most of the american public does not recognize nih as meaning anything. they certainly don't know as much as about nih as they do about nasa, for instance and i think we have an opportunity, perhaps with some of the new media that's out there, using the internet, maybe i should start tweeting. i don't know. to be able to engage particularly the very turned on, tuned in, internet savvy generation, to get excited about what we're doing, so inform the public about why they should care about medical research and what it's doing for them, and to get the next generation of young peep excited about playing some role. and john and i have had a couple of brief conversations about this. i would like to see this as a serious opportunity for nih to be more visible, to come up with more communication strategies, to be more proactive and not wait for someone to call us up and say do you have a comment on the following but to actually engineer an outreach program that has its fingers in a lot of different directions, not in a way that we would be self-promoting or over

nih has that same motivation as a central part of who we are. we do support a lot of global health particularly in areas like aids, malaria, tuberculosis, there's a new developing world to look at nonchronic diseases. and i think there's opportunities also to look at some of the infebruary wows diseases that have not gotten so much attention but have looked at hundreds of people. we want to push forward new ideas at therapeutics in the same way the rare diseases may need some help to get them pushed along. not so rare diseases that happen in the developing world which offer suffer from a economic motive could benefit in trying to come up with new ideas about prevention age treatment. i personally from having spent some time as volunteer physician in the developing world see this as a great and compelling opportunity. finally, the fifth theme is about reempowerring the research community through the abili to support young investigators. to work on our training programs. to further enhance their quality. to emphasis the diversity in the work force

>> nih has been very creative about this and it is good that there is some diversity. many of the institutes have programs were young investigators are coming in with their first application and get a special leg up in the review process where their priorities scores or improved slightly above the fact that they are coming for the first time and councils take that into consideration when they try to figure out how the to the funding. that is not the ultimate solution. if you have a budget that is not too limited, and then they come back after they have had their first successful grant and they can i get a second one, then you have not really solve the problem. i think we need to do something about the aging of the investigators before they come to the first application where the average age has crept up to 42. that is before you get your first independent grant funded. one thing i have wondered about, and this is purely blue sky, and that is whether we can pilot, on a small scale, a program that is famous at the white hit institute. you take a promising student that ha

what i did was i went and read actually what the nih was funding.ih website they published a public health statement about each study. none of these seem to be frivolous. they all seem to have an implication for h.i.v.-aids syphilis human papiloma virus even the one that you mentioned about hooking up in college and drinking and all that. it's a study out of syracuse university done by a very serious researcher who has many government-funded studies that have totally health implications. neil: i'm going to give you that one. you read the abstract. i looked at the video. my question to you the one with the male and female rats having sex, what am i going to get out of that? >> i'm going to look it up and publish this on my blog, so the rat study. here it is. it is about how methamphatemines affecting rat behavior and it has implications about the neurotransmitters and how we might be able to reduce drug abuse. that's the public health reason for it. neil: not all crazy but in these times we don't have the money for any of the above but doctor always

in 2008, our budget for autism research at nih went up 25 percent over 2007.in 2009, it will go up much, much more than that because we are saying this recovery act effort. and we have put money specifically into an autism request for application through the recovery act. i think the only disease specific such request in the recovery act from nih for this year. we've got lots of other things going with the template $4 billion, but this is the one that does have a disease name on it and because we realized that there is an urgent need, and equally important there is a tremendous opportunity right now for progress. we have the tools we need it we can really start to move quickly. we want to do that over the next two years. >> thank you very much for your efforts in being involved as a director of the institute of mental health. we appreciate you being here with us this morning and helping us fully understand the challenges we have a head. >> thank you for your interest and support. >> thank you very much, dr. insel. we would like to call our second panel. i didn

the first panel is tom insel, director of the nih. aspects that we want to cover on optimism with these two panels. first we will open up with dr. thomas insel, director of mental health directornih. he has been here many times. tom insel, welcome. with all the people testifying today, your statement will be made a part of the record in its entirety. proceed as is a desire. [inaudible] >> thank you, mr. chairman. it is a real pleasure and honor to be here with the other panelists. i know that this is a very busy time for you and your colleagues, and we greatly appreciate your taking time in the middle of the summer just before recess to hear about the latest research and the latest challenges with autism. my brief is to give you a quick update on research since we last met, a little more than two years ago. this has been an extraordinary period with all lot of exciting progress. we will review that. the testimony, i hope, will be submitted for the record. instead of reading that, i would take you quickly through three questions. what

these funding levels were set by nih in order to avoid what we call politicization. our job is to get the money, but not to distribute it. i think there ought to be a bigger share for autism. we are pushing to make that happen. on comprehensive health care reform, which we are working on now, we are trying to get $10 billion added as a base, and start with $40 billion, which will give us an opportunity to do more. staff will be here to follow the testimony and will have a chance to review it. i appreciate your coming in, and you have are assurances we will do everything we can on this very important malady. >> i understand you have to be on the floor for the nomination. now we will go to mr. cobbs. if i remember right, you are from iowa, of near sioux city. you or the chairman of the iowa autism council, the father of a nine year-old boy, no, with autism. i understand your wife, tina, is with you. >> you have two other children, and you were here at our last hearing a couple of years ago. >> i was in the audience at the last hearing. >> i am interested in what has ha

these funding levels were set by nih in order to avoid what we call politicization. our job is to get the money, but not to distribute it. i think there ought to be a bigger share for autism. we are pushing to make that happen. on comprehensive health care reform, which we are working on now, we are trying to get $10 billion added as a base, and start with $40 billion, which will give us an opportunity to do more. staff will be here to follow the testimony and will have a chance to review it. i appreciate your coming in, and you have are assurances we will do everything we can on this very important malady. >> i understand you have to be on the floor for the nomination. now we will go to mr. cobbs. if i remember right, you are from iowa, of near sioux city. you or the chairman of the iowa autism council, the father of a nine year-old boy, no, with autism. i understand your wife, tina, is with you. >> you have two other children, and you were here at our last hearing a couple of years ago. >> i was in the audience at the last hearing. >> i am interested in what has ha

these funding levels were set by nih in order to avoid what we call politicization. our job is to get the money, but not to distribute it. i think there ought to be a bigger share for autism. we are pushing to make that happen. on comprehensive health care reform, which we are working on now, we are trying to get $10 billion added as a base, and start with $40 billion, which will give us an opportunity to do more. staff will be here to follow the testimony and will have a chance to review it. i appreciate your coming in, and you have are assurances we will do everything we can on this very important malady. >> i understand you have to be on the floor for the nomination. now we will go to mr. cobbs. if i remember right, you are from iowa, of near sioux city. you or the chairman of the iowa autism council, the father of a nine year-old boy, no, with autism. i understand your wife, tina, is with you. >> you have two other children, and you were here at our last hearing a couple of years ago. >> i was in the audience at the last hearing. >> i am interested in what has ha

in 2008, our budget for autism research at nih went up 25% over 2007.n 2009, it will go up much more than that because we are seeing this recovery act effort. we have put money specifically into a autism request application for the act. the only disease specific request in the recovery act from n.i.h. for this year. we have lots of other things going, but this is the one that does have a disease name on it, because we realized there is an urgent need and equally important there is a tremendous opportunity right now for progress. we have the tools we need that we can start to move quickly, so we want to do that over the next two years. >> think you very much for your efforts and being involved in the -- as the director of the institute for mental health. we appreciate you being here to help us understand the challenges we have had. >> thank you. >> wheelock -- we would like to call our second panel. if you have time to stay, we would appreciate that. if you can stay for our second panel, i would appreciate that. >> i will be happy to stay and i want to h

. >> university of maryland medical center, nih, best in the world, people come from all over the world to get health care and train doctors. >> what we don't have, what is broken in our system is where people want get access to that quality care, they have affordable care, get preventive, they stay healthy and do better. >> protests have been heated. one side depicted president obama as hitler another called democrats including cardin a liar r. >> does that get to you. >> didn't see that. glad i didn't. i don't think we should personalize this. we lose a lot and a lot of people personalize it to the president. it is not about president obama, democrat or republican. it is about solving the health care issue. >> can i choose my own doctor. >> absolutely. you can choose a plan to choose your own doctor. >> will my waits go up or down or stay the same. >> our objective is to reduce the growth rate of health care, that means your rate also be less than otherwise if we did not pass this legislation. >> any concerns that private employeer will just force people into government health care. >

colins became the director of nih and con fronted the controversy over his evangelical christian faith have more on the ground- breaking scientist who believes in the power of god. >> i have been the nih director for exactly five hours. >> with that, dr. francis collins launched what he hopes will be exploration of the united states. this is after all the man who led the human geno product, that mapped human dna ahead of schedule and under budget. and he insists scientific research must be well funded beyond 2010 when the stimplus money runs out. >> it is certainly a circumstance where we are raising our hand and saying, there's a need here. we can meet it. it is going to cost money. >> reporter: collins says the key to curing cancer and understanding autism can be found by american scientisttists. this man is well skilled at holding an audience's attention ♪ [ music ] 69 to win support for his agency by making scientific research more user friendly. >> maybe i should start to tweet. i don't know. we have a lot of cool stuff going on and we don't necessarily tell the world about it as

nih director for exactly five hours. >> reporter: with that, dr.d what he hopes will be a new era of science exploration by the united states. this is the man would led the human genome project which mapped human dna ahead of scheduled and under budget and it is that b word, budget, that he claims is already disrupting his sleep. he insists scientific research must be well funded beyond 2010. >> it is certainly a circumstance where we're raising our hand saying there is a need here, we can meet it. >> reporter: he says the key to curing cancer and understanding autism can be found by american scientists so he vows to fight for more funding and this man is well skilled at holding an audience's attention. note the double helix is a highway. >> reporter: this ph.d. come pros music for commencement speeches. he rides motorcycles and hopes he can win support if his agency by making nih scientific research more user friendly. >> maybe i should start tweeting. we have a lot of cool stuff going on. we don't necessariltell the world about it as often or as

what are they ing at nih? are they not doing rearch? >> the research oftentis by the armaceuticals is suspect because it is aimed at getting a oductpproved that is one that they want to sell. and we know of many instances whe those projects have proven to be dangerous and that the pharmaceutical companies kne of that ahead of time. we need to talk about t fundental discussion ofhe role of o health-care system at we want to -- a role in our health-care system tt we what the government to ay. it is about 35% now. the real aument is over that other 65%. >> tell me someing about the world toy or america today th makes you glad. > i'm glad th the president is goio martha's neyard. i think that is justs well as can be. >> really? [inaudible] and tre he is ruing shoulders wi the bankers who t the huge bonuses when many of us feel they were notitled to bonuses bause they ran the financial systeinto the ground. >> exct you are saying that allhe bank as good a martha's vineyard they go just abo everyere. a very powful banker frid of mineas a plac

what are they doing at nih? are they not doing research? >> the research oftentimes by the pharmaceuticals is suspect because it is aimed at getting a product approved that is one that they want to sell. and we know of many instances where those projects have proven to be dangerous and that the pharmaceutical companies knew of that ahead of time. we need to talk about the fundamental discussion of the role of our health-care system that we want to -- a role in our health-care system that we what the government to play. it is about 35% now. the real argument is over that other 65%. >> tell me something about the world today or america today that makes you glad. >> i'm glad that the president is going to martha's vineyard. i think that is just as well as can be. >> really? [inaudible] and there he is rubbing shoulders with the bankers who get the huge bonuses when many of us feel they were not titled to bonuses because they ran the financial system into the ground. >> except you are saying that all the bank as good a martha's vineyard. they g

country and starting monday and as soon as those blood samples are ready they'll send them out, to nih and niad and will start testing them and so, they are not going to wait. they'll keep it on a rolling basis, and we'll get information. but, you know, there is an h1n1 sub-type in the seasonal flu and if the timing had been a little different and the new virus had come out a little earlier it might have been the one that was in the seasonal flu anyway. so, it's not so scary. as people are making out. >> rick: so these are different vaccines, you have the seasonal flu vaccine. >> right. >> rick: that is being developed and the h1n1 vaccine, i'm just -- i want people to know whether or not we should feel sort of secure in the fact that officials who are working on all of these different vaccines can get the job done? >> yes, no. they really -- they prioritized the h1n1, as i said, you know, a seasonal flu vaccine has two types of influenza-a and one type of b in it and one of the types of the influenza-a is the different strain of the h1n1. so this is a brand-new strain, that is why we

we established the office of women's health at nih, and the work that he did there, working with a republican president, george bush the elder, and dr. bernadine healy, we did the famous hormone replacement study that resulted in breast cancer declining 15%. so he was a real champion. and he was my friend. he helped me get started in the senate with paul sarbanes. he got me on the right committees. and i've been up there at hyannis. and we, again, we often joked that we both had chunky jeans. we were always on diets. we always wanted to know the greatest diet that oprah was on, would it match up for us. and we both liked sailing and snacks. >> those sound like good hobbies. you mentioned health care. and obviously health care reform was one of his personal crusades. how do you think his pass willing affect the fight for health care reform? >> i would hope that it would galvanize the senate and nation on how we need to really advance covering the uninsured without -- with the principle of doing no harm to those that have it. most of all, i hope that his death would help create a better climate

who are not normally a ball in medical issues with the exception of one doctor who used to head the nih and was on the panel who wrote the report. people tend to jump on the scary numbers. that 90,000 number became a huge issue in the media. some of us who had been writing about the flu for a long time were surprised at the play that got. dr. frieden reflected that. it's a bit exaggerated. we have known that fluke and cause a huge number of deaths very quickly if it takes off badly. this blue does not look like it's going to do that. the preparation is based on a worst-case scenario. -- this fluke does not look like it's going to do that. -- this flu does not look like it's going to do that. you want people to pay attention and be concerned that if their child sews symptoms that they don't just send them to school and go off to work. they also don't want people to panic, so that will be a fine line. >> what about vaccine availability? >> he was not optimistic was going to be much earlier than mid october. that is what a lot of the concern is. kids are back in school and there are alread

researchers at the university of maryland medical center were awarded $1.5 million in grant money from nih to study more of the benefits of fish oil. >>> now the forecast certified baltimore's most accurate. here is chief meteorologist norm lewis and maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> you know, even if it hits 100 degrees, we still have gotten away with this great summer. >> we have one great stretch. if we can get through the next two weeks, two and a half weeks without -- >> we're there. >> we're there. yeah. now we've got to look forward to wintertime. >> let's not go there. i hadn't thought about school yet. that's right around the corner. >> there you go. things are looking pretty good outside right now. our live camera atop the candler building, panning across the cityscape of downtown right now at bwi thurgood marshall. we've got a temperature of 84 degrees. 49% humidity. wind currently from the northwest at 3. and the pressure steady, 29.97. there are your tides tomorrow at fort mchenry. tomorrow's winds from the west at 6 to 12. the sun comes up at 9 minutes after 6. we'll

blood from them at different time points, and we're going to good ahead and send those to a central nih lab and they're going to look for antibodies to the vaccines. >> reporter: participants will return in 8 days, 21 days and then 42. >> this particular study, we're going to try to answer the question what is the optimal dose of vaccine to be discovered. >> reporter: after ten days of collecting and analyzing data from the adults, researchers will begin the pediatric trials. they'll give the vacation to children six months to 18 years old. >> we would like to make sure that certainly we scientifically have no reason to believe that there is going to be any safety issues. but we want to test that before we go into immediate trick. >> reporter: adults taking the vaccine say the risk of feverish, flu-like symptoms are worth the possible outcome. >> i guess there is always a risk these sort of things. and i think it's minimal and far outweighed that can could be done by this kind of thing. >> reporter: volunteers will be paid $600 for their participation in the study. many of the people we

special olympics, it was for the federal center she founded in the 60s that now bears her name as part of nihiversity of utah, and a life's work on mental retardation. while a lifelong liberal, democart, she was a lifelong opponent of abortion. she said based on her strong catholic faith. >> thank you very much. thank you. she was married to sargent shriver for 56 years. he ran the peace corps, was ambassador to france, and ran for vice president under george mcgovern. while months ago, he slipped into the twi liflight of alzhei disease, sargent shriver survives her. eunice kennedy shriver was the mother of five including a long time member of the nbc family, the current first lady of california, maria shriver. >> ever since i was little she worked, she was successful in a man's world, she never took no for an answer. she never asked my brothers or myself if we wanted to work with her. she just gave us the ball and sent us out there. >> she insisted her life was full of great blessings. but it is the public traj deeps the american people remember. and in the case of eunice kennedy shriver, en

had a major flew summit were over 500 officials from state and local and tribal governments came to nih with emergency health personnel and education personnel to look at the updated plan they are submitting specific plans for the cdc not only for orders of the vaccine but where the best sites are. that is a local decision and it may be schools or national guard armory or through a rural center or a variety of things but that planning is under way right now we have provided resources to update that planning that is part of the ordering process to identify where that vaccine should go throughout the state. >> just quickly we met yesterday with all major associations teachers' unions, principal association, a school board, and nurses, counselors and there's a tremendous outpouring of support to have schools be the location to distribute their children are at risk that is a natural location where the students are so there is a universal support for the idea for the schools to be a part of the solution. >> had a a second question? >> whether not when you develop the guidelines if financial

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southbound 355 very slow from the beltway head the out to nih trying to get through the traffic lights new in virginia. the beltway runs smoothly between annandale and merrifield. eastbound 66 picking you want usual suspects as you travel east of fair oaks. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. >>> you can amost feel it just by taking a look at the haze in this picture. it is hazy. it is hot and it is humid to go along with that. nearly two months after the official start of the summer season, it finally feels like summer here in the district. we are in for some dangerously hot weather today. >> fox 5's sherry ly is live down on the mall with more on what we can do to beat the heat today. we saw the live pictures from down there with people deciding to jog early. that is probably smart. >> reporter: it is actually downright cool compared to what the temperatures are going to be later today. if you are thinking it is hot and sticky now, it will only get worse as the temperatures climb near 100 today. out here on the national mall, we have soon a number of people jo

at a town hall meeting on health care when you've been the biggest supporter of health care and the nih. do you have some sympathy for your opponent here? >> what we need in america right now is sympathy and empathy for the citizens, and for their anxiety that government, particularly the last eight years, has failed them. look, this is about leadership, and i'm very grateful that arlen specter has, since i announced my intent to get in the race, followed my leadership. he took off his wall in his conference room that poster board he and bob dole took throughout america that misled everyone about bill clinton's plan, even though it would have reduced premiums by 3%. and he took that off after i got in the -- announced i would get in the race. and now, four months ago, he said he was opposed to a public health care option and now he's for it. that's the kind of leadership, particularly by the majority leader, senator reid, i would like to see in the senate today. look, we need this health care plan. it's not about arlen specter. it's not about joe sestak, it's not about our job. it's abo

he called nih. he didn't ask for any favors. he just went about finding the best doctors.again when bob novak, who could be more of a conservative republican than bob novak. >> right. >> who of course we lost in the last week and when bob novak was diagnosed with the same kind of brain cancer that ted kennedy had suffered, vicki kennedy and the senator called from his sick bed to geraldin and bob novak recommending surgery at duke university because they knew of the doctor because he had just had that surgery. so he was an ombudsman when it came to health care for all of the people he ran across in the senate. >> well, that was ted kennedy, and i don't know whether we'll ever quite figure out during the couple days of mourning why he was so big on health care except that he had a broken back as you pointed out. imagine spending your life with a broken back and not an injury, a broken back, and yet spending most of your life worrying about other people's health problems. his older brother, jack, was so sick most of his life, rather secretly, that bobby his other brother use

ted kennedy was known for legislating on health care but for knowing all the inner workings of the nih. he knew where the experts where. >> yes, he did. they had such love and respect for him that they would move mountains to get him whatever he needed when he called for anyone. i think over the last 15 months people like al rabson would have done anything humanly possible from the national cancer institute to get him the best. he just -- he lived the last 15 months for the fullest of anyone i know that's going through chemotherapy and radiation. i mean, his sailing, his time with his children, his cherished time with vicky. i mean, i think up until the very end he enjoyed every minute of the time that he was given. >> he said that in the convention almost exactly a year ago, at the democratic convention speech in denver that he really wanted to live to see barack obama sworn in. that day, that cold day, it could not have been easy. it certainly was not medically advisable for him to be out in a crowd and out in that wicked cold on the steps of the capitol. we know what happened at the

we were referred to a doctor when somebody add nih saw quinn and heard all the different problems that he had. that the heart surgery, that the voice -- the throat surgery, and so we took him to a doctor who had more or less discovered the syndrome and he took one look at quinn and said, he's it got. quinn, how did you feel when you found out that you had vcfs? >> in a way i was very much relieved because now i can -- now i knew why i was acting so different from everybody else. 'cause i always thought everything i did was normal, and i remember as a kid -- and i still do -- i study people walking down the street. guys and girls holding hands, how a group of guys interact with each other 'cause i never really had -- of course, i've had education but you can only go so far in your schooling and your schooling will only last so long. your real education is your whole life, and my real education was also working with my father out in the woods, which i was, you know, raised up on since i was 11 years old and i remember at 11 years old just holding an ax in my hands cutting wood. and my da

because of preexisting conditions and you look at the work gets done in quadrupling the funding of the nihan in the last ten years but back at the inception of the war on cancer. this is a legacy that has transformed the relationship between the government and citizens even though people perceive it to be sort of an unfinished agenda item for him. >> being able to see the full arc of his career and the extent of this legacy think will be quite eye-opening. >> was there anything particularly surprising to you, peter? >> one thing that was surprising to me was how lonely his childhood was. maybe that is something we can talk with bella. wiesel the pictures of the kennedys whopping on the beach and imagined it to be a big family full of love and excitement. in fact, for ted kennedy it was a boarding school childhood, changing schools constantly, always exposed to new friends, always losing older friends and then when he was slightly older as a child, the kennedy tragedy started to occur and his brother, joe jr., died when he was 12, his sister kathleen died when he was 16 and his brother jack

i took the lead again with tom harkin, harkinnih funding -- increasing nih funding.those are pretty progressive moves. >> you mentioned the town hall. let us return to health care. president clinton was on the stage last night saying he supports the public option, that we got to get the conversation back about helping people that has been sidelined by a lot of misinformation. really the country's eyes was on your town hall meetings. what can you do, what are you doing to deal with allies better coming out of talk radio and coming out a lot of your former allies and colleagues in both the republican party and a larger conservative movement, and specifically, do you think you can help president obama get any of these republican senators that he says he needs to pass this legislation? who would they be and what would they do about it? am i think i would be helpful to him with senator grassley, very close, came in at the same time. " full with senator collins. you don't need any help would senator snowe. senator voinovich, quite a few of them. but what i can do this week

that are continually interacting with each other, such as the center for disease control, cdc, fda, niha variety of other groups. we are working closely with the department of education because this involves schools, the department of homeland security, and the white house. the cdc has a close connection with state and territorial health officials, so the link between the federal government and what goes on at the local level is very strongly channeled through the cbc. so it really is a nice network that talks to each other and interdigitate quite well. host: if you are a parent or pregnant or any one of the five groups that you recommended getting the shot, who should you be calling? guest: it is the local level. we just described the change that goes down from health and human services to education to state and local officials. the local health authorities in a state or a city are the people who will be responsible for how this is going to be distributed? where can i get my vaccine? what should i do vis a vis the schools? in a pinch, the website for the cdc is really terrific. if you

i took the lead again with tom harkin, harkinnih funding -- increasing nih funding. those are pretty progressive moves. >> you mentioned the town hall. let us return to health care. president clinton was on the stage last night saying he supports the public option, that we got to get the conversation back about helping people that has been sidelined by a lot of misinformation. really the country's eyes was on your town hall meetings. what can you do, what are you doing to deal with allies better coming out of talk radio and coming out a lot of your former allies and colleagues in both the republican party and a larger conservative movement, and specifically, do you think you can help president obama get any of these republican senators that he says he needs to pass this legislation? who would they be and what would they do about it? am i think i would be helpful to him with senator grassley, very close, came in at the same time. " full with senator collins. you don't need any help would senator snowe. senator voinovich, quite a few of them. but what i can do this wee

the children's inn at nih is looking for a resident manager to manage ovnight activities. the person who accepts this position will have to live on-site. if interested in learning more and applying toano -- - just goo our websit nbcwashington.com, and search jobs 4 you. >> well, this weekend marks the 40th anniversary of woodstock, that iconic three-day festival that celebrated peacend love and music and mud and rain and drugs and sex. and all that. ♪ ah, jimi hendrix, of course, jefferson airplane and the grateful dead were all there. it became a defining moment of a generation. and a decade when the country was grappling with the vietnam war, three assassinations and the civil rights movement, music lovers flocked to bethel, new york, for the festival. >> a lot of people now who are in their, you know, 50s or 60s, whatever, they vividly remember those days. it was a real pivotal moment in american popular culture. >> this weekend, many who attended the original festival will visit again to relive tse memories. perhaps, though, not in quite the same way. >> yeah, i suspec

southbound at 410, the lanes are open, traffic still trying to recover from the earlier incident at nihng at the beltway. we have trouble with signal lights short timing at new hampshire at oakia drive and at connecticut avenue at randolph road and off the inner loop to southbound georgia avenue, signal lights again short timing. that's a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. >>> we are only in the second full week of training camp. already the redskins are hearing trash talk from their opponent in week two of the regular season. new st. louis rams certainty jason brown was on a local sports radio show when he reveals the new game plan for albert haynesworth. hsaid he discovered while playing for the ravens the last couple of years when haynesworth was a member of the titans, that he tires easy. so they will put him tired when the redskins are not fighting back. >> i think you have to learn like we did, he will get humble. >> we're not their first game are we? are we their home opener? >> they boughter make -- they better worry about their home opener. >> i think it's just one man's opi

that are continually interacting with each other, such as the center for disease control, cdc, fda, niha variety of other groups. we are working closely with the department of education because this involves schools, the department of homeland security, and the white house. the cdc has a close connection with state and territorial health officials, so the link between the federal government and what goes on at the local level is very strongly channeled through the cbc. so it really is a nice network that talks to each other and interdigitate quite well. host: if you are a parent or pregnant or any one of the five groups that you recommended getting the shot, who should you be calling? guest: it is the local level. we just described the change that goes down from health and human services to education to state and local officials. the local health authorities in a state or a city are the people who will be responsible for how this is going to be distributed? where can i get my vaccine? what should i do vis a vis the schools? in a pinch, the website for the cdc is really terrific. if you

there are tough issues like nih funding and stem cell research. i have the stamina to go out and do it. on a subject that we have not touched that was very important to a progressive approach on foreign policy, i have long believed that you make peace with your enemies, not your friends. riends. and i personally talked to saddam hussein and to yasser arafat and to chavez and to castro and visited khadafi in his tent on the desert in libya. and believe that an active foreign policy and diplomacy and wrote about it in " washington journal" it is the way to the future. i can help the country a lot of i am reelected. >> ok, thank you. [applause] >> thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> now i would like to introduce the other person running in the senatorial primary, congressman joe sestak. [applause] >> it feels so weird to be on a first name basis with so many politicians. i spoke to joe early on in his campaign and shared a lot of stuff about curt weldon, which i used to cover the seventh district as a reporter. you haven't been in office

. >> i know you and your team at nih, you are working around the clock to protect all of us.hanks so much. >> you are quite well col come. >>> super expensive planes for government officials. they wanted them. now, they don't. >>> $65,000 worth of merchandise taken. now, the police are turning to the public for help. arthritis p. in your hands... 8 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >>> betty nguyen is monitoring some other important stories. what's going on? >> secretary of state, hillary clinton is calling upon the congo to crack down on areas of crimes. she toured an area where thousands of women are raped every year, many times by soldiers. she told them that all suspects should be pursued and prosecuted. the u.s. is willing to provide $17 million worth of aid to help victims and funds. see the two men in the surveillance video right here? detectives in london want to find them for questioning in connection with a brazen jewelry store highs theist. the scotland yard says two men walked in the store and threatened employees with handguns, took 43 rings, bracelets, necklaces a

clinical research efforts because at that time they were only receiving small amounts of grants from nihrs i host aid golf tournament wine taition event as the source for raising money for floj and this is the first flip flop festival that i can open up to those who don't play goal. explain what it is and how it affects our ravens follow ook. we wanted to offer a tommy bahama resort evening to help people understand what it was. wine taition, rum tasting, for those individuals who can't afford to go way, we can do that in the inner harbor itself and with my relationship as a basketball official in the conference, i naturally have friends from the sports community and i leaned on them, kyle richardson and some individuals to help. and ciel. you'll be there in flip slops. myself and a few mayors from 2000. we're looking forward to this this is something we can in a small way make a big im pafnlgt shaun does a great job with the foundation a. all the charities need hevment we'll be happy it to thrb there and attend. it holds two thowvment it will be a great cause. >> it sounds like a lot of

i'm actually concerned because ezekiel emanuel, though he was the head of bioethics for the nih.ist is not a practicing physician. now, he wrote the medical directive which is really a document which is about living wills. telling people how to prepare for, you know, for death. how to look ahead. let me tell you something, in the real world, in the go to the emergency room, that document is really flying out the window because the decisions have to be made at the moment. someone like dr. emanuel is not going to realize that he thinks in advance there is a value to that. but the real decisions are not made that way. i'm more interested in senator tom coal born who was on the program here yesterday, who is a practicing physician. who flies home from the senate to deliver babies, against the senate's recommendations. that's the kind of guy we need as a leader here. steve: real briefly, what is the one thing about ezekiel manual that you worry about. >> i think he has too much power. he has gone from bioeth this a here to theorytician a philosopher. he doesn't have his boots on the g

because of preexisting conditions and you look at the work gets done in quadrupling the funding of the nih began in the last ten years but back at the inception of the war on cancer. this is a legacy that has transformed the relationship between the government and citizens even though people perceive it to be sort of an unfinished agenda item for him. >> being able to see the full arc of his carer and the extent of this lecy think will be quite eye-opening. >> was there anying rticularly surprisinto y, peter? >> one thing that was surprising to me was how lonely his childhood was. maybe that is something we can talk wit bella. wiesel the pictures of the kennedys whog on the bch and imaged it to be a big familyull of lovend excitement. inact, for tedennedy it was a boarding school childhood, changing schools constantly, always exposed to new friends, always losing older friends and then wn he was slightly older as a child, the kennedy tragedy started to occur and his brother, joe jr., died when he was 12, his sister kathleen died when he was 16 and his brother jack earlier than that had a n

it's at-risk capital that actually makes the bets on what's going to work and what's not -- >> nih has0 billion budget, and 80% of that money goes to universities, to researchers, foundations to do the research. that really is the stimulus to encourage innovation. government can do it and does a very good job of it. >> think how much less health care will cost when you dramatically reduce the incidence of these terrible, chronic diseases, which is what this biotechnology innovation is focused on doing. if you have less cancer, less card oe vafk disease, less alzheimer's, less diabetes for sure, and so many of our companies are working on these things, then you have real prevention because you're actually using the miracles of what we learn from dna and genetics actually fighting these diseases at the genetic level. >> when you look at the overall cost of health care, 75% of the cost of health care goes to chronic illness and about 12% of the $2.4 billion goes for medicines. so it's really -- when you look at the overall universe of health care, the amount of cost of prekripgss and biol

i won't go through every program, trust me, but $30 billion of nih money flows to create new knowledgewhich is used in lots of ways. agency for health carrie search and quality spend $50 million on coarative research. we spend $30 billion on new knowledg $50 million on comparative effectiveness. nters for disease control, $1.9 billion protects us from diseases that could be imported by foreign agencies. electronic information highway is a public good, is a thing that can make us all better off. we'll have too little of it if we don't have intervention. food and drug administration, making sure that the drugs we get are safe and effective, making sure that labels of food are clear. and indeed, professional licensure is pretty important, because you wouldn't want me practicing medicine. the time i'm most nervous in my life is when somebodyalls me dr. nichols, because they think i can actually deliver a baby or stop a wound. second hand smoke laws, thinks about that. we learned from research, david talkedbout, that somebody else smoking can actually give you cancer. how can you stop that

i won't go through every program, trust me, but $30 billion of nih money flows to create new knowledge which is used in lots of ways. agency for health carrie search and quality spend $50 million on comparative research. we spend $30 billion on new knowledge. $50 million on comparative effectiveness. centers for disease control, $1.9 billion protects us from diseases that could be imported by foreign agencies. electronic information highway is a public good, is a thing that can make us all better off. we'll have too little of it if we don't have intervention. food and drug administration, making sure that the drugs we get are safe and effective, making sure that labels of food are clear. and indeed, professional licensure is pretty important, because you wouldn't want me practicing medicine. the time i'm most nervous in my life is when somebody calls me dr. nichols, because they think i can actually deliver a baby or stop a wound. second hand smoke laws, thinks about that. we learned from research, david talked about, that somebody else smoking can actually give you cancer. how can you

maybe we do not need a military option, but the apartment -- the approach like the nih for the food andrug administration. helping with some of the r&d, and letting the private sector go off and implemented. and then there are more provocative questions that we might not have time to touch on today. do we need a new internet office? or provocative title, the future of the internet and how we stop it. the witnesses that we have before us offer an opportunity to answer some but not all of these questions. this is a conversation that inevitably has to take place not only here in congress but in the businesses around the internet, the coffee shops and parlors, people with personal experiences, and of course over at the white house. it is my honor to introduce the witnesses that we have before us today. dan kaminsky is that ioactive, where his focus is on design capabilities and protocols. he is probably most famous for having discovered the fundamental flaw in the domain name system that would have allowed people to reassigned web addresses, takeover banking sites, or disrupt the flow of da

i won't go through every program, trust me, but $30 billion of nih money flows to create new knowledge which is used in lots of ways. agency for health carrie search and quality spend $50 million on comparative research. we spend $30 billion on new knowledge. $50 million on comparative effectiveness. centers for disease control, $1.9 billion protects us from diseases that could be imported by foreign agencies. electronic information highway is a public good, is a thing that can make us all better off. we'll have too little of it if we don't have intervention. food and drug administration, making sure that the drugs we get are safe and effective, making sure that labels of food are clear. and indeed, professional licensure is pretty important, because you wouldn't want me practicing medicine. the time i'm most nervous in my life is when somebody calls me dr. nichols, because they think i can actually deliver a baby or stop a wound. second hand smoke laws, thinks about that. we learned from research, david talked about, that somebody else smoking can actually give you cancer. how can you

i took the lead again with tom harkin, harkinnih funding -- increasing nih funding.hose are pretty progressive moves. >> you mentioned the town hall. let us return to health care. president clinton was on the stage last night saying he supports the public option, that we got to get the conversation back about helping people that has been sidelined by a lot of misinformation. really the country's eyes was on your town hall meetings. what can you do, what are you doing to deal with allies better coming out of talk radio and coming out a lot of your former allies and colleagues in both the republican party and a larger conservative movement, and specifically, do you think you can help president obama get any of these republican senators that he says he needs to pass this legislation? who would they be and what would they do about it? am i think i would be helpful to him with senator grassley, very close, came in at the same time. " full with senator collins. you don't need any help would senator snowe. senator voinovich, quite a few of them. but what i can do this week,

. $30 billion of nih money creates new knowledge. the agency for health care research spends $50 million on s research. million on comparative research. we spend $30 billion on new knowledge. $50 million on comparative effectiveness. centers for disease control, $1.9 billion protects us from diseases that could be imported by foreign agencies. electronic information highway is a public good, is a thing that can make us all better off. we'll have too little of it if we don't have intervention. food and drug administration, making sure that the drugs we get are safe and effective, making sure that labels of food are clear. and indeed, professional licensure is pretty important, because you wouldn't want me practicing medicine. the time i'm most nervous in my life is when somebody calls me dr. nichols, because they think i can actually deliver a baby or stop a wound. second hand smoke laws, thinks about that. we learned from research, david talked about, that somebody else smoking can actually give you cancer. how can you stop that if a