my name is eric candell. i m interested in the mechanisms of memory storage. rather than studying the most complex memory we had to take the simple form in a simple animal. human memory is more complicated than memory of the snail, but evolution is conservative. if it finds some set of mechanisms work it tends to retain those mechanisms in perpetuity. this marine snail is marvelous. they have the largest nerve cells in the animal kingdom and one can see them with the naked eye. my colleagues and i found that learning involves alterations in the strength of communication between nerve cells. short-term memory is a functional change. long-term memory is an anatomical change. as i tell my friend ifs you remember anything about this conversation you will have a different brain than you started
here and that setup with the two pressure cookers. anybody that has any rudimentary understanding of explosives understands they need to go out and test it first. particularly when you re going with a plan to set off two devices simultaneously. clearly, whether this was one person or more than one person, whoever put that device right there, they walked up to the fence. they could be pretending that they re cheering somebody on. they can set down something that looks like trash. they set it next to a trash can. nobody s going to think twice about that. why they had a trash can right there along the route, you know, i m not going to play monday morning quarterback. that creates how do you probe human memory and try to find if somebody you know, you don t remember
that creates how do you probe human memory and try to find if somebody you know, you don t remember anything. but it s somewhere in your brain, every experience you have. how do you probe do you remember back when? it will capture when those images get out, there are things that, you know, in the brain that capture image that will trigger. remember the person with the bag. exactly. they ll also be able to get photographs i m pretty confident they will have photographs of the person that was standing there before the bag appeared and then after the bag appeared. pete, every time i get on amtrak from philadelphia or new york there s always a broadcast basically coming across, a public address system. it s not disturbing but it s unavoidable. if you see something, say something. this really looks like the kind of man hunt or woman hunt, i guess it s a man hunt, who knows, about trying to use all the various participants yesterday. and try to glean information from ever
of loved ones lost forever. it takes the human memory and makes it permanent for history. that s quite a moment for these family members to see. they are going to get this time to do this alone. that s the way they arranged this afternoon. i must say i was really impressed by president bush today. i thought he was really wonderful in what he had to say, comparing to event to gettysburg address, by a president who obviously is more eloquent than anybody has been in the presidency in the 200 years of our history. when he came here to pennsylvania to honor the dead at the battle of gettysburg and saying that what was said that day even by him was not going to be remembered as well as what was done in the battle of gettysburg that turned the tide of the war, the civil war. he was great. i thought president bush was very impressive today. of course, president clinton is always amazingly appropriate to the occasion. i sometimes think he is able to come up with these words of his
mexico. police are now trying to figure out who was herding more than 500 illegals across our border in one of the biggest human smuggling busts in human memory. welcome to america live, i m martha maccallum in for megyn kelly. they were literally packed in, hundreds of migrants hidden inside two tractor trailers in quote, inhumane conditions. mechanics condition police discovering it using high-tech scanning of the trucks. trace gallagher picks it up from there in our west coast newsroom. reporter: the bus went down in the southern state of chiapas, mexico. they each paid $7,000 to be smuggled into the united states, that is $3.5 million total for the load. look at the x-ray picture, what