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Plains, tanzania is home to elephants, lions, and rhinos, but its also home to a tiny and deadly insect, the anopheles mosquito. Actually, its not the mosquito that kills, but the disease the mosquito carries malaria. In fact, more than 600,000 people in tanzania die each year from malaria. Thats equal to losing every man, woman, and child living in the city of baltimore, maryland. To High School Student thomas forman, this was unacceptable. Captain of his new jersey football squad, he worked wi...

But scott reports on a special place where these kids can enjoy summer fun and just be themselves. [ cheering, music plays ] welcome to camp wonder. All the campers here are battling some type of skin disease. Because of pain or embarrassment, most cant go to ordinary camps. But for one carefree week over the summer, they can forget about being patients facing serious medical issues. So, i started camp wonder 15 years ago, and i got the idea through my own experiences. When i was 11 years old, i...

Actually two big things here, first tomorrow, the first safetrack surge begins in virginia. Were going to get to thin just a second. We want to talk about all of the metro rail stations shutting down at mid neither. Begins tonight system wide. They will close from now on forb repairs at midnight. Its going to clearly effect anyone that works late night shifts . A. All those out en joyce the areas night life. Its going to put a hamper on where you are able to go to. Maybe you are going to stay lo...

From 7 00 to 10 00, join the whole gang, sue is out there already, we will be at the town square, there it is, come on over and say hi. You looked at google maps, 47 minutes exactly. You never say even. I come up with 27 minutes. I will make tonight 30, you do 47. Lets go. We ask sue how long it took, good morning, sue, how long did it take you. How long did it take us, george to get here. Fifteen minutes. Im going with george. We even stopped at the wawa to get some coffee, yeah. The most impor...

On the ucla campus this afternoon. It is still not clear if they were students. It happened in a small office in an engineering building. Investigators say a gun was found alongside what appears to be a suicide note. Hundreds of Police Officers swarmed the campus after 911 calls reported that shots were fired. Tactical teams stormed into buildings and told students and staff to get out. We immediately put out a alert and as our campus alert notification system to advise all of those in our Campu...

Star gazing in philadelphia, what celebrities flocking to philly next week. The a list we can expect in the city of brotherly love. Two young men were dead, shot mumble times. Several gunmen we understanded are on the loose, dave kinchen now with Police Commissioner richard ross, live, dave, good morning. Good morning to you, commissioner joining us dark you can g about these two terrible cases here, two separate shootings, 22 year old shot and killed, one on the 5800 block of woodcrest, in his ...

Shanghai comp lower. European equities were mixed to flat earlier today and still that way. Theyre all flat. I mean hardly any moves worth mentions there. Take a look at the price of crude oil. Higher and wti still above 46, 46. 03. Brent at 48. 63. And dow component home depot out with results. Matched estimates of 1. 97 a share. Revenue essentially in line. Home depot did raise Earnings Guidance for the full year now at 6. 31 a share. Just below the consensus estimate of 6. 32 and analyst will...

Higher. Slightly. Call it almost flat. France is higher by 2 points. Oil prices have been moving higher on a report suggesting that russia is in talks with saudi arabia. Others about achieving market stability. Crude had a strong were falling a developing story out jfk airport. Multiple agencies responding to the airport after a report that shots had been fired. After arriving on the scene, authorities said there was no gunfire. The nypd declaring on twitter that all terminals were searched and ...

That came off a 14 drop in july exports from a year ago. Part of that story is the strong yen. The dollar weakening across the board after yesterdays release of the minutes show that policymakers were divided on a near term Interest Rate hikes which has led most participates to think, were not going to see anything any time soon. Ive been ranting. Shes privy to all my ranting. Ive decided i got a new view. I want to get a job at the fed. All they need to do is either just spend all the time, wha...

Exercise. They are also personal trainers. [laughter] plus one of them is named pira pirate. [laughter] where did you come up with this idea and what was the hardest thing about writing the book my agent who was a tough minded lady told me that ive written enough about the climate and it was time to try something else. I was updating a tech book and then discovered no one has doneo this. They specialized in two things. One is sitting in the outbox and the other one is like you they get up and ar...