So excited. Come on, a little bit more. After 40 days of dry weather, right in the middle of winter, we are finally looking firefighters in Contra Costa County are at rain this morning, not a lot unfortunately but we are ending investigating a house fire that the dry stretch and you can see the radar right behind me. Happened last night. We are dealing with a few scattered showers this morning. So rolling through your morning, we will have mostly cloudy skies and the showers a fire official says when crews are going to continue to march arrived there was across the bay area. Heavy smoke and fire throughout temperatures this morning in the mid40s to mid50s with all the home. Residents who escaped told First Responders an elderly woman was still inside, that woman did not survive. Two of that cloud cover. Other people were treated. This rain is not going to last. By lunchtime we turn dry and there is a new development breezy as we get in the second involving the firing of Oakland Police
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Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland is dr. Francis collins, National Institutes of health director. Thank you very much for joining us here on the newsmakers program. Dr. Collins glad to be with you, and great to have a chance to chat at the beginning of a new decade. Steve joining us with the question is Kimberly Leonard, who covers Health Policy issues for the washington examiner, and Health Reporter Jayne Odonnell of usa today. I want to begin because this june marks the 20th anniversary of decoding the genes that make up the human body. Two decades later, where are we . Dr. Collins my goodness. Where do i begin . It has been an amazing couple decades of taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place whe
Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland is dr. Francis collins, National Institutes of health director. To be with glad you, and great to have a chance to chat at the beginning of a new decade. Steve joining us with the question is Kimberly Leonard, who covers Health Policy issues for the washington examiner, and Health Reporter Jayne Odonnell of usa today. I want to begin because this june marks the 20th anniversary of decoding the genes that make up the human body. Two decades later, where are we . Dr. Collins where do i begin . It has been taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place where genomics has become central to biomedical research, you cannot find a place where that is not the case. Everyone is us
Dr. Collins my goodness. Where do i begin . It has been an amazing couple decades of taking that own insight into our human instruction book and beginning to figure out how to read it, written in this strange language with just four letters in the alphabet, and how to apply that to some basic lessons about how life works and how we can use that information to advance medical care. If you look at the place where genomics has become central to biomedical research, you cannot find a place where that is not the case. Everyone is using a variety of approaches to understand phenomenal questions about what cells do and how the brain works. What the micro biome is all about, the micro biomes that live in and on us. In terms of clinical applications, the most obvious one is in cancer. Now because we know cancer is a disease of the genome, it comes about because of misspellings in dna. We have the ability for individuals to say, why exactly are those cells doing what they shouldnt and how we sho