For right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible and i hope youll all join us in the questions as you can bring to our guests and planning to ask you a couple of questions. We are going to take advantage of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates, somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time and talk to him throughout this pandemic and he is far and away the smartest person i know about really helping us set the table understanding where we are. Ive called him a National Treasure and now hes a global treasure. Donated more than 400 million to Covid Research and called this, i hate to say it, in advance back in 2015 whene warned about a possible pandemic of ts sort. I should also note hesrying to get into the journalism business to start a podcast this week which you can go out and get as well. I should also in
Watch tonight and enjoy American History tv every weekend. Last week, Pharmaceutical Company pfizer announced they have a vaccine for covid19 that is 95 effective. The ceo of the company and bill gates recently talked about the encouraging results from the vaccine and how they would distribute it to the public. Welcome back to deal book. It is a privilege to be with all of you, we have a very, very special conversation planned for right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible. I hope youll all join us in the comments asking questions to bring to our guests. And also planning to ask you a couple of questions. Were going to take advantage of some of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates. Somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time. And to talk to him throughout this pandemic. And he is far and away the smartes
It did dip below it for the First Time Since october. Almost every other mega cap down today in the session. Really, vimeo the only one threatening to finish positive today. We will watch this over the final stretch here, the stock did rarely go green, it was a while ago so we have to watch that. Names like salesforce and tesla proud, pretty open today. Target, not so great, but the market seems to have seen enough of those shares today. It takes us to our talk of the tape. Fed chair powell speaking on capitol hill tomorrow morning, maybe some of todays weakness, trying to get ahead of that appearance, perhaps. Lets ask anastasia, chief investment strategist with me here at our cnbc headquarters. Good to see you. Good to see you. Dow is down 500, nasdaq, center of the action, down 2 , yields are falling and the data today was weak. The data was not great in some spots. Ism, broadly speaking, was weaker than expectations. If you look at the details, it was the employment subsector that
National institute on aging promising signs of alzheimers disease will be supported. We have a distinguished panel of experts here today and family members and also quite a and audience. I will welcome the representative of the Alzheimers Association summit you came along way to be here today we thank you for your tireless worker about the need to do more for your loved ones. Also we have students from the university of virginia spending the day learning about budget and appropriations. On the first panel will hear from dr. Francis collins distinguished director of National Institutes of health and what kinds of research are most likely to benefit from our appropriations and we will also have dr. Lee and this and also from the National Institute of aging also here to answer questions on this second panel we go to the researcher who underwrote the study that i mentioned earlier and joined by two individuals impacted by this devastating disease. Finally congressman is here today as a lon
Alzheimers disease is a leading cause of death in u. S. Adults. Up next a panel looks at the Economic Impact of the disease and research. Actor seth rogan testified after a panel of officials. Iowa senator tom harkin chairs the appropriations subcommittee on health and human services. See the educated related agencien will use com these come to orde. Related hearing is the fifth the subcommittee has held since 2,000 focusing on alzheimers st disease. Mitt the burden of the disease ande 0 the state of th state of the red the challenges faced by of the d caregivers. Is re going back manyse years weve face heard predictions from experts about the farreaching heard abe equencespr of this disease will have on the quality of life for American Families and the burden it will place on thehave ameromy in the years ahead. For last april a study predictedcon that they would be far greatera. Than anyone previously imagined. We will hear from the author on the next panel. T i dohe note this command