if there is to be a pandemic, it will by nature be international. and so working with our partners across the globe, we also have a unified effort there. suffice it to say, i think lessons learned from h1n1. there were some. there always are after an event. not only have we learned from them, we've deployed them, we've the ised them across the administration, so we will be even better able to respond should there be another pandemic. >> sometimes more than one federal agency responds to an event orca -- or catastrophe and respond toble to respond. local commanders? >> i assume this is a criminal scene. it sounds like it is. normally the first responder to most crimes is going to be your local police. they are the front line on most things criminal. but on things that cross over into the federal government, we've worked very closely with the justice department and with the fbi, particularly on the joint terrorism task forces. that is the fbi, criminal investigative side on terrorism, and next to the fbi, i think we ha agents assigned to those. so the

yolook at the financial times, other publications over there, the pessimism is pandemic among a lot of writers who thought it ulwork out. >> these 27 nations that are in the ue, the broad eu, they are going to go it alone? there is t in be any european union? you're talking about the -- >> if you collapse, for example, if italy defatsth banks come storming down and there is no way don tania ritacco -- contain it. >> is that a fundamental distinction? people can get confused. the entire euro zone is made up of27 nations. -- the european nation is made up of 27 theu ne could go down. that means they are still in the european union. but they do not have a collective opinion, a position onic is that correct? >> that is correct. but if the euro zone does go down, pat'sable right, you will see a recession in europe will compare to the great depression we had in the 1930s. you will will have a waste land for the banking and naia d.wi it affect the united states? >> without a question. >> our biggest trading partners are right here in this hemisphere. >> yes. >> but we have a problem with the

in golden gate park and to promote a learning and understanding of the human tragedy of the aids pandemic. in october 1996, a historic milestone was reached when congress and then president of united states bill clinton approved the national aids memorial grove act, identifying the site as a national treasure. in addition, the growth was bestowed an award for excellence in 1999. truly a sacred space, it is cared for by those who have suffered the effects of aids either directly or indirectly. a healing sanctuary of space, anyone who has experienced a national aids memorial grove work day immediately feels the light and love by those present and memories of those lost. this group works. a renovation of the old waterfall is under way. 17 defined areas are being planted and maintained by volunteers. six flagstone gathering areas are intended to regularly and the placement of an enormous sea are granite boulder, the 15 freestanding benches, have all been donated. the heart of the growth is the people. all who joined together to stand in solidarity against the tragedy of aids, by action of spa

the castro and surrounding neighborhoods, and my district has been the hardest hit by the hiv/aids pandemic. and it has the highest number of people living with hiv/aids. and i see, every single day, constituents of mine who absolutely depend on these services, whether it is access to housing, legal services, to health care, to mental health services. these are not optional services. these are not luxury services. these are basic bedrock services for a significant number of people living in this city. you know, over my dead body are we going to retreat from our commitment to the people living with hiv/aids and those at risk. and i really just want to emphasize how grateful i am and how grateful we all are to nancy pelosi, who went to congress in 1987 and in her maiden speech on the floor of the house talked about how she was there to fight hiv/aids, and she has fought it in an incredibly heroic manner for the last 25 years. we all owe her an enormous debt of gratitude for her leadership on this issue and for the unending funding that she has brought into sentences go to allow us to maintain

the hiv/aids pandemic devastated our community, but it also gave us the gift. we learned how to speak up and speak out. in the absence of adequate culturally appropriate services, we learned how to build a program to our community needs to survive and thrive. by taking the lead, san francisco greeted model programs that have been replicated all over the world. it is now time to take these lessons to turn our sustained attention to seniors. lgbt seniors are the people who made it possible for us to be standing here in these corridors of power discussing these issues. they created this community that we all value so highly. now it is our turn to take the lead, making life better for them. seniors thrive on hope, too, just like the rest of us. thank you. supervisor wiener: thank you. thank you for your work. i should have noted adam and sheila did an enormous amount of work. i will call another series of speakers. john wary, rick appleby, laurie geidis. stu maddow, larry brikennken, lauren meissner, rebecca, and david gonzales. just come on up. >> that afternoon,

. >> terrorists, dirty bomb, pandemic. >> reporter: his world view is shrouded with dark clouds. >> ae or a meteor strike. >> reporter: i think somebody spent too much time on the internet. >> loss of the power grid. >> reporter: so this part of you is kind of a bummer. >> yeah, it is. the reality of it. >> reporter: not the reality of it. we don't know if it's reality. >> it's not if they're going to happen, it's when. you're saying in my life span those things aren't going to happen. >> reporter: that's what i'm betting on. and if i'm betting they do, you'll let me in. >> that's probably not a good bet. >> reporter: we could argue all day whether a cataclysmic quake or meteor collision is imminent. but one thing is for sure: sales figures here are not earth shattering. over the last couple years, he's been able to sell just two of the six available units. which is why larry has now broadened his sales pitch. >> if you want to retire and you don't want your electricity bill to go up and you don't want your food bill to go up and you don't want to worry about insurance, have we got a

] don't forget to read one of the first disasters i managed as the secretary was each one in one pandemic and remember at the beginning of that, we didn't know what kind was it to be. was it going to be all of 1980 team, very gently or was it not coming and it took a few weeks to get the sort it out to sea with the mortality rate relief would be. in the course of that coordination we learned a lot of things. one of the things we learned is that if all of the kind of security emergency response community out of across the country is not necessarily linked up as tightly as it needs to be with the public health community. so we continue to work with hhs and other partners to bring those more tightly together. the work as well on diagnostics. that is i think going to be the key area for us. many people don't know what we actually have a science and technology director within the department. we run some very important laboratories including the laboratory at the island which looks at large animals on other things diseases and vaccines for those and we are working with others across the country

and other nations have spent billions of dollars stockpiling tamiflu, for use in a possible pandemic. study says tamiflu can reduce the duration of flu symptoms by one day. but the researchers could not confirm the claim that tamiflu reduces the spread of the virus. the drugmaker, roche, is standing by its claim. >>> and there's news tonight on what could be a major change for women in tennis. it has to do with the grunting and shrieking when adult players hit the ball. you heard it there. there's grumbling that not only does that noise distract other players, but young players are learning some strange behavior. [ grunting ] >> sometimes, it can be very distracting. it feels like they're just doing it on purpose just to get you annoyed. >> the women's tennis association says it will take up the problem in march. >>> and do birds just want to have fun? well, take a look at this video from russia picking up steam on the internet. it's a crow on the lid of a jar, carefully sliding down a roof covered with snow. but look. the sledding stops. the crow flies to the stop with the lid and do

children for these people poverty is a growing pandemic i'm just afraid of what the next was going to happen to the next generation. i'm just afraid everything is falling apart very angry because a film like they make in a pause the voices of poverty is a website showing many faces of american hunger god only knows how with three girls two bedroom apartment. trying to keep food in their mouths and sometimes i go without eating just to feed them one of the things i found the trouble ground was just the sheer enormity of this that this is a problem that is probably the single greatest economic challenge facing america the boss numbers cascading all the time that's just something that shouldn't exist in the country with all of the food resources that america has this new york school is one of many where more than half of students are eligible for free lunches in order to ensure the kids get at least one proper meal a day or even say it is it is and i wonder when people at the gabba experts say the problem of hunger in the u.s. is more widespread than in other developed nations getting wo

if there is to be pandemic, it will be by nature international. working with our partners across the globe, we also of a unified effort there. suffice it to say that less and learn h from1n1, not only have we learned from them but we have now deployed than an exercise them across the federal government and across the administration so that we will even better able to respond should there be another pandemic. >> sometimes more than one federal agency response to any event or catastrophe and collectible cassettes of in verizon and evidence. what is being done to better coordinate their response in each and st. anne agencies and local responders? >> i'm assuming this is from an criminaltheme? normally, the first responders to most crime is going to be your local police. they are the front line on most things criminal. almost across the federal government, we work closely with the justice department and the fbi, particularly on the joint terrorism task forces. that is the criminal investigative side on terrorism. next to the fbi, we have the highest n

. >> paris, dirty bomb, pandemic. >> reporter: his world view is shrouded with dark clouds. >> a comettoo much time on the internet. >> loss to the power grid. >> reporter: this part of you is kind of a bummer. >> it is. the reality of it. >> reporter: not the reality of it. we don't know if it's the reality. >> not if they're going to happen but when. you're saying during my life span those aren't going to happen. >> reporter: i'm betting on that. i'm betting if they do, that you'll let me in. >> that's probably not a good bet. >> reporter: we could argue all day where a cat class mick quake or a meteor collision is imminent. one thing is for sure. sales figures here are not earth shattering. over the last couple of years he's been able to sell just two of the six available units which is why larry has now broadened his sales pitch. >> if you want to retire and you don't want your electricity bill to go up and you don't want your food bill to go and you don't want to worry about insurance, have we got a place for you. >> reporter: it won't really be that simple. getting retirees to bu

the government has already spent $1 billion to stockpile it in case of a pandemic. >>> if you logon to google and many popular website, you'll notice changes and all purposefully made. wikipedia shut down for the day. they're protesting anti-piracy laws being considered by congress, which they say would amount to internet censorship. so questionably sourced information will not be available. for about 20 more hours. >> a lot of kids will have trouble with term papers today. >> i thought the same thing. >>> time for another check of the weather from sam. >> google it. oh. here's what's going on. we're going to start with the northwest again. the rainfall totals really something. north of eureka is probably where you get the most wind. even the hurricane force wind, 100-mile-an-hour winds you get there. then the gusty winds in the northeast. 36, 32 miles per hour. it really drives home some colder air working into the area today. look where the colder air is coming from, the heartland of america. 26 below in international falls for tonight. 21 below in bismarck. the colder air is droppin

the alzheimer's pandemic. 5.4 million americans suffer from alzheimer's today. and as all the baby boomers retire, 15 million americans will have alzheimer's. we already spend $130 billion a year on alzheimer's from medicare and medicaid. at this rate in 2050 we will spend $800 billion every year from medicare and medicaid on this one disease alone. that is more than the entire defense budget today. thankfully, right now, the advisory council for the national alzheimer's project act is developing the first ever comprehensive national plan to fight this disease. we cannot cut funding for medical research for alzheimer's today if we want to balance the budget tomorrow. we made a vow to care for our citizens as they age. n.i.h. is the national institutes of hope. we must not cut that budget or else all these families with alzheimer's will have no hope. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman from arizona is recognized for one minute. >> thank you,

focus in four areas; assisting tibetan communities, addressing the threat of hiv/aids and other pandemic decides, advancing the rule of law and human rights and supporting environmental protection/climate change mitigation efforts. these programs have been and continue to be congressionally directed programs. i believe, however, that they advance the values and the interests of the united states, they address critical development challenges that have regional and transboundary reverberations, and let me assure you that none of the funds that usaid manages in china go to the government of china. congress began appropriating funds for assistance to tibetan communities as early as fiscal year 2000. in fiscal year 2006, that program expanded to address governance, environment and rule of law programs through u.s. educational and nongovernmental institutions as directed by congress. for fiscal year 2010, mr. chairman, aid's assistance in china was $23.4 million including four million for health and hiv/aids, 7.4 million for tibetan communities, 12 million to support environment and rule of la