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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. we're coming to you live from j jerusalem, israel. whenever their intent, they are ready to move on short notice. the second america ebola patient comes home. her prognosis, near miraculous and a look inside one of the hardest hit ebola clinics in eastern africa and the latest on the seize fire that continues to
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hold. the peace talks expected to begin in cairo tomorrow. the enormous devastation in gaza and how people are living in the middle of it all and what the israeli government thinks it accomplished. we begin with the shock waves and sadness spreading tonight after an attack on nato troops in afghanistan, the attacker an afghan soldier. his most notable victim, herold green killed by gunfire. the highest ranking since vietnam. jim sciutto has details and joins us now. what is the latest? >> reporter: this took place in afghanistan, senior officers, one important because it would be presumed to be a safe place but central to coalition plans for transitioning security control in afghanistan from the coalition to afghans. this is a senior delegation including not only american general but senior afghan commanders and told a soldier underwent a vigorous betting
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process for afghan soldiers. this attack open fire on them, killing that american general herold green, injurying a german general and afghan commanders and eight u.s. soldiers, as well. >> was this afghan you know part of the taliban, do we know because they have not taken credit for it yet. >> we know he passed a vetting process designed to weed out members of the taliban or people with sympathy to the taliban. this is going to be part of the investigation. there have been so-called green on blue attacks in the past, which were not connected to the taliban but personal grievances, et cetera. that will be something that's happened but it's still an open question at this point. >> what about general green? do we know about him? >> military man, 34-year veteran and married to a colonel. he was essential to the deputy commander of the combined security transition command
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responsible for transitioning security control in afghanistan to the afghans and this academy where this took place central to that plan. this is where the senior officers are trained, not just by afghans but by americans, pretty fish and co british, that shows the challenges going forward. to be fair, these kinds of green on blue attacks dropped significantly in the last couple years but this one shows that that threat certainly mitigated but not eliminated. >> yeah, jim sciutto, appreciate the update. there are some 30,000 troops in afghanistan. the numbers dropping making the problem that much more difficult. it's far from the first time american and nato service members have come under this attack. at the peak in 2012 according to the foundation, they accounted for some 15% of all coalition fatalities in afghanistan. nathan hodge reports on the region for the wall street
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journal and joins us from cobble. the incident, what impact do you think it's had on coalition forces on the ground? >> well, coalition forces are in the process of flying down or reducing the footprint here. and that raises questions about the vulnerability, what the military likes to call force protection, as its numbers dwindle here. back in 2012, there was what you could almost consider an epidemic with insider attacks. what happens with alarming frequency. the military said it's able to change routines, tactics, techniques to reduce the attacks and they wanted to focus on cultural sensitivity and reduce the likelihood of misunderstandings to provoke an incident like this. they had sympathy but have gotten much more of a grip on the problem, but there is very little that they could do in a
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case like this. >> have you been to this facility in particular? are a lot of people arm there had? how does it work? >> i've been to a number of afghan training facilities and there are several training facilities on the ground of this larger center, and very often what you see is it's not necessarily like a training range, it's a classroom setting where aspiring officers are there with instructions and there aren't weapons. very often when you see someone like, you know, the general traveling from afghanistan, they have an entourage. even though once in the room, they will shed the body armor, they will shed the helmet. there will be plenty of gestures towards openness and trust, but it's a highly unusual to see this kind of attack on such a senior, senior u.s. officer. >> and on the taliban has yet to
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claim responsibility. if it wasn't them, who else might it be? >> the taliban have claimed responsibility in the past for some of these insider killings. in this case, they identified in a statement they put out that this was just an afghan soldier. so it's hard to say whether or not this person was motivated just by some sort of opportunity, whether or not they have deliberately infiltrated the ranks of the security forces, precisely this kind of attack. the attacker was killed at the scene. we may never get an answer n. many cases, yes, the taliban have claimed credit for it although they didn't necessarily organize. >> devastating day. nathan, appreciate you coming on. thank you. >> thank you, any time. let's dig deeper with david rode. it's been seventh months.
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good to have you on. there is a lot we don't know about his killer, were you shocked that an assassin could get that close to someone of such high rank at a facility like this. this is an officer academy? >> it's a big surprise and there was success they can reduce the killings. half of what they were in 2012 compared to 2013 was half the number in 2012. so this is a big surprise. this and other attacks, this is a positive development for the taliban. it's a big propaganda victory for them. they had major attacks in cobble in the last few days and their former heartland in southern afghanistan. >> even if it's proved not to be a taliban, you know, sponsored attack, it's a victory for the taliban, you're saying. >> they are claiming and praising the soldier. they said this brave afghan patriot turned his weapon on the evil occupiers. again, this is the first senior
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american general killed since the vietnam war. that's a huge, you know, achievement for the taliban. it will help them with recruiting and the sense and we see this building and they are alarming signs in afghanistan of an ocho are coalition forces but how have they been able to bring down the level of these kinds of af attacks? >> there is more vetting. there are guardian angels, guards that move around with senior officers and will fire with anyone who maybe threatens a sole ligs soldier. the biggest thing is separating foreign forces from afghan forces and that really helps the taliban because it makes training more difficult there are these cultural differences.
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there is suspicion between the sides. the goal is to divide. there will be more vetting, more division, more suspicion on afghans than that, unfortunately helps the taliban. >> and it certainly raises questions about, you know, what happens when u.s. forces finally do leave, what turnover security fully to afghan forces, and especially give what we've seen happen in iraq with the security personnel. we've seen that military crumble because of a lousy officer core not being able to stand up and fight. >> you're exactly right. that's the critical issue in afghanistan. already in the remote prove van -- provinces closer to the boarder, you see them taking towns and again, they had hundreds of fighters mounting different attacks, the spiritual homeland
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of the taliban recently. these are alarming signs. not as bad as iraq but shows why it's important to get the afghan army to perform better and can as the obama administration talked about, can you pull all american troops out of afghanistan? that's unclear at this point. >> appreciate you being on. we'll focus on the seize fire in israel and gaza. what each side believes it accomplished in a month of fighting and whenever you think of the conflict, the terrible price so many people are paying for it now. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve.. at humana, we believe the gap will close when healthcare changes. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when healthcare becomes simpler. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care.
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welcome back. we're live from jerusalem tonight. we're 20 hours into the seize fire, ade delegation arrived usg egyptians as intermediaries. in gaza city, the morning call to prayer is a few moments away and the destruction is sobering. martin savidge is there for us. i understand it's quiet in gaza tonight with the seize fire but what's it been like so far? >> today was pretty much a relief for many. they wanted to find out if this seize fire would work. there are so many before that failed. to get up and find out that actually, no, there weren't rockets launched and no artillery coming back in in retaliation thanks made people feel pretty good about it. there were a lot of people on the streets.
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the stores began to open. there were deliveries taking place, full of merchandise and goods. there was that sign that the city believes at least for awhile it bought time. people can go about trying to do the things they might normally do. what is masked in this, in this city is the destruction. there are a lot of high-rise buildings standing but devastated, you just can't tell from a distance and then when you go into the neighborhoods closer to the boarder with israel, you find complete devastation. so you've got people now who are starting to go back and the realization starts to sink in and that is was it worth it? over 1800 lives have been lost, 10,000 homes damaged or destroyed, many families without a home, many families wiped out and the cost is going to be considered over and over as people take stock of what happened. that's going to be going on during day two, there has to be something that comes out of this, other than the status quo,
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anderson. >> not just day two, it's month two and, you know, the power is out. just day to day life now for so many people, so many people are still displaced. you had more than 220,000 people in various un shelters and some have nowhere else to go. >> right, that was the big question. we saw people starting to leave the shelters like where are they going? a lot of people are going to find family members, could be extremely extended family members. we don't know the extend of damage farther to the south with a lot of fighting going on. so this is part of that taking stock but you're right, infrastructure damage is significant and that stuff takes years to be rebuilt and costs lots of money and you need cement, bricks, you need factories, they, too, were wiped out as a result of the military campaign. so they will be starting from zero. >> yeah, and so many questions remain about this seize fire.
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thanks. gives everyone a chance to take stock of the human cost of the fighting as martin said and political and military losses and gains. two views, first israel's former ambassador to the united states. from a political standpoint, what was really achieved here and will this be any different than all the other seize fires we have seen in the wake of action like this over the last, you know, eight, nine years? >> from a political standpoint and military standpoint, hamas has not achieved any of the goals that it set out in starting this war, whether it be opening up the boarder crossings, easing or removing israel's maritime blockade. none of that was achieved. hamas is a low bar for success. all it has to do is not fail. all it has to do is survive and
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it gets success. >> all the things you talked about, the boarder crossing, fishing rights, payment of salaries, those are things, which as far as hamas and pal spin spin factions are concerned are on the table. israel wants a demilitarization of gaza. what does that actually look like, though? >> israel's goal is prevent a recurrence of the pattern that has taken shape over the last decade, not just with hamas but more. there is an international action that demands hamas gives up rockets and the international community demanded that bashar al-assad, the syrian dictator gave up chemical weapons. >> former ambassador, another voice from a man that's seen violence flair. the situation, obviously, on the
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ground in gaza is tier erdire the least. what will it take to start to rebuild gaza and what kind of impact, if any, will that have on negotiations? >> well, what i think, anderson, what we need now is to first sustain the seize fire. the next 72 hours are crucial. and then at the same time, we are working to extend the seize fire for -- to make it permanent and meanwhile, we spoke to the un agents yesterday and the u.n. personnel. the u.n. is considering declaring the gaza strip as a catastrophic zone. this is very relevant sustaining the seize firema means alleviatg fire. >> some are going to be skeptical. israel says that hamas has spent
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100 million dollars and used concrete donated from israel and rebar and instead of building buildings, have been building tunnels under the boarder. what guarantees can you give whatever money is given to the leadership in gaza strip, that it will be used for rebuilding and not just rebuilding tuns? >> you know very much, anderson, that most of the money donated to gaza was not given to hamas. nobody was dealing with hamas to begin with. the money that was -- >> how do they build the tunnels then? >> american ngos -- they had them open from egypt. i'm not -- >> there were tunnels to israel. but you know there were tunnels to israel that were very elaborate that had cement and rebar and israel says that was donated supplies. >> no, this was smuggled from the tunnels from egypt. most of the donation from the international community were
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buildings, codes, hospitals, roads, grids and so on. now, does this justify israel's destruction of gaza? that's not my point, anderson. my point is we need to turn the page and look the israelis in the eye and say we recognize the state of israel the right to exist on the lines. please, we need a partner in israel that can stand tall and say pal spin, right to live in peace and security. >> are all the palestinian factions on board with that idea? because obviously, to many who want peace, that idea sounds good. i talked to a new york times reporter who said he talked to an official today who talked about hamas maintaining their military wing separately in gaza, separate from any palestinian authority or unity government, which is on the ground. >> number one, anderson, yes, we have 26 political parties and
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fank factions. >> palestinians don't have to see in the eye of their presidents. we're a democracy. yes, there are palestinian factions who refuse to recognize israel. as much as there are israeli policies and the israeli government who refuse to recognize there are palestinians, not given the palestinians but the fact is, the palestinian government, the palestinian organization, we have recognized the state of israel the right to exist and stands and we call to reciprocate and to join in a meaningful peace process that will end this israeli occupation and once this israeli occupation ends, once we have a palestin n palestinian, we commit to one gun and the floor. that's what is needed. you need a strong palestinian government that will come through ballots, not bullets, come through the elections, which we intend to convene for palestinian parties and that's
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the way forward and that's the way to make peace. it's not the way of maintaining the occupation and sustaining the tax and settlement activities and dictations and so on. >> appreciate your time tonight, thank you. >> thank you, sir. and the seize fire as it stands now is supposed to last for 72 hours. negotiations set to begin tomorrow in cairo, on wednesday, first step will be to extend the seize fire beyond 72 hours to see what can be resolved. up next, gunfire, in donetsk, nick paton walsh is there. he joins us with new developments. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ susan ] my promotion allowed me to start investing for my retirement. transamerica made it easy. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow.
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welcome back. there is breaking news in ukraine tonight, gunfire in the key city of donetsk, a russian rebel stronghold, the question is will it stay that way, a russian rebel stronghold. there could be a major offense after a hay juror buildup, russia is in a position to do the same. nick paton walsh is in donetsk tonight and taking cover.
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looks like you're lighting your own shot. what is going on on the ground? >> for forgive me for exist perring. it looks like the very center of donetsk, seems like an exchange of fire, rbgs being used after a day in which the ukrainian military are advancing towards the city center, mostly from the direction over my shoulder. the last few hours, exposes on the skyline to the distance over there but the key change, just in the last half an hour, we've heart sustained automatic gunfire here in central donetsk, a real sign the militants must be extraordinary edgy or perhaps in the worst situation, any exchange of gunfire with the ukrainian military, if they are this close, anderson. >> how close is the firing to you, nick? it's a two, three blocks away, maximum, pretty close indeed.
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we are pretty much in the very center of donetsk here. the militants are filling out in the past few days. if you drove in yesterday, it was clear they were retreating back down a main highway here into central donetsk and that matches with what we've seen about ukrainian military positions moving fast towards the center. the question is a doubling in the number of russian troops on the boarder here to about 20,000 in the last week. does that suggest moscow wants to intervene or are we looking at a separatists movement in the last stages as the u krkrainian military advances. >> your location is known to the pro-russian rebels, is it also known to any ukraine forces who might becoming into town? >> as far as we know, yes, it's pretty well-known location where there are other organizations, as well -- i'm hearing some
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voi voices in the distance. yes, as far as we're aware, this is a known location, anderson. >> nick, finally, investigators are recovering remains and personal belongings from the crash site, right? they are still able to do their work. >> yes, we understand from one official, the ukrainian and front rebel lines are adjacent to the part of the no man's land between the front lines. they are constantly changing but as of today, that severely impeded the ability of investigators to carry out the job. they had to slow because rebels were in fact, telling them they couldn't advance because mines were in the way. anderson? >> nick, i'm going to let you go. be careful, nick, thank you. we talked to nick shortly before we went on air, when we recorded that interview. we're continuing to monitor him. we're obviously very concerned about him and his team and everyone else in that location.
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for more, go to cnn.com. the second ebola patient arrives at atlanta's emery hospital. the latest on her condition, next.
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well, the family of an american missionary thinks she has a fighting chance now. she arrived from liberia today and she's at emory hospital along with her colleague being treated. last week her family was making funeral plans, and now they say they have hope. dr. sanjay gupta joins me from atlanta. what do they say about how she's doing? >> she's settling in. she was medically stable enough to make this significant journey from africa to atlanta, some 6,000 miles. doctors here have a few things they are going to want to do with her, assess the damage, the impact of this viral illness on her body overall, how much of an impact did it have on her heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, that's part of what is likely happening now, but as you mentioned,
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anderson, it's stark contrast to how her husband described her condition a few days ago when he was thinking about making funeral arrangements. before she was on the plane, she regained her appetite. she was asking for certain dishes because i point that out because it bodes well with medical process. anderson, she received two of these three doses of an expe experimental medication. the first one did not seem to have as dramatic impact as it did on her colleague dr. kent brantly but the second one did have more of a profound impact. she became stabilized enough for this journey, today, anderson. >> so it's really that serum which doctors believe is contributing to her improved condition. >> reporter: yeah, i think the doctors are optimistic that had a role for her and dr. brantly. this is a really fascinating thing. this is -- what we're talking
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about has never been done in humans before. dr. brantly was the first, she was the second. so this isn't a study at this point. this is just a couple stories, an in this can they have both been in dire straights. dr. brantly phoned his wife at some point unclear, unsure himself whether he was going to survive. the doctors that were caring for him thought the same thing. when he got this medication, he seemed to improve pretty rapidly within an hour and by the next morning, he went from nearly dying to be able to stand up, take a shower on his own and get on the prearranged jet to atlanta and a similar story with her, not as dramatic improvement but improvement. we need more patients. this is an unusual situation. typically you test safety, test how effective something is and make conclusions. this is just a couple patients, so far. >> this serum, can it be used,
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sanjay, to help others? can it be scaled up? can it be done quickly? >> i think so. we looked into this today. the type of medicine they received was based on a mouse model. it's called an anti body where you inject a mouse with ebola, let the mouse's cell fight the virus and get those cells out of the mouse's body to make the medicine. i'm simplefying a bit. there are other ways to create the anti bodies. you can use existing plants and inject them with a gene that forces the plant to make the same anti bodies and take them from the plant that would be a way to scale it up more quickly. again, let me caution, anderson, this has not gone through a clinical trial process. these are the first two humans until the world to use it. they want more data before offering it to the masses. >> all right. sanjay, thanks for the reporting. bruce johnson is president of
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the group nancy writebol is affiliated with. i know you said nancy is weak. she's been in the hospital for a number of hours. she was able to eat some regular food before she left liberia, i understand. >> yeah, matter of fact, on her way to the airport or when she got to the airport, she asked for some yogurt. that was always a good sign where the appetite is returning a little bit and helping her to gain some strength. >> what kind of interaction has her family been able to have with her at this point? has anyone been able to see her? >> you know, in talking with her husband, david, and also her two sons, she has been able to talk with them, particularly her two sons back here in the u.s. by cell phone, by e-mail and so forth. so that's been a lifeline for her and her husband, david. >> i mean, i can't imagine just what she has been going through, the sense of being in isolation,
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the sense of loneliness and not being able to touch your loved one and having the human contact. just on a personal level, what is she like? do you want people to know about her? >> when the test came back positive, they isolated her in her home. her husband left and david told me, he forgot his power cord for his phone because he had to move out so quickly. so she's been comfortable in her own home and david, her husband, when i called on sunday, he was standing outside her window and she and david and their attending physician were just having the time of prayer out there. >> for her family, i can't imagine what they have been going through. i understand they were actually planning her funeral at one point. >> well, you know, he was being realistic. when a loved one has this kind of disease, you need to, you know, consider this might not go the way that we want it to. but on the other hand, their
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faith really sustained them. they were getting messages from people around the world, their friends, the sim family of just encouraging them, standing with them. so that really lifted their spit rids. >> and just the bravery of, you know, the work missionaries do in all times is extraordinary, but i mean, to willingly and knowingly go to an outbreak like this, even though it's not necessarily what she was trained to do but just feeling there was a need for her to be there really kind of reflects on the person she is. >> yeah, and particularly when they went in 2013, there was not an outbreak of ebola at that time. so it continued to spread. it lit liberia but they did not leave. they wanted to stay to serve the people of liberia to help in any way and that conveys to the spirit. >> yeah, well, bruce johnson,
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appreciate you being on tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you, anderson. bruce johnson, by the way, president of sim usa. an exclusive report from what is ground zero for the ebola outbreak. david mckenzie goes to a treatment center in sierra leone. what he found there when "360" continues. so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our snapfix app. visit angieslist.com today. ♪
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i want to take you to ground zero for the deadly ocebola outbreak. despite the effort of groups, the virus is out of control. hundreds died. there is no end in sight. david mckenzie got access to the treatment center. here is what he found. >> reporter: taking incredible care to combat an unprecedented outbreak. ebola can lead to death with just one drop of infected fluids. >> so that's why we take every precaution to prevent that. >> reporter: already, dozens of doctors and nurses have died in this outbreak. still, dr. stephon kruger says, he had to come. >> i really just think this is what we need is this and there is a really big lack of resources and at the moment, the
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truth is if they miss it, they would do nothing. i mean, that's a good enough reason. >> reporter: they are losing the battle. ebola hit four countries, the number of infections continue to rise. the outbreak is out of control. in the last two weeks, they have doubled their capacity here for confirmed ebola patients and they are doing all they can to help those who are sick, but they are absolutely at capacity here. the level of effort is right now stop this disease? >> no, to be clear, no. it's really difficult because we're running behind. we don't know where we're staying and it's really frustrating for us because we don't have the capacity to go everywhere. >> reporter: but here, they do what they can. in the high risk zone, this woman calls out for help. she has ebola, so does her son. ebola is so deadly, it's killing our citizens, it's killing our
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country. her husband and son died of the disease. 70% of confirmed cases here will die, too. so she's confident, to talk to her we must stand a few feet away, the strict protocols protect us. the cruelty is, they isolate her. still, she believes her 12-year-old daughter will make it, and so will she. we're feeling much better, she says. we're strong and we're going to fight. what happens when you actually beat this does? >> yeah, that's a real highlight of everything we do here. everybody comes to watch the patient come out of ilatisolati. it motivates us to continue doing what we're doing here. >> david mckenzie joins me. incredible piece, david, the
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loneliness of those who are, you know, infected, fighting this, fighting for their lives, not only the physical isolation but the, i mean, the emotional isolation, not losing loved ones, not being able to touch loved ones, i mean, it's in stark contrast to the improving condition of the two americans flown out of west africa. how are they reacting to treatment and care given to dr. brandly and nancy writebol? >> the doctors, anderson, say everybody should get the best care they can. i have to be frank, some expressed displeasure with the amount of tension given to those doctors, not because they don't want them to do well, but because they say that the real focus should be here in west africa. that's their words, not mine. they say this is where the real trouble is here, and because of the protocols put in place in countries like the u.s., there is no real risk in america, but
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here, there have been health workers and doctors who have died in the dozens because they are trying to help patients. now you now you saw in that piece, anderson, we were walking around with protection in the low-risk zone. they have a whole series of steps to allow people to do their work. and they have to be very careful. you're so right. the isolation of the patients, the fear factor for them is so horrifying, and that woman there was so strong to say i'm going to fight this. i'm going to win, even if it's against the odds, we're going to get through. this ultimately this is a disease and illness like any other. it's a very scary one, and people just want to get better. >> david, remarkable reporting. >> well, all the talk about ebola used to have an other worldly ring to it. now the arrival of the two infected patients and the concerns about the patient in new york who has been tested for virus and brought it home
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figuratively and literally. some have known this killer up close for years. dr. daniel bausch is associate professor at the chilean health sciences center. doctor, you were just in sierra leon working with patients fighting ebola. can you take us inside the situation there? i can't even imagine confronting the horrors and the risks so directly, as you did. >> yeah, it is indeed a very difficult situation, at least in one of the treatment centers there where you may have heard the nurses have been on strike. and so i thought perhaps the most striking images, one day i went in with another doctor from w.h.o. there were two doctors in the ward. and all the nurse were on strike. so we had 55 patients, no nurses, two doctors. >> wow. what do you say to the patients? they've got to be terrified. they don't -- there is so much mystery surrounding this illness. they know the fatality numbers
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on it. what do you say to them? >> it's a very difficult time, anderson, because you have not only the patients, of course, many patients who are very sick, but other patients in that particular setting just asking for things, asking for food, for water. and we tried our best to attend to them as we could. but a very difficult time as a health care worker. one of the most difficult times i've had. >> you're also wearing a fully protective outfit. on a practical basis, that's got to be incredibly hot. and there also has to be -- you're a professional, but there has to be a certain amount of fear of becoming infected yourself. so many health care workers have. >> yeah, it is hot. it's uncomfortable. you can't really stay in a isolation ward for too long at one time, two three hours is probably about the max that one can do. i think there is a certain level of fear. if we were going to let that be an impediment to us, we would find different jobs.
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but it is an impediment in knowsing what you can do. there are a lot of things you would like to do to help the patients there, procedures ideally one would do to help them. but you have to take into account the risk to you as a health care worker as well and sometimes forgo those. >> why has the situation in sierra leon reached such a crisis proportion? >> we start with these are the poorest countries in the world that are not equipped to deal with this public health emergency. and then this outbreak has gone on for so long already and become so big that we outstripped the resources of the international partners that usually contribute. msf, w.h.o., cdc, other worses, they only have limited resources to do this. and in sierra leon, for example, msf, that's medecins sans frontieres or directors without border, they've been able to put up one treatment center, but the other treatment center where i was they didn't have the resources to staff. >> dr. bausch, i really admire what you do. and i appreciate you talking to us tonight.
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thank you. >> thank you very much. >> there is a lot more happening tonight. randi kaye has a 360 bullet. randi? >> former taliban captive bowe bergdahl will meet wednesday with the sergeant leading his investigation. he was held by the taliban for five years and released in may in exchange for five senior taliban members held at guantanamo bay. at least three people were hurt, one badly when two double-decker tour buses collided in new york's busy times square. the force of the crash brought down a light pole, which struck a man in the leg, just missing his head. the driver of one bus said he was having brake problems. and a historic move at the nba. meet becky hammond, six-time wnba all star. she is joining the champion san antonio spurs as an assistant coach, becoming the first paid female assistant coach in the league, anderson. >> all right, randi, thanks very much. up next, it seems edward snowden isn't alone there is a new allegedly sharing u.s.
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there is word tonight of another national security leak possibly inspired by edward snowden. investigative reporter glenn greenwald hinted at his or her existence. so how concern ready government officials about this new leaker of any information that he or she may have had access to?
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>> anderson, they're very concerned. the issue here is obviously we've only seen one document or a couple documents that were published today by the intercept on greenwald's website. the person who leaked this document obviously had access to a pentagon computer system, which is the same computer system that chelsea manning, bradley manning had access to. that as you remember caused the leak of hundreds of thousands of classified documents which the u.s. says caused a lot of damage to national security. so far we don't know how serious the damage is. they're obviously very concerned, anderson. >> didn't the government improve security after snowden? do we know how this happened again? or did it happen before snowden and it's only now coming to light? >> well, it's not clear exactly when this document was leaked. we do know that it was dated from august of 2013, which is after snowden fled the united states to avoid criminal charges. and yes, the u.s. did improve
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its computer security system because obviously snowden exposed a huge vulnerability. but problem is that there is still about three million people that have access to secret documents in the u.s. government. that's a lot of people who could easily get access to this stuff and leak it at any time, anderson. >> all right. evan, i appreciate the update that does it for us from jerusalem. we'll see you again in one hour at 11:00 p.m. eastern for another edition of "ac 360." "cnn tonight" starts now. good evening, everyone. this is "cnn tonight." i'm alisyn camerota in new york. all eyes on the middle east tonight, but not israel this time. the tragedy is in afghanistan where a deadly ambush claims a top american general. the first killed in overseas combat since vietnam. how will the white house respond? meanwhile, tens of thousands of troops massing on the border appears that a dangerous situation is about to spin out of control. we're talk about eastern europe. is vladimir putin on the verge