President Obama says the US is putting pressure on the other large countries to contribute aid to the west African nations that are struggling with the worst outbreak of the disease. In the US, Mr Obama says the good news is that because the disease is not airborn the chance of an outbreak is extremely low, but only if health workers follow the protocals for containment.

 

If they have run information, and they are on those protocals, then this is something that we are going to be able to make sure it's not have kind of impact secure in the United State along the world.

 

The White House said it's not considering a travel ban from west Africa, but it's trying to tight screening proceedures for travelers from that region.

 

Mara Liasson NPR news, the White House. 

 

In a stunning move, the US Supreme Court said today it would stay out of the same sex marriage debate at least for now. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports the court left the place three federal appeal's court decisions that struck down state's ban on gay marriage. 

 

The Court's action means that same sex couples will not be able to marry in 11 states where such unions have previously been banned. At those states to the 19 that already allowed gay marriage, and you have 30 states where such unions are legal. At some future point, if another federal appeals for which will up all gay marriage ban, the court might have to resolve the conflict, but by then tens of thousands of gay couples would have married as Supreme Court expert Amy How observes.

 

This influeces just a few people and I don't think they are going to be able to put the gene back into the bottle. 

 

Amy How is editor of scotis blog, the leading Supreme Court blog. Nina Totenberg, NPR news, Washington 

 

The discovery of cells in the brain that act as the body's enternal global positioning system has won three scientists Noble Prize for Medicine. Spacial cells among the first to be hit by disease is like all times offer a possible glimpse to how certain functions of the brain work. Here is Amercian research worker Jhon O'keefe who shares the prize discribing gave the call today. 

 

Had a call from the center director Alex, said that there is a gentlemen from Stockholm who would like to have a word with you. He says his mother urges that it's important, and I dont's what he wants to know.

 

 

Two other researchers Norwegians May-Britt and Edvard Moser sheared the 1.1 million dollor prize, the work will not lead to any of the cough adventures such as not to be critical to understand what happens to the brain.

 

Social networking site Facebook annouced today it closed its roughly 22 billion dollors purchase of the mobile messaging site What's App, which atracts about 600 million users. 

 

On Wall Street today, the Dow closes down 17 points, the NASDAQ lost 20 points. You are listening to NPR.

 

Dressing some 200 bishops gathered in Rome to discuss family issues. Pope Francis urged them to speak frankly and not be afraid of affending him. NPR's S J reports the run up of the two notice marked by clashes between aggressives and conservatives over interpretaions of church teachings.

 

In his harmless Sunday Francis has called for an end for inviting said that the seamen was meant not to discuss beautiful and clever ideas. Many of the topics were controrversial, pre-marriage sex, gay unions and artifical birth control. But the most heated debate has been around the proposal to lift the church ban on graty communion to some divorced and remarried catholics. The idea has inflamed conservatives who insist there's no change in church teaching. One top official Karnal Peter Elder of Hugy sugguest the possibilty of simplifying marriage noman process by which the church declares the union was never valid. S J, NPR news Rome. 

 

His credits include Green, the ground-breaking show with the Broad Way, the scary Vallain the James Bond movie and Hocking Y-up on TV. 

 

These are colenents, they grow here. These to make cole soft inks. These on the other hand are uncloernets. They grow here too, but as you can see they are meant to be differet from colenets.

 

Geoffery Holder have reportedly died according his producer friend and family and  over the weekend ... hospital in New York. Tony awards.Geoffrey was 84 years old.

 

prices closed up, oil up to 7 barrel in New York. I'm Jack Speer, NPR news in Washington.