This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today a Health Emergency was declared in a fifth florida county because of zika virus, which is suspected of causing birth defects. Broward county includes fort lauderdale. Florida is reporting at least 12 cases, in all more than 51 people have been infected in 12 states and the district of columbia. Conditions in the Sunshine State are especially conducive to zika. Mark strassmann is there. Reporter zika anxiety pushed teams of mosquitocontrol sprayers into florida today. Floridas hot, humid client puts its 20 million residents at risk for the virus along with millions more tourists. Governor rick scott. Were state that has mosquitoes similar to mosquitoes that could carry this, so its better to get ahead of it. Reporter scott has asked the centers for Disease Control testing kits here. The state will buy 4,000 more. Testing would focus on pregnant women who are especially vulnerable. The virus has been linked to a birth defect ca
Broward county includes fort lauderdale. Florida is repepting at least 12 cases, in all more than 51 people have been infected in 12 states and the district of lumbia. Conditions in the Sunshine State are especially conducive to zika. Mark strassmann is there. Reporter zika anxiety pushed teams of mosquitocontntl sprayers into florida today. Floridas hot, humid client puts its 20 million residents at risk for the virus along with millions more trists. Governor rick scott. Were state that has mosquitoes similar to mosquitoes that could carry this, so its better to get ahead of it. Reporter scott has asked the centers for Disease Control or c. D. C. To rush 1,000 zika testing kits here. The state will buy 4,000 more. Testing would focus on pregnant women who are especially vulnerable. The virus has been linked to a birth defect calledd babies are born with abnormally small heads and brains. There is no zika vaccine and no antidote. Dr. Walter tabachnick, an expert infnftious diseases. I
Are especially conducive to zika. Mark strassmann is there. Reporter zika anxiety pushed teams of mosquitocontrol sprayers into florida today. Floridas hot, humid client puts its 20 million residents at risk for the virus along with millions more tourists. Governor rick scott. Were state t tt has mosquitoes similar to mosquitoes that could carry this, so its better to get ahead of it. Reporter scott has asked the centers for Disease Control or c. D. C. To rush 1,000 zika testing kits here. The state will buy 4,000 more. Testing would focus on pregnant women who are especially vulnerable. The virus has been linked to a birth defect called microcephaly. Babies are born with abnormally small headadand brains. There is no zika vaccine and no antidote. Dr. Walter tabachnick, an expert on infectious diseases. So seriously that we must do Everything Possible to reduce the chances of getting zika. Reporter floridians often live with standing water where mosquitoes breed, but residents are bebe
Im Richard Jordan at the live desk. New on news4 midday, president obama signs an executive order that offers new protection to members of the lbgt community. Its an executive order that prohibits discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation and gender identity. This is for federal workers and federal contractors. President clinton already offered federal employees protection and president obamain colluding gender identity and extending it to include federal contractors, just federal workers. Thats the latest here at the live desk. Back to you. Now to the developing story, the israelgaza conflict is in its bloodiest days now. Israeli air strikes pounded gaza this morning. The New York Times is reporting the Israeli Military stopped two advances into its territory via tunnels from the gaza strip. Gaza returned rocket fire in southern israel. Air raid sirens blaired over tel aviv as people on the street ran for cover. More than 500 palestinians and 20 israelis, including two civilia
Team over the last two years have left. 11 out of 15. So when our colleagues leave, we ask the general lift to absorb those patients, carry their own panels and continue to see these patients. I dont know how we can do that. I know you know because we all have Family Members that work at kaiser. We are all members of kaiser. We all get treatment at kaiser. I know you know this and i wish our employers would too and do something about it. Lastly, i think i just want to add that our program has been expanding for the past few years. It used to be a program for teenagers. We are seeing 7 and 8 years old in our program. That is not okay. I have a 10 year old. I dont want my kid to end up in this place. They are not getting more sick. They are just not being seeing. I want that to be very clear. Our youth are not getting more sick. They are not being seeing and treated for mild anxiety adjustment, mild depression. Social skills, things like that. And so they end up getting worse and worse a