Dallas Mayor Declares Emergency Over West Nile Virus

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State of emergency in and around Dallas Texas after a deadly outbreak of the West Nile Virus that Dallas mayor.

Has taken a controversial step of ordering.

Insecticide to be sprayed from the air in addition to ground sprain it'll be the first time that's happened in almost fifty years.

I'm a tight window because we have people dying OK we have to have a sense of urgency to get this done now.

That's what's most important thing I want to take the politics out of it -- -- say this is my responsibility.

We'll take the the heat forward and I think that's the right places today.

Now critics are saying that aerial spraying won't really do much but supporters argue.

There -- only halfway through the typical west Nile season something has to be done and done now.

So far fourteen people have died from the West Nile Virus in Texas hundreds more.

Have become --