guillain barre is associated with a number of viruses, influenza, bacteria like campylobacter to see an increase is guillain barre is not surprising in something we always expect to read what about zika in the united states? united states as you know also includes puerto rico and i learned a lesson in that when i was briefing president obama in the situation room at i was talking about the united states and he said timeout tony, puerto rico is in the united states. sorry mr. president. the reason is there are are american citizens having a terrible time right now. they are in the middle of an outbreak that is going to be or already is bad and is going to be a serious situation because what happened with them in 2014 is that 25% of the population got infected. if you look at the potential importation so here's the quick of the problem. there are 200 plus million who journey back and forth from united states to areas of local transmission of zika. which means in this is something people are starting to appreciate now, the difference between a travel related case and a local traveling c

jose gonzalez, among 34 on the island with zika, who then got guillain-barre syndrome, which then causes paralysis. >> it's like having chrone's. >> reporter: on friday, one man with zika died with that syndrome. today florida's governor asked for federal dollars for the fight in miami. the president had requested 1.9 billion, >> the president had requested $1.9 billion. but the funding got caught up in partisan politics, meantime dr. fauci says louisiana and texas may be the next areas where zika may be revealed. >> kerry sanders, thank you. >>> to presidential politics now and questions swirling around donald trump and his stands on immigration, one of his signature issues. is he backtracking on his so-called deportation force to round up 11 million undocumented immigrants in the u.s. and force them to leave the country. >> reporter: in 14 months of campaigning, donald trump has made one thing abundantly clear. >> we will work with them, they have to go. yes, they're going to be deported. either we have a country or we don't. you're going to have a deportation force and you're going to

reported increased cases of guillain- barr? syndrome. it's a neurological disorder that causes muscle weakness and numbness. this year, 34 patients with the syndrome also had evidence of zika, or similar virus infection. in the u.s., the c.d.c. has set up a registry to follow pregnant women who have been infected with zika, as many as 580 so far. james, around the country, 16 babies have been born already with zika-related birth defects. >> brown: david begnaud, thank you so much. in the presidential campaign, republican donald trump holds a private fund-raiser in nevada tonight. trump has spent the last few days walking back from some of his positions on immigration, but in doing so, does he risk alieng dean reynolds is following the trump campaign in las vegas. >> u.s.a.! u.s.a.! >> reporter: donald trump handily won nevada caucuses earlier this year back when his stand on illegal immigration was simple-- mass deportation and a big, new wall. >> we won with young. we won with old. we won with highly educated. we won with poorly educate

what is the exact percentage of guillain-barre? what is the incident in different stages of pregnancy with regard to incidence of congenitale abnormalities? what happens with babies when they are born from an infected mother but look physiologically normal? what about their developmental landmarks? what about intellectual capacity? what about vision? what about hearing? those are the things that we really don't know a lot about. so that falls under the epidemiological gaps, and the other forms under the scientific gaps. >> can you talk a little about what might be the plan for testing vaccines in pregnant women or women thinking about conceiving, and can you talk a little bit about the rationale for going forward with the dna vaccine, since that's kind of a new technology? dr. fauci: good questions. generally, when you are dealing with pregnant women, as is always the case, the safety issues of pregnant women are paramount. the safety issues with anyone with a vaccine. when you talk about a vaccine, we are aiming a vaccine not for

poll knee should and infected the islands within months and they discovered the connection to guillain-barre and they did notice make the connection to microcephaly, the damage to the babies, because it doesn't damage every baby. damages a minority of them. then finally when it came to brazil, you had a situation where you had millions of cases because you had people crowded together in slums. you have to have jet travel in order for people with the virus to get from place to place and traps mitt the disease. you have to have populations crowded in urban slums ask you have in brazil but not 50 years ago, and have to have people who tend to give birth in hospitals because that's when if you notice something like microcephaly. might have only been five cases in a hospital but they knew that was unusual because normally doctors in those brazilian hospitals only see maybe one case of microcephaly eve two or three years and then the have five or seven in one hospital and realize something serious is going on. there are diseases under the radar that we don't know about right now that we will hear

that's a very important -- what is the exact percentage of guillain-barre? what is the exact incident in various periods of pregnancy? first trimester, second, third trimester, with regard to the incidence of congenital abnormalities. importantly for the babies, what happens to babies when they're born from an infected mother but they look physiologically normal? what about their developmental landmarks? what about intellectual capacity? what about vision? what about hearing? those are the things we don't know a lot about. so, that falls under the epidemiological gaps and other scientific gaps. >> laura with ap. we talk about the machine for testing vaccines in pregnant women or women thinking about conceiving and can you talk about the rationale about going forward with the dna vaccine. >> well, generally when you're dealing with vaccines -- with pregnant women, as is always the case, the safety issues of pregnant women are paramount, the safety issues with any vaccine. to when you talk about a vaccine, we're aiming a vaccine not for pregnant women. we're a