the national alzheimer's association put me in touch with some women, who talked about their experience. one was a woman who is diagnosed at 45 and looked like me. she was redheaded her name is sandy olson. she was noticing difficulties learning computer programs. >> diagnosed at 45? >> 45. i spoke to them and i went to mount sinai and talked to researchers. i took the memory test they give to people when they come in wondering what is going on. my results were normal thankfully. i went to the new york alzheimer's association and talk to people in support groups women who were so helpful. i asked them, what do they want to cede did? -- see depicted? >> what did they say? >> they talked a lot about the house -- isolation. no one understands what is happening. the feeling of people not knowing who they were. people who do not know them when they are normally functioning they did not understand how to communicate. one in particular said she had always been so defined by her intellect, it was difficult for her to speak to people when they did not treat her as someone who possessed that inte

starting with the national alzheimer's association, they put me in touch with three women who i skype with. one woman was diagnosed at 45. she looks very much like me. she was redheaded. she started noticed difficulties. >> she was diagnosed at 45? >> yes 45. so i spoke to them and then i went to mount sinai. i took the memory test to give to people when they come in. my results were normal. easily. then i -- thankfully. then i went to new york and talk to women who were unbelievably helpful. when asked them what they wanted to be depicted, what would i -- what wouldn't i know? they talked a lot about the isolation. how difficult it was to find people to understand. the feeling of people not knowing who they were. people who did know them when they were so-called normal functioning, they felt like they did not understand how to communicate. one woman felt she had always been defined by her ability with language and intellect, so once it was gone it was difficult for her to speak to people. what i came away with, was how hard people worked to communicate and to maintain where they were

i spoke with the national alzheimer's association and they put me in touch with three women i skyped with across the nation and i talked with them about their experience. one is a woman who was diagnosed at 45. she looks like me. she ran an o.r. she started noticing when having difficulty learning a computer program. >> charlie: diagnosed at 45? 45. i spoke to them and went to mount sinai and talked to researchers and clinicians. i took the memory test they give to people when they come in wondering what's going on. my results were normal, thankfully. then i went to the new york alzheimer's association and talked to people in support groups there, some women who were unbelievably helpful. when i asked them what they wanted to see depicted, what wouldn't i know -- >> charlie: what did they say? they talked about the isolation, how difficult it was to find people who understood what was happening, the feeling of people not knowing who they were because people who didn't know them when they were so-called normal functioning didn't feel like they understood how to communicate. there was o

the efforts that i think are important here that follow the national alzheimer's project act is to put together a more clinical response. and i think the alzheimer's accountability act, which i have co-sponsored, allows for h.r. 4351 to respond to the alzheimer's planning in a way that has those directly involved in the service and delivery system to the alzheimer's community, they will advise what those budgeted amounts should look in an annual amount amount to 2025. that is absolutely essential. i applaud our efforts here in the house with representative guthrie and others, looking to make certain that we have a much more accountable, well-planned and professional-driven estimate that will move us forward with each and every budget year to respond to this crisis in america, and indeed is a crisis. and representative garamendi, these are efforts that i think need to be made. the commitment that starts with the human element, the compassion that needs to be expressed on behalf of the people of this country, via this house, this congress, both houses speaking to a legitimate request tha

the council begin their terms today. there's also a party tonight at national harbor to raise money for the alzheimer's association and the wayne curry lung cancer disparity awareness fund. baker won his second term in office in november running unopposed. >>> in just a few minutes, montgomery county will inaugurate some key leaders. will take the oath of office for another four-year term. nine council members are also being sworn in this morning. the ceremony is being held at richard montgomery high school in rockville. >>> today, the d.c. government will begin the process to fill the position lef former d.c. mayor marion berry's death. they will officially declare the seat vacant. the board of elections will come up with a time line for a special election. candidates will be running to fill out the remainder of berry's term which doesn't end until 2017. >>> and berry will have a true d.c. farewell this week. on thursday, he will lie in repose inside the wilson building for 24 hours. friday, there will be a community memorial service in his honor at the temple of praise church in south. berry's funeral will be on saturda

the national football league will have to pay out around $1 billion to thousands of former players that claim compensation for concussion injuries. 28% will suffer from alzheimer's making former nfl players twice as likely as the general public to experience some form of dementia. despite spending hundreds of millions in compensation, it shows no sign of going away. it will suffer a concussion of some sort. >> i have a good hit, no matter what. having they have overshadowed that boundary. you know where they are for a reason. >> it is through injury. >> kids playing soccer. recognizing signs and symptoms of the injury. the question is, what is america's appetite like for a game that can leave men in their 50's broken? >> we take that out, the game is over with. >> they are making big-box right now. >> the nature of the sport remains. as america continues to watch in record numbers. >> that leaves us a lot of money. i spoke a short time ago with dr. bell, the codirector of the neurological institute and former physician for the pittsburgh steelers. problem of is the concussion in america football? are you concerned? i am concerned like many others are. i think fo

the top center for treating brain national football league players who suffer brain injuries. the nfl estimates nearly a third of its players will develop crippling brain conditions, including alzheimer's. in upstate new york, 41 people, including 25 teachers have been arrested for blocking the gates of a gas storage facility as part of a campaign against the texas-based company crestwood midstream. the group we are seneca lake has staged regular blockades over the company's plans to expand methane gas storage in lake which provides drinking water to 100,000 people. biologist and activists said the action was led by teachers. >> we had 40 people blockading -- among them, many teachers. special education teachers, elementary school teachers, my son's fifth grade teacher, my husband the art teacher was among them, professors who teach constitutional law -- i've never been so proud of educators. this is the kind of education that the whole world needs right now. >> a new report finds the number of imprisoned journalists in prison has increased, with 220 currently held around the world. the committee to project -- protect journalists says the tally is the second highest since its tally beg

demographics and the aging of our nation, a 45% increase in the incidence of camera just because of age. how the odds about of getting cancer increases with increases. >> for alzheimer's, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, every sive years the incidence doubled. by the time you're 45 you have a 45% chance of having alzheimer's. by the time your a dui the one in two chance if you're a male, one in three chance -- by the 80, you have a one and two chance if your mail and one in three chance of your fema. it is a question, can we afford ?ot to support the solution quarter of ad a trillion dollars for 5.4 million americans inflicted with the disease. spending $1ill be trillion in today's dollars if we don't impact on the disease. we have to make a concerted effort to get out ahead of these problems in a way we know we can research,cisive development of drugs, and so on that would make a difference. >> not to mention the human cost. she didn't have the might. -- mic. >> i am karen brooks. i want to thank you both for a lifetime of science. can you speak to the state of brainch and treatment for cancer and other such forms of cancer? >> we have made tremendous progress ac

the payroll of early alzheimer's, early parkinson's symptoms, it's a bad thing. >> great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts now. >> good evening, ed. and thanks for you to tuning in. we start with breaking news right now. federal agents are investigating who hacked sony pictures' private e-mails. the u.s. is vowing to respond, considering a range of options. law enforcement and intelligence officials say the u.s. strongly suspects north korea directed the hacking. but many cybersecurity experts say they doubt an isolated country could do it alone. what we still don't know tonight is how the hackers did it. the white house today is saying that it's being treated as a serious national security matter. here is homeland security secretary, jay johnson, on msnbc today. >> we do regard the attack on sony as very serious and it involves an attack not only on that company and its personnel, but also on freedoms that we enjoy in this country. the u.s. government is actively considering a range of options that we'll take in response to this attack. >> the hacking game as retaliation

for example, it provides $30 billion for the national institute of health, an increase over funding from f.y. 2014. enhancing funding for alzheimer's, cancer and brain research. miller the gabriela research act, a bill i authored with gregg harper and eric cantor at $12.6 billion, shifting those funds from political conventions to research into pediatric diseases. it increases the health care and erical funding to some of our poorest and most needy constituents, native americans, and it provides funding to deal with crisises like those associated with the outbreak of ebola or the militant activity of isil, the islamic state of iraq and levant. i could go on and on with all the good things included in this bill. however, i'm sure others will speak to those items. i believe it's important to take stock in where we've come over the last four years. we've taken an annual budget deficit of $1.4 trillion and lowered it to $468 billion. still too high but one of the most rapid if not the most rapid declines of the deficit in american history. we've prevented additional burdens in regulations from being foisted upon the american people. ou

the payroll of early alzheimer's, early parkinson's symptoms, it's a bad thing. >> great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. "politics nationerend al sharpton starts now. >> good evening, ed. and thanks for you to tuning in. we start with breaking news right now. federal agents are investigating who hacked sony pictures' private e-mails. the u.s. is vowing to respond, considering a range of options. law enforcement and intelligence officials say the u.s. strongly suspects north korea directed the hacking. but many cybersecurity experts say they doubt an isolated country could do it alone. what we still don't know tonight is how the hackers did it. the white house today is saying that it's being treated

the framework for a global fund on alzheimer's. we have the effort now on the brink for the first time, the national labs, into an effort the national brain observatory which is -- it's a complete scientific art national of our country to bear on this war on disease, and a better understanding of the human brain. we have in this bill language that would have the united states create a premiere conference in a national -- international conference to bring together the global initiatives in the european union and israel and china and other countries have come together to work on these issues. and we have a new initiative on imaging. so i want to just say there's a lot i could talk about in our bill, in the c.j.s. portion, but i want to just say that this effort on the human brain with some 50 million americans suffering from brain-related diseases and illnesses, a billion people worldwide, this is something this congress can feel as a major achievement for us to move in a major direction to move forward in addiction and everything in between. i thank the gentleman and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the t

the framework for a global fund on alzheimer's. we have the effort now on the brink for the first time, the national labs, into an effort the national brain observatory which is -- it's a complete scientific art national of our country to bear on this war on disease, and a better understanding of the human brain. we have in this bill language that would have the united states create a premiere conference in a national -- international conference to bring together the global initiatives in the european union and israel and china and other countries have come together to work on these issues. and we have a new initiative on imaging. so i want to just say there's a lot i could talk about in our bill, in the c.j.s. portion, but i want to just say that this effort on the human brain with some 50 million americans suffering from brain-related diseases and illnesses, a billion people worldwide, this is something this congress can feel as a major achievement for us to move in a major direction to move forward in addiction and everything in between. i thank the gentleman and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the t

alzheimer's disease and other problems. it's sounds pretty scary. that's the idea behind a documentary called sleepless in america from "national geographic" and nationalnstitutes of health. say they eight hours is what you should be getting. many of us never do. matthew walker studies the impact of sleep on our health. professor walker. good to see you. hopefully you got a good night's rest last night. >> i did, indeed. >> okay. so how is it that not getting enough sleep is actually killing us? >> yes, so a lack of sleep as you mentioned is a sophisticate risk fact osh for a number of health problems. in fact, if you think of the two most feared diseases in america, cancer and alzheimer's disease, sleep loss is a risk for both of those. first we know that sleep helps wash away the bad protein to build up the alzheimer's disease. that's why it seems to be a good night's sleep cleanses the brain of those bad products. we know there is a link between cancer. it's a frightening risk. sleep loss increases your rick for developing cancer. once you have cancer, sleep loss can accelerate the development of that cancer. it's perhaps not surprising to find the

one from the national institute of aging, they actually discovered a protein in the blood called irs-1 which can be screened for ten years before symptoms of alzheimer's it has in thee 100% accuracy. this hasn't been done on a large scale yet, but it seems very promising. the other in involves a retina scan also looking for a protein, beta norm lynn protein for the eye which opens up the idea of picking up alzheimer's before symptoms start. that's so important because all intervention, whether it's diet medications, they all work best early. >>> this year we've seen an explosion of health apps and devices that measure our vital signs. i want to ask both of you. how much do you think these apps could potentially change the way we function, live? >> i think they could have a tremendous impact. virtual doctors' apps are exploding. they're so popular. these are the apps where you can either type in symptoms to get doctors on the other end -- you can get their advice about what to do. some of the apps you actually pay for on a monthly basis or per appointment basis, and then you have a video conference with doctors. now, this has been fairly criticized in

demographics and the aging of our nation, a 45% increase in the incidence of camera just because of age. how the odds about of getting cancer increases with increases. >> for alzheimer's, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, every sive years the incidence doubled. by the time you're 45 you have a 45% chance of having alzheimer's. by the time your a dui the one in two chance if you're a male, one in three chance -- by the 80, you have a one and two chance if your mail and one in three chance of your fema. it is a question, can we afford ?ot to support the solution quarter of ad a trillion dollars for 5.4 million americans inflicted with the disease. spending $1ill be trillion in today's dollars if we don't impact on the disease. we have to make a concerted effort to get out ahead of these problems in a way we know we can research,cisive development of drugs, and so on that would make a difference. >> not to mention the human cost. she didn't have the might. -- mic. >> i am karen brooks. i want to thank you both for a lifetime of science. can you speak to the state of brainch and treatment for cancer and other such forms of cancer? >> we have made tremendous progress ac

the national science foundation to the national institutes of health, institutions that are doing cutting-edge, world-class science and developing the cures and treatments for everything from alzheimer's to cancer. we continue to sustain and support investmen investment wis of dollars in these areas in this bill and, again, to walk away from this package means to wrap back up and put away the poe teption for enormous progress -- the potential for emore must progress. there's $172 million more for basic science research programs in this bill over last year. it raises up to $7.3 billion the level of n.s.f. funding, and that may sound abstract and disconnected from our lives at home. but in my state of delaware, that funds education, training, and research. the university of delaware, delaware state university, in public schools across our state, at a time when we need science education and when we need the outcomes, the fruits of our labors in research more than ever -- i think that is vital funding. last, there is an thaifer spoken about on this floor many times in this congress and that i'm passionate about because it's how i came up. i spent years in the manufacturing sector. as a yo

nation. i will say the back coordination, which i think the meaning was we need to learn about other people. other communities. we see this a lot in the headlines and news. spiritual alzheimer'sthe gossip and the chatter. we need to find a lot of new things to watch on tv. indifference is an excuse to not get involved. funeral face, i hate it. i told you, i was at the container store, we're hoarding. a whole lot of junk. >> listen, i love this pope's message. i think it's really important. we are in a society that forgets how important it is to forget our own egos to not confuse financial gain with being over -- with being important. so this is a message i think people can't hear enough. also in terms of mental health, the person who is more spiritually guided in this way will be happier and healthier. charles: people email me, i'm not in the market because america has gone the wrong way. so many people have given up. i don't think we realize just how great we have it even when we're in a slump. >> i'm a baptist, and i think the pope is on to something here. we need to understand. i think church people understand that true hope is not based on politics or the economy. true ho

alzheimer's research. our work is about choices, mr. tonko. how are we going to allocate the resources of this nation? and my suggestion is, we go where every family in america will be affected. every family. either directly, as my family has been directly impacted by this, my mother-in-law living with us the last three years of her life, died at the age of 92. yes, we were affected. we know the genetic issues. we know that my grandchildren looking out there going, this is a genetic thing, papa. what about me? so that worry carries through our family and i suspect it carries through every family in america. either directly or indirectly. so let's make a choice. let's make a choice to attack with research, with care, with funding, the most expensive, illnessmon, most deadly in america and in other developing -- developed countries. dementia and alzheimer's. we can do it. this is not an impabble task. this is simply a task of focusing like a laser on this issue. and when we do, we will find the same success that we've seen with heart, cancer, and hiv-aids, not cured, not stopped, but a very significant

the alzheimer's association reports that over five million americans are living with alzheimer's, including nearly half a million in my home state of florida. alzheimer's not only impacts seniors and their families, it is costing our nation billions of dollars every year with only a fraction of 1% of these costs spent on research toward better treatment options and potential cures. our seniors, their loved ones and their caregivers deserve better. american taxpayers deserve better. i urge everyone to go to alz.org, a-l-z-.org, and learn more about alzheimer's and how new research can help make a big difference in improving the lives of patients, their families and america's budget. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. veasey: mr. speaker, i rise today about my concern for the safety and security of israel, the middle east and the u.s. negotiations for iran to end the pursuit for a nuclear weapon were recently extended without assurances that iran would slow or abandon this program. this delay tactic allows iran to escape many economic sa