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Apparently Google is planning on releasing mosquitoes. Great. Okay. What do you mean mosquitoes? They want to release millions of mosquitoes into California to help stop diseases. What's the disease? What do you want to do? No, they want to release mosquitoes. Guys, this is not a, like, this is not, Rob, this is not a spoof of a story. This is a real story that we're talking about.

Correct.

And they want to do it here in the state of Florida as well. Yeah, well, that's where, that's where, you know, it's going to be a problem when you're doing something like that. But Google planning to release, mosquitoes a tech giant is seeking federal approval to release. You ready for this, folks? 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida

over the next two years as part of an effort

to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne disease, including West Nile virus,

St. Louis encephalitis, and then a bunch of other viruses that I'm not going to read.

The proposal is currently under review by the U.S. Environmental Protectional Agency,

which is accepting public comments through June 5th before deciding whether to issue an experimental permit.

Rob, can we see what these mosquitoes look like that they're talking about?

On Friday, a positive sample of West Nile virus was confirmed in Riverside County.

The project is part of Google's little-known debug initiative launched more than a decade ago

to develop new technologies aimed at reducing populations of disease carrying mosquitoes

rather than releasing biting insects.

The company plans to release male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacteria. Is that what the mosquitoes look like? He has eyebrows. Rob, is that it? Yes, this is what they're sad. This is from the CDC. How long does it take to make each of these mosquitoes? Do we know? How long does it take to make these mosquitoes? What is the cost

of each mosquito? So one of them is a self-limiting gene that prevents female mosquitoes offspring

from surviving to adulthood. Another one is a fluorescent marker gene that glows under a special

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