sanjay gupta. the lab we're talking about is the international space station. when we say this is a mobile lab, we really mean it. the iss is orbiting around the earth at a speed of 32 kilometers an hour. that's more than 30 times faster than a commercial jet. with near zero gravity conditions, special diet, and modified exercise, it's the perfect place for experimenting on the human being. space was once called the final frontier. and now for medicine, it's a new beginning. nearly 400 kilometers above the earth's surface, the international space station continues its orbit. where it has been every day for the last 16 years. a six-person crew lives onboard. their official titles are astronaut and cosmonaut. but their day job is really scientist. at its core, the iss is a science laboratory. there are experiments that help us understand earth and space, of course. but also the human being and medicine. >> they're parts of the vibration system. they're shock absorbers. >> i've come to houston, texas, at nasa's johnson space center to learn how the science of spac

trouble sleeping and they say get out of bed, do something else he calls me and says this is not sanjay gupta, you have a big nose. i said it's you! he sleeps like a baby that have and i'm up torn trying to find him. >> tossing and turning. >> sanjay great advice. thank you so much. >>> we are staying on top of the story. that's the search for these escaped prison norersprisoners. making a fist something we do to show resolve. to defend ourselves. to declare victory. so cvs health provides expert support and vital medicines. at our infusion centers or in patients homes. we help them fight the good fight. cvs health, because health is everything. people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar ask your doctor about farxiga. it's a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. with one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. and, although it's not a weight-loss or blood-pressure drug farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lowe

sanjay gupta shares his story. >> reporter: on the surface james harris is an average guy.loves his dog and grandchildren. he collects stamps. but it's what is under the surface that makes james extraordinary. >> i got nicknamed the man with the golden arm. >> reporter: specifically it's what is in his veins. james's golden arm from which he has donated blood every week for the last 50 years. >> in 1951 they removed a lung and i had 30 units of blood. >> reporter: at that time you had to be 18 to donate blood in australia. not long after, doctors called him with an idea. his blood could be the answer to a baffling problem in australia. >> in australia, up until about 1967 there were thousands of babies dying each year and doctors didn't know why. the women were having numerous miscarriages and babies born with brain damage. researchers discovered ntd and james was discovered to have this anti-body in his blood. >> it's called rhesus disease. in the worst case it can result in brain damage or death for the babies. >> australia was one of the first countries to discover a blo

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sanjay gupta is joining me from atlanta.uld get a trans fat 101 in this conversation and, two, explain the announcement for me. >> you love your trans fats brooke, i know. >> probably too much. >> saturated fats those are the animal fats and the unsaturated fats the vegetable oils. saturated fats have long thought to be bad for you. saturated fats sort of created artificial trans fats. the industry said look okay we won't use saturated fats anymore. we'll use these partially saturated, if you will fats. and those are the trans fats. they've been around for a long time. and it was interesting, it was sort of why people started using margarine for a while instead of butter. and we now know and that's in part what has been happening for some time now, those trans fats probably are worse than the fully saturated fats. all along, the margarine was probably worse than the butter all along, which is why coronary heart attacks has gone up in men and women for the last 30 years. >> it's been a long time coming but doesn't new york al

sanjay gupta has the story in today's "human factor." >> reporter: it's brian's job to motivate othersainer. but not long ago, the 29-year-old needed motivation himself. in 2006 he was in the army stationed in iraq when his humvee hit two roadside bombs. he survived the blast but his right leg was severely injured. >> my leg was completely useless. i would never bike or swim or run again. i had 10 to 12 years to try to suggest it. they suggested amputation as an option. >> reporter: then he had a tough time adjusting to civilian life. >> i was planning on a 20-year career and that was over. that's when the ptsd hit me hard. just tried to drink the pain away. i didn't want to die but i didn't want to live anymore. >> reporter: he got counseling. he hit the gym and started volunteering. he started vets sports. >> we help veterans transition back into team life through team sports and community involvement. >> it's a sports system. the guy on my right and left has my back like on the combat field. >> i'm genuinely recovered and happy. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> at

sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> coming up next was it a hate crime?nts on a new york city subway platform as a transgender woman is pushed on to the tracks. brand new details here. you're watching cnn. let's celebrate these moments... this woman... this cancer patient... christine... living her life... loving her family. moments made possible in part by the breakthrough science of advanced genomic testing. after christine exhausted the standard treatment options for her disease, doctors working with the center for advanced individual medicine at cancer treatment centers of america suggested advanced genomic testing. the test results revealed a finding that led to the use of a targeted therapy that was not considered for christine before. now, they're helping fight her cancer on another, deeper level... the genetic level. this is precision cancer treatment an approach to care that may help patients like christine enjoy the things that matter most in their lives while undergoing treatment. the evolution of cancer care is here. that's definitely somethin

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sanjay gupta just said we don't know a lot about this disease. don't know a lot about it. >> absolutely. sanjay so -- discovered this in 2012 in saudi arabia. people are criticizing the current situation in south korea about lots of secrecy, we're not hearing enough about what's going on. that's been the situation in the middle east as well poppy. in fact, we've had outbreaks there that if we had more information about what's going on we could know more in terms of trying to prevent a future outbreak. that sharing information is absolutely key. >> do people here need to be worried? >> no not worried. what we need here is to be vigilant sensibly vigilant but not overreact. we've seen two cases in naerkamerica. two americans with mers in may of last year who traveled to saudi arabia. we didn't see a big outbreak because of these two individuals because we tried to get them diagnosed very early on keep them isolated and that's how we stop outbreaks. >> more than 2,000 people we were voting in south korea are under quarantine. the authorities there s

sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> hello, everyone. i'm martin savidge.arning just how bad the cyber attack against the u.s. government was. in this case it's the chinese government that is saying they are not responsible. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto investigates. >> reporter: an unprecedented and alarming cyber attack by china. the attackers may now be able to identify expose even blackmail u.s. government officials around the world. and all it took one government agency that had not taken the simple step of updating its server software. the white house still is not publicly naming the public but it is acknowledging the growing threat. >>> we have seen our adversaries use innovative techniques and to learn from their previous efforts to try to find vulnerables in our system and to exploit them. >> reporter: this attack appears designed to lay the ground work for future attacks. using the stolen personal information to fool government employees in so-called sphere spearfishing attacks and to impersonate them to carry out insider atta

sanjay gupta has an intimate look inside the life of one of those people. >>> everything is gone.ught is gone. it's gone as if it never even existed. >> even as doctors, we rarely get look into what's happening in the mind of someone who's suffering through this. who's suffering through dementia. i wanted to meet sandy myself, talk to him, try to better understand what was happening. hey, how are you? >> wow, what a treat. >> we'd only been together a few minutes before i got a glimpse of sandy's struggle was his memory. >> that was -- i forget what i'm saying in the middle of what i'm saying. now -- i'm sorry. i just lost my train of thought. >> one of the first and hardest decisions sandy and his wife gail had to face is whether it's safe for him to get behind the wheel. they've decided to limit sandy's driving to short distances from their home and reevaluate his skills frequently. >> it's not physicl obviously. you can do that fine. it's not so much memory as it is attentiveness? >> it's i get distracted. when i took my driving test, i went for a three-hour driving test, and -

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sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> all right welcome back. now live pictures in hutchhutchins texas.ue armored vehicle now on fire. fully engulfed in flames there. it was less than 30 minutes ago that dallas police confirmed the suspect was dead. but unclear about how this was set on fire whether during any detonation of two pipe bombs that we understand from dallas police that they didn't locate in that vehicle, whether they were detonated and somehow ignited into flames. not really sure what's happening here in terms of how it was ignited. but again, after now 13 hours from when a suspect attacked the dallas police headquarters according to the words of dallas police that the headquarters were being attacked

sanjay gupta. and this is "weed 2: cannabis madness." this time our journey begins in jersey, ironically called the garden state. it's the summer of 2013, a quiet neighborhood diner, about to become the site of a headline-making confrontation. >> this is brian wilson. >> reporter: between a frantic father, brian wilson and the outspoken governor chris christie, all over wilson's 2-year-old daughter vivian. >> it's been two months now, what is the holdup? >> these are complicated issues. >> it's simple. >> it was a david and goliath moment. you've got a governor who is one of the leading republicans in the nation, and this dad who has got a little girl who he's desperately worried and in love with who just wants to do the best thing for her. >> you see, brian wilson's daughter, vivian, was dying. her brain continuously locked in seizure and nothing had worked. the wilsons were pinning their hopes on medical marijuana. they read about marijuana on the internet and saw stories about it saving lives. like little charlotte, whose story was to

sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. let's celebrate these moments... this woman... this cancer patient... her family. moments made possible in part by the breakthrough science of advanced genomic testing. after christine exhausted the standard treatment options for her disease, doctors working with the center for advanced individual medicine at cancer treatment centers of america suggested advanced genomic testing. the test results revealed a finding that led to the use of a targeted therapy that was not considered for christine before. now, they're helping fight her cancer on another, deeper level... the genetic level. this is precision cancer treatment an approach to care that may help patients like christine enjoy the things that matter most in their lives while undergoing treatment. the evolution of cancer care is here. that's definitely something worth celebrating. learn more about precision cancer treatment at cancercenter.com. appointments are available now. when it comes to good nutrition my daughter's an expert. hi dad. she's a dietitian. and back when i wasn't eating right she g

sanjay gupta. this is "weed 3: the marijuana revolution." [ beeping ] >> i just went every day and sat by his bedside, and they told me he would wake up the next day and he didn't. and he didn't wake up the next day. he was five days in intensive care while i held vigil over his bedside. it was very difficult, very difficult time. i don't even like to really go there. >> kristy kiernan doesn't want to go back to that day in 2011 when her husband shawn kiernan overdosed on prescription drugs. >> it was the most terrible and horrifying thing i've ever been through. >> did you want to die? >> i just wanted to end that second. it was i want it to end. i want it to stop. >> shawn kiernan wanted it to end because the drugs that he hoped would save him were killing him. >> i just wanted it to end. i did something. thank god it wasn't permanent. >> 22 united states veterans kill themselves every day. shawn kiernan was almost one of them. like many vets, he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

sanjay gupta, has more on the illness that took beau booitdeniden's life. >> beau biden was diagnosedrain sercancer in 2013. he had an operation at that time chemotherapy radiation. he was thought to have no evidence of the disease in his brain anymore in the fall of that year but it came back in early 2015. that is often the nature of these types of tumors brooke. what typically happens is when the tumor comes back it becomes more challenging to treat. they have to decide if they want to do an operation again. about 15,000 people or so a year die of these tumors in the united states brooke. they can be very challenging to treat. we've seen this before with senator ted kennedy. the same type of tumor. there's been some progress made using viral therapies, using genetic therapies things like that but as we know in this case it wasn't soon enough for beau biden. brooke back to you. >> sanjay thank you so much. beau biden's death marks yet another time vice president biden has faced edd tragedy in his life. weeks after he was elected to the senate in 1982 he lost his wife and 2-year-old

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sanjay gupta said treatment is of the symptoms and that involves pain relievers, treatment of fever,uids and rest. those are the best measures to treat people, thus far. the world health organization going one step further. it has indicated that it does not seem to be a highly communicative disease between people. it is more between animals and people. in particular camels. so it has advised people for instance to eat camel meat or unpasteurized camel milk or drink camel urine which is probably unlikely in south korea. but it is also advised that measures have to be put in to place in the hospitals in south korea. for instance, surgical masks and our reporters on the ground in seoul have said within the last week they have seen pharmacies selling out, for example, of surgical masks, of hand sanitizers, but it's important not to spread panic while dealing with this outbreak. >> right. that's the key. the government of course doing what it can to not allow it to spread any further. this already the largest outbreak outside of saudi arabia. ivan watson, thanks for that update for us fro

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sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> all right, welcome back. i'm fredricka whitfield.ate on the ongoing search the intensified search for two escaped killers who got out of that upstate new york maximum security facility and of course when the press conference happens, we are now hearing that it could be 3:30 p.m. eastern time. of course when it happens, whether it's that time a little earlier or even later, we will take it live. >>> meantime checking other stories now, an accused cop killer in new orleans is captured in the city's ninth ward. police arrested 33-year-old travis boys this morning as he was trying to board a bus. he was still wearing broken handcuffs. boys was being transported yesterday when he somehow freed himself from his handcuffs, grabbed a gun and allegedly shot new orleans police officer darrell holloway and then fled the scene. the officer died at a nearby hospital. he was 45. >>> and gunfire rings out at a child's birthday party in detroit, killing a 20-year-old man. nine others including three women and six men are wounded. police say it's a m

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sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> and this breaking news now out of newana. a police officer is shot to death as he was transporting a prisoner arrested from a previous shift, and a manhunt is now under way to find the suspect. you're looking at the picture of the officer there. at first you were. 45-year-old officer. now you're looking at the picture of the suspect. police are looking for this man, travis boys who new orleans police say shot and killed officer holloway who is 45 years old. he's a 20-year vet of the police force there. boys was able to get free from his handcuffs, grab a firearm somehow while officer holloway was driving the police vehicle. police are saying the officer was shot and killed and then boys managed to escape in that transport vehicle. of course we're trying to learn more information about the manhunt, about the circumstances of that shooting but for now, let's talk with cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes with the information that we do have right now. as a former assistant director to the fbi. tom, your reaction to what

sanjay gupta. good to see you. he broke his femur. ah i don't even like to think about that.s hard to do isn't it? >> it's one of the toughest bones the longest, strongest bones in the body yeah alisyn you need to break that thing. it requires a lot of force. it's painful. this is a real injury for him. you may know theres the high bone connected to the hip bone. >> i do remember that. >> people know where that is. >> that is a wrong, strong bone. it's tough to break. he had a hip replacement on that side. he had two hip replacements. that fracture is close to where that hip replacement is as well. how much that will affect him? affect his recovery? a little bit waits to be seen. that's a significant injury. >> what does that mean for recovery? does the hip replacement complicated enough it means many more weeks of training for him? i mean sorry, physical therapy for him? >> not necessarily. you know it's an interesting point the surgeon that did the hip replacement will address his femur fracture. it could actually be about four-to-six months of recovery overall. interesting

sanjay gupta explaining. >> he is blind in his right eye due to a detached retina. >> i knew i had to to really respect me and i did that. >> he was a top recruit for the nba draft and days before the draft he was told he had a genetic disorder that affected the body's connective issue, and he could no longer pursue a career in the nba. >> i knew i had to handle myself in front of them because they look up to me like no other. >> the nba shrebgts isaiah austin. >> the nba commissioner recognized isaiah with an honorary draft pick and a job, and he is now bringing awareness to the syndrome through a foundation he started, and he shares his journey in the hopes of encouraging others. >> i could have been playing in the nba right now and there could have been a chance i would collapse on the court but my new passion is to inspire people with my story. >> that was a big loss and he was a talented player and and he is a good kid, and he will help a lot of people. >>> murders on the rise including cities here in new york. what needs to be done to get crime under control >>> hoping to make h