Vaporize the snow. 34 degrees right now in gaithersburg maryland. If youre going to be going out this evening, were still going to hang onto the cloud cover. But late tonight after around 11 00 midnight there could be a few split second spots. Well talk about what you can expect tomorrow morning and the everimportant weekend forecast as the Cherry Blossom festival kicks off. Just in the past hour uva students marched out of a meeting with Law Enforcement chanting black lives matter. They claimed police wont answer their questions following that bloody arrest of a student this week. News4s david culvert was in that meeting and is on campus in charlottesville. Reporter this was promoted as an event of dialogue an opportunity to create conversation between students and Law Enforcement. It ended, though weather representatives from black student groups marching out in protest. They were frustrated by what they call a lack of transparency. Students processing now out of a university theater
Return on investment from the research that we do, if we dont fund the research we lose that fund and investment. You probably have examples of human benefits from the scientific research, which is foregone human costs, and you probably also pay some attention to the countrys Global Competitiveness in this field. If you could comment on those three areas on what you think is the payback for investment, or if you want to put it contrarily, not funding research. Dr. Collins i appreciate the opportunity to talk about those consequences. Put up another graph which reveals the difficulties that are present in this country beginning back in 2003. What i am showing you the opportunity that an investigator that comes to nih with their best ideas has of getting funded. Most Research Done in this country and our nations finest universities is supported by an age nih. That has been in the space of 2535 success rate. 13. That means two thirds of the people are sent away. Now it is about one in six
This morning were Holding Hearing on continuing americas leadership realizing the promise of Precision Medicine. Well have an Opening Statement then introduce our witnesses, who are getting to be very familiar to us. Were very grateful to you for coming. After that, we will have time to ask five minute rounds of questions or two, depending how many senators are here. We are here today to discuss exciting new direction in our health care called Precision Medicine. What does that mean . Well, those of us in the room a good representation of the population, they estimate one in ten of us would have diabetes. If doctors could use Precision Medicine, that is if they could look at our individual dna and genetic, molecular makeup of disease, perhaps they could tailor treatments to each individual rather than to more general category of diabetes. I was visited this morning by the head of philadelphia Childrens Hospital who talked about their work in identifying a defective gene, mutated geneti
Challenges we face as a country, they are pretty stark challenges and our politics are terrible. But i would think you would rather have our challenges than any major emerging economy around the world. Watch that entire event from the milken institutes global conference tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Here are some of our featureded programs for this weekend on the cspan networks. On cspan, saturday starting at noon. Politicians, white house officials and Business Leaders offer advise and encouragement to the class of 2015. Speakers include former president , george w. Bush and chair of dreamworks animation. At 9 15. Former Staff Members reflect on the presidency of george h. W. Bush. And sunday afternoon more commencement speeches from across the country with former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and madeline albright. On cspan 2 saturday morning book tv is in new york city with events from book expo america beginning at 10 00 and live callin segments throughout the day
Jerusalem and she goes to cairo today. This is varney company, an all star, preholiday lineup. Here we go. top story. The unions are excertifying maximum pressure right now the at worst possible time. People want to shop and unions are making both difficult. Sciu expects more than a thousand marches at Los Angeles International airport and say the company they work for, a contractor for the airport broke the union and took away Health Insurance and demonstrating. And protests planned at ohare in chicago. A new Company Providing custodial services there, nonunion, protests. And a strike, and another one at the port in portland. And a huge protest planned at one thousand Walmart Stores on friday. Workers angry about wages and benefit and threaten to tie up walmart parking lots on what is a crucial shopping day and hostess, the bakers union refusing to make a deal and now the company is going to be liquidated. Yes, it is, 18,000 jobs or thereabouts lost, and unions throwing their weigh