To this day, chuck bears the scars and the shrapnel from battles he fought in our name. Reporter but winning confirmation wont be easy. Some of hagels former Senate Colleagues call him hostile toward israel and soft on iran. Im waiting for an explanation. I want him to make the case as to why he should be the secretary of defense. Reporter confirmation hearings here on capitol hill are expected to be easier for another nominee, john brennan, the president s pick to head the cia. Still, looking at his 25 years at the spy agency, some object to the brennan pick. If you tuned in here, obama reporter a small group protested the brennan choice monday saying hes linked to techniques including water boarding during the bush administration. The white house disputes that. Mr. Brennan wrote a letter in which he made clear he opposed socalled enhanced interrogation techniques. Reporter hes also linked to the drone program. Credited with killing al qaeda operatives. Its unpopular overseas especial
Get it saying its not too late. Usually a curse of midwin ter, this year the flu struck more than a month early. 24 states are experiencing high influenzalike illness. Hospitals, including this one in pennsylvania, have elected tents to treat the sick. All of a sudden like out of nowhere we started seeing 50 60 cases of flu a day. Dr. Mark rosenberg is in charge of the emergency room at st. Josephs in patterson, new jersey. The flu kicks you in the butt. It makes you weak. Any other medical problem on top of that is going to be exacerbated because you have the flu. In severe cases antiviral drugs can lessen symptoms. The cdc says the best prevention is the flu vaccine. Nearly 130 million doses of it have been distributed. We hope it means theyll get milder flu. Theres some evidence to that. So if you get vaccinated but still come down with the flu, it may be that you get a milder version of the flu. The cdc says the flu vaccine is effective in 62 of the cases. In mentor ohio janitors a
Prescriptions filled and i was counting on getting my flu shot, and theyre out of flu shots. Of the 135 million doses manufactured this year, at least 112 million have already been ministered. Health experts say if you can get the shot, it will take two weeks for protection to kick in. Its still not too late to get your flu shot. What it does is makes the illness milder. The declaration allows pharmacists to vaccinate children between the ages of 6 months and 18 years. New york is one of 30 states to report flurelated deaths this season. At least 20 children have died. The flu is easy to spread. The germ can be anywhere, on gas pumps, atms, and, of course, door handles. And the obvious way to avoid getting the flu, steering clear of those who are exhibiting symptoms. Coughing, sneezing, being in close proximity of someone with those symptoms, you can contract the flu. The flu is also turning out to be costly. Employers estimate they will lose 10 billion in productivity this year. For t
His resignation. What will he do for work . He could become the walmart greeter. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. North korea defied the country again, the Foreign Ministry is threatening measures of greater ear intensity. Bill plante confirmed president obama will discuss the during nuclear test during his state ofnion add the union tonight, the president will say it merely isolates north korea even more. T the north says it tested a de lighter miniaturized Nuclear Device underground. Margaret brennan is in washington good morning. Reporter the u. N. Security council is meeting now and is expected to announce sanctions that target north koreas financial institutions. President obama condemned the test saying north Koreas Nuclear weapons and Ballistic Missile program constitutes a threat to u. S. National securityty and to International Peace and security. Or north korea has been warning for weeks it was about to test its l. Nuclear arsenal opinion on Tuesday Morni
Habitat. What was supposed to be a lovely sunset wedding in a hot air balloon ended this way. You see that lovely lady thats a. Y. Mccarrons girlfriend. What a beautiful woman. Whoa a. J. s doing it right. 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms. Come to america, you can become an american and join the republic. Are you finished . On cbs this morning. Some people are seriously floating the idea of a trilliondollar coin as a solution to the countrys next fiscal crisis. We should have known a coin was obamas solution to everything. It was right there in his slogan change. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. There is at least one more issue for congress to fight about in the new year president obama announced yesterday he is nominating former republican senator chuck hagel to lead the defense department. At the cia the president wants his chief counterterrorism adviser john brennan to be in charge. Both must be confirmed by the senate where the former se