So, the holy father is greeting, the bishops and some of the archbishops there and i think, it is a couple hundred, yeah, a couple of hundred. They were here participating in the world meeting of families, and they have come here also, for his, for his visit. You know, for the official papal visit here in philadelphia. Archbishop chapu to the left side, bush of timothy senior the director on the other. Lets listen to archbishop chaput as he welcomes everyone. Your holiness, my dear brother bishops, archbishop palia, dear friend in christ, we began our planning for this world meeting of families with archbishop palia and his staff nearly three years ago. We didnt know what to expect. The the church in philadelphia was facing some very hard financial and legal problems, and our priests and our people were hurting. From years of very painful news and the National Debate over same sex issues, nature of marriage and meeting of family became more intense. But we put our trust in the lord and
That bell being running, then i believe that as youre doing this in terms of leadership function, we run the risk of really losing an enterprise is that the United States essentially pioneered. In terms of another priority that i think youre starting to hear a little bit about, we have to put patients at the center of this. So if you look at the statistics we have 7,000 diseases. Yet, we have treatments for, i believe, dr. Collins, 500 of those. The system is doing its work. Its churning through the science and getting the outcomes to the doors of the fda. The fda is doing its work and then we get some approvals and we put that out into the system. But at the rate were going, i dont think that any of the diseases that were all going to be afflicted with at some point in time really stand a chance of being covered in the near term. So i think the speed issue thats been articulated by many of you is of critical importance. So i think as this group does its work, figuring out what are tho
Forecast for brent crude saying oversupply is likely to peak in whos doing it best. The Second Quarter of the next and candidly, new york really year. Those prices are looking at a was doing the best work in this near fiveyear low. And the worst case scenario, brent could fall as low as 43 space. Were in a good position from a in the next six months. Thats something to be watching. Budget point. Andrew, over to you. Thank you, becky. On a cash basis. Good morning. We have Corporate News this morning as well. Here are the stocks to watch. Reaching nearrecord levels. The first one out of the box is im comfortable well be able to merck reportedly in talks to buy absorb and pay for the costs. Cubist pharmaceuticals to make and im also confident that the antibiotics and they will pay entrepreneurs coming with roughly 7 billion. Foreignborn citizens and thats more than 34 premium. Immigrants will more than contribute their fair share to also in other drug news, bristol atlantas economy and m
Offer. All of us have a place in the american story. As long as i am president i will keep working to make sure every single one of us has a chance to succeed. We say you can. Thank you, everybody, and god bless. [applause] president obama leaves sunday night for a fiveday trip to europe and the middle east. Andonday, the netherlands the hague. He will be there for a discussion on keeping Nuclear Material out of the hands of terrorists sent he will attend a Nuclear Security summit on tuesday. The president will travel to brussels tuesday evening and wednesday will take part in the ee youu. S. Summit at the council of the european union. With thelso meet United Nations secretarygeneral anders fogh rasmussen. On thursday the president will meet with the francis at the vatican before wrapping up his trip in saudi arabia. Executives from verizon, comcast, and at t talked about the future of telecommunications and the upcoming spectrum auction. This is part of the free States Foundation the
Or working with darpa as we are doing and with fda on this toxicity chip. Working on the brain initiative, a new effort which isugoing to be focused between nih and nsf and darpa and a number of private industries and philanthropies trying to make sure these kind of interdisciplinary efforts that jim was talking about are tapped into in every way. We are always looking at that. We are even looking at our peer review system to ask whether while we claim its the best in the world, are we sure about that . And are we sure our peer review system is reflecting the scientific opportunities of 2014 and not some earlier stage, and do we these to rethink about the way in which those peer review panels are established as far as what disciplines they represent. And we have the tools now with various kinds of text mining to really look and see what is going on in science that we might want to make adjustments for. So were pretty bullish about that. Another thing we are doing, again, this reflects