our show folks us on alzheimer's disease. they say this disease is a neuro dimentia disease. it can affect behavior, speech and more. alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death in america. almost 2/3 of americans with this disease are women. from 2000 to 2010, the death rate increased by 68%. this year there are more than 5 million living with the disease. that number could triple if a cure is not found by the year 2050. we are going to talk about this with our guests who know first hand about alzheimer's disease. they are delightful peg gleason and her husband ed gleason are in the studio right now. i've been enjoying getting to know you the few minutes before our program started. peg, tell me when you were first diagnosed with alzheimer's what did you think? >> what happened, i had an episode and i went back to see my doctor and find out how that went. she said i have to tell you, you have alzheimer's. i turned and said to her, i don't want it and walked out of the room. because i knew ed was somewhere in the building. he was at the pharmacy getting something. so i wen

our show folks us on alzheimer's disease. they say this disease is a neuro

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book teeeleven lost and found in the age of alzheimer's" this struggle to get us a diagnosis that are chipping and the limitation of long-term facilities is in on the story of courage and hard work. to enhance the conversation she sharing her book with us today. thank you very much meryl comer. [applause] >> thinks for coming on this glorious day the last day of summer i am touched. the issue is very important i would like to do a survey i am much more interested in the audience and myself. how many have a family member or relative with this disease in the audience? how many have a friend or colleague who is loved one has been affected? a family member or a friend in the caregiver role? are you concerned about a loved one or yourself? raise your hand are there any doctor's lawyer psychiatrist or politicians in the audience? good. [laughter] we have a good conversation this is a special audience to me because you are engaged around the body politic and to the c-span audience this is one of the most important stops there will ever make on a book to our. -- tour this morning i look to see how many books written on alzheimer's there is over 11,000

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alzheimer's patients realize? >> you know, ultimately, it comes in stages. ultimately, you know, my mother was very strong. she's the one that really forced uske up and get a diagnosis. you know, there's no hiding because this is a brain disease. you know, this is your -- this is characterized by the loss of memory and behavior changes. so you can't escape it. it's not like you're going to recover. and that's why this is not a path that you can walk alone. so i've spent ten years with my nonprofit, lisa's care connection, trying to help families, call on their courage and summon their strength to recognize that you can thrive and show up in your life, even while you help the ones you love disappear from theirs. >> so in the care connection, do you help people first of all not run away from this, to recognize the symptoms, and to decipher between alzheimer's, dementia, and old age, which sometimes it just could be old age. >> well, yes, you're right. alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, but it's not normal ageing. it's not a senior moment. you know, when you are putting, say, the pencils in the refrigerator, that's not normal agei

alzheimer's. >> there you are. >>> in south philadelphia a lot of people came out. many of our on air personal. you see ushere's sue, iain, schratwieser was out there. dave kinchen was out there. jenn fred all out there. we came to meet and greet that huge crowd as fox 29's brad satin reports all the walkers had their own stories to share. >> reporter: just outside the home of the fightin' phils, there's another fight going on in the form of one big party. >> ready? >>> fort this fundraiser the sky is the limit. our own sue sr. yo pumping up the sea of people. >> and we are well on our way to meeting our goal of $1.2 million! >> reporter: money pouring in for alzheimer's research each time this bell rings, that's another 500 bucks an estimated 10,000 walkers all with their own reasons for pounding the pavement. from 13 year old blake who raised hundreds of dollars to honor this grandmother to the gonzales clan. >> all 17 of them in remembrance of grandmom filomena who died exactly three years ago. >> and kathy book who's got at least four reasons for walking. >> the purple flower is for those who have pas

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benita spikes is one of an estimated 200,000 americans under the age of 65 who are now battling alzheimer's. pat shows us she is fighting to remember. >> reporter: my children, four children, great grands. >> reporter: everyday, ben me a spikes writes in her journal about people she's determined not to forget. >> my husband michael, the organizations that i work for. >> reporter: remembering has become her day-to-day challenge. >> i have to find myself every morning. >> reporter: spikes is a 61-year-old lobbyist whose daily fight is now against early onset alzheimer's. >> i'm losing a little everyday. >> reporter: but for years she's worked on behalf of crime victims. >> when i worked with union members i saw many mother's sons killed in the streets of d.c. >> reporter: before coming here, crime hit her own family. her husband michael was shot to death in a new york convenience store in 1994. his killers never caught. yet because the couple always opposed capital punishment, spikes carried michael's picture daily as she fought to repeal maryland's death penalty. >> i think no human should decide who live

on to abc7news.com. >> that's fun stuff. >> he did show us a good time. thank you. >>> want to turn my attention to some health information. there is a devastating disease families don't like to talk about, alzheimer'sse. five million people in america are living with it right now according to the alzheimer's association. most of them are women, including peg gleason. she and her husband ed are very open about what she's going through and how they are coping thanks to support groups. >> i said you know, this is something i'm going to have to live with so i did a lot of crying and then i decided now i've got that out, i'm going to have to just face it. >> the support groups, memory cafe is where we get together, the caregiveres and their partners get together. we give each other support. and you see how other people are handling it or mishandling it. >> they are just the cutest couple, married 60 years next year. you will learn about the stages of alzheimer's and how diet and exercise can help slow it down. this sunday on beyond the headlines at 10:00 in the morning here on abc 7. >> excellent program. >>> 55 feet of holiday spirit. >> oh, boy. a christmas tree rises in the bay area. majestic sight a

on. like i said, it choke us up a little bit. thank you for all you have done, 1.2 million-dollar, we're approaching that for alzheimer's associationust got and a picture from jamie, her breakfast there getting ready not only for an early morning work out but a 10.5 hour workday. so look at what chan will he will she's watching. we love you. thank you so much for sharing your morning with us. now lets take a look at cloud around, satellite and radar picture. that is not really a big deal. we don't have any rain in the forecast for today or tomorrow, and we probably won't get, any precipitation of any type. you can see what is going on in wisconsin and minnesota, there is snow up there and stretches through the dakotas. it is cold enough for that but we don't have any precipitation in the forecast. we do have, cold air invasion, set to hit us later on in the week and it will really settle in wednesday night into thursday. that is when those temperatures will really plunge. currently we're in the 30's in philadelphia but you look up in minneapolis and see 26 degrees, our morning will be in the 20's, by the end of the week. by friday

on the front lines of the care i'm happy to talk to you personally. do hope that you consider joining with us again, women against alzheimer's. it is time. now is the time. the other opportunity are the clinical trials. we have learned best get ahead of this disease in the prevention space. i signed up for the a4 trials. they're one of 60 sites being run nationally at georgetown is one of the sites. the hardest part is having to admit to being 65 but you get over it. you can get over that when you are thinking you're doing something for science. but now is the time. these are prevention trials. they're looking for healthy, asymptomatic adults. it will take a conversation with 100,000 to get 10,000 to sign up, to get maybe 100 or 50 who actually qualify for the trials themselves. so that's why it's important to step out, feel you're -- do something. do something. share this story. give the book to a caregiver, do something that will make you feel engaged. so, thank you so much for coming. i'm really touched on a nice saturday afternoon. [applause] >> this is my only book, by the way. my first and only book. >> block >>> roberto trotta is

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using to try to find him. >> plus battling debilitating disease with diet. researchers say changing what you eat can reverse the effect of alzheimer's. >> those story and more coming up on00 over on >> those story and more coming up on 7 news at 11:00 over on channel 7 >> all right time for sports e.larry her no more fooling around. they have to win. >> show of hand who think the nippers make the play off this year >> optimism. >> wow! 1 for 3. >> i hope so. >> 1 for 3. frank gore raised his happened saying this week the niners will make the play offs. right now they have a 4 and 4 record. numbers make it pretty much a must win game sunday in new orleans. here's the key stat. teams that start the season 4 and 5 make the play offs only 13 percent of the time. 5 and 4 teams make the post season 51 percent of the time. niners have the work cut out for them. on the road. probably without license bac backer willis and scooter they have to found some way to stop drew brees. >> short a guy but he plays as if he was in the pocket. has great pocket awareness. he distributes the ball well. not so many things he does wrong so which will engine defense to get turn overs e-expense h

we're in the alzheimer's gape for the long term. one of the things you see usearn from new colleagues from allergan, about dtc. we've done it on our irritable bowel syndrome drug and we'll launch consumer advertising in the coming weeks. >> will we all take it? no one -- anyone seems to be vulnerable to alzheimer's? can you prove if we took it, not a lot of downside and perhaps maybe forestall it? >> it's no in the label. it really is more fmoderate to severe alzheimer's. >> 1.78 billion of synergies, focused on investors and able to deliver that will be important. have you delivered on your previous synergies? >> yes, absolutely. we have a track record not only delivering of it, but delivering them faster. our belief when you do synergies you do it as quickly as possible, helps employee, helps create a better morale inside the company but creates more val up the faster you get a synergy, the better. when you look at forest, we announced a billion dollars of synergies, we have this year a billion dollars of synergy. we're going to try to overdeliver that. we ha

alzheimer's. new we have to dry things out for light the night walk sunday evening. we will work on all that while bob kelly tells us is what up in traffic. >> good morning, everybody. 6:47 on a tuesday morning waking up on this election day. keep in mind with election day we will see unusual traffic patterns. we have been talking about that all morning longest specially around the polling places and a lot of the polling places if they are located in a school, the kids are off today. wow. live look, hello maple shade, route 73 heading in towards fellowship road. watch for some delays. typical of stop and go delays as we rolling up and down 73 through south jersey. schuylkill expressway running slow westbound from city up the hill into conshohocken. we had an earlier accident right here near montgomery, that is off to the side, put a half an hour on the clock, 23 minutes westbound half an hour inbound on the schuylkill expressway, 95 southbound for the gang from the great northeast. woodhaven to downtown 24 minutes there no problems up and down the blue route. we are looking at the a airport. catching a flight out th

us won't even see a sure on day just wanted to mention the slight, possibility there. and the future cast. now our future of the weekend sunday morning our walk to end alzheimer's at citizens bank park we will get started at 8:30 or 9:00. wonderful day. weather is cooperating in the low 50's there and then upper 40's for our light the night walk at eakins oval and that is to benefit the leukemia and lymphoma society. so two big events on sunday and we got rid of the rain. forty-two in bethlehem. forty-four in allentown. 47 degrees in philadelphia we will notaries too much. that chilly air moves in meaning a high of 53 degrees today. is 50 all we will get for tomorrow and 54 on sunday. >>> good morning, everybody. port richmond right here at allegheny after have knew on ramp with the headlights bumper to bumper here from bridge street on down, coming into center city philadelphia so rush hour is underway. is there wet leaves, still going to cause havoc and slippery spots in the neighborhood and then here in mt. airy, lincoln drive right here near johnson street watch for a crash at lincoln drive is tough too with the wet leaves. then we can even work in king of

alzheimer's research. it can be used effectively right now. and we know that the breakthrough ondevastating illness is possible. it's possible. we can do what we've done with hiv/aids. we've seen heart disease and cancer deaths all declining as a result of the research at the american public and other countries are spending on research. let's do that. and that's something we can do in the next two weeks. >> i'm sure families are sending up a cheer for your efforts. >>> anger, sadness, fear across the country, emotions ran pretty high last week in response to news out of ferguson, missouri. but it is the small act of compassion that went viral just a few days ago. during a demonstration in portland, oregon, tuesday. sergeant brett barnam says he noticed the sign for free hugs and the officer obliged. >> it just happened to be captured one frame in time that the men and women of the police bureau and actually across the united states, they do good work like this every day, it just doesn't get captured. there's been a lot of tears shed and it's the humanity in us. and, you know, we

us about it. >> there are different types of dementia. alzheimer's is the oneely springs to mind. this is less common, but similar to alzheimer's in that you're basically getting these proteins that are depositing themselves in the brain. interfering with the way the brain communicate. you're looking at two slices of brain. on the left is normal. on the right is lewy body disease, or lewy body dementia they've been stained with a brown stain. you see none of it over here. that's the first point. the other point is the these are the lewy bodies this brown clump of protein and all of these other threads, that get into the system of the brain, the sponge of the brain. >> what does it do? >> it prevents you know signals from going back and forth as easily. what is interesting is sometimes it can initially go in the same area of the brain that is responsible for parkinson's disease. one of the first symptoms often for somebody with leyw body disease would be parkinson's type symptoms. we know robin was suffering from as well. it can cause other types of symptoms, de