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A disturbing trend uncovered by researchers. a growing number of women are dying at younger ages. the death rate here for women, 75 and younger, is up. and nearly half the countrys -- counties in the united states, experts dont know why. the study released today in the journal of health affairs found that women, most affected by declining life expectancy, are disadvantaged, theyre white, they live in rural areas, both in the south and the west. overall, a baby girl born today can expect to live ...

Breakthrough will be, the next cw50 lend to a washing machine or an ipad. but i am sure there will be some. maybe it will come from a competition like the x prize. charles lindbergh first crossed the atlantic to win a prize. six people died trying to win it. lindbergh succeeded because he came up with new ideas saying, why need a co-pilot, i will fly solo to save weight. he trimmed the edges off the maps to save weight. people called him crazy but he succeeded. he did what government said couldn...

>>guest: the exiting is, there will be much more opportunity. right now, with the average life span of 80 years, if you want to be a doctor, a lawyer, and an entrepreneur it and tough to have all of those three years because two of the years require a lot education. when we have longer healthier lifespans we can go back to education and try new years we would not have tried otherwise. >> they will change families? >>guest: we will be around longer, there is more potential to have more marriages ...

But i am sure there will be some. maybe it will come from a competition like the x prize. charles lindbergh first crossed the atlantic to win a prize. six people died trying to win it. lindbergh succeeded because he came up with new ideas saying, why need a co-pilot, i will fly solo to save weight. he trimmed the edges off the maps to save weight. people called him crazy but he succeeded. he did what government said couldnt be done and brought in the age of commercial aviation. life in america i...

>> most of human history people died by age 30. 30 year was the average life span for thousands of years. only with the industrial revolution did that change and it changed quickly by 1850 the average life span was almost 40. 50 years later, 47. by 1950, it was up to 68. now, the average in america is 78. 76 for men and 81 for women. the numbers will only go up. and up. the. >> their of a book called "100 plus, the coming age of longevity will change everything." everything? >>guest: everything....

He had command of the issues. and that is a guy, if you had to have it, you could see as the vice president of the united states. i think in the long run, this wont matter a great deal. i dont know if the rest of you agree. we get past this next presidential debate. i think it was sort of a slide past it. >> i agree, i think it pushes it to the next debate and the pressure is really on the president. im really looking for either of these candidates and campaigns to make tough choices and tough d...

Black did you find yourself getting overwhelmed up there? >> i became very caught up in the moment. but reality kicked in, but i had to take a second that realize that it was all real. >> that reality youre talking about and that reality has been your life and you talked about it some in your speech there. tell our viewers how much youve gone through from your brother, to your mother. >> when i was younger, my brother passed away under cardiac arrest. he was playing basketball. i really feel lik...

Camera angles up there, and we dont see any oil coming out which is good news, but we are keeping the fingers crossed. stand by, don, because we will continue the monitor what is going on and more information coming in. so far, so good, but not yet ready to declare victory. they are not yet reds dou declare victory. lets go to jack. >> question for this hour, is it time for congress to raise the retirement age. >> forget the retirement age. raise the percentage people and employers have to pay i...

>> it is us not liking soccer, we dont like your metric futbol, it is boring and look at how this -- the guy from ghana who did this silent movie of the injury and look at football in the nfl. the guys play hard and by the time they are 50 they can barely move. >> they die at 53. >> look at lawrence taylor, he barely had the strength to assault a girl. he gave it his all. >> it is interesting. the average life span for a male in ghana is 59 years. >> im surprised it is that high, actually. good ...

Very every expectation that people will be living longer and working longer going into the future. i think that, you know, its really about preserving the viability of the program who folks who are poor who really need social security at a backstop in order to make ends meet when they reach retirement age and to preserve that viability you have to have that rich people arent going to get it and in the future when people are living to 100 or 170 i hope then, you know, well have to cut them off at...