good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of torturing children and using them as human shields. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you don t often see a cabinet member subjected to such a harsh grilling. the attorney general eric holder on the hot seat facing republicans furious over a litany of complaints. he held his ground against calls for his resignation. dana watched it all unfold. a botched gun-running designation known as fast and furious to a republican call for an independent investigation into leaks classified leaks, i should say, eric holder knew this wasn t just going to be a regular oversight hearing. he knows he s in congress cross hairs. but what happened was a political food fight. most republicans were tough on the attorney general, but nothing compared to this. there has be
they blow their nose and touch everything and bring home germs. teachers get sick all the time. that s why the c.b.c. says school-aged kids need to be immune. brian: germs are not always a bad thing. helps bring up immunity. i heard a story about d.n.a.-based diets, that there is testing available to determine what kind of diet might actually work better for individuals. well, you know, i do believe in genetic variation in testing. i think that they will find this. now these tests are kind of simplefied. it was low fat versus a low-carb diet. there are genes that tell us why can some skinny person eat like a pig and stay skinny and why an obese person can be obese and hardly eat anything and there are jennetgenetic determination for that. the simplistic tests, i m not sure we re there yet. but if you believe it and it will deep you on a diet,
explosives within seconds of each other in an area filled with pakistani military. most of the victims, however, very civilians. the fda out with a new warning on the popular blood-thinning drug plavix. it says some patients with a certain genetic variation can t metabolize the drug, and that puts them at an increased risk for heart attack and stroke. facebook is everywhere, it seems, even death row. reporter nate moribido, with tennessee affiliate, jhl, has the story. reporter: although nicholas johnson last stepped foot in the tricities in november, his friends and family can see him online just about every day. it appears johnson first signed up for facebook in august, 2009, since then he s added pictures of himself and his kids for all 232 of his friends to see. but death-row inmates in tennessee are not allowed to use the internet. that means someone on the outside is controlling johnson s page on his behalf. he s likely talking to someone on the phone or by mail
developing stories for you right now. we learned sharif mobley, an american round up in yemen worked at six nuclear power plants in america bev headed to yemen. a california d.a. filing a lawsuit against toyota accusing them of knowingly selling hundred hs of thousands of hundreds of thousands of cars they knew had problems. patients with a certain genetic variation are at increased risk of heart attack and stroke. big changes could be on the way for school textbooks across america. we have been reporting all week on the texas school board meetings where changes to the