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On with you. kumbayah moment. maybe some day scott weill have that. you get stuck on a train in the snow. we welcome him back on the program anytime. good to see you. scott? >> thank you very much. jenna: jon? jon: suck zero temperatures slowing down efforts to find a couple and four children missing since sunday. the latest on search by air and land in the snowy west. plus what we know about the family. also, bye-bye super bugs? is it possible a medical breakthrough that could take down antib...

By super bugs, i mean bacteria that are not -- that are resistant to normal antiobiotics. jenna: if antiobiotics dont work, what is the backup plan? >> thats a good question. remember to use common sense and maybe were overprescribing. thats always been thought to be the reason why were developing the super bugs. dont prescribe them unless theyre necessary. only use the first line antiobiotics and only go for the big guns when the infection warrants or the patient is very sick and requires the v...

Community. and then in the hospital are the really, really serious super bugs. so it is a frightening concept and i think the most important take-home message for people today, like you said, if you have a flu or a cold, dont come in. tough it out with sniffles unless youre seriously ill, having trouble breathing, things like that. and dont demand antiobiotics and i think as doctors, we have to not give in to people and say, look. you dont have a bacterial infection. you dont need antiobiotics. ...

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>> the mayor said he pushed the ban because obesity kills 5,000 new yorkers a year. he says more than 57% of new yorkers are overweight. and says obesity runs up $4 billion in medical costs. shep? >> shepard: eric shawn live in new york city tonight. eric, thank you. a new warning on drug-resistant super bugs. this is serious. the united kingdoms chief medical officer is now calling for world leaders to take serious action against antibiotic resistant bacteria which she claims pose a catastrophi...

Jon: the people behind "consumer reports" magazine raising new concerns about the nations pork supply. they say they examined nearly 200 samples of pork with many of those samples testing positive for salmonella, lysteria and staph. to make matters worse the consumers union says 90 percent of the bacteria are actually immune to antibiotics. in other words, super bugs. but the national pork producers council president is responding saying consumers union, which runs "consumer reports", resorted t...

And its concerning to me they were not able to keep it out. hopefully theyll be able to keep the levels from going higher. if they have a release of radioactive water. if they cant contain the radioactive water theyre getting out of that -- it gets in the ocean, thats a concern. because it -- once those get into the sediment, theyre there. >> i want to thank you for giving us your expertise on it, professor, thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, kiran. ahead on "american mo...

I like that o de rous was impressed by the doodling. >> your elves are doing good. >> according to an article, muslims, doctors and nurses can opt out of strict hygiene rules aimed at p toking super bugs. the change was made after female muslims recented having their arms exposed below the elbow. some may use disposable sleeves, but experts think it compromises peoples safety. if you dont change the sleeves it spreads bugs and it can kill thousands yearly. i dont care which religion you follow, ...

>> yes, and what is symbolic in my culture is if a shoe gets thrown you get arrested and hauled off to prison. you just have to understand this cultural belief of mine. >> what if you shoot them in the face? if somebody throws a shoe it gets you in the face. >> your religion, does your religion interfere with your job? >> absolutely not. i have renounced all religion and pretty much call myself god. >> shoe throwing is good. maybe we should just make it so you cant throw anything bigger than a s...

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