Six Dead in China From New Strain of Bird Flu; Judge Rules Plan B Available Over the Counter to Everyone
MARQUEZ: The FBI has its eye on former CIA director David Petraeus. Agents from the bureau interviewed him at his home outside Washington yesterday. According to "USA Today," they are looking into whether he may have passed classified material to his mistress, Paula Broadwell, and also trying to learn whether Petraeus stores sensitive documents in an unauthorized place. Petraeus had stayed out of the public eye up until two weeks ago. Late last month, he spoke in Los Angeles and apologized for how his affair hurt his family. Now to China, where people are increasingly worried about an unusual strain of bird flu. At least six people there have died from it. Authorities reacted by slaughtering 20,000 chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons in one market yesterday after the flu was found there. The virus has never been found in humans. Experts say it has not yet transferred person-to-person. The CDC says it's trying to find out how people caught the virus to begin with. Now to medical news here at home and a stunning blow to the Obama administration. A Brooklyn judge has overruled the Department of Health and Human Services in saying that anyone of any age can buy the morning-after pill over-the-counter. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains why the ruling is so important.</s>JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: This is a 59-page opinion by Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn federal court. It is so scathing. It is such an attack on the Health and Human Services Department for bowing to the pressure of conservatives. This isn't bowing to the pressure of liberals. This is bowing to the pressure of conservatives to limit access to plan B.</s>MARQUEZ: But the debate is far from over. Erin McPike in Washington following administration's plans for the drug after this legal defeat. Erin?</s>ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, Miguel. The judge called the order "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," but White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Friday the president stands by the order and called age limits the right thing to do.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Plan B is emergency contraception that helps prevent pregnancy after birth control failure or unprotected sex.</s>MCPIKE (voice-over): The drug, called Plan B, doesn't terminate pregnancy like RU-486, commonly called the abortion pill. Instead, it's meant to prevent pregnancy by using a higher dosage of birth control taken within three days of unprotected sex. And yet the emotional debate over access to the morning-after pill or Plan B stretches back almost a decade, when the Bush administration refused to allow women of any age to obtain it over-the-counter. But in 2006, Bush's FDA eventually ordered Plan B to be made readily available to women 18 years and older. Shortly after Obama took office, it was lowered to 17 and over. But that wasn't enough for the Center for Reproductive Rights, a group that has argued for years that the drug should be widely available to all women. So they pursued the case further. And the FDA agreed. In December 2011, Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement that Plan B "is safe and effective and should be approved for nonprescription use for all females of childbearing potential." On the very same day in an unprecedented move, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled her, keeping the age limit at 17. And heading into campaign season, President Obama agreed.</s>BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The reason Kathleen made this decision was she could not be confident that a 10-year old or an 11-year old going to a drugstore should be able, alongside bubble gum or batteries, be able to buy a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could end up having an adverse affect.</s>MCPIKE (voice-over): Now 16 months later, Federal District Court Judge Edward Korman called Sebelius' decision politically motivated. He ordered the FDA to remove the age limit to make the drug available to all Americans in the next 30 days.</s>MCPIKE: The Justice Department is reviewing its options and may appeal the decision soon, Miguel.</s>MARQUEZ: Erin McPike in Washington, D.C., thank you very much. And the Final Four kicks off in Atlanta this weekend, right next door here at CNN, and we are headed live to the stadium for more on college basketball's biggest games of the year.