All in the name of raising money for paid yediatric cancer and research. We have a number of speakers joining us live here throughout the next couple hours. There they are. We have nascar champion jeff gordon and cliff robins of bull harbor group, and a unique way to play streaming media, and, yes, involves teletubbies. Oh, boy, looking forward to that coming up. Green Light Capital statement e einhorn, bringing you all the headlines of what he talks about as soon as we get them, but we begin with apple crossing an important milestone today in terms of value. Bertha is at the nasdaq with that side of the story for us. Reporter yeah. Apples market cap today crossing 800 billion in market cap. It crossed 700 billion after blistering 37 gain the prior year. Already this year, apples up more than 32 notwithstanding iphone sale numbers in the most recent quarter. The stock is up 100 a share since tim cook took over as ceo in 2011. A gain of nearly 200 , and apple is a big catalyst behind th
A cooldown. Highs in the 70s because of a front that will arrive this afternoon. But, bottom line, the main weather headline are those wild winds. We have had peek wind gusts upwards of 50 Miles Per Hour in cascade. Wind advisories in the high country will make it difficult to drive at times while those strong winds here on the front range are going to increase fire danger, strong winds will increase this afternoon here on the front range and out in the Eastern Plains. This morning is alre foothills and down south in palmer divide while the winds in the city are much calmer. The forecast really dry. Thats the reason why well have a red flag warning. We have a few clouds in Southeastern Colorado and the potential for light showers in our north and Central Mountains. Here on the front range, it is bright blue skies and sunshine. Highs will be in the low 70s. Temperatures right now in the 40s and the 30s, some 50degree i25. A bigger cooldown arrives for the beginning of the week. That for
Too many blind spots and weak links in places in africa and elsewhere. We have large amounts of travel and animal human interface and large members of people. All three of the cdc components and all of the components are so important. The cdcrelated components are domestic and stopping ebola and preventing the next ebola through the global work. I know its a few weeks ago and they are four individuals from cdc in guinea. France is taking the lead on Ebola Response in this country because the United States needs to take a more leadershipactive role or does it have the capacity to do so . Excuse me. For the cdc specific response, we provide a comprehensive Public Health approach in each country. As of today, we have approximately 175 staff on the ground. We have the most staff in sierra leone. We also have more than 20 staff or roughly 20 in guinea. We get the french speaking staff and we have 12 as of today dealing with that cluster and trying to stop it at the source. What are about en
They are almost complete and they are very optimistic that they start next phase of the trial with both of those vaccines in west africa. This slide indicated that there was a third company, but they were not expected to engage in phase one trials until the fall of 2015 which is a substantial ways away from where we are today. There other potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline. We are supporting some of those. They are behind this timeline and we are right now focused on trying to figure out if these vaccines are and effective and if they are, get them into use to control the epidemic in west africa. Part of the emergency funding request will be 157 million for barta to continue to accelerate the development and manufacturing of vaccines and therapeutics for the outbreak. My understanding from talking to the folks at new link genetics is these Clinical Trials that have been ongoing at walter reed and the national sn institute of allergy and Infectious Disease, there is good rappo
Heard of that. We all remember typhoid mary of lore and she had the ability to infect people. Do your typhoid marys have the ability to infect people when theyre asymptomatic . We dont know. Thats the question. Typhoid mary, in the case of her, she was dealing with a bacterial infection. Right. What i do know for a fact, there have been a number of asymptomatic nonfebrill people whose blood has been drawn and they tested positive. I think there is something about the pcr test. In medicine, you never say 100 . The thing with ebola, if you dont bat 1 wh00 every day, it exposed. My point is we need go to africa and fight the disease over there and keep it contained. Two of your doctors were infected and werent sure why. We had two nurses in dallas and were infected and were not sure why. That underscores there is a lot more not known about this disease and is known and i would extend that to mr. Waxman, we all need humility on this. And what you did in dallas to have good discipline to wh