pandemic, weighed in on the angles but the gain of function research, you are very familiar with it. what is the risk to it or from it? sandra, most likely the covid pandemic worldwide was entirely avoidable. gain of function research is risky business and turns out the wuhan lab was not the only place we are funding. this new information out this week shows that the department of defense and other agencies in the government have been funding researchers all over to go out there and hunt for exotic viruses. now remember, there s a million viruses in the world. 99% of them will never infect human beings because they are not interfacing with human beings, not around human beings. the u.s. government funded researchers in thailand and southeast asia to go out to rain forests and into bat caves and capture animals and bring viruses into highly populated
together in this location this evening for a potential outbreak of severe weather. reporter: a tornado watch was just issued for parts of mississippi, tennessee, arkansas, and louisiana, and this area has seen its fair share of severe weather so far this year, and it is not even peak tornado season. norah? norah: omar villafranca, thank you so much for your reporting. form where the storms are headed tonight and through the weekend, let s bring in meteorologist mike bettes, from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. norah, good evening, we anticipate tornadoes and extreme winds to rake across the south the remainder of the night. the target zone, the mississippi river valley. intense storms could last well through the night, well after time people go to bed tonight. memphis, nashville, jacksonville, birmingham, all risk cities and a very intense line that comes to atlanta in the morning of all of those storms could be there in the afternoon among the southeast
CALAKMUL BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Mexico (AP) — Miguel Ángel Díaz walks slowly so his footfall on dry leaves doesn’t drive away what he s trying to find in this dense forest of
A major rail project in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is intended to drive economic development to some of the country’s poorest areas, in part by bringing up to three million tourists each year