Smaller they say thank you very much. And you see them with a full tummy thats all we get out of this and thats enough for us. Tough love we meet the new zealand gang helping hungry kids. We begin in tunisia where polls have opened in a landmark president ial run off. It will be the first time tunisians will directly vote for a president since a revolution that overthrew a dictatorship three years ago. Two main contenders are a candidate for the secular party. Hes 88 years old and seen as an establishment figure from the former regime. His critics say hes too old for the job but supporters point to his experience and a Broad Coalition behind. He won nearly 40 of the vote in the first round. His opponents is the interim president. Hes widely seen as the candidate of the revolution that overthrew the dictator. He is a wellknown former human rights activist. He has served tunisia in his interim role for four year old and took 33 of the vote in the first round. Lets go there on the pollin
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Florida. Were a border state, so im going to ask about immigration. I know that Washington State and florida have several things in common in terms of being border states [laughter] and i have been to canada, and i do love it up there. I wish i was back there. But florida is different in that we have a large immigration problem here that has now gone to another level. The representative bilirakis has decided to look the other way here in Newport Ritchie when weve had New Buildings built to house some of the immigrants that came here who were underage immigrants on the trains that obama let come here. And theyre now expanding their facilities here. And i just, i look at the situation, and i think my husbands been out of work for a year, and he was a plumbing mechanic for 30 years, and finding a job here is going to be much more difficult now that the president has decided to do this. Host okay. All right, ann, well leave it there and have the congressman weigh in. Guest well, a lot of a
It was the eventful. It was tested in a different form. It is set up to be tested. In mali and other african countries. It came out in literally up a couple weeks ago. We are now setting up for testing again advanced trial using this. The other candidate is a virus into which has been inserted the ebola glycoprotein jean. It was full be enrolled and this in collaboration with the department of defense, we are doing at the nih, other than doing it from the medical institute, by the department of defense, the United States army again, now in collaboration also with merck, you will be hearing more about that from julie. The company did involved in originating the Public Health agency of canada as i mentioned, dod with naid, they are role. America is involved in the trial, was put on hold because of people get confused about that. Four individuals had clear inflammation. That doesnt mean the end of the vaccine by any means. My house ups are very common. We saw it in a significant proportio
Probably get an answer of efficacy more quickly. Once you get the efficacy you we will distribute that vaccine to everybody and anybody who might benefit. Ultimately if ultimately if it works everyone we will get. That is the framework. Then we look at the advantages and disadvantages if you are distributing a vaccine before you no it works for the advantages if it does work you get it to people quickly. The disadvantage is you may not ever prove that it does work. The inevitable next outbreak we wont no if we have a vaccine that works. The issue with the randomized controlled placebo trial as some people are not getting it right away. Away. There is an absolute understandable desire that if something will be beneficial get it their as quickly as possible. I will finish with this. I mentioned this at another seminar about the issue of the difference between therapies you make readily available for which i was the champion versus a vaccine that you dont know works. And there is big diff