that you inherited or the genes that are involved in cancer or the genes that are involved in the microiomehat the organisms involved in the microbiome we think if people learned about that information in the context of employment or insurance that that could be damaging to us. so we have now fortunately, a robust set of discussions and new legislations and many other processes in place to deal with genetic privacy. >> the genetic information non-discrimination act enacted two years ago protects americans from discrimination in health insurance or employment based on genetic information. it is a much-needed law. as the development of sequencing technology has exceeded the imagination of even the most optimistic scientists. >> if you look at the history of the internet of the personal computers or the history of telecommunication or the history of transport, no one at the beginning predicted what the impact of the technology would be. what the world would look like with the technologies fully integrated and how fast the transition would be once things really took off. so we believe that dna

steve this viral gene called gene six might not be safe for human consumption. shocker and guess what the scientists found that fifty four of eighty six plants of proof for use in the u.s. contain that very gene keep in mind those are the same plants being fed to be animals that you and i get our eggs milk and meat from nice but of course even after discovering all of the they didn't recall the genes six containing crops no instead they just released a retroactive risk assessment of the gene so to talk about this genetically mutating virus in the fight to get g.m.o. foods off of our grocery shelves or at least labeled i'm joined now by alexis baden mayer political director for the organic consumers association thank you so much for coming on thank you so talk about this jeanne what effect does it really have on the crops well it's very interesting i'm actually not surprised that they discovered this because they never really looked into it before but it's really scary one of the properties of this viral gene is that it can break down the defenses of the plant an

narrator: most of the genes they examine don't have any known function. but then the team finds something intriguing: neanderthal dna in locations fundamental to our immune system involving genes that are vital to our ability to fight off disease. these areas are called human leukocyte antigens, or hlas. they make the cells that attack viruses and bacteria. since neanderthals lived in ice age europe for hundreds of thousands of years, their immune systems must have been specially adapted to fight off the diseases there. this was something that modern humans, arriving from africa didn't have. our ancestors, when they came into the neanderthal range were, for the first time encountering this environment. our immune systems would not be adept at recognizing and fighting pathogens new to us. hawks: oh, it's absolutely a survival toolkit. hla types are important because they help our body resist disease. so it's very clear that one product of this interaction was the inheritance of immune system versions of genes. maybe they conferred some selective advantage.

would an identical gene be shared between human and neanderthal? would the gene be there at all?o my surprise, i must say it turned out that it's shared. narrator: neanderthals had exactly the same version of the foxp2 gene as humans-- the same chemical letters in exactly the same order. paabo: i'm very sure that the neanderthals had communication. if it was a language exactly as we would understand language, that's another question. stringer: i think they had language. that doesn't mean it was the same as our language as complex as our language. i think, again, that modern humans probably had another level of complexity. but i think they had language. yes, i absolutely think they couldn't have survived the way they did without it. narrator: paabo's work adds weight to the growing argument that neanderthals and modern humans shared more abilities than previously thought. but it begged a billion-dollar question. did we have enough in common that we could have interbred? if neanderthals and modern humans had interbred successfully traces of their dna would be found in ours. most sc

we found genes that, you know, they're normal genes, that do their normal job, but when they carry certain defects, we found that they can cause alzheimer's. we learned something else, that genes also taught us that while there are these defects i told you about that can guarantee the disease, usually striking under 60, and this is terrible because some of the mutations we found in these genes guarantee you get the disease and there's nothing you can do about it in terms of your lifestyle. but luckily, these are very rare. they may be 2 percent of alzheimer's disease. most of alzheimer's disease strikes after the age of 60. and it involves the interplay of both your genetics and how you live your life. so in other words, most cases of alzheimer's involve both genes and lifestyle together and the same pattern holds for most big age-related diseases, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer. and why this is good news is it means that for most of us, you know, if you didn't get one of these rare mutations that guarantee the disease, for most of us, regardless of the genetic hand that was dealt

. >> to you think there is a gene for music? >> well, you are the scientists.i do not know. my grandfather was a side -- violinist with the san francisco symphony. my father was quite a good pianist. my brother was musical, my sister was not. i have a musical cousin. i do not really know. >> let me put it this way and i will try to stumble through a scientific explanation. let me remind the audience at this point that we are going to take questions in five minutes. there are microphones set up in the aisles. please be ready with your questions. if you had not become a musician professionally, do you think you would still be playing? >> yes, i think i would still be playing, but everybody should play a little bit, sing -- not everyone feels confident about their medical abilities, -- musical abilities, but it is such an import way to connect. it is, after all, a vibration. whether you are doing it to relax, get excited, to jump up and down, i think it is an import way to connect yourself to something that is a little bit bigger in life. life is a constant stream

so we have 100,000 genes, and all of us have to have two copies of each gene, one from each parent. each time they're being transmitted from parent to offspring, the genes have to be copied. and the copying system isn't perfect, so little mistakes are made, or changes, and most of them are irrelevant. but over time, we have in the population for any given gene, variance. in fact, my dna, and your dna, and somebody else's dna is 99.9% the same. but there's about one base out of 1000 that's different. so michael jackson's dna might read "a," and michael jordan's dna might read "g," and michelangelo's dna might read "c," and so on and so forth. and surprisingly those very few differences, that one out of 1000, is enough to make all the differences in the way we look, blue eyes or green eyes, our skin color, our height, as well as in some of our behavioral traits. sometimes people are surprised that such a tiny bit of difference-- .1% can make such a big difference in who we are. but remember that our dna and chimpanzee dna is only 1% different, and obviously we're a lot different than

>> you know, i think gene is right. that has to be the bellwether as far as the iphone, but i think we need to take a look at i ipad as well and how many of those ipad minis did they actually push out during the fourth quarter? >> why are you focused on that one when it seems like the iphone is the one with the higher profit margins. >> y can talk about profit margin all you want. we've entered an era where any device will enter other devices. the next accessory. look at the next accessory. that device is hooking into vehicles and things like that as a platform for entertainment. >> got it. >> moments away from that number. dan morgan. what are your expectations? >> also focusing on gross margins. we know gross margins have been falling considerably. estimate 37%. up 47% last quarter so obviously if we can see a big change in what the expectations are in terms of mar egyptian, that can really boost the stock on top of what we talked about before in terms of the iphone sales north of i've got 48 million but 0 million wou

. >> gene robinson mentioned reading is fundamental and rejoin a carol rasco. give us the background if you would, mr. into an reading is fundamental. >> 46 years ago, margie mcnamara went to a meeting that jacqueline kennedy called a ball cap matt haas says and mrs. kennedy has said too told each house, we are each going to do something to make washington a better place for the people who live and work here every day. mrs. mcnamara had a great reputation as a reading tutor. she tutored the wealthier children in town and she tutored children from very poor economic backgrounds. she had found one day in her tutoring how much it meant to the three boys she was tutoring a local public school to be given a book. she had books that are children had years before that had been left at home of course. she let each of them take a book home. well, one of the mothers came to school the next day to return the stolen boat. i said no, we want to chose to have the book and that started the tradition of when i present a book to a shot of writing the child's name in it. it does

meteorologist robert spet that has the latest. >> yes, gene. all across the eastern seaboard we have just been seeing absolutely temperatures above average. it's all due to this frontal area here. ahead of it you are seeing this warm air come in from the south. that's really been raising up these temperatures. but, yeah, things are going to start to change, because as that pushes off there towards the east, bringing heavy rainfall towards the northeast, the western great lakes will see a mix of freezing rain across this region, very dangerous for driving. but behind it, see this cold front here? that is really what's going to be the big changer. this is already bringing some snowfall in this region, upwards of 15 centimeters across much of the dakotas is going to be expected. widespread winter storm warnings are actually in place. as that continues to push off towards the east it will be associated with this high-amplitude trough. that means the jet stream is continuing to dip all the way down towards mexico and it is gradually working its way

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but we share some 200 of our genes with those very early life forms. indeed, there are some genes that are common to every single species of life on the planet. our dna extends in an unbroken chain right to the beginning of life 4,000 million years ago. so, now we can trace our evolutionary heritage back through geological time. back to the age of dinosaurs... and further still, to the early amphibians. back to the fish... and the first backboned animals. and further still to the single-celled organisms that were the very earliest form of life to appear on this planet. so, in my lifetime, science has solved many of the riddles which, 60 years ago, seemed so baffling. how mountain ranges are formed why animals are distributed in the way they are and how they communicate with one another how a complex chemical molecule can transfer the characteristics of one generation to the next. so, now, the natural world makes more sense than it ever did, which is why studying it is so rewarding and so delightful. over the course of attenborough's career, we've seen

he joins us from boston, gene munster.f the most bullish guys on the street. what's going on? >> both of those cuts were for 4%. we at 875. it's a relatively small cut. what's going on is we're being more conservative. we're factoring more the negative potentials in the next year and two years and not factorring as much of the positive potentials. part of that reason is just to be conservative. for a quick example, is this new lower priced phone is going to have about a 90 basis point, cause overall margins to go down 90 basis points. we lowered our number next year to factor that in, that's why the price target went down and we didn't factor in the acceleration that's going to happen in units for that new phone. the narrative reads we've cut our price targets, etend of the day, it's still 70% to the up side of the stock. >> you you have an overweight rating on the stock. that back it is up. i find it so interesting, though, that people like you, a noted bull on apple, you're coming around to thinking about some of the neg

there are over 100 genes that have been identified that are candidate genes for medical therapy for ae. we have highly effective medical therapy that can get people into remission for long periods of time. >> so they to see someone like you or an exsprt to get their questions answered. >> right. >> doctor, you'll be back in the show. in you -- if you have a question, call our hotline. they're also having a health seminar and if you call our hotline, you can get questions about that. you'll be back later on in the show. >>> all right. let's start off with a look at maryland's most powerful radar. basically, darth vader is approaching. no basically what we have is a little bit of wintry weather, very light. flurries in eastern carroll county, toward ham sted and in the monk ton area, the northern county, maybe a few flurries dotting the landscape. in baltimore today, as we celebrate that big win from last night, man, cloudy conditions, but it was a day of changing weather. annapolis today cloudy. then the sun coming out in the state capital. had a chance to hang out at mcgarvey's. bel a

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>> that's right, gene.ctually across much of the lower mississippi river valley even extending off into the ohio river valley we're seeing severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings in effect due to this very strong storm system. it's really just all along this cold frontal area surging in warm air from the south and what that is doing it will be colliding with all of this cold arctic air coming in out of canada and once that collides that is where you're going to be seeing this very severe weather threat even across portions of tennessee. then over towards the carolinas you're going to be seeing that frontal area push through, bringing with it all of these destructive winds, tornadoes, ping pong size hail and then off towards the north into the great lakes, even though the rough weather is down toward the south windy conditions and heavy snow is very well likely. localized areas seeing up to 12 centimeters. behind this frontal area this cold air will be changing things up. even across the rockies. you're sti

gene had been the editor of the atlanta constitution when jack was here. gene once told the story about jack being a reporter and a celebrated report whinging got a call from the publishers of the los angeles times. mr. chandler said, gene, i'm thinking that the los angeles times wants to set up shop in atlanta. you have a big story bring there in the south. the civil-rights story in the emerging south. onion report to staff that bureau in atlanta for the los angeles times. you have any good reporters? and jean says, you know, we have tons of reporters. he started listing all these reporters. he purposely left off the name of jack nelson. he was not about to give him up. a week later he hired jack nelson. did the los angeles times. he did great work here in atlanta. he brought investigative reporting to the civil rights story, which was elevated to an all new level. moves to washington, head of the washington bureau. now, the l.a. times did not have a great in print and washington until jack got there. i'm not saying it had none. it didn't have anything li

to treat melanoma and other forms of cancer a gene is connected to the dopamine system responsible for firing signals across neurons in the brain which plays a major role in attention and reward driven learning carriers of the longevity gene appear to be involved in more social intellectual and physical activities. one in 24 u.s. adults say they recently fell asleep driving health officials think the real number is much higher the telephone survey of thousands of adults found that drowsy driving was more common in many people's aged 25-34 and for people who average less than six hours of sleep per night. coming up in frigid weather today warmer weather tomorrow. jim ramsey says the wind will make it feel much much colder. people really love snapshot from progressive but don't just listen to me. listen to these happy progressive customers. i plugged in snapshot, and 30 days later, i was saving big on car insurance. with snapshot, i knew what i could save before i switched to progressive. the better i drive the more i save. i wish our company had something this cool. you're not filming t

. >> like a gene simmons' dog. >> she has a gene simmons gene for tongue length. >> slapping the otherhe has another ear flap, but it's so cute. >> but, look. she retracts the whole thing. >> but it doesn't stay in very long. >> ooh -- ah! >> sort of like let's see how far that thing can go. >> rom e! rock 'n' roll. >>> the dance game, "just dance" hugely popular. people love it. a couple of mature people dancing to "just dance" to pink. so what? ♪ >> are they doing the same song? on the same program? ♪ >> look at the guy. he is really committed. [ laughter ] >> i feel like this is exactly what dad looks like dancing at weddings. >> he's going for it, though. he's not holding anything back. i think he's going to have the better score at end for sure. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> no one looks cool when you're trying to emulate the weird figure on the screen doing all of these moves you have ever done before. >> i don't even think professional dancers could follow along with the game, but it's not just our mature counterparts dancing. it's also the little ones. this is chase and cooper. this

patchari, good evening. >>> good evening, gene. aung san suu kyi has expressed her intention to visit japan as soon as march. now, myanmar's opposition leader is the icon of the country's push towards democracy. she is expected to ask tokyo to support her cause. aung san suu kyi told an nhk reporter at the parliament in the capital on friday that she received an invitation from the japanese government. the visit would be her first to japan in 27 years. she stayed in japan from 1985 to 1986 as a guest researcher at the center for southeast asian studies of kyoto university. aung san suu kyi won the nobel peace prize in 1991 for promoting democracy and human rights. she spent many years under house arrest during myanmar's former military government. and last april she was elected to the lower house of parliament in an election. since then she has visited various countries, including the united states. she used those visits to seek international support for reform in myanmar. >>> afghanistan's president hamid karzai is meeting barack

patchari, good evening. >>> good evening, gene. aung san suu kyi has expressed her intention to visit japan as soon as march. now, myanmar's opposition leader is the icon of the country's push towards democracy. she is expected to ask tokyo to support her cause. aung san suu kyi told an nhk reporter at the parliament in the capital on friday that she received an invitation from the japanese government. the visit would be her first to japan in 27 years. she stayed in japan from 1985 to 1986 as a guest researcher at the center for southeast asian studies of kyoto university. aung san suu kyi won the nobel peace prize in 1991 for promoting democracy and human rights. she spent many years under house arrest during myanmar's former military government. and last april she was elected to the lower house of parliament in an election. since then she has visited various countries, including the united states. she used those visits to seek international support for reform in myanmar. >>> afghanistan's president hamid karzai is meeting barack

zorn's quest to link john knoll to the crime goes back to his father, gene zorn who as an adult read an article on the kidnapping that triggered a memory of a dramatic childhood incident-- a memory that put father and son on the trail of a lost kidnapper. this whole story begins in the summer of 1931, when my dad was a 15-year-old boy growing up in a german neighborhood in the south bronx. and my father had a neighbor who lived three doors down from him, a german immigrant and a deli clerk named john knoll who encouraged my dad to take up stamp collecting. and one day in the summer of 1931,

some of the fashion a-listers who are going to be there, mayor chuck reid from san jose is going, gene quan. >> and you're going to look so much better than all of them, my dear. >> you look like you've already been there. >> nice plaid shirt, my man. thanks for giving us an inside look for washington. great to have you with us. >> you bet. thank you. >>> let's turn the focus back to california. governor jerry brown says he's fixed the state budget by increasing taxes and keeping a tight rein on spending. he declared an end to the state's prison crisis. correspondent spencer michels sat down with the governor earlier this week in an interview for the pbs "newshour." in this segment, they discuss whether california is really out of the woods and the governor's plans for the future. >> governor jerry brown, thanks very much for talking with us. >> sure. >> governor, proposition 30 in california was sold that it would help the schools and almost exclusively help the schools. are the california schools out of the woods? >> you say out of the woods. we live in the woods, so we don't get out

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robert. >> reporter: well, gene, at least in tokyo you're right very cold here. the good news things are just too dry for any cloud cover really to develop here across much of the continent. where you'll be seeing that snow is off here towards the west, about 70 centimeters is expected going through saturday as the sea effect snow machine pulls in that cold air from the northwest running across the warm waters in the sea of japan and that moisture has to go somewhere and it dumps on the west coast. that's what we've been seeing. tokyo maybe by tuesday going into wednesday there will be a system developing up. we'll watch that. there's a risk of some light snow by then. but for now out here towards the west high pressure is dominating. bringing very dry conditions. cold temperatures as it continues to push further down there towards the south. you'll be seeing temperatures dropping as far south as the philippines. as it does so, remember this has a clock wise rotation. towards hong kong out towards shanghai you'll see temperatures rebound going through the weekend

eap brochures hot off the press. >> my name is gene miranda >> and i am a licensed psycho therapist and has... thank you very much. >> i worked for 21 years, here in the city. and all of my work has been the employee assistance program, the eap. we are a counseling center for employees and their families and significant others. we see people for any personal or work-related issue. that gets in the way of their personal or work-related lives. we offer brief solution-focused therapy medation service and critical debriefing and customized workshops and trainings throughout city departments. the eap, for the city like all of the eap ss a behavior risk management agency. and our mandate here is to provide services to city county employees at all levels. work teams, managers, and etc.. and so, not every day, and not every week, but, pretty regularly, we see city employees who are victims of domestic violence. >> it does not just remain at home it comes to work. they know where the victim is eight hours a day and often send threatening and abusive e-mails, fax and phone calls to the victims du

and it operates like an independent grocery store. >> i'm so happy i had an occasion to meet gene. because i feel like i know her. >> yao el pays for the groceries at delivery time. there is a service charge of $15. but about one-third of the clients pay a reduced service charge of just $5. >> this is about independence. and dignity, and helping people stay in their homes for as long as it is safe. >> that, of course is j.c. hayward reporting there. top banana gets groceries from a wholesaler in pennsylvania. if you would like to order call 301372-food. or for more information on how to make an online order, go to j.c. hayward.com. >>> an overturned tractor trailer and a motorcycle rider's close call. wait until you see this. narrow escape and howard, of course with the fore >>> welcome back. check this out. a motorcycle rider hello. wow, that will wake you up just narrowly escaped a serious injury. tract trail overturned right toward him, jumped out of the way, he was fine. the motorcycle and the truck were damaged. the man on the motorcycle walked away from the accident amazingly

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they met at a dance and billy says as soon as she saw gene she instantly fell in love with him.st sight. they have been together ever since. they even outlasted the parting words of the priest who married them. >> the priest. [audio not understandable] he said it wouldn't last. >> if you didn't hear what billy said, she said that "he said it would not last." she wore a replica of the wedding dress during the anniversary celebration and they have 10 kids and 110 great grandchildren and it's a huge family. >> congratulations to them. 70 years. something to celebrate. >>> stay with us this morning, now is the time when you start thinking about something wonderful. filing your tacks. >> i thought about this driving in this morning and -- taxes. >> i thought about this driving this this morning. why you need to hold off filing until after the middle of february so -- i can put it off. >> spring seems far off. but it's never too late to start thinking about spring allergies. what you should be doing now to prepare so you are not feeling too bad later on. we gotta sell the car. where w

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atlanta lost a great editor this week when gene patterson passed away down in st. pete, the editor of the atlanta constitution when jack was here and jean wants told the story about jack being a reporter, celebrated reporter when machine got a call from the publisher of "the los angeles times" and he said i'm thinking of the "los angeles times" wants to set up shop in alana. you have a big story brewing in the south. the civil rights story and the emerging south. and i need a reporter to set up the bureau in the "los angeles times." do you have any good reporters, and jean says you know mr. chairman we have a great reporters he purposely left off the name of jack nelson. he wasn't about to give him up. and a weak leader otas hired jack nelson that's how jack got to the "los angeles times" with great work here in alana. he brought investigative reporting to the civil rights story, which was elevated to ban all new level and move to washington and the bureau. they didn't figure it in print until jack got there and didn't have anything like it would with 17 reporters.

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. >>> stanford scientists say they've developed a again ecically engineered gene of h.i.v. the technique involves a break in the gene dna and a stacking of resistance cells at that location. scientists say the technique could one day replace a lifetime of medication for people with h.i.v. infections. >>> our state is experiencing a state income tax bump. we may finish the month $4 billion ahead of what forecasters expected. it could be the biggest one- month overage in recent memory. the state celt a record on the 16th when the franchise tax board received $2.2 billion in taxes. experts say the excess cash maying the combination of state and federal tax changes. >>> officials at california state university says governor brown's budget falls $2 a million short of what -- $250 million short of what they need. he said the figure is not realistic, pointing in particular to $86 million for a 3% raise for employees. he said it will be hard to get the legislature to approve that since other state employees have not had raises. >>> a controversial consultant will come in to open th

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