in 1937 after monsanto bought the company, monsanto chemical company bought out swat in 1935 in 1937 at a daylong meeting at the harvard school of public health, dean of harvard school of public health, cecil drinker, told representatives of monsanto and general electric, electrical industry use a lot of pcbs, that the chemicals were the source of possible systemic toxic effects to the human body. so people have known since the late 1930s that these were dangerous to human beings. in 1966 they were told again come a danish researcher working in sweden said these chemicals are persistent, pervasive and toxic. 10 years later congress banned pcbs by law. first chemical to be treated in such a way. and the toxic substances control act of 1976. anniston is, before the pcbs stored and the chemical weapons incineration, became national headlines in the late 90s and early 2000. anniston was probably best known as an iconic site and the civil rights movement. it's the place where clan sympathizers attacked, firebombed one of the freedoms writers buses on mother's day -- freedom writers buses

louis and interview people at the monsanto chemical company, monsanto as it's known now and their spin-offmical division. in 1997 the monsanto company spun off the chemical company into this new company. and so i talked with people at both of those locations in it'll. in st. louis. there was another opportunity, actually, for people to come to know about this in 970, 1971. there was a meeting at the epa office in atlanta. and some of those meetings were reported once in the local paper, the anniston star, nationally recognized local paper, but the company said there's nothing to be worried about from a health standpoint. and so people were reassured. and one of the interesting things about these legal cases is they brought out thousands and thousands of pages of internal company documents, chemical industry archives, environmental working group has posted many of them online so the public can go and see them. and they actually congratulated themselves for handling that public relations debacle of having reassured people there was no real health problem to be worried about. interviewed more

monsanto sued the state to block the move.omorrow at 6:00, meet a woman that shows wine growers to get rid of the chemicals and embrace the weeds. it does work, paernapparently. >> somebody is impersonatiing a pg&e worker and trying get people to leave their homes. both attempts did not work because the man was acting too suspiciously. if you see the man, contact police. >> there are big cheers tonight in berkley. >> the r.los angeles rams secre jared goff. >> that is right, jared goff was picked first in the nfl draft. >> goff did not waste time, he is already appearing on jimmy kimmel live after this news cast. but of course, we will have more on the draft ahead in sports. >> what a great moment. it's exciting. all right, let's focus on the weather as we get closer to the weekend and more heat. >> yeah, we will see how hot it will get, how about close to 90 degrees, yeah, this weekend, you will want to hit the beach as we take a look at the radar. we have fog forming on the coastline, half moon bay, reporting visibility down

monsanto sued the state to block the move.omorrow at 6:00, meet a woman that shows wine growers to get rid of the chemicals and embrace the weeds. it does work, paernapparently. >> somebody is impersonatiing a pg&e worker and trying get people to leave their homes. both attempts did not work because the man was acting too suspiciously. if you see the man, contact police. >> there are big cheers tonight in berkley. >> the r.los angeles rams secre jared goff. >> that is right, jared goff was picked first in the nfl draft. >> goff did not waste time, he is already appearing on jimmy kimmel live after this news cast. but of course, we will have more on the draft ahead in sports. >> what a great moment. it's exciting. all right, let's focus on the weather as we get closer to the weekend and more heat. >> yeah, we will see how hot it will get, how about close to 90 degrees, yeah, this weekend, you will want to hit the beach as we take a look at the radar. we have fog forming on the coastline, half moon bay, reporting visibility down

the problem is that farmers are using the herbicide round-up which monsanto produces and wipes out milk we'd. the increase in the use of herbicides eliminated 58% of the milk we'd in these places. with it, 71% of the reproductive capacity of the monarch butterfly: too early to tell if we are seeing a comeback or just a short respite for the monarch butterfly. john hollmann. at the butterfly sanctuary in mexico. >>> gorgeous. aren't they? more on everything we are covering radio it here including the disputed region online. more on that later. aljazeera.com. >> this week on talk to al jazeera best selling author mitch albom. >> i use death to ricochet your attention back on to life. >> albom's latest novel is "the magic strings of frankie presto", a tale about the greatest guitarist to ever live and the lives he changes. the writer's first dream was to be a musician. >> i didn't write anything until i was already well into my twenties, cause everything i wanted to do was based around music.

. >>> monsanto posted weaker than expected earnings citing discounted seed sales and less demand among farmers for soyb n soybeans and reaffirmed its earnings guidance for the year and will no longer pursue future acquisitions. shares rose a percent to $87. >>> verizon is taking a 24.5% stake in dreamworks' awesomeness tv which creates online videos geared toward young adults. the two companies will create a new premium video service for the phone carrier's go 90 mobile app. shares of verizon fell a fraction to $53.52. >>>s constellations brand plans to buy a wine portfolio, $285 million. constellation also issued its quarterly earnings which beat analyst estimates. results were helped by strong sales of corona and modello beers and the company issued upbeat guidance for the year. shares were up 6%. >>> you probably heard about this. the department of labor rolling out major changes that it says will save investors billions of dollars when it comes to their retirement accounts. it has to do with the type of advice they you receive from your financial adviser. today, labor secretary out

. >> the problem is that farmers are using herbicide round up which monsantos produces to kill the milk weed. the increase in the use of herbicides eliminated 58% of the milk weed and with it 71% of the reproductive capacity of the monday average butterfly. >> that means it's too early to tell if we're seeing a come back or a short spike in the butterfly. >> still to come this hour. >> i'm in cambodia where the united nations says thousands of children in orphanages are not, in fact, orphaned. >> deadly flash in fronts in kabul leave many asking where 15 years of infrastructure aid money went. >>> and a place in the history books as england and the west indies get ready for the final. details coming up later in sports. rain forest. >> this is not your standard household dust. >> the first national news channel to report unsafe water in michigan. >> chlorine. >> it tastes like you're drinking out of a pool. >> no justice, no peace! >> so today, we stand up for environmental justice. we stand up for ourselves. we stand up for our rights. >> have you experienced any health issues since thi

she's selling monsanto. >> stephen: you don't want what in your cereal? >> roundup. >> stephen: how can i trust her? and then i'm like, you know, i'm a feminist. we need a $15 minimum wage. women need to be able-- ( applause ) right. she says impossible, impossible, impossible. >> stephen: she's changed her mind on that. >> no, she's still saying that. we went ahead and did it in new york, and she goes up next to cuomo and signs it. how can i go back with her? i don't trust her. you know? >> stephen: really, here is who you do seem to trust. this is a picture of you looking at bernie, who, evidently, is dangling from the rafters in a harness. but you actually look like-- this looks less like a political follower and like a painting of the virgin mary being visited by the angel gabriel. >> thank you, thank you. >> stephen: to the point where look how easy it is to make you >> i want to take that home. may i take that home? >> stephen: you may take that home. what is it you see in bernie? what makes you so moon-eyed. >> first of all, he has been consistentl

. >> the problem is that farmers are using the herbicide round-up which monsanto produces and wipes outilk we'd. scientific data shows from 1999 to 2010, the increase in the use of herbicides eliminated 58% of the milk we'd in these places. with it, 71% of the reproductive capacity of the monarch butterfly. mexico. >> either way, it's a wonderful site. that's it for this news hour. another full bulletin in a couple of minutes. see you then. >> al jazeera america, proud to tell vital and important environmental stories. >> i'm off the coast of hawaii. >> we've been driving for miles into what should be pristine rain forest. >> this is not your standard household dust. >> the first national news channel to report unsafe water in michigan. >> chlorine. >> it tastes like you're drinking out of a pool. >> no justice, no peace! >> so today, we stand up for environmental justice. we stand up for ourselves. we stand up for our rights. >> have you experienced any health issues since this water was switched over? >> loss of hair. >> is there an environmental urgency? >> even a modest rise in sea

. >> stephen: that had been genetically modified by monsanto to be half-human, half-corn. >> it's a greatill me." did i get it right. >> i think you got it right. >> stephen: we never used it. how much? $560. got it. what else have we got? >> we have life-sized action figures. >> stephen: these are actually like eight feet tall action figure boxes. one says j.j. abrams. one says harrison ford. because we were going to have j.j. abrams and harrison ford lie inside of them as if they were action figures? >> right. on the green screen and a little girl comes out. >> stephen: a little girl comes out and opens themmum lieb it's christmas morning and she's going to say, "it's a han solo action figure." and harrison ford was going to go, "actually, it's a harrison ford action figure. i've done more than han solo." and "creator felift." >> so then -- >> harrison ford's says, "as seen in "working girl." were funny. but we never did it. how much did that cost? ( bleep ). >> that was. >> stephen: i'm not sure i want to say that out loud. >> this is actually a little bit of a good example of sometime

. >> what about the legal battles as they fight this is to a local employer monsanto. >> if i can prevent this from happening to one of the community, i'm going to tell you what i know and what i experienced. >> but first we speak with other earl tilford about university of alabama in the 1960s. >> the name of my book is "turning the tide: the university of alabama in the 1960s." i put this book because i was a student at the university of

. >> watch this monsanto network. >> i do not believe that argentina is causing increases in cancer. can drink a quart and it won't hurt you. >> you'd like to drink some? we have some here. >> i'd be happy to, not really. i know it wouldn't hurt me. >> if you say so. >> no, i'm not stupid. >> it's totally safe. would you drink some? i'm not stupid. of course fought. in the universe of interviews about drinking poison, that moment is obviously the undisputed champion. nobody can top that. but today, it got a run for its money. that's next. bottom's up. allergies with nasal congestion? find fast relief behind the counter with claritin-d. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the allergy relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant. live claritin clear, with claritin-d. ♪ with intuitive all-wheel drive. take on the unexpected. you can fly across welcome town in minutes16, or across the globe in under an hour. whole communities are living on mars and solar satellites provide earth with unlimited clean power. in less than a century, bo

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monsanto is out with earnings.o cents short of what the street was expecting. revenue was also below the streets forecast for taggal chemicals maker. monsanto sees strong growth beginning in 2017. amazon.com has expanded free same day deliver for prime members to 11 more markets. cincinnati, charlotte, tucson, milwaukee, louisville and nashville. oil prices are higher this moaning on renewed hopes for an output freeze. crude oil prices were higher yesterday. they are up almost another dollar today to 36.80. next key event is the energy department's weekly report on inventories that comes out at 10:30 eastern time and supplies have been hovering near record loss. >>> in other news dubai is using drones to crackdown on littering. the drone will monitor waste dump sites and beaches and desert camp sites for violators. the city's strict sanitation laws. >>> amy schumer has a beef with glamour, magazine. she was mentioned on the cover of plus-size edition along actress melissa mccarthy. she called her out despite she's

monsanto,f earnings, bed bath & beyond, and writing among companies to report numbers. keenan, bloomberg news. angie: in the two months since the boj took interest rates negatives, -- negative, the market for overnight loans has frozen. the outstanding balance in the market has tumbled to a record low of $26 billion since the bank started charging interest on lenders reserves.let's speak to our bonds and fx editor. why has interbank lending dried up? reporter: the basic problem is that now banks have to pay in order to lend, instead of getting paid. none of them are sure they want to do that. a lot of them are having problems pricing the impact of that on their long-term finances. away, andtaying taking their money and doing something else with it, or just leaving it where it is. angie: it is a question of, how negative rates really has affected japan's financial markets here. he said he wanted to flatten the yield curve and he succeeded in doing so. the problem is, i think for a lot of players in the japanese market, negative rights are such a strange beast that they d

monsanto, bed bath & beyond, right egg, among the company set to report numbers.er this break. stay tuned. ♪ angie: it is a 30 a.m. in singapore. a.m. in singapore. you're watching "first up". finally completed his four your pursuit of sharp. sealedsharp president the $3.5 billion deal, rounding off negotiations that at times were on the verge of collapse. ofrp revealed liabilities $1.5 billion last fiscal year. oil has erased its gains for the year with saudi arabia saying it will only cap production if others follow support -- follow suit. iran has rolled out a production cut. china may allow large banks to convert one trillion yuan of bad loans into equity. " an unidentified executive from the china development bank -- it quotes an unidentified executive from the china development bank. powered by over 2400 journalists and 150 bureaus around the world, this is bloomberg news. trading getting under way right now. here is the action in sydney, tokyo. haidi: quite a lot of diversions and what is a holiday trading session. markets have been close for the holidays t

to adjust the monsanto spray it used to control the mosquito population.t connected with the zika virus and then they took --ank and science frankenscience to a whole new level. don't you find this frightening? guest: mosquito borne infections are really serious public health problems. have yellow fever, and now we have seek up. we arere many ways looking to control these mosquito borne infections. zika is actually a good example of an emerging infection in that while we first became aware of zika many years ago in 1947, we really did not see much in the way of problems with zika, just occasional occasions there until now break was elected in 2007. in polynesiatbreak in 2013 and 2014. now, we have seen zika spread throughout latin america since last may. this is an example of how the infections can change and be unaffected in the scenario -- severity with which they manifest themselves. are so terribly concerned about the linkage between the zika virus and other adverse birth outcomes. there are certainly a lot of ways we have been working with our partner

to adjust the monsanto spray it used to control the mosquito population.om everything i have read, stuff latest connected with the zika virus and then they took --ank and science frankenscience to a whole new level. don't you find this frightening? guest: mosquito borne infections are really serious public health problems. have yellow fever, and now we have seek up. we arere many ways looking to control these mosquito borne infections. zika is actually a good example of an emerging infection in that while we first became aware of zika many years ago in 1947, we really did not see much in the way of problems with zika, just occasional occasions there until now break was elected in 2007. in polynesiatbreak in 2013 and 2014. now, we have seen zika spread throughout latin america since last may. this is an example of how the infections can change and be unaffected in the scenario -- severity with which they manifest themselves. are so terribly concerned about the linkage between the zika virus and other adverse birth outcomes. there are certainly a lot of ways

up to the united states supreme court justice who was in a monsanto lawyer, these people about our as arse food or water supply. host: let's leave it there and keep the comments and questions clean. guest: it shows the heated nature of the debate. the environmental community has tried to make the argument that fossil fuel development in oferal has the benefits getting us to turn our lights on but it also has these downsides that are not just water contamination. and just a ripple effect that's why, at least on the left side of the political spectrum, there is an increasing push to move beyond and push renewable criticsof energy then say. renewables have their own drawbacks. benefits and the downsides to a lot of these things. when you go to pennsylvania where fracking is going and coal mining used to happen and still is, you see people employed and making good money who are happy to have the industry. at the same time, you see traffic and roads not as good as they could he and industrial activity. sometimes folks like me who live near the u.s. capital are not used to that. when you g

there was no encephalitis connected with the virus until monsanto at the scene. then they took frankenstein stallman level releasing genetically modified mosquitoes. don't you find this frightening?ing? >> you can address a history here. >> guest: i would be happy to. mosquito borne infections are serious public health problems.oblems. we have dengue, yellow fever , and that we have seen. h and so there are many ways that we are looking to control these infections. this is a good example of an emerging infection and that while we 1st became aware aware many years ago in 1947, we really did not see a lot of the way of a problem, just a kind of occasional case popping up here and there until an outbreak was detected on the island. and then a large outbreak in french polynesia in 2013 and 14 and then, of course, now we have seen the spread throughout latin america since last may.ho this is an example of how these infections can change and can be unexpected andd the severity with which. "now we are so terribly concerned about the linkage between adverse birth outcome

back in iowa, my state, we've seen this firsthand as innovative companies like monsanto and dupont pioneer have become targets for trade secret theft. in a well-publicized case, a naturalized citizen was indicted and convicted for engaging in a scheme with foreign nationals to steal proprietary test seeds from iowa fields to benefit foreign countries. contrasted with other areas of intellectual property, trade secrets are mainly protected as a matter of state law. 47 states have enacted some variation of the uniform trade secrets act. yet, as we've learned through our hearings in our judiciary committee, and from companies who have experienced trade secret thefts, the increasing use of technology by criminals and their ability to quickly travel across state lines means at times these laws are inadequate. the existing patchwork of state laws has become a difficult procedural hurdle for victims who must seek immediate relief before their valuable intellectual property is lost forever. as the pace of trade secret theft has soared, the f.b.i. reports that their caseload for economic espionage