through the head phone jack. it is powered by the phone s battery. with just a small amount of blood, it can diagnose hiv and syphilis. in just 15 minutes. it costs $35 to manufacturer and already used by health care workers in africa. well, we have more innovation for you now. this is incredible. eight kids in texas getting used to their new hands. prosthetics were custom made in about ten hours by a 3-d printer. the children helped to put the parts together themselves yesterday in houston. doctors behind the project say it is about letting a kid be a kid. child is born with no fingers, no thumbs, just a little hand can work this. can grab things. the children s parents say the potential for the hands and their kids is endless, letting them do everything from tie their own shoes, carry their own lunch trays. basically, doing everything that most do these days and you take
with alex witt. time for headlines at the half. a cafeteria manager and supervisor at a utah elementary school on paid leave after dozens of children have their lunch trays pulled from their hands. the trays were taken from the students because they had negative balances in the accounts used to pay for lunches. instead of regular lunches, the children were given fruit and milk. british researchers say they have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of deadly peanut allergies. in a clinical trial, they gradually fed children peanut flour in very small amounts and increased the amounts every two weeks. the children saw their symptoms improve. experts estimate that 15 million americans are allergic to peanuts. most of them, children. thousands gathered on beaches across australia to protest a shark policy. baited hooks being plated off popular beaches to kill white, bull and tiger sharks. the area has seen seven shark attacks in the last three years. the latest allegations aga
for locking her sister s boyfriend in a closet until he starved to death. more recently she had a house in florida and she had the i.d.s and social security numbers or powers of attorney for some 50 other people when they arrested her. finding those people, learning their storieses no small job but some questions are still being answered. just this morning police in west palm beach confirmed a 15-year-old girl who was last seen in july with gregory thomas or thomas s teenage son was found apparently safe in philly. the girl s mom is elated. i just want to hold her and love her and just i don t know, i don t have i want to hold her and just want to hold her. now we want to bring in cnn s sara hoy, who has been covering the story up close. tell us about your visit to the virtual dunch on. last night we were able to go into the basement, it was dark and cramped and smelled. the smell of urine was so strong it burned my nos trillions, there was a metal mop bucket with fec
teacher take a picture for me. you can t trust what a 6-year-old tells you when he comes home. i m a little split on it. i don t like the government intervention in it. i would like to know what my son eats. i think baby monitors are an invasion of privacy. they are. especially when you don t listen to them. absolutely. i don t want somebody taking a picture of my kid at school and there are a lot of parents down in texas who feel exactly the same way. i just think it s ridiculous. they should give them healthy food and not give them an option on what they should eat. they definitely shouldn t have pizza. they definitely shouldn t have pizza and french fries on the lunch trays in school. it s like excessive monitoring of kids. do we need to watch our kids that much? what are you selling it for? if you re upset they re having pizza at school, tell them you don t want pizza and french fries at school. you can t control that. that s the problem. but don t schools, if s
are eating. parents can pack lunches, parents can insist their kids eat right at school. they don t need the school taking photographs of the kids or of their or of their lunch trays. this is too much government intrusion into family life. all right. dr. extra vino, david bose, thank you both for spending time with us here on msnbc. thank you. it s been nearly four years since madeline mccann vanished from her hotel room while on vacation in portugal. how her parents are celebrating her 8th birthday today. plus, if you ve been afraid to check out the balance on your 401k, yeah, we ve all done that. don t be. it s coming back.