and the u.s.d.a. there has been some pretty high visibility particular going back to the george herbert walker bush administration scandals essentially although nobody was ever prosecuted there's just published about revolving doors you know about people from monsanto literally a vice president from monsanto becoming the regulator of the bush administration who determines whether or not genetically modified products can be allowed and says don't open a domino you're all just fine and then he goes back to being the vice president monsanto with a nice bonus is that kind of thing happening at the f.d.a. is that's what's going on here or is this just old fashioned incompetence or is this congress cutting their budget i mean what's why it boils down to political will so that both the u.s.d.a. and the f.d.a. there are plenty of folks who have revolved between industry and the agency and that still goes on there are still folks there that have industry ties and some of it is just they haven't been forced you

or turn it back over to the companies that are making the chickens in the first place or process u.s.d.a. wants to turn over most inspections to these private companies untrained employees or no no actually no requirements for training new rules would leave only one official u.s.d.a. inspector on poultry plants water lines and they would be responsible for inspecting three chicken carcasses every second every time and time again from the private privatization of our education system to health care to middle military we've seen the privatization costs more and gives poor results but it does make a few donors to the republican and the democrats very very rich so we get more and more privatization there's no time for us to say you know there are appropriate roles for government like you know making sure that our food supply is safe there are appropriate roles for private industry like you know making the chicken hopefully safely or you know the most delegates or whatever and just let each do to stop this privatization absolutely i mean it's particularly it's particularly disappointing i thi

government the u.s.d.a. won't allow those tests to be used and we think they should be allowed to be honest we have about thirty seconds left but why do you think the media and also the beef industry isn't taking that much of a hit considering that when mad cow is first scabbard it was a huge international story you know the industry took a major hit why did it there's so little attention paid to these recent deaths well because there's now this is not you know we had the fourth case two years ago and there wasn't much coverage of that it was the media saying oh these things happen randomly it's because people don't want to pay attention and they have this new notion that oh this just happens that brain. it doesn't and these cases are going to keep on happening until stronger actions are taken thank you so much dr michael hansen senior scientist at consumer. thank you for coming up to talk about the disturbing new developments on the ground and palestine stick around. for you like you want your comedy news w

at the time of the u.s.d.a. inspection containers of anthrax were missing and had to be tracked down. disinfectant used to decontaminate vials and bags was expired. asked about today's disclosure the c.d.c. said: "the report identified some procedures which we've already eluded to as being unacceptable and we're moving swiftly to correct." the findings were released as a congressional committee prepares for a hearing this wednesday on this incident and others involving small pox and bird flu that have shown lapses in how dangerous pathogens are handled at the c.d.c. and other government labs. >> pelley: jon, the report today said that ziploc bags were used to carry dangerous materials, were the words that were used. what are we talking about here? >> reporter: we don't exactly know what that means. it's so typical of the murky details that have come out in the last few days. the c.d.c. told me just a few minutes ago that it was not aware about the details that were released in the report today. so presumably the

and the u.s.d.a. seem to offer very favorable reviews with final decisions expected next summer jeffrey m. smith author of seeds of deception has joined us before to talk about the effects these crops can have on the environment and i'm not. brave now monsanto is trying to get crops on the market because you can stand doses of two for deer or beside which is a component of agent orange there's other things i've learned in any of these things could create major environmental catastrophes but once it's released into the environment there's no full recall that you can do because the genes propagate through holland and it becomes a cell propagating to do any collusion that could outlast the effects of global warming or nuclear waste that given these three decade length of the natural west virginia study and the pace at which newly engineered crops are being approved it begs a few questions if truly damaging medical evidence is eventually found then what will agribusiness giants be called to account when t

the u.s.d.a.s they can carry harmful parasites and destroy crops. >> later on we'll be moving at a snail's pace. >> i knew that was coming. >> you saw it coming but not right now as we head outside things are moving along nicely in southwest philadelphia along 95 by philadelphia international airport. last night was a night they were supposed to start that new resurfacing project along 95 between the girard point bridge and 420. you see no crews out there right now. all lanes are opened. but one lane is blocked here in middlesex county along 33 eastbound at apple garth road. still some high water there in the right lane and the trolleys were detouring around the tunnel last night because of some construction this morning for those first trolleys everything is back to normal. karen. >> let's plan this day ahead. we're starting off basically dry. we've got a couple of sprinkles out there in a few spots but no storms. by 9:00 a.m., 78 degrees, it's humid. by noon, you're up to 83. you could see a sho

. >> reporter: the u.s.d.a.ll rise as high as 6.5% this year, compared to just 2% last year. the northwest meat company in chicago is on the supply end of the equation, providing meat to local hotels, restaurants and country clubs. but finding meat from producers isn't as easy as it once was. andrew neva is a third generation packer. >> like today, i ordered 12 boxes of whole beef tenderloins. i got six because they don't have the supply. >> reporter: so, he pays more to get what he needs-- on average 10% to 15% more-- and some has to be passed to his customers, who then pass it along to theirs, and on and on until the steak hits your table. and that is something to chew on. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> axelrod: a hiker is lucky to be alive after getting stuck on a cliff in washington state this week. when rescuers arrived, he was clinging to rocks 100 feet above the ground in snoqualmie pass. a helicopter hovered dangerously close to the rocks. as a rescuer was lowered on a hoist, he then fastened the h

or u.s.d.a. that handled deadly viruses have more than tripled in the last decade and two thousand and four there were four hundred fifteen registered labs that handled these agents and that number has increased to a stunning fifteen hundred in two thousand and ten the most recent year in which full data is available this growth is almost exclusively due to the anthrax outbreak in two thousand and one that killed five and sickened another seventeen at the time there were only two labs in the u.s. capable of identifying and cracks and so of course the government dealt with that the only way it knows how by creating a laboratory industrial complex or to reuters over the last decade taxpayers have spent nineteen billion dollars on bio defense reason. search and the expansion of these labs with nearly no consideration given to the increasing dangers this type of policy creates so i look at this chart showing the exponential rise in the number of lost or scaped microbes that select loud from two thous

the snails are extremely invasive and the u.s.d.a. can carry harmful parasites and destroy crops. >> i'm not going to do it. i'm not going to do it. you know i'm tempted at a tuck about traffic moving at a snails pace. >> you didn't say it matt. >> i won't do it. let's head outside where the traffic is starting to move a little bit slowly. let's just say here on the vine street expressway. westbound side approaching the schuylkill just some normal morning volume starting to build in here in center city. still a little storm damage out there in hamilton township atlantic county, there's a downed tree along route 50 near oak street and in middlesex county still have some high water along 33 eastbound at applegarth roadblocking a lane but mass transit so far so good, karen. >> more storms on the way. we're under a slight risk for severe weather so what you can expect. they will be especially late afternoon and evening storms. flash flooding is possible. we continue with that flash flood watch. gusty wind and certainly frequent lightning

look at those comments and they finished all the things they were supposed to review and then the u.s.d.a. has a piece of the action they're supposed to be looking at the crops themselves will they approve to four d. ready soybeans and corn and so there's going to be coming periods coming up for that too so the role for the public isn't done yet we need to keep on both those agencies and make them really look at all the risks monsanto and. this is dow right it's a competitor so it's another chemical company trying to get in the food business the biggest players in g.m.o. seeds are chemical companies with monsanto dupont dow bear syngenta this is not a coincidence they were selling chemicals first and then they engineered the seeds to go with them so they figured oh hey we've got a chemical here that kills things let's make a c. this resistant to it and we can just kind of kill everything around it this is like war through chemical warfare but this is their business model that's their business models they've engineered supposin improvements which are really improvements to sell the chemica