Benefited their students, online courses and their benefits to nontraditional students such as members of the military. Thank you for attending the summit on innovation in education and thanks to all of you who will present this morning. Were excited and grateful to have so much knowledge and ek per tease in one room, and i know were eager to hear from all of you. Before we begin, i want to say a quick word about innovation, about the focus on innovation. This year, i embarked on our rethink school tour where we visited learning environments and institutions that are taking creative approaches to education for students of all ages. I continue to travel country to see the great work thats being done and ive been inspired by the educators and administrators ive met thus far, but theres still not enough. We need more like them and like you. The reality is that there are a number of challenges and opportunities facing Higher Education, and washington, d. C. , does not have all the answers.
Good morning everybody. And thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil men in las vegas and southern springs, and those two places get all the attention, but there is lesser number of people have died other places as well. Today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1st, 2017, few americans new whatknew what a b stock was. Then a shooter used bump stocks to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only ten minutes. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire oammunition as i he had used an automatic weapon. 58 people died. 500 wounded. It was the deadliest mass shooting in our history. Our laws prohibit the manufacturer of machine guns, for decades and decades thats been the case, and greatly restrict their sale.
Alzheimers is projected to or likely to double every 20 years, we are in a race like few other diseases because it is proliferating so fast throughout the globe and according to dr. Maria bernard, the Deputy Director of the National Institute on age who will hear from momentarily, the numbers estimated to grow to 15 million by 2050 as populations around the world age. Predominantly it is a one of the byproducts of all of us aging and there seems to be a higher procliffty the older one gets and its been estimated that once somebody reaches 85, the chance of some form of dementia is one out of two. Its a very serious problem. The total estimated global cost of addressing this condition today is 818 billion but as early as next year it is estimated that this cost will rise to at least 1 trillion per year and it will go up from there. As we all know, alzheimers is a cruel disease robbing its victims of their memories and identities, robbing their family and friends of the person they know
Tomorrow on starting point, get your angel wings ready, victorias secret Cameron Russell will be here. John berman, ooh for the first time, im interested. We had ben cardin today. C cnn newsroom with Carol Costello is here right now. Gabrielle giffords, the nation marvelled from a gunmans killing spree. Today she launches a new fight for stricter gun laws milliondollar mystery an illinois man suddenly dies after winning the lottery but after toxicology tests show he was poisoned there are new questions this morning, who killed farush kan . Alabama rolls to its third bcs tight until four years but it was announcing brent mu mussbergers comments making news this morning. Lets dance, put on your red shirt and dance the blue bowies back and its his birthday, ziggy stardust celebrated giving his fans a new song from his new album. Lets dance, while color lights up your face good morning to you. Thank you so much for joining me, im Carol Costello. We begin with a debate over gun control and
Speakers on my computer on my desk at work because the buzzer that i have set to go off every time a top tier breaking news alert crosses the wires started to seem like it was just stuck on, it was sounding so often today. It was that kind of day. So well have updates for you this howerton riveting turn on capitol hill from secretary of state Hillary Clinton today. And remember the debt ceiling thing that everybody has been fighting about for months. That finally happened today. The stealth story that we have been covering about republicans in the states changing the rules for president ial elections to make it harder for Democratic Candidates to win, that story moved forward today in a big way, and is getting increasing national attention. There is a lot going on. This was a big news day. Were going to be getting to all of that. But none of those stories were the biggest, most surprising thing that happened on this big, surprising day of news. That story is our lead story tonight, and