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Just five weeks ago, the dow hit 24,000, making this the fastest thousand-point rise in the history of the blue chip index. since president trump was elected, the dow's up nearly 37%. jill schlesinger is our senior business analyst. jill, what are we to make of all this? >> well, it has been a strong first week of the year, and the asw has sailed past 25,000 mark. it's amazing. all major indexes following along here, the nasdaq as well as the s&p 500. this is now the second longest bull market on record. in china, here's what we learned: we learned that the hreeice sector expanded to its highe...

Damaged by the hurricanes. on top of that, villain says the three major manufacturers usually shut down for aaintenance before the end of the year. >> this is a thing that keeps me up at night, because i feel that if those shutdowns go on as planned, we could be experiencing unprecedented issues around i.v. solutions. ea reporter: meaning what? >> meaning that we may be in a situation where we have run out of a lot of those necessary i.v. fluids for the hospital. >> reporter: salt water, sugar solutions. >> that's correct. >> reporter: that's meat and potatoes stuff. nd first thing that we do,...

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>> "star trek" predicted the way you would scan someone is through a noninvasive way, without really touching them. >> reporter: "star trek's" tricorder? today we have c.t. scan, m.r.i., and ultrasound. what else has come true? >> where captain kirk would talk to someone on a flat-screen tv, tocan talk to a patient now, see their image, see their scans, remotely. >> reporter: dr. mccoy's hypospray helped inspire needle- free injectors. the visor that let geordi see, we have glasses that beam light to a chip implanted in the ltina. what about sick bay? >> they get on the bed and all of a sudden...

Flonase. 6 is greater than 1 changes everything. >> six, five, four, three, two, one. >> mason: that's "star trek: discovery" premiering this sunday here on cbs. ay are on the deck of the "enterprise," the "enterprise" known as the cbs evening news. we asked dr. jon lapook to tell us how well the "star trek" franchise has done over the years predicting the future of medicine. as i was able to put a scope in and biopsy the pancreas, which rss unheard of 50 years ago. >> reporter: unless you were watching "star trek," as n.y.u. langone's dr. mark pochapin did when he was a boy. >> to boldly go w...