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Always happy to have you. have a very merry christmas. >> same to you, katy. thanks. one more thing before we go. weve learned about another way the opioid epidemic is leaving its mark on our country. last year 63,600 people died of drug overdoses, a 21% jump from 2015 and having an impact on the bigger picture. second year in a row life expectancy in the u.s. dropped. new numbers in the national center for health statistics showed the average life span is now 78.6 years. a slight dip from the...

Nuclear and icbm sites. backing iran means theyre backing the so-called iran democratic peoples republic of korea joint venture. putin has three big problems we need to remind him about. an enormous muslim population that could be radicalized. the worlds largest opiate drug problem and a dying population. they have 141 million. next year 140 million. no one immigrates to russia and an average life span of 56 years we can help those guys. mr. putin, if you havent noticing were rebuilding our mili...

They say, old age begins about 10, 15 years before we die. >> interesting. using average life span as a guide that would mean old age doesnt start until 73 for women and 70 for men, published in the journal "nature." >> dennis quaid made headlines after a leaked video showed the actor losing it while on set. >> jeanie moos reports on the meltdown that was a letdown. >> reporter: multiple choice, pick the meltdown that was a hoax. a, this baseball manager? b, actor christian bale on set? [ bleep ...

Our kids blind or actually their parents 30% of moms and dads admit to raiding their kids piggy bank to pay for bills and vacations. and we say it has to stop. a kid has a lot of money in the piggy bank if theyre going on vacation with it. >> i have three teenage kids and i look at their bank accounts, my god, these kids are living the life. their lifeguarding jobs. >> what does that tell you? they would sacrifice that for a quick trip. >> its really endemic of a bigger issue in the country. as...

Bottom but japan is at the top. this is because individual incomes are actually rising while the population is declining. it would follow that people are actually better off, not bad for a country everyone seems to have written off. lets look at some other indicators. according to the demographer japan is the healthiest country in the world. given that the average life span is 83 years, the highest in the world, you would expect health care costs to dominate. remember, japan has universal health...

It would follow that people are actually better off, not bad for a country everyone seems to have written off. lets look at some other indicators. according to the demographer japan is the healthiest country in the world. given that the average life span is 83 years, the highest in the world, you would expect health care costs to dominate. remember, japan has universal health care. again, you would be wrong. japan spends only 8% of its gdp on health care, half the percent the united states spend...

Maybe thats not a bad thing since the afnlg life span is -- since the average life span is 120. >> i believe that. >> it is going to be by the time some of these -- >> why not putz around until you are 40? >> eventually we will all run out of money. you have people with masters degrees who are -- they say they are dog sitters and pulling up weeds and they are living with their parents. i disagree with the whole thing they are not moving. i know a lot of young adults who have moved out of their p...

You know, the story about you is pretty interesting. because i guess the first time you played football, peewee football, you were a quarterback. >> yes. >> you ran your first run was 60 some odd yards for a touchdown? >> first time i touched the football as a little leaguer, 8 years old. over 40 years ago playing the game. and ive always loved it since then. >> the average life span, we were talking about this before you came on air, of a nfl player, i thought for years. youre saying 3.5. >> 3 ...

Ari was a good athlete, but by no means state champion in lots of sports. so i think you know, life is a long, long time. its now you know, average life span is 80 years, you dont have to succeed at kindergarten to end up being a successful person. >> dr. emanuel, one thing that i think your book seems to diverge from the parenting manuals you get in park slope these days, was the level basically of physical violence. do you think kids are raised too soft to become the rahm emanuals and zeke ema...

Is a win/win win a game where people who gain to the changes that would not be made so that is the story we need to tell. >> client from penn state university and what can we as student activist to on campus to help make students realize the benefits of capitalism? >> one of the most important things is put things in historical context. most people are so ignorant how much community has made with capitalism the average life span was 30 now today it is 78 in the united states and 82 in japan. 200...