lucky. i'm not sure what the choir and antics are doing right now. that's all for me here in washington. america's news headquarters rolls on. one more thing before we go tomorrow fox news sunday -- hello, everyone i'm julie banderas. >> good of you to be with us and and topping the news this hour, president obama wrapping up the holiday break. a republican led congress waits for him back in d.c. but he insists he wants to work with them. >> a 7-year-old girl is a sole survivor of a deadly plane crash. she walked away from the wreckage and knocked on a door for help. >> putting a hold on a u.s. military exit, afghanistan's new president says he wants to rethink the time line for the u.s. to pull our troops out of

his country. we begin this hour with the search for wreckage and victims from the crash of airasia flight 8501. officials in indonesia believe they have found a big chunk of it. sonar pinpointing four massive objects on the bottom of the ocean. crews are working in awful weather right now. divers can't even get to the bottom to see it. only a few dozen bodies now recovered nearly a week after the plane first went missing. david has the latest from bangkok and joins us now with more details. >> reporter: hi, kelly yes indonesia officials say search teams have found what they describe as four large objects on the ocean floor and seem confident these are parts of the missing airasia plane. >> translator: we found using our geo survey ship, the ability to find objects under water,

four large objects from the aircraft that we've been looking for. >> reporter: they are planning to send down a remotely operated underwater vehicle to take pictures of the objects which are about 100 foot down. the bad weather and rough seas continues to make that difficult. so far 30 bodies have been recovered. and indonesian officials quoted as saying some of them were belted in their seats. it's thought most of the bodies of the 162 people on board the airbus are still trapped inside the fuselage of the aircraft. a flotilla of ships including the uss sampson and ft. worth are searching for debris. the recovery of the black box is key to find out what caused the plane to crash. they haven't been able to pick up signals so forth. the weak signals from the black boxes are difficult to find because of the sound produced by so much ships in the area.

it disappeared from surabaya to singapore last friday. he was facing bad weather and wanted to climb. the request was denied by indonesian air traffic control because another plane was above. it's also revealed air asia wasn't registered to fly the route on sundays. and the transport ministry has stopped airasia flying that route for now. back to you. >> all right, dave piper thank you very much. >> the u.s. imposing sanctions on north korea in response to the alleged cyber attack on sony pictures. the sanctions affecting three north korean agencies as well as ten officials who are barred from using the u.s. financial system. the white house says this is just the first part of its response to the hacking attack. the u.s. has already imposed tough sanctions on the regime's

nuclear program. >> president obama wrapping up the last day of his holiday vacation. the commander in chief will head home early sunday morning traveling from hawaii to d.c., a new republican led congress set to convene on tuesday of the dan springer is love from honolulu with more details. >> reporter: president obama has stayed mainly out of the headlines during the two weeks here in hawaii as he's no doubt resting up for what will be a very interesting congressional session now that republicans control the house and the senate. there's been a lot of speculation whether mr. obama will step up the use of executive order adding to what we see on immigration and minimum wage and cuba. he will not sit down with republican leaders any time soon because as soon as he gets back to washington he's leaving again. the white house says the president will take off wednesday for a trip to detroit to talk about the rebounding auto industry. in there he goes to phoenix to

speak about housing and on to tennessee for a speech on college and education, all themes he'll hit in the state of the union address. eric shultz said there are a number of issues we could make progress on but the president is clear he will not let this congress undo protection particularly in the health care and environment, vowing to make job creation a center piece. >> in the coming days the house will also act on legislation to approve the keystone xl pipeline and restore the 40-hour workweek for middle class families. from there, more good ideas for jobs and growth will follow. if the president is willing to work with us we'll have a real chance to address our nation's most pressing challenges. >> reporter: we'll have to see if the veto pen comes out more. president obama used it just twice in the first six years but that's because harry reid

controlled the senate and a lot of stuff didn't get to the president's desk. in a year end interview president o manybama said it's likely the pen could get more work in the coming year. a man accused of helping al qaeda is dead, al libi died from complications after liver surgery. he was in custody in new york with the trial set to start january 12th. you may remember the bombings in 1998 at our embassies in kenya and tanzania. a dozen of those victims were americans. thousands more were injured. at one point the fbi had a $5 million bounty on al libi's het. the elite delta force snatched him off the street in libya. he was already ill with hepatitis c leading to his liver

problems. >> mourners gathering for a wake in brooklyn to pay tribute to over wenjin liu. he and his partner were executed as they sat in their patrol car. friends and family remember the life in service. brian is live in brooklyn with more. >> reporter: good afternoon, we're 20 minutes away from where officer wenjuin liu and ramos were killed. we've seen a few people going in and seen police officers and lapd officers from massachusetts and arizona coming in and in their uniforms ready to go in and pay respects to the officer, a 32-year-old and seven-year veteran of the nypd and we've seen bill bratton who arrived in the last half hour and mayor de blasio show join

any moment now. it is an open casket. he has his first rate badge pinned to his uniform. there will be no official eulogys or speeches. there will be one special room for his family with a photo of liu doing a ceremonial burning of paper objects representative of the some of the valuables for the afterlife. in many ways liu represented the bright future of the nypd in this country. arrived in 1994 when he was 12 years old and learned english in high school and -- friends and colleagues say he always wanted to be a cop and always kind to strangers. he knew several chinese dialects which is very valuable here because it allowed him to build a bridge with a wary chinese community here. he's somebody being remembered as someone who was really there for everyone. last weekend many officers

you'll remember turned their blacks on mayor de blasio on ramos's funeral. the nypd commissioner sent out a memo telling officers that that motion was not onlydy disrespectful but discouraged it. i understand emotions are high. i issue no mandates and make to threats of discipline. when you done a uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition and honor and decentcy that go with it. liu's funeral will be tomorrow beginning at 11:00 a.m. the fbi director will be speaking along with the mayor and the police commissioner. detective wenjian liu will be buried in the cemetery where miz partner was buried last weeken >> thank you.

so many people will give their condolences and prayers tonight as well as tomorrow. thank you. >> turning now to weather and whiteout conditions in new hampshire leading to a massive pileup involving 35 vehicles. look at this video. what a mess. the chain reaction crash leaving a dozen people injured. this after officials say the highway went from dry to snow covered in just three minutes. janice dean is live in new york where we're seeing a dusting right now but nothing like that in new hampshire. >> it's going to remain really tricky all across the eastern seaboard as we see the new system move in along with the new year. let's look at the current temperatures. we're going to see or feel the coldest air of the season later on this week but six currently in rapid city. you can see where the cold front is. ahead of the cold front warm unstable air and potential for severe weather today. winter weather advisories over half a dozen states, blizzard

warnings for parts of north dakota and freezing rain advisories down wind of the great lakes as well as western pennsylvania. really tricky driving if you're heading home this weekend especially across the southeast where we have a tornado watch in effect. we don't have warnings but just so you know you want to be paying close attention to your local weather stations. we have a lot of snow moving across the great lakes as well as interior sections of the northeast. several inches of snow over the next 12 to 24 hours and see the pink here that's freezing rain. so really dangerous conditions on the roadways not only today but into sunday and even monday as the next batch moves in with the colder air. forecast snowfall, several inches here for the lower elevations. higher elevations could get over a foot. skiers love it. across the upper midwest, the next weather maker moves in bringing several inches of snow along with the coldest air of the season.

we're into january. it's going to feel like winter for a lot of folks, below zero for the daytime high pittsburgh how low will it go in chicago? 30 degrees as the morning low on sunday and it just drops significantly wednesday and thursday morning minus 13. that's an actual air temperature. that's not a windchill. so get ready, get set. >> oh, my gosh. >> how about my vermont ski trip next weekend? >> i think you're going to have a lot of powder and it's going to be cold but i know you'll enjoy it. >> i'm used to the cold. i remember last year was the cold eflt ski season i ever experienced. >> you're set for it. >> thank you very much. lawmakers maying feeling heat right now a new poll shows what americans are most concerned about heading into 2015 and the number one issue is not the economy.

>> and also a gut-wrenching story of survival after a plane crash in kentucky. a jazz musician looks back on her incredible journey and how she managed to turn adversity into beautiful music. ♪

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welcome back, we've got an incredible story of survival. a 7-year-old girl getting released from the hospital after surviving a plane crash that killed four members of her family. will carr picks up the story with more. >> authorities are saying it is a miracle that this 7-year-old girl survived the crash and then managed to find help. a nearby resident, his name is larry wilkins, says he just finished watching the news when he heard a faint knock at the door. >> she thought her arm was broke. and her left foot was hurting pretty bad. she was bare footed by the way one sock on her feet. she walked all of that distance barefooted. >> wilkins says the 7-year-old managed to walk 3/4 of a mile from the crash site to his home

through very rough terrain. she simply said she had been in a plane crash and that her parents were dead. authorities have identified the four victims in the crash last night as 48-year-old marty gusler and kimberly gusler and piper gusler and her cousin, sierra wilder all from nashville, illinois. the plane was going from florida to illinois when the pilot reported engine trouble. a short time later the plane crashed in southwest kentucky. >> it's always bad when there's a loss of life, especially near the holidays and when it's a family. we're thankful that there is at least a survivor. >> the faa and ntsb are on the scene at the crash site trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. >> very bitter sweet story. thank you very much. >> politicians may have a problem on their hands again a

new poll shows what americans are most concerned about heading into the new year and believe it or not it is not the economy. topping the list, 18% say the biggest problem lies on capitol hill with our elected officials. let's bring in angela mclowan and senior strategist for moveon.org. this says a lot about the president's ability to see it both ways and when something reaches a republican in congress and falls on the desk of the president, he doesn't necessarily like to agree with the republicans on just about everything. >> you're exactly right. i'm not surprised that government is the number one issue. americans have had a rude awakening, a costly one but with dysfunction in congress and the politics being played by the white house, it's been a costly experience where americans now know government plays a role in

every aspect of our lives. i think they are afraid that president obama will not work with the republican congress as you just said. >> okay so then you tell me, ben. what is going to give? angela, actually surprised me. this president should be a little bit more like bill clinton and listen to republicans. >> i think this president is doing a lot of listening and what he's hearing -- >> is he? on what? >> things like immigration -- >> obamacare? >> the public wants a government that actually works for them. when you look at this poll, you see a public that feels like the government is working for special interests, for wall street banks and people with armies of lobbyists and lawyers rather than middle class families. >> ben -- i'm sorry, julie. >> let him finish. >> he's at least trying to do something about the problems that face each of us in our everyday lives. that's what the government need to do and selling out to wall

street banks is not the way to do it. >> ben it's because of president obama's failed policies and the fact that harry reid lost his job asthma jort leader didn't even pass a budget. under the auspices of the politics of president obama, democrats marched in line. bill clinton signed 70% of the contracts with america. that was a capital gains tax cut. it gave so much to the american people where they were in more control of their pocketbooks than the federal government. i'm hopeful that president obama if he cares about his legacy, which we know he does he'll work with the republican congress to help it. >> i want to show you a poll that maybe you can comment on this. it's a fox news poll that shows you how the american public feels about the congressional job performance, republicans versus democrats. if you look at the bottom left hand number you have the disapproval, 64% democrats in congress and 66% disapprove

republicans in congress. it doesn't seem anyone has any trust in congress whether it's democratic or republican led. how are any decisions then supposed to be made if there's such little trust in our government? >> well julie -- >> let -- i've got to jump in here. >> typical americans have seen wages flat for the last 30 years. young people can't afford to buy a house. they can barely afford to pay student loans. when they look at congress in both parties they don't see a lot of leadership for tackling those type of issues. if republicans as well as democrats want to make a serious dent in how the public feels about them, they need to start focusing on issues that affect regular people and not just special interests. >> republicans should not vote 50 times to repeal obamacare, we got it the first couple of times -- >> i'm with you there. >> democrats did the same in fighting what americans want to do and what she want to see republicans and democrats work

together to create a better america. >> angela and ben thank you very much for your comments. we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. >> kelly? well it's the first beyond the dream of the new year and we focus on a woman known for becoming a first in jazz music history. it began in harlem, usa, a place of storied history and place where legendary performers and musicians gave birth to the most indigenous art form jazz. among the trail blazers working their craft in harlem nightclubs like the cotton club paving the way for fut or artists like a young girl named bobby hump free and she's our focus of today's beyond the dream. >> in 1971 i came to new york,

$400. my flut and my faith. >> she is known as the first lady of flute came about after the jazz great dizzy gillespie heard her perform at smu. dizzy encouraged her to move to new york city where her musical talent could be discovered. taking that advice, bobbibecame a regular performer at the apollo theater. as the saying goes, the rest is history. her hard work paved the way for her to become the first female musician to sign a recording contract with the iconic blue note records in 1971. and she still is making music today. >> bobbi you became a pioneer for women in the jazz industry, a male dominated industry. how did you survive it and how did you succeed? >> of all of the things i've been blessed with, i've been blessed with a good heart and

eagerness. and to keep -- after all of these years an enthusiasm about what i do -- >> her home state of texas, bobbiis big in heart, living with big faith and big dreams. >> i believe that we're all blessed with so many talents but there's one thing you do better than anyone else that you're not even competing, you're just fulfilling your mission. and really it's almost missionary work. >> after release of successful classics like harlem river drive, her star began to rise, earning praise from elton john and andy warhol. her most ar dent support came from the legendary stevie wonder who invited her to play on one of her most successful albums. >> he invited me to play on his album in 1976, that's me playing on another star the flute solo

and so many places with him. he just has a good heart. >> bobbi has enjoyed performing around the world she did not like the business side of music. she learned it can be very cut throat especially when you're a woman dealing in a man's world. after going through tough legal battles with two record companies she eventually created her own record label, paradise sound. it enables her to have total control of her music and intellectual property like poems and photography. >> the record industry has certainly changed. when you get burned, but even a marketwise it's different. i'm an analog girl living in a digital world. i had to adjust. >> for more than 40 years bobbi

humphr humphrey has been inspiring millions with her music and becoming the pied piper of the american dream. >> the legacy i want to pass on is one of love, love one another and love what you do and try to motivate. advocate and also be a personal who makes a difference. >> and she is making a difference, her latest project by the way is fashion police. >> she's been playing the flute how long? >> 40 years professionally. >> about how long you've been singing, i think, right? you should do a duet -- >> yeah, that's about -- >> a possible breakthrough in the search for wreckage and victims from the airasia crash. four big objects located on the ocean floor. are they closer to finding the critical black boxes? the new republican congress getting ready to act on the keystone oil pipeline, but some demonstrators in washington say the bill should never leave the

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it is the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news indonesia reporting a recovery crews may have found the main wreckage from airasia flight 8501. sonar picked up four massive objects on the bottom of the java sea near where the disappeared last sunday. now we're learning that the captain may not have had permission to even fly that route. let's bring in rob marr and fox news aviation analyst rob, thanks for joining us this afternoon. it's disturbing when people hear in the aftermath of this tragedy, that maybe this didn't have to happen at all since 8501 was flying the wrong route. how does that happen?

>> that's a management oversight issue really. for listeners that -- it doesn't necessarily mean it would have been a safety issue because whether you flew the same flight on thursday or tuesday or monday, wouldn't really make too much difference but it does go to the fact they were not supposed to be doing it and nobody noticed it. >> and rob you and i discussed this the night that they made the initial discoveries and talking about the fact that this pilot was at 32000 feet for an altitude and had requested to go up to 34,000 feet to avoid heavy storms and heavy clouds as he reported. why didn't air traffic control allow that to happen? >> well most likely traffic. i mean really the only reason they would normally ever have to refuse a request is for other air traffic in the area. but of course what we're all wondering is that there were other airplanes operating in the

vicinity. we don't know what happened to these guys that didn't happen to everybody else. >> let's center on the recovery efforts. 30 bodies have been recovered so far. we know that sonar has picked up pieces on the ocean floor. is it your belief that that could be the fuselage and that's where the bulk of the passengers and crew would likely be found? >> well, from the evidence that we have, i mean the indication is that this major piece was i believe almost 60 feet long. and the a-320, 123 feet i believe, nose to tail when it's intact. this is the largest section of the fuselage. again, what we're going to be looking for too is whether the tail section is one of these other smaller pieces. because, of course that's where the flight data recorders are. >> of course from those flight

data recorders better known to many as black boxes. what can we learn or ascertain about what likely contributed to this crash? >> we'll know everything. we'll hear the last recording of the cockpit crew. their actual voices but all of the indications, every moment of the controls every moment of the engine thrust controls everything will be recorded on that data recorder. >> and we haven't heard that yet, it hasn't been found yet. does it appear that this crash may have -- may have been incurred some sosht of kas strofic failure once they did not get the go ahead to go to higher altitude? >> i don't know. that's a tough one. i mean, judgment call as a pilot, i would be very surprised to hear that they tried to get over the weather because the weather was way up in the high 40s, low 50s for the tops. this airplane didn't have the

capabilities to climb that high. why they didn't just simply turn 90 degrees one way or another and kind of parallel it while they tried to figure out a way through it, that i can't figure out yet. >> or even return. >> well or -- we don't do that. we talked about that earlier. pilots don't ever turn around. they just don't. it's part of our ego, which is one of our great failings, actually. >> all right, rob mark, thank you. >> you're most welcome kelly. >> it's a new year and new congress going to work with construction of the controversial keystone pipeline the house plans to vote on the same measure it approved in november. but now there's a republican controlled senate waiting for it as well. the pipeline would move oil from canada to refineries in the u.s. but some people are not happy about it. molly is watching the story in washington. >> president obama says the keystone pipeline is quote not going to be a huge benefit to

u.s. consumers but republicans believe it would be a big job creator and plan to move forward with it as the first order of business in the 114th congress. the senate reconvenes on tuesday as republicans take over the majority in the senate and expand majority in the house. on wednesday the senate energy committee would hold a hearing on the keystone bill with a vote expected on thursday. republicans plan to move that bill to a full senate vote soon after that. gop senator mitch mcconnell who will take over next week says the pipeline will create well paying high wage jobs. and said republicans are quote optimistic that a bill can get through the senate and house and get to the president's desk. president obama however has voiced concern that the keystone pipeline might contribute to global warming and says there are better ways to create jobs such as public works projects. whether the president would veto a keystone bill and set up confrontation with the congress or save it for another bill

isn't clear. >> he will certainly veto anything he disagrees with i think he's looking forward to brandishing the veto pen because he's hardly ever used it. he may veto fewer things than we think. >> republicans would need democratic support in both chambers in order to get the 2/3 majority to override a presidential veto. >> thank you very much. >> closing the exit door for u.s. troops in afghanistan, the new afghan president says his country may still need american troops beyond 2016. how long will u.s. forces be fighting the taliban and their terrorist allies captain chuck nash will join us next with his thoughts.

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in syria when his plane was shot down. he was the first known foreign pilot to be taken by isis since the start of the us-led air campaign. the group has executed and captured soldiers in the past but his father says he's confident his son is in safe hands. >> there are only about 10,000 american troops in afghanistan and after the u.s. officially ended the military mission last week president obama plans to bring the remaining troops home by 2016. >> but the deadline may need to be reexamined. >> if both parties or in this case multiple partners have done their best to achieve the objectives, then there should be willingness to reexamine. >> did you tell president obama that? >> president obama knows. we don't need to tell each

other. >> joining us now to discuss this chuck nash, our fox news military analyst. good of you to join us today. hope you're doing well as always. >> indeed, thank you kelly. >> this deadline for a total withdrawal of troops from afghanistan is just two years away and now president beganny, rebegan reghani reexamining -- >> i think he's a realist. this guy is not somebody that just got plucked off the street. he's a well educated man, set on the faculty at berkeley and johns hopkins, doctorate from columbia, finance minister of afghanistan and worked for the world bank. he was ranked the number two intellectual in the world on a poll by foreign policy magazine. he is sharp and knows what he's

doing. he's sharing power with abdullah abdullah who he ran against in the september election. that presents a problem because you've got the military, which the u.s. has built and trained and it's a $5 billion a year operation to run that military. the government of afghanistan cannot afford that. so i think what ashraf ghani is saying, i have to share power with my political adversary and appoint people who are politically confident but also ethnically diverse, there are 11 ethnicities in afghanistan. and i have to pick people based on a little bit of spoils thing, the realism comes in. he's doing a two-fold thing. he's got to deal with the military situation and the security forces as well as the harder problem of standing up a

representative government. >> it sounds a lot like iraq -- >> doesn't it? >> in days after the war ended there and the same problems existed in terms of tribal factions, how do you bridge that divide. with this kind of thing going on in afghanistan thehow should the united states be responding? >> the united states should look back at our experience in iraq and say, did we do the right thing? if we had a do-over, would we have stood down the iraqi military in the first place, but when we left, it we not in fact snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? history will tell us that. we'll see how it plays out with isis and everything. your point about the division politically and ethnically within iraq is spot on. we trusted the maliki government and gave them incentives to tune to take care of the sunni and they didn't. and that's what allowed isis to come into the sunni territories

the extreme dissatisfaction with the government. we do not want to repeat that process in afghanistan. >> yeah, no, we don't especially with the threat of isis and taliban wanting to do something. let me ask you this in an upcoming interview, john campbell believes the afghan security forces are in fact ready to defend afghanistan on their own with minimal coalition support. is that forecasting really good or is he solid enough on footing to say that? >> well he's the expert he's there, the senior military officer. i have to go with his assessment. at the same time when he says the afghan military is ready to do that, they maybe trained and have the combat skills but if you don't have a government prepared to fund and supply the military in the field as we saw in iraq -- >> that's my point, the same thing we heard in iraq, the u.s. generals saying they are ready iraqi forces are ready and saw

them get trained. when it came time to really put up or fight, they actually ran. >> well and again, it was a shia militia that took over the iraqi military. it's just gangs that came in off the street. they were selling appointments and commissions and then they were bilking the soldiers out of pay. there are 50,000 soldiers or so in the iraqi military that weren't really there. they were on the rolls and paying officers off so they could go back home and work. they were receiving military pay splitting with officers back homeworking. any time you have graft that's so indemic in a culture, it's going to be extremely difficult to operate anywhere close to what we see as military efficiency. >> captain chuck nash. i'm not casting dispersions on

the general but the optimism is something people have to analyze quite -- quite thoroughly because we've seen -- >> i for one hope he's 100% spot on, we'll see. >> i do too. thank you, captain. >> my pleasure. >> a breakthrough medical study shedding light on how much we can and cannot control when it comes to cancer. you don't want to miss this next. okay, call me crazy, but i like it when my hygienist lets me know i'm doing a good job. i like it when my toothpaste lets me know too. that's why i went pro. go pro with crest pro-health. it's specially formulated for an intensive clean. it's great. i can really feel it deep cleaning my mouth. for a clean that's 4x better try these crest pro-health products together. my hygienist is going to love this. crest pro-health protects all these areas dentists check most. go pro, with crest pro-health i knew i was going to nail it. yep, i did!

is cancer beyond our control? a new study on dozens of different cancers linking a fraction of them to faulty genes or unhealthy lifestyle. scientists concluding most of them are simply the result of bad luck with stem cells. let's bring in dr. marty mccarey, a physician at johns hopkins as well as a cancer surgeon. you know, the reason why people develop cancer has been a mystery. a lot of people say it's her it tri and lifestyle and someone who smokes lives to be 90 and someone who lives a healthier age gets cancer at the young age. >> it's been a big dilemma for people not just in medicine but the general public, why someone

who lives a bad lifestyle can live cancer free and someone who eats well and avoids uv light can develop cancer early in life. this new study shows that it may be related to factors that are totally random about 65% of the time. that is the normal cell growth can just randomly go wrong and lead to a mutation that causes cancer and about 65% of the cancers out there. the other 35% may be more susceptible to what we call the environmental or lifestyle factors. >> how do they do the study? >> what they did they did a pure mathematical model, calculated the number of cell divisions in 31 different tissue types and they found when there were more cell divisions or opportunities for mutation, there were higher rates of cancer. >> okay, so the question then is how does cancer start and we -- are we any closer to a cure for

cancer? >> you know, for decades we've been talking about the war on cancer. the truth is our death rates are about the same as they were a decade ago. sometimes we need to think of cancer as something to manage, not just try to cure but also to treat almost like a chronic disease in certain circumstances. we can cure cancer when it's in one spot and inject it or cut it out. but when it spreads through the body that's what we've not made much progress on. >> the study does link cancer with stem cells and then there's the controversial issue of stem cell research. if your stem cells are copying each other, how could stem cell research potentially possibly be the future cure of cancer? >> well, a couple thoughts. stem cells are essentially rapidly growing early cells and some have thought we could replace cancer or normal tissue with stem cells, others have said it could create more possible mutations. what we know there's probably

about 35% of cancers out there where we can effect the course of the cancer. most of them we can't. >> those who have stored cord blood and cord tissue, there have been cases where stem cells were used to cure children of leukemia and people in the blood line. so there's a lot to say about the ability that stem cell research could have on the future. >> very promising. >> thank you very much. >> thank you julie. >> that is going to do it for us. >> the journal editorial report is coming up next. >> great to have you back, kelly. >> good to be back.

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