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Of precision on the gas pump. we are not anywhere near that. the 70,000 barrels a day is strictly an estimate. like with the plus or minus 20% uncertainty on it. so, the fact that you cant measure it to a high degree of accuracy doesnt mean that you cant do a very good estimate of it. thats what i have done. >> doug, moving forward, all of this talk of 200,000 gallons a day, 5,000 barrels a day, i mean, people have got to stop using those numbers. >> the numbers are wrong. we have got few stop u...

Like with the plus or minus 20% uncertainty on it. so, the fact that you cant measure it to a high degree of accuracy doesnt mean that you cant do a very good estimate of it. thats what i have done. >> doug, moving forward, all of this talk of 200,000 gallons a day, 5,000 barrels a day, i mean, people have got to stop using those numbers. >> the numbers are wrong. we have got few stop using them. we have got to stop relying on british petroleum. we need transparency, not cover-up. and as the pro...

At where he walks along the border in the southern town of nogales telling the sheriff about his ten-point border security plan and the ad ends with this. >> and complete the dang fence. >> it will work this time. senator, youre one of us. >> one of us. and were not going to erect barriers and fences. let us think progress notes mccain got his sheriffs confused or didnt care about total accuracy. that sheriff walking along with mccain there, he is from pinal county, 150 miles north of the border...

Fences. but now hes released this ad where he walks along the border in the southern town of nogales telling the sheriff about his ten-point border security plan and the ad ends with this. >> and complete the dang fence. >> it will work this time. senator, youre one of us. >> one of us. and were not going to erect barriers and fences. let us think progress notes mccain got his sheriffs confused or didnt care about total accuracy. that sheriff walking along with mccain there, hes from 150 miles n...

This friday, drugstores across the country will be offering customers a real dose of controversy over-the-counter dna tests. genetic information can be yours in the privacy of your own home, information on about whether youre at risk for alzheimers disease, breast cancer, and other life-threatening conditions. consumers would swab their saliva, which contains their dna and then send it to a laboratory for results but just how accurate are these tests, and will they be opening up a pandoras box o...

You have a family history. >> seems simple to do the simple things to stay healthy and so many of us dont do them. art, pathway genomics makes the spit in the cup or swab test. >> spitomics. >> okay. they have quite up front saying this has not been approved by the fda. this is more consumer information than it is a medical test. so if its consumer information, what real value is it? >> well, theres a little bit of hint here that maybe could you find out if your great ancestor somehow or another...

Going to erect barriers and fences. but now hes released this ad where he walks along the border in the southern town of nogales telling the sheriff about his ten-point border security plan and the ad ends with this. >> and complete the dang fence. >> it will work this time. senator, youre one of us. >> one of us. and were not going to erect barriers and fences. let us think progress notes mccain got his sheriffs confused or didnt care about total accuracy. that sheriff walking along with mccain...

>> true. >> or a false negative that would give you false reassurances that youre in the clear and you can go have that hamburger or whatever. >> sure. >> and this is the -- one of the things, the fda is good going to look at the claims that a lot of these companies make, and i think that now that the fda is looking at this very carefully, youre going to see some sort of breakers throughout the claim world of what these things can and cant do but ultimately the science is real. lets not forget t...

Have access to drug testing kits at local drug stores. starting friday consumers can pick up the tests off the shelf at walgreens. there is a real controversy over accuracy and what people will do with the information if it is correct. our guest is the author of "the decision tree, taking control of your health in a new era of personalized medicine" and supports these tests and hank is with stanfords law school and also the director of the law center for law and biosciences at stanford and is ag...

Argue probably nothing. you might get scared, but i think that ultimately if you look at the way that medicine is evolving the genetic components of diseases are going to be very important, because it makes you change a little bit. if you have -- if you know you have a risk of heart disease, look, how many times we get on tv, we talk about eating right, exercising, dont smoke, dont do this, and very little impact. i think when people begin to note that individually they might be at risk they mig...