Two Dead In Shooting At Virginia Tech
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour now. I'm Fredricka Whitfield, in for Brooke Baldwin. Again, we're watching a breaking story out of Blacksburg, Virginia. You're looking at pictures right now thanks to our affiliate there at the Virginia Tech campus. It is on lockdown because of a shooting that took place earlier today. Police are looking for a suspected gunman. What we do understand, according to Virginia Tech authorities, two people were shot dead. One was a police officer making a routine stop on the campus. And then according to eyewitness accounts, the alleged gunman then took off to a parking lot where another person was killed. Still unclear, the identity of that person, but, again, the entire campus on lockdown as authorities continue to look for this suspected gunman. Now watch this. An emergency summit to save the euro, Jon Corzine on the hot seat over millions of missing dollars. Jerry Sandusky a free man for now. And possible dangers of two birth control drugs.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, next, Jason Carroll in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Where former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky just posted a quarter of a million dollar bail.</s>JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, Jerry Sandusky was released from the Centre County Correctional Facility. He is now back at home under house arrest. Cameras were there as he pulled into his driveway. He is out on $250,000 bail. As part of his bail, he will have to wear some sort of an electronic monitoring device. Also, he will not be allowed to have any contact with any victims or any potential witnesses. He can have no unsupervised contact with any minors, this all the result of being arrested yesterday. He now faces new allegations of sexually abusing two boys. That now brings the number to 10 victims, alleged victims, who say Jerry Sandusky sexually abused them when they were young boys. His next legal hurdle will be his preliminary hearing, Fredricka. That is set for next Tuesday.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks so much, Jason Carroll. The makers of the birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin are in the hot seat. The FDA want to know if Bayer concealed information about dangerous side effects. Our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, is here. So, Elizabeth, what are we learning about these drugs that perhaps people did not know before?</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, these were heavily, marketed drugs. You saw ads for them all over the place. Women together and running through fields and looking happy. And what some are alleging is that studies that were done, not by Bayer, who markets the drug, but by independent doctors, that they show that this drug has a two to three times higher blood clot risk than what the Bayer studies showed.</s>WHITFIELD: They didn't know this before? Or is this data new?</s>COHEN: Well, here's what's happening here is that plaintiffs, people who are suing say that in fact, Bayer knew about this and basically hid it. I want to introduce to you a woman. She is 20 years old. Her name is Elizabeth Rippee. She died on Christmas Eve 2008. And her twin sister and her mother will be testifying. They said she was perfectly heavy (sic). She had taken other birth control pills before. But after a couple of months of being on Yaz, she collapsed. It turned out she had a blood clot and they say doctors say that it was because of Yaz.</s>WHITFIELD: OK. Now, when someone sees an advertisement for a drug, they figure it is FDA-approved. That means it is safe pending what your doctor prescribes. Should people rethink how they look at ads?</s>COHEN: I think people should rethink how they look at ads. And here's why. If you see an ad for a drug, it is pretty much by definition new. And new means expensive. And they're pushing it because they want to make money. New drugs are not as tested as old drugs. If you're seeing an ad like this one here, new drug, has not been tried out most likely on millions and millions of people yet. And drugs that have been tried out on millions and millions of people are -- we know more about them. They have more of a track record will. So before you go to your doctor and say, hey, give me that thing I saw on TV, think again. You might want something older that has more of a track record. And, remember, if you're seeing these ads, guess who is in your doctor's office most likely?</s>WHITFIELD: How interesting.</s>COHEN: Drug reps pushing the same drug. So your doctor has been told, this is the greatest thing ever. You're being told this is the greatest thing ever. And, really, it might be just as good or maybe even worse than drugs that are already out there. I also want to add here that Bayer says Yaz and Yasmin are safe and they say that may be giving a statement by the end of the day.</s>WHITFIELD: OK. We will look forward to that. Thanks so much, Elizabeth.</s>COHEN: Thanks.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, meantime, this just in now. We're getting word that exams, final exams have been postponed on the campus of Virginia Tech. Earlier, we have been reporting to you that the entire campus is on lockdown now on this first day of what would have been final exams. There was a shooting on campus. At least two people, according to Virginia Tech authorities, two people have been killed, including that of a police officer making a routine traffic stop. We will give you more information as we learn it, but, meantime, those exams have been postponed, but lockdown still in place. Up next, Eric Holder under fire and on the hot seat. 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