Are in the cia in a newsroom. Hi everyone. Im Jessica Dean In Washington and tonight, breaking news, the white house saying President Biden held a phone call with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today that call coming just days after the president signed in aid package that includes 26 for israel. And as biden faces increased pressure to end the war four, amid massive protests at College Campuses across the country. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is joining us now from the white house with more details on this. Priscilla, you have new reporting on what this call really focused on. Youve just got according to a source familiar with the call, this was primarily focused on a hostage deal fact, 75 of the conversation was about a hostage deal. This is something that the white house has been focused on that us officials have seen as a priority of theirs and trying to get these hostages released. Well ill also trying to reach an agreement on a temporary ceasefire that would allow ag
birmingham, england there was a lab accident resulting in a small p smaum pox death that resulted. you can count on one finger how often it happens. in another city there was an intentional manipulation by the laboratory worker to may this virus more likely to be able to replicate in people which has this evil scientific genius kind of lex lueth are marvel comics appeal. i think the chances of that are about zero. when we look closely we are finding out what we novrl do. which is it s a bat virus that normally introduced itself into the human population. the flu is a bird virus that mutated to infect humans. the that s what s going to happen here. dr. off it, you started by saying that china needs to open up and tell essentially the world what happened. but why would they do do it now with the 90-day deadline the
is the fear that comes from worrying about things like this when you hear some super name, eee. you think oh, oh, that, can get me. or another we ve in florida, that can get me. these are not going to get you. they re very, very rare. four to six cases a year. but it s a wake-up call for protecting yourself against mosquitoes. okay. so they re very, very rare. but at the same time, you ve got west nile virus out there, which a lot of people actually do contract. but it all comes back to the how do you protect yourself against the mosquito, cause there is a possibility it could be west nile, ee, it could just be a healthy mosquito biting you. this is the time of year it happens. what do we do? i m glad you brought up west nile cause that s a cousin of this. this is a bird virus. the viruses that infect birds that mosquitoes give us are the ones that can give us this brain swelling. what do you do this time of year? first of all, you don t let
this. this h7n9 virus is called the bird virus but having trouble finding it in a lot of birds. that s worrisome. worrisome. when i talk to people at the cdc they see changes in this virus that put it on the path of going person-to-person. that s what you worry about for a strain that has pandemic potential. i m glad the cdc is working on vaccines and diagnostic kits because you never know at this point which virus will make the turn and become dangerous and which one is going to go away. the things can be lethal. they can kill people easily, transmissable is the other thing where they spread from person-to-person. in fact, combination of things that worries you the most? and not having any immunity in the population. so if it s a new strain people haven t seen before, then you run that risk if you introduce it it s going to spread like wildfire. that s what you worry about. if it makes the change so it s transmissable, that s the big