We think a lot about animals as biomedical models. Its important to know how we are treating animals. So i want to talk a little bit of the history of fixing life and this is something with the new editing tools, these are new on the scene in the last three years, they are cheaper, theyre quicker and easier to use and a lot of people have wondered if we have the capacity to now modify a lot of organisms, should we do it with humans, should we do it before theyre born in maybe the same met metaphor before the cow . What hes basically saying, you know, as oppose the sterilizations, the way we segregated people that we didnt want away from society, now we are able to do this and now seemingly sterile mocular level. And hes also bringing the point that im going reiterate with another person, the idea that we sometimes assume that biotechnology is the most effective tool for social problems and i really want to interrogate the idea with you tonight because im not sure that it is. Another pe
Good morning. I am John Friedman and im based in washington dc where the Government Affairs a global apartment shared partnership. Ge is one of the leading technology companies. We have 50000 customers and 130 cussed countries. I dont see him, but i had the honor on tuesday of attending the white house water summit. Peter, marianne, you were there as well and probably others. One of the interesting things i heard was from john, president obamas scientific advisor and he said while members are almost never everything, there almost always a great starting point. I think in your opening remarks where you talk about the state of the nations water challenges you laid out numbers that are very sobering. I will just add to that that the American Society of Civil Engineers released a report giving the countrys water and wastewater of the structure a grade of d. That is worse than my grade of calculus to at the university of virginia. I still dont know why i took that class. I was a history maj
Well get to all of those stories in just a moment. But also of course were going to talk about accuweather, see what we can expect on this wednesday. For that well go to meteorologist, david murphy. Good morning. Good morning, guys. We had thunderstorms rumble through last night but theyre off the coast. Were look tag bit of Morning Cloud cover mixing with sun. Over all it will be a day that features a fair amount of sunshine. Still warm. Were starting out at 75 degrees in philadelphia, in the upper 60s in places like allentown and reading. 72 in wilmington and trenton, 73 millville and 75 in sea isle city. Unlike yesterday you step outside and it does not feel all that muggy. As we head out the door earl to catch that school bus between six andy a. M. And 8 00 a. M. , 72 degrees, 74 degrees, some clouds mixing with those sunny breaks and overall pretty comfortable. As we go through the afternoon yes, it will be warm. Still need cool drinks if youll be out and about. Not as humid nor a
Nbcs tom costello covers aviation for us and joins me this morning. Good morning. What do we know . Reporter we have five different aircraft today that we are told were affected by a bomb threat threats called in have all been deemed to be not credible, and four of the five flights were already on the ground safely. American 648, san diego to philly delta flight 55 los angeles to atlanta, united 995, which was San Francisco to chicago, and youre looking right there at the scene of philadelphia, by the way, thats american 648, san diego to philly. Last flight 939, portland to guadalajara, mexico also were told on the ground. One flight still in the air, korean air 23 seoul, south korea to San Francisco. That flight is still in the air, landing 2 20 p. M. Eastern time in San Francisco. That threat deemed not credible. Korean air is continuing on with the flight. All of these threats are, we are told, very similar to the ones that were phoned in over the past couple of weeks in which the
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