. >> live on booktv, meryl comer, president and ceo of the geoffrey beene foundation alzheimer's initiative reports on the effects of the degenerative brain disease that affects 5.1 million americans and 44 million people globally. this is about one hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> hello, everybody. thank you all for coming. my name is andrew and i'm one of the managers here at politics and prose. i'm really delighted to see everyone turning out for such an importansu

she is now the ceo of the geoffrey beene foundation alzheimer's initiative, which is prominently providingfit of the geoffrey beene income dedicated to the foundation along with work of cancer and wounded warriors and protection of women and children. she has provided testimony and served two times on the alzheimer's board of association or she is a founding member of u.s. against alzheimer's and a cofounder of the women against alzheimer's network. alzheimer's disease affects 36 million people worldwide and her husband was the chief of hematology and oncology at the national institute of health when he was diagnosed with early onset alzheimer's at age 58. she decided to leave her television her to become a caregiver both for her husband and for her mother who had alzheimer's in home hospice. since the 1996 diagnosis, she has become an outspoken advocate on this illness and for the rights that caregivers and patients alike should have. in her book, "slow dancing with a stranger", lost in the age of alzheimer's, she dedicates her struggle and as a caregiver and dealing with long-term care f

at the most significant person involved in this project has been my longtime collaborator, collaborator of 32 years, geoffrey ward, who was here, i'm also to say happily, with his wife diane. and we have just been making films together for an awfully long time, beginning not again, my ring, editing a text, with the civil war, but we begin with yohe was an advisor on a film we made on the celibate religious sect the shakers. and then our next summit came out in 1985, five years before the civil war, on the tribunal life of the southern demagogue huey long. we have been making history together and we've been talking together for almost all of those 32 years about making a film for a film series on one or more of the roosevelt. geoff himself threatened to extraordinarily great books on the roosevelt's, on franklin roosevelt's early life. one of them is called before the trumpet, which takes them from his birth to his marriage to eleanor. and the second which is one of the gross biographies i've ever read, and please run to your notepad to jot this down, a first class temperament, it takes franklin roosevelt fro

. >> geoffrey, has it been interesting to you and to other aviation experts, people involved, just how of this new equipment has been performing? >> it has. and i think we've learned a lot from the loss of air france 447 in the mid-atlantic in june 2009. and the australian transportation safety bureau, the malaysians have been tapping into the experts in france who were part of that search, and again, there's experts from across the globe, the united kingdom, united states, experts in all sorts of different fields that are coming together. this is really a global effort to find this airplane, and it's really virgin territory. this sort of thing has never happened before in the modern era, and trying to use this sort of method of calculation is also brand-new. so there's no real precedent to what we're doing at the moment. >> jeffrey thomas, great to talk to you. thanks for joining us from perth. geoffrey thomas optimistic that mh370 may be found in the next few weeks. interesting, isn't it, aaron? six months. hard to believe it's been six months. >> like a needle in a haystack. >> you'

honey, have you been drawing on the walls again? no. i drew geoffrey. you- you drew on geoffrey? to. debra: oh, my god. it's bad news for europe, ray. st relax. all right? just relax. i'll take care of it. it's comining o. it's coming off. it's not coming off. here. let me see if i can do this. [knock on door] ally, come on. come with me. you know your front door's locked? yeah. we thought it would keep out the bad people. you think evil cares about a lock?

. >> reporter: she has been in new york on a full merritt scholarship with the geoffrey concert group when she began to feel pain in her chest. given the rigors of dance, she waited four months before going to a doctor. she and others thought the pain was muscular. >> i thought it was like an over developed muscle from carrying a heavy dance bag around new york. i said put it on the other side. now maggie's mother, is at her side. maggie is undergoing chemotherapy treatments for a large aggressive tumor. she has moved home for now. >> it's a step by step process to see where my body is, but we have to see what's best for me and best for my long life ahead of me. >> the bald ballerina has become well known on social media with postings about her struggle and critical advice for other young women. >> some of my colleagues who i went to school with contacted me saying their doctor isn't letting them get a mammogram, and i said find a new doctor. >> reporter: she takes comfort from her cousin amber who beat leukemia eight years ago, and doctors tell maggie that her tumor is shrinking. >>

since 2009, bard has been supporting similar programs in other colleges and universities and hopes to be active in ten states over the next few years. [ticking] coming up, geoffreys in the harlem children's zone. >> they come from broken homes? yes. is there poverty and drugs and crime? yes, it's all those things. those kids are still going to college. >> the zone, when 60 minutes on cnbc returns. [ticking] mmmmmmm. look out. now there's even more of the amazing cinnamon taste you love on cinnamon toast crunch. crave those crazy squares even more. maestro of project management. baron of the build-out. you need a permit... to be this awesome. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. and only national is ranked highest in car rental customer satisfaction by j.d. power. (aaron) purrrfect. (vo) meee-ow, business pro. meee-ow. go national. go like a pro. dovisit tripadvisor new york. with millions of reviews, tripadvisor makes any destination better. the all new, head turning cadillac ats coupe. it's irresistible. ♪ many americans who have prescriptions fail to stay on them. that's why we created programs whi