everything is destroyed. i ll tell you even the things that are not destroyed, you know, it s not pleasant, but some of the small structures that remain, people had defecated in them because you have to remember this storm just hovered for 36 hours. it s hard to imagine how this island will ever get back on its feet. reporter: immediately we have a disease problem that is looming here because there are these bodies that haven t been found and there isn t running water and we re short of gasoline. there s a fairly immediate problem that in this heat and as unpleasant as it is, the search teams when the wind changes direction, they can smell, you can smell the bodies all over this island. you can spell bodies decomposing. they smell it, go that direction and find the bodies. it s a horrible, horrible situation down there. cal and ali, thank you for keeping us updated. i appreciate that. i m joined now by peter baker, chief white house
getting out what s going on in there, particularly if there is a disease problem. well, tb, as you probably know, is very, very contagious. it spreads like wildfire. what can you say? does it get worse than this? does it really get worse? i mean, at every single level, but i was thinking about it the other day as i saw everybody pouring into the country. i said what about disease? they re not people that have had medical care and now i guess they ll be taken care of under obamacare. cost our economy $34 billion, all these people coming in. i thought newt gingrich had a comment over the weekend. gallup did a world wide survey and they asked what country would you like to go? 160 million people said we want to come here. are we supposed to take all them? if we don t d that mean we have no examination? that s the thing. they talk about compassion and humanitarianism and everything. the problem we have is that
that here. no, only in europe. european car manufacturers banded together to try and lobby the nhtsa and they said this is really not a priority for us. so sorry. steve: yeah, sorry. meanwhile, you can ship red licorice to california, but only if there ises a this might kill you with cancer label on it, right? yes. because of prop 65, which is a toxic substance control act, you have to label everything that california deems a toxin. but as it turns out, this is a substance, red dye number 40, that is f.d.a. has said over and over again, this is one of the most widely studied coloring agents is completely fine and safe. so this is something that california in its i if i nate wisdom infinite wisdom knows more than the f.d.a. steve: it s now safe to get meat prosecute italy. who knew in the 60s there was a disease problem and next thing you know, they put the kabash on it, didn t they?
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