New york stock exchange. We get to the markets in a moment. The ebola patient being treated in dallas has passed away marking this the first person with ebola to die here in the United States. As tyler mentioned there are a lot of questions. Meg terrell is live at a major Infectious Disease meeting in philadelphia perhaps with answers for us. Over to you, meg. Thats right. Thomas eric duncan, the only u. S. Patient to be diagnosed with ebola here in the u. S. Passed away this morning. The cdc has clear guidelines on how to handle remains of ebola patients. They say only Trained Personnel should be involved. They should wear full protective gear. Very, very clear protection and that handling of remains should be kept to a minimum and discourage autopsies and say the cdc should be consulted and remains should be cremated promptly. It is also important to note that 48 contacts have been monitored none are showing symptoms of ebola. We expect to hear more from the cdc later today. It is im
Great pleasure to root talk with katherine who is roaming around our great nation promoting her new book. Then schaede the way we talk about abortion rights today and changing hearts and minds. I went like to invite her to read for a bit then we will have a discussion if there is time we will take a few questions from the audience. Ere on this beautiful but rather warm day. I am going to read the introduction to this book which is called pro reclaiming abortion rights because it gives you a taste of what is to come in the book. I never had an abortion, but my mother did. She did not tell me about it, but from what i pieced together after her death from all line in her fbi file, which my father, the old radical, had requested along with his own color it was in 1960. So like almost all abortions back then, it was illegal. The agent to counter file wrote that she was in the care of the physician for gun logical problems below which i like to think was his chivalrous way of protecting her
In here and that production will stay in the u. S. In the exported to south america and europe. We feel there is a very good chance at a very Good Condition to not only build here, but compete to a u. S. Base. A year ago we did the same thing in victoria, texas on another excavator plan. These are the large machines. 42 that 5010 machines that came in from japan that will be built in us for the first time in the United States and exporting to south america. Some of that is coming back to the u. S. And im happy and proud of that is the u. S. Manufacturing come to me. In fact, we spent about 6. 5 billion in capital expense in the last five years in the United States. Weve also spent about 10 million in research and development. We had a plant in our system here in the United States that exports very large Mining Equipment. We have factories were 80 of the reductionist for export only. We work hard at being competitive both internally. We also work hard with the u. S. Government and micha
Americans 85 and older, our oldest old, are the Fastest Growing segment of our population. And this is the very population that is most at risk of the multiple and interacting Health Problems that can lead to disability and a need for longterm care. At the same time, declining birthrates mean that there will be fewer Family Members and paid caregivers to care for our nations growing aging population. Today, there are approximately seven potential caregivers for each person over 80, as this chart indicates. By the year 2030, there will be only for. And by 2050, the number drops to fewer than one in three. Fewer than three. As a consequence, more people will have to rely on fewer caregivers. What does that mean . What are the implications for the quality of care that will be given . It is clear that we have to do more to support Family Caregivers and to recruit and retain a robust and competent longterm care workforce. While there is a need for both public and private financing of Longte
And in a speech be he delivered on the 10th of december this year, so a couple of days a he said there is no excuse for 750 billion u. S. Dollars in food waste per year. When we only need 80 billion u. S. Dollars to feed the hungry. And this comes from a businessman, one of the biggest businessmen there is. So he is really sincere. Im very convinced he is. Nevertheless, roughly i onethird of our food is waste, and i think others you will have better figures of that, but lets say in kilograms or pounds or whatever measurements, but onethird lets keep it at onethird. And it gets lost or it gets wasted. This washington causes emissions to the environment, pesticides, fertilizers, methane, and that is 23 times more potent greenhouse effect than co2. Than the food leads to loss of amounts of labor income, water, you know, agriculture uses loads of water. Its the first user of waters which, fresh water we have lack of in the world as well. Fertile soils get lost. In developing countries, of