amy: kathy kelly, longtime peace activist and author.co-coordinator of the ban killer drones campaign and a member of world beyond war. she has traveled to afghanistan nearly 30 times. next up, new orleans and at the dark after hurricane ida. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "song for george" by mat callahan and yvonne moore. today is the last i of black august. this month for 50 years since the assassination of george jackson. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. hurricane ida has been downgraded to a tropical depression after it hit the louisiana coast sunday as a category for paying -- category 4 hurricane on the 16th anniversary of hurricane katrina. louisiana's main utility company entergy says it could be weeks before it restores electricity to nearly a million people in the storm's path, including all of new orleans, as temperatures rise to near 90 degrees fahrenheit. meanwhile, the new orleans police department drew criticism for diverting resources from helpin

also on the boat senator john thune, chris coons, mark kelly, jackie rosin, kathy cortez masto and marie chief strategist for rhode island's democratic party she is facing criticism she tweeted out yesterday it's wrong to hope he dies from covid, right? it she tweeted that out. pete: that was an actual thing she typed in? ainsley: yeah. asking the question is it wrong to hope he dies? steve: #asking for a friend. pete: didn't find many online or elsewhere. i will say she is also not privy to the science of that. because, steve, you mentioned break through. break through means you have covid thankfully because of the vaccine symptoms are more mild. the death rate of break through is, are we have it in our notes somewhere. it's .0001. steve: really tiny. lindsey graham says he i'm very glad i was vaccinated without the vaccination i'm certain i would not feel as well as i do. ainsley: some of the statistics the cdc says 9 .999% of fully vaccinated americans have not had a deadly covid-19 pleak break through case. the good news is you do get it and you are vaccinated your chances of having

. >> that is jason kelly founder and ceo of ginkgo bio works, a company slated to go public via spac toward the end of the year with participation of kathyrc invest biotech break-throughs were front and center in 2020 for a race for a vaccine for the covid-19 and advances are also continuing in gene therapy and cancer and neurology and rare diseases and more. the next guest is an analyst, ali irwin is specializing in technologies welcome. just want to start with gene editing first. you could give us a sense of what is on the frontier with regard to gene editing when i think of that, i think of immortality. is that something that is possible with the exception of getting hit by a car or other things will we be dying from diseases in the future thanks to gene editing? >> so, the short answer is, you know, not immortality in the short-term for sure but we may be able to create cures for disease so it is really quite exciting >> you see kind of three stages to gene editing. we're in the first stage right now. you could give us a sense of where we are right now and where we're going from here. >> of course so the first stage i like to call it

kelly >> absolutely. contessa, that's great information. thank you, contessa brower >>> our next guest says when you combine covid, rising prices, higher prices are likely to see with us for a while. kathy like we've mentioned there's a lot of reasons why insurance companies might be able to raise rates. how much of an increase do you expect and which stocks should benefit the most >> well, as contessa was staying in her piece, the personal lines insurers are a little more egg are lated and it's a little more difficult for them to raise rates. there's a little more justification. there's a lot more tightness, if you will, in the commercial line space. so, i sort of have a little bit of a positive bias in the commercial lines market, and i like chubb i think they're well positioned to raise rates i like a specialty insurer i think aig that has several panels, not the least of which is restructuring and the splitting up of the life in the pnc group. so, i think there's some catalyst there but i do think the combination of multiple catastrophes and expected heavy storm season and the multiple risks that you mentioned are all fuelling an increase in insurance rates. and that ultimately beco

michael yoshikami kathy was saying she's still open to ideas emanating from china but i was suprised that she's not yet buying the dip so to speak >> i think it's way too early to buy dips, kellyit's really a huge unknown what the chinese government's going to do look what they did to the education industry people are talking a lot about tech the education industry in china, which is a billion-dollar industry, was just crushed when the government basically changed all the rules. so you really don't know what curveball is coming. so in my perspective it's not time to buy the dips it's time to watch, certainly be open like cathie says, but be very, very careful because there's regulation coming out of nowhere that could completely submarine any business you invested in china. >> people's heads are still reeling, deirdre i'll give you the last word on this >> there's another very famous investor masiyoshi san who earlier this week said he's in wait and see mode. he has tons of investments in china alibaba being the biggest one. he's putting those plans on pause but like cathiewood he believes inthat long-term innovation story but she's not the only one and i'm with michael in tha