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Amelia Blackwater discusses chronic illness burnout and the toll it can take on health and well-being.

Power to change it. she says she has no power to change it this game of going back and forth each and every day my child is dying. >> bottom line, if this policy is eventually reviewed, shep, it will likely help kids in the future but very unlikely to help sarah. shep? >> shepard: mighty sad. trace gallagher some numbers for you now. sarah is one of about 30 americans age 10 or younger who is waiting for a lung transplant. as of this afternoon, a total of more than 1600 children and adults were ...

>>randy: when she scoffed what happened she does nothing county she did nothing. >>shepard: mighty sad. back in a while and we will talk about something a little lighter credit card use is rising and headed back to pre-recession levels. that is according to the analysis from the payment processing centers, finding significant increases in each of the first three quarters beating out credit card use. credit cards offer more perks and reward and airline miles than cash but they come with big inter...

Guardrails or keeping the proper distance from the fans, between the fans and vehicles. its supposed to be 100 feet and they were about 15 feet away. >> shepard: mighty sad. thank you. china now has the worlds second largest economy. some experts are informing us its a matter of time before it unseats the united states as the worlds largest economy. as youll see, china just edged out japan in terms of gdp. the united states still the worlds largest economy by a longshot at the moment. but the ...

Reporters about whether or not he was going to testify. we will see tomorrow. >> shepard: thats so unfair. if blagos defense rests the white house might breathe easier, i suppose. >> indeed. there are a lot of folks that either worked at the white house or close to the president that have been subpoenaed that wont have to testify. start off with rod blagojevich who is the former governor here in the state. then you have got rahm emanuel who is the right there in the white house. he is the chief ...

Whats going on. but certainly shooken up by what they saw this morning. >> shepard: they had to have been. some people were camping, as many as hundreds out there on those rivers. there was a flash flood washing. i dont know if they ever got that warning. do you? >> thats one of those things about wilderness camping. its summertime. lets go out and camp and get away from it all. the flip side of that coin they got away from communication. there is virtually no cell service out here. the warning ...

>> shepard: mighty sad. jonathan hunt with context and perspective from the gulfs south tonight. jonathan, thank you. well, the winds have calmed down along that coast but the meteorologists report they are still pushing the oil toward the coast. take a look at how this spill has moved through the waters over the past seven days. remember, the oil rig that exploded and sank created this disaster. it was located 40 miles off the coast. now there is word the oil is headed east. on a track toward t...

Well have a shutdown in the industry. >> people across the gulf coast region and eight states are thinking what i am, i cant imagine a summer without july of coast shrimp and ohio ohio ohios itsrd hard to wrap your head around. >> youre right, youre talking thousands and thousands of jobs in the northern gulf and louisiana and mississippi and alabama. well be ground zero and it could reach to west florida and east texas. but youre talking thousands and thousands of jobs. >> shepard: mighty sad. ...