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June 4, 2010

NHTSA Is Asleep At The Wheel

For more than 40 years the federal government has had an agency in place whose only mission is to protect American motorists from defective and dangerous cars and trucks.

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I-Team: NHTSA Is Asleep At The Wheel Reporting Stephen Stock MIAMI (CBS4) —For more than 40 years the f e d e r a l government has had an agency in place whose only mission is to protect American motorists from defective and dangerous cars and trucks.

But the CBS4 I-Team has uncovered questionable ties between those supposed government watchdogs and the automotive industry. It’s a problem highlighted recently during the crisis involving sudden acceleration in Toyotas.

I-Team investigator Stephen Stock reports it’s a problem that’s now become the focus of Congressional hearings.

“Remember when you used to spin the car’s wheels when you were a kid?” asked former sheriff’s deputy Frank Visconi.

“You know, like to burn rubber? That is what it was like.”

Visconi was describing his experience with sudden acceleration in his Toyota truck back in 2006 and 2007.

The former Broward County sheriff’s employee and 15 year police veteran said he’s lucky to be alive after the latest incident with his Toyota.

“As soon as I hit the brakes my rear wheels started spinning.” Visconi said.

Instead of stopping, his 2007 Toyota Tacoma went careening over an embankment on I-65 on the way to Clarksville, Tennessee.

“So I was airborne for 40 feet,” Visconi said, reliving the latest accident in his mind. “I landed on the roof and then rolled three more times (down the embankment.)”

It wasn’t the first, but the fifth different time, Visconi experienced sudden acceleration in his Toyota. This last incident totaled his truck.

“I consider myself a lucky man,” said Visconi. “Lucky. That’s not even a good

enough word. Someone was in the truck with me that day.”

But when Visconi contacted the federal government through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, to complain, he says his case fell on deaf ears.

NHTSA’s response to other incidents has also come under scrutiny.

For instance, when hundreds of Ford F150 trucks caught fire, NHTSA was extremely slow to react and to even search for a cause. The fires were later deemed caused by a faulty cruise control switch.

Those fires prompted one of the largest recalls in history but even weeks after the recall announcement many Ford F-150 owners still hadn’t been told anything by NHTSA or Ford. And Ford, not NHTSA put out the recall.

And who can forget the hundreds of cases of motorists whose Firestone tires exploded on their Ford SUV’s causing rollovers, accidents, serious injuries and deaths a decade ago.

Again, industry, not NHTSA pushed for recalls. And NHTSA, critics say, was extremely slow to respond to the crisis.

What’s the unifying factor in all these cases?

The answer has already been mentioned in this article: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA.) NHTSA is an agency established in 1970 through the National Highway Safety Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 31st, to “save lives, prevent injuries and reduce vehicle related crashes.” In other words, NHTSA’s mission is simple: to protect consumers.

But In all of the above major cases, plus many more in the last decade, NHTSA drew criticism for not warning the public sooner.

In fact, in each case the car manufacturer acted to rectify the issue, correct the problem or issue recalls before NHTSA formally acted.

“If you look at the Ford F-150 and the

cruise control switch they (NHTSA) took 11 years from their first investigation to get the final recall,” said Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director of the consumer advocate group Center for Auto Safety.

Ditlow says time and time again NHTSA has dropped the ball on consumer protection. He says one of the reasons for that is that NHTSA is too close to the auto industry to serve as an effective watchdog and protector of consumers.

“NHTSA is not doing its job,” Ditlow told the CBS4 I-Team. “NHTSA doesn’t have the resources. But they’re not being a tough traffic cop and that’s what they should be.”

The CBS4 I-Team’s investigation discovered at least a half dozen NHTSA officials who once worked for major automotive companies. And Ditlow provided more than a dozen names of former NHTSA officials who now work in automotive industry. Also a recent Washington Post report uncovered at least 33 former NHTSA workers who now work for the automotive industry as lawyers, consultants and lobbyists.

“Our concern is that they’re taking the industry’s word for it (a potential consumer problem). And it’s too close a relationship,” said Congressman Bart Stupak, Democrat from the 1st District of Michigan.

Representative Stupak chairs the subcommittee for Oversight and Investigations as part of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. It is a committee that oversees NHTSA. Stupak believes NHTSA is currently in over its head, that it doesn’t have the manpower or expertise to appropriately handle issues such as the sudden acceleration in Toyotas and other vehicles.

“There’s no reason why they can’t contract out and get some expertise to help them out,” Stupak said. “But they won’t.”

and you don’t know what you’re doing,” Stupak said. “I mean, that’s the impression we get.”

Florida Republican Cliff Stearns, who is from Ocala, also sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Stearns shares Stupak’s concerns about NHTSA’s lack of effectiveness as an advocate for consumer protection.

“What NHTSA failed to do was make these complaints public early and to do enough evaluation (on the Toyota sudden acceleration problems),” Stupak said.

Stearns said NHTSA’s lack of consumer protection date back to the problems cited by the I-Team.

“I went through the firestone problem with the SUV’s and things like that. And we thought that NHTSA wasn’t on the ball then,” said Stearns. “And they still aren’t (on the ball).”

“I frankly think NHTSA has to get more technical people and less administrative people (to work in the agency and handle issues such as Toyota),” Stearns said.

One former NHTSA administrator admits there are serious problems within the agency right now.

Former administrator Joan Claybrook said that oftentimes representatives for consumer groups show up at NHTSA and Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, D.C. on a monthly basis. Whereas automotive industry representatives are there at NHTSA headquarters every day.

“They (NHTSA workers) get used to the industry reps,” Claybrook said. “They talk to them all the time. And so they are influenced by them.”

Joan Claybrook served as NHTSA’s administrator under President Jimmy Carter. She said major change began at the agency shortly after she left in 1981 when Ronald Reagan became President and began pushing for deregulation of the automotive industry.

“Why haven’t they?” asked I-Team investigator Stephen Stock.

“Well, you know it’s sort of like you’re admitting you don’t know what’s wrong

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“NHTSA has had its budget cut by a probably third since I left in 1981,” Claybrook said.

She says President Reagan gutted the agency and that subsequent Presidents did nothing to restore its ability to do what it was supposed to do: protect the public.

Today, Claybrook said, that just 18 investigators work in the entire agency to oversee the safety of every vehicle on United States roads.

“That’s just totally insufficient you can’t possibly do your job,” said Claybrook.

“The bottom line is the public suffers because vehicles aren’t safe,” said the Center for Auto Safety’s Ditlow. “It’s time to wake up and protect the public.”

Another part of the focus of this hearing was the revolving employment door at NHTSA as the I-Team reported here.

Congressman Stupak also wants to know why NHTSA did not warn the public sooner about the problem of sudden acceleration in Toyotas.

And the Michigan Democrat is seeking changes in NHTSA rules and procedures to put a stop to this revolving door to the automotive industry.

A current NHTSA spokeswoman declined our request for comment. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Thursday Congressman Bart Stupak held yet another hearing on Capitol Hill where his committee focused on Toyota’s and NHTSA’s response to the sudden acceleration problem.

Crist Signs Back-To-School Tax Break Bill Sales Tax Holiday: August 13 - 15 Reporting Lisa Cilli LISA CILLI

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) — Governor Charlie Crist signed a bill Wednesday that will bring tax relief to families when they shop for back to school supplies this summer.

Crist signed the “Back To School Sales Tax” holiday bill at a Target store in Orlando.

Those who want to cash in on the savings had better act fast however. The sales tax holiday will last only three days in August, instead of the usual week.

During the sales tax holiday, clothing, books, shoes, wallets and bags which cost less than $50, and school supplies priced at less than $10 are tax exempt.

“Our children deserve to have the resources and materials they need to be successful and competitive in the classroom. I am confident this tax break will help students, families and businesses as they prepare for a new school year,” said Governor Crist. “It is important that we continue to alleviate the tax burden on Floridians, as well as seek ways to improve the economic future of our state.”

This is the first time the Legislature has approved a holiday since 2007.

The sales tax holiday is expected to cost the state $26 to 30 million in revenue. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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I-Team: Change Coming For Sex Predators In Hotels Reporting Michele Gillen MIAMI (CBS4) — The findings of an I-Team investigation into sex predators living in hotels across our community and the state is prompting shock and change. While Chief I-Team Investigator Michele Gillen uncovered this hidden crisis across America; she found one of the most potentially dangerous clusters of sex offenders all living in a hotel right in South Florida’s backyard.

“It was a terrible decision to do, it happened, we’re undoing it,” said Ron Book, president of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust. That’s the response he gave after an I-Team investigation that exposed more than two dozen registered sex offenders, including dangerous sex predators, were living at Miami’s Homestead Studio Suites Hotel.

The I-Team learned that most of them had been placed there by the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust -paying the hotel as much as $12 hundred per offender, per month.

“Understand we were under lots of pressure to close the causeway, that is no excuse to cluster people in a place, and it is no excuse for housing people that are potentially a danger to our children,” Book

said in a one-on-one interview with Gillen.

During an on-going investigation into sex predators living in America’s hotels and motels; the I-Team exposed the fact that sex offenders who had been living under the Julia Tuttle Bridge moved into the hotel to live amid unsuspecting guests families vacationing with children. Business women traveling on their own, even injured and paralyzed boys and girls rescued from the rubble of Haiti were in the building.

“To replace one nightmare with another is not acceptable Michele. And we have had these discussions with our vendor,” said Book.

The vendor, which Book says is responsible for placement of the offenders in the hotel, is Lutheran Services. The agency turned down an I-Team request for an interview. But emails between the Homeless Trust and the City of Miami showed an all out push to get the offenders into the hotel, described by the city as “in need of business.” One of those offenders was a notorious sex predator, Yatwing Chang.

“It is inconceivable that any organization dealing with sex offenders and sexual predators could consider, much less take any action to house such offenders under the same roof with children, women traveling alone, and other unsuspecting hotel guests,” Bledsoe told Gillen in a phone interview. “Clearly no one who made the decision to relocate these offenders went this hotel or they would have seen several Haitian and other children playing on the hotel grounds.”

The reaction was disbelief by relief agency workers at World Church Services who’ve placed families with children from Haiti there after they were told of the number of registered sex offenders and predators who had been living at the hotel and were moved there in an effort to close the camp under the Julia Tuttle Bridge. They watched the I-Team investigation with Gillen and were “shocked.”

and business that a registered sex predator has moved within a mile of them.

But, they get the call only if they use AT& T phone service. When it came to the hotels and motels;iIt states the call is only made to the hotels main phone numbers. It will be up to the hotel management to decide whether or not to inform the guests.

Following the I-Team visit to the hotel, the sex offenders from the bridge were reportedly told to move out. Book said they’ve been relocated to private apartments. But a continued search of the states offender registry shows some of those offenders and others continued to check in and out of hotels across our community. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Book said it was the responsibility of Miami-Dade Police to alert residents that sex predators had moved into the neighborhood, “Including those people who might have been living at the hotel,” Book said.

“I did not know Mr. Chang was housed there.”Book tells Gillen.

But the I-Team discovered that’s not exactly how it works.

Wes Bledsoe, founder of a Perfect Cause, was first to uncover the cluster of offenders at the Homestead Studio Suites the fact that Chang was living there and re-arrested during his stay.

CBS4’s request for an interview with Miami-Dade Police was turned down, but they provided the I-Team a memo stating that in a reverse 991 call system, the department phones and alerts all residents

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I-Team: Scrutinizing Marco Rubio’s Finances Reporting Jim DeFede

“Well you would have to ask them,” he said.

“I hope I was.”

appearance Rubio profited from his time in Tallahassee.

MIAMI (CBS4 I-TEAM) — In the coming days Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio is expected to release at least seven years of

When you listen to Rubio talk about his work for the firm it is hard to quantify exactly what he did. He said he reviewed zoning applications, but he never appeared before a board or a commission on a land use matter.

“You’re supposed to go into public service with the intent that you’re not going to profit yourself personally,” Wilcox said. “You’re there to serve the public not yourself.”

Rubio takes a different approach.

“As I’ve told people repeatedly they will probably know more about my finances than any other candidate in the US senate race,” Rubio said during an interview with the CBS4 I-Team.

But again, Rubio admitted, specifics results are hard to identify.

federal tax returns.

In recent months, Marco Rubio has faced criticism over a Republican Party credit card he used for personal bills as well as the actions of two political committees he formed.

“I wish we could have done a better job of accounting,” Rubio has admitted in the past.

But with so much focus on the credit card little time has been spent examining Rubio’s primary sources of income.

His senate rival, Governor Charlie Crist has accused Rubio of cashing in on his years of public service. Rubio dismisses such attacks.

“Well that’s what political opponents say when they are trying to win elections and attack you,” Rubio said. “I was a part-time legislator. I had to have a job outside the legislative process to feed my family. I worked for a law firms. I represented clients.”

When Rubio first entered the Florida Legislature in 2001 he was making less than $100,000 a year. But by the time Rubio left in 2008 his income shot up to more than $400,000, including a $300,000 a year salary from the law firm Broad & Cassel.

The I Team asked Rubio if he would have been hired by the firm if he hadn’t been selected Speaker of the House?

“It’s hard to tell with a hypothetical,” Rubio said. “I certainly would have worked somewhere. I had made a career of working at big firms up until last year when I went out on my own.”

During the four years he worked at Broad & Cassel, Rubio was paid $1.2 million. When Rubio was asked if he was worth it, he laughed.

“I also helped in the business development section and create business development opportunities for the firm,” he said.

“The great thing about the legal profession is you are not just Matlock and go to court for people but you are also a counselor and provide advice and sometimes its privileged advice,” he said.

In fact in the four years he worked at Broad & Cassel, Rubio never appeared in court on behalf of a client.

In his final year as Speaker of the House, Rubio secured a special line item in the budget that gave Jackson Memorial Hospital an additional $20 million in 2008. Several months later, Jackson hired Rubio as a consultant under a $96,000 a year contract.

Rubio said former Jackson CEO Marvin O’Quinn hired him because the hospital was going to be facing a dire financial crisis in 2009.

“He wanted me to help them kind of create a community awareness of the financial situation that Jackson was facing and help position them not only to make Jackson a treasure but to rally community support behind some of the difficult choices we see them having to make now,” Rubio said. “So that was what the engagement was for.”

But if Rubio was hired to create community awareness and rally support for Jackson back in 2008, he certainly didn’t do a very good job. It wasn’t until early 2010 that the financial chaos at Jackson became known.

After leaving Tallahassee Rubio also struck lucrative deals with Miami Children’s Hospital, who gave him a $102,000 a year contract; Florida International University, which paid him $69,000 a year, and the Spanish-language station Univision which hired him to be an on-air commentator for $8,000.

Ben Wilcox, chairman of Florida Common Cause, a non partisan public advocacy group, said Rubio’s actions give the

“When you are the 36 year old Speaker of the House of the fourth largest state in the country that certainly makes you qualified in terms of things you learn and people you meet and so forth,” he said. “There is a trade off to everybody that I graduated with from law school, they all live in Coco Plum now I live in West Miami and I am happy with that choice that I made. But you know folks that I went to law school with that dedicated 60 hours a week for the last fourteen years to their law practice are now managing partners and senior shareholders at major law firms and I’m not so I walked away from that opportunity but I am happy with my service and the ability to be in public service I really enjoy it. It has been fulfilling.”

But Wilcox wasn’t so sure about Rubio’s claim of lost fortunes by going into politics.

“Well I would say that’s a hypothetical,” Wilcox said.

Despite his income, Rubio’s net worth is surprisingly low. In 2008 he listed his net worth at just $8,300. A self described fiscal conservative, Rubio is carrying almost a million in debt -- including two mortgages on his current home and more than $100,000 in student loans. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Underwater Robot On Patrol For Oil protect important ecological resources and shorelines.

It is believed to be the first time that an AUV has had the ability to detect oil and sent on a patrol mission, using a type of payload called a fluorometer. A fluorometer measures the light emitted – or the fluorescence – of the water as the glider moves.

By: Andrea Ludtke VENICE (CBS4) — Scientists are using new technology to scour the water off Florida’s coast for signs that the oil from the recent Deepwater Horizon spill could be headed our way. On Monday, scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory, in partnership with Rutgers University, launched the underwater robot RU21 off the coast of Southwest Florida.

Weighing in at 110 pounds, the yellow glider looks more like a torpedo than a robot, but it is classified as an AUV, or autonomous underwater vehicle. The sixfoot robot carries a specific instrument about the size of a hockey puck called a payload that is capable of detecting the potentially harmful chemicals in oil.

Scientists launched the robot 20 miles west of Venice and set it on a path that will take it another 80 to 100 miles west-southwest.

The AUV can maneuver underwater for up to 30 days at a time, and uses buoyancy to move in a vertical zigzag pattern. It takes in water to move downward and expels it go back up to the surface to send data, which it is programmed to do every three hours.

Sending out researchers in boats to take water samples might be the ideal way to gather the crucial data, but it’s not the most practical, or even possible method, said Dr. Gary Kirkpatrick, the head of these glider missions and manager of Mote’s Phytoplankton Ecology Program.

“There are really large issues at stake for us here in Florida,” Kirkpatrick said. “It’s not really logistically possible to have humans in boats covering these wide areas, constantly looking for signs of the oil spill coming toward our shores. But we have these great robots that can do this 24 hours a day for three weeks in a row, so it’s important we use these tools.”

If RU21 finds oil, Mote can tell resource managers so they can make decisions to

It does this by emitting an ultraviolet light with its LED, and if the water contains certain chemicals found in oil, these chemicals will absorb the light and then reemit it as fluorescence, which the glider detects.

RU21 may be the first of its kind, but it won’t be alone for long. Mote is also planning to launch two other gliders off the Florida coast in a few days, thanks to a grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice. The first, Nemo, will look for oil about 15 miles offshore between Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor.

The second, Waldo, is headed to the Keys.

Waldo is owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It will search for oil in the Straits of Florida, where oil would show up if it gets carried south by the Loop Current.

“We can’t thank the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice enough for this lead gift,” said Dr. Kumar Mahadevan, president of Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium.

“The impact from this spill is going to be tremendous and as the response progresses, the need for funding to understand the impact is going to be great. This grant will help cover the costs associated with doing some initial planning and fact-finding but the scope of work to determine the effects of the spill on our region’s environment is quite enormous.”

Funding from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice will also help Mote researchers sample water, sediments, bottom-dwelling organisms and sea grass, and create a detailed oil response plan for different scenarios - a necessary measure in order to qualify for federal or BP funds.

Individuals can make donations to Mote’s Oil Spill Emergency Fund online at www.mote.org/oildonation. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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I-Team: Questions Surround Police Cruiser Safety Reporting Stephen Stock

Ford Crown Victorias suddenly caught fire, killing the occupants.

MIAMI (CBS4) — The fatal accident of F l o r i d a Highway Patrol Trooper Patrick Ambroise while he sat in his cruiser along the Turnpike Saturday raises questions once again about the safety record of Ford’s Crown Victoria Police Cruiser.

The fiery scene on Florida’s Turnpike unfortunately has occurred again and again over the years, on highways across the country involving Ford Crown Victoria models as well as Mercury Marquis and Town Cars.

For years, the Crown Victoria easily caught fire. While Ford says it has fixed the problem that plagued the Crown Victorias and the data shows the number of fatal accidents HAS gone down, the CBS4 I-Team discovered the problem with fires in rear end collisions has NOT ended.

According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) from 1987-2005, there were 246 complaints filed involving fuel tanks and fires or explosions. In addition, data from NHTSA’s Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) there were at least 173 incidents of fatal fires in Crown Victoria cars involving at least 236 deaths.

I-Team investigator Stephen Stock discovered several other recent fire cases similar to Trooper Ambroise’s case, where

Of the three models, the Ford Crown Victoria police cruiser models account for the vast majority of cases of fatal fires, most involving rear end collisions.

After these explosions made news Ford did make changes. In 2007, Ford quit

selling the Crown Victoria Police Cruiser models on the private mass market. Ford did continue to make the cars available for only fleet sales such as those to municipalities and police departments.

According to the Center for Auto Safety’s analysis of FARS data, from 1995 through 2010 there were 28 fatal fires directly involving Crown Vic police cruisers involving 40 deaths. The data from the Center for Auto Safety shows that at least 32 of those deaths involve police officers.

In 2005, Ford began making a special protective shield to cover the gas tanks for police units. Police departments could retroactively install the shields over Crown Victoria gas tanks for about $275 each.

Even so, the data shows that while the number of fires in Crown Vic police cruisers dropped off, the fires didn’t completely end.

Even with the changes, Federal data

shows at least 8 more accidents involving either 2005 or 2006 model Crown Victoria police cruisers took place in the last five years. Those fires resulted in 14 deaths including Saturday night’s accident on Florida’s Turnpike.

So far, the Highway Patrol won’t answer whether or not Trooper Ambroise’s car was equipped with that safety cover over its gas tank. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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FIU Alert System Criticized After Berry’s Death Reporting Tim Kephart MIAMI (CBS4) — Florida International University released an TIM KEPHART internal review of the school’s emergency alert system response to the stabbing death of former FIU football player Kendall Berry.

According to the report, it took FIU almost an hour and a half to notify students of the stabbing death.

“I didn’t know it was that long.” student Cynthia Gonzalez told CBS4’s Natalia Zea. “As students here, I think we deserve to be informed about situations like that just for our own safety.”

Berry, a running back on FIU’s football team, was stabbed to death in April on the school’s main campus. The man accused in Berry’s death, 22-year-old Quentin Wyche, has been charged with second degree murder.

The review -- conducted by former U.S.

attorney and current dean of the FIU College of Law R. Alexander Acosta -found that the school’s first report to its students didn’t address the fact that it was a stabbing, a death, or that the suspect was still on the loose. The first message sent read: WE HAD A FELONIOUS ASSAULT BY THE RECREATION CENTER SUSPECT AT LARGE TUNE INTO LOCAL MEDIA FOR MORE. “It took over an hour to issue the alert,” Acosta said. “That’s something that President Rosenberg made clear is not acceptable.”

The report highlighted how FIU struggled to get in contact with key staff members including FIU Police Chief Bill King.

Chief King was out of town at the time of stabbing and didn’t check his phone for missed calls until 9:40 p.m., roughly 37 minutes after the initial call came in to 911.

Dorothy Miller, who handles the emergency management for the University, wasn’t notified by school staff of the incident until 9:47 p.m. At 10:13

p.m., over an hour after the first calls came in, Chief King finally ordered that an “informational alert” be sent.

In addition, over 4,600 of the 22,000 students, faculty, and staff that registered for the emergency text messages never received the alert.

Acostsa’s report included recommendations on how to change FIU’s emergency management/alert systems, more than a dozen of which FIU President Mark Rosenberg said were needed. Among the recommendations were: * Make changes to strengthen the Office of Emergency Management’s access, authority, and visibility within the university management structure. * Identify potential emergencies and draft messages in advance that could be dispersed quickly without needs for multiple levels of authorization * Ascertain why the text messages failed to get to their intended recipient and review the effectiveness of text messages for future use. * Consider expanding the number of individuals with authority to issue

emergency response alerts. * Consider authorizing first responders or others on scene to issue emergency response alerts under particular circumstances. * Consider whether the university should have a senior emergency management individual “on-call” to address emergency situations, particularly during times of heightened risk. * Consider ways to ensure that webbased secondary information sources (i.e.

Facebook, Twitter, email) are updated immediately to include the latest emergency response alert information.

The conclusion to the report said that each division did their jobs and responded quickly and effectively. However, it did acknowledge that the emergency response alert system can be improved and “it will.”

CBS4’s Natalia Zea contributed to this report (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Young Adults Help Groups With Suicide Prevention Reporting N i c o l e Maristany MIAMI (CBS4) — Jordan Burham has quite a story. As a selfproclaimed overwhelmed overachiever, the pressure of school, friends and family proved too much for the 19-year-old.

“I know that I suffer from depression, but I didn’t take that very seriously,” Burham told CBS4’s Nicole Maristany. “I selfmedicated a lot; I didn’t talk about how I was feeling,” he went on to explain.

Jordan’s depression led him to a nearly deadly decision. Jordan jumped out of a nine-story building and barely survived.

And Jordan is not alone.

“What most people don’t realize is that suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students and the third leading cause of death for high schoolers,” said Grace Carricarte, Executive Director of The Ganley Foundation.

But non-profit advocacy groups like The Ganley Foundation and The Melissa Institute that work with teens regarding issues like depression, suicide and violence, say this doesn’t have to be the case.

“So what we hope to do is work with community,” Carricarte said, “to provide really educational resources for our community. We’ll go out to schools and community centers, so that we can impart that information that we know can be life saving.”

Jordan works with these groups to raise awareness about the issue of teen suicide,

and he takes the role very seriously.

“It’s important that I speak out about mental health, especially to children and adults because I think that it’s so vital that young adults themselves tell their stories so that it’s relevant to other young adults,” said Burham.

Although he’s very happy to be alive, Jordan describes his journey as a long one.

“I feel great when I wake up in the morning, but it’s still a struggle. I still have pain and I still have depression. So I still have to find my emotional balance, but I know what that is. I want to make sure I’m telling my story, but you should never have to go through something like this to tell your story” said Burham.

For help and resources to discuss tough topics like depression, suicide and violence with your teen, give Neighbors 4

Neighbors a call at 305-597-4404 or go online to visit The Ganley Foundation and The Melissa Institute. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Sweepers Sweep All The Prizes New York City, a trip to Las Vegas, staying at Bellagio, thousands in cash, a laptop computer and even designer shoes.

She says she used the money to help pay for an addition to her home.

thing I haven’t yet and I’m trying now is a car,” she said.

stick with it, you’re not gonna see something overnight.”

Patti Osterheld is another Sweeper, and she puts on a newsletter called Sweepsheet.

Beauchamp also says, follow the rules: “If it says one entry per person, don’t try to enter more, don’t try to make up names follow the rules.”

The list of her winnings goes on.

A way to make money is by being a sweepstakes winner – luxury vacations, cars jewelry, electronics, and of course, money. Some people are winning over and over again, and have a method that is almost scientific in its precision. CBS4’s Al Sunhine shows you how you can get in on their winning ways.

“It’s a high! There’s no doubt about it, you just burst,” Joni Chadwell exclaimed.

Standing in front of a pile of prizes, it’s clear Chadwell is passionate about entering sweepstakes. She’s won a trip to

She now enters sweepstakes online.

People such as Chadwell are called Sweepers.

“There are probably 20 to 30 sweepstakes in every grocery store, but most people don’t notice them - look on cereal boxes,” said Osterheld.

When it comes to avoiding junk emails, set up a special account that is different from you private one.

“Well we’re sucking up prizes so there you go, ha!” she laughed.

Joni subscribes to onlinsweepstakes.com, for $30 a year.

And remember; be prepared to pay taxes on your winnings.

Sweepers are all around the country. In Dallas, Gwen Beauchamp started 20 years ago after winning a Disney on Ice Wedding.

“If you’re just looking to win cash, you go under the cash category,” she said.

Remember it’ll be addicting.

“We’ve won quite a few cash prizes,” said Beauchamp. “Robert won one for $30 thousand. I’ve won $25 thousand once.”

North of Philadelphia Carol McLaughlin runs sweeping conventions.

“I’ve won just about everything; the only

She chooses from a list of contests, and then uses a program called Roboform to fill them out fast and automatically. That’s how she’s able to enter 400 contests a night. As for advice, she says sign up for a service that gives you a list of sweepstakes.

But remember to look out for your safety.

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Airlines Add Summer Travel Tax To Airfares Delta, United and US Airways.

According to farecompare.com, the airlines will charge $10 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, $20 on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays, and $30 on Sundays. These surcharges apply only to one-way tickets, so if you’re flying round trip, the surcharge is double. Even discount airline AirTran is getting in on the act, though its surcharge is a flat $10.

NEW YORK (CBS4) — Get ready to pay even more to fly this summer. Airlines which are hoping to finally turn a profit are raising airfare prices across the board.

They’re calling nearly each and every day from June through August a “peak” travel day.

According to consumer website, farecompare.com, practically every major US airline is treating nearly every day this summer as a peak travel day, which means added fees to the price of every ticket. The five largest U.S. airlines which have introduced these “peak air travel surcharges” are: American, Continental,

So how can you get the best deal on a ticket?

airfare and hotel as a package and try to avoid extra fees, such as for baggage.

“Perfect time to shop for the most cheap seats is Tuesday afternoon,” according to Seaney. “They remove those cheap seats on Thursday from the reservation system so if you’re shopping on the weekend, you’re probably paying too much. “

JetBlue and Southwest Airlines are not charging extra for summer travel. They’re banking that travelers who don’t want to pay the surcharge will head their way.

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This is a far cry from when the airlines charged holiday fees for three days last fall. This new holiday lasts all summer long. That’s on top of fees for baggage and airplane fuel.

Industry watchers predict the major airlines will be profitable this quarter for the first time in several years. If so, that will be in large part from piling on those extra fees.

“So consumers should take a look at these and not fly on Sundays, for example, when you could be charged 60 dollars round trip,” according to Rick Seaney of FareCompare.com.

Crist Signs ‘Jobs For Florida’ Bill; Vetoes Others Also, yacht buyers would also receive a tax break. The bill also includes grant money for research and development or manufacturing projects dealing with military installations.

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) —Gov. Charlie Crist signed a $175 million bill known as “Jobs For Florida” that is expected to increase spending and boost the local economy.

Crist signed it on Friday and will include tax credits for companies that hire unemployed residents of Florida. Under the bill, tax breaks would also be offered to movie productions, television shows or digital media in Florida.

“With an unemployment rate worse than 12 percent, Florida families and Florida businesses are hurting,” said Sen. Don Gaetz, a Niceville Republican who sponsored the bill. “This package of incentives actually loosens government’s grip on the private sector and gives companies solid reasons to stay in Florida, expand in Florida and come to Florida.”

Other legislation Crist signed Friday included a measure to reduce secrecy in political speech.

The new law aims at making it harder for groups and donors to remain secret by regulating them. Now, groups that spend

more than $5,000 on their political message will be required to register with the state as an Electioneering Communication Organization.

By registering, the group would be required to reveal its donors and expenses, according to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald.

He also approved three more specialty license tags for catch-and release fishing, horse parks and biodiversity.

In addition, he vetoed five bills that focused on state workers, rules and agencies and property.

Among the vetoed bills was a bill requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to keep an inventory of all state property including buildings. In his veto, Crist said keeping such an inventory would steer the focus away from the agency’s mission.

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Search Site Knows More About You Than You Think social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace, and offline resources, like marketing firms, and the U.S. census.

“For the first time consumers are being faced with the fact that all these different people have been collecting data on them for years.” Holland said, “I think that’s the first thing that shocks people is that this data is out there and readily available.”

DALLAS, Tex. (CBS4) — With just a few key strokes, and the click of a mouse, all of someone’s personal information can be at your fingertips. It is the reality of the website spokeo.com, a website combining your personal information into one location.

Your personal phone numbers, marital status, occupation, home address, even your home’s approximate value may all be listed on the data aggregator website.

“It’s not anything that wasn’t there before,” said Brian Holland, an Internet law expert at Texas Wesleyan Law School.

“It is simply public information.”

The website brings together information collected from various sources, including

“I think it’s a complete invasion of privacy, personally,” said Maryland resident Darlene Ryan, “My personal opinion is websites like this shouldn’t be allowed unless you give permission for this information to be published.”

Ryan didn’t find her name on the website when we approached her in downtown Fort Worth, but was shocked at the information she was able to gather about others.

“This is scary! I mean predators!?” she exclaimed, “If people were really looking for somebody they wanted to zero in on to see how many people live in a house, and what you make and what your interests are and its all here!!”

“It goes into religion, politics, the things you kind of hold private” said one woman, who only wanted us to identify her as Hillary after looking at the website. “Some of these things you don’t even talk to your friends about, if you want to keep them as friends.”

Benbrook resident Wayne Young just moved to North Texas, but he found information about his family, and his previous home in Abilene. “You know, it tells me I have a fireplace at my house, so there’s obviously been some research.”

Not all of the information is accurate, in fact it is often wrong, but when it’s right, Young said, it can be concerning. “It’s kind of one stop shopping for criminals.” He said.

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Get “IN” On The Savings On Miami Beach Reporting Jorge Estevez M I A M I B E A C H (CBS4) — There is a new way to get savings for people heading to popular South Florida destinations.

The city of Miami Beach is celebrating a year of giving people discounts on everything from food to fun because the regular bill for lunch on Miami Beach can add up in a hurry.

“It tends to be a production anytime you go out to eat or try to do anything here,” said Guerby Mertil, who lives on Miami Beach.

But Mertil wised up when he registered for the IN Card, a free program created by the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the city.

“You get an opportunity to have fun at a lot of places where people who come here on vacation have fun; and you get to take advantage of the discounts,” Mertil told CBS4’s Jorge Estevez on Lincoln road at Book and Books Café, a place that accepts the IN Card.

“It is a good way to help the local people and help us also to increase our business.

It attracts more people here,” said Omar Ahcar, manager at Books and Books Café on South Beach.

The card and the savings are for everyone. Miami Beach residents can get

the black card, and people from out of town get the platinum color. People from Miami Beach often get more savings than other people who live outside the city.

“Everyone wants to save a little buck, whether it is 10 percent off or 20 percent off, everyone loves it,” said Valerie Rasken, who works for the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce.

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Ft. Lauderdale Airport Debuts Full Body Scanners Reporting Ted Scouten F O R T .

LAUDERDALE (CBS4) — Full body scanners are online at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport.

The scanners, which some privacy advocates say show too much, give airport screeners a full view of the body of any passenger who goes through the device.

Some passengers were not happy thinking about the thought of someone looking at them. “I don’t want them looking under my clothes,” said Linda Smith.

Tim Lewis of the TSA disagreed with the potential for someone using the device to see naked people. “If they want to see somebody naked, they can go grab a magazine at some store off the strip and see that,” Lewis said. “This is not giving you that kind of quality stuff; this is like a chalk etching.”

The Transportation Security Administration accelerated the deployment of the full-body scanners after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt on a flight bound for Detroit. TSA officials say that despite how much the scanners can see, the images are not saved in a database and they do what other devices can’t.

“You walk through metal detector and a potential pat-down may not catch nonmetallic devices,” Kim Lewis of the TSA said. “Pat downs are excellent, they’re good, we’re making them better every day.

These machines are going to see it. If it’s not part of your body, this device is going to see it.”

In an attempt to alleviate the privacy concerns, the person who screens the picture are in a separate area of the airport in a room that is completely blocked, according to CBS4’s Ted Scouten. The last person has to be out of sight before the screener of the images can leave the room.

porno we’re watching everywhere, who cares,” said traveler Monda Elragdaf.

“People are almost naked in the street right now wearing mini-skirts. Just look around, everybody’s naked.”

Miami International Airport currently uses the same scanners. Passengers are typically given a choice whether they want to go through the full-body scanner or the standard metal detector. Both of the scanners at FLL are in Terminal 3.

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And while some travelers have problems with the potential privacy invasion, others don’t see a problem at all. ‘With all this

BP Boycott May Have Unintended Consequences Reporting M i c h a e l Williams MIAMI (CBS4) — The images of oil belching into the Gulf of Mexico are producing cries for a boycott of BP at the pump. At a coffee shop in Doral Wednesday Beau Bennett liked the idea.

He said, “I think I will avoid them for right now and go elsewhere. I got a choice. That is the nice thing about America. You have a choice and I can vote with my pocketbook.”

But plenty of BP customers ask whether turning away from the pump would do anything to turn up the heat. Motorist Leah Klein pulled into a BP station and pondered the question. She told me, “I’d like to think if enough people did it that it would send a message. I’d like to hope but I am still here.”

Maximo Alvarez is a South Florida gas distributor. His company buys supplies from all the major oil companies including BP. He understands the outrage but notes that BP gas stations are independently owned.

From the pump to a mile beneath the gulf waters the search for answers and accountability goes on. So does the spread of a black tide with staggering economic and environmental costs that grow with each passing day.

Alvarez says profits from sales at the local pump are not shared with BP and points out that supply contracts with the oil giant cannot simply be broken. He said,”The people hurting (would be) the independent owners who own that station and all the families whose livelihoods depend on the business of that particular station.”

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The calls for a BP boycott also ignore the fact that oil based products are intertwined into every part of our daily lives, from gasoline, to plastics, to road asphalt to the tires on your car. Motorist Adam Zider said, “What is really going to stop them? Maybe they can’t drill anymore if they do something like this.

Maybe BP doesn’t need to be in the Gulf.”

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Banks Profit As Many People Sink In Credit Debt Reporting Al Sunshine MIAMI (CBS4) — As the banking industry reports profits for a third straight consecutive quarter, about $1.8 billion, people are finding it increasing difficult to find low interest credit cards despite the fact that interest rates have been steadily dropping for the last several years.

CBS4 Chief Consumer Investigator Al Sunshine says people are using credit cards a lot less then they were a few years ago because it’s gotten increasingly difficult to afford their monthly payments.

Recently new federal protections went into place to protect credit card holders. Banks are now prohibited from retroactively raising rates on old balances without giving the customer the option to cancel the account.

Consumers were also given more time to pay their monthly balances and now the card issuer must fully disclose how long it will take to pay off the card’s balance. Banks and credit card issuers are also prohibited from marketing credit cards to people under the age of 21.

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Our No-Vacation Nation employers.

Schmitt says we have a tortured relationship with vacation in the best of times . . . and the recession’s only made it worse: “Even when times are good, people don’t take their vacation - they don’t want to be seen as ‘That guy who’s always taking his time off,’ who values his time off more than being at work,” said Axelrod.

Rep. Alan Grayson Wants To Make Paid Vacation The Law NEW YORK (CBS) — This Memorial Day weekend . . . our unofficial start to summer . . . many Americans will look ahead to the next couple of months and their vacation plans. But not as many as you might think.

One in four American workers does not have paid vacation provided by his employer.

“And we don’t have any law that would require any employer to do that,” said John Schmitt, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

He’s the author of a study detailing one unique feature of our economic system that’s not the envy of the rest of the world: Out of the 33 richest countries, the U.S. is the only one with no legally-required paid vacation for its workers.

“If you look at all of the other rich countries that have about the same standard of living that we have, it’s pretty standard to have 20 or 25 days of paid vacation per year,” said Schmitt.

England? 20.

France? 30.

Germany? 22.

Italy? 22 or 23, said Schmitt.

And the United States is the only country to have zero.

The average American has just nine days of vacation a year. One survey shows only 10% of us will take a full two weeks off.

And as for part-time workers, only a third get any paid time off from their

“Yeah, it completely intensifies the pressure on workers to buckle down and work as hard as they possibly can, so that if the boss has to make a decision about letting ten percent of people go, that you’re not on that list,” said Schmitt.

You could blame the Puritan work ethic . . . although in Great Britain, the source of our Puritan work ethic, workers are guaranteed 20 days off.

“There’s no question we’re different,” said Cornell University economics professor Steven Kyle. “But it’s because we choose to be, not because we can’t afford to be.

We are as rich as the Europeans are. We would be a little less rich in material terms if we took more time off as a nation. But we would be, some of us at least, happier to do that.”

Kyle said it all comes down to a society’s position on vacation.

Is vacation a perk? Or is it something that is an essential, like good healthcare or a good job - getting enough vacation to be healthy and regenerated?

“Well, I don’t think it’s a perk personally,” said Kyle. “And I have a very good job that I love. But what are we doing this for, our jobs, if not to have a life and have a good life?”

Alan Grayson is adamant that vacation is a right.

“You need time off to recharge the batteries and to make yourself happy,” he said.

In fact, he wants to make it a law - which he’s in a better position to do than most, since he’s a Congressman . . . a freshman Democrat from Orlando, of course considered the vacation capital of the world.

“We lead the world in science. We lead the world in innovation. I don’t think we need to lead the world in people who can’t take a vacation,” Rep. Grayson said.

Grayson wants to guarantee a least one week of paid vacation for every worker at a company with a hundred or more employees. He says it will lead to greater productivity from well-rested and healthier workers.

was in the watchmaker industry to give people possibility not to be overexhausted, not overworked, and to give the opportunity of feeling more relaxed and more comfortable.”

“Wait a minute: You’re not worried when you take your vacation that the guy at the next desk is going to get ahead of you while you’re gone?” asked Axelrod.

“Absolutely not,” said Getterman.

“I mean, the old saying is, ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.’ What we’re seeing more and more is that all work and no play makes Jack a dead boy,” said Grayson. “We’re talking initially about only one week off, which is only a quarter of what every European worker gets.”

Of course, this might not be the best week to point to the way Europeans run their economies. With Greece near insolvency, Spain also teetering, and the rest of Europe shaken, everything is now on the table as far as easing economic pressures there.

Well, everything but vacations.

Why? Horst Freitag, Germany’s Consul General in New York, said it’s because “the employers feel that they benefit from that law, primarily because they also feel that it has positive effects on the productivity.

“Now we had a lot of reforms just recently regarding our working force, et cetera, fringe benefits, unemployment protection, or what have you. Nobody - either the legislative or the unions, the employers nobody touched the vacation,” said Freitag.

We sat down with Freitag; Sabine Ulmann, the Deputy Consul from Switzerland; and Torben Getterman, Denmark’s Consul General. All three countries have had national vacation laws on the books for decades.

Denmark, said Getterman, provides for five weeks, mandatory - everyone from the factory worker to a high-priced lawyer.

Denmark’s unemployment rate, by the way, is three points lower than ours at the moment.

As for Switzerland, Ulmann said, “I think the first paid vacation came in 1937, and it

“But, that’s the point of it. If I’d be worried about that, you probably wouldn’t take the vacation,” said Freitag. “That’s why it’s legal. It’s in the law. It’s in the book. This was set.”

The U.S. economy - with weaker unions than Europe, and less regulation - has higher growth rates and higher salaries.

But European workers consistently rate themselves more satisfied with the balance in their lives.

“I have a feeling if I were to run that idea by some members of the business community in the United States, they might say, ‘You know what, that sounds like a European idea, the balance,’” Axelrod said.

“Yeah, I mean, we think it’s a good idea,” said Getterman. “It’s a good foundation for creating a society where you have respect for, let’s say, both the family life and the working life.”

Some food for thought to throw on the grill this Memorial Day weekend, when you might already be feeling like you won’t get nearly enough time off this summer.

The rest of the world has a different recipe when it comes to vacation.

“You can’t always attach a price tag to something,” said Freitag. “There’s some things in life that you can’t pin down in dollars and cents.”

“The bottom line is in Europe, people have smaller cars, but much bigger vacations. And in the United States, we have bigger cars, but much smaller vacations,” said Schmitt. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Airlines to Cough Up More to Bumped Passengers bumped passengers could wait hours or even days to find alternate arrangements.

“It might not be hours, but days before you get to where you’re going,” Pauline Frommer, creator of Pauline Frommer Guidebooks, told CBS News correspondent White Johnson. “There simply aren’t enough airplane seats out there for the number of people who want to fly.”

Government Expected to Significantly Raise Limits on Compensation to Travelers Booted from Over-Booked Flights (CBS/ AP) Giving up your airline seat may become a little less painful.

Federal officials are expected to announce this week a plan to raise the maximum amount that airlines must pay passengers who get bumped off an oversold flight, currently at $400 or $800 depending on how long a trip is delayed.

Bumpings rose in three of the past four years and jumped 10 percent to 762,422 in 2009, the highest total since 2002.

They soared 17 percent in this year’s first quarter.

The potential inconvenience is greater now, too. Airlines have cut back on flights and planes are more crowded, so

Passenger-rights groups have pushed the Transportation Department to raise the payout limits to $800 and $1,200 per traveler if the airline bumps you involuntarily. The agency has signaled that it plans some type of inflation adjustment in the limits, which were last raised in 2008. Officials declined to provide details.

The issue is overbooked flights. Airlines are allowed to sell more tickets than they have seats on the assumption that some passengers - usually those with refundable tickets - won’t show up. What travelers’ groups such as FlyersRights want is a limit on how many extra seats airlines can sell per flight. But industry insiders say that may be impractical because no-show rates vary by route, day and even hour.

When a flight is overbooked, airlines must first ask for volunteers before

involuntarily bumping ticket holders.

While volunteers can get travel vouchers, people forced off flights must be paid in cash or check. Critics say airlines often flout that rule. The Transportation Department recently fined Southwest Airlines $200,000 for that and other shortcomings in its bumping practices.

advertised fares and checked-bag fees, and for contingency plans when aircraft are stuck on the tarmac for long delays.

If you are bumped involuntarily, Frommer suggests going for the cash -which can be used to purchase a ticket.

Last year one in every 763 passengers got bumped from a flight, according to government figures. That includes volunteers and those forced to give up their seat. The numbers show that more passengers are volunteering to give up their seats, a reversal of the trend a few years ago.

“If you only accept a free seat,” she points out, “that puts you in the same bucket as the frequent flier miles folks and we all know how hard it is to redeem frequent flier miles right now.”

Passenger-rights advocates say bigger payments to people forced to give up their seats could in turn force airlines to give volunteers more generous offers.

But that remains to be seen.

In the first three months of this year, American Eagle, the regional affiliate of American Airlines, was most likely to bump passengers involuntarily. US Airways, Continental, ExpressJet and Southwest were next. For several years, JetBlue has been the least likely to bump -- it says it gives customers $1,000 if they’re booted off a flight.

Kate Hanni, who organized FlyersRights, says without limits on how many extra seats airlines can sell, “they’ll find more deceptive ways to grab people’s money and not give it back.”

The government has been moving to give airline customers more protections. One new rule prohibits the airlines from keeping passengers on a plane on the tarmac more than three hours. This week, the agency will also unveil proposed requirements for more information about

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Miami Seafood Businesses Feel Spill’s Impact Reporting M i c h a e l Williams DOWNTOWN MIAMI (CBS4) — At Casablanca Seafood in Miami they are proud to serve the fresh catch of the day. Customers love it, and so do nearly 90 employees who count on the sea’s bounty for their livelihoods. Now, though, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatens all of that.

Casablanca manager Martha Longueira said, “Ninety percent of our catch comes from the Gulf. We are terrified.”

She has plenty of company.

Louisiana’s seafood industry--the prime impact zone for the oil spill right now-supplies up to 40 percent of the U.S. seafood haul. If fishermen there can’t catch and box shrimp, fish, oysters and more, then seafood businesses everywhere will suffer.

“Our shrimp prices have doubled from

what it would normally be, and oyster prices have bumped up almost 20 percent,” said Longueira.

Federal officials note that roughly 75 percent of the federal waters in the Gulf remain open to fishing, but there is no way to know how much more oil will flow, and how wide an area it will cover.

Also, there is no certainty about how chemical dispersants meant to break up the oil will impact future harvests.

Casablanca has joined a class action lawsuit with fishermen and other seafood wholesalers/retailers, aimed at getting BP

to pay for damages they may incur in the future.

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NOAA Forecasts Extremely Active Hurricane Season Reporting Tim Kephart MIAMI (CBS4) —South Florida spent the last two hurricane s e a s o n s TIM KEPHART enjoying a relative lull in the number of storms hitting the area. However, NOAA’s latest forecast said our time to relax is up. NOAA released its outlook for the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season and are forecasting 14-23 named storms, 8-14 of which could become hurricanes. Of those storms that become hurricanes, 3-7 could become major hurricanes.

NOAA’s Jane Lubchenco said there were multiple factors that led them to the extremely active forecast. First, the El Niño that protected the Atlantic coast last year is gone and a La Niña could be developing. This would make wind shear more favorable for the development of storms in the Atlantic.

Second, water temperatures in the Atlantic are up by as much as four degrees compared to the same period last year.

Warm water temperatures are a key ingredient in the potential development of storms in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.

county’s Department of Health handle people with special needs. Anyone with special medical needs is encouraged to pre-register with the county in order to make sure they receive proper care in case of a storm or call 311 for further instructions.

Curtis Sommerhoff, director of MiamiDade’s Department of Emergency Management, said that despite NOAA’s prediction of an extremely active hurricane it only takes one storm to impact South Florida.

“You must have an emergency plan in place,” Sommerhoff said. “We want people to have a plan. Do they live in an evacuation area? What is their communication plan?”

Sommerhoff said the county has a plan in place for people with disabilities.

Gov. Charlie Crist spoke at Thursday’s session of the annual Hurricane Conference in Ft. Lauderdale and he had a sober message about the upcoming season.

“We don’t need to suffer from hurricane amnesia. We should all be prepared because of the possibility and probability we will have a hurricane this year,” Crist said.

NOAA and the National Hurricane Center announced a major change that would take place in advance of the upcoming hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center will issue watches and warnings 12 hours earlier than in previous years.

This means that watches will be issued 48 hours in advance and warnings will be issued 36 hours ahead of the expected onset of hurricane conditions.

Crist and other experts at the conference made reference to the NOAA predictions released Thursday.

Broward’s Public Safety Program Manager Miguel Ascarrunz urged all South Floridians to have a hurricane plan in place and know where the nearest hurricane shelter is located. He attended the Governor’s Hurricane Conference being held in Fort Lauderdale this week.

Dave Halstead of the Florida Department of Emergency Management said, “Andrew was one storm in what was a slow season. It only takes one storm.”

“I know that it doesn’t look promising,” Ascarrunz told CBS4.com. “That’s why we’re all here to learn from previous experiences and best practices from around the state and around the country to apply them here in South Florida.”

This year, Broward County will have the

“The NOAA numbers are in keeping with other predictions. It will be an active season above average. One hit makes it an active season so we will be watching carefully,” CBS4 Storm Team meteorologist Craig Setzer said.

One of the issues that people along the Gulf coast have wondered about is the impact a hurricane might have on the Gulf oil spill. Forecasters said oil in the water is a secondary issue to the hurricane. How a hurricane moves or breaks down the oil spill varies depending on the size and track of the storm.

If the oil slick remains small compared to a hurricane, the impact would be minimal.

The oil will not impact the intensity or the track. Finally, the oil slick would have little effect on the seas or wave heights.

The high winds of a hurricane will distribute the oil over a wide area, but no models currently exist that can accurately forecast the distribution of oil when it hits.

The oil could be distributed inland as far as the storm surge can carry it Luchenco said.

FEMA director Craig Fugate was also at the meeting and said the one thing people need to know is: be prepared, but don’t panic. “You have to get ready now,” Fugate said. “These numbers are very alarming if you don’t know what you’re doing. But if you take time now, you can enjoy your summer.”

Fugate focused his discussion on the need for evacuation. “Unlike most disasters we deal with; we have identified the areas most vulnerable to storm surge,” Fugate said. “It’s important if you live near the coast, that you today, find out if you’re in those evacuation zones. It’s time now that you have a designation of where you’re

going to go. We all have a responsibility to prepare to the best of our abilities.”

NOAA’s forecast far exceeded the forecast put out in April by Colorado State University researchers led by Dr. William Gray. They said much the same thing about why the season could be active, but forecasted a total of 15 named storms for the 2010 season with 8 of those storms becoming hurricanes and 4 of those storms forecasted to be major hurricanes.

Gray’s team said that there’s a 45 percent chance that at least one major hurricane, Category 3 or above, will strike the U.S. East Coast. For reference, that rate is 15 percent above the average for the last 100 years.

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FEMA Gives Some Homeowners A Break On Insurance Reporting David Sutta

what they are doing right here,” said Acebal.

MIAMI (CBS4) — Tens of thousands of homeowners across South Florida are getting a break from FEMA regarding flood insurance. In the last year many homeowners have had to pony up hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for mandatory coverage. Now FEMA is giving those homeowners a temporary break that could save them thousands of dollars.

Acebal says his neighborhood hasn’t flooded since it was built nine years ago, yet everyone had to buy flood insurance policies that varied wildly for no explained reason.

Jacinto Acebal, president of the Century Park community association, never understood the flood maps.

“I did,” said Diaz, “I could have got a bill for 600-700 dollars for insurance, end up paying $2,300 because the bank forced it on me.”

“It rains two minutes, later it’s dry,” said Acebal. He has been fighting the federal government since September, when FEMA told him he lived in a high-risk flood zone.

His bank mandated he had to pay hundreds of dollars for flood insurance.

“I really don’t like seeing people getting abused or pushed over, and that’s exactly

He pointed around the neighborhood: “This one pays $800. This one across the street pays $5,000. The one at the other end of the building pays $2,300.”

Even Miami Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz, in nearby Sweetwater, is paying the wacky rates.

Sweetwater installed storm water pumps to mitigate the flooding, yet is still paying.

Fed up, Pepe-Diaz went to Washington DC with a delegation and gave FEMA an earful.

“I believe that we got a clear understanding that we are not just going to stand here and take these rates,” he told them.

FEMA apparently is listening. They are now taking a second look at appeals and offering sticker shocked homeowners preferred risk policies for two years. The reprieve drastically drops rates.

For instance, in Sweetwater a policy currently going for $600 to $1,000 will drop to $320 a year. Diaz told CBS4 News, “I believe that FEMA has said ‘Listen, we understand there is a situation.’”

Acebal is happy to see the relief, but really wants the flood maps rechecked. “It would be an encouraging thing if they do. That’s what we really need,” he said.

Preferred Risk policies will likely help save a lot of money. To be eligible you have to have gone from a low risk area to high risk.

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NHC Director Fears For Haiti This Hurricane Season Reporting David Sutta F O R T LAUDERDALE (CBS4) — In the ‘world of weather’ they are considered the ‘rock stars’ of hurricane forecasting and this week they are in Ft. Lauderdale to discuss the storms that will brew this summer.

“All things are just looking very favorable, more and more for a very active year,” said Dr. William Gray.

Semi-retired from the University of Colorado, Gray gave CBS4’s David Sutta a sneak peak at his team’s hurricane season outlook.

“We are going to come out with the forecast on Wednesday (June 2nd) and we’ll likely be upping our numbers,” said Gray.

The National Hurricane Center will release their initial predictions on Thursday. Based

on warmer water temperatures and a waning El Nino, NHC Director Bill Read said the numbers will be high.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate doesn’t put much stock in the predictions. He said in 1992 it was forecast to be a ‘below average’ year and then Hurricane Andrew steamrolled south MiamiDade.

“All it means is hurricane season is approaching, (so) get ready. Because what these forecasters can’t do is tell you if you are going to be hit,” said Fugate.

Read said one of his biggest areas of concern is for Haiti. In years past, thousands of Haitians have died from passing hurricanes and ensuing floods.

“Now we have an earthquake, perhaps as many as a million people without adequate shelter living in tarps, tents, and what not.

Add the flash flood problem, which is already present every year, I am really concerned if a major hurricane were to cross there, (then) where are you going to put all these people that don’t have firm shelter,” said Read.

Read said while the NHC has set up better communications with Haiti to alert them to possible threats they know it won’t be enough because there is really nowhere for them to go if a storm should threaten.

Florida’s emergency management chief David Halstead said the state has worked through past problems coordinating with outside agencies that do not typically respond to disasters and is prepared for evacuations from Haiti if needed.

“Haiti is no different to us than Georgia or Alabama. They’re our neighbors,” he said.

If a hurricane roars through the Gulf of Mexico this year it may help break up the massive oil spill. On the other hand, if one were to make landfall west of the spill it could drive the oil inland on surging seawater. Forecasters say they don’t know what kind of environmental hazards to expect because no oil spill has ever drifted into one of the main hurricane breeding grounds before.

“It’s going to be part of the ecological catastrophe that you get anyway with a hurricane,” Read said.

Fla. Hurricane Catastrophe Fund In Good Shape TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) —With early forecasts showing an above-average Atlantic hurricane season; the latest word on the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund is likely music to Floridians ears. According to an advisory council, the fund has enough money and bonds to pay off over $25 billion in losses if needed.

A financial adviser to the fund said Florida could handle $17 billion in storm losses without having to seek any additional bonding. Adviser told the Associated Press Florida has $6 billion in cash, $3.5 billion in pre-event bonding and $7.1 billion in required private insurer contributions.

Any bonds that are issued by the fund are paid back by assessing insurance policyholders in Florida. The fund was created after Hurricane Andrew devastated south Florida as a way to help keep down the cost of insurance in the state. (© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

At least 7 million gallons of crude have gushed into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.

The spill isn’t covering enough of the warm waters that feed tropical storms to alter their development, and it won’t affect the hurricane season forecast.

“The prevailing thought is the hurricane will have much more effect on the oil, rather than vice versa,” Read said. (© 2010 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Remodeling on a Budget renovating with an eye to sell. Being the only house on the block without a second bathroom or, on the other extreme, the only one with marble counter tops, might not work in your favor. But if you plan to live in your home for years to come, do what makes you happy.

Kelli Grant Offers Tips On Getting the Most From Your Money When You Remodel Your Home.

(CBS) Home remodeling is on the rebound, and for the first time since 2006, spending on home upgrades is expected to rise. But is spending the money really worth it? Kelli Grant, Senior Consumer for SmartMoney.com, offers some tips on how to updated you home and still stick to a budget.

First, don’t expect to recoup your costs.

The struggling real estate market means that renovations are probably not going to pay for themselves in added home value.

Keep your budget and changes in line with what neighbors have if you’re

Considering updating instead of renovating. Some rooms may not need a major remodel as much as a look that doesn’t scream 70s-era construction.

Replacing wallpaper with paint and removing textured “popcorn” ceilings are easy updates to do yourself. Swapping out lighting fixtures, cabinet hardware and faucets also offer a more modern look for your space for relatively little cost.

If you do need a contractor, shop around.

As work picks up, so do contractors’ prices. Get at least three bids for the job, including two referrals from friends or neighbors and one you found via the Internet or phone book. Ask for the names of customers who whom they completed similar projects. Call those people to ask about the quality of the work and their experience.

Also, it’s a good idea to go green. They

may not be glamorous, but projects that improve energy efficiency have some of the best returns for your money.

Depending on the project, homeowners can cut up-front costs through the state appliance rebate program, and get extra back come tax time with a federal tax credit worth up to $1,500. You’ll see fast returns in the form of lower energy bills, and when you’re ready to sell, more interest from buyers.

And finally, sometimes all you need to do it clean the house. Aim to complete a few simple and inexpensive upkeep projects each year, such as touching up peeling paint, replacing a cracked outlet plate or securing a squeaky floorboard. That curb appeal pays off at sale. Buyers expect a $2 discount for every dollar of necessary repairs that turn up in a home inspection.

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Broward Budget Battles Point To BSO FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) —The budget crisis faced by communities across South Florida is creating a tug of war between Broward County commissioners and Sheriff Al Lamberti.

Property tax rolls are expected to be down 12 to 14 percent. That means there’s less money to spend on everything from public buses to libraries and parks.

Broward budget analysts say they are estimating a $110 million dollar budget gap for 2010-11, and commissioners will not talk about raising taxes.

That leaves no alternative—more deep service cuts are on the way and will be debated over the course of summer budget hearings.

An exasperated commissioner, Sue Gunzburger, said, “Where do you cut?”

Already there have been employee furloughs, reduced hours for public services such as parks, libraries and transit.

However, Broward commissioners argue the budget gap could be trimmed to a more manageable $55 million if BSO takes a fair share of the funding cuts.

Sheriff Lamberti argues across the board proportional cuts do not make sense and emphatically adds that public safety is a “priority.” He also says he’s already had to cut tens of millions of dollars and trim hundreds of positions at BSO over the last few years.

The bottom line: another brewing debate over priorities in an economic downturn that means painful budget realities for everyone in the months to come. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Home Improvements Help Lure Homeowners wouldn’t have happened had they not remodeled their previous home.

“All new flooring, all new paint, we sold the home on the first showing,” Jach said.

“All the houses have really been updated, and so if they were going to buy a house, they weren’t going to buy one with 30year-old carpet in the kitchen.”

DENVER (CBS) — Many people who’ve had trouble selling their homes have decided to stay put, so why not focus on home improvements? Remodeling is a big trend helping homeowners beat the recession during this buyer’s market, CBS station KCBS-TV reports.

They are typically upgrades that are either for potential buyers in the future, or themselves.

Amelia Jach began to landscape her new home. Her family was able to upgrade to a larger house because they sold the home they were in. But Jach believes that

The Deck Superstore is experiencing the trend of sellers upgrading, as well as past sellers who have decided to stay put and improve the homes for themselves.

“Sixty-two percent of Americans are planning to make home improvements,” Jonathan Mitchell with The Deck Superstore said. “When the economy is rough there’s always opportunity somewhere, and home improvement now I think is one of those areas.”

“They were calling me and saying, ‘What can we do in the meantime to remodel our house and increase the market value and prepare it for sale,’” Stephanie Fix with RE/MAX said.

For sellers planning to upgrade their homes, Fix says curb appeal is essential to draw buyers inside. Once inside, Fix offers upgrades most likely to draw them in for a buy.

“I’d recommend in a two-bedroom ranch to find a way to add a third bedroom in the house, and/or and additional bathroom,” Fix said. “Bathrooms and kitchens are extremely important.”

Upgrades will usually bring a return on an investment for those selling a home later on. If not, they’re an enjoyable improvement.

RE/MAX says foreclosures are still steady and that showings dropped after tax credit expired.

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Sales Of Previously Owned Homes Jump In April Reporting Tim Kephart MIAMI (CBS4) — While the Great Recession continues to decimate the job market, the TIM KEPHART housing sector continues to show signs of life. According to the National Association of Realtors said sales of previously owned homes jumped 7.6 percent in April. It was the best showing in five months and exceeded economists’ expectations.

In South Florida, the median price of previously owned homes jumped nearly 15 percent in the month of April. That was the fourth largest jump of any of the cities measured by the NAR behind only: Indianapolis, Phoenix, and San Diego.

At the same time, previously owned home sales increased by 16.2 percent in the month of April. While that number is increasing, it’s still the fifth lowest out of the 20 cities measured by the National Association of Realtors.

Across the country, sales of previously owned homes jumped 7.6 percent to 5.77 million. Economists forecasted 5.63 million units to be sold. The NAR said the federal government’s first-time home buyers a tax credit of up to $8,000 helped spur the jump in home sales. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Gene Therapy For Parkinson’s Shows Promise Reporting Cynthia Demos U N D AT E D (CBS4) — I m a g i n e scientists hiding a genetic code inside of a virus and then they use that virus to infect the brain. The goal: to essentially deprogram Parkinson’s disease. The idea is not that farfetched and in fact the experimental therapy is already helping patients.

60-year-old Leonard Ke is a medical pioneer His odyssey began in the early 1990s when Leonard was part of a cycling team.

During a ride, he felt an ominous sign. Ke recalled, “I noticed I was having trouble with my right leg.”

His leg would suddenly go dead. This trouble led to a terrifying diagnosis.

Leonard had Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative neurological disorder.

“This is a progressive disease. It tends to worsen with time,” explained Dr. Michael Aminoff, a neurophysiologist and researcher at UCSF Medical Center.

With Parkinson’s disease, certain brain cells stop making a vital chemical called dopamine. Without dopamine, you lose

control over how you move. There is no cure. But now there’s an experimental treatment designed to make dopamine again.

gene will not.

the disease, or even potentially reverse it.”

“Once you’ve introduced it, you can’t remove it,” said Aminoff.

The official name is AAV-hAADC gene therapy and the treatment is mindboggling. It involves taking tiny bits of DNA, a bioengineered version of a human gene, and hiding that gene inside of a harmless virus. The gene is designed to help brain cells make dopamine again.

“That’s what makes it risky,” added Bankiewicz, “but if things go well, very rewarding because, you may correct the deficit forever.”

As for Ke, his scans show how the new gene in his brain still works. He’s glad he took the risk. He said he would do it again, not just to relieve his symptoms, but to help scientists put an end to Parkinson’s.

“Those cells are in a part of the brain that are involved with control of movement.

We need to get the gene into the brain, into those cells,” Aminoff explained.

Neurosurgeon and researcher Dr. Krystof Bankiewicz figured out how. In fact, he developed the actual technology.

First, surgeons drill a hole in the patients head. Then, using high-tech equipment and newly invented tools, they deliver the experimental gene therapy deeply and precisely into the region of the brain that controls movement.

Bankiewicz said, “We can see in real time, see where it goes so we have absolute control over it.”

Dr, Aminoff says new findings reveal the therapy works. He displayed two brain scans: one taken before treatment and the other taken six months later.

The latter scan shows a boost in red and yellow areas that show the gene is active, and that the brain is revving up to make more dopamine.

As for Leonard Ke, he felt an immediate benefit the day following the procedure.

The effect lasted for nearly three years.

“I was really thrilled with the result,” he said.

However, Ke has developed new symptoms including a stutter and difficulty with his balance. Leonard’s disease, which continues to worsen, may be catching up with the therapy. Even so, this clinical trial may provide new clues for the scientists.

Once there, the gene-carrying virus goes to work. Aminoff explained, “Technically we are infecting the brain, certain brain cells.”

Bankiewicz said, “It tells me right now how to take it forward.”

As the virus infects the cell, it delivers its genetic payload. The virus dies. The new

Aminoff hoped that with future work that “it may be possible to slow down or stop

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Throat Exercises Could Help Relieve Sleep Apnea relieving sleep apnea could be as simple as exercising your throat.

“It’s a small study so you always have to be careful about interpreting results from small studies. Also those are volunteers.

They may not represent the general population,” said Dr. Marc Itskowitz, and internist at Allegheny General Hospital.

In the study, 31 adults with sleep apnea were divided into two groups.

PITTSBURGH (CBS) — If sleep apnea is keeping you from getting a good night’s rest, there may be some exercises you can do that will help, CBS station KDKA-TV reports.

With sleep apnea, your breathing stops and starts. You may have the condition if you snore loudly and you feel tired even after a full night’s sleep. It can be treated with devices or surgery.

But the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine is presenting a possible alternative strategy for dealing with the condition.

A small study from Brazil suggests that

One group did a half hour of speech pathologist-directed tongue and facial exercises each day like curling the tongue backward, pronouncing vowels quickly or continuously and keeping the tongue in a certain position while eating.

The other group was supervised while doing deep breathing through the nose.

Three months later, the group that exercised had reduced their sleep apnea symptoms, like snoring and daytime sleepiness, by more than a third. It’s a reduction not seen in the comparison group.

have something to do with the muscles in the upper respiratory tract. Exactly which muscles and how to improve them, we don’t know yet.”

Standard treatment for sleep apnea can include CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure). This requires wearing a mask at night hooked up to a machine that uses air to keep the breathing passages open. This can be expensive and uncomfortable.

“I suspect in mild cases, exercises may be more helpful,” Dr. Itskowitz said. “But once you get to a moderate or severe level you really need to use CPAP along with weight loss.”

While there’s less research behind it, the exercises are free.

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Substance Abuse Experts Warn Of Teen “Eyeballing” Reporting Natalia Zea MIAMI (CBS News) — Think you’ve seen young kids d o i n g ridiculous, dangerous things?

You haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen eyeballing.

YouTube showcases hundreds of videos showing teenagers across the globe swishing vodka into their eye. Eyeballing even has its own Facebook page.

Why would anyone want to ignore common sense and risk their sight to do this?

you’ve been drinking, once you’re at the tipsy drunk level, that if you absorb it through your eye it will get you drunk faster,” explained adolescent therapist Ana Moreno. She worries this foolish fad could make its way to your town soon enough.

“What it’s doing is damaging the eye, causing permanent damage, can even possibly lead to blindness,” said Moreno.

Sheryl Piper attended a parent seminar hosted by non-profit group, Informed Families Wednesday night to help keep her two daughters on the sober path.

She never thought she’d have to protect them from something like this.

“I think it’s ridiculous and I think it’s scary,” she said.

She plans to talk to her daughters about it.

“They’re under the impression that if

“They know we’re in the know, and I think that’s half the battle. Just communicate with your kids let them know you know what’s going on, you’re not stupid,” Piper said.

“Informed Families” President Peggy Sapp agrees.

“Remember the brain is not fully formed until 25. They don’t know these things, and it’s the parents job to tell them these things, even though they roll their eyes,” said Sapp.

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Chiropractic Treatment Helps With Blood Pressure Reporting Cynthia Demos U N D AT E D (CBS4) — High blood pressure affects millions of Americans; one out of every three. If left untreated, it can be deadly. Most people take medication to control but some patients have found a simple way to keep their numbers down without drugs. They’re turning to chiropractic care.

The mad dash to get the kids off to school, the crazy commute and work, they are enough to raise anyone’s blood pressure.

Just ask Adrian Caspar. “We work on deadlines, and that’s what makes it difficult,” said the busy accountant. “All the changes in the law keep me in business, but keeps us also pretty stressed out,” he added.

Like many people, the stress began to take its toll and Caspar was forced to go on

medication for his high blood pressure.

enthusiastically.

Caspar didn’t like the idea of being on medication so he decided to visit chiropractor Dr. Peter Martone. Dr. Martone has been using a new adjustment to the neck to help bring down blood pressure.

The treatment is experimental, but studies show it might actually work.

“This is a very novel concept,” explained blood pressure specialist Dr. George Bakris.

“I just feel better and feeling better is the way to be,” Caspar said.

“If the bone is out of alignment and putting pressure on a nerve, it interferes with the ability of the heart to function properly,” Martone explained.

Dr. Bakris conducted a small, carefully controlled study with some of his patients.

Bird agreed. “I feel younger. I’ve never felt better,” he said.

He sent them to a chiropractor for the same adjustment Dr. Martone uses.

Dr. Bakris believes this is most likely to work on people who have had some sort of neck trauma in their lives, even if it was falling off a swing as a child.

After a few visits, Caspar’s blood pressure was normal.

Bill Bird also has a stressful job. He’s a car salesman. He was also on blood pressure medication but wanted to try to control his numbers naturally. His daughter suggested a visit to Dr. Martone.

A few adjustments later and Bird’s primary care physician cut his medication in half.

“Another 30 to 45 days, if my blood pressure stays at this level, I’m going to be off it 100 percent,” he said,

“We saw miraculous changes in blood pressure,” Dr. Bakris explained.

The results were dramatic enough to catch the attention of the federal government.

The National Institutes of Health is now funding a study to see if the findings can be duplicated.

While Dr. Bakris believes the study is exciting, he admits there are a lot of unanswered questions.

is going on, why this is happening,” he said.

Caspar and Bird say they have all the proof they need.

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FDA Approves First Totally Implanted Hearing Aid the ability to understand speech.

This differs from conductive hearing loss, which occurs when sound waves cannot transmit well through the outer or middle ear or both. Medical or surgical treatment can often restore hearing in people with a conductive hearing loss, which can be caused by earwax, fluid in the middle ear space, or a punctured eardrum.

WASHINGTON (CBS4) —The FDA has given approval to a new hearing aid that’s invisible to the eye. It’s called Esteem, an implanted hearing system used to treat moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss, a type of permanent hearing loss.

Sensorineural hearing loss is usually caused by genetic factors or damage to the inner ear resulting from noise, viral infections, or aging. The results are reductions in perception of sounds and in

The Esteem system consists of external testing and programming instruments and three implantable components: a sound processor, sensor, and driver.

The sensor senses vibrations from the eardrum and middle ear bones and converts these mechanical vibrations into electrical signals, which are then sent to the sound processor, which amplifies and filters the signal to compensate for the individual patient’s hearing loss. The driver converts the enhanced electrical signal back to vibrations, which are then

transmitted into the inner ear where they are perceived as sound.

majority of these adverse events resolved during the one-year study period.

“The approval of Esteem provides patients with an option to alleviate their hearing loss by using a device with no readily visible external components,” said Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

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The system is designed to alleviate the effects of hearing loss in patients ages 18 years and older.

Esteem also uses an implanted battery that has to be surgically replaced every 3 to 9 years.

There are possible side effects. Seven percent of participants experienced facial paralysis, and 42 percent experienced taste disturbance, both of which are results of the surgical procedure necessary to implant the device. The

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Famed Architect’s Work On Display In Miami Beach Reporting J a s m i n e Kripalani M I A M I B E A C H (CBS4) — Lincoln Road, now the bustling al f r e s c o , pedestrian-friendly shopping district in Miami Beach was once separated by streets and cars – and only a small slither of sidewalk was set aside for shoppers.

But one architect’s vision changed the landscape and ultimately the character of the area.

That architect, Morris Lapidus, has since passed away, but his legacy lives on with the numerous buildings in South Florida and around the globe that bear his signature style. He’s credited for designing the world famous Fontainebleau Hotel and the Eden Roc.

ArtCenter/South Florida , 800 Lincoln Road at Meridian Avenue in Miami Beach. The exhibit runs until July 18th and features dozens of photographs of Lapidus’s designs, works and a timeline of his accomplishments.

Lapidus designed 1,200 buildings during his lifetime and they include the Fontainebleau built in 1954, the Eden Roc built the following year and the Lincoln Road Mall redesign launched in 1960.

Despite Lapidus’s status as a respected architect, some of his buildings have been demolished and now many are lobbying to save them.

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S. Fla. Mom’s Daily Dose Of Laughter Is Published Reporting Jorge Estevez W E S T O N (CBS4) — A South Florida mom is sharing her sense of humor when it comes to motherhood. Jenny Isenman has contributed to a new book full of a series of essays written by mothers about coping with their day-to-day lives.

Motherhood is a balancing act for moms trying to hang on and just get a grip on raising their families.

“It is a lot of juggling,” said Pamela Van Dam, a mother of three.

“It is the hardest job I have ever done in my entire life,” said Tricia Golomb, mother of two.

The mothers got together at a park in Weston on Thursday to celebrate a birthday. They rely on each other to get support.

“I wouldn’t be able to get through the day without my friends, the moms,” said mother of three Rachael Gear.

Now, the mothers have a new support system. Author Jenny Isenman, a mother of two, has written a couple essays for the book See Mom Run, a humorous look at motherhood today.

bugging me. It was taking too long. No relaxation!”

In another essay, Isenman laughed about hiring help around the house.

“The guilt! You can’t be a martyr anymore. How can I say to my husband about all the piles of laundry I have been doing of someone else is doing it?” said Isenman.

The Weston mother also shares her funny take on motherhood on her blog.

“It is really a group of moms harried and funny. They are juggling life and kids and writing about their experiences,” Jenny Isenman told CBS4’s Jorge Estevez.

“It’s their life for the day. ‘Oh, I have been through that.’ ‘That happened to me,’” Isenman said of the mothers who read her blog and feel they get a sense of community.

Jenny wrote about her first pedicure after the baby was born: “I couldn’t wait to get home. I was worried about my son. I was aware of every granule of scrub on my legs. Everything was

If you would like to meet Jenny Isenman, she has a book signing Friday night May 21st in Weston at the Aztig Urban Salon. Tickets are $30. They include a copy of the book, wine and

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Bond, James Bond, Lives In New Novel thrillers featuring forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme.

It’s scheduled to be published May 28, 2011 - which would have been Fleming’s 103rd birthday. It comes nearly 60 years after the publication of “Casino Royale,” the first novel to feature 007.

Deaver said Fleming’s novels were important to him, “both literarily and personally.”

Crime Novelist Jeffery Deaver Gets Green Light To Write New Bond Book (CBS) Chill the vodka and dust off the martini glass. James Bond is back.

A new novel featuring the world’s most famous secret agent is set to be published next year, the family company of Bond creator Ian Fleming said Friday.

The as-yet-untitled book carries the topsecret code name “Project X,” and will be written by American novelist Jeffery Deaver, best known for his series of

“They appealed to me as wonderful stories but they also stood as singular examples of a thriller writer’s craft,” he said in a news release. “I learned, through osmosis as well as design, much technique from Mr. Fleming’s work: compactness, attention to detail, heroic though flawed characters, fast pacing, concrete imagery and straightforward prose.”

In 2008, British novelist Sebastian Faulks wrote a Bond novel to mark the centenary of Fleming’s birth. That book, called “Devil May Care,” was released around the world and landed on best-seller lists.

“Devil May Care” was set in 1967, and featured some of the trademarks expected in a Bond story: a glamorous woman with an improbable name, Scarlett Papava, and a menacing villain who had a monkey’s paw for a hand.

Deaver, who lives in North Carolina, has sold more than 20 million copies of his novels worldwide. “The Bone Collector,” was made into a film in 1999, with Denzel Washington playing Rhyme and Angelina Jolie, his trusted sidekick. A new Rhyme novel is due out in June in the United States and July in Britain.

Another novel, “Garden of Beasts,” won the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, given for the best adventure or thriller novel written in Bond-like style.

day, will be published by Hodder & Stoughton in Britain and Simon & Schuster in the United States. More than 100 million James Bond books have been sold around the world.

In April, it was announced that work on the next Bond movie - known only as “Bond 23” - had been stopped indefinitely because of uncertainty about the future of distributor Metro-GoldwynMayer Inc. The film was due to be released in 2011 or 2012.

MGM put itself up for sale after a slump in DVD sales and a lack of hits left it unable to manage a $3.7 billion debt. The company is owned by Sony Corp., Comcast Corp. and a group of private equity firms

By JENNIFER QUINN

Ian Fleming Publications Ltd. managing director Corinne Turner thought then that “James Bond could have an interesting adventure in Jeffery Deaver’s hands.”

His Bond book, to be set in the present

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How to Keep Bugs Off This Summer Reports to keep your family safe through this summer season.

Ashton suggested these bug sprays: • Off: Deep Woods • Cutter • Off: Smooth and Dry These sprays can give you up to eight hours of protection against mosquitoes, however, many products contain a chemical commonly used in repellents called deet.

Dr. Jennifer Ashton Gives Consumer Reports Recommendations for Bug Sprays to Keep You Safe, Itch-Free (CBS) Summer is officially here and everyone is spending some quality time outside -- including mosquitoes and other insects. Bug bites are not only irritating, but can put you at risk for all kinds of diseases, such as West Nile virus and malaria.

CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton shared the best bug repellent products as judged by Consumer

For those who want to opt for a more natural alternative, Ashton suggests products containing oil of lemon eucalyptus and soy-based products.

Ashton noted, “These natural alternatives don’t give you the same protection in terms of longevity ... and people should not use them on children under the age of three years of age.”

Ashton warned parents to be careful when using these insect repellents with kids.

She said, “Many (of these cans) look a little bit like toys, so you don’t want to give to your child and let them spray it on themselves.”

Ashton explained the best way to keep your children protected is to apply the sprays for them, avoiding the face, eyes, mouth, and hands, but not forgetting problem areas like the ankles or the back of the neck.

On “The Early Show,” Ashton demonstrated how well these products work by spraying her forearm and putting her hand into a box full mosquitoes. The mosquitoes were provided by Rutgers University; they were lab bred and disease-free.

And while she did not get bitten, here are some remedies just in case you do: For irritation caused reactions to a bug bite: • A cold pack or ice • Hydro-cotrisone cream

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• Benadryl Ashton advises you to keep a lookout for the labels on bug repellent bottles and cans -- a concentration of 15 percent to 30 percent gives you really good protection, while deet products can protect you for up to 300 hours. © MMX, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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ready? Begin! One, two, three,” Russell chanted as he coached one of the students through an obstacle course.

LAUDERHILL (CBS4) — For the Miami Dolphins, spring training is as important on the field as out in the community. Each year, the team’s foundation brings their youth training camp program to schools across South Florida with a former player coaching future players.

Later, Russell shared with CBS4’s Nicole Maristany, “For me, it’s a special thing to be able to give back to the community and do it from a Dolphins standpoint. The Dolphins gave me so much and now I should give back to the community through the Dolphins. Kids need to exercise. They need to get out there and, number one, stay in shape.”

“For us at the Miami Dolphins it’s all about being dol-fit!” former player Twan Russell rallied a crowd of excited students at Lauderhill Middle School.

The Dolphins are taking big steps to get kids to stay in shape. The Dol-fit program inspires even the smallest fans to stay healthy.

“Alright, ten jumping jacks! You guys

time out on the field can last a lifetime.

“It means a lot to know that somebody cares about us and what we want to do,” said 8th grader Ross Mohan.

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And the ‘Fins aren’t the only fans of the program. Teachers think the program gives kids a much-needed release.

“I think they’re able to let off a lot of energy because they have to sit quiet in class all day, sit quiet at lunch, and this gives them a time to release so much energy,” said Roberta Carter-Pickett, a 7th grade geography teacher at the school.

While the stretches and drills don’t last forever, what the students take from their

1-Year Later: Vandenberg Wreck Quite Popular Project founder Joe Weatherby said the artificial reef is exceeding expectations.

“We have giant schools of fish, there’s all kinds of invertebrate life covering the ship, and big bait balls show up to the point where you can’t even see the ship through the fish sometimes,” Weatherby said. “It’s like a big party going on.”

Both Fish And Divers Are Flocking To Artificial Reef Off Key West KEY WEST (CBS4) — It’s been one year since a former Air Force missile-tracking ship was sunk off Key West and since then, the USAF Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg has not only attracted thousands of divers, but also more than 100 species of fish that have taken refuge on the wreck site.

The 13-year-long project to sink the 523foot-long Vandenberg culminated May 27, 2009. It was the second-largest ship in the world to be scuttled as an artificial reef.

Lad Akins of the Reef Environmental Education Foundation, an organization spearheading a multiyear fish population study at the Vandenberg site, confirmed 113 different species of fish have been documented.

Marine residents include loggerhead sea turtles, goliath grouper, amberjack, Spanish mackerel and a green moray eel living in one of the ship’s many cubbyholes. Clouds of baitfish, including blue runners, big-eyed scad and round scad, fill the ships bridge, attracting bigger fish that feed on them.

Economic impact studies estimated about 15,000 divers have descended on the Vandenberg via a charter dive operator and about 35 percent more in recreational boats.

Dive Key West owner Bob Holston said his

revenues increased 18 percent compared to the same time period a year before the Vandenberg was sunk.

“We’re having our best year ever, in 40 years of business,” Holston said. “We’ve had groups from as far away as Brazil and Europe and 80 percent of our phone calls relate to the Vandenberg.”

Dive spots along the top of the superstructure are open and free from obstruction, ranging

between 55 and 70 feet of the surface.

The Vandenberg sits upright approximately seven miles off Key West in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, its keel buried at 145 feet. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Ford Demos Inflatable Seat Belts In Denver The device is activated by crash sensors.

Compressed air moves through a specially-designed buckle to inflate the belt like a cylindrical pillow. Instead of slamming into a person like an airbag, the belt expands away from the person.

“It protects you in front injuries, it protects you in side injuries, it protects you in rollover injuries by holding you in the proper place, Sarkisian said.

DENVER (CBS) —Ford Motor Company is the first car maker to combine the protection of airbags with the safety of seat belts, CBS station KCNC-TV reports.

“They’re safer for children, safer for elderly people,” said Andy Sarkisian, Ford Manager of Safety Planning and Strategy.

Sarkisian is the expert Ford sent into Denver with its traveling exhibit called The Future of Safety. He explained inflatable seat belts are only available for back seat use because of current government regulations.

Ford says inflatable seat belts will be offered later this year on the next model Explorer vehicle. It’s an option priced at less than $300.

Surveys show nine out of 10 backseat passengers prefer to wear inflatable seat belts because they’re more padded than traditional models. Ford says that’s a good thing because people would be more likely to buckle up. (© MMX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

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Leo (July 23-Aug. 23)

You might have a problem juggling your time. Do something special for them. You have more than enough on your plate already. You can accomplish a lot if you deal with other people’s money or possessions this month. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.

Do not make rash decisions about your personal life. Your honesty will not only win you points but also respect. Romantic opportunities will be plentiful if you go out with friends. Investments are best left alone this month. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Wednesday.

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Cancer

(May 22-June 21)

Social evenings at your place will be highly successful. Abstain from getting involved with married individuals. Socializing will be more than just entertaining. You may be tom between two possibilities.This has left you in a confused and uncertain state. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Wednesday.

You can make money if you are careful not to let it trickle through your fingers.You are best to ask questions if you aren’t certain about issues that are confronting you. False information is likely if you listen to idle chatter or gossip. Social events will be rewarding. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Tuesday.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)

You need to do something that will make you feel better about yourself. Go over your finances and figure out a solid budget.

Deal with in-laws this month. You will have the ability to capture the interest of others.

Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Saturday.

Help elders in your family. Your partner may be reluctant to tell you how they feel. Make love, not war, and all will be fine. Don’t say things that could be damaging later on. Cut loose. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

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Capricorn

Aquarius

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(Dec. 22-Jan. 20)

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Problems with your partner could be reaching a high level of concern. Try spending the day catching up on any responsibilities that need to be taken care of. Pamper yourself; the self esteem it brings you will be most gratifying. Get involved in jobs that require creative input.You can win points with both peers and superiors. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Thursday.

Investments that deal with property will be lucrative; however, upsets with family members may be likely. Keep your thoughts to yourself for the time being. You can make excellent investments if you are in the right place at the right time. Too much too fast will be the attitude surrounding your home environment.Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Wednesday.

Travel will stimulate your need to experience exciting new things. Your goals will be in reach if you direct your energy wisely. Sudden good fortune will help you cover your debts. Put your efforts into making constructive improvements to your environment and to your state of mind. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Wednesday.

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Romance may be better than you ever thought possible. You need to do more research before you make your final decision.

You will be emotional about money matters.

Take care of matters involving institutions or government agencies. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Monday.

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Be aggressive and colorful, and you will get your way. Give everyone in the house a physical chore that will help burn off some of the excess energy. Depression may result if you don’t get to do things your own way.

Look before you leap. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Monday.

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May 21st Solution

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our mind will be on matters that deal with secret affairs. You will feel tired and rundown if you have allowed yourself to get into a financial mess. Limitations at work might set you back. Renovations or purchases made for your home will payoff. Your luckiest events this month will occur on a Friday.

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