golden gate salmon association, a coalition of commercial businesses and fishermen relying on wild salmon. the group says is poses a serious threat to wild salmon and california's $1.4 billion salmon industry. golden gait salmon executive director joins me from san francisco. thank you for seeing me. it took 20 years of looking at this for the f.d.a. to approve genetically modified salmon. they say it's safe, you say it could pose a threat to wild salmon tabbing -- stock, why? >> they did a yes cursely look at the federal level. we asked for an gens review to be done, an environmental impact statement. the federal government refused to do that. nicks, if the fish make it to market. consumers will not know they are genetically engineered, because there's no labelling requirement. a bigger concern is everywhere we have seen salmon farmed - whether it's norway, chile, canada or washington state, there has been escapees. the canadian government made a finding that they expect there'll be escapees with these fish as well. >> let's go through some of these things. what do you think the sda will

the golden gate salmon association is still studying the bill but any proposal allowing more water to be siphoned out of the delta will harm the fishery. >>> dogs seized from animal fighting rings in california may be spared from euthanasia. currently, california law states all such dogs are labeled as vicious and put down. lawmakers in delaware, florida, and rhode island have passed similar legislation. >>> yahoo notified 107 employees in sunnyvale today they're being laid off. the cuts are part of plans to trim the worse fork by 15%. the company has been struggling to increase share of revenues. >>> uc berkeley says it is bleeding red ink and will try to reduce its deficit of $150 million. the chancellor says cuts will need to be made. he's proposing consolidating departments, cutting spending on athletics and laying off staff. he says the future of the university ask in jeopardy. >>> let's talk about the weather forecast. absolutely spectacular and sparkling out there. >> yes, indeed. but you can see a little bit of change in the air here. right now it feels cooler than it did yest

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the salmon count in california is already at record lows because of the drought and the salmon associatione bill could only further harm the solomon and the fisher men, as well. and tesla new model low cost model in the tesla world is go to start on march 31 online and in stores the next da and it will cost you $1,000 to make a reservation, the model three has a base price of $35,000 which is half price of the model s. >> many expect it will sell out the first day. all the most remarkable story of morning, a teen has a way to create artificial organs by using just a simple cotton candy machine. vanderbilt university provided a video, the machine used to make spun sugar can make capillaries which are crucial forgetting oxygen to and moving waste from the organs. vanderbilt said they got this machine from target for $40. >> crazy. >> amazing. the more trait of steven tyler than many of you saw on super bowl xlix a copy sold for $7,000 and it is made entirely of skittles, 20,000 skittles. the money will go to tyler's charity for abused girls. >> next at 6:00, a wanting for pet owners in the e

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