next on al jazeera america, an artificial retina could help millions see again. >> welcome back to alazeera america. i'm del walters. a second deadly bomb attack attacking the russian city of volgograd. this comes after a bombing at oa train in the very same city. >>> an artificial retina is being sold in the u.s. for the first time ever. the new technology can restore sight to millions of people who are now living in the dark. we talked to one of the first people to get that new device. >> dean lloyd, an attorney in palo alto, california, lost his sight 30 years ago. then in 2007 he got it back. at least in part. >> it had some effect but how useful it was going to be for me was a different issue. >> reporter: lloyd volunteered for a trial, and he was one of the first recipients of the artificial retina. the device just went on sale in 12 u.s. cities. it's mounted on a pair of glasses. it produces a low resolution sketch of the world. it's not true sight in the way seeing people experience it. but it highlights point of contrast and makes it possible to broadly identify obstacles and

an artificial retina will be available for medical use. correspondent tells us what it's like to see again. >> dean lloyd, an attorney lost his sight 30 years ago. in 2007 he got it back - at least in part. >> the point of life is i haven't seen anything in a long time. it had some exciting effect. how useful it would be for me was a different issue, concern. >> lloyd volunteered for a clinical trial and was one of the first recipients of an artificial retina, the argus 2. the device went on sale in 12 u.s. cities. the implant receives a signal from an implant on the glasses, it stimulates the back of the eye, producing a low resolution sketch of the world. it's not true site but highlights points of contrast and makes it possible to broadly identify options. >> i'm getting dirt, grass, foliage. >> you can tell the difference between one surface and another. >> that's correct. you have to think about that to make it useful. >> the device is approved for treating retinitis pigment owesa. this dr helped to develop argus 2. he says the next s

plus seeing is believing, jake ward on how artificial retinas are changing lives. new lights use low wattage led rights, neither harmful for the trees nor dangerous for the kids that may touch them. >> many play-off spots in the n.f.l. are still to be decided. mark morgan is here to explain it all. >> hey, a lot of anxiety in dallas, wondering what the dallas cowboys would do. tony romeo underwent back surgery. kyle ortman will start quarterback in the eagles game. sher een williams of the fort worth star telegram weighs in. >> that lees this game in the hands of kyle orten, he made 69 starts. he's 35 and 34. but has not thrown a pass as a starter and only thrown 15 passes over the last two years. it takes the pressure off the cowboys. no doubt about that. they can go in, play loose and >> well, we are going to end the year very wet. texas to florida panhandle. but up to the north extremely cold temperatures. and they're going to be staying in place pretty much all week. let's look at what's happening out there. the snow showers pushing through, that's due to a wav

we're going to see retinal technology -- >> i thick i have a retina. >> they have clear, that's one of walk through the airport, it scans your retina. >> i said to the woman, i can become a burglar now. at which my little girl started to cry. i've never been fingerprinted before and now i find i don't have them. but it's an interesting discussion. clayton and erin, thank you for your time. >> this manager i had a special breakfast i want to tell you about coming up next. >> i have >>> fighting for or true dome are overlooked. this program is working to provide care packages for our service members. >> a lot of troops may not have family, or their family, because of the economy, can't afford to send bags so we're just trying to fill in the gap for them. >> they use money from concert promotions and from your generosity. operation troop aid is make as positive difference in letting our armed forces know we stand with them. >> talk about organizations doing good. this morning i was honored to speak at the fairfield county 2013 real estate awards in stanford, connecticut. i was there on be

retina gives you much better resolution.ur eyes cannot detect the pictures, almost perfect imaging. you can watch a movie, play games and it is sharper and chris. >> even from this distance, it looks sharp read >> it is very sharp. tablets are used for data simple e-mail. it is harder to work anyway. the most important thing is lightweight. i love the nine or eight inches. >> i do have the ipad mini, not the newest one, but i love it because it is the size of a hard book cover. wife do better than this, not better than wife, but it is a great device. people love this. the thing that makes it great this year is the storage. 128 gigabytes of storage, the biggest ever for apple. with more storage, you can do so much more. product, it apple is always faster. the first thing is larger storage. you can have your whole life there, basically. have the wristband -- >> you are just taking a random order. mbere have the iphone 5s, nu lenovo i'm holding the yoga tablet, and then we go to angie. >> this is what we are talking about. it i

when i did the retina strict i had to explain to elderly people who only spoke chinese to help them exercisehe law. that's one small example how a whole set of laws can be introduced to people so they won't have to go to a library full of very complicated indexes to find what the law means to them and? the magic behind the usefulness how people need to understand your law. and congratulate you get hub and congratulate you for employing more people and being such a great partner and finally comfortably lives of people who want to live and work here. that's the new nature of the technology. get hub congratulations and all of you for being in this wonderful and beautiful historic building that you see a lot of improvements to. this is exciting to be in selma and let's kick avenue innovation month and keep comfortably lives in san francisco. thank you very much and congratulation (clapping) >> thank you, mayor ed lee. we're excited to be here in san francisco. i forth to introduce myself i'm tom and on behalf of this tech community we want you to join us over by the big statute we're going to do

it concentrates light 100,000 times on to the retina. to put a light, a green beam, can do serious damage. >> are there regulations regarding the sale of the lasers. >> that's the thing. it's a weird nebulous area of law. in theory you are allowed to have this kind of 5 millo watt laser for instructional educational purposes. you can buy a 2 megawatt laser. it's enough to light a match from across the room. people use them to pop balloons. you are not supposed to operate those without safety goggles. a group of amateur astronomers pre-arranged it, that they could shynn a 1 megawatt laser at the international space station much an astronaut on the space station saw it, took a photograph. and so to be as close to whoever this was to the jetblue flight puts them in range of doing serious damage and endangering everyone on board. >> great to see you. thank you. >> now to an important story that we are covering on a regular basis, the deadly violence in the central african republic. hundreds have been killed in the sectarian fighting. today t

an artificial retina will soon be available for medical use in the u.s.th a blind man who took a chance on the technology. >> dean lloyd, an attorney in palo alto, california lost his sight 30 years, abthen in 2007, he got it back, at least in part. >> it was a point of light that i hadn't seen in a long time, so it had some exciting effect, but how useful it was going to be for me was a different issue, a different concern. >> he volunteered for a clinical trial and was one of the first recipients of an artificial retina, the argus2. the device just went on sale in 12 u.s. cities. it receives a signal from a camera mounded on a pair of glasses, stimulating the back of the eye, producing a low resolution sketch of the world. it's not true sight but highlights points of contrast and makes it possible to broadly identify cob tackles and objects. >> i'm getting right about there, where it's dirt or grass, whatever is in there, some kind of foliage. >> you can determine the difference between one surface or another. >> that's correct. it's a different contras

definitely tall. >> a blurry pixel rue is primitive, but especially by directly replacing the retinaa milestone in the effort to understand and improve the human body. jacob ward, aljazeera, palo alto, california. >> stunning technology there. and although the fda has given its approval, it still has to have the go ahead from the federal communications division, because an implant contains a radio device. and they expect that next month. >>> coming up on aljazeera aljaa america, saving patients from head trauma. michael issue machish, the technology that's saving live. and plus, a photo bomb off of a california beach that has so many people talking. what could that mystery creature be in that wave in these stories tonight and the top headlines in just a moment. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm jonathan betz with tonight's headlines. 13-year-old jaich mcmath will get another week on life support at the california hospital. her family filed an emergency injunction to stop the hospital from taking her off life support. >>> explosions after two trains collide he in north dakota. a t

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if that's the best they can read the economy then we can think of the retina. it's a bit with that. that's why the dog onto my bike with one of the stairs the child is the conservatives. on a wet that they acknowledge that change will not come overnight but if anything what movements like this i'd like to send me some bread so this is reaching a point where they are looking for a death wish they'd feel simply did not exist within the walls of this institution one of the wand and tess are silly. made up the left unity party will be eager to point out that they the camera scattered some of britain's richest businessmen and industrialists are out of her trip to china up to the break reported a visit with a promise was going in to do but try to secure beijing's favor and catch. last thing the problem as the victim to a single drug in yemen is being blamed for a nationwide shortage of water this was another of the bread. the air the do you speak a language more news programs and documentaries in arabic. it's cold here all of today reporting from the wilcox we are keen to be an intriguing

patients should be on the retina feels like she's finally in two towns again. friends and family are also released on zuma's is going to help them. and the minute you think this change them into al asks questions and explained everything in detail. he really cares and is honestly interested in us getting better at that stage an occasional thing. we've seen rooms are full across most waves of brazil the country is short of over fifty thousand doctors especially in rural areas. people hear the mold on this program is day one hope of getting rapid medical attention. there are critical voices the brazilian medical associations that doctors' qualifications and thinks that being treated on family this also was able to see more doctors have the status of scholarship holders. i don't have a work contract in a new holiday entitlements they can proceed with the team on saturday brazil's employment laws have been broken by the government itself the doll. costs are another issue. brazil pays just over three thousand one hundred euros per month old gonzalez's services. she

middle of your your head and literally is your third eye and certain reptiles and actually has a retina and a lens why do you think in our study produces that we don't know it means we need to research it we need to find out there's a lot of theories about it which range from completely fantastical to you know the idea that it's just a part of normal human neurotransmitters and normal human neurochemistry and that when you take a large dose of it you just get this scrambled crazy signal that you can misinterpret for being a conversation with god you know the actual the people who believe it's an actual mystical experience believe that what it may very well be is a chemical gateway and that there is another world besides the material world that we exist in and that there is more than one way to to experience this type of. transcendent consciousness experience and that there is no psychedelic mushrooms and dimethyl tryptamine in the there's a bunch of different ways to somehow or another pass this this rigid dimension that we exist in and experience something that's close by and the detra

middle of your your head and literally is your third eye and certain reptiles and actually has a retina and a lens why do you think in our study produces that. we don't know it means we need to research it we need to find out there's a lot of theories about it which range from completely fantastical to you know the idea that it's just a part of normal human neurotransmitters and normal human neurochemistry and that when you take a large dose of it you just get this scrambled crazy signal that you can misinterpret for being a conversation with god you know the actual the people who believe it's an actual mystical experience believe that what it may very well be is a chemical gateway and that there is another world besides the material world that we exist in and that there is more than one way to to experience this type of transcendent consciousness experience and that there is no psychedelic mushrooms and dimethyl tryptamine and peo d. there's a bunch of different ways to somehow or another pass this this rigid dimension that we exist in and experience something that's close by and the d

as well as the iphone 5s and the ipad mini with retina display, they're going to kill it with these products, folks. could we correct by $20, $25? sure, in a heartbeat. and could we go through $600? just as easily. three months from now the stock is more towards 6.25 than 5.50. >> it was up more than a percent and then backed up. >> obviously the tape didn't help. i thought that push up the 5:55. you want to play again, that's actually sort of a 68.2% correction off of the whole thing as well. it's interesting. i'm in dance camp. i think you have got to get a pull back. >> so bye for you as well? >> i didn't know. >> i'm confused there. >> the bottom line for the viewers. let's move on. now that we're clear about the rules of the game. the bioparma company. this is after the stock is already been up 100% so far this year. so guy, buy or good-bye? >> you know my answer. >> buy. >> buy. and we have talked about -- forget about this year. the stock had a $30 handle and bid all over this name and people will say it has gotten ahead of itself. they have said that every ten for the last three or f

about 7 or 8 years ago in the uk for immigration they put in a computer that read your retina of yourecause so few people registered for it, there were very short cues and i was able it to get through uk immigration faster and basically walk through. i love automation. >> i think it's faster and takes the subjective, the bias out of screening potentially. it could be a much more fair process so to speak. >> okay. topic two, france imposing a new rule on the ubber car service. the rule says ubber drivers must wait 15 minutes after receiving a car reservation to actually leave and pick up the customer. apparently this is to distinguish ubber service from that of a traditional taxi. are you feigning outrage at this? >> no. what makes a difference. i'm going to order my ubber 15 minutes earlier. there are ways to get around everything, right. >> do you use ubber? >> i have used it. in new york city as well as san francisco and it's great. i know that on twitter today there's a lot of outrage over tonight and what's going to happen with surge pricing tonight. you know. >> as far as -- i me

some of the new others are the apple ipad mini with the retina screen.atest in tech and media every weekday at 1:00 and 6:00 eastern time only on bloomberg west. there will not be a union in the men's closing -- clothing business, at least not for now. rejecting a $1.5 billion takeover offer the men's wearhouse. julie hyman has more on this. it looks like there may eventually be a resolution to the back and forth that has been going on for several months now. joseph a bank came out with a statement to say we are rejecting your $55 per share bid . if you look at how dose of a bank shares have traded, they are down this morning. -- joseph a bank shares have traded, they are trading down this morning. it looks like investors think it is worth more. saying we would look for other acquisitions for us to make as well. the companies have agreed in principle that a deal makes strategic sense. this all started in october when joseph a bank made an offer for then men'souse, and wearhouse turned around after leading the offer expired and made an offer or a smaller

. >> probably burns your retina. >> "wall street journal" in a new analysis of data netflix found halfits viewers are binge watching seasons of the tv shows in only one week. keep in mind, one season contains about 22 episodes, study monitored the viewing habits of those watching. the current top ten popular shows netflix says the data is proof that binge viewing has become a social phenomenon and certainly has with my friends. >> oh, and people who don't have time to watch tv at the regular scheduled shows. "houston chronicle" the mega millions jackpot continues to grow, could climb as high as $656 million. that marks the fourth largest jackpot in history. ticket sales are expected to jump ahead of the drawing on tuesday. >> with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico mike allen a look at the playbook. good morning. >> good morning, willie. >> so the new issue of politico magazine actually has a really good piece by john rolston the long-time las vegas political reporter about the career of senate majority leader harry reid, his secrets to staying in pow power, you gu

the ipad mini is doing well ipad air, ipad retina and nobodyments to talk about the 5c.bers in japan are good. the problem with the 5c is the bigger issue which is nothing in the low end for them. they do control the developed world market. they'll take a big piece of japan, take a piece of china. they'll have a great q1. the problem is they're playing catch-up. they need a bigger phone. they don't have one. they need an entry-level phone they don't have one. q2 q3 they'll have trouble beating this number. it's a $600 story. the $777 for apple is unlikely and may not do as well as the dreamline other with the same unlucky number. >> brian, what do you think? >> if apple -- if you did a discounted free cash flow model and you don't have apple growing at all zero terminal value, zero growth over the next decade, the stock's worth over $6 00. think about that. i think apple will grow. second point there's a lot of new innovation coming out of apple in fiscal '14. we'll have a bigger iphone with iphone 6 we believe. iwatch, apple tv fiscal'15 and apple in chin sna. >> all th

go for either a retina display or high definition. >> over to the wireless speakers.re you are using the right protocol. if it says air play and you don't have an apple device, that's not for you. bluetooth, everything can do bluetooth. if you see an airplay and don't have an apple device, that's not for you. you can't hear that in the store. >> portability. if you are the person that likes to move your speakers around wherever you go there there are some great ones. >> great information. i feel like i learned so much about tech. i don't know anything about. coming up next, i will get you caught up on all the news you need to get your day started. you thought about food for your holiday table. how will you present it? we got some good ideas. tell me you can't wait for christmas. and you appreciate the things i do. tell me you love me. even if you say it every day. just tell me. [ female announcer ] everyone you love has something they need to hear this holiday. tell them with a hallmark card. ♪ hark how the bells, sweet silver bells ♪ ♪ all seem to say throw care away