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people driving away from home as smoke and flames engulf nearly everything. listen to evacuees tell what they managed to escape with. >> everything else can be replaced, but my babies can't be replaced. they just can't. >> it's my mom's mom's and and these were real important to her, my sister's wedding dress in the back. >> i have oklahoma's governor on the phone right now. mary fallon who just finished touring some of the hardest-hit areas. what's the toughest challenge that you're incurring right now? >> well, the toughest challenge, rob, right now is that it's still very, very ho...

From local -- from local producers where they can actually go and talk to the people who are raising this meat and see where it's done, obviously that's a good way to do it. another thing if people are concerned about the antibiotics issue, there is legislation right now pending in congress. it's got more than 100 co-sponsers that would severely restrict beef producers' ability to put antibiotics in the feed of their cattle, except under certain conditions, where the cattle are actually sick as opposed to sort of preventive antibiotics. >> we just got one question left, and that is, you know, ...

Acknowledge the three service members that were killed this weekend in afghanistan. the incident is currently under investigation. but our thoughts and our prayers are with the families of these american heroes who lost their lives in this tragic event. as the secretary said, it's workforce week here at the white house so that's going to be a major emphasis for the administration. we're also moving ahead on several other items on the president's agenda. today the department of agriculture releases guidance for american beef producers preparing to ship u.s. beef to chinese markets for the first...

You've seen some industry groups, agriculture, for example, beef producers come out and say that they think that this is a big problem trying to renegotiate nafta. getting out of tpp. that they export a lot of their -- a lot of their agricultural products. so this is going to fundamentally, we're going to get an idea now finally putting some practicality on a lot of those lofty goals and ambitions that donald trump had tried to say that he would want to do during the campaign and also happens to be during that time when republicans are there in philadelphia as you noted who are going to have t...