robert bazell, nbc news, chicago. >>> up next here tonight, good days in motown. and home movies from mars. >>> you're about to see a couple firsts here, the first lady michelle obama and the first ever group jumping jack attempt in the backyard of the white house. it's part of her effort to get kids fit. it was led by our friend al roker, hosted by national geographic kids. 400 kids jumped their hearts out, part of a global effort to break the world record for the most people doing jumping jacks across the globe at once. >>> we thought this needed to be said, these are good days for our friends in detroit. how about them lions, first of all? as one sportswriter put it today, they've been bad for seemingly ever. they beat the bears at ford field last night. now they're 5-0 for the first time since ike was in the white house. the tigers are in the alcs. michigan is 6-0. and the red wings, for heaven's sake, are 2-0. for a town that's had a lot of hardknocks, right now detroit is remembering what success feels like. >>> this is one of the most incredible motion pict

robert bazell, nbc news, chicago. >>> with us here in the studio for more on this, dr. tanya beneson, doctor of internal medicine in new york and our nbc medical director as well. doctor, when a patient comes to you and says, should i take a multi vitamin, what are the conditions? do you ask the patient a series of questions? >> i think a multi vitamin for anybody is fine. it's a great safety net. it's when we get into excessive mega doses of things when you're not deficient, that's where the problem starts. you have to do extensive history, lab analysis before you start supplementing individual items people are doing on their own. >> overall, the brands we all know, a multi vitamin supplement like the woman in the set-up piece says, it doesn't seem like we are getting enough nutrition from our on the go meals and diet these days. that seems about right. >> it's fine to take the multi vitamin. think about the juices, fortified foods. you have to be careful. especially the metals, iron, zinc, copper. just because a little bit is good for you doesn't mean more is better.

robert bazell, nbc news, new york. >>> now, we go overseas tonight in turkey. the death toll hovering around 450. it's expected to go higher, so what happened there today? 48 hours after the earthquake is being hailed by a lot of people as a miracle. nbc's michelle franzen reports again tonight from the town of ercis on the rescue against all odds of a newborn baby there. >> reporter: out of this jagged mountain of rubble, a tiny life saved. a fragile baby girl born just 14 days ago pulled alive from the collapsed apartment building that was her home. her name is azra. somehow she survived for two days and frigid nights. cradled by her rescuers, she was rushed to a waiting ambulance. nbc's john ray was on the scene. >> reporter: the baby is well? >> the baby is fine. very well. >> reporter: very well. that's a miracle, isn't it? >> yes. >> reporter: that's a miracle. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> reporter: azra was not alone. her family had been buried with her. her mother, sakin, still trapped, had managed to lift her baby to the arms of rescuers. she was pulled out

robert bazell, nbc news, new york. >>> now we turn to wall street where today this is what passed for good news. the deal last night to save europe from collapsing into a heap of debt. so the dow went on a run today, up 339. nasdaq gained just under 88. s&p up almost 43 points. the dow jones industrial average is now up 13% from its low earlier this month which all brings us to our friend david faber from cnbc. i know you're not here to defend wall street, but here's the question. this disconnect, how many people will get hired in this country because the dow is on a good run and had a good day? how does that wash over into the rest of the economy? when are we going to feel it? >> yeah. we won't feel it perhaps for some time, if we feel it at all. something else we heard which was potentially good news was the report on the growth of the u.s. economy. 2.5% is how much the u.s. economy grew in the third quarter of the year. that was better than many had anticipated, given we were worried we were headed into another recession. but that's still not fast enough, brian, to actually generat

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our report tonight from robert bazell. >> reporter: bill ross started taking vitamin e regularly more than 20 years ago on his doctor's advice. because he has a strong family history. >> my father is a prostate cancer survivor. he's been battling prostate cancer for about 20 years. >> reporter: but vitamin e may actually increase risk of prostate cancer by 17%. according to results from the so-called select trial of vitamin e and celenium. select researchers followed 35,000 men who were taking one or both of the supplements or a placebo. this type of study is considered the gold standard of medical research. >> i was surprised by the result of this trial. there was a substantial amount of evidence going into select when it was designed in the early 2000s. to suggest that vitamin e or celenium may prevent prostate cancer. >> reporter: fresh fruits and vegetables have lots of vitamins and anti-oxidants. taking them in a pill form would offer more protection. the trial was stopped in 2008, because the vitamins clearly weren't helping. researchers continued to monitor the subjects and fou

that's how we begin tonight with our chief science correspondent robert bazell. >> reporter: it is more powerful evidence that one of the oldest and cheapest medicines on earth may be one of the most beneficial. british researchers studied people like keith reiger who inherited a gene which puts him at very high risk for colon cancer. he and his father had colon cancer. two of the three children inherited the gene. one died at 22 from colon cancer. in the study, 861 people with lynch syndrome took either two three milligram tablets of aspirin or a placebo. scientists followed them for two years after they stopped taking the aspirin. >> we reduced by 60%. >> reporter: because the same gene plays a role in the more common form of the disease, researchers assume that aspirin might help the general population reduce colon cancer risk. but aspirin is not without its own potential side effects. >> there are also risks, particularly increased risks of serious gastrointestinal bleeding. >> reporter: the ancient greeks used the precursor of aspirin taken from willow trees. the current form was f

robert bazell, nbc news, new york. >>> it's now 15 minutes after the hour. we want to get a check of the morning's headlines. >>> a pilot trying to fly a small plane from california to hawaii got to within 13 miles of the big island before crash landing and it was all caught on tape. check this out. the u.s. coast guard had to rescue this 65-year-old unidentified pilot after his twin engine plane rain out of fuel on friday and he had to ditch it in the pacific ocean. the coast guard was waiting and a rescue swimmer helped pull the man into a hovering helicopter. the pilot has some minor injuries, but otherwise, he's okay. >>> start looking at holiday travel now. the cost of an airline ticket could go up as much as $100 if the obama administration's new security and departure tax is approved. some of that money could get to the transportation security administration, the tsa. one change that may help consumers, though, is airlines will have to give fair quotes in full, the same way it's done in europe. >>> the criminal trial of michael jackson's doctor wrappe