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sanitation. police say they arrested 14 protesters today who blocked traffic and turned over trash cans. texas governor rick perry is unveiling his national energy plan in suburban pittsburgh right now. live pictures. he says president perry will expand drilling on federal lands and get rid of clean air rules and other, quote, activist regulations. perry says getting bureaucracy out of the way will mean 1 million or more new jobs. perry has stumbled in the polls. his wife came to his defense. >> it's been a rough time. we've been brutalized, eaten up and chewed up in the press, to ...

documentary of diana nyad. she is a 61-year-old long distance swimmer who set out to do the impossible. something that people tolder that simply could not be done. she wanted to swim from here in havana and swim all the way to florida. more than 100 miles. no rest. no shark cage. complete exposure to the elements. the swim was planned to take over two days through day and night. more than 60 hours. she had to do this again without any rest whatsoever. what we now know is diana lasted about half that distance. about 50 miles, 29 miles in the water. the currents were rough and the wave...

Certain quantity of fuel. and we leave the boundaries pretty wide open here because this is all about innovation and coming up with new ideas to be more efficient. so they can use gasoline, they can use diesel. we have cars that can use solar, hydrogen, plug-in hybrids, all different types of models. what we're looking for, though, are those innovative break throughs that can ultimately be applied to the larger transportation system. >> we have he been talking about budgets and how we're going to get our fiscal house in order. president obama says he wants to end subsidies for oil companies, s...

It visionary. it is a way for us to brainstorm and do a suspension of disbelieve during the entire weekend and think about the solution, think about tomorrow and how can we make tomorrow better through the use of innovation. at the end of the day we'll have the list of the top ten prizes and break-throughs that the x-prize foundation will look into and create the next x-prizes. >> why use competition to solve problems or create innovation? >> when we look at philanthropy and we look at investment in philanthropy, the x-prize foundation or incentivized innovation model has amazing leverage. you...

Transplants and have to wait for one. the total artificial heart, people can leave the hospital for weeks, months and even years at a time. and what that allows and we see the future being that there could be a point where just as today you can get a knee replaced or hip replaced, you could get a heart replaced. there are 3,000 people on waiting lists for hearts right now. this has potential for tremendous break throughs. >> there's a company called amoris that has a biotech operation and this has to do with malaria. a lot of people here don't realize what a big killer and problem and economic...