its common problem among gorillas. >> 40% of our gorillas have heart problems. >> they turned to human cardiologist for health which in turn gave him ultrasound tests but that was not easy. >>> obvious it's stressful for the animal and people. >> to get the best results they need to be wide awake. >> here is the issue, it is tricky to give a checkup you can't march up in a white coat. >> then they had an idea train the gorillas in their own checkup. >> this is how we do it. >> we got a front row seat. they showed us how it's done. >> as he crouches next to the bars, raises his left arm and strikes this odd pose prompted by fruits and pickles and allows them to rub the ultrasound probe right over his chest. a live window into his beating heart making it look so easy but even though gino is cooperative he is still miss which i have us on. look at him try to grab me. [ laughter ] >> you can see the heart, it's going very fast. >> rough assignment. >> disney is the parent company of "abc 7 news". >>> 7 on your side is next, what do you do if your cancelled airline ticket never shows up. th

heart disease is a common problem with gorillas, especially males. >> and 40 percent of our gorillas have heart problems. >> the people at disney turn to human cordologist to help which suggested giving him ultrasound tests but that was not easy. >> you have to dart animals to do that. >> you are firing a dart gun. >> obviously that's stressful for the animal, stressful for the people. >> to get the best results the doctors said they needed gorillas wide awake and not sedated. but it's a little tricky to give a gorilla a checkup. you can't march up to a silver back like geno in a white coat with a stealth scope. then somebody had a genius idea. train them to participate, so to speak, in their own checkup. >> basically we are just going -- we do this at the front of each session. >> we got a front row seat. >> you are excited. the chest is all the way up. >> take a look at this as geno crouches next to the bars, raises his left arm and strikes a rather odd pose, prompted by fruits and pickles and allows the zoo keeper to rub the ultrasound probe right over his chest. >> how is it look

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but it's a little tricky to give a gorilla a checkup.an't march up to a silver back like geno in a white coat with a stethoscope. then somebody had a genius idea. train them to participate, so to speak, in their own checkup. >> basically we are just going -- we do this at the front of each session. >> we got a front row seat. they showed us how its done. >> you are excited. the chest is all the way up. >> take a look at this as geno crouches next to the bars, raises his left arm and strikes a rather odd pose, prompted by fruits and pickles and allows the zookeeper to rub the ultrasound probe right over his chest. >> how is it looking? >> awesome. >> a live window into his beating heart, making it all look so easy. but even though geno is cooperative here, he is still mischievous. look at him trying to grab me. >> oh, you are close. >> thank you, amy. [laughter] >> if you did an ultrasound on me right now, you would see my heart going very fast. >> dan harris, abc news. >> disney is the parent company of abc and abc7 news. >>> 7 on your s

um, let's talk about the 800-pound gorilla in the room which is ngos, okay? and, um, i've been to haiti several times now, and i've seen the amazing work that ngos including partners in health -- i was there the day that the cholera outbreak started in st. mark, and i interviewed a doctor, he was astounding as were the colleagues from doctors without borders and other organizations. and i went up north, and i saw the difference between the care, the health care that people got in the mission, in ngo, and then just going about several miles down the road to the public hospital which was astounding. i've never seen anything like that in my life. you walk in, there were literally no doctors there when i walked in. there were three guys who didn't have their md yet who were sitting there, and they were in training, they were going to call other doctors. the patients were on the right and the left, they had to bring their own sheets, and their family brought the food, and there was no electricity, i mean, you cannot imagine it. so you have this big difference betw

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one is what i consider to be a hundred pound gorilla in all of this a bird in hand. the only place people at cash to do something with the parking lots that had on the embarcadero. the america's cup has changed everything. the port will be running over with money. they can no longer cry that they are poor. the other point i want to make has to do with parking. i run two businesses, over the past 20 years, in the embarcadero area. there is plenty of parking under the embarcadero center. there is a big parking garage under the maritime center. i believe that the owners of those parking areas will tell you that because of the lack of adequate cities signage, those garages are on those lots, so the argument that we need more parking space i believe is a spurious one. thank you. >> members of the committee, my name is charles. i am only here to say one thing. this is not a private club. i read in the newspaper about a private club being on that side. i have heard it here. members of the private club, they sit on the board of directors, and they occupy officers positions i

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an ultra book made out of gorilla glass. 1399 it comes out in february. we've got apps in technology to help you lose weight. this is a company called digital storm. liquid cool. not to mention i-robot. this one aimed at health care, will deliver prescription meds wherever you are. and a way to use your smart phone to control your remote camera, touch your phone once to start, and once to stop. i'm scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> cool stuff. thank you. a pretty good start to the week on wall street. right now let's get a check on the markets. bertha coombs joins us live. good morning. >> hey, good morning. the first five days of the year the theory goes if the first five days are up, then the rest of the year is morep more likely up about 85% of the time. we had the january effect looks pretty good and futures are following suit for the sixth trading day of the year. look likes we might get 100-point pop in the dow. alcoa is a stock to watch, the dow component reported earnings yesterday in the aluminum giant reported a loss but says that it is still

it's got that gorilla glass finish, so it's very durable, and it's got wireless technologies including near-field communication. you take a compatible nfc smartphone, tap the screen, and it will exchange information wirelessly. very cool stuff. this is $1,300 coming out next month, february 2012. last but not least, photography -- very hot here at consumer electronics show every year. now, get this. this is now in your pocket. this is the bloggie live h.d., the first wi-fi h.d. camcorder for your pocket. so, not only can you wirelessly upload your video to your favorite website, like youtube or facebook, but you can even stream live in real time. so, that means you're broadcasting. you have your friends and family watching what you're doing in real time wherever they are in the world. how cool is that? this is coming out for $249 at the end of january. for "teen kids news," in las vegas at the consumer electronics show, i'm marc saltzman. >> that's it for this week. thanks for joining us. >> we'll see you next week on "teen kids news."

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states everything is just legally fine i guess we're fortunate that america's the no six hundred pound gorilla in the playground i mean who's going to tell us we can't. which is fine as long as we're the big kid on the playground but we may not always be in that status we're supposed to set the example of a positive example you know we claim to be the champion of the rule of law but it seems that were a champion of the rule of law when we're trying to apply it to others not so much for when. we're looking at in the mirror at ourselves. the convention against torture for instance we're signatory to that if you if you saw recently at the republican presidential debates where candidates said they would resume waterboarding so you know we love to criticize other countries. but we're not so good at holding up the mirror torso story that you prosecuted guantanamo i was just wondering what was the ratio of people who got into want four for a reason real bad guys and those who let's say did not deserve guantanamo treatment well if you separate the bush administration's characterization of your call ma

too many bankers species one planet no future world poncing nomic summit many species that got the gorillas the central bankers they've got the primary dealers i think there's twenty eight of them these are the ferrets that are kind of. you know met manipulating markets to try to ease that push of quantitative easing into the global economy well let's turn to some banker species in the headline the first one the correlation of laughter f o m c meetings this is the central banker species the f o m c is the federal open market committee at which the poll of barrow sets global interest rates well apparently somebody had the clever idea of actually looking through the transcripts of the meetings and they found that the number of recorded laughs actually increased in frequency from two thousand to two thousand and six the peak of the global financial bubble in two thousand and one f o m c erupted into laughter sixteen point five times per meeting on average in two thousand and three it was over nineteen in two thousand and five twenty seven and then in two thousand and six the f o m c burst into

consumer electronics show is going into vegas next week and corning is going to introduce their second gorilla glass two, stronger and new futures of every smart pad and iphone are going to need. >> brenda: tobin, bull or bear. >> the fact that they lost morning doing that, no, i'm a bear. >> brenda: and your prediction. >> and tiger woods tearing down the house, it's going to knock this house down and knock your portfolio higher.