professor caplin i wonder if we are getting ahead of ourselves. this is a country where some are afraid to eat g.m.o. food where stem cell research is held up. are we a long way away from getting to the point where we have to worry about getting to the point here. >> i wouldn't say a long way, but i will add to the list of woes that we are talking about fighting in the middle of a measles. i name to this far. i think we need policies that are in place, the f.d.a. has to have authority to regulate the area. i'd like to see a u.k.-like model where government commissions are open and transparent and can debate issues like this would be formed. we don't have that either. i disagree a little bit about where to draw the line i would rather draw it around nontherapeutic issues. if someone fixes haemofeelia and passes it on. i find myself thinking maybe i will not draw the line to rule out the therapeutic effort out. we talk about this as a 3-parent baby i don't think it has much moral force behind it. a lot of people have more than two parents around. we

joining me now to hash this out, art caplin, nyu's langone medical center.n the year if you asked the press, i have an odd number of parents, is this safe is my first question? >> that was a joke but there are people born with three parents, we have adoption people who have surrogate mothers and egg and sperm donors. >> that is a relevant ethical consideration, one of the objections people have does this throw out of balance the conventional parenting. >> i'm going to say no there are plenty of ivf babies around where somebody donated the egg and the concept of a family didn't fall apart. so what is this little mitokron dree deere ya. they need energy. it is the battery. in some babies that little battery is defective and that causes terrible diseases because the cells don't grow right. the solution is transplant a battery from a normal egg into the defective egg. how do you know it's defective? because you had a child with a disease previously. and then hopefully you get enough energy in the embryo to produce a healthy kid. i understand there are objections

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jonathan caplin. >> we are back on kron 4 weekend.'re also enjoying a small reprieve from the rain. wet weather is on the way. what do we have to look forward to tomorrow? >> we're tracking another big system that will bring waves of heavy rain, strong downpours and not only are we looking at wet weather but another round of windy weather as well. take a look. i have been tracking moisture offshore throughout the morning that has pushed on to the coast. dealing with areas of heavy rain right now for the lower peninsula highway 1, let's zoom in here. take a better look. san jose dealing with light rain right now. i have been talking to folks on twitter and they're describing it as a drizzle there. areas of heavy rain right now on your screen does indicate rainfalls falling at a rate of half an inch per hour. this will quickly move to the east. it's still raining in the santa cruz mountains and that will remain the case for the next her or so. the rest of the bay area is dry and will maintain dry area for the rest of the afternoon. the