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Good luck. Guest thank you. Next eric or nelson and andrew mcabee talk about the technical advancements taking over our lives and our economy and suggest ways to harness those advancements to benefit society. The conversatconversat ion is about one hour. Good evening. Welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california the place where you are in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at Common Wealth club. Org. I am Andrew Leonard from salon. Com your moderator...

Obrien tonight. Tonight the chevy chase resident is speaking with our surae chinn in his first interview since coming back home to the United States. Reporter pbs science reporter miles obrien dives right back into work after returning to the country a few days ago without his left arm. Everybody is talking about polar vortexes. Reporter the former cnn anchor specializing in science, technology and aerospace is moderating a panel on Climate Change in northwest, a commitment he made well before h...

Happy friday everybody. Thanks for joining us. Im betty nguyen. Conditions lead to a massive pile up of 40 vehicles including many big riggs. These are the dramatic pictures in indiana about 60 miles from chicago where at least three people were killed and more than 20 injured. One critical. It went from sunshine to snow and then absolute zero visibility causing cars to slam into each other. The jaws of life had to be brought in to rescue at least five people. One person was trapped for hours be...

Motivation for both sighs to get something done before they ave,t leave. But theres a really significant difference between democrats anb republicans over how that package should look. Packag and the big thing is whether youre going to change the law so that its harder for people who are coming in to the country from Central American countriest too get these automatic files. Theres a lot changed in 2008 thats really leading to a lot of people crossing the board right now. And democrats and repub...

Painkiller. It is sold under the street called thera flu and income tax. Expected to cut food stamp spending but not as early some wanted. Spending will be reduced by about 1 . Some lawmakers wanted it cut it five times that much. Food stamps are part of a huge farm bill stalled in congress for two years. Hillary clinton is speaking out about her tenure as secretary of state. As she looks back over her four years of service, clinton said there is one major regreat. Here is abcs jonathan karl. Re...

Host how long can that take . Guest you know the regulatory system got a lot better about it because you know cancer, people dont live that long and we dont give up these great discoveries. The agency has been very open about we understand we dont have a lot of time here but if you look in the year to two years and the year for us to develop the trials and then another year for the fda to review it and get it really so its not an obnoxious amount of time compared to therapeutic approval. But we ...

Contender for 2016. Were going to have all the details about what the exit polling shows about what we expect will be Chris Christies reelecti reelection. In virginia, polls closed an hour ago, and that is at this moment, too close to call. Terry mcauliffe is leading. And polls close in one hour as an overwhelmingly democratic city decides whether it will elect its first democratic mayor in over 20 years. Its election day with mayoral elections in dozens of cities, including a couple of counties...

But a good hit in the fire. Put the rest out. Just saved our live. The crews down below are working on anqn÷ fire break andn a fire to slow flames once the  and a chal dwrompk stay ahead of the fire. You heard about the tankers. It led to evacuations. Mostly in the gated Summer Community of Pine Mountain lake. Firefighters have done a good job of keeping structures lost to just nine f they can stay to protectic[c homes they will. Youre going to be updating. So some residents are nervous they c...

They are using here. About 9 00 this morning we understand there was a tour bus here at the pentagon and a woman who was part of that tour vomited, became ill in the south parking lot of the pentagon. Arl. Com shot some photographs of the scene. The pentagon called the Fire Department who learned the person had recently visited africa. They closed the corridor entrance to the pentagon. At this point were watching the situation. The woman we dont know much about her condition or anything about he...

What were seeing now. Huge flames roaring outside of yosemite tonight. Firefighters have been unable to tame them. This is a terrifying fire. The governor declared a local state of emergency because of the rim fire. So did the city which operates a camp and gets water and power from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir there. The fire is sprou shaeding up and down the canyon. And toured the community of Pine Mountain lake. Highway 120 into yosemite is still closed. The winds have picked up had afternoon. ...