. >>> an effort to discredit a congresswoman with an old dance video failed and neil degrasse tyson'suspended. those are some of the headlines on the morning news stand. >>> variety says national geographic channel pulled neil degrasse tyson's star talk after sexual harassment allegations against the host. they say new episodes won't air until investigations by claims of two women is complete. which could be within weeks. the renowned astro physicist has denied the allegations. tyson is also hosting a revival of the series cosmos set to air on nat geo and on fox. >>> business insider reports on a new u.s. government warning on people visiting china. they may not return home. the state department said yesterday u.s. citizens should exercise increased caution in china. it cites arbitrary enforcement of local laws and special restrictions on dual u.s./chinese citizens. the warning says china has been issuing exit bans on americans prohibiting them from leaving often without warning. >>> fortune reports americans will still have to file taxes during the government shutdown but they should

owner made the fatal decision to chase her down and jump in front of the car. >>> scientist neil degrasse tysonf the air as he faces sexual misconduct allegations. "variety" reports that the national geographic channel has pulled tyson's show "star talk" as the claims are investigated. reports emerged in november that two women accused him of inappropriate behavior. another woman claimed he raped her when they were grad students in the '80s. he denies those allegations. >>> in business news, mcdonald's is taking on dunkin' in the breakfast wars by getting into the doughnut fries game. published reports say doughnut sticks will soon be added to mcdonald's breakfast menu. they'll be similar to the doughnut fries offered by dunkin' since last november. they plan to market them to breakfast customers while dunki dunkin's are aimed at the afternoon crowd. >>> how netflix helped save a family from a devastating fire at their home. >>> from sweet'n low to splenda do sugar substitutes have health benefits? >>> how a high school basketball team allegedly cheated using triplets. substitutes have health b

. >> and now booktv's monthly "in depth" program with author and astrofizz gist neil degrasse tyson. he's the author of many books including "welcome to the universe," "death by black hole," "and his latest, "astrophysics for people in a hurry." >> host: dr. neil degrasse tyson, in your new book, "astrophysics for people in a hur arely," you open it by saying the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. what does that mean? >> guest: get over it. [laughter] i think up until, well, really up til the year 1600 when we didn't have any particular tools to investigate the natural world, our five senses were the primary means by which we obtained all information about the universe. and if not even knowing that our five senses had limits. if it's everything you know, you think it's everything the universe is trying to give you but, in fact, it's not. and so around 1600 was the invention to have microscope in one direction and then the telescope in the other direction. each invented within a decade of one another. that all of a sudden pieces of the universe come available to us t

you on with neil degrasse tyson. >> caller: thank you. it's a pleasure to listen to mr. i have a couple of questions. first, does the big bang violate the conservation of energy? could it be that we are going to have a bigger crunch followed by another big bang followed by another big crunch add in for an item? and i would love -- ad infinitum. i would love to see run for congress. senator tyson sounds really good to me, thank you. [laughing] >> host: why have you thought about this big bang? do you work in some kind of scientific field? >> caller: no, i took physics when i was in school, and the big bang especially is interesting because it's almost a religious question. i think that still possible that you can make the case for the universe to have been here all the time, forever. originally there were something like a steady-state theory, which was abolished by the big bang, but it doesn't seem to preclude the idea that the universe was always here. if the universe was always here, well then, we don't need a creator, do we? iq. >> host: tragic i think i havel record o

star talk is on hold after allegations surfaced against neil degrasse tyson. >>> no need to tip the driver. food delivery service, door dash announced it will test food deliveries usinge inine inine i vehicles. it will be tested in san francisco. the first food delivery tests will begin in march. >> i'm a door dash customer. >> the car arrived. do you have to go get it? >> that's a good question. >> someone is supposed to bring it to your door. >> the door just opens. big question. >> i have to walk out of my house to get the food. what. >>> looks like saturday morning we'll see the rainfall pick up for some wet weather this weekend and several more chances as we move into next week. let's take you under our forecast tonight. this is what everybody is talking about. rain chances ahead and it's all coming from this activity out here in the pacific. close to a look at storm ranger, shows it's currently dry from the north bay down to the south bay. no rainfall tonight. no rainfall tomorrow morning. we'll start to see some changes for that morning forecast. cloud cover increasing and not nearl

. >> host: next call for neil degrasse tyson comes from david in east hampton massachusetts. good afternoon, david. >> caller: another family member of mine, i was telling him you on tv and suggesting he might want to watch and he told me something that he heard. i don't not accurate this is a with the story, but basically he said something about something called an m drive, what is it and how does a work? and also i'd be interested to her about other possible drives for spaceships for long-distance travel like to mars or even further. >> guest: that's a great question. let me give some back story. right now our rocket ships, we're still using chemical energy. so you have some molecule which when you break it apart it releases energy. in chemistry we say it is exothermic as opposed to endothermic with the reaction absorbs absorbed energy. and by the way, we experience this, if you ever see cold packs that you can buy in a drugstore where you sort of squeeze it and the thing gets cold, that's an endothermic reaction, sucking energy out from its environment. and yet he packs wo

. >>> "variety" reports "national geographic" channel pulled neil degrasse tyson's show "star talk" amide fame astrophysicist of inappropriate behavior. he denies the allegations and says he welcomes an investigation. star talk will remain on hiatus during the investigation. >>> the hollywood reporter suggests the number of women film directors shrank in 2018. a report by san diego state university looked at the top 250 film of 2018 in the domestic box office. despite the rise of high profile female directors, that was 3% decrease in women involved in directing from 2017 from lower where there was a recorded 9% of women directors. >>> the hartford "courrant" reports baylor bears beat the uconn huskies. baylor had an overpowering defense effort. their victory snapped the huskies 126-game regular season winning streak. >> wow. >>> the "new york daily news" reports a teenager saved his mily fm a fire because he ignored his bedtime to binge watch "the flash" on netflix. around 1:00 a.m., 13-year-old dimir boar don realized their mobile home was on fire. he woke up his family and everyone got