Local, state government officials meet in DC to fight against Zika

Local and state government officials met on Capitol Hill, Thursday, in an effort to urge Congress to pass additional anti-Zika funding. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, City of Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine met with representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Curbelo in Washington, D.C. to continue lobbying for funding. They are urging Congress to finally pass a long-overdue, $1.1 billion Zika bill. The aerial and ground spraying of the powerful mosquito pesticide is expected to cost Miami-Dade County somewhere close to $13 million.