she did gets them vac nated for measles, but not everything else the school required.ots an exemption, when requires the form to also be signed by ash she doesn't believe in forced immunization. >> we live here in marin county, a liberal place, a well educated group of people. it's a thoughtful group of people, and i think parents are chewing not to vaccinate is probably for a reason. >> the number are not trivial. more than 6% have personal believe exemptions, nearly three times the state average. nationally it's 1.8%. in a statement provided to cnn, the school district tells us that california law protects the rights of parents to refuse to vaccinate their children. in doing so, prohibits schools from excludes these children from school unless there's an active outbreak. rett's parents concede they're on the losing side of the battle, but still hope some good will come of it. >> what we're tried to achieve is herd immunity, so we don't have to worry about measles. >> they don't want to worry about their son suffering from another horrible disease. they're just glad t

it is is because there's a group -- a percentage of the population of children who have not been vac natedtive measles vaccine, measles is a highly contagious infection, for different reasons that parents may give they're not getting their children vaccinated what we need to do is explain -- i don't think parents are trying to do anything bad, they just need to understand. >> they're joined by cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohens listens to government officials here, to me at least it sounds like there's an increasing degree of alarm at this outbreak spreads. >> right, when you see 102 cases after just what has it been not even two months yes, there is concern this will spread. we ahead dr. fauci says this is incredibly contagious. you just need to be in the same room as someone with measles. in fact you don't even have to be in the same room. if someone was in the room an hour before you who had measles, you can't get it too if you had not been vaccinated. >> we're seeing a certain number who have been vaccinated who are also getting measles, does that mean no one is really safe? >>

some say it's because people aren't vac nating.ay disney opened a new ride so-called it's a smallpox world. check out what hillary clinton teethed. the earth is round, the sky is blue, and vaccines work. she actually didn't stop there. look at what else, fire is hot, ice is cold and the seahawks should have handed it off to marshawn lynch. >> wow, they should have! >>> it's been a month since harry reid's exercise accident, but he still bears the battle scars, including a swollen right eye. he was working on the at home using an exercise band that snapped, tossing him on to a furniture. he joked about the source of the injury. >> as most people know, i fought for a couple years. after any one of those fights, i never look like i do now. however, i didn't get this black eye by sparring with manny, by challenging floyd mayweather. i didn't go bull riding. i wasn't riding a motorcycle. i was exercising in my new home. >> he was of course refer to manny pacquiao. yesterday he encountered pacquiao a capitol hill, tweeting explained my i

. >> all i can say is we vac nate vaccinated ours.o understand parents need to have some measure of choice in things. >> i've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. >> joining me now, dr. kent accept coe wit and political analyst and columnist for the washington post. do you want to respond to rand paul? >> it is nice to hear ben say something quite sainne. >> it's the first time he's sounded like a physician to me. >> rand paul is pandering as fast as he can toward the illogical, desperate, make everybody happy approach to you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. and this is the problem is libertarianism falls apart when it pumps into public health. you can't have it both ways and he wants to have it both ways as politicians want to do. >> i want to reread the ben carson quote. we've listened to him saying obamacare's the worst thing since slavery, worse than 9/11. he has said that. the same man who said that said this very careful, precis

senator barbara boxer wants to require all children enrolled in head start to be fully vac sip nated.nd tomorrow state senator richard pond will officially propose a repeal of the personal belief exemption in california so parents cannot opt-out of vaccines any longer. >> they would not be able to enroll in the school. they could home school them. >> parents have so much to worry about these days, how to pay their bills, how they are going to afford college for their children. one thing they should not have to worry about is whether or not weather their child will contract a preventable infectious disease like the measles. >> reporter: senator boxer is hoping that her proposal will get swift considers in washington. now, if that state measure passes we are told that all of california's school children could be required to be vaccinated by the 2016/2017 school year. reporting live in emeryville, i'm jodi hernandez nbc bay area news. >>> new evidence tonight seems to point to the fill peeps as a source of the disney land measles outbreak. state health leaders say the california virus sh

>> well my son is fully vac nated with the exception of the new tdap booster.e we left and had to be riyadh mitted after the hepb vaccination. i'm not anti-vaccine but our schedule looks like 49 doses of 15 vaccines before kindergarten and drug companies along with the doctors have no accountability and can't sue them in civil court when vaccines cause injury or death and vaccination is a medical, so when injury or death happens there's no recourse. so as long as there's no accountability, i feel like parents together with their doctors, should have some flexibility in our schedule. >> okay. so it's not necessarily that you are against mandatory vac sayingses. sounds like you're against the scheduling. perhaps you as a parent want more leeway to make a decision as to when your child would be vaccinated? >> that's correct. and mississippi parents for vaccine rights we are a couple thousand educated families and most of those parents do want to vaccinate their children. the law here in mississippi is so oppressive that we have pediatricians who are terminating th