dr. on on this knee fauci, david political panel. p?p?o?gv >> dickerson: we're here with dr. anthony fauci head of the national institute of allergy zika discovered to be caused byw mosquitoes in the u.s. last time you were on you said this was very likely to happen. it now has happened. what is being done to contain these? >> the thing that you doim this, to do mosquitoe control, vector control that is immediate implementation tool that you have. that is being very aggressively pursued right now by the state and local health authorities. particularly in the area of miami, dade and broward county where the four locally transmitted cases have occurred that's the critical issue. that is the issue with the authorities. what individuals can do is to possible from mosquitoes do you that by staying conditioned places. make sure when you have s have s that are in good repair and when prect you to the extent possible and put insect repellent on to protect the exposed areas. that's what the individual can do together w authorities do. should >> don't take this lightly. this is something that

dr. anthony fauci, lead aside. not just for you but all the agencies dealing with that response, what is the most critical issue that is not happening? >> it is that happening because it hasn't happened. let me explain by what it -- what i mean by that twist of words. we have over 900 travel-related cases in the continental united states and 2000 locally transmitted cases in puerto rico. there are a few things of concern to me, others, including the president. acceleration of cases in puerto rico over the last few weeks. is other thing of concern that as we get into the more active mosquito season of july , particularly in the gulf coast of the united states, we are concerned that we will start seeing locally transmitted among people who never left the continental united states. and the real challenge will be controlsure by mosquito that those local cases to not become sustained or disseminated. those are the concerns we have in the continental united states and the considerable concern over the vulnerability in pu

dr. anthony fauci. forward to the next couple of weeks, not just for you but for all the u.s. agencies dealing with the response, what is the most critical issue that needs to be dealt with now that is not happening? >> it's not happening because it hasn't happened. we now have over 900 travel related cases in the continental united states and over 2000 locally transmitted cases and puerto rico so there are two things of concern to me. and that is a situation of the acceleration of cases we have seen and puerto rico over the there is aeks where considerable number of new cases each week. the other thing of concern is that as we get into the more active mosquito season particularly in the southeast, since we have so many of these travel related cases, we are startned that we will seeing locally transmitted cases among people who never left the continental united states. making sure they don't become disseminated. that is the concern we have in the continental united states. >> one of the numbers on the cdc website, that there has been 13 thesmitted cases in continental united s

dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute ofti allergy and infectious diseases. i'm joined by dr. anthony faucii director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases at thee n.i.h.i. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you.e >> sreenivasan: first of all, this change in status almost,m what does this warning in florida mean? >> the warning from the f.d.a. is saying in the regions in miami-dade and broward county you have what looks like cases that are not travel related and don't appear to be sexually transmitted and very likely toy be mosquito transmitted locally because those people never left the continental united states sd they did not get infected elsewhere, given that, what the f.d.a. is doing is saying there may be more cases out there soso in order to protect the blood supply and keep it safe, theyhe are suspended the collection of blood from those two areas untii they can implement either testing of the units as they are donated or decontaminating of any potential units that might be potentially contaminated. so they want to be quit

dr. anthony fauci, head of the centers for disease control, gives an update on efforts to prevent the spread of the zika virus and develop a vaccine. we'll have live coverage from the bipartisan policy center, starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> the american enterprise institute host ad discussion about irs programs to assist low income tax-filers. consultants and tax policy analysts looked at ways to improve implementation of the earned income tax credit. this is an hour 1/2. >> all right. i think we'll begin. good afternoon and welcome to the american enterprise institute. my name is robert doar. i'm the mortgage fellow in poverty studies here at aei. i'm pleased to welcome all of you to today's important discussion how we can improve one of our nation's largest and most effective antipoverty programs. before i get into the meat of the program i want to recognize aei research fellow, angela whose idea it was to tackle issue and asked our presenting author to write the paper we're discussing today. thank you, angela. this is one of a series of public discussions we held here at aei foc