emery university in georgia, there are trials. jonathan serrie is there. çwhy do they involved? >> they are looking for volunteers, starting out with healthy adults, including seniors. in fact, they want half of them to be over the age of 65. then, if all goes well, as they expect it will, they will involve children in the study. they are trying to look at not only the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine but also the proper dosage. they say it is entirely possible that we may need not just one but two shots for h1n1 in the fall. shepard: if they do come up with a vaccine, who will need to get it? >> an advisory committee is meeting tomorrow to come up with recommendations on just that subject. it is thought that health-care workers who will be one of the recipients of the vaccine. another likely category includes pregnant women. when this was discovered in the spring, since then, approximately 6% of all of the fatal cases involved pregnant women, and when you consider that all the make up a small percentage of the population, as you can see how times they are. shepard: jonat

. >> all right, some georgia law school students from emery as well as university of georgia. so, sonia sotomayor, one of many wise latina women, that's why rick sanchez went to miami to talk to them and find out whether she indeed an inspiration to them. in the meantime, we're also taking your calls. this is some of what you're saying. >> i have a day job, i'm a long haul druk driver, driving across oklahoma right now. i wanted to make a comment about so the so. i don't think she answered the questions fair enough to be able to sit on the supreme court. i think when they asked a question, i think she ought to answer the question and not dodge it. i listened to most of it on satellite radio and that's my opinion. thank you. %%%%%%%%%%% >>> we will return to our special gentleman minute. one woman is doing all she can to provide some relief. cnn special correspondent soledad o'brien reports. >> reporter: every night, tina and james work a second job, delivering newspapers. it's extra hours for extra pay. beyond his work in information technology and hers in benefits

a neuro economist at emery university who studies how our brain reacts to such information. in a nutshell, he says, our brains pretty much check out. >> if we bring someone in who kind of has this billing as an experts, it's just much easier to turn over your decision-making to that person. >> reporter: you can even see it on brain scans. >> so we're looking at a snapshot of the brain. >> reporter: the areas that usually light up when we're weighing our options go completely dark when an expert offers an opinion. >> you notice the key structure for value judgments, nothing. >> reporter: so we ask our expert dr. burns, would we be better off ignoring the experts? >> my advice is to have confidence in your own decision-making. >> reporter: and us use it. >> and use it, yes, absolutely use it. >> if they make $8 million on that book, i will eat my shoes ♪ everybody's talking at me > as for the endlessly opinning pundits.& >> i think it's just entertainment. it's just simply attention grabbing. people like conflict. people like professional wrestling. they like ultimate fighti

>> beginning in early august, emery university will begin recruiting up to 200 volunteers, healthy adults, including people 65 and older, for the initial trials. if they determine the vaccines are safe, they will also add children to the study. they are testing for the effectiveness and also trying to determine the proper dosage. it is entirely possible by the time you get vaccinated for h1n1, you will need two shots. one is to prime your immune system and one is to boost your immune system. bill: what is involved in producing the vaccine? >> the primary product that they use in these vaccines is developed by injecting a strain of injectingh1n1 -- injecting a strain of the h1n1 virus into chicken eggs. it produces 1/3 of the dosage you would ordinarily expect from seasonal flu. they are getting additional samples from infected patients. bill: they are testing vaccines and other parts of the world. we did a report on this yesterday with a reporter from london. how does this play into what we are learning from overseas about how this can protect us? >> they are fast tracking the testing in

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this year we actually had it on the campus of emery. >> great. >> and mentoring is something that's very, very valuable to growth, to becoming a more responsible american, you know. to be able to give back and give that opportunity to those who are less fortunate. but also at the head of change, it is our youth. these kids come from underserved communities, but we give them the tools they need to want progress in life but also give them the opportunity to go back to their communities and serve. the power of service is powerful. very, very powerful. and if they just understand or have someone to unlock that potential in them, who knows what could happen. >> is it true? you've been there, you're going to go back to your community and talk more about this, i bet. what are you going to take away from it? >> just being a leader, basically. >> that's a big thing to say. >> yeah, it is, and everything i've learned from the camp is just preparing me to give it back to my community. how to push them forward as well as myself. >> so when a child smaller than you comes up to you and says, hey, you