does work. meet the president of a country where austety led to growth. finally, fidel castro on yoga. really. first here is my take. it s hard to find any good economic news these days. europe is teetering on the brink, emerging markets like china, brazil and india are slowing down and the united states is in a slump. let me try to cheer you up. the cost of sequencing a human genome is down to $1,000 and it takes two hours. that is an acceleration of capacity that is faster, much faster than moore s law which says that computing part doubles while costs go down by 50% every 18 months. this is likely to be the beginning of a new technology revolution, one that is already transforming american industry. it s a reminder that as we confront difficulties across the xhik landscape, the one area where america can still move from strength to strength is science and technology, if make the right decisions. take, for instance, the decision to fund the mapping of the human genome.
army staff sergeant accused of the unthinkable. walking off base and executing 16 civilians, nine of them children. the sergeant is a qualified sniper trained to hit and kill people at a distance of eight football fields. let s go to chris lawrence. what else do we know about this accused gunman? he s a combat veteran that did three tours in iraq. on the last tour in 2010, his vehicle rolled over. he suffered a traumatic brain injury. the army treated him for that. he was diagnosed and declared fit for duty. he s a married man, a father of two. over the weekend, the military moved his family, his wife and kids on to the military base in the state of washington for their own protection. now, as to what happened here, he left the base, his combat outpost at 3:00 in the morning. the afghan guards noticed he was gone. noticed him leaving. they called their american counter parts. it raised alarms. the americans put a search party together to search for the soldier. at the same