mobley was built by don the boy at a cost of twenty five thousand dollars it may look like a hobby a stream project but in fact it's packed with many high tech systems to do science so it's called how to go up there because it has six motors and six rotors if it's not being told what to do wants to see how we're going to be stable when the air. behind a finish and photos taken from the eye in the sky give scientists a better look at the overall health of the whales a female who has been eating a lot and she spat her whip relative to her link will be different than a female who hasn't eaten very much so we can take just those two measurements and with those two we can get an index of condition index of fat miss for that female peri min says this season many of the northbound lactating female gray whales observed appeared more robust than in previous years data that is important for many reasons will health give scientists a snapshot of the balancing act between food sources natural predators even climate change we're getting to the point now where we really can talk about how climate

because rules committee joe mobley put me on the rules committee. congress -- colleagues in congress for a few years. -- was diagnosed with leukemia that cannot be treated, he had three months to live and he called me and said you're going on the committee. andut me on this committee he said learn the rules. learn the names of all the members. get to know everybody. someday, you may be chairman. he said do not do anything stupid. stay where you are. i have in thinking about him a lot. over these last few days. his portrait hangs over the rules committee. he looks at me approving me, and on some days disapprovingly, but he was a great teacher and i hope he is proud of me. >> jim mcgovern, thanks for your time. >> thanks. >> next up, representative mark takano, who chairs the veterans affairs committee. one of the key issues is veterans health care. we talked to the congressman about his priorities and agenda for the committee. >> mark takano now serves as chairman of the house veteran affairs committee. what -- to conneaut, chairman to conneaut -- ta

recently john durban and the no a team took mobley to canada. to study killer whales taken from one hundred feet above this video the first of its kind gives scientists a clearer picture of the health of northern resident killer whales in these images the whale on the right appears robust and in good condition while the whale on the left is then and in poor health scientists believe this will later died because it was no longer spotted with its pod. killer whales report because the competing with this fish would try to understand all the getting enough food as this technology becomes available to more people we're going to see more research is using it safer research safely animals i think it's a win win. from an emotional perspective just being able to see these incredibly beautiful species out in their natural environment we'd never be able to do that and we don't have to disturb them to see them but in terms of the overarching story i mean a scientist you can collect data on two things what is and what's changing and it seems like this method

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. >> it is an mobley choice. keep the lights on or buy medication? buyf i don't have money to my medication, it could be a life and death situ rion. orter: they're urging men's to call representatives and demand that they reopen the government. remember, federal contractors will not receive any back pay. the soo the government reopens, the better. >> and we know her story is one of hundreds in our area. thank you. >> we're also getting a look at the shutdown now on d.c. taxpayers. muriel bowser plans to send a bill for picking up trash on the national mall. she is plans to open it up for d.c. marriage censes. this come as vice president mike pence and hundreds of president trump's top political appointees are about to get a $10,00 a year raise. he said he may scrap the raises but he did not commit to it. >> chuck todd joins us with insights on wha it will take on tend shutdown. that's ahead at 6:15. >>> well, were you caughtth in dramatic scene this morning during the morning rush on the maryland beltway? an 18-wheeler out of control. bursting into f

laughing ] i probably wrote articles that maybe 10-15 of my colleagues and other political scientist rob mobley read over as many of these years but no one really cared. and as one of my colleagues paul white who is at nyu said all it takes is an outlier. so i have my outlier and there is actually increased interest in white house staff turnover. let me just take a step back and ask why we should care about white house staff turnover. why does it matter? why are you spending all of this time trying to get an answer and these questions about the receptor number? first off i want to make the point that, so i'm examining the most senior level of white house staff. these individuals are the most influential unelected individuals in our government. they see a president on a daily basis, and have tremendous influence over all kinds, all manner of decisions. and so for that reason alone, i think that we should care about the men and women who work with the president and we should also care about how long they stay in their job. so you might be thinking why does it matter if they state two months, two