Parents who choose not to vaccinate. Parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. Thats the balance that the government has to decide. Reporter after blow back Christies Office clarified with a disease like measles theres no question kids should be vaccinated. Senator rand paul making waves after comments he made about choice to vaccinate. The state doesnt own your children parents own the children and it is an issue of freedom. Reporter president obama reignited the conversation around vaccinations in his interview with savannah. Are you telling parents get your kids vaccinated . Get your kids vaccinated. Reporter it is the only way to stop the Measles Outbreak that grew to 102 people in 14 states. Many have passionate reactions, like march sell a piper terry who blames that vaccine for triggering seerrious seizurers. They say vaccines are safe not for my child. Reporter for piper terry, theres a question about vaccinations, one she feels attacked for even asking. It is discriminating, it is hate speech and it is i cant believe i am living in america. Remember how contagious measles virus is. 90 of people without the vaccine will catch measles if they come into contact with the virus. That includes children too young to get the measles shot which you get at 12 months or older. For example, that includes 14 infants at A Santa Monica daycare in Southern California tamron, who have been quarantined three weeks because they may have had measles exposure. It is a story continuing to make headlines, will continue to make headlines for the time being. Halle jackson live for us. Joining me in the studio arthur kaplan, director of the division of medical ethics in new york. And nick diamond, lawyer and Health Care Consultant specializing in Public Health law. Thank you both for joining us. We talked about many Infectious Diseases ebola recently did you ever think we would be at this point with the debate over measles . I did. Vaccination rates in some small pockets people are declining, vaccination for measles is only 95 96 effective. If you get enough folks in the community dont do it you can spread. I have been fearful we would get just this kind of outbreak. People worried about safety but this is a vaccine that has a great safety track record. I heard that mom say she saw seizures, a certain number that take care of kids vaccinated and nonvaccinated. I dont think this vaccine is responsible for those kinds of problems. Right now, the cdc recommends one dose at 12 to 15 months another at four to five years old. No federal mandate requiring it. But lets talk statistics the number of children who are vaccinated versus those like the parent who spoke in halle jacksons piece who worry yes, the odds may be my child is okay but if it is my child who is sick and becomes critically ill, it is my child. Right. I think the motive to not vaccinate, you have to understand it people trying to protect their children dont want them to come across harm. The danger from measles, mumps, the flu, whooping cough, tetanus, is so much greater than anything you get on the other side of vaccination that it just makes sense. People that fight for kids the most pediatricians, your pediatrician you trust, absolutely provaccine. I have seen some politicians say we have to think about freedom and choice. Those same politicians were screaming for quarantine. Chris christie was locking people up during the ebola thing saying it is Public Health. I dont know why any politician anyone who is running for National Office would say Public Health doesnt come first. To that point, the nurse casey hik objecting talked about governor christie she was forced into quarantine took on Chris Christie, saying no proof she was exposed, saying she was threat to public safety. Here is what she said with our own chris hayes last night. We need to consult medical and Public Health experts about these kind of decisions and discussions and again, he is not doing that. Again, he is going against science. So before he ignored science and is still ignoring science. Shes saying he ignored science when it related to her, as related to her case with ebola exposure or lack thereof and is ignoring signs this time around. Nick, let me bring you in. All 50 states have laws requiring measles vaccination to attend school. All have exemption for medical reasons. And here is where it gets tricky, all states except virginia and mississippi have exemption for religious beliefs. 19 states let them exempt for philosophical reasons. There are loopholes that are present in many states and youve talked about possibility of one day seeing lawsuits from parents whose children have been exposed to measles who blame another child in their class. Thats right, tamron. The state law to start with that point, theyre the source of most of the issue. Public health we like to rely on prevention as much as possible. State laws are trying to encourage prevention specifically related to children going to attend school but as you were noting they were weakened by a number of exemptions. The biggest culprit, personal belief exemptions which as you note not every state has, less than half the states. As we have seen in california theres a high incidence of people taking advantage of personal belief exemptions. If states could move in the direction of starting to start the legislative mechanisms needed to get rid of at least a personal belief exemption, that would be a positive step forward. We just got in sound from House Speaker john boehner. He was asked if there should be a law requiring parents to vaccinate. Lets play what he just said. Well i dont know that we need another law, but i do believe that all children ought to be vaccinated. Brief statement there on the law, but listen art, you know this well a lot of antivaccine argument hinges on a 1998 study linking the mmr vaccine to autism. That study was found completely faulty the author of that report, dr. Andrew wakefield was accused of fraud, saying he misrepresented and altered medical history. And lost his license. And lost his license, that did not make nearly as many headlines i think than the information that these vaccines could cause autism. Unfortunately, things live on in the internet so you still see people talk about autism. I wish i could explain the rise in autism. You know it correlates with a bunch of things correlates with eating more organic food for example, correlates with Jenny Mccarthys time on earth. It isnt persuasive at this point in time to point to vaccines as the problem with autism. The rates have been going up vaccination rates are going down. That tells you dont worry about that. One other thing, sometimes people say you know i dont want to give my kids these poisons, but vaccines are made of naturally existing virus and back tear theyre aten waited or killed. Theyre parts of the virus. Nature isnt always nice. Folks have the idea that it is not organic to give the kid a vaccine. I dont think that makes sense either. I want to get back to you on the legal battle that potentially could rise on the today show this morning, asked people should you be able to sue, the number was around 53 saying you should not be able to sue, but it was still very close, nevertheless. Yes. This is an issue that dr. Kaplan and i have written on. There certainly is a good case to be made for liability for negligence that a parent whose child was harmed could look for that as a remedy. It is a pretty good case. There are some weaknesses. For instance it is unclear how the law treats a parents duty in this case but there are also counter points to that. Parents are really acting in the face of a known risk with very severe harm and theyre not just exacerbating a situation, theyre actually in some cases causing it. And i just want to ask you, we just got this in very interesting development, not related to vaccines. Developing news out of the u. K. , u. K. Parliament has cleared the way for a treatment, ivf treatment where three parents would be used in the ivf treatment, dna from three individuals. They say to prevent incurable inherited diseases but a Major Development clearing the way for three parent babies. Sounds shocking. Some children are born with weak batteries. That causes disease. They dont have energy to drive their cells. If you take the might con degree a from an egg donor, put it into the egg of recipient, you can produce or repair that deficit. That sounds spooky but in actuality, youre doing a tiny transplant, like an organ transplant, giving the kid a new energy source. That kid will be healthy. And two parents that have the kid, theyll raise the kid. The person that donated the might a con degree a wont be a parent. The point could be this could be another step in preventing incurable diseases that are inherited. Going to see genetic engineering used this way more and more more and more to talk about this. It is a baby step. It is a good one now, but more to come in terms of genetic engineering. Appreciate you joining us. Appreciate your time. The vaccine controversy is the topic of todays gut check. Do you think there should be a federal law that requires vaccinations for children . Going to tell you how to weigh in. We are having a twitter chat this afternoon. We will answer any vaccine questions at 1 30 eastern time. Join the conversation using msnbcchat. Now to the weather, another day of dangerously low temperatures, ice covered roads and risky travel across the northeast for commuters. Flash freezing turned some roads into ice skating rinks. Cars sliding, wheels spinning. Already 15 fatalities have been linked to the storm in the past two days in new england. An extra foot of snow forced boston to delay the scheduled championship parade for the new England Patriots. That moves to tomorrow instead. Now even more snow could be on the way. Nbcs ron allen is live for us in boston with the latest on conditions there. Hey, ron. Reporter good morning, tamron. The last thing we need here is more snow. You can see the piles are 12 13 feet tall. Look behind me here theyre waiting for buses, part of the Transit System the t, is shut down. Had Power Outages in a number of areas. The problem is when the buses come, theyre packed. It is difficult getting around. As you can see, theres snow everywhere. Record snowfall. Several feet the past week. Now talking six more inches wednesday night into thursday. Looking that direction, more snow. You can see the roads there. Theyre passable. Utility crews are doing their best to clear the big corners so drivers can see around them. Everywhere around town trying to clear up the corners so driving is safer. Trying to clear schools and walkways around schools, they want to open schools tomorrow. Theyre closed again today. This is also the part of town where the parade will happen. Where the patriots have a victory parade on that street over that direction, and you cant tell from here but it is passable at this point. Imagine crowds lining that street. Theres still a lot of snow around. The mayor is urging people to be patient, to clear off properties. He says the show will go on. He says he will not be there tomorrow, he has more things to do. I dont know whats more important for the mayor. But more snow is coming, doing the best to get rid of it. Theres a lot of snow and not a lot of places to put it. Thank you, ron. Appreciate it. 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Campbells healthy request. Mm mm good. ® alright, so this tylenol arthritis lasts 8 hours, but aleve can last 12 hours. And aleve is proven to work better on pain than tylenol arthritis. So why am i still thinking about this . How are you . Aleve, proven better on pain. Welcome back. This morning, we are learning more about the condition of Whitney Houstons daughter Bobbi Kristina brown as family members describe her in quote the fight for her life. The 21yearold remains in an atlanta hospital on a ventilator surrounded by loved ones. Gabe gutierrez is outside the hospital in roswell with the latest. Gabe were hearing a little more information from her family, but really not a lot. Reporter hi, tamron good morning. Relatives say Bobbi Kristina brown is fighting for her life and is surrounded by her immediate family. Her cousin says there has been a slight improvement but tamron any recovery wont be easy. This is believed to be the last video of Bobbi Kristina brown with her husband, nick gordon before she was found face down and unresponsive in her bathtub. How is she doing . Shes a fighter. Her cousin gerard brown, tells us shes breathe white gold the help of a ventilator. She has been hit with a couple of things in life but keeps getting up to fight. Singer spoke with access hollywood. Pretty much put into a coma so the brain would stop swelling and were just hoping for the very best for her. Reporter theyre asking for help on social media. Still not out of the woods, her eyes moved a little last night. We are hoping thats not just reflectionre reflex. Reporter police are investigating how brown ended up in the bathtub. 21yearold female in the bathtub face down pd in route. Reporter it was almost three years to the day since her mother whitney houston, was found dead in a bathtub at the Beverly Hills hilton. She idolized her mother whitney houston. She wanted to follow in her footsteps. On the other hand, she grew up in a household that was very insecure. Her parents were involved with drugs. Leave her alone. My daughter. Shes fine. Reporter that turbulent upbringing in the show being bobby brown. I walk in the house, like mom, still call her name. Reporter and more drama, about the making of unauthorized bio about her mother that aired last month. We wanted to know what you think about the bio pick. Reporter a lifetime in the spotlight. Now her toughest fight yet. Her father bobby brown has been by her bedside. There are many unanswered questions, tamron about what exactly led to all of this. So far today, no comment from police. Thank you gabe. Up next another delay in the murder trial against Aaron Hernandez, this as the mother and girlfriend of his alleged victim are set to return to the witness stand. We will get you caught up on that case. 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The trial for Aaron Hernandez was delayed, td judge took a temporary recess. When testimony resumes, they will continue to hear from the girlfriend of odin lloyd, the man hernandez is accused of killing. They will also hear from lloyds mother. In testimony friday her sister was engaged to hernandez, she described the relationship as the quote beginning of a friendship. Joining me a trial lawyer michael rico. Thank you for your time. Good morning. Lets talk about the testimony we heard friday to point out, testimony should resume soon after the issue with the jury is remedied. Let me play sound as she described her boyfriend, odin lloyds relationship with Aaron Hernandez. Lets play it. Do you know of any occasion where the two of them ever were getting together in your absence, meaning not involving you and your sister . Just the one that i was made aware of the weekend that he was murdered. How would you have described their relationship . Beginning stages of a friendship, from what i am aware of they were only really around eac