sexting. 36 school kids gunned down in the streets of chicago. in the last school year. the sad thing is the violence is only getting worse and neighbors say nothing is being done to stop it. this prime news special edition parent alert starts now. tonight we are going to concentrate on our kids and scary things they are doing. there are people out to get our kids. sometimes our children are hurting themselves. sexting. this is where teens use their cell phones to send suggestive messages or naked photos of themselves to other teens. some kids are being charged with child pornography. the consequences can follow them the rest of their lives. why are there new cases every week like two in richmond, virginia, nude photos of students were found on a computer drive in a middle school. in idaho a teen sent a racy photo to her boyfriend and it is all over the school.÷ prosecutors are deciding whether to charge these kids. how do we get the message to these kids joining me is dr. suzanne lipkins who

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julie carey has our report. >> reporter: four cases of sexting in just the first month of the school year at one fairfax county high school. they seized six students' cell phones, phones used to send nude photos. in one case the student was just 14. nearly a dozen teens all juveniles were involved. >> the fairfax county police department does take the issue of sending nude photos amongst kids very seriously. >> reporter: the crime list on the court documents is also a serious one. >> manufacturing and distribution of child pornography. >> reporter: but school resource officer mark mcdonald who has been at the forefront of a public awareness campaign say teens often don't know they're committing a crime. >> often teens don't know it's illegal and they don't know there are long-term consequences for their actions. hopefully through education, we can change that. >> reporter: the education campaign started last spring with a community mting to alert parents of the then over the summer, all the school resource officers got special training about how to handle sexting cases. school princi

four cases of sexting in just the first month of the school year at one fairfax county high school. police sought search warrants because they seized six students' cell phones, phones used to send nude foet totes. in one case, the student was just 14. nearly a dozen teens, all juveniles, were involved. >> the fairfax county police department does take the issue of sending nude photos amongst kids very seriously. >> reporter: they say the spath of cases reflects the growing awareness of the seriousness of texting. school principals got a crash course. mike mcdonald has been a driving force behind the evident to get the word out. >> every high school and middle school have been trained in how to deal with these cases. they know exactly who to contact if they have a case. and there's a procedure in place with the prosecutor and police department how to exactly deal with the cases in the future. >> reporter: mcdonald launched his information and training campaign last year, after two sexting cases at the high school where he works. >> ultimately the problem is the teens do not know what

teens are using sexting for girlfriends and boyfriends. >> some of my friends think that they have to do it, they don't have to, but they would like to because they would like to keep the guy interested. >> reporter: guys who sometimes forward that picture or at least show it to their friends. >> and a guy is like hey, check out this girl who just showed it to me and then the guy will go and tell everyone. >> the thing that blows us away do not blow them away. >> reporter: they run connect with kids and an expert on kids with issues. >> remember, your child doesn't have the life experience that you do. and i always say that are starting about this technology, but they are stupid about life. have they just fallen off the earth? >> you need to do two things, educate yourself and your kids. >> you have to say to them, here are the ethics if many our family, no sexting, no posing pictures that you wouldn't show someone else. what i always say is if you would not show it to me, your mother, or say it to me, don't do it online, and for goodness sakes, don't do it on a cell phone. >> recomme

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bottom line here is we will look very, very carefully to see whether there is a problem with this sexting in terms of safety. we don't anticipate that there will be. it is produced in the same way that flu vaccine is produced each year. it is a new strain just as we put new strains into the flu vaccine each year and flu vaccination has a long term, very good safety record with literally hundreds of millions of doses haven't bee given. >> operator, next question. >> our next question comes from the canadian press. >> hi dr. frieden. i was hoping i could get you to talk about something you touched on earlier, the balance of identiing when people need to seek care. some people will, and you know think they are fine and then start to get worse and need to go see a doctor and they may be outside of the 48 hour optimal treatment windou for antiviral drugs. if you can recommend what doctors think about treating with antivirals, start treating with antivirals later than 48 hours it looks like somebody's developing severe disease? >> if someone is severely ill then they should be treated even if i