Is going to join attorney general eric holder and travel to ferguson. The former vermont senator died today. In 2001, senator jeffords announced he was leaving the Republican Party and becoming an independent. He cited in congress with the democrats, with gate which gave them 51 votes in a chamber which had been split 50 50. That move gave the democrats a majority. A funeral is being planned in his home town of rutland, vermont. Was 80. Ords now, a debate on the safety of genetically modified foods. We will hear from consumer advocate and author jeffrey entrepreneurtech gregory stock. This is part of the vail symposium held in march. After the debate, we will take your calls on the safety of gm owes. Gmos. Hs Jeffrey Smith is a National Bestselling Author and film maker. He is the executive director for the institute of responsible technology. And a leading consumer advocate promoting nongmo choices. His book seeds of deception exposes industry and government lies about the safety of g
Fillings. They are in fish, certain large if youry fish, ahi tuna, are eating it. They are dismissed as not being a problem. But if you are in a genetically susceptible subpopulation, which is about 20 of boys, you can have delayed development in attention and memory and learning of about two to five years. So this is something serious. There are some real things associated with the environment that are a real problem. This is organic chemicals that are used. In bottles, all sorts of things. There is the production of them from 1940 to the present, and just exploding, there is no testing of them. You can bet that a lot of them are either carcinogens or there are problems associated with them. So its not as though there was not a cost by focusing on something that is really a third an absurd issue, because we have limited resources. When we are testing and focused on one thing, we are taking our energy away from other things that are more real and more present in our lives. The world he
Jeffrey smith is a National Bestselling Author and film maker. He is the executive director for the institute of responsible technology. And a leading consumer advocate promoting nongmo choices. His book seeds of deception exposes industry and government lies about the safety of genetically engineered food youre eating, which is the best bestseller on gmos. Jeff will be speaking this saturday at noon. You can find on the internet. Gregory stock, to my immediate left, dr. Gregory stock is a biotech entrepreneur, best selling author and public communicator. He is a leading authority on genomic and other advanced technology in Life Sciences. He founded the program on medicine, technology, and society at ucla school of medicine in 1997. He served as its director for 10 years, while leading a broad effort to explore technologies that reshape medical science. Through a series of highprofile lectures, dr. Stock has catalyzed broad public debate about the social and Public Policy implications
Number of people needing that we have to be more focused. The debate continues. Thank you very much for your time this morning. But does it for todays washington journal. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] tonight at 8 00 eastern, cspans issue spotlighted program focused on General Motors ignition switch recall. You will hear from the gm Ceo Mary Barra at house and Committee Hearings on the recalls that resulted in at least a dozen deaths and injuries. Here is some of what she had to say to a senate committee. More than a decade a code gm embarked on a small car program. Sitting here today i cannot tell you why it took so long for a safety defect to be announced for the program but i can tell you we will find out. This is an extraordinary situation. It involves vehicles we no longer make but it came to light on my watch so i am responsible for resolving it. When we have answers we will be fully transparent wi
A mysterious millionaire playing robin hood, giving away free money, and anyone can follow the clues. L. A. And new york, youre next. Are you ready to get lucky . Treasure and good morning, america. Got to love that story. That mystery millionaire out in San Francisco leaving all kinds of money all over the city. Got to pay it forward. Love that. I hope to find that on my stroll in to work. Go into georges dressing room. Right there in his you dont have to search for it. Its just right there. Yeah, they say mystery man. I was wondering what happened to that. We do have a lot of news to get to, though, this morning. A huge tornado bearing down on that very busy work site filled with oil workers in north dakota. And then the rescue effort continues after that massive mudslide in colorado. And ginger is tracking both stories. Good morning, ginger. So many people in north dakota last night at sunset walking out and seeing this. Yes, that is a tornado, but it was not just north dakota. The