. >> narrator: despite the risk, pfizer built a world-class research team in groton, connecticut, androught in a veteran in gram-negative research: john quinn. >> in 83, when i finished my training, almost every pharmaceutical company had an antibiotic development team, and by the time i landed at pfizer in 2008, we were really down to three big guys and some smaller companies, bio-techs and so on. and i think all of us felt that, you know, we had a moral obligation to continue to work in this area. there was a pressing clinical need. most companies had abandoned the field and we were still in the game. we were proud to still be in the game. >> narrator: quinn and his team believed they were on to something big-- several different compounds to treat gram-negatives. the potential breakthroughs got the attention of the company's science advisors, including brad spellberg. >> i felt that their pipeline was probably the most comprehensive and important anti-bacterial pipeline in the world, focusing on the types of bacteria that we're really having severe problems with right now. >> hoffma

groton, harvard, leominster, princeton and gardner right now. in around the worcester area heavy rain continuing. pretty light in boston. i will show you what time things are more intense there in just minutes. gene. >>> a an american astronaut back on planet earth carried down from the international space station. scott kelly and his russian colleagues spent a year in space tampa daniel miller joins us with more of what his return could mean for science. daniel, really remarkable what happened. >> reporter: fascinating gene. scott kelly spend 340 days shy of a year in space. he has been tweeting the whole time and no different as he began his mission back home. >> and undocking has occurred. >> daniel: wow. from the international space station and here is the video of the spacecraft that brought him and his russian counterparts back to earth. you can see him floating through the clouds before land through the clouds before landing in kazakhstan just before 11:30 last night. moments after landing, kelly pops up out of the castlend you can see pe

bridgeport, mayor oh leery -- o'leary of water bri, larry moran, along with officials from bridgeport, groton, manchester, new haven, south windsor, and the connecticut conference of municipalities. they are too numerous to name but i'd ask that their names be inserted in the record so it will be a formal part of today's proceeding. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: they have shown by their actions that they're willing to not only talk the talk but actually walk the walk. i participated with mayor ganham just over the weekend in a public press conference nothing the truly extraordinary and excellent work by their drug task force to stop and apprehend and arrest and prosecute a major drug ring in the city of bridge port. i talked to mayor o'leary about efforts in waterbury and throughout his region, very responsible and effective action that he took as the police chief of waterbury, but we know that we're not going to arrest our way out of this crisis. law enforcement needs more effective support and resources. there is no way around the need for supporting and enhancin