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Calories than theyre burn something, 100% of the cases the way to control a persons weight. jenna: dr. joe nan, what about this other study in the "new england journal of medicine", by the time, if youre already obese the time five, the chances of you being overweight as 8th grader, they call it weight fate, is that physician clogally true? >> no, it is. they have done studies that five-year-olds can have at they are row sclerosis or thickening of arteries at that age. some parents put their kid...

Pop star died. were going to get more now from cnns casey wian in los angeles. >> reporter: one of the paramedics who responded to michael jacksons home the day the superstar died in 2009 took the stand as the first witness in the jackson familys wrongful death lawsuit against entertainment giant aeg. he said he first thought jackson looked like a hospice patient, like someone at the end of a long disease process. he described seeing the 50-year-old singer, who suffered an overdose of the surgic...

Providing arms to the rebels. day three of the michael jackson wrongful death civil trial in los angeles. jacksons mother is suing concert giant aeg live. she claims that theyre liable for billions of dollars because they hired and supervised dr. conrad murray, who administered the powerful anesthetic propofol that killed jackson. the first witness in the case gave graphic testimony about the day the pop star died. >> reporter: one of the paramedics who responded to michael jacksons home the d...

good morning, everyone. im randi kaye. it is 7:00 on the east coast. thanks for starting your morning with us. we start with the massive credit card settlement that could mean more fees for you at home. heres the deal. visa, mastercard and some of the biggest banks agreed to a $7.25 billion settlement with retailers. the lawsuit centers around credit card swipe fees. we all know about those. credit card companies were fixing the price on the fees. it drops bans on credit card surcharge...

>> everybody gets an examination of the brain. were looking for any kind of injuries, bleeding over the surface of the brain, any infection that involves the brain or any disease process that is in the brain. >> everyone observing the autopsy is eager for an answer, but dr. spitz isnt ready to reveal his findings just yet. >> she had some sort of complicated past medical history that is going to have to be sorted out. there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes right now, getting medica...

Bellevue." and dr. brian russell. dr. russell, you believe its a free-will situation, mostly on the substaps abuse? >> yes. heres why the disease label doesnt work. three reasons. its an insult to people with breast cancer. it doesnt help addicts because when you absolve someone of personal responsibility for starting a problem, you simultaneously disempower to stop the problem. and third, it doesnt distinguish between desire and behavior. if you want to call the desire to keep doing something t...

Bellevue." and dr. brian russell. dr. russell, you believe its a free-will situation, mostly on the substaps abuse? >> yes. heres why the disease label doesnt work. three reasons. its an insult to people with breast cancer. it doesnt help addicts because when you absolve someone of personal responsibility for starting a problem, you simultaneously disempower to stop the problem. and third, it doesnt distinguish between desire and behavior. if you want to call the desire to keep doing something t...

When they are done too early and they are a wonderful surgical procedure but you want to do them for the right cases in the right patients, and, using the proper size of joint, and, also, base your selection of joint use on the activity level of that person. there is a big difference between someone who is very active and in their younger years versus someone in their 60s and 70s and will not put much stress on the joint. >> gregg: i love the show and tem. you have knees there. >> over the last ...

Disease process? >> well, these results are important is that they provide some new avenues to try to explore what makes this disease get started, why do you get it in old age. why are some people affected more than others. why is it faster in some people than others. it turns out theres one or two ideas out there and these teams sort of give you and entree into other ways to figure out whats going on in the brain when somebody becomes demented. theres not a clear answer. what there are is resea...

That we can go back and take a look at. and, again, generate jobs, put people to work, clean up the environment. so all of us can move forward. and for me, i think its ridiculous if we would just take a look at this and if will is any association with all of this contamination and a disease process, why we wouldnt want to fix with that to ease that health care burden in the future. so im hopeful that through continuing to did o my work, we will all collectively decide that this is an issue that ...