Alzheimers is projected to or likely to double every 20 years, we are in a race like few other diseases because it is proliferating so fast throughout the globe and according to dr. Maria bernard, the Deputy Director of the National Institute on age who will hear from momentarily, the numbers estimated to grow to 15 million by 2050 as populations around the world age. Predominantly it is a one of the byproducts of all of us aging and there seems to be a higher procliffty the older one gets and its been estimated that once somebody reaches 85, the chance of some form of dementia is one out of two. Its a very serious problem. The total estimated global cost of addressing this condition today is 818 billion but as early as next year it is estimated that this cost will rise to at least 1 trillion per year and it will go up from there. As we all know, alzheimers is a cruel disease robbing its victims of their memories and identities, robbing their family and friends of the person they know
Is here. U. S. Commission on civil rights now. We will have with this later today both representative and representative derek kilmer. Expect we allas i do, that in this building there can be some challenges. We will bessed that able to have both congressional representatives with us. We also have several former commissioners. Dena titusntative with us. Thank you very much. Two fellow commissioners on the eooc. Eeoc. Thank you for coming. I understand that susan eisenhower, who is the granddaughter of president eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the u. S. Commission into existence. Thank you for that, for joining us. We have john fore, acting assistant gore acting assistant attorney for civil rights and the officer for civil rights and Civil Liberties at dhs and also probably a former Virginia State Advisory Committee member for the u. S. Commission on civil rights. We have several of the u. S. Commissions regional staff who traveled to be with us from california, missouri, and illinois. T
Left in asias once a dominant commodities trade off. Kong markets are getting set to come back online after the Lunar New Year long weekend. Chinese markets are still away until thursday. We take a look at what is going on in the hong kong stock exchange. In terms of a handover, not much of one after that stellar performance by asia shares on a monday driven largely by Japanese Equities that had their second best day of the year. We saw a little bit of a failure to extend those gains in the european session. We are also seeing u. S. Futures trading down as well. Lets take a look at where we are moving in terms of markets. A big week when it comes to markets. It over to sophie for a look at how things are going. Ie as you pointed out, u. S. Futures are declining. Taiwan and a vietnam also closed for the extended holiday. The nikkei and topics snap a topix snap amb threeday climb. Seoul, and for decline. In kuala lumpur, stocks are sliding after a fiveday bend. We will see whether or not
Nasa peerreviewed research is needed. You asked about critical areas of research. The life and physical sciences survey which was completed in 2011 at Congress Request summarized the sequence 6 summarized an sequenced 65 high priority tasks. Furthermore, the study created two research plans. One with the goal of building a Research Enterprise and the other with a goal of a Human Mission to mars. More about those goals in a moment. You asked about priorities. Prioritizing i. S. S. Research isnt a new concept. In fact, we been working on that problem for close to 15 years. But the key question for prioritization isnt scientific. Its programmatic. It is Something Like this. Shall Discovery Research or fundamental research or Translational Research take precedence in the mature years of the i. S. S. Program . The answer to that question has to be provided by government. Once those programmatic priorities are sequenced can we prioritize the research . Absolutely. The l. P. S. Survey provide
American schools to prepare for the worst. We are hands on with the new iphone. And Artificial Intelligence meets its greatest challenge. In the 19805. siren sounds we have one party down. In the united states, Mass Shootings are something that occur with depressing regularity. Libraries, churches, cinemas, and schools. All locations of acts of mass murder. Often perpetrated by one individual, with powerful military style weapons. In the last four years there have been more than 200 Mass Shootings in schools alone in the united states. The Deadliest School shooting ever was in 2012 in sandy hook elementary school, where 20 children and six staff were murdered by a lone gunmen. It made headlines across the globe. And so to help prepare for the next time, authorities have turned to technology that is normally used in video games, to help train emergency ciews video games, to help train emergency crews and even teachers to be ready to respond. Just a warning, you mightfind to respond. Jus