Today. Will the beautiful weather stick around tonight or could we see rain . . . Meteorologist jesse ritka joins us with the answer. Our streak of 80s in august continues today with mostly sunny skies. There is a slight chance for an isolated shower or storm this evening but most will see partly cloudy with the chance for some patchy fog to develop overnight with low temps near our dew points in the upper storm team 4 now. Scientists say july was so hot. It was record breaking. Nasa says it was the warmest july in 136years. July was also warmer than any other month on record. A wildfire in california has forced 80thousand people from thier homes. A new blaze ignited yesterday. Engulf of San Francisco after less than ten hours. The blue cut fire has destroyed an unknown number of homes. Fire Officials Say theres no containment in sight. Californias governor has declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino county. Two people are recovering today after a paddleboat caught fire on lake
The cdc is doing its traditional tracking and working with Health Departments across the country to understand when there are cases and make sure the appropriate whether it is that virus or not. We are doing the tracking in terms of the numbers and the numbers by state and locality so we have an understanding of that. The other thing the cdc is doing is communicating clearly about the things we believe are most important and i would encourage everyone in this room to step up your handwashing and if you have children to make sure you are encouraging that kind of handwashing. Thats one of the basic things and something that before meals and before everything making sure we are doing that. The last point gets to the core of your question is cdc is working with individual Health Departments to do the investigatory work to understand in these cases whether its a question of paralysis or a question of visit directly related to the virus. We are part of that investigative process to determine
To put its best foot forward. A strange question because it doesnt work with the framework that you follow. You are from el paso so maybe you could. I think the reason is chief of police and the community that supports law and order and law enforcement, they do a great job and the crime is different. Its entirely different. Bridge cases is a major problem. We have time for one last question. I had the opportunity to talk about that at the end of july and work with refugees. I think they have been pretty poorly portrayed by the media. There are a lot of desperate people trying to flee bad circumstances but my question really is, because we have such a polarized nation, what are the representatives of the state of texas doing to let Homeland Security and every other representative and senator from every other state in the union understand that we will never be able to build a wall along the entire edge of texas that will keep people in our out because if you want to know how it felt to m
Not there. I we are developing and promised the principal sponsors of this law that we are going to develop a plan to get to 100 not have the we do resources. Congress has not given us the resources. We are developing that. I would like to see us get to a higher percentage of what is deans scanned what is being scanned right now. I look at what comes into the country and the method we have for screening it all, and it is pretty sophisticated. So i take away from that a pretty good story. Ok, yes, sir. Last question. On ebola. We are now screening at five airports. Do we have the capability to deal with this, and do we have contingencies if things get worse . We very definitely in this country have the ability to deal with the ebola virus. Every time there has been an outbreak of ebola in the world, it has been defeated. Here in the United States, we have the best health care, doctors, infrastructure, hospitals. It is a treatable disease if it is caught in time and you receive the right
I think theres a lot of good law there that could solve a loot of these problems. I think that should be the starting point for a larger conversation about bringing our laws uptodate for the new realities. Guest it says that the internet should be unfettered by state or federal regulation. Host and thats the last word. Robert mcdowell, former fcc commissioner now with the hudson institute, and craig aaron, president and ceo of free press. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a Public Service by your television provider. And were live at the Kaiser Family foundation this morning for remarks from arkansas governor mike bee by here in washington for the National Governors Association Winter meeting, and this morning hes talking about the impact of the Health Care Laws implementation in his state. This is just getting underway, live coverage on cspan2. We determined through various means that by utilizing the private option to which was the ab