. >> the government accepts, and we accept it is the health or sanitation matter. it is an issue of environmental concern. it is an issue of national security, where we have demonstrations. >> this is the first cholera outbreak in haiti, and it has caused great anxiety and confusion. people are afraid that fish is unsafe to eat because the disease is caused by dirty water. and is spreading. exacerbated by poor sanitation and poverty. hospitals are once again overwhelmed. there are cases in every province according to the u.n. 100,000 people have taken ill, although not all of them seriously. the neighboring dominican republic is not taking chances. they have stopped haitians from crossing the border, even though the u.n. says they're doing their best to contain the cholera epidemic. given the history of cholera in this country, they were not expecting something like this. the art in treating for millions more dollars to treat the disease and keep it from spreading. bbc news. >> political rebellions and private scandals and recurring themes in the life of italian pr

only 17% of the population used adequate sanitation.untry with viable public health infrastructure that needed to be repaired. it hit a country that was really at bottom level, a country that did not have infrastructure to begin with, and the critical thing for haiti is can they build a public health infrastructure that works? in the meantime, it's going down to the basics. it's providing water storage containers and home chlorination with tablets or dilute bleach. that can provide safe drinking water, but it takes a lot to sustain that effort. >> dr. besser, thanks, indeed, for joining us this morning, and we'll keep watching it. thank you. >>> and next week we have a special program for you. they are economic titans, innovators and risk takers. now giving their billions back. next sunday my exclusive interviews with bill and melinda gates, ted turner and warren buffett in a rare sunday morning appearance. >> i just think the idea of dynastic wealth is kind of crazy. >> what motivates them to give up so much? >> it is scary because eve

. >> the government accepts this is far beyond a sanitation matter.t is an issue of environmental concern. it is an issue of national security, and where we have demonstrations starting already against cholera treatment centers. >> this is the first outbreak in haiti and has caused great anxiety and confusion. even these vendors are affected. people are afraid the fish are unsafe because the disease is caused by dirty water. can it is spreading. aided by the countries poverty and poor sanitation. 10 months after the devastating earthquake, hospitals are once again overwhelmed. the un says there are no cases in every province. up to 200,000 people could be taken ill, although not all seriously. the dominican republic is not taking chances. afraid the disease will spread it beyond haiti, it is stopping haitians from crossing the border, even though the un is doing its best to contain the cholera. the un was prepared for waterborne diseases after the earthquake, but given the history of color in the country, it was not expecting something like this. it h

they voluntary got basic sanitation and the way that you stop cholera spreading is by washing your hands, by using clean toilets, by having clean drinking water. what's going to happen now is that there will be a campaign, even more of a campaign than there is already here, to tell people about the importance of washing their hands, of basic sanitation to stop this epidemic spreading and taking hold in the capital port-au-prince. >> the lawyer leaving the american government inquiry into the causes of the oil spill in the gulf of mexico says he has yet to find evidence that b.p. cut corners to save money. >> the explosion on the deep water horizon drilling rig in april was devastating. 11 workers killed and hundreds of miles of coast left polluted. millions of barrels of oil poured into the gulf of mexico. it led to the worst environmental disaster in u.s. history. b.p. has been widely criticized since. they, and other companies involved in drilling the well accused of putting money ahead of safety. an oil spill commission set up by the white house in the aftermath is challenging those a

the neighborhood is in extreme poverty with no proper sanitation, no access to clean water. children walk barefoot among garbage and in dirty water. a breeding ground for cholera. a hospital here receives a constant flow of patients suffering from severe diarrhea and high fever, cholera-like symptoms. patients are overwhelming for this small hospital. they are being treated on stretchers in the courtyard or in corridors. the number of treated so far is over 1,000. 15 of which have passed away. >> reporter: the cholera epidemic has reached port-au-prince. haitian authorities, the u.n. and its partners have stepped up their efforts to prevent the spread. the red cross, for one, is urgently providing hygiene kits to people who lost their houses by the january earthquake. but there are 1.3 million people who are living in tents still. in addition, there are thousands who live in slums. poverty and lack of knowledge among the population play a big part in spreading cholera. >> we expect it to spread further. so i want to be very clear that we don't feel right now this is an epide

i'm used to getting, like, chapstick and hand sanitizer in my stocking. >> lynn, would you rather have a tiny piece of gold or a long nap with wnnie the pooh? >> i think i'd just like a nap. that sounds fantastic. >>> time now for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. the white house starts gearing up for christmas. today first lady michelle obama will be presented with the official white house christmas tree. an 18 foot douglas fir from a pennsylvania tree farm. and speaking of the holidays, we're not done with thanksgiving quite yet. the turkey holiday was officially established on this date in 1941. then president franklin delano roosevelt signed a bill establishing thanksgiving as the fourth thursday in november. and congratulations to tina turner celebrates her 71st birthday. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on t

and nigeria recognizing that sanitation so important you've got to protect yourselves and the air andg problem in so many cities. and back here in kobe, you know, again, they suffered a significant earthquake 15 years ago. the rebuilding has been such a process here, but they did it, they did it quickly, and they made the city safer and better than it ever was before. one of the things it's a little bit non-intuitive is this idea of incorporating communities. after the earthquake, they incorporated the survivors and always really expected the elderly. making sure, for

it is recognized that if a vendor is violating any of the sanitation issues regulated by the department of public health, that is a separate basis where the department can work with dpw and have their permit revoked. there is not only the internal feedback process where dpw is apprised of what other departments are doing. there is also independent authority for the department of public health, fire marshal. >> thank you. let's open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to speak on items 4 or 5? >> parent-volunteer of the student nutrition and physical activity commission. i wanted to thank supervisor dufty for being so responsive to our concerns and for keeping the focus on student health and well-being. i wanted to provide some reminders about why our city requires food vendors to stay 1,500 feet from schools without exception. a few years ago, our state was in the forefront of banishing sodas and shivers from school. as soon as those items were removed, a catering trucks moved in to sell food to them. this is not an only in san francisco law, b

aid agencies tell you that the key is education and proper sanitation. the short term doctors here hope to treat patients, but in the long term they hope they can raise awareness. >> if we can leave some education behind and teach people how to keep their hygiene level higher, keep their sanitation level better, we're not just stopping cholera, we're stops dysentery and half the sdizs here. >> for sure he's stoical. i will recover, he explains. i am getting better. there have been three deaths in the village this week. doctors hope this means the outbreak is also getting better. >>> on to thailand where more than 200 people have died in flooding. nearly 7 million people in about 25,000 villages are affected. the disaster has been going on more than a month now with rivers overflowing after heavy rains across the country. >>> an american family leaves eve everyday life behind for an unforgettable world adventure. they take us on their amazing journey, next. but then autoblog.com calls your interior lexus quiet. and automobile magazine goes comparing you t

it's cops, firemen and sanitation workers. brian? >> chuck todd in washington to start us off, thanks. >>> before the president left the united states on his long trip overseas, various reports started surfacing in the media about the cost of the trip and his security along the way. for a while there, the numbers were repeated unchecked until some people did some checking and found out a lot that was wrong. our white house correspondent savannah guthrie has arrived in india ahead of the president and is with us tonight from mumbai to talk about it. savannah, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it started with a report here in the indian press, citing an anonymous official, an indian government official, alleging that the president's trip cost would be $200 million a day. and another report said that the pentagon was sending 34 warships to the coast here to protect the president. well, the u.s. secret service and the white house won't comment on specific security details but called this wildly inflated, grossly overestimat

hand washing, clean sanitation, people using clean toilets. the disease is spread by contaminated water. here in the capital where so many people are living in crowded conditions without access to clean water, it is a very difficult proposition. agencies and the united nations are all prepared for the possibility of an outbreak in the capital. they will be thinking about the best way to contain this disease. not only here, but nationwide. >> with a look at some of the other top stories, israel has made public plans to build more than 1000 housing units for jewish settlement -- jewish settlers in occupied east jerusalem. a dispute over a settlement feuding has scuttled efforts to relaunch creek -- peace talks between israel and the palestinians. 10,000 people have fled across the border to escape clashes between burmese soldiers and ethnic rebels following the election on sunday. boats are still being counted but early results point to a victory for the party closely linked to the current military government. the polls that were boycotted by th

you are supposed to have clean water with soap, rinse water, and water to sanitize.aw one stall that had those. i only saw one person wearing gloves. of all the festival that we have done, when the health inspectors show up, they shut people down because that is just not the right way to do things. the licenses that people have to take -- you need to take a food safety course. i took it and passed. it is not difficult. basically, you want to treat the public the way you treat your family and friends. make sure you do not sit in anybody. most of the festival's we have done, a health inspector has been our first customer. many have taken pictures of our set up for trading purposes. i would like to offer my services to the vendors down there to comply with state and county and city regulations. as far as the nutrition programs that we are talking about. in my santa rosa market, we are involved in reaching out to schools, trying to bring slow food to the public. show them that this is what you need to do to be healthy. you need your fruits, vegetables, meats. everything

affairs at colombia university and was in the administration for ten years and commissioner for sanitation under mayor, jenkins and was ma developer at port an authority and commissioner for traffic and parking for the city of boston. emily, thank you so much. we are so glad to have your energy, your smarts to lead us to this tough topic this morning. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, susan. well, as the only - at least self identifying water system manager from the east coast, i had originally planned briefly present some highlights of our climate change experience in new york city but after listening yesterday i thought i could spare you anguish and tell you a brief new york story in a brief new york minute. i live in brooklyn and a little backyard in the back and stone walk in the front. years back my son was in the front and we left our backyard and there was a huge august moon rising and we up the block and out into a neighbors backyard when there was a party and when my son got to the party, he said we've got a moon just like that in our backyard. let me say we've not a climate cha

gloves, eye protection, and masks and sanitation and hand washing and who among us don't have a nick or a cut on their hand and are you going to touch someone's blood and your in tac skin will protect you from most ilknows. however, if you have a cut on your hand you have a path for infection to get inside of you and you want a pair of latex gloves -- several pairs of glo gloves that you can put on and change as you go from patient t patient hopefully and at least wash your hands and disinfect your hands between patient contacts and the eyes are like an open wound and path to get into your body and glasses and take the old glasses and throw them in your kit and you have something to wear and face mask and of course dust and dirt and all of these disasters throw up dust and dirt and especially in a dryer season and push comes t shove a band da bandana. and after a disaster is not the time to let your hygiene slip and it's a time to tighten it u and communitycable diseases and if it's wet and not yours don't touch it. gloves and every patient contac and don't touch blood and it's good

you're just moving it to a different place, and there will be oversight on health and sanitation, as there would be with any other food service, be it bricks and mortar or mobile. i think this is a movement towards a lot of people who are seeking quicker and kind of on the run, particularly for lunch. everybody is busy. this works as well as the indoor seating in established bricks and mortar tight places. there is some competition. it is not the worst thing. i think that i agree with the way it is being done, and i think you will probably be helpful to put this into a place where the monitoring is more properly done by the agencies that are part of this legislation. commissioner moore: i think this is a great idea. i am in full support. i would just like to ask that staff quickly checks the space standard. a car space is 25 feet, if anyone wants to imagine what that is like. if there is something between a custom designed vehicle or what a normal person would do, that could be two-tiered. you could either get one or the other. but make sure that if you are 75 feet over, that the inc

. >> when you see the menu, you want to see the sanitation scores at the same time. >> reporter: inspector score cards don't have to be posted in public in san francisco. that's something they want to change. well, the restaurant inspectors still go to restaurants only once a year instead of two or three times like they are supposed to. >> firefighter people suspects a problem. three people get sick at one place, inspectors will go there right away. >>> president obama is in i understand yeah. he has been trying to boost economic ties with india promoting $10 billion in trade deals there this week. less than a week after democrats lost the house during midterms, fixing the economy at home is the reason he is taking the four nation trip to asia. >> i want to be able to say to the american people, they just created 50,000 jobs. >> first lady michelle obama here danced with a group of kids. the president coaxed into dancing but admitted wasn't as good a dancer as his wife. >>> so everybody has a secret but not many can save you money. coming up, employee confessions that you can take to the b

uss iwo jima" and relief agencies are stockpiling supplies, struggling to find enough tarps and sanitation kits, fearing widespread damage and the loss of life as haiti braces for yet another disaster. mark potter, nbc news, port-au-prince. >>> when we come back here tonight, the next thing the airlines may ask us passengers to do for ourselves. >>> here's another service that airlines used to perform for us that we might now have to do ourselves. how about tagging your own bags. the most basic service an airline performs, at least for those who can afford to check a bag these days. there's a report that american airlines and air canada are reportedly in talks with the tsa to begin a trial run at boston's logan airport. delta is also discussing the idea, which they say, of course, would speed up the check-in process. at this rate, the next step may be training passengers in the art of aircraft refueling. >>> voters in california said no to proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana. supporters blame this defeat on older, more conservative voters who tend to turn out in greater nu

the question, what if the regular code expect for all these things, fire resistance, durability, sanitation, so on. durability is one of the big questions that we have not yet really wrestled with sufficiently. so if you were to say we're meeting the code, i would say what does the code require for durability. >> in terms of safety, why is glass in high rise buildings not laminated? >> sometimes it is. it is seldom, but the issue that we were just talking about could be -- is true for laminated insulated glass, or tempered insulated glass. it's the insulation that goes bad, not the glass. >> but we were talking about skylights, skylights were tempered, we had a problem with chardz coming down. >> and to answer the question, yes, laminated glass is very often used for glass. and we do use quite a bit of laminated glass. it's ordinary, laminated is two pieces of window glass together, with a pbb in between. ordinarily it's 030 or to meet safety requirements and they put a little bug on the corner that says what requirements that meets. >> if you use a piece of safety glazing it is required by

. >> the government and we accept, too, this is far beyond a health or sanitation matter. it's an issue of environmental concern and obviously of national security where we have demonstrations starting already. for example, at the cholera treatment centers. >> this is the first doll are outbreak in haiti and caused confusing. even these venders are affected. people are afraid the fish is not safe to eat because cholera is spread by dirty water. 10 months after the devastating earthquake, hospitals are once again overwhelmed. the u.n. says there are now case ins every province. up to 200 ,00ople could be takin' ill although not all of them seriously. afraid the disease will spread beyond haiti. it's stopping haitians from crossing the border even though the u.n. says it's doing its best to contain the cholera. >> the u.n. was prepared for some but now there's an appeal to -- for money to treat the disease and stop it from spreading. >> four people have been arrested after a fire in china killed at least 53 people. the blaze at a high flies shanghai left another 90 or so inj

they hear that it is inside port-au-prince in one of its dirtiest sclums, places where there is no sanitationyans. the disease kills by causing rapid dehydration, it's easily caught with roads and hospitals damaged by the quake, many die before they can get to the hospitals. the sick spill out into the hallways. we saw a tent and building swallowed by the flood and children struggling against the current. we found this woman, after her house was destroyed by the quake, he and her husband built a hut which was destroyed by the earthquake. you decided to stay. why? she says, because my family is sheer and my mommy. medical officials tell us the problem for people like amy is that they don't know thousand properly protect themselves against cholera. the outbreak which is so severe in this country, officials say it could be days, even longer before they know the ultimate toll. matt gutman, abc news, port-au-prince, haiti. >>> scary statistics while driving while drowsy. 1 in 6 crashes involve a drowsy driver. sleep deprivation has similar effects to drugs and alcohol, decreasing awareness, slowin

. >> on wednesday, the troops began cleaning and sanitizing all vehicles used in their mission. the team members also disinfect their boots before entering the encampment. 350 members of the sdf have been deployed since february, assisting the u.n. operation. >>> the leaders of the 21 asian and pacific economies are expected to agree to aim for economic integration by the year 2020. japan's prime minister, naoto kan, is to chair the two-day summit of the asia pacific economic cooperation forum, which will open in yokohama on saturday. the leaders are expected to issue a declaration at the end of the summit to be called the yokohama vision. nhk has obtained a draft copy of the declaration. it expresses the leaders' resolve to further promote regional economic integration toward the target year of 2020. the draft also says apec will take concrete steps toward a comprehensive free trade agreement by developing and building current regional undertakings, such as the transpacific partnership, asean plus 3, asean plus 6. the asean plus 3 group includes japan, china, south korea, and t

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to port au prince where locals are peacekeepers they blamed for sparking the outbreak with poor sanitation at that camp than rest over the epidemic comes just days before national elections the first says january's earthquake devastated the country taking three hundred thousand lives. people in beijing have been warned to stay indoors as the city's been shrouded in sticks small the extra pollution comes as factories and. in the suburbs began burning coal for the winter there's been transport calles with visibility limited to a few hundred metres closing two major highways. cold front and center days expected to connect us. if you fancy something genuinely spicy today most god comes to rescue as we dive into indian culture right ahead in the russian capital that's coming your way in just a few moments. hello and welcome to that moscow hours on the six program we'll be taking a look at indian culture here in the us and kept us old while stars of us are one of my favorite restaurants located on top of the split that hurts how i deal as i'm quite hungry response to something a little spicy. an