. >> i look at it as the fda. you have something they call the population health assessment not only the adult users but then the youth and how many transition into cigarettes? comedy are experimenting or over 20 days a month? the acceptable level depends are you talking youth one or two days a month or increasing the the numbers where teens habitually are using that as an entirely different matter. >> you told me on the phone you stopped using watermelon. >> when they hit the market the fda tried to ban them but it turned out to be the best advertising they could have unfortunately the products were junk try to quit and failed all it did was remind me of a tobacco cigarette. >> you were the early adopters. >> i was technology was under attack meanwhile the product is calling 400,000 people each year. and then trying to ban the alternative. >> now what is your routine quick. >> mostly when i'm traveling it is a tank system they are sold at walgreens and the independent company and it does have some pineapple to it.

so we need some assistance from the fda. a nonhostile empty so we can keep this entry around, grow it and not just hand over it in its entirety to large tobacco companies which is the path we are on. >> we about your from fda commissioner dr. scott gottlieb. what do you agree with and disagree with and his approach to e-cigarette? >> last night was an article that commissioner gottlieb wrote five years ago and he talked about half a tobacco control act, the bill passed in 2009 by congress, that it was supposed to give a pathway for less harmful tobacco nicotine products to come to market. i see that in his writing. when he spoke last year at the fda, july 26 of last year, and said smokers spoke for the nicotine, but the nicotine is not the major cost of the death and disease that is cause primary by inhaling burning smoker that can read it, back in of language is great but in terms of what i disagree with him on, i think that the way he is presenting this issue ignores a lot of the adult smokers that a benefited from this pr

it's the drug ministration commissioner from the fda. ve to tell you, i know you don't talk about individual companies, however, there was major rejoicing on behalf of parents and schools and medics who have to carry the epipen and it had gotten so unbelievably expensive and after almost decades of rejections of generic versions of this, your fda finally got through the generic version. what kind of response have you gotten. >> we've gotten a lot of response from parents and some directly to my mailbox, but this is what we call complex drug. it's hard to copy so for a long time there wasn't, no one was able to get a copy of this drug to the market. we've invested a lot of resources to create a pathway for copies of these drugs to come to market so this is one indication of the success we are having. there will be other complex drugs, generic drugs coming to market as a result of some of the things we set in motion. >> by many accounts they work price gouging american public and the specific groups of american, these are people who have li

. >> still ahead, the fda calls vaipg an epidemic. but what exactly is vaipg? and juul?ping an epidemic. but what exactlyjus vaping? an? >>> big tech has gotten the attention of the federal trade commission. the agency is now holding a series of hearings to examine whether some well-known companies are in fact monopolies. ands as comes a skroutny from washinon grows. the julia boisterousen has more on the story. trade commission wants to look at whether changing technologies demand changing regulation. the ftc holding two days of hearingens onti comon and consumer protection in the 21st century. >> today our most difficult consumer protection issues revolve the usef and abuse of logical kpanlts. >> a series of panels examining whether the tech giantsre month op lies google with dominance of search facebookth 2 billion monthly users andit amundsonen w the trillion dollar market cap and transformation of reta land cape. all companies and peers access to consumer data raising questions about whether data privacy needs to be regulated differently. >> privacy is one aspect. t

apple released the new line up including three new iphones and a dprs that required fda approval. nbc bay area reporter join us live with all the details. hi, aanoushah. >> that's right, apple products are never cheap. but some analysts argue they are a good investment because of so many devices and features in each product. the company says one of the new products in particular could change the world of medicine. at the steve jobs theater on apple's campus in cupertino, a glimpse into the future. >> so let's get started with the apple watch. >> reporter: the apple watch series 4 unveiled at the company's annual event this morning was presented to the audience as the first over-the-counter electrocardiogram or ecg. these the device doctors use to look for heart disease and other heart conditions. now available to you on your wrist. and cleared by the fda. >> a lot of competitors have brought out more and more features around health. it's all a trend. but this is a step further with you know the fda approval and all that. >> fit bit sharers took a dive after anus of the new watch pc

will her from the commission of the fda dr. scott gottlieb. you talk about young people smoking e-cigarettes and the new fda prevention program. this is been hosted by axios in washington, d.c. introductions underway. >> we do in our events would bring our journalism to light and we also do in smart brevity can series of segments. they are digestible, , accessibe and hopefully illuminating and enjoyable for you. today we will be talking about the rapid rise in e-cigarette use, particularly in high schools, middle schools. we will touch on a number of other public health issues. there's a lot of passion around some of these issues. a personal quest as a favor to me, i'd be grateful to each of you would be respectful of all the juice that up here. my axios defends colleagues have worked hard to make sure we represent a spectrum of views.

the fda says they have two months to prove it. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> let's turn back to bonnie schneider with a look at florence heading our way. more crucial in the hours ahead. >> we want to break it down so u know exactly wha to expect. starting this morning, the onset of tropical storm force winds, winds stronger mhan 39es per hour. this afternoon some of the outer bands will work their way a onshor unfortunately that's also going to bring about strong winds. as we look towardsni late t, that's when hurricane-force winds are expected. right now we're looking at ary cate storm, but it's just so wide. almost 400 miles in diameter. a long duration as well. there's the storm surge we'll ba hing. it will be increasing tonight and tomorrow night. that's a look at one of the big weather stories of the day. here's a closer look at the day ahead. temperatures are certainly warm andry summe across parts of the central plains. highs in the 80s but even hotter as we head south. pockets of 90s into oklahoma, texas, louisiana

is that something the fda does? e can't force the sale though there are countries that do force the sale if it is mandated. we can't force them to sell the drug but we can dismantle the policies they are taking advantage of to frustrate the ability of the generic firm to get access to the drug and one of them are risk management plans that we require companies to put in place to make sure drugs are used responsibly by doctors and patients, putting in place restrictions on how the drugs are used or prescribed. and we see companies using the same plans as an excuse for not selling drugs so we tried to stop that. >> donald trump talked about reimportation. reporting drugs from abroad. that was resisted by congress for some time. is that something you support, reimportation? >> congress has resisted and so has the fda because of concerns around the state, reporting drugs on a wide basis but we currently select cases when there's a drug shortage, we imported drug on a temporary basis from a foreign country when we have a

is there, professor, any off ramp for the industry in light of this edict from the fda? , i think the industry is going to have to take underage use of e-cigarette said extremely seriously in this immediate period of commissioner gotlieb's demand but in the longer term as well. because in some ways this is an issue that transcends for democrat -- because what we're seeing is the tremend uptick in first time users. frrgs they're not trying to preplace their traditional tobacco e-cigarettes. what we're signing is an enorms market in high school students, middle school students and a giant industry is being created around that market. and so in one sense i think what we're seeing is a slow motion train wreck and that -- rather than things getting better as they did around tobacco and nicotine through the last 30/40 years, we could really addict a new generation of kids who ultimately may end up using a range of tobacco products that we don't really understand. i think that gotlieb's move is tremendously eimportant and quite frangly i think these are the kinds of things that

the fda has announced efforts to work with the tech industry to spurn information in digital health. you have an example of that pgh actually i don't. pgh he said the apple watch pgh the approval of the application of the apple watch was significant. we said were able to decouple this from the device itself. previously we have approved apps on cell phones as medical devices and we didn't regulate the host cell phone is a medical advice. but in that case it didn't have an ekg monitor built into it. here it had a piece of medical information bilton and we decouple that from the application. what were saying to the tech industry is, you can build medical functionality into your hardware and not make your whole device a medical device will just validate whether the hardware is working through the application. that's an opportunity for tech players to get in. >> and what you want to use your apple watch for? >> counting calories. >> what is your target per day? >> i think i have it set and 70. >> and how many steps? >> it seems to work because you are big tweeter. you make fun of yourself

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is anything can be done for anybody like me -- guest: this is a tricky balance that the fda is trying to figure out. there's blister packs where you would allow doctors to prescribe opioids in limited doses. we would rather go to the pharmacy and get a month's supply. there's lots of people that doctor shop. they go across state lines and try to get opioids from various doctors. there has to be a crackdown on that. i'm not sure that lawmakers fully get that. host: carl calling from crownsville, maryland. go ahead. caller: good morning. since the pharmaceutical companies are the ones that produced, promoted and profited from the sales of the opioids, why aren't they taking financial responsibility for fixing the problem? guest: the pharmaceutical response to the public as they want to be involved. behind the scenes, we hear from public health advocates that they were pretty forthright in stopping lawmakers from putting in anything that was going to limit their profits or hurt their ability to manufacture these opioids. host: part of the bill, part of the senate bill includes the u.s. p

it has a built-in ekg scanner that's been cleared by the fda. ta collected on the watch can be directly shared with your doctor. the watch also does other things like track activity and nutrition. how might this disrupter change the world for ekg makers, hospital quality. henry shine, which distributes ekg machines to hospitals and doctors. the chairman and ceo of henry shine is here in a fox business exclusive. fda approved personal ekg machines have been out there for a long time, that are pretty reliable, but does this apple watch change the dynamic at all from where you sit as a big distributor of ekg machines? >> so liz, 18% of gdp is spent on health care. two-thirds of that or 12% of gdp is related to what's called the ncds, noncommunicable diseases. any form of measurement of these vital signs and sending that information in an intraoperable way to the physician's office so the physician can interpret is a good thing. whether the apple system does it or not, i will leave it up to the doctor to decide. liz: do you get a sense of any of the

and analyst -- david: is this the law of unintended consequences? fdaing to protect kids and the market would suggest the investors are thinking they will go back to regular cigarettes which are worse. >> absolutely. ceo saidhy the juul they will work with the fda in response to the request and are committed to preventing underage use of their products and want to be a part of the solution and keeping e-cigarettes out of young people and making sure people do not smoke traditional cigarettes and they move on to e-cigarettes as a solution to how they quit regular smoking. david: the difference between the use of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes by kids was a jarring report. >> both seems -- things seem to be cool. david:, a strong economy and unpopular president, we will look at the numbers and what they mean for the midterms coming up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to

. >>> coming up, it can help adults quit smoking but it's having thepposite effect on teens, now the fda is cracking down. thel get the latest on vaping issues going on straight ah >>> a woman is recovering after her vape pen exploded. it happened yesterday afternoon nd 3:30. the fairfax county fire department says she was a passenr sitting in a car on grant street. she had to be flown to a local center. no word on the severity of her injuri inj inju t fda 1 threatening to pull e-cigarette products onhe shelves unless manufacturers come up with a way to reverse this troubling end. amy cho has reaction. >> reporter: this is very small, it's a ndjuul looks like a usb drive not a good idea. >> reporter: nickie's daughter says her daughter lauryn doesn't use e-cigarettes but no many students who do. >> that can't be good. and it's very ive and i don't think the kids are doing it are bad kids. >> reporter: the cdcs million stud last year. 12% of high schooler in the last 30 days middle schoolers use the la this college studentid us to use his name b es the juul everyd. he doesn't think kid it

since april the fda has been examining juul's advertising. er marketing campaign that featured young people in groups with bright colors echoed past campaigns by big tobacco companies. in an interview earlier this year, the executive director of juul denied it. >> i will take that criticism. that we should have known. but we know now. we're working very hard and we are committed. >> data shows e-cigarettes hold over 72% of the market. matt myers with the campaign for tobacco free kids is skeptical that volunteer efforts by the industry will work. >> fda's announcement has the potential to be a dramatic sea changer. but only if fda follows this up with mandatory rules to require tobacco companies to fundamentally change how they're operating. >> juul says it will act proactively with the fda in response to its request and is committed to preventing underage use of its product. anna werner, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up this morning, bob woodward joins us in the studio with his explosive new book "fear, trump in the white house". i'm anne-ma

but thanks to the fda the industry's future might go up in smoke. >> the fda said today that vaping by teenagers has reached epidemic levels. anna warner now on the government's plans to crack down on e-cigarettes. >> fda commissioner scott gottlieb is tepping up the pressure telling five companies they have 60 days to submit plans to keep e-cigarettes out of teens' hands or face the pont of the fda pulling flavored products which experts say appeal to teens off the market. >> okay. this seems like a simple issue to solve. teens love vaping because they like the flavors. so if you want to get the kids to stop vaping stop with the kid friendly flavor, strawberry, bubble gum, no, you have to use flavors old old people like stuff like kale or whole branzino, cinnamon and lox bagels, those are the flavors. by the way, i love how the news sends their reporter into a hurricane but then once he get there, hey, you can do this vape story, please. like sometimes i think hurricane stories are just how you get hazed when you join the news because he is just doing the regular stories with a hurric

today the makers of juul said they would work with the fda adding in a statement, we want to be part of the solution in keeping e-cigarettes out of the hands of young people. the fda says they have two months to prove it. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> nine people were killed today and as many as 50 injured when an suv ran into a crowd in a busy public square in china. videos of the horrifying aftermath were posted on social media by people who say they witnessed it. after the crash, police say the driver got out and began stabbing people. he was arrested but police haven't mentioned terror or any other motive in the case. >>> when we come back, the new shakeup at cbs. why the "60 minutes" chief is out days after the company ceo stepped down. >>> also, the new iphone's revealed. why this is apple's biggest announcement yet. >>> next tonight, another major shakeup at cbs just days after les moonves stepped down. the chief at "60 minutes" is out, too, fired for allegedly violating company policy. now he's firing back. here's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: acclaimed newsman jeff was

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heat's where the biggest growth is. if fda stops that growth, what happens to the industry, do you think? >> well one of the big questions actually is where is all in growth coming from? i mean the ecigaree business, you know across the board has been growing a lot in theast year, led by juul. i mean, juul is a real innovation a breakthrough in the market and others are copying it. one of the questions until this year is how much of that growth is actuall coming from teen use? but the data that we reported starts to help answer that, because there a hasn't been data out there in 2018 yet. but, you know, it still open question. it's hard to know with sales how much of it is going to'r teens. th not necessarily the ones actually buying the products. >>ight. how does a company like a juul -- did and there are others in the space as wel -- walk the fine line being in compliance with the fda but still troig to sell its product and make a profit? >> yeah it's tougher. i mean they say the target is adult smokers. and when it comes to

soon to be available to you with a flick of your wrist. >> we've received clearance from the fda. >> health had been something very important to steve jobs and now continues to be important to apple. >> reporter: the tech giant is also releasing three new iphones, including one with a massive 6.5-inch screen and sophisticated camera. >> you can after taking a picture adjust the depth of field. >> reporter: apple's new iphone xs max also comes with a record pricetag, retailing at $1,100. >> you get a lot back for the money that you put in. it's the camera, it's our mp3 player, for a lot of people tv. >> reporter: apple also announced it has cut the price of both iphone 7 and 8, now preordering for the apple watch and both the iphone xss begins on friday. reporting live in los gatos, nbc bay area news. >> anusha, thank you. we have more coverage on our website including a visual lookback at apple's products over the last several decades. just head to nbc bay area.com. we do this every september. i think i'm still on the 5 or the 6. >> i just got an 8. >> i like that. >> i had an ipod un

the fda says they have two months to prove it. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> let's turn back to bonnie schneider with a look at florence heading our way. more crucial in the hours ahead. >> we want to break it down so you know exactly what to expect. starting this morning, the onset of tropical storm f per hour. this afternoon some of the outer bands will work their way onshore, and unfortunately that's also going to bring about strong winds. as we look towards late tonight, that's when hurricane-force winds are expected. right now we're looking at a category 2 storm, but it's just so wide. almost 400 miles in diameter. a long duration as well. there's the storm surge we'll be watching. it will be i oklahoma, texas, louisiana. it's definitely heating up, and it humid thermnd the size of it really is the biggest concern, not so much the fact that it's a 2 although that' few days even. >> bonnie, thank you. >>> a storm of a much different sort swept through washington, d.c. and eagle bank arena got hit the hard heest. the sea

the real plays on the biomedical side going through the fda. are applications for epilepsy but that is the tip of the iceberg. community have never studied this yet. this is frontier science and even those who know about it will tell you there is a lot more to learn. we don't know a lot more than we do know. we do know, from an efficacy standpoint, is the wellness side. caroline: there is $70 billion of market cap at the moment and, romaine, it seems it is held up by a few companies. romaine: it seems i collect a promise. i wonder if this is all on the medical side or recreational because a lot of the play in that could market is on the recreational side then it is on the other. todd: i think it is a fair amount of semantics. a lot of people have been self-medicating for so many years that the lines between recreational and medical are blurred. there are certainly going to be -- a pathwayations through the fda. the only way a government could take the bite they want is through the fda. there will be two markets. the valuations we are talking abo

and the fda is paying and trying to stop what scott gottlieb calls an epidemic, right. >> that's right. last week the fd said it was starting to -- considering the ng flavoring in products in e-cigarettes because that's a real draw for teenagers. >> s. and it has ultimately addiction qualits to it. and that can lead to very difficult health challenges and costs down t road, right? >> that's right. i mean, the products have a lot of nick teen in them. they certainly aren't cigarettes. t they don't hav toxins that toerk has but they have high levels o nicotine. and public health officials and nicotine iny about developing brains. it definitely has an effect. and your brain develops until the late 20s. >> by f the biggest company in

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in related news the fda is said to be cracking down on teenage vaping. ping for those who don't know is the reason your uber smells line pineapple turpentine whenever you get in it. [ laughter ] yesterday the fda officially declared increased use of e-cigarette busy teenagers to be an epidemic. commissioner of the fda said they've become a ubiquitous and dangerous trend among teens, the disturbing and accelerating trajectory of use and accelerating path to addiction must end, it's simply not tolerable. if there's one thing that gets through to teens it's a sternly worded warning from the fda. [ laughter ] the fda also warned vape shops about selling to minors. and threatened to take flavored e-cigarettes off the market entirely. and that would be, i mean, i think i speak for everyone in l.a. when i say, i would miss being assaulted by a cloud of blueberry pomegranate cotton candy robot farts everywhere i go. [ applause ] i really hope it doesn't come to that. guillermo, you ever smoke those vape pens? >> guillermo: no, jimmy, no. >> jimmy: would you allow

the fda has warned against the products for kids in social media campaigns: fda psa: "vaping can delivercrave more and more. don't get hacked."wednesday-- the agency magnified its message--sending five major e- cigarette manufacturers and more than 1100 businesses warning letters--and in some cases-- fines for selling to minors...also warning about labeling and flavoring to attract or target kids--like e-liquid on the left...similar to candy on the right, all in an easy-to-hide size.andrw paulus, teen: "which is why i'm sure teens like it cuz in school they're just kind of everywhere. they can easily take a hit when no one's looking."earlier this year, the fda asked manufacturer juul labs to submit documents to understand why their products are so popular with youth. juul labs says in a statement "appropriate flavors" help adult smokers switch, while adding it will work with the fda "to keep e- cigarettes out of the hands of young people."the fda gives juul and other manufacturers 60 days to share plans to reduce youth sales or face possible criminal or civil action.in washington, i'm em

. >>> it helps adults quit smoking, but has the opposite te effect on agers, and now the fda is cracking down. >> and there's growing speculation over amazon's second headquarters, and some are rely believing that it alis (announcer) there's a freedom about asheville. an unspoken invitation to discover who you really are. come up for air. asheville. discovery, inside and out. i put criminals in prison during the day i'm jennifer wexton, and as a prosecutor, and changed diapers at night. later, when i had a law practice, i volunteered to help moms collect child support. then, as state senator, i worked across party lines to target sexual offenders and take guns away from domestic abusers. in congress, i'll stand up to president trump. i approve this message because, like every working mom, what's ahead is as important as what's in the rearview mirror. >>> we continue to cover breaking news near union station as d.c. police and u.s. capital police investigate a suspiciou vehicle. you're seeing live pictures near the scene. is alon louisiana avenue and northeast. some roads near the capital

you have been critical of the fda in basically asking some of the major manufacturers of vape productse up with regulations you characterize that as asking the fox to recommend plans for guarding the henhouse. isn't it smart policy in a way to ask -- to get industries involvement in the policy making process one way or another not to design the recommendations necessarily, but to have input into what is ultimate ultimately determined? >> i don't disagree that they will have input in the final product. i just think what you have to be aware of is an approach that leads to self-regulation presents a couple problems one, there will always be a segment of the market that doesn't comply with the self-regulation. look at the market right now you can go to the internet and find many, many products that are directly appealing to kids second of all, if you allow complete self-regulation, what you allow is really a pr stunt what we want is universal, uniform rules, that keep these products out of the hands of kids. >> what does that look like to you, products marketed to kids >> looks like a web

. >>> the fda said today that vaping by teenagers has reached epidemic levels. anna werner now on the government's plans to crack down on e-cigarettes. >> industry must step up to this problem. >> reporter: fda commissioner scott gottlieb is stepping up the pressure, telling five companies they have 60 days to submit plans to keep e-cigarettes out of teens' hands or face the possibility of the fda pulling flavored products, which experts say appeal to teens, off the market. >> i'm deeply disturbed by what i see as an epidemic of nicotine use among teenagers. >> reporter: the most popular product by far, the juul e-cigarettes. since april the fda has been monitoring juul's advertising. critics say an earlier marketing campaign that featured young people in groups with bright colors echoed past campaigns by big tobacco companies. in an interview earlier this year juul executive ashley gould denied it. >> i will take the criticism that we should have known. i will take that criticism. but we now know we're working very hard and we are committed. >> reporter: data fr

the fda has warned against the products for kids in social media campaigns: fda psa: "vaping can deliver. don't get hacked."wednesday-- the agency magnified its message--sending five major e- cigarette manufacturers and more than 1100 businesses warning letters--and in some cases-- fines for selling to minors...also warning about labeling and flavoring to attract or target kids--like e-liquid on the left...similar to candy on the right, all in an easy-to-hide size.andrw paulus, teen: "which is why i'm sure teens like it cuz in school they're just kind of everywhere. they can easily take a hit when no one's looking."earlier this year, the fda asked manufacturer juul labs to submit documents to understand why their products are so popular with youth. juul labs says "appropriate flavors" help adult smokers switch, while adding it will work with the fda "to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of young people." the fda gives juul and other 60 days to share plans to reduce youth sales or face possible criminal or civil action.in washington, i'm emily schmidt, reporting. ( marty ) here's a live

a statement he got from the fda. ote the a-- that work can't come at the expense of kids. we cannot allow a whole new generation to become addicted to nicotine. what is the attraction to an e-cigarette? is it easier to access? does it appear to be less harmful to individuals? what is it? >> that's where it starts. it starts where it has a great flavor, where other kids are using it. now 11% of high schoolers are using it. it has gone up almost 1,000% over the last four years alone according to the u.s. surgeon general. almost 1,000%. your friend is using it, you are using it. the rub is a university of pittsburgh study shows that once you start e-cigarettes over the next year and a half you are four times more likely to go to regular cigarettes. and you know why? because nicotine is addictive. once you are addicted to nicotine you'll get it wherever you can. >> bill: powerful the way you describe it. is an e-cigarette more potent? >> it varies. they are playing that game. there is a lot of nicotine in these cigarettes

it features the first of its kind fda approved electrocardiogram that can detect irregular heartbeat.arts at $400. >>> a limousine company is suing ride share companies uber for unfair competition. in the lawsuit it's says that diva limousine argues that uber violates the california labor and insurance laws. classifying drivers as contractors instead of employees allows uber to save $500 million a year. so far uber has not responded to the lawsuit. >>> the fda's putting the makers of e-cigarettes on notice. make changes or your products could be pulled from the market. the fda says e-cigarette use against -- among teenagers has become an epidemic and is considering banning flavored products. it is giving companies 60 days to provide plans to curb sales to minors. >> they are flavored cigarettes. they are appealing to kids and they said that tobacco is going under so they put apple and ice cream flavors on there. >> officials say the e- cigarettes still contain nicotine. some companies are denying the target audience is teenagers. >>> juul released a statement saying, our mission is to

effects. >> new evidence show that e- cigarettes are being used to deliver marijuana to kids. >> the fda will also classify ads warning teens about the ads. >>> intersects -- intersections have been closed down, the city center project is almost completed, part of the project includes blacking out intersections on bullinger canyon road from the 680 freeway to the east of marketplace. crews are posting signs and the city says it's trying to do most of the work during non- commute times but there is still a chance that people headed home from work could get caught in the mess. today they stopped work at three clock to avoid gridlock. >>> coming up the pop group expected to take the stage at the super bowl halftime show. >>> plus a wildlife museum visited by millions of students, why they want to pack up and move. >>> plus, a fire that was caught on camera and playing tug-of-war with a firenado . >>> we were there when the veteran who found these metals and gave them back to the military hero they belonged to. [ music ] you could generate your own energy, at home. or to save energy, unplug

that is a large enough of effect size to get a new drug approved at the fda. the cost of hair also dropped about $900 per patient per year. this is what the power of technology can do. yes, technology by itself is not enough. another industry technology has only been transformative when it has operated in an efficient, networked way. in detroit, i can think of no better example than the story of the automobile. henry ford used technology, the moving assembly line, to reduce the time needed to produce a single model t from 12 hours to 90 minutes, which allowed a 2/3 reduction in cost and pricing. but the automobile did not transform american life overnight. and it didn't reduce transportation costs until the building of the national highway system several decades later. only after that, as you can see in this chart, did the u.s. see societywide cost savings. technology needs organization, not just technology for technology's sake. in health care, some people think the best route to savings is to cut the costs of this technology. or, perhaps, to ask the doctors a

the shelf. joining us is fda commissioner dr. h more on why the agency decided to do this dr. gottlieb, thank you for being here today >> thank you >> you've talked in the past about some of the teen epidemic problems that come to this what is the situation and what do you describe as an epidemic >> well, we have access to early data that we're going to make public very soon that shows us the proportion of high school students using e-cigarettes is nothing short of an epidemic in my view. and it requires steps to take dramatic action to curtail this. and we've seen e-cigarette adult smokers trying to migrate off the products who presumably don't have all the rinks associated with combustion, but don't come with the expense of putting a whole generation of kids hooked on nicotine and tobacco products unfortunately to narrow that for kids we're going to have to remove that for adults the key is removing the flavors from the product >> that makes sense. it never made sense the argument that adults who are trying to quit smoking would

the fda seems to have concerns around vaping. that has been moving stocks around. he u.k., the health secretary has talked about allowing them to be smoked on buses. very different countries taking very different approaches to vaping. how easy does that make it investing in this sector, other sectors? different countries taking different approaches. andre: as i said, this is uncharted territory, clearly. forof these novel products regulators, consumers, and everybody else. i think that if we look at the logic of what we are doing here, if, in any product category, you have products that are scientifically demonstrated to , ibetter than cigarettes think it should be made available to consumers. we are having a debate whether this product should be made available or not. should be the debate how fast the product should be made available and under which conditions so that people understand what they are and we also minimize the unintended consequences. e-vapehink that the products are better than cigarettes, there is no discussion about that. but the right regulatory f

got a major health makeover as the watch can take electrocardiogram approved by the fda and the dad isso reliable you can send it to your doctor. back to you. cheryl: in another headline cbs has now ousted another high-ranking male executive at the network. lauren: adam shapiro turns us with that story and other headlines. reporter: the shakeup at cbs continued late wednesday. president of cbs news announced executive producer at 60 minutes had been fire. a cbs employee says he was october reasons and this is a quote not directly related to allegations of sexual misconduct. former cbs ceo les moonves left earlier this week after allegations. there were all allegations against fager but he said he was like oh for sending a harsh text message to a reporter investigating the claims. lauren: more turmoil at tesla. reporter: another's feet executive at tesla out. justin macnair said he's taking the cfo role at another company and there's other troubled by the way for tesla elon musk says improving customer service response time is a new priority with model three bother saying the worst part

. >> the fda is in the middle of a crackdown on e-cigarettes. its latest effort called the real cost campaign aims to get teenagers to stop vaping by showing how the chemicals spread through the body like parasites. last week the fda fined stores and sent warning letters to companies including san francisco-based juul. those companies now have to prove they do not market to teenagers. >> today we got a look at the virtual tool that san francisco police are using to train officers on when and when not to use deadly force. >> we have another threat, so then again we're going to move -- whoa. we're going to move to that threat. >> today the department invited meme berz of t members of the media. it will be used to train every sworn officer from recruits to 20-year veterans. >> they go through a program that takes you from the simplest contact to a tourist in san francisco all the way up to what you saw earlier, a dramatic active shooter. >> san francisco changed its use of force policy emphasizing de-escalation over deadly force. use of force incid

the fda approved the ealey ly drug emgality thursday. it joins recently adrroved mts from teva and amgen. >> we know over 30 million migraine patients in the united states. and if you look at thatnly 10% of them are on preventative migraine agents. because there hasn't been a new medicinen two decades. >> migraine patients have been tread with oltder generic drugs repurposed from other sources. the wrinkle shot botox is approved to treat chronic migraine andng b in about 600 million in sales. the new medicines are in the same class blocking aec me known as c dpchlt rp in might have grain. it's given in once a month or every three months. while the drugs don't prevent all migppines they didve in clinical trials to reduce the number of attacks per month. they cost the same too at least on their face. et75 a month or $6900 a year. but wall st analysts expect major discounting to win market share and alreadyhe companies are offering inincentives. amgen which reached the market first offers the dra dwrug for a f$5 monthly co-payor some patien

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oil approved by the fda through a process of clinical trials. that is the process that we utilize in this country to demonstrate whether a particular substance has a medical necessity or inability -- or an ability to help people. tocannabis is determined have an effective use and is safe and reliable and gets fda approval, that is one thing. that is far different than just taking a substance like marijuana and saying we think it is ok, therefore we are going to simply legalize it for medical purposes. i don't think it is appropriate to have marijuana grown in the backyard is some kind of a defined medical substance versus an fda process. host: one of the things of note that many states are dealing with heading to the november elections was election security and border security and how that works for voting was. what does indiana face heading into vote -- heading into the midterms? guest: we encourage early voting and satellite voting and recently we had a case we were involved in that left a little bit of a controversy although i think it was lar

the technology not only has the american heart of associational apprbut the fda's as well. interesting little side note here, when all the health components were unveiled on the new tch, fitbit stocks dropped. >> ha-ha!th was quick. >> ha-ha, oh, that's interesting. >> w tell ya, thech can do so much. the only thing it can't do, it seems, it prepare dinner. >> that's coming next. that'll be the next generation. >> sure it is. >>us hurricane coverage getting started, folks. >>> next, the escape underway in the carinas right now, and the forecast that could have dire consequences for millions. >>> president trump already promising swift action after the monster storm hits and doubling down o his controversial defense of last year's response to hurricane maria. >>> really inedible student performers from d.c. schools got to hit the kennedy center to hit the kennedy center "hamilton" stage today. i put crimheals in prison duringay i'm jennifer wexton, and as a prosecutor, and changed diapers at night. w later, when i had a actice, ani volunteered to help moms. collect child supp

the dow finished 86.52, >>> the fda is warning dog and cat owners about take medications that could give your pet seizures. dedications were found to cause problems in some pets including seizures, loss of coordination and muscle tremors. the medications, the following brand names. all of those medications have been approved by the fda but regulators are now working with the manufacturers to include warning labels on those products. >>> the fog is making a comeback, looks like the cooling trend continues as we had through the weekend, we have the forecast coming up. >>> golden gate bridge officials change lane closures after a frustrating late-night traffic jam. >>> lane closures scheduled for tonight have been canceled, last night closure combined with a concert created a massive backup and since there is another concert tonight officials decided to cancel tonight's plans for a closure of the land. crews are constructing a suicide barrier scheduled to complete in 2021.>>> cooler temperatures for today, that trend continues as we had toward the weekend. highs for this afternoon, you can