anne: consumers can buy things like cystic fibrosis tests without having to go through a counselor or physician. they can buy them directly from 23andme and get that information. emily: this tests for things like recessive genes. things you could pass on to your children. anne: there are things like your eye color. that teaches people about genetics and caffeine metabolism. that's really interesting. lactose intolerance as well. emily: i would like for you to take me back to that day when you got that letter from the fda. anne: we were at an off-site planning for the future. we were all in great moods. just hired a great number of people. we had a lot of people that had started that week. what we learned is how much there was a disconnect because of what we thought we were doing and what the fda needed us to do. emily: did you think you could lose the company? anne: it took a while to understand. there were six weeks where we talked to a number of lawyers. we talked to the fda. it became clear that there were not easy options forward. emily: did you consider selling? anne: the idea th

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keaton, who battles and lives with cystic fibrosis every day, then reveived a law enforcement escort to downtown fargo, where the young santa would board his sleigh, for the trip north on broadway. "i think it is gong to be pretty epic." keaton would hit downtown fargo in style. an audience. his own holiday parade. "downtown is lost of people. merry christmas. merry christmas." the shops on broadway emptied out. schools and daycares showed up. you!!" and with all the make a wish opportunities out there, playing santa in your hometown? the highlight came when keaton and his santa magic arrived at sanford's children's hospital. "doesn't surprise me, he has a good heart, always thinking of others." it's christmas, and keaton nelson today showed all of us, what its like to be young, unslefish, "i just want to have a nice life at least." and the meaning of everything we dream of this time of year. kevin wallevand wday 6 news. coming up in sports...morningsi de visited hastings in a stay tuned for the action. plus...northern iowa visited north dakota state in the f-c-s quarterfinals. alex

. >> my daughter had cystic fibrosis, she died in 2009, and this was her dream. >> reporter: the director says they have placed more than 6,000 animals but now that camden county has completed its shelter, the six towns that funded almost home will send animals to the county. >> a woman just came and brought plea a small check and was crying because we helped her with a litter of kittens when no one else would. >> reporter: a veterinarian technician and one of 15 staffers. >> i'm heart broken. you put a smile on the face for the animals. we don't want to be sad. >> reporter: almost home will stop accepting animals january 1st and have three months to place cats and dogs. volunteers and staff say they are not going to leave until every pet has a good home. >> help us to help us help these dogs because these dogs deserve it. they deserve -- haven't had much in life and deserve as much as anyone. >> reporter: doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> nbc 10 trying to clear the shelters throughout the year. every saturday morning we bring a pet on to our newscast that's up for adoption. watch this saturd

. >> also worrisome, it found teens that were big facebook users were more nors cystic and had lower grades. did that concern you, is it a chicken and egg question. is it the kids more drawn to facebook were more narcissistic and less studious. >> i think it's a bit of everything. the internet trains our brains. extroverts use social media. people that are more performer types. at the same time you do it enough. i don't know about you, but you start being addicted to your iphone. before you know it you have trouble reading a novel. you train your brain to have attention deficit. >> it changed the world. a big difference in what our kids are facing. >> got to have you with us. thanks. >> good to see you. >> i'm antonio mora, thank you for joining us. for more news go to aljazeera.com. swar ray suarez is up next with "inside story". ♪ z >> the united states has run thousands of air strikes in syria and iraq. france and russia are now in the war. nato member turkey is involved up to its eye teeth, but as he saw in the russian jet shootdown, not always with the same priorities as its ass

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risk factor in mom that could increase the risk of autism in they are child, last week it was policy cystic ovary syndrome, i want to remind parents there are a host of conditions and oaks pose yours looking at every stud i don't, moms and dads should not blame themselves. >> doctor, thank you. >>> foggy but warm and still just too nice out there. >> not a typical december, certainly, but it is almost like a magic trick, like you removed the city of boston from the live picture and it has left a mess. >> yeah, a lot of fog out there, a murky day for us. >> yeah. >> it's usually cold in december, the snow on ground and then you develop the fog, now it's just warn outside. >>> december is running way above average, today another red square, in fact getting warner as we head through tonight, this is going to be in the top five of warmest diseases on record. temperatures 499 in boston, 54 at norwood, 57 in new bedford, warmer air continuing to push its way northward, and the forcing for that, storm system to the west and moderate air is moving up the coast, warm front is just pushing through as

with this, it pushed our product upward, the cystic fibrosis drug. we don't see the danger of abuse around that. we don't see the issues with adherence around that. and so it's something that we're much more comfortable with, that is a success story by providing that to as many people as broadly as possible. we are not in danger of getting knocked sideways. >> andrea, we'll go to you and talk about employers and what is their most effective set of tools. it is not necessarily their tools but tools that they ask others they work with, whether they be pharmacy benefit managers or their insurers or others to engage in. but employers have tried a whole lot of strategies from mail order, from formularies, tiering, et cetera. as we move into the cost pressures, how are employers thinking? what are they thinking are the most effective purchasing strategies at their disposal? >> it really depends. because employers health care strategy is part of their total business strategy. so it really varies from employer to employer. >> well, what are some of the most

it's called crispr, and it could rid the world of cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, and even hiv and cancer. norah o'donnell spoke with one of the pioneers. >> what is crispr? >> first of all, it's an acronym. it stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, a huge mouthful. you can see why we use the acronym crispr. >> so i'm sorry. >> reporter: geneticist jennifer doudna gets asked that question a lot. a researcher and professor at uc berkeley, doudna has become a spokesperson for a gene editing technology she's credited with developing. that mouthful known as crispr. >> i've heard it compared to essentially like a film editor slicing a bit of film. >> i would say that's a great analogy, yeah. >> how does that work, then? >> you think about a film strip and you see a particular segment of the film that you want to replace and if you had a film splicer you'd go in and literally cut it out and piece it back together. maybe with a new clip. imagine being able to do that in the genetic code, the code of life. you could go in and snip out a piece and replace it w

it's called crispr, and it could rid the world of cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, and even hiv and cancer. norah o'donnell spoke with one of the pioneers. >> what is crispr? >> first of all, it's an acronym. it stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, a huge mouthful. you can see why we use the acronym crispr. >> so i'm sorry. what's crispr again? >> reporter: geneticist jennifer doudna gets asked that question a lot. a researcher and professor at uc berkeley, doudna has become a spokesperson for a gene editing technology she's credited with developing. >> i've heard it compared to essentially like a film editor slicing a bit of film. >> i would say that's a great analogy, yeah. >> how does that work, then? >> you think about a film strip and you see a particular segment of the film that you want to replace and if you had a film splicer you'd go in and literally cut it out and piece it back together. maybe with a new clip. imagine being able to do that in the genetic code, the code of life. you could go in and snip out a piece and replace it with someth

. >>> another one a 9-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis granted a holiday wish. he want to be jolly old st. nick himself. >> merry christmas. >> he said merry christmas. despite his battle with the life-threatening disorder he wanted to deliver holiday he dressed up as santa claus and brought press to patients at local hospitals. >> doesn't surprise me. of others. >> oh. he was one of the 50 wishes granted by the make a wish foundation yesterday. >> so cool. >> very. >>> "star wars" fans that want >>> "star wars" the informations a -- the force a weakens hits theaters this week. >> we are talking more than t- shirts. lauren glassberg explains how the force is awakening a whole array of beauty and fashion items. >> reporter: this is our "star wars" pop up shop which we love. bloomingdales is feeling the force of "star wars." a pop up shop stocked with movie related merchandise. >> this is a bbh droid. recreate movie memorabilia. >> suitcases that and sweatshirts. >> love how this is paired back to a quilted vest and underneath a chic leather jacket. >> reporter: f

better known as coco has cystic fibrosis and is waiting for the double lung transplant, she was taken into surgery this morning for the transplant and the surgery is expected to last into the evening and the post on coco's go fun me page, the family called the news a once in a lifetime surprise from god himself. >>> health check tonight, the movie concussion starring philadelphia native will smith opens in theaters tomorrow and puts the spotlight on concussions and football and it's risk for long-term affects, ali gorman spoke with local experts about the film. >> long before hollywood got involved some local doctors spark addeded awareness. >> apparently healthy favorite son of the city died in disgrace. >> the movie concussion follows the story of a nigeria born neurologist, linking concussions to the football player. >> he then takes on the nfl. >> doctors douglas smith and sean grady of pen medical center are both experts on brain injury and concussion, the condition was not new but linking it to football was. >> football is a high-profile sport it got everybody's attention and bo

if you look at cystic fibrosis, we do that reimbursement. there is no other option for those patients. we shouldn't waste money anywhere in the health care system. our job is to drive out waste. >> we thought that was an interesting comment. they pay for the high cost drugs if they are not wasteful, in mayor minds. he was talking about vertex. they cause a huge consternation when they pitted two hepatitis c drugs. it will be interesting to watch. people expect this pricing debate will continue next year into the election. >> what is the temperature of investors at this point after we have seen this massive run? then you have large cap companies like gilead that don't have much in the pipeline coming up to replace those sales. >> absolutely. what people are telling me they are feeling right now into the end of the year in biotech. there is no reason to buy it. there is so much uncertainty. it has had great gains. people are wrapping things up for the year. we are leading into the jpmorgan conference in january which is setting the stage for a

anne: consumers can buy things like cystic fibrosis tests without having to go through a counselor orsician. they can buy them directly from 23andme.com and get that information. emily: this tests for things like recessive genes. things you could pass on to your kids. anne: there are things like your eye color. it is interesting and teaches people about genetics and , caffeine metabolism. that's really interesting. lactose intolerance as well. emily: i would like for you to take me back to that day when you got that infamous letter from the fda. anne: we were at an off-site planning for the future. we were all in great moods. we hired a great number of people. we had a lot of people that had started that week. what we learned after that moment is how much there was a disconnect because of what we thought we were doing and what the fda needed us to do. emily: did you think you could lose the company? anne: it took a while to understand. there were probably about six weeks where we talked to a number of lawyers. we talked to the fda. we talked to groups. it became clear that there were

morning in health news, you need to know that autism may be related to a condition known as polly cysticver rescind drome. this is a condition where mom has excess sex hormones from testosterone and this may lead to an increased risk of autism. something to be thinking about. this is big news. >>> yet another big story this week, we learned that doctors should get your blood pressure down to less than 120 over less than 80. a new study just this week shows that if we do that, you run a lower risk of having stroke and heart attack. folks, you need to get that blood pressure under control. >>> lastly, if you smoke those e zig let's you need to listen to this, folks. there is an increased chance that you're inhaling chemicals that are used as flavorings one of them die as si teal can increase your risk of serious lung conditions. one, are you ready for this term, bronchial lights oh blister rants. folks, don't do it. i'm not really into you doing anything where you inhale. i'm dr. mike v a great weekend. >>> thank you dr. mike. >>> always great information. now a same sex couple has a baby.

. >> vertex, cystic fibrosis formulation, i think it's amazing, i think vertex is a buy. let's go to mark in vermont. mark. >> caller: hey, jim, how you doing, buddy? >> all right, how but, chief? >> caller: good, man, just started "confessions of a street addict." >> flipped some pages the other day. >> caller: tell you quick, jim that watching your show, reading your book and seeing how you use your knowledge, your passion, your resources to truly help and you really played a big role in igniting my passion. >> thank you. that's what m trying to do with the street, trying to do with ax alert with "squawk on the street," trying to do with this show, trying to do with periscope, trying to do with twitter, trying to do with facebook. what's happening? how can i help? >> caller: you're doing it, man. >> thank you. caller: what do yououhink the long-term, what do you think of fire eye? >> i'm glad you said long-term, short term, i'm concerned, turned out to be more episodic than i like it, need hack attack. and i -- when we had david on, i mean, the stock has come down a gre

saturday of nars cystic. >> that's you? >> all directors. >> they're not all different. >> all directors are vaguely like emmoreers, whichemmorers, emperors. he can do it with less money and say i will create a world where people can fly. >> reporter: george lucas didn't create a new society. he constructed an entire galaxy. [ music playing ] >> on its surface the "star wars" series, is a sci-fi space odyssey with odd creatures and epic space battles. simple story beneath all of that. timeless elements like family. >> i am your father. >> is there a stronger? >> no. >> and the fight between good and evil. as its creator lucas has been called one of the most innovative film makers in history. in his heart, he considers himself a storyteller. >> didn't you intend to in the beginning create really three movies when you started? and then you decide only to take one part of that life story? >> yeah, i took the first affect. then the first act didn't really work. then i said, okay, i have to take the ending of the third film, put

and also oakland airports will keep you posted on the information becomes available >>george: for cysticook at the bay bridge which is under one of the wind advisories affected a number of bay area bridges we have not seen a number of accidents so far this morning that we did even in the first hour of the committee yesterday of course the committee getting much busier as we start the 5:00 hour here at the bay bridge recent increase in the volume of traffic rescind expecting this will be applied to the usual to the drive here is the seventh sale bridge tried another what with this bird is also check we want to quickly show you the dublin and to change the we had problems with flooding early this morning in this the route from south about 682 east about 580 have been shut down well-armed the lines have been reopened. >>darya: in addition to the wind blowing the car around the holiday decorations phil >>yoli aceves: it could tell how bad the wind is by the flap will you concede it is really almost straight at attention because the wind is so strong this testy when the going up of the overla

and >>reporter: their 27 year-old steer claiborne friends and members awful and always smiling the cystic as a caring man with a warm smile and smile laughs >>reporter: nicklaus' 52 married to a teacher and 40 year-old robert adams this is a page filled with pictures of him and his now window and then the baby. >>reporter: there is little known about these victims more on who they were and the loved ones they left behind will come out in the coming days the old as victim is 60 has a mondale's his cousin and a giant matador and posted on twitter is this belief >>anny hong: you concede no problems i've now san francisco san jose is the drive also for the east bay here's a look at the cell that has been written down some pretty good writing overall most of that is like macy's some pockets of heavy rain will hold on to chance of showers pretty much the the morning hours and the mustang will see fifties expected part of the crowd conditions should shower still possible for the most part most will be july the the same store and 3:00 on the action of sun and fun out of time to repeat in the fift

vertex works in cystic fibrosis is discussed as being a take out company for gilead, some people bat down that rumor but those are two. >> no one knows more about pharma and biotech than meg tirrell. >> i would beg to differ. >> you're wrong about that. that's the one thing you're wrong about. >> see you later. >> we're heading to the close, we have, what, 20 minutes left in the trading session here with the dow down just 28 points. freeport mack ma ran's co-founder is stepping down from the board months after carl icahn revealed a stake in the beleaguered coal company. >>> plus disney and "star wars" continue to defy expectations as the sci-fi seek we will storms it's way to the box office faster than any movie in history. >>> slight down day to begin the week of what is traditionally the santa claus rally, hasn't happened yet, although look at that, we do have a few stocks that are higher today among the dow 30, disney leading the way after the big numbers coming out about "star wars." so it's the leader today. by the way, i hesitated because art cashin was just signaling to me the

35 fda approved genetic health tests telling users whether they carry genetic mutations including cysticbe passed to children. the company promoting the services with a big tv campaign. 23 me won the approval by convincing them that consumers don't need a health professional to understand the results but it wasn't a full victory. the company is not allowed to share with consumers more than 250 risk reports included in its original service including analysis of chances of developing diseases including alzheimer's. now, not all disruptors are so lucky. 23 meanalysis. not all disrupters are so lucky. three disrupters from our disrupter 50 list have shut down. areo shut down after the supreme court determined its business model was illegal. nebula, a once promising cloud services company closed doors in april after failing to attract new customers, and quirky declared bankruptcy in september after too many crowd source inventions proved to be unsuccessful and unprofitable. now the search for the 2016 disrupter 50 begins in january. follow @cnbcdisrupters. an exciting time for these companies

keaton, who battles and lives with cystic fibrosis every day, then reveived a law enforcement escort to downtown fargo, where the young santa would board his sleigh, for the trip north on broadway. "i think it is gong to be pretty epic." keaton would hit downtown fargo in style. an audience. his own holiday parade. "downtown is lost of people. merry christmas. merry christmas." the shops on broadway emptied