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Another drug. evidence shows diabetes drug avandia increased theç risks of heart attacks. yesterday an fda panel recommended keeping the drug on the market but with additional warnings. the final decision will come in the next few months on avandia. the agency, though, usually follows recommendations from its advisory board. an update today on the health of former vice president dick cheney. he is recovering from life-saving heart implant surgery. the news broke just last night. it seemed to come out of nowhere. doctors implanted a small pump called the left ventricular assist device or lva...

Device or l-vad in him and that it was necessary because he was suffering from severe congestive heart failure. the former vice president actually just released a statement. he said as many of you know i've dealt with coronary artery disease for decades, suffering from my first heart attack at the age of 37. he's had five heart attacks. he says -- he goes on to say a few weeks ago it became clear that i was entering a new phase of the disease when i began to experience increasing congestionive heart failure, so after a series of tests they decided that the lvad, this heart assist device, would...

Unbelievable, but, yeah, there are cases where there is abandonment, a parent has just left a child, left the child somewhere. and mostly, we file a lot of neglect charges, what is why i said early on, think for them not to do something in this case, you are setting a horrible precedent for people. it's just for people to look at and say, well if she doesn't have chrs filed against her for putting a child on plane, you are going to put charges against me for leaving my child in a car, as mark said earlier? just doesn't make sense. >> larry: will this affect russian adoptions do you think, mark...

Going to happen. >> we will. we'll take your vad yis and en -- advice and enjoy it. this morning's top stories minutes away including it was the most important unfilled post in this administration. now president obama has tapped a chief for the tsa. is it the right choice? a school accused of giving kids laptops and spying on them at home, there's new fallout this morning. do we know now who was watching? and at the half past the hour, president obama saying the jury is still out over where to hold the 9/11 terror trial. two former cia officers will debate the issue. one saying let the m...

That there's a leak within the white house on national security issues. that cannot be tolerated. but i do want to make it clear, that we want the president to get independent advice and we would hope at times he would give more deference to the experts. >> you do have a problem with the fact of the phone call. you do not think he should have called to congratulate vad ir putin? >> absolutely, it's in our interest to promote democracy and good governance and the elections in russia were controlled by mr. putin. and the media was controlled by him. opposition candidates were not allowed to be o...