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Woodruff the white house took criticism from both sides of the political spectrum today over the flood of Migrant Children illegally crossing the southern border. Many leading republicans complained the president s request for 3. 7 billion in emergency funding is too much. Arizona senator john mccain. Neither i nor the majority of my republican colleagues will support expenditure of billions of dollars, which will only perpetuate the problem, until we address the source of the problem, and that means the repeal of the law that was passed that creates this loophole. Woodruff the law in question is a 2008 statute that bars quick deportations of children from Central America. Republicans are demanding it be changed, but democrats in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus said they firmly oppose any such move. Still, white house spokesman josh earnest left the door open to that possibility. What were focused on is the ultimate goal. And if that means changing the 2008 law, if it means giving Greater Authority to the secretary of homeland security, if it requires passing some other law, were focused on the end results. Woodruff meanwhile, the u. S. Border patrol suspended plans to send hundreds more Migrant Children from texas to the san diego area, after protests. U. S. Business economists have dialed back their expectations for this year. The National Association for business economics now projects expansion ran at an annual rate of 3 in the second quarter. Thats down half a percent from an earlier forecast. The forecast for the year is just 1. 6 nearly a full point lower than before. Germany says it still wants close relations with the u. S. Despite a spying scandal. That follows two incidents of German Government employees allegedly passing secrets to the u. S. Berlin has asked the c. I. A station chief to leave the country, but the foreign minister said today it does not mean a permanent rift. translated despite the troubling incidents in recent weeks that led to yesterdays decisions, for me our partnership with the United States is without alternative. We want to reinvigorate our partnership, our friendship on an honest basis, and we are ready for this. Woodruff last year, it came out that the u. S. Eavesdropped on german chancellor Angela Merkel, and intercepted german internet traffic. In ukraine, a rebel rocket attack killed said at least 19 government soldiers near the eastern border with russia. In turn, president Petro Poroshenko warned that for every soldier killed, scores and hundreds of militants will die. But in a phone call, german chancellor Angela Merkel urged the ukrainian leader to use a sense of proportion and protect civilians. Kurdish forces in iraq have grabbed two Major Oil Fields in the northern part of the country. The move today widens a split with the baghdad government. The oil fields are outside the city of kirkuk, which kurdish fighters seized weeks ago amid the chaos of a sunni insurgency. Secretary of state john kerry made an emergency trip to afghanistan today over the disputed president ial election. In kabul he urged president ial rivals Abdullah Abdullah and ashraf ghani to let the United Nations investigate alleged voter fraud. We obviously have high hopes that the questions about the election will be resolved quickly, can be resolved, and that a way forward can take place which can give afghans confidence that they have a presidency and a government that is capable of unifying all afghans and building the road to the future. Woodruff amid the political crisis, u. S. Officials hope to get an agreement signed that keeps some american troops in afghanistan past years end. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention will halt transfers of biological samples from its highsecurity labs. That follows an incident last month that could have exposed staffers to anthrax, plus an earlier incident involving bird flu. No one got sick, but c. D. C director doctor Thomas Frieden says lab safety has to improve. Our laboratories are core to our ability to protect americans. Our laboratories are the reason we are the Gold Standard for not just Infectious Diseases, but Environmental Health as well. And for this to happen and put our workers potentially at risk is totally unacceptable. Woodruff the c. D. C also announced that two vials of smallpox virus found recently after 60 years still contained live virus. Theyre being destroyed. The vials turned up at the National Institutes of health in bethesda, maryland. Chrysler announced the latest auto safety recall today, some 650,000 jeep and dodge s. U. Vs sold in the u. S. The wiring in their vanity mirror lights could be prone to short circuit and catch fire. Thereve been three injuries. The recall applies to vehicles built between 2011 and 2014. On wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial average gained 28 points to close at 16,943. The nasdaq rose 19, to close at 4,415. And the s p 500 added just under three points, to finish at 1,967. But for the week, the dow lost seventenths of a percent, the s p slipped 1 and the nasdaq fell more than 1. 5 . Veteran journalist John Seigenthaler died today at his home in nashville, tennessee. Over a long career, he edited the nashville tennessean, and worked on civil rights under attorney general robert kennedy. Later, he advised kennedys president ial campaign and helped run u. S. A today in its early years. John seigenthaler was 86 years old. Still to come on the newshour, the death toll climbs in the middle east with no signs of a ceasefire soon, h. I. V scientists suffer a major setback in their search for a cure, the importance of talking to low income toddlers, what dwindling funds for the federal highway system could mean for states if congress does not act, shields and brooks analyze the weeks news, plus, what lebron james return means for cleveland and says about the business of basketball. Woodruff the battle between israel and hamas headed into the weekend today with no end in sight and the Palestinian Death toll topping 100. The two sides again traded heavy air strikes and rocket fire, with the israelis vowing to press their offensive, and hamas insisting it would not give in. The Early Morning light showed chaos in gaza after another israeli air strike. They were hitting roughly every five minutes today. Later in the day, streets in gaza city were mostly empty. Shops were locked up and people stayed inside to keep safe. translated the situation is very bad and not normal. People in the month of ramadan used to visit each other. But now because of the atmosphere of war, people are afraid to go out and theyre not earning money. Woodruff protests against israels actions grew across the world, from marches in jordan, to rallies in indonesia where palestinian flags waved high above the crowds. And, as the list of the dead mounted, the u. N. Human Rights Office warned the israeli air campaign may be illegal. Its very specific in International Law that unless the homes are being used for military purposes, in case of doubt, such homes are presumed not to be legitimate military targets. So if there is even an iota of a doubt, these are not legitimate military targets. Woodruff the Israeli Military insisted its air strikes on gaza are well thought out. translated we are using all our offensive abilities, not without reasoning, not without thinking, not without taking into account there are civilians in gaza. Woodruff and israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu insisted the military offensive against hamas will go on. translated no International Pressure will prevent us acting with all our force against a Terror Organization that is calling for our destruction. We will continue to forcefully attack anyone who is trying to hurt us. We will continue to defend both with determination and wisdom our home front, the citizens of israel. Woodruff still, hamas kept firing rockets into israel, more than 600 over the last four days. Israel says it has shot down at least 110 with its iron dome system. Hamas warned airlines to stay away from Ben Gurion Airport near tel aviv, saying its a potential target but airlines continued to fly in. One rocket also hit a gas station in ashdod that sent a heavy black cloud wafting over the port city. translated its too early to talk about a ceasefire under the crimes of the occupation. Today the talk is about the bravery of our people and the steadfastness of the resistance in the face of the zionist occupation. Woodruff meanwhile, thousands of israeli troops were massed along the gaza border, but Prime Minister netanyahu would not say if or when a Ground Invasion might begin. Woodruff theres been a big disappointment in the hope to find a cure for aids. It involves a young child who was thought to have been cured of hiv as a baby. Jeffrey brown has the story. Brown it was in march of last year that doctors thought they might have made a breakthrough in the goal of finding a cure for aids, treating a baby girl in mississippi with early and unusually aggressive drug therapy. The mother had h. I. V and had not been treated during pregnancy. But the girl was treated within 30 hours of her birth and was free of the virus for two years. Doctors allowed her to stay off therapy and still, there were no signs of h. I. V returning. But yesterday, officials announced that the girl, now almost four, had tested positive for h. I. V during a followup visit last week. Doctor Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases joins me now. Welcome back. Well, this is something you and i talked about when the news came out last year. Remind us first why this seemed so hopeful. How this early and aggressive treatment promised such a difference . Well, it promised such a difference because what happened with this particular baby was an unusual situation that the baby had been on therapy, this aggressive form that you correctly described, for about 18 months but then was lost to followup. And the mother discontinued the therapy because she just dropped out of the out of the healthcare system, came back five months later, and when the physicians examined the baby, they found out they couldnt find the virus anywhere, no virus in the plasma and no virus in the cells in the blood. So they decided that this possibly could have been a cure related to the fact that the baby was treated very early, as you mentioned, within 30 hours and aggressively. As it urn tuned out, they followed the baby very, very carefully and over a period of 27 months without any therapy at all, there was no indication at all of any virus in the baby. There was no plasma vierine meea as we say, virus i in the blood. On a routine visit and this was very unusual that you would have 27 months off therapy, and as you know this was widely discussed throughout the world as a possible cure of a baby, and then last week on a regular routine visit to the clinic, the baby was doing quite well. They drew some blood and found that one of the lab tests was little bit abnormal, so they look at the level of virus, and they found to their surprise and disappointment that the virus had actually rebound. Really it was the virus was not eradicated. Brown well, you use that word disappointment. Youve been doing this a long time. Is it surprising to you . How deflating is it this time later to find out what happened . Well, jeff, i would describe it not as deflating. Im disappointed but not surprised, and thats a very good question you ask. This virus is extraordinarily uncanny, and weve been working with trying to figure out the complexities of this reservoir where the virus hides in the body for a very long period of time. Ive been doing this now for over 25 years. And im never surprised at some of the things that this virus can do, namely be in the body. Any assei that we do we couldnt find it and all of a sudden 27 months into no therapy at all, the baby rebounds. So im not surprised, but i am a little bit disaopponented. Brown so in terms what happens next is and consequences, one thing that, in fact, you and i had talked about it when this first came out, was there was going to be a trial based on this to look further. What happens now to that trial . Does it go forward in some form . Well, okay. Lets first just for moment talk about the baby. The baby was put back on antiviral drugs and is doing extremely well. The virus is already starting to dom back down. With regard to the study that youre talking about, this is something that were going to look very carefully at particularly in the design of the study as well as the ethical considerations about situations of the informed consent, which will now have to be altered, because this study was predicated on the fact that this baby may have been cured. Now, the fact that the baby went 27 months without requiring therapy is a good thing. So were going to have to change and maybe look at the design and make sure, above all things, that if its an ethically sound study. Brown so go ahead with it, but ethically, you have to tell the people, heres the new situation. Right, exactly. And even before you go ahead with it, make sure that the design of it is compatible with something thats ethical and something that we can learn, something thats beneficial to the entire cohort of babies in the future. Brown just in our last minute, going back to this thought of how long youve been at this and weve been talking about thisfor many years, do we have a tendency to make the highs too high and the lows too low when youre because this is such a long search for a cure . I think some people do that, and its human nature and understandable. As you remember, back then, jeff, when we discussed this, i said, we better be careful not to call something a cure. This a remission. How long the remission will last will depend upon whether it ultimately turns out to be a cure. So i tend to be circumspect and conservative with that. You can understand when youre dealing with a disease as serious as this, when you get good news you like to expand on good news. This is another step in the long process of what we have to learn about this very devastating disease. Brown all right, dr. Anthony fauci. Thank you so much. Youre quite welcome. Woodruff now, closing the education and language gap for kids from low income families, special correspondent john tulenko of learning matters reports on one program trying to tackle the problem by talking more to toddlers. Reporter in providence, rhode island, twoandahalf year old nylasia jordan is part of a closely watched experiment in language development. To boost the number of words she hears, under her shirt shes been wearing a small, electronic word counter. Called digital language processors, theyve been given to some 55 toddlers whose families are on public assistance through a program called providence talks. Andrea riquetti is the director. And what we ask the families is that they put it inside of the vest pocket and then we ask the parents to put the vest on the child as soon as they wake up in the morning and then wear it throughout the day. Reporter the recordings last 18 hours and take place about once a month. While this technology is new, word counting has been done in other ways before and the findings have been troubling. James morgan is a linguist at brown university. Kids in low income families just hear much less talk than do kids in higher income families. Now thats come into the public consciousness, even president obama has mentioned this, its known as the 30 million word gap. Reporter by age four, researchers found toddlers in low income families hear 30 million fewer words than those in high income families. The result in cities like providence, twothirds of children enter kindergarten with poor vocabularies, and quickly fall behind in reading. At young ages, there are small gaps in achievement and ability between children and you see that gap grow and grow over time. Early intervention is critical. Hi fred, hi nylasia. How are you . Reporter besides counting words, providence is intervening with visits from social workers, like courtney soules. Nylasia is doing really good. She was very shy at the beginning when i started working with her and now hes opening up a little more. Shes starting to do a little more conversation. So were going to go over the results of the recording shes done. Reporter courtneys brought with her various graphs, showing the number of words spoken to nylasia. You can see shes heard about 5,000 words in the course of the day. 5,000 words a day. How does that compare . Its very low. An average child will hear about 16,000. Reporter the recordings have reporter the recordings have picked up a problem. Here on the childs chart, a period of almost no conversation from around 10 00 in th