System and the industries that are so much part of the United States economy. Thank you for doing that. And i apologize, mr. Chairman, for going so far over my time. No thats fine. Senator murray do you have any closing remarks. Dr. Murray, well stated. Thank you for both of your testimony. This was a good hearing. Senator alexander, i look forward to working with you on that. Thank you. And dr. Collins, do you know off hand, you mentioned the success rate has declined over the years. What about the absolute number of grants . Has that gone up . The absolute number of grants that we fund versus that we receive. It has bounced around, it was 10,000 30 years ago it was id have to get you the number. I was trying to compare that to the success rate. But the biomedical community has grown. It would be interested to see that. Thank you to both of you. Thank you for being here. Very important that you were here and we thank you for your six years of service at fda. And i hope youll accept ou
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Nap before doing the afternoon show . No naps. I always say nobody should have to go to work before there is a starbucks in the neighborhood. Japans nikkei closed above 65. That was the First Time Since 2007. Weakestnese yen at its against the dollar in five years. Yen goes down, that is good for japanese exporters. 8 30 eastern, we have the initial jobless claims. It tells us a lot. On a weekly basis. It is only on bloomberg. Outside the u. S. , little boxing action in the u. K. The biggest shopping day of the year. It is always after christmas. Tom will be at bergdorfs. You will be at saks. Kohls . Me. O kohls for people of thousands of had to abandon their own christmas celebrations because of heavy rain. He Environmental Agency in the u. K. Warned flooding could get worse. Not everybody celebrating on boxing day. Check, there is some quiet before futures start trading. Do have a green screen to start off. S p futures almost three points up. They are gaining some momentum of the mor
Chemical spill . Charleston. Health officials warning people not to drink, bathe, or even cook with the water. Jonathan thousands of people affected by the spill. What are they doing for water . Reporter well at this point, fema and the Emergency Management groups brought in 12 big tankers of water. But if you go into some of these Grocery Stores bottled water is hard to come by. We are told that some 300,000 people have been told not to use their tap water, only to flush or in an emergency situation like fire. But authorities are trying to figure out how big of an issue this is. This all came to light yesterday early in the day when this company, freedom industries, reported a leak into the elk river from their facility. No one really knew how serious it was, how bad it was, but people around here started reporting a strange smell. People said it smelled like licorice or candy or cough syrup, and officials got to the water and tested it and found it had leaked at the river, and had go
Back ecb measures like negative rates. Euro has fallen this morning on that news. Our road map with the record highs. Investors retaining their appetite for riskier names. Now what . At t and directv reports of deal talks now active and could be done in the next two weeks. And as we said, davids exclusive with ibms Ginni Rometty, a rare conversation about the companys future. First up, more market history for the bulls. The dow with a record closing high for a second consecutive session posting its first alltime intraday high in a month and the s p achieving a record high close of its own. Internet and biotech names helped the nasdaq jump 1. 8 in yesterdays session. Dow, jim, with a win today, thats five straight. We havent done that all year long. No. This is amazing because this bubble talk has presumed that what would happen is the nasdaq, the internet plays, highly valued momentum plays would bring down the dow. This pool of capital keeps going around. The analysts are making a sta