With scott pelle this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley goo pelley good evening. They are the ingredients that make cookies, and cakes taste better and piecrusts flakier. Today, the food and Drug Administration said transfats are no longer recognized as safe, and the f. D. A. Intends to ban them. Chip reid caught up with the f. D. A. Commissioner dr. Margaret hamburg. Transfats increase your risk for heart disease. It turns out that they elevate the socalled bad cholesterol, l. D. L. Reporter will this save lives and avoid heart attacks . This action will save lives. The c. D. C. Estimates that if we can reduce the levels of trans fat currently in the american diet, we can probably save about 7,000 people from preventable death and prevent about 20,000 heart attacks. Reporter trans fat is created by turning liquid Vegetable Oil into fat. Processed food manufacturers use it because it extends the shelf life and improves the flavor of some foods, including snack foods, su
Or across the globe in under an hour. Whole communities are living on mars and solar satellites provide earth with unlimited clean power. In less than a century, boeing took the world from seaplanes to space planes, across the universe and beyond. And if you thought that was amazing, you just wait. Hello, everybody. Im alex whit here in new york at msnbc headquarters. New today donald trump in scotland saying brexit should not affect americans at home. Heres what he said americans should worry about. I think whats going to affect america more than brexit is what president obamas down with our debt. Were going to have 21 trillion of debt. Its more than double the debt that we had. So at 21 trillion, thats going to affect america a lot more than brexit. President obama said that would never happen. He said that would never happen. He said if it does happen, that the uk has to get to the back of the line. That was a very bad signal to send to the uk. Lets bring in nbc reporter ali vitali.
Decision about what we care about and who we are. The next president will shape the direction of the highest court in the land for decades, but who would Hillary Clinton or donald trump nominate . Meanwhile, in the middle of campaign turmoil, trump goes to scotland to open a golf course. Is the mogulturnedcandidate more interested in the art of the deal than the white house . Plus, breaking news. Votes being counted in the uks brexit referendum. Well take you there live throughout the night and check on all of that for you. Lets begin with chief correspondent dana bash. Two Big Supreme Court rulings today. Yeah. One on immigration was a crushing defeat for president obama. Tell us about that. The president s executive order would have given about 5 million undocument ed immigrant the ability to come out of the shadows and start applying to stay in the u. S. Legally. A lower court judge issued an injunction to stop the programs from going into effect because the Supreme Court deadlocked
And germanys foreign and defense ministries are hit with a cyber attack reportedly launched by Russian Hackers the same group is false who have previously attacked the German Parliament and the Us Democratic party. And babs no more the International Olympic committee lifts is stoping ban on russia so does this mean the world is ready to trust russian powerful leads in competition again. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start out this program in slovakia where the murder of a young investigative journalist has sparked protests in the capital brought a small about a thousand people turned out for a march organized by the conservative Opposition Party to on. Reporter. And protest against political corruption a twenty seven year old was shot dead outside his home last week alongside his fiance. While the news website he worked for has published his last unfinished article hours after it hit the web its explosive claims triggered fallout at the very highest level of govern
From our appearance to our health and Life Expectancy we humans very immensely but why is that. For a long time weve been told its in our genes and that the genes were born with form allergen a tick blueprint. Now researchers say its more complicated through a mechanism called epigenetics our environment and lifestyle can actually modify our genes. One in every five hundred women has a potentially dangerous genetic defect. A mutation in one of the b. R. C. A. Genes which increases the risk of Breast Cancer. But not every woman with the mutation will develop the disease so what determines who will a question that genetic. Thats the year i spent years investigating. The idea that spurred this research came to him one day at lunch. I was having lunch and for the area and a couple of twins in. The restaurant and you can see they were doing this because they have similar features but one was seen and the. More fat and they thought it was possible it had the same d. N. A. Still yet realize t