supporters forced their way into liberation square, many on camel and horseback. both sides have armed themselves with sticks, stone, even molotov cook tas. ron allen joins us now from alexandria, egypt, with the latest developments of what they re seeing there. ron? reporter: good afternoon, thomas. we haven t seen the violence here in alexandria you ve seaon. cairo. amazing scenes of people on horseback dispersing crowds, just an amazing to see. entirely when you consider that yesterday and the previous days were relatively peaceful. there wasn t a confrontation between the pro and anti-government forces. here in alexandria, the minute we got in our vehicle and starred filming pro government protesters they turned on us because they were so angry saying that the western media hasn t told their side of the story of how much support there is for president mubarak in this country. when you get on the streets of this town, the second largest city in the country, there s an
cold air is going to move up and freeze it all. thomas? and scott, when is this system supposed to technically be over? when will it have made its way completely through? in this particular area, it s going to move through pretty quickly, although i m noticing precipitation is starting to occur again. if you look into maine, that whole part of the country is still experiencing some of that system right now. it s going to take awhile for that to move out. good to know. everybody has to drive carefully. temperature is going to drop and get colder. scott newell, thank you. the midwest region now, we showed you that wild video of people barely being able to walk. mike seidel is in st. peters, missouri, with more. all it takes is a little sunshine even on a day where temperatures are stuck between about 15 and 20. the roads improve quickly. interstate 70 was shut down last night and through midmorning. the roads out here are in
morning. it started snowing and then it changed to rain so all around the city and the coastal areas, it was pretty wet. the streets of boston are very, very wet. if you look at the bridge behind me, you can see that the highway is pretty well leared right now. they ve done a great job of that. and the precipitation has pretty well stopped right now. the problem is in about an hour, and we can feel it happening right now, is that another wave of cold air is going to move in. the temperature is going to drop by about 10 degrees. that is going to change all this stuff to freezing ice and the roads are going to be a mess. they re saying that the afternoon commute is not going to be a fun time at all. 500 flights were canceled as logan airport including all jetblue frits and american flights. a lot of the schools were canceled here in boston. we re down to two snow daz now. what we re watching right now is the precipitation isn t so bad here in boston, but to the north, they re s
millions of people it s going to save. obviously the patient should ask their physician how often is this effect i? the patient decides whether that s worth it for them. i completely agree with thomas. people think almost every medication is a wonder drug. conversely they also think every medication may have horrible effects. it s all about statistics and all about what percentage it helps and what percentage it hurts. that s what people have to know and decide. thomas, go ahead. the problem is it s extremely difficult to get that information. when i was reporting the book, i thought it would be really easy, i d call the fda and medicare and find out how much a few drugs work. how often they work. what are the percentage of efficacy? it turns out the fda and medicare don t have those numbers. you know, the drug industry has those numbers. thomas how do you this is a fair point, though, jorge. to both of you, how do you address it then? should we be asking pharmaceutical com
us on the bottle this works 60% of the time? yes. campbell, let me state something. i really don t think what thomas quoted is correct because every medication, every compound that s out there has to have an insert in that label insert that tells you what the studies were used to make that medication available and how et kashs it was. you should be able to see with every product in its insert that it cures or is comparable to 50% efficacious compared to other medications. what they tell you i really the numbers i was looking for was how effective is this drug in a population? so what does it work for 50% of the population, does it work for 75% of the population? the drugs that are the statistics in those inserts are what percentage did it work better than a placebo? you don t get the raw numbers. no, thomas, you can t do that. when you have a new medication and you have nothing to compare it to, first of all, you can t