went to an area that has zika, got a bite, and came back. we have seen 10 cases in which an individual went to one of the various areas, got infected, and sexually transmitted the good to their partner. a more significant and immediate concern is puerto rico, where we know there are over 800 cases that have been diagnosed. however, we suspect that it could be significantly higher. the reason is that for most people you might not have a lot of symptoms when you get zika. if you are not pregnant, or the partner of someone who is pregnant or trying to get pregnant, you may not even know that you end up having zika. that means people are not affirmatively going to the doctor and getting tested on these issues. here is the good news, that because of the good work that has been done by the department of health and human services by the cdc and in -- and nih, we have a plan over the next several months to begin developing a vaccine and continually improve our diagnostic tests. we are also working with all of the states so they are properly prepared

after contracting the zika virus. themonths we have asked republicans who control the senate to let us act well health experts at the world health organization, nih, and cdc have begged congress for the resources to fight this disease. let us act. more people infected by zika have developed a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition that damages the nervous system. themonths we have asked republicans who control the senate to let us act while more mothers infected by zika have given birth to babies with severe brain defects. askedr months, we have the republicans who control the senate to let us act. while the president has been forced to divert emergency funds from other critical areas, including the emergency ebola response. today, months after president obama first requested nearly $2 billion to fight the zika virus in the united states, the republicans who control the senate will finally, finally let us vote on options for funding the zika response. now today, the senate will container -- consider three proposal

they cannot -- people carrying the zika virus do not know that they have the zika virus. and as well, they have asked for $800 million of which you are not giving to them. this is the epicenter of the potential of the zika virus in the united states. the idea that there's sitting water in places like the gulf region, the idea that people travel and the person who's traveling has a mosquito that bites them and then they -- that mosquito can transmit it. mosquitos in houston, texas. today i stand in opposition to the underlying proposal. we need the $1.9 billion that the administration has asked for. we cannot rob from peter to pay paul. and if you listen to the diagnosis or you listen to the assessment, the doctors are saying that the zika virus invades the brain of the baby and destroys that brain. and therefore we do not know the long-term effects of a woman or of those who have not yet been assessed of the zika virus. this is the wrong way to go. vote against this bill. give what the president wants and the c.d.c. wants now. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's ti

we've seen zika coming for months. and we had the administration's detailed comprehensive plan of action sitting up here for over three months. the time so act is way overdue. it's my hope the senate will finally approve zika funding this week, and that house republicans will stop their stalling as well and get to work and do the same. we've lost enough time already. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: mr. president, i would like to share some remar remarks and ask that i be allowed such time as i may consume. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sessions: i appreciate senator durbin's comments. i think there's clear bipartisan support for dealing with the zika virus and something will be done on that, but make no mistake, on this agreement and our colleagues on the democratic sield as they always -- side as they always do just want to add whatever new expense comes up during the year to the debt, add it to the deficit of th

speaker, i rise to present h.r. 5243, the zika response appropriations act. the zika virus clearly poses a great threat to public health, not only in the united states, but around the globe. it's become increasingly important that we, the congress, act to protect our most vulnerable, particularly infants and pregnant women, from the risks of this disease. our response must be urgent, direct and strategic. targeted at preventing the further spread of this disease. the bill before you today provides $622.1 million to fight this dangerous virus. it prioritizes critical activities that must begin immediately, such as vaccine development and mosquito control. i was glad to see that the administration took our committee's advice and redirected $589 million from less urgent needs to fund immediate actions to respond to zika. this was and is the most immediate source of funding in the fight against zika. but given the severity of the crisis, it's clear we must do more. the funds within this legislation will continue the department of health and human services' and th

zika outbreak. additionally, this amendment with the work of senator graham and senator leahy includes $248 million for the department of state and usaid to support other affected countries' ability to implement programs to reduce transmission of the virus. this amendment is a targeted response to providing the funding needed through 2017. it includes funding for priority initiatives focused on prevention, control, and treatment. it does not include funding for unessential requests. i hope at the end of the day all members find a way to meet this emergency. i believe the bipartisan amendment that we're offering is the most likely of those -- these amendments to meet the need, certainly in my view is the amendment that has taken the most focus on exactly what is needed to meet this crisis and meet it now. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, i would say to the senator from missouri that while this senat

sadly, there have been two zika deaths in puerto rico. this summer americans living in southern states face tremendous risks from the virus. not only does this bill underfund our zika response, it raids vital funding for other dangerous infectious diseases such as ebola. not quite -- now, quite frankly, we should not roll the dice should another ebola outbreak occur, and we know how this appropriations process .orks i don't want to chance that. we appropriated ebola funding for ebola. this is not the time to rob peter to pay paul. the experts are clear. we need the full $1.9 billion emergency request without offsets. we've seen war funding, emergency supplementals fly through this house without many questions raised. this is an emergency. and we need to treat it as such. finally, this bill includes hyde-like language, a dangerous ride that are denies access to abortion coverage for women, if they're poor, a veteran, in the military, or a federal government employee. politicians have no business denying women's health coverage based on her

territories were possible zika infection, and the agency has increased its testing capacity of the zika virus in the u.s. as the summer of mosquito season begins. frieden has been the director for the past.seven years . a physician with training in public health and epidemiology, he has worked to control health to and and responded battled the leading causes of suffering and death in our nation around the world. among the priorities he has tasked the agency to do our improving health security globally, preparing for, detecting, rapidly responding to, and preventing health threats such as disease, antimicrobial resistance, foodborne diseases, and health care acquired infections. reducing the leading causes of death and illness among americans due to tobacco use, uncontrolled blood pressure,, diabetes obesity, physical and activity, prescription drug overdoses, and hiv and aids. strengthening a public health collaboration by integrating public health and health care. before being appointed to the head of the agency, it was a cdc disease detective. investigations including outbreaks of mea

burr: there doesn't seem to be much news, if any, about zika infection, zika infected people in europe or asia or africa. could you help me understand what's going on there. mr. frieden: we have seen, for example, sexually transmitted zika in parts of europe. we're really not sure what's happening in asia. it may be that zika has been around for so long people are immune to it, or it may be they will have a large outbreak. only time will tell. that's one reason we need really good monitoring systems in place to track what's happening. when we improve monitoring systems, it's like civil aviation. if the whole world does it together, the whole world is safer. that's one thing we have to continue to strengthen in global health. mr. burr: there's a large event happening in brazil this summer. if you were in charge of this year's summer olympics, what would you do? cancel it? move to a safer place? postpone it? mr. frieden: there's no public health reason to cancel or delay the olympics. our recommendation about travel is a recommendation regardless of why you travel. we say if you're pregn

when and says zika is sick. then we thought she's speaks from a deep medical background in a long record of service. the same goes for my friend, doctor anthony grouchy. the longtime director of the institute of allergy and infectious disease at nih. tony tony is a giant in the field. i cannot tell you how nervous i was to hear him say "we cannot pretend to know everything we need to know about zika". we are grateful again for jason, npr's global health in developing correspondent correspondent for moderating an important conversation. we hope that it will be a wake-up call for this town especially for the folks one-mile way on capitol hill. now they had held a conference to bridge the gap between the two measures. i cannot imagine that congress is so busy that i can't find time for this priority. i do not know when they'll conference but tonight would not be soon enough. in the meantime, please join please join me in welcoming our distinguished panel. [applause]. >> thank you for coming today. i hope it is goin

like the zika virus. on the other side of congress, house republicans are kicking around an even more bizarre idea. funding only about a third of y the president's plan to fight zika and doing it by cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out of our evil low response. g, with the evil epidemic just passed and still no fda approved vaccine or treatment for ebola, what could possibly go wrong with that plan? i simply do not understand the republicans. the responsible thing to do, the rational thing to do is to invest the resources needed to stop the zika right in its tracks and to invest in more science and public t health infrastructure so that we are ready when the next crisis comes. a congressional republican embrace this irrational anti-spending ideology, this country is in greater and greater danger . instead of investing in research so that we can develop effective treatments, instead of supporting careful planning and we are ready for the next health challenge and instead of fully funding emergency r

when and says zika is sick. then we thought she's speaks from a deep medical background in a long record of service. the same goes for my friend, doctor anthony grouchy. the longtime director of the institute of allergy and infectious disease at nih. tony tony is a giant in the field. i cannot tell you how nervous i was to hear him say "we cannot pretend to know everything we need to know about zika". we are grateful again for jason, npr's global health in developing correspondent correspondent for moderating an important conversation. we hope that it will be a wake-up call for this town especially for the folks one-mile way on capitol hill. now they had held a conference to bridge the gap between the two measures. i cannot imagine that congress is so busy that i can't find time for this priority. i do not know when they'll conference but tonight would not be soon enough. in the meantime, please join please join me in welcoming our distinguished panel. [applause]. >> thank you for coming today. i hope it is goin

this is also the case regarding zika. there is another important lesson for our talk today, given our focus on climate change. the south is shocking revelation, warmer than the rest of the u.s. i am from new orleans, and i can preach to that. laboratory experiment says malaria. populations rise when the temperatures are in the 70's and 80's. it has to be nice and warm. these are from lab experiments. what does this mean for us in the future? as ron noted, we will see the distributional shift in temperatures in the u.s. we will even end up with more temperatures in the extreme. to put this into a nice and simple statistic, climate change model predicts something like 60 more days of 80 height.air in fahrenheit. the study that i have seen on the 1980's, they suggest though temperatures are ideal. that is suggesting that we will see increased risk of mosquito borne illnesses in the u.s.. more risk in the south, throughout larger parts of the year. also the risk of moving north. what can be done. a little bit of hope. malaria

zika to their partner. a more significant and immediate concern is puerto rico, where we know there are over 800 cases that have been diagnosed. however, we suspect that it could be significantly higher. the reason is that for most people you might not have a lot of symptoms when you get zika. if you are not pregnant, or the partner of someone who is pregnant or trying to get pregnant, you may not even know that you end up having zika. that means people are not affirmatively going to the doctor and getting tested on these issues. here is the good news, that because of the good work that has been done by the department of health and human services by the cdc and in -- and nih, we have a plan over the next several months to begin developing a vaccine and continually improve our diagnostic tests. we are also working with all of the states so they are properly prepared if we start seeing an outbreak in the continental united states during the summer when obviously mosquitoes are more active. what we are also tr

has nothing to do with zika response. as everything to do with whether or not you want to pay for it when you have the money available or you just want to add another $1st9 billion to the national credit card. -- $1st9 billion to the national credit card. it's thinking like that where we were running $1.4 trillion deficits when our friends were in control on the other side where we still have a $450 billion deficit for this fiscal year and it will go up next year. we ought to be doing this in a prudent way. zika response does not happen in a single day. it's something that will last over multiple months and years. the administration's request for 1 $.9 billion is not just for today, it is for at least the period of two years. . so they have the money they need right now. the bill provides the next amount of money they need and we will provide additional money in the course of the appropriations process. i want to assure everybody, nothing will not be done because the money was not available, and to date the administration

. >> the country has also become the center of the south american zika virus outbreak. >> brazil zika crisis was caused by a single infected traveler coming to the americas. >> trevor: wow. that sucks for brazil. they've got zika on top of everything else. and the worst part is they got it from just one traveler? no one knows who brought zika into brazil. although, do you think it might have been this guy? ( laughter ) because if you do, that's racial profiling. ( laughter ) yeah. now, mosquitos spreading zika virus is a problem for brazillians but at least they have generations of samba training to help them swat the insects away. so it helps. the problem is there's another way that you can catch zika. >> zika can be spread through sexual contact. >> australia plans to issue super-strength condoms to all its olympians in the help it will help stop the spread of zika. >> trevor: super strength condoms? shouldn't you always be using super strength condoms? what do australians normally use, half-strength condoms. what are they living on the edge? "you don't want to eliminate all the ris

as has been explained i want to but reemphasize, zika is not like ebola. this is not a human to human transmission, but with one exception that we'll talk about. it's primarily transmitted through mosquitos, a very particular type of mosquito. what we do know is that if you ontract zika, even if don't appear to have significant ymptoms, it is possible for ika to cause significant birth defects, including icroencephaly, where the skull casing is -- the head of the significantly smaller. we think that there may be other neurological disorders that are caused as a consequence of zika, know all of the potential effects. we do know that they are serious. right now, what we've seen is a zika inver 500 cases of the continental united states and they all appear to be travel related. transmitted. meaning somebody from the u.s. went down to an area that has came back. bite, and cases seen at least 10 in which a individual went to one of these areas, got infected, and then sexually their tted zika to partner. a more significant immediate puerto rico, where we now tha

reporter: zika. there's money taken from the emergency fund, might be the ebola fund, what's the status of that? is it your position that that money is going to run out soon and there's no other opportunity to tap into that same fund if congress doesn't come up with something? mr. earnest: our posture on this has been that using that money was essentially a last resort, to try and do as much as we possibly can to protect the american people from the zika virus. but what our public health rofessionals have said is that that money, about $600 million, was insufficient to fund all of the things that the federal government can and should be doing to try to prepare for the onset of the zika virus. reporter: there's no more money in that fund, there's no more money available from that emergency fund to the administration? mr. earnest: we can check with o.m.b. on this. i think what itly is -- what it actually is, is we take as much money from that as we can without undermining the important public health wo

it carries all of those in addition to the zika. so this guy is a very important means of transmission of disease to children. and why is that the case and why we concerned especially about both zeke and the role of the aedes aegypti? first of all there's some evidence that has the widest range it's ever had. places that have increasing temperatures, many mosquitoes are more likely. it's easier for them to breed. they multiply faster and so they occupy new areas. predictions go i think these are mentioned in the journal but if not there are other journals more focus on climate and children that say that even in the united states we will start getting zika quite a bit of expansion of territory. it's present out in the southeast let it will expand. it breeds in and around standing water which is actually important because especially when it's hot, people like that more water. and especially the more traditional societies they keep it in buckets and tails and all sorts of things all around. in any of that can be breeding ground for zik

the zika virus, zika mosquitos in the americas. and as of february 1 we had seven confirmed cases in houston, texas. it appears from what i have read that standing water activates them. it appears that rain can activate them. these mosquitos. if this is true in houston, texas, given we just had a flood, the so-called tax day flood, and because we are still being inundated with rain quite regularly, 80% chance of today in houston and 80% chance tomorrow, it appears that we have the makings of a special problem in houston, texas. so i am gravely concerned and i hope that we will do all that we can to make sure that we get the necessary equipment, the necessary funding so that this enemy can be confronted properly. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back his time. the gentleman from florida reserves his time of the the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. cole, is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gent

designed to play on public fears over zika. it has nothing to do with combating zika. in fact, republicans have been pushing the text of the underlying legislation for years, under whatever name happens to be convenient at the time. otherwise known as the pesticide trojan horse bill, this legislation attempts to gut our ability to track and report when and where harmful pesticides are sprayed. without oversight compliance, physicians and scientists are less able to track and identify the cluster of symptoms caused by pesticides, which in turn reduces their ability to protect the public's health. i know as a physician and public health expert that pesticides can have serious toxic impacts on human health, particularly for women and children. pesticides can endanger women and unborn children, cause malformations in infants, hinder early childhood development, endanger reproductive health and cause cancer. madam speaker, i speak as a physician, but i also speak as the son of farm workers. the underlying bill could expose already vulnerable populations to greater risks of

y la propagaciÓn del zika aquÍ en estados unidos en cuanto a los pacientes?. >>> josÉ, lo mÁs importan es proteger a las mujeres embarazadas. es el pÚblico mÁs velo nu ravulnerable y es la prioridad para las autoridades de salud en la zona donde vemos que es mÁs facil las zonas tropicales, la zona donde hay gran humedad, los estados del golfo y ponen atenciÓn al estado de texas. porque hay gran flujo que pasan de la frontera de mÉxico a texas. llegara a estados unidos, es cuestiÓn de tiempo. >>> vanessa hauc, gracias y hablaba del estado de texas, como uno de los lugares donde hay preocupaciÓn que allÍ precisamente se pudiera propagar esta enfermedad del zika el congresista henry cuellar de texas estÁ con nosotros en washington, congresista, gracias. la primera pregunta es ¿cuan preocupados estÁn ustedes por lo queudiera pasar en texas?. >>> yo tuve en brasil hace 2 meses y hablamos mucho de la enfermedad del zika, que es algo que estÁ pegando muy duro a brasil, a puerto rico y a otras partes. viene por centroamÉrica y mÉxico tambi y por eso, a

how worried should you be about zika? plus, they've put in fewer days than any senate in the last 60 years. so why take a break before finishing the people's business? fernando: hundreds of cases of zika have come into the continental us in the last year , and just last week we saw the country's first zika-related death in puerto rico. the national institute of health says it needs $1.9 billion in new funding to be prepared for the upcoming mosquito season and congress has yet to act. will the u.s. be prepared for outbreaks this summer? dr. anthony fauci is the nation's leading zika expert. he joins us now from nih in bethesda, maryland. welcome to the program. dr. fauci: good to be with you. fernando: sir, what would you say is the state of the zika at break here in the united states? is this something that worries you? dr. fauci: well, we have in the united states what we call travel-related cases, maybe people who have gone to the infected region in south america, central america, the caribbean, have gotten infected an

there are now zika infections and zika cases in multiple states across the country. and by the way, we now know that zika isn't just transmitted through mosquitoes but can also be sexually transmitted. in fact, the only case of transmission in florida was one that was sexually transmitted in central florida. and so as we debate all these other important issues, this is a looming public health crisis. this is the situation that we are facing now in this country, and the time to act has come, the moment to act has come, because right now we are facing in this body and here in washington, d.c. a debate about this issue, about how much money we're going to spend on it. and look, i have -- the president has proposed $1.9 billion to deal with it. about $500 billion of that is designed to pay back the ebola funding that has been used in the short term to fill in the gap. but the rest of it is for real programs that go into dealing with this issue and particularly dealing with it on the island of puerto rico that has been disproportionately impacted by this. when i hear peop

zika infection. we probably have many more than that, and there would be people who see, and through the detection efforts, so we probably have had thousands an thousands of travelers. we know of over 500. there's issues with probability, but the reality is one bitings and you're pregnant, your baby could be harmed. that's a phenomenon problem to be working on, and that motivates you. cdc has over 1,000 people who have been part of our response already, and there are actually 11 different centers of cdc are involved, because it's birth convex and mosquito experts, infectious disease folks, so the probability only gets you so far. >> the other issue that ann was saying, it is counter-intuitive, you come back from brazil or puerto rico, you think, i made it, why should the put on the repellant. it's complicated and confounded that it's sexually transmitted also, so men who return from -- it's sexually travel to our knowledge from men to women, but not from women to men. we've been able to demonstrate n

puerto rica learns to cope with zika. making sense of grit and what it takes to succeed, and much more. >> sreenivasan: months of political turmoil in brazil reached a divisive climax early today as dilma rousseff, president of south america's largest nation, found herself on the losing end of a vote in brazil's senate that could ultimately remove her from office. dilma rousseff emerged from the presidential palace in brasilia this morning, to throngs of cheering, flag-waving supporters. she greeted the crowd, and declared her defiance. >> ( translated ): this process is a coup because it's an impeachment without a crime. i did not commit crime of responsibility. i am being the target of a great injustice. i'm a victim of a great injustice. >> sreenivasan: rousseff's impassioned speech came just hours after brazil's senate voted 55 to 22 to remove her from office, at least temporarily. her critics included another former president who was impeached in 1992. >> ( translated ): we arrived at the peak of a crisis, we have ar

has not yetess passed a resolution on zika. how are we doing on preparing ourselves for what is to come during the summer? tom: we have to get this over the finish line in congress. i'm encouraged that both people -- that people on both sides of the aisle understand it is an emergency. congress did the right thing with ebola. i'm hopeful they will do the right thing with zika. the sooner the better. the window of opportunity is closing. the resources to protect american women, protect people from zika and that can only be done with a long-term commitment that starts soon. david: what is being delayed at this point? vaccine, spraying against mosquitoes? tom: we've borrowed money from one fight of fighting emergencies -- from one fight against emergencies to stop mosquitoes. this is a difficult mosquito to control. the sooner we start, the sooner we can do it. to better developed tests diagnose and vaccinate against it. have been calls to delay or relocate this year's olympics in real. would you agree with that? tom: from a publi

island are confirmed to have been infected with zika. doctor hector villanueva is medical director at health pro-med, a clinic that offers low cost, and in many cases free, services to residents along the channel. >> when the trash is present, it usually attracts insects, rats, and all kinds of vectors and animals that may transmit diseases. >> reporter: a 2014 study by mount sinai medical school in new york found people who live around the channel have higher levels of gastrointestinal disease than the overall rate in puerto rico. and university of puerto rico researchers found that children here are more likely to develop bronchial asthma and skin conditions. castro is concerned about the health of her two children, and the third on the way. she's six months pregnant. >> ( translated ): i'm especially worried because i'm pregnant, and zika right now is a big threat in this country. so i'm really worried, because i see more mosquitoes than ever before. >> reporter: pregnant woman are especially at risk, as zika can cause microcephaly, a

this is zika moving as part of this trend as well. you can see that these are fairly similar patterns. so i just want to quickly talk about puerto rico where we have seen these out breaks as the -- kind of the bell weather for the u.s., so this is chickengunya in 2014 and that was a week by week map, shows you the spread. and this is was the final map for chickengunya, this is what we're saying now from november through april, the top lines are zika, you can see the dramatic increase there in the third or fourth week of of the year. this is what puerto rico looks like today with over 600 locally acquired infections. that has been the real test, the lab obviously needed a lot of support. we have a lab in puerto rico that works so we've been able to partner with them very effectively. we're also doing surveillance of pregnant women and newborns to understand what the risks are longer term. and i'm going to talk about -- so here is the map. and it is -- we also have some transmission but it seems to be a less competent vector. what i wan

spread of the zika virus. will be debating instructions for negotiating with the senate over a bill to respond to opioid addiction. and also late they are afternoon, debate starting on defense department programs and policies for 2017. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, rabbi jay winestein, young israel of east brunswick, east brunswick, new jersey. the chaplain: o god in heaven, please grant your blessing upon our nation's leaders, our president, vice president, members of congress, and all our officers of government. grant them courage and wisdom, sensitivity and compassn as they respond to the needs of our diverse population. allow them to bring to fruition the hopes and visions, dreams and goals, upon which this country was founded. merciful g, we express our dee gratitude for this home built un the values of peace, religious tolerance, and espect. protect our courageous military forces who are spad throughout the wld, quickly return them to their fam

we do need to deal with zika, but we also need to deal with zika in a fiscally responsible way, and the assumption that to deal with zika means we have to throw the budget out and there's no way we can find $1 billion in a $4 trillion budget to cover zika is laughable. so what i propose is something very simple. right now department of state, h.h.s. and usaid have $86 billion in unobligated balances right now. there is absolutely no reason $1 billion of that could not be moved in to deal with zika right now, to do the exact same proposal that senator murray and senator blunt have proposed but to actually do it with the unobligated balances. there is no reason that wouldn't occur. $500 million have already been moved over from ebola funding. that would be $1.6 billion moving into to be able to fight zika. the real issue with fighting zika is three simple things. c.d.c. actually tracking the movement so we can stay attentive to it. the second thing is dealing with mosquito population. that is aggressive spraying. and the third thing is working on a vaccine. all three of those things we ca

. >>> up next on "action news" at 11:30, pregnant woman in connecticut affected with zika speaks out about her fear and plans. >>> it was a night to remember, two best friend remember the day that they thought that this would never happen, attending a prom, that and much more when "action news" comes right back. sick a. >> testing. >>> welcome back. here's is what happening on "action news" at 11:30. donald trump goes after the clinton but he had to say how he plans to get g.o.p. hold outs back on his side. >>> zika and u.s., hear from the pregnant woman in connecticut who was infect. >>> mother's wish come true, see their children best friend heading off to the prom, it was a day they thought might never come. >>> but first tonight it has been a dreary week but sun will come out tomorrow just in time for mothers day. it looks like a sun well make a rhea experience. meteorologist melissa magee is here with the first check of the accu weather forecast. >> hi there walter. we have good news for mom on mothers day and it does look like that sunshine, making a come back tomorrow. current

i have a question about the zika epidemic. i was just wondering if you think we have any evidence that this epidemic is fueled by climate change, or rather do you see this as an example of how climate change may threaten us in the future? this is important in terms of how we frame our education to our members. able toe not really determine the role that climate has played in the celebrate. like climatepen -- change does it we cannot this entanglement from other factors like global travel, living gettingns, the virus out of hand in a population. there is not a way for us to know that. understand some of the changes that could be happening if we did have better surveillance data on mosquitoes and the disease. that is one of the things we would like to do. what some ofanding the longer-term effects might be for babies is part of what we need to understand. to inform some of the arguments you're suggesting, what can we avoid by having an effect requires knowing what the full range is. >> if you want to at some states for the contr

we are in this mess with zika. it's a mess that will get a lot worse because of stupidd decisions make right here in congress. keep in mind, zika like ebola is a disease we have known about four years. our ability to do the necessary research to eradicate these threats has been undercut bynd republicans desire to make more and more budget cuts. even when they put the health of americans in danger. this country scientific research capacity has been deaf decimated we have lost about 20% of ourth purchasing power the prevention and public health fund that help build the infrastructure needed to prevent people from getting sick and shut down outbreaks like the guy has been on the republican chopping block year after year after year.ing our doctors scientists and health officials need ours complete support in fighting this virus. they've told us how much money they need to do that. the less money congress gives them, the the more people will be hurt by the zika virus.fo more babies with heartbreaking deformities, more a

. >> what about a zika vaccine? >> well, researchers are working on a zika vaccine. there is -- there are some vaccines to other related viruses so researchers have sort of a jump-start on that. but it's still going to take time and in the meantime it's really important that pregnant women know how to protect themselves. >> dr. jamieson, thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >>> now here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week "on the money." america's economy is growing but very slowly. gross domestic product, a scope of the size of the u.s. economy climbed by just half a percent in the first quarter of the year, the worst two years. slow growth is not unusual in the first quarter. business investment was weak. the dow plunged more than 230 points on thursday, partly because of the weak gdp report and also partly because apple missed earnings expectation. that was the market's worse decline since february. stocks continued to fall on friday. as expected, janet yellen did nothing and left in

. >> what about a zika vaccine? >> well, researchers are working on a zika vaccine. there is -- there are some vaccines to other related viruses so researchers have sort of a jump-start on that. but it's still going to take time and in the meantime it's really important that pregnant women know how to protect themselves. >> dr. jamieson, thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >>> now here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week "on the money." america's economy is growing but very slowly. gross domestic product, a scope of the size of the u.s. economy climbed by just half a percent in the first quarter of the year, the worst performance in two years. slow growth is not unusual in the first quarter. business investment was weak. the dow plunged more than 230 points on thursday, partly because of the weak gdp report and also partly because apple missed earnings expectation. that was the market's worse decline since february. stocks continued to fall on friday. as expected, janet yellen did noth

the zika legislation, mr. speaker, is designed to bring those pest control technologies that we have, those pest control opportunities that we ave to bear in the name of public health as soon as safely possible. mr. speaker, for years the e.p.a. has had in its understanding of how to regulate in this country as long as it certified a pest control is being safe, they did not have to go back and run it through the clean water act approval process as well. law of the land strictly speaking says, you have to do that. they thought it was duplicative. they hadn't been doing it. so for pete's sake, the law of the land is the law of the land. you ought to follow the law of the land. it ought to bring solutions to the market as quick and safely as we can possibly can, mr. speaker. we get one bite at this apple. we get one bite at zika control. we got one bite of making this public health risk that does not balloon here in the united states of america. this bill gives us an opportunity to put our best foot forward in te

i'm hopeful that congress will do the right thing with zika. failing to provide supplemental emergency funding would have real consequences. we would not be able to pay back the money we borrowed that is keeping people safe today, and we wouldn't be able to begin many of the crucially needed projects to understand zika better, to develop better ways of diagnosing the infection and better ways to kill the mosquitoes, so that we can protect women more effectively. laura: one public health expert has called for the olympic games in rio this summer to be moved or canceled because of the public health risk from zika. do you agree? dr. friedman: no. i don't think there is any reason from a public health standpoint to cancel or move the olympics. the risk is to pregnant women. if you are pregnant, you should not travel. if you are pregnant and you need to travel, you need to be really careful about mosquitoes. for men who travel whose partners are pregnant, you need to use a condom. one claim is it may spread zika through travel, but the olympics are

it's developing better testing for zika. it's getting out the opportunity in different health departments around the country to say how are we going to evaluate this and how do we know if someone just has a fever and a rash, if that's something else, the heat or something related to zika? so c.d.c. is engaging in all of those things. in the middle of all this, the white house has requested almost $2 billion in what they're calling an emergency request for zika. now, i do believe there should be a response to zika and we should aggressively lean in. the last thing we should do is sit around and wait until zika virus is spreading across the united states and affects many of these pregnant moms that are out there and we have birth defects in the days ahead because of our inactivity. but the almost $2 billion in emergency request is interesting to me because a lot of it they haven't given us great detail on it of really what all that will engage. they have said they need this large amount of money. i have to tell you i'm a littl

and its territories have tested positive for the zika virus. most zika cases in the u.s. so far have been in people who traveled from latin america, but health officials expect mosquito-borne infections will occur here soon. cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook is here. dr. lapook, we're talking about more than 150 women, pregnant women who have tested positive for the zika virus. >> reporter: right here in the united states. >> ninan: right here in america. how concerned should women be? >> reporter: well, perspective, first of all. these women are people who have gotten the zika virus because of travel, because they went somewhere else, they got infected down in, say, brazil and then came back up here. and in a few cases, it has been through sexual transmission. but so far, as far as we know, there has been no case of a mosquito in the united states becoming infected with the zika virus, turning around and biting somebody who is uninfected and giving them what is called local transmission of zika. if that happens, there is going to be a lot of concern. >>

jon lapook following zika for us every day. jon, thank you very much. >>> well, there was some improvement today in those airport security lines. the tsa said it was sending 58 more officers and bomb-sniffing dogs to chicago o'hare, where the lines had been as long as three hours. dean reynolds is there. >> reporter: with passengers lined up as far as the eye could see and with so many flights missed, the frustrated travelers were left sleeping in the terminals. tsa administrator peter neffenger today said he was sorry for the inconvenience. >> i always tell people i won't apologize for doing our job well, but i do apologize to the people who found themselves stranded in chicago yesterday. >> reporter: and it's not only chicago. airports across the country are seeing more passengers and longer security lines at peak travel times. last week american airlines said 6,400 of their customers missed flights because of the backlog. cybelle jones was traveling through washington's reagan national airport. >> it's not even summer yet, s

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and its territories have tested positive for the zika virus. most zika cases in the u.s. so far have been in people who traveled frotraveled from latint health officials expect mosquito-borne enfekses will occur here soon. ceeps news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook is here. we're talking about more than 150 pregnant women who have tested positive for the zika virus. >> reporter: right here in the united states. >> ninan: right here in america. how concerned should women be? >> reporter: perspective, first of all. these are the women who have gotten the zika virus because of travel, because they went somewhere else, they got infected down in, say, brazil and came back up to here. in a few cases there has been sexual transmission. so far we don't know of a case from a mosquito in the united states biting someone who is uninfected and giving them what is called local transmission of zika. if thams, there is going to be a lot of concern. >> ninan: on how will we know if mosquitos, when they are infected with the zika virus? >> reporter: we may not know right away,

>>> only on "gma," the zika scare. for the first time a pregnant american woman is coming forward and speaking on camera after testing positive for the zika virus. >> it's really heartbreaking, you know, knowing that i got zika. >> opening up about the frightening diagnosis. how she knew something was very wrong. >>> and airport headaches. the endless wait for travelers slogging through airport security. >> i don't understand. >> only getting worse during the busy summer season. the best strategies to get you to the gate on time. >>> hey, good morning, and we start here with the presumptive republican nominee donald trump fighting a multifront war right now. he held a rally overnight firing hard at both his likely opponent hillary clinton and members of his own party, who are refusing to line up behind him. >> now recall, if you will, trump has promised of late to be more presidential, but he was in classic form at this rally attacking his fellow republicans talking about bill clinton's infidelity and went one step fur