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Searching that carlton reserve in florida and maybe this guy could be anywhere. where do you even begin at this point, danny? >> i would use aerial surveillance. the f.b.i. has outstanding thermal image capability that they can see bodies, people. thermal image signature is very distinct. i dont think he is there. if i was -- >> harris: you dont? >> if i were him i would not be going to a swamp. i would be going to the woods. it is very inhospitable. things sting, bite and kill you and there is ...

Cdc and had this misperception that cdc had operational capacity to actually mount a response to a public health crisis of this magnitude when they never had that capability. >> bret: gottlieb is the author of the new book "uncontrolled spread" why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next page. lets bring in cdc director dr. rochelle walensky. dr. walensky, thanks for being here. you just heard scott gottlieb talking about about the cdc and some of the shortcomings. i just want to, bef...

Border didnt exactly creep up on the white house. priscilla alvarez is at the white house. they started asking for more resources, were told, all the way back in june. >> reporter: thats right. border patrol agents didnt expect there would be 14,000 people underneath the del rio international bridge. but they say they saw the warning signs. so, dating back in june border patrol agents in del rio started asking for additional resources from management as they saw a growing number of migrants cros...

Welcomed the potential for australia to build this new nuclear submarine capability, but weve seen heavy notes of caution from indonesia and malaysia. so different reactions, but i think across the region, there is a sense that people want australia, the us and other allies to balance out chinas growing military might. but i also think a lot of governments are concerned that the actions weve seen with aukus and the submarines might prompt china to counteract what the us allies are doing and lead...

Austere settings. the supply is going to be there. >> are we better prepared now for a future pandemic. obviously sars happened in the early part of the century. were now dealing with covid. it seems to me all but certain, i think a lot of people think this now, that i will see another one of these in my lifetime. are we better prepared now? >> only in so far as we recognize our vulnerabilities. we havent started to address them. we have systemic weaknesses in the structure of our response in th...

Recognize our vulnerabilities, we havent started to address them. we have systems stomach races in the structure of our responses that made us excessively vulnerable to this pandemic. we have a fix those. we dont have an operational agency capable of mounting a national level of response. we dont have an agency capable of collecting and analyzing information and offering guidance in a realtime fashion to inform realtime policymaking. relied on the cdc to do that, the cdc does many things very we...

We can be safe at 30,000 feet. so expect to hear more about this type of team and this capability moving forward because it has changed. >> let me ask you about the other news weve been following on covid which is right before we came on the air tonight, the fda did authorize the use of booster shots for people age 65 and older, people at risk of developing severe covid, because of other health concerns they have, and for people who have frequent institutional or occupational exposure to covid. ...

Here insights studies incite natural immunity they believe is as good as if not better than vaccines. we are getting new data every day. shouldnt that be part of the consideration to say that these men and women have had the vaccine -- theyve had covid, theyve got immunity, and at least put them to enlist and make them serve? >> i think so. youll clues these close to 20 years veterans to institutional knowledge? this is devastating. we are talking about hundreds of navy seals who have a wartime ...

Facilities, i cant imagine that anybody involved in this program ever thought that it would have to be employed domestically in any considerable size. >> thats why i think its great that were talking about this. tens of millions of tax dollars are used to sustain this agile capability from the air force. where the team consists of, an icu doctor like me, a therapist, and a nurse, we can mention a ten bed i see in the field over, can transport critically ill patients from covid, there is a lot th...

Mean, i guess there is a lot of precedent for things developed for military use being repurposed for civilian use in times of crisis. that is a lot of the way that national security infrastructure gets built is we imagine some day there will be a civilian use for some of these things. i cant imagine doing your training for this sort of thing, reservists andive duty service members doing training for this type of thing, developed literally for wounded soldiers to be brought to u.s. military medic...