so this section of making the innovation lab was 9 hundred and 80 thousands? >> for the past year. >> so that must include the awards i'm wondering about the labs. >> it is shocking we can redo half a school with that kind of - yeah. >> good evening commissioners regarding the question around the notation the lab is a portion of 9 hundred line item and the impact and innovation awards are a different line item a school block grant. >> it is $600000 line item it is school recognized. >> oh, so school wide recognize was 6 hundred thousand. >> yeah. and others lab notations lab i will that's probably redundant because i asked that was a portion of $980,000. >> that's a portion of the line item that called notation research and development which in here comes to about a million dollars and within that budget is the support. >> okay. so now i'm wondering what the 9 hundred and 80 thousand was spent on i don't need that report now but someone tell me how much for the i labs and the $980,000 was spent on i'm milking that is something notch so (laughter) hopefully anyw

. >> we went to the lab and we looked at every chemical in the lab and checked for arsenic. we did not find anything that was arsenic or arsenic derivative. >> they also checked eric's home. >> we seized every bottle of water, every carton of milk, everything that was there. >> again, they found nothing. so investigators focused on that night in the bowling alley when eric first exhibited the extreme symptoms. a witness said eric had a beer shortly before feeling ill. >> eric had commented during the time that the beer tasted bitter to him, that there was a strange taste to the beer. he went to the bathroom a number of times and he became so ill that, in fact, he brought the trash can from the bathroom over to the lane where they were bowling. >> witnesses said eric's friend, derril willard, had given eric the beer. investigators tried to speak to derril about that, but he refused. >> derril said, i can't talk to you anymore. i've got to talk to my lawyer. >> then six weeks after eric's death, derril's wife found him on the floor of the garage in a pool of blood, a gun in hi

our cameras rolling right there in the lab. rug giant eli lilly's global protection team. >> it's our job to test the product, the packaging and determine if it's authentic or counterfeit. >> reporter: our first drug, the generic cialis that we ordered back at that accountant's office where they changed the number of pills on the prescription. when the package arrived we got a generic drug from india that authorities tell us is not even approved here in the u.s. >> we have enough information here to conclude that this would be a counterfeit tablet. >> reporter: their testing device shows it fails, and what exactly would they find inside? dalton comes from the lab, with the charts. these are the test results right here? >> that's correct. >> reporter: so you can see a hint of blue going across, and then the giant jumps of red. >> correct. >> reporter: that red is evidence of the impurities. >> correct. >> reporter: and what does that tell you? >> it could be potentially dangerous and harmful. >> reporter: so whoever bought this a

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the lab has sent the material back to the cdc for testing. the university wasn't clear on how it was shipped but said they filed property protocols for handling of a biohazard. >> the cdc told us the levels are so small and minute that there would not be any risk but they have to examine the samples to see if anything would be affected. there is no threat to the safety of anyone. >> reporter: stanford tells us that they immediately informed its lab employees about what happened. the school is offering medical consultations for any of them who may have concerns. >> it's reassuring, bob, though it hasn't been opened in ten months and nobody has been hurt. bob redell thank you much. >>> we'll continue to update the story throughout the day on our went and online, of course. you can follow us on facebook and on twitter. >>> well a follow-up now. the three-day search launched by a little girl's screams is over. chp says that little girl is safe. the search started saturday when a toll worker on the bay bridge saw an suv drive by. inside the worker

so we know the maryland lab received live samples. but the same army lab that sent them also sent samples to virginia as well as seven other states from new york all the way out here to california. tonight the cdc has dispatched investigators across the country. but it's likely to confirm the worst. the samples left over at that army lab in utah have already been tested and they do contain a live agent. it was being used to develop a test in case terrorists use anthrax as a bioweapon. the centers for disease control says there is no risk to the public but the government didn't realize what had happened until that maryland lab alerted officials its package contained live samples. inactive dead samples are not shipped under the same secure protocols as live anthrax. and this is the second time this has happened in the past year. last june up to 80 workers were potentially exposed to anthrax when a cdc lab in atlanta did not follow proper procedures and live samples were handled like they were inactive. the state of maryland will not iden

the lab we're talking about is the international space station. when we say this is a mobile lab, we really mean it. the iss is orbiting around the earth at a speed of 32,000 kilometers an hour. that's more than 30 times faster than a commercial jet. with near zero gravity conditions, special diet and modified exercise, it's the perfect place for experimenting on the human body. space was once called the final frontier, and now for medicine, it's a new beginning. nearly 400 kilometers above the earth's surface, the international space station continues its orbit, where it has been every day for the last 16 years. a six-person crew lives onboard. their official titles are astronaut or cosmonaut, but their day job is really scientist. at its core, the iss is a science laboratory. there are experiments that help us understand earth and space, of course, but also the human body and medicine. >> there are parts of the vibration isolation stabilization system, they're kind of little shock absorbers. >> reporter: i've come to houston texas at nasa's johns

but for reasons no one can quite understand, the lab was unsuccessful. >> we would never know for sure our victim was without the dna. i'm not sure what that is, but they just couldn't pull the dna from the bones. so they just advised us almost like a year and a half later, just couldn't do it. just couldn't find dna. >> nothing seemed to be coming of the analysis, and after the first year passed, we were quite disturbed and very upset about it. >> undeterred, investigators sent the skeleton for a forensic second opinion to a private laboratory. this one in pennsylvania. there, scientists tried drilling into a tooth and found just enough tooth pulp to generate a dna profile. >> within three weeks, they came back with a positive identification. >> and with more digging, sergeant john leonard discovered that scarlett wood had surgery performed on her finger just before she disappeared and that a biopsy was performed. >> by law, i guess medically, they have to keep these things for seven years, i was told. i spoke to the doctor that did the operation on her, and he advised me i could go t

a good place to start at at the spider lab at the university of california in cheryl hayashi's lab. > are historians of the spider geno. we are trying to figure out the blueprints for making the silk. you have a transformation from liquid inside the spider's body and outside it's significantly a solid fibre. >> we'll set up a manual silking of the spider. widow. >> first, we stun the spider with carbon dioxide and tape her down ghently. >> this goes across. >> the top of the hour glass. now we are ready for silking. >> this is the set up to get the silk out. >> yes. it's simple. >> the black widow produces several different types of silk. it's the drag line, the threat used to drop and dangle that is the most flexible. >> it's amazing, you can see the silk as it comes out. out. >> we know that, why? >> i can see the dpiing ots, the -- spigots, and the drag line silk has a distinctive spigot. can you see that. >> absolutely. >> if we are lucky we can get 100 metres of that. >> how long will it take her to replenish that? >> a good meal. >> a good cricket. here we got silk out of the sp

the samples were accidentally shipped from one of its labs in utah. they were supposed to be inactive anthrax samples used for research in identifying biological threats. >> no known risk to the general public and no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection. >> reporter: but the pentagon is concerned about lab workers that may have been exposed. at least four in the u.s. and 22 in south korea are taking antibiotics as a precaution. exposure to live anthrax spores can be deadly. >> after a relatively short period of time, the person can become very, very sick. it's largely a lung infection first of all. and then the organism can actually get into the bloodstream and make you very, very ill indeed. >> reporter: stanford says it informed everyone involved in the research lab of the situation when it found out from the cdc on tuesday. it's offering medical evaluations for any lab employee that's concerned. live at stanford, christian hartnett, kpix 5. >> all the samples sent from utah will be transferred to the cdc for further testing. >>> a quick

was reported that the lab suffered from incompetence. ton post" is reporting that roger mitchell jr., the city's medical examiner, will take over the lab on an interim basis. prosecutors stopped sending dna evidence to the city's lab earlier this year. >> a resignation tonight from the second highest ranking episcopal leader in maryland. bishop heather cook turned in her resignation and the episcopal diocese of maryland said today that it has been accepted. prosecutors say cook was drunk, driving and texting when she hit and killed a man on his bicycle in baltimore last december. dock is no longer employed and she will go to trial next month. >> next at 11:00, guns found unattended at the u.s. capitol. a report of three separate incidents including one where a gun was found in speaker boehner's suite. >> something will be different on the next trip to ocean city and tell you about some new rules that you might want to get used to if you go on the boardwalk. >> the forecast over the last couple of days will have you thinking about summer a

so one can take the mobile lab and follow the buses as they go about their routes in the city. and as they stop and start take on passengers accelerate, slow down, one can see how both the particle pollutants and the gaseous pollutants they emit change. then you can take the same type of bus and put some emission-control technology on it -- maybe a trap that traps and burns the particles -- and you can see what effect that has on the particle emissions and also what effect it has on the gaseous emissions. narrator: when kolb's team tested these buses they found some unexpected results. kolb: the diesel buses with particle traps did, indeed, emit only about a quarter of the particles that normal diesel buses emitted, but they did emit a large amount of nitrogen dioxide, which is, again, a gas that is a toxic air pollutant. so you have to be careful, when you're trying to solve one pollution problem, that you don't create a second pollution problem which may be as serious as the first one. narrator: in europe and the united states, policies have been put in place to reduce air po

they gave money named after steven chu, the former energy secretary who onceran this lab. >> it feelsreat. it will feel even better when these guys produce stuff that will really change the world. >> reporter: it starts with these bubbles. chu toured the lab whe scientists are splitting water wi hydrogen and oxygen process processed only by sunlight. >> it's being made on this side and this side. >> reporter: artificial photosinthy sist to ke energy the same way plants d >> the risks are very very real. if the solution costs three times as mu it's not going to be used. it has to be competitive with fossil fuel. >> reporter: chu says i has to work like fossil fuel. that's the goal of the lab to recycle carbon dioxide that comes out of tailpipes into liquid that bus like gasoline. >> i'm confidence electric vehicles will be a big deal and less confident w will be seeing electric airplanes or electric boat boats. >> reporter: one key function is experiments that requires sunlig at all hours of the night using artificial sunlight generators like this prototype at the lab. >> it's a great

it made it from the lab to south korea. on wednesday, here, emergency personnel moved in to destroy the sample and isolated facility and decontaminate it and put in precautions for the people exposed. that includes testing and they were given antibiotics and vaccinations. there is no threat to the public but a serious investigation into what went wrong and how we prevent that from happening again. >> i would say, to say the least, when will they know the concern has passed? >> reporter: well we are waiting for more updates. we have not heard anymore from the department of defense here. today, we hope to hear another update. what we heard is that the people so far have not shown symptoms. the bigger question will be what went wrong here. the anthrax left a lab in utah and went to nine states and south korea. all of the labs will have to check inventory to find out what is going on here john. >> kathy novak, thank you. >>> to the middle east now and the battle for ramadi. the iraqis insisting they have launched a major offensi

these are not the only computer labs. you can go to. the library also has great labs. and computers. as you can see. there are centers. all over the center. concentrated in the downtown area. they're out in the neighbors as well. now. all of those labs. and training. that went with them. we're one of the five group. involved in doing training and support on these labs. the other is up on the screen. it's community technology -- are all partners. in keeping these labs. staffed with trainers. and tutors. and keeping these running. not too long ago. when this initial program was funded by the government. we are looking at the prospect of the funding go away. the program would languish and die. so we worked hard through the keep us connected campaign. to make sure funding was available. and through everybody's efforts. and testimony. the city put aside $1.4 million. to keep the program going for another 21 months. since that time. we have been working really hard to make the program successful. to serve more people and to be able to come back and say. okay. that was great.

tests are being done. >> they will not identify the private lab where the samples arrived via fedex.e 2001, hazmat teams responded and it was send to the center for disease control to see if it contains live anthrax and it's being examined by the state. >> they need more control and protection especially the people that work with this, if that were my job i would be nervous. >> that is scary i don't know how i would react because it hane happened to me. >> the anthrax samples were sent out as part ofa project to create field based tests the samples were killed to stop the bacteria but the process failed to kill it all. they found it and it triggered an alert around the country for others that got the samples. >> i feel like things like this happen more often than we think they do. >> we didn't know about the scenario. >> jim brownly is a retired commissioner with the new jersey state department of health he tried to coordinate the response when the anthrax was found in the post office in 2001. the only one that has concern are those that handled the sampling, the people in the lab an

it was last opened by the lab on july 29th 2014. the cdc told stanford officials the material is very unlikely to pose any risk. >> and it's been ten months since the university did any work with the material. so we're well beyond the point that anyone would show symptoms. and the material's been very secure all this time. and it is now being shipped back to the cdc for an analysis. >> reporter: the defense department normally ships live anthrax at high levels of biosecurity and safety but in this case they were shipped at a lower level because the spores were thought to be dead. the army chief of staff says the problem may have been a failure in the technical process of killing the anthrax samples. u.s. military personnel may have actually used live anthrax in a training exercise with 22 personnel potentially exposed. so far no one has shown signs of sickness, but health and research officials have fanned out to all the labs to see how the potentially deadly material was handled and if personnel are at risk. the stanford laboratory

carnivores are rare -- where there's are different types of clients but take a regular tool back to the lab to grind it up and extract the dna. then we correlate the amount of diversity that we see genetically at any 1.in time to how big the population is lots of diversity big population then we can use this to see win the populations were growing or shrinking and wind and local population went extinct things you cannot see just by looking at the fossils themselves. we learned a lot where my group and others were gathering this information we have seen bison and horses and mammoth seemed to peak 40,000 years ago then started to decline after that. because the two hypophysis would cause them to go extinct is it did not like the peak of the ice age of the humans turned up to kill them all that was like 15,000 years before the peak of the last ice age and 20,000 before there were people which lets us off the hook for the early stages of the decline. but not willing to let us off the hook for the ultimate extinction.the increase of population to move across the landscape restart to learn why ca

so this is some of the green domes that we are looking back in the lab. >> that's correct. the real back bone of the seismic network. and they are sensitive enough to tell you where the moon is over your head. the pull of the moon. >> they provide the data scene turning movements into the yellow p waves and red waves we see in the lab. >> these are the guts of the early warping system. they -- warning system. they detect the motion that an earthquake sends. that's the first part. these are what gets the information out to the rest of the system, and let's us know when an earthquake is coming ahead of time. >> from the moment the p wave reading comes across the system to the time the s or sheer waves strike, a lot can happen. strains could be stopped. rock -- trains could be stopped, planes waved off landings, elevators sent to the nearest floor and hospitals could go into emergency mode. timing is everything. >> so it is very much like watching the way a hurricane plays out, but everything happens quickly. in a hurricane this happens over a couple of days. in an yaik it hap

it is the energy lab in the world. for more than 40 years, it has led the charge in research and design of products directly affecting the way we utilize energy. it will provide labs with important tools so they can best lead our country on a renewable and sustainable forms of energy and transportation and bring these light-changing energy to consumers. i have seen the work and i know this great work is happening at other national labs across the country. last year, d.o.e. signed an agreement for commerlizing technology to utilize d.o.e. labs to further research and energy-efficient building-related technologies and this bill allows that agreement to be extended for at least two more years. d.o.e.'s national laboratories and research programs have been the birth place of some of our best programs. when this research is harnessed by business leaders startups can grow into companies employing dozens if not hundreds, of peopleful we want to make sure they remain an important foundation of our knowledge-based economy. that

the iron and happens naturally in "the stream" but we want to do it in a very controlled manner in the labd of color. >> par precipitate out is out of see. >> we heat it up, can you turn that on over there? next i'm going to add a little seed, so this is pigment we made earlier and basically it will help the other iron become more like that? >> exactly. i don't know if you made rock candy from sugar water you always start with a grain, a crystal of sugar, right. >> basically you put in a little bit of the blueprint for all the other molecules that fall into. >> exactly. >> that looks nice. then air is bubbled in, oxidizing, literally rusting and dissolving the iron. next the acid in the water is neutralized. so what are you adding now? >> sodium hydroxide and add enough to raise the ph up to 7 1/2. >> so i saw it turn blue but only briefly as the reaction continues the oxidized iron turns into an orange that painters call gertite. then it takes about five days for the gertite to separate from the water. >> this is after it has settled and you can see down on the yellow. >> this down here i

. >> school of medicine has been identifieds one of the lab nationwide th mistakenly received a live dose of anthrax from the u.s. army. stanford confirmed this. the pentagon is only realing the 9 states where lab mistakenly received live sample instead of dead bacteria. david louie explains why stanfordfficials say there's no reason to worr >> stanford says it has detailed records of how the anthrax was handled and what safety procedures were used. the the shipped to the lab last july and opened just once 10 day after receipt from the defense department. still the sample being sent to federal lab in atlanta to be tested for live spores. >> cdc let us know that even if there were to be spores in the sample there would be at very, very mute level and they don't, would not pose any risk. >> anthraxmay not have been killing all the spores. vials went to theab and fwhais south korea a.anthrax can be deadly and tied to 5 deaths 2001 after path general sent by il to government office and news media. the incidents were studied a fbi is approve and biochest. he says he thinks the b processing

i use a similar process when i'm working in the lab, when i'm talking about microliters. challenge is to scale it up for millions of barrels of fracking. >> do you think it's doable? >> they have one step towards the solution. but every little bit helps. this is one drop in the buckets bucket of a bigger problem but at least we're moving forward. >> i think we need to sit down the industry the scientists the government put them into the room for a week and let them hash it out and figure this controversy out. >> at the end of the day, you don't want to sacrifice your daily conveniences right? you want those to stay intact so there has to be an alternative solution that meets all those requirements all of those standards and can exceed them. >> that speaks to the plevment of the issue complexityof the situation. >> from drilling into the earth and to rocketing into space, i got the chance to interview chris hadfield. truly one of the most incredible people i've ever been able to talk to. we'll check that out after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hi guys welcome back to "techknow." i'm

the lab that sent out the samples in utah developed the strain more than a year ago. then radiated it to make it inactive and safe for research. but then last week a commercial lab in maryland discovered it was still live. now the fear is that all of those samples sent out in the last year from that same batch may also be live because, again, they come from the same batch. and that means labs in states, military and commercial, plus south korea, may have live virus. lab workers who worked with live virus have to be completely enclosed in protective gear with the inactive virus they just have to wear a simple face mask like your doctor or dentist might wear. the concern of infection for them is very real as is concern of infection by someone in transport. those samples, because they were inactive, were supposed to be inactive, were shipped via fedex as ordinary packages. but the commander in charge says still there is no need to worry about that at this point. >> there's almost no known risk to the general public and there's no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax in

if any of the labs are in our area there's no risk to the general public. >>> to decision 2016 former pennsylvania senator rick santorum begins his campaign tomorrow after announcing another presidential bid. santorum announced his candidacy today near his childhood home in butler county. he is a favorite of religious conservatives and finished second to mitt romney for the republican nomination in 2012. santorum says the americans don't need a president tied to big government and big money. >> their priorities are profits and power. my priority is you the american worker. >> santorum is joining a crowded republican race. ted cruz rand paul and marco rubio have announced their candidacies. so have matt carson former hewlett-packard ceo, carly fiorina and mike huckabee. >>> hillary clinton was in south carolina today. it is his first presidential campaign stop there since losing to barack obama in that state in 2008. vermont senator bernie sanders is the only declared democrat challenging clinton so far. >>> tomorrow patco will unveil six of its next generation train cars. they come co

in the lab. >> i don't work in the lab. i can't because i have to work on grant writing most of the time. >> people who could be doing experiments are instead writing rewriting, submitting resubmitting, trying to get that grant. and what a terrible waste of talent. >> reporter: dr. francis collins is the director of the n.i.h. and has been pushing for more research funding. >> whether it's in cancer or alzheimer's disease, basic science, clinical applications we're at a remarkable moment scientifically. but paradoxically we're at about the worst moment we've been to support that, at least in this country. >> reporter: one would think that when you're in an environment that's this competitive for dollars, that only the best of the best science is gonna get funded. >> turns out that's not true. cause we can look back now, can we actually say that the top sixth was better than the next sixth? turns out we can't. you can't tell them apart. so what does that say? that says we're leaving half of the gr

she says for decades, dipg had been notoriously difficult to study in the lab because cultures of it just didn't exist. in fact the stem cell line she and her team created from jennifer's tumor is just 1 of 16 existing in the world. >> each one, as the result of an incredible donation from families that are facing you know one of the most difficult moments of their life and are already thinking about helping other children. >> reporter: and it is using those lives that dr. mangi has discovered an existing drug that appeared in the lab to slow the growth of dipg tumors giving the promise of extending a child's life by as much as six months. and while not a cure a step in the right direction, thanks to those who gave and are still giving. >> jennifer is still fighting. jennifer will be around for finding the cure. she will be part of it. >> reporter: believe it or not donating jennifer's tumor is just part of what the kranzes have done. they have started a non-profit called unravel pediatric cancer. they are raising money, some of which has gone to dr. monje to do the very research on j

maintenance and reactive it has for scheduled unserviced calls in addition to provide for service the technical lab as the online issues and fm to provide savings to the program the computer originally had an extended waitress i didn't that expired that will cost 55 thousand dollars it is not unreasonable we called them for 8 service calls so i've asked reliable tech to provide supported they've asked for $6,000 that cover 4 to 6 computers depending on the attachs of service and they're supportive in the event and help with raffles they're a very good partner and they've monitored in 2013-2014 and starting in 2015-2016 and i seek approval for the contract may i have have a motion to discuss. >> so moved. >> thank you. any questions or comments from the commission. >> commissioner sims. >> it this a local entity. >> actually, the east bay they don't a lot of remotely it is local. >> any other questions any questions or comments from the public seeing none call the question all in favor, say i. any opposed thank you the motion carries. >> k requesting authorization to renew the grant with candor hous

the military lab a this developed the strain had killed the virus to make it safe for research but turnsnd lab workers discovered two weeks ago. they may not have been wearing much more protection than a simple face mask. still a u.s. commander says the rest of us should be safe. >> there's also no known risk to the general public and no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection at the potentially exposed lab workers in the states. >> the centers for disease control and prevention will transfer the samples to involved to cdc laboratories for further testing. the fbi is investigating but so far found no evidence of foul play or intentional contamination. this marks the second time in a year it's been accidentally shipped out. >>> follow-up. three-day search launched by a little girl's screams is over. chp officers say that she is safe. that search started saturday when a toll worker on the bay bridge sawen suv drive by and inside the worker could see the girl screaming and struggling with a woman in the front passenger seat. officers say the driver contacted them to say the little

army lab in utah but live sample of the deadly bacteria arrived at a lab in maryland last week and now the penitentiary done says similar samples may have been sent to commercial and governmental labs in eight other states, including new jersey, and delaware, as well as south korea. >> known risk to the general public and no suspect or confirmed cases of anthrax infection. >> reporter: but government is concerned about lab workers who may have been exposed that includes an undisclosed number of employees who are now taking antibiotics work at a delaware commercial lab that had been shut down since saturday after receiving suspect live anthrax spores. the state department of public health tells me that the employees are not showing symptoms consistent with anthrax and ought of annex stream abundance of caution they recommended any staff who came in contact with the sample be placed on antibiotics. at least four lab employees in the u.s. and 22 in south korea are now taking the medications, and anthrax spores become airborne, and are inhaled, they can cause severe illness or death. >> af

the d.c. forensic lab and southwest, all dna testing has come to a halt. >> at least we know the pathway we need to get to to have a lab we can believe in. brianne: a national accreditation board found major problems at the facility. among the issues highlighted procedures for the interpretation for dna data were insufficient or inadequate. employees evaluating dna without proper training. and different guidelines being used for dna evidence that need to involve more than one person. the mayor ordered a 30 day action plan to fix the problems. mayor: we are looking for a lab that can handle the amount of business we will give them so all of our confidence can be confident in it. brianne: the u.s. attorney's office raised the concerns last year. they ordered their own audit and similar deficiencies were discovered. "the u.s. attorney's office is hopeful the department of forensic sciences will act upon the experts recommendations and work collaboratively to ensure the the integrity of future dna analysis." this person says she is hopeful the city will work to fix all of the issues at the lab. >> g

david roman says he thinks the lab was the weak link. >> i think the burden of proof should have shown spores sending out as inactive were not inactive. >> stanford says the anthrax research is important to study immunity. and will continue to do this research. students say they're comfortable that protocols are sound. >> most who work here are professionals and are going to take necessary precautions. >> the thunderstorms in texas appear to be tapering off but the danger of runoff continues 35 people have been killed as a result of the storms in oklahoma and texas. >> in houston a 7-year-old boy and family were taken by boat to higher ground. >> after days of rain more is expected to hit parts of the lone star state. the colorado river is approaching flood stage. >> there is no reason for loss of life. we can't move the river, but we can move the folks out of the way. >> joseph smart lives along the river and is heeding warnings to evacuate. >> it's living on the river. you never know. five minutes, five miles away, tides can rise. quickly. >> this is what they're trying to avoid the

narrator: in the lab, lonnie's team analyzes the ice cores.er this same time period. adding to this wealth of information lonnie's team can detect droughts by measuring chemical traces in the ice blown in from dry lake beds. dr. davis: well, that's what i was just wondering about. one of the easiest historic records to track in an ice core are drought events. so anywhere you see sulfates indicate that the environment got very dry. here it is. right here was a drought. in calcium, there was an increase here in the '60s. and then you go down. here's another increase in the '30s. it was contemporaneous with our dust bowl period. actually you know what that is? that's these. thompson: we're now finding that the real story of climate change is not in the science or nature paper that comes from the single site but it's in the connection putting these records together that you see things that you could have never found in one or two sites. narrator: connecting lonnie's tropical ice-core data with cores taken from the polar regions a record of the ear