ROMANS: President Obama asking Congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus and the mosquitoes that carry it. The request coming as the Centers for Disease Control steps up its response, moving the emergency operations center to level one status. That's the highest due to risk of transmission in the U.S. It means the agency will work around the clock on multiple levels to contain the fast spreading virus. Homeland security and FBI officials confirmed they are investigating a data breach that exposed sensitive information about nearly 30,000 of their staff members. We're talking names, titles, contact information released online by the hackers. Accompanied by a pro-Palestine slogan, the identities of more than half the FBI's employees now in the public domain, half the FBI's employees now out there. The hacker claims to have penetrated the DHS and FBI files through a Justice Department computer. President Obama sent his eighth and final budget proposal to Congress today. It's already dead on arrival. The plan includes a $10 a barrel tax on oil for green infrastructure and transportation projects, also includes money for cancer research and opioid abuse programs. But the Republican chairman of the House and Senate budget committees, they refuse to even grant the usual hearing to the president's budget director. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder declining an invitation to appear before a Democratic House committee investigating the water crisis in Flint. Snyder insists he cannot testify at Wednesday's hearing because he has a budget presentation to make to his state legislature. The Republican governor says that presentation will include significant resources to help people of Flint. The Democratic steering and now policy committee does not have the power to subpoena Governor Snyder. Tens of thousands of Syrians begging, begging for safety at the Turkish border. They are desperate to escape their war-torn country but they are unable to get out of the country, stuck at the border. We are live with that story, next.
Obama Asks for $1.8B to Fight Zika Virus Spread