this impressive building is the weill cornell medical college an offshoot of cornell university new york based head. of come to find out more about their genetic research how their mapping the human genome to find out more about genetic and hereditary diseases pertaining to people in this part of the world. the genome is the complex genetic code contained in every cell in our bodies it determines all our inherited features such as what we look like or what inherited diseases we might be vulnerable to it's unique for every person so this is a microscope that allows you to look and different types inside the cell. professor. has great expectations of what sequencing genomes will reveal the program is about six years old now the focus is on problems that are of them quarters in the region particularly into other where there is a lot of families that have inherited diseases. and diabetes is a critical importance there in your genetic disorders or critically important so we've chosen to take those families and sequence both affected unaffected members and that will help us been pointed to gen

this impressive building is the weill cornell medical college an offshoot of cornell university new york based here. of come to find out more about their genetic research how their mapping the human genome to find out more about genetic and hereditary diseases pertaining to people in this part of the world. the genome is the complex genetic code contained in every cell in our bodies it determines all our inherited features such as what we look like or what inherited diseases we might be vulnerable to it's unique for every person so this is a microscope that allows it to look and different depth inside the cell. professor. has great expectations of what sequencing genomes will reveal the program is about six years old now the focus is on problems that are of the importance in the region particularly into other where there is a lot of families that have inherited diseases. and diabetes is a critical importance there in your genetic disorders or critically important so we've chosen to take those families and sequence both affected unaffected members and that will help us been point to gene

the number of empty seats the in cars on the highway during his drives home from cornell university in upstate new york. >> ten of us would be going back driving with just one or two people, i started thinking about occupisy. how much are these cars used. 96% of the time the car is parked. >> in 2008, zimmer left his job just before the company crashed to pursue his vision of ride sharing with partner logan green. four years later lyft was launched with the signature pink mustache on the front of its cars. today it operates in 200 cities across the country, provides about 13 million rides per month and is valued at $5.5 billion. >> carpooling to most people with strangers was a nonstarter just a fuel years ago. everyone's doing it now. when did you see attitudes start to change more broadly? >> we had a tag line your friend with a car and we encouraged people to sit up front because we realized we had to change behavior. right eye people started getting excited and meeting new people it took off so fast we had to create a wait list. >> now 30% of young americans use ride sharing services and 15% of adu

cornell university. to start with the state of higher ed. schools arenell's part of the state university of new york's system. seen a link between reduce public funding and student loans with higher tuition. do you see an end to this cycle? >> it is a great question. we know the problem comes from the fact that higher education is a labor-intensive industry. athink we have to have national discord, but we're trying to do two things. we're trying to reduce our cost wherever we can, with automation outside the classroom. we're we are trying to make heavy use of an angel it -- fina ncial aid. i think people do not know how much financial aid drives down those costs. less today for a student to attend now then when you went to school. it is also the case -- there are a lot of things you get out of a collegeand it nation -- education. aboutege graduate makes $1 million more over the course of a lifetime than a student who did not go to college. i think it is important that lower income students here that message and come to our universities. scarlet: there is a cold for a discussion about whether a university degr