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Raj, what did you think as one of the authors of this fascinating study, what are the big takeaways that you get out of it? >> so the basic fact from this study is that theres a great deal of variation within the u.s. in rates of upward income mobility. so traditionally people often perceive the u.s. as the land of opportunity. as you were saying, recently people have become concerned that upward mobility is declining in the u.s. relative to other countries. what were showing in this study is ac...

Billions of phone calls and e-mails and internet searches. the feds arent monitoring every last one, but they could easily, and that is the essence of the age of big data. in their excellent book, "big data," they write about the police in richmond, virginia. they track criminal incidents against a variety of events. corporate paydays, sports events, concerts, gun shows and dozens of other possible triggers. and the computer then identifies patterns. for example, two weeks after a gun show, ther...

Data allowed you to actually figure out -- allowed people to figure out where flus were breaking. >> yes, indeed. think back at the h1n1 flu crisis we had and the centers for disease control in atlanta and the united states wanted to find out where the flu was and they asked doctors to report every flu case, but by the time they had collected all the nvltion, calculated it, two weeks went by and thats an eternity if you have a pandemic at hand. google at that time thought they could do better. j...

Together to create a portrait like this. >> talk to me, i was just going to say, talk to me about the science behind it. how you do this. >> sure. its really building on information that is all sort of publicly available in science right now. so, im just drawing on research papers, things that people have published that link specific base pairs within the dna to specific traits. so, a lot of this information draws on association studies, which are just ways of looking at lots and lots of dna, lo...

In the nutty socialist guy. the french voted him in so they get what they deserve. >> bill, what about england though, bill. england did just the opposite. they instiewlted they have a conservative fiscal policy they are not getting out of their mess either. the answer isnt extremism on either side. you need to be more moderate and reasonable like me, bill. >> bill: i know you ared the poster boy for moderate and reasonable. open the dictionary and there is is hills face. do you know why jesus w...

Discriminated against. geneticists and ethicists are concerned about this type of process but on the other hand the research is moving forward and were trying to establish whether or not there are some correlations which might help to be predictive in the future. heather: finally, once you establish those correlations, what is ultimately the benefit or the goal? >> correct. i think the goal is to help us do what we do with other conditions, which are, medically related or genetically related. we...

its a trip designed to make him look presidential, but the headlines mitt romney is generating in london would make any white house cringe. his campaign is doing damage control after british news media seized on a remark romney made questioning londons readiness for the olympics. cnn national correspondent jim acosta is in london for us. jim, whats happening now with mitt romney? >> reporter: candy, mitt romney woke up to headlines he did not anticipate when he embarked on this oversea...

Guys have been leaning towards liking gun freedom and they went ahead and said again and again when you look at it it would be great if our laws could keep guns out of the hands of people whoever shot these people. >> part of that is a lot of the studies that happened happened in the geographic correlations. in the u.s. we have huge black markets in guns. that ends up becoming the issue. the guns that come from new york dont come from new york city. i have also critiqued a lot of the studies abo...

morning in philadelphia for that suspect as we speak. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." >> it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. also this morning, george zimmerman in his first on-camera interview since the trayvon martin shooting, he was asked if he has any regrets. youll want to hear what he has to say. and is there tension in the u.s. supreme court after that health care ruling? you will hear what justice scalia said about any possible bad blood. thats in that cnn exc...

One of the probably biggest and most exciting pieces that really is going to hopefully help push this case forward is the existence of a videotape that is in the possession of the fbi. on that videotape there are certain individuals that make very self incriminating statements following the death of george smith. >> crystal, when you talk about videotape, this is not surveillance video from the actual ship. this is something shot after the event itself? >> no, that is correct. this is a videotap...