Theranos with John Carreyrou and Michael Siconolfi of the the wage wawj. She came out of stanford with this vision of trying to revolutionize medicine with blood testing that would be done on very small samples of blood, either priked from the arm, at first prked from the arm then priked from the finger and the test would be done quickly, off just this painless pin prik, and then you would be able to diagnose a bunch of conditions from that. And that was pretty transform tiff, if it was achievable, if the company could do it, it really meant big changes in medicine and in the Laboratory Testing industry. So the vision was a powerful one that a lot of people bought into. But again, the people who invested early knew they were facing a young lady who had just graduated and who might fail as most entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley failed. We conclude with amy adams. She spoke to a. O. Scott at the New York Times about her two new films, arrival and Nocturnal Animals. Im definitely hard on my
Narrative of what has been a rough campaign over the last week or so, but some have already viewed this plan and have come back with what it will ultimately mean for the economy, including mark zandi. I want to start with your overall assessment, which is vision. I think wall street is ready to go beyond vision. I think wall street is ready for numbers. We dont have the numbers. What we have has been dissatisfying. We have both the Tax Foundation and zandi from moodys. Com, assessing the cost this at 10 trillion. They come to two different conclusions about the benefits. Zandi says recession is the result of this plan. Tax foundation says more growth, more jobs, still a very large deficit. And part of the difference in the conclusion las to do with the lack of numbers and specificity. We dont know, for example, about this issue of him doubling the infrastructure spending. Larry kudlow on squawk box said hes going to roll that back, tweaking. Now expectation of detail to more vision, mo
This happened in a matter of less than two minutes. We have seen in communities all across america from sandy hook, to charleston, to san bernardino, to orlando, the carnage these weapons can cause. I ask american tonight, what is the civilian purpose for a high capacity clip that allows you to shoot up to a hundred bullet without reloading . You dont hunt with that or protect your home from that. I come from western pennsylvania. We have a lot of deer hunters. We dont hunt with those guns. Why should someone be able to buy such a bullet . Does the Second Amendment give us a right to buy a weapon that would only be able to purchase our officers vest . Why should anyone be able to buy body armor . What is the purpose of that in civilian society . These are weapons of war pure and simple. Tonight, is the very beginning, we are asking if you are on the nofly list and our government suspects you of maybe being connected to a terrorist organization so they dont want you on an airplane, we d
The u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. That was beautiful thats a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. Announcer this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today. Thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. Well talk to her in a one second. You know what we refuse to do back on copacabano beach. What is that . We refuse to do a show that is Alison Schmidt part of that gold medal relay team in the 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. Congratulations. Also here, theres more, Michael Hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and well ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. The green water in the pool. Its so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. By the way, their par
The u. S. Women win gold in the 4x2. That was beautiful thats a gold medal for kirsten armstrong. Announcer this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Edition of today. Thursday, morning, day 6 of the rio olympics. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb. Savannah is in new york. Well talk to her in a one second. You know what we refuse to do back on copacabano beach. What is that . We refuse to do a show without Medal Winners. Look at who we have today. The 4x200 free and josh prenot is alongside her. Congratulations. Also here, theres more, Michael Hixon and sam dorman they teamed up and took silver in synchronized diving, and well ask what it is like to compete in what is a big story here. The green water in the pool. Its so much fun to watch athletes and the crowd get to hang out a little bit. By the way, their parents are all hanging out over here tan