live, who was going to be america s first teacher in space. we ll begin there this morning with history and your thoughts and memories of the explosion of the space shuttle challenger. if you live in the eastern central part of the country, 202-748-8,000. ountain pacific, 202-748-8001. send us a tweet with your . mories at c spanwj we ll get those thoughts here in just a minute. i want to begin with the miami herald s original reporting that day, that tuesday on january 28, 1986. and they write this that for a moment america stood still. and a nation s anguish began to turn. congressmen talked of re-evaluating the space program. newspapers published extra editions. wall street expressed doubts. it goes on to say this that for more than a half-hour after the explosion, the trail of white smoke remained in the clear florida skies as it plummeted to the sea 18 miles southeast of the launch pad. the blame flaming debris was clearly visible from across florida from tampa to miam
abroad, but that is likely to change. the virus, first discovered in the zika forest in uganda in the 1940s, is linked to serious birth defects. dr. jon lapook has the latest. the zika virus. reporter: today the world health organization sounded an alarm about the zika outbreak. director margaret chan. questions abound. we need to get some answers quickly. reporter: the organization will convene an emergency meeting monday to plan its response. the zika virus, which is linked to children being born with small heads, poses several challenges. right now diagnostic tests aren t perfect. there s in treatment, and there s in vaccine. dr. anthony fauci, head of the infectious diseases branch of pandemic. you have multiple down fris in south america and the definition, that would be considered a pandemic. the virus will eventually be found in mosquitoes in the u.s. if you have this much zika in south america and in the caribbean, sooner or later we re going to see a loca
voters deserve as much information as we can possibly give them. he did say he would finance free public tuition, and medicare for all health care plan by charging businesses 6% premium and individuals 2%. you think you could convince americans to raise tax snz. i think we can convince the american people in the year 2016, all of our kids should be able to go to public colleges and university tuition-free. the editorial plays into a case that clinton makes in campaigns like this one all the time. she argues that his ideas look good on paper but will never work in the real world. by now roughly half of iowa democrats are siding with him. nancy, thank you. today, teachers in detroit sued the school district over conditions. they had been staging sick-outs forcing most of the schools to close, many of the parents are with them. after weeks of protests over dilapidated buildings, a lawsuit was their only choice. ivy bailey is the interim president of detroit feder
i mean, i m 18 weeks pregnant, too, and it s hard. reporter: denver fire says the majority of the fire damage is on the backside of the building. when firefighters arrived they knocked back very large flames. when they arrived on scene, they saw that the fire was on the second floor of the building. we re going to need an ems to evaluate the patients over here. reporter: the red cross is working to find new housing for the 11 people who were living here, for many of them, this times. they re already having tough times, struggling to get back on their feet. one family telling me as soon as they get on their feet, they get example. reporter: some cases the people here, because they had no time to get shoes and clothes on rs they couldn t even think about grabbing their valuables or even their cell phones, so just a really tough situation for lot of these people. the red cross is there to help. cbs4 news. thank you, jen. right now, the university of denver is stepping
including the u.s., with 31 cases in 1 1 states and d.c. since last year. so far all of the patients here were infected by mosquitoes abroad, but that is likely to change. the virus, first discovered in the zika forest in uganda in the 1940s, is linked to serious birth defects. dr. jon lapook has the latest. the zika virus. reporter: today the world health organization sounded an alarm about the zika outbreak. director margaret chan. questions abound. we need to get some answers quickly. reporter: the organization will convene an emergency meeting monday to plan its response. the zika virus, which is linked to children being born with small heads, poses several challenges. right now diagnostic tests aren t perfect. there s in treatment, and there s in vaccine. dr. anthony fauci, head of the the nih, says the outbreak is a pandemic. you have multiple down fris in south america and the caribbean, so by anybody s definition, that would be considered a pandemic. repor