Polysterene. Rachelle oldmixon specialises in behaviours. Im phil torres, i study insects in peru. Thats our team. Lets do some science. Music ] hi, guy, welcome back to techknow. Im phil torres, with rochelle, kyle and lindsay. Kyle, the nfl paid over threequarters of a million to settle a lawsuit. What was it about. Theres a focus on the concussion problem. The nfl has thousands of place, and millions of players in youth and challenge football. I went to Virginia Tech to look at technology to test helmets and track hits on college and youth players. Lets take a look. Homecoming in the heartland. This is cornhusker county. Nebraska university, the epicentre of college football. First big win. Along with the tradition of football come the hits. Cheer cheer big hits like this one in front of our cameras. No one knows how hard the hits can be better than blake lawrence. Former lion backer for nebraska korn huhs kerrs. If korn huhs kerrs. If you had to bang your head into somebody and tha
The u. S. Economy is growing but today president obama said the income gap between rich and poor americans is growing, too, and hes calling on washington to address the problem. A dangerous and growing inequality of upward mobility that jeopardy disease americas basic bargain, if you work hard you have a chance to get ahead. I believe this is the defining challenge of our time. Making sure that our economy works for every working everyone. Oonjonathan betz is here wita breakdown. The rich is getting richer and the poor is getting poorer, we hear it all the time, but what does it mean . Last years Median Income is 51,000 but thats down from the year before. And its down if you adjust for inflation. Almost all the money being made is going to the very rich. The income of the top 1 of the population grew by close to 51 . Money is being made, but only for about 1. 5 Million People. Yet for everyone else, 99 of the pop laying, their salaries have barely moved in four years. Less than 1 . Th
The senate is still on break. Libby casey joins us now from capitol hill with more. Good afternoon, liby 2347 thats right, congress has a lot on its plate including the farm bill. If they dont get a farm bill passed it could cause a for the Food Stamp Program and it could cause a problem for milk. The Defense Authorization act has to get passed, and Unemployment Benefits. Long term Unemployment Benefits expired and they need to be renewed. President obama weighed in on that one. By the way, christmastime is not the time for congress to tell 1 million that they no lo longer have employment benefits. The senate comes in next week so there is still time to negotiate these bigticket items but there is still the little stuff. And it really runs the gamut. One of the big things is the budget. The last Time Congress had a fight over the budget this past october the Government Shutdown for 16 days. What are we facing this time . Reporter thats right. They made up a budget committee. The power
The parks casino site. Its right over here on port road or indiana head highway. Six consulting firms have been reviewing the quay see know sites. They study things like traffic impact and fiscal imports. But we have confirmed that yes, one of the casino locations, the one proposed here in ft. Washington is going to have a tough fight with the Video Lottery commission. They are proposing an 800 million parks casino hotel and spa at the intersection of indiana head highway at old ft. Road and ft. Washington. This is the largest proposal of all of them. 4700 slot machines, nearly 200 table games and 450 hotel rooms. Plus, they promise 150 million for road improvements to indiana head highway. Sources close to this process told me the bed is out after review for independent consultants. Just moments ago i spoke with a park spokesperson that told my they disagree. Our Third Party Experts that are very similar and have worked with the consultant. The reports will comment and have a differen
The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip but in to five minutes, no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Lance, for five minutes. I thank you very much, madam speaker. I rise today to honor the distinguished Public Service of the honorable brendan t. Byrne, the 47th governor of new jersey, who today celebrates his 90th birthday. Hes lived longer than any governor in the history of our state. Governor byrne was born on orange, 924, in west essex county, and currently lives in the short hills section of essex county in the Congressional District i have the honor of serving. He was graduated from W