when the young people are worried they can turn to the radiation effects research foundation established by american scientists after the bombs drop the institute gathers statistical studies on the victims of human and medicine of. the time i'm on my great aunt is he back who sharkey books on what's on the bottom two of her children died of cancer and there are no is there a link to. her we have been doing research based on statistical models since one thousand forty eight but we have not found any linkage so we decided to study the d.n.a. of hiba night. he. understand generations. until now i hadn't really been afraid but i've heard that my generation has more problems than the second generation that i know. caused by. the diseases caused by visionary mutations are such a tragedy. what are you sure you want to know. we also have newer information and it's not really well understood a lot of experiments or what are called transgender type of effects effects that have not necessarily appear in the children of people exposed to radiation but maybe you can skip generations. until the result

an expert with 5th poe languagic shark research foundation suspects tidal gates to the slough were closed cutting off oxygen to the stagnant water but the city disputes that and says it will wait for the state to investigate. >>> a beautiful day to be on the bother fishing especially if your catch is salmon, california's first full salmon fishing season in years kicked off today. the commercial season was closed in 2008 and 2009 because of the scarce tee of king salmon and last year was a limited season, but experts predict supplies will be plenty full this year. >>> and beyond a reasonable doubt asked customers today to test ride its new seat design. the agency is replacing its train darlings and want to hear what kind of seats passengers prefer. a test lab was setup at oakland's few veil station. today was the first of 9 opportunities to have a seat. >>> former alaska governor sarah palin is in california speaking at central veil community college. she inauguration a new sports complex at lenore. her most recent speech at stanislaw caused controversy when they didn't disclose her $75,00

the next charity is veteran's medical research foundation.e based right here in san diego, good military, good service town, san diego and they are very beneficial to the military. the wounded warrior project is the third one. at the end of the day on memorial day, right here in san diego, wd40 and i will be presenting checks to each of these charities for at least $100 thousand. a minimum of $100 thousand each. now, the more cans of wd-40 we sell, of course, the more we'll be able to donate to these three charities that i just mentioned. >> that's a good incentive. >> and wd-40 speaks for itself. to honest nest, it keeps the airplane behind you flying. it's aprofen product. what is incredible how many corporations are stepping up for the wounded warrior project? i think this is one of the great military corporate civilian stories of the past 25 years. don't you? corporate america is stepping up to the plate and pulling their share of the load. so many people come to me every day and ask me -- they want to support the troops. they just don't

foundation. can you tell me about that donation and what it will mean to parkinson's research? >> they've been significant supporters of ours, having funded over $100 million of research at the fox foundation thus far, which is extraordinary. and by issuing a new challenge grant for $50 million worth of new funding, that will really enable us to extend our reach. if you only have a little bit of money to spend, you're doing things in sequence. and we have a lot of ideas where we want to be tackling things simultaneously. and so expanded funding like this can really make a difference in how fast we can get to answer. >> the development has been really much easier since we've had a bit of a track record. and this has been great, has been not just the person making a contribution, but really the investor, someone who wants an outcome and is making the best investment they can towards that outcome. it recognizes that the bang for the buck with us. >> michael, a minute ago you said ever since i saw the first symptoms in my pinkie, can you tell what's those symptoms were and how the

we have to find a cure, and we are going to start a research foundation. hat was 12 or 13 years ago. [applause] today, cure has funded research grants all over the world and has changed the whole discussion in the research community. i have to tell you something. when i met my wife, she was the shyest person that i knew. she would no sooner stand in front of a crowd like this than she would jump out of an airplane. now she travels the world speaking about this. i still think she is one of the shies people i know, but what i learned was how powerful the love of a mother can be. what a force of nature that is, because even though we know that the work we are doing probably won't have a material effect on our daughter's life, that her legacy can be that other people will not have to go through what we went through and what particularly she went through. the happy part of the story is that we finally, miraculously found accommodation of drugs that stopped lawrence main seizures when she was about 1819 years old. she will turn 30 on june 6. we cannot get back wh

they are paid for by the foundation biomedical research promoting animal testing. the debate won't be going away anytime soon. >> it's a new discovery to happen we really have to discover them in a living system. >> reporter: the practice of animal research is controversial. >> there's a lot that goes on you weren't want to experience if you were that animal. >> reporter: it's also big business. >> i don't think people have an idea of the vastness of the field. >> reporter: tens of millions of animals across the country are used each year for medical research, chemical testing and education. in baltimore alone thousands of animals are used. most of them at johns hopkins university. >> the work we're doing will save people around the world and in baltimore. >> reporter: vice proper vote of research at johns hopkins says a majority of research has to do with human health. that means finding cures or developing new drugs for hiv and multiple sclerosis. >> we don't suffer diseases we would have suffered after animal research. >> reporter: there are 30,000 mice making t

i have a research foundation. i have figured out -- if you just google wisdom on google you'll see i have 4000 pages of it. [laughter] >> i have two books, but my main question to everybody here is, can you teach big table manners? so i want to ask you, -- >> what's the question? >> i think this is a metaphorical question. >> metaphorical. can you teach a pig table mayor? >> i think for the purposes -- >> let me ask another question. >> suppose you have breast, can you expect gold qualities from browse? >> what you're saying is, the question you're asking is it depends on the basic material you begin with. what can you make? >> yes. the main thing is, corruption, freedom of the press, anything. if a person's mind, i qualify the mine by the way. minus one, plus two n. plus one. if they mind is minus two, can you expect it to behave plus to? it can't be done. the only solution is emotional, intelligence, education on the subject. >> thank you. i think the question is a legitimate question. the question is about the

research. here at the aids foundation they are now using the word "cure" after so many avoided it. felt like you couldn't say it. >> people living with hiv felt like that was sort of a promise that was never going to be realized and it was dangerous to direct a lot of energy toward it. >> now? >> now things have shifted. >> shifted toward the hope that the berlin patient brings the all of us. >> i'm cured of hiv. i had hiv but i don't anymore. >> words that so many in the scientific community are incautiously clinging to. >>> they are trying to replicate his case. now, the goal is to be clinical trials next year. we will be presenting more stories about aids as we aapproach the 30th anniversary of the disease. it will begin on memorial day, monday may 30th. >>> representative gabrielle giffords is in florida tonight to watch tomorrow's scheduled shuttle launch. she saw her husband and said goodbye to him today. nasa scrubbed last month's launch because of storms and electrical problems. there's just a 30% chance of a weather delay for tomorrow's liftoff set for 5:56 a.m. our time.

he's tim kane, research fellow at the kauffman foundation. >> the decision to have a child is personal, private, sensitive- - but who knew it was so selfish? some people accuse modern parents-- especially the high- tiger moms-- of being narcissistic, even obsessive. but if having children was truly selfish, why are birth rates declining? in places like italy and japan, the birthrate is only half of what is necessary to sustain the population level. back to the point, is amy chua selfish? chua is the suddenly famous author of "battle hymn of the tiger mother," a fantastic book in my opinion, but also a kind of cautionary tale. her intense parenting is exactly what makes many potential parents fret that they just aren't ready for children. economist bryan caplan says that's a myth desperately in need of debunking. bryan is a friend, and also what i would call a "dolphin dad." dolphin dads know that kids are less like clay and more like plastic. you can apply pressure, but they will bounce back to their natural shape eventually. twin studies show that parental influence is minimal aside f

it's for the foundation for childhood cancer research. we gave you a sneak preview in may around the bay. laura helping to shave a couple heads on the air. 40 men, women and kids expected to go bald today. let's look at what's coming up later on today in the bay. marla tellez is somewhere. >> i'm in the news room. good morning, scott. who does not want a bobble head of willy mays? but to steal one at gunpoint? we explore the city known as the heart of the bay, hayward. it has one of the oldest breweries in california and may have inspired actor, producer, writer, director, tom hanks latest movie, "larry crown." >> we were talking act the lights out at vaness. >> yeah. as folks heard, coming through sacramento, green and clay, may have signals out because of the outage. we continue to follow that. on the east bay, we have an overturned vehicle that's been cleared. northbound 880 att alvarado. watch that. no slowing because there's three lanes to take over the traffic. one lane is blacked heading into the area. a steady camera and steady fl

same or for economic and policy research and anthony randolph co-director of economic research for the reason foundation john and i thank you both for being here tonight so first starters if we look at what's going on in both parties both of them claim to be serious they can't agree on any kind of solution and they've all dug their heels in so is this going anywhere i mean can you really see it progressing and coming to some kind of a resolution will come to resolution because at the end of the day would people really have their backs against the wall street i mean if it worse came to worse if you actually invision situation where we could not pay off our bills we had thoughts on the debt country still get existed you would have financial crisis if you were in two thousand and eight but the country still going to exist what won't exist is goldman sachs j.p. morgan morgan stanley and the rest of them that's why at the end of the day you know we're going to solve this problem so this is a little charade and people should be upset about because the real problem facing the country here of course is the rece

i have a research foundation and i have actually figured out believe it or not, if you just google youee i have 4,000 pages of it. i have two books. but my main question to everybody here is, can you teach a big table manners? -- pig table manners? so i want to ask you? >> what's the question? >> i think this is a met forcal question. >> yes. >> can you teach a pig table manners? >> i think for the purpose of -- >> let me ask another question. suppose you have brats. can you expect gold qualities from brats? >> so you're saying, the question you're asking is it depends on the basic material you begin with what can you make. >> yes. the main thing is whether there's been corruption, where there's freedom of the press, anything. if a person's mind -- i've qualified the mind, also. minus one, plus one and plus two. if a mind is minus two, can you expect a mind to be plus two? it can be done. the only solution is emotional intelligence, education, compulsory subjects. >> thank you. i think the question here is a legitimate question. and the question is about the quality of information. and

disarmorment at jnu, school of international studies, and was previously a senior fellow at the research foundation. deepa ollapally was -- is the associate director of the senior center for asian studies and research for international affairs here at the elliot school of international affairs, and she holds a ph.d. in political science from columbia university, and daniel markey is a senior fellow specializing in security and governments and issues in south asia. he served o. planning staff from 2003 to 2007. join me in giving a warm welcome to all of them. thank you. [applause] >> just a note that i flipped a coin this morning, and rajesh gets to present this morning. [laughter] we'll both take questions though. >> thank you. let me begin by thanking the organizers of this conference for inviting me to this conference. we've gone through i think three or four renditions of this, so there's one more addition in the morning. before i begin, a few caveats in terms of how we sort of looked at the foreign policy perspectives. one is i think some of the issues have come up in the discussion already. on

research though. here at the san francisco aids foundation they are using the word cure after so many avoided it for decades. >> sort of felt like you couldn't say cure for a number of years, people felt like it was a sort of promise that was never going to be realized and it was dangerous to direct a lot of energy toward it. >> reporter: now? >> things have shifted. >> reporter: shifted toward the hope that the berlin patient brings to all of us. >> i'm cured of hiv. i had hiv but i don't anymore. >> reporter: words that so many in the community are now clinging to. in san francisco, hank plant. >> stem cell research is being funded based on the case trying to repeat the success. the goal is to start clinical trials next year. hank will present more stories about aids as we approach the 30th anniversary of the disease. those start airing here on cbs5 on memorial damon may 30th. >>> a new approach to health care is being tried in the bay area. today a hospital moved more than a hundred patients to its new medical complex. the administrators say the new approach is the future of health care. >>> our future?

come on over here to the microphone. >> please, can ask you to tell us who you are. >> i had a research foundationand i've actually figure out -- if you just google wisdom on google you'll see i 4000 pages of it. [laughter] i have two books, but my question to everybody here is, can you teach a pig table manners? sir, i want to ask you. >> what's the question? >> i think this is a metaphorical question. >> metaphorical question. can you teach a pig table manners because i think for purposes of -- >> let me ask another question. suppose you have rats. can you expect old quality? >> what you're saying is it depends -- the question you're asking is it depends on the base in mature you begin with. what can you make? >> yes. the main thing is corruption, whether freedom of the press, anything. if a person's mind, i quantify the mind also. minus two, minus one plus one and plus do. if they mind is minus two, can you expect a minus two to behave plus to? it can be done. the only solution is most intelligence education is a subject. >> thank you. i think the question here is a legitimate question. and the

in many countries directly supports scientific and technical research through grant providing that agencies like national science foundationor through tax incentives like the r&d tax credit. in addition the government of the and i did states and other countries run their own research facilities including facilities focused on non-military applications. the primary economic rationale for a government role in r&d is absent such intervention the private market will not adequately supply certain types of research. the argument, which applies particularly strongly to basic or fundamental research, is that the full economic value of a scientific advance is unlikely to accrue to the discover, especially if the new knowledge can be disseminated at low cost. for example, james watson and francis crick received minor infraction of economic benefits flowed from their discovery of the structure of dna. it meant people are able to exploit or otherwise benefit from research done by others. the total and social return to research may be higher on average than the private return of those who bear the cost and the risks of innovation. mark

researchers working with the christopher and dana reid foundation announced summers is the first patientand using a new therapy that could change the treatment of paralysis. >> i stood. after not moved anything for four years and i stood. >> the landmark findings are published in the journal. they challenge conventional thinking that signals from the brain are needed for walking. >> what we really discovered is that the neurons in the spinal cord, the nerves can do all the same things as the nerves in the brain. >> summer's injury disrupted the path way that normally triggers walking. researchers put in a stimulator that allowed his legs to move without input from the brain. > left leg up. >> about an hour a day, i can move my ankles, knees, hips, all on command. i started regaining abdominal strength and can do sit ups now again. >> he also made other meaningful progress. regaining bladder and sexual function. he is still wheelchair bound and doctors will not say whether he will ever walk again on his own. but every day he remembers the first time he stood up. >> it's that moment there

research and development. it is good news, therefore, that considerable new work is being done on this topic including recent initiatives on science policy that have been started by the national science foundation. certainly the characteristics of the research to be supported are important for the choice of a policy tool. direct government support or conduct of the research may make the most sense if the project is highly focused and large-scale, possibly involving the need for the coordination of the work of many researchers and subject to a relatively tight time friends. examples of large scale government-funded research include the space program and the construction and operation of so-called atom smashing facilities for experiments in high-energy physics. outside of such cases which are often linked to national defense more decentralized models that rely on the ideas and initiatives of individual researchers for small research groups may be most effective. grants to or contracts with researchers of the typical vehicle for such an approach. of course the success of the centralized models for government support depend, as always, on the quality of execution. some critics believe that funding

researchers working with the christopher and dana read foundation announced summers is the world's first patient to stand using a new therapy that could fundamentally change the treatment of paralysis. >> i stood independently, stood, after not having moved anything for four years and i stood. >> reporter: the landmark findings are published in the journal lab set. they challenge the thought that signals from the brain are needed for walking. >> the in your ons in the spinal cord can do all the same things as the nerves in the brain. >> reporter: summers injury disrupted the nerve pattern that normally stimulates walking, they implanted a stimulator that along with special exercises allowed his legs to move without input from the brain left leg up. >> stand about an hour ada, i can move my toes, afghanistan will, knees, hips, all on command. i started regaining abdominal strength and can do situps now again. >> reporter: he has also made other meaningful progress regaining bladder and other function. he is still wheelchair bound and they cannot say whether he will walk again but he remem

research collection. when the privatizing of the library foundation was created, the library relinquished its custodianship of the collection, lost its designation of the federal documents suppository, voluntarily downgraded its library accreditation, was involved in a book donating scandal, and when declining service was shown, they simply stopped keeping the survey. the library foundation became the franzen foundation. american library association statistics show that in san francisco, compared to other cities, it is the highest per capita expenditure for libraries. 226% of the average. yet, books as a percentage of total expenditures ranks 8.6% less than average. register borrowers as a percentage of the total population is 25% below average. and the collection's size, even in a library 130 years old, is 6.5% below average. when things get privatized, the benefit to the community is the first casualty. the library has always been eager to provide less service for the same amount of money. they will tell you how good their fund raising is, but the public does not get the funds. the current budget crisis,

foundation. the characteristics of the research to the support of our imports for the choice of a policy tool. direct government support or contact other research may make the most sense if the project is highly focused and large scale. examples of this research are the space program and the construction and operation of atom-smashing operations. outside of such cases, a more decentralized model that relies on the ideas and initiatives of individual researchers or groups may be most effective. grants to or contracts with researchers are the typical vehicle for such an approach. the success of the centralized models for government support depends on the quality of execution. some critics believe that funding agencies have been too cautious, focusing on a limited number of low risk projects. supporting multiple approaches to a given problem increases the chance of finding a solution. it also increases the opportunities for cooperation or for constructive competition. the challenge the policy makers is to encourage experimentation and a greater diversity approaches. government support for innovat

senator tom coburn put out a report mocking the national science foundation for funding research projects$500,000 grant. the media began cracking jokes about obese shrimp. >> you know what you call a shrimp that is overweight? jumbo. jumbo shrimp. >> reporter: this, this is my idea of shrimp on a treadmill. but you won't find this guy working out . he is at charleston where they are using that $500,000 grant to do what doctors do to people. this is like a stress test for shrimp. >> yeah, it is, exactly. >> reporter: how long will they run on it? >> they will run for hours, at least five hours in some cases. >> reporter: lab director lou burnett say they subject the shrimp to environmental stresses like low oxygen or pollution and then measure their response using blood tests and checking respiration. what's next? shrimp on a stairmaster? actually, treadmills for crabs and even lobsters were the next step. not to create crustaceans but help seafood survive. professor burnett sounded a little fried accused

foundation. it raises money for the children's cancer research. the event was even close for the event's host. >> our chief's daughter has cancer. >>> and it was a very nice day here in the bay area. what are we looking at tonight and for the rest of the week. >> pretty nice tonight as well. a little fog out there. that will be the big difference. right along the coast, there it is now. you can see up by the marin head lands. you get a break. this is that kind of fog if you're in daly city and pacifica. you see the fog shooting through the san bruno gap there. we see winds 20 to 25 miles per hour. that's the gap you see the fog always push through. it's going to end up in many bay area neighborhoods late tonight early tomorrow morning. and it'll look just like a kind of a summer morning when you wake up and there's fog everywhere. slow to burn. that's why temperatures come off cooler two or three days tomorrow. low fog and clouds keep temperature on the mild side. 50 in concord, that's not real cold for this time of year. but it's on the chilly si

today, researchers working with the christopher and dana reeve foundation announced summers is the world's first patient to stand using a new therapy that could fundamentally change the treatment of paralysis. >> i stood-- independently stood. after not having moved anything for four years, and i stood. >> reporter: the landmark findings are published in the journal "lancet." they challenge conventional thinking that signals from the brain are needed for walking. >> what we've really discovered is that the neurons in the spinal cord, the nerves in the spine cord, can do all the same things as the nerves in the brain. >> reporter: summers' injury disrupted the nerve pathway that normally triggers walking. researchers implanted an electrical stimulator at the base of the spine that, along with special exercises, allowed his legs to move without input from the brain. >> last leg up. >> stand about an hour a day, i can move my toes, ankles, knees, hips, all on command. i started regaining abdominal strength and can do situps now again. >> reporter: he's also made other meaningful progress, reg

let's talk about it with jonathan chanzer, vice president of research at the foundation for defense ofemocracy, also a former terrorism analyst at the treasury department and author of "al-qaeda's armies". treasury plays a big role in trying to combat these terror groups because if you're going to conduct a terror campaign, you have to have money to pay for it. that's where treasury comes in. so what about it? with bin laden dead, does their funding dry up? >> well, let me just say this. i think first of all the treasury has done an excellent job over the last ten years going after the financial modes that al-qaeda has relied on to fund its operations, and i think we've been able to shut down a number of charities in this country, we've gone after charities abroad, we've been working with our allies and i think we've dried up a lot of it. it's really forced al-qaeda to have to resort to what we call bulk cash smuggling, where you have individual donors, largely from saudi arabia and other oil-rich arab nations, who have been providing these funds to saudi arabia and it will come in the

research. the avon foundation has raised more than $380 million since 2003.ou'll see more pink today as walkers complete a half marathon. we also have a live interview today with another event to help fund the fight against breast cancer coming up at 9:15 this morning. >> looking forward to that. >>> 7:45 right now. the "today" show is next here on nbc 4. it starts at 8:00. >> let's get a preview now. jenna wolfe joins us live from new york. good morning, jenna. >> kimberly, aaron, good morning to you. >>> coming up on "today," path of destruction. lester is live in tuscaloosa, alabama, with the deadliest tornado outbreak in decades. hundreds have been killed. and this morning hundreds more remain missing. we'll have the latest on the search for survivors and the struggle to rebuild. >>> also, deadly strike. in libya, a nato attack kills moammar gadhafi's son and his three grandchildren. the dictator escaped the operation. we'll have a live report from tripoli. >>> plus the step to sainthood for pope john paul ii. look at this extraordinary sight at the vatic

collabrates with a number of researchers at other universities, government laboratories, and state agencies. we utilize the computational resources with the national science foundation terror friday and tack at the university of austin. and we use noaa data extensively in our research. one of the main applications of this research is the predictive surges due to hurricanes and tropical storms by predictive simulation i'm referring to the development of computer models which can be used in real time to forecast storm surges as hurricanes approach land, to study the impacts of hurricanes and to preproduce actual measurements which were taken during the storm and to study future scenarios for reasons which i will discuss below. the computer model that we have developed is an advanced circulation model. this model takes inputs from various services and compuce water models and currents driven by hurricane force and waves. it was used extensively in forensic studies of katrina as part of the interagency evaluation task force. as i mentioned predictive simulation of storm surge can fall into three categories, forecast, forensic studies and forecast mode. >> they use the r

draft of such a framework has been developed by the lumina foundation, and it's called "the degree qualifications profile." it uses established research to describe the knowledge and skills degree holders must possess and be able to apply in the real world. this degree profile is now being tested by professors, accrediting agencies, and others. it's a bridge between employers and higher education around the kinds of competencies that make people successful. we're in a race to keep companies investing and building here at home. the degree profile can help show the way forward. i'm jamie merisotis. >> tom: finally, consumers aren't the only ones reeling from high fuel costs. delivery businesses are, too. nationwide, diesel fuel now costs about 20 cents a gallon more than regular unleaded gasoline. as we continue our series "pumped up prices," erika miller looks at how some of new york city's food trucks are swallowing the higher prices for now. >> reporter: when you think of street food, this is probably what comes to mind. but lately, there has been a boom in souped-up trucks serving gourmet fare. one of them is sweetery. >> would you

so, at the center for social media over the last five years we have been running a forward foundation research project on the evolution of public broadcasting and to what we are calling public media 2.0. at the time we started this about santa very futuristic. nonsense other retro. we're onto four-point oh. we're not sure that but that's what happens when you're on the cutting edge forget to keep running. we been really interested in this question of how public the well evolve in this moment of open participatory platforms, the shifting dynamics of not just news but cultural debate. and we've been trying different interventions and different research approaches to try to get this question, both within the field and within organizations and innovators outside of the field who are doing what we might think of as public media five years or maybe even suited. so one of the ways that i've been sort of approaching this is from across the ankle. we've been examining not just how you can inform citizens, but how you can increase the capacity of the way that they understand their role as citizens can't

renaissance risk sciences foundation, whether predict, fedor alliance for safe homes, institute for business and home safety, bay area research institute, pacific earthquake engineering research center, and so many others of you, including our departments working together. i know our dbi director is here. fire, police. our dem as well have all been a part of looking at so many programs that we have been able to put together for the effort to make ourselves resilience and to pay attention to the newer area of science beyond response, and that is to help our city and region recover quickly. we know what our role is in terms of the u.s. economy and world economy. as all of you know, we take seismic safety seriously in san francisco. we have been working on so many different programs. our office of emergency management, fire department, first responders all have been preparing for the big one for so long. and we know that the big one is about to come. the percentages increase, as you have informed us. many of you, in your expertise, a 65% chance that in the next 25 years, is what is being predicted. working closely with the fire

foundation grid and the texas access computer center. we have connections with the national oceanographic institution and use data in our research. when the main applications of this research as the predictive stimulation of storm surge is due to hurricanes and tropical storms. by predictive simulation i refer to the development of computer models like to be used in real time as hurricanes approach land and study the impact of historical hurricanes to produce actual measurements that were taken during the storm and study future scenarios for reasons i will discuss below. the computer model that we have developed is called adcirc, which stands for advanced circulation. it has been used to study hurricanes for over a decade and music -- was used extensively in katrina as part of the interagency task force study. predictive stimulation can fall into three categories, forecast, forensic studies, and teacher scenarios. in for christmas, our model uses supercomputers such as the ranger computer to generate a high resolution forecasting that within one hour. for a storm approaching texas or louisiana, the information is transmitted whic