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releases new photos of the personal of interest. we will have a live report walleye the latest developments coming up. welcome to fox news live. i'm mike emmanuel. president biden expected to speak on situation in syria any moment now from the white house. we'll bring you there when it begins. alex hogan is live in tel aviv, israel, with the latest, hello, alex reporter: hi, mike, rebels in syria toppled government and ousted president assad and this was when earlier today, syrian rebels stormed the presidential palace and rebels are made up of coalition of groups t groups tht abandoned together for the regime and allies, russia and

iran and president assad arrived in moscow and earlier it was report that had he fled syria and iran started evacuating commanders and personnel on friday and massive crowds celebrating on the streets of syria earlier with displaced syrians heading back home from neighboring countries and syria's civil war started 13 years ago and displaced more than 12 million people. president elect donald trump posted online urging the u.s. to not get involved. national security council saying this today, president biden will meet with his national security team this morning to receive an update on the situation on syria. a curfew in damascus is in effect till tomorrow morning and around the world demonstrators are taking to the streets celebrating. this was the scenier in iraq. rale -- scene earlier in iraq and berlin, istanbul and man chmanchester and the pentagon wl

take the necessary steps to protect the troops in the region and there's about 900 service members deployed in syria to tweet isis. mike. mike: you're in tel aviv, how are israeli officials reacting to these events in syria? reporter: with all the developments we've been watching, israeli military deployed more forces to the border zone between israel and syria. where the country's prime minister and the defense minister visited just several hours ago saying this about the situation. >> this is a historic day in the history of the middle east. the assad regime is a strangling in the iranian access of evil and this regime has fallen. reporter: the government says israeli forces have temporarily seized the buffer zone in the golden height that was established bay 1974 ceasefire agreement with syria. also new tonight, russia is now requesting a un security council meeting tomorrow over that issue. the israeli military is also

issuing a warning to residents in five towns in southern syria urging them tonight to stay home till further notice. there's also new reports of air strikes in damascus and the israeli military has not commented on just that, but they have hinted that any leftover weapons would potentially be a target to prevent them from falling into what they call hostile hands. mike. mike: alex hoe gab live in tel aviv this hour, thanks very much. we're waiting for president biden to speak on the situation in syria. our lucas tomlin son is live at the white house with the latest. lucas. reporter: mike, white house says president biden will be addressing the nation from the roosevelt room here at the white house at 10:00 to talk about the developing situation in syria. now, last night at the reagan national defense forum in california, biden's national security adviser, jake sullivan, spoke about syria hours before the down fall of the assad

re-sheik. regime. >> assad backers, iran, russia and hezbollah, have all been weakened and distracted and so he has not had the support from those three actors that he expected to be able to count on and those going on the line. it's been very weak and acting on them and we acts like they're strong and language about deescalation and president trump understands he used to say to me, everywhere i look with the problems, there's arab and he's worried about that. reporter: french president emmanuel macron reacting to the down fall and creating syria according to worl world war i ai pay tribute to the syrian people and kurds and patriots and send them wishes of peace, freedom

and unity and france remains committed to security to all in the middle east. president elect trump on the world stage and reopening of notre dame in paris last night and met with macron. >> seemed like the world is going a lited l crazy right now. we'll be talking about that . >> some see the down fall like the assad regime and the berlin wall falling and the welcome dan. >> thanks, good to see you. >> president elect trump writing on truth social about the situation in syria "the united states should have nothing to do with it. this is not our fight, let it play out. do not get involved. what in your view should the u.s. do about syria?

>> we have national security at stake there. most sizable portion of that syrian opposition is made up of terrorists. we have to be concerned about isis in syria as well as syria's chemical weapon stockpile. a mix of terrorists and chemical weapons stock file is of course of great support for and yous allies in the region and we have to be concerned about spillover into jordan and israel. and also the potential that more fighting will ensue. this is just the beginning of a follow on civil war. the question is where do we go from here, and that's at this point unanswered. high priorities for the intelligence communities for sure. mike: former commander weighed in earl herrera today on abc. let's play him. >> our interest in syria is probably preventing violent extremist groups from being able short term orientation plan and execute attacks against our

homeland and the homeland of friends and partners abroad. i agree with him, it's a mess. they're no friend of ours and never have been a friend of ours but we have interests. >> is general mckenzie correct, sir? >> he's right and that's the key national security interest in the concern we'd have going forward and potential for power vacuum and saw in iraq and libya and terrorists taking advantage of that and concern i think we have is potentially terrorists may be flocking to syria seeking to take advantage of just that. we also have a real challenge there because state actors like russia and iran formally ally withs syria and russia has a naval base in tartuse and they're not going to be on the side of solving in problem and we have real challenges with them and gaining international consensus on the way forward is also a major challenge. this is yet another wickedly complex challenge and threat to the national security that's

going to be left for the incoming trump administration. . mike: i want to remind the audience we're waiting on president bide ton speak at the white house in a matter of minutes about the situation in syria awaiting the commander in chief and here is the national security adviser on this issue. >> we really think there's three things to be focused on and one the fighting in syria not lead to resurgence of isis. and we're going to take steps ourselves directly and working with southeastern democratic forces with the kurds to ensure that doesn't happen. >> how do you assess that, dan? >> yeah, i think we have a very small footprint right now in syria, less than a thousand military there right now, but we need to have that finish capability and need the intelligence to find and fix the terrorist targets to protect ourselves and preempt the threats been visited on our allies and homeland and that's a key for the national security and again, i would just emphasize chemical weapons in

syria as well as syria's captigone production and shipping illegal phentermine all over the u.s. and working with the allies in the region and we need to have our own unilateral cape to believe the take care of our own security. mike: dan hoffman, thank you for time and analysis today. >> thanks. mike: president trump soft and averaged sat down with meet the press earlier today senior national correspondent rich edison live with more. hi, rich. reporter: hi, good afternoon, mike. president elect trump is laying out an ambitious open to his administration. he was in paris yesterday meeting with the french president emmanuel macron and

ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky and trump post that had russian president vladamir putin should agree to a ceasefire and negotiations on ukraine. he called russia weakened and zelensky would like to make a deal to "stop the madness". >> you're talking about hundreds of thousands of bodies laying all over fields. it's the stupidest thing i've ever seen and shouldn't have been allowed to happen. biden should have been able to stop it. reporter: j ukraine could expect less aid from his administration and u.s. should stay in nato if treated fairly and trump said members of january 6 committee should go to jail and he denied pursuing retribution against president biden is his family nor instruct his nominee for attorney general pam bondi to prosecute special council jack smith. trump did say his p

reporter: trump said he'd work with democrats to spare deportation and those brought illegally as children known adds dreams, but said he'd end birthright st.ship and his administration over the next four years would work to deport all the other illegal immigrants in the united states. mike. mike: rich, thank you. more on the transition back to the white house for his second term, i'm joined by former deputy chief of staff during mrs ladell. welcome. >> thanks for having me on, mike. marriage start with the chief of staff when you were the deputy chief of staff. start with him. >> the senate will have a opportunity to stake donald trump's nominee and examine him and make a decision. i'm not so sure pressure isn't going to work.

pressure worked pretty well for donald trump over the years, and he's won about everything he's set himself up to win. >> chris, you're a transition expert and wrote a book called "year zero, all about the year of white house transitions" how do you look at this one? >> we're on track for the most momentum transition of our lifetime and just the speed for which president trump is move asking quite phenomenal. we're less than halfway through the transition and he's achieved more than most do in the first 76 days. on the people's side, he's nominated whole cabinet and senior white house people in less than a month and includes thanksgiving break. the speed of which this is happening real sets this up for probably as i say the most significant transition we're seeing.

mike: let's talk about susan glacer from the new yorker. >> hey like as fight and chosen a certain number of extremely confrontational nominees but remember, the math is the math in the u.s. senate. mike: how much pressure to deliver on the nominee s? >> president trump came in with a decisive victory in the election and gives him a lot of political power to push through his policy people ask agenda and there's a lot of pressure on him. what i'm also really impressed by what president trump has done and i had the advantage of working with him for four years so i know one thing is how quickly he made the nominations and moved on. matt gaetz pulling out within 24 hours and had a replacement, pam bondi. he's not only just putting people up, he's putting a lot of pressure on, he's moving the nominations through very quickly

and acting decisively as i expected. mike: transition expert, what else is happening between now and inauguration day? >> three elements. people is one that we talked about and all the senior people nominated and there's a president appointing around 4,000 people and i expect him to want to get half of those, 2,000 or so ready by january. that's the best performance of any incoming administration. the people side, now he has the big nominations in place. he'll move to the next level and next level after that and have his team on place. president trump inherit as number of messes around the world so i would which part him to start to move and what's interesting from my point of view is as a transition observer is how quickly the world has moved to see president trump as the leader and so whether it's prime minister trudeau going to mar-a-lago and president macron inviting to notre dame reopening

or president zelensky talking to him about negotiations and the world is president trump ready for the next leered. you'll see the beginnings of his domestic policy and that happens behind the scene as lot more than the other two. , blue there's a lot of work i know going on as executive orders and this doge with a lot of excitement. mike: chris liddell, thank you, sir, for your analysis. healthcare ceo brian thompson's death and the hunt for the suspect. that's next. left over? —yeah. oh, absolutely. (inner monologue) my kids don't know what they want. you know who knows what she wants? me! i want a massage, in amalfi, from someone named giancarlo. and i didn't live in that shoebox for years.

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mike: police are chosing in on the suspect and authorities search for evidence in a central park lake. alexis mcadams is here with the laterrest reporter: hey, mike this. is moving quickly and a search going noncentral park and searching for any evidence in this ongoing case. police also releasing new photos

of a person of interest in the shooting and he's wear ago surgical mas and can in the back of a new york city taxi cab and police sources said this photo was snapped at some time after the murder and we know it was only in town according to police for a short time after that shooting. he then skipped town and reportedly got on a bus that was heading back to atlanta, georgia, area. so right now let's take a look at this. police working to find as much evidence as they can in federal park. this is interesting and yesterday, mike, they didn't have the divers in yet and highly skilled scuba team with nypd and looking for any evidence, including possibly i'm told the weapon that was used in this case because they believe when this person went in there after the shooting, he could have thrown that into the water because he left his backpack nearby. that's all developing. also, this is the person of interest in some other pictures. police say he came to new york city on november 24th and he checked into an upper west side hostile and stayed there for more than a week and caught on

camera smiling about something there in that green coat with his mask pulled down talking ate ceo and he walnd shoots him in the left leg and gets closer and shoots him right in the chest. this comes as investigators continue the man hunt. listen. >> we have him entering the port authority bus terminal at 178th and broadway and that's interstate bus term and our belief we saw him go in and not come out and it's our thought he got on one of the buss and we're running that down now. reporter: running that down and using all the manpower they have to catch the person that killed this man on your screen. that's brian thompson. he had a huge job. he was a ceo of one of the largest healthcare companies in the world and pulling in about 10 million a year and investigators are looking to see

if his job had anything to do with his case. the words deny, defend, depose written on the shell casings in permanent ma marker and it was e title and all about insurance industry and it's a racket and unfair and could be linked to motive in the on going case this. is where they need your help. doesn't matter where you're watching from. if you recognize the person in the photos, pick up the phone and call the tip line, 800-577-tips and just takes one person to help crack this case, mike. mike: alexis mcadams live in new york. thank as lot. police in new york city believe the suspect they're looking for took a bus to the city that originated in atlanta. the nypd is now working with police in atlanta in connection with the man hunt. madison c scar pea know is live with more. hi, madison. reporter: hi, mike. man live for man hunt is

watching new york area. there's no evidence he's in the leeanne tafanely or ever was. there's a chance since the suspected killer road on a greyhound bus to new york that originated in atlanta as we've been reporting and believe he fled new york on a bus. >> there's a lot of local independent law enforcement agencies that are working with atlanta and they're undoubtedly finding bred left-handed.

reporter: they're likely tracking every move they (&.k >> he's got his picture on probably ever security camera he passed by since getting off the greyhound bus and probably has bought a sandwich somewhere and interacted with people. and the big thing is if he's from the atlanta area, somebody knows him. i'm very confident that they will identify him very season. he's facing murder charges but also federal charges if he did indeed cross state lines after the murder. mike: thank you, madison. the jury in daniel penny's trial deliberates tomorrow on the charge of criminally negative nt homicide in the death of neely after not coming to unanimous

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mike: historic notre dame holding first morning mass five years after a devastating fire. lauren green is live from paris with more details. hi, lauren. reporter: hey, mike. thank you so much. the second mass of the day is just about to begin. this is a mass for the masses, for the people. notre dame has a new life, restored and repaired.

reporter: this morning's mass was to replace the alter and consecration the one destroyed by fire. france's president emmanuel macron seated in the front row and joined victory of completing the interior restoration in five years. l back in 1944, u.s. troops stormed the beaches of normandy liberating france from natzi control. later they marched into paris to the sound of notre dame's bells and ever since america has had a special connection to france and this cathedral. >> the signals that france is coming to the rescue and the resistance there and the u.s. as well locating the german and getting them out of france. reporter: when the fire broke out five and a half years ago,

americans opened their hearts and wallets and a silver lining, the fire may have ignited a new interest in the catholic church and in france and in the western world. >> a ton of prices for the church and we have the theme that we are ri rising with new moments of hope. reporter: it's second sunday in advent and weeks leading up to christmas and masses all week long at notre dame and record numbers expected to attend throughout the year. back to you, mike. mike: let you get to mass. lauren green in paris, thank you so much. >> i have stopped wars with tariffs saying it want to fight, fine. but area going to pay tariffs to the united states at 100% and they have many purposes, tariffs, if properly used. i don't say use them like a

madman. i say properly used, but it didn't cost this country anything mike: that was president elect tariffs talking tariffs as negotiating tool. we have aaron and l.l.c., partner jonathon. welcome to both of you. interesting sunday as always. so tariff talk. an effective arguments in terms of getting the attention of our friends and adversaries economically? jonathan? >> i think he's using it as sticks or carrots and i don't think hi understands the full ramifications of the tariffs and the impact on farmers and labor workers and it's only going to imcrease prices and raise inflation and hope he's using this as a stick to threaten some countries. we'll have to see. he has an interesting and unusual way of operating with

world leaders. i don't think this is the right approach, but we'll have to see. he won an election and he gets to choose what tools he uses and this is one of them he's using before he's even in office. we may have some country change. >> mexico and canada already talking with the president and you see now when he continues to say that he wants other countries to have to pay tariffs, this is a negotiating tactic and opening conversation and gets people to the table to say, here are the issues you've taken advantage of the united states and ends as soon as he comes into office. that's what he's been doing. remember, he's done this before.

mike: here's markwayne mullen on that issue earlier today. >> i agree with the president we shouldn't be involved in this, this isn't our fight. but make no mistake about this, this wasn't an accident and rebels solely finding a opportunity to move forward. we should have nothing to do w. i am shocked i'm going to say that and i'm very happy he nominated marco rubio and that's someone the american people can have confidence in and go in and understand the issue and keep us out of another war we have no business being in and will only bring death to american troops.. mike: share with our audience and you guys and hear from president biden within the two minute warning and we'll tap dance till the command

fertilizer chief takes the podium. erin, your thoughts on the syria gar whether the current administration wants any part or the future administration wants to be in the middle? >> it's good day for syrian people and perilous time because there's concerns that terrorists could have the nation. there's a >> there's about a thousand troops right now in sere .y we don't have a large military footprint. in order to maintain that and not cause issues and get ourselves into a larger conflict, we've seen where joe biden is geopolitically caused disaster across the world and it's a perilous time being able to balance and not only overthrowing the regime and in their own right of their own nation and transition between the two powers in the presidency and it's pretty perilous.

mike: what about sensitivity offing in a transitional time here in the united states in terms of power? >> it is tough. this is the reason you have transition teams set up months before coming into office and glad they signed transition documents and glad there's work between the two administrations and doesn't seem like there is a lot. >> tulsi gabbard has serious issues on her belief on what happened in syria and the assad regime and i hope that marco rubio is working with tony blink and both of those teams are talking. i don't know that they are yet, but they really should be. mike: all right, i know you're both messaging experts. what do you expect from the president any moment? >> i expect him to celebrate the freedom of the syrian people and ebbed of assad regime and terror and targeting of those people. wouldn't be surprised if you

don't hear a comment about russia, considering they've offer what had we're hearing from reporting right now is that russia offered him asylum at this point and ability to have the country safely. i think he'll probably touch on both of those. >> you have to celebrate the fact that a brutal dictator that murdered millions of people is cut of the country. and he should be talking about what we should do to keep iran from going in and taking up the vacuum. it's troubling that russia has given the dictator a safe passage there and we should talk about that and he'll lean on 40 years of policy experience to tell the country i know what's going on and i'm going to keep an eye on this for the next 40 days, and i will be working with tram top transition this so that we are safe. >> with all due respect, that should not give the american people any sol israeli solace wd joe biden 40 years of international experience and walking into this. we've seen catastrophe with joe

biden and he can play tough man but more on donald trump than joe biden. mikes: expect messages to the adversaries in these remark s? >> i hope so. don't step in and try to take over and see this as area of weakness for yo tow take over in the middle east. look, there's millions of weapons there. we don't know what kinds of weapons there are. there are terrorists already there. this is a opportunity for somebody like a new isis to take over and he'll be sending a warning sign. look, donald trump can fix all foreign policy issues on day one so let's have him go at it for one day. >> but 40 jeers of joe biden didn't help anything and made it demon involve strategies demon strategies blizzard warnings worse. joe bind was very weak in capitulation to iran and made sure they've only grown in power and the person that's really

going to be able to best deliver that message is going to be donald trump. joe,yes, joe biden is the commar in chief but no political or moral capital towards anybody in the world to stand there as a strong man in support of freedom and making sure iran stays out. we need to be very clear there's no room for either of that. mike: live to the white house with president biden. >> >> watch half a century of civil war in the middle east, rebel force haves forced assad to resign his office and flee the country. we're not sure whether this word with ha matter of minutes long last the assad regime has fallen. this regime brutalized and tortured and killed nearly hundreds of thousands of innocent syrians.

the fall of a the regime is a fundamental act of justice. it's a moment of historic opportunity for the long suffering people of sere .y to build a better future for the proud country and moment of risk and uncertainty. as we all turn to the question of what comes next, the united states will work with our partners and stake holders in syria to help them seize a opportunity short term orientation manage the ricks. we've had iran, hezbollah and russia but over the last week their support collapsed and all three of them. all three of them are all three weaker today than when i took office. let's remember why. after hamas attacked israel on october 7, 2023, when much of the worship god responded with who row, iran and its proxies chose to launch them and

hezbollah is on it is back. i spoke and hezbollah has been degraded and meanwhile hamas has been badly degraded as well and iran's own military capability even weakened and iran tried two times to attack israel. the united states built a coalition of countries to directly defend israel and help defeat those attacks. all this made impossible for iran and iraq to prop up the assad regime. [inaudible] the assad regime failed. ukraine, backed by american allies to put up a wall against invading russian forces, inflicting massive damage on

russian forces. that is the unable to protect its ally in the middle east. [ coughing ]. >> excuse my cold. no one could defend this up hornet regime in syria and it's a direct result of blows that ukraine, israel have delivered upon their own self-defense with un-flanking support of the united states. over the past four years my administration has declared principle policy towards syria. first, we made clear the sanctions would remain and outlined as security council resolution in 2015. assad refused ands carried out comprehensive sanction program and team in all those responsible for the trust of the

syrian people and second maintaining our military presence in syria. taking out leaders of isis and going to establish the safe haven again. supporting the freedom of action against the iranian networks in syria and actors aligned with iran and transported lethal aid to lebanon. protecting u.s. forces and our focus shifting of power in the middle east and combination of support for our partners, sanctions and diplomacy and targeted military enforcement when necessary and we now see new opportunities opening umm for the people of syria and for

the entire re-job and supporting syria's neighbors including jordan, lebanon, iraq and israel should any threat arrive from syria during this period of transition. i'll speak with leaders of the region in the coming days and have a long discussion with all of the people there this morning. i'll send senior officials from my administration to the region as well. second, help ensure stability in eastern syria. protecting any personnel against any threats and remain our mission against isis to be maintained including security of detention facilities where isis fighters are being held as prisoners. clear that isis will try to take advantage to reestablish the cape and the create a safe haven. we will not let that happen. in fact, just today, u.s. forces conducted a dozen of precision strikes, air strikes, within

syria, targeting isis camps and operatives. third, we will engage with all syrian groups including within the process led by the united nations to establish a transition away from the assad regime towards independent -- an independent -- i'm going to say it again, sovereign syria and the new constitution. new government that serves all syrians. this process will be determined by the syrian people themselves the. the united states will do whatever we can to support them including through humanitarian relief, to help restore syria after more than a decade of war. and generations of brutality by the assad family. finally, we'll remain vigilant and make no mistakes that some of the rebel groups that took down assad have their own itinerary. we've noticed them over the

recent days and they're saying the right things now, but as they take on greater responsibility, we'll assess their words and actions. and we're mindful there's americans in sere i can't recollects including those that reside there as well as austin tice, who was taken captive more than 12 years ago. we remain committed to returning him to his family. this is a moment of considerable risk and uncertainty and it's a great moment for syrians to forge their own future through opposition and also a opportunity, though far from certain for more secure and prosperous middle east where our friends are safe and enemies are contained, and would with a waste of historic opportunity if one tower toppled only to see a

new one rise up in its place. now incumbent upon all the opposition groups to seek a role in governing syria to demonstrate their commitment to the rights of all syrians and rule of law and the protection of religion and ethnic mino minorities. these past few days have been historics and in the days ahead and will determine the future of this country. we intend to approach them with strength, wisdom, and resolve. thank you very much, god bless america, and god protect our troops, thank you. mike: that is president biden addressing the fall of the regime in syria and calling it a fundamental act of juice tis. he's taking a question. let's listen in.

>> austin tice. >> we want to get him out. thank you. >> thank you, sir. sir. mike: that's more from president biden talking about holding assad accountable and trying to get the release of american hostage. let's go live to lucas tomlin son outside of the white house where the president spoke on the situation in syria. lucas. reporter: mike, that american hostage austin ti ce missing for about a dozen years in syria and now that the assad regime has fallen, biden wants him safely returned hope. we heard from president biden speaking for about eight minutes in the roosevelt room and called down fall of the assad regime a historic opportunity and there's a risk of uncertainty and mentioned that one of the leading rebel groups has ties to terrorism and said while they're saying the right things now, they'll be watching their actions. he also talked about a weakened iran, hezbollah and russia and why the assad regime crumbled and credited the israeli

military and credited biden administration, what they were doing to weaken those entities and that's why the assad regime crumbled and mentioned none of this would have happened if not for the hamas massacre on october 7 and then iran's backing of that. said ukraine too and that rush ha is in a weakened -- russia is in a weakened position and the reports from russian state media and president from syria is now in moscow. of the roughly 900 troops in sere i can't recollects he wants to make sure isis does not take vantage the administration and they've carried out about adonis air strikes in recent days against isis and no indication those u.s. forces leaving syria any time soon in the east. he mentioned again that he will

be speaking to leaders certainly neighbors surrounding syria in zeldon reel and turkey and jordan and iraq and that's what he'll be doing in the days ahead. he spoke for about eight minutes at the white house synergy home just concluded, mike. mike: lucas, thanks. bringing back our panel and what we heard from the commander in chief. your thoughts? >> he's laid out what he's focused on and what needs to happen and countries are not bad actors getting in there and that's working and this is a very, you know -- it's a tinderbox and anything could light a fuse and explode it. they have to monitor it and work with other regions arnold the europe and asia and make sure it doesn't explode and have a domino effect and hurt other

countries and we're in a regional conflict that russia, china and other countries get. >> i think we're in a turnover margin mull which you say time and there's a transition and it's even -- tumultuous time and harder for one president to hand and will almost unheard of to have two presidents try to do this at the same time and that's what we're going to have to see right now. so president trump and president biden are going to have to be on the phone together a lot. i don't know that's something they've ever done. mike: erin, the leader of the free world speaks there's a lot of audiences and domestic, adversaries and the leaders overseas. >> we heard a message one directed towards the allies and more of a diplomatic international approach to making sure that terrorists do not become the ones that take over the syrian government. you also saw that we heard a

conversation and not getting in the middle and the president is trying to say i've got a grasp of the situation and i know what's going on here and welcomer we've done and here's where we are. mike: panelists, thank you for staying with us during breaking news hour. great to have you. usda looking to better mono-store the spread of bird flu by ordering testing of way toss control and eliminate the virus. christina coleman is live with the latest. hello, christina. in the u.s., at least 58 people

ibramfected with the bird flu and california has the most infections so far and new federal order has regulators from dairy farms or milk being processed or transferred and cdc risk assessment for the general public is low though the rise in infections is still concerning. >> the problem for two decades and ducks harbor the bird flu, they don't get very sick and poultry has terrible immune systems and raising for food and now, this is over the past year it's got anne donovan the cattle population and in cows and means more human contact than before, and it increases the chances of a problem. reporter: again, at least 58 people infected with the bird flu in the u.s. including a child in the san francisco bay area. the symptoms include fever, shortness of breath, could have, sore threat and muscle aches.

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