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Coordinator dr. deborah birx privately warning leaders in 11 cities seeing surges in cases to take immediate action. in audio obtained by the center for public integrity. >> this is really critical that everybody is following this and making sure theyre being aggressive about mitigation efforts. >> reporter: all this as the u.s. crosses that grim milestone, more than 4 million cases. and with hospitalizations rising in 41 states, back up to april levels, late today, the president said this about...

Brian: let me follow up with that so here we are, we have done this for two and a half weeks now. dr. saphier. why isnt our curve bending? the people that were infected are infected. at the very least. wouldnt you think in theory the numbers should be going down? i dont think the going down yet. this virus itself has a long incubation period and prolonged space and you say we should be seeing numbers going down but we are seeing the numbers changing because of these mitigation efforts. you hear ...

Week long. as a result of that, two people have been killed and upwards of a billion dollars has been caused in damages there. so many iconic sites, st. marks still closed, suffering from flooding. the italian government created a fund of $22 million so people can file damage claims. but on a personal scale, the people will only get about $5,000. when you look at this video, you can realize thats only a drop in the bucket as to the long road ahead that these people will have to face recoverywise...

Have access to cleaner water, if people see a value in it, they might buy into it. >> our most trusted institutions are the military these days, and it does seem as if since in the military theres been more experience with seeing it in realtime. >> well, the military tends to be very clear-eyed and pragmatic about threats and its a planning culture and like to look way off into the future. whats interesting while the trump administration has been trying to take reference to the word climate chan...

Have access to cleaner water. if people see a value in it, they might buy into it. >> our most trusted institutions are the military these days. and it does seem as if, since in the military, theres been more experience with seeing it in real time. >> the military tends to be clear eyed and pragmatic about threats and its a planning culture. they like to look way off into the future and whats interesting is while the trump administration has been trying to take reference to the word climate chan...

Update on how you are now preparing for the latest threat and that is rain that is going to be coming in and the new threat becomes possible mudslides? >> yes, weve been working with this for quite a while. california office of emergency services along with other state agencies and federal agencies have been up in that area doing mitigation efforts to reduce the impact of a heavy rain in that area not only to protect the watershed but protect properties that are still may be remains there. we fe...

Since weve been here, its only continued to rise. you can see this house here, the water is almost up to the -- or its at the top step, almost at the door really. its also completely covering the swimming pool in the backyard. this house over here, the red one, it will likely be flooded as well before this is all said and done. that is because this area has already gotten 13 1/2 inches of rain. there might be a little more still to come before the day is done. but really, erica, it is all of tha...

Republicans get very angry tonight, and this is -- and all commentators are right. to john unanimouss point, the texas delegation is larger than the freedom caucus delegation. but, listen, i fought those fights and it was the conservatives in the house who fought against mitigation efforts, who fought against funding for climate changes. its those very conservatives from texas who are now going to be asking for help. while we are careful in our politics coming out of houston, the reality going i...

Building codes that are enforced. so theres an opportunity there to look at those lessons learned that we learned in andrew and katrina and other hurricanes, and go back and do those mitigation efforts. right now, were spending 14 times more money on the disaster site as opposed to the pre disaster site. its certainly not sustainable with the cost of katrina, sandy and this storm coming in. the costs go up and up. we have to sart doing something on pre disaster side to make sure that when the st...

Joining us. >> as a faa investigator i want to say that if we are divulging some secrets, but if the seek security is so weak that we have to rely on the communication between the pilots and the crew and then it is seekcret. it is archaic thought to believe that it is controlled by the secrets. it is not. safety is controlled by the mitigation efforts of events from occur, and they are strong and public and anyone can look them up. there are some secrets, of course, and as a federal agent, and f...