We need to use it to reaffirm humanity. Cspan and what about antiaging drugs . Guest Life Expectancy in this country 100 years ago was 47 years old. Now it has been increased by a lot in the last century. If it can be increased even more, that is what science is for. The people who make me nervous or not the people that say lets try to use biotechnology to heal disease and extend lifespan. I think all of that those are moral gains and that is why it sciences good. Is the old temptation in the garden that we can become a god, of course, we are like god, that is the old utb utopian thing. Cspan what you know about the silicon chips in the body . In the recent book about the inventor that talks about this he says pretty much computers are getting smarter by today and the computer has be the best chess player player in the world. And it will soon have the capacity of the human brain. That mans creation of Technology May overtake man unless man merges with the machine. That we must take thi
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie. Details still coming in at this hour about that paragraowerful i in the south pacific. It sounds like it could have been even worse. Two waves, each about fivefeet high hit the west side of the Solomon Islands overnight, following an 8. 0 magnitude earthquake. Well have the latest in a report straight ahead. Closer to home, are we back to the brink in washington . Are those dramatic spending cuts that both sides say they fear closer to going into effect . Well have the latest. A frightening scene the a school in modesto, california, it was all a mock drill. But was it just a little too realistic . Well be talking about that as well. If you couldnt tell from the music at the top, a lot of attention on so muchchisochi, rs morning. The winter Olympic Games kick off in a mere 365 days
Lindsay vonn will be ready for sochi on tuesday. She had a bad crash in austria and needs surgery. What shes saying about her chances of a full recovery in time for the winter games. Let us start this morning with the decision by the Postal Service to end saturday mail delivery. Nbcs tom costello is in a post office in washington, d. C. Good morning. Reporter matt, good morning to you. This was a major move that the Postal Service is undertaking, losing 16 billion a year as it is forced to fund future Retiree Medical benefits. And Congress Still hasnt gotten around to addressing the issue. The Postal Service will act on its own to save money and heres the plan. Starting august 1st, the usps will stop saturday mail delivery and will however continue Package Delivery and we should say medical delivery, in other words, pills and that kind of thing. Mail delivery to post office boxes will continue on saturday. Post offices would remain open on saturday. The estimating savings here is 2 bil
Your partner. Thanks to everyone who responded. We appreciate it today. If youre in any of those stormridden areas, certainly be careful. Youre in our thoughts and prayers. Fox friends starts right now. Bye. Good morning. Its tuesday, aprilc 29. Aoeup elisabeth hasselbeck. We start with a fox news alert. A second wave of deadly tornadoes ripping through the south. The worst could be yet to come. Maria molina is live from mississippi. Terrible. Meanwhile secretary of state john kerry making outrageous comments about one of our biggest allies. Israel. [inaudible]c appartite state. He said apartheid state. Should john kerry resign . Were going to report. You decide. One u. S. Senator is calling for an end. This morning the nba will decide what they are going to do with clippers owner Donald Sterling. Actually this afternoon. The boycott has begun. Is that right or wrong . Mornings, by the way, according to everyone i asked, including steve and elisabeth, are better with friends. Hi. Thi
Ready well. In terms of the intensity of the drought, remember 1988 that came out with no corn and all things considered, we took 4 billion bushels off of our corn crop estimate by the end, but that was about the size of the 1988 crop. To me, because of no till practices and a lot of that helped by biotech varieties and because those developments and seed varieties and were able to get a better crop than i wouldve had otherwise. For senator stabenow, you just answered your question about livestock problems. Id like to continue if you could discuss problems for the renewable fuel industry raised by the lesson production, higher prices, et cetera you see ahead for that. I think that clearly this past year because of corn prices weve seen reductions in margins economic producers. If you look at the weekly levels of ethanol Production Company took a big tip and has been remaining buffalo that cabs under the renewable fuel standard for conventional fuels. We have revised estimates downward