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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 antibiotic resistant infections?

By super bugs, i mean bacteria that are not -- that are resistant to normal antiobiotics. jenna: if antiobiotics don't work, what is the backup plan? >> that's a good question. remember to use common sense and maybe we're overprescribing. that's always been thought to be the reason why we're developing the super bugs. don't prescribe them unless they're 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 very strong antiobiotics. jenna: patients are lucky to have you. >> thank you so much. jenna: ...

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, don't come in. tough it out with sniffles unless you're seriously ill, having trouble breathing, things like that. and don't demand antiobiotics and i think as doctors, we have to not give in to people and say, look. you don't have a bacterial infection. you don't need antiobiotics. jon: overprescribing them, a big part of the reason for them according to the c. d.c. thank you...

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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 kingdom's chief medical officer is now calling for world leaders to take serious action against antibiotic resistant bacteria which she claims pose a catastrophic threat as she put it, to the globe. she is calling for governments to find new ways to give the p...