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Pope Gets Ready to Come Home; A Look at Male Menopause
Aired March 13, 2005 - 11:15 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RUDI BAKHTIAR, CNN ANCHOR: After two and a half weeks of recovery, the pope gets ready to come home.
ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Alessio Vinci in Rome. Pope John Paul II will be leaving the hospital in less hand one hour's time. I'll have full details coming up. Stay with us.
BAKHTIAR: Also ahead -- something all men should know. A look at male menopause and the treatments that can help.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BAKHTIAR: Welcome back, everyone. After weeks in a hospital, Pope John Paul II is getting ready to return to the Vatican. He's scheduled to be released less than an hour from now. Let's get the latest from our Rome bureau chief Alessio Vinci. Hello Alessio. How's the pope doing?
VINCI: Hello, Rudi. Much better, in fact, everything is ready here out of the Gemelli Polyclinic Rome. I was just seeing the police escort getting ready to escort the pope's car back to the Vatican. It's about a 3 1/2, 4 mile drive from here back to the Vatican. Unclear whether or not -- the pope will not be able to -- will not drive his pope mobile back to the Vatican as he did last February when he was discharged only nine days after being admitted here at the Gemelli Polyclinic. But nevertheless it will be a very public discharge, hundreds of cameras around -- from around the world are ready to beam the picture around the world and indeed many pilgrims also here waiting to just get a glimpse of the pope before he returns to the Vatican.
Now of course, there was much talk here in the media especially whether or not the pope will be able to speak again and today he surprised everyone not by just making a public appearance from his hospital window, but also by pronouncing a few words. He thanked the pilgrims who just gathered outside his hospital window and he said, have a good Sunday. The pope's message was beamed back in St. Peter's Square on giant television screens and there a Vatican official actually read the pope's message where this Sunday, thanked the media, especially for transmitting his words and his messages around the world. He recognized the important and crucial rule that the journalists are playing who have played throughout this period here at the hospital. The pope said thanks to you, I can feel the pilgrims are close to me and also the pilgrims, and also I feel closer to the pilgrims. Back to you, Rudi. BAKHTIAR: No pope mobile, Alessio Vinci, say it ain't so! What's going to be the first line of business for the pope when he gets back?
VINCI: Well, as you know Rudi, next Sunday, a week from now, there is the beginning of the holy week which begins with Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square. We do know that the pope has delegated most of the presiding over these events at the Vatican to trusted cardinals so the pope will be able to make a few appearances during that very important week in the Christian calendar, but we do not expect him to participate, to fully participate in all of these events perhaps making a few appearances here and there. Most likely he will be watching those events from his papal apartment on television.
BAKHTIAR: Our Rome bureau chief, Alessio Vinci, thank you.
Well, after 3 1/2 months after the disaster in Asia, the Federal agency running the tsunami warning center in Hawaii is being sued. We're going to find out why when CNN LIVE SUNDAY returns.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BAKHTIAR: CNN's RELIABLE SOURCES starts in less than 10 minutes. Our Howard Kurtz now has a preview for us.
HOWARD KURTZ, CNN ANCHOR, RELIABLE SOURCES: Coming up, Dan Rather steps down at CBS, Bob Schieffer steps up into the anchor chair and he'll be our special guest to talk about Rather's legacy, his own plan for the broadcast and the future of network evening news. Bob Schieffer in the hot seat ahead on RELIABLE SOURCES.
BAKHTIAR: A look now at the other news developing across America. Former Republican congressman Asa Hutchinson has announced plans to run for governor of Arkansas in the year 2006. Hutchinson recently resigned from his post as undersecretary of homeland security.
In New Jersey the Hamilton mail processing center has a clean bill of health. It will reopen tomorrow, nearly four years after being closed due to anthrax contamination. The facility handled anthrax- laced letters that killed five people and sickened 17 others.
And some survivors of the December tsunami disaster in southeast Asia have filed suit against the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Thai government. They claim the agencies did not do enough to warn and protect people from the deadly flood. U.S. officials have said the system is not set up to warn nations outside the Pacific rim about potential tsunamis.
Now let's check in with our CNN weather center, Rob Marciano. Rob give us good news for this week.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, good news across the south at least for the next 12 hours is unbelievably warm weather, 10 to 15 degrees above normal for places like Atlanta, Georgia, 73 in New Orleans right now, a lot of oranges on the map here. Look at the blues big difference in temperatures and you can get this as we get into spring and typically along that boundary line is where we'll see those showers and maybe some strong thunderstorms pop up later on today.
We are getting some snow across Denver, Colorado. Haven't seen some the last several weeks, so they'll take it, three to five inches total possible as we go through the afternoon, should be tapering off a little bit later on tonight and that kind of stretches into the Ohio River Valley, not a whole lot expected there. The northeast snows from yesterday are pretty much done and this warm air coming off the Gulf of Mexico, springtime setup running into that cold front.
Nothing going on right now, but later on this afternoon, we could see some stronger thunderstorms pop up along that front. 82 Houston, 81 degrees New Orleans, 79 in Miami, meanwhile 45 in New York City. It will be 32 degrees in Chicago. Watch how the blues get a little bit farther to the south tomorrow only in the upper 60s across parts Houston and in New Orleans, 41 degrees for an expected high temperature in New York City.
Just to wrap up yesterday's storm across Maine, 14 inches, east Groton, Mass., 10 inches, Islip, five inches, Central Park, an inch and a half. Winter just doesn't want to go away. Rudi, back over to you.
BAKHTIAR: No, it sure doesn't, although it's really beautiful here in Atlanta today, isn't it.
MARCIANO: Yes it is.
BAKHTIAR: All right. Thanks, Rob.
Well, they're not words you usually hear coming out of a man's mouth.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE WATT: I was irritable a lot. I was depressed.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BAKHTIAR: Ahead, a look at how hormone levels can affect middle aged men.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BAKHTIAR: Welcome back, everyone. Many couples wonder where their love lives went and not only that, they complain about moodiness, irritability, exhaustion. Blame it on hormones? Sure. But whose hormones? Wait until you hear this report from CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): George and Pat Watt married 37 years ago. They've raised children and grandchildren. They've been through so much together, but nothing prepared them for menopause. Not hers. His.
GEORGE WATT: I was irritable a lot, I was depressed.
PAT WATT, WIFE: My daughter told me your dad -- if I didn't know better, I'd swear he's going through menopause.
COHEN: Pat was worried. What had happened to the George she married? George, who is 60, wondered too.
G. WATT: Why when I get done with work and all I want to do is sit on the couch and go to sleep and I don't like doing that. I was always active my whole life.
P. WATT: He would say how he had no sex drive but that was my fault. OK? That was my fault.
G. WATT: We talked about it. And we determined that I needed --
P. WATT: Something was wrong.
G. WATT: Something was wronged and I need to check with somebody.
COHEN: Their family doctor hit the nail on the head. He immediately suspected a lack of testosterone, a hormone that affects mood and sex drive.
G. WATT: And he found it was low. We started the shots.
COHEN: He gets a shot every other week.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, Sweety, ready? Here we go.
COHEN: Now their sex life...
P. WATT: Well, it wasn't any then. But it's there now.
G. WATT: Yep. I'm not as grumpy. I'm not as stressed out.
COHEN: So should all men George's age get testosterone shots? Starting in their 40s, testosterone levels naturally start to slowly decline.
JED DIAMOND, AUTHOR, "MALE MENOPAUSE": Changes of testosterone can affect everything about a man. It can affect his bone density. It can affect his muscle mass, can affect his emotional sensitivity.
COHEN: But experts recommend shots only if the testosterone goes abnormally low, because the shots can have complications such as prostate problems. Some doctors worry testosterone therapy has gotten too popular and hasn't been studied nearly enough. It's certainly easy to see why men like it.
G. WATT: Doing great ever since I got the shot.
COHEN: Things are better now with his wife, with his grandchildren.
G. WATT: Better in other places.
COHEN: Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BAKHTIAR: Good to see him laughing. Thank for watching CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
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Aired March 13, 2005 - 11:15 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RUDI BAKHTIAR, CNN ANCHOR: After two and a half weeks of recovery, the pope gets ready to come home.
ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Alessio Vinci in Rome. Pope John Paul II will be leaving the hospital in less hand one hour's time. I'll have full details coming up. Stay with us.
BAKHTIAR: Also ahead -- something all men should know. A look at male menopause and the treatments that can help.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BAKHTIAR: Welcome back, everyone. After weeks in a hospital, Pope John Paul II is getting ready to return to the Vatican. He's scheduled to be released less than an hour from now. Let's get the latest from our Rome bureau chief Alessio Vinci. Hello Alessio. How's the pope doing?
VINCI: Hello, Rudi. Much better, in fact, everything is ready here out of the Gemelli Polyclinic Rome. I was just seeing the police escort getting ready to escort the pope's car back to the Vatican. It's about a 3 1/2, 4 mile drive from here back to the Vatican. Unclear whether or not -- the pope will not be able to -- will not drive his pope mobile back to the Vatican as he did last February when he was discharged only nine days after being admitted here at the Gemelli Polyclinic. But nevertheless it will be a very public discharge, hundreds of cameras around -- from around the world are ready to beam the picture around the world and indeed many pilgrims also here waiting to just get a glimpse of the pope before he returns to the Vatican.
Now of course, there was much talk here in the media especially whether or not the pope will be able to speak again and today he surprised everyone not by just making a public appearance from his hospital window, but also by pronouncing a few words. He thanked the pilgrims who just gathered outside his hospital window and he said, have a good Sunday. The pope's message was beamed back in St. Peter's Square on giant television screens and there a Vatican official actually read the pope's message where this Sunday, thanked the media, especially for transmitting his words and his messages around the world. He recognized the important and crucial rule that the journalists are playing who have played throughout this period here at the hospital. The pope said thanks to you, I can feel the pilgrims are close to me and also the pilgrims, and also I feel closer to the pilgrims. Back to you, Rudi. BAKHTIAR: No pope mobile, Alessio Vinci, say it ain't so! What's going to be the first line of business for the pope when he gets back?
VINCI: Well, as you know Rudi, next Sunday, a week from now, there is the beginning of the holy week which begins with Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square. We do know that the pope has delegated most of the presiding over these events at the Vatican to trusted cardinals so the pope will be able to make a few appearances during that very important week in the Christian calendar, but we do not expect him to participate, to fully participate in all of these events perhaps making a few appearances here and there. Most likely he will be watching those events from his papal apartment on television.
BAKHTIAR: Our Rome bureau chief, Alessio Vinci, thank you.
Well, after 3 1/2 months after the disaster in Asia, the Federal agency running the tsunami warning center in Hawaii is being sued. We're going to find out why when CNN LIVE SUNDAY returns.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BAKHTIAR: CNN's RELIABLE SOURCES starts in less than 10 minutes. Our Howard Kurtz now has a preview for us.
HOWARD KURTZ, CNN ANCHOR, RELIABLE SOURCES: Coming up, Dan Rather steps down at CBS, Bob Schieffer steps up into the anchor chair and he'll be our special guest to talk about Rather's legacy, his own plan for the broadcast and the future of network evening news. Bob Schieffer in the hot seat ahead on RELIABLE SOURCES.
BAKHTIAR: A look now at the other news developing across America. Former Republican congressman Asa Hutchinson has announced plans to run for governor of Arkansas in the year 2006. Hutchinson recently resigned from his post as undersecretary of homeland security.
In New Jersey the Hamilton mail processing center has a clean bill of health. It will reopen tomorrow, nearly four years after being closed due to anthrax contamination. The facility handled anthrax- laced letters that killed five people and sickened 17 others.
And some survivors of the December tsunami disaster in southeast Asia have filed suit against the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Thai government. They claim the agencies did not do enough to warn and protect people from the deadly flood. U.S. officials have said the system is not set up to warn nations outside the Pacific rim about potential tsunamis.
Now let's check in with our CNN weather center, Rob Marciano. Rob give us good news for this week.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, good news across the south at least for the next 12 hours is unbelievably warm weather, 10 to 15 degrees above normal for places like Atlanta, Georgia, 73 in New Orleans right now, a lot of oranges on the map here. Look at the blues big difference in temperatures and you can get this as we get into spring and typically along that boundary line is where we'll see those showers and maybe some strong thunderstorms pop up later on today.
We are getting some snow across Denver, Colorado. Haven't seen some the last several weeks, so they'll take it, three to five inches total possible as we go through the afternoon, should be tapering off a little bit later on tonight and that kind of stretches into the Ohio River Valley, not a whole lot expected there. The northeast snows from yesterday are pretty much done and this warm air coming off the Gulf of Mexico, springtime setup running into that cold front.
Nothing going on right now, but later on this afternoon, we could see some stronger thunderstorms pop up along that front. 82 Houston, 81 degrees New Orleans, 79 in Miami, meanwhile 45 in New York City. It will be 32 degrees in Chicago. Watch how the blues get a little bit farther to the south tomorrow only in the upper 60s across parts Houston and in New Orleans, 41 degrees for an expected high temperature in New York City.
Just to wrap up yesterday's storm across Maine, 14 inches, east Groton, Mass., 10 inches, Islip, five inches, Central Park, an inch and a half. Winter just doesn't want to go away. Rudi, back over to you.
BAKHTIAR: No, it sure doesn't, although it's really beautiful here in Atlanta today, isn't it.
MARCIANO: Yes it is.
BAKHTIAR: All right. Thanks, Rob.
Well, they're not words you usually hear coming out of a man's mouth.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE WATT: I was irritable a lot. I was depressed.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BAKHTIAR: Ahead, a look at how hormone levels can affect middle aged men.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BAKHTIAR: Welcome back, everyone. Many couples wonder where their love lives went and not only that, they complain about moodiness, irritability, exhaustion. Blame it on hormones? Sure. But whose hormones? Wait until you hear this report from CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): George and Pat Watt married 37 years ago. They've raised children and grandchildren. They've been through so much together, but nothing prepared them for menopause. Not hers. His.
GEORGE WATT: I was irritable a lot, I was depressed.
PAT WATT, WIFE: My daughter told me your dad -- if I didn't know better, I'd swear he's going through menopause.
COHEN: Pat was worried. What had happened to the George she married? George, who is 60, wondered too.
G. WATT: Why when I get done with work and all I want to do is sit on the couch and go to sleep and I don't like doing that. I was always active my whole life.
P. WATT: He would say how he had no sex drive but that was my fault. OK? That was my fault.
G. WATT: We talked about it. And we determined that I needed --
P. WATT: Something was wrong.
G. WATT: Something was wronged and I need to check with somebody.
COHEN: Their family doctor hit the nail on the head. He immediately suspected a lack of testosterone, a hormone that affects mood and sex drive.
G. WATT: And he found it was low. We started the shots.
COHEN: He gets a shot every other week.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, Sweety, ready? Here we go.
COHEN: Now their sex life...
P. WATT: Well, it wasn't any then. But it's there now.
G. WATT: Yep. I'm not as grumpy. I'm not as stressed out.
COHEN: So should all men George's age get testosterone shots? Starting in their 40s, testosterone levels naturally start to slowly decline.
JED DIAMOND, AUTHOR, "MALE MENOPAUSE": Changes of testosterone can affect everything about a man. It can affect his bone density. It can affect his muscle mass, can affect his emotional sensitivity.
COHEN: But experts recommend shots only if the testosterone goes abnormally low, because the shots can have complications such as prostate problems. Some doctors worry testosterone therapy has gotten too popular and hasn't been studied nearly enough. It's certainly easy to see why men like it.
G. WATT: Doing great ever since I got the shot.
COHEN: Things are better now with his wife, with his grandchildren.
G. WATT: Better in other places.
COHEN: Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
BAKHTIAR: Good to see him laughing. Thank for watching CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
