it was cancelled in march. >>> 100 boats and barngs stranded this morning because the water levels are too low. 11-mile stretch of that river has been closed on and off since august 11th when the ship ran aground. now the crews are dredging to try to get it back to a depth of nine feet so the barges can move again. it's not clear when that section of the river will reopen. that is pretty amazing. wow. ms. m mississippi river. >>> now 4:51. time for weather and traffic on the ones. tom kierein joins us once again to tell us about this cool and refreshing forecast. how long can we have this weather? >> you step outside and you have a wow moment. wow. it's unusually cool. and right now there's the jefferson memorial under a partly cloudy sky. 67 at reagan national. dew point

the cdc. 80% of those infected show no symptoms. 20% have mild symptoms such as fever, headache or nausea. less than 1% get very ill with high fever, coma, convulsions and sometimes even death. west nile also pops up every year in d.c. and in virginia. some area residents take health warning seriously and actively avoid exposure to mosquitos. mosquitoes tend to be out during dawn and dusk. >> i tend not to take my trash out at dusk because they love me for some reason and i'm outside for two minutes just to walk from my back door to the alley and my whole arm, my legs are all bitten up. >> reporter: you avoid going out at desk. >> absolutely. >> we do use a citronella candle and that helps keep the mosquitos away. >> i put repellent on every day before i leave out the house and everything to keep the mosquitos away from me. >> mosquitos breed in standing water. it is represented to flush out the birdbaths, clearing anything that might contain water, keeping gutters clear and keeping tubs and wheelbarrows upside down. if there is standing water somewhere on your property, the likelihood of

it can be the nausea that rosie o'donnell described.and something comes on that's unusual and comes on quickly, that's something you need to get checked out. >> let's pick up where the graphic left off. she said i became sick, my skin was clammy. i googled women's heart attack symptoms. i had many of them but i thought nah. at the end she said if you think something's happening please call 911. >> more women are likely to die of heart disease than men. people don't realize that and part of what you describe. women blow this off. there's about 50% likely to call 911 if they're having a heart attack. 79% of the time they will call on behalf of somebody else. they recognize the symptoms of somebody else. >> need to worry about themselves. it's a great reminder for all of us. thank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> as mitt romney and paul ryan hit the trail together when it comes to the economy their differences with president obama are pretty clear. the to give you a better idea of their background cnn compared romney and obama's resume

an american what is your take on this i mean you know my immediate take is a profound feeling of nausea and its sense that somehow the united states has collapsed into you know the soviet union circa sort of mid thirty's. this is horribly foreseeable but i can't believe it's come to this. the bush administration began this trajectory. seven or eight years ago by saying ok we're going to start to react to be espionage act and they threatened to go after the new york times you may remember when they broke the swift banking story about how at that time it seemed so quaint how the government was monitoring people's private financial transactions. but what's so dangerous could have been warning people about for years is that a journalist's job is to publish classified information journalists like first of all this is a white house now to wait houses obama's and bush's which is systematically overclassifying everything especially wrong doing it specially anything related to what was so blowers want to release specially you know torture that they've engaged in methods of torture fraud corrupti

it was not nausea. it wasn't stress. it wasn't worried. it wasn't a pain in my knee. it wasn't anything i had a name for medically. i had this feeling in my chest and that was swelling and expanding and never went away. that was t worst part of it could i couldn't do anything. it's not like you pop a pill when something happens. i needed a name and crazy worked because, when we did every medical test -- i thought i had a heart attack. i made them checked my heart and do a stress test and everything else there was nothing wrong with me, but i still felt it. so it all had to be in my head. so crazy worked. the other part of it is that there is this stereotype of the crazy veteran that is always jumping at loud noises are cannot move past his experience, vietnam or iraq or whatever the case may be. i was turning into that stereotype. i felt i was turning into that parity. it is nothing that any individual veteran wants to be. but it is how it felt. i felt like i was doing all of those things. so the word stock. tavis: without appeal or something else -- without a pill or