And the director of the center for strategy at the council and security. Last october, the skull cross Center Forward defense team reported on effective resilience and national strategy, lessons from the pandemic and the requirements for key medical infrastructure by distinguished fellow kramer. A Strategic Operational framework for effective resilience is the capacity to withstand shocks of a magnitude of a major pandemic, a strategic shot. Today, as President Biden confronts covid19, our report and recommendations on Health Security remain timeless. To discuss these issues i am , very pleased to welcome a variety of guests to our event. Our moderator will help frame the discussion. She will be followed by the report author, frank kramer cool present key findings. Jaclyn leavy, chris mcguire, on our Panel Moderated by the director of our former defense practice area, clementine starley. I would like to thanks speakers and the audience for joining us. In accordance with the legacy, it
Perfect memories. Little ronnie got a heel prick after birth. His newborn blood filled six spots used to test babies for dozens of disorders. A couple days after. We got a call. They learned ronnies heel prick revealed a disorder known as the bubble boy disease. His first infection could have killed him. Instead he was rushed to ucsf where he received life saving gene therapy and where he met dr. Puck. I could never develop a newborn test if we had not had stored dry blood spots. Reporter it was the first using distracted dna from leftover blood spots from the newborn biobank. You see, doctors only need a few spots for the life saving genetic test. The rest becomes property of the state. California has been storing blood spots from every baby born here since 1983 and can now test newborns for more than 80 Rare Disorders thanks to Research Using the blood spots. California has amassed the largest stockpile of blood spots in the country. One of only a handful in the states that will stor
among the worst hit: ididn t i didn t really have much of a choice so i am. iam. thejohn lewis partnership has warned of further store closures after it made a loss of more than 500 million pounds good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. prince william has insisted the royal family is not racist, in his first comments since the duke and duchess of sussex told us television that a member of the family had questioned what colour their child s skin would be. william also revealed he hasn t spoken to his brother since harry and meghan gave the interview to oprah winfrey, but said he would do. the duke and duchess of cambridge were visiting a school in east london when they were asked by a reporter about the controversy. have you spoken to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. and can you just let me know, is the royalfamily a racist family, sir? no, we are very much not a racist family. our royal correpsondent sarah campbelljoins me no
We meet one of the survivors in the attack on the Turkish Border town that killed more than 30 people. U. S. Defense secretary ash carter mayor daley an unannounced visit to iraq, his first since he took office in february meeting commanders and the Prime Minister al abadi. It comes at an important time for the government which is preparing to launch a counter offensive to take ramadi from isil fighters. Carters visit comes as isil takes responsibility for a car bombing, one of many attacks targeting shia neighborhoods in the capitol on wednesday. 17 others died in those explosions targeting busy markets. Lets speak to imran kahn. Carters been in israel, jordan, saudi arabia, talking about the iran deal. Tell us whats happening with his visit to iraq. Hell certainly be talks about iran when hes here. It goes to show you just how dangerous the americans perceive the security situation here in roc. He announced his visit to all the rest of those countries. Here it was unannounced for sec
This morning. I wanted to show that to you because its not as hazy yesterday, no real fog out there. Lets look from sutro we were almost into unhealthy levels yesterday. We dont have to worry about that today. A little warmer at noon. Our last warm day. Enjoy the evening, 54 at the coast to 74 inland. So pretty quiet weather wise. Lets find out about the morning commute. Hey, alexis. Nice and quiet on the roads. Heres a live look at Golden Gate Bridge and if youre coming from marin county, wide open. Mass transit looking great too for now. We have another weekend closure here for some bart track work so may 13 and 14 tracks will be closed again between fruitvale and lake merritt, lake merritt station will be closed. A free bus bridge will be provided however depending on what happens with the spurs rockets series and if the warriors play at home, im thinking they may have to postpone this but ill let you know. Well check on the Central Valley up next. Happening today in the south bay,