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i talked about both to jeffrey toobin and dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, how do they determine if someone is mentally competent enough to stand trial? >> well, in this case, it was two experts, a psychiatrist and a psychologist who spent a lot of time with him every day over a period of a month, 18 hours of interviews. they were described with him mainly in bed with the cover up to his face and he was sort of incoherently rambling is how they described it. they looked at background information, got a good medical history, looked at his history of substance abuse. at the end, they make some conclusions and these reports are submitted separately, it was my understanding, as well, to the judge. he did not seem to have the ability to understand the proceedings of the legal system. he had characteristics of paranoia and schizophrenia and his thinking was very disorganized. both said he did not have any evidence that he was faking in any way, as well. >> mentally competent to stand trial and insanity defense are two different things. >> two very differen

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. there's another thing you should know about patrick kennedy. he's getting married to a sixth grade history teacher with a 3-year-old daughter. the wedding is set for the second week of july. >> what are your days like? >> i make sure i try to get all my e-mails and phone calls out of the way during the day so that by 3:00 when my fiance comes home and brings her daughter, we're able to play, have an early dinner and then get her to bed. we have a long bed time routine that involves sharing stories and i'll read "curious george" one night or "fancy nancy" another and that's the best therapy i've ever had. >> what's it like being a dad? you're almost a dad. >> i'm just right now loving on this amazing little girl that is the daughter of my fiancee and looking forward to the opportunity to just providing that kind of support and fancy structure to them that they are to me, because really, in a way, i would not be living, breathing, smiling, eyes sparkling if it weren't for them in my life. >> being able to have someone, an amy and her 3-year-old d

. >>> hello, i'm dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to the show. today i'm taking a closer look at something that's become so closely woven into our lives it's hard to imagine what we would do without it. i'm talking about our cell phones. most of us take it for granted that they're safe and that may be the case. but i've also spent the last several months investigating and talking with people who say don't be so sure. some of you may already be rolling your eyes. i understand that. i want you to stick with me this half hour. we've been digging a little deeper to try to get a more definitive answer. i will tell you this, it wasn't easy. what surprised me is voices urging caution are not only getting louder, but they're getting more prominent. >> all right. i'm on my way. >> if you've ever put a cell phone to your ear, you should listen to what neurosurgeon dr. keith black has to say. >> there's no way to say that cell phone use is safe. i think the public has a right to know there could be a potential risk. the public generally assumes that if one

. >> i'm dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to the show. today i'm taking a closer look at something that's become so closely woven into our lives it's hard to imagine what we would do without it. i'm talking about our cell phones. most of us take it for granted that they're safe and that may be the case. but i've also spent the last several months investigating and talking with people who say don't be so sure. some of you may already be rolling your eyes. i understand that. i want you to stick with me this half hour. we've been digging a little deeper to try to get a more definitive answer. i will tell you this, it wasn't easy. what surprised me is voices urging caution are not only getting louder, but they're getting more prominent. >> all right. i'm on my way. >> if you've ever put a cell phone for your ear, you should listen to what neurosurgeon dr. keith black has to say. >> there's no way to say that cell phone use is safe. i think the public has a right to know there could be a potential risk. the public generally assumes that if one

dr. sanjay gupta, appreciate it. thank you. >> any time. >>> you can see the rest of sanjay's investigation this weekend saturday and sunday 7:30. >>> next, one family in mississippi was determined to save their home from the river. we're going to meet them. and there are those who claim that tomorrow is judgment day. remember you've been warned. ignore at your own peril and join me on tonight's "ridicu-list." look at all this stuff for coffee. oh there's tons. french presses, espresso tampers, filters. it can get really complicated. not nearly as complicated as shipping it, though. i mean shipping is a hassle. not with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that is easy. best news i've heard all day! i'm soooo amped! i mean not amped. excited. well, sort of amped. really kind of in between. have you ever thought about decaf? do you think that would help? yeah. priority mail flat rate shipping starts at just $4.95, only from the postal s

dr. sanjay gupta, appreciate it. thank you. >> any time. >>> you can see the rest of sanjay's investigation this weekend saturday and sunday 7:30. >>> next, one family in mississippi was determined to save their home from the river. we're going to meet them. and there are those who claim that tomorrow is judgment day. remember you've been warned. ignore at your own peril and join me on tonight's "ridicu-list." building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. t adththod it's dif - alcium crhea >>> we've been reporting all week on the flooding in the south. the worst the region has seen in decades, affects people in nine states. look at this picture of a house in mississippi. it's now a

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. our focus this week is cell phone safety. during our investigation we metal an marks, a successful businessman with a remarkable story. his life-changing battle with brain cancer led him on this unique journey that took him all the way to capitol hill doing something he never expected to do. >> good morning. >> reporter: for alan marks, being in the real estate business for 30 years has been a passion. >> i like building homes and seeing people move into them happy. >> reporter: three years ago his life changed. >> i had a seizure. i don't remember it. >> reporter: the cause of that seizure, a malignant brain tumor. surgeons were able to remove the cancer. he says the recuperation was challenging. >> it took a long time. even now i have some deficits. you try to find ways to overcome them. >> reporter: there's something else. marks feels responsible for his own cancer. >> i know what it is. it was my cell phone use. there's no way you can put something to your head for 20 years and not have it cause something. >> reporter: wh

sanjay gupta. >>> cnn "in-depth," troubled waters. there's still no decision on whether to open a spillway north of new orleans to divert floodwaters from the mississippi river. the flood is moving slowly in that direction. joining us now from baton rouge, retired general russel honore. he led the military's response to hurricane katrina. general hon ray, thank you very much for joining us here. having dealt with new orleans flooding firsthand after katrina, you know the state of the levees in that area. how are they holding up? is new orleans going to see major flooding? >> everything's possible here, suzanne. a lot of work has been done on the levees in new orleans, to include the massive gates that prevent the high water from coming in to the city, as you saw on the 17th street canal and some of the other canals where the water came in from tidal surge. in this case, the water's coming from up north from extensive flooding this started in the midwest, and now is pushing its way through mississippi. but if we can get the morganza sp

i talked about both to jeffrey toobin and dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, how do they determine if someone is mentally competent enough to stand trial? >> a psychiatrist and psychologist spent a lot of time with him over a period of a month, 18 hours of interviews. they were described with him mainly in bed with the cover up to his face and he was sort of rambling was how they described it. they looked at background information, got a good medical history, his try of substance abuse. at the end, they make some conclusions and these reports are submitted separately, it was my understanding, as well, to the judge. he did not seem to have the ability to understand the proceedings of the legal system. he had characteristics of paranoia and schizophrenia and both said he did not have any evidence that he was faking in any way, as well. >> it relates to time. mentally competent to stand trial means right now. does he understand what's going on? insanity defense relates to his mental state at the time that the crime took place. so there's a lot of evidence

i spoke to dr. sanjay gupta about the procedure a short time ago. sanjay, you perform these surgeries every week. you did a demonstration of how much of her skull had to be originally removed to save her life. i want to take a quick look at that. >> one thing to keep in mind, the brain, unlike other organs of the body, if it starts to swell, it's got nowhere to go. it can only go downwards and that's called a herniation. the second part is to connect these holes. this is the last cut now we're making. one of the things that's really important is you're protecting the brain underneath. go ahead and lift that bone right out of there. this is the area where the brain is allowed to swell now. >> so for four months she's been living and traveling with that much of her head removed? >> yeah. surprisingly to a lot of people, this is not that uncommon. you just saw that -- just to give you an idea of how much we're talking about here, that's how much, a significant portion of the left side, and the bone piece itself is about that size. so it's -- you know,

he opened up to our dr. sanjay gupta. you'll hear much more as sanjay joins me live next. car connection calls the xf, yet an instant classic." with sports car styling and power, plus the refinement and space of a luxury sedan, the jaguar xf is a timeless blend of performance and craftsmanship. see how jaguar outperforms the competition at jaguarperforms.com or visit your local jaguar dealer. >>> well, patrick kennedy is no stranger to the political spotlight and began his career at the age of 21. also, that name kennedy comes with a front row seat to the drama of the most political dynasties. he's lived a dark secret. for decades he's suffered from addiction. he is coming clear about it with dr. sanjay gupta and he is here. >> he wants to come clean. that's how he sort of put it. since high school, t.j., he's been in and out of rehab, at least half a dozen times, cocaine use in high school and people got glimpses of him throughout time, embarrassing moments that he's had and he wanted to put it all out there. part of the reason that i left congress was because i did not t

in an exclusive conversation with our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. and so many interesting things came out of this interview. you know, when it comes down to it, none of us know what it's like to be part of the kennedy family. >> yeah. in some ways what patrick described, it was very challenging for him to be a member of the family. and, you know, he was in rehab while in high school for cocaine, to give you an idea how far back this extends. most people remember the embarrassing moments. but even as a sitting congressman, as you might guess, a lot of this behavior was taking place. just the full extent of it, i don't think people have heard. i asked him specifically about that, carol. take a listen to this. >> how many times did you need to go to rehab? >> i would say i've been to rehab easily over half a dozen times. >> was there a time when you said this isn't working and this just doesn't work? >> well, one of the things that i knew i needed to do was to live a life that could support my recovery in a way that was more conducive to long-term reco

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. talking with patrick kennedy, among other things, with his 25-year struggle with alcohol and drugs. >> how many times did you need to go to rehab? >> i would say i've been to rehab easily over half a dozen times. >> was there a time when you said this isn't working? and this just doesn't work? >> well, one of the things that i knew i needed to do was to live a life that could support my recovery in a way that was more conducive to long-term recovery. and that's why i chose not to run for reelection, because frankly, living in the public eye and a political life was not conducive to really getting that kind of long-term steady recovery that, you know, is absolutely got to be the number one priority in my life. >> people say that if someone is an addict they usually have an enabler. someone enabling them or groups of people enabling them. who is enabling you to do this? >> well obviously when you're an elected official, you have lots of people want to endear themselves to you. and not a

i spoke to dr. sanjay gupta about the procedure a short time ago. sanjay, you perform these surgeries every week. you did a demonstration of how much of her skull had to be originally removed to save her life. i want to take a quick look at that. >> one thing to keep in mind, the brain, unlike other organs of the body, if it starts to swell, it's got nowhere to go. it can only go downwards and that's called a herniation. the second part is to connect these holes. this is the last cut now we're making. one of the things that's really important is when you take this bone out, you want to make sure that you're protecting the brain underneath. go ahead and lift that bone right out of there. this is the area where the brain is allowed to swell now. >> so for four months she's been living and traveling with that much of her head removed? >> yeah. surprisingly to a lot of people, this is not that uncommon. let me just show you again. you just saw that -- just to give you an idea of how much we're talking about here, that's how much, a significant portion o

dr. sanjay gupta is a brain surgeon and performs this procedure. he joins us to tell us what happened why is this important in the prognosis? >> you remember first of all we talked about this at the time when congresswoman giffords was first treated. in order to address the issue of the swelling from this bullet injury, this is a skull here. on the left side they remove bone. why? that gives space for the brain to swell. that swelling goes away within a short period of time, but at some point in the future, now a few months later they put the bone back. this is what it looks like. that piece of bone. in her case, the bone because of the type of injury was infected so they have created a sort of bone substitute. we have animation to show this. they take the substitute and place it right back into that same area. they use these metal plates around the corners around the edges to fix that back in place. the skin is closed over this and the concavity she had in her head is gone. it's hard to think of, but what you have seen described is a cosmetic proc

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i'm dr. sanjay gupta. there's another thing you should know about patrick kennedy -- he's getting married to a sixth grade history teacher with a 3-year-old daughter. the wedding is set for the second week of july. what are your days like? >> i make sure i try to get all my e-mails and phone calls out of the way during the day so that by 3:00 when my fiance comes home and brings her daughter, we're able to play, have an early dinner, then get her to bed. we have a long bedtime routine that involves sharing stories and i'll read curious george one night or fancy nancy another, and that's the best therapy i've ever had. >> what's it like being a dad though? you're almost a dad. >> i'm just, right now, loving on this amazing little girl is the daughter of my fiance and looking forward to the opportunity to just providing that kind of support and family structure to them that they are to me. because really, in a way, i would not be living, breathing, smiling,ize sparkling, if it weren't for them in my life. >>

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to borrow dr. sanjay gupta's m.d. hat you might just want to pack some vinegar as well, john, because apparently that helps with the sting. did you know that? >> i will remember that if i'm ever on a beach that looks like that. not a fan of jellyfish, i have to say. >> no. neither am i. >>> still ahead, an inside look at a literacy program that gives kids free creative writing classes with a twist. we'll show you the unique ways that volunteers get kids ed in p on "perry's principles." social currency to match? membership rewards points from american express. use them to get the things you love from amazon.com, ticketmaster.com, and more unexpected places. they're a social currency with endless possibilities. [ technician ] are you busy? management just sent over these new technical manuals. they need you to translate them into portuguese. by tomorrow. [ male announcer ] ducati knows it's better for xerox to manage their global publications. so they can focus on building amazing bikes. with xerox, you're ready for rea

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for watching. ♪ >>> for three decades, mel gibson has defined the world superstar. >> mel gibson! >> he got out of the gate fast. i mean, you have a good looking guy who could act. >> an actor and academy award winning director and producer whose films have taken in billions at the box office. >> i feel like a hundred bucks. >> mel gibson is probably the most complicated, infuriating, talented star hollywood has ever produced. >> reporter: from "mad max" -- >> don't get mad aat me. >> reporter: to "maverick," "lethal weapon" to "braveheart" he was "what women want" and what men want to be. >> you're like a genius, you know that. >> can i tell you, bud y i'm blessed. >> reporter: but the audience' love affair with mel gibson would take a turn for the worse on this highway. caught driving drunk, he mouthed off to police. now upstaged by his profanity-laced telephone rant. >> you like a [ bleep ] on heat and if you get raped by a pack of [ bleep ] it will be your fault, all righ

sanjay gupta with the human factor. >> reporter: like a lot of little boys, matt corazon loves sports that he ended up as a pitcher at the university of arkansas, but all of that changed on april 2006 when matt decided to drive his four-wheeler over to a friend's house. he never made it. >> my four-wheeler went off of a 20-foot embankmenembankment, an some memory loss. then i was found which a firefighter. >> and he had spinal cord injuries. but he is a man who never understands never. >> that doctor does not understand. i will walk again. >> he went to work at the kennedy institute to begin an extensive rehab program to help recover sensation in the legs. >> this is one of the basis is to use modern technology to help someone who is paralyzed to use their own nervous system. >> reporter: it includes gait training and other efs stimulation which sends elect electroimpulses to the legs causing them to contract and relax while riding a bicycle and doing the work that a brain would do. as matt's sessions progressed, so did the recovery. he began to move his toes, and he has been able to

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our dr. sanjay gupta looks at what's behind this increase. that story is next. >>> many young adults may have high blood pressure and they don't even know about it. a new study finds nearly 20% of young adults suffer from higher blood pressure. the number is much higher than previously thought. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta explains why it is vital for young people to improve their health. >> randi, this study is unique, the first of its kind really to follow 14,000 young people starting when they were teenagers, follow them into early adulthood and found 0% of them had hypertension. almost half of them had no idea that they had it. that was the real headline here concerning one for sure. i think we're seeing some ramifications of the childhood obesity epidemic. children are starting to grow up and starting to develop higher tension as a very young age, too young in many ways. you also have a peer of time where they go from the activity of adolescents to this period of time where they're slower in terms of their activity an

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sanjay gupta, brings us today's human factor. >> like a lot of little boys, matt corsin loved sports, so much that he eventually ended up as a pitcher with the university of arkansas. but all that changed in april of 2006 when matt decided to drive his four-wheeler over to a friend's house. he never made it. >> my four-wheeler went off a 20-foot embankment. knocked me out, i had a little memory loss. the next day i was found by a fireman. >> reporter: his backbone was shattered. his doctors said he would never walk again. but matt was a young man who didn't understand the word "never." >> that doctor thinks i'm not going to walk again? i will walk again. >> reporter: a year after his injury, matt moved to baltimore, maryland, to work with specialists at the center for spinal cord injury. he began an extensive rehab regimen designed to help patients with chronic spinal cord injuries recover sensation and movement in their legs. >> so one big basis of our program is using modern technology to move someone who is paralyzed using their own nervous system. >> reporter: the therapy includes

our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has been looking into this and joins me now. i guess the key question on everybody's mind, how concerned should we really be? >> it's a good question. perhaps more concern than the headlines have you believe. the phone study was this big study, 13 countries participated. the headline was there's no association. what we found by digging deeper, though, randi, into this, there's an appendix to this study which you could only find online. once you looked at that, here's what i thought was interesting president people who use their cell phones ten years, you started to see a doubling in the rate of glioma, a brain tumor. if people are using their cell phones longer and longer an there's a latency period. it takes a while for a tumor to develop. might this be a problem a decade from now, two decades from now and so forth? they've only become popular over the last 15 jeeryears. it's gone up ten times in 15 years. the question is, what is all that doing to the brain in the longer term? as you point out, people are starting to beat the

sanjay gupta introduces us to a young guy who's proving wrong when a doctor told him you're never going to walk again. >> like a lot of little boys, matt coursen loves sports, so much that he eventually ended up as a pitcher with the university of arkansas. but all that changed in april of 2006 when matt decided to drive his four-wheeler over to a friend's house. he never made it. >> my four-wheeler went off a 20 foot em barngment. knocked me out, memory loss. >> his backbone was shattered. his doctors said he would never walk again, but you know matt was a young man who didn't understand the word never. >> that doctor thinks i'm not going to walk again? i will walk again. >> a year after his injury, matt moved to baltimore, maryland, to work with specialists at the center for final cord center. he began a regimen to recover sensation and movement in his legs. >> one big basis of our program is using is modern technology to move someone who's prayerlized using their own nervous system. >> the therapy includesgate training, water therapy, along with functional electric stimulation that u

dr. sanjay gupta answers your questions tonight. it's all at the top of the hour. more piers morgan in a moment. ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we've got to be smart about this. it's a smart way to go. ♪ >>> michael grimm won season 5 of "america's got talent" in what may have been the season's biggest upset in the show's history. he gave the performance of his life and he reminds me of a young van morrison. michael grimm joins me now. that's what i always thought when i saw you performing. >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> it just had that feel, the way you perform, the manner in which you performed. but it was a shock. i mean, i remember just everybody assuming little jackie, the little angel, was going to walk this. >> i thought she was too, piers. >> what did you think when your name was announced? >> i thought they announce

sanjay gupta will discuss some of the new research. but first here's dr. gupta's report. >> i'm on my way. >> reporter: if you've ever put a cell phone to your ear, you should listen to what neurosurgeon dr. keith black has to say. >> there's no way to say that cell phone use is safe. i think that the public has a right to know that there could be a potential risk. the public generally assumes that if one is selling something on the market that we have had assurances that that device is safe. >> reporter: to be clear, dr. black's message is at odds with headlines from the largest international study on cell phones and cancer. their conclusion, little or no evidence cell phones are associated with brain tumors. but if you look just one layer deeper into the appendix of that same study, and you'll see something unsettling. turns out participants in the study who used a cell phone for ten years or more had doubled the rate of brain glioma, a type of tumor. and keep in mind cell phone use in the united states has only been popular for around 15 years. back in

disturbing report tonight from dr. sanjay gupta. he has been investigate thing for more -- for about a year now. this report will change the way you use your cell phone and has for me certainly. new video from syria. images shocking even by the sickening standards of the syrian regime. all those details ahead. her morning begins with artitis pain. that's a cofe and two s. . back to sore knees. back to moreills. the day one but hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. st 2il can keep arthritis pain awaall day fewerillshan tylenol. th is laraho chose 2leve anfewells r day free opain. and get the all day pain relief ofleven liquid gels. ♪ there's really no better time than now to give great clips a try. relax. you're at great clips. >>> put that under my neck. okay. payit. all right. that is just about everything, huh? >> how about the baby? >> that was a moment from "the dick van dyke show" which is a role that made you very famous. you say you're very lucky, but when i watch those old clips i remember why you became so successful.

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for watching. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> from the cnn sunday morning, this is joe johns. it's may 29th, good morning. i'm in for t.j. holmes. >>> members of congress promised an end to earmarks, but guess what? they found another way to spend your money. >>> plus, a dramatic escape for passengers aboard a delta flight. we'll show you what happened in this memorial day weekend, the fleet has arrived in new york. i'll speak to a marine who survived being shot and is headed back to combat in afghanistan. >>> we start with spending cuts on capitol hill. every politician is looking for a way to save a little money, whether it's from medicare or public television or what have you. but funding cuts may not be on the menu when it comes to pet projects. yes, they say they have banned earmarks, but somehow lawmakers are finding a way to keep the money on hand. they're taking it from other projects. so instead of cutting that money from the bottom line, they're funneling it

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. more news on cnn starts right now. >>> good morning, everybody. just days after president obama angered many when he suggested israel go back to its 1967 borders, he talks to a key pro-israel lobbying group this morning. >>> also, another republican has made up his mind about the 2012 presidential race. mitch daniels says thanks, but no thanks. even says he's sorry. you'll hear his one reason for not running. >>> also, happening right now. we've been keeping a close eye on this throughout the morning and it continues as we speak 200 miles above us. this is coming to us from the international space station where two astronauts have been doing a spacewalk and they've got some serious work they're doing up here and have been at it for the past five hours or so. we'll give you an update about this historic "endeavour" mission. >>> this is your cnn sunday morning for sunday, may 22nd. i'm t.j. holmes. >>> also a big breaking news story we are following for you this morning. cnn has been able to confirm the earth did not end yesterday. more on that in j

sanjay gupta is going to join us and show you the procedure of how they take off part of the skull. it's something that sanjay does. he's a neurosurgeon. he does this quite frequently. he's going to show you how it works in the operating room. it's actually really fascinating. you should stick around for that. >>> and later, new revelations about arnold schwarzenegger's -- well, the woman he had a child with. plus, maria shriver making an appearance in chicago. all of that ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. pure... and also delicious. like nature valley. granola bars made with crunchy oats and pure honey. nature valley -- 100% natural. 100% delicious. down the hill? man: all right.

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. cnn news starts right now. >>> good morning, everybody. we are following several developing stories today, including one about the man you're seeing on your screen, him. that right there is one of the most powerful and most wanted drug runners in mexico, responsible for bringing a lot of drugs to this country. well, this morning he is under arrest, and would you believe he was picked up at his own birthday party? also, from rikers island to a luxury manhattan apartment. dominique strauss-kahn left jail yesterday. what exactly is ahead for the former head of imf. >>> also, today, this, folks, is our last day. today is doomsday. you might have heard about did. so far so good, but we're told the apocalypse should be starting today. the radio networks have spent millions of dollars to warn you that the end is here. we're here at the beginning of this cnn saturday morning. it might be our last. let's all try our best to make it a good one. it's saturday, may 21st. up front, let's start with a breaking story we're getting out of kabul, afghanist

sanjay gupta did his own investigation and joins us live from atlanta. the headlines are often confusing on this. many think common wisdom would make it seem you can't hold this thing up to your ear. >> you know my wife. don't give her more ammunition than you need. >> i am hear about the facts. we have been looking into this for more than a year. i am personally concerned about it because i use a cell phone all the time and continue to. i do use eye wired earpiece. let me tell you a couple things. the big headline over the last couple of months came out of the study called the inner phone study, big 13 country phone study. the headline was, there doesn't seem to be any kind of association. what we found quickly was looking at the appendix of this, which you can only find online, we found that people, in fact, who used cell phones for ten years or more had a almost doubling of the rate of a type of a brain tumor called a glioma. it is kind of the point a little bit here that a lot of doctors and health care people are starting to make. you don't see tumo

i'm dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for watching 37. >>> from cnn center this is joe johns in for t.j. holmes. it's may 28th. good morning. a holiday weekend is usually a great time to see an air show, but this weekend the blue angeling will not be flying. i'll tell you why. head out for holiday shopping. pretty soon you may be able to leave your wallet at home as long as you have a smartphone with you. >>> and sarah palin, is she about to go for a run for president of the united states? she's certainly making herself a lot more visible these days. >>> almost a week after a tornado tore a half mile path through joplin, missouri, they're still searching for the missing. here's the information on the latest. in one of the most deadly tornadoes in the country. 156 people are unaccounted for as of this morning. the number of dead stands at 132, with more than 1,000 injured. we expect an update on the number of missing and hurt at 11:00 eastern time. >>> more than 2,500 people have applied for federal disaster assistance. fema has approved a $2.8 million grants and aid. president obama will

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sanjay gupta said that the fact that she is even there in florida and she is in rehab in houston and back there in florida speaks volumes about the recovery. take a listen. >> reporter: as you know, she made it around the last time around, but the launch was scrubbed, so she went back to houston and now back again, which is a good sign medically. she is medically stable, they say, and this is part of the rehab as they describe it as well. her getting up the stairs and meeting new people and new environments and the whole thing. >> and the astronauts are wearing wristbands in her honor? >> that is right. everyone has been touched by this, and you know, for mark kelly, the commander, this was going to time commanding the space shuttle into space, and he was not sure if he could do this a few months ago, because he was in training whenb this tragedy happened in april. it was touch and go for some time and then touch and go if she could attend the launch and a couple of days before the doctors were weighing the pros and cons of that, and again, good sign from the medical standpoint. she

sanjay gupta will talk about why testing new medication is often done outside of the u.s. >>> as we wrap up on this special day of remembrance, i want to take you to the nation's capital now and a look at the services our president and military leaders took part in today. >> it's a frightening thing for human beings to think that they could die and that no one would know to mark their graves. ♪ >> i want to realize that these are not just graves, they are real people and have real families and lives and husbands and children and friends. >> the best of the life lies here. but that the best of who we are in americans lies in our own hearts and in our own actions. >> our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay. but we can honor their sacrifice and we must. we must honor it in our own lives and heeding the example that they set. and we must honor it as a nation by keeping our sacred trust with

. >> thank you, sanjay. sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, dr. sanjay gupta meets the paramedics and doctors credited with saving the life of gabrielle giffords. join sanjay on twitter during saving gabby giffords for a live chat. sanjay's twitter alias is@sanjayguptacnn. >>> the 86-year-old former president jimmy carter just got back from north korea wherefore years, he's tried to broker agreements between the north and the south. in a controversial statement, he told me the current u.s. policy of withholding food aid to pressure north korea's leader amounts to a human rights violation. >> and so the united states imposes on them an absence of food aid because we are trying to punish jim kim jong il. >> those are very serious allegations. to say that the obama administration is using this as a political tool to not provide food aid. >> well, i think that's accurate. we're obviously and publicly officially not providing any food aid to north korea right now. we disagree with the policies of kim jong il and the people are suffering. >> sure the st

sanjay gupta spoke with veteran journalist donald bartlett and james steel. they wrote about the food and drug administration in "vanity fair." >> this is a topic i'm very interested in, i've done some reporting on myself. i read your article in "vanity fair." americans take a lot of medications, 61% of adults take at least one pill. 25% of seniors take at least one medication. and these numbers are going up. just as a starting point, and we're going to get into this, but how much confidence should they have that their medications are safe? donald? >> that's a really good question. it's -- it's almost like a lottery. many of them are, and many -- and some of them are not. and the question is, for the person taking the pill, what are my odds. >> and also, you have the situation that a pill that may be fine for one person isn't for another. and that's one of the great unknowns that hangs out there with almost all medications. >> i think people sort of generally understand the process. there's an fda, an organization that is supposed to oversee this. medications

chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is here with us to give us more insight on this. now, among other things, you're actually a certified medical examiner. so can you explain how the government was able to get a dna match so quickly? >> when you think of dna sequencing, that's what people think of as taking a long time, being this tedious process. this is not the same thing. what they're talking about here is doing dna matching. so you and i, for example, randi, we share about 99.5% of our dna in common. that would take a long time to sequence. what they focus in on is what's different. so it's a very -- much smaller area of the dna they're sort of looking at, and trying to find, for example, this sample, where they think it's osama bin laden, comparing it to reference samples of known relatives, for example. and seeing if there are matches. and that matching process, that can take, you know, just a few hours. the more relatives you have to compare it to, the higher your confidence level goes up. that this is, in fact, who you think it is. >> what about these reports

sanjay gupta has his story in the human factory. >>> growing up, i wanted to race professionally. i wanted to race in the indianapolis 500. >> he is 10.9 seconds behind the race leader. this year, charlie kimball finally fulfilled his dream. in order to get here, he had to overcome a big hurdle. you see, four years ago, he was told he had diabetes. so kimball took time to figure out how to cope with his diagnosis and figure out if he could race with diabetes, something indy car officials said was a first. he had to be fast and healthy. >> if i go too high, my reaction time is slow and i'm not competitive. if i go too low, i go lightheaded. go low enough, i could pass out and cause an accident. >> his diabetes led him to a sponsor, the maker of his insulin pump. kimball's pit crew consists of mechanics, engineers and his doctor. he has to make sure his body is ready along with his car, which now has special equipment. >> i wear a continuous glucose monitor, which is a krep sosens have on my body. it reads blood glucose and wirelessly transmits to a pager display that i have on the

our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta joins us live from atlanta. what's this all about? why do we have a whole bunch of young people with high blood presh why yo pressure? >> this is the people that they think they are perfectly healthy. they don't bother getting check-ups, because they have never had a problem. as much as we have talked about childhood obesity, we are starting to see some ramifications in these children. this was the first study of its kind. 14,000 teenagers were fallen. they get between 28 and 42. 20% of them had high blood pressure. between a quarter and a half of them didn't know it. this is the stage of life where they go from adolescents being somewhat active, that active adolescents, to transitioning to adulthood. a lot of people start to slowdown in terms of activity. their diet tary choices start to worsen. a vulnerable period. we are talking about hypertension. you are talking about a blood vessel, the impact of the pressure on the blood vessel. there are two numbers, a systolic and dystolic. that's the higher number. the