dr. john torres reports. >> reporter: when stephen johnson was at the international space station, a visit was out of the question. but they could in minutes have a doctor on call. >> realtime communications, a very minor delay, you could have a doctor on the radio with you while you're working with the patient. >> reporter: nasa's new plan for the final frontier have people heading further afield. to mars. 34 million miles away from earth. it takes 20 minutes for the call for help to reach earth. >> if you have an emergency, you're not going to wait for help on board. >> reporter: that means every member of the crew will be forced to be doctors, working only with the supplies on their ship. >> they have limited resources to deal with in that situation to figure out how they might be able to save that person's life. >> reporter: nasa has teamed up to create a first of its kind space simulator to teach astronauts how to deal with medical emergencies, ranging from simple injuries to major e

dr. john torres is in corpus christi to tell us more about that. >> for quad loupe, dialysis is the difference between life and death. >> i have no kidneys. my kidneys are shot. >> so his last stop before evacuating was this dialysis center in corpus christi where machines do the work of his kidneys. >> so if all this shut down and you weren't able to get dialysis for days, that could be life-threatening. >> yes, could be. >> but with a threat from hurricane harvey. >> be safe, okay. >> these centers must close, leaving hundreds of patients at risk. >> we've handed out the patient emergency packets that has all their information so that way if they decide to evacuate, they can go to a dialysis center at another town or city. >> we want to make sure that people are located in a facility in which they can receive care without the impact of the hurricane. >> dozens of critical patients have been evacuated from hospitals, including at least ten newborns from a neonatal intensive care unit flo

john, thanks. good to have you here. >>> there are bizarre new details tonight in a jailbreak and a manhunt under way in alabama. authorities are on the hunt for the last of a dozen inmates who broke free near birmingham. we learn late today the key to their escape wasn't a weapon. it was apparently peanut butter, of all things, that helped them get loose. we get more on this from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: tonight, a frantic search for the last of a dozen inmates still on the run in alabama after a brazen and bizarre escape. >> i'm not going to make any excuses. it was a human error. >> reporter: call it the peanut butter caper. the inmates 18 to 30 years old. charges ranging from disorderly conduct to attempted murder. investigators say they broke out of the walker county jail northwest of birmingham sunday night by covering the number on a cell door using peanut butter. the sheriff says the inmates tricked a new guard into opening an exit door instead. >> changing some numbers on the doo

dr. john torres is on the scene. >> high blood pressure, and all that medicine is gone? >> yeah. >> it's mass casualty situation. >> it is. >>> and then in london, where princes harry and william pay after her death. "early today" starts right now. good to be with you. i'm frances rivera. my co-anchor phillip mena is there in houston following harvey's impact. harvey is still unleashing rain, but is now classified as a tropical depression as it heads northeast. a dangerous situation is taking place right now at a chemical plant in houston, which could explode any moment. there's no way to prevent it. and at issue, no power or working generators. couple that with possible calamity of 2 million pounds of chemicals being released. overnight, the death toll reaching at least 28. officials say that number is certain to climb after a dramatic day of rescues played out, including this of one monther and her son reunited after they fought for their lives. >> i thought y'all was going to pass up, because up. when you seen y'all looking at us, we got so emotional, like please help

dr. john torres, thank you very much. we're going to take a break in a moment we'll have the changing trend among america's dads that may surprise you. >>> we're back now with a cancer breakthrough, for the first time ever the fda has just approved a gene therapy treatment. it's for children and young adults are relapse right leg leukemia. genetically modifies the patients own immune cells. in the past we have reported on emily white head, the first child to receive the then experimental treatment in 2012. five years later she remains cancer free. you might find this spriedsing that american men are becoming dads later than ever before. the average age of first-time father's in the u.s. has risen to nearly 31, up from just over 27 in 1972. according to a new study. researchers point to a number of possible factors like more effective birth control, longer life expectancy and a desire to focus more on careers before having kids. >>> it's hard to believe it's been 20 years since we got that tragic word from paris. princess

dr. john torrez brings us details. >> just 43 years old, lynn howard never imagined her heart would suddenly stop beating. > i had no health problems before this. i was healthy. >> but the mother of three suffered a sudden cardiac arrest a condition so deadly more than 90% don't survive. >> the goal is to nip sudden cardiac arrest in the butt because by the time it happens it's too late. >> it's not a heart attack caused by blockage. it's caused by a short circuit in the heart. there hasn't been a good test to determine who is vulnerable. >> we don't have any real predictors of risk. >> after of this doctor studied a million people, he found a possible solution using an ekg, an inexpensive test around for 100 years. >> we're looking at six data points on this ekg ranging from the heart beat to electrical activity recorded from the heart. >> he discovered that data is the key to predicting who is at risk for cardiac arrest. the goal now to get that risk score included on every ekg. an impl

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here's nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres with more. >> reporter: although the water's receding in some parts of houston, shelters are flooded with people presenting major medical challenges. nearly two dozen hospitals across the region have evacuated. >> kidney disease. my legs swelled up. >> reporter: robert jordan's medication washed away. high blood pressure? >> high blood pressure. >> reporter: and all that medicine's gone. >> yeah. >> reporter: so it's truly a mass casualty situation? >> it is. >> reporter: a medical response team at the houston convention center has set up a triage area, a pharmacy and stockpiles of supplies. what can you treat here? >> we can treat initially pretty much anything. we can treat minor wounds, suturing, deliveries. >> reporter: dangers from the storm will linger for weeks even months. floodwater contaminated with chemical waste and debris, even fire ants and alligators. the immediate health risks include wounds, medication shortages, food poisoning and infectious disease fromt

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dr. john? >> you are exactly right. people in the pain medicine community are starting to educate physicians and patient and surgeons on medication. the medications we are talking about are truly non-addictive. it might be misleading in terms of the opiates. we thought it was a panacea. the government said we must treat pain aggressively and if they don't physicians will be penalized. gerri: doctors are getting evaluated, their salaries are dependent upon how popular they are with patient. the more you write prescriptions the better off you might be. there is incentive for the doctors to write the prescriptions. but i want to address one more thing to you, dr. howard. you are in the streets to see what's going on. medicaid folks are getting a lot of these drugs. it's because i believe medicaid doesn't have the money to treat people long term. so these drugs are a shortcut. 25% of medicaid members have an opioid addiction. >> well, you know what, gerri, i have to totally agree. they throw opiates at the problem for their

let me quickly check back with dr. john torres. we discussed earlier the danger of looking into the sun, but for these folks in these areas where they're dodging clouds and me might feel the clouds will give them some protection -- >> absolutely not. the clouds are not going to give you protection. you can get sun burn on a cloudy day and the same thing is is happening here. >> columbia, missouri we're looking at now. >> it's beautiful. you need to keep your glasses on if it's clear regardless. until that final instant of totality, those ultraviolet rays are coming out and it can cause damage to the back of the eye. there are no pain receptors there and that's part of the problem. you may not know it until a day later or a month later. there's a spot there that's fuzzy or blank. you can't see things you look directly at because that's part of the vision it hits. when you think of a lens, it's like a mag ifnifying lens, you' not feeling it and it can cause permanent damage. >> important warning, and we will continue to sound that wa

nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres has the new warning tonight. >> reporter: katy rich just had her third child, a boy named brady. when weeks later she got a terrifying call from her doctor. >> he said, it's cancer. and he said it wasn't good. >> reporter: the 33-year-old had stage 4 colon cancer. >> it was devastating. >> reporter: a life-long athlete, she had no family history of the disease. her only symptom? pain in her ribs. the new report shows katy is one of a growing number of younger people getting colorectal cancer. researchers found deaths in white people under age 55 are on the rise. and it's not only the result of more screening. >> this increase in incidence is real. and it's scary. because we don't know what's causing it. >> reporter: colonoscopy is currently recommended beginning at age 50 for most people, and repeated every ten years until age 75 for those with no risk factors. every five years for other screening tests or when colonoscopy finds small polyps. but today's startling report h

our medical correspondent, dr. john torres, has details. >> reporter: just 43 years old, lynn howard never imagined her heart would suddenly stop beating. >> i had no health problems before this. i was completely healthy. >> reporter: but the mother of three suffered a sudden cardiac arrest, a condition so deadly, more than 90% don't survive. >> the goal is to nip some cardiac arrest in the bud. because by the time it happens, it's too late. >> reporter: it's not a heart attack which is caused by a blockage. sudden cardiac arrest is caused by a short circuit in the heart. there hasn't been a good test to determine who's vulnerable. >> we don't have any real predictors of risk. >> reporter: after this doctor studied a million people, he found a possible solution, using an ekg, an inexpensive test that's been around for 100 years. >> we're looking at six data points on this ekg, ranging from the heartbeat, to electrical activity recorded from the heart. >> reporter: dr. chu discovered that data is the key to predicti

for more safety tips we're joined by dr. john good to see you this morning. how are you. >> good morning, steve. i'm fine thank you. >> can you see anything through those glasses right now. >> not a dog gone thing. >> i put these on earlier and i couldn't see a thing either. i'm going to assume that that means it's going to help us out but the importance of the glasses is what? >> well, these glasses are about a hundred thousand times more dense than your standard sunglasses. the purpose of these glasses is to protect your eyes while you're viewing the eclipse. >> now, i do want to ask you one thing, i have two pairs of glasses here, john, and i'm going through the glasses here, i know that one of the items you want to talk about today is the approval of the iso. first of all, can you explain what that means and then i want to get to a question as to why one of my pairs of glasses has it and one doesn't yet one looks darker. can you talk about the iso approval. >> international safety classification for the density of the lens. why one of your pair of glasses

john torres. welcome, both. first to you, dr. torres, we have the national institute putting out the numbers, is the premise here, the original premise that too many people are prescribed the drugs and then are becoming addicted? they're so highly addict of for people suffering from pain and we have to come up with a new solution for pain therapy. >> that's what the study is showing up. up until now, we said there is an addiction problem, an epidemic, but this is the first study to give us hard numbers. one in three americans in 2015 used prescription opioid. of those, 11.5 million misused and 1.9 million were addicted. i mean, they simply use ed it outside of the directions of their doctor, took somebody else's medication, used it too often, used too much. and what this is showing us is that this addiction problem is definitely here and is serious and something that needs to be addressed. and i agree with governor christie, this is something that right now the commission is showing needs to have more money and more emphasis put

here's nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres. >> reporter: as a junior volunteer firefighter, 16-year-old cheyenne cameron has learned to handle pressure including her own high blood pressure. >> i always felt like my heart was racing. i also thought, oh, high blood pressure is for like when you're old. >> reporter: that common misconception all the more reason today's new screening guidelines are so important. >> the increase in the prevalence of hypertension in kids i think is really driven by the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. >> reporter: the new guidelines recommend pediatricians check blood pressure every year starting at age 3. younger if a child was born premature which increases the risk of hypertension. ask parents about the family history. suggest better diet and exercise first. if that fails, medication may be necessary. while being overweight is just one sign a child may have high blood pressure, doctors stress many body types can develop the condition and without warning. >> hypertension is oft

and dr. john quin is the chair of the council cortnation committee in northeast fishery management council. you will each have five minutes to deliver an oral statement. a longer written statement will be included in the record if you so desire. mr. oliver, the floor is yours. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify today. i participated in both the 1996 and 2006 reauthorization processes in my previous role and while i am herriai wearing different hat today my perspectives remain built upon the success of the act as evidenced by sustainable and success in fisheries across the united states. i would like to describe some of the agency's successes and focus on some of the challenges that remain. the act has been an outstanding success in partnership with the council, commissions and other stakeholders we have ended over fishing in this country and are rebuilding fish docks across the board ensuring a sustainable supply of fisheries in the future. i can personally assess to the value of thi

joining me now is dr. john torres. we're talking about one of the biggest, if not the biggest medcenter in the country here. how do you handle this? >> the texas medical center, this is a huge complex. a lot of different hospitals. some of those hospitals and in the medical center which is essentially in the middle of houston is doing fine. other ones that is the one that is in the process of evacuating 350 patients. they did get flood waters in the basement. that has basically limited their food supply to two days and that's why they're evacuating the patients. what you typically do you evacuate the patients that are more critical. the ones that are on life support and need that equipment. you take them out very carefully and get them to other places where that same equipment is there so they can get that sustained care. then you start taking care of the other patients that are more ambulatory and help with their own evacuations and get on buses and can actually move on their own or at least with some assistance. and

dr. john lee says, it is curious however that four other phillies players have also died from aggressive brain cancers all in their 50s and younger than normal but he warns against drawing any conclusions about lifestyle and environment. >> glioblastoma is unfortunately our most aggressive form. darren daulton did very well. four years for glioblastoma is on the excellent end of the spectrum. >> dr. lee says earlier diagnosis immediately -- immediate surgery an aggressive treatment are extenting lives but there's no cure. he says extensive research is difficult because the time period between diagnosis and death is so short. >>> breaking news in fair hill. philadelphia police say one of their officers have shot a man. call about an armed man on drugs had 26th district officers heading to the 2200 block of north fare hill street just about one hour ago. right now we know that at least one responding officer fired a weapon. the man hit ended up at the hospital. we don't know yet know his co

i would like to first welcome both of our witnesses, dr. john quinn and mr. chris oliver, noaa assistant administrator for fisheries also known as the administrator. 11 years ago created the ccc. the ccc can you leadership of the regional fisheries management council to discuss a common interest and i'm pleased to have dr. quinn here today to discuss consensus views of the eighth council of the msa reauthorization. i'm also pleased to introduce chris oliver, first-ever alaskan to permit to hold the position of the assistant administrator for fisheries before becoming director, chris spent 27 years working at the management council as the executive director and i can tell you we are thrilled to have you in this very important position. based on its work in the gulf of mexico at the beginning of the career with the largess and best managed fishery with confidence under his leadership the last american interests will be well represented in the concerns and perspective of the commercial charter recreation alike will be valued. for so many alaskans and their famil

i would like to first welcome both of our witnesses, dr. john quinn, chair of the council coordination committee, the ccc, and mr. chris oliver, n.o.a.a.'s assistant administrator for fisheries as the nymph administrator. and creating the ccc, the ccc convenes the regional fisheries management council to discuss areas of common industry and discussing concensus views on the msa reauthorization. i'm also pleased to introduce chris oliver, first ever alaskan to permanent hold assista assistant, and working at the fisheries management council, last 17 as its executive director, as an alaskan, i can tell you we are thrilled to have you in this very important position. based on his work in the gulf of mexico at the beginning of his career and extensive experience overseeing the largest and best managed fishery in the country, i have confidence under his leadership alaska and the u.s. will be well represented and commercial and recreational fishermen. for alan skas and throughout the country, fishing is a way of life. as i've mentioned at this co

john been a dead o c o of brightside an opioid treatment clinic so is someone who works directly with opioid patients what what is the positive effect you think that this this settlement will have is for chicago in general what do you think is the net of this doc what is your take. well it brightside we we treat patients on the front lines so these people are in crisis. and we're the first ones to see them. so it's one of those things where if they're. if they're in crisis and we can't see them right away they don't get seen at all so we have to treat them with immediacy and compassion so this type of settlement won't help us at all none of the money will find its way to the front lines yeah i think that's a good point as a matter of fact as you may or may not have known before you came on this show we were being hired to handle cases all over the country for various governments but what we're doing is handling we're handling county by county where the county can get money back for what it's going to actually take to rehab for what it takes for dependency hearings for what it takes fo

crisis we are joined tonight by dr john dombrowski pain management specialist and professor at case western reserve dr nice to have you with us tonight i'll take the liberty to say i think that this came to the forefront with the health care debate that was going on in america because so many representatives went home and said hey wait a minute if we make all of these cuts what's going to happen to the people who need the treatment that being said this is now being addressed at the highest level what is it going to take to turn it around well the good news is it starts us talking about the problem not only do we need to take care of these drug addicts who are out there who truly have a mental disability but we have to focus on how do we treat pain effectively to start with the majority of patients i have in my office and i were actually went to methadone treatment programs they don't want to be addicts they got started because they have the problem of chronic pain and very easy for for a physician just to write the medication they're done with them that is not medical practice that is not t

dr. john quinn, the chair of the council coordination committee, the ccc, and mr. chris oliver, noaa's assistant administrator for fisheries. the last reauthorization of msa was 11 years ago and it created the ccc. the ccc has the leadership of eight regional councils to discuss areas of common interest and i'm pleased to have dr. quinn here today to discuss consensus views of the eight counsels on the msa reauthorization. i'm also pleased to introduce chris oliver, first-ever alaska on the hold the position of the assistant administrator for fisheries before becoming director, chris spent 27 years working at the north pacific fisheries management council the last 17 as its executive director. as an alaskan, we are thrilled to have you in this important position. based on his work at the gulf of mexico and his extensive experience overseeing the largest and best-managed fishery in the country i have confidence that under his leadership alaska and america's interests will be well represent

says penn neurosurgeon dr. john lee. john a gradual weakness in his left arm and leg. >> we have been very tal wrenched in what causes that. what precipitates them. what makes them and we really don't know a lot about this. >> we've all heard more about glioblastoma in just the past few years. and months. because of the famous figures who have been diagnosed and di died. >> former phillies great darren daulton passed away after his long battle with brain cancer. >> glioblastoma is our most a greg seive form. darren daulton. four years with glioblastoma is on the excellent end of the spectrum. >> surviving a year and a half to two years after diagnosis is considered good. but most curious says dr. lee is daulton's age. as well as several other phillies players who died from brain tumors. could there be a connection? >> it's really one of the scary things to think about. we know that there are many cancers that are caused by things that we're exposed to. >> like smoking, viruses and radiation. >> glioblastoma has been a to

chairman of the gatesstone interest use, dr. john bolton. is this bluster? or could these joint drills receive a military response john require's a vital element to them to achieve their long-term goal of getting the u.s. forces off the korean peninsula and taking control of the entire peninsula. people ask why does north korea want nuclear weapons and one frequent answer is to defend themselves against the threat of the united states. the real reason is this would give them an enormous tool for leverage and pressure against south korea. this is defensive. but from the north's perspective it demonstrates u.s. forces are have much committed to the defense of south korea, and that's what they object to. eric: does that bolster kim jong-un's regime? he has the bogeyman as rationale to continue his nuclear program. iran * many believe he wouldn't have developed a nuclear regime if it weren't for our hostilities. eric: when you talk about the freeze for freeze. any possibility of this? this is what russia and china want. for to us freeze these military exercises

and their wounds were dressed by the army's surgeon general and dr. john reicher. reicher's prediction of helping some poor fellow came true as he repaired a damaged artery in monroe's shoulder. what neither man realized at the time was that the intrepid physician had saved the life of a future president. trumble's painting here shows monroe in the background initially on the field before being taken to the dressing station. the best commentary among his performance and his revolutionary war service generally comes from no less than authority than the continental army's commander. riding to an acquaintance, washington noted monroe's zeal he noted by entering the service at an early period, the character he supported in his regiment and the manner in which he distinguished himself at trenton where he received a wound. the general concluded that monroe had in every instance maintained the reputation of a brave, active and sensible officer. the american revolution was a transformative experience for james monroe, one he described in a letter written late in his life.

here's nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres. >> reporter: as a junior volunteer firefighter, 16-year-old kim has learned to handle pressure, including her own h was racing. i also thought, oh, high blood pressure's for, like, when you're old. >> reporter: that common misconception, all the more reason today's new screening guidelines are so important. >> the increase in the prevalence of hypertension in kids, i think, is really driven by the rising prevalence of childhood obesity. >> reporter: the new guidelines recommend pediatricians check blood pressure every year, starting at age 3, younger if a child was born premature, which increases the risk of hypertension. ask parents about the family history, suggest better diet and exercise first. if that fails, medication may be necessary. while being overweight is just one sign a child may have high blood pressure, doctors stress many body types can develop the condition and without warning. >> hypertension is often called the silent killer, and most children with high

the aclu taking dr. james mitchell and dr. john ruse jessen to court on behalf of two detainees and the family of a third detainee who froze to death in prison. the suit claims the men were taken into custody and tortured during the war on terror. the psychologists were contracted to craft the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques after 9/11. a federal judge said monday they can be sued, ruling private contractors who work for the u.s. government are not immune from litigation. >>> the deadline for next year's obamacare contracts in late september. the exodus of insurers has already begun. anthem announcing it is pulling out of nevada's marketplace completely and cutting its presence in georgia by half. right now nearly 10,000 americans in 17 counties are at risk of no option. no option on the obamacare exchange next year. 2.7 million may only have one option. and anthem is blamed for much of the current instability. anthem participated in 14 states this year but withdrew from ohio, indiana, wisconsin, and much of california

medical historian dr. howard markel details kellogg's life in a new book, and he shares some of that story on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. and we'll be back, right here, on monday. remember to watch our livestream of the solar eclipse. miles o'brien will have a wrap up on the newshour, followed by a "nova" special, "eclipse over america." that's the newshour for tonight. i'm hari sreenivasan. see you tomorrow night on pbs newshour weekend. thank you, and have a great weekend. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning s

his dr. was john carter who wrote this account oppose final days. poe is delirious, in and out of consciousness not making any sense. he couldn't remember what had become of his luggage where was his change a close. why was he dressed in his other close. he seemed to lack any memory. then he started screaming the name riddle. we never figured out who reynolds was. and then you come down, his last words were lord help my poor soul. the dr. said it was a case of loss of nerve power. . . we know before he left richmond he'd been staying at the hotel on main street, but this trunk closed around in the tavern and people wondered for years why they have this trunk. it was a large piece so maybe he had a smaller piece to kerry with him to baltimore, so they had two trucks that they acquired it this and had a big legal battle that was his sister who was his close relatives but foss over the estate and finally they shouldn't have the right to oppose the works signed over the rights to rufus griswold, but the women battle over the trunk and pose the positions

the aclu taking dr. james mitchell and dr. john bruce jessen to court on behalf of two cia detainees and the family of a third detainee who froze to death in prison. the suit claims the men were taken into custody and tortured during the war on terror. a federal judge said monday they can be sued. ruling private contractors who work for the u.s. government are not immune from litigation. >>> 40 minutes past the hour. president trump isn't the only world leader facing a lack of confidence. a vote underway in south africa could see the president and his entire cabinet ousted. we'll go live to south africa next. how to win at business. step one. point decisively with your glasses. abracadabra! the stage is yours. step two. choose laquinta. where you'll feel like the king of the road. check out our summer rates now at lq.com. need a hair smoother? get super fruit moroccan argan oil with sleek & shine leave-in cream long lasting frizz control for up to 3 days of sleek hair fructis sleek & shine the #1 treatment in america super fru

says penn neurosurgeon dr. john lee just a gradual weakness in his left arm and leg. >> we have been very challenged in what causes them. what precipitates them. what makes them and we really don't know a lot about this. >> reporter: we've all heard more about glioblastoma in just the past few years. and months because of the famous figures who have been diagnosed and died. >> former phillies great darren daulton passed away after his long battle with brain cancer. >> glioblastoma is unfortunately our most aggressive form and darren daulton did very well. four years for glioblastoma is actually on the excellent end of the spectrum. >> reporter: surviving a year and a half to two years after diagnosis is considered good. but most curious says dr. lee is daulton's age. as well as several other phillies players who died from brain tumors. could there be a connection. >> it's really one of those scary things to think about. we know that are many cancers caused by things that we're exposed to. >> like smoking, virus

with us now, dr. john torres. if a friend or family member is addicted to opioids right now, what does this news mean for him or her? >> more money and more effort going towards treatment for them and hopefully fighting this epidemic on both fronts. for people who are addicted and making sure people don't get addicted. for those already addicted it means opening up more treatment fusacilities and actually an obscured law saying they can't be bigger than 16 beds or they won't get paid. what thar they're saying they can apply for waivers and get that taken care of. a lot more emphasis and looking down the line and get training in how to prescribe these medications appropriately and treat people who are addicted to these medications looking at pharmaceutical companies to put out medicines that don't need to be put out and looking at the whole aspect of the addiction, just putting a whole lot more effort into this and help people right now and hopefully over the long term, as well. >> what is the time line? >> once he