then over the weekend transferred to the nih. now the cdc and three state health departments are checking on the host family she stayed with in illinois and reaching out to airline passengers who sat within two rows in front and behind her. tb bacteria are released when somebody who's infected coughs or sneezes. in a closed environment like a plane people sitting nearby could be at risk, especially people with compromised immune systems. meanwhile the cdc is watching a serious outbreak overseas. the middle east respiratory syndrome, or mers, it's now spread to south korea with 95 cases and seven dead. 2,000 schools closed. >> we live in a global village. we're all very close to each other and what used to be remote can be in your backyard this afternoon. >> reporter: the cdc tonight urging u.s. health care workers to seek the travel histories from patients who complain of respiratory illness. tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> word coming down just a few hours ago of a story we've been following closely. it's about a new cla

nih, this is a very serious case.e states. >> reporter: at the nih, this is a very serious case. she has extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. they believe she traveled from india to chicago and then on two other states. the challenge, to find anyone who had contact with her and stabilize her. the patient is now in an isolation room here at the nih, only described as a female. while doctors treat this serious case, federal and state health departments are urgently trying to track down hundreds of people who may have been in contact with her in several states. >> just the biggest guns that we have as far as our antibiotics, that's what has to be used in this case. and even when we use those, they're still limited effectiveness with this particular type of tuberculosis xdr. >> reporter: in april, the victim was believed to have traveled from india to chicago o'hare and then spent time in missouri and tennessee before seeking treatment. seven weeks after arriving in the u.s., she was diagnosed with active tb and trans

nih officials have suspended manufacturing operations at that facility after fungus was discovered in two vials which were being used to administer a cancer drug. the head of the nih called it unacceptable and said the fact that patients may have been put in harm's way because of a failure to follow standard operating procedures is deeply troubling. the six patients who receive potentially contaminated injections are being watched but so far they haven't shown any signs of illness or infection. at the live desk i'm chris lawrence. >>> a maryland couple's dream home quickly turning into a nightmare after they found this slithering through their house. find out who the family wants to pay for this snake invasion. >> imagine enjoying a flight on a private plane and then having it end up like this. what happened and why it could have been so much worse. >> and you still have time to make do more 24 go viral. a campaign led online by the united way by the national capital area. the money can go to your favorite local charity. logon to nbcwashington.com for a link. >>> 95 southbound through

it is manpower wasted said the nih's director. tonight, u.s. senator ben cardin of maryland said what the i-team found is appalling. he is asking the u.s. office of management and budget, which oversees government travel, to streamline their paperwork requirements and help save the nih some of the time and money it spends. and local congresswoman, eleanor holmes norton, says she, too, is going to ask the feds to ease off. >> wasting more money than we are saving. moreover, we are keeping critical personnel from attending conference brs travel is necessary for them to do their work. were respect u.s. office of budget and management says it is considering easing off the travel requirements but that paperwork has saved money. $3 billion they say, in recent years. at the senate, scott macfarlane news4 i-team. >> see the i-team's full report on how much money the paper predicament is costing nih on the nbc washington app. click on investigations. >>> still to come tonight, some controversy over police dash cams in one local county. the death of an o

the nih will only say it's a female thoughno age name or nationality. hospitalized with a form of tb called extensively drug-resistant tb. >> you have to go around and find drugs to which the tuberculosis is sensitive because it's usually resistant to the standard drugs we use all the time. >> reporter: the nih tells nbc news the patient was treated for tb in india before she boarded flights to the uae and then on to chicago in early april. she also flew to tennessee and missouri before being admitted to a hospital outside chicago. then over the weekend transferred to the n.i.h. now the cdc and three state health departments are checking on the host family she stayed with in illinois and reaching out toed airline passengers who sat within two rows in front and behind her. tb bacteria are released when somebody who's affected coughs or sneezes. in a closed environment like a plane medium sitting nearby could be at risk. especially people with compromised immune systems. meanwhile, the cdc today is watching a serious outbreak overseas. the middle east res

nbc's tom costello live outside of nih with much more on this.d morning. >> reporter: hi, aaron, good morning. the cdc is involved as well as state health departments. this woman travelled from india to chicago o'hare and then to tennessee and to missouri. the health departments in those states are actively trying to find anybody she might have come in contact with and the people on that flight from india to chicago o'hare, nearly two months ago. she has a condition called drug resistant tuberculosis. that is a very serious kind of tuberculosis and unfortunately it's got a rather low cure rate. it involves right now extensive assistance here at the nih involving the isolation room. the isolation ward. trying to identify which antibiotics she's resistant to and coming one a treatment plan. but the cure rate is rather low, treatments can last months or years and in some cases require surgery. the officials at the cdc are insisting there's probably a rather low risk to anybody else who might have been exposed to her. but they're taking this seriousl

seven weeks after arriving she became sick enough to be admitted and then transferred to the nih. >>gnosis is always serious. >> including those sitting closest to us on those flights. the risk is considered low but doctors are concerned but xdrtb is not only difficult to treat but extremely dangerous. >> it can create holes in the lung, so-called cavities where the tb bacteria can flour ishish. >> you shouldn't have any more trouble with the express lanes on 95 or 395 this evening after a frustrating morning. many of you sat through long delays after power outages caused problems at the gate controls. the lanes are set to open at 2:00 a.m. but it took several hour s hours for them to open. >> sometimes you feel them. there are still plenty of potholes to fill in. >> near the national zoo. there are several serious ones. >> take a look at what the weather did in rockville. >> we're getting the call today. >> we're getting the calm today. no storms. as a matter of fact, pretty calm week. but one thing we will fit coming very soon for the end of the workweek. meanwhile on satellite and

she was transferred to the nih.he cdc and state health departments are trying to contact other passengers on her flight and anyone who came in contact with her in at least three states. the risk the low, but health experts take tuberculosis very seriously. >> people who were on that plane with her owe it to themselves and their close contacts to be followed up to see whether they're infected. >> tuberculosis bacteria are released into the air when someone coughs, sneezes, shouts or sings. the bacteria can float in the air for several hours. people with lowered immunity are most at risk. in 2007 the u.s. quarantined an atlanta man who knew he had tuberculosis but flew and then drove into the u.s. he was treated and released. now this morning, a tuberculosis case here at the nih. this patient now could undergo months or years of treatment. unfortunately, the cure rate is rather low. the big challenge is to term which antibiotics she is and is not resistant to and again, they stress the risk of the general public they

just for filling out all that extra paperwork to attended me school and scientific conferences cost nih $15 million, just since 2012. $15 million in lost work hours. executives instead spending time routing, collecting and filling out all the new approvals, costs they never incurred before. >> just in the necessary paperwork to try to get approvals for people to go to scientific conferences. >> reporter: a cost and change the nih's director mentioned to staffers in early april in this video obtained by the i-team. >> using the skills of hundreds of employees who could be doing something else as far as i can see zero added value. >> reporter: nih researchers respect the only government scientists caught up in the extra paperwork. lab officials spent 9,000 hours and $1 million approving conference travel in one year. los alamos nuclear lab in new mexico spent $1.6 million just in managing its own conference attendance expenses, also in one year. but a former federal investigator who blew the whistle on pricey travel atother agencies says the new rules have scared some agencies straight, e

government department of health and human services with nih and barda and the d.o.d. with our laboratories and our advanced developments who are conducting the research that goes into the development of these products. that's a fundamental point that's important to understand. i'll get back to at the end my comments about the challenge of getting these countermeasures commercialized and available. back to virus detection, we have a couple of assays here. with diagnostics, we're trying to be prepared to respond to upwards of 20 or 30 different threats out there. it would be cost prohibitive to develop fda approved assays for everything in the near term and we haven't been able to do everything we want but what we had is we had assays that were pre-positioned with the food and drug administration that had data that showed that they were safe and effective and when this ebola outbreak hit in less than 30 days we were able to get fda approval under an emergency use authorization to use these assays. and that was a tremendous accomplishment and that allowed us to move our

lane's team at the nih at the same time with the same vaccine candidate. and we jointly published those results in the last couple of months. but it didn't stop with the u.s. government. we were also working with the world health organization because there were other groups that were also doing these small safety trials. and together we were able to take all the blood samples, send them to usamriid, and they were able to generate the data that was required to make informed decisions what about vaccine dose needed to be use inside west africa. and you've probably seen the lay press, those trials are ongoing right now. so as colonel coleman mentioned, it's not just dod, it's not just whole of u.s. government, it's an international effort. and our vaccine trials that we were doing here in the u.s. were also being done overseas. and, in fact, the vaccine trial we did at the the r.a.r.e. this past year, it wasn't the first time we had done an ebola vaccine trial. building on military hiv research program which has had a presence in you uganda for many years and

us live from nih in bethesda maryland. we be about the incident at the u.s. air base? >> i don't think we need to be overly concerned, though we need to be vigilant wolf because this is a virus that is known to be able to spread inefficiently from one person to another upon very close contact. it is not the kind of virus that readily spreads in the community. so though, obviously, you want to take seriously the infections we're seeing right now, it is not the kind of virus that would be concern like influenza which spreads very widely within the community even when you don't have particularly close contact. and that's what we've seen in virtually all of the cases that have now been reported to korea, from korea which unfortunately is the largest outbreak that we've seen outside of the arabian peninsula. you want to take it seriously, but i don't think it should be of overly concern to us right now. >> correct me if i'm wrong, this is a relatively new disease, only learning about it not that long ago. how deadly potentially

are you filling a void in terms of philanthropy, specifically in medical research, in part because nihing? question there has been a huge historical hit to research and develop me in hasu.s. because nih funding not been restored and has not continued at the pace of inflation over the last decade or so. there is an organization i'm involved with that is working specifically on this issue. there is a bill in front of congress which hopefully will funding to his previous levels. those are important things. cancer fundamentally, research is extremely well-funded. there is a question about how effectively those funds are being utilized. i think that is the more important question in the case of cancer research. absolutely. i would sean parker with stephanie ruhle. still ahead, former aig chairman hank greenberg insists his company still has value when the u.s. government stepped in with that bailout. and aig shareholders should be compensated. we will have more in my exclusive interview with hank greenberg. ♪ betty: it is noon in san francisco. courttoday's supreme ruling, the health care l

she was transferred by air and ground ambulance by the nih. the cdc and state health departments are trying to contact other passengers on her flight, and anyone who may have con in contact with her in at least three states. the risk of contracting a con taken jous disease on an airplane is low. >> people who were on that plane with her, owe it to themselves and their close contacts to be followed up to see whether they're infected. >> tv bacteria are released into the air when someone with the disease coughs sneezes, shouts or sings. people with lowered immunity are most at risk. and 2007 the u.s. quarantined an atlanta man who knew he had tb, flew from europe to canada. then was treated and released. a tb case here at the nih. >> the patient could face months of treatment. >>> this is the college graduation season, of course it turns out some of those new graduates maybe didn't spend a single second in class. >> what? >> how do they have the diplomas? >> people have used bogus degrees to get real jobs and this is a booming business. jeff ros

we have details on how nih is handling the scare. the 7 on your side consumer alert about how avian flu could affect your next trip to the grocery store. taking another live look outside on this tuesday, we will be back with the jummy: seven is on your side with the health matters report this noon. the national institute of health is now treating a woman with tuberculosis. the strain is being called extremely drug-resistant. karen travers has more on the patient and the growing tb scare. >> this rare case of tuberculosis has health officials scrambling. this strain is dangerous resistant to treatment by multiple drugs. the centers for the woman who has the disease arrived on a flight from india into the chicago o'hare air seven weeks ago. she knew she had tuberculosis. it was the reason she was traveling here. she had been treated in india on more than one occasion but officials say that she never completed the therapy. after the woman arrived in chicago she traveled to missouri and tennessee. authorities in all three states are work

arriving she became sick enough to be admitted to a chicago area hospital, then transferred to the nih >> prognosis of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis is always serious. >> reporter: state and federal health officials are tracking down anyone who came into prolonged contact with the woman, including those who were sitting closest to her on those flights. the risk she spread the disease on the airplanes is considered low, but doctors are concerned because xdrtb is not only difficult to treat, it's extremely dangerous. >> at its worst it can create holes in the lungs, so-called cavities, where the tb bacteria can flourish and slowly reduce your capacity of the lung to function. >> reporter: the woman at the nih may require months of treatment. erica edwards, nbc 10 news. >>> a north ampton county woman was featured in a speech by none other than the president of the united states. president obama spoke about deborah orrin of palmer township in his speech to the catholic health association today. she wrote the president a letter thanking him for allowing her to get the surgery she

now this morning a tb case here at the nih. >> now this patient here at the nih could undergo weeks,ths even years of treatment. the cure rate unfortunately, is rather low, but the cdc stresses that though the risk to the general public is rather low, they're concerned about people who might have already been immune compromised and may have been near her on that flight from india to o'hare. tamron tamron, back to you. >>> now to our first read on politics this morning. jeb bush is shaking up his 2016 campaign just days before making his official announcement. >>> donald rumsfeld says democracy in eye rik was, quote, unrealistic. >>> and he faces new questions about his finances. why that issue could be the campaigner's achilles heel in the white house. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me tamron. >> let's start with this move from jeb bush. is this significant? >> i think all campaign staff changes are about telegraphing the message, and the message we're getting about this change where jeb bush announce aid pre-campaign is really where the state of this effort has not gone

you know, i work at nih.don't want to be identified in something like this. >> what'd he look like? >> he was bald, and he had a -- he's about my color. skinny guy, scruffy beard. i didn't see his face straight on. i wasn't trying to look at him directly. i'm not trying to look like i want to know who you are. >> reporter: after driving back to their building, eric and katrina spent the rest of the night watching the basketball game before they became focused on each other. >> excuse me, if this is too much information, but we had sex for a while, and i went to sleep. >> reporter: a little later, she told the detectives, she was woken up by the sound of eric talking to someone outside the bedroom through a crack in the door. katrina thought she could make out a face. and the man looked familiar. >> she believed the guy to be the drug dealer. >> reporter: the same guy she'd met earlier? >> yes. >> reporter: this was only hours before eric was murdered in his bed. detective ruvin now had another major suspect.

great political leader of the conservative right had come out with a suggestion we should double the nih budget. newt gingrich. i ask unanimous consent to put his editorial in the record. >> objection. >> even as we let financing for basic scientific and medical research stagnate, government spending on health care has grown significantly. that should trouble every fiscal conservative. as a conservative myself i am skeptical of government investments. when it comes to breakthroughs that could cure not just treat, the most expensive diseases, government is unique. it alone can bring the necessary resources to bear, the federal government roughly funds one-third of all medical research, it is ultimately on the hook for cost of illnesses so does the research to try to deal with it. it is irresponsible and short sighted, not prudent, to let financing for basic research dwindle. now, the last budget that we put out of this committee was $1.7 billion less. 14,000 less grants is what the omb suggests that is equivalent to. tell me how that spurs the economy to cut investment at the national ins

. >>> reporter: a female patient is tonight in isolation at the nih clinical center, according to federal health officials here in washington dc. she is being treated for what is called extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. a rare but dangerous form of the disease that defies many of the medications used to treat t.b. the woman flew from india to the united states in april through chicago o'hare airport. then she spent time in missouri and tennessee, seven weeks in the u.s. before the diagnosis. so tonight the cdc and illinois department of health are now reaching out to hundreds who may have been in contact with her either on the ground or in the aircraft. >> david kerley who covers aviation for us david, how concerned are authorities tonight that this might have been spread at airports or on a plane perhaps? >> they're not too worried it may have been spread on an airplane but this is an expensive area to try to contact all these people. that flight was seven weeks ago. you're talking about travel into three different states. tonight the woman remains in isolation in stable condition

. >> reporter: a female patient is in isolation at the nih clinical center according to federal health officials in washington, d.c. she's being treated for what is called extensively drug resistant tuberculosis, a rare but dangerous form of the disease that defies many of the medications used to treat tb. the woman flew from india to the united states in april through chicago's o'hare airport then she spent time in missouri and tennessee, seven weeks in the u.s. before the diagnosis. the cdc and i will i will illinois department of health are reaching out to hundreds who were in contact with her. david kerley abc news washington. >>> dennis hastert, one of the most powerful in washington appears in federal court. hastert has been in seclusion since yesterday when spotted at this gas station on his way to illinois from his vacation home. he's expected to plead not guilty to charges he lied to the fbi about withdrawals from his bank. that money allegedly used to keep quiet allegations of sexual abuse involving a former student. >>> a former south carolina police officer who was smack da

the last budget that we put out of this committee was $1.7 billion less for nih and not doubling the budget, but down $1.7 billion. 14,000 less grants is what the omb suggests that equates to. tell me how that spurs the economy to cut investment at the national institutes of health? just explain to me how that would spur the economy? >> i don't know that we've done analysis of that sort of thing. >> can you imagine any way it would? certainly, there are things on the spending side that have dynamic effect that have a positive effect on macro, economic growth. >> do you think the national institutes of health over the course of the last 50 years have had a positive effect on the economy? >> i just don't know. i don't want to speak lightly of it, but really i don't know. you're kidding. you really are a politician. our henry jackson, our senator from washington once said he was looking for a one-armed economist. someone who didn't say on the one hand this and on the other hand that. you can't look at what's come from our pharmaceutical industry and from our health care industry and all

because nih funding has not been restored and has not continued at the pace of inflation over the last so. there is an organization working specifically on this issue and a bill in front of congress which hopefully will restore nih funding to previous levels. those are really important things. but i think fundamentally cancer research is extremely well-funded. there is a question about how effectively those funds are being utilized. i think that is the more important question in the case of cancer research. olivia: that was stephanie ruhle speaking with sean parker about the launch of his foundation. still to come, in the next hour we will have more of stephanie's interview with sean parker and they will talk about tech music, and facebook. matt: it is an incredible career when you think about it. he is not even 40 yet? are you serious? i feel like a real loser. still to come, larry summers tells us whether greece's proms are economic or cultural. our interview with him is next. ♪ . . . we live in a pick and choose world. choose choose choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? en

plus an extreme case of a patient being treated at nih. >> find out how this is now becoming part of the conversation at otas. you're >>> a very warm if not forecast. right away, as a matter of fact outside right now, really nice take a live look outside towards rockville. areas of sunshine. we are seeing clouds downtown. looking pretty good. coming down just a little bit. and the dew point at 56. . 81 in winchester, 82 in the area. we will continue to try to do that overnight tonight. the radar is dry. it is going to stay dry. no chance of rain over the next 24 to 48 hours. the next chance comes friday into the weekend. notice the sunshine. and lack of clouds. we had the clouds early in the day. you can see the frontal boundary moving on through. now watching this storm here to the north, pulling off towards the north and east. severe weather towards parts of new england. we are seeing the clearing skies and much cooler air. only around 72 to 75. that's the cooler air we have trying to come in. . the dew point tomorrow is going be a very nice afternoon. a comfortable afternoon as we

now this morning a tb case here at the nih . the patient here now will undergo months maybe years of treatment. this is so serious in some cases surgeons have to remove the pockets of infection. the challenge is to figure out which antibiotics she's resistant to and the cdc is stressing it believe it is risk to the outside general public is low. savannah back to you. >> let's turn to dr. natalie azar nbc news medical contributor. clearly the cdc isn't messing around, trying to retrace this woman's steps. >> the cure rate is poor with this tb. only 30 to 50% cure rate. lower in those with hiv infection or whose immune systems are are compromise ed. >> how does somebody walk around for seven weeks traveling here and there with tab toob? i thought if you are sick wouldn't you see a doctor and find out? >> that distinguishes tb from other forms of pneumonia. people with toob can be sick mildly for a number of weeks to months. characteristically with coughs weight loss, night sweats coughing up blood. they are not acutely ill like pe

now, this morning, a tb case here at the nih. this is so serious, in some cases the surgeons have to go in and remove the pockets of infection. right now, the challenge is to figure out which antibitotics it's resistant to. it believes the risk to everybody else is very low. savannah, back to you. >> thank you so much. let's turn to dr. natalie a zar. the risk may be low, but the cdc is not messing around, trying to retrace this woman's steps. >> that's primarily because the cure rate is so poor with this. it's only 30% to 50% cure rate, even lower in people with hiv infection or whose immune systems are compromised. >> how does somebody walk around for seven weeks traveling here and there with tuberculosis, if you're sick, wouldn't you find a doctor and find out? >> that's what distinguishes tb from other forms of pneumonia. they can be sick, mildly, for a number of weeks to months. characteristically with cough, weight loss, night sweats, coughing up blood. they're not extremely ill like people with different types of pneumonia

. >>> a drug research unit is shut down at nih this afternoon because it's contaminated. officials discovered a fungus in a product involved in an experimental study on cancer patients. six patients have gotten doses of medicine from the same batch. they're now being closely monitor monitored. an inspection showed marathon, the united way of the national capital area raised more than $1.4 million in online donations, more than 11,000 donations made via the do more 24.org giving portal. the proceeds will support more than 600 nonprofits serving d.c. northern virginia and montgomery and prince george's counties. >>> do you have big plans for the weekend? the hottest ticket in town could be one attracting beer lovers from around the country. how local businesses are going to benefit from it all. (music) hey! let me help with that. oh, thank you! (music) introducing the one-and-only volkswagen golf sportwagen. the sportier utility vehicle. >>> craft beers are big in our area in fact, a recent poll found 1 in 5 beer drinkers prefer them. >> and many of those brewers will be ri

doctors are treating her in nih here in d.c. the tennessee health department believes fewer than fen people were exposed. >>> apple is making changes that could protect your proivacy. cnbc's landon dowdy has more. >> good morning to you. apple paving the way for iphone users to block online ads when they use the safari web browser. the changes are planned for ios 9, for the iphone and the ipad. it will be rolled out later this year. they include a feature to block cookies and other content. back over to you. >> thanks, landon. >>> breaking news on the roads right now. maryland 95 near 198, chopper 4 over the scene, ever with an 8 1/2 mile backup because of two different crashes near 198. a big backup northbound because of another crash there in the northbound lanes near 198. you're going to want to probably consider something else this morning. here is a traffic camera right there at 198. so you can see those jams again. 8 1/2 miles southbound. b.w. parkway might be a good option for you this morning, at least a bit faster than

. >> right now on "news4 today," a woman in isolation at nih with a dangerous case of tuberculosis.we're learning about her travels. >>> but first, breaking news on the roads right now. let's check in with melissa mollet. >> we're talking about 95 northbound in virginia. the express lanes are still shut down this morning and take a look at some of these backups. it is nasty as you're headed northbound. going to take you about 50 minutes to get from quantico up to the beltway this morning. take a look right here as you're headed northbound here through stafford, not so bad. it gets much worse as you're headed further north than that. still have yellow line delays in both directions here on metro this morning. beach dry northwest at the zoo, northbound lanes blocked because of the pot holes and several reports of people getting flat tires. crews are trying to fix things. wide look at the beltway, no major problems right now. starting to see a slowdown top of the beltway and then 295 as you pass 50. aaron and eun? >> melissa, thank you. >>> we are watching conditions outside for you ri

. >>> tennessee is now testing people for tuberculosis as doctors at nih treat a woman for that disease. she may have come in contact with people in tenne illinois before being diagnosed. the tennessee health department believes fewer than ten people were expose. >>> in south korea, ten people have died from a respiratory syndrome. you can see people here wearing those face masks and health workers spraying public areas with disinfectant. health officials confirmed 14 new cases of mers today, bringing the total infected to more than 120 so far. >>> a retired montgomery county fire chief will take over the reins in hagerstown. the man retired last year from the county and he will take over as the new fire chief in washington county. luer was selected from a pool of candidates who applied through a nationwide search. dietrich will retire at the end of the month. >>> d.c. officials want to make sure that the local laws are protecting cyclists and pedestrians. the group will be meeting to see if the district's laws need changing or updating. you could have your say as well. that meeting is

this is a big challenge, as i mentioned, and it involved the top doctors alt the nih.have her in a special isolation room at the n hiih, which is air controlled. they control the air that goes in and out to insure that she remains isolated in that room where they can treat her and that the bacteria doesn't spread. jose back to you. >> tom, thank you very much for that report. >> we're keeping a close eye on developments from chicago where in a couple hours, dennis hastert is scheduled to make his first court appearance since he was accused in a multimillion dollar hush scandal. he has a high powered attorney from washington to defend him. gabe gutierrez is outside the courthouse in chicago. >> good morning. in just a few hours, hastert is expected to walk through the front door here at the federal courthouse and formally hear the charges against him as well as enter a plea. all eyes will be on the man who was once one of the most powerful politicians in the country but who for the past 12 days has remained absolutely silent. this morning, former house speaker dennis ha

celebrating 25 years of pediatric medical research the children's inn at nih searched nearly 13,000 families90s on thursday physician -- 1990s on thursday physicians and families will share their experience and advances made to treat their disease. i am andrea roane, wusa9. >>> poison centers are reporting a big increase in emergency calls about synthetic marijuana. the centers for disease control says that there were more than 3500 calls in the first five months of the year. that's more than triple lastior's amount. synthetic marijuana has chemicals that mimic the effects of real or natural marijuana i guess. >>> time for a break but when we come back how the free rangeparents are causing maryland to clarify some of the policies. plus, a special ceremony for a girl who has been missing for more than a year. you are watching wusa9 and we >>> welcome back. with temperatures in the 90s this weekend it's important to do what you can to stay cool. >> and that does not moon taking the kids to the local pool. you need to make sure they are drinking enough water. >> on the playground on the triple

bush named the female head of the nih and she insisted women be included in women's trial and those issuesersist. but women's health groups would say that that issue is actually separate and apart from this issue of this quote, female viagra. first of all it's not really a female viagra. this is a pill that a man can take prior to having sexual relations to increase blood flow -- >> erectile dysfunction. >> this a woman would take on a daily basis to address imbalances in the brain. so it's really not a female viagra. >> is it an -- >> it's to address psychological symptoms. >> some women's health groups say the fda is being pressured into approving a pill that isn't safe for women that we don't know enough about that the risk benefit ratio isn't a good one and the fda is twice rejected this pill before. there's a split among women's health groups. i would note even the score group, which has been pressing the fda to approve this is financed by the drug company making the pill there's a real debate about this. some would say if there really were a female viagra it would be a great advance

. >> and doctors treating a woman with a severe case of tuberculosis at nih, the latest on that right af >>> health officials trying to track down folks who may have been in contact with a woman who has a rare and deadly form of tuberculosis. that woman has an extremely drug resistant form of the disease and she's been treated right in our backyard. our mola lenghi is live from the newsroom with the latest on this poor woman. >> we know very few details about the woman, who she is, where she's from, how she contracted tuberculosis, but she is being treated at the national institutes of health in bethesda where she is in stable condition we're told. the centers for disease control and prevention scrambling tonight with health officials from across the country to find people who may have some in close and prolonged contact with a woman who contracted tuberculosis. in april the woman traveled from india to the u.s. landing in chicago before traveling to missouri, tennessee, then back to illinois where she became sick and was admitted to an isolation unit in a suburban hospital. tb is cau

so officials at the nih are working to look at the kind of antibiotics that might be effective in her to help treat her. unfortunately only about one-third to one half of people who get this kind of drug resistant tuberculosis are able to be treated effectively. >> what does that mean? do they die? >> yes unfortunately tuberculosis can result in death, yes. >> all right. erin thank you. >> thank you. >> scary stuff. so need to be up on what's going on. >>> here we go yet again after anthrax the call for more spending after baltimore, the call for more spending. and now that the psa is failing to find bombs? >> we've got to remember as we all sit and pound the desk about how bad tsa is we keep cutting the amount of money they have. about a biologic this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me reach for more. doctors have been prescribing humira for more than 10 years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contrubutes to ra symptoms. humira can l

a fungal contamination has been discovered in some of the medical products made by nih. fungus was discovered in two vials being used to administer a cancer drug, an experimental study. those studies have now stopped and officials have suspended all manufacturing operations at the facility. six patients who may have received potentially contaminated injections are under observation. no one has become sick so far. >>> an fda panel is recommending the little pink pill some call the female viagra. but the final decision will not be final until august. flibanserin works to increase the woman's libido. side effects are fainting and low blood pressure. >>> the judge who said the woman who accused jesse matthew of rape can identify her in court. the victim sat just ten feet away as she found his photo on her own after being indicted for rape. she was attacked while walking home in 2005. the trial starts on monday. >>> chandra levy's parents say the wounds will never completely heal. they spoke to nbc news yesterday after a judge ruled that the man convicted of her murder will b

she was diagnosed with active tb and transfer i'd by air and ground ambulance to the nih.ow the cdc and state health departments are trying to contact other passengers on her flight and anyone who might have come in contact with her in at least three states. while the risk of contracting a contagious disease on an aircraft is low, health experts take tb very seriously. >> people who are on that plane with her owe it to themselves and their close contacts to be followed up to see whether they are infected. >> tb bacteria are released into the air when someone with the disease coughs sneezes, shouts or sipgs. the bacteria can float in the area for several hours. people with lowered immunity especially from hiv are most at risk. in 2007 the u.s. quarantine in atlanta man who knew he had tb yet through from europe to canada and drove into the u.s. to evade authorities. . the pockets of infection. so the call lenghallenge right now is to stabilize her and find whoever might be in contact with her although they insist the risk to the general public is very low. >> tom, thank you

doctors at nih discovered something unexpected.news. >> and they said peyton does not have xp. >> does not? >> peyton, the third child diagnosed with xp was actually misdiagnosed at birth. >> as crazy as it seems, it's another devastating day. >> he does not have xp? >> right. he does not have xp. >> why is that devastating? >> you would think that he would be so happy that i am going to have to tell two of my children that they're not the lucky ones. >> jennifer and her husband decided to tell the two that had xp first, paxton and paris. paris cried. paxton worried he lost his best friend to the daylight. >> i felt like we're not going to get to do a lot of things together anymore because he's going to be outside. >> then they told peyton, who was just 5 years old at the time. >> i was like, i've had this for 5 years of my life and now you tell me i don't have it? >> so we said, do you want to go outside? he said, okay. >> and my friend was playing right over there. he yelled at me and he said, peyton, what are you doing? you don'

joining me now from nih, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. we know about this woman, the case of tb and how others may have been in contact with her? how infectious was she along the way? >> she has intensively drug resistant tuberculosis. the issue is that it is a relatively difficult form of tuberculosis to treat. it is not any more or less contagious than the garden variety tuberculosis. the issue is that if you contract this it's much more difficult to clear and cure than the standard type of tuberculosis which is prevalent throughout the world. the issue with this woman is that she traveled to different places and was in a hospital in illinois and went from one state to another by plane and so what the cdc and the state and local health authorities are doing is what's appropriate, they're doing the kind of contact tracing to notify people if they have been exposed to this person. now, having said that andrea it is a low-risk of trans misibility. even though it's a serious disease, tuberculosis is not easily transmitted. certainly there h

our shared vision for leading the world in science and innovation the budget increases funding for nih by $1 billion so advance biomedical and behavioral research among other priorities. it invests $215 million for the precision medicine initiative, which will focus on developing treatments diagnostics and prevention strategies tailored to the individual genetic characteristics of individual patients. to further our common interests in providing americans with the building blocks of healthy and productive lives this budget outlines an ambitious plan to make affordable quality child care available for working families. to keep americans healthy the budget strensness our public health infrastructure with $975 million for domestic and international preparedness, including critical funds to implement the global health security agenda. it also invests in behavioral health services including more than $99 million in new funding to combat description opioid and heroin abuse dependence and overdose. finally, as we look to leave our department stronger, the budget invests in our shared prioriti