. >> i created a new way to test for pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer that costs three cents and takes five minutes to run. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. >> axelrod: gfs, i'm jim axelrod with a special west coast edition. as the clock ticks down for tonight's pow ll drawing, both the excitement and the projected size of the jackpot keeps going up. the pot is now at least $600 million. california is the newest player in the multi-state lottery, and, just like many other americans, californians are taking full advantage. carter evans has more. >> $10. >> reporter: the powerball layersic is so intense, players are buying $22 million worth of tickets every hour. >> crazy busy, crazy busy. craeporter: how busy? lines are stretching for hours, with the jackpot nearly doubling just since wednesday. the frenzy is especially big in california, which became a cali powerball player only last month and is now selling $10,000 in tickets every minute. how much of a factor is california in these huge rnia its? >> it's gigantic. >> reporter: jeff

. >> pancreatic, ovarian, and lung, but also-- >> axelrod: costs how much. >> three cent. >> axelrod: three cents and takes how long? >> five minute to run. >> axelrod: that's right. after a close friend died from pancreatic cancer, this 16-year-old from crownsville, maryland unleeshed his hyperdrive intellect on preventing more cancer deaths. >> it's 168 times faster over 26,000 times less expensive and over 400 times more sensitive than the current methods of diagnosis. >> axelrod: he tinkered in his room and using information readily available on line, he came up with a new way to detect cancer. >> all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late when someone has less than a 2% chance of survival and our current test costs $800 per test and misses 30% of all pancreatic cancers. >> axelrod: his innovative mind got him a shout-out at the white house science fair. president obama was impressed by this young innovator's tenacity. >> jack "space from research labs to pursue his work nearly 200 times. 200 times he asked. 200 times he was turned down. finally, with the help of some folks at john

when i hear pancreatic or alzheimer's, someone is in trouble.creatic cancer or diabetes or the universal flu vaccine is a remarkable pitch. amazing progress being made at an exponential rate. here we are at the moment where science is moving the fastest it ever has and support for that science, because of sequester, is under greater threat than it has ever been. the terms of the risk of slowing down a remarkable advance in medical research, many are substantial. people may not feel that today. >> who is going to tell them? your country is backing down on research when other kuns try are ramping up. look at china, india, 20%. brazil, japan, up by 10%. even germany up by the%. but u.s. is cutting spending 5%. so we are down, they are all up. >> isn't that amazing? they read our play book. they looked at the american success story over the last 60 years where much of growth has been coming from science and biotechnology. >> you jump in with your thoughts, i don't really have a question for you. i want your thoughts. but every time a dictator has an

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she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on the 14th and just two hours i was to be with the mayor and she started feeling ill on february 8 but all her life she was active and vibrant women and at 83 years of age she climbed simon head and i haven't done is it and but she was civicically engaged and asked us to participate and make sure that our community was a better place. i was taken a become when i tried to put a notice in the chinese newspaper and my mom third generation impart today was important to know our an set of rol language and. >> >> my language was limited but my mom knew it and the person with the ad -- actually a reporter helped me and she said my late dad was very active community person so he was news worthy when he passed away nine years ago and retired head of the structural division for public works in the city and so there was an article written about him. she went on to say i am famous and i don't know if my opportunities to serve on a commission makes me famous but noted my mom was "just a housewife" and i pointed out my father couldn't have done without her a

she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on the 14th and just two hours i was to be with the mayor and she started feeling ill on february 8 but all her life

we're expecting them to get approval on a new use for their approved drug in pancreatic cancer later. and also we're looking for initial approvals for a new drug in its enframe story -- inflammatory unit in 201. so we think there's a lot to like, and we think that a revenue concentration story is becoming more diversified. liz: all right. so it's got a, what, 78% run-up over the past year, but look at the next pick. this one has 123% rise year-over-year, and it's gilead sciences. where is the opportunity for return over the past year? >> you know what? they're not alone. the biotech industry has been that strong over the past 12 months or two years. but they've been riding momentumover its hepatitis c program which they made a major acquisition in 2011 buying pharmaset. i think there are many, many patients waiting for new therapies to reach the market. the current hepatitis c market peaked in the 2011, but that program or that treatment regiment has an injectable component which is lead to very nasty side effects. so gilead is actually pursuing a hepatitis c regimen which does not r

when they ambushed john ashcroft who was basically half dead from acute pancreatitis in the hospital and they tried to get him to sign off in the hospital on a surveillance program that he believed to be illegal. that was james comey at the stand-off in the hospital room. and that was him threatening to quit in protest. and that was him then telling the whole sordid story under oath. that was him. in npr last night and "the new york times," they were the first to report it but it looks like james comey will be tapped by president obama to lead the fbi. yes, that makes him the latest in a long list of republicans who this democratic president has appointed to high-ranking positions in his administration. there's former republican senator chuck hagel leading the defense department. and before chuck hagel, president obama kept on president bush's republican defense secretary, bob gates. former republican governor jon huntsman was brought on as the ambassador to china. former republican congressman john mchugh was brought on. ray lahood the president appointed to be his secretary of tran

. >> brown: science education remained sally ride's life's work until she was overcome by pancreaticcer last july at the age of 61. a celebration of the life and work of sally ride was held last night at the kennedy center here in washington. our own science correspondent, miles o'brien, who knew ride, served as the emcee. i talked with him yesterday just before the event. welcome, miles. >> good to be here, jeff. >> brown: was she aware, sally ride aware of being a pioneer and did she feel that responsibility? >> responsibility and she had a lot of discomfort with it. you know, it's interesting. she went into space for the adventure and never really intended to become part ofhe mythology. younow, i think we use the term "hero" in our culture and very few people fully qualify. i think she does qualify because of what she accomplished and the inspiration she gave others but she was always reluctant to bask in that. the fame was something she saw as a two-edged sword. it allowed her to get phone calls answered. got her through some doors but she was never comfortable with the adulation

the head of the bed in that hospital room where john ashcroft was laying there sick with acute pancreaticitis, who sat there and said to the white house, no, you cannot do this, it is illegal, i will stop it, tonight "the new york times" just reported that president obama is about to pick him to run the fbi. anybody else looking forward to that confirmation hearing? we'll be right back. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. for every year you don't have a claim, you'll get money off your home insurance policy. put it towards... [ glass shatters ] [ girl ] dad! [ girl screams ] noise canceling headphones? [ male announcer ] get allstate home insurance with claim free rewards. talk to an allstate agent... [ doorbell rings ] and let the good life in. talk to an allstate agent... [ doorbell ri

my theory is, it is long, but basically my belief is that they steve jobs found out he had pancreatic cancer, it all changed. steve jobs used to work within an ecosystem. he was always pushing it, but he needed the ecosystem. when he found out he was sick, essentially he took what he had, the next generation of compute computers, and he said i want to go with the iphone. he had to get somebody to subsidize that. he wanted verizon. he went to the lowest rated one. at&t. people predicted the demise of at&t when they're going to subsidize it to almost $300, whatever it was. if you talk to any cio or any chief technology officer in corporate america, they are scared to death about all this mobility. they like control, they like to have control of what is going on. people are bringing in and saying i want this, i want this for our salespeople and they accommodated them but we are not secure. you are not secure, i am not secure. this is no great conspiracy, no wonder they will hit us because this is our achilles heel. they will keep hitting us. they will overreact on some of these names, bu

she died july 2012 at 61 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. the award will be presented later this year. >> president obama is returning to the area and a couple of weeks. it will be raising money for the democratic colleagues in the u.s. senate. mr. obamas will be attending a fund-raiser event on june 6th. he will attend a reception in palo alto. tickets for the recession's start at $2,500. and the president will lead to portola valley for there were tickets will cost more than $32,000. >> on to bay area sports ryan vogelsong broke his throwing hand on his wing after pitching himself for his first win in seven starts, and the giants return from a terrible road trip to beat the washington nationals eight-ast night. the right-hander foul ball off his right hand and the bottom of the fifth in a grimace in pain while grabbing his hand. few quickly examined near the batter's box and left the game. he snapped a six start winless stretch with just his second victory of 2013. he allowed three hits in five scoreless innings the lord his era from 8.06

i mentioned ernie lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.ent our lunch hours listening to your podcast. we were at sexy liberal in chicago. we caught a glimpse of you and nish was convinced you smiled at him. he talked about that for months later. i made should you are to get meet and grope because i wanted to thank you in person. you, john and hal were kind. that night was one of the greatest nights of my life. although i no longer get to enjoy the podcast with my best friend by my side, it made me feel close to him. laughter helps ease it through the tough times. all three of you totes adorbs. she told me and now she made me cry again. i will tell hal and tell hal in just a moment. anyway that's what the sexy liberal family is like. awesome people like that including macaroni, the official rapper of "the stephanie miller show." ♪ ♪ i need help, mama ♪ you told me that you love me ♪ ♪ sexy liberal ♪ ♪ she gave me two tickets to a grope to the show ♪ ♪ you love how you do your thing with john fuglesang ♪ >> stephanie: you know what i'm sayin

we know there are other risks, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer but dominated by breast and ovariane basic biology to understand why that happens. >> ally, you are based in nbc's d.c. bureau, everywhere for us, just got back from covering mark sanford's congressional race in north carolina, christmas last year covering the president in hawaii. how different do you think your life would be had you not undergone the procedure you did? >> i would be constantly thinking about is this the day that i'm gonna wake up with breast cancer and i think that's one of the most important parts about getting -- looking into getting this surgery, if you do have this genetic mutation, is the way i feel having done it is i can just get on with my life. it really hasn't changed that much for me. it's really just allowed me to go and do these things that i've been able to do in my career around not have to worry about apple i going to wake up with breast cancer and down the line, i will act accordingly with my risk for ovarian cancer around not have to worry about that. it's just a way to lift up any un