shift. cnn spent plenty of time to bring you this special coverage. earlier i talked with bethany who helped put the series together. we are talking a lot about economy and jobs. it s important this clear across the country and the world and this is the way they are finding different ways to make ends meet. there a lot of segments that don t work 9-5 and have different ways of making ends meet and puting it all and keeping themselves healthy. there lots of challenges when you try to sleep when the sun is up. that s what it took to put together this special so the challenges of keeping themselves healthy is another big problem. dr. david gross is a sleep specialist who joins us from washington. good to see you. is it tougher to stay health when you work at night or odd hours like that overnight? well, shift workers have several documented health risks. they have more motor vehicle accidents and 40% increase in
reporter: in a cnn opinion research poll for this series, we found that 54% of americans have at some point worked a night shift. about 10% are doing so currently. that gives us an idea about how many people are laboring in the dark, but does not tell us how they feel about it. people are largely visual animals. in the night, that sense is challenged, to say the least. so photo journalist jeremy moorehead wondered what effect the night shift has on people. it turns out he s not alone. when we look how humans exist, they exist in wakefulness like we are right now, dream sleep and nondream sleep. i m a pulmonary sleep specialist and i ve been doing sleep
we ll close your loan at your own house if you want. you don t have to come to us. we ll come to you. my cell phone s always on. if you need me, i m here for you. every client. every time. - no exceptions. - no excuses. that s what we re all about. - and that s why i love. - i love. i love being a home loan expert. this hour we have been watching special reporting on what it takes to work the night shift. over the year, cnn hosted special reports from all over the globe. this is the first time we hosted from a virtual world.
working nights is sort of a pleasant to have the sun coming up. some people say i have one of the nicest jobs and i tend to agree with them. reporter: for all of the great photo journalists here at cnn who make the in focus series possible, i m tom foreman. thanks for watching. you can follow our award-winning photo journalist series at facebook.com/cnn in focus. you can get a behind-the-scenes look how we created this virtual world. we leave you with more scenes from the night from coast-to-coast.
no claim of responsibility, but kandahar is a taliban strong hold. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is lashing out as israel over its plans for new settlement construction in the disputed territory of east jerusalem. israeli announcement came during the visit of vice president joe biden this week. clinton expressed the obama administration s anger over the plan in a phone call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on tuesday. clinton discussed the issue with cnn. and the announcement of the settlements the very day that the vice president was there was insulting. i mean, it was really a very unfortunate and difficult moment for everyone. the united states, our vice president who had gone to reassert america s strong support for israeli security and i regret deeply that occurred