that is not what rocket lab is about.h tech innovation and doing really clever things. ♪ ashlee: with launch day approaching, the pressure is on. today, they are running an engine test at a site near the auckland airport. so the worst-case scenario -- peter: it blows up. ashlee: the best case? peter: it will touchdown. building a company is hard. building a rocket company is insane. ashlee: i hitched a ride with peter to the test site and arrived just in time for countdown. >> 3, 2, 1. ashlee: the engine test was successful, but there is still a ways to go. what does it feel like in your gut, that countdown clock? in the office? peter: i don't sleep much. that is probably the best answer to that question. ashlee: with a bit of luck, peter will maintain his sanity through 2017. that is when rocket lab plans to start flying for paying customers. this is a tiny company of 100 people that will have bested entire nations and firmly put new zealand's stamp on the world. that is not eight wire culture, that is just flat-out amaz

if they glow, we know that they have our gene >>> through that we headed into the lab.s this where i get to see the red-eyed mosquito? >> absolutely. we will set them up for you >>> first they need to be removed from the cup of water they call home. now that we've got these guys, we will take them under a microscope and put them in there >> can you see? >>> it looks just taking a photo of someone, when you get that red-eye effect. that's what i'm seeing here. it's incredible. and so bright. it helps us to determine if they're genetically engineered or not and how many are making their way into the population. the key component to make sure they get into the general population is the gene drive. it is another discovery that is promising to revolutionise the industry. it is called the crisper cast nine system. >> you're going good here >>> there you go >>> i've failed you twice, but i still did the good. so in every mosquito there are two mom and dad's d.n.a. >> we figured out a way of getting the gene in dad's d.n.a. we give a whole bunch of copies of what we want to get

>>> genetic modification, incredible science in the lab usually means this. it can be controversial, it can also be extremely beneficial. >> just like that, i'm genetically modified >>> the mosquitos that carry two deadly diseases, malaria and dengue fever. both show promise they can work when standard methods do not >> that's not enough to prevent dengue transmission. >> reporter: you can do better? >> yes. >> reporter: so what are we waiting for? this is techknow, the show about innovations that can change lives. the intersection of hardware and humanitarian, and we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. techknow investigates genetically modified mosquitos. welcome. joining me today is my guests. what would you say if i told you would could eradicate malaria and dengue fever but to do so we would have to release genetically modified mosquitos into the world. what do you think the reaction would be? >> i think it would be predictable. i've covered a lot of stories about g m organisms for techknow and there is a lot of push b

results on what was confiscated and the defense says without that lab testing no one can be sure what it was police took. dr. jan widerman and his wife arrived for court. he refuses to talk to us. police say the discovery was made in his home in bucks county last month when they say that they responded to a car fire that spread to the garage. inside a locked room near the garage police found 40 marijuana plants packaging material and a safe with more than $16,000 inside. >> they are alleging possession with intent to deliver. >> i'm alleging neither. >> the defense attorney says so far no one can prove what was inside that house because lab testing on the materials was not presented today in court.

in a race against time, scientists are working on a lab-based rhino alternative >> we want to preserve traditions and animals >>> will it pass as real, will it satisfy the demand, will it help save the species? this is techknow. the show about innovations that can change lives. >> genetically modified food >>> we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. techknow investigates rhino horn. >>> welcome to techknow. we're talking about a unique and rhinos. >> it is completely devastating rhinos, but this story starts with a company that is based in san francisco and they're literally cultivating rhino horn in the lab. fake rhino, but they're aiming for it to be completely indistinguishable from the real thing >>> what i find fascinating this is the opposition to it is coming from environmentalists itself >> the reason is because it's a controversial topic. we have to start with why they're in the position to begin with >>> let's take a look. [ ♪ ] >> modern day hanoi. the cap toll of vietnam

those three countries have a fairly robust bci lab. and the italian labs were huge in terms of really foundational things, and the entire group of researchers that came that created that were uncovered this idea of mirror neurons. [inaudible] >> by the book. [laughter] read it immediately. you know, that's a great question and was one of the questions went i was kind of talking about how i was thinking about writing this book, one reason why i really didn't want to do kind of, try to catalog everything is because every two weeks thursday huge defense. summer to concentrate on kind of the underlying science, the core technologies, the core drama. entrance of incremental to in terms of incremental advancements, they are happening every day. but in terms of the broader arc of the story, the reason i wrote it the way i did, the reason i concentrated so closely on the motor system is because i think, terrible pun, it had legs. my hope is that it will be germane for use to. -- for years to come. if there are no other questions, thank you all

first at five -- not one, but two possible meth labs in suffolk. they were discovered while a task force was executing search warrants. 10 on your side's jason marks joins us live in chesapeake while state police continue their investigation. jason, are these labs connected? according to stateolice they are. the two labs were only about a mile from each other and troopers say they were being run by the same man. (under video) 45=1:06:14 "i never suspected anything an i am extremely observant suffolk's bridget anderson day started like home she realized it was no ordinary day. 45=1:03:58 full of various police vehicles a great big armored vehicle. all the blue lights were flashing and that's when i knew something major was going on" officers were focused this shed just doors down from anderson's home. 45=1:05:07 "i just knew it must be major for them something" a state police task force say they raided the property to bust up a once troopers got done with the lab on elwood.. they went down street and broke up another on on glen haven drive. 40=:59:0

in singapore is extracted and analyzed in wasser's lab. the dna from the tusks is then matched against a genetic reference map of africa's elephant populations. this map has been generated by dna taken from another source, rich in elephant dna. >> i am holding a tray of elephant poop. not exactly something you'd associate as a tool for fighting international crime, but these samples provide critical pieces of data for creating a genetic map of elephants across africa. >> yep, collecting dung samples may not be glamorous work but it's a task wasser and his team take seriously. >> we make the map from the dung, we take genetic markers out of the dung samples. so, you see here this map of africa? so there's about 1400 total samples here and each sample is from a separate family group. >> wasser was able to determine the origin of the 6 and a half tons of ivory seized in singapore and shipped out of malawi. it all came from a neighboring country, zambia. wasser's team had made a discovery that would revolutionize law enforcement's approach to

and now, the lab is testing algae oil with its more global reach. plastics researcher ellen lee gave techknow the first public look at this newest experimental foam. >> i'm gonna have you add in a surfactant, this one, and that kinda acts like the egg in a mayonnaise to blend everything together. and then i'm gonna have you add the blowing agent which in our case is water. i'm gonna mix this up then we'll see the foam start to react. >> whoa, and there it goes. >> it's baking into a cake. >> so you can see all the gas bubbles already forming. >> we use this to kind of evaluate our formulation and how fast it comes up. >> why is it important that this reacts fast? >> how fast you can make each part is really important for manufacturing because you wanna be able to make things in a timely manner. >> are we talking a matter of minutes per foam seat or seconds? >> less than a minute. >> ford is aiming to make their plastics at least 20% bio-based. >> is this actually making the plastic stronger? >> yes, it does. these parts are lighter in weight, i can

ktvu's azenith smith is live at the crime lab in san jose. learned that this could end up costing taxpayers? >> reporter: yeah, depending on the cases affected here, i'm told attorneys could request their own testing which is much more expensive than using the crime lab. >> the initial thoughts are concerning obviously because you would expect the system to function in a certain way. and when it doesn't, it is unnerving. >> reporter: sylvia donald is the director of the independent defense counsel office which represents defendants in santa clara county. she is reelected to the seller that back on sunday, march 6 around 4:00 a.m., in the crime lab a condenser on one of the three refrigerators failed causing temperatures to soar to 107, 2000 blood samples from suspects and drug and alcohol crimes were inside that fridge. >> this raises the big issue of integrity of evidence. how much of that will be validated and corroborated later on? we don't know that yet. >> reporter: the office says 15 of the samples had not been tested and were immediate

lonnie quinn is live with the mobile weather lab. lonnie? >> we're out here with the mobile weather lab, keeping our eye on the storm. storm, just the fact it could have slick spots in the morning. all of my equipment on the top of mobile weather lab, not being put to the test with the exception of the thermometer up there. we're bringing in a temperature reading of 36.3. that's right here on 57th. the park is at 34, 33. what's happening? right to the winter weather advisory that have been issued by the national weather service. only for ocean county, that started at 10:00 p.m. tonight. we'll go into 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the radar picture shows you snow falling. areas like wayne over into portions of bergen county, then from toms river, over to trenton, a little slice of snow shower activity coming through. not talking big totals. we're looking at a trace to two inches or so, most likely to find that 2 range. tomorrow afternoon, this is long gone but still cold tomorrow. we are live with the mobile weather lab on the west side. let's go back

let's come back down to the mobile weather lab. we are parked rate here on the street and we are registering a 52.3 temperature. and a wind gust around 10.7 was the strongest we have had in the last hour or so. different vantage point of our beautiful city shows you that there are a couple of high cirrus clouds out there. 50 degrees the official reading from belvidere castle in central park. almanac shows us the high temperature today was 56. the average is 55. so officially one degree above average. your morning low 37. two degrees below average. and in terms of temperatures, right now, we sit as the fourth warmest march ever at an average temperature of 48.5 degrees. that's going up tomorrow because i see temperatures close to 70 in new york city. and as far as, you know, rain or snow for that matter? it's the sixth driest march with only 1.17 inches of precipitation. headlines look like this. we'll get two days of near 70 around here for tomorrow and but it's going to be a cold start to april and, yes, kj, and maurice and everyb

the living colors lab is where you put on lab gear, rubber gloves and handle dna to engineer multicoloreda, then projected on a display. then there's the biotinkering lab with you visitors grow bricks out of mushrooms!the root struck of the mushroom acts like glue and after it's grown, dried out and baked it can be used as furniture. the studio is all about making experiences open-ended. they hope to inspire the next generation of biotech researchers to change the world. >> everybody can come in and explore biology in the real world. it's not dangerous. learn how to use it safely and learn how to -- learn what's possible so that when they go out into the world, they think about these as options. >> reporter: and the new biodesign studio opens up today and it will be here for years and continue to evolve and teach students for years to come. kiet do, kpix 5. >>> the dance is done for the seton hall men's basketball team. but they made history in the ncaa tournament last night. >> it's good! >>> that's guard derrick gordon becoming the first openly gay player to play in the tournament. he c

rocket lab was started in 2007 by this maniac, peter back. beck.t. , opting went to college instead to own his own engineering craft in the garage and machine shops. now he wants to make it much easier and cheaper to put small satellites into space. >> if you had a satellite on your lap right now, in one week i could have it in orbit, moreover with less cost than any other way of getting it there. >> the first rocket launch will take place later this year. >> this is the first one that will go up? >> yep. >> commercial customers have signed up, and there is a two-year waiting list. how much will you charge? >> $4.9 million. >> it might seem like a lot, but it's actually a remarkable figure. the cheapest way to get to space today is on one of elon musk's buckets, spacex, and that cost $60 million per trip. rocket lab's prices would open space to a whole new set of customers, including scientists and businesses, and in effect democratize space. this is what the aerospace world has dreamed of for decades. this is the second stage? >> yep, you can lift

called to a scene could walk into a meth lab. used it to train all... so they knew what they were walking in on. and he says as embarrassing as it may be for the highway patrol to there... there are a number of others online. that was erika tallan reporting. you're looking at surveillance video from a gas station robbery in las vegas that has police puzzled. investigators say the suspect in the footage came in, pointed a gun at the clerk... and stole nachos! nachos! eventually ran off and no one was hurt. "jaime valdez "guy talked need to pay.' he said no i'm not going to pay." butted to manager "when people steal something, i'm the suspect was later arrested after a car chase, now facing assault and burglary charges. more local news animation we've got more local news now... lots of great pets home tonight. you're looking at the mobile s-p-c-a adoption unit that stopped by the oakley kroger this morning. the event was part of a partnership with the north shore animal league who are currently touring the country with but a much l

what we do in the lab is for the added. i don't think anyone should experiment on humans before ethical questions are answered. dr. lye, a dog lover, insists they need to improve accuracy. gene edited, only two were successful. >>> well today is national napping day. i saw you yawning earlier, celebrated all across the world. it's also celebrated following the daylight saving time. >> it provides everyone with an opportunity to catch up on the hour of sleep that we lost over the weekend. studies show napping for 10 to 20 minutes can improve overall alertness, mood, and increase productivity. >> i'm impressed. another study found that women tend to need more sleep than men because of their complex brain. scientists found women can use an average of 20 more minutes of sleep per night compared to men because the female brain works harder during the day than a man's. >> "q": a lot going on. >> yeah. just bright. very bright. you know? >> "q": listen, straight ahead noon -- we told you about national nap day. right? but mathemet

hands-on experience for students at goldsboro elementary magnate school where seven different stem labs keep them very busy. >> students in the kids' space center get out of this world experience for what it's like behind-the-scenes at nasa. >> our kids space center allows our children to go through a simulation based on the launch of a space shuttle. during that launch, we do extra vehicular activity. we launch satellites. we dock with the hubble telescope and we also dock with the international space station. >> reporter: meanwhile, classmates are measuring enough to drive yet in the math lab. with seven different labs covering science, technology, engineering and math-related topics, the students are immersed in assignments that engage and activate their imaginations. >> my favorite lab is robotics. we get to put different pieces on robot brains and program the robots to do what we want them to do. >> we get to do hands on activities such as when we were studying about the great garbage patch, the great pacific garbage patch. the teacher actually gave us garbage bins and we got to go

i tell you what, mobile weather lab parked right here on the corner on 57th and 11th. all of my equipment doing its work, but the one i'm most concerned with and what you should be concerned with is the machinery that measures wind speeds and wind gusts, pretty good gust right there, around 26.2 miles per hour. let's take a peak outside, show you what it looks like, different vantage point of our city, partly cloudy sky overhead, 51 degrees, the almanac shows us the high temperature was 60 which is six degrees above the average. now, my headlines will tell you that it's going to feel colder for your day tomorrow. significantly colder especially in the morning, we showed you that earlier at the top of the show but there will be nice mild days this week but the cold air returns in force by sunday, wait until you see that number. the radar picture, the air is starting to dry out now and with wind like this, you can't help but dry out. that's what wind does. not seeing too much activity, i don't think see if any kind of precipitation during the overnight hours. the wider p

. >> we're just outside washington dc-at the dea's special testing and research lab. this is where drug seizures and samples from all over the world are sent to be chemically identified. >> jill head is a supervising chemist at the lab. >> every drug exhibit that's submitted to the laboratory is approached as a complete unknown. we don't suspect that its anything until we conduct our analysis and make an actual identification. >> the lab tests thousands of drugs each year. >> she has two materials and they are both white powders, and so they are going to both be prepared in the same way. >> most are evidence collected during seizures. using the most advanced equipment in the world, it's still a challenge identifying the constantly changing chemical compositions found in synthetic impostors. >> and we've determined that it's methalone. >> do you ever test something and low and behold its pure mdma? or is it typically not? >> we do analyze and identify pure mdma. we do however also identify it and it's something completely different. >> but dea spokesman rusty payne is

but right now, we are live in the mobile weather lab on the upper west side. back to you in the studio. >> thank you. >>> a cookie clash is resolved. pepperidge farms settled a federal lawsuit it filed over the milano cookie. they claimed trader joe's had a cookie that resembled it. they reached a resolution this month. >>> turns out giant pandas are just like us. >> they like to take selfies it turns out. check out this video of an adorable panda at the giant panda observation and research center in china. it kisses and cuddles a staff member. really? cell phone. panda knows what to do. puts his arm around him and poses for the shot. >> i love it. [ laughter ] >> oh, my gosh. >> i love it! >> looks like it's biting his shoulder. >> those things are so awesome. we saw them last week down in dc with the family. amazing! just munching on bambo sticks? babies and adults. >> any day you can see a panda is a good day. >> it is. >>> in just a moment, it's in everything from ice cream to lotion but a problem with the world vanilla crop could make some of your favorit

.>> coming back on the 9 questions on the integrity of evidence at the santa clara county crime lab. recent failures that could end up costing taxpayers. >> new evidence that the santa clara crime labs after two recent failures. >> a broken refrigerator storing blood samples any notification system the failed to warn anyone about the problem. some of this could end up costing taxpayers because they could pay for their own testing which is more expensive than using the crime lab. assuming these are a concern obviously. >> the director of the independent defense counsel office. she has reacted to this alert from the das office the back on sunday, march 6 around 4 am the crime lab, pick and then throw one of the three refrigerators fail causing temperatures to soar to 170 degrees, 2000 blood samples from this& alcohol crimes were inside the fridge. >> this raises the issue of integrity of evidence. how much of that will be validated and cooperated later on, we don't know that yet. >> 15 at the samples had not been tested and were taken to working refrigerators. the office is confident t

shelley: a new technology lab for rochester middle school. how the boston celtics helped shelley: abc news is now projecting that hillary clinton will win the democratic primary in massachusetts. that brings her total for the night to seven states. minnesota. his total is now four. a brand new technology lab at help kids learn with new technologies. boston celtics and southern new hampshire university. the lab includes 13 apple imacs and apple ipads, one apple tv, and many more supplies. the room will be used by students and teachers during and after school. celtics center tyler zeller was helping the kids with basketball themed projects using various technologies to accomplish >> this could be the first time they have been exposed to it, some of this technology or all of this technology. they may have a passion for it and they take it from there and it may end up being one of their careers. >> i think that it's not only incredible that we got this lab, but we were able to share it with our entire student body and staff today. tom: the kids a

you want it sent to the lab. >> send it to the lab.sult of a prescription drug he is a howed to take. >> i'm on wellbutrin. they'd be able to tell in a lab, right? >> yes. >> getting narcotics or anything like that back here is next to impossible. so, you know, i don't -- i don't have a doubt when it goes to the lab i'll be all right. >> for bean, a positive drug test could result in a transfer out of the protective custody unit where the high-profile nature of his crime, the murder of his ex-girlfriend and destroying her corpse, could make him a target among other inmates. >> i haven't been anywhere, even in the county, in prison, that i haven't run into someone that knew who i was or had seen the stuff, you know, on the news about my case. that kind of thing. it follows you everywhere. i tested positive for pot maybe a year or two ago and they took me to a disciplinary unit g-house. i was over there for a half hour and had four or five people say, look, if you don't get out of here we're just going to straight stab you. >>> coming up

she visited his high security lab at the harbor-ucla medical center. >> in a safe that's bolted to theround behind one locked door and then behind this other one here, researchers at harbor-ucla medical center keep their mdma under lock and key, literally. >> grob says that as controversial as the drug is today, it wasn't initially viewed as an illegal street drug. >> research of psychedelic compounds in the 50s and early/mid 60s was really the cutting edge of psychiatric research. there was great excitement and enthusiasm about the range of effects of these drugs, how they might facilitate our understanding of the brain. unfortunately by the mid/late 60s it became associated with a politically active counter culture. >> recreational use of psychedelics was on the rise. so were overdoses and deaths associated with them. so doctor grob says that pressure against psychedelic research began to build. >> there was a great deal of cultural upheaval and by and large, primarily for political reasons, all research by the early 70s was repressed. >> for years, mdma had flown beneath government

karen: the concern until of the state police brought us to the state crime lab for the first look. >> the spike of fentanyl is due to the attraction of a greater high. karen: fentanyl used as additive to heroin now replacing heroin. at the state crime lab in 2011, testing found one case involving fentanyl with no heroin compared to last year, $405 case. it is the poisoning of america is what it is. this is evidence of the state's largest seizure ever of fentanyl-laced heroin. just last month, hidden inside of the tewkesbury home. the fentanyl ending up in the hands of users not the version used. the dea says the path of street the chemicals are manufactured then sent to mexican cartel labs from there, smuggled into the u.s. fentanyl took part of the family. i assure you kaitlyn overly knows all too well. her brother overdosed on fentanyl last year. >> scary. you never know truly what you are getting. always playing russian roulette. karen: the flood has take and karen: the flood has taken a grim toll in massachusetts. the medical examiner's office tells us there has been a 53% spike i

> reporter: right now, temperature is just about 70 degrees from the mobile weather lab out here. that is seven degrees from where we topped out this afternoon. it was a new record set in cancel -- central park, 77 degrees. the previous record, 69 in 2000. it wasn't just central park. we set records almost across the entire board. the hotspot today was newark at 82. that was a new record. also a record at islip, the previous record was 64. today topping at 68. wonderful warmth today, in fact how warm? 82 degrees in newark, it's the earliest it's ever reached 80 or above. so very impressive warmth today as far as what's happening right now. right about 70 degrees, close to central park but only 51 in the hamptons, that's because of the wind direction, winds from over the water, temperatures have been substantially cooler today and that trend will continue tomorrow. question is, how long does the warmth last? tomorrow we will see more highs in the 70s but cooler on the coast. more specifics and taking you into the weekend in my forecast. back to you. >> thank you. >>> runway trouble

random boxes and now i'm in the process of bagging them up, put them in coolers and ship it to the lab. >> a computer system red flags imports believed to pose the greatest risk based on country of origin and a company's past history of violations. >> seafood by nature is a high-risk commodity. >> dan solis heads inspections at the port of los angeles. >> there are many boxes here and they are all packed full, what percentage of this sample gets chosen to be taken to the lab? >> so, fda reviews all electronic transmissions. we utilized things like foreign inspection, domestic inspection, whether it was sampled in another port, all that information is gathered within the predict application and then that shipment will be given a risk score, the higher the risk score the more chances one of these officers will sample that shipment. >> once the fda inspector picks samples for inspection they are sent to a fda lab like this one in irvine california. >> are you making a shrimp smoothie? >> i'm making a shrimp powder. >> its like a magic trick! >> yes. >> the shrimp powder is mixed with a ch

i'm sure crime lab is doing it. whether it is elite squad or whatever squad it goes to the one crime lab and they're very good at doing this. harris: very quickly the officer whod the knife was retiring and informed homicide detectives of the weapon's existence past few months. we're talking about how that came about. at news conference there was no administrative charges against the officer or anything untoward. where the knife has been all this time and we'll take a quick break. dr. baden, will you stick with us? >> yes. harris: we'll step away quickly, stay close to "outnumbered." harris: fox news alert on a case that was cold after acquittal of o.j. simpson, former nfl star is now red hot with new information. lapd saying it has in its possession a knife. they're looking to see, could that have been the murder weapon that was used to kill o.j. simpson's ex-wife, nicole brown-simpson and her friend ron goldman? more than 20 years, this surfaced from a construction worker through an off-duty police officer. we hav

we have the mobile weather lab with us and, of course, as you look at the instruments on top of the lab, you can see that, yeah, it's doing its thing up there and here's our printout here or readout here. it is showing 61 degrees right here in the back of the mobile weather lab in this particular spot at this moment and it is in fact 61 degrees in central park as well so just take a look at these graphics because 61 is not bad. temperature trend, well, it's definitely a cooldown. we were 77 degrees on your wednesday. 79 for thursday. so today represents a 16- degree cooldown over what we had yesterday. still, however, it's 15 degrees above the norm. 48 is where we should be, 6 3 today. colder overnight, chilly -- no, i think most people might call it cold tonight. but we rebound nicely tomorrow. as you say there we are expecting for 60-degree day. we'll have some more clouds on your sunday than on saturday and we have a chance for rain late sunday into monday. we are expecting a rainy start to the workweek. vortex satellite and radar shows clouds out there now nothing to worry about as

not guess looking back actually toward the station right now she can see there's nothing on whether lab radar so we can skip right ahead talk about the temperatures because they are warmer than yesterday double digits in almost all cases you can see here running exactly ten warmer than yesterday. this time here. south's i release the norfolk international parts of south side up on the sixteen degrees were talking fifteen degrees warmer in newport news right now sixteen seventeen warmer gulf a wallop silent areas there on the eastern shore almost that much down in many of the reason for this talk about yesterday bermuda high we get that typically in the summer as it is sitting in developing and building in intensity offshore we get and that's pushing the south westerly winds on up in the region temperatures running fifteen to twenty degrees above average and as you just saw running about fifteen to twenty degrees above yesterday as well. more in store even with slightly warmer readings believe it or not next couple days but then eventually someone comes in with this ugly wins chance for