vinita nair for cbs news, new york. >>> in health news, race plays a role in surviving breast cancer. a new report from the centers for disease control finds black women with breast cancer have a 40% higher risk of dying than white women with the disease. researchers say black women with breast cancer are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stages of the disease. it says the women do not have the same access to preventive care and higher quality treatment. >>> a team of researchers from around the worlds that discovered a gene which nearly triples the risk of alzheimer's disease. doctors don't know why the gene increases chances of getting it but the finding could one day lead to a test which identifies people at risk for alzheimer's. >>> british researchers are linking sun exposure during pregnancy to multiple sclerosis. babies born after the summer months had a lower risk of developing the disease. researchers say pregnant mothers get more sunlight during the summer increasing their baby's vitamin d levels. they subject pregnant women -- they suggest pregnant women take vitami

reporting in lower manhattan, vinita nair. >> air force bases in california are coordinating a massive airlift to help with hurricane relief efforts. today a giant c-5 cargo plane took off from travis air force base. the plane joined others from southern california carrying utility trucks and relief supplies. more from the disaster zone coming up on the "cbs evening news with scott pelley." >>> well, one city in the east bay is trying to tax sodas to combat obesity. if the initiative passes it will be the first in the nation but not everyone thinks it's a good idea. cbs 5 reporter mike sugerman with reaction on the new controversial measure. mike. >>> reporter: well, allen, this coca-cola may as well have a bull's eye on it but it's not just coca-cola. some kinds of chocolate milk, orange juice, anything with add sugar or high fructose corn syrup. they want to tax it. >> reporter: a little red wagon carrying 40 pounds of sugar has captured national attention in richmond. >> 40 pounds is the amount of sugar that each of richmond's children take in just from sodas alone every year. >> re

vinita nair reports. >> reporter: the u.n. voted in favor of making the palestinians a nonmember observer state. the upgraded status recognizes the borders before israel's captured lands in 1967. >> translator: general assembly is to issue a certificate of the reality of the state of palestine. >> reporter: thousands of palestinians celebrated in the west bank and gaza while in jerusalem israelis protested against palestinian statehood. the upgraded status from the united nations also grants the palestinians access to the international criminal court where they could file war crime charges against israel. >> the concern to the prosecutor of the international criminal court in the hague and make all kinds of charges against israeli officers never mind that they are baseless. >> reporter: the u.s. is standing with israel saying direct talks is the only way to achieve peace. >> today's unfortunate and counterproductive resolution places further obstacles in the path to peace. >> reporter: the palestinians say u.n. recognition of

vinita nair, cbs news, new york. >> surgeons stress the importance of patients searching what surgery is right for them. -- researching what surgery is right for them. doctors recommend waiting 12 to 18 months after surgery to try to get pregnant. >>> it is 4:54. here's the question of the morning -- log on to our facebook fan page. we'd love to hear what you think. we'll have the answer in our 6:00 hour. >>> welcome back. 4:56. your weather first on this thursday morning. and kind of like the last couple of days lots of clouds and a little bit of sun. breezy at times and maybe a stray shower north and west this morning. temperatures slowly making it to the lower 50s by 1:00. with a high today about 55 degrees. again mostly cloudy skies and breezy. monika? >>> on the southbound side of 395, i was on the phone just a sec ago with arlington county police, this is a traffic stop southbound 395 at route 110. i'm not sure how long this is going to be there right side of the road is affected but the ramp is open. i'll keep on top of this and have more traffic for you coming up at 5:01. back

. >> vinita nair has more on breakthrough research. >> reporter: many women struggle to get pregnant because the number of eggs they have and the eggs' quality drops as women get older. but now researchers are experimenting with a process that can create new eggs from ovarian cells. >> then we're able to grow these cells outside the body. we are able to form the eggs again. >> reporter: scientists hope these early stage eggs could one day be fertilized. >> the hope is of course to place those eggs right back into the same patient so there will be no rejection and those are the patient's own eggs that can be fertilized. >> reporter: the ultimate goal is to use it with people. so women can have another source of eggs which are their own. >> we give a huge boost to those patients' choices for fertility options. right now, obviously the most important thing for women to realize is that we don't -- that we don't have those options available yet. >> reporter: and researchers at wake forest agree it will be quite some time before they can try to create eggs from women's cells. vinita nair f

vinita nair, cbs news, new york. >>> cross' in -- researchers say high blood glucose levels associated with describe can damage the nerves -- diabetes can damage the nerves which people use to hear. it's independent of the effects of aging or noisy environments. >>> researchers in canada say there's no need to fast before taking blood tests to determine blood cholesterol levels. they found results on patients who did not fast were accurate as long as the doctors knew the hour of the patient's last meal. >>> you're trying to quit smoking? well, there may be an app for that some day. resevers in new zealand say smartphones could be a new tool to help smokers quit. they found smokers who received motivational text messages are more likely to stay away from cigarettes. that's kind of interesting. >>> time now for the question of the morning. >> what word most married couples use to describe their spouse? is it a, understanding, b, stubborn, c, forgetful? >> they don't sound very nice. log on to our facebook fan page. we'd love to hear what you think. we'll have the answer in our 6:00 hour.

vinita nair give it one day and the next day you know where the child is. you should give it one day and then the next day you know where the child is. this way you have maybe five times a year you can bring the child back up to speeds, get them back in with the class. host: what kind of resources would that require? caller: a change of thought, mainly. unfortunately, teachers are not really used to dthis type of schedule and parents are not used to this type of schedule. administrators and teachers want three months' vacation and so do parents. possibly it interferes with sports programs. but nobody says it is a bad idea as far as educating the children, because it's not a bad idea. these children need constant input. the parents don't have the resources. there's a lot of different reasons. nevertheless, they don't have the resources. the school district has to accept that fact. we should try to educate the parents, but in the meantime we have to, with a system that will help the child. the only system that has been shown is continuous education, ongoing c