purity years old living with your mom and the doctor says that you have polio. i can imagine how terrifying those words must of been. >> it was a serious epidemic over the country. and it is very unpredictable. you would think that you had the flu and a couple of weeks later some would be normal and others would be the iron long. it affected my left quadricep in one of the great good fortunes of my life this little crossroads in my dad was overseas fighting the germans. roosevelt having gone there himself. >> because he had polio as an adult. >> key guided it age 39 and paralyzed below the waist. >> your mother had no way of knowing if you may be like the president. >> not completely but they predicted the worst case scenario of a brace so i didn't have as severe a case as president roosevelt. but i am two years old. you know, what they're like they taught her a physical therapy regiment four times a day. in the to keep me off my feet so she literally watch me like a hawk every waking moment and tried to convey the subtle message they didn't want the to think i

there is there polio and we will talk about that. your first fight with dickey mcgrew and your vote for johnson in '64 over civil rights. when it gets to professor obama and senator harry reid, your democratic counterpart and the senate conservative fund, you don't hold back. most people would be surprised to learn you are an all-american tail gater at the university of the lewisville. let's start with polio. 1944, you are two years old and living with your mom in five points, alabama, dad is overseas and the doctor says mitch has polio. it is hard to imagine how terrifying those words must have been for parents then. >> guest: absolutely. and i learned there was a serious epidemic in 1944 all over the country. the disease is very, very unpredictable. first you would think you had the flu. and a couple weeks later some people would be completely normal. a couple weeks later some people would be in an iron lung or dead. in my case, it affected my left quadresp, the muscle between the knee and the thigh. and in one of the great unfortu

. >> it's the thing since polio. >> reporter: but unlike the earlier days of polio, pregnant women now know how to protect themselves. >> i don't think this is going to be confined to florida. on the other hand it also tells us that our surveillance methods work, we can identify these outbreaks very, very early. >> reporter: tonight in this zika hot spot, the question, where visitors may choose to go on vacation someplace else. >>> to presidential politics and donald trump calling for a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton. amid new questions about the clinton foundation's power brokers and how much access they got to hillary clinton while she was secretary of state. nbc's andrea mitchell has new details. >> reporter: tonight the drip, drip, drip campaign as thousands of emails may be released before the election, and donald trump calling for a special prosecutor. >> the significant times it was done, require an expedited investigation. >> reporter: clinton trying to laugh it off with hillary clinton. >> have you considered using face-time instead of email? >> actually tha

forget how desperate parents were then they did know what to do about it did with polio. they would see people in iron lungs, no cure, no vaccine. his mother took him down to warm springs were present roosevelt was, and learn something about what they did that with therapy. for two years when he was two and three, massage his legs for the hour or two a day and kept him from walking. i don't know how you keep a two year-old from walking or three year old. he credits that with the fact he can walk almost without a lift today. >> host: senator alexander, do you recommend any books to your staff? >> guest: yeah, sure. i tell them about the books. i recommend "roots" to everybody because it's such an essential part of the american story. and the fact that it was such a learning experience for americans. i think it really changed the way we think about african-american life in our country, changes the way white people would -- i told him about "the death of caesar" because i think that would be interesting to anyone who work in the senate, the book senator feinstein gave me. >>

thing since polio. >> reporter: but unlike the earlier days of polio, pregnant women now know how to protect themselves. >> i don't think this is going to be confined to florida. on the other hand it also tells us that our surveillance methods work, we can identify these outbreaks very, very early. >> reporter: tonight in this zika hot spot, the question, where might those mosquitoes be. businesses now fear visitors may choose to go on vacation someplace else. >>> to presidential politics and donald trump calling for a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton. amid new questions about the clinton foundation's power brokers and how much access they got to hillary clinton while she was secretary of state. nbc's andrea mitchell has new details. of the clinton campaign as thousands of emails may be released before the election, and donald trump calling for a special prosecutor. >> the significant times it was done, require an expedited investigation. >> reporter: clinton trying to laugh it off with hillary clinton. >> have you considered using face-time instead of email? >> actu

. >> my father has polio. he got polio before a vaccine existed. you don't want something like that getting through society again. >> reporter: now since the mumps is transmitted by coughing, sneezing, and the transmission of saliva, health officials have asked the many restaurants here in long beach to consider using wash their glasses in very hot dish water liquids. also health officials are urging folks to get that vaccine shot if they haven't gotten it. the good news is the symptoms associated with pumps, the fever, puffy cheeks, and fatigue, usually go away in a couple of days without any treatment. we're live in long beach. greg cergol, news 4 new york. >>> today, members of the nypd took their calls for a wage hike [ chanting one-term mayor ] >> people chanted as the mayor was leaving a cafe in brooklyn. they followed him as he went to the ymca for his workout. >>> now to eight children in brooklyn who are without a father tonight after a deadly shooting. police now looking for the 33-year-old ernest brown as he sat in his car. a woman in th

of polio, dr. charles lockwood, ob/gyn says pregnant women now know how to protect themselves. >> i don't think this is going to be confined to florida. on the other hand it also tells us that our surveillance methods work, we can identify these outbreaks very, very early. >> reporter: tonight in this tourism hot spot, the unanswered question, where might the zika mosquitoes be. 1/4 the popular beaches here including clearwater jrks businesses now fear visitors may choose to go on vacation someplace else. lester? >> kerry sanders tonight. thank you, kerry. >>> to presidential politics and donald trump calling for a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton. amid new questions about the clinton foundation's power brokers and how much access they got to hillary clinton while she was secretary of state. nbc's andrea mitchell has new details. >> reporter: tonight the drip, drip, drip of the clinton campaign as many as 15,000 the election, and now donald trump calling for a special prosecutor. >

up after polio.nd again was worshipful and became his -- as book i did, his closest companion. she really was that and she was the great secret of his life. she kept a diary which i was privileged -- sorry -- which i was privileged to be the first person to see and i got to edit it and it was a great -- it's one of the joys of my life. there's nothing for a historian like being handed a journal of somebody that everybody thinks they know and discover there's this very intelligent woman writing about this man in an intimate way that no one else ever did. >> but you don't think they had an affair? >> no. >> weren't they going to live together? >> yeah, but that doesn't mean they were going to have an affair. >> okay. that's another -- we'll come back and talk about that. >> she thought that they were going to live together. he had told several other women that they might be there to be helpful to him. they were all disappointed. >> let's talk about eleanor and her other friends. there was the bodyguard

compare this to the problem we had decades ago, like polio.em, this is our segment. >> but we beat polio. maybe we can beat this. >> polio is coming back. >> kimberly, it turns out they're going to be able to take two pictures at one time and they'll both capture the same image differently. >> there's filters for that, too. what was that new app you had? >> prisma. >> what are they take thing jack out? i think this is too much for me. >> you know i'm the last guy in the gym who was using the jack. now my kids gave me, because they were laughing at me, they gave me bluetooth, and they kept breaking and stuff. i don't know if i was too rough on them. according to these guys, there's something called usb type c port. it's like a bluetooth two, and it's supposedly better. i think you get better sound quality with the jack than bluetooth. >> it's something else to charge. [ overlapping speakers ] >> it might be slimmer and weigh less, but if you have to carry around headphones, that weighs more. right now you can put the headphones in your pocket.

at some level, franklin roosevelt, polio makes the politician, that he becomes deeper after he has polio, develops more empathy and is just a better speaker and i think the same with mckinley. out of the tragedy, he kind of develops a brand of, even though he did not have children, he is a seitive family man taking care of his invalid wife. americans fall in love with mckinley for that reason. he is very popular in 1896 and his wife is very fragile. mckinley, out of the tragedy, comes the political identity and tries to -- he is even keel and try to get everyone to get along. the pierce case is on the most -- one of the most horrific things i discovered. pierce in january of 1853, he is on a train going back to new hampshire and his third and only surviving kid gets his head split open during accident and pierce has to pick up his own son with a hole in the head and if you talk to a psychiatrist, that is the worst kind of experience. losing a child in a violent accident is the worst of the worst. his wife literally goes psychotic and starts writing letters to all favorite dead children.

your diphtheria, polio. measles. mumps and right bell a.s that mean six different shots. >> yes. >> ahh. >> is there more, don't forget about hepatitis b. >> thinks one that i didn't have when i was a child and many parents may not have had it. thinks a new requirement. many times baby is given it before they even leave the hospital and during their first month of life and six months. is there different brand that may only require two doses. >> hold on. so this kids going into kindergarten have ten shots. >> even more than that. >> some are given when they are first born. >> yes. >> and i want to stress, good old chickenpox is new. if you have not had that your child needs that before entering kindergarten. what i want to under score your pediatrician is on your team when it comes to doing this parents are not required to remember at two months, four months, six months what their child needs. i encourage that well visits are important for this very purpose. they know these schedules. they know caveats and reasons. if it was delayed for one

there were lots of stories like the polio he had. we forget how desperate people were seeing their kid in the iron lung. his mother took him to warm springs where president roosevelt was and learned something about what they did with therapy and for two years when he was two and three massa massaged his legs for an hour a day and kept him from walking. he credits that with the fact he can walk almost without a limp today. >> host: senator alexander, do you recommend any books to your staff? >> yeah, sure. i tell them about the books. i recommend "roots" to everybody because it is such an essential part of the american story. and the fact that it was such a learning experience for americans i think it really changed the way we think about african-american life in our country. it changed the way white people -- i have told them about the death of caesar because i think that would be interesting to anyone who worked in the senate. the book senator fienstein gave me. >> host: what about fun fiction? is there relaxation reading for y you?

two children have been paralyzed by polio. military helicopters are rushing vaccines to the state. it is hard to get to the area where the u.n. suspended air after a convoy was attacked last month. >>> a teenager from illinois who nearly had his leg torn off attack. johnny was snorkling in the caribbean when his mother began screaming there was a shark in the water. johnny turned around and saw a grayhead that was about a foot wide coming at him. the shark started biting his leg and that's when johnny fought to get free. >> i kicked his nose and then it let go and swam away. >> the wife has jacob and trying to push him out of the water. now there's blood spilled everywhere. thank the doctor who saved my leg. >> so brave. doctors reconstructed johnny's calf muscle and he went home four days after the attack. johnny says he doesn't blame the shark and adds he is still not afraid of them. >>> pokemon go is not on the list of approved apps for government issued devices. an internal memo warns the game to pinpoint the locations of sensitive facilities where secrets are stored. ironicall

i believe jonas salk refused a patent on the polio vaccine. >> right. >> and got the pharma boy charging $1 million for a life-saving drug. i don't know the specifics but that's how you be achievement. become a youtube sensation, get rich, and that's the crux of this book. there's millions of americans, not just this latest generation. there's a lot of people that don't know what we're needed for anymore. >> yeah. >> walking around like i'm going to make some money today and spend it tonight. >> well, thank you for that and thank you for reading my book, and, the gentleman you were mentioning was named gregory gomez. from the apache nation, and he was a vietnam era veteran. he was in the marines in fort recon, and an intense unit, and they would spin behind enemy lines in groups of four. didn't even have a medic, incredibly intense guys. he said he joined the military during vietnam, he sad i had nothing again the vietnamese and no allegiance to the u.s. government. they killed most of my family, it just wanted to see how i'd do. amazing. >> yes, sir. this could be the last one. >> yes.

it's designed boost the body's natural defenses and part of it is to use the polio virus and it weeks, which is incredible. >> unfortunately the cancer spread to the front of his brain. >> i think that's what gave us the extra time with him. >> he passed away at 24 years old but his message will live on. >> and you'll fight, not just for life, but for the possibility of a cure some day. >> reporter: if would you like to learn more about noah's cancer treatments, entry more information for you right now at tmj 4 went.com. reporting in milwaukee, fellow -- fello, today's tmj 4. >> he hopes to communicate with other families who have a loved one battling with cancer. >> how athletes had fun while helping some students reach their dreams of going ooh college. >> as we go to break, here is another live picture here. lance alan joins fruts packers' >> tuesday is prime air eelection day in wisconsin and voters will decide who will be on the ballot but just 16% of eligible voters are expected to go back to the polls on tuesday. it shows hillary clinton's lead over donald trump has grown. the

. >> that is an optimistic message from a kid who had polio and overcame that. and became a majority leader after 50 years to keep his eye and the ball as the national guitarist used to say be careful where you made because you are likely to get there isn't mitch mcconnell did. thanks for talking with us. still dash we will defend america's jobs than workers by saying no '02 bad trade deals and the unfair trade practices. >> they have lost one-third of their manufacturing jobs och since the clintons put china into the wto >> this causes were jobs for people and experts in for democracy and for the allies >> the fact that historically the united states simply was not a free trade in asia and. the u.s. is a tariff protected economy this goes back to our constitution. >> at the time the debt buteo was negotiated and after nafta there is a hundred pages more of regulations with these two were being negotiated there was the official advisor of 500 corporate advisers [inaudible conversations] good evening. i of from politics & prose along with my wife along with every

imagine if we priced polio vaccin wa p if we used that as the basis to charge foe vaccine we couldn't have given it to everybody. i was in second or third grade and we got it free. what's happened is the question? how have the values of some of the companies changed so drastically that w will do good and well at the same time to we are going to do good and charge that's what the market will bear. >> it probably makes sense to look at what's happenening a with drug companies and get profits from here in the united states. >> that's part of the problem. the problem is we haven't considered this as a issue. we haven't recognized that people in the u.s. market shouldn't pay the whole price of research and development because the rest of the world is regulated. this is unfair to this country. negotiate prices here in the united states just like we do, medicare does right now for the price of a hospital stay? >> right. the drug companies would argue if we did that, they would lose their margins, their research and develocapability. others would argue that when you have multiple drugs that h

>> oh, is someone afraid of polio? >> i am!> trevor: look, maybe hasan is right about the vaccines and desi is right that hasan is being a little bitch about it, but that's not the only thing, desi. dr. stein is also very suspicious of wi-fi. >> there is a video making the rounds now, being reported out in which you appear to say that broadband internet access in schools wi-fi is somehow having an adverse effect on children's brains? >> many countries including the european regulatory agency has seen fit to protect vulnerable people from that sort of radiation. i am not saying that the science is done on this, rather that the science has just begun. >> trevor: so, desi, your reply to that? >> i don't know what's so strange about that. dr. jill stein is saying she wants to do more research on wi-fi. >> how am i supposed to research wi-fi without wi-fi? >> oh, someone doesn't have an unlimited data plan? >> trevor: i don't actually -- >> hey, hello. can i please say something? >> trevor: please, adam, go ahead. >> are we really h

. >> my father has polio and he got it before the vaccine again. >> reporter: mumps is transmitted through coughing, sneezing, and the transmission of saliva. >> as long as you are not sharing cups and literally swapping spit with whoever is sitting next to you, you have nothing to worry about. >> reporter: again, health officials say if you've been exposed to the mumps, you should consider a booster shot. and if you've never had the vaccine, you should also consider getting that shot right away. we're in long beach tonight. greg cergol, news 4 new york. >> thanks for watching. stay with us as the news continues. >>> it is now time for me to move on. >> now at 6:00, the city's top cop is out. nypd commissioner bill bratton is leaving for another job. what's next for the nation's largest police department? >>> stopping the spread before its too late. efforts to prevent the zika safe. >>> an i-team exclusive. the city is sitting on a million dollars owed to victims of crimes, so why aren't those victims being paid? news 4 new york at 6:00 starts right now. thank you so much for joining us. i

. >> for people in areas where there is an outbreak, it is the scariest thing since polio. >> reporter: pregnant women now know how to protect themselves. >> i don't think this is going to be confined to florida. but it also sells us that our surveillance methods work. we can identify these outbreaks very early. >> reporter: tonight in this tourism hot spot, the unanswered question, where might the zika mosquitos be? >>> a cab jumped a curb and crashing into pedestrians in san francisco. no word on what caused this driver to veer off the road. >>> she's home for a stop between rio and college. tonight, katie ledecky tells us how seriously she takes her role as a role model. >>> alexandria city leaders celebrate the return of a boxer and coach who trained for the olympics right here in our area. >>> and the second grade teacher with her letter home with students about homework is all over social media. >>> another heat wave moving ♪ sleep number beds with sleepiq technology give you the knowledge to adjust for the best sleep ever. the time is now for the biggest sale of the year, where

nigeria is rolling out an emergency mass polio vaccination program. after the first cases in two years were discovered in borneo state. two children have been paralyzed by the disease. a total of five million children will be immunized in borno and neighboring states. > this is in an area not readily accessible, probably why the virus has been able to operate without detection. we are working with national authorities on driving these sexeverts identifying what can be done in particular area. >> the united nations is to vote on whether to boost peace-keeping forces in south sudan, whether to bring the total to 17,000. they could be given greater powers to use all menace necessary to protect civilians and u.n. personnel. violence reignited last month between government forces and government to the leader. donald trump is reportedly being dubbed reckless and incompetent by influential if i evers within the republican party. according to politico more than 70 have signed a letter urging an end to spending on the presidential nominee's campaign. instead t

roosevelt, on the other hand, in 1921 was paralyzed from the waist down with polio. what would seem to be a very promising career, there was talk in 1920 that roosevelt would be the democratic nominee for president in 1924 or 1928. but he was paralyzed. it looked like his career was over. so you have hughes going up, and roosevelt going down. by 1924 roosevelt with that indomitable spirit began to think of a political career yet again and he was asked to nominate al smith at the democratic convention at madison square garden in 1924, which he did. he had braced all the way up and down his legs. he went to the podium on the arm of his 16-year-old son, james. and of course tried to make it look effortless. it wasn't. as he made his way to the podium. but then he gave a great speech talking about the happy warrior taken from a wadsworth poem and the crowd erupted. they were just deliriously happy and they were clapping not just for al smith, but certainly for franklin roosevelt as well. and four years later, roosevelt was elected governor of new york. and in 1930, he wa

been by polio. in 1976, every single moment the cameras were on. there were a couple of incidences', one in which he was dropped. it really emphasized the fact that he was in a wheelchair. even apart from that, one of the things that make governor wallace so effective was his feisty kind of bravado that he had. he did not walk across the stage, he started across the .tage, ofte in a wheelchair, it was not possible to do that. >> now we want to introduce you to dr. joe reed who is chairman of the alabama democratic conference. he also works for the alabama education association. dr. reid, what is your first memory of george wallace? >> the first memory i have a george wallace was back in the 19 -- was back in 1958. i had just come from korea and george wallace was running for governor. it was 1958 when i first heard of him. >> do you remember what the memory is? >> he was very vocal. at that time, he did not have any -- anything that any other southern politician had at that time. all were running ag

imagine if we had priced the polio vaccine that way. if we had used that as the basis to charge for the vaccine, we wouldn't have given it to everybody. i remember i was in something like second or third grade and we got it free. what's happened is the question? how have the values of some of the companies changed so drastically from we're going to do good and do well at the same time to we're going to do good and we're going to charge whatever we can charge because that's what the market will bear? >> it probably makes a little sense to look at what's happening around the globe. other countries are negotiating very heavily with the drug companies and as a result they end up getting a lot of the products from the united states. >> that's part of the problem. the problem is we haven't considered this as a trade issue. we haven't recognized that people in the u.s. market shouldn't pay the whole price of research and development because the rest of the world is regulated. this is unfair to this country. >> should we be able to negotiate pr

up after polio. and again was worshipful and became his -- as book i did, his closest companion. she was that and great secret of his life. she kept a diary which i was privileged to be the first person to see and i got to edit it and it was one of the joys of my life. nothing like as a historian of being handed a journal and discovering there's this intelligent woman writing about this man in an intimate way that no one else ever did. >> you don't think they had an affair? >> yes. >> weren't they going to live together? >> yes. didn't mean they were going to have an affair. she thought they were going to live together. he had told several other women they might be there to be hope helpful to him. they were all disappointed. >> let's talk about eleanor and her other friends. there was the bodyguard, earl miller. and there's a picture in this book of her and him and she's got her hand on his thigh. so that suggests something. later with lorraina hickock. >> there are several people with whom she had -

. >> i had a grandmother had polio. vaccines are critical. >> i don't want someone telling me what i have to do with my child and put things into my child's body. >> school districts like folsom- cordova are worried that hundreds of students need to be vaccinated. free clinics will be offered until the end of the month. some are home schooling their kids as a way around while others made sure to get their paperwork exemption in to vaccinate at their own pace. jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> as kids spend the week catching up with classmates, many districts are on the hunt for qualified teachers. the president of a san jose teacher's association estimates that california is short of 10,000 teachers and oakland unified is offering a a $1,000 signing bonus. and it seems that qualified applicants are buying in. >> to get the first payment as soon as you start working as a bump, people are excited about that. >> very close to being 100% staffed going into the school year which is fairly unprecedented. >> teachers have the power whe

i believe jonas salk refused a patent on the polio vaccine. >> right. >> and got the pharma boy charging million for a life-saving drug. i don't know the specifics but that's how you be achievement. become a youtube sensation, get rich, and that's the crux of this book. there's millions of americans, not just this latest generation. there's a lot of people that don't know what we're needed for anymore. >> yeah. >> walking around like i'm going to make some money today and spend it tonight. >> well, thank you for that and thank you for reading my book, and, the gentleman you were mentioning was named gregory gomez. from the apache nation, and he was a vietnam era veteran. he was in the marines in fort recon, and an intense unit, and they would spin behind enemy lines in groups of four. didn't even have a medic, incredibly intense guys. he said he joined the military during vietnam, he sad i had nothing again the vietnamese and no allegiance to the u.s. government. they killed most of my family, it just wanted to see how i'd do. amazing. >> yes, sir. this could be the last one. >> yes. spe