Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums, and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth, so the records have collect and over the years 300 years preserved at acceptable by research scientists. Last year over 400 species were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million, the world plus largest collection, visit by the Worlds Largest is the audience,
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On campus. Weve seen these cases in the past. Reporter youre absolutely right, there were four previous cases in 2015, three just this year, right now investigators are trying to figure out if those prior cases are related to the most recent ones. University police first got the call thursday around 6 00 p. M. , a man exposing himself outside the juniper poplar dining hall, three hours later, another call, same scenario the fresh foods dining area at the argo center. 14 minutes later officers receive a report of a man running naked in the parking garage. Most students are understandably concerned. Its weird. Because its like the first week of class. And thats not something you want to hear the first week that youre here. Parents will be worried. They just moved in. It was the day of movein. It was really weird. My mom would be freaking out campus and its literally like the first day. Many plan to heed the universitys advice, watching for anything that looks suspicious and reporting it.
Please come forward. Reporter standing strong beside her, jays son, holding a picture of his dad. They not only killed him, they killed me. They killed him. They killed us. And it is very hard. Reporter these bullet holes at the home on castle way, a reminder of that terrible day back in july. A witness that night claims a black male knocked on the door and pointed a gun at him. The suspect demanded that he called mr. Pierre to the door. Reporter when he did, the maot took off. We know that jay was targeted. But what we dont know is why. Reporter the only clues police will release are these photos. Take a good look. This woman is a person of interest and may know who pulled the trigger. The answers that police and his family are desperately searching for. I beg you. Please, somebody, who is watching right now, i know you are watching right now. Somebody for you to do for you, do it for me. Please come forward. Reporter a very sad situation for this family. An 8,000 Crime Stoppers rewar
Yorks longest players and president ial elections and we are live to london for analysis later in the program. But first there are two main issues dominating talks at a high level summit in new york and optimism that progress may be being made on both Irans Nuclear program and syrias chemical weapons issues. Agreement reached on a draft resolution to eliminate syrias stockpile and landmark talks between the United States and iran raised hopes of resolving the on pass of Nuclear Activities and kristen in new york starts of coverage. It was the most highly anticipated entrance at the general assembly, mohamed joined the permanent five members of Security Council and germany hoping to end years of deadlock and sour relations. The presence of u. S. Secretary of state john kerry made tit highest level meeting between the countries in decades and the european Foreign Policy chief described the talks as substantive. Having them come and openly talk was a change in the dynamic engagements with