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Study who use a cell phone for ten years or more had double the rate of a type of tumor. keep in mind cell phone use in the united states has only been popular for around 15 years. in 1996, there were 34 million cell phone users. today, nearly 300 million in use according to industry figures. >> environmental factors take decades to see their effect and not a few years. >> if it may take decades to get a clearer answer, what can we say about cell phone safety now? scientists here in san jose, california, are trying to answer that very question. >> one of the things we have to do first is liter...

When london was shut, but a little bit of selling on the paris cac, perhaps on the back of the swiss strength we're seeing. one theme is that we are seeing hoss for carmakers with vol being wagon and daimler among the losers. we're seeing a little bit of a recovery in asian currency trading for the dollar, but not very much. certainly we don't have the full numbers there, but 1.66, 1.48, so continuing strength this for the euro against the dollar. but currency traders are really saying that actually the theme of the moment is dollar weakness and we'll get back to that later on. so 81.03 meanwh...

Us from the new york stock exchange. how have the markets been reacting? from well, not very well at all, randi. frankly, the one thing that the market that it just can't tolerate is any kind of uncertainty. as you well know we've had just that in washington about all of these budget discussions that haven't really come to any kind of resolution. the markets tanked at the open and have pretty much settled at around a loss of 1.66% across the board, whether the nasdaq, s&p or dow. that lowering of the outlook on the u.s. credit rating to negative is a concern for the marketplace. basically it i...

Brings us here to harvard university. this school got 9.3 million dollars in stimulus money to build flying robotic bees which they hope will one day help monitor traffic and pollenate crops. we were in the community today and this town was buzzing. >> probably isn't going to stimulate the economy in the short term. which is what the stimulus package was supposed to do. >> i don't think harvard is doing anything wrong or improper. i work with this organization a lot and they do a lot of great research. >> it seems like a project like that while admirable, could contribute in some way in the fu...

Brings us here to harvard university. this school got 9.3 million dollars in stimulus money to build flying robotic bees which they hope will one day help monitor traffic and pollenate crops. we were in the community today and this town was buzzing. >> probably isn't going to stimulate the economy in the short term. which is what the stimulus package was supposed to do. >> i don't think harvard is doing anything wrong or improper. i work with this organization a lot and they do a lot of great research. >> it seems like a project like that while admirable, could contribute in some way in the fu...