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AMNA NAWAZ: A measles outbreak in the Northwest part of the country is leading to new concerns

about a lack of vaccinations in some communities, and just who may have been exposed to the

infectious disease.

Public health officials in Washington, across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon,

say there are 35 confirmed cases in Clark County; 25 of them are in kids who are 10

years old or younger.

At least 31 of those cases are among those not immunized.

Two other cases are confirmed in Oregon and Washington.

The area's considered a hot spot, so to speak, when it comes to lack of vaccinations.

Hari Sreenivasan spoke about that very issue yesterday for "NewsHour" weekend with Dr.

Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the

NIH.

Hari asked Dr. Fauci if he was surprised that so many of the infected were not immunized.

DR.

ANTHONY FAUCI, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: I'm surprised

and disheartened that there are so many people still who are not vaccinated against measles.

The idea that the overwhelming majority of the people who got measles who were unvaccinated

is not surprising at all.

That is exactly what you would expect, because the measles vaccine is one of the most effective

vaccines of all vaccines that we have.

If you get the two doses that are prescribed that you should get during childhood, one

at 11 to 12 months and one at 4 to 6 years, it's 97 percent protective.

HARI SREENIVASAN: This is -- Clark County is on the southern border of the state with

Portland, Oregon -- or, I say, the state of Oregon.

And it's kind of seeping out.

There are concerns in the Portland area as well.

But it is up and down the state that, in that state, there seem to be clusters, similar

to other states.

How do you change that?

Because there are lots of states that actually give families the option to not vaccinate

their children.

DR.

ANTHONY FAUCI: Well, I think that you have to be much more strict about the flexibility

that you give to so-called philosophical objection to getting vaccinated, because that gets abused.

And when you get below a certain level of the percent of people in the community that

are vaccinated, that's a disaster waiting to happen.

You have to have at least 92 and as much as 95 or more percent of everyone in the community

vaccinated in order to get that umbrella of what we call herd immunity protection.

Once you get down below a certain level, it's just waiting to have the kinds of outbreaks

that you're seeing now in Washington state and that we have seen and are seeing even

in New York City and in New York state, where, among certain populations, such as the Orthodox

Jews, who have a lower level of vaccination, that same sort of danger and vulnerability.

So we have got to get past that and get people educated to realize that this is a serious

disease.

And when you stop vaccinating, or give excuses for not vaccinating, these are the kind of

things that are going to happen.

And the thing that people need to appreciate is that the idea that measles is a trivial

disease is completely incorrect.

Before vaccines were available, measles was one of the most terrifying diseases that you

could have.

Globally, there were millions of deaths each year.

And in the United States, before we had the vaccine that was widely distributed in the

'60s, there were a couple of million cases, 400 to 500 deaths a year and 1,000 cases of

encephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain.

We don't want to go back there, even if it's in individual communities.

That's a terrible place to be.

HARI SREENIVASAN: Put measles in perspective.

What happens with measles, and why is it so contagious?

DR.

ANTHONY FAUCI: OK, so the typical case of measles is a child gets a fever, they get

a runny nose, they get a conjunctivitis, or inflammation of the eyes, they get a cough,

and then they get a rash.

A couple of days later, they get a rash, starts off in the face, goes through the body.

Most of the time, it recovers.

It's very uncomfortable for the child.

But if you look at the statistics, one in 10 who get measles get ear infections that

can lead to deafness.

One in 20 get pneumonia.

One in 1,000 get encephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain.

And one to three or so per 1,000 individuals who get measles actually die from it.

So the idea that anybody saying it's not a serious or potentially serious disease is

just incorrect, period.

HARI SREENIVASAN: To put this number in perspective, this is already about 31 cases that we're

talking about just in the state of Washington.

But this is -- in the larger trend line, is this getting better, is this getting worse?

DR.

ANTHONY FAUCI: It's getting worse.

And, unfortunately, the anti-vax movement in certain segments of the population, certainly

not generalized, is just growing, and it's getting worse.

And it's based fundamentally on misinformation.

You don't want to denigrate people who make those kinds of decisions and essentially attack

them.

That doesn't work.

You have got to understand they have these beliefs.

And the way you try and get them to understand the importance of getting vaccinated is talk

about the facts, talk about the evidence.

Don't attack them.

And sometimes people tend to pooh-pooh them and attack them.

You have got to understand, they have these beliefs.

But if you present them with the facts, you may be able to win back a substantial proportion

of them.

I think some of them, you never will win back to the issue of being able to realize the

importance of vaccination.

But I think you can try -- and I know you can try -- to get the facts to them, and some

of them will change their mind.

One of the things that's really interesting that people don't seem to appreciate, that

it's an interesting bilateral thing, where, on the one hand, measles is one of the most

contagious infections in history, and, on the other hand, we have a vaccine that's one

of the most effective vaccines of any in history.

And it just seems such a shame that you have a disease that, if left unchecked, can rampantly

spread, and yet you have a tool, a safe tool, a proven safe tool, that can stop it in its

tracks.

That's the evidence that we have got to get to people of why it's so important to vaccinate

yourself with a safe vaccine, which is the measles vaccine.

AMNA NAWAZ: That was Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH.

We will continue to watch this outbreak in the coming days.

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Brexit Theresa May and Parliament fight for control The Washington Post - Duration: 4:09.

Brexit Theresa May and Parliament fight for control The Washington Post

LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May will return to Parliament on Tuesday to face a House of Commons trying to wrest control of Brexit from her, as the clock ticks down toward Britains departure from the European Union in just 60 days.

Members of Parliament, frustrated by the inability of the prime minister to win approval for her withdrawal agreement, are ready to debate and vote on cross party amendments designed to steer the government one way or another on Brexit.

Mays initial deal was crushed by  in Parliament two weeks ago, and she survived a subsequent on a party line vote.

The  — or obstinate — May appeared to be out of fresh ideas when she returned to the House of Commons last week with a Plan B that sounded a lot like a .

Meantime, Parliament remains gripped by deadlock, without a clear majority on how to exit the European Union after four decades of free trade and shared governing.

The flamboyant, sharp tongued speaker of the House of Commons, , has upended tradition by allowing  to be debated — leading his critics to charge that the speaker is trying to help backbench renegades foil Brexit by taking control away from the government.

One of the most popular amendments likely to be considered Tuesday, written by two backbenchers from opposing parties, seeks to give May until the end of February to secure a deal with Brussels that could pass the Parliament. If the prime minister fails again, then the chamber wants her to seek permission from E.U. leaders to delay Brexit beyond the scheduled departure date of March 29. 

There is disagreement over whether such a delay should be a few months long — or until the end of 2019, as the amendment proposes. 

Another amendment seeks to stop Mays government from allowing Britain to crash out of the E.U. in two months time with no deal at all.

The no deal scenario is unpopular among many members of Parliament, but it remains a real possibility. Governments and businesses in Britain and across Europe are preparing to spend billions on contingency plans. 

Richard Harrington, an undersecretary for industry and energy, told a gathering in London that a no deal Brexit would be .

I am very happy to be public about it and very happy if the prime minister decides I am not the right person to do the business industry job, he said, essentially daring May to sack him.

Yet some hardcore Brexiteers support leaving the European trading bloc with no deal, because of their extreme dislike of Mays approach, which seeks to keep Britain closely tied to European rules.

Many ordinary citizens who support Brexit are telling pollsters the same thing, that they are sick and tired of the  and .

Andrea Leadsom, the Tory leader of the House, told the Sunday Times that taking no deal off the table has been used as .

Recent days have seen British business leaders warn that a no deal scenario poses real risks to the economy.

The British Retail Consortium, which includes major grocery store chains, warned Parliament that it is reliant on fresh produce from growers in the European Union — and that is would be impossible to stockpile greens and fruits if Britain crashes out of the trading bloc with no deal. 

We are extremely concerned that our customers will be among the first to experience the realities of a no deal Brexit, the association said in a letter reported by the BBC.

Airbus chief executive Tom Enders said last week, Please dont listen to the Brexiteers madness, which asserts that because we have huge plants here we will not move and we will always be here. They are wrong.

Airbus employs 14,000 people in Britain, manufacturing airplane wings.

It is a disgrace that, more than two years after the result of the 2016 referendum, businesses are still unable to plan properly for the future, Enders said.

His remarks came as the company that assembles Jaguars and Land Rovers, Britains biggest carmaker, said it would extend its annual spring assembly line stoppage for an extra week .

Facing such dour warnings from British business, May will probably try to persuade Parliament to allow her to return to Brussels one more time to try to strike a better deal.

In a briefing with reporters on Monday at 10 Downing Street, Mays official spokesman, who goes unnamed according to protocol, said that prime minister wants two more weeks to try to change the withdrawal agreement she spent two years negotiating in Brussels. Another vote on her new and improved Brexit deal, if she can strike on, would be held Feb. 14.

The most contentious section of the current failed agreement involves the legally binding guarantee, the so called backstop, which is designed to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland — essentially between the United Kingdom and the E.U. — after Brexit.

The Irish border backstop requires Britain to remain closely aligned with E.U. rules and customs arrangements if it is unable in the future to agree a new free trade deal with the bloc.

Critics say the provision could trap Britain in the E.U. forever.

Boris Johnson, an arch Brexiteer and former foreign secretary who has previously argued that Britain should have the courage to leave with no deal, now appears to be tacking.

If May were able to secure a freedom clause from Brussels that would make the backstop time limited or allow Britain to leave on its own, without permission from the E.U., she would win the full throated approval of the entire nation, Johnson wrote in his .

This wont be easy.

As British reporters were being briefed at 10 Downing, Margaritis Schinas, the European Commission spokesman, told journalists in Brussels that the current withdrawal agreement now on the table has the unanimous backing of the leaders of the 27 nations remaining in the European Union.

It is endorsed by leaders and is not open for renegotiation, Schinas said.

European Commission  it would be a stupid thing for the E.U. to make further concessions that would put the remaining 27 members at a disadvantage.

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A planned Senate Judiciary Committee vote on William P. Barrs nomination to serve as attorney general has been delayed for a week, as Democrats continue to raise concerns about whether he will allow special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to finish his probe and publicize the results unimpeded.

The delay, which is customary for high profile nominations, is not expected to impede Barrs eventual chances of being confirmed by the full Senate. But it is the latest reflection of the deep partisan tension surrounding Barrs nomination, most of which centers on Democrats desire to protect Muellers probe from being unduly constrained.

The committee postponed its vote on Barr as one of over 40 nominations the panel was scheduled to vote on Tuesday, but decided to delay until its next meeting.

In both his public testimony and , Barr has repeatedly refused to give senators any firm guarantee that he will release Muellers report to Congress and the public free of redactions. In similar fashion, he has only promised to ask for, but not necessarily heed, the advice of the Justice Departments ethics counsel on the matter of whether he should recuse himself from oversight of the probe.

That has particularly frustrated Democrats, who take issue with a memo Barr penned last year arguing that in scrutinizing the actions of the Trump campaign, Mueller appeared to be interpreting an obstruction of justice statute too broadly. Democrats fear the memo is evidence Barr, who served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush during the early 1990s, might seek to constrain the scope of Muellers probe.

Though Barr has said that, as a former attorney general, he often weighs in on topics of the day, he acknowledged in written answers to lawmakers that he could not recall another case in which he sent the Justice Department such a memo.

As he looks to return to his previous post leading the Justice Department, Barr has met privately with more Senate Republicans than Democrats. Still, it is unclear if he could change Democrats minds in additional meetings, as the Democrats who have met with him behind closed doors have emerged saying they were still unsatisfied with Barrs answers concerning Mueller.

But Barr doesnt need any Democratic support to be confirmed. Under rules changes that the Democratic led Senate adopted in 2013, only a simple majority of senators votes are needed to confirm a Cabinet nominee.

Yet the delayed Judiciary committee vote means that it will be difficult for the Senate to confirm Barr before current acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker is due on Capitol Hill on Feb. 8 to answer the House Judiciary Committees questions about his oversight of the Mueller probe.

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