dr. stanley falco is a major player in the study of infectious microbes. meanwhile, the president is playing golf on his holiday vacation. there it is. and then he makes sure -- did you get that? did you get it? >> yes, we did. >> all right. don't forget, reindeer. santa needs just a couple of goats to make christmas really briegts. >>> you are invited to ring in 2016 with dick clark's rocken eve begins thursday at 8:00 p.m. >> then, a break for abc 7 news for a look at how the bay area is celebrating. and the countdown continues at 11:30 with more new year's rocken eve. >> findings from a new chp inspection of the tour bus company responsible for that huge union square crash. do some of its other busses have problems, too? >> what's happening in the fire burn area after two days of significant rain. >>en and a second birthday lead to an expensive problem. why a toddler almost didn't get to fly home with her parents. >> that's all coming up in half an hour on abc 7 news at 6:00. >> but before you want to share some holiday safety tips to keep something lik

dr. stanley heckadon-moreno. we spoke to him in panama outside his marine research center. >> so it seems like they don't quite have enough information on the environment they don't quite have enough information on the people. >> at the moment, yes... yeah. >> but yet the plan is to go forward. >> yes, they need more time... really that was the message we tried to give on this panel. this outside group of panel of experts. that they have to do more water hydrological assessments. you gonna have to make life and death decisions based on 5 years of data. >> in september 2015, the hknd group posted this environmental impact report on its website. the report concludes the canal as designed, quote, "would be safe and lake nicaragua adequately protected". it calls for a series of studies to be completed before construction such as topography, geotechnical, seismic risk assessment, sediment and a salinity study. and it moves the western entrance to the canal's south by 200 meters. telamarco talavera, the nicaraguan in c

dr. stanley heckadon-moreno is considered the environmental conscience of panama. he studies his country from the galeta marine center, a science outpost that sits on a gorgeous stretch of beach on panama's caribbean coast. >> its almost impossible to explain egypt without the nile. you can't explain panama without the chagres. it's what makes possible this country. >> the chagres is the river that was dammed up 100 years ago to form gatun lake, at the time the largest man-made lake in the world. large enough to float these massive ocean vessels. but gatun lake serves another purpose- supplying 80% of the fresh water to the people of panama. and that's why we're at the lake this morning. ariel rodriguez is a biologist from the university of panama. he's taking us on a tour of gatun lake, but this tour isn't of the usual sites. it wasn't long before we found what we were looking for. >> behind me that pump is for water but it's out of the water, that doesn't look normal. >> no, of course it's not normal. >> sadly the pump is just the beginning. rodriguez told us to

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dr. stanley crooke coming on, the ceo of isis -- no, they changd the name this morning at 9:30 to ionis.this? ionis. that would be a great amazon story. other people who own this buy ionis. it's an amazon story. >> obvious marketing move on that part. >> i feel about that giants thing. i want the giants to win. sunday night football, snf, philadelphia. >> let's do this, national audience. >> you bet. >> saturday night against the cowboys. >> they flexed me. they flexed me, what am i? conner barwin. conner barwin, if you don't like general mills, sell kellogg. he's a ball hawk. >> yes. >> "mad money" tonight at 6:00 p.m. when we come back, pulitzer prize winner jim stewart on the junk bond rout that wasn't. [vet] two yearly physicals down. martha and mildred are good to go. here's your invoice, ladies. a few stops later, and it looks like big ollie is on the mend. it might not seem that glamorous having an old pickup truck for an office... or filling your days looking down the south end of a heifer, but...i wouldn't have it any other way. look at that, i had my best month ever. and earned

dr. cook, welcome back to "mad money." >> thanks for having me and happy holidays to you. >> same to you, stanley. let me ask you, i thought it was just me but a very good analyst, dr. shimmer over at piper jaffrey said this morning in a piece of research we think this name change will do build a new image. represents the first chance for the company to revamp interest with investors and we're optimistic positive steps will follow. is that overstating it? all did you was change your name. >> i don't know if it's overstating but changing our name at a time that is tremendously exciting. we're completing three phase three trials with three different blockbuster drugs. >> you look at that and look at the advances we continue to have in the pipeline. >> we did a feature on astrazeneca. this is a company i thought had become really just me, too. but they have five cancer targets and they're developing them with you. how is that going? >> it's going well. we have had our cancer collaboration with astrazeneca for a few years and this year we added a collaboration in cardio metabolic disease. they're one o