Good morning. I am lori mcginley. I am a help than science reporter here at the washington post. I am delighted to be joined this morning by acting fda commissioner, dr. Ned sharpless. Thank you for being with us. Good morning. Thank for having a. Dr. Sharpless has been on the job a little over two months of the fda. Was previously the director of the National Cancer institute. Dr. Sharpless, let me start by asking, you been there a whole two months now. So, how do you hope to make your mark on the fda . I think maybe it is relevant to talk about my background that brought me to my job a little bit. I a cancer doctor. At some point, transition from taking my patients more in the lab from running in Academic Research lab cancer. I felt like we were, at that time, the progress of cancer was really slow and it was frustrating. From doing the same things over and over with patience. We were helping them. To the degree that i would have liked. Beyond became a researcher. And at some point d
More about when the rain is most likely in just a few minute. All right, glen. One of the best places to be right now to start this weekend, down the shore. Randy gyllenhaal is live in Atlantic City. Hey, randy. Reporter hey, good evening, guys take a look [ cheers and applause ] its summer in Atlantic City. How cool was that . Thousands of these beach balls just got dropped on to the crowd here on the board walk. There are tons of people here, and i can tell you we were worried the weather would not hold up for the weekend, a lot of gray skies and rain in the previous week, but it is sunny. There are huge crowds here, hey, guys, let me see these. Thousands of beach balls on the board walk means its summer here in Atlantic City. Its her birthday one, two, three reporter countdown to shore season is over, families flocking to Atlantic City with beautiful sun on this crucial tourism weekend. Just coming to the beach, beautiful day, nice weather after all the rain weve had. Reporter the a
To this reason i want to address an issue of the National Congress of American Indians which has worked on for almost 50 years, i want to talk about the negative stereotypes that native people continue be subjected to in our society, in particular i want to talk about the name of the washington football team. The state reward the dead indians has been increased to 200 for every redskins centre purgatory. This psalm is more of dead bodies east of the dead river are worse history is clear on what that vile word meant, it was a scout head of an American Indian, man woman or child that trappers and hunters sold to the government like beaver pelts the money. Let me be very clear the single most offensive name you can call an American Indian is red skin. Thank god today the majority of people agree, in a recent National Survey 83 of americans said they wouldnt use that r word to an american natives face. You know the team owner stands on the wrong side of history, he has dug in his heels and
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