sears offers a vaccination. three-year-old twins colton and gunnar chen have been dreading this trip to the doctor but today they're off the hook. thanks odr. sears. no vaccine for another two months. dr. sears tells parents that it's okay to slow down the cds schedule. >> so why do it any credit differently? why watch the kids suffer? >> some babies don't handle the vaccine schedule very well. there are side effects that occur, not very often but side effects do occur. >> such as? >> brain swelling encephalitis, seizure reactions. >> but those are extremely rare right? >> they are, they are very rare but parents don't want to be one of those statistics. >> you have to realize that the persons who are at most risk for these diseases are young kids. and so if you wait till older in life to get vaccinated, you'll get your child vaccinated but you may miss the boat in terms of the highest risk period of time when they could get sick. >> orange county is not the only wealthy area struck by a measles outbreak. the tr

no vaccine for two months.hile most children at their age are fully vaccinated, dr sears tells parents that it's okay to slow down the c.d.c. schedule. why do it differently? because parents have a tough time watching kids suffer. >> some babies don't handle the vaccine schedule, there are side effect that occur. not often, but it does occur. side effects such as? >> brain swelling, enselfa lightize, seizure, rehabilitations. >> reporter: they are rare -- reactions. >> reporter: those are rare. >> parent don't want to be a statistic. >> we have to realise the perps at most risk are -- persons at most risk are young kids. if you wait until older in life to get vaccinated, you'll get the child vaccinated but you may miss the boat in terms of the highest risk of time when they get sick. >> reporter: orange county is not the only healthy area struck by a measles outbreak. the trend is playing out. affluent areas have seen vaccination rates drop, and measles cases spike. the issue has become a political light nippin

(laughter) and folk os, these are all diseases we have vaccines for. i mean who knows why these vaccines are no longer effective. i mean have the path agains evolved. are the doses now too small. why, science? >> the main reason is that more and more parents are choosing not to get their kids vaccinated. >> stephen: okay, that was it it got to dot thing. okay, you know, you see, back in-- (applause) >> here's what happened, back from the 90s doctors started giving infants more vaccines some of which contained a preservative called thimerosal which contained mercury and the rate of autism increased dramatically which caused many parents and celebrities to fear kids were getting autism from the vaccine. and mercury is bad for your brain. which is a shame because i used to love those glass pickie sticks my mom would give me when i was sick. folks, this anti-vax movement has done a lot of things that i love. star power, science denial and hip center appeal. bus penneyfarthings and handlebar mustaches are cool but nothing is more vintage than dying of rubel

that will require vaccines.ready i've been told that there are insufficient polio vaccine to vaccinate all travelers in the government is just really trying to get the injectable vaccine for those travelers. all of these things will take away from the core focus of the program on trying to vaccinate people in the districts of karachi, and the fatah areas, stripping the -- strengthening the programs. are things that require resources, both human and money. i'm afraid these travel restrictions may look cosmetically appropriate, but i don't think they will do much good in terms of the national polio eradication program. >> finally, rafia zakaria, you are poor for dawn, the newspaper in pakistan, but you are in the united states. your message to people in this country who might have no idea what happened with the osama bin laden rate, the special forces and how they found him? >> well, i think -- i would like to speak for the pakistani people who are kind of caught in the middle of this conflict. on one hand, you ha

because maybe they are american vaccines, et cetera, or the access to these vaccinations are really not there so we're seeing a rise of these kind of polio diagnoses. you would look for a blood test and antibodies and get the csf, the fluid from the spinal cord, to lock at the inflammatory cells and protein, and, unfortunately, there's no cure for this but the history of polio goes way back to the egyptian times, and we know about this. >> i did want to ask, you know, because we're talking about this today, it makes you think about the debate that people are having, whether or not to give your children vaccines, so does this speak to the importance of that? >> this one is huge. age of two months you start with this. by the a.j. of 4 years you've had all the series. everyone should have this. the symptoms of polio are pretty common, the nausea and come hitting and the characteristic things are muscle spasms and problems with muscles. not everyone that has that progresses to the paralysis. >> great point. >> meanwhile, have you heard about this study, the fda issuing strict new guidel

because maybe they are american vaccines or the access to the vaccines are not there. we're seeing the rise of these polio, diagnosis. the blood test, lou for antibodies and also csf, fluid from the spinal cord to look for inflammatory cells and proteins. unfortunately there's no cure for this. the history of polo goes back to egyptian times. >> i did want to ask because we're talking about this today. it makes you think about the debate people are having whether or not to give your children vaccines. so does this speak to the importance of that? >> this one is huge. age of two months you start with this. by the age of four years you've had all the series. everyone should have this. the symptoms of polio are common. the nausea, vomiting. the characteristic things are muscle spasms and problems with muscles. not everyone who has that progresses to the paralysis. >> great point. absolutely. >> meanwhile heard about this study? fda issuing strict new guidelines about aspirin. agency saying aspirin shouldn't be seen as something that should help prevent a first heart attac

rotherredly cured by massive dose of the measles vaccine.atients stacyer hold who is battle add blood cancer for more than a decade was told it was incurable. the doctors at the mayo clinic. they conducted tests on two patients one of them was successful. >> we have known for some time that viruses can work as a vaccine, and if you inject a virus into a tumor you can provoke the immune system to then come and destroy that cancer other cancers. >> it is just remarkable, who would have thought. >> she was given enough vaccine for 10 million people. dr. ressell believes his team can one day create a one shot cure, and joining us to talk about this. doctor, welcome back. >> how are you, john. >> i am good, how does this work? >> well, it is fascinating technology, and an exciting one. what they do is genetically engineer the measles virus to seek out and sort of just destroy cancer cells. it does that, at least it did in this patient. >> would it be possible that the vaccine could work for other cancers in is. >> you know, it is possible. it is

or didn't know if they were vaccinated and were exempting from vaccines because of personal beliefs.believes out there. >> are many complex attitudes but i think it's really important for people to know that measles might be forgotten but it's not gone. it's an airplane ride away. and if you're traveling this summer, please make sure you've gotten the measles vaccine, that you're protected and your family is. and if you're a parent, you don't have to worry about it and you don't want to get your children vaccinated, please get them vaccinated because the disease can be serious. an interesting thing this year, about half of the cases are occurring in people over 20. a lot of people didn't even know if they were vaccinated or not. if you're going to be traveling and you don't know if you've been vaccinated, get an mmr vaccine. >> doctor, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> in world news, he could have the golden ticket that everyone in al qaeda desires. a u.s. passport. an american fighting with rebels helped pull off an enormous suicide bombing they posted a photo of the bomber who t

should people vaccinate their kids? >> everyone should vaccinate their children.ay that with the strength of all sorts of studies. people should vaccinate their children. the scarry thing is that even if you do the right thing and you vaccinate your children, you could still have problems because babies are too young to get vaccinated. babies don't usually get vaccinated until 1-year-old. even if you fully intend to vaccinate your child, if your child happens to run into one of these people who has not been vaccinated and has the measles, you could be in trouble. you just have a baby. if i were living in one of these communities where there was a lot of this, i would be careful about who my baby was with. you can vaccinate before 1 year. i would talk to the pediatrician about doing that. not every adult was fully vaccinated. >> next. back to square one in thor the ch for flight 370? investigators now say it is not in the area they have been searching. what is next? we will ask. >> also forbes has released its list of the most powerful women. hillary clinton, oprah

and it was vieped out by a vaccine campaign.bal outbreak may not be enough to persuade the parents back to imnunicizing their children. doctor, first this this warning about polio. this is mainly overseas, but how concerned should we be about the disease making a comeback. >> we should vaccine on time. polio is coming back and the vaccination efforts are disrupted by war and other kinds of social disruptions. we have pockets of susceptibles and polio virus can spread and be exported in other countries. it hasn't happen here yet. but it reminds us that it is out there lurking and we must protect your children. >> in this country we can make a choice not having the vaccine disrupted by far. a study came out focused on washington state. there was an outbreak of whopping cough. when there was a outbreak parents did not vaccinate our children. what does that tell us about where we are at as far as the vaccinations and keeping our kids and community safe? >> there are some parents that are dubious and confused and i keep saying, liste

soldiers are here to protect health workers offering polio vaccinations. in the past they been attacked by the taliban, accusing them of providing a cover for foreign spies. the government announced a major immunization programme. the prop is getting to the remote areas.

vaccinate them?lved in rabies transmission. but human rabies, all cases of human are linked with dogs. we estimate the number of case at 70,000 -- 700,000 cases worldwide. the cases linked with dog bite are more than 95% of the cases. so cleaning the rabies in the dog population worldwide would be really the solution. the cost will be ridiculous comparing to the cost of human treatment. >> dr. fallah. we're out of time. good luck with that campaign. that is it from gmt for today. i'll see you tomorrow. experience in refining and perfecting the rich, never bitter taste of gevalia. and we do it all for this very experience. this very second. this exact moment. [woman] that's good. i know right? cheers to that. gevalia. 150 years of rich, never bitter coffee. the ones that keep people out. like this one. and the ones that keep people in. like your living room. go and smell the roses. like their crisp and fresh strawberry & avocado salad, make for a more invigorating afternoon. ♪ hey, look at them go. su

kids are just not getting vaccinations. >> during the civil war, vaccinations can't reach certain areaso coverage goes down, susceptible children susceptible to the infection, those numbers will increase and the virus will find those children and the outbreaks that we've seen have occurred. now syria is exporting the virus most recently to iraq, which is another country that's fragile and will be difficult to control. >> brown: tell us a little about the measurers that can take place. w.h.o. doesn't have enforcement provisions, right? well, some of it has to do with travel restrictions. >> well, the international health regulations which were modified in 2005, adopted by the world health assembly, so that is a governing body that all member countries participate in. they approved these regulations that injects a level of accountability to the countries that have the problem. so, in the old days, when the international health regulations were only limited to a small number of diseases, mainly small box, cholera, plague and yellow fever, with a sun-size-fits-all strategy, we now have regu

another outbreak in upscale san diego where parents deliberately avoided vaccination. >> most residents who are training have never seen measles. >> reporter: pediatricians now on the lookout, trying to spot the telltale rash, the extreme fever, the cough. measles is so contagious they've put special "negative pressure rooms" in rady children's hospital to immediately isolate cases. >> a special filter which takes out any infectious agent. >> reporter: all these cases like the amish outbreak linked to travelers bringing measles here from around the globe giving it to the unvaccinated. the fear? we slide back to the days before vaccinations began in the early 1960s when measles sent 48,000 americans a year to the hospital. 7,000 with seizures and about 500 died. >> he was really sick. i mean, he was in extreme pain all the time. he would be screaming. we were up all the night. >> reporter: little murtaza miah was only eight months old, too young to vaccinate when measles struck here in new york. he caught it during a visit to his doctor's office in a room where a measles patient had been

jon lapook said those who came down with the measles didn't get vaccinated. this doctor is with the cdc. >> most of the people who decided not to be vaccinated through certain beliefs and philosophical reasons and when measles are imported in the united states and finds an unimmunized person, that person will get'sles. >> reporter: almost 90% of the cases got it in california, new york, and ohio. in the united states the vaccination rate against measles is over 90%, but pockets of unimmunized people remain. the 177 cases in ohio were primarily among unvaccinated amish communities. some of them traveled to the philippines where there's a large measles outbreak. >> the critical issue is that if you're traveling around the world and you haven't been vaccinated against measles, chances are you're going to get it and bring it back home. >> infants are especially vulnerable to measles because they don't get vaccinated until at least age 1. when travelers bring home the infection, infants are easy targets for the virus. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >>> calls

from vaccines through personal beliefs or philosophical reasons. and when measles virus is imported into the united states and finds an un-immunized person, that person will get measles. >> reporter: measles have been reported in 18 states. almost 90% of cases appeared in three places-- california, new york, and ohio. >> ready? >> reporter: in the united states, the vaccination rate against measles is over 90%. >> there you go! >> reporter: but pockets of un- immunized people remain. the 177 cases in ohio were primarily among unvaccinated amish communities. some of them traveled to the philippines, where there's a large measles outbreak. >> the critical issue is that if you're traveling around the world and you haven't been vaccinated against measles, chances are you're going to get it and bring it back home. >> reporter: infants are especially vulnerable to measles because they don't get vaccinated against it until age one. so, when travelers bring home the infection, infants are easy targets for the virus. >> o'donnell: all right. dr. jon lapook,

there is no known vaccine to prevent its spread. recently spoke about april's 73% spike in infections. >> hopefully that we will -- >> this is a scene that the world could see soon if antibiotic medicining can fight the medicined. they're encouraged only to use antibiotics when prescribed by a doctor, fully completing prescriptions and never sharing medicine. the who said drug resistence is a serious threat which has the potential to affect anyone of any age in any country in every region of the world. >> to help you better understand why drugs that work so well for so long are increasingly not much help against disease we're joined by a doctor from the center for bio security. dr. annie sparrow, deputy director of the human rights director at mount sinai hospital in new york, and geneva, switzerland, the doctor who leads the team studying answered microbial resistence. let's go back to when these drugs were first introduced. was it always understood that this was a threat waiting out in the wings that some day resistence was going

i thought we have a measles vaccine. >> we have a measles vaccine. melissa: what is the deal?> people are not vaccinating children on time. we have global traffic of a lot of people coming to this country from areas we have majorout breaks like philippines and things like that. they're not properly vaccinated. pockets of 200 cases, 100 cases even here in new york. this is a problem. if you go back to the 1960s millions of would get the measles. thousands of people would die from the measles. there was a tremendous effort once the vaccine came out, look, let's get rid of this problem. we have these pockets. it will be a chronic problem for a long time. melissa: people believe the vaccine is dangerous. >> let's not get into that. melissa: let's not get into that. all right. on the flipside there is this wombat he willing blood cancer for 10 years. she was injected with enough measles virus for 10 million people? >> right. melissa: and it cured her cancer? >> this is the field of using viruses to treat cancer. this is an ongoing field. talking about vaccine therapy for cancer. ba

if he gives a dose that's 10,000 times the dose you would get with your measles vaccine, he gets it to go into the body, go right for the cancer cells. the virus multiplies in the cancer cells, kills the cancer cells and then it's kind of like a guide missile, shoot a guided missile, kills the cancer cells and the immune system comes in and does a secondary treatment. >> if you have myeloma do you ask for this treatment? >> that's the second question. we're not there yet and as david pointed out we are with the mice. this is a trial that two people were given. the first woman is totally cured and in remission. the second one came back, but weaker. in the second face we'll give it to thousands. >> how long before we can get it? >> i would say within five years. >> within five years. >> eric, i will tell you the good news about this is that the side effects that they saw after this was only some fever, headache and chills, so to get that much of this vaccine to a patient without major side effects, this is a noble job, and they should be congratulated and using virus to cure cancer go

if you're unsure, get the vaccine again. it's safe. everyone here, make sure you and your children are vaccinated fully and on time. >> and dr. besser says measles is not just a nuisance. it can be deadly. before vaccinations began in the early 1960s, measles sent 48,000 americans a year to the hospital. about 500 died. >>> the government has announced new and tougher laws on tanning beds used by millions of americans. the fda says sun lamps must now carry black box warnings, cautioning anyone under 18 not to use them. but officials stopped short of banning their use by minors. experts say using an indoor tanning salon even once increases the risk of melanoma by 59%. >>> now, to a medical emergency that forced singer bret michaels off the stage last night in new hampshire. three songs in, michaels was forced to leave the stage, suffering from extremely low blood sugar. he's had type 1 diabetes since childhood. michaels was treated by paramedics. he has since apologized to his fans. no word on whether the scheduled gig tonight in pennsy

he injected here with a massive dose of the measles vaccine. >> i received enough to vaccinate a hundred people which was alarming and i was happy to hear that after the fact. >> in this case the mayo doctor say the measles virus binds cancer cells together and kills them. >> certainly it got people's attention and a lot of people are talking about it. what we have to bear in mind is that these data are very early, a single patient. we don't have enough details on what other treatment the patient had. what we are seeing really is the headline, and the devil is in the details. >> reporter: one thing is concern, doctors have confirmed that stacey is now cancer free. for her that is historic enough. john hen dren al jazeera. >> and finally a pioneer in broadcasting signed off today. barbara walters signed off today. ending a five decade long career. she and yes, she did ask the head of state once if he were a tree what type of tree would he want to be? and yes, my mother's name is barbara, but no, we are not related and good-bye. and we want to thank you for watching al jazeera america. i'm

it is early days but a vaccine is much needed.alf of the world's population, 3.4 billion people are at risk for malaria. there are more than 200 million cases reported each year which resulted in 600,000 deaths. 90% are in sub-saharan africa. they are optimistic. >> we have made incredible progress in seen child deaths cut by half over the last decade. we're seeing with the current tools we have and the potential new tools like a vaccine in the pipeline the possibility of being able to end malaria in my lifetime and that would be an amazing achievement. >> the latest study is one of many avenues being explored. the hope is harnessing natural immunity could be a powerful weapon against this deadly disease. "bbc worldatching news america." popering for a visit from francis. we look at the religious and political waters he may be walking into. now to a climber who reached out for help in a way which would have been unimaginable a decade ago. he turned to technology and facebook when he got stuck and eight crevasse in the himalayas. >

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he injected her with a massive dose of the measles vaccine. >> i received enough apparently to vaccinate00 million people. which was alarming, and i was happy to hear it after the fact. >> reporter: the idea is a simple one, virusesser in the body and destroy tissue. the measles virus binds cancer cells together and cures them. until that happens, many oncologists are arriving their opinions. >> it certainly caught people's attention, and a lot of people are talking about it. what we need to bear in mind, these are very early, single patient, and we don't have details on what treatment the patient had. all we have really is the headline, and as i said, the details. >> one thing is certain, doctors have confirmed that stacy is now cancer free. >> it was very exciting. >> for her, that is historic enough. john hend rin, aljazeera. >> well, that florida hospital has now been given the all-clear. patients are being treated for middle east respiratory syndrome. patients recovering at that orlando hospital. all of the workers who may have come in contact with them have tested negative. the pat

so to give that much of this vaccine to a patient, this is a noble job and they should be congratulated and using virus to kill cancer is going to be hopefully the way of future. >> indeed. >> that woman was cured. >> absolutely. >>> okay. thinking of taking a sleeping aid to help you catch some zs? well, first you want to hear the fda's latest warning about one of the most popular sleeping drugs on the market right now. my name is michael, i'm 55 years old and i have diabetic nerve pain. the pain was terrible. um, i remember my feet hurt so bad that it felt like i had hot pins and needles coming from the inside out of my skin. when i did go see the doctor and he said, "i think i can help you" and prescribed lyrica. it helped me. [ male announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda-approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or, swelling, trouble breathing,

unsure get the vaccine again it's safe.ryone here make sure that you and your children are vaccine tonighted fully and on time. protect you but also protect those in your community who can't protect themselves. dr. richard vesser abc news new york. >> good advice. >> coming up next on 7 news at 9:00 the spelling bee surprise. and don't look down. the popular sky deck high in the air cracks. tourists scramble to get to solid ground. i'll to get to solid ground. i'll be back . >> stand ford professor is being recognized for his outstanding scientific work in the field of astro physics. he's among the winner of the praises given every two years by the norwegian academy of science and letters. andre lynn and 2 others developed the theory inflation which hold the universe grew extremely quickly in the first split second after its birth in the big bang. >> unusual out come at tonight scripps national spelling beach a tie. >> spell this word correctly we clare you and he co-champion. [applause]. >> whatever. however you say it jus

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that's how strong the vaccine was.he idea is that because her immune system was already compromised, it wouldn't be strong enough to fight off the measles virus. the virus treats the cancer cells like food, gathers them up and explodes them. two hours of the shot, stacy began shaking and vomiting. her temperature went up to 105 degrees. 36 hours later, the cancer started shrinking. listen to a doctor. >> there was some suggestion that it may be stimulating the patient's immune system to further recognize the cancer cells and help mop that up more effectively than otherwise. >> it's remarkable. who would have thought? >> yeah, who would have thought? it's been six months and she is cancer-free. the hope now is to begin clinical trials to see if this could be effective in fighting ovarian, brain, neck, maybe head cancers, maybe even develop other viruses to fight other types of cancers. just an amazing story out of minnesota. >> unreal. trace, thank you very much. we'll take the good news today where we can. >>> the secr

their antibodies could be used in the vaccine.alf the world's population, 3.4 billion people are at risk for malaria. there are 200 million reported cases every year. that leads to 600,000 deaths, 90% of which are in africa. their prevention matters and treatment to reduce the number of deaths by 42% since 2000. that's progress indeed. professor andy waters is in our studios, a malaria expert with 30 years of research experience and here with me, another researcher. thank you very much. let's get the perspective if you can on this particular study andy. can you explain a little bit what it is that's so special about these children? there must be other people around the world to claim resistance or immunity to malaria? >> yes, there are. what is special is the early able at which they seem to develop some sort of resistance to malaria. in general resistance is result of experience of being infected by the parra site. children below four or five years of age are at risk. if they survive the exposure to different episodes of the infe

there was a lot of talk during sars about making a vaccine but it ended before a vaccine was actually produced and this may reignite interest in making a vaccine. it's rare enough i think if people take the right precautions, avoiding contact with other infected individuals, if they are their healthcare workers or close family members taking good highgenic precautions, washing your hands, covering your coughs and sneezes and in the hospital, taking those hospital precautions, i think you will be pretty safe. >> professor morris says mers is only spread through close contact with an infected person. a mission to advise pope francis on sex abuse in the catholic church is holding its first meeting at the vatican. the commission for the protection of miners is drafting protocols for the church to follow when a priest is accused of sex abuse. victims groups have pressed to have priests accountable. >> a vict of abuse by a priest in higher land. >> i am there are many, many survivors around the world who are hoping and great expectations of this commission and so what i can say so far is yo

the taliban have targeted polio vaccination workers and there has been a resurgence of the disease there. thank you for coming. do we know when the cia actually stopped? >> what we know from the cia is when john brandon made the decision, he made the decision in august of 2013, 8 months after those public health deans wrote a letter to president obama urging an end to this practice. >> if they haven't been doing it for a year and a half and we are still having workers killed, it suggests it has become part of the fabric of pakistani conspiracy theories? even before this broke about the cia using a doctor as a covert operative, they planted, nurtured, and exploited rumors about western backed health projects, that these are sterilization campaigns, tools of spy craft and added a whole a year there. >> the cia was playing into a potentially big problem. >> some parents are declined to have their children vaccinated so they don't look like they're going along with a western plot against the country. >> was this massive incompetence? >> somebody at langley had their hollywood thinking cap on

soldiers are here to protect health workers offering polio vaccinations. in the past they been attacked by the taliban, accusing them of providing a cover for foreign spies. the government announced a major immunization programme. the prop is getting to the remote areas. >> access has been the issue. >> reporter: the government directed that people from the viable areas will have to be vaccinated before travelling to another part of the country. the world health organization said people in pakistan will have to be immunized for the diseased before travelling overseas. >> any part of pakistan - we'll tackle the issue. >> in the last few months around 30 polio workers have been killed or injured in the attack. taxes have been blocked from -- teams have been blocked from boxing in waziristan. the aim is to get as many children as possible immunized. >> in some areas, 4,000 children are the prime tart. we have sent out 20 polio teams to reach out to every child. >> pakistan was close to eradicating polio 10 years ago and wants to get back to that point. it los

about making a vaccine. it ended before a vaccine was produced. and this may reignite interest in making a vaccine. now there isn't any, and it's rare enough that if people take the right precautions, avoiding contact with other individuals. if they are health care workers or close family members, taking good high genic measures, washing hands, covering coughs and sneezes, i think you'll be pretty save. >> prover stephen morse says middle east respiratory syndrome is only spread through close contact with an infected person. >> the n.b.a. has begun the process of taking offer the l.a. clippers team. the league announced it will appoint a new chief executive officer to supervise the team's day to day options. donald sterling was banned for life from the n.b.a. after a recording of racially charged comments surfaced. next on al jazeera, we take a closer look at world press freedom day, a day hitting close to home for al jazeera america. hear what a judge told our colleagues detained in egypt after the break. >> and churches taking advantage of new y

that the best defense against whooping cough, have your kids vaccinated and have pregnant women be vaccinated as well. contra costa county officials have seen an increase in these cases, saying there's been at least 20 cases and four of those were serious enough for hospitalization. the median age is 8 years old. they say pertussis is cyclical. school officials say if your kid has had whooping cough for at least two weeks to contact a doctor immediately. we're live here in martinez, brian flores, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, brian. >>> the real estate market in much of the bay area may be red hot but a new report says three east bay cities are not included in that trend. according to uc berkeley's haas institute, vallejo, antioch, and richmond are among the top 100 cities nationwide with homes underwater. that means overrers owe more -- owners owe more on their mortgage than the home is work. the cities have large minority populations and minorities are subjects of subprime lenders. >>> new concerns that bay area transportation projects could be in jeopardy. without steps by congress, f

, with this vaccine, which is so cheap and readily available. we need to ensure every single person is reached in these countries and in the other seven countries where there still is polio in order not to lose so much momentum. since the rad occasion efforts started in 1988, we have reduced the number of polio cases annually worldwide by 99%. i mean, that's so close to eradicating it, and we just need to keep pushing now in order not to have these gains, these fantastic gains rolled back. >> your organization had been hope to go eradicate polio by 2018. with what we are seeing now on the ground in so many countries, is that goal now still possible? >> we believe it's still possible, and we are certainly still working towards that. for the moment, we have seen 74 cases of polio this year, so that's not a lot, 74 worldwide. 59 of those cases have been in one country alone, in pakistan. the number of cases, even in countries which were formally endemic, pakistan has had 49 cases, which is a big improvement, but we really need to push. >> is there

programs which includes vaccination workers.monaco letter continueded, similarly the agency will not seek to obtain or exploit dna or other genetic material acquired through such programs. this cia policy monaco concluded applies worldwide and u.s. and non-u.s. persons alike. as julie mention ad great deal of reporting and speculation suggested it was a vaccination program in pakistan reportedly helped the u.s. pinpoint the location and function of the compound where al qaeda leader usama bin laden was hiding and killed by u.s. navy seals. within days of that operation a pakistani physician was detained by pakistani authorities. he is charged with having ties to militant groups and ties to the u.s. central intelligence agency. former defense secretary says afridi who worked on hepatitis cases worked on intelligence very helpful with regard to this operation. back to lisa monaco's letter. it didn't say the cia would not longer exploit vaccination programs but seemed to imply that such efforts went on in the past. what happened be

there was a lot of talk during sars about making a vaccine but it ended before a vaccine was actually produced. and this may reignite interest in making a vaccine. but right now, there isn't any. and it's rare enough that i think if people take the right precautions, avoiding contact with other infected individuals, if they are healthcare workers or close family members talking good highgenic precautions, washing your hands, covering your coughs and sneezes and in the hospital, taking all of those hospital precautions, i think you will be pretty safe. >> certainly appreciate the insight, dr. steven morris with public university school of health. >> my pleasure. >> the environmental protection agency listed more than 1300 of the most polluted parts of america to the super fund list but one of the most contaminated bodies of water is here in new york. despite centuries of pollution, a clean-up that hasn't gotten started, developers have set their sites on the guanos canal. >> catia kelly called this part of brooklyn home for years. the neighborhood she loves and writes about has a toxic

one of the issues here is people are not getting vaccinated anymore. a lot of people on all economic suspect rums are looking at this and deciding not to get vaccinated. >> when i had my third baby, i remember my doctor in the hospital said you don't have measles immunity anymore, you're going to have to have a booster before we'll let you leave, so i couldn't leave without a booster. so, a lot of people who had the first shots 30 years ago, maybe they should revisit it. >> vaccines are a contentious issue in this country like never before. >>> all right, new safety warnings coming to tanning beds. the fda now requiring manufacturers to put a so-called black box warning on those devices, saying they should not be used by anyone under the age of 18, but the agency stopped short of prohibiting minors from using tanning beds. the fda also reclassified the devices so they can have stricter oversight. that gives federal regulators more power to review their design before they're sold. >>> six days away now from same-sex marriage becoming legal in another st

. >> what would happen if no one vaccinated their kids? >> i think we would be a lot healthier. >> you do. > because all the other kuds are getting vak -- kids are getting vaccinated. if our numbers drop in orange county, we'll see increases in cases of measles. >> to vak sippate or not to vaccinate. a tough question for parents. how will the decision not to vaccinate look at other families, michael okwu takes a look tomorrow on "america tonight". >>> next - outsourcing baby making. for would-be parents, an investment in the future. part of our baby-making series is unvestment in the future. is us up next. >>> the dream of having a baby is hard to resist. dealing with the costs financial and emotional are high. in the special series making babies, we look at the outsourcing of baby making through international surrogacy. it's less expensive outside the united states. there are risks. one company is under federal investigation now for making false promises of a baby delivery to dozens of would-be parents. an investigation into the case from