with kids with down syndrome as you know i have a daughter with his her name is isabella you know since two thousand and one when i was in some way. together with down syndrome association i started my foundation in two thousand and five five or five. i were number five so that was a great year for us and two thousand and six we started making our first mission trip down to the d.r. we take doctors dentists and we start different programs now in the dominican republic go within us and we may hear the answers oh yeah every year every year i mean from two thousand and five to now in the programs that we have there they just amazing you know now we know only working in one community now we've been working growing about five six different community are on the d.v.r. and that's something that that was our growing i can think are our friends and people that support our foundation and off you know we because if it wouldn't be for them we wouldn't be where in my district down the halls you gave him she's sixteen i have five i have a sister your older isabella a.j. . who's thirteen and i got sophia who say ezra was for twenty two months yesterday so that it. for now. always want

bonus that you can screen for chromosomal abnormalities associated with miscarriages, which is distressing, and screen for abnormalities, downs syndrome>> this testing has its critics. >> this is not curing the children, and they'll continue to be born. my feeling is that if the affluent society dedicates money to preimplant takes diagnosis it will not spend money on providing cures. >> for carmen, the screening gave her peace of mind that her son will never have to struggle with a disease plaguing her and her father. >> finally. here is one more way of getting viewers for your news bulletin. >> a look at a television channel in senegal. it invited rap artists to have a go at their script. it's broadcast every friday. it is called "the rap news." it has a youtube page with 13,000 hits and 8,000 social media. >> it looks like an u.s. senator lifted a lot of his master papers. he was found to have copied dozens of articles from other places and posted them as his own. plagiarism is the inside story.

nephew with downs syndrome, and i'm looking on the alzheimer's.org web site, and they mentioned how virtually 100% of adults with downs syndrome by age 40 will have evidence of the tangles associated with alzheimer's. >> uh-huh. >> now, what are the issues regarding -- wow, this is a group of kids, adults who are at risk, 100% at risk for a terrible condition. >> right. >> but there's other issues involved as well. what are your thoughts about this? how do we make stuff available for folks credibly at risk for such a terrible disease? >> yes. well, with alzheimer's there are a number of problems. the basic rob is we still don't -- problem is we still don't understand the disease well enough and the interventions that have been tried when people are already demeanted have failed to work. >> as i gather, though, the problem is predicting at an earlier stage those at risk, correct? >> that's correct. if you want to intervene early. we recently issued a draft guidance saying, okay, if you want to intervene earlier, we would accept an end point that is cog thinktive testing. >> i accept that, but how do you decide which population is such at high risk? if you had a control group, only