dr. anthony fauci, thank you for joining us sir. >> good to be with you. >> now on weather science travelers in much of the nation are keeping their eyes on the storms, a lot of people out on the roads. nearly 95 million americans are expected to travel through new year's day but many are contending with wicked weather. in oklahoma city, ice is falling, from maine to michigan could leave hundreds of thousands of us celebrating in the dark. three people here became trapped when their suv was caught in floodwaters and rushed downstream. >>> kevin corriveau. >> i want to show what you the board is looking like. we are going to be taking a look at a lot of the rape on the eastern seaboard. that is the rain that caused all the flooding. of course we saw ice, we have seen record break temperatures but i want to show you paducah, kentucky, over 3 inches very extreme rain down towards the south for many locations. also yesterday was a record-breaking day in terms of temperature for many people across the northeast. new york city, central park 72°. their past record was in the 60s. well ahead of that

dr. anthony who heads up infectious disease studies at nih -- dr. anthony fauci. host: let me begin with the questions you are asking yourself and your researchers about infectious diseases? diseases,h infectious there are two major buckets. there are those diseases that are established. we essentially can predict what the domestic and global more global morbidity and mortality would be. we have research to develop diagnostics when we have them. vaccines andr therapeutics. then we are faced with the threat of new, emerging, and reemerging infections. things that we would not or could not have predicted. we were faced with that situation in 1981 when the first cases of aids were recognized. we had never seen that and we had to get very quickly and address that from a scientific and public health standpoint. now, today it has evolved into historically one of the most devastating pandemic in our civilization's history. there are things like the threat of pandemic influenza or sars a few years ago, or the merz coronavirus. we constantly need to be on guard and be able

dr. anthony fauci heads the national center for allergy and infectious diseases. there has been treatment but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective number 1 and number 2 it has had considerable toxicity. >> traditional treatment involves months of interare interferon. >> when you first underwent treatment what kind of side effects did you endure? >> the side effects is an intense chilling situation, you can't warm up. you feel like you freeze from the inside out. so you put blankets on to try oget warm, it doesn't help. you are shivering under a blanket. >> dan tried various types of treatment to recover from the disease and cleared the his system in 2012. clyde underwent a liver transplant a combination of drugs with painful side effects eventually cured him. joan however, is still fighting. >> well aside from the four major treatments i did, i also did two experimental treatments that one they add i was the only patient they tried it on. one where my skin would just come off. not only the top layer but the skin would come off. then hi the one where

dr. anthony who heads up infectious disease studies at nih -- dr. anthony fauci. host: let me begin with the questions you are asking yourself and your researchers about infectious diseases? diseases,h infectious there are two major buckets. there are those diseases that are established. we essentially can predict what the domestic and global more global morbidity and mortality would be. we have research to develop diagnostics when we have them. vaccines andr therapeutics. then we are faced with the threat of new, emerging, and reemerging infections. things that we would not or could not have predicted. we were faced with that situation in 1981 when the first cases of aids were recognized. we had never seen that and we had to get very quickly and address that from a scientific and public health standpoint. now, today it has evolved into historically one of the most devastating pandemic in our civilization's history. there are things like the threat of pandemic influenza or sars a few years ago, or the merz coronavirus. we constantly need to be on guard and be able

anthony fauci followed by director green, director of the human genome institute. at 9:00, national institutes director harold varmus and at 9:30, a look at the national institutes of mental health with dr. thomas insel live on c-span. >> we'll have president obama talking about the economy coming up in a few minutes. it's scheduled for 11:15 a.m. eastern. until then, some house republican reaction to discussions on the iran nuclear program. host: congressman, let me begin with the iran nuclear deal. in "the washington post" this morning, this is how they begin

dr. francis collins. andiscusses the role of nih the effect of automatic spending cuts on their work. at it a clock a.m. eastern, of anthony faucirector the infectious diseases research. talkster, erica green about how human genome research is changing medical treatments burden on a clock, national cancer institute director dr. harold varmus gives an update on camncer research. later, dr. thomas insel. >> we have lost one of the most influential and profoundly good ever beings that we will share time with on this earth. he no longer belongs to us. he belongs to the ages. good morning. the world is remembering a south african leader. this headline this morning from "the los angeles times" on the passing of nelson mandela. here in washington and around the country, flags are at half staff to pay tribute to africa's first black president.

anthony fauci followed by director green, director of the human genome institute. at 9:00, national institutes director harold varmus and at 9:30, a look at the national institutes of mental health with dr. thomas insel live on c-span. >> we'll have president obama talking about the economy coming up in a few minutes. it's scheduled for 11:15 a.m. eastern. until then, some house republican reaction to discussions on the iran nuclear program. host: congressman, let me begin with the iran nuclear deal. in "the washington post" this morning, this is how they begin their story. host: which do you think it is? guest: i don't think anything has changed. i think those probably completely wrong. i think iran will be doing what it has been doing for the last decade, keep enritching. if they stop short enritching to a nuclear capability, they'll be building up their ballistic missiles and their ability to reach out further and further and hit southeast europe and hit different parts of israel. so even if they stop their -- the enrichment capability just short of what's permissible under this new deal, they'll be able to spread to that in a month or two and arm their ballistic weapons which they'r