emergency of this type. dr. manny alvarez is with us senior managing editor for fox news health.com. always good to see you. you wake up in the morning, first thing you see ballistic missile headed your way. what do you do? well, listen, as a matter of fact i spoke to a doctor this week who specializes in radiation survival here in new york. we did a segment for fox news health. exactly, you know, my impression as a doctor was like, listen, a nuclear bomb is coming your way, are you going to survive it? and i thought no but in the case he explained to me a couple things happen. so the immediate area of impact, everything gets destroyed. that could be 1 or 2 miles. there s no survival whatsoever there. once you go beyond 3 miles 3shg 1/2 miles 3 1/2 miles, there s tremendous radiation exposure. that s when shelter becomes very important. if you shelter yourself immediately, within 15 and 20 minutes and you are not outside, the fallout, which is the dust and radiation particles that
you can t see that either. it is just guess work where things are. we are talking about 10 or 15 feet of floodwater. they have had to evacuate people here by school buses, and there is fear that more could be coming. they ve already evacuated more than 70,000 people from two towns here, many by school bus in a race to find higher ground. eric, back to you. eric: thank you, steve. that s just so devastating. arthel? arthel: for more on this, we will bring in dr. manny alvarez, senator editor for fox news health.com. dr. manny, how can doctors treat the residents under the circumstances that we just saw in steve s story? what are the health issues that they are facing in the wake of the devastation? let me tell you, for the last three days or so, i ve been in contact with a lot of tried to be in contact with a lot of folks down there. when people write the modern history of puerto rico, they will always refer to post maria. puerto rico will never be the same after this hurricane. you
intensive care and in serious condition three weeks after he was shot in the hip at a g.o.p. congressional baseball practice in virginia. the congressman undergoing more surgery this week to control an infection. it s sparking many questions about his recovery. let s bring in dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor for fox news health.com and a member of the fox news medical a team. dr. manny, so glad you can be here. when you talk about infection, what s happening? everybody is praying for the congressman because he s going to have, you know, a tough recovery period. but he s going to recover. but when you have an injury like this, when you have a shot to the pelvis, i m a pelvic surgeon, the first phase probably after he got shot was to control the bleeding. that operation basically is go to into the pelvis. the pelvis is one of the most difficult areas to operate, a lot of organs, intestines, bladder, vessels, nerves all
have been spending decades urging americans towards low-fat versions whole milk could be making a come back which one is wondering is it the healthier option? let s bring in senior managing editor of fox news health.com. i ve worried about staying away from whole milk opinion i get skim milk. i do it to fight calories. it should never have left. let s talk about the panel real quick. this is a panel of 15 people appointed by federal bureaucrats, doctors and scientists and every five years they come up with guidelines. guidelines that started back in the 80s. even since those guidelines started back in the 80s there hasn t been a dents in the diabetes rates. i don t know what the guidelines are doing. however, back five years ago when they came out with the guidelines, 2,000 comments were written to washington giving them ideas. we re up to 25,000 comments. and industry leader and every
this is no evidence that ultra-sounds cause harm. they do have an affect on the baby s body. dr. manny alvarez for fox news health.com. doctor, this sounds significant. what is the potential risk for an unborn child? the risk of ultra-sound is minimal and the data shoes if you use ultra-sound in pregnancy. they may have 3 or 4 in the pregnancy cycle, but the fda, i think it is late for the game, you find them in malls and all over the country, you pay $300 and there is a technician and you spend an hour exposed to the the ultra-sound and they have no diagnostic. this is just images and there is