your wife. that happened to christian bale at the academy awards. mostly, my wonderful wife. yes, rick perry, joined a club of those who suffer from brain freeze. we use our frontal lobes to sort our memories. that part of the brain is sensitive to anxiety. if you start to freeze you get more stressed, stress hormones go up even higher. then that shuts down the frontal lobe and disconnects it from the brain and makes it harder to retrieve the memories. reporter: which explains how chief justice roberts could flub the oath of office. i will execute the office of president to the united states faithfully. reporter: or george w. bush could flub this. fool me once shame on shame on you. fool me, can t get fooled again. reporter: of all the famous embarrassing cases of brain freeze, the most important example of all time is um, i can t remember. oops. john berman, abc news, new york.
feels like february here in new york city. welcome to american morning. i just can t believe it is november 1st. where does time go? good morning to you. up first, herman cain fighting back against allegations of sexual harassment. problem is, his story just keeps changing. the gop frontrunner is defending himself against a politico report against two women that accused him of inappropriate behavior during his tenure at the american restaurant association in the 1990s. we begin with cnn political director paul steinhauser. so i m trying to think how many times herman cain s story shifted in what, a three hour period yesterday. pretty much. you can say the time was unfortunate, the story braging one day before the republican candidate had high profile speeches and television interviews. start with the national press club. he was there around noon. this is what he had to say. i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i hope it wasn t for much because i didn t do anything, b
in hawaii. firefighters arrived to fight fireworks still exploding and the storage unit was rented by a company that stabilizes and destroys fireworks. two other men at the location were injured at the blast, one critically. police in miami beach are saying more about their dealings with lebron james mom after she was arrested outside a posh florida hotel. newly released video you re about to see gloria james in handcuffs at the police station on thursday, after she allegedly slapped a parking valet in the face. police say james was condesending and rude to booking officers and supervisors and told police, i don t trust your kind. james is charged with simple battery and disorderly conduct. ever wonder why french fries and cheetos are so appealing when you re stressed out? there may be a scientific explanation for all of it. a new study found elevated levels of salt in the body lowered stress hormones and raised levels of oxy toesen, a hormone involved in social connections. the s
your health. uh-oh. elizabeth cohen is joining me to talk about how long is too long? as soon as your show i want you out of here. i m done. yeah, right. this study is actually really striking. they looked at british civil workers and ones who worked more than eight hours and what they found is that people working 10 to 11 hours had a huge increase of having a heart attack. 45% increased risk of having a heart attack. more than 11 hours, 65% increased risk. heart disease being not heart attack z what is this specifically, then, working the ten to 11 hours? is that you re getting up and working for a long time or increasing the stress level? probably a couple of things going on. stress hormones can put your heart make your heart work too hard. secondly, if you re working 11 hours, when are you cooking so you can eat well. take out. yes, take out.
lauer and shove them aside. that s genetic. we were looking at mouse studies. they were looking at stress hormones in the gut and the hair loss in mice. what they found was they isolated the stress hormone in the gut. they gave it to the mice that lost hair. they found they couldn t tell which mice were which. they may have stumbled on to a reason, an ability to be able to cure baldness that is stress-related. how much are we talking about there? is it a big percentage? if you look at the crown behind us, it s male patterned baldness. watch the presidents in office. president obama s hair seems thinner and grayer. there may be, now, a link between the stress hormones and not just the gut, but the fact