Storage rooms where we manage our growing 25 million object collection. You can see just a few of the paintings in the museums holdings here in the row behind me and the large painting there features our the museums founder Surgeon General William Hammond who founded the museum in 1862. One thing that i personally find important about working here at this museum is the stories that we tell are the stories of americas soldiers, sailers, air men and marine and marines. Its important to share the sacrifices that they made for doctors and researchers and innovators to be able to help convey their stories and glad to be able to share that with visitors who come to see us every day here at the museum. This was the second of two programs from our visit to the National Museum of health and medicine, the first focused on the museums civil war collection. You can watch all of our american artifacts programs in their entirety by visiting cspan. Oval history. On sunday, october 25th American Histo
From peru with the skull of a Civil War Soldier showing essentially the same type of surgical treatment. We then give the visitor a chance to see the types of tools used. At the end of the exhibit an opportunity to see the types of tools used for modern tpi rehabilitation, which includes, interestingly enough, video games and the Important Role that Service Animals play in helping tbi patients recover and go about their daily lives. So weve come to the third of the three exhibit galleries here at the medical museum and weve moved here to an exhibit on Biomedical Engineering which features this artificial kidney. The kidney here was invented by a dutch physician who developed this technology in nazi occupied holland and the first generation of this device was built using scrap parts from downed german airplanes and left over kitchen utensils. When dr. Kolf moved to the United States he developed this generation of the device and the artificial kidney we have here on display was used at
7 30 this morning and after all we heard from the retailers, we know jp penny had better than expected comps a lot of the attentions after the big misses from macys and nordstroms this week. But first a check on the markets this morning. Yesterday was the worst day for the major averages since september 28th. The dow and s p are on pace for the worst week in ten weeks. This morning things are looking flat but this comes after a decline of 1. 4 for the dow yesterday down 254 points. And breaking news outside the world of business overnight. The pentagon says that u. S. Forces targeted this islamic this isis militant known as jihadi john with a drone strike in syria. He has been seen in isis videos executing several western hostages including two u. S. Journalists and an aid worker. The pentagon is assessing whether the attack was successful. Well bring you the details as they develop. We have more hints that the fed could start raising rates in december. Speaking late yesterday, Stanley
Im mark, president and im proud to be here with professor eddie. I am honored, as we say back home this is really great. We have some time to talk and you have written a new book and we sorely want to talk about, we also want to talk about how fascinating it is to viewers and certainly too many how you got from mississippi, a a Great Community down in the gulf coast, all the way to princeton university. Maybe we ought to start with you talking about yourself. Guest im a country boy who made it big, thats what i like to say. My dad was the second africanamerican postman hired at the post office. That was a big job. We were living in moss point at the time and he moved us from one side of time to the other side. Where the third africanamerican family that moved into the nice neighborhood on the hill. We went to a better school, much more disciplined. It didnt have as many distractions. We went to an integrated school because it was predominantly black. People worked in the shipyard, lisa
Lets start with bill henley and the first alert forecast. It could hit 90 again . It will be beyond 90. Were in the 60s and 70s to start with. 74 degrees in philadelphia. 66 in allentown. 70 degrees in dover. Why are we on the lookout for fog . Theres none yet. We could see fog before the sun comes up. A southwesterly breeze at 9 00. That is bringing in humidity. It will be a muggier day to day. 78 degrees by 9 00. Then were on the verge of 90 degrees at noon time today. Those are the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood to show you which areas will be in the 90s and well into the 90s this afternoon when im back in ten minutes. Right now, it is a tuesday. Jessica has your first alert traffic. Were starting things off on the vine street expressway. Everything is moving fine right around 24th street. Watch out for this road work in here. Not an active scene but just cones and things in the area. All lanes still open. So thats eastbound headed towards 95. The westbound drive time, were s