dr. sullivan has her ph.d. from harvard university in 1997. she received her master's of science in environmental engineering in 1989, also from harvard university. i brought this poster to the floor where you see president obama visited n.i.h. to personally congratulate dr. sullivan for her incredible work on behalf of world health. some people may be familiar with the tv show "house." the main character dr. gregory house, is brilliant at diagnosing conditions and illnesses that baffle everyone else. the real-life dr. house is dr. william gahl, the founder of the undocumented diseases program at n.i.h. he is america's leading medical detective, a physician dedicated to finding answers for long-suffering patients with mysterious illnesses that have long eluded diagnosis. dr. gahl has brought together a unique combination of linked medical specialists researchers and medical resources to solve baffling illnesses and to provide desperate patients and their families with information and possible solutions and treatment for their often life-threat

dr. sullivan and her colleagues have been able to pursue a vaccine over many, many years since 1997 in fact. research can take a long time to bear fruit. and if we do not invest now, we will not be able to benefit from scientific discoveries 5, 10 even 20 years from now. it is troubling to me, deeply troubling to me, to note that since fiscal year 2010 after adjusting for inflation, nih has a just a road --erode by about $3.6 billion. that is an 11% cut. sequestration is terrible for any budget and is especially cruel when there are literally lives at stake. in 2015, sequestration -- in 2013, sequestration took more than $1.5 billion from the nih even after modest increases over the past two years. we have still not returned nih's budget to its pre-sequestration level. amid sequestration, the success rate previously seen has fallen to one in six. in 2015, nih will fund almost 1000 fewer research projects than it did in 2010. we will never know how many scientific discoveries and medical breakthroughs the world may have missed out on because of these budget restraints. that is the disturbing

dr. sullivan and richajean jackson.selma campaign with leaders meeting in the kitchen and dining room to strategize. king wrote sermons in the turquoise bedroom with the gold duvet and he regularly used their rotary phone to speak with president johnson. it was on their living room television that king watched the president announce the voting rights act. the jackson house has been preserved and turned into a museum, run by daughter juwana who was just 5 years old when her uncle martin came to stay at her family's home. she joins me now. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> what is your memory of the man we know as martin luther king jr. but who you as a little girl knew as uncle martin? >> uncle martin to me was a man that took time with a 5-year-old little girl to make sure that i always knew how special i was and how important it was to feel the moment and also how important it was to understand what was going on in my hometown. this town was a movement it was a social movement for change that wou

dr. pepper. elizabeth sullivan says she was turned on to the drink four decades ago. she drinks three dr. a day. she says real doctors tell her all that soda will kill her, but, quote, they die and i don't so there must be a mistake somewhere. happy birthday elizabeth and cheers. >>> another guantanamo prisoner with suspected ties to osama bin laden who was thought to be a lifer is now apparently on his way out. chief intelligence correspondent here with that story. >> reporter: leading analysts who track gitmo say the obama administration is willing to accept more risk that a detainee may return to terrorism in an effort to close the camp by the end of the president's second term. he was first classified as so-called forever prisoner under the bush administration because of his alleged role as a body guard for osama bin laden but there was not enough admissible evidence to prosecute him. a task force reached a similar conclusion about the 36-year-old who has been in the camp since 2002. though the evidence is virtually unchanged a more recent panel reached a different conclusion clearing

dr. katherine sullivan of new york, new york. mr. ralph a. wolf of oakland, california. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. kelly: i move that the we adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until

elizabeth sullivan says in part she credits the texas favorite soft drink, dr. pepper! it originated in waco, texas. sullivan says just like the advertising once said, she drinks three doctor peppers a day, 10, 2 and 4. >> the stuff is good. it's got sugar in it and two doctors have told me that if i drink it i will die but they died first. but since i been drinking three a day for 50 or 60 years, um, evidently my body needs sugar. >> which doctor do you listen to? sullivan says she has no health issues does not take any medications and i think her overall attitude has something to do with 104. by the way, she was driving up until last year. probably with the dr. pepper in her hand. >> they call it a doctor for a reason. does the body good. >>> still to come, the president names a former bay area tech exec to be the nation's digital boss. >> and why comcast thinks social media could be the key to boosting customer service. >>> the president has tapped a former twitter executive to be the in addition's first-ever chief digital officer. jason goldman had high-powered tech

dr. sullivan gave us a tour of the home her parents, her father a black dentist, they opened up the homee, slept, and where they strategized while here in saleelma. >> if these walls could talk they would tell a story of a family here in selma that tried to give and contribute and they would also tell a story of a movement. >> on lapsley drive in selma, alabama, stands a house where time stood still. >> this is the bedroom in which dr. king would entertain all of the phone calls that would come into the home from president johnson and the white house. this is the actual phone that he used to take the calls. >> did you hear his end of the conversation? >> i would hear a voice. i could not understand, but i could hear the tone and internations of what i now know to be very very serious conversations. >> this home and a young jackson, were depicted in the oscar nominated movie, "selma." >> you were 5 years old at the time. >> i was 5 years old. i remember the wonderful bedtime stories that he used to read to me. humpty dumpty was his favorite. >> tell me about the room. >> this is the exact

dr pepper, that is. >> reporter: elizabeth sullivan has lived in the same ft.ce to meet you. thanks for inviting us to your home. >> i'm glad for you to come in. >> reporter: and she has just celebrated her 104th birthday as the big balloons in her living room make clear. you had your driver's license until last january? until you were 103? >> i waseverywhere. i was going to church, going bridge everything. >> reporter: she credits longevity to a low-pressure star state favorite. you're drinking dr pepper now. >> that's exactly right. this stuff is good's got sugar in it and three -- two doctors have told me that if i drink it i will die, but they died first. >> reporter: that's proof it's good for you. >> yeah. >> reporter: you think -- you think that this drink has helped you live to this age of 104? >> well evidently because everybody tells me it has too much sugar. since i've been drinking three a day for 50 or 60 years, ever deeply my body needs sugar. i don't take any medication. they can't find anything wrong with me. >> reporter: elizabeth says other th

. >> so i am prepared to support hillen in seat no. 1, sullivan, seat no. 2, kita, seat no. 2, flannigan, seat no. 4, dr. loman, seat no. 5, hillsen, seat no. 7. >> okay, supervisor tang. >> thank you. i would say again although i am more familiar with dr. loman's work and i think she is incredible, i do understand supervisor avalos's desire to have a district 11 appointee on this, so i am willing to cede my recommendation for seat 5 to miss sherwin again with the understanding that i believe dr. loman will toipb do amazing things in the community and really around the world. even without her presence on this council. >> okay, well, i really appreciate that and given the comments from supervisor cohen right now i think we can get consensus on that as well. so if you want to make that motion, if hillen for 1, sullivan, 2, kita, 3, flannigan 4,. >> through the chair, make that recommendation with a positive recommendation to the full board of supervisors. >> i second that motion. >> okay, colleagues, thank you very much, i appreciate your flexibility and we'll take that without objection. okay, we have on

dr. pepper can and a gift basket from the company c.e.o. sullivanll going along. amaybe it is the caffeine. >> hear people yes, i lived to 103 because i drink hard liquor. >>> the doctors are cringing that are listening. >> how is it going? >> she was listening to the right doctor dr. pepper. here was the g.p. that is who she was listening to. >> here is a look at the drive at the bay bridge toll plaza and 15 minutes from the maze to san francisco with heavy delays and it is thinning out a little bit. as we take you to the south bay we have one accident that has cleared to the shoulder northbound 101 to northbound 680 connection and the star fire at blossom hill road on southbound 85 is cleared with no delays in the area and we do have something going on later tone at sap and i tell you what in a couple of minutes minutes. we have quarter-mile visibility in santa rosa and light and variable winds onshore this afternoon and that will aid the cooling trend along with high clouds that will be thicker during the day. you can see a few of them oversan jo