but by the '70s, bio-weapons were banned and the army focused on bio-defense. now, the fbi was beginning to believe someone had resurrected the dark arts of bio-weapons. >> is it a scientist that's gone rabid, basically, and decided they needed a cause for whatever reason to send out these mailings? >> there was a behavioral profile put together that suggested that it wasn't a foreign al qaedaist actor, it was more of a domestic type threat, you know, a dysfunctional adult in the united states who did this. >> narrator: they gave the investigation an official fbi name-- "amerithrax." the agents reasoned that the killer was a homegrown scientist, maybe even one of the scientists helping them on the case. >> that's quite a dichotomy, to have the experts who were helping you also be the suspects. but i think that's just the nature of this kind of event. it's the nature of this kind of crime that the people you have to rely on are the ones who are themselves capable. >> narrator: almost everyone was a suspect. >> we were heroes in the morning and suspects in the af

located in maryland, usamriid is the center of the army's bio- defense effort. they took the powder there to the lab of one of the army's top anthrax vaccine experts, dr. bruce ivins. >> his reputation was that of an extraordinary microbiologist. he did the truly preliminary snapshot assessments of this material because he was so good at what he did. >> he was just fascinated with the way it was just like a mist. it was so light, you couldn't weigh it. it was very dangerous stuff. >> narrator: ivins and the scientists at the army's bio-lab said this was something new. unlike the wet anthrax they worked with, the powder was dry and very deadly. >> he was the first one to describe it as "energetic." the material literally would float and waft within the bag, for instance. and so, when anyone brought a hand near the bag, a lot of these spores would migrate towards the hand. >> narrator: they knew this highly floatable anthrax was something special. ivins wrote a report for the fbi. "these are not garage spores. the nature of the spore preparation suggests very high

so it has the advantage of being bio-based, but it's not compostable. we only want compostable foodwear or bags that can help with collection. we're seeing a lot of movement that way. polyethylene being made out of sugar cain as well. you have two different directions, bio-based and compostable and that's why we're rigorous in meeting that standard. we actually got california law passed that says you can't use the word degradeable or biodegradable because there's not a standard and there's a lot of green hersh washing out there. people are saying buy my bag because it's degradeable and our message is only buy it if it's compostable, if you want a compostable bag. president o'brien: do we have any impact studies of the effect of the legislation? will it have any kind of unfortunate impacts right away economically speaking or jobs-wise, anything like that? >> well, you know, you've got compostable -- you've got regular plastic bags coming from around the world and you've got alternative bags. we do have -- we've seen a growth in industry in california wit

we saw huge volume in a couple of bio-techs. dendreon shares lost a third of their value on ten times average volume. sales growth for its prostate cancer treatment have slowed down due to problems in reimbursements. bio-pharm company medivation more than doubled as volume jumped almost 40-fold. it reported positive results with its prostate cancer drug. finally, cattle futures set a record high. the possibility of the end of import restrictions in japan have fueled the rally. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> susie: another company getting attention after the bell today, a-m-d. advanced micro devices announced big job cuts-- 12% of its workforce, or about 1,400 jobs, before the spring. the reason-- a tough economy and heavy competition from tablet computers and smart phones have led to a big decline in p.c. sales. the layoffs are expected to save $200 million next year. >> tom: investor exhaustion-- for weeks, the major stock indices have made it a common practice to move more than 1% a day. swings of a couple hundred poi

and in awful oversaw the committee as far as environmental bio money goes in half was the faucet you have a place like this in your home state you're sharing the kind of committee that can actually help people and you refuse well we could also know what he was going to the problem was that in office a soldier industry. fact is an awesome brother even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining company inhofe is indeed with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land is not fit for people and it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and that could get expensive so they just pay in hope to make this buyout talk disappear and the citizens have to stay well to prove that he was working for auto walk county folks he put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three years while he pulled it together he was going to move all the check they were in the math on the planet same day it was released if you're in fifty trucks a day all day it would take forty years just to move the c

have in their companies and the industries are growing, and they're growing from different kinds of bio research to clean tech research. so our formula that began there, and again, i want to publicly thank former mayor newsom for this, as he had that vision. now as of today, mission bay is 64% built out. as you can see right across the street. the hospital is almost halfway there. more than halfway there. under $1.5 billion build of the medical center. that is another attraction and it's attracting the microbusinesses that come here. their square footage tenfolded right in that very same time. i think the companies here, from what i can interview, they're very excited to be here. they really feel the cross fertilization of talent that's coming in within the building. that, again, reflects not on the consistent policy we've had here about technology companies as well as bio, life science, and clean tech industries starting here, staying here, and growing here all at the same time. one of the reasons they can continue to grow is they do have a lot of openness to their interaction between

and this treatment accelerates the healing process. >> now, i've bio punctures session can run a fewdred dollars but because it considered experimental is generally not covered by insurance. >> if it works, it works. >> live from the cbs by weather center, good evening everyone. we currently have crystal clear skies as we go in and take the sneak peek out the window. currently we have an air temperature that stands at 46 degrees in napa and 56 degrees and not view. coolest temperature today was 60 in half moon bay, the oneness with 70 in santa rosa and we average about 6 degrees above normal this time of year. tonight we will bottom out at 50 degrees in san francisco, not the coldest we've had so far this year but it's enough to need an extra blanket. they will have patchy fog overnight hours, but that brings us cloud for thursday and then rain and cool temperatures friday through sunday. now here is our rain future cast, look at how very close it comes through wednesday through thursday. it overplays the rain but it could issue of general idea, good idea to carry an umbrella during

alaska airlines is launching a similar project this week with bio fuel made from used cooking oil.says it bought 28,500 gallons enough to fuel 75 planes over the next two, or three, weeks and. >> airlines from here to there. and the more efficiently you can do it. better off we are. >> the choice of houston, home of big oil for the flight sends a message. >> we're doing it. there we're here to stay. >> in south san francisco, abc 7 news. >> and coming up, michael finney's product test. >> how to sure, pulling the mold, mildewan>ñd grime from out of the porous caverns of grout takes the right tools, but it also takes a gentle, caring touch. before you can deep clean, you learn to get a feel for its trouble spots. and hey, if you can't listen to grout, you can't truly know its wants...its needs...its dreams. ♪call 1-800-steemer. >> it's an irnant life in need of a solution, stubborn deodorant stain autos there is a new remover on the market but does it work? >> everybody has been going ha, does it work? it's called deo-go. the label says it removes stubborn under arm stains. come on.

and once the bio reaches critical mass or won't be any more fire department any more police any more electricity or water or stores it'll just be paved country lined with rusted street signs and when you go through all that and are told the one place you can't live his home he deserve by a process that is dignified and clean so the trust was appointed to represent the citizens during the buyout process here that they carry out orders from the federal government and all appraisal issues and cut checks for the homes and i'm just making a little short statement i was offered a fifteen dollars a square foot for my business and there's no way that you can build i mean a story i know it's not dark any it's just forty buildings and but it is not so i'm not there only to look at it we're staying in from our health and for the base by age the gunshop the house the land three lots eighty thousand dollars and there's no way you'd go to mom and wife is for eighty thousand dollars is impossible. hundred two thousand there yes and i don't think i can actually go in i'm in replies of one hundred. a

firms and bio pharmaceutical companies and for many in the city the presence of foreign firms is welcome we are providing us the opportunity and we had a good year a lot of getting to. their dead end is being used to buy their time and seeds but if they're not using a video we stared at boarding different applications for our needs like a small market says big a.t.m. should deliver would only occur because of corporate companies educated people like getting more jobs they can earn more money within short periods of time with dignity but the maoists aren't convinced that modernization means a better quality of life for everyone those who did not get the fruits of this globalization the pain. and lundy. gin grievances are not addressed and tried to go through all of us including middle class was sitting there in a while most indians aren't convinced that communism is the answer many agree that india needs to find a way to improve on its own ideas that think that india has such a rich who do the sorts of minerals. whom on science and technology has called different human resources that we c

anyways i have cd's if you are interested i have cards and bios and cd's please, sign up. usually perform. come out. the last song so put your hands together and clap or i will be angry. thank you, again. [music] ♪[applause] >> thank you. [applause] all right. you guys want to -- so, there is a little song that some people know that you have seen before. a little song by a kind of food, right. and none of us like it if you had it or we tolerate it because we have to. i happen to be allergic, lucky for me! but now i sing this song because that's all i can do. put your hands together again. [music] ♪[laughter] >> a little too much. [laughter] [music] [laughter] [music] [laughter] [music] [laughter] ♪[applause] >> thank you. on the same page is our monthly actually bimonthly book club that the library sponsors. this month, march, the book of the month is the samari gardens. how many are you have read this book in >> that's fabulous and gale is blushing in front of me. it's my pleasure to introduce gale. gale was born and raised in san francisco. her combined ancestory a chine

this is the problem with bios. >> what are you going to say? >> right. i know.huge problem. >> what are you going to say? >> but you were in fact a student of his. >> i was a studdnt of his. >> and you did know him. >> i did know him. yeah. >> nd what was it about him as you knew him that made him the person that history will -- >> well, i'll tell you one thing about him. >> i want to understand it. >> he co-taught this class.. >> yeah. >> .with the man who had taught him philosophy. >> right. >> so a survey course in philosophy. >> okay. >> plato, aristotle and so forth. and we had a textbook, which was really a reader, chapters from each of these people. the other guy, who knew more philosophy, i think, than martin luther king did3 because this was his business. >> yeah. >> this is what he did for a living. he knew it like nobody's business and he would read from the textbook. king would recite from the textbook. and i had a textbook, so i'm watching and he's saying, plato says, and he, ssssssssssss -- >> yeah. >> exactly the same thing. >> yeah. >> i mean, he

anyways i have cd's if you are interested i have cards and bios and cd's please, sign up. usually perform. come out. the last song so put your hands together and clap or i will be angry. thank you, again. [music] ♪[applause] >> thank you. [applause] all right. you guys want to -- so, there is a little song that some people know that you have seen before. a little song by a kind of food, right. and none of us like it if you had it or we tolerate it because we have to. i happen to be allergic, lucky for me! but now i sing this song because that's all i can do. put your hands together again. [music] ♪[laughter] >> a little too much. [laughter] [music] [laughter] [music] [laughter] [music] [laughter] ♪[applause] >> thank you. >> one of the most extraordinary things to me about this program is we are going to be treat todd an extraordinary panorama of style and diversity. we will start off with mr. james cagney. please, welcome the poet james cagney. [applause] >> there is sun. there is sun. there is a snake on the path sunning. there is sun. there is water in the stream, there

having worked with mayor newsom when he announced back in 2007 the creation of this experiment with bio and life sciences in mission bay. it began in 2009 when there were five companies that started in this building. today there 23 of these micro businesses that are doing biotechnology research and clinical, laboratory research, as well as applications for they do have a lot of openness to their research and to the interaction between the different companies, so they can get that kind of innovation going on. that is why we call this the mission bay innovative center. i am glad to announce this today and announce that this has been huge milestone, thanks to all of you for consistently being here. thank you to the company. he can explain how this happened. but i know the city has done right. the evidence is right here. our policy is about our technology. we started with some good pro- business sense. whether it was attracting this company or others, some of the research companies that started here five years ago and then started saying we can attract other businesses here. redevelopment h