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Today encouraging the uk to stay in the european union. Former Central Bank President will join us with his reaction coming up. Valiant shares spiking on reports the company could have a new ceo. We have more coming up. Lets begin with the big earnings themes. Mcdonalds and tech, seuwere looking at the impact of tech earnings on these markets. Lets start with the industrials, bob. Three big industrials, all with modestly more positive commentary. Focus on that. I want to start with the ceo of General Electric. Conference call this morning came out. He acknowledged oil and gas was challenging. ...

Make their statement before trump gets under way there. Absolutely, bill, heres what happened. They started to gather north of the Silicon Valley region. For those of you unfamiliar with that part of california. The police were put on high alert earlier this morning. Specifically because of what happened in southern california. Costa mesa last night. There was a trump rally, it turned violent. A number of cars that were damaged. Riot police were brought in. Given the fact that mr. Trump is scheduled to speak shortly at that location in burlingame, specifically the Hyatt Regency, the police wer...

Domestication right now than in the last 10,000 years of domestication until 1960 combined. Huge numbers of livestock that were keeping right now, and many of them live in these factory farms. We have a million or more individuals crowded together. So theyre basically, the animal equivalent of urban slums. This similarly allows pathogens to amplify and change to make them more virulent. One example of that Avian Influenza virus, normally live in waterfowl. But when the viruses drop into these factory farms where captive animals are come together, they start to change and replicate and mutate. ...

Pathogensof avian coming out of the middle east and the whole range of airborne pathogens, dengue, of mosquito borne pathogens, dengue, chikungunya, and zika of course. So the question i wanted to ask is how do Microbes Turn into pandemiccausing pathogens. You think of an microbe is a little thing with no locomotion, but it can cause these huge amounts of death and destruction. I wanted to look at that was a twopronged approach. First i looked at the history of one of our most successful pandemiccausing pathogens. That is cholera. It has caused seven global pandemics since it first emerged. Th...

I went to places like south china and new delhi to try to see how cholera could shed light on where these new pathogens might be going. What i learned is that cholera emerged in many ways in the same way a lot of the new pathogens are coming out today. It came out of the natural environment. Cholera is a bacteria that normally lives in marine habitats. It lives in conjunction with a zooplankton. Some places are full of cholera bacteria. It is half fresh, half salty. This is where the major rivers are draining into the bay of bengal. For the longest time, people did not live in areas like this....