Russ Mitchell, Rebecca Jarvis, Betty Nguyen, Lonnie Quinn
CBS The Early Show
02-19-2011
REBECCA JARVIS: This is a sunny winter Saturday in New York City. Welcome to THE EARLY SHOW. I`m Rebecca Jarvis.
RUSS MITCHELL: And I`m Russ Mitchell. Coming up, we`re going to talk about something called alarm fatigue. You know, when you go to the hospital or a loved one goes to the hospital they hook you up to those monitors-- REBECCA JARVIS: Hm-Hm.
RUSS MITCHELL: --which go off frequently, many times with false alarms.
Well, some nurses have become desensitized to that and The Boston Globe did an investigation and found that some two hundred deaths-- REBECCA JARVIS: Mm-Hm.
RUSS MITCHELL: --have-- that have been the result of monitor problems.
We`re going to talk about that in just a moment.
REBECCA JARVIS: That`s terrible. And Doctor Jennifer Ashton will be along to tell us how to get over it, how to make sure-- RUSS MITCHELL: Exactly.
REBECCA JARVIS: --that your loved ones are safe. Also travel deals. It`s a long holiday weekend we have coming up. And on top of that it`s the dead of winter. Well, there`s still some deals to be had, some places that you can get to on a good budget. We got that.
RUSS MITCHELL: This is-- well, this is Presidents` Day weekend. And our expert is going to tell us that it`s not too late this weekend to go out.
REBECCA JARVIS: You can still book it right now.
RUSS MITCHELL: You can do it right now and get a good deal.
REBECCA JARVIS: Right after the show.
RUSS MITCHELL: That`s right. That`s right. We will see. But first, our top story this hour, the revolutionary fever sweeping across the Middle East.
One of the most violent places has been the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy`s Fifth Fleet. CBS News correspondent Allen Pizzey is in the capital of Manama this morning. Allen, what`s the latest?
ALLEN PIZZEY (on phone): I`m standing in the middle of a victory, Russ.
The-- the police have withdrawn. Protesters have taken over Pearl Square.
They`re sitting up on the monument waving flags, cheering every ambulance that comes past. At this time the ambulances aren`t carrying dead and wounded they`re just here to celebrate. The-- the security forces were withdrawn on orders of the crown prince as part of a deal to negotiate with the protesters. He-- he went on television and thanked everyone for-- for the peaceful way in which he said this was done. Now, the interesting thing is this square is Bahrain`s equivalent of Tahrir Square in Cairo. The protesters wanted it as a symbol and a place to focus attention for their demands. Well, now, they`ve got that focal point but their demands have still not been met. When they gathered here today in near thousands they said they want the-- the government to go. That`s probably not going to happen so it`ll be interesting to see how long this mood of euphoria lasts.
In fact, off to my right some distance away a huge cloud of smoke is wafting into the air. We don`t-- we didn`t hear an explosion. We don`t know what it is but, obviously, something has gone wrong over there. But right now, here at the foot of this Pearl Monument, which-- the Pearl is the symbol of Bahrain, it`s what it was founded on the pearling industry, right now there`s a mood of jubilation akin to that in Tahrir Square a couple of weeks ago in Cairo. The people think they have won, although the vi-- the war, of course, is still not over. Russ.
RUSS MITCHELL: Allen Pizzey in Bahrain. Fast-moving events today. Allen, thanks a lot. We`re going to have more later tonight, of course, in the CBS EVENING NEWS. Rebecca.
REBECCA JARVIS: Yeah, this domino effect, Russ, is fascinating as antigovernment protests have spread across the Middle East. Other governments are not reacting as peacefully as the Egyptian military has.
CBS News correspondent Terry McCarthy is live from Cairo with more. Good morning, Terry. And what`s the latest from these growing hot spots in the Middle East?
TERRY MCCARTHY: Well, Rebecca, unlike the negotiations that now seem to be going on in Bahrain, in Libya, the government has gone in really hard. We understand that in the early hours of this morning, the Libyan special forces attacked a-- an encampment of protesters outside the courthouse in the eastern city of Benghazi, which has been the focus of this anti-Gaddafi unrest. They went in very hard. We believe there were a number of people killed. The human rights organizations are now saying that about eighty- four people have died in Libya in the last four days alone. Gaddafi has cut off the internet out of Libya, and he`s also ordered the police now to withdraw from Benghazi. We understand in that city now there`s looting, people are very unsure of what`s going to happen. The other hot spot we`re watching is Yemen. And yet again this morning a-- a-- police opened live fire on protesters, one person was killed, four more injured. And in the southern city of Aden, we`re also seeing the police withdrawing from the streets and more chaos there. Rebecca.
REBECCA JARVIS: Terry McCarthy in Cairo. Thank you. We appreciate it.
And now for another check of the headlines, CBS News correspondent and MORNING NEWS anchor Betty Nguyen is at the news desk. Hey, Betty.
BETTY NGUYEN: Good morning Rebecca. And good morning to you at home. Early this morning, the republican-controlled House passed a bill that makes deep cuts to federal spending. The measure passed along party lines. It slashes funding to President Obama`s signature legislation which is health care.
Republicans say the sixty-one billion dollars in cuts are necessary to reduce the federal deficit. Now, this sets up the possibility of a government shut-down if the House cannot reach a compromise with the Senate.
Fourteen Democrat state lawmakers in Wisconsin have left the state vowing to stay in hiding for weeks in a standoff with Republicans over a plan to balance the budget. By leaving the state, Democrats have stalled a vote on Republican Governor Scott Walker`s proposal to cut state workers` pay, benefits, and bargaining rights. The plan has sparked massive demonstrations by teachers, students, and public employees. And more are expected today. We`ll continue to follow that story.
Also this, Somali pirates have struck again hijacking-- hijacking that is a yacht carrying four Americans off the coast of Somalia. That yacht is identified as the SV Quest owned by Jean and Scott Adam of California.
They`ve been sailing around the world since December 2004. A U.S. embassy spokesman in Kenya says all relevant U.S. agencies are monitoring the situation and assessing options.
When Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was a state senator, he was an advocate for victims of sexual abuse. Now part of the reason may be that Brown himself was the victim of sexual abuse. The Republican lawmaker spoke with 60 MINUTES correspondent Lesley Stahl.
LESLEY STAHL (60 MINUTES): I heard that not many years ago, Larry`s house, that house came up for sale and you actually thought about buying it.
SENATOR SCOTT BROWN (60 MINUTES): I actually called the realtor and went in and took the tour and relived kind of where everything was, and put it-- to make sure I wasn`t kind of dreaming and then I-- as I left, I said, man, I wish I had the money, I`d just buy this thing and burn it down.
LESLEY STAHL: So you want to buy it to burn it down?
SENATOR SCOTT BROWN: That`s it, yeah. It`s a beautiful house. The people who lived there I`m sure they love it. But, you know, if the walls could talk.
LESLEY STAHL: Right. Well, they talk now.
SENATOR SCOTT BROWN: Yeah.
BETTY NGUYEN: And you can see Lesley Stahl`s complete 60 MINUTES interview with Senator Scott Brown tomorrow night at seven Eastern, six Central here on CBS.
It`s about six minutes after the hour. Time now for a check of the weather with Lonnie Quinn. Hopefully, you have some nice things in store for many people around the nation.
LONNIE QUINN: It depends on where you live. And not-- yeah.
BETTY NGUYEN: Not-- I`ll say particular but some other folks.
LONNIE QUINN: Although, you know, you look out that window right now, it looks good outside.
BETTY NGUYEN: So far so good.
LONNIE QUINN: But I will tell you it`s all part of my headlines, Betty, the fact that the gusty winds right outside that window, but it`s for the entire Northeast. It`s delightful in the South. So there`s the beautiful weather that Betty is asking about. Strong storm, though, out West, pushing onshore. Take a look here. We`re talking a low-pressure system bringing a lot of rain to Los Angeles. But it`s snow for the higher elevations, heavy mountain snow. I`m talking about the possibility for seeing a foot or more.
And here`s what it looks like in the rad-- in the radar picture. All of this tomorrow makes its push to places like the Dakotas, and end up in-- ending up, up around the-- around the thumb of Michigan. We`ll have more on all of this.
But that`s a quick look at that portion of the country. Here`s a closer look at the weather for your weekend.
(LOCAL WEATHER BREAK) LONNIE QUINN: All right. Everybody hope you make it a great day. Russ, let`s go over to you.
RUSS MITCHELL: Okay. Lonnie, thank you very much.
A Boston Globe investigation has uncovered a dangerous hospital trend. More than two hundred deaths nationwide are caused by problems with patient monitor alarms. And in many of those cases it`s believed something called alarm fatigue is to blame. Alarm fatigue reverse to the response of nurses to more than a dozen types of alarms that can sound hundreds of times a day. And many of those calls are false alarms. The result--nurses become desensitized to distress calls and fail to react with enough urgency or react at all when a real emergency happens. Joining us now from Boston is Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe health care reporter who broke the story.
Liz, good morning to you.
LIZ KOWALCZYK (Healthcare and Medical reporter, Boston Globe): Good morning.
RUSS MITCHELL: It is a fascinating investigation. Take us back to the reporting of this. How did you-- how did you conduct your investigation?
LIZ KOWALCZYK: Well, we wanted to see if we could find out how many patients are actually harmed by alarm fatigue. So we analyzed reports that hospitals made to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over the last five years as well as to two states that track these types of incidents-- Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
RUSS MITCHELL: Uh-Huh.
LIZ KOWALCZYK: We also-- we also talked to dozens of nurses, doctors, who oversee patients safety in hospitals, monitor makers, FDA officials, and also families.
RUSS MITCHELL: Liz, let me ask you this in your investigation did you find this problem is getting worse or better?
LIZ KOWALCZYK: Well, data-- exact data is hard to come by. But many people who work in health care do think it`s getting worse. ECRI, the nonprofit organization that helped us research the FDA reports, says hospitals are using many, many more devices that sound alarms. As a result more patients are hooked up to monitors.
RUSS MITCHELL: Uh-Huh.
LIZ KOWALCZYK: And there are many more alarms going off.
RUSS MITCHELL: Liz, very quickly, were hospitals surprised when they saw this investigation?
LIZ KOWALCZYK: Well, I don`t think hospitals that have had patient deaths were surprised. Many of them are working to try to improve their monitoring. But nurses and doctors will tell you that the manufacturers also need to improve the technology and reduce the huge number of false alarms which play a major role in desensitizing nurses.
RUSS MITCHELL: Okay. Liz Kowalczyk of The Boston Globe. We thank you so much for joining us today.
LIZ KOWALCZYK: You`re welcome.
RUSS MITCHELL: You take care. And with us right now is Doctor Jennifer Ashton, who`s going to talk about what we can do in the hospital if-- if we`re in the hospital or if our loved one is there as well. Good morning, Jen.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON (EARLY SHOW Medical Correspondent): Good morning, Russ.
RUSS MITCHELL: You know-- you know first thing you say is to-- talk to the doctor, talk to the nurse and find out what these monitors are for, correct?
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: Correct. Because this is possibly an issue here where technology designed to make things safer and better may actually be doing more harm than good. So the fact of the matter is, Russ, these monitors detect heart rate, respiratory or breathing rate, your blood pressure, and the amount of oxygen in your blood. So if you or someone you know is put on one of these monitors the first question you want to ask for what is this actually for--is it specifically to look at their heart rate or respiratory rate?
RUSS MITCHELL: Yeah.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: And therefore-- because that can then help you determine really what will go on if one of them goes off by mistake.
RUSS MITCHELL: I know my parents in the hospital, alarms going off all the time I didn`t know what they were for. And in hindsight I wish I had asked.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: Exactly.
RUSS MITCHELL: Good thing to do.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: And-- and the next question you really want to ask is, is it necessary? Because as we just heard these are not just used in intensive care unit or ICU settings anymore, they`re also used in the emergency room. They`re used even on some general patient floors. So you want to ask is this necessary? The answer will either be this is a hospital policy every single patient gets one or specifically you or your loved one- - RUSS MITCHELL: Mm-Hm.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: --is having a problem with their heart that`s why we have them on the monitor.
RUSS MITCHELL: In the hospital, whose job is it to track these monitors and make sure that what`s going on is the right thing?
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: Well, it depends on the hospital. Some hospitals delegate that to the nurses and, of course, they have multiple jobs. Some hospitals are actually paying monitor monitors, or people to watch these monitors. So one of the other questions that you really want to ask is what do you-- what do I do if this monitor goes off?
RUSS MITCHELL: Mm.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: They are so sensitive, Russ.
RUSS MITCHELL: Mm-Hm.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: That if the patient moves or coughs or sits up, they can go off. And you don`t want to-- you don`t want to silence an alarm. You want to know who do I go to get if this alarm makes a noise?
RUSS MITCHELL: The doctor or the nurse let`s say is not present when you`re checking in or you`re checking that loved one, who`s the first person you go to, to ask these questions?
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: Well, generally you want to find the nurse. And we have to remember the nurses here are not just following these monitors, they`re giving medications, they`re assisting doctors in procedures, changing dressings. They are incredibly busy. They often have many patients to care for. Nurses that I`ve spoken to find that it does kind of set up a cry-wolf scenario-- RUSS MITCHELL: Mm-Hm.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: --where these monitors go off, sometimes every ninety seconds just on one patient. And they`re constantly silencing them, taking them away-- RUSS MITCHELL: Got you.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: --from giving good patient care.
RUSS MITCHELL: Oh, my goodness. Doctor Jennifer Ashton, thanks a lot.
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON: You bet, Russ.
RUSS MITCHELL: We`ll see you next time.
Up next, her memoir inspired the Julia Roberts hit Eat, Pray, Love. Early Coffee with best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert, that`s when THE EARLY SHOW continues.
(ANNOUNCEMENTS) REBECCA JARVIS: In this morning`s Early Coffee, we`re joined by best- selling author Elizabeth Gilbert. Her 2006 memoir Eat, Pray, Love has sold over eleven million copies worldwide and was made into a movie starring Julia Roberts. Where Eat, Pray, Love ends Committed continues and it comes out in paperback this month. Elizabeth Gilbert joining us now. Good morning. Great to have you with us.
ELIZABETH GILBERT (Life after Eat, Pray, Love): Hi, it`s wonderful to be here.
REBECCA JARVIS: Well, and we`re so excited to have you here. This whole success, your life since Eat, Pray, Love, how much has changed for you?
ELIZABETH GILBERT: Well, you know, it`s funny, people say to me right now, oh, my God, this amazing thing happened, your book became this big hit, life must be so crazy right now. And I always think, no, it was crazy before. The reason-- REBECCA JARVIS: How so?
ELIZABETH GILBERT: Well, the reason I had to go on that journey to-- to discover myself was because my life had become crazy.
REBECCA JARVIS: Mm-Hm.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: I had gone through this very bad divorce, this very bad rebound relationship. I really needed to sort myself out. Everything that`s come after Eat, Pray, Love has been wonderful.
REBECCA JARVIS: That`s so-- ELIZABETH GILBERT: It`s-- it`s what-- REBECCA JARVIS: --good to hear.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: --it`s what happened before when I was poor and obscure.
I made my own craziness. You know, but-- but now it`s just been-- it`s just been a lovely blessing, the whole thing.
REBECCA JARVIS: A lovely blessing. And you`ve just shared so much, so much personal information about yourself through Eat, Pray, Love, and now through Committed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: Mm-Hm.
REBECCA JARVIS: What`s it like to dig inside yourself and then share so much of that material with millions upon millions of people?
ELIZABETH GILBERT: You know I was a journalist for a long time. And, you know, when you`re a journalist as you know, you ask people to open up.
REBECCA JARVIS: Hm.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: And in order to tell a story they need to. And I had felt like if I`ve asked this of other people, when it comes to time to tell my own story the least I can do is be as honest and candid as I would hope people would be with me when I was on the other side, you know, almost like I was the subject of my own investigation.
REBECCA JARVIS: That`s really big of you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: You know I-- I think if you`re going to do a memoir you have to do it or not do it.
REBECCA JARVIS: Mm-Hm.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: But, you know, there`s other ways that-- I`m a really private person. I don`t blog. I don`t tweet. I can hardly even say tweet without being embarrassed. You know, I-- I update my website like once a year. So I`m-- you know, I have a really private life. It`s just that I`ve written these two books that are open.
REBECCA JARVIS: You`ve set the bar pretty high-- ELIZABETH GILBERT: Yeah.
REBECCA JARVIS: --with Eat, Pray, Love and now Committed.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: Yeah.
REBECCA JARVIS: Tell us a little bit more about Committed and where that goes? It picks up where Eat, Pray, Love left.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: So readers of Eat, Pray, Love will know that at the end of that journey I fell in love with this wonderful Brazilian gentleman, who is living in Bali, and we started a kind of intercontinental love story.
Neither of us wanted to get married but we wanted to stay together. We were committed to each other but we were both afraid of matrimony having been through really unpleasant divorces. And those plans changed the day that he was detained by the Homeland Security Department at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport very unexpectedly-- REBECCA JARVIS: An everyday occurrence.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: --taken away from me in handcuffs and the nice gentleman at the-- at the airport told me that the only way I could get him back in this country was to marry him. So we were sort of pushed to wed, which is not something any of us had planned for. And the book is about exploring marriage, and exploring my fears of marriage, exploring the history of marriage, talking to members of my family about it, traveling all over world, talking to every woman I met and trying to find a place of comfort for myself in this idea.
REBECCA JARVIS: And what do you have in the works now?
ELIZABETH GILBERT: I`m going back to writing fiction. I think that`s enough memoirs for now.
REBECCA JARVIS: Elizabeth Gilbert has shared enough with Elizabeth Gilbert with the world.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: I think so for now.
REBECCA JARVIS: Speaking of sharing if you had to share Early Coffee with anyone who would it be?
ELIZABETH GILBERT: You know I was thinking about this and I would have to say I wish that I could have had a cup of coffee like this with my grandmother-- REBECCA JARVIS: Hmm.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: --my paternal grandmother before she passed away. She died when I was fifteen and I never got a chance to talk to her as an adult about questions of love and marriage and relationship and I-- I would give anything to be able to access that wisdom now.
REBECCA JARVIS: Well, we`re so happy that we were able to access your wisdom today.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: Thank you.
REBECCA JARVIS: Elizabeth Gilbert. Thanks so much for sharing all of yourself with us-- ELIZABETH GILBERT: Thanks, Rebecca.
REBECCA JARVIS: --and with so many millions of people. We appreciate it.
ELIZABETH GILBERT: Thank you. It`s a pleasure.
REBECCA JARVIS: And to read an excerpt from Committed, go to our website cbsnews.com/saturday. Now here`s Russ.
RUSS MITCHELL: Thanks, Rebecca.
Up next, steals and deals for the last-minute traveler. You`re watching THE EARLY SHOW on CBS. That looks nice.
(ANNOUNCEMENTS) RUSS MITCHELL: Here`s some great news just thirty days from today, spring begins. But if you can`t wait that long for a break there is still time to book an amazing deal on a quick, winter getaway even for this weekend.
Sarah Spagnolo is the digital projects editor for Travel and Leisure magazine and she joins us with five travel deals to get you through the rest of the winter. Sarah, good morning to you.
SARAH SPAGNOLO (Digital Projects Editor, Travel + Leisure): Good morning.
RUSS MITCHELL: You`re not-- you`re kidding me. It`s Saturday. It`s not too late to get a deal this weekend to go out of town?
SARAH SPAGNOLO: This weekend we`re recommending a last-minute deal to Philadelphia. You`ll be staying at the Loews, Philadelphia-- RUSS MITCHELL: Okay.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: --a hundred and sixty-nine dollars a night. You`ll stay in the one of the oldest skyscrapers in the city. You know, it`s of course a very historic city. It`s where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
And, in fact, the President`s House, which served as the White House from 1790 to-- to 1800-- RUSS MITCHELL: Uh-Huh.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: --is just reopened as a museum. So if you`re looking for last-minute get away, consider Philadelphia.
RUSS MITCHELL: Interesting. If you`re thinking about going somewhere else it is the last minute. And what tips would you have for us to get a last- minute deal because usually when you do stuff this late it`s much more expensive.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: That`s true. Lastminute.com is a great resource if you`re looking for a last-minute escapes. You can search based on typr of trip such as romantic, food and wine, music--lastminute.com a great place to go.
RUSS MITCHELL: Okay. As we said spring begins in thirty days-- SARAH SPAGNOLO: Yeah.
RUSS MITCHELL: --you can`t wait that long and you want to go to warmer weather, what`s out there that`s good and a good deal?
SARAH SPAGNOLO: Many people think of Florida when they think of warm weather. Consider Naples. The Naples Bay Resort, which is a preferred hotel-- RUSS MITCHELL: Mm-Hm.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: --and they have a great rate there for a hundred and eighty-nine dollars a night. You can stay right by the water. You have complimentary shuttle service to the Naples Pier so you can do great shopping, great dining. Stay at a marina, go on a lazy river. So there`s all sorts of wonderful things to do in Naples. And the average temperature there right now seventy-six degrees.
RUSS MITCHELL: Oh, not bad at all as you said that looks beautiful.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: Yes.
RUSS MITCHELL: Very-- very nice. Okay, a lot of people want to go skiing at the last minute-- SARAH SPAGNOLO: Skiing.
RUSS MITCHELL: --that can cost a lot of money for-- for many reasons. Last- minute skiing deals.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: Last-minute skiing it`s not expensive, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, consider the Spring Creek Ranch which is very beautiful. Eighty- eight dollars per person. They throw in a complimentary lift ticket so that you can ski the twenty-five hundred skiable acres, one hundred and sixteen trails. So much to do there you can see some of the skiing options--- RUSS MITCHELL: Yeah.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: --the beautiful hotel. In your room you`ll have a roaring fireplace, so if you`re looking for an affordable escape that`s a great one for you.
RUSS MITCHELL: Okay, golfers. You know, this is the time of year you want to go out and play some golf. If you live in a place like New York, cold weather place like that, you probably haven`t played in a while, any good deals out there?
SARAH SPAGNOLO: The place to think about when you`re thinking about golf, of course, is Arizona. You might want to consider the JW Marriott Desert Ridge, which is actually just north of Scottsdale. Also this week, home to spring training so everybody looking- RUSS MITCHELL: Hmm.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: --for sports activities are in Phoenix right now. A great deal there, a hundred and eighty-nine dollars a night, which is actually fifty percent off their standing rate. This is a beautiful hotel, very large, nine hundred and fifty rooms- RUSS MITCHELL: Hmm.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: --but they throw in unlimited golf, so for this great deal you can golf to your heart`s content.
RUSS MITCHELL: Okay. What if you want to get out of the country?
SARAH SPAGNOLO: Last but not least Todos Santos, Mexico, on the on the Baja Peninsula. There temperatures hover around seventy degrees actually today.
You can stay at a beautiful hotel called Rancho Pescadero, twenty-seven rooms right on the water. Imagine finishing a 9 AM yoga class, you`re greeted with a tropical fruit smoothie. Two hundred dollars a night, warm weather, beautiful escape. Everything you might want right now.
RUSS MITCHELL: Hmm. Very nice so you gave us some tips on what to do.
What`s the biggest mistake people make when they`re trying to make a last- minute deal like they would be doing right now?
SARAH SPAGNOLO: I think the biggest mistake is to not do your research. Go to travelandleisure.com. Of course, go to lastminute.com. Compare prices.
Kayak is a great way if you`re looking for-- it`s a great resource if you`re looking to compare airfare. And just, you know, do a little bit of homework and you`ll find there are great last-minute deals.
RUSS MITCHELL: Yeah. As we look down the road, let`s say the-- the next summer does it appears, though, these choices are going to go down, they`re going to be at the same with the recession, people are offering deals again. What do you think?
SARAH SPAGNOLO: I think there`s no way to anticipate but savvy travelers know that there are plenty of great options so, you know, do your research.
Go to travelandleisure.com.
RUSS MITCHELL: Right.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: I can`t say it enough- RUSS MITCHELL: Okay.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: --and, you know, you`ll find great stuff to-- to do coming up.
RUSS MITCHELL: That was travelandleisure.com, you said.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: Yes.
RUSS MITCHELL: Okay. Sarah Spagnolo. Thanks a lot.
SARAH SPAGNOLO: Thank you.
RUSS MITCHELL: Nice advice.
Coming up, our love panel is back to tackle a big issue in relationships-- is silence truly golden, huh? Your local news is next.
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