bars serving two life sentences and his legal problems aren t over. battle for bakhmut. mw can despete for a win. this is the cbs weekend news from chicago with adriana diaz. good evening. etreme weather sweeps across the country. at least 12 people have died following severe storms in several states. out west californians are reeling. record snowfall, some powered by high winds dropped more than 12 feet of snow over parts of the state in the last few days. the heavy snow buried neighborhoods, collapsed roofs. further east more than 800,000 people are without power across five states. flooding, high winds and multiple tornados. cbs s joy benedict is in los angeles with all the details. joy, good evening. yeah, good evening. the good news is no rain right now. all over l.a. what you are seeing is trails washed out, trees down and up in the mountains folks still snowed in after this epic storm. caught many off guard. three houses just here, trees on them. snappe
them, today s report suggea way disease. cardiologist dr. nissen of the cleveland clinic led the study. i take care of these patints and they say, doctor, i know i need to lower my cholesterol. i have tried all of these different statins. my muscles hurt. i can t take those drugs. reporter: in patients with increased cardiovascular risk a drug was found to decrease heart-related complications such as heart attack or need for a procedure like a bypass operation for stint. what were some of the side effects? let me tell you what the drug didn t do. it didn t cause muscle pain. that was very important. it did increase the risk of gout and gallstones by about one absolute percent. neither do we consider to be particularly serious. reporter: an editorial accompanying the new england journal of medicine article called the results compelling an iree in
sometimes you hear about getting that in hospitals are but sanjay s explaining it could be from an infection somewhere necessarily the body, made it into the bloodstream. the hospital says he s doing well. and also, sanjay, tell the audience in case they re joining us now, people are going to worry this is his heart. what have you been told? i did speak to his doctors, including the chief of medicine at university of california irvine, and his primary care physician. those are the first questions, was this related to his heart? because he had a heart operation back in 2004, bypass operation. he had a stent placed in 2010. they said this is not related to his heart. they also say this is not covid. he was tested for covid. and he, in fact, has been vaccinated and also received his booster shot. they say that this seems to be sepsis specifically unrelated to those two things. and responding well to anti antibiotics. they call it an infection, but it s an infection in the blood, which i
there for the same event that the former president was going to be attending. she is there with him as well. i don t know if she s in the hospital, but she s also in southern california. and you said, people joining us right now, former president clinton was admitted into the hospital on tuesday. they say it s a blood infection called sepsis. sometimes you hear about getting that in hospitals are but sanjay s explaining it could be from an infection somewhere in the body, made it into the blood stream. the hospital says he s doing well. and also, sanjay, tell the audience in case they re joining us now, people are going to worry this is his heart. what have you been told? i did speak to his doctors, including the chief of medicine at university of california irvine, and his primary care physician. those are the first questions, was this related to his heart? because he had a heart operation back in 2004, bypass operation. he had a stent placed in 2010. they said this is not related
i was lucky i didn t die of a heart attack. former president clinton, like too many people, was busy. and for years he ignored warning signs from his heart. but in 2004, during an exhausting book tour, there was something different. i had a real tightness in my chest when i was getting off the airplane and the only time i d had it unrelated to exercise. we re here outside new york presbyterian hospital. in just a couple of hours, former president bill clinton is scheduled to undergo surgery. so i immediately went down to our local hospital and they did a test, they said you got real problems. they hustled me down to columbia presbyterian and they confirmed the determination that i had serious blockage and needed the surgery. doctors immediately knew options were limited. the 58-year-old clinton needed to have his chest opened, his heart stopped, and surgery performed. there s no medical treatment for reversing the obstructions that had already formed in his blood vessel