>> whitaker: aristotle? >> osanna: yeah. >> whitaker: euripides?en trying desperately to open the scrolls since they were discovered. >> brent seales: the history of the unwrapping of the herculaneum scrolls is littered with failures. everyone who had tried to open the scrolls had left behind a hideous trail of fragmentary result. >> whitaker: brent seales, a brash computer scientist from the new world-- the university of kentucky, to be precise-- had what he thought was a brilliant idea to solve the 2,000 year-old mystery: use modern medical imaging technology. >> seales: people were going to the doctor every day, and they were doing a c.t. scan or an m.r.i., and they were seeing inside their body completely non-invasively. if you can do that to a human in the doctor's office, why couldn't we see inside a scroll? that was the thinking. >> whitaker: didn't think it was that farfetched? >> seales: no. >> whitaker: in the arcane world where academics spend their entire careers poring over fragments of ancient texts, brent seales is a superstar. he ma

and now this is the sperm coming in. >> whitaker: wow. >> mitalipov: now it's inside there. >> whitaker: just like that, that egg has been crispred? >> mitalipov: crispred, fertilized. >> whitaker: and you have changed the genetic destiny of that embryo. >> mitalipov: yes, we believe so. >> whitaker: these embryos will never be implanted, but they are grown in an incubator for three days, and then checked to see if they carry the disease mutation. >> mitalipov: the embryo work... >> whitaker: normally, 50% would. mitalipov says with crispr, 72% were free of the mutation that would cause the heart disease. this is a huge advance in science and medicine. >> mitalipov: we hope so. i think, we're still kind of in the early stages. i wouldn't say that we are ready to go to clinics now. >> whitaker: he knows his results have to be replicated by an outside lab before they're accepted by the scientific community, but if they hold up, one day crispr could be used to help families that have been plagued by inherited disease for generations. is that what drives you? >> mitalipov: yes. of course, i

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the park is where les whitaker often takes his lunch breaks. come down here all the time to let my dog run and a lot of kids come down here and play."but between 2 and 5 sunday afternoon... sacramento sheriff detectives say this is where a 76-year-old hispanic man was brutally attacked.shaun hampton, sac sheriff dept."at this point we believe this was a violent act, it was a deliberate act and it was not an accident."the victim did not survive.nats crime tape whitaker says he would often see the victim hanging around the park.les witaker"nice guy, walked with a cane, i couldnút see why anybody would hurt him to tell you the truth." whitaker says there are homeless who camp throughout the area... but he says most of them are harmless.les witaker"they normally sit right here on these benches and don't bother nobody." detectives are not yet releasing a motive.however with a b-m-x course, go cart track and baseball field nearby... they believe witnesses may be the key to missing clues.shaun hampton, sac sheriff dept."really we're looking for anyone

michael: phil whitaker. -- bill whitaker. jeff: absolute joy.oing to say even though he's right here, probably one of the best if not the best hires i ever made. we hit the ground running and he has been an amazing addition to our broadcast. michael: jeff faber. bill: the best boss i've ever had. michael: "60 minutes" is alive and well. how do you sustain this program? do the first 50 years even count at this point? jeff: i'm losing track. i think it should be sustained with those things i talked about . one, we stay current and relevant, so you know you're going to get something that helps you understand today's world every sunday night. two, that we hold on to those values that we cherish so much. bill: we know we are standing on the shoulders of giants, but each week is new and different. more opportunity to keep on doing this. michael: our time is up for this portion of the program. lettuce and where we began with wherenutes -- let us end we began with the "60 minutes" creator. not following the herd is one of the things that make us success

correspondent bill whitaker and executive producer jeff fager sat down to share the stories and interviews they have done and the correspondents they have worked with. this is an hour and a half. andrea: good evening, everyone. thank you so much for coming. welcome to the national press club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists. my name is andrea at me and i am the 111th president. i would like to take a second if you have not already, please silence your cell phones. so when i started dating my husband, who is here in audience -- he doesn't know i am going to say this -- i learned that every sunday evening for years he had been watching 60 minutes and i

whitaker chambers had the good. >> let's set this up for people. washington 1954.freshman congress man who comes to town via appointment. thriller interview. don't want to give anything away. why did you pick early ike, late mccarthy as the era in which to set your first political thriller? >> we think of it as a time of serenity, benign america, the economic boom, eisenhower was a pleasing presence. as you know, it was awe time of real menace. >> very sinister. >> very sip sister. you had competing groups. communists were trying to infiltrate the united states government. people were acting too harshly. mccarthyites would try to smear based on no evidence. eyes especially hour trying to negotiate and figure out how to protect the united states from both. the '50s is a reach era so wonderful. but it gets lost. it is sandwiched between world war ii and the 1960s. >> i thought you accumulated a list of things. i knew about dashwood. hellfire is the real deal. explain as much as you want the predicate for the book's premise. secret society in d.c. >> in a lot of ways

orange county republican party chairman fred whitaker says republicans have not only a history of winninglike the gas tax state democrats passed, and they do like president trump's tax overhaul. >> the middle class gets a terrific tax benefit from tax reform. and we're going to be selling that to the voters. >> reporter: with control of congress at stake, the sales pitch from both parties will keep intensifying until the first tuesday in november. danielle nottingham, cbs news, orange county, california. >>> and coming up on "cbs this morning," iconic figures reflect on the legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. as we mark the 50th anniversary of his assassination. >>> and senator tim scott and congressman trey gowdy join us in the studio with their new book. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm brook silva braga. have a great day. ♪ >>> live, from the ktvo bay area studios this, is kpix5 news. >>> a live look at the bay bridge this morning. think you are going to need an extra cup of coffee. good morning, it is tuesday,. >> it is 4:30, did you enjoy

orange county republican bernie chairman fred whitaker says they've not only got a history of winninge gas tax that states democrats passed. and they do like the presidents tax overhaul. >> the middle class is getting a tremendous tax reform. >> reporter: the sales pitch from both parties will keep intensifying until the first tuesday in november. danielle nottingham cbs news orange county california. >> california hides -- holds primaries for all these contests in june. >>> ahead of the 50th anniversary of doctor martin luther king junior's assassination, a look at his life and legacy. sorry. i can't make it. it's just my eczema again, but it's fine. yeah, it's fine. you ok? eczema. it's fine. hey! hi! aren't you hot? eczema again? it's fine. i saw something the other day. eczema exposed. your eczema could be something called atopic dermatitis, which can be caused by inflammation under your skin. maybe you should ask your doctor? go to eczemaexposed.com to learn more. martin luther king junior's assassination tomorrow, we're taking a new look at his life and legacy. prominent voices

. >> whitaker: if you have never heard of something called "crispr" before now, that's likely to changeispr is a tool for editing our d.n.a., reprogramming the genetic code, and it has scientists excited about tackling genetic diseases like alzheimer's and cancer. how many diseases are we talking about that this could be used to treat? >> there are about 6,000 or more. the hope is that we'll be able to help all of them. >> pelley: there is a new kind of affirmative action happening on college campus, and stus

he assembled an army of backers including forest wicker -- whitaker. like terry crews and tessa thompson. and now, the darling of the indie film world. first sundance, now the san francisco film festival. never at a loss for a metaphor, he says it is like making stone soup. >> wow, it is really tasty right here. i wish you have the radish, if you had that, we will give you some of that but give us some of the radish. they come with the radish and we have two people over here. that was what it was, little by little i got everyone to put their ingredients in and now we are all eating some delicious stone soup. >> this movie is bonkers. it started out crazy and went more crazy, then to ludicrous. i knew i would be making a huge mistake if i didn't do something like this. it was so risky. where there is no risk, there is no reward. mac perhaps the real star is oakland. the city that boots considers his home. >> that is what i know. you write what you know. i could get into the nooks and crannies and make that world feel more real. >> as an african-american

we're joined by steve whitaker from ubs to talk about where the company is headed from here.g us. >> good morning. >> street team is a bit split. steve tusa this morning said our bearish thesis remains in tact where are you? >> about 8% upside from today. and the reason i see that, it was actually the first piece of good news, first decent quarter we've seen in a long time from ge, the absence of negative knews is actually positive when i think about what's really going on, there's tremendous weakness in the power markets. they've got challenges in multiple business units. aviation was strong. our evidence lab saw after market picking up significantly. and it did it was even better than we thought. health care was also positive. and i think as they get their arms around the cash generation from quarter to quarter, they start to eliminate some of the downside questions that are out there in terms of liabilities that are outstanding, such as the billion and a half charge, reserve they took today. as those start to put away, investors can start to think about the fundamentals of

join us saturday for a conversation with correspondent bill whitaker and executive producer jeff fager. they were interviewed at the national press club by michael freedman, former general manager of cbs radio evening news. then on sunday, it's remarks from the hillary clinton. she spoke recently at rutgers university about her experiences in 2016, alleged russian influence in our elections and her thoughts on america's role in the world. watch that sunday at 9:30 p.m. eastern, also on c-span. >>> monday on "landmark cases," katz versus united states, where charles katz, a bookie, was tape recorded by the fbi while transmitting illegal bets from a telephone booth on sunset boulevard in los angeles. the supreme court's zoigs in this case ultimately expanded americans' rights to privacy under the fourth amendment and forever changed the way law enforcement officers conduct their investigations. our guest to discuss this case are jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center in philadelphia and jamil jaffer, founder of the national security institute.

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university law center who lost two friends in orlando at the pulse nightclub shooting, and katie whitaker from moms demand action which was an organization formed after the unfathomable tragedy at sandy hook elementary school, and she happens to be an alum of marjory stoneman douglas high school. and they've had nice conversations about it. i'm going to start with trevor. tell us what the second amendment means, what you think the supreme court should have done, did do, and what is -- and what does the second amendment leave in terms of room for the new space for public health strategies? >> thank you very much, everyone, for coming. thank you to larry. thank you to dara for sharing her story. as the person on some of the other side or perceived to be in this room, i want to start by saying that i do not own guns. i don't particularly like guns very much. i got into gun policy research because i wanted to figure out what was going on. i may disagree, but it's all time to find a solution. when it comes to the second amendment, the way to think about the second amendment is that you have a

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he went to prison for five years because he lied and said he didn't know whitaker cham bernardez here's a guy saying something that isn't true. he's not going to go down for what he said to comey in the white house conversation. i think he was afraid, wasn't he, he would have to back that up at a later hearing, a so-called conversation with mueller's people in which if he backed it up again, he would have perjure r jurred himself. >> it is important in the context. this would probably be considered hearsay in the context of this investigation. it was an informal conversation. it does get to the what i think comey was saying as to motive and intent. it's not exactly news that trump has been known to change his story particularly on sensitive things like this. the point is, mueller has so much -- so much proof and so much evidence from so many different people that whatever comey said in this memo is probably a very tiny part of this investigation if really part of it at all on this point because he's talked to so many people. >> the salacious aspect of this thing. joyce, everybody has he

join us saturday for a conversation with correspondent bill whitaker and executive producer jeff fager. they were interviewed at the national press club by michael freedman, former general managing of cbs network news. watch that at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow, over on c-span. on sunday, it's remarks from hillary clinton. she spoke recently at rutgers university about her experiences in 2016, alleged russian influence in our elections and her thoughts on america's role in the world. watch that sunday at 9:30 p.m. eastern, also on c-span. >>> monday on "landmark cases," katz versus united states. where charles cats, a bookie, was take recorded by the fbi while transmitting illegal bets from a telephone both on sunset boulevard in los angeles. the supreme court's decision in this case ultimately expanded americans' rights to privacy under the fourth amendment and forever changed the way law enforcement officers conduct their investigations. our guests to discuss this case are jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center in philadelphia. and jamil jaffer, founder of the nat

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he would never invite ted sorensen to dinner with jackie whereas bobby would hang out with jim whitaker the mountain climber, he liked men and women of accomplishment, not background. >> one guy who is so different -- >> the kennedy family is like that. if you get to know the kennedys, the bobby kids, some are a little more aloof and some are just the opposite. the most regular person in the world, some of the other kids a little different, maria is a mixed bag but they are different. i noticed the social bearing is different within the family, certainly patrick who is a regular guy, ted who spoke so well at his father's funeral is a good guy. there is a mix and certainly the generation before, teddy kennedy was the most democratic guy in the world. his friends were all over the place. >> were jack and bobby close when they were young? >> you were setting me up for that? the opposite. imagine a family with 9 kids and they begin to disappear like 10 little indians in the agatha christie play where they all disappear. you have an older brother who is your hero, joe kennedy, this incredibl

. >> that's part of a "60 minutes" report from bill whitaker in october that's earning national recognitiones" and the "washington post" is the winner of the peabody award for its look at big farm's role in the opioid -- pharma's role in the opioid crisis. >> the broadcast will receive a peabody for its 50-year contribution to television. the judges call it -- listen to this -- nothing less than a touchstone in american life, championing a little guy. this morning, wins brings the number of "60 minutes'" peabodys to 25, thank you very much. that's the most of any news program. congrats to our colleagues across the st scalpel scalpel taco! taco! are you one of the millions of americans whose love for jack in the box tacos has turned into an obsession? no tacos here. hi. i'm jack box and i'm here to help. by giving the taco obsessed what they need most. even more tacos. introducing my $3 taco deal with three of the tacos you love and a refreshing drink for just three bucks. so if you have a taco obsession... clear! taco! taco! ...don't beat it, feed it. ted after a 3- alarm fir >>> this is a

forest whitaker is headed back to school! the oscar-winning actor is among this year's honorary degree recipients at his alma mater, the university of southern california. he'll be honored at commencement, may 11th, for his acting, filmmaking, and social activism."somebody's mom just enrolled in college. i'm referring to myself. i'll see you around 'the quad.'" "nobody says that, mom.""well, i'll bring it back."melissa mccarthy goes back to school on-screen in "life of the party," so it made sense to hold the comedy's world premiere at a college campus. but which one? warner brothers and new line set up a contest, students across the u-s voted and posted on social media to show their school spirit, and the winner is... auburn university! the school's alabama campus will host the premiere sometime before the film opens in theaters may 11th. war eagle, auburn! in hollywood, i'm david daniel. (robin) coming up on the kron 4 morning news ... the national guard is arriving to help border patrol agents who are stationed along the u

bill whitaker. >> bill whitaker, an absolute joy, and even though he's right here, probably, if want the best, one of the best hires i've ever made. it's just -- he's been amazing, as i said earlier, and hit the ground running and an amazing addition to our broadcast. >> bill, i'll just ask you, bill -- >> and this isn't just because he's sitting here. the best boss i've ever had. >> "60 minutes" is alive and well. how do you sustain this program? do the first 50 years even count at this point? >> jesus, i don't know. i'm losing track. i think it's sustained with those things that i talked about that was so important. one, we stay current and relevant so that you know you're going to get something that helps you understand today's world every sunday night, and two, that we hold on to those values that we cherish so much. >> but you know you're standing on the shoulders of giants, but each week is new and different, and more opportunity to keep on doing this. >> fabulous. our time's up for this portion of the program. let us end where we began with "60 minutes" creator don hewitt who