dr. jackie is here today to talk about it. most people who have zika may not know they have it, so how do you know? what are the symptoms? >> well, first of all, it's rare. only 1 out of 5 people actually will manifest any symptoms, and they're really pretty mild. rash, fever, joint and muscle aches, pink eye. the symptoms usually go away in about a week. >> what about these cases of babies born with mick microceph and adults.

dr. jackie is here today to talk about it. most people who have zika may not know they have it, so how do you know? what are the symptoms? >> well, first of all, it's rare. only 1 out of 5 people actually will manifest any symptoms, and they're really pretty mild. rash, fever, joint and muscle aches, pink eye. the symptoms usually go away in about a week. >> what about these cases of babies born with mick microceph and adults. >> these are associations, meaning we can't say for sure it's zhuo to the zika but it seems to be associated with it. microcephaly is when the baby is born with very sll at some point in the pregnancy and guyon bar ray is an immune response from the virus and you get paralyzed. this is a treatable disease in most cases. >> and what's the deal with testing for zika? >> well, you can get testing but we usually only do it in those specific cases when you're looking for the association to the disease. >> in most of the countries dealing with it now the virus is being spread by mosquitos. we know that. here i

dr. jackie is here to explain. one of the main see is hives. >> yeah, that's right. in act, i have seen lots of kids, especially after the blizzard, they were outside playing with snow angels, and they ended up getting hives and where they got the hives is wherever the snow touched them. it looks just like an allergy. there are lots of people concerned about it and they're right, you can be allergic to the cold. >> how do you treat that? >> it depends. the first thing always is avoidance. just stay away from the cold. be careful about if you immerse yourself, meaning if you jump into the potomac river, that's going to be a problem. mild cases treat with an antihistamine but more severe cases, treat with an epipen. >> we know if you suffer from asthma, for example, you have to be careful breathing really cold air, but even people who don't consider themselves to be asthmatic wind up wheezing when it's really cold. why? >> well, that's because they can have something called cold induced bronco spasm. you need to be sure youge because they're going to have cough, wheeze

dr. jullette saussy submitted a full-page letter of resignation. on a one-on-one interview with jackie bensen, dr. saussy said there's a lack of cooperation when it comes to improving ems service. she specifically cites training. she was met with a lot of resistance. in the interview, dr. saussy said the fire and ems should be separate departments. she believes one person cannot effectively do both jobs. an ems or firefighter. >>>le following the resignation letter, mayor bowser office released a statement saying they're put in for the improving patient outcomes and delivering the change that residents expect and deserve. >>> decision 2016 moves on to south carolina today. most of the candidates are already there after last night's primary in new hampshire tonight, donald trump who won the new hampshire primary will host a rally near clinton university. bernie sanders will be in new york where he anticipates an endorsement around noon. we'll keep an eye out for that announcement. we are learning that last night's primary actually broke records. new hampshire secretary of state tells th

on a one-on-one with our jackie bensen. dr. saussy said there's a lack of cooperation when it comes to improve the service. she specifically cites training. >> like being prohibited from measuring the right things is a red flag early on. being able to assess where we are from response so i could guide the training appropriately, that was a red flag. >> dr. saussy also told news4 the fire and ems operations should be separate departments. she believes one person cannot effectively do both jobs of an emt and firefighter. following the resignation laid, d.c. mayor muriel bowser said, quote, the mayor is committed to reforming fire and ems and put in a fire chief and team to do that. and we are committed to improving patient outcomes and delivering the change that residents expect and deserve." >>> the latest on that developing story, a deadly earthquake with 100 people still trapped in a collapsed building in taiwan. the death toll in the quake is now 44. most of those people died when a 17-story high-rise toppled. three of the bu

dr. saussy sat down with our jackie bensen. >> i was hired under the premise of reforming a system that for many, many years as you spoke of has been plagued with difficulties that have resulted in loss of life, and i was very hopeful that the walk and the talk would watch, and that's not been my experience. >> reporter: dr. saussy has been on the job for just seven months. her fiery resignation letter came as a big surprise to many. this is what the mayor had to say. >> the problems at fire and ems have been long document ed in terms of culturculture. can you turn around a culture in six months? probably not. but we have put in says you will have the equipment that you need and you're going to have the training that we need, and we think that turns around culture. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00, the 18-minute ambulance delay the doctor says that could have made the difference between life and death. i'll see you at 6:00. pat, back to you. >> all right. pat collins, thank you. >>> storm team4 has been warning us about some weather that will be a shock to your system. doug, we're talking abo

jackie, stick around. and 2016 g.o.p. presidential candidate dr. ben carson creating a controversy today. dr.a recent political podcast saying president obama was raised white. g.o.p. presidential candidate dr. ben carson goes "on the record" in las vegas. good evening, sir. >> hi, greta. >> dr. carson, nice to see you. i'm sure you have seen the controversy about your remarks about president obama being raised white. can you explain that? >> very easily. first of all, you know, it tells you that some people are incredibly sensitive to any racial issue i basically made the statement that the way that he was brought up is not typical of the black experience in america. he was raised in hawaii by two white grandparents. spent his formative years with his white mother in indonesia. went to private schools. i mean, it really is not a typical black experience. that's what i was saying. take that and say that i was saying that there is something wrong with anybody who isn't brought up black and that racism& is rampant and that it's causing problems. these are all their interpretations. this is the

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dr. schiffman concedes that turning to elephants for a cancer treatment is outside the box, but that he says, is often where the best answers are found. this is jackied for the pbs newshour in salt lake city. >> ifill: next: a poet honors his father, and both honor their puerto rican heritage. jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: a community organizer in a burned out building. >> brown: a young girl taking a ballet lesson. photographs of puerto rican life, in new york and around the country. they were taken by a man named frank espada, who died in 2014 at age 83. >> he lived many lives. and he evolved from someone who was working in the streets of east new york, where i grew up, to someone who was documenting the condition of entire people, >> brown: what's it like to see your father's work in the smithsonian? >> surreal. >> brown: martin espada, frank's son, is an award-winning poet, author of more than a dozen books, a former tenant lawyer, and now professor at the university of massachusetts. his new volume, "vivas to those who have failed;" the title comes from a line by walt whitman; is filled with poems that remember and celebrate his father

jackie flynn. i'm the executive director of the a. phillip random association. i want to thank you for honoring dr. espanola jackson who served our city for years and all the way until the end, i believe that her mission really inspires folks like you and me and everybody up here to focus on environmental impacts that really affect communities of color that oftentimes we're not a part of the conversation. i want to thank you for that. and i want to thank you, josh, because i heard this is your last commission meeting. before i get to that. let me congratulate the two new commissioners on the board here. one, i am very happy to see an entire panel of women, although i think we have a little bit of a loss without josh there. i am very happy to see two women of color on this commission along with the rest of the members here to really have a broad and diverse conversation about how these environmental and social impacts affect communities and of course, i come through the lens of a community that is low-income, communities of color. i serve youth as well as adults. i have been here before to say there