New Footage Released Of Looting In Ferguson; 36 Measles Cases Linked To Disneyland
BALDWIN: St. Louis County Police releasing new video that shows exactly how bold the looters were during the Ferguson chaos. You've seen the pictures of outside the stores, right. This is the first time we are seeing all these people inside. More than 180 suspected looters were caught on camera after the prosecutor revealed that the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown would not be indicted. Police are hoping people will recognize these faces and call in and offer up help. The memories being made at Disneyland these days not exactly all happy ones. Let me explain. At least five employees at the California theme park have come down with measles since last month. This is on top of nine previously confirmed cases among visitors to Disneyland or Disney California adventure. In all, health officials say 36 measles cases have been linked to Disney. Part of the worst measles outbreak in California, actually, in 15 years, and health officials are also looking at cases in Utah, Colorado, Washington and Oregon. So I'm lucky enough to have the chief medical correspondent here sitting right next to me, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, talking about something that sounds a little frightening. I mean, if you're a parent really anyone, you're thinking measles.</s>DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You think measles, you think Disneyland, those two things they shouldn't go together.</s>BALDWIN: They shouldn't go together.</s>GUPTA: And the reality is Disneyland really has nothing to do with this. Only in the sense that it's a place where a lot of people cluster and come together. It could be any -- any other place as well. What's amazing about this is you have nearly 50 cases now of measles in this country. It's a highly contagious virus. We talked about Ebola, Brooke, it wasn't that contagious. Measles is. It can spread through the air and they say if you are not vaccinated and you come in contact with someone have measles, you have about a 90 percent chance of getting it yourself. That gives you an idea how contagious this is. So that when you have situations where a lot of people are coming together in a particular place, it can set up a situation just like this.</s>BALDWIN: So you were just telling me, though, in commercial that measles was declared eradicated more than a decade ago.</s>GUPTA: Yes. This drives the public health community crazy, you know. In 2000 we were able to say we have no measles in the United States. We have gone a long enough period of time without any new cases. We can say that's in the past. But in large part because of people not getting vaccinated, there's vaccines available that are very protective against measles, the people not getting vaccinated, one case can suddenly turn into many cases as we've seen here. Now we have six states declaring people having measles. You have 50 cases of measles already just within the first two weeks of this year. So you get an idea of just how big a problem that is. All totally preventable.</s>BALDWIN: So what's the take-away for I guess parents listening and not quite sure what to think?</s>GUPTA: You know, I think that there's been a lot of obviously concern about vaccines and a large part of it comes because of concerns about side effects from vaccines. There are studies that may have added some fuel to that fire. But those studies have been debunked. And we know that vaccines can prevent against illness without causing autism, for example, which is something a lot of parents worried about. You know, Brooke, it was interesting as a reporter but also as a dad, I have three kids, who -- who we went through this whole process.</s>BALDWIN: Of course.</s>GUPTA: And we got our kids vaccinated and got them vaccinated on schedule, on time. And I say that only to say that I looked at all these studies, I looked at the data, these are my own children and I still got them vaccinated. And I think if people did that we wouldn't be seeing cases of measles like this. Luckily, you know it sounds like these people are going to do well. Luckily, it seems like this particular outbreak is already over. But this is potentially a fatal disease that is completely preventable.</s>BALDWIN: OK. I have to embarrass you just a little bit. I know you are pretty modest. But Ben Tinker, your producer sent me this. This is why I have this. Show the object. "One of journalism's most prestigious awards, more than two years investigating these two hours specials, Sanjay changed his mind and the country's mind and lead and any that really can have medicinal benefits. Incredible ceremony. Sanjay Gupta and team got the duPont Columbia Award." And there you are, who came with you?</s>GUPTA: The whole team.</s>BALDWIN: The whole family?</s>GUPTA: You know, that the team, and you know, Brooke as they say, like Aristotle said it, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." And that's the case with this team over there.</s>BALDWIN: Yes.</s>GUPTA: Yes. You know it's an amazing team. We got to spend two years flying around the world asking questions of the people who had the highest impact and put together this documentary. It's great.</s>BALDWIN: I mean, getting this kind of award, I remember when it was announced, by the way you take this, this is yours, not mine. But I just remember the huge applause over the network call and seeing everyone buzzing about getting to go to the ceremony last night and just so, so, so proud. And the guy you see on TV is exactly like what you see, what you get. In the brain, I can't even imagine and the scheduling, I feel for the people who -- who have to figure out because we want like 50 of you. So --</s>GUPTA: You're nice to say that. Thank you. You know. it's a privilege to work here, do this work. I mean, you and I both get to experience that.</s>BALDWIN: Pinch myself every day. Sanjay Gupta, thank you and congratulations. That's it for me. I'm Brooke Baldwin here in New York. We'll see you back here tomorrow. In the meantime, "THE LEAD" with Jake Tapper starts right now.