Panels from the 2014 ideas festival in new york. Well start with the discussion on technology and social media. Then well hear from a nasa scientist, working on mars exploration. Later cancer biologist, andrew z hestle looks at cancer research. And thin well look at virtual currency. This weekend on the cspan networks, friday night at 10 00 eastern on cspan, a conversation with retired Justice John Paul stevens, the founder and former chair of microsoft bill gates on the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. And the director of the museum of african art, and friday night on cspan 2, authors talk about war and the constitution. Saturday night at 10 00 on become tvs afterwards, author heather cox richardson, and live at noon, on book tvs, Legal Affairs and editor in charge at reuters and Supreme Court biographer. Friday at 8 00, on American History the on cspan 3, historians and authors talk about world war i, 1 one years 4r5er9. And former fbi director on catching the 100th anniversary of the
Cancer is a relatively straightforward disease, even though we really accumulated a large body of information on it. Quite so much about cancer because it was actually bacterial infections that tended to kill us. Small cuts, accidents, et cetera,s if we had a bacterial infection that started to kol lon niez, continue to grow, we had no really fight it with. Then this molecule is discovered in 1929, penicillin. Penicillin was a game changer in the world of medicine. It still took a while to get it up to production at commercial in commercial volumes, but once penicillin and its chemical cousins became available, suddenly we didnt die from microbial infections anywhere near as much. Unless you have a very resistant bar tear ya. Today we dont get a day off of work. But this was a major lifethreatening disease. Cancer is treated in a completely different way. We carpet bomb any cell thats growing fast. The look of a cancer patient, the hair falling out, the iv poll, thats actually the trea
Fire crews in Solano County is giving all theyve got to a fast moving fire that started off of highway 12 just after noon. It didnt take long for 40 mile per hour winds to whip the flames into an 8 alarm fire. Certainly contributed to the spread of the fire today. Rapidly escalating fire spread. The fire went up and over the hill very quickly, headed for the marsh and then we have two flanks to deal with, the left and the right to get the fire under control. Reporter the 1,000 acres fire destroyed a barn filled with farm equipment, about a half dozen homes and hunting clubs remain threatened. Ours is fine. We dodged a bullet. Hopefully the rest did, too. Reporter mark gray says the fire start p÷ near his house. While his play was spared, hes on edge. It started right at ouryv frt gate coming into here and shot across the hills. So im going to try to go down here and see how the neighbors are doing. Reporter youre looking at a truck of local residents driving out of here right now. Aga
Companies should be required to cover overthecounter Birth Control because they dont do that now. A couple of things. One, i see this becoming more common in many different races. You see colorado and North Carolina in particular. A couple of senatorial candidates. I think that the fact that the left has reacted so loudly shows you that its working. I think they realize this is no longer a tactsic they can use. They can no longer caricaturize our position. When i originally offered this idea, we were following the recommendations at that time, the recent recommendations, of the medical societies themselves. The doctors themselves think this is a safe product, should be offered over the counter. Two things. One, allowing the product to be offered over the counter doesnt stop a woman from being able to get the product with a prescription through her doctor, therefore it would still be covered. Some of the democrats are trying to attack these Republican Senatorial candidates saying the In
Coming up here on cspan 3, the wells fargo ceo on what might be holding back the u. S. Housing market. Thats followed in an hour by a look at the administrations plan to deal with the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. Then heads of the u. S. Financial regulatory agencies give an update on the dodd frank law. Later a look at medical advances and the Prescription Drug outlook for americans. Two former members of congress are running for governor in arkansas. Cspan will have live cover ramgs of a debate between democrat mike ross and republican Asa Hutchinson on friday. Heres a look at a couple of the ads voters are seeing up until that debate. The democrat gas set said the attacks on mike ross are not true and a sphere on his family business, there was never a Justice Department investigation and the House Ethics Commission building their small town business into a success . To cover up the fact that he got caught cheating on his taxes and the fact that hutchinson was a d. C. Lobbyist who h