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They have tripled in just the past 30 years. >> shep: that is incredible. we adults aren't doing a whole lot better, though, trace. >> we are fatter than ever before, according to the journal of the american medical association, 68% of americans, seven out of ten of us, are overweight and apparently according to gallup, we keep getting heavier. back in 1991, the average weight for a man was 180 pounds. now it's 196. for a woman, 142. now, 160. we're in tenial because our ideal weight just keeps rising. it was 171 back in the 1990s. now it's 181. women were at 129. now their ideal weight is 138...

>> you have to wait for at least 20 years now we have had a vaccine, it's not hundred percent reliable but it is very reliable, dr. mark siegle that is medical advisor on this channel warns if you don't give your child the vaccine and your child develops it, there is no telling how severe the case is going to be. children can die of this. i am so worried about this because it's parts of the anti-vaccine movement in this country. we need these vaccines. they are by and large safe for your children. don't do things like this. >> we didn't have a vaccine. >> you want your little girl to have chic...

>> gregg: dr. mark siegle is a member of the a team and at nyu medical center. always good to see you. let's divide this into two parts. we'll get to antidepressants in a moment. but let's talk about pain killers. how abused are they? >> the michael jackson case caught my eye with that because there was talk this week of him having been on demerol. i have to tell you, pain killers are the number one problem in the united states with prescription drug abuse. 7 million americans overuse prescription drugs, but pain killers, 80% of the pain killers in the world are prescribed right here in the un...

Member of the medical a team was on the scene from the beginning and took these pictures. as they pulled survivors from the water. police told dr. siegle that the divers pulled two people from the sunken chopper, 40 feet. we're told they are still alive, but those two in critical condition. a fifth person died before divers could pull her out. pass this bill. president obama making his latest pitch for his jobs plan in texas. of course, that's the home of one of his biggest republican rivals, the republican governor, rick perry. and perry campaign put together a web video to welcome the comm...

Levels of radiation. dr. mark siegle is professor of medicine here in new york and member of our team. dr. siegle, it's so troubling and such a horrible humanitarian crisis. when it comes to radiation exposure how can they prevent it? >> the key here is obviously the way is what they are doing, evacuating larger and larger areas. 20 kilometers and trying to contain the problem. i want to point out if you are exposed to radiation, on do you get radiation sickness. that is acute problem of 50 or 100 rems. that five to ten thousand times what a chest x-ray gives you. that is what you hear when 16...