kingsbury and dr. dick, you believe the moratorium and lab closure an appropriate response to this incident, don't you? >> yes, i do. >> okay. we should not forget today that the reason cdc conducts their special agent research is to help keep americans -- the american public safe. cdc serves a critical role for studying dangerous pathogens and finding cures and vaccines for deadly diseases. these labs are critical to our nation's response to bioterrorism threats. so i am interested in learning about how this moratorium and the lab closures are affecting the critical research these labs were conducting. dr. frieden, how did the moratorium and lab closures limit cdc's research capabilities? what happens to the studies, some of which i'm guessing were operating on detailed schedules that were being conducted in the labs. >> we're looking at the moratorium in detail and identifying any laboratories which need to resume transfers for individual patient care or for public health response with highest priority. a

for dr. dick, in light of the anthrax incident investigation, aphis recently completed, do you think that prior inspections of cdc laboratories were sufficient? >> i do. >> okay. well given the fact that select agents were stored in undesignated places, shouldn't such problems have come to light fully as a result of prior inspections? >> yeah, i think the important thing to recognize is that when we review their protocols, the protocols were in place. and because of the primary cause of this incident, and that was that these -- this bacteria was not inactivated it was transferred to a laboratory that would not necessarily have to have a locked cabinet. and so, therefore, when we provide our report on select agents, as was indicated earlier, we also report on those laboratories where that select agent went. in this case, not deactivated. >> okay. well, that's concludes my questions, mr. chairman. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you. i now recognize mr. long for five minutes. >> thank

and our legislation supports his executive order and makes it clear that the dick amendment did not research for gun safety. >> dr. rosenburg, the cdc has not been funded to do anything on gun safety since the 1990s. but you have written that we have spent billions of dollars since the 1970s on70s on prevention of traffic deaths. could the same help in this situation? >> obviously it could. obviously, jay dickey has over the years become a friend and we've both influenced each other and we both agree that this research is so important. it is a matter of life and death and jay dickey would today say that was a mistake and we need to do everything we can to get the research going again. >> an important discussion considering how many people are dying, and i appreciate you two joining us today. >>> americans spend billions on health and diet products, how are we supposed to know what to buy and eat these days? countless mixed messages about what's good for us, what's bad for us, certainly not more than in the last couple of weeks. focusing on saturated fats, red wine or dark chocolate or gluten is a poison or gluten

dick. listen, brothers, it's been a long evening. thank you for your patience. we are going to wrap it up now with final remarks by dr. ron daniels, president of the institute of the black world, 21st century. another round [applause.] . >> how is everybody doing? is everybody all right? are we in a fighting mood? are we ready to resist? y'all don't sound like it. are you ready to resist? we are talking about. first of all, let's give it up again for andy shalol, wpfw, ipf. let's give it up [applause.] >> now, we want you to just wait a few minutes. we are almost done. i want to say a bit about us working together because the brother from howard university spoke to that. right? >> yes. he did. >> and let me just say this: we are all here on this panel. >> yes. >> we do not belong to the same organization. but we do all work together. >> that's right. >> there is a concept called operational unity. >> that's right. >> that is to say we don't have to give up our individual organization or identities in order for us to, in fact, work together in collaboration and, in fact, this is one of the things that ibw, one of the t

dr. dre. it's all the rage on social media and it all started right here at cnbc when i challenged dick costellon turn challenged carl quintanilla and the list goes on from there as you know. jim cramer doing it yesterday as well. the challenge isn't just about making a video and posting it on your facebook page. meg tirrell joins us with a look at this amazing public awareness campaign. amazing really it has become. >> yeah, it's really, really incredible. the als association says it's an unprecedented amount of attention being paid to this disease. so let's talk about what als actually is. it stands for amy trophic lateral sclerosis. also known for lou gehrig's disease. it's neurodegenerative disorder where you lose the function of your muscles over time. it's progressive. the prognosis from the time of diagnosis usually is two to five years life expectancy. about 5600 people a year are diagnosed with als in the united states. about 30,000 americans at any given time have the disease. and there's really nothing that's been shown to work for it. we don't know what causes the disease so efforts