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Spread. >> reporter: in california, this drone is on the defensive. in florida, trucks are on thehe hunt, allll of it in a battle with the tiniest but most serious of threats, mosquitos, which for the first time in 20 years are responsible for locally transmitted malaria spreading in parts of the u.s. six cases in florida and one in texas near the mexico border. what went through your mind when you heard that? >> it is unprecedented. >> reporter: max vigilant is the director of the mosquito control division in harris county, texas, preparing for what may come his way. >> this trap has collecte...

White house really struggles to manage a raging pandemic. the u.s. is currently reporting nearly 800,000 infections a day, numbers that are driving up a sharp demand for testing in georgia, for example, officials are turning to mass testing once again using atlanta's mercedes benz stadium, one of three mega testing sites capable of testing thousands of people a day, public health officials say they hope to find early cases where there's still time to prevent community transmission and to keep people out of hospitals which are already overwhelmed with covid-19 patients across the country, publi...

Program to protect faculty and staff and 40,000 students. joining us from detroit is heidi. heidi, this plan calls for testing thousands of teachers and staff each day. that is a real herculean effort. how will it work? >> reporter: geoff, one of the most under served districts is showing what is possible when they are not fighting about masks. they are putting funding toward testing. testing is under appreciate yated in all of the fighting over masks. in the city of detroit, they aim to test weekly 40,000 kids as well as staff. this does require parental consent. i talked to the principal at ...

Lot of money in, in support of. >> amie parnes, emily heil, thanks so much for joining me. now we move on to oklahoma where officials there will begin testing thousands of people, thousands, who may have been exposed to hiv and hepatitis-c by their dentist. state health officials issued severe health warnings after an investigation led them so some very disturbing findings at that dentist's office. nbc's charles hadlock is in tulsa, oklahoma. what's the latest on this very scary situation? i know that they were limited in wanting to call this an outbreak or use the term outbreak as they cont...

Bring their children to the outside of the home, signing and leaving messages on stones outside. so south africans young and old are watching closely to see how nelson mandela is doing. >> one other thing is the family and how collectively they are gathering around nelson mandela or any insight into his condition, correct? >> yeah, that's right. close family have been at his bedside. his grandson saying he is sitting up and talking. meanwhile, his former wife winnie, confirming that he is doing well and also thanking president obama for his message of support. she said, the support was importa...