southbound 355 water main repairs near nih.ld georgetown road may be the best bet as an alternate. we'll be right back with a complete look at timesaver traffic and more morning news, you're watching 9news now. thanks for joining us. >>> 6:29. this is the place you can always get your weather first. thanks for waking up with us this fed morning. live shot of the -- friday morning. live shot of the capitol. thanks a lot for starting your day bus. she is the lovely jessica doyle. >> andrea roane is off today but mike hydeck is not as you can see. >> olga breese is on the weather terrace. >> it's little bit pricing and breezy out on the weather terrace but not so bad. temperatures in the 30s feeling like the upper 20s outside the beltway. you want to dress accordingly. the waste forecast for today features a good dose of sunshine although we have partly cloudy skies this morning. and you'll be mostly sunny by early afternoon. and then the cloud cover starts to move on in after lunchtime. i think highs will make it into the lower r

as the nih, the national institutes of health, prepares for the possibility of budget cuts later. >> it's as much bigger than just my lab. it's affecting all-academic labs across the country. >> reporter: mallen understands the nih decision but calls it a setback. >> my lab will have to shut down research projects that we know would -- could have profound impacts on curing human disease. we may have to get rid of some staff members. >> reporter: the nih tells us because of uncertainty in the budget awards at 90% of what was perhapsed to researchers -- promised to researchers will be the standard at least for now and the threat of the cut raised alarms. >> some of the cuts -- >> reporter: at johns hopkins the doctor is under pressure to reduce the experiments he designed in mice in search for a cure for childhood leukemia. does that make a more uncertain science? >> not only that we actually lose ten years. >> reporter: the downside of turning off a variety of experiments is what? >> we've killed innovation. because the most innovative projects are the projects that will go first. >>

to nih, it is extremely important. that is why there are a number of institutes that include office them -- autism. >> what does it take to develop a comprehensive national strategy? >> i would say the iacc accomplishes that in many ways. if that is lacking, it is a question for the congress to figure out how best if put that together -- to put that together. >> where is the dynamism in which that emerging evidence is being challenged in use? to hurry to a discovery as opposed to what may be and -- a willy nilly. as opposed to a real focus on the critical path? >> there are multiple parties involved that are quite concerned about this frustration is there and that is understandable. in receive years -- recent years, we have seen an acceleration in progress. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> are calling from florida. -- our colleage from florida. my friend from massachusetts. >> thank you. thank you to the witnesses and those of taken the time to be here. i'll let to address a concern my colleague had about c

tahat is the value of the nih dollar. had it not been for the doubling -- wwe tried to do science agencies, a doubling in 10 years or so, which i hope can be done. we are drifting below 2.7% as a share of gdp in science investment. the best thing is to get around 3% ideally. we are not moving in the right direction. i am a first generation american. my father got here in 1926 partly because he owned a patent. in austria. it was bought by a company that would become rca. he didn't have a penny in his name. this will company in ohio paid his boat ticket so he can get here. he did happen to go into that business. he became a psychiatrist. [laughter] he was part of the growth of the great american middle class. this isn't just about rich people and greeting the situations of wealth. it does lift all boats. i want to go back to the humanities. the attempted sovietization, they tried to empty out the universities of historians and philosophers and they got them to go west or they exile them internally in central europe. they en

the ride for folks that may be heading on to nih into bethesda. repairs in the ongoing long-term work zone. southbound 355 one lane squeezes by along the right side. we're not sure how much longer the crews are going to be in place. overnight construction on the toll road for folks heading in past route 7 one lane able to get by there. 95 though the lanes are open heading up to springfield. the crash last night on the inner loop ramp go to south on 95 has been cleared up. 95 heading up past the beltway to landmark everything open to the 14th street bridge. what was left of the earlier vehicle fire on the outer loop in prince george's county is completely been reinvolved and open and you're -- resolved and open and you're good. mike, jessica back to you. >>> thank you. president obama and congress got back to work yesterday trying to find some sort of a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff. there were signs of both hope and discouragement as both sides agreed the talk. >> back to work is relative when you call it work and what seems top a pattern both si

the nih budget is a big deal. that's part of discretionary spending.flat has been a problem. the cuts in the sequester would be devastating. you're talking about a huge amount of underfunding of biomedical research in this country. genetic revolution, stem cells. that's got to be maintained. >> the reality of the situation, are you expecting job cuts as a result of this? in the hospital business, do you expect consolidation? you've got to operate your business regardless of what's going on, so how do you prepare? >> if we were to experience graduate medical education cuts, we would cut residency positions. that's really a problem. if we took draconian cuts, yes, we'd have to look at jobs. we're trying to save as many jobs as we possibly can. i think we can accommodate that. we can be part of the solution. we believe that we can help reduce cost of care in this country. it has to happen. >> in terms of, you know, your hospital being a beacon, your hospital sort of moving forward, what are you doing in terms of preserving some of this intelligence? and w

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walter reed and nih. wssc says the crew will be there at least a couple of hours from now into the morning rush hour. a complete look at the traffic coming up in just a few minutes. back to you jessica. >>> thank you beverly. the time right now is 4:41 and i'm watching your money. fingers crossed. maybe we can turn things around today. wall street has been down for four trading sessions in a row. yesterday, stocks did actually get into positive territory briefly after lawmakers in the house announced they planned to meet sunday to discuss the fiscal cliff. congress and the white house now have less than a week to resolve that impasse. but here's where we ended up. checking the numbers for you -- >>> individual investors pulled $150 billion out of the stock market for the third year in a row. but institutional investors, the hedge funds, the pension funds, they're actually adding to their stock positions. they're poured more than $80 billion into stocks so far this year. >>> it may be time to refinance you

. >> the baylor human genome sequencing center was one of five major labs to take part in the nih sponsoreduman genome project where scientists worked for more than 10 years to identify those three billion bases of human dna. today, dr. gibbs and a team of researchers are using state-of-the-art machines such as the solid 3 sequencing system to sequence the same amount of dna in just a matter of weeks. >> this is an actual dna sequencing machine. it's very different to the sequencing machines that we used to sequence the human genome. those older man machines could do 100 samples in three hours. this machine does 200 million samples in two weeks. it's dramatically different. the machine is loaded with individual tiny beads that are each loaded with an individual dna molecule that is amplified and coded around the bead and all intersect together and there are chemical reactions performed on the surface. >> the science is making its way into medical and pediatric care. there are more than a thousand dna based gene tests available to infants and adults. newborn genetic screening can identify di

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. >> now, you know that nih, national institutes for health or of health. >> national institutes of metal. >> they -- of health. >> they just had within summary past couple of weeks they had a big meeting and they talked about how your mental state actually affects your physical health, correct? >> yes. >> were you there? >> i wasn't at that one, no. i was out of town, in europe. >> do you know whether they discovered anything new or were they just kind of ventilating this in the interest of public education? >> not having been there, i wouldn't want to declare anything, but it sounded like it was a group of people together to bring us up to date to where we stand on this. this is a valuable thing to do. >> are they sa saying thatge doesn't mean the same thing today that it meant 20, 30, 40 years ago? >> it's absolutely different. look at the way -- you see people in their 80's -- in fact, anthony store the other day, famous british psychologist who died at age 80 was giving a lecture at oxford at the university there. he was one of the fellows. he was 80 years old and has continued to be

there are parts of the nih as where standards of care and standards of nursing unacceptable. that is why we are introducing things like the friends and family to make sure all hospitals come to a higher standard for the best. >> following publication of the levenson report last week my right hon. friend agrees what we need is a strong independent regulator preferably without statutes? >> i think it is actually a moment where we should try to maximize the american consensus that there is in this house and this country about what is required. everyone agrees we need strong independent regulation along the lines levenson suggests. everyone agrees we need million-pound fines and prominent apologies, independently handled complaints. this is vital. i have been encouraged by the meetings i had with editors of national newspapers that they will put in place the compliance regulation and we should continue the cross party talks and to make sure we can deliver regulatory system which this house, this country, the victims can be proud. >> let me join you in saying congratulations to th

that is where nih and others have come in. to push my head into the budget issues for one second, i think there are a lot of people who come to talk to us at the white house who say, "i care deeply about whether you are doing enough on energy and manufacturing and research, deeply about whether he will help nih push us to the next frontiers of alzheimer's and other important biomedical research," and then say, "it is not really my business, i am not a budget%, to worry about whether we are pending on our discretionary budget." what i have to say to folks is that you cannot pretend you care deeply about innovation and research and investing in early childhood and investing in science and stem education if you are indifferent to whether or not we reduce our budget deficit by simply taking deeper and deeper cuts in domestic discretionary budget. at some point you skip to a point where you are simply trading off between early to childhood and biomedical research and higher education. those are not trade-offs the american public wa

the nih is about 30 billion. host: what does the cdc face? guest: it is been calculated to the and 8% reduction, close to $5 billion, which would make it difficult for us to support state and local governments and other efforts to keep america safe from threats. we are concerned, and obviously. we understand these are difficult fiscal -- obviously. we understand is a difficult fiscal times, and we have been able to reduce it minister of costs by hundreds of millions of dollars to preserve programs better protected americans, but further reductions have the risk of hell breaks and responding to them wrapped -- outbreaks and responding to and effectively. i cannot predict how we would go sort. two-thirds of our dollars code to state and local governments, so if we head to reduce overall funding, there is no money going down to state and local governments. essentially, the local responders and our ability to serve as a backup for state and local governments when there is a crisis, a flu outbreak, or a healthcare associated outbreak, or an enviro

so there's been a 19% decline in nih funding over the last ten years in real dollars.nificant. precisely at a time when we have an increase ings dense in cancer, alzheimer's, diabetes, so you're on a sinking ship and what you're doing is you're trying to slow the rate of sinking through efficiencies and managing the system. >> explain to me the scale of the problem because of demographics. how many people are getting old and what does this mean in terms of these diseases that you're talking about. >> for the first time in history for who we are as a species, over the last 70 years the life expectancy worldwide has increased from about 42 to 74. by the year 2025, we will have 1.2 billion people over the age of 60. the significance of 60 is that after 60, the incidence of the great four diseases, that today cost the united states alone a trillion dollars in direct and indirect expenditures will dramatically increase, double every five years. >> so once you're 60-- >> it startses to escalate, so by the time you're 85, you have a 45% chance of having alzheimer's if you're

they get research and development creditss the nih, for example, you know, is going to see a cut there, and the federal budget there, and, also, health care sector reeks real estate plays. interesting ideas from fidelity. ashley: you mentioned companies, activity down, banks hurting because they are not getting the fees. flip the story around, and washington finally gets its act together, could we see a boom on the other side of that with money pouring? >> wouldn't that be great? we've been through worse as a country, and we'll get beyond this right now, but the problem in washington, d.c. is emergency budgets that have not done a budget in four years, and they@ are doing gang of six, gang of 12 meetings, budgeting by committee, with no formal budget in process, really, in place in the senate for a very long time. that's why we have emergency crisis, you know, budgeting and crisis inflicting the country. ashley: these companies are hatch strung. how can they plan for the future? >> would you? ashley: of course not, hunker down. on. ashley: all eyes on washington. liz, thank you so much

that is healthcare spending, defense department but not a whole lot in the other areas, pell grants, nihgovernment to do. the government's purpose is restricted and a debate of what we've been losing. >> it's to take the oxygen out of government. we can do this. we know what needs to be done. you have to do what every middle class family does, and that is to balance the books. but we also need revenues. the president has put $1.2 trillion of revenues on the table. the response from the republicans, hardly any revenues and let's cut growth for the middle class and infrastructure, but keep spending on defense. we need a plan that is big and that is bold, that is balanced and fair, and every time we think we're there the republicans move the goal post further away. >> eliot: it has not been a pretty picture. i want to pivot to the gun control issue pervasive in terms of the conversations one has in any context whether on capitol hill or out on the street. you saw the president today. he's speaking with a new passion, a new energy. will again will speaker boehner move on gun control or his c

that's why nih where arpa have come in.sh into the budget issues for a sec there's a lot of people who care deeply about whether there's enough on energy and advanced manufacturing research, deeply whether you are going to help nih push us to the next frontiers of alzheimer's research and other important biomedical research and then say, but it's not really my business. i'm not a budget person to worry about whether we are cutting to deeply on the domestic budget. what i have to say to folks is you cannot pretend you care deeply about innovation and rearming and investing in early childhood and investing in science and stem education if you're indifferent to whether or not we reduce our budget deficit similarly taking deeper and deeper cuts in the discretionary budget. at some point, you get to a point where you are simply trading off between early childhood and biomedical research, and higher education. those are not tradeoffs the american public wants us to make. when we talk about having a -- getting our fiscal disciplin

it never would have had a chance, if we left it to nih, because they thought it wasn't practicable. today, it is saving literally thousands and thousands of lives. it is a testament to collaboration between non- partisan support for basic and applied research in the scientific fields, in this case, the medical application of the proton is phenomenal. >> you mentioned tip o'neill and newt gingrich, two former speakers. among the speakers with whom you have worked, collaborative late in your committee assignments, who has been the best? who was the most effective? what has made them such? speakers of the house you served under. >> i did not arrive at a time that allowed me to work closely with tip o'neill, but i admired the way he reached out to president reagan and the way they shared with one another their ideals of the way the government would operate. i only have one speaker at a time. my speaker right now, it is john boehner. i am proud to work with him. >> is one particularly effective? >> one of the most important pieces of that is speakers who are willing to reach out to membe

apparently this procedure is funded by nih, part of a nationwide trial that is taking place.he trial will have their stimulators turned on two weeks after the surgery. get this, the rest will have stimulators turned on a year later. no one is going to know, patients and doctors when the simulation began. >> controlled experiments. they're necessary, but yet you hate to be the one. >> a year later. >> get it a year later. hopeful you. know, admitted to the pilot program. you don't get the good stuff. >> that's what i was thinking. >> that's how they decide it works or not. >> it's hopeful. >> absolutely. >>> when we come back, bashing beyonce. >> blunt talking talk show host slams the singer with some fighting word. "the skinny" is next. >> announcer: "world news now" continues after >>> now it is time for "the skinny." one of my favorite parts of the show. >> bring it on. >> you know, wendy williams, sort of this controversial. >> straight talker. >> straight talker. now talking straight about beyonce. she is getting some, some fall back from it. take a listen to what she had

robert r.cici says past cuts to the nih have already strained progress on clinical trials and new therapies. the deeper cuts that would come with the fiscal cliff he says would be catastrophic. >> already we have seen the stopping of certain protocols for some of the rarer childhood cancers, for instance. so those patients aren't even getting clinical trials necessarily. >> my reaction varies between frankly disbelief and anger that this is even such a topic. we don't get to decide if we're just going to fall off the cancer cliff. we have to fight it every single day. >> joe is still in treatment for that relapse of leukemia. he's hoping this is his last go around. we've made it easy for you to get your opinion to your local lawmaker or representative. it's in the fiscal cliff section of our website www.wusa9.com. >>> pot smokers made the space needle the highest building literally in the country at the stroke of midnight. >> today is the first day residents there can legally toke up in the state of washington. now although smoking in public is not allowed, the cops were lenient. they let i

southbound lanes of 355 at cedar lane of nih there only the right lane gets by.ater main repairs that are ongoing through morning rush hour. and there's a crash down in waldorf st. charles 301 at smallwood drive. the left lane blocked each way there with an ice related crash. road crews are going to have to treat the road surface before they reopen there. >>> with new year's just days away. >> but police will be on patrol to make sure you don't take that party on the road with you. which is very important. you need to stay safe. delia goncalves has a rare look at what police are doing when it comes to the science behind this. >> there's an exact science. we've all seen or thought we've seen the field sobriety test. walking the liners the touching the nose -- line, the touching the nose, the pen across the eyes. but police are looking for exact signs and they've studied extensively. we've talked to the group of elite officers and they told us exactly what they're looking for. essentially, we're not giving away any secrets. they put together a wet lab experiment wh

you're interested in biomedical research and the nih, that gets hit. got to be very careful here. plus, the republicans constantly say, well, we don't want to become like greece. what's driving off the fiscal cliff make us look like? it makes us look completely irresponsible as if we can't control our own spending and put in order some priorities. >> so there will be some real health care suffering if we go off the cliff, so to speak? >> that's absolutely true. i would say the other important thing we need to do, we want to incentivize doctors an hospitals to keep people well. not to just do procedures. and that is the key to really transforming medicare. >> all right. i want to show you a map of the states that are refusing to implement the insurance exchanges. it's rather interesting. the other states are either implementing the exchanges or haven't decided to do that. if states don't decide to do it and the federal government comes in and sets up the exchange, isn't that kind of a win for the move toward universal health care someday because that in

that's where nih, arpa e have come in. and to push my head into the budget issues for one second i think there are a lot of people who come to talk to us at the white house who say i care deeply about whether you're doing enough on energy and advanced manufacturing research, deeply whether you are going to help nih push us through the next front tiers of alzheimer's' and other biomedical research. and then say it's not really my business to worry about whether we are cutting too deeply. and investing in early chood and investing in skine and stem education. if you are indifferent to whether or not we reduce our budget deficit by simply taking deeper and deeper cuts in the domestic discretionary budget at some point you get to a point where you are simply trading off between early childhood and biomedical research and higher education. and those are not trade-offs the american people wants us to make. so we need to have when we talk about having -- getting our fiscal discipline, our fiscal house in order, i want to remind p

public health officials like nih's anthony fauci have struggled with how to communicate the risks of vaccines without causing undue fear from common side effects such as mild fevers and serious adverse events that are extremely rare. >> to say that there is no risk in any vaccine would not be truthful. what is the risk of injecting something into someone's arm? the risk is that a certain proportion of people will get swelling and a little bit of pain, lasting from an hour to a day. that is a very acceptable risk. a very, very, very small percentage of people will get an allergic reaction. namely, there's a component of the vaccine that they didn't realize that they were allergic to. and then there's a subset of a very, very, very, very small percentage of those who actually can get a serious reaction. but if you look at that, the risk of that is so minisculely small as to be completely outweighed by the benefit. >> narrator: the cdc's web site tries to convey all these risks accurately even when scientists are not sure the vaccines are in fact responsible. here's what it says about t

that is where nih and others have come in.push my head into the budget issues for one second, i think there are a lot of people who come to talk to us at the white house who say, "i care deeply about whether you are doing enough on energy and manufacturing and research, deeply about whether he will help nih push us to the next frontiers of alzheimer's and other important biomedical research," and then say, "it is not really my business, i am not a budget%, to worry about whether we are pending on our discretionary budget." what i have to say to folks is that you cannot pretend you care deeply about innovation and research and investing in early childhood and investing in science and stem education if you are indifferent to whether or not we reduce our budget deficit by simply taking deeper and deeper cuts in domestic discretionary budget. at some point you skip to a point where you are simply trading off between early to childhood and biomedical research and higher education. those are not trade-offs the american public wants

one of the points i made my hearing was if you look at the nih research on autism, only 2.5% -- 2.45%to be precise -- of that research agenda went towards research into improving the quality of services available for autistic people. less than that, 1.5%, went towards research on the needs of autistic adults. many of us feel this was a point that we made in our testimony, that we are having a lot of discussion about autism in general, but very little discussion about and with autistic people ourselves. host: we are talking with ari ne'eman, the president and co- founder of the autistic self advocacy network. we want to include our viewers and listeners in our conversation regarding the federal response to the rise in autism. if you want to get involved, the numbers -- 202-585-3881 for republicans. 202-585-3880 for democrats. for independents, 202-585-382. we have a special line for autistic people -- 202-585-3883. we also want to encourage viewers and listeners to contact us via social media. the address for twitter is @cspanwj. the conversation is always going on on facebook. the add

when its top about infrastructure spending and things we have done with nih, all the talk now is about de bt. you do what glenn envisions? we are not going to get away from someone of a doomsday scenario for quite some time which would allow us to get to glenn's position. i do think it is importance. the priorities -- people don't have a disagreement about whether the federal government should have a role in immigration or in infrastructure. there are larger conversations out there. we accept these as government rolls. i think what glenn has talked about and how do you get there? the united states congress and the white house is very disjointed because the american public is very disjointed. this is a town that is responsive to what their voters tell them. we would hope when it requires leadership that they rise to the location. if we get to the point of these things that need to be done, more people need to talks abou t it. i think it is a campaign that needs to be waged and probably in the center of both political parties to have that conversation. >> it is a lonely center. >> it nee

that's where nih, that's where arpa-e have coming. and to push my head in the budget issues for one second, i think there are a lot of people who come to talk to us at the white house who say, i care deeply about whether you're doing enough on energy and advanced manufacturing research. if you're going to help nih push us to the next frontiers of alzheimer's, research, and other important biomedical research. and then say, but it's not really my business, i'm not a budget person to worry about whether we are cutting too deeply on our discretionary domestic budget. and what i have to say to folks is, you cannot attend you care deeply about innovation and research, and investing in early childhood, and investing in science, s.t.e.m. education but if you're indifferent to whether or not we reduce our budget deficit by simply taking deeper and deeper cuts in domestic discretionary budget, at some point you get to a point where you're simply trading off between early childhood and biomedical research and higher education. and those are not

the nih budget with research and development funding, 8% cut there.ou now, this is a warning we heard from goldman sachs, watch for the companies. they -- by the way, the other one too, these companies also underperformed after the last debt ceiling fight back in 2011. these are the ones to watch for. adam: thank you very much. >> sure, dliected. adam: has real world implications for everybody. money to burn as we do every 15 minutes. lauren on the floor of the new york stock exchange with the home builders. they don't have money to burn, do they? >> nope, they are putting in a mixed performance today. see that camera angle? all right. winners are kb home and nvr and losers as well. the news is that pending home sales last month, best level since april 2010. i want to show you two really nice charts. one year charts of lanar and toll brothers. you see the nice gains over the past year. look at that. lanar doubled in value in just a year's time. this definitely shows us that the home market, the housing market is recovering. back to you, adam. adam: i

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testing for these human growth hormones, and so basically what we're doing, bringing in experts from nihing agencies to come in and talk about how to test for them and number two, we'll have organizations talking about the effects these types of hormones have on our children, and on adult players. >> congressmanelijah cummings, thank you for joining us. >>> still to come, we'll hear from the federal reserve about interest rates and the growth of the economy. what kind of toll will it have on the market? christina has that, coming up next. it doesn't matter which of our great states folks visit. mississippi, alabama, louisiana or florida, they're gonna love it. shaul, your alabama hospitality is incredible. thanks, karen. love your mississippi outdoors. i vote for your florida beaches, dawn. bill, this louisiana seafood is delicious. we're having such a great year on the gulf, we've decided to put aside our rivalry. now is the perfect time to visit anyone of our states. the beaches and waters couldn't be more beautiful. take a boat ride, go fishing or just lay in the sun. we've got coastl

i'm speaking tomorrow at an nih conference on finding ways to reduce disparity. but it is clearly true in general. and what we need is to try to find ways to try to encourage people to participate in the labor force longer, not only for our sake but for their sake as well. being contributors to rather than takers from the public. it will require a number of changes. this one if done carefully could be one such component. second is that medicare has a serious long-term problem. one that is not likely to be resolved only by increased financing. as most of you know there will be a doubling of the population when the baby boomers finished retiring. that is associated with moving from all the entitlement spending of about 10% now the more than 50% of the gdp in 2030. that is an indication of a very serious change that we're going to have to look going forward here now, some people have commented that medicaid spending, at least on a per person basis look at over this decade, is looking pretty good to the growth in medicare spending has been -- beneficially projected a

nih gets billions of dollars. this is an epidemic that must be dealt with. if you have an autistic child, that child will probably live to be 70. you may not be able to take care that charles past 18 or 20. we have people who are afraid to be in the room with their child because they are afraid. people are losing their homes, they are mortgaging their homes to help their kids and it does not work. this is to be a huge burden on their families and the taxpayers over the next year. we need to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible. all these things are important. my first wife died of cancer. aids is important. autism is an epidemic. it will stick with us for the next 50 years. we have to deal with it. >> we have four minutes left. with regard to the state of the u.s. economy, you have some important votes cast before the lame-duck session is over. what is your level of confidence about the future of the u.s. economy right now? >> i am not really optimistic. we have a short-term solution. the president wants to spend more money. i understand that. he a

whether it is money for the nih, which does research on cancer and alzheimer's and diabetes and otherhronic diseases, they will be doing less research. if it is the fbi or the border patrol people, there will be less law enforcement. there's going to be less money for housing assistance and for child care and for slots in headstart. will be fewer teachers. a lot of things would happen. host: should there be any further cuts? guest: absolute. i believe that we have to have -- we have enormous deficits going forward. what we need is a balance of spending cuts and revenue increases. given that we have already had some spending cuts, i agree with the administration's focus on let's do something on the revenue side now. going forward, the big items in the budget, the ones that are causing the problem, are not these little programs that are threatened right now. they are the big programs like medicare and social security. host: sticking domestic spending, should there be any more cuts? guest: i would never say there should never be any more cuts. but if there are going to be more, they shou

i'm speaking tomorrow at the nih conference on finding ways to reduce disparity. it's clearly true in general. and what we need is try to find ways to try to encourage people to participate in labor force longer, not only for our sake, but for their sake as well. being contributors too rather than net takers from the public fist. it will require a number of changes. this one, if done carefully could be one such component. second issue is that medicare has a serious long-term problem. one that is not likely to be resolved only by increased financing. as most of you know, there will be a doubling of the population when the baby boomers finish retiring, that is associated with moving from all entitlements second of about 10% now, to more than 15% of the gdp in 2030. that is an indication of a very serious change that we are going have to look going forward. some people have commented that medicaid spending at least on a per person basis looked at over the decade is looking pretty good. the growth and medicare spending is has been beneficially projected z as a result

nih gets billions of dollars. this is an epidemic that must be dealt with. if you have an autistic child, that child will probably live to be 70. you may not be able to take care that charles past 18 or 20. -- of that child past 18 or 20. we have people who are afraid to be in the room with their child because they are afraid. people are losing their homes, they are mortgaging their homes to help their kids and it does not work. this is to be a huge burden on their families and the taxpayers over the next year. -- next 50 years. we need to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible. all these things are important. my first wife died of cancer. aids is important. autism is an epidemic. it will stick with us for the next 50 years. we have to deal with it. >> we have four minutes left. with regard to the state of the u.s. economy, you have some important votes cast before the lame-duck session is over. what is your level of confidence about the future of the u.s. economy right now? >> i am not really optimistic. i think that we have a short- term solution.

so whether it's money for the nih as you said, which has done research on cancer and alzheimer's and diabetes and other chronic diseases will be doing less research. if it's the fbi or border patrol people, there'll be less law enforcement. there's going to be less money for housing assistance and for childcare and for head start. it's going to be fewer teachers. a lot of things will happen. >> host: should there be any further cuts? >> guest: absolutely. i believe we have enormous deficits going forward. what we need is a balance of spending cut of revenue increases. given that we party has been in cuts, i agree with the administration's focus on what's dissenting on the revenue side. but going forward, the big items in the budget, the ones causing the problems are not these little programs threaten great now. they are big programs like medicare and social security. >> host: speaking to domestic spending, should there be any work has to domestic spending? >> guest: i would never say there should never been in archives. they should be carefully chosen in this particular part of the b

. >>> the nih labor dispute is moving from the ice to the courts.class action lawsuit to confirm that its lockout is legal. it also filed an unfair labor practice charge against the players union. the nhl says the union bargained in bad faith. the league made the claim. the lockout is in its 91st day. no new negotiations are scheduled. >>> someone in southern california is now a multimillionaire. one ticket hit the mega millions jackpot worth $35 million. the ticket was sold in bell flower in los angeles county. if you purchased a ticket for last night's drawing, you may have won a smaller prize, so here are the winning numbers for you. 11-28-33-41-43, and your mega number is 41. >> good news and good luck for someone, hopefully mark has good news about the weather that we're in for coming up this weekend as well. we're seeing clouds out there, but sunshine, too. >> yeah, a little bit of everything, david. take a look at these numbers. off to a cold start this morning. still chilly towards santa rosa, 37 degrees. san jose, partly to mostly cloudy, 4

nih has a long history of supporting gradeschool research to understand the often devastating effects of deficient orbs as a function of the growth hormone system. hume on -- human growth hormone therapies became a mainstay of modern medicine particularly after the development in 1985 of the safe and viable source of her competent hgh is synthetic protein produced by dna technology that has -- to the pituitary derived hgh. hgh can stimulate tissue growth, linear growth and metabolism. it promotes and increases lean body mass. the fda has improved recombinant hgh for a number of clinical indications associated with growth hormone deficiency both in adults and children. in patience with growth hormone deficiency with improved aspects of exercise capacity and some studies have suggested it improved mood. given the well-documented ability up for competent hgh for tissue build up some athletes began abusing her competent hgh to enhance their performance. further increasing the appeal for competitive athletes is the fact that it stimulates the production of another hormone growth factor one

. >> the value of the nih dollar is 90% less than it was. the doubling was critical. had it not -- now they're urging we try to do nsf and other science agencies and doe and doubling it in 10 years or so, which i hope can be done. we are drifting below 2.7% of r&d as a proportion of gdp. economists say the best thing is 3%. we are not moving in the right direction. i am a first-generation american. my father got here in 1926. partly because he owns a patent in austria. it was bought by a company in ohio that later became part of rca. he did not add a penny to his name. this little company in ohio paid his boat ticket so he could get here in january of 1926. he did not to go into that business, unfortunately. he became a psychiatrist. [laughter] nonetheless, in his own way he was part of the great american middle class in the 20th century. so this is not just about rich people. immigration, intellectual property, and creating the conditions of wealth. it really does lift all boats. i want to go back to the humanities. i'm reading a very interesting book called "to iron

as it currently stands, it means we're going to have an 8.2% reduction in the nih budget, which wille research across the country. it looks like sequestration will have major influence on both research and clinical care, as we currently provide it. what compromise we'll see, actually, if we avoid the cliff, i frankly don't know. i'm not sure at this point. >> one thing we're learning this morning is that the medicare age is quickly bubbling up to be one of the key issues. what does that mean for you? >> that means what we'll see, fewer patients that are covered by medicare, as it goes from 65 to 66 to 67 or wherever it winds up. but medicare will -- so there will be more emphasis on private insurance, or in fact the exchanges, as they are rolled out across the country. >> forgetting the fiscal cliff, the industry is obviously going through dramatic change as part of the affordable care act, many of the provisions will start to take effect next year. >> that's true. >> do you have your arms around that already, dr. cosgrove? do you understand exactly what you're going to be doing ther

so whether it's money for the nih as you said, which does research on cancer and alzheimer's and diabetes and other chronic diseases, they are going to be doing less research. if it's, you know, the fbi or the border control people, there will be less law enforcement. there is going to be less money for housing assistance and for child care and for slots in head start. it will be fewer teachers. >> host: right. >> guest: a whole lot of things are going to happen, or would happen. >> host: should there be any cuts, any further cuts? >> guest: absolutely. what we need balance of spending cuts and revenue increases? i agree with the administration's focus, increase on the revenue side. but going forward, the big items in the budget, the ones that are causing the problem are not these little programs that are threatened right now. they're the big programs like medicare and social security. >> host: but sticking to domestic spending. should there be anymore cuts to domestic spending? >> guest: i would never say there should never be anymore cuts. if there are going to be more cuts they should