And those power lines and then to discover 22 elements that would be much smaller as the pandemic in the us it is apparent the laboratories and programs help to respond to the virus its not well known that research is not new to the lab those that neutralize chemical and biological agents this was used to clean up the Congressional Office buildings in 2001 with the threat of anthrax. And then to develop and with those radioisotopes with those Imaging Technology doe labs house and operate these facilities to establish by the department in 1997 as part of the human genome project and then to characterize those organisms of bioenergy and biogeochemistry also the gcompetition analysis so leveraging these capabilities have a ton of measures against the coronavirus to affect transmission this is why it possesses with the great challenges that expertise and their Research Tools responding to the pandemic and what future biological System Research with the most pressing issue i look forward to
[inaudible conversations] thank you very much. Later this evening we expect the house to pass the paycheck Addiction Program and health care. Im grateful that congress is answering my calls to deliver these additional 320 billion in relief for the American Worker and Small Businesses. The time when Many Americans are enduring significant economic challenges this bill will help Small Business and keep millions of workers on the payroll. States are starting to open up now and its very exciting to see and i think its very aweinspiring. We are coming out of it and we are coming out of it well and we are very happy the governors have been doing a really good job working with us. Its really pretty impressive to see. Ive spoken to numerous leaders over the last 48 hours and they are saying we are leading the way. So many different ways. Im also very pleased that harvard and stanford and princeton and numerous other universities and colleges and also Large Businesses have sent the money back t
Preparedness and response under president trump. He talks about the origins of covid19 and whether theres evidence of an accidental leak at the wuhan lab. Thank you eg of you on our video feed. I am david asher, a Senior Research fellow, resident at hudson. I cover a variety of things, everything from financing, sanctions, to nuclear oil agile nuclear biological weapons. I wanted to introduce you to dr. Robert kadlec, a colleague who has done pioneering work in this area going back to his times starting at the u. S. Air force academy and moving into the military for a few decades, and working in high raking roles in health and Human Services. Conceiving and developing our National Defense strategy and executing it in the midst of the biggest threat disaster in history, which was the outrage of covid19. I am here to discuss that with dr. Robert kadlec, and to go over some of the Lessons Learned in his long career. Let us go on and move forward from here. The most important thing i would
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Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Small pox was one of the most frightening diseases the world has known. It killed at least 300 Million People in the last century before it was eradicated. So it came as quite a surprise when the u. S. Government revealed yesterday that vials of small pox had been forgotten for decades and were just discovered in a cardboard box. The big question now is whether the virus is alive and dr. Jon lapook learned more today from the scientist heading the investigation. The vials of small pox are currently being tested in a level 4 High Containment Laboratory at the cdc in atlanta. That is the agencys most secure facility. You can only gain ent row through a special eye scan. Steve monroe runs the division of high consequence pathogens. Is it possible the small pox can still grow. Its possible. But we done know for sure if the small porx virus in these samples will still be able to grow in the labo