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This is -- it really takes the cake in california. what kind of health and safety risk could we be talking about? >> lets just reviewed the imminent risk. what have they allowed as a result of their complete and reckless with negligence? not attended the sanitation and we have millions and millions of rats. in this part of the world to come of roads have been to carry very serious illnesses. wwe had at typhus outbreak the summer and i guarantee you we will have another one this summer. if 2% of the rats become infected with bubonic plague which is endemic in this area we will have human outbre...

City in the country that doesn't have a rodent control program. sanitation has broken down. we had a typhus outbreak last summer and we will this summer. i'm hearing that bubonic plague is likely, already here. the entire population is at risk. >> we're the populations. >> it will be -- >> laura: but the politicians care about people. >> they're negligent. disgustingly negligent. it was like, i thought, do they want the people on the streets to die? they don't care if they all die. is that where we are right now? >> laura: beyond negligent. and in april, kaiser health news reported that death ...

How much? well, let's see, there is a typhus outbreak in los angeles. spread by rats in downtown los angeles. one city prosecutor in l.a. said she contracted typhus from fleas living in city hall office. that tells you a lot. dr. marc siegel is medical correspondent and joins us tonight. dr. marc siegel typhus doesn't sound like the kind of thing we would have a problem with in this country. >> you wouldn't think. so it's an ancient scourge we are seeing it in los angeles because there is 55,000 homeless in los angeles county alone because of the terrible housing crisis there and to give you a...

The health concerns that have already arisen because from the cross border traffic that is illegal. and anyone inside the caravan now coming into the united states, we heard about the recent typhus outbreak in southern california. what other health issues should we be aware of? you highlighted some of the potential diseases that we could subject ourselves to. tell us what they are. >> absolutely. there is a great concern for influx for a multitude of diseases entering our country. people coming in not vaccinated so an increase in measles and