We are getting a decision now out of this highstakes CDC meeting to change guidelines for the MMR vaccine, measles, mumps, reubella for kids. Basically saying they should all be separate, not one combined shot. You see the meeting happening there.The advisory committee made up of all new members handpicked by the health secretary meeting at CDC headquarters just months after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . fired everybody who used to sit on that panel.And that was controversial. That remains controversial ...

Other news now, a lot to get to. The former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Manarez, testified in a closely watched hearing yesterday, just weeks after her firing last month by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. NBC News correspondent Anne Thompson reports. I believe preventable diseases will return and I believe that we will have our children harmed for things that we know they do not need to be harmed by. Polio, measles, dtheria, whooping cough.The stakes laid bare by fired ...

Let's get started with NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Melanie Zenona, our public health experts, Dr. . Paul Offett, director of the vaccine education center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and MSNBC medical contributor Dr. . Vin Gupta.Also with us is MSNBC senior enterprise reporter Brandy Zadrznney. Um, now everybody is getting ready for this hearing. We haven't seen everyone take their seats just yet, but just set the stage, why was it important for senators to hear directly from Dr.. Manares ...