That former iowa hawkeye standout tyler sashs life was cut short by the game he loved. What his family is saying tonight. Death with dignity. A controversial bill allowing medical aid in dying was introduced at the statehouse today. Why terminallyill iowans want the right to determine when to end their own life. Caucus countdown. We are just five days away form the 2016 Iowa Caucuses. How close the democratic race is getting. And the candidate that had tomatoes thrown at him. From who hd iowas High Definition leader. This is the channel 13 news at nine on fox 17 good evening. Im lynn melling. Initial autopsy reports confirmed that tyler sash died from an overdose on painkillers but now the family has learned that Something Else may have been killing him inside long before then and football may be to blame. 13s Justin Surrency spoke with tylers mother whos now questioning the sport her family grew up our son struggled with something he couldnt put his finger onmany who were left searchi
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You are watching booktv on cspan2, as 2012 draws to a close one of the things we like to do is look back at the year in Nonfiction Books and look ahead to 2013. Joining us to help us are two guests in the new york studio, Sarah Weinman is news director for publishers marketplace, Bob Minzesheimer is the book reviewer and reporter for usa today. Sarah weinman, lets start with you. Give us your general assessment of 2012 for the book industry especially when a comes to Nonfiction Books and what are one or two Nonfiction Books you want to talk about . Let me start by saying 2012 was a very eventful year in the Book Publishing world between publishers consolidating the department of justice, doing five publishers and apple on ebook pricing and later into the program, amazon expanding its publishing operations, the google settlement moving forward in different directions. Those alone account for a substantial portion of publishing news. On the nonfiction side it was a very strong year. In p
Lets talk first about astrazeneca vaccine issues. First they reported positive results but now theres real questions about whether or not that is true. Where do we stand on that . We are trying to understand the fullness of the data. The positive side, a second form of technology has demonstrated efficacy. 60 or 90 . Its really important because it validates the virus selected to be part of the vaccine. Its the same as this coronavirus platform. The question is, why would a different schedule giving a lowered dose the first dose and a higher dose for a second dose to immunize . Why would that be better giving the same dose twice . Frankly, that something we are trying to understand. Were going to measure the immune response its been in use of two different schedules and see whether there is a better immune response. If there is, i think it will validate the fact that there is a better one and potentially we can modify the trials to introduce this differential scheduling with the lower