way back in time at the natural history museum of utah. >> look at that. >> where we actually and quite literally fly through the historical timeline of dinosaurs. >> talk about having to be a really good drone pilot to do this because that stuff is worth millions. >> isn't than awesome sight as this -- you're right, gayle, drone tours us through the exhibits at the natural history museum of utah. look at that. youtube really nailed this. when i first watched it, i was just so in awe of how cool the video was. i was like how did they do that? they used a drone. >> that pilot is still pretty smo looked put in the sound effects and before they stabilized the video. >> did he fly that through the eye socket of one of the dinosaurs. >> went through the nose. through the nasal cavity of trooi sar tops or something. saw a bump. a small drone being used here clearly. >> very well put together. pretty cool video. ♪ >>> it's time to give away another ipad. >> you need monday's buzz word, be 18 years old and a legal resident of the united states. >> the "rtm" buzz word is coming up in just a bit.

. >> sam johnson has been coming to the may natural history museum for more than six decades. museum inspired a childhood passion that paved the way for a career as an entomologist and high school biology teacher. >> i bring my biology classes here every year, and we look at literally the best examples in the world. >> this place is old school. wooden display cases with gooseneck lamps... the handwritten descriptions... and a collection that includes many insect species that have never been seen again. i've never seen so many insects. >> each carries with it this incredible story about its niche and its environment. >> have we spanned the globe here? >> oh, absolutely. it's from everywhere. >> the story behind this collection is almost as spine-tingling as this spider, which happens to be where the tale begins. it was captured by the original benefactor of this strange inheritance in 1903. james may was a british national who fought in the second boer war in africa. he was shot, wounded, and left for dead. thankfully, may's life was saved by a tribe of zulus, and during his con

officials to meet when it became the new capital the parliamentary council got together in this natural history museum to draft a basic law for post-war germany now the country's constitution. is like that. this is where all the important people gather. dark clothes it was all very grand and formal. the base of an orchestra performed that was the day i know was asked to create a government and draw up the basic law. but it was already i mean you see him back then and was. yes it was this is always been a museum and their voice been lots of stuffed animals standing around they all had to be removed for the ceremony back then the problem was that one animal could not be removed the big giraffe. so the taxidermists didn't do a great job. and they were worried that if they moved it it might fall apart. there are wonderful old photos of all the people sitting here all very serious and ceremonial with a giraffe appearing over their shoulder is. a sure thing. so what exactly was the basic law in the fields here and bonded cleared interim capital of the federal republic of germany you'll find out in an overvi

. >>> and dinosaur hll is about to reopen at the smithsonian national museum of natural history. a sneak peek at what will see in just about a ek. we >>> welcome back. well here is new video that you have to see to believe. this is recorded yesterday in montezuma, iowa and it shows the kids warming up for a baseball game with a frontal cloud forming in the background. the parent who recorded the video tells nbc news sheno did feel there was any threat to the boys. and there was no wind, rain or lightning, so the game went on. >>> well today the national weather service is in northern exas surp v.a..ing storm damage. they're determining how many tornados hit the state yesterday. this is some of the damage in canton, about an hour southe t of dallas. you could see buildings were ripped apart by the strong storm yesterday. no official word on any >>> it has been quite a week for tornados. >> it has. >> today is our 15th consecutive day to track severe weather nationa sy. it is theson. but i know so far this year the orm reports of tornados have 935. >> wow! >> so 935 reported tornad

biodiversity it broadens humboldt university it's also director general of the city said natural history museum welcome to t.w. so why should anyone who's not in kenya be worried about there being few ahead toes on the planet so 1st of all i think africa is looking at a very very dynamic development. there are some predictions that say up to 2050 african population is going to double so i think it's very important that africa has the opportunity to develop and part of what development social development has to be a healthy environment you want to live in an area which supplies you with clean air clean water. and soils that's what we appreciated europe so we hope that the africans can enjoy the same basic privileges the problem that we often face just being human beings is that we deal with the ins before the importance and if you are in one of these communities who's existed who look at dwindling resources and you have to fight for. grassland or the reverse against that big base like this then you're going to deal with the urgent you're going to kill them so you can you can have that resource r

museum of history. prior to joining the smithsonian, he was at the denver museum of nature and science. he earned scientology and paleotology and academic preparation leading up to his current work and he is very dedicated to his education mission. i think we are going to see a little of that today. a preview of one of his television programs and he also has many great books that my kids have enjoyed. i know i will be learning a lot today and i think we're off to a great start. so, let's welcome dr. johnson. [applaus [applause] >> good morning, everyone. so, climate is a pretty big topic and i'm going to blow the boundaries on the temporal scale and the scale, the deep time, which is our planet's history and polar because at the end of the day climate is a very cold to very warm story and i want to give the parameters to that. we live on a planet with polar ice. you go to the arctic or anti-arctic there's polar ice and most people haven't seen it, it's an experience to go to greenland, alaska, seeing ice sheets up to 10,000 feet thick and i had that privilege 37 years ago when i was jus

officials to meet when it became the new capital the parliamentary council got together in this natural history museum to draft a basic law for post-war germany now the country's constitution. this is with all the important people gather. clothes it was all very grand and formal. the base of an orchestra performed that was that. no i was asked to create a government and draw up the basic law. but it was already a museum back then and was. yes it worse this is always been a museum and there voice been lots of stuffed animals standing around they all had to be removed for the ceremony back then the problem was that one animal could not be removed the big giraffe. so the taxidermists didn't do a great job. contained. and they were worried that if they moved it might fall apart. there are wonderful old photos of all the people sitting here all very serious and ceremonial with a giraffe peering over their shoulders. so what exactly was the basic law in the field here and bonded cleared interim capital of the federal republic of germany you'll find out in an overview of the 1st decades after the war display

they were eventually shot and you can still see today in chicago's museum of natural history. at least 500 people died in their short lives at the railroad traverse. this is hardly a history to be proud of but the line was hailed in its time as an emblem of european intrepidity and enterprise, a beefing of light and progress, consider the description of these members who rode the line in 1908, the railroad, wild man, wild beast does not differ from what it was in europe. that passenger was an american, u.s. president, theodore roosevelt, he come to africa on a hunting expedition on behalf of the smithsonian and what would become the museum of natural history in new york city. members of the party called thousands of specimens, roosevelt himself trapped more than 500 animals including 17 lions, 11 elephants and 20 rhinoceros i many of those animals you can still see today when you visit new york museum of natural history. >> so, the railway is a global story but, nowhere was its impact, economically, culturally and politically more profound in the united states expect to the ca

the museum says there are more i women involvedn "deep time" than any other exhibit in the institution's history. paleo-ecologist y behrensmeyer is the head of the fossil lab at the naturaleum. she says having so many women working on an exhibit like this is important-- not just for her field, but for science more broadly. >> it's very important for there to be opportunities for all the young women, like myself a long time ago, who are interested in science and want to pursue it, to have the way open to them as muchs possible. and they need mentors, they need people to support them. >> brangham: another way the ner hall is dit? "deep time" doesn't shy away from addressing climate change and the looming global extinction of ant and animal species. nor does it shy away from acknowledging the role humans play in driving those crises. like in this mock coal mine, where visitors can learn about why coal is called a "fossil fuel," and how burning it is warming the planet. >> humans are inharge of the tture, and finding the balance with the processt have come before. that's an incredible journey. >> brangham: ithe past, critics have blasted museums, including the smithsonian, f

back now at 6:40 with a fun and free option for your family this r.summe the smithsonian natural history museum's park will be open next weekend t's been closed for renovations for the last five years. during the next visit, there will be new exhibits such as a t-rex that was discovered in montana. it will also be much interactive than it was a years ago.remo for a closer look inside, stick around for the "today" show. nbc's tom costello is giving us a sneakpeek. it is such a spectacular museum. >> cool stuff. >> i want tgo back and see the dinosaurs myself. like being a kid again. >>> mondayed mark the 50th anniversary of a -- monday will mark the o 50th anniversa a deadly day in the vietnam war. 74 sailors were killed when their ship went town in the south china sea. >> nonehoof those w gave their lives that day has their name on the vietnam wall. when the wall was designed, the families of the lost sailors looked forward to being able to honor their loved ones. the department of defense told them their names would not be included on the wall because the ship went down outside the combat zone.

challenges that we face so since 2012 doctor johnson has been the director of the national museum of natural history prior to joining the smithsonian he was vice president of research collection at the denver museum earning his bachelor's degree in geology from amherst masters from paleo bonnie at the university of pennsylvania and yale so very distinguished academic preparation leading up to his current work he is very dedicated to the education mission we will see a preview of that today and also knows many great books that my kids have enjoyed. we are all off to a great start. [applause] . >> good morning. climate is a pretty big topic on a temporal scale and spatial scale with deep time and then the planet could at the end of the day the plan is a cold and warm story i want to give you parameters to understand that. we live in a planet that is i.c.e. there is various flavors of polar rice and most have not seen it it is a remarkable experience to go to greenland to see i.c.e. sheets that are 10000 feet thick when i had the privilege 37 years ago just finishing college here is a picture i took in

he's reportedly donated to the las vegas library system, the vegas natural history museum, and a ronaldald house. >> jeopardy james is playing the pr game and i ain't mad at him. >> smart man, smart man. >>> coming up, what a child found inside his box of legos that stunned both his mother and the police. >>> but first, drivers for uber and lyft turn off their apps and take to the streets in an unprecedented strike. what they say they're fighting for. >>> and what tyra banks is saying about returning to the cover of the "sports illustrated" swimsuit issue. om mr. clean. cleaning tough bathroom and kitchen messes with sprays and wipes can be a struggle. there's an easier way. try mr. clean magic eraser. just wet, squeeze and erase tough messes like bathtub soap scum and caked-on grease from oven doors. now mr. clean magic eraser comes in disposable sheets. they're perfect for icky messes on stovetops, in microwaves, and all over the house. for an amazing clean, try mr. clean magic eraser, and now, new mr. clean magic eraser sheets. women are standing up for what they deserve in the offic

and the stuffed bodies you can still see today in the chicago field museum of natural history. died, and500 people probably many more, and a short-lived rebellion by the people whose land the railroad traversed. our standards, this hardly seems to be a history to be proud of, but the line was hailed in its time as an emblem of european enterprise, a beacon of light and progress in a dark, primordial continent. consider the description of one passenger, who rode the line in the 1800s. "pushed through a region with wild man and wild beast. it does not differ from europe." that passenger was an american. u.s. president theodore roosevelt, who had come to africa on a hunting expedition on behalf of the smithsonian institution and what would become the museum of natural history in new york city. roosevelt's party harvested thousands of specimens. thanvelt himself shot more 500 animals, including 17 lions, 11 elephants, and 20 rhinoceri, many that you can still see today when you visit new york's museum of natural history. globalrailway is a story, but nowhere was its ,mpact economic

many of them you can still see today when you visit the new york museum of natural history. the railway is a global story, but nowhere was its impact, economically and culturally, politically, more profound than in the united states. which by the end of the 19th century boasted more than 200,000 railway miles, about the same as the continent of europe as a whole. let me turn to the case of the american railroad, but not the transcontinental railroad. rather to the east and middle west made it was there that the revolutionary possibilities of the railroad were most dramatically felt. the story, as i imagine you know, properly begins in the early national period come up with the propriety of federal support for internal improvements. initially for turnpikes, later for canals, eventually for railroads, all of which were seen by proponents as the central means not only to bind together the far-flung territories of the young nation to my but to support economic growth by helping farmers settling in the bounteous interior of the country gain access to urban markets. let us bind th

in new york city, the american museum of natural history and the metropolitan museum of art both said wednesday they will stop accepting donations from the sacklers, the billionaire family that owns purdue pharma, maker of oxycontin, the highly addictive drug at the center of the opioid epidemic. other cultural institutions, including the guggenheim and london's tate modern museum have also severed ties to the sacklers. president trump has pardoned former canadian press baron conrad black, a longtime political ally and former business partner who in 2007 was found guilty of fraud and obstruction of justice. black, who donald trump has described as a friend, wrote a glowing book about the president last year titled "donald j. trump: a president like no other." black was convicted for fleecing millions of dollars from shareholders of his company hollinger international. his media empire included the daily telegraph in london, the chicago sun-times, the jerusalem post, national post in canada, and 400 other newspapers. new york city mayor bill de blasio is running for president, joining

he has given some of the money away to places like the las vegas library and natural history museum.ld be shy of all-time champ ken jennings who won $2.5 million in 2004. remember, it was professional gambler, maria, that's his profession and he is showing that on that show right now to all of us. maria: wow. all right. that's funny. that's great. great for him. i just want to mention that the flash pmi, the index this morning is out showing that in germany it slipped below 50 again and we had disappointing purchasing managers indexes this morning in japan, in germany, the eurozone, france did tick up. we're getting the u.s. purchasing manager's index is out this morning at 9:45. but this is important to show the strength, the weakness in manufacturing. this is also part of this market selloff this morning. it's not all china. it's also a look at manufacturing in the globe today weakening. >> and we've talked about how you have theses specific costs of the china fight, the tariffs on particular products. as we saw in the first quarter, corporate investment pretty soft, especially sin

scotty is such a giant, it edged out sue, the famous t-rex at the field museum of natural history in just huge. >> reporter: wes long helped pull scotty from the ground. >> as our material was being prepared, i knew it was something big. >> reporter: 67 million years ago, scotty roamed the frenchman river valley in saskatchewan, canada. that sandstone scotty was found in is so hard, it took researchers almost a decade to dig it out of the ground and realize just what they had. >> usually a dinosaur skeleton consists of only a few bones, or a section of the skull. if you find that, you're happy. >> reporter: scott persons was at the original dig site and led the team reconstructing scotty. >> scotty lived a hard-knock life. it's got evidence of a broken jaw, of an impacted tooth. it's got a section of its tail where the vertebrae seem to have been compressed. possibly from the bite of another tyrannosaur. >> reporter: scientists found a lot of scotty, almost 65% of the skeleton intact. so this is just one backbone. >> yeah. >> reporter: can i hold it? ( gasps ) >> you'll notice there'

scotty is such a giant it edged out sue, the famous t-rex at the field museum of natural history in chicago>> it's just huge. lon pull scotty from the ground. >> as our material was being prepared, i knew it was something big. >> reporter: 67 million years ago scotty roamed the frenchman river valley in saskatchewan, canada. >> that sandstone scotty was found in was so hard, it took researchers almost a decade to dig it out of the ground and realize just what they had. >> usually a dinosaur skeleton consists of only a few bones or a section of the skeleton. if you find that, you're happy. >> reporter: scott persons was at the original dig site and led the team reconstructing scotty. >> scotty lived a hard-knock life. it's got evidence of a broke jaw, impacted together. a section of the tail where the vertebrae seem to have been compressed, possibly by the bite of another tryannosaur. >> reporter: scientists find a lot of scotty, almost 65% of the skeleton in tact. >> so this is just one backbone. can i hold it? >> you'll notice there is a weight to it. >> reporter: but to truly understand t

he came under heavy protest over his long history of homophobic, racist, and mimisogynistic comments. the awards gala was moved from the american museum of natural history after a campaign by environmentalists pointed to bolsonaro's efforts to open the amazon to deforestation and mining, while violating the rights of indigenous peoples. this is natalia de campos of defend democracy in brazil committee. >> we're here in front of the marriott marquis hotel in times square where an event tonight will be held for the person of the year award honoring jair bolsonaro, president of brazil, and mike pompeo. [indiscernible] intervention and latin america -- amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. alabamama lawmakers voted to effectively ban abortion tuesday, passing the most restrictive anti-choice law in the country in a direct challenge to roe v. wade. the bill approved by the senate tuesday and the alabama house of representatives last month bans ab

.>> reporter: the arizona museum of natural history announcing the discovery of a tyrannosaur, the findingimportant because there are not many fossils from this time.>> to partial skeletons and it's among one of the most complete ones in the world. granted there were scraps and pieces. >> reporter: they were found sometime between 1996 and 1998 just 50 meters apart. one of the people who discovered it is a native, at the time a volunteer at the museum. it proved to be a trickster. >> it fits this guy he tricked it several times. >> reporter: coming up with the name was not the only difficult thing they had it was a process to figure out what they had. getting them separated putting them together later.>> a long and tedious process. the epiphany of what we had was slow and coming as well. >>> two students walked into a denver area school and started shooting this afternoon. several students are wounded some are now in critical condition. police say both shooters are now in custody.>> we are following breaking news out of colorado, eight students shot and wounded today. the douglas county sh

other muses, including the guggenheim, the american museum of natural history, and the tte in london ave also come under fire for taking sackler money, ve said they won't accep future donations. daniel weiss is president and c.e.o. of the metropolan museum of art. h joins us from new york. thank you very mr joining us, mr. weiss. i know the museum has been reviewing this for months. why in the end are you taking this action, and how much did public pressure play a role? >> well, at the met we recognize that philanthropy and the support of don't verse a very important part of h we have come to being. every part of the museum isre ly built through fund-raising one way or another sed gifts some we take this ously. over the last year or so as we follow the opioid crisis and we've gotten better understanding of what actually is happening, and as the facmets have beore clear, we felt this was the right time for us to take action. so we cthered ourmunity together. we did some thinking. yes, the outside community always makes a difference. we listen to twe public. are about what they think. a

in the new capital the parliamentary council got together in this natural history museum to draft a basic law for post-war germany now the country's constitution. is like that. this is where all the important people gather dressed in dark clothes it was all very grand and formal. the base of an orchestra performed that was the day i know i was asked to create a government and draw up the basic law. but it was already a museum back then and was. yes it was this is always been a museum and there voice been lots of stuffed animals standing around they all had to be removed for the ceremony back then the problem was that one animal couldn't be removed the big. so the taxidermists didn't do a great job. contained. and they were worried that if they moved it might fall apart. there are wonderful old photos of all the people sitting here all very serious and ceremonial with a giraffe peering over their shoulders. so what exactly was the basic law in the fields here and bonded cleared interim capital of the federal republic of germany you'll find out in an overview of the 1st decades after the wa

in the new capital the parliamentary council got together in this natural history museum to draft a basic law for post-war germany now the country's constitution. is like that. this is where all the important people gather dressed in dark clothes it was all very grand and formal. the base of an orchestra performed that was the day i know i was asked to create a government and draw up the basic law. but it was already a museum back then and was. yes it was this is always been a museum and there voice been lots of stuffed animals standing around they all had to be removed for the ceremony back then the problem was that one animal couldn't be removed the big. so the taxidermists didn't do a great job. contained. and they were worried that if they moved it might fall apart. there are wonderful old photos of all the people sitting here all very serious and ceremonial with a giraffe appearing over their shoulders. so what exactly was the basic law and be able to hear and beyond a clear and interim capital of the federal republic of germany you'll find out in an overview of the 1st decades after

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implications is the director of the center for bio diversity and conservation at the american museum of natural historyooked at it today and it's like a gut bunch. i wonder how you see this. help us to understand what we're looking at for our children and grandchildren. >> thank you for having me. it is a very sad report. it's devastating in many ways because it shows very clearly that we are decimating life on the planet we are changing life on this planet irrevocably. we've known this for a while, that's true. scientists, school children, actually, everybody knows this. what i like about the report, despite how hard it is, is that it makes it i think, unavoidable now. there's no sugar coating it. we can reverse the worst trends we're looking at. i think it's going to make people pay attention and that's important. >> you look at the worst trends but say we have to get to the root drivers. >> we're seeing the top of the iceberg, species at risk of extinction but when you look at the bottom of the iceberg what's at the root problem here is our values and beliefs that we can have an infinitely growing e

scottie is such a behemoth, it edged out sue, the famous t-rex at the field museum of natural historywade more than 18,000 pounds. >> as our material was being prepared, i knew it was something big. >> reporter: wes long spent more than ten years pulling scottie from the ground, and helped reconstruct the carnivorous king. you saw the bones being uncovered what went through your mind? >> you're in awe of what you're uncovering, you would be zipping away with your air hammer and all of a sudden a piece of rock would fly off and there is, like, a beautiful view there. and it is, like, wow, this thing -- it is huge. massive. >> reporter: scientists found they had about 65% of the skeleton in tact. including the skull, the lower jaw, vertebrae from the neck, back and tail, and parts of the hips, leg and shoulder. all of the parts that make up this astonishing site, people from all over the world are coming to see. why do people love the t-rex so much? >> it had that long history, even in pop culture, as, like, being the big bad dinosaur and one that people can really identify with and it

museum. it was going to have art and natural history and antiquities. and it was bringing that knowledge of the world and the natural environment as an educational tool to stanford students and the community here in california. jane stanford died in 1905. we are not getting into that story today. she passed away in 1905. and the earthquake hit in 1906. i think two things happened to that dream. one of them is that jane stanford had made some enemies among the faculty who thought that her choice of investments, they wanted to spend money on salaries and laboratories and research and not on a museum. there was a competition between the two. and jane stanford's intervention in some faculty hiring and firing decisions had made her unpopular with some faculty. and here is the university facing this huge rebuilding challenge. for a brief moment in stanford history where the faculty are in charge, the commission of engineers who was in charge of rebuilding the university decided not to rebuild two thirds of the museum. it was partly financial and partly a ques

year-old son right now is glued to the television waiting for this one, because the national museum of natural history there to show us around let's see it, buddy! >> reporter: you guys give me the coolest assignments. take a look at this dinosaur its name is duploticus 90-feet long ate plants every day this is what your 5-year-old son will want to see, craig, and everybody else this -- this is t-rex discovered 30 years ago in montana and on display here for the very first time you may recognize parts of this museum from "night of a the museum" but a different movie inspired a whole new generation of dinosaur hunters. >> we don't move. >> reporter: it was "jurassic park" that scared us all to death and ignited a public love affair with all things dinosaur. >> go faster. >> they just look cool. >> they're old >> i like the meat eaters. >> reporter: now, they're back, and more real than ever. taking center stage at the smithsonian's new dinosaur hall t-rex. but he's not just striking a pose >> what we've done is we've posed it, dismantling a dead def you look closely. >> reporter: this triceratops. >> r

campaign to make the nation's capital a state >>> in the dinosaur hall at the smithsonian museum of natural history reopens next week, this after a five-year renovation t-rex is claiming center stage, of course. of the exhibit, which opens june 8th. that's the news update this hour, guys just in time for tourist season in d.c back to you. >> sue, as always, thank you very much for that now back to the markets. 27 minutes left to trade here are the three things driving the action fed vice chair rich clarida says a rate cut is possible if the dollar is steady and oil plunging mike santoli with his second dashboard on earnings growth >> we've been concerned with a lost macro issues and a lot of these forces like the rally in bonds and obviously trade policy but in the background the earnings picture has continued to soften up a little bit. look at the path of second quarter s&p 500 earnings expectations since last july. so essentially ten months ago we thought perhaps that we had 10% earnings growth for the current quarter we're in right now obviously it's been a pretty steep decline. it actually has

museum. it was going to have art and history and antiquities. it was bringing that knowledge of the world and the natural an educational tool to stanford students and to the community here in california. so jane stanford dies in 1905. getting into that story today, but she passes away in 1905. hits in the earthquake 1906. and i think two things happened dream. one of them is that jane stanford had made some enemies the faculty, who thought that her choice of wanted tos -- they spend money on faculty salaries researchatories and and not on the museum. there was a competition between the two. interventionford's in some faculty hiring and firing decisions had made her unpopular with some of the faculty. and so -- and here's the hugersity facing this rebuilding challenge. and for a brief -- one of these moments in stanford history where the faculty are in charge, the commission of in charge ofo was rebuilding the university, decided not to rebuild two-thirds of the museum. so it was partly financial and of prioritiesion at that time period. >> thank you. >> i heard that jane stanford had to sell all the jewe

history. >> welcome back to the american civil war museum's annual symposium. dr. catherine is a familiar face to many of you. she has spoken and is published widely on the subject ever 2013 book " nature's civil war: common soldiers and the environment in 1862 virginia." and on the subject of her book on the always entertaining general and his role as the architect of the lost cause version of the civil war history. civil war brought her to the forefront of civil war environmental history. as one ofso emerged the most effective voices in the field of civil war history for the importance of studying military history. only civil war history and environmental history but also early american military history. recently she has taken on the additional title of associate director of science, technology and society at vcu. she is an advocate of the increasingly familiar stem education framework. not surprising for someone who earned her phd from the university of virginia studying with dr. gary gallagher. sub -- itot come as a may come as a surprise to anyone who knew her as an aspiring opera major in her youth. she will bring to the symposium the message that she brought to our exhibit project

family and separate of the museums and charities that received tens of millions from the sacklers over the decades including the met, the guggenheim, the tate, natural historyo longer accept sackler gifts. the family's net worth around $13 billion. they agreed to contribute $75 million toward that $270 million settlement in oklahoma that purdue settled david sackler, one of eight family members who served on the board, is listing his apartment on new york's upper east side, so this will be a test of their name in the market for $6.5 million, the sacklers saying in a statement that while the allegations against our family are false and unfair, we understand that accepting gifts at this time would put certain organizations in a difficult position purdue, the company, which is separate, saying it has multiple banking relationships and that its banking and financial service needs will not be affected guys, back to you. >> there is different branches of the sackler family, aren't there? some more connected with purdue than others, i guess. >> that's right. there are two basic branches, what is known as the a and b side, depending who they're descended from there