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we talked about alzheimer's being an elderly disease. doesn't it show up in the late 40'sf symptoms show up? would someone be evaluated? how does it compare to parkinson's. onset is a piece -- to the numbers we have been talking about. 5.8 million people are affected overall. younger 200,000 are than 65. start symptoms but it is more likely some biological changes are happening but symptoms have not shown yet. if you believe you are showing thatoms or you have signs you think are troublesome, talking to your doctor is the first step you should take. signswe have 10 warning available on alz.org. host: comparing it to parkinson's? guest: the best way to be able to understand differences between parkinson's and alzheimer's is to have that conversation with your doctor. parkinson's tends to have more physical symptoms with changes in thinking or cognition. ultimately, differentiating diagnoses should be a conversation between the individual and their doctor. host: walk us through the warning signs. colors have done a -- callers have done a good job of talking about them. chang

s&p, home depot, apple. i'm misstating. bio again announced failure after drug that was supposed to cure alzheimer's.ancial, regions financial selloff in those stocks. back to you. ashley: thank you, gerry. right now the nasdaq hovering around session lows. was down 185 in earlier trade. down 188. down nearly 2 1/2%. flipping over to the russell 2000, falling more than 3% in the final minutes of trade. small caps getting hit as well. nasdaq, s&p, the dow, all now having the worst day since january the third. the question how should you play today's selloff? good question, right? you have a say maria portfolio manager brian milligan, we have washington senior portfolio manager kevin karen. let me begin with you. on a day like today what are you telling your clients? >> every day is a good day to own high quality companies. regardless where we are in the economic cycle. own really solid companies. that is how we positioned our portfolios, have the companies that make it through any type of economic cycle? susan: ashley: give me an example. >> mastercard and visa would be a prime example of that. ashley

alzheimer's drug do not work. analysts saying it should look for another company to buy or look at being bought up itself. can ankara is the best performer in the s&p 500. let's turn back to the brexit story. theresa may pushing for three-month delay. joining us from brussels is bloomberg's maria tadeo. maria, the summit is underway and they are talking about the brexit extension period the moon music seems to be the europeans -- the mood music seems to be european saying a hard brexit seems to be more of a reality. maria: i would agree with that. there is also a sense of real frustration from the european this equation. they do not see a way forward. i spoke to the french president, who has been a top riddick of the process for many months. -- a top critic of the process for many months. playingwe need to stop and to terms with the deal gets approved or it is a no deal brexit. let's take a quick listen. >> we do respect the votes of rich people. we do respect what the prime minister in the parliament are making. but we have to be clear. extension, if a technical extension in the place of a yes vote -- in case of no , it will guide everybody to a

s&p and nasdaq advanced. apple closed up 4% ahead of a major product announcement. apple is up nine of the past ten days. but bio gen plunged after halting trials of a promising alzheimer'sy 2005. >>> and speaking of business, a reprieve for the uk this morning. at least temporarily. the european union has extended the brexit deadline to overt the prospects of britain crashing out without a deal next friday. but there are conditions. nic robertson standing by at 10 downing street in london this morning with a look at what has to happen now. nic, good morning. >> reporter: yeah, good morning. very tough conditions essentially. what the european union is saying to theresa may is get the deal passed in the house of parliament and you can have an extension until the 22nd of may to sort out all the sort of legal details that need to be put in place for britain to leave the european union. but they are saying if you don't get that deal voted through, then you need to come clean and tell us what you are going to do by the 12th of april. the european union is saying still on the table is a deal, a no-deal, a very long extension, we are talking about the possibility of a couple y

s and so forth. you can't say we don't know if they have alzheimer's and they get stuck into an ideology. have created a thing called president truth, and model for the presidency. i website is called truthparty.com, which is an embryonic stage of a third party for this country. when i ran this mock election, the news media use to be fair and balanced, where i came out and the dutch and the people filled the program. the news media keeps doing the same stories because they are trying to make money instead of promote democracy. host: come back to the 16 to vote question. voting rights are already very low in this country. why do we expect they might get better if we lower the voting age to 16? caller: we need a two-part program. this is another part. i have created five steps with this president truth. one of the steps i believe -- one of them is 16 vote. the other is it two-part process, democracy sense. we need a national public service learning program where students from 16 to 18 learn about their government and also provide service and it is something i have written about and designed