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next, president obama talks congressional action to fund the vaccines for the zika virus. nd a discussion on efforts to strengthen libyan security and fight against isis. president obama met with top health officials at the white house to talk about the zika virus. the centers for disease control and prevention released a new eport confirm ing that 157 pregnant women have tested positive for the virus. president obama called on congress to approve funding for treatment and finding a vaccine. both the house and senate have only approved a portion of what the administration has requested. minutes.bout 10 pres. obama: everybody all set? okay. i just had an opportunity to get

a full briefing from secretary c.d.c. director, as n.i.a. tony kazi , from about the zika situation and i wanted to give the american eople a quick update on where we are. as has been explained i want to but reemphasize, zika is not like ebola. this is not a human to human transmission, but with one exception that we'll talk about. it's primarily transmitted through mosquitos, a very particular type of mosquito. what we do know is that if you ontract zika, even if don't appear to have significant ymptoms, it is possible for ika to cause significant birth defects, including icroencephaly, where the skull casing is -- the head of the

significantly smaller. we think that there may be other neurological disorders that are caused as a consequence of zika, know all of the potential effects. we do know that they are serious. right now, what we've seen is a zika inver 500 cases of the continental united states and they all appear to be travel related. transmitted. meaning somebody from the u.s. went down to an area that has came back. bite, and cases seen at least 10 in which a individual went to one of these areas, got infected, and then sexually their tted zika to partner. a more significant immediate puerto rico, where we now that there are over 800

cases that have been diagnosed. however, we suspect that it could be significantly higher. the reason is that for most not have a lot of symptoms when you get zika. pregnant, or the somebody who is pregnant or trying to get pregnant, you may not even know zika, andnd up having that means people oftentimes are not affirmatively going to the doctor and getting tested on these issues. now, here's the good news, is that because of the good work department of health and human services, as well as the c.d.c. as well as the n.i.h., we have put forward a plan, have got a plan over the next ext, and continually improve

diagnostic tests. if we see an outbreak in the united states during the summer mosquitos are more active. and what we're also trying to do new tools for vector control, meaning how do we kill mosquitos and reduce their populations, particularly the kind of mosquitos. hat's a tricky piece of business, because we've been using a lot of insecticides for time, that have become ess and less effective, new strains of mosquitos become resistant through the insecticides that we have, the methods that we use aren't as effective as they used to be, and so we're also investing a lot of time and research, logistical support through state and local communities, that start improving our ability to mosquitos. puerto rico and some of the

territory, but we're also spending time working with the states so they can be better prepared. all of this work costs money. have put forward a package that cost $1.9 billion in emergency funding in order for us to make sure that we are doing effective mosquito we rol, to make sure that are developing effective diagnostic tools, distributing that we are sure developing the vaccines that ultimately will prevent some of that we've seen for those who have contracted end up having children with significant birth defects. and we didn't just choose $1.9 billion from the top of our heads. his was based on public health assessment of all the work that needs to be done. that we want ent

to be able to feel safe and families who are of child-bearing years, want to they can have confidence that when they ravel, when they want to start a family, that this is not an issue. to the extent that that's omething that we think is important, then this is a pretty modest investment for us to get assurances. unfortunately what we have right the senate approving a package that would fund a little over half of what's been requested. the house, so far, has approved third of the money that's been requested, except is taken from the fund we're currently using to monitor and fight against ebola. effectively, there's no new money there. is that the house has done

that you can rob peter to pay paul. given that i have at least retty vivid memories of how concerned people were about ebola, the notion that we would stop monitoring as effectively in dealing with ebola in order zika doesn't make a lot of sense. and i don't think it will make a lot of sense to the american people. so here's the upshot. something that is solvable. it is not something that we have it is c about, but something that we have to take serious. if we make a modest investment on the front end, this is going to be a problem that we don't have to deal with on the back end. ver the life of the child, in terms of that family providing that support they need.

aside the pain and the sorrow, and the challenges that go through.g to add that up. cases n't take a lot of for you to get to $1.9 billion. make uldn't we want to that investment now? have hope is that we would a bill that i could sign now, because part of what we're trying to do is accelerate and get the process going for vaccines. ou don't get a vaccine overnight. initially, you have to make sure that any potential vaccine is safe, then you have to test to make sure it's effective. you have to conduct trials where you're testing it on a large of people that you can make scientific determinations that it's effective. so we've got to get moving. n.i.h. and sentially c.d.c. has been doing is taking

things,money from other flu funds, ebola funds and other funds, just to get things reimburset we have to those types of monies that have already been depleted and we the to be able to sustain work that's going to need to be done to finish the job. needstom line is congress to get me a bill. that ds to get me a bill has sufficient funds to do the job. hey should not be going off on recess before this is done, and certainly, this has to get done of the next se several weeks in order for us to confidence tovide the american people that we're of business. piece now,m a young family right or somebody who's thinking about starting a family, this is just insurance that i want to purchase and i think that's americans.st so -- and understand that this

we can omething where build a wall to prevent osquitos don't go through customs, to the extent that we're not handling this thing on biggernt end, we'll have problems on the back end. so for those of you who are your members of congress, get on the job on this. this is something that we can handle, we should have confidence in our ability to handle it. got outstanding scientists nd researchers who are in the process of getting this done, but they've got to have the support from the public in order for us to accomplish our goal. okay. everybody.ery much, announcer: president obama has met with his top public safety virus with the zika the c.d.c. monitoring nearly 300

with nt women in the u.s. the virus, sara ferris joins us rom the hill to talk about congressional funding. first, if you would, explain the differences between the house and senate fundings of zika funding that were ark prauvd this past week. sarah: the house and senate faces, on pretty much all which will make it hard to define these packages which will have to be done in the near future. so the house bill is about half the amount of money in the enate package and also about half the amount of time. the house bill will only go hrough this year, this september, which virtually means there would need to be more future.in the it also, there's major differences on how the bill would be paid for. the house does set aside specific ways that the bill would be paid for, mostly using left-over tration's ebola funding, which is something that senate democrats are very opposed to. ey want this money to be emergency funding.

for.ouldn't be paid so there's a lot here that they have to resolve still. >> you said there are big differences. so what do you think the chances compromised zika funding bill before the memorial day recess? sarah: it's going to be really hard for them to do it if that line.d is the tim public health experts are warning that the first cases could be seen locally within the continental united states in early june so the next week is certainly a goal for republican leaders. they will have to agree on a way bill that can then be led to a conference committee so there's really two steps that need to be taken and both are going to be very difficult. president obama has issued a the house against bill which is, again, a much number. it's $622 million compared to the senate package of $1.1 billion. so they can't go with the house bill, unless they want to face a

veto threat from the president. if they go with the senate version, there's no way house behind cans will get that, so they'll have to find something in the middle but here's a lot of urgency here and not a lot of time. >> you mentioned the president with the veto threat against the house version. he's asked for $1.9 billion. the senate version is 1.1. would he veto anything less than his request? sarah: the white house has been careful not to draw that line, so have senate and house democratic leaders. they're not saying they would billion bill.$1.1 but there's still a lot of pressure from boeing the white ouse and from democrats like nancy pelosi to say they do want that full amount. they don't want to have to come back to congress to ask for more money. they don't want public health states to be scrambling as they are right now. whites not clear that the house would reject the $1.1 billion.

they're not ruling it out, but it's certainly not what the president wants right now. >> assuming congress is able to pass zika funding bill, what kinds of programs will the funds cover? sarah: so it's going to be very expensive. it's a really far-reaching funding pool that's going to help develop vaccines, that at the n.i.h., the national institutes of health, have said a vaccine could be ready by next september, so there's a lot of money in there to go for that, but it's also a money towards mosquito control, trying to help state and local governments put their teams out there and try and make people gettingof infected from this disease lower of the lly getting rid number of mosquitos in those areas. it's a very complicated effort and requires a lot of money and there's also fund nothing there for outreach, because this is a not a lotght now that of people know about, the

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