i said, i have parkinson's disease.rexy was held several hours before being released without charge. police said that he was standing near a group of protestors and his behavior was causing concern. basic police recruits receive disability training and they support raising awareness of medical issues. now he wants police and society at large to become more aware. i am george alagiah. the top stories. celebrations in venezuela as hugo chavez's chosen successor wins the presidential election by a narrow margin. the opposition is demanding a recount. the u.s. secretary of state john carey tells north korea to stop the nuclear surveyed and start meaningful negotiations. -- john kerry. scientists in the u.s. have created a working kidney and successfully transplanted the organ into a rat. it is a first for the world that could bring new hope to millions of people waiting for an organ donation predicted he was grown in a lab and the results are said to be encouraging. our health and science reporter is following this medical

stuart: he is saying a 2% cut will cost us a cure for parkinson's, cancer and aids. unbelievable.ot run for reelection next year. i say that is good news because he will champion tax reform. lower rates, fewer deductions. ♪ stuart: if you want to scare the newsroom of a big city newspaper, you tell them that conservatives will run their shop. that is what happened to the l.a. times when it was reported that the cocoa brothers made by the l.a. times. here is my take. buy it, boys. buy it. run it. take back what has been lost. i am gung ho in favor. first, the current editorial policy is far left. that has got to change. california has been ruined by those policies. los angeles is specially needs and editorial shift. it is the home to hollywood. it is the power base, along with san francisco, for democrats who have thrown the entire state behind and antibusiness venture that has affected us all. if they ran the l.a. times, they could put some backbone into governor brown and push him towards racking for the oil wells. i know this brings a chill, but it brings joy to my heart. i got

jay parkinson is the founder of the company. jay, it's good to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> so health insurance the second biggest expense for companies, we know that, after payroll. tell me hoe your company sherpaa aims to address that. >> oftentimes companies insure their employs. >> you have a relationship. tell me how the system works. >> whenever a company signs up for sherpaa, we send each employee an e-mail saying welcome to sherpaa. they sign up. and they get access 24/7 to one of our doctors. 10 whenever they're in a bind, they're sick, they're hurt, they shoot us an e-mail or give us a call, and we'll either try to solve the problem right then and there, or we'll fast track them to exactly who they need. >> whereas in today's world, obviously, it's very difficult. something happens, it's very difficult to get to your doctor in an emergency. you may not see the doctor that is the one that you wanted because they may not be on call that weekend. >> sure. we got an e-mail from a patient who is describing clas

will strand people with illnesses without a cure and if we pass this or that bill we will cure parkinson'sn insult. it is not that simple. you don't flip a switch and these really complex diseases are cured. this is ludicrous and you have to wonder who sat down and wrote this and what the majority leader thought when he read it off the card. does he believe this? is there a single person that buys this? >> sean: i think this lying campaign they use it because they think it works. they demonize conservatives all the time. >> anybody who takes what he says value and is moved to vote on that basis should not be vote sing. >> sean: but they are. >> you are too dumb to vote if you buy that. >> sean: rush calls them low information voter. there is a a lot of them. it was obama's idea are for the sequester and the republicans said you prioritize the cuts and he said i don't want any part of it. why didn't he lead? >> we can stand around pointing fingers at one another. head start is being cut. medicare. patients being cut. unemployment. >> we are reducing the rates it increased but we are cutting

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they ran the evans-parkinson story and he lost the next election. c-span: the story still follows vice president quayle? >> guest: she came back, as you know, during the last presidential campaign. by then we had become much more cynical about these women. she made her charges against vice president quayle -- i guess then candidate quayle -- saying that while they were on that weekend he had propositioned her, but she had said no because she was there as another man's date. she had told the fbi the same thing when the whole episode had first been investigated. nobody much cared. she went on "geraldo" and named five republican congressmen she said she had slept with. they didn't air the show because there was no corroboration, but she finally said it on "larry king" and no one cared -- still no one cared. we had become somewhat jaded about these scandals. c-span: let me go back to your sen. riegle story in the detroit news. correct me if i'm wrong, but the detroit news editorial policy, i believe, is either conservative or republican. >> guest: it is

. >>> live on the new york stock exchange and over on the nasdaq, it is the parkinson's council whiche kicking off parkinson's awareness month and that work is actually based in your home town philadelphia and they are raising awareness. it takes a lot of work. >> and we will smile and say good morning, it is the first day of april, i am dave clark. >>> and i am pam cook, we continue to follow breaking news out of venetia, a deadly accident. here is sal. >>> we are putting it up on a map, military west, this was reported 25 minutes ago and they arrived there and found somebody laying in the lanes and this is eastbound trying to get to the concord area and then use the carquinez bridge and use south and avoid 780 eastbound because both lanes are closed and chp just told us they will be out there for a while with this investigation and there are a lot of fender benders with this wet weather, let's go back to the desk. >>> we are getting word that the bad weather causing delays, you can see how wet the roads are and airport is reporting delays on flights up to 58 minutes so if you have t

. >>> live on the new york stock exchange and over on the nasdaq, it is the parkinson's council whichs they are kicking off parkinson's awareness month and that work is actually based in your home town philadelphia and they are raising awareness. it takes a lot of work. >> and we will smile and say good morning, it is the first day of april, i am dave clark. >>> and i am pam cook, we continue to follow breaking news out of venetia, a deadly accident. here is sal. >>> we are putting it up on a map, military west, this was reported 25 minutes ago and they arrived there and found somebody laying in the lanes and this is eastbound trying to get to the concord area and then use the carquinez bridge and use south and avoid 780 eastbound because both lanes are closed and chp just told us they will be out there for a while with this investigation and there are a lot of fender benders with this wet weather, let's go back to the desk. >>> we are getting word that the bad weather causing delays, you can see how wet the roads are and airport is reporting delays on flights up to 58 minutes so if y

durante la cual dibujan lo que dicen es un mapa del ser abro pacerebro par una causa de sinfÍn como parkinson vive con el dolor de ver como su madre ha sido empeorando a causa del alzheimer. >> tenemos que alimentarla, baÑarla, hacerle complutmenetam todo. >> incluso no reconoce a sus hijos. >> segÚn las estadÍsticas 1.3 millones de latinos en estados unidos, padece de ese mal. >> entretanto el cientÍfico espaÑol quiÉn enseÑa en la snifrs dado columbia en nueva york llegÓ a estados unidos, con dos maletas hace 26 aÑos para tratar de cumplir con una misiÓn que comenzÓ con un libro. >> cuando tenÍa 14 aÑos mi padre me regalÓ una biografÍa y decidiÓ que estar con el cerebro. >> para el profesor el mÁs importante de su carrera porque dice que finalmente entender como funciona el cerebro serÍa no solamente ayudar a millones si no a toda la humanidad. >> en washington, lori montt negro, telemundo. >> en instantes en el noticiero telemundo, en venezuela el candidato nicolÁs maduro explica como el fallecido presidente chÁvez supuestamente se lehmann fes to para bendecir su campaÑa electoral. >> adver

>> imagine if no family had to feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of parkinson's or struggle in the grip of epilepsy. imagine if we could reverse traumatic brain injury or ptsd for veterans coming home. >> the program would be funded with $100 billion from president barack obama's first 2014 budget. the white house says it is in line with its state of the union pledge to increase funding for scientific research to spur economic growth. >> it is now 25 after the top of the hour. coming up, at first, the administration says the sequester cuts left america vulnerable on the border, but now they have a different story. >> i'm saying -- >> absolutely not. you're editorializing. >> that heated exchange between fox's ed henry and the white house spokesperson jay carney coming up. >> we'll tell you about a neighborhood about to become home to some seriously dangerous criminals. we'll tell you about a plan to move terminally ill prisoners into a nursing home near you. >> first on this day in history, in 1981 the osbourne 1, that was a computer. it was the first successful

it plays out in alzheimers, parkinsons disease, 10 president of alzheimers and packsons is geneticallyed. knowing the genetics helps us understand the entire population some of the pathways involved. >> the goal of the study is to reduce the risk of faipting which can become a safety issue. morning, brian! love your passat! um. listen, gary. i bought the last one. nice try. says right here you can get one for $199 a month. you can't believe the lame-stream media, gary. they're all gone. maybe i'll get one. [ male announcer ] now everyone's going to want one. you can't have the same car as me, gary! i'm gettin' one. nope! [ male announcer ] volkswagen springtoberfest is here and there's no better time to get a passat. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease one of four volkswagen models for under $200 a month. visit vwdealer.com today. for under $200 a month. clusters of i had thispustules, pimples. right next to my spine. the soreness was excruciating. it was impossible to even think about dancing. when you're dancing, your partner is holding you. so, his hand would hav

for autism, schizophrenia, parkinson's epilepsy.f those conditions that's why we're doing it. >> stephen: what about the pleasure center of the brain? could you drop a little electrical impulse there and give me the feeling all the time that it's like i'm a freshman in high school and it's wintertime and i'm about to get up and my mom comes in and it's a snow day and i get to snuggle back underneath the covers and she brings me tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. if you could find that, hook a 220 line to it. crank it up and rip off the nobody. i want to go home. >> i get that. that's that's the -- >> steve: what is on that first? >> woody allen said this was his second favorite organ. we have to keep that part in mind, too. >> stephen: well, you can already hook up cables to the other one. [laughter] thank you so much. dr. francis collins. [cheers and applause] director of the national institutes of health. we'll be right back. won't we? [cheers and applause]

new project that maps the human brain in an attempt to find cures for diseases, such alzheimer's parkinson's and even reverse the effects of a stroke. this man is co-chairing. committee of the supersmitts and they will spend the next year -- superscientists and they will spend the next year outlining the program. >> this is an initiative that will hopefully produce better and more useful maps that will enable people who are studying the brain in all different ways to do it better to do it faster, to arrive apartment an understanding of the basic mysteries of the humane brain. >> president obama says the research has the potential of improving the lives of billions of people globally. the white house says the project would require the development of new technology that could record electrical activity in individual cells and complex neural circuits in the brain at at speed of light. obama hopes the federal government can partner with private companies, universities and philanthropists on this project. janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> today is world autism awareness day. autism orga

both my parents have parkinson's disease, and i live with them, and i'm their caretaker, and i want toin money to take them on a cruise, 'cause that's, like, the easiest vacation to take them on 'cause it's flat and i can wheel them around and stuff. >> sure. >> the anchor's for my other daughter, who's in the navy and couldn't come here today to be with me, so... she cried. [laughter] >> well, is there anything you want to say to your parents before we get started? >> hi, i'm gonna win money for the new bathroom. [laughter] and the cruise! >> and the cruise! all right, alison, so we got some work to do here. >> okay. >> 12 years in the making. let's see the money in your round 1. computer, please randomize those dollar amounts. now here are the categories to your questions. and let's randomize those as well. and now that everything is all shuffled, are you ready? >> yes, i am. >> audience, are you ready? [cheers and applause] then let's play millionaire. [dramatic musical flourish] okay, alison, in 2012, ru

imagine if no family had to feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of parkinsonsggle in the grip of epilepsy. >> reporter: the president says he's asked congress to spend $100 million next year to fund the project. the initiative calls for the development of new technology that can record the electrical activity of individual cells and neurocircuits in the brain. it's expected that much of that $100 million would actually be spent right here in the bay area and our health and science editor john fowler is in san francisco now with more on that plus some of the people john who may benefit directly from this. >> reporter: that's right, this brain initiative was hailed at long overdue by some remarkable people we spoke with here. nowhere are mysteries of the brain more compelling than among people here at the pomeroy center. suzy had a stroke a year ago today she's meeting with a group recovering. >> we want to understand it. we want to understand what went wrong with us. and the only way to do it is through research. >> we came to another session and a bus hit our c

it is aimed at helping researchers find ways to treat and cure parkinson's disease and autism and more. >> as humans we can identify galaxies light years away, study particles smaller than an atom but we have not unlocked the mystery of three pounds of matter that sits between our ears. >> the project will require the development of new technology that can record the electric activity of individual cells and complex neurocircuits in the britain. >> it will take a week or two. >> that is a massive project. >> now to the weather. >> i have gray matter outside in the form of clouds. that is the best i could do. sorry. more than these pounds. it is light. but you add it together it would be heavy. good morning, everyone, live doppler 7 hd has good news, keep umbrella away. watch out for low clouds still hanging around santa rosa and five mill visibility and around napa at three. that is considerably better than it was this morning. it will continue to improve. here is a look at downtown san francisco from south beach, the low clouds are break up and on the left side of the screen, that is

new project that maps the human brain in an attempt to find cures for diseases, such alzheimer's parkinson's and even reverse the effects of a stroke. this man is co-chairing. committee of the supersmitts and they will spend the next year -- superscientists and they will spend the next year outlining the program. >> this is an initiative that will hopefully produce better and more useful maps that will enable people who are studying the brain in all different ways to do it better to do it faster, to arrive apartment an understanding of the basic mysteries of the humane brain. >> president obama says the research has the potential of improving the lives of billions of people globally. the white house says the project would require the development of new technology that could record electrical activity in individual cells and complex neural circuits in the brain at at speed of light. obama hopes the federal government can partner with private companies, universities and philanthropists on this project. janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> today is world autism awareness day. autism orga

the fda says the company has a new parkinson's drug without additional trials. shares of acadia gained more than 64%, $13 a share. highest closing price in five years. >> investors bid up facebook in advance of its home download that goes live tomorrow. the first facebook optimized phone available at at&t as well. shares of facebook gained $28 a piece. still $10 below the ipo price of $38 a share. >> netflix rose on news that is adding shows from hasbro studios. streaming versions of popular kids shows like the littlest pet shop. netflix gained $7 to $173 a share. >> things got a whole lot worse today for scott london, the former kpmg executive, accused of giving out inside information about big california-based companies his firm audited. and got worse too for his stock trader friend that benefited from the proprietary information. jane wells on how the dirty deals went down and the civil and criminal charges both men face. >> "insider training like counting cards in vegas." that spoken to a country club friend who was reporting on and recording information lon

it is aimed at helping researchers find ways to treat and cure parkinson's disease and autism and more>> as humans we can identify galaxies light years away, study particles smaller than an atom but we have not unlocked the mystery of three pounds of matter that sits between our ears. >> the project will require the development of new technology that can record the electric activity of individual cells and complex neurocircuits in the britain. >> it will take a week or two. >> that is a massive project. >> now to the weather. >> i have gray matter outside in the form of clouds. that is the best i could do. sorry. more than these pounds. it is light. but you add it together it would be heavy. good morning, everyone, live doppler 7 hd has good news, keep umbrella away. watch out for low clouds still hanging around santa rosa and five mill visibility and around napa at three. that is considerably better than it was this morning. it will continue to improve. here is a look at downtown san francisco from south beach, the low clouds are break up and on the left side of the screen, that is th

imagine if no family had the feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of parkinsons or struggle in the grip of epilepsy. imagine if we could research vtsd, ic brain injury or imagine if someone with a prosthetic limb can play piano or throw a baseball because the wiring from the brain to that prosthetic is direct and triggered by what's already ppening in the patient's mind. what if commuters could respond to our thoughts or our language barriers could come tumbling down or if millions of americans were suddenly finding new jobs in these fields? jobs weapon haven't even dreamt of yet because we chose to invest in this project. that's the future we're imagining. that's what we're hoping for. that's why the brain initiative is to important. and that's why it's so important that we think about basic research generally as a drive of growth. . and that we replace the across the board budget cuts that are threatening to set us back before we even get started. you know, a few weeks ago, the directors of some of our national laboratories said that arbitrary r, these across t

fox has been on the hunt for a cure for parkinson's disease, and is working on that.id he would look at keeping the fight. listen to what he said. >> we cleared past it, the things that have not been done before. we're doing gene therapy, to re-grow cells in the brain. and we're finding ways to measure parkinson's progress before its existence, so we can do research early on. i mean, a lot of breakthroughs that are kind of behind the scene-scene, you have to do in order to take the next step. >> and again, this was michael j. fox's first timet the white housrespondent dinner, you would think since he has been in the industry for so long, you would feel like he had been here a time before. but no, very surprising. >> glad you said alex keyton, i loved him in "the good wife," he did well with that, too. >> we should see him back on the screen really soon. >> okay, lots to talk about, jimmy kimmel was the correspondent at last year's white house dinner. it is always a difficult task when you make fun of the president who is sitting so close to you. and as weaitor conan o

parkinson's, alzheimer's, autism. >> epilepsy, schizophrenia, bipolar disease.st of conditions. >> reporter: you heard the president say this at the white house. as humans, we can identify galaxies lightyears away -- >> we have still not unlocked the mystery of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears. >> i think he said it very well. it is amazing, three pounds? >> reporter: more complicated than any computer and more colorful. even as we sleep. a lot of people simply want to know why they had that dream last night or that nightmare. >> well, we all have curiosity about the brain, don't we? it is our essence. and we have a chance to get answers to those questions. >> reporter: brainstorm. >> brainstorm, i suppose. hopefully brainstorm with a really nice outcome. >> reporter: and so we choose dr. francis collins, who will now try to map that three pounds of matter in all of our heads. our brain. that is "world news" for a friday night. i'll see you later this evening for "20/20," as we explore anger in america. losing it, caught on tape. for diane s

imagine if no family had to feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of parkinsonsstruggle in the grip of epilepsy. >> reporter: the president says he's asked congress to spend $100 million next year to fund the project. the initiative calls for the development of new technology that can record the electrical activity of individual cells and neurocircuits in the brain. it's expected that much of that $100 million would actually be spent right here in the bay area and our health and science editor john fowler is in san francisco now with more on that plus some of the people john who may benefit directly from this. >> reporter: that's right, this brain initiative was hailed at long overdue by some remarkable people we spoke with here. nowhere are mysteries of the brain more compelling than among people here at the pomeroy center. suzy had a stroke a year ago today she's meeting with a group recovering. >> we want to understand it. we want to understand what went wrong with us. and the only way to do it is through research. >> we came to another session and a bus hit o

fox has been on the fight for finding a cure for parkinson's disease and he's a big proponent of stemso he said he was coming here tonight and he was going to talk to politicians about keeping that fight on the forefront. so listen to what he said. >> we've cleared past the things that weren't being done before. we're doing research on gene therapy, to regrow cells in the brain. and we're finding ways to -- to measure parkinson's progress before symptoms are in existence so that we can do research early on. a lot of breakthroughs that are kind of behind the scenes you have to do in order to take the next step. >> and again, this was michael j. fox's first time at the white house correspondents' dinner. you would think for someone that's been in the industry, brianna, for so long like he has that he'd been here a time or two before. but no. alex p. keaton, it's his first time here. >> i'm glad you said it. >> that is surprising. >> i'm glad you said alex p. keaton because we all -- i have to say, i love him in "the good wife." his character in "the good wife" is amazing as well. >> and

the human brain and the hope is that the research will lead to answers and eventually cures for parkinson's alzheimer's. >> imagine if no family had to feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of pash kin son's or -- parkinson's or eppeply. imagine if we could reverse traumatic brain injury for our veterans coming home. >> the president also said by investing in this project new jobs will be created, perhaps in some fields we haven't even thought of yet. answering critics' concerns he would make sure the research is done in a possible way. now, william newsom will be on the team of scientists who will come up with a plan, set goals and estimate the costs. president obama and scientists compare this to a groundbreaking study on our genetic makeup. in his state of the union he said for every dollar invested in this project, $140 for added to our economy. pam cook, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> president obama is hosting a visit with the prime minister of singapore at the white house. the prime minister will be the third asian leader to visit the white house this year. president

the human brain and the hope is that the research will lead to answers and eventually cures for parkinson'snd alzheimer's. >> imagine if no family had to feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of pash kin son's or -- parkinson's or eppeply. imagine if we could reverse traumatic brain injury for our veterans coming home. >> the president also said by investing in this project new jobs will be created, perhaps in some fields we haven't even thought of yet. answering critics' concerns he would make sure the research is done in a possible way. now, william newsom will be on the team of scientists who will come up with a plan, set goals and estimate the costs. president obama and scientists compare this to a groundbreaking study on our genetic makeup. in his state of the union he said for every dollar invested in this project, $140 for added to our economy. pam cook, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> president obama is hosting a visit with the prime minister of singapore at the white house. the prime minister will be the third asian leader to visit the white house this year. preside

project could help find way to treat or prevent brain disorders such as alzheimer's disease and parkinson'sease and autism and schizophrenia. we will keep an eye on that happening right now. >> we will give you a look at the weather forecast. mike? >> i have good news. >> it is not raining outside and i a excited for you if you are headed out on the commute. live doppler 7 hd showing how dry it is. we will take a look at san francisco in the east bay hills from sutro towers the clouds are thicker on the coast side than the bay side in san francisco where we have 51 degrees and same in oakland and san jose at 53 and 51 in oakland and 47 in walnut creek and 44 in mill valley. a beautiful picture from mount tamalpais this morning, and santa rosa at friction and livermore and napa and fairfield 49, and los gatos, also, 48 and union city is warmer at 52 degrees. high clouds and sunshine this afternoon after we are rid the morning low clouds by noon and rain for thursday, and the weekend is trending brighter and dry. that is good news. now the temperatures in the upper 60's to low 70's in the san

they have one for parkinson's in the pipeline. and the management factor.he ceo of opko is the man with the midas touch. over the last 30 years, he's founded and sold two drug companies, first key pharma, bought by schering-plough in 1986, and then ivix. 6,000% profit when frost sold the company. he doesn't just run opko, he owns 46% of the company and he bought a ton of stock in the opening market. this guy has a track record. opko has been so hot. one of the hottest stocks on the market. all right, now, most speculative for last. exact sciences. exas. the company trying to break into the $3 billion: cancer screening market. with a test for colorectal cancer. talk about stuff, a little difficult, but it's a family show. anybody who has ever had a colonoscopy and that is everybody over the age of 50, knows it's a painful, invasive procedure, that requires you to fast and drink a ton of colon cleanse. it tastes terrible. in short, it's a giant pain in the butt. so exact sciences has come up with a test that might let you avoid that colonoscopy if you don't n

the sequester could also cost the country and humankind a cur for aids, parkinson's disease, or cancerlou: that senate flo literally overwhelmed. meanwhile, rublicans are accusing the obama administration and manufacturing a crisis by taking a 4 percent cut to the faa budget and imposing a 10% reduction on air traffic controllers. here is republican congressman l. rogers of kentucky lashing out at faa administrator. >> this imperial attitude on the part of the administration and the most recent example of that imperialism is disgusting. lou: the faa says staffing reductions from sequester related furloughs are to bme for the more than 1,000 flight delays yesterday. interestingly, few washington d.c. area airports are experiencing any delays allow. senator ted crews, republican of texa now said he wants the path the citizenship taken off the table for immigration reform. inn interview with cbs a senator crews suggested the reason president obama and the democrats are insisting on a pa the citizenship in the gang of a pill is that they know that it will scuttle the effort altogether andh

fox has been on the fight for finding a cure for parkinson's disease and he's a big proponent of stemch. so he said he was coming here tonight and he was going to talk to politicians about keeping that fight on the forefront. so listen to what he said. >> we've cleared past the things that weren't being done before. we're doing research on gene therapy, to regrow cells in the brain. and we're finding ways to -- to measure parkinson's progress before symptoms are in existence so that we can do research early on. a lot of breakthroughs that are kind of behind the scenes you have to do in order to take the next step. >> and again, this was michael j. fox's first time at the white house correspondents' dinner. you would think for someone that's been in the industry, brianna, for so long like he has that he'd been here a time or two before. but no. alex p. keaton, it's his first time here. >> i'm glad you said it. >> that is surprising. >> i'm glad you said alex p. keaton because we all -- i have to say, i love him in "the good wife." his character in "the good wife" is amazing as well. >>

this man's parkinson's disease makes it hard to walk.n the same man can ride a bicycle like a ten-year-old with no problems at all, we don't understand. that's a mystery. if we understood the brain better, we could offer more help to people with brain injury, like veterans that come home with signature injuries from the wars. if we understood the brain better, maybe we could offer replacement limbs that just work. like the first president bush 20 years ago, what president obama is calling for is for the nation to think big. we can do that if we want to. we have done it in the past. or we can think small. this photograph was taken a couple weeks ago in columbus, indiana. because of budget cuts, head start programs have to kick out preschoolers. the ap caption says the man is listening to the names of families that lost their place in preschool in his town. they decided which kids got to stay in head start by lottery. drew names from a fish bowl in columbus and franklin, indiana. 36 kids were booted from head start because their names were

coffee reduces the risk of prostate cancer, helps with alzheimer's, has been in a lot of studies with parkinsonnd now we see this with breast cancer. this is coming from sweden. they looked at 634 patients. if they have breast cancer, after the surgery, they put them on tamoxifen, which is an anti's general medication. one group took only tamoxifen, the other group took it and two or three cups of coffee. the ones that also drank the coffee, they had much lower rate of recurrence or return of the cancer. >> heather: do we have any idea what chemical this is or what it is about the coffee that makes this happen? >> there are many theories about this. they think maybe the coffee actually, whether it's antioxidants or whether it actually induces that tamoxifen to work better. also there is other studies that coffee had something called phyto estrogen. if you take one or two cups of coffee, it won't help you. so the right amount, which i was hoping that gregg would ask that question, is how many cups do you need? the answer is three to four or more. except if you have heart disease, don't touch it.

the hope is that it will lead to new treatments for alzheimer's, parkinson's, brain injuries or epilepsyalaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than an atom, but we still haven't unlocked the mysteries of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears. >> the synthetic neurobiology group at m.i.t. said there are 1 billion cells in the brain operating at a very high speed. >> we're talking about an enormous amount of information every second, comparable to the scale of the entire internet. being generated by a single human brain. >> but why with a tight government budget should we spend millions on mapping the brain now. well, the science is there, and researchers hope the federal dollars will be used to create new jobs and develop new technologies that will one day allow us to see how neurons work in the live brain. >> there are 11 million americans who suffer from diseases of the brain. it's costing us $500 billion each year to give health care to those individuals. if we want to make progress, we have to build a foundation of how the brain works. >> we use it ev

and with parkinsonism it's not possible for any physician to say that. so it wasn't something he's doing for himself. it was because he thought it was right for the people in the state of washington. you rarely find someone with that ability to get out of their own self-interest. he just believed in it. he believed it was best for the people of washington and he wasn't going to let his sickness or anything else stop him from getting it done. it passed by about a 54% majority. booth was a great man. they say people are -- they pass twice, once when they die, and once when people stop telling stories about them. the stories will never stop about booth, i can stand up here and tell them for a long time, but he was a great man. he was a good governor. he was a good father. good husband. and he was my partner. and my friend, and i'll miss him very much. rest in peace. i yield now to doc hastings from packer. mr. hastings: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i want to thank another colleague from washington, mr. heck, for having this special order. i didn't kn

we like this because of the hope of the parkinson's formulation. >> buy, buy, buy. >> ronald in california, ronald? >> caller: professor jim. what do you think about sd. >> i like sd. a video with me at the street.com, he thinks this is the right speck at this price. me, i'm holding back. i prefer magnum hunter. let's go to joe in michigan. joe? >> caller: yeah, jim, go blue. what do you think of ticker wen, wendy's. >> that's syracuse, partner. we don't want to bet on syracuse, we like mcdonald's if it's fast food, with like panera, we don't need to go down to wendy's and the biggy fries. george in arizona, george? >> caller: boo-yah, mr. cramer. >> boo-yah. >> caller: love your show. >> thank you. >> caller: my stock is svrl. >> i'm blessing seadrill. and i'm going to paris. but it's in california. paris. >> caller: how you doing, jim? i wanted to know what you thought about pxp. >> congratulations, but ring the register. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the -- you have to put the philly's record here? that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the "lightning round." >> the "ligh

there was a nun with parkinson's disease. doctors thought she had.pe john paul for a cure. supposedly she was cured. is that right? that was the first miracle. >> that's correct. and what the church does is it requires that these alleged miracles be investigated by medical experts, that the x-rays blood tests, everything medical records be reviewed by a panel of doctors and they try to get experts in the field of the disease that the cure took place in and they look at them and they say, okay is there an explanation. if there's an explanation, possible explanation, then the miracle's thrown out. but if they cannot fine any scientific explanation for the miracle, then it can be used in the cause of beatification or canonization. >> i have to ask you a cynical reporter question -- who are these doctors? >> well it's a committee of doctors that the vatican has who are independent doctors. they've gone through medical school and all that. their reputations are on the line in terms of their professional credibility. so they're not people who are going to

imagine if no family had to feel helpless watching a loved one disappear behind the mask of parkinson's or struggle in the grip of epilepsy. imagine if we could reverse traumatic brain injury or ptsd for our veterans who are coming home. imagine if someone with a prosthetic limb could play a piano as well as anyone else because the wiring to the brain to that prosthetic is direct and triggered by what's already happening in the patient's mind. what if computers could respond to our thoughts or our language barriers could come tumbling down? or if millions of americans were suddenly finding new jobs in these fields, jobs we haven't even dreamt up yet because we chose to invest in this project. that's the future we're imagining. that's what we're hoping for. that's why the brain initiative is so absolutely important and that's why it's so important that we think about basic research generally as a driver of growth. and that we replace the across-the-board budget cuts that are threatening to set us back before we even get started. you know, a few weeks ago the directors of some of our nati

wendy now has parkinson's. >> adam had his sixth birthday party and invited a group of kids to go. that's where i remember talking with nancy. nancy was concerned about adam. he was shy, a little withdrawn, quiet. she was worried that perhaps he had some kind of neurobiological condition. >> wendy, were there any support groups? >>oh, sure. >> did you ever participate in any? >> sure. did you ever hear whether nancy did? >> none of the ones that i was in, but she was talking about sending adam to st. rose because classes were smaller and she thought he might do better there. >> did she say why she thought he needed... >> i think it was his shyness and uncomfortableness, i guess, in large social situations. a class of 20 people is a lot for a six-year-old to handle. >> so did he not have a one-on- one aide like miles did? >> no. he may not have been diagnosed with anything at the time. what can pass inspection at six often is not going to pass inspection, say, at nine. but at whatever age, even if you're merely suspicious, it's a kind of awful thing to have to deal with. >> so nancy