dr. jeffrey anderson, professor of radiology and bioengineering, teamed up with dr. julie korenberg, director of the center for integrated neuroscience and human behavior. the study combined brain scans and blood tests on 20 devout mormons, to track their neurological reactions to biologically explained spiritual sensations. >> we don't even know when a young boy goes off to join isis or a mormon in salt lake has some sense of connectedness with the divine in their view... we don't know if that's the same thing. what do people experience in their brains when they feel religious and spiritual experience? >> what we've been awaiting is the level of genetic analysis and the level of imaging analysis to be able to get to this critical intersection point. >> participants, like auriel first undergo a structural m-r-i, that gives a detailed picture of the brain at rest. next is a functional m-r-i that records auriel's brain activity while she's reading quotes about faith that are paired with photos of religious figures. next up, church videos depicting mormon culture. durin

dr. bill anderson. i'll introduce himself. dr. abiderson is a local peace activist, the chair of the charlottesville peace and justice -- center for peace and justice. he has been over 15 missions all over the world, for peace. he is a retired -- from the university of virginia. as you know amnesty international is a human right group has been working for 50 years, most interest in the local group is conscious. so if you like to work on people who are detained illegally, unlawfully, for simple expression of their opinion, just like we do right now here, please join us. we meet every month and we work on a lot of activities that relate to human rights. without further adieu aid like to introduce dr. anderson. [applause] >> thank you so much. really an honor and a pleasure to welcome you to this event on behalf of virginia foundation for the humanities. and the festival of the book, and i'm sure that most of you have gotten this brochure which you can get down at the omni and some other stores on the mall, like the new dominion book

fox 29's bill anderson spoke to our dr.ike about the growing concern. >> it is a concern. >> reporter: concern over the current international zika virus outbreak has continued to grow and we now have the first reported case in montgomery county. >> when you look at the progression of this virus throughout the world, it's clear that as the summer comes and the warmer weather comes, there will be cases. >> reporter: 55-year-old woman was the sixth confirmed case in pennsylvania. and like four of the others she cracked the virus while traveling overseas from infected mosquitoes. our own dr. mike told me that information is good but there's no reason to panic. >> when it comes to the zika virus it's a very mild virus. many people about 80% don't even know that they have the zika virus. >> reporter: with our mosquito season approaching i asked the experts at the academy natural sciences if we should be concerned and if we even have the species of mosquitoes that's carrying the zika virus. >> it's not a species that regularly occ

bill anderson spoke with our dr. mike about the growing concerns. bill. >> reporter: i did, lucy.nfortunately, every time people hear of another case of zika they get more concerned. dr. mike and others continue to try and let people know that zika in the united states is relatively mild. he also emphasizes not to panic with little information we should all be just fine. >> it is a concern. >> concern over the current international zika virus outbreak has continued to grow and we now have the first reported case in montgomery county. >> when you look at the progression of this virus throughout the world, it's clear that as the summer comes and the warmer weather comes, there will be cases. >> reporter: 55-year-old woman was the sixth confirm case in pennsylvania and like four of the others she contracted the virus while traveling overseas from infected mosquitoes. our own dr. mike told me that information is good but there's no reason to panic. >> when it comes to the zika virus, it's a very mild virus. many people about 80% don't even know that they have the zika virus. >> report

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anderson said he'd be standing in line. >> it's the solution in my case. >> in san francisco, abc7 news. >> just for the perspective, dr. roy says the patients makeup about 1% of the population. >> another check of the forecast. heading out this weekend, you want to pay attention to drew tuma. >> yes. you do. and we note these light showers at this hour and this is ahead of a strong storm we're tracking for saturday. and to break down the saturday storm, we'll see down pours develop. the winds will strengthen and the key time is between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and that is when we see wind gusts will be a current. winter storm warning going into affect and over three feet of fresh powder. the accu-weather forecast shows you stormy and rainy. and we'll track another stoem. >> this is going to be our third three. so it's been sometime. >> time to meet estella, a guinea pig with a this chair fits her perfectly. >> estella going after that lettuce. >> i would, too. >> in sports a huge upset for the cal women and madison >> the warriors won 29 games, the next year won 26 games. and together, this year's warriors have 22 games

hearing, we heard from four witnesses -- i mentioned one a moment ago, carl anderson, from the knights of columbus. but also from dr. stanton of genocide watch, who said, failure to call isis mass murder of christian, shiia, muslims and other groups in addition to the yezidis by its proper name, genocide, would be an act of denial as grave as the u.s. refusal to recognize he rwanda genocide back in 1994. a bishop, a caldean bishop, was poignant in his remarks and he said that the baublings, including president obama himself, have neglected to mention that the isis atrocities committed against christians. they are horrific, the bishop went on, but there are also atrocities of rapes, crucifixions, beheadings, hangings and the syrian -- that the syrian and iraqi christians have endured and they are intentionally omitted. he compellingly said that the u.s. government should not turn a blind eye on the genocidal trocities faced by iraqi's ethnic and religious minorities, including christians and yezidis and others. finally, in very, very powerful testimony, an organization, mr. ismael, stated his people, the yezidis, we