a title weight of cancer is coming says the world health organization title wave of cancer is coming, says the world health organization, but the disease can be prevented with changes in behavior. and we introduce you to real-life heroes who protected their artwork from the nazis. welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. today, history was supposed to be made in pakistan as after nearly a decade of bloodshed the government was scheduled to sit down with representatives of the pakistani taliban. but just before the talks were about to start, they were abruptly put on hold because the government delegation failed to show up. from islamabad, we report. >> he is among the most recent of thousands of pakistanis believed to have loved ones murdered by the taliban and. killed in a was suicide bombing close to army headquarters. now his mother does not sleep at night, or eat, or drink he says. i am suffering in the same way, that i'm here. the attack was one of the series throughout a january that finally led prime minister omar sharif to pursue t

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it is a chilling announcement by the world health organization.cer cases are expected to increase 57% over the next 20 years. that is mostly blank on a growing, aging population. the report says that the new report says that the new cancer cases will rise from our round 40 million in 2012 to an annual rate of 22 million but 2034. (male announcer): now, here's stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly. >> reporter: if you are a law-abiding citizen you probably already want to know the most ignored law on the books is not how about how i shall you through the eyes of the california highway patrol. >> i stop you today for using your cell phone while driving. >> reporter: the driver claims he was looking at his g p s. >> you know you can't use your cell phone at all while you are driving right? >> alyssum what happens when i talk to the driver. >> i was just looking on the gps looking on a map trying to get to work... i would try to keep in the numbers like the address to my work just trying to get to work to make a buck and a guy gives me

times thehich is 16 world health organization recommended safe level. the real dangerous stuff, 350 right now which is 14 times the recommended level from the world health organization. it is pretty bad. the scale only goes up to 500. it is not as bad as last year -- well, bad is a relative term. last year we had beyond scale. now, believe me, this is the latest video from beijing. it is dark like that right now. it is not a volcanic ash cloud. dust.coal it is exhaust fumes. it is barbecue fumes. it is everything combined because weather patterns are not being very -- they do not facilitate the air being cleaned out. the weather experts are saying there will be a cold front coming in, but not until thursday. we have another three or four more days of this kind of weather. we have already had it since last thursday, the fifth day in a row. the director of the body that advises on climate change says, "it is at an unbearable stage." probably the understatement of the year. he goes onto say, it is like a smoker who needs to quit smoking at once, otherwise h

world health organization said that the focus needs to be on presence. recommends that the government needs to crackdown on smoking, alcohol, and sugary drinks. exercising and eating better could cut cancer dacts by a third. and the group warns that it will be felt in developing worlds like south america and africa. the group reports that 70% of the deaths will be in those areas. >>> world cancer day is the day to focus world attention on trying to find a cure. lisa stark brings us a story of one woman who remains optimistic in the face of this disease. >> when we talk about the war on cancer, we often talk statistics, but it's really good individuals, people like linda keener. >> you are a cancer survivor, really, aren't you. >> yes, i am. actually, this is my third round of cancer. third round. >> reporter: linda, with husband ron by her side, first battled breast cancer. the chemotherapy that cured her probably caused her next cancer, non-haj kins lymphoma, and the one she's now fighting. milo displastic syndrome. >> i know that i have hope and faith

the world health organization has deemed it an asthmatic trigger.is something that we're not supposed to be eating. it's the same stuff that makes the foam in an air mat. this is definitely not real food. and if it's not real food and there are these risks, i don't see the harm in asking subway to take these ingredients out. i'm absolutely stunned at how fast my petition was circulated across the area. we had the food babe army, the people who care not only about what they are eating but they care about what everybody else is eating and how to change the food supply. so i am just absolutely thrilled to be part of this momentous occasion that subway has decided to finally take out this ingredient. >> vani, playing devil's advocate, organizations that say it's not safe, they more seem to be focusing on not being safe in a workplace environment and i agree on its face, why would you want to put this chemical in the bread. this isn't necessarily evidence that anybody has been hurt from this bread in any way, right? >> well, the problem why there hasn't

. >>> today the world health organization calling the air pollution in china concerning.acturing plants had to stop work and demolition was halted as well. even barbecues and fireworks have been banned until the smog lifts. for more on that, and the arctic air blast we're feeling, we turn to dave warren. that's nasty mess in china. >> yeah, but it is getting a little better. a front is moving through so that will help the situation there, but often when you get areas of high-pressure, the air doesn't move much, and it has been dry, so that pollution just continues to increase each day. what we have decreasing is the temperatures now. this is the northern plains. this is a blizzard warning. that will reduce the visibility and increase wind gusts. fargo, minneapolis into the teens below zero. light snow is clearing out now, maybe one or two inches of snow came down, but things will gradually improve -- quickly i -- improve i should say. this storm will move out, that area of low-pressure coming down from canada, a little light snow across the great lakes, but low and high-p

it is 15 times the recommended highest safe level by the world health organization. hows another example of beijing is becoming uninhabitable. that was the report from the academy of sciences, an advisory board to the government, that said that aging was the second worst of 40 major cities around the world in being inhabitable. references to that story it were quickly scrubbed from the internet and it is not something that the government wants to advertise. the air quality in this city and northern china is bad because of energy consumption driving the -- it is bad. i'm just going to sum it up that way. it is bad. >> the property numbers are down. joined. stay tuned for that. let's turn to the other stories making corporate headlines for you this hour. blackberry. dropping microsoft for blackberry. they hope the system will be less expensive and more reliable. netflix is said to have struck a deal with comcast. will go to a third party. sources say totals millions of dollars a year. making a profit of $3.3 million. that is in the six months through december. it is up

let's talk about polio and bring in bruce from the world health organization and joining us from genevato have you with us on al jazeera and we will talk about the success story, what appears to be the success story when it comes to india but first tell us about this case and the afghan capitol with the little girl that has been diagnosed with polio. how did she contract the disease and how alarming is this? >> well, first of all this is very alarming. any time a child anywhere in the world is paralyzed by this disease right now it signals that a virus which we have gotten very close to eradicating is stim moving, still finding suspectable children and paralyzing kids and it's a reminder until weer rega er raw eradicate it it's there and it looks like it's not a virus from afghanistan and looks like the virus, genetics of it looks like it originated in pakistan and went over the lands silently and paralyzed and struck this child in the afghan capitol. >> reporter: so it's cross border transmission is what you say bruce is what is the danger with polio and specifically in that region. bu

. >> a crisis for the world health organization is labeling the affecting most of northern china this welcome. evels of the smallest most dangerous pollution particles are more than 20 times the internationally recognized safer the capital of beijing. people have taken to the street that something be done to clean the air. ur correspondent sent us this report. >> just to go outside you need a mask. a cloth one really isn't good enough. smog smothering beijing one of he world's biggest cities barely fit to live in. some scientists say it is like a starving everything of sunlight. isn't a's economic past sustain ab sustainable. moving is no good. most cities in china are like there. crisis is ution dissatisfaction rising as of the health impact. hundreds of thousands of remature deaths, up to five years lost from average life expectancy. should like this people stay indoors advises the doctor. outdoors they staged a fun run last weekend. in this smog. fun as chinese get richer they are paying more attention to their of life. small individual acts of protest like there by beijing artists

visit the world health organization says that every year five and a half million people die in extremely painful conditions it's an untenable situation for dr lucas melody on a president of the indignation pain association. we got there the time we have to work towards better education in the area of pain therapy in indonesia. when the gas my doctors shouldn't have to shear prescribing more thing i'm not about our day. that will come too late for a ridiculous thing. she died shortly after filming this report. this is just in the process of launching a nationwide health insurance scheme which it is hoped will also address the question of access to pain therapy. we had to south america to the border region between guatemala and mexico the byzantine and not about the most tactile place to go it was immediately pointed towards the volcano nearby that's because it's thus provides excellent conditions to grow all sorts of crops including very good coffee we follow one on trying to keep this complex ecosystem intact. its. i am. in boots always exciting to me tonight that will gain a gang. i ask

a level ten times considered safe by the world health organization, officials urge people to stay inside>>> and while it was 60 degrees here in sochi, it was snowing in los angeles. at the zoo, it was. there's snow for tigers and bears to play in and a hill for kids to go sledding. it is all part of the zoo's annual snow day weekend. celebration. >>> still ahead on "nightly news," the new olympic golden girl and her friend who got to realize his olympic dream, too. >>> finally tonight, 18-year-old colorado native mikaela shiffrin is dreaming big the day after becoming the youngest woman to ever win olympic gold in the slalom. she announced today she wants to win five gold medals at the 2018 games by sweeping all five alpine skiing events, something that's never been done. meanwhile, as our stephanie gosk reports, mikaela had a friend on hand as she celebrated her big win. >> reporter: mikaela shiffrin was the heavy favorite in slalom. those lucky enough to be in the stands got a great show. and 19-year-old tom walsh did not want to miss it. born and raised in vail, colorado, skiing is in

a new report by the world health organization calls it an approaching human disaster.ts cancer cases will surge 57% worldwide in the coming years. from 14 million now to close to 22 million people by the year 2030. cancer will likely kill one out of every eight men. for well, slightly better, but still one out of every dozen women will die from the disease. now, the deadliest form of cancer is lung cancer. that's true across the world and here in the u.s. nearly 10% of people who die of lung cancer are americans. that's followed by liver, stomach, breast cancer actually ranks lower globally, but here in the u.s. it's the third biggest cancer killer. now, the world health organization says the focus needs to be on prevention, it recommends that governments crack down not only on smoking g and pollution but also alcohol and even sugary drinks, simple things like exercising and eating better it says could cut cancer deaths by a third. the who worries the disease especially be felt in developing country, 70% of the deaths will be there. yet it's also still a huge concern h

the world health organization said the level of their preaching in chinese cities needs to be seen and the crying says it very very bad conditions out there. it's not the case for an orderly can actually add this monday settled single thing the korean peninsula and parts of the west and japan. that we are seeing some changes finally in beijing is as you can see rain will likely develop here so that i could i improve air quality finally answered the south of south korea in western japan was seattle improvement. because of impending rain showers thunderstorms are likely to fold some locations temperatures are going to be quite warm in many areas including tip and we have the advisories for about a full and just to sit for a twinkie prefecture is out of the forty seven ten k at thirteen bakeries in next month's like and then just when one for the korean news my plans are well into twenty six taipei and hong kong. now i don't like east asia and much of a candid and that will spend two thirds of the us are a hunter she pulling colder conditions and temperatures about ten to fifteen degrees

the world health organization linked it to respiratory issues, allergies, and asthma. >> i'm glad theyg steps to make it safer. >> definitely concerned. i developed allergies recently. i don't know if it's due to that. now that i know about it, i definitely would think twice of eating there. >> the company said today in a statement that it was already in the process of removing this chemical as part of its bread improvement efforts. essentially saying this move had nothing to do with this blogger's petition. subway has not given a precise time line for the complete removal of this ingredient. betty, kpix5. >> cvs is kicking the habit. the drugstore chain says it will stop selling tobacco products by october 1. that amounts to a $2 billion loss in annual revenue for the retailer. health groups and even the white house are praising that decision. >>> the chp and the fire department say a firefighter being handcuffed at an accident last night was an isolated incident. the officer asked the firefighter to move a fire truck. when he failed to do so, he was handcuffed and put in the squad ca

of the particle in beijing for the past several days was almost 18 times higher than the world health organization guidelines. hundreds of people living in beijing took to the streets urging authorities to take measures to fix the problem. >> translator: where is the blue sky? it's been a long time since i have seen it. >> reporter: environmental officials say the pollutant levels are likely to rise in the coming months. experts say more cooperation and data sharing and countermeasures between japan, china and south korea is necessary to help tackle the problem. tomo cocoa matta, nhk world. >>> japanese nuclear regulators are screening safety plans for a reactor in a potentially dangerous area. operators want to put the plant back online despite the possibility of a mega quake. members of the nuclear regulation authority spoke with representatives of chub bu electric power company. they wanted to know about safety measures staff have put in place for the hamaoka plant in central japan. staff asked the regulators earlier this month to check the safety measures for the plant's number four reactor. t

that's the message from the world health organization as air pollution levels soar. of smog have been recorded since last thursday. recent readings show harmful pollutants at 18 times the level that's been recommended by the world health organization. it's calling on china's government to improve air quality long-term. every time i look at that -- doesn't make me feel great. >>> meanwhile hong kong presented its 2014-'15 budget amidst slowing growth in china as well as economic uncertainty in the u.s. emily has the story. >> reporter: hong kong's financial secretary gave his budget speech for 2014-2015 and started by recapping the economic situation for the year that was. in 2013 hong kong's economy grew 2.9%, just a touch lower than what many economists were looking for of 3%. looking at the year ahead the hong kong government is forecasting growth between 3% and 4%, going on to say china's robust economy is the driving force and will underpin hong kong's economic growth. now as far as relief measures were concerned it was very well flagged he would be scaling down

and in the lives of millions of people around the globe cancer see earlier this week the world health organization released its annual world cancer report and its findings are harrowing to say the least according the report over the next twenty years cancer cases worldwide are predicted to rise by fifty seven percent from fourteen million diagnoses in two thousand and twelve to an estimated twenty two million by two thousand and thirty two with this kind of dramatic increase it would be nearly impossible to treat our way out of the problem and the only hope is to prevent future cases from occurring although the report notes that developing countries have been and will continue to be disproportionately affected by increased cancer rates the rise in the deadly disease is by no means confined to the third world affluent lifestyles in their connection to tobacco and alcohol use as well as the consumption of processed foods are normal contributors to the problem in fact the report notes that nearly half of all new cancer cases are preventable lung cancer for example which is largely associated with smo

that's eighteen times higher than the guidelines set by the world health organization expert said japan's national institute for environmental studies say so called cross border pollution is more likely to occur in the coming months they say causes seasonal winds from continental china the operator of the grisham and iag has opened the central control room of the facilities number one and two reactors to the media for the first time since the two thousand and eleven accident the room shows signs that workers on duty that day struggled in the dark to get the power back on the central control room located near or next to the reactor buildings is where workers struggled to contain the crisis three years ago amid rising radiation levels. radiation in the room just after the accident measured one million seabirds for our. due to de contamination efforts the level has since fallen to less than one one fiftieth of that figure. members were scribbled on a wall next to a watergate. it suggests how staff trying to monitor the amount of water inside the reactors couldn't write the figures down on pa

from boeing the world researchers at the world health organization warned the number of cancer patients around the globe could rise sharply especially in developing countries doubly a show researchers say the number of new cancer cases could rise more than fifty percent to twenty two million a year in the next two decades. they published the report ahead of world cancer day on tuesday. they see more people in developing countries will likely get cancer as their lifestyles change. toledo researchers note that more than sixty percent of new cases of cancer are in africa asia and latin america. they want governments of those regions to do more to prevent the disease and to detect give her away. researchers say one way of doing that is to make it easier for people to get health checks. they also say raising tobacco taxes in regulating sales of sugary soft drinks and alcohol would help cuts the risk japanese prosecutors are looking into shady dealings that could tarnish the image of a transportation icon. they suspect officials overseeing construction a machine gun same bullet train line. th

regulations might actually be the answer of the report published in the bulletin of the world health organization finds that governments can slow down and even reverse obesity epidemic by putting in place simple economic regulations like mayor bloomberg proposed sugary drink ban to curb fast food consumption joining me now to talk more about that study and its specifics is dr roberta de vulgarly professor and lead author on the study dr devotedly welcome. thank you for having me here how big a problem is obesity worldwide and how does a vary from country to country based on regulation. yes you know studying you flounder. the higher foster increases in class and consumption was stronger when nature to increases and levels. and there's. a lever and choose their adopted more aggressive deregulated policies had higher increases of. body mass index. is were you able to establish the there was actually causation not just correlation here. you know we went for a long least over boston checks including the use of instrumental that enable techniques is used to. you know potential problems of confounding a

dose of government regulation is also a lead contributor to a new report the bolton of the world health organization that concludes that stronger government intervention is needed to slow and possibly even reverse the problem of obesity earlier i was joined by the lead author of this report and u.c. davis professor robert the day vocally and i first asked him which countries fared the best and the worst and his study. trial ninety ninety nine which is it doesn't say you know a united states highest level of economic freedom index and not a fast food consumption and obesity rates of course us as thirty five percent of the situates but these three times higher those switzerland france and these are around eight to ten percent these were get caught and. the most you create bus routes consumption per copy and there was levels of consumption and also you know more protected economies you terms of deregulation and exact type of regulations are we talking about here antitrust laws sugar taxes can you give some examples of the type of regulations that you and the study propose. a good start could be for exa

the greenpeace activists as the greens are as much as sixteen times and beyond what the world health organization says kissing she is calling for action it should be more discussion or conversation the amount the government and the pa figured out what kind of masters know what kind of copy protection measures should be taken with these kind of pushing happens meeting introduced a four tier and smog alert system last year. the government also current industrial complex. when apples are tiny but for many and is not enough. in the province and he being one man is reportedly suing the government for losses incurred because of air pollution. many in china and calling pouring into growth in all costs and for a more sustainable economy. soccer fans out there getting set for a big gain in just about twenty minutes. german bundesliga side salad to take on spanish club real madrid in the champions league round of the last sixty will have lost a single match since october but they also haven't won a game on german soil since two thousand recount in on counters preparations the world's media has descended on

world health organization has warned since cancer rates could rise by up to seventy five percent over the next twenty years. it says more needs to be done to prevent the disease and is urging governments with just restrictions on sugar and alcohol. a tidal wave of concern. he predicted by the words organization which is warning that cancer rates would increase dramatically over the next two decades fourteen million people are diagnosed with the disease each year two shows that number could increase to twenty four million by twenty thirty five mortality rates are also on the grind scientists say kick around the hall and for consumption of stuttgart and ninety two pain. our challenge is to translate this new knowledge about the violet ray in the best treatments but also in two ways to prevent the disease detected so in an aisle and it's predicted to cause cancer rates were double play twenty fourteen but doc did say survival rates here on high security at fifty five cents will be diagnosed cancers. and we've seen a steady improvement in the curing cancer is over some years said the five

there's a lot of people will be watching that application when the world health organization has held a health bill i long to have its china or office. an amazing concentrated only changing health landscape in china. jamestown caught up with the whl or regional director for the western pacific. dr shin young so and talked about air pollution and tobacco control in the country. the uk that condition. how cool it easy to use and mental health need a steam engine in the dark ages nation full of the all nations everywhere. i think endeavor but no was in beijing. our seats and suffering from heavy promotions. and i were so we know that. china common to smoke and baby now. two i meet while missing piece permissions. we know that divorce and taken long time to get there. we have to understand that. allco said the separation being cool is some kind of comforting stephen harris. but how about meal or so understand happen or that. in fact with lung cancer he said. not by mostly by on the city to fruition but he's also from smoking from this pulpit. days katie and cross but he is confused and wa

says they were already in the process of removing the chemical.ed to ast allergies by the world health organization> well, time to get you down to business. for that, we turn to cnbc's sima modi. good morning, sima. >> good morning. alex. watch shares of twitter today. they fell 18% in after hours trade. the company reporting its first earnings since its ico in november. analysts folking on two key metrics that show user growth may be slowing. >>> coke adds some fizz to green mountain coffee roasters, up 40% in after hours trade. the company is buying 10% of the maker of those k-cup coffee machines, which is launching a cool drink maker that will feature coke products. >>> hackers may have broken into target through the heating vents. they managed to access the retailer's servers using a log-in stolen from a heating and air conditioning contractor. the secret service visited the offices of that contractor on wednesday. alex, back to you. >> thank you. >>> just ahead, a hero's welcome for the seahawks. details behind shaun white's decision to drop out of slope style. and the race that brings new mea

charges of aiding egyptian belonging to the banned group now labeled a organization the world health organization has warned that the number of new cases of cancer worldwide is set to rise to twenty may in a year like twenty twenty five according to a new report by the international agency for research on cancer in two thousand and twelve there were an estimated fourteen million new cases every year the roos specialized cancer agency designed to start seeing a rapid rise in the number of cancers worldwide particularly in low and middle income country at the booth laboratories in deference to the upper beyond scientists are able to analyze people so in an effort to improve cancer treatment and prevention thanks to the laboratories contain some six million human sample collected from one point five million of the people around the world loom . tulsa based terror groups like twenty eight repeats of this trial in january three times as many as the average month in two thousand and thirteen according to new defense the kids at least five business from its claim to residential areas of the southern sta

more than fifty percent of children carry the parasite that causes malaria according to the world health organization and malaria caused an estimated six hundred and sixty thousand deaths in two thousand ten mostly african children. you can. living and adjusted its like going to stoke post got me was the milk cup tornado inside of rights and free to rule stating that really excites next time. what's wrong is set to tie flights early this week. this troika that will contest the charge by celebrates was but the peeps if i'm consulting with no fights a minimum thought much about the football sized actually i'm under increasing pressure to offer leading to twist off the grid so that i have been totally silent on the extent i've not been sufficiently staunton in criticizing an open up. an alcoa has called on the football was scheduled to drop it on to text him and his quintet will go a celebration and insists his day the anti semitic albright says. it's controversial french comic to utah my mom out on the palm of another holocaust and all and a friend of the male cop is responsible for inventing a popular

cities and over the coming decades that number will grow so much that by twenty thirty the world health organization estimates estimates that six out of ten people live in urban areas so right now cities across the world are experimenting with new technologies to solve old problems like transportation and waste disposal i guess for tonight's conversations of the great minds anthony townsend a senior research fellow at n.y.u. has written center for transportation and has written a link about this phenomenon as well as its potential dangers in his new book smart city big data civic akers' and the quest for a new utopia and then he joins us from our new york studios anthony walker. great to be here thanks for joining us let's start with you what what gets somebody so interested in animated about urban planning issues that they dig in and write a brilliant book like this. well i was recently graduated student from rutgers university back in one thousand nine hundred four and i had my degree in urban studies but my first job out of college actually was in the telecommunications industry i worked eighteen

today, the world health organization sounded the alarm, predicting that in the next 20 years, the numberith cancer will skyrocket from 14 million to 22 million. and so will the number of deaths. up to 13 million. and the number one killer around the globe will be lung cancer. >>> and now, abc's linzie janis has a new strategy here at home to keep some of the youngest americans from ever getting hooked. >> pack of cigarettes? >> reporter: the new ads aim to shock some sense into teens. >> you need a little more, honey. >> reporter: what happens next, too disturbing to show. the girl peels off a piece of her skin. that damage, the real price of smoking. >> pack of menthols. >> reporter: the cost of a pack of cigarettes for this boy? >> it's not enough. >> reporter: a tooth. the message, crystal clear. the fda appealing to teenage vanity in this new campaign by showing how smoking hurts your looks. >> people as young as 20 years old, they start to see fine lines, pigmentation, coarseness of the skin and wrinkles around the mouth. >> reporter: the aging effects of smoking have long been stud

the world health organization has linked it to respiratory issues, allergies and asthma. >> i'm glad to know they are taking steps to make it safer. >> definitely concerned. i developed allergies recently. i don't know if it's due to that, but, you know, now that i know about it, i definitely would think twice about eating there. >> reporter: betty yu, kpix 5. >>> the drought is so bad, fishing is now banned on parts of two major northern california rivers. one of the closures covered most of the russian river from ukiah to the ocean. the other is on the american river in sacramento county. >>> and people in guerneville say they haven't seen the russian river this low in decades. the bans are because fish & game officials are worried about migrating salmon and steelhead trout. a number of fishing groups say they support the move. >>> a little relief is on the way. this is going to be quite a week. >> here's what's interesting. if this were a normal year and we had these storms coming our way like we had now we would be worried about flooding on the major rivers. i don't think that's

greatest risk to human health sword in the past few days. 16 times the maximum exposure the world health organizationmends. >> it can cause many different symptoms. it can cause cancer coaches the most severe consequence i can appear after many years to ron kind is to infections that happened because the lungs and the system is actually attacked by the bad air pollution. >> you want to see what we are breathing in beijing? check that out. vips are not exempt. it is not just the area to worry about in beijing, but the groundwater is polluted as well. a 2009 report from the government itself, i might add, suggest up to 3/4 of all the surface water in urban areas in china is unsuitable for drinking. it is quite disgusting, actually. you're the multiple cases of food safety issues in china and the closure of wet markets like this slaughtering chickens will stop because of their cessation with avian influenza. it begs the question, are tiny cities like beijing toxic to live in? >> i can say beijing is toxic to live. there are days like this that are really, really bad in terms of air pollution. you can't

these findings are pretty much has no confirmed by the world health organization which also added that bladder cancer as well as complications of childbirth has some nice air pollution. now the two groups of people were really high impacted by the heats are people who are suffering from asimov also people who are suffering from copd which stands for want of stuck in pulmonary disease and died in two thousand twelve the world bank concluded that said people were suffering from copd. happy fifth highest mortality rates in china that could be good news is in store until nice and says that's fine if conducting clinical trials on herbal concoctions against the yen to five. however he says all of us. everyone of us and they really take the precautions team maintain a good immune system first of what he says. that alone. a few bad years i have to stop you right now and with the vaccine for more tips and thank you very much. tours to see him raging seas two thousand and eleven the chinese government has deepened reform for the cut throat industry in a bid to be it a country when the snow stron

world health organization says it's linked to asthma and allergies but it's considered safe by fda ands because it makes bread softer, subway says this move had nothing to do with the protest the company was already in the process. >> new parents may not know what to expect at the birth of their first child, one couple is not prepared for what happened when their daughter was born. she came into a world with a feature some described as ghostly. >> a hick up and a healthy baby of a six week old heart. sweet sounds considering when she entered she was white as a ghost. >> she was pale. >> when baby hope was born doctors say she was as white as a pillow case. doctors brought her to draw blood they can barely get a drop.. >> i knew something was wrong they started pricking her feet trying to get blood there is no blood. >> hours before she was born her blood drained out of her body. >> she probably lost 80%. she was pale, very white. >> doctors performed an emergency c section. her only hope was a blood transfusion. but what happened? what went wrong? this was 27-year-old jennifer juarez's

the world health organization has studied it, and there's a study that shows when it's heated it causesancer, and the center of public interest has come out and said there's a maul cancer risk when you eat this ingredient. so it's important for us to avoid this stuff. when virtually every other country around the world has banned it in their food, we should being doing it as well. you're right, we don't know what the cumulative effect is, but the fda has been slip at the wheel. and they have not reviewed all of the generally regarded safe ingredients that these food companies are standing behind, and saying, we're going to use these ingredients as long as they're safe, and we need to speak up as american citizens, and take back our food. >> i have a feeling we're going to be hearing from you, she's the founder of food babe.com. thanks for being with us. >>> looking ahead on "america tonight," the underwater money maker. >> they are money, right? you see lots of money right there. >> it's like a dollar bill down there, you see little grooves, and once you hit the ground, you'll see it si