and ebola comes to the united states. the university in atlanta is expecting a patient from africa arriving today. we'll talk about that and a mosquito born illness that is already in the united states. this first day of august. good morning. i'm jose diaz-ba balart. what is going on capitol hill? we'll take a live look right now at the house republicans that are expected to exit their conference meeting at any moment hoping to get something done on the border crisis before heading home for the postponed recess. in just a moment, one of the key players in that meeting will join us with both chambers of congress deciding not to head home just yet. i'm willing to stay here until

the cows come home. i'm willing -- >> everybody wants to get out of town so sometime tonight or maybe tomorrow we're going to close up shop and we're going to go home. and the humanitarian crisis goes on. it goes on! what about these children? >> and what about these children? over 30,000 of them are now in every state across the country. not a single member can return to their district and say it's not his or her problem. and take a look at the map. there are the obvious states taking in kids. people are arriving often amid controversy, even ridicule in some not so obvious states like ohio, kentucky, iowa. joining me now is our correspondent on capitol hill luke russert. thank you for being with us. what happens with this

legislation today? >> well, it comes on the heels of what was a crushing and embarrassing blow for the house gop leadership yesterday. they were trying to move forward how they deal with the border crisis. the original bill was $660 million. it would strength, the national guard as well as change the 2008 law that made deportation of kids more difficult. today they're going to try to upthe number to $694 million. it goes to the national guard under the idea that the governor and the states can use the guard as at their disposal. they want to strengthen the 2008 law making it easier to deport the kids from central america and not have to give them the due process hearing which is causing the holdup. it's unpopular with democrats it won't move forward in the united states senate. they're trying to get on the score board here. they're having a lot of trouble getting there. i'm fascinated to hear what marsha black burn has to say.

she's the one writing the language with regarding the 2008 law and strengthening it. an aid i spoke to this morning, they believe after they add more money to the national guard, which is strengthening border security, whatever that means, we can never quantify it. then we'll see the language 2008 bill more strong so it's easier to deport the children and that's the ability to get on the score board. they'll vote on it today, probably this afternoon. the senate was not able to pass anything. you have congress pointing fingers saying we passed something. we're weren't able to get our bill because of obstruction. s at the end of the day, the children are still in harm's way and there's no plausible solution coming from capitol hill. it'll probably come from the white house under executive order in august. >> one of the things that was a stumbling block is black bern's

insis assistance. maybe they'll try to separate all the different issues and all the different wrangling parties within the republican party are trying to get, which would be just the money in one position and then we're going to go to, as you were saying, the issue of the 2008 law, then they go toward daca. it seems like a lot of work for a little accomplishment. >> it is. they're trying to do something similar to yet. they were trying to have a separate vote on daca. not permitting the president -- his ability to take the funds to try to move forward and preventing lenient si for the undocumented immigrants here. they want to strengthen that language so it would curtail his act through executive order. this is something that is very popular within the house gop conference. it's republican with republican

senators. the idea not want to fbi tgive president the ability like 2012. the issue with that is even if they include it in the bill, that could upset moderate republicans, folks who don't -- should we say understanding of daca. the other issue it presents it goes absolutely nowhere in the senate. it sets up what we've seen so far the fight between the legislative body in the house and president obama. that's something that president obama can point to. the chaos the conference had yesterday and saying you can't figure out a way forward. the senate can't figure out a way. i'm going to say as i please. >> can you explain it to me? since october we've had the sea of young children arriving without their parents. now we're plus 50,000, it seems as though there could be 100,000 by the end of the fiscal year. it's not a brand new thing.

they know the 31 st of july is the cut off for the recess. why is it that now it looks like all hell is breaking loose when it's not something that happened yesterday. how is it they wait until the final moment that to deal with something that is having an impact on us? >> honestly, that's how washington, d.c., operates in 2014. it's a sad state of affairs. the only time they can seem to work at all when the clock is running out or they want to get home for vacation. you bring up a wonderful point. the house republican bill that has no future in the senate. it originally started at $1.5 billion. boehner cut it in half to try to attract more conservative support. he's strengthening the language relating to daca, giving the conservative side the red meat they want. not able to get the bill over yesterday on the day of the vote. president obama requested $4

billion. united states democratic controlled senate put forward a bill $2. 7 billion. you never had the president sit in a room with the speaker, senate majority leader and said let's craft a way forward. the reason why, we're in political election year. we're in 2014 year for a lot of house respects they don't want to touch it. they would like nothing more than blame the president for the issue. it's the reason why the kids are here. harry reid probably doesn't want to make a lot of red state democrats take difficult votes. the president is more than happy to move unilaterally. that's how politics operates. you talk to people in the country and they go that's crazy. i see it every day. i couldn't agree more. sadly because the influence of outside groups. because people are jerge jury d manned -- gerrymandering. the children are in harm's way.

a lot of children are sleeping in cages on the southwestern border. i think that resonates with some members but enough to have a profile encouraged vote or moment? no. >> there's not a problem in becoming green becomes the month of july. all congress can agree to make that a law but they can't agree on something that is affecting every single person in this country. and the kids continue to pour over our border. there's no solution. thank you for being with us. as i just reported, we're awaiting for congressman marsha black burn who is coming out the caucus meet. we'll take a short break and keep monitoring it. she'll be with us hopefully she can. coming up. solid hiring for six straight months. what it means for you. nex

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law. thank you for being with us. >> what does mean for the average american what we're seeing and what we're reporting this morning? kbrt bottom line it's going to be more of the same. and at first glimpse you might not think that an uptick in the official unemployment rate is good news, but actually it may be. because what it may signify is more people are entering the labor market, which is what you see. the economy has been improving slowly. the report confirms the moderate growth. it's no economic miracle but a positive sign. more people are entering the labor force. they show up as unemployed before employed. it's positive because the fed made clear that they're going to look beyond the official unemployment rate. they're going it take a close and deep look at the labor market, and this means that this is not good enough for the fed to change their interest rate policy. it's going to be low for awhile.

that's good news for the average american. it peoples the mortgage rates will be relatively affordable. >> not great, great news for the unemployment among latinos and african-americans. but you see some possible light at the end of the trouble? >> it's true unfortunately those two groups are traditionally behind the recovery. even though, you know, you might think it's a rising tide saves all. those two groups are always a little worse off. i think with the feds' current approach may help. i think the yellen fed will be famous for is looking at a lot of labor market indicators. things like what is the rate of a long-term unemployed. how many people have only i part-time jobs and would rather have full-time. and look at the broader range of indicator will help people with lower skills. doing that is going to help communities that have been traditionally underserved. >> it's going to take a little

bit longer. >> yes. unfortunately we have to wait. >> thank you for being with us. spies, fires, and crossing lanes? let's zoom through some of today's top stories. five agency employees including two attorneys improperly accessed the computers of senate staffers who were investigating the alleged cia torture of prisoners post 9/11. some senators are not calling for cia director john brennan to be fired. edward snowden's attorneys said russia could stay him therethere e permanently. the temporary asylum was supposed to have run out yesterday. what remains of malaysian airlines flight 17 has been designate as an international crime scene. on the scene after tenure crane

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signs of the stories from the israeli military and palestinian factions. they agree an israeli soldier was captured as a result of an operation this morning that took place inside the gaza strip. israel said hamas militants violated a cease-fire agreement by attacking their soldiers inside gaza through one of their tunnels. that lead to the killing of two soldiers and capturing of a third. it's hamas in gaza saying israel violated the sicease-fire, that the troops, although they were allowed to stay, they continued operations ongoing in the territory. expanded their position and as a result the military wing of hamas carried out the operation. as a result those are the immediate reasons being traded by both sides as to why the cease-fire broke down so quickly after it was officially set to begin. >> and, ayman, right now, how would you describe the ambience there? i see cars moving behind you.

is it any better? >> it's not. the fighting right now is taking place in the southern part of the gaza strip. that is where the israeli military launched the large operation to try and rescue the soldiers. as i understand perhaps try to con fin the soldier from being taken away by the palestinian militants to other parts of the territory. it will be harder for them to try to rescue him. there's intense shelling taking place. intense operations taking place. it's mostly concentrated in the southern part of the territory. according to palestinian medical sources as well as hamas officials. they say the death toll is climbing fast. hundred of people have been injured. more than 40 have been killed in operation since that attack on the israeli soldiers took place in the early hours of the morning. jose? >> ayman mohyeldin, thank you so much for the live report. there's intense focus on the tunnels connecting gaza to

israel that hamas uses to att k attack. martin fletcher has a look inside. >> attack tunnels, hamas' secret passages for the fighters to penetrate israel to kill and kidnap israelis. here the surprised soldiers killed five. dug through clay and sand the tunnels are hard to find. concrete archers, electric, telephones almost six feet high and more than two feet wide. hamas built dozens of them. the army wants time to destroy them. 32 found so far. >> the tunnel in this one direction goes more than a mile into gaza. this direction only a few more hundred -- israel comes up inside in the farming lands. israel was this close to another treasure.

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how to work with our governors and our mayors as we address the issues that have come about because of the impact and the surge of the uac along the southern border. and i think it is a great discussion, and our goal is to come to a resolution that is supported by the house and supported by the house republican conference and to move that to the floor. >> what specifically is important that that discussion include, for you to be able to support something before you go on recess. >> right. and what we are hearing from our constituents all across the country is a couple of things. number one, because of the impact that the uac and the surge of uac has caused. we have gone this year, if you look at the numbers, it's a 305% increase from where it was in 2009, and we're hearing from our

mayors and governors basically they're all feeling the impacts of a border town or a border state. so they want us to take an action that will put the national guard on the southern border and that will fund that. so the border states are not having to hold to that. another thing is we hear from so many individuals involved in the process. the children should be reunited with their families in their home countries. and we know that the presidents of these countries have been in. we hear from them they would like to have their children come back home. we think that is the right step. so legislation would include a reprogramming of foreign aid to help accomplish that goal. and to get these children to their home countries and families. >> so, congresswoman, what happens if their families are in the united states? what happens if a honduran kid

is crossing the border to meet a family member who has been here many times for years? >> there's a different process for those that have families that are here in the united states. that is a different process. but many of these do not. and we're hearing from the countries they would like to have those back. we're looking at changes to the '08 law that need to be considered where the other than mexican children were treated different. there would be a process for all the children that are coming across the southern border to be treated in the same manner. so i tell you, kay granger lead the working group on this. she has really done -- she's out of texas. and has done a terrific job of working on the issue and we'll see. you know, i'm not in the meeting right now. the meeting is still going on, and it's a good family meeting.

a lot of different opinions. the nice thing about our conference is everyone has the opportunity to speak their piece, if you will. >> and i appreciate you coming out of the conference to talk to us. i really appreciate that. here is my question. you knew that the 31 st of july was the recess cutoff date. you knew the kids crossing the border that hasn't been happening two days ago. why wait until the final minute of the final second of the final instance to deal with this? >> you sound like me asking that question. i'm one of those, i think, you should be proactive rather than reactive. and when you, you know, governor perry sent a letter two years ago high lying this as a growing issue. and recommending that congress take an action. i think it is so unfortunate that the senate left town and has not taken an action. >> congresswoman, your bill is

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border debate holding up summer recess on capitol hill. right now focus of a last minute gop house meeting this morning. senior leadership aids telling nbc news they expect something to get passed today. we don't know what the something will be.

also, held up a bipartisan trip to the border lead by susan collins of maine and democratic congressman of maryland to see the crisis firsthand away from the beltway. joining me now one of the congressman expected to be on the trip this morning. democratic congressman from illinois luis ambiguigutierrez. >> part you saw in the previous interview with congresswoman blackburn. she said uac. i think she said it three or four times. why doesn't she say children? she said other than mexicans. why doesn't she say children. we're going give them money to expedite the children. that's really the problem that the republican party has because what congressman blackburn didn't discuss is that part of

the proposal is her proposal she wrote yesterday but that might have been rewritten by senator cruz. he probably took the pen and said it's not strong and mean enough. she has a proposal that would defund. i don't know how she defunds it daca the permits that have been given the, the work authorization that have been given to young immigrants in this country to 700,000 undocumented young people who we documented. she wants to make them undocumented so they don't get to renew them. she wants to unfund it. the problem is the way the program gets funded is with the $475 that the young immigrants pay to join the program. that's what they're not talking about. i think the real fundamental problem that the republicans has is how do we get meaner? how do we get nastier with immigrants so we can take a smaller group, now apparently lead by senator cruz, maybe

she he's going to be the next speaker of the house. maybe you don't have to be the member to be the speaker. it's clear that mr. boehner has no control over the conference. they're the majority party. they call the vote. it was their legislation. they didn't have the vote. and democrats, i'm proud, said yesterday we will not cooperate in what you're going to do is under my fundment tal rights and achievements and not protect the children. >> can you explain the other thing to me. you were part of a bipartisan group in the house working for years. it's not waiting until five minutes. you've been working on this for years. that spirit, and those agreements. that wording that you all had already disappeared. it was blown up all of a sudden. what happened? why -- what's going on in the house? you guys can't seem to agree on anything. even after working on things for

yea years. >> well, you know, jose, great question. what it reminds me of immediately after november of 2012, when the republicans said you know what? we need to find better way to communicate with immigrants and the latino community. we have just those in the last two presidential elections. over 70% of the latinos they were key -- the democratic victory. we need to do better outreach and they did. paul ryan did. so many members of the republican caucus did. we began to work together. unfortunately, unfortunately, for the republican conference, they forgot. they're going to be quickly reminded. it's almost as throw there's amnes amnesia. they're going to be reminded in 2014. but more over in 2016, during the next presidential election. you can't go from saying i want to build new bridges and new communications and i was ready and part of that process to then

demonizing children that arrive at our borders. you heard. it's an invasion. there are throngs of them coming to our border. tattoo, gang banging, disease ridden criminals bringing drugs and cost havoc on our society. they are children. and yet -- they can't take that back. so i would hope that the republican -- jose, fundamentally there are doesn'ts of republicans members of the republicans who would vote with us, but apparently their voices are being shutout by people who are just louder and meaner in their conference. that's where they're moving. where are they moving today? to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring the conference together. >> maybe it will go from uac to m.i.a. as far as responsibility with the american people. congressman gutierrez, thank you for being with us. before we got break.

i feel compelled to make a note here. the issue of immigration and how to solve what is humanitarian crisis is loaloaded. there can be financial interests at play. there's a law enforcement component. and there are children at heart of it. so i'm not surprised that so many of you are responding to us directly online. it's no surprise i have critics. i welcome criticism. i've said i welcome all voices on this topic or any other topic on this broadcast in search of the best solution. but what i do not allow is for the conversation to dissolve into nastiness and name calling. let me say this. big gots who spend their time stewing in hate will have no impact on me or anybody else trying to contribute to a constructive conversation. so my suggestion to you, don't even waste your time. now to the ebola outbreak. new today the world health organization said the disease in

west africa is moving faster than the efforts to constrain it. this is the plane being used to transport one of the patients infected with the virus while in africa to a hospital in the united states. the patient who was not yet been identified will be treated in an isolated, high security ward at atlanta's hospital. the cbc and the hospital designed the ward for patients exposed to infectious diseases. they issue highest travel advise possible. it's a level three warning americans not to visit the three west african countries hardest hit. more than 1300 people have been infected in that region. 700 have died. joining me now is dr. deb by. an assistant professor.

as soon as the announcement was made one of the infected patients was being brought to the u.s. a lot of people got concerned. they're wondering if it's a good idea. >> i think we have to weigh the risks and benefits. in this case we're bringing a person most likely an american who went there to save lives. we're bringing that person here to save his or her life. the way ebola kills people. it causes a lot of bleeding internally and liver and kidney failure. so the thing about the things is they can kill you but if the person survives and makes it through the ebola virus then they can survive. so in west africa, in terms of the hospitals and the care they can provide there, you know, it's not the same quality as what they can get here in the u.s. so with our life support systems with the care we could provide an icu typesetting. he probably save that life. that's the benefit. the risk is then are we putting the rest of the public in danger?

and, you know, one of the things we have to consider is that our way of preventing diseases from spreading is a lot better, perhaps, than it is in rural west africa. we have better isolation units. we have the ability to throe away equipment that is used on an ebola patient. we can sterilize it. in terms of our property kl we have less risk than people who are in west africa in danger of getting the disease. i think we're -- >> thank you for clearing it up. here is my question. talk about throwing away things and getting rid of things con tom nated. one of the two americans that got ebola were working on taking garments of off workers and doctors dealing with patients. that person is infected. so maybe i'm asking maybe that destruction of equipment, gear, et. cetera can also lead to something happening with ebola with the people destroying the stuff. >> of course, you have to be careful. you have to follow specific

protocol. the protocol we have here are different than what they have there. most likely because we are more resources, more stratrained sta. it is difficult. you're right there's a risk. we can't ignore that. but in this case the people are aware behalf is happening. everybody is alerted about it. they're going to a special center. emery university is actually one of the four hospitals that is actually capable of taking care of people with the contagious deadly diseases. i think it's a little bit different. plus the cbc being right there. they can assist if it's necessary. >> that's important. by the way, we're being told that neither of the two americans we've identified previously are the person being brought back to the united states. that's what we understand. here at home it's the peek of mosquito season. here in south florida they're the size of sea gulls. and health officials have their eyes on the rising cases.

the new app called anti-mosquito claims to offer a solution. we put it to the test live yesterday on the "today" show. take a look. >> ouch! this does hurt. i'm going to activate the app and let's see what happens. all right. i'm going to say i don't think -- >> get your hand out of there! >> nothing is working! >> take your hand out, please! >> it's not working. >> get your hand out! >> i'm taking my hand out. >> that is horrible! how should we be concerned about it? with or without an app that doesn't work. there there's two things to consider. you're more at risk if you travel to the caribbean where it's more common. you can catch it from mosquitos. if you're going someplace where mosquitos is a problem and the disease is present. you have to take more

precautions. if you're traveling someplace like that, you should keep the ac on. the fan on. you can try the app if you want to. even at night or, you know, you can use the mosquito net over your bed. you have to, you can cover your hands and feet with socks. i wouldn't recommend that for everybody in south florida during mosquito season. the thing is you're not going to catch it from other people. you can catch it from a mosquito. there's not a lot of you can do to totally keep them away. i don't want people to get alarmed. there's only one person who has got it from the mosquito. most of the people have gone to another place and come back with it and brought it back. >> thank you for being with us this morning. terror on the streets of taiwan last night. a gas leak triggered an explosion killing 25 people and leaving nearly 270 people.

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developing news from capitol hill where nbc news confirms that house republicans plan to vote on revised border security bill. they'll apparently add $35 million for national guard troops on the border. they also plan to vote on a second bill, which aims to make it easier to return unaccompanied minors to central american countries. these are live pictures from capitol hill. the issue the border. the now to an eye opening and candid look at the border crisis. like you've never seen it before. dieing to cross is a new documentary in collaboration with the weather channel. it gives a revealing and haunting account of the extreme

conditions that plague the border region. conditions that take the lives of countless men, women, and children who embark on the treacherous journey to the united states with hopes and dreams. hopes and dreams that are never realized. joining me now is one of the hosts of the documentary. so happy to see you. >> i'm thrilled to be here. i think it is so important to talk about this issue. we have been investigating what is going on, you know, on the border between the united states and mexico since 1998. more than 6,000 immigrants have died in the situation is bad. hundreds of them, we don't know where they are. >> the parents, the family members back home never know what happened to them. >> they don't know. they are still waiting for them. a lot of these immigrants come from central america from guatemala, mexico, and hon occur ruz, which is my native country. this documentary is personal to

me. going to the border and to the cemetery where they're bury excavating a lot of students from different universities with anthropologi anthropologists. >> they are going to the area there and they're kind of uncovering bodies that have just been placed as you've been telling me for years. >> in plastic bags and put them and bury them. now anthropologists are going back and finding countless bodies. >> yes. >> are they men, women, children? >> they are. men, women, children. it's a sad story. while all of these battles of immigration are happening in washington and humanitarian crisis, we have hundred of bodies bury there had. they don't know who they are. so they are conducting a very sophisticated operation and taking care of, you know, all the steps necessary to find who they are and find their families in central america in mexico so

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