hi, everyone, i'm zinhle essamuah. >> i'm kate snow. "nbc news daily" starts right now. today, friday, march 1st, 2024, prosecutor on defense, closing arguments in the hearing against the georgia district attorney overseeing the state's

trump election interference trial. how she's fighting possible disqualification, and what it could mean for the former president. guilty on all counts, a dramatic conclusion to a headline-grabbing case, a woman convicted for her role in the death of her boyfriend's estranged wife. >> whiteout, a winter storm blanketing parts of california and nevada. traveling anywhere and nearly impossible. how long the intense conditions could last. and all clear, the dramatic decision from the cdc to ease covid isolation guidelines, the new recommendations, and what they really mean to you. thanks so much for ending your week with us, and starting your month. >> yeah, happy friday, happy march 1st. >> that's right, we're going to start this hour in georgia, where closing arguments are under way in a hearing that could dramatically change one of the criminal cases for president donald trump. >> connected to the 2020 election interference case in georgia, the former president, and others, were indicted over alleged efforts to overturn the results in georgia, but today's

hearing centers on the district attorney who's been overseeing the case, fani willis, a judge will decide if she should be disqualified buff alleged misconduct involving her relationship with a lawyer she appointed as a special prosecutor in the case. >> here with the latest nbc news correspondent marissa parra in atlanta, can you bring us up to speed on the highlights here? >> reporter: absolutely. well, kate and zinhle, first i'll start with what we heard so far. today the judge has said he wants it to be focused on the arguments, both the state and the defense have indicated they want to submit further evidence but the judge has said let's wait, i want to hear the arguments first. i may not even need the additional evidence. so, we heard first from the defense, tender attorneys representing either the folks who applied and submitted that initial motion, and of course the co-defendants who joined in on the motion to disqualify willis and her entire team. the defense painting a picture of willis and wade living this lavish lifestyle and of course painting a picture of willis

benefiting financially from this, this wave. we have started to hear from the state but we know over the last couple of weeks there's been a lot of testimony, and they're recapping what we've already heard, and so over the last couple of weeks, remember, we did hear from willis herself, it was a very dramatic moment when she took stand and they have said, they have testified that, yes, they were in a consent sens yule relationship, it lasted about a year and it was after he was appointed as special prosecutor, not before, arguing she did not profit from his work, that they split thecos of whatever trips they were taking but that she paid him in cash. in terms of the stakes here, kate and zinhle, it can't be stated enough, how high the stakes are here, if fani willis is disqualified her entire team would be disqualified with her, and so in terms of what would happen next, that would absolutely shape the outcome of this, or at least have the potential to do so. then they would need to -- there would need to be a non-partisan

council to look for a new attorney to take over the case, time to reassign this and this would be a massive undertaking, a years long endeavor by willis and her team, so it would take time for that attorney to get up to speed on it and then the final note i want to leave you with here, that attorney would be able to make their own judgment on whether to take up some of these charges or drop it all together, which would be a huge political victory for the former president during an election year, kate and zinhle. >> do we have any idea when the judge could make a decision? >> reporter: that is the biggest question of all, and we don't have an indication. we know historically the judge doesn't rule from the bench but he hasn't said that he won't, so it is possible we could find out today, it's also possible he might take some time to write a decision, it's also possible he might say, let's take more time to get more evidence, all things, of course, we are waiting to find out over the next couple of hours. >> zinhle, kate. >> marissa parra for us, thank you. a major blizzard slamming northern california.

>> the national weather service says the safe travel window is over, especially in the sierra nevada mountains, roads are getting buried with snow, already several crashes on interstate 80 just outside lake tahoe, yosemite national park is also closed through at least sunday, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins will have the forecast for us in a moment. but first, we'll go to nbc news correspondent steve patterson who's out in it, near lake tahoe. steve, i see a lot of snow. let us know how the conditions are, around you. >> reporter: yeah, safe to say that we are in it at this point now, kate, the reason for the warnings, if you haven't gotten to your destination, there's no reason to go now. it is now dangerous, the snow has been falling precipitously for a few hours, it's only expected to get worse. i would say, driving here, we're in a tahoe city, california, drove up the east side of lake tahoe, i wouldn't call it, you know, maybe life-threatening, but i would say conditions were a bit treacherous, whiteout

conditions on the roads as you were mentioning one of those major sfwarts i-80 we've already seen several accidents, there is snow on the top of roofs that i can see right now, feet of snow, and of course in the last time this happened, some of those roofs collapsed. this is a very dangerous life-threatening situation for everybody that lives in this area, but especially, especially on the roadways where call trance, those workers trying to do the best they can to keep the roads clear, so people aren't trapped. we spoke to a guy that knows this all too well. a local named kevin cooper, he works for some of the ski resorts in this area, here's the warning he's giving to people about the need to stay off the roads and what's going to happen in the next few hours. listen to this. >> stay off the roads. until caltrans is able to get it open. they have a lot of work to do. this is a lot of snow to move in a short period of time. let them move that snow. saturday, sunday, not the days to ski. come up on monday.

>> reporter: as you might imagine people here like kevin are hardy, they're used to snow systems like this, in fact they went through this last year, so people tell me two things, that no, they aren't afraid of this storm, but secondly, that they are prepared to hunker down, nobody that has been through something like this wants to get on the road right now, so they're buying as many supplies as they can to stay in place for the foreseeable maybe 48 to 72 hours. >> be prepared and stay cautious. bill, bring you in here, as we heard from steve, the snow is coming down, we see it behind him, this storm is going to last for days, take us through the timing, heading into the weekend. >> yeah, so far it's been a typical storm, the first stage is really only the highest of elevations, the heavy snow, we have a 20 inch report from donner peak, palisades, tahoe, and north star around -- 14 inches, but now that the cold front has gone through, the colder air is moving in. we'll see it accumulating quicker, lighter and fluffier, blowing around more, and that's

when things will really get treacherous when tonight during the overnight hours we could see two to three inches per hour so the storm system by this evening breaks into pieces, the cold front that brings in the colder air but there's a moist floi coming in, tomorrow afternoon, evening, sunday, it's lighter, and we're also going to get decent amounts of snow in the southern portions of cascades, areas like los angeles, not a huge rain event for the lower elevations but it's a soggy saturday. rainfall totals around san francisco, higher elevations up to an inch, santa barbara, the mountains up to about an inch, los angeles for yourself, only about a quarter inch, maybe a little higher, half inch to an inch in the mountains. as far as the snow totals go, looking at the possibility of five to ten feet, total, in the highest elevations of the sierra, southern cascades, around two to three feet and even in utah, higher elevations, one to three feet. all the skiers have to be patient and everyone has to stay off the roads until this storm is it finished. >> pack your patience, and stay

safe. meteorologist bill karins and steve patterson, thank you both so much. the largest wildfire in texas history is showing little sign of being contained anytime soon. >> the smokehouse creek fire burned more than 1 million acres of land so far in texas, and parts of oklahoma. it's only 15% contained according to the texas a&m forest service. the smokehouse creek fire is already larger than the top 20 california wildfires, over the past 90 years. nbc news correspondent guad venegas is in hard-hit canadian, texas. what major challenges are firefighters facing rite now to contain these wildfires? >> zinhle, canadian is one of the communities that was struck by this fire, you can see the areas behind me, there's a home that burned down. this is the outskirts of town where the fire quickly came in, and it was the wind, according to one of the witnesses i spoke to, it was the wind that brought it south, and then fastly moved it all on -- across this field, and to the south part of town, so, one of the biggest concerns for authorities here, for fire authorities is the wind picking

up, over the weekend, there's a lot of areas here in texas, with dry vegetation, just like the vegetation that was here before it was all burned down, now some of the properties next to us, were saved because of the roads here that serve as containment, so when we talk about containment, it's crews out there in the middle of these fields building these barriers or clearing the vegetation in these barriers that will help prevent the fire that could begin to spread once the winds pick up again. >> guad, talk about what you're hearing from people there, i mean, some of these homes we've seen are completely destroyed, people are displaced. what are you hearing? >> reporter: right, kate, so you can see, again, the home next to me, completely destroyed, and on the other part of town we went through a neighborhood where many of the houses burned down, we spoke to some of the neighbors, and they said they saw the fire come in, the day they were evacuated and they knew the moment they left how bad things were. we spoke to melanie managing a

hotel where she has to stay because her house burned down. this is what she told us. >> there was some sunshine, and the fire was going that way, and then the wind switched directions and it came this way. at which point it became dark, like night and that's when i got in the -- i said, that's it, i looked at my house, i said good-bye, and thank you, because i knew that i was not going to return to home. >> reporter: now, fortunately we have seen members of the red cross here offering help, there's also help coming from the county, and so there's sort of two fronts to this fire, one is to offer help to those that have been affected, whose houses burned down and to help those firefighters fighting in the outskirts. >> guad venegas for us, thank you. time for today's cnbc money minute, dune part two, expected to bring the spice and end a box office drought. >> a rare lego selling for thousands of dollars. steve kovach is with us now.

hi, steve. >> yeah, first let's talk about this, more than 100,000 bottles of heritage store hydrogen peroxide mouthwash being recalled for potential poisoning risks for children, the bottles did not have child proof packaging required for products containing certain levels of ethanol. the maker of the mouthwash will offer refunds of bottles sold from 2010 to 2023. and here's a big one for me, guys, warner brothers and legendary entertainment dune part 2 is aiming to end a blockbuster drought with an $80 million opening this weekend. no film has made more than $100 million in ticket sales so far this year, leading to a nearly 18% drop from the same period last year. and good will struck some gold gold here, a pennsylvania store received a rare 14 carat gold lego mask and put it on sale for $14.95 without knowing its actual value. well, that was until it started to receive private sales

requests from people, the piece was sold at auction for more than $18,000, which will all go to good will's mission to help change lives for the better. good friday story, guys. >> wait, i have a stupid question, it's not related to the legos, like the brick legos? >> it looks like a little mask. i don't know. yeah. >> if it is -- it's very -- well, it's a rare gold lego. >> there you go. >> allegedly. >> i did not have that in my collection as a kid. >> if you did, you would have made some money. >> made a mint. >> steve kovach, thanks. we talk about the safety concerns about cheaper weight loss drugs, take a look at the risks as they rise in popularity. >> but first, a missing mother, a body never found, and now a conviction, the guilty verdict conviction, the guilty verdict justeached in the r sometimes, the lows of bipolar depression feel darkest before dawn. with caplyta, there's a chance to let in the lyte™. caplyta is proven to deliver significant relief across bipolar depression. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and ii depression.

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a guilty verdict in the case of a connecticut mother who disappeared five years ago. >> jennifer dulos went missing in 2019, her body was never found, but her estranged husband was arrest and had charged with her murder. less than a year later his case never made it to trial because he died by suicide. but his girlfriend at the time michelle traconis was also charged in connection with her disappearance and a jury found her guilty on all counts. we're lucky to have dennis murphy who's been following this case from the very beginning. i know it's part of a two-hour

dateline special tonight, focused on the case. can you take a step back for those of us who might have forgotten the details, how did we get here and why was traconis charged even though jennifer's body was not found? are we having trouble with dennis hearing us? >> we think you may have frozen, we're going to stand by. >> see if we can get that connection back with dennis, and if not, we'll move on to something else and try to go back to him. >> let's take a beat. all right, well, should we -- okay, we're waiting to see if we can reestablish our connection with dennis miller, he has been following this for years, zinhle, i remember when this happened. i don't know if you remember this story, it was really dramatic and all encompassing on the news. >> captivated the nation. >> connecticut and the nation. >> yeah.

>> well, unfortunately we lost dennis but you can watch the dateline special tonight at 9/8 central, and you won't want to miss it. >> we'll see if we can get back to him. scary moments for car karolg. >> her plane's cockpit was filling with smoke. emilie ikeda has the details. >> reporter: a midair scare for superstar karol g, her plane was forced to make an emergency landing in los angeles after the cockpit filled with smoke. abc 7 reporting the aircraft took off from burbank airport thursday evening flying east, but it turned around after the pilots alerted the control tower about smoke. >> van nuys ground, nature of emergency, smoke in the cockpit. >> the star and her entourage walking off the plane and hugging on the tarmac following the landing, no injuries were reported. >> karol g.

>> it comes weeks after her first grammy win, the singer is a global superstar, drawing massive crowds at every show. including at a record breaking concert here on the plaza last year. she also made her acting debut in netflix deny in january. after a big year for the international superstar fans relieved she's safe on the ground following that scary incident in the sky. emilie ikeda, nbc news. >> thank you. coming up, final good-bye, thousands of mourners honor the life of putin opposition leader alexei navalny, the dramatic act of defiance following the kremlin's strong warning about the service. you're watching "nbc news daily." we're streaming for free. watch us wherever you stream live, including every place you see there. we call that the tower here in the studio. >> that's right. >> but all those places, honestly, just search for "nbc news daily," if you want to watch us that way, it is free. watch us that way, it is free. we're streaming

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this is "the fast forward." you will need tire chains if you drive on both highways heading east into tahoe. authorities are warning bay area travellers not to head to the sierra if you don't have to. >> reporter: we are at a judge in livermore. this is the southbound lane. cal transand chp is warning people to stay home. don't go to tahoe this weekend. this storm is just too dangerous. we are getting new video in this

morning from the summit. it's ferocious. this is just the tip of the storm. enough snow in this storm system this weekend to bury homes. they are talking about blizzard conditions. 100 mile per hour winds possibly on the ridgetops. ski resorts are closing. there's no reason for a lot of people to go up there this weekend. this snow is going to be there over the spring break. ski resorts are closing. the resort decided this morning to make a full closure after deciding yesterday to close alpine side. sierra tahoe made that decision for a full closure thursday, breaking the news in a tweet. the news here is that cal trans and others are warning people to just stay home. don't test the elements. this is a lot of snow. it's going to be here for

several weeks. plenty of time to enjoy it with the spring break. >> important information. thank you. that storm is bringing rain across the bay area today. here is kari hall with how that is going to play out. >> we have a lot more rain in the forecast for today and the possibility of some thunderstorms as well. we are watching out for the best chance of thunderstorms later this evening. expect to have to carry around the umbrella as the off and on rain and unsettled weather pattern continues into the weekend as well as early next week. for the sierra, there's a blizzard warning through sunday. winds will gust to 100 miles per hour. at our hour by hour forecast, it does show there will be some breaks in the rain. expecting pockets of heavy downpours that will be with us throughout the day on saturday. we are also going to see more rain in the forecast. a closer look at this and what's

ahead coming up in 30 minutes. governor newsom responding to backlash. the oakland police commission will submit final lifts for the next police chief to the mayor. the candidates participates in a virtual public forum last night. they laid out plans for oakland if they were chief as well as the culture they would create within the police department. the mayor was not there. she says the event itself put candidates at risk with their current employers. it's unclear when she will choose a police chief from that list of finalists. look at your screen. police are looking to speak with this man about a fire at a target store. officers say his image was caught on security cameras. the fire happened saturday afternoon after the target. no one was injured. authorities say it caused $3

million in damages. republican lawmakers are calling for an investigation into governor newsom. that's as the minimum wage for california fast food workers is about to go up to $20 next month. the law includes an exemption for chains that bake and sell their own bread. some opponents say one of the donors, a wealty franchisee for panera is involved. but they say they don't qualify for that exemption. new delays in the crab season. the state is authorizing new funding for ropeless crabbing gear. that would pop up from the ocean floor when they need to use the trap. it removes the vertical fishing line that can hurt whales and sea turtles. that it for "the fast forward."

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bottom of the hour now, some of the stories making headlines on "nbc news daily." >> a man who shot and killed a woman of she mistakenly drove to into his driveway, sentenced into 25 years, he was convicted in second degree murder in the death of kaylin gillis, she got

lost in the woods in upstate new york and ended up driving onto his property. walgreens and cvs will -- mifepristone to be used for abortions, received certification to sell the pill under fda guidelines last year, walgreens and cvs plan to make the pill available in a handful of states first and gradually expand to other states where abortion is legal. opponents of abortion rights have sued the fda in an effort to remove mifepristone from the market. college basket phenom caitlin clark announced she's entering the 2024 wnba draft, her record-setting career with the iowa hawkeyes will end after this year. clark is poised to become college basketball's all-time leading scorer, the record currently held by pete maravich who played for louisiana state 1967 to 1970. caitlin clark is only 18 points away from that record and averages over 30 points a game. if you want tickets to the game on sunday you'll need to pay up.

right now, the average ticket is going for more than $300, the most expensive ever for any women's basketball team. now let's go back to the story we told you about earlier, a guilty verdict today in the case of a connecticut mother who disappeared nearly five years ago. >> her husband was charged and later died by suicide and his girlfriend was charged and found kblt on all counts today. >> we got our connection working with dateline correspondent dennis murphy. you've been following this case since the beginning. i know you're doing a special on it tonight on dateline, remind us how we got here, and why traconis was charged even though jennifer's body was never found. >> yeah, and you're right, it has been a torturous journey to get justice for jennifer. inside the courthouse today in stanford, connecticut, a dramatic and some bear scene, guilty on all counts and then the jurors were polled one by one by the court clerk. michelle traconis slumped in her chair, laid her head down on the defense table and sobbed. so, how did we get here?

first the state had to prove that jennifer dulos, the mother of five had, indeed, been murdered and that her estranged husband fotis was the killer. because he had a live-in girlfriend the investigators wanted to find out what she knew. she talked to homicide detectives for nine hours, the more she talked, the more authorities believe she was in on a murder conspiracy with her lover. they developed a mountain of evidence against her, she altered her stories, and arguably the most damaging piece of evidence was a video of her on a hartford street leaning out of her boyfriend's truck as he dumped bloody clean-up evidence in city bins and down storm drains, she was ultimately charged with conspiracy to commit murder and other counts having to do with evidence tampering, and hindering an investigation. that's the short version of how we got here. >> the details never get easier. can you walk us through what the jury found here? >> yeah, they had -- the major charge, the dynamite charge was

conspiracy to commit murder, this is not standing over the victim with a gun. this is being in on the planning, and entering into a conspiracy with another person, in this case her lover fotis. the argument is that she knew what was going on and they had to persuade the jury he did know all about it. it came back to arcane type of testimony with an alibi phone call that fotis set up for himself when he was 70 miles away down the coast killing his wife, she, michelle, was fielding a call from a friend in greece, sorry, a friend in greece, and that had been argued as an alibi. that he was, in fact, in his home office up in farmington, way up north, and not down south killing his wife. so, she became the alibi witness for him. that was her major problem. >> there's so many twists and turns here, but i think important to remember, there are children involved here on both sides. have we heard anything from the loved ones? >> this is a tragedy that just

spins outside the courtroom. the now convicted person, the girlfriend michelle has a daughter about 17 years old. she is the sole guardian of that child. and then fotis and jennifer had five children. they are now motherless and fatherless and being raised by their elderly grandmother in new york city. they were in and out of the court, both sides of this, the children were there, at various times, they weren't there today. but michelle traconis's parents, she comes from a close family and they have been with her by the side talking to the cameras every day outside the courthouse, including today, and they were just wailing about the injustice of all of this. meanwhile, jennifer has a very close group of friends, support group, who stayed with her all these years and that one or more of them have been to every day of trial and they were there today to finally see justice for jennifer. very, very satisfying, if that's the right word for this awful tragedy.

>> yeah, yeah, it's really torn up the community. dennis murphy, thank you, i want to remind people, they can watch the dateline special tonight, from -- at 9:00/8:00 central. 9 eastern time, 8:00 central here on nbc. let's turn to moscow, where mourners risk retaliation to pay respects to russian opposition leader alexei navalny two weeks after his death. >> thousands of people crowded the church and cemetery where navalny was buried, thousands more followed the procession online. his wife did not attend due to safety concerns. she has accused putin and the kremlin of killing her husband, which they deny. >> josh lederman joins us now. what did we see and hear today at his funeral? >> reporter: well, if there were any doubt, zinhle, the russian government was on edge over the potential outpouring of public support for navalny, in opposition to putin, look no

further than the huge security presence on the streets of moscow today as well as other russian cities, inside that church, in moscow, there was an open casket funeral with red and white flowers laid on the body of alexei navalny, and in that cemetery, they played the theme song from terminator 2, it was a favorite movie of navalny. thus of people were chanting his name. his wife was not there for her safety but he put out a written message, thanking her ex-husband, her widowed husband for 26 years of happiness together, indicating she plans to carry his legacy forward, saying she hopes that she will be able to live up to what he stood for in this world, but we are getting word tonight of at least 125 people who were arrested, detained today throughout russia in more than a dozen cities as they were out

there to support navalny. a lot of more than from the russian government. >> josh lederman, thank you so much. here in the u.s., the demand for weight loss drugs like ozempic, and wegovy is not slowing down but the high price tag is makes it less accessible. >> melissa lee asks if the cheaper drugs are safe. >> hair stylist kelly -- maintaining a healthy weight was never an issue until she had a child. >> i had my son, and me all know, after 30, things just kind of start to change. >> reporter: she wanted to try ozempic, the diabetes medication that's also shown to be effective and popular for weight loss. >> but, the reality was, at $800 a month, it wasn't something that was sustainable for me. >> reporter: when there's a nationwide shortage for a drug like ozempic's active ingredient, fda rules allow for what's known as compounding, the art of mixing and custom making

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don't know where these molecules are coming from, i don't know how pure they are, what else is being added? >> reporter: social media sites like tiktok are flooded with influencers plugging promotions for various compounded medications. >> so you're going to use my code. >> reporter: our team wanted to see how easy it was to get compounded sema gl lutide, eight different sites didn't require blood work, using real health information shouldn't have been approved and all but two sites turned us down, with one, after a quick consult from the doctor, i'm qualified, five questions and that's it. great. >> this nausea, kind of sucks. >> kelli has couple documented her experience on tiktok and sponsored by a telehealth company. she's comfortable with the choice she's made. >> i feel like when you feel like you have no other options, you jump for it, and do what's necessary.

>> reporter: for her, the reward outweighing the risk. for nbc news, melissa lee, new york. >> and be sure to watch nbc news now tonight for cnbc's latest documentary big shot the ozempic revolution, streaming at 9:00 p.m. eastern on nbc news now. well, in today's daily health, a dramatic development surrounding covid for the first time since 2021, the cdc is easing its isolation rules. >> people who test positive for covid no longer need to ice lite themselves from others for five days. joining us now is health reporter aria bendix, it's a big change, right, i had covid in my family over christmas and everybody was isolating. what is the recommendation, and why now? >> there are a few reasons for the change, first, covid hospitalizations and deaths are going down, that's good news. the other reason is just the old recommendations weren't working anymore, people weren't following them, there were different guidelines, people didn't know what they had. weren't staying home. the third is california organ

tested this out, relaxed their guidelines before the cdc and didn't see the much feared spike. the suggests that it could work. stay home if you're sick and once your symptoms get better, you're fever free for 24 hours, go back to school or work, with some added precautions for the next five days. might be masking, testing or hand hygiene. >> people interpret this as covid being less of a threat, or is it more moving into the category of other respiratory illnesses? >> unfortunately we still saw 17,000 hospitalizations, just in the last week, so it's very much a threat, but it's more manageable threat than it ever has been, we have good tools against it, vaccines, anti viral medications so it's becoming more similar to other respiratory viruses where we can say stay home if you're sick. >> these new guidelines apply to everyone or are there some groups that should still be more careful? >> this is a broad recommendation for the public and we do know the cdc acknowledges, other specific groups, older people, young

children, pregnant people, people with weakened immune systems have a higher risk of getting sick so they want to lean in precautions i mentioned, people with weakened immune systems in particular could spread the virus for longer, they might want to lean into testing, because we do know that a positive test is still a good indicator of whether or not you're contagious. >> helpful information as the guidelines have changed. after the break, treating anxiety, why more and more teens and young adults are being prescribed ant

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a few study finds more young adults and teens are being prescribed antidepressants to deal with anxiety and depression. >> young people age 12 to 17 rose 64% since the start of the pandemic in march 2020, according to these findings published by the american academy of pediatrics, and joining us now is dr. yalda, a psychiatrist, and public health expert. thanks for being with us, those numbers are startling. even before the pandemic i know there was a lot of use of antidepressants, and now we're seeing this rise, why do you think that is? >> sure, i've got to start by saying there's nothing wrong with taking antidepressants. >> no. >> i just want to make that clear. we know this, that the mental health of our youth has been deteriorating the past decade or

so. antidepressants are used to treat depression and anxiety and that has been on the rise for the past decade. what happened during the pandemic was our kids were isolated at home, academic structures were broken down, facing their parents losing jobs or losing caregivers to covid. so this already vulnerable population had this extra stress on them. what happened during the pandemic, however, was that care got transitioned to telehealth. so people who couldn't have access to care before because they were in counties that didn't have psychiatrists or child psychiatrists all the sudden had access. authors of the study are saying they don't think the rise you're seeing is necessarily because of need only, they think it's because of access as well. >> increased access to mental health services. >> a positive, right, not a bad thing. >> interestingly, the study found the rate of antidepressant use went up among girls and young women, but declined among young men. do we know why that's happening? >> they don't know exactly why but they have a few theories. in general, females during the

age of puberty years are more prone to anxiety and depression. and females tend to internalize when they're under stress, so it makes them more vulnerable. males tend to externalize. they engage in violence, use substance abuse, and males are less likely to seek care. they seem to think it's not because males were not suffering but because they weren't seeking help. >> we try to talk about mental health a lot. to detig matize. there's no shame if you need it. >> it's really important to share your story, if you're personally struggling with depression and anxiety, when you talk about it it makes people more comfortable to talk about their struggles and to seek help. it's about destigmatizing it. i'm struggling, how are you feeling today. >> there are non-prescription

options. >> from mild to moderate cases, we always recommend therapy first and lifestyle modifications, such as exercising, meditating. for severe, or cases of depression, we would say, go ahead and take an antidepressant. >> what are the signs? when does it get into that territory where you really might want to think about medication? >> it's a little bit different for adolescents versus adults. in adolescents the symptoms of depression are different, they present as irritability, not depressed moods. so for parents it's important if you see drastic differences, if they're more irritable than usual you might think there's something wrong. in adults it's depressed mood, low energy, lack of ability to feel pleasure, not eating, not sleeping, it's a little bit different for the two age groups. >> i'm mindful that as kids grow up you said it, kids get moody, you're going through puberty, so much going on. how can parents be mindful of bigger signs of anxiety and depression. you touched on some of them. >> i would say if there's a drastic change in your kids'

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