In this news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on July 12, 1999, reporter Brendan Keefe calls attention to the growing number of centenarians—or people 100 years of age or older—in the United States. He also shares estimates for the next 50 years, with the projected 2009 total more than double the actual number of around 53,000 people. But with death rates dropping across almost every age group, the number of American centenarians remains on the rise.