It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Did your neighborhood get sprayed with pesticides

last night? On today's show, we'll discuss how New York is grappling with West Nile

virus, a COVID spike, and the possible return of M-Pox all at the same time. The spraying to

kill mosquitoes that might carry West Nile was in Upper Manhattan. Tonight will be in parts of Brooklyn.

Did you hear, by the way, that Anthony Fauci was recently hospitalized with West Nile

virus? So we'll talk about that. Also, two ways that amid all the talk of joy, freedom, and unity

at the Democratic Convention, some progressives have been left with questions about what kind of

President Kamala Harris would be on two key issues. One of them is climate change.

We'll talk about that later in the show. First, some of what was included and some of what was

excluded from the Democratic Convention has some progressive skeptics asking what kind of foreign

policy president would Harris actually be. On the war in Gaza, as you probably know, the exclusion of any

Palestinian from a speaking role became a public issue during the convention. Also, her assertion

in her acceptance speech that she and President Biden are working around the clock because now

is the time to get a hostage deal and ceasefire deal done, and her acknowledgement of so many

innocent lives lost and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again,

and that the scale of suffering is heartbreaking.

All of those, as she put it, those are quotes from the Harris speech when she was talking about Gaza,

that all of that was too timid a statement for advocates of an arms embargo on Israel to stop

the bombing. And some progressives were also left wondering about this stretch of Harris' speech.

As vice president, I have confronted threats to our security, negotiated with foreign leaders,

strengthened our alliances, and engaged with our brave troops overseas.

As Commander-in-Chief, I will ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal

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