with 300 volunteers out here from glaxosmithkline alone and you add in the sheriffs office and they are volunteering to come out and help the kids get started. >> reporter: ernie mills, junior, thank you. it will be a wonderful event, and you saw the people lined up there. need and best of luck to you all. >> incredible effort. 5000, that's quite an operation. >>> britney spears will give the clothe off her back to help her home state, louisiana. after the mtv video music,a wards, she raffled off her outfit to help the flood victims and has created a website each $10 donation will help. >>> the tesla model s is the quickest concept car in the world. it will go from 60 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds. elon musk said they were faster than the $1 million specialty bought new. >>> and olympic gold medalist katie ledecky will try out a new sport today, throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the bet way series between the washington nationals and baltimore orioles. tonight's game and tomorrow's game will be played in dc and will be the third time this ledecky has tossed out the first >>

t to 37.31 and glaxosmithkline and alphabet will form a new company to develop new medicines which use devices to manage electrical impulses in the nervous system. the company said they'll cricket more than $700 million to the prokt. shares up to 45.25. alphabet up to 800.94. >>> cost cuts helped diamond offshore big profit and revenue expectations in its latest quarter, but despite the earnings, share of the drilling contractor fell after the company said there were quote next to zero contracts in place for rigs. diamond offshore fell more than 7.5% to 20.98. the company said strong growth in global division and latin am helped to lift results. shares surged 5% to $13.02. >>> analysts at citigroup are bullish on etsy. a target price of $14. ton g con ssensus revenue company's sellers services business. shares rose nearly 18% to 11.86. >>> if you work for a small company, there's a good chance you don't have a 401(k) or if you do, you may pay a lot for it. now, a bunch of start ups are looking to change that by using technology to lower the cost. can these firms deliver on their big pr

pharmaceutical giant, glaxosmithkline is teaming up with google's parent company to make bioelectronic medicine. it will be called galvani buyo electronics. it will use tiny implants that change the body's electronic signals. >>> new at 5:00, a bold new campaign to bring grizzly bears back to california. >> kpix 5's don ford shows us what they're concocting in oakland. >> reporter: we're seeking to have the reintroduction of grizzlies in california. >> that's right, they want to bring back grizzly bears to the sierra, nevada. once prominent across the state, they were hunted down, as depicted here in the james walker building. the last bear was killed nearly a century ago. the center for biological diversity is serious about bringing the bear back. >> we have a reputation for taking aggressive legal action if people don't study these concepts. >> reporter: he says the idea has merit. >> without the apex, the mammal populations can explode. and they can really devastate the general vegetation of the ecosystem. >> reporter: what he means is the grizzlies would eat the deer, and therefore

the privatization of these -- this whole way to go ahead and find the antidote for this, merck, glaxosmithkline that will give us the vaccination. >> in the meantime jonathan, is this one of the things -- you rail against big government all the time and the inherent dysfunction that comes with it? >> well, indeed, i think to her point a lot of the big government what is prevents us from getting these types of vaccines. mentioned merck. merck, charles, came up with a vaccin for mumps, the scientist's daughter contracted the disease so he came up through innovation. if you want to hasten and get better vaccines to market get the fda out of the way, it takes $2 billion to bring any new drug to market and if it gets approved. >> a sense of urgency with the cases in florida of the actual mosquito in florida and now even in california. i don't know that we want to sleep on this potential epidemic. >> well, i mean, speaking of sleeping, i think they've recommended to residents in florida not to sleep together so they didn't contract zika or spread it. to jonathan's point, we're kind of consistently ca

glaxosmithkline is teaming up t to google parent alphabe use electrical signals to treat diseases.alled golf electronics. -- galvani electronics. qatar airways has raised its stake in british airways owner. it could take it vantage of a drop in share prices since the brexit vote. data they don't plan to add to the stake. that is the latest bloomberg business flash, coming it is the otc. i'm taking on with my look at what is hot in july. joe looks at one part of russia's economy the teams to be cooling. ♪ it is time now for our global battle of the charts but with take a look at some of the most telling chart of the day with a mean for investors. i say we, i mean mark and joe. to kick things off is bloomberg's joe weisenthal. am looking at russian manufacturing data today because we just got some fresh data. it is not that good. the white bar show the one-month change in the russian manufacturing pmi. as you can see, we just had the worst one-month change since december of 2014. of course, as you recall, there was a huge ruble crash then, that is the blue line. i flipped this line o

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you can find companies that are servicing our domestic economy from europe, glaxosmithkline, roche, nestle and pay a discount and still get active exposure to our best of the worst, i guess. you know, we don't have the fastest growing economy. at least the consumer's in good shape. i argue end of the day you sdroebt to own tallcoe or too utilities. two things to think about in this cycle. number one, if the company is using debt to make tain or grow dividends like utilities, simply don't buy those. those are expensive. you can find lots of companies growing dividends with free cash flow. and number two, you're getting a free option on this market i want to remind everybody about i'm personally excited. a 50/50 chance the next administration will reduce the capital. $900 billion on u.s. balance sheets coming home, boys. what's going to happen to a lot of that? it's going to be paid out in dividends. that's at least a 50/50 chance. i don't care who you like in the election. you like hillary, you like trump. i don't even care about that. show me the one that will allow us to repatriate our ca

. >> i felt bad, my heart glaxosmithkline out -- my heart goes out to all of them. when i knew my family was ok, i was relieved. but it's sad. i know what they're going through. >> the reporter: he used to cut the hair of boston's most mayor, the late tom menino. now in2rv 2009, when the earthqe hit there, the north end came out big, people donated and they came together to raise money for the affected areas. there's already talk now about raising money for the people affected by this earthquake. reporting live in the north end, ted daniel, fox 25 news. >> mark: stay with fox 25 for continuing coverage of the earthquake in italy. we will bring you updates throughout our newscast on the recovery efforts and you can head fox25boston.com, to see a photo gallery from the scene. >> elizabeth: developing tonight, at least one person is dead, 25 others injured after an attack on the campus of american university in afghanistan. officials say gunmen set off a car bomb at the main gate of that university, and then forced their way inside and opened fire. right now, security