Page 38 - Willi Am News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Often the prize money is less than a single team will invest in trying to find the solution but the effect is you have a multiple of the prize money dedicated to try to find a solution that's going to help humanity. >> absolutely. if you look at a $10 million purse, normally the leverage is immense. the amount of money that the team spent to solve that money team spent to solve that problem and win the purse is ten times bigger than the purse, itself, and we have seen 200 times the size of the purse. >> all right. francis, good work and thank you for joining us today. x-prize is a great idea a...

Maverick thinkers, industry leaders together to help us find the area where the next x-prize will be so we need a very diverse group of individuals. this weekend we have over 100 people joining es here in l.a. saturday and sunday. it is going to be one of our most high ly attended workshops so far. >> i'm sure. i want to share with our viewers some of the names from this list which is really impressive of some of the people who are attending. first, the first private female astronaut. eric schmidt, the chairman of google, of course. will wi will.i.am. what do you hope at the end of this weeken...

Nitrogen into the reactor. the concern is if you have a build-up of hydrogen you could have an explosion. tepco is being clear, they are doing it as a preventive measure. they don't believe there's an imminent threat of an explosion. tepco had good news to share saying they did manage to plug a five-inch leak out of that hole that was highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean. they stopped that. they are still saying this is an emergency situation at the plant, that is why they are still dumping purposefully radioactive levels of water. wolf. >> there's a huge amount of concern about the...

Gadhafi. how it turned out to be a gold mine for american firms. which ones? you'll find out. all that plus the latest on the looming government shutdown. i'm wolf blitzer you are in the "situation room." not much is going well for libya's rebels lately. today, they scored one success, a tanker carrying crude oil left tobruk. however on the battlefield, the opposition has been knocked back on its heels. each advance is followed by a retreat. ben is in eastern libya. >> reporter: antigadhafi forces take a pounding in eastern libya. yesterday, they were pushed back 40 kilometers, 25 miles to a...

Processed. and if you haven't gotten your tax refund yet, the irs will stop processing paper tax refund. other services that could be impacted, passports will not be processed, and the small business administration would stop approving direct loans to small companies. >> this is something of a farce because the government has cash in the bank, so to speak, where it can run for a while. but this is no way to do business, especially when you're the world's biggest debtor. >> reporter: federal courts could be impacted. the federal judiciary branch has contingency funds to pay for courts for two w...