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with a man who knows on this tuesday, 29th of july. good morning. i'm jose diaz-balart. today is the today we could finally see immigration action. right now house republican leaders are presenting their version of a border bill to their colleagues at the weekly gop conference meeting. as the clock continues to tick until congress leaves for a five-week recess on friday. we're waiting for a gop news conference for the latest. a vote could come by the end of the day. but even if the bill passes, it still needs to get through the democratic senate where they're pushing a different bill backed by the white house. the new app report said the white house is getting closer to acting on its own with the president seriously considering major executive action to grant work permits to millions of undocumented immigrants. by the way, the national daily boar organizing network is angry
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that the undocumented have not been consulted. they haven't been included in any talks over a solution. protested yesterday outside the white house. on the u.s. side the border 150 seasoned new agents being added to the current border security. on the mexico side, jerry brown continues a three day visit ther there. >> children like 13-year-old ingrid flores who has tried to cross the border four times and said she'll continue trying. during her last trip she went three days without eating or drinking water. she wanted to be reunited with her father who lives in the u.s. and hasn't seen in ten years. joining me is democratic congresswoman from california. thank you for being with us.
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>> thank you for having me on. we could see a vote today on the republican plan that is going to provide, well, under a billion dollars in funding through just the end of next september along with chains to that 2008 anti-trafficking law. so central american children will be treated like mexicans. do you support this? >> i wouldn't be voting for that. for a couple of reasons. i think we need far more money than that. i think you said under a billion dollars. but also, i don't think that we should use this crisis to change the law. that law was put in place to address trafficking from central america. one of the things we know, but we certainly need to find out more information about is that many of these children might have been trafficked. and so i think that we should deal with this as a humanitarian crisis just like you would deal with a hurricane or some other natural disaster. deal with the crisis first, and then if we need to make changes
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to the law, we should do it down the road. i don't think we should do that right now. >> the problem, many say, in contrast to hurricane or a natural disaster that comes and then goes, what we're seeing in central america is a problem that has been simmering, many say, for years, decades and doesn't seem to be on the path to being mitigated any time in the near future. it's not an issue that is going to stop. >> actually, i'm not sure about that. one of the things i've heard especially because of the pr and the other information that is being put out for people to understand that if their children do come across the border, they are going to be returned home that the numbers are slowing down. i think we need to work with the central american governments to address the problem. you know i'm from los angeles, and the gang problem they have in el salvador, frankly, started in my city. we deported the gang members to el salvador. that exacerbated the problem
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they're having there. i think our governments needs work together so we can stop people from coming. i just, you know, really am fearful of what these children have been through on that perilous journey coming up here. i think the flow of children should stop. we should work to do that. and i think we can do that without changing the law right now. >> so, congresswoman, if the house republicans pass one plan and the senate democrats pass another, does congress leave on friday really accomplishing nothing on the critical situation? >> well, that's a bit of a rhetorical question. you know what happens here. i think there is the possibility for that. i don't kno i don't think we should leave until we address it. we are going to be gone for five long weeks. i want to do everything we can to address the situation. we work on issues that impact vulnerable children. i can't think of any more
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children more vulnerable than those making the trek to the united states. >> thank you for being with us, miss bass. you talk about the gangs in central violates. we are going to be speaking to someone who has firsthand experience. we look to the vote we're expecting later today in the house on the gop version of its border bill the white house has made it clear it does not back the republican package on the table. it falls billions short of the white house's original request to fund a solution. it's something white house press secretary josh earnest expressed his frustration with yesterday. >> we've been specific about the numbers we feel are necessary to deal with this problem and to address the range of concerns that many people have raised about those who have been apprehended at the border. what we've seen in congress is a lot of talk, particularly from republicans, but not a lot of willingness to act. that's rather unfortunate. >> there are only four days of
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this congressional session before, as the congresswoman was telling us, they go on a five week recess to go back to their districts. the question is, is something going to be done to deal with a very real issue that is effecting all 50 states. right now joining me is california republican congressman jeff denham. congressman, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. thank you for having me. >> what is the headline out the gop conference meeting this morning? >> i think we're getting a lot of support to resolve this, at least this immediate humanitarian crisis. but this will allow us to open the door or get over the roadblock to address overall comprehensive immigration reform. >> congressman, what do you think can happen between now and fridayed when this five week recess begins? what do you think can be done to deal with this crisis, which continues every single day while the house, and the senate, talk
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about it but yet nothing is done >>well, we will have a bill on the floor. we expect to address several different aspects of the crisis. first of all, the humanitarian crisis, we've got address the kids that are here today. making sure that they are tre treated humanely. make sure they are receiving that due process. i mean, part of our constitution is a speedy right to trial. so that's a big part of this. but we have to make sure we're securing the border at the same time. we have both components in this bill to make sure that we're securing the border, we're dealing with kids in a humane way and reprogramming the president's money for central america to make sure that those countries have the ability to have the same type of humanitarian effort to receive these kids back home to, to make sure they're not going into a harmful situation. >> congressman, i wonder about central american countries that are involved in this. i mean, all three of them are democracies and yet we've seen a
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historical pattern of corruption where sometimes the money intended to help people that are in need simply doesn't get to them. it end up on, you know, big yachts outside international waters. >> yeah. which is why we're reprogramming the money. this was money that was in the president's budget for central america, and we're reprogramming it to make sure that it actually goes to the kids and not to some other big part of the bureaucracy. ultimately, the house and senate will have to pass a bill, an appropriations bill as well as a policy bill, then it's up to the president to work with the other countries and show some leadership to work with the other presidents to resolve this crisis once and for all and send a message. don't send your kids through the desert. this is a harmful situation that you've got really be concerned about the kids and the welfare of these kids that are traveling such a long way and really going through a horrific time. >> let's talk about leadership, finally, congressman. you are only one of three
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republicans that signed on to a democratic proposed bill in the house on immigration reform. where is leadership in your party on the house, on immigration? one way or another, why hasn't it been possible to have an up-and-down vote on anything dealing with immigration reform in the house this year? >> yeah, certainly it's been frustra frustrating. i see what a big issue it is for our country, but certainly what an important issue it is for my community as well as my district. i got out front. i wanted to get out front on the issue. i don't consider it a democrat bill. i consider it good policy. and i was glad that the author of the bill took our amendments to improve border security. to include the enlist act. but certainly it's been frustrating to see that the house has not moved quickly on the issue. i'm glad we're finally starting. we've got a long way to go. this is going to be a big issue as we move forward. one of the things i've continued to talk about with immigration, there is no fiscal cliff or
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cliff. there is no crisis that forces us to get our job done until now. now i believe not only will we address the immediate impact, but we're going to move the roadblock so we can actually address overall immigration reform. >> congressman jeff denham of california, thank you for being with us this morning. >> jose, thank you for having me. we've talked a lot about what congress and the president can do about immigration. but what about the root of the problem? it goes back to two gangs. ms 13 and ms 18. they run the streets of central america. before that, many of them were running the streets of los angeles. one started out macarthur park in los angeles. the connection between gangs and immigration with a man who made hunting gangs his career. two u.n. staff members dead. the latest casualties of the violence in gaza. are both sides digging in for a long fight or another cease-fire on the horizon?
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va reform. the president hits the road, and a loaded rifle at the airport. let's zoom through some of today's top stories. this morning calls for a quick vote on a bill to makes things better for our nation's veterans. bernie sanders and jeff miller announce the details of the bipartisan $17 billion package yesterday. $10 billion will pay medical bills for veterans to see private doctors if they live 40 miles from a va clinic or the wait time is more than 40 days. another $5 billion goes to hiring more doctors. president obama continues
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his summer tour today heading to kansas city to meet with americans who have written him le letters. he's meeting with the people and taking them out to dinner. josh earnest, who is from kansas city, made the phone calls. >> after reading your letter, the president said, you know, i want to meet this bomb. i want to have dinner with her when i get into kansas city on tuesday. >> are you serious? >> yeah! >> oh, my god! >> it's not just a road trip the president has been using the american stories to criticize republicans who haven't acted on his legislative agenda. the brain scientist under arrest today accused of pointing a loaded assault rifle at a woman and her daughter after the phoenix airport. it happened on friday but the airport released details about the incident. dr. peter steinman is a researcher at saint joseph's hospital in phoenix. he was only at the airport for a couple coffee and facing charges of disorderly conduct with a
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weapon. to the middle east a senior palestinian official is calling for a 24-hour humanitarian cease-fire. two u.n. staff members have been kilted there. overnight the israeli military unleashed the heaviest target yet carrying out 76 air strikes. israel continued the act on the ground. what prime minister benjamin netanyahu is warning a prolonged campaign. it struck the powerplant threatening to leave nearly 2 million people without electric. ayman mohyeldin joins us live. it seems like it's getting more and more violent there. >> what we've seen is a pattern emerge where there's an intensity in the violence and then perhaps, like we've seen this afternoon, a slight lull in the violence. not mischaracterize that as a
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sudden drop, there are air strikes, there are fatalities as a result of the strikes. but right now it's not with the same intensity that we saw late last night and certainly not the same location. one of the issues you alluded to, was yesterday we saw for the first time, some of the intense israeli strikes taking place inside gaza city itself. it's the largest city here. home to about 500,000 people. it was the first time we saw this kind of consistent attacks in place in gaza city. we've been seeing it throughout the rest of the gaza strip. no doubt it's been happening in other areas. those areas have been hit much harder. they're going to have a difficult account in terms of the intensity of the attacks. but today what we saw is the fight shift a little bit more into the central part of gaza. as we were reporting earlier 40% is a no-go area. effectively the military prohibited palestinians from entering those areas for a variety of reasons. particularly to destroy troubles but other reasons for their own
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security. meanwhile palestinian militants fire rockets yesterday. also attacking an israeli position with mortars killing at least four israeli soldiers and that one attack alone pushing the overall death toll of israeli soldiers to at least 48 including three civilians. so no doubt about it that the fighting continues despite diplomatic efforts trying to put an end to the conflict. the proposal that you mentioned coming out of the palestinian leadership here includes all the factions. they are offering a 24-hour cease-fire based on humanitarian needs. which could be a rolling cease-fire that could pave the way for more permanent truce. but that is conditioned upon israel's acceptance. yet no response from the israelis so far, jose. >> nbc ayman mohyeldin. thank you very much. let's bring in bobby gauche. >> thank you for being with us. >> john kerry is getting destroyed by the media here and israel.
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john kerry's big blunder in ceasing an israeli cease-fire. you can see what the israeli newspapers are calling kerry. is this all justified criticism of the foreign minister of this country? >> i wouldn't think so. i would think john kerry is trying to bring an tend the violence and somebody's got to. these images we see every day are all over the world. people agree that the first thing that needs to be done is that the violence needs to stop. people stop -- the dying has to stop. he tried to work egyptians. that was rejected. now he's trying to work with the qatars and the turks who seem to have connections to hamas. at this point, the best he can do and the right thing to do is to try to get the violence to stop before any kind of conversation can take place. the trouble is he's getting
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pounded by both sides. israelis as well as palestinians. all of whom are making demands that are, frankly, no one is going to pay any serious attention to the demands while there are still children dying and soldiers dying and civilians dying. >> meanwhile -- >> i have a lot of sympathy for john kerry at this point, jose. he's not getting a lot of sympathy from the people who need to give it to him. >> meanwhile, congress a rare show of bipartisan. kristen gillibrand criticizing hamas saying they are using civilians as human shields does a resolution like this have a situation many miles away? >> it's purely symbolic. no. i think that is a fact that hamas uses civilian shields -- that's a bone of contention. hamas said we live in a densely populated place, civilians are
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all around us. what are we expected to do. israel said hamas deliberately puts civilians in the way of their tanks and their bombs. but a couple of american politicians weighing in on that is not going to change the facts on the ground. i suspect that it's more to do with domestic politics than anything else. >> i want to turn your attention to ukraine, another major overseas crisis that is confronting the obama administration. we're expecting to hear from secretary john kerry for the issue. at least 22 civilians killed between the fighting between ukrainians and russian rebels. after a rare video conference between president obama and the leaders of britain, germany, italy, and france. there's word europe may be ready to step up sanctions on russia. how is it going to affect russia? what do you think putin will do? >> the proof will be in the details. we'll learn more over the next
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24 hours how deep these sanctions are going to be. the fact that angela merkel, the chancellor of germany was part of the call and agreed to the harsher sanctions, that's a crucial. that could be potentially could be a game-changer. germany has been holding back a little bit. germany, among other european countries depends heavily on russia for gas that keeps the ge german company pumping. as well as imports. the relationship is important. if angela merkel is going along with the u.s. and other europeans to try and punish russia, that could actually begin to hurt. probably not immediately. we've seen from putin every time this sort of thing happened, he come back with more rhetoric and more sort of, you know, he wants to play the tough guy. every time he does that, every time he criticizes the west, particularly every time he criticizes the united states, his poll ratings in russia seem to go up a little bit. i suspect that will be his
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defiance will the immediate response. but over the weeks and maybe a month if the sanctions begin to bite maybe that will be a game-changer. >> bobby ghosh, what a great pleasure to have you on this morning. a quick followup to an interview i brought you yesterday. mohamed and shalom live in south florida. they are friends despite the different background. one of israeli dand one palestinian. some of you -- some of our viewers wondered whether we were aware of a powerful hashtag that cut across the language of hatred and deadly violence in what can feel like a never ending conflict. well, we are. we're aware of it. and so are our guests. jews and arabs refuse to be enemies. a great message.
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at the white house for the recent talk of impeachment. he said there's more work to be done on the border bill. he's expecting a vote on thursday. one day before they leave on break. fear of death and gang violence. one of the reasons behind the surge of unaccompanied children crossing the border into the united states. the fear is a result of mostly two gangs. ms 13 and 18 both have roots in the united states. started in the '80s when thousands of immigrants came here to avoid civil wars in central america. some ended up in los angeles. they were exposed to the l.a. gang culture and formed their own gangs. according to the daily beast between 2001 and 2010, the justice prison alien transport system flew over 129,000 convicted criminals back to central america. a policy that some experts say may be part of the reason for the surge in violence in that region. i want to bring in a former gang unit supervisor for the orange
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county california district attorney's office. good to see you. >> thank you for having me, jose. >> the gang problem that exploded in central america was a gang problem here in the united states. i mean, you know, m 18, which started right outside macarthur park. what happened? how did that immigration -- the other way, occur? >> i think our deportation policy acted as a catalyst. we have to understand that when we put gang members in juvenile hall it's like grammar school. when we send them to the county jails it's like sending them to high school. when we send them to u.s. prisons it's like sending them to college. policies at the time were after the prison sentence was over, our illegal gang members were deported back to their countries of origin. we sent them with a college education back to a country that was ill prepared to deal with them. and they had instant celebrity street status when they arrived
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there between 1995 and 2005 when it was happening. they became street celebrities due to the poverty and nonability to go to school, find work. that lifestyle took off like a wild fire. it was like a virus in the central american countries. >> al, it's interesting. i was talking to the minister of interior security of honduras the other day, as i was interviewing the president of that country. he was showing my pictures of how the gang members have really decided that gang lifestyle should be a generational thing. and so he has pictures of the gang members that have their faces tattooed with 2 and 3-year-old children. they were children already posing with guns and the gang symbols. how do you deal with this? how do you get somebody in that mind set that your little kid should be holding a gun at 2 years old to move away from that? >> you have to give an alternate
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lifestyle. people get the social worth from the group they belong to. the people who claim to be gang members find themselves valuable because they are in that membership. with the lack of employment, with the lack of opportunities, the lack of ability to be educated, and the lack of normal resources like electricity, running water, the availability of food. unfortunately, gang membership becomes a mechanism of survive for many people. and it's a way that transported through tradition and culture to kids. we've had generational gangs in the u.s. for a long time. third and four generation latinos, second and third generation black gangsters, first generation asian gangsters. the generational gang membership is not new. it's a natural and foreseeable consequence. >> now you have this, you know, atmosphere of violence in central america and the three central american countries and the gangs are terrorizing people there, there are reports when these kids cross over to the
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united states they're being terrorized here by gangs. >>well, that's true. any recent arrival or immigrants or new people go into a neighborhood where a gang controls it, they are immediately targeted either for extortion or become victimized by the local gang. that's how ms 13 started here in los angeles. when the el salvadorian immigrants they were victimized by 18 street. they formed a gang for protection and originally known as mss. then they changed the game when they became a significant gang arrival of 18th street. they're still rivals today. >> al, thank you for being with us. 150 border patrol agents arrived at the rio grande valley to help bolster security. helping to keep people from
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smuggling drugs and people. we pose an important question to you. what do you think should be the solution for this crisis at the border? many of you have responded to the call. today we're going to hear from another voice. the founder and director of the group legal latino forces. he's a volunteer minuteman. thank you for being with us. what is your solution. >> thank you for having me. i believe one solution we oversee. all the money we've given to the three central american countries. if you remember a few weeks ago, vice president biden was in one of these countries delivering $260 million. that means $86 million per country. we have to oversee what is going on with our taxpayer money. we have to -- i don't have any problem with the demoration of minors unless they are involved in criminal activities. we have to deport those first.
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>> you're talking about let's say targeting the 11 million undocumented that have been here that many of them have children, have grandchildren, have been contributing to the economy of this country. many for decades, should they be targeted for deportation as a primary thing? >> well, the primary thing is something that has not been enforced is the amnesty in 1987 which was law enforcement against the employees. the united states citizens who hide illegal aliens. i believe that's one of the things we have to pressure our agency -- agencies like dhs to enforce the law. we haven't seen enforcement for more than three decades. that's a big problem. >> all right. let me rephase the question. do you think the policy of this country should be to target the 11 million people that are here for deportation as a priority?
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>> as a priority, yes. we have at lot of resources. those are union members they want to increase their numbers. they really i don't see them enforcing the law as we should apply more pressure to do that. they are looking for more membership in the labor unions. we're not getting results. out of the 11 million and they cry and president obama deported 2 million people out of 11 million. that's not a very large number. >> thank you for your perspective and for being with us this morning. >> thank you. we want to continue to hear what you think could be the solution. you can tweet us at @jdbmsnbc. or visit our facebook page and tell us what you think the solution should be. we're keeping our eyes on
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spreading the blaze even further across the four square miles. it may have been the cause of the fire. crews are investigating that. this is one of just 46 wild fires that are torching across california. one of hundreds burning all across the west. 120 burns across the west. so far this year more than 1.6 million acres have been destroyed. some 32,000 wild fires. it's a disastrous wild fire season already here in california. they plan to spend upwards of a billion dollars fighting fires. to give you some perspective of just how expensive each fire fight can get, those huge d.c. 10 planes we typically see over the large wild fires, when they make a drop that can cost upwards of $60,000. all of this is exacerbated by the drought. those try conditions feeding the fire conditions here. certainly making it difficult for firefighters across the region all season long, jose. >> and miguel, some of the
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numbers you told us this morning are mind blowing. more than 120 fires. 1.6 million acres destroyed. think of the wildlife, think about the environmental impact it will have and will don't have for some time. there doesn't seem to be any relief in sight because the weather issues. >> yeah. and the most critical fire months august, september, and october are ahead. those are dangerous fires here in california we see the explosive, huge wild fires. hundreds of homes are threatened in the area because they are nestled in the hills around here. crews face the most dangerous part of the wild fire season ahead of them. they already have had a difficult time so far. >> nbc miguorthboun thank you f. a new clue this morning in connection with a murder mystery in florida's capital. it shocked the florida state university community the murder of fsl law professor was not random. merkel was gunned down in his
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garage while still in his car. they're looking for this vehicle seen in the area and captured on surveillan surveillance. they are asking anyone who saw the professor in the hours or days before he was killed to give them a call. a man accused of kidnapping a new hampshire girl and holding her for nine months is due in court. police arrested nathanial kiby. sources tell nbc news station there that kiby locked her inside the orange shipping container behind his trailer. last october the now 15-year-old disappeared from outside her high school. a week ago she walked into her family's home. the state attorney general is crediting her for the break in the case. we hope to get more details after the court appearance later today. a los angeles judge cleared way for shelly steriling to sell the clippers for $2 billion. the judge said shelly did act within her legal means when she
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same medical compound. she's in liberia with her husband. only able to talk to her on the phone. >> she's doing as well as could be expected. maybe a little bit better than yesterday. but very weak. >> the love of christ that has compelled them. in my book, they're true heros. dr. frank joins me from uh case medical center in cleveland. thank you for being with us. >> it's good to be with you, jose. >> we know they were working with ebola patients. how concerned should we be about it coming to the u.s.? >> we're not really that worried about the virus itself coming to the united states. there's a lot we don't know about the virus. specifically what is the reservoir. where does it come from? we know it comes from individuals who have close contact to the jungles. the theory there's animal contact that brings this virus in contact with humans. then what happens similar to the
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two people you just spoke about, it's really where we see at lot of transmission from humans to humans for people who are taking care of stricken patients. when people are really, really bedridden, individuals who are taking care of them are at the high risk of getting infected themselve themselves. >> they don't have to draw blood or anything. how is it transmitted? >> through discretion. when a person gets very sick they become infectious. when they're not very sick they're not bedridden they're not considered to be infectious at all. when they get sick and having a lot of problems with the blood clotting, a lot of problems they transmit it through the secretions. through saliva, through if they're coughing up blood. they could be through there. it could be through their intestines when they bleed out through their stool. that could be considered infectious as well.
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and in taking care of those individuals, very close contact, very close prolonged contact is where we see the transmission from person to person. but the casual contact, people who are not truly directly taking care of those people who are sick are usually at very low risk of getting infected themselves. >> but, you know, it's worth noting a liberia consultant got on a plane to nigeria and later died. come to mind the movie where the guy coughs and a germ goes up in the air and through the system of the airplane and contaminates everybody. should we be worried about that? >> they have done the studies with ebola. in the lab, they looked at how well certain monkeys can be strike within the disease. and coughing monkeys through small particles can transmit the virus. in the real world where they look how the virus transmits in the actual at the place where it's happening, coughing does
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600 miles half ton satellite join the meteors in outer space to orbit around the earth at 18,000 miles per hour with its passenger. >> that was the moment in 1957. the launch of sputnik ii into case officially kicking off the space race. the u.s. responded by creating nasa. on this day, 56 years ago, president eisenhower signed the nasa bill into law.
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that brings us to today's fi fi things. before ike signed the bill, it came down to comprise. ike favored the house version. so they met on july 7th, 1958 at the white house to figure it out. imagine that two sides talking! friendly! number two, it started in florida. houston, we have a problem but not too far from here cape canaveral allen shepard became the first american with the launch of freedom seven. the kennedy space station was an name given by president johnson in 1963 after the urging of jackie kennedy for a memorial of her husband. nasa's space rover on making news of its own sunday. driving 25 miles setting a new record for the longest off-earth
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driving distance since it arrived on mars in 2004. it crossed the milestone after 157-foot on sunday. number five, i had the opportunity to test drive the zero gravity sensation. a little throwback tuesday here. that's me, airborne, in a nasa s simulator known as the vomit comet. there was only one person that did not blow chunks that day. it was me. and that in 56 years all kind of wonder what the future will be like 56 years from now as far as space. that wrapping up the hour on msnbc. next on "newsnation" with tamron hall. talking to the outraged philadelphia direct attorney in charge of prosecuting the two men accused in the deadly car-jacking case. word three children died and
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good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. this is "newsnation." we're following developing news this hour out of the middle east. nbc news confirmed that senior palestinian officials have proposed a 24-hour cease-fire following what has been israel's harsh military assault since the crisis began. a u.n. spokesperson confirms two u.n. staff members were killed in gaza today as israel launched more than 76 air strikes overnight. right now there is a blackout in much of gaza city after the israeli army struck the fuel tanks at gaza's only powerplant. an estimated 1.8 million people are infected by the thick black smoke from the plant billowed other the city for
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