and deborah, this is your town of dryden.r or not once the private company had gone to private land owners and including farm owners, and bought up the leases, whether that could be enforced by the state, even the locality said, we don't want this practice. >> so new york is a home rule state. and basically, that means that local governments have the right to, and the jurisdiction, to say what they're going to do with land use. and they do that through zoning. and so what dryden did was they passed a law through their zoning ordinance that said that they do not allow heavy industrial uses, such as hydraulic fracturing. so, the ban is actually to preserve our community character, and we are very rural area. and this is to, really to embrace what we have as a comprehensive plan to stay as a rural area, and to preserve that, that the people there really enjoy and that's why we live there. >> and i want to go back to josh on this -- on luke to this, i'm sorry. luke, the context, i was reading a piece in mother jones that talked a

meet the brand-new daughter of our senior producer rebecca dryden and her husband born today.are ecstatic. welcome to the world, lucille. congratulations. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts >> i have to say since you got rebecca dryden from "the rachel maddow show" we assert as much ownership and pride over little lou sell as you get. >> i almost thought it was trash talking to do this right in between the throw because rebecca is so great. >> oh, your baby you're proud of -- that's my baby! we're owl proud. thanks. thank you. and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. there is a lot going on in the news today. >>> we're going to start here in new york city where the united nations has today called an emergency session to convene the security council of the u.n. on an emergency basis late today to respond to what looks like it

meet the brand-new daughter of our senior producer rebecca dryden and her husband born today. we are ecstatic. welcome to the world, lucille. congratulations. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts >> i have to say since you got rebecca dryden from "the rachel maddow show" we assert as much ownership and pride over little lou sell as you get. >> i almost thought it was trash talking to do this right in between the throw because rebecca is so great. >> oh, your baby you're proud of -- that's my baby! we're owl proud. thanks. thank you. and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. there is a lot going on in the news today. >>> we're going to start here in new york city where the united nations has today called an emergency session to convene the security council of the u.n. on an emergency basis late today to respond to what looks like it may have been the largest chemical weapons attack in the world since saddam hussein gassed his own people back in 1988. and looks like is the key phrase here. it's hard to prove. it is hard to tel

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biologist antjie lauer is at the desert's western edge-- the nasa dryden center- to study one tiny local inhabitant she suspects is actually benefiting from prolonged drought-- a microscopic fungus called coccidiodes or cocci. >> they adapt to desert soils. so they can tolerate high temperatures. higher p.h. levels. >> reporter: while a continued drought may be good news for the cocci fungus, it's very bad news for humans, because this fungus can be deadly. all it takes is a gust of wind. when the fungus becomes airborne it's easily inhaled. once in moist lungs, it can cause an infection called valley fever. the infection can cause illness ranging from flu like symptoms to severe pneumonia, even death. >> we will alter the extract valley fever is not contagious, and it is not new to people who live in california and arizona deserts, particularly those who work outside. but the c.d.c. reported this march that the number of valley fever cases in endemic areas soared between 1998-2011 from 2,000 to over 24,000. >> we have about 900% increase in valley fever cases, and people try to speculat