they made an investment in a company called juneau therapeutics. by the way, is not a coincidence. that investment has turned out really well. they invested $129 million between 2013 and 2014. now the control by 25% of the -- about 25% of the company and that is a billion dollar plus stake right now. that investment turned out very well for them. to be seen about whether these other investments in biotech companies will turn out quite so well. carol: there are a few other biotech companies. who are they that they have invested in? donnie: there is juneau, kodiak and denali. carol: i like the alaska connection. donnie: you might notice the alaska connection, yes all of , them do have an alaska thing. juneau is the capital of alaska. denali is a mountain. kodiak is the brown bear of alaska. clearly, they like having these -- companies when they invest that much money in them. it's sort of an inside joke. carol: with oil prices coming down, alaska has had some financial problems. let's get to some of the lawmakers, regulators noticing money being made

juneau is the capital of alaska.i is the tallest mountain and kodiak is the brown bear of alaska. clearly, they like having these companies when they invest that much money in them. kind of as an inside joke. carol: with oil prices coming down, alaska has had some financial problems. let's get to some of the lawmakers, regulators noticing money being made in biotech. donnie: they are noticed how much cash they have in the fund. right now, the governor said that even if they fired every single state employee, they would still have a budget shortfall. so, they are incredibly desperate for money, and they're thinking about possibly tapping the funds for a couple billion dollars a year. right now, part of it is used to kind of give money to alaskans, just as a kind of handout for living in alaska. and of course for reinvesting, but it looks like the governor and potentially the legislator is considering tapping it, just to make the math work. carol: that was bloomberg businessweek's donnie bloomfield. back once again wit

cold in minnesota but snow free and bismark looking pretty good too. 47 in juneau. that's your national weather, now a closer look at your day ahead. so, there's all the thunderstorms that will be racing through the southeast, tennessee as we go throughout your afternoon and late through areas of georgia. accumulating snow in wisconsin and michigan through the day so the good news is a decent size storm but it's only going to effect briefly, a half hour or so. >>> well, something happened at the supreme court that hasn't happened in 10 years. >>> plus, after almost a year in space, scott kelly is headed home today. your arer watching "early today." pll "early pll (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. r it's what you do. where are you?r it's very loud there. are you taking at zumba c

no no i tell them my way and he accept that and i tell them what i never had an argument 20 years juneau and a couple google like a day and a half without biting peers that they i think the reason i don't find this trump looks at her most that's nice that's a good opinion to have you know i think that's what it is she sounded very self assertive to poppy both seem smarter okay do you ever fight with your has been no not really okay with okay out okay all-caps it when we get that had that tenure markets going down but sometimes we have a a buy and sell on upgrade applied man might unaccountably today's after he loaded the dishwasher speaking of politics god bless america as you know even if your congressperson you're allowed sir to wear sweatpants to work i don't know about that in arkansas there was a bill that they were to have a regular payouts at the capitol it turns out they struck any to wear sweatpants your state lawmaker you can wear sweatpants on the florida capital know like you you well for a jeans day that's what the rest of us get to do little no back even at the signing of t

he was last seen in the area of 11th street and juneau street wearing a red, black, grey colored shirt and black shorts. if you see him, call tampa police. the political showdown over the new supreme court nominee continues this morning on capitol hill. merrick garland is expected to continue making courtesy calls to senators today, a day after meeting with key democratic leaders. republicans opposed to granting him a confirmation hearing. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell labeled the visit a stunt orchestrated by the white house. former presidential contender marco rubio also stood firm: the white house says it will set up meetings with other senators when lawmakers return from their easter recess in two weeks. this morning the f-b-i is investigating a piece of suspicious mail sent to the trump parc east tower in new york city. the mailing was addressed to donald trump's son, erik. reports are the postmark was from massachusetts. polk county deputies need your help finding the person who stole a car with a toddler inside! this morning they want to speak with this man they are cal

he was last seen in the area of 11th and juneau streets. if you see him call tampa police. 3 3 this bradenton couple is now facing child abuse charges. police say they whipped their young daughter with a belt at least *20 times.. 3 the girl's elementary school noticed bruises on her child protective services..who then called police. spanking is *not illegal in florida.. but the arrest is re-igniting the debate over how far is too far. 3 parents seem to have mixed feelings on the matter.... a 2014 study from the university of chicago found that 70-percent of u-s adults are o-k with spanking their children.. but parents say it's possible to cross the line from discipline to abuse. 3 on wednesday, "pauline lee" and her fiancee "jeremy perry"... were arrested for hitting their daughter with a belt... police say they hit her at least 20 times. parents in florida have a constitutional right to privacy in rearing their children. there's no specific law saying how many strikes are okay... officials consider the size and location of welts -- and 3 p

and, again, that's the community of juneau that is recounting that. but it is all over our communities. this drug addiction knows no boundaries. it's seeped into, it corrodes alaska's most remote commutes. commutes. -- communities. and these are communities -- there is no easy access to them. 80% of communities in alaska are not connected by road. in order to get to them, particularly this time of year, the only way to get in is to fly in. it's expensive to fly in. in the summer there's water options. but, again, that, too, is expensive. and so somehow or other, while it's difficult for people to move in and out, somehow or other the drugs are coming in and out. the heroin, the opioid addiction has found its way into these remote communities, leaving families and loved ones just scrambling and desperate as they try to help those that they love. and, unfortunately, the resources that we have in terms of any form of treatment centers are so incredibly, incredibly limited. one of the communities that is on the road system, the community of palmer, just n

in juneau, alaska. where ever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. we start with super tuesday underway. voters in 12 states get their say in the 2016 presidential race. on the republican side, we have 595 delegates up for grabs, while the democrats are fighting for 865 delegates. none of the candidates sitting back. they're all out there on the campaign trail. trying to squeeze out every vote possible. hillary clinton is meeting with voters in a coffee shop in minnesota right now. let's listen in briefly to hear what she is saying. >> organizations and individuals who hold deplorable views about what it means to be an american, to be given any credence at all. so i'm going to continue to speak out begins bigotry, where ever i see it or hear about it, and i wish everybody, i wish every american would do the same. >> all right, folks, let's keep moving. >> thanks. >> thank you. >> donald trump will be the eventual nominee? >> i don't know. that's going to be up to the republicans. i don't have any real insight into the thought process, obviously he ha

in juneau, alaska. where ever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. underway. voters in 12 states get their say in the 2016 presidential race. on the republican side, we have 595 delegates up for grabs, while the democrats are fighting for 865 delegates. none of the candidates sitting back. they're all out there on the campaign trail. trying to squeeze out every vote possible. hillary clinton is meeting with voters in a coffee shop in minnesota right now. let's listen in briefly to hear what she is saying. >> organizations and individuals who hold deplorable views about what it means to

there's a competitor to uber in new york called juneau in a few weeks, and it's the same basic idea as uber except they pay the cabbies more, and the drivers own 50% of the company. what does that mean? it means that when that company eventually pivots -- as they all will -- to mechanical cars driven by computers, you haven't done the research and development for the thing that that will replace you. you've done the research and development for the company that you own. so now the drivers are going out doing your work, your job has been replaced, but your income hasn't been taken away because you own the thing. so these are really, they sound complicated, but they're really simple things to do. they're just the basic steps you have to think of things. we're in a digital age. you have to think of the mechanisms that you're using and that the instruments that you're putting into place. you have to think of them like programs that are going to keep going, that are going to have operating principles and bias them towards circulation, bias them towards making people wealthy. i promise you i

i had the opportunity to talk about this when i was home in alaska last week down in juneau in front of our state legislature. this work is showing bipartisan work, very important to the country, very important to states like alaska. and i'm certainly proud to be a cosponsor of that bill. we're going to continue to try and get that over the goal line. mr. president, i also think it's important to focus on issues not only domestically, of course, but issues beyond our borders as well. and what i want to talk about in terms of these kind of issues this afternoon is the issue of american leadership in the world today. now, a lot of us in the senate have experience in foreign policy, national security issues. there's been members who served in the state department, decades in the military. the presiding officer has a lot of experience in international business. so we have a fair amount of experience here and certainly is part of our responsibility as senators in the constitution to be very focused on these issues, these important issues. national security, foreign policy, hearings, codel

if you move out to jupiter, we're about ready to put a mission in orbit around jupiter called juneau, and we're going to do it july 4th. we try to ruin every planetary holiday we can -- [laughter] planetary scientists do. >> insight was completely off kilter, because it was just going to come in the middle of november or something. >> yeah. so insight was going to launch on march 4th, my birthday. >> oh, okay. >> not that it had to be that way. >> so fourth of july is ruined. [laughter] >> and the next fab house mission at saturn is cassini. that one we could have spent hours talking about because what cassini's finding out is all about other moons that look like they potentially could be habitable like one which has, we now believe, an enormous amount of water underneath its icy crust. just like europa does at juniorer the. and another moon called titan which is bigger than mercury, has an enormous atmosphere and is the only only other body in the solar system that has liquid on its surface. but it's not water, it's methane, okay? .. flying by pluto, okay, which is also my anniversar

neil: as juneau goes -- let's look at the democratic breakdown. he has won in four states, including vermont and oklahoma and minnesota and colorado, the caucuses there. david as match, what do you think? david: well, i think what kennedy was saying, where do his votes go? if, in fact, hillary does pull it out, will shellac -- will any of the enthusiasm that accompanied bernie sanders come to hillary? and i don't think it will. do you? kennedy: i don't think it does. no, absolutely. no and, especially, we have to talk about the elephant in the room for the donkeys, and that's the looming indictment. you know, what happens if that comes? neil: what if it doesn't? kennedy: well, she should thank allah. she should get on her knees in processations because she'll be very, very fortunate to skirt slippery justice. neil: let's say then it does. is it the party turns to someone other than bernie sanders or bernie wins it? >> no, i think you're going to see the democrats do exactly what they're doing with trump, and they're going to turn on bernie sanders