business leaders making those deals thinking of africa as the next great gain. >> all the news, the breaking news will continue. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." the news continues next right here on cnn. next, breaking news, president obama using very strong words against hamas, says he has no sympathy for the militant group. much more on that coming up. plus red alert in the united states for ebola. the cdc now on the highest alert. the world health organization considering an international public health emergency. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone i'm erin burnett. we begin with the breaking news. the president of the united states just wrapping up a news conference. he used the strongest language ever against hamas.

>> it is important to remember that hamas acts extraordinarily irresponsibly when it is deliberate deliberately siting rocket launchers in population centers. >> i want to get to jim acosta who was at the news conference. what more did the president say? that was very direct at the heart of the matter here, hamas using human shields. >> absolutely that's right. he started off by talking about he was asked about israel and whether its activities in gaza have been proportionate and justified, and he basically went right after hamas and accused the militant group of being what he called extraordinarily irresponsible in launching rocket attacks from certain areas, suggested that was the reason for many of the casualties that have been suffered by the palestinian people during this conflict with israel. and then he went on to say twice in his remarks there at the end of this news conference, i have

no sympathy for hamas. that was something that stood out to me. it's interesting to juxtapose that with what the state department said last sunday. you'll recall when those palestinian deaths were coming in near that u.n. school in rafah that the state department came out with a statement that really blasted israel and said that the unite was appalled by what they called a disgraceful shelling. that did not go over well in israel. there's been a lot of talk here in washington about whether there have been strained relations between the obama administration and the netanyahu government. to hear the president come out and use these tough words saying he has no sympathy for hamas, there may have been a little fence mending going on during this news conference. in addition to this, hearing the president being asked about whether the sanctions were working against russia, we heard that russia was imposing its own countersanctions against the u.s. the president essentially acknowledging during this news conference that those sanctions

have not worked yet. the issue is not yet resolve. the president asked about thing that are on top of the minds of people in africa. asked about the ebola scare. asked whether the experimental medicine used on the u.s. doctor flown out of africa whether that might be fasttracked and used in africa, he said way too premature to speculate on that sort of thing. he doesn't have the information yet. but clearly of everything that stood out of this news conference, the tough comments on hamas that will really drive the news cycle here in the hours or perhaps days ahead, erin. >> thank you very much to jim accost da. much more on the breaking news on ebola that jim referenced. but first the palestinian representative to the united states. ambassador, you just heard our jim acosta saying this was the headline, the president coming out, using the strongest words yet against hamas saying he has no sympathy for the militant group. what's your response to the

president? >> my response is we expect president obama and the united states to have sympathy to palestinian victims, to have sympathy to the palestinians who have been enduring a brutal military occupation for the last 47 years. the delegation which is in cairo today includes all factions. we're trying to unite the rights of the palestinian people and what we need from the united states is sincere support for the palestinian people to be free, independent and sovereign. >> the president seems to be getting at is not to deny that palestinian civilians have been killed. everyone knows that has happened. it has been horrific to watch, ambassador. but whether hamas is aiding, abetting and encouraging those civilian deaths, there is some video i want to show you. no doubt you've probably already seen it, sir. but this is from frercnch journalist, indian journalists

watching hamas launch rockets. one of the french journalists is quoted as saying children are play pg on the rocket launchers. do you condemn hamas for doing this? >> well, let me say this, there has been incidents. we don't know the circumstances of this particular rocket launcher, and if there has been incidents in which fighters from palestinian factions fired at israel from civilian populated centers, i think they were isolated centers, but to portray that this was the rule and not the exception is not a fair representation of what is happening in gaza. again, we don't want to go into the argument how densely populated the gaza strip, the fact the palestinians have nowhere to go. we shouldn't also forget the fact that, you know, 1.8 million palestinians are trapped there and they were subjected to a brutal, savage campaign by israel that left almost 1900 people dead and 10,000 wounded. >> when you say isolated

incidents, though, i must ask you, ambassador, because the conclusion of many is that these are not isolated incidents. israeli defense forces say they have a manual a hamas combat manual in which there's a full section -- we're showing it here -- the benefits for hamas when civilian homes are destroyed. this is not isolated. it's intentional and methodical. >> it's once again the israeli military. how do we know this is authentic or not authentic. remember what happened on friday when the israeli soldier was allegedly captured. i was listening to u.s. officials who at 6:00 in the morning jumped on the israeli narrative, accused the palestinian factions of capturing the soldier to find out 24 hours later that he was shot and killed. i don't know how authentic these

manuals are, but it doesn't justify israel targeting of civilian population centers and killing people and wounding 10,000 others. >> the president said in addition to his condemnation of hamas, and i wanted to play that for you. >> i have no sympathy for hamas. i have great sympathy for some of the work that has been done with israel by the palestinian authority. they've shown themselves to be responsible. they've recognized israel. they are prepared to move forward, to arrive at a two-state solution. i think abu mazen is sincere in his desire for peace. but they have also been weakened, i think, during this process. >> he's talking about you.

have you been weakened? >> well, first of all, we appreciate very much the acknowledgment by president obama of the fact that our leadership, president abbas, are sincere and they have been really exerting a lot of efforts to reach a peaceful resolution to the conflict. the u.s. administration knows very well who contributed to the collapse of the negotiations that secretary kerry held with the two sides since july of last year. it was israel reneging on its commitment to secretary of state kerry, it's refusal to engage the palestinians genuinely and sincerely to end the conflict. the two-state solution. we're willing, ready and able to continue our engagement -- >> ambassador, are you, though, as frustrated with hamas as others are for different reasons? and in a sense they seem to have hijacked it. you're ready, willing and able. the president says you've been weakened. hamas has driven you to come on

programs like this and explain rockets having been placed and having children playing on them. >> the president was trying to say when he alluded to that and i don't agree with the assessment we've been weakened. we must work with the palestinian leadership is an acknowledgment that the plo leadership is genuine, sincere about seeking peace. the role that president abbas and president obama alluded to that. the fact that there's a united palestinian delegation in cairo that was actually formed by president abbas is an indication that president abbas and the plo plan to play an important role in the days to come. >> ambassador, a pleasure to talk to you, as always. >> thank you. >> paul begala, bill kristol and david gergen. you heard the president with harsh words for hamas and the palestinian authority saying they've been weakened. you heard the ambassador's reply. what do you thing? >> well, i think the president

was doing two things here today. condemning hamas, he was trying to heal his relationship with israel. it's been taking some battering, as you know, publicly here in the last days. i don't think he was trying to distinguish between hamas, which is u.s. labels as a terrorist organization, and the palestinian authority. he very much wants, as the israelis do, as the egyptians do, to sort of control and contain and get rid of hamas as a governing authority in gaza and bring the palestinian authority into gaza as a negotiating partner. that would make the egyptians and the united states and israel much more comfortable. there are still hard negotiations. but the view if hamas is really running gaza not the palestinian authority, you have the extremists running gaza, not the moderates and it makes negotiations virtually impossible over time. >> isn't that the situation that we're in? hamas is running the gaza strip. they are -- we have this video, right? they are using -- putting rocket

launchers in civilian areas around children, putting the palestinian authority, which welcomes a two-state solution, in the position of having to defend human shields. >> they're a terrorist group, erin. i think you're being a little overly surprised that the president of the united states said, quote, i have no sympathy for hamas. i'm pleased. i'm not surprised. a huge number of political leaders and civil leaders across the political spectrum, the european political spectrum in the arab world and the muslim world have no sympathy for hamas. it's a terrorist group that oppresses other muslims that don't go along with hamas' claims and adherence to shariah law. it launches rockets against israeli cities and digs tunnels in order to try to abduct and kill israelis and jews. it's committed to the extermination of the state of israel. i'm reassured that president obama has no sympathy for hamas. >> bill may be reassured but

this is coming from the same administration that called israel's killing of civilians in the gaza strip appalling just the other day. >> why is that a contradiction? one can be sympathetic to the palestinians and condemn hamas. >> bill is right. the president was careful to say he had expressed his distress over the death of civilians and the death of children. he is trying to walk a line. the u.s. has a special obligation here. why does hamas, a terrorist organization, claim the mantle of legitimacy in gaza? because they won an election. why did they win? the united states, not israel, not egypt, the united states forced elections in 2006 in gaza. president bush and secretary rice thought this would be a wonderful thing. it was a terrible thing. he was right in saying it weakened the palestinian authority. which does want to seek a two-state solution. ambassador erakat supports them. i'm a washington speech writer, i don't think i would use that phrase in public, though.

if your goal is to label hamas as the terrorists they are, but then also to label president abbas and the palestinian authority as people with whom we can do business, probably not helpful to say that they've been weakened. probably accurate, but probably not helpful. >> would you agree with that, david gergen? he was wrapping up his answer, then there was a pause and he said what he thought. >> i don't have any problem with that. he was pleased and not surprised. i was not surprised by the lats louisiana part. the palestinian authority has been weakened. that's been the whole argument that this conflict has hurt the moderates on both sides. in israel the hard-liners really coming forward around netanyahu. he has his own politics back home that will make this difficult for him in the days ahead in negotiations and gaza, the much more extremist group that was really solidified during the fighting. where it will go after this, i think it's hard to say. i don't know where the palestinians who live in gaza feel about hamas versus the

palestinian authority. it's very unclear today. >> thank you very much, all of you. we appreciate it. so many u.s. presidents learning democracy is something they only like when the person in power is who they like. out next, the cdc raising the ebola threat level to number one. that's the highest threat level in the united states. what do people in the united states need to do to protect themselves? sierra leone, the hot zone, the country hit hardest by the outbreak. our david mckenzie is there. he shows us how easy it is to move around, how easy to transmit ebola. >> the previous interview was brought to you by cisco telepresence. the internet of everything is changing everything.

breaking news. red alert on ebola. the united states now on the highest state of alert for a health emergency. the cdc raising its emergency operations center to a level one. the world health organization today saying it may declare an international public health emergency. ebola confirmed in the most populous country in africafrica nigeria. it has killed nearly 1,000 people. >> despite, obviously, extraordinary pain and hardship of the families and persons who have been affected and despite the fact that we have to take this very seriously, we have to

remind ourselves this is not an airborne disease, this is one that can be controlled and contained very effectively if we use the right protocols. >> dr. sanjay gupta is "outfront." you were at the cdc when it raised that alert to the highest possible level. that decision, i know, not one to be made lightly. >> it is not. the last time this happened was during the 2009 h1n1 flu epidemic and before that hurricane katrina. they take this seriously. this is where we're focusing our attention. we're keeping our eyes on the ball and the ball is all about ebola. in the united states, obviously, we've been talking about these two patients, but a lot of the focus on west africa and trying to even mobilize more resources from the cdc, 50 more people going out to west africa to try and stem this epidemic at its source. so this is a big signal. it means more people sort of flooding the zone, if you will, erin, and also higher level

people. pulling people from other departments to really focus their attention on this. >> sanjay, the president was also asked about the experimental drug that was given to two of the americans with ebola. there's a story that i know you first broke. the drug, untested, unproved. but the question is this -- if this does spread and become something much bigger, is the united states prepared? do they have enough of this, for example, if ebola were to come to the united states in a bigger way? >> the president was asked about this twice. he sort of got the same question a couple of times. both times he was very careful, cautious, measured how he answered the question. he said he wanted to wait for more science or data before rendering an answer on that. talked about bolstering up their public health infrastructure in these countries in west africa. what i would say to you in response to the question, right now there's not enough. i think none of this has sort of gone the way people thought it was going to go. this was not supposed to be given in this manner.

a highly unusual thing to give a medication that's never been tested before in humans, never went through a clinical trial process and suddenly given to someone who is very sick and dying in liberia. that was dr. kent brantly. he was the first person in the world to receive this. we don't know how this medication would behave in larger chunks of the population. right now there's simply not enough. this was very much an investigational drug. they do have the capacity to make more and do it quickly, but that hasn't been approved. the president says he wants more data first. >> you can understand he would say. such a difficult decision to make right now. thank you very much, sanjay. now "outfront" dr. jorge rodriguez and special adviser to the minister of health in sierra leone joining us by phone at the epicenter of this crisis. dr. rodriguez, you're here with me. let me start by asking you, i want to use your words, this is a wildfire potentially about to take off.

a person could easily land in the united states and the epidemic would be in our backyard probably to spread like wildfire. >> i think that's definitely true. we're starting to see that. my concern is that once ebola got into the big cities, then i just think it is naturally going to be spreading throughout the world eventually. and they say that people are most contagious when they have symptoms. you and i know that we have a symptom of a minor cold, early on, maybe the first day or two. >> before you know you have a cold. >> exactly. and at that time these people are probably infectious. there hasn't been enough study to know what is that period. >> i know you are fighting this, you are fighting to save lives, you've lost a friend to this. when we talk about sierra leone and how the situation is there, how afraid are you? >> i can say that we are highly concerned at the moment and we're concerned about the rate

of transmission and really with our physical constraints and actually being able to trace the contacts, the contacts of people so someone is positive and the contacts with other people and all the contacts they've had. our primary focus is to stop the transmission of the virus and following that being the treatment of the patients that do have the virus. getting them into treatment and improving their chances of survival. >> do you feel confident that you have answers to some of the crucial questions. you're a thousand percent sure how it is transmitted, there aren't any questions out there that could be so crucial to the rest of the world? >> we've experienced this virus before in other settings. what's unique about this setting happens to be its geography and the cultural sensitivities coupled with the fact that you are dealing with countries, new

case wrs they're just emerging from sometimes a little more than a decade of civil conflict where the entire public health infrastructure was crumbled. they've had 11 years to rebuild that. doing that from scratch is not an easy task in any circumstance. no country is ever prepared to deal with something like this and then when you're talking about countries emerging from civil conflict, even less so. so we're facing a lot of challenges on that front. >> dr. rodriguez, you were talking about this that it is impossible to ask a country like sierra leone to be able to shut down its borders, trace where this came from. it is, in are a sense, out of their control now. you thing there could be tens of millions of people. >> absolutely. different than hiv but you have to remember 30 million people have died from that. the only good thing is that it is a short life span as opposed to years where people can get

infected. yes, my concern is you close a border, but what about someone on an airplane that touched one on an airplane and they're now in paris or istanbul or some other place. we need to have general guidelines for all transportation air travel, you know, to make sure that people that have even the common cold, until we know better, are not allow to fly. >> try and contain it. before we go, do you have frustration to the extent there was a life-saving treatment out there, that it was provided to the two americans that were there and not to the hundreds of africans who died? >> you know, obviously, i have a personal conflict. one of my close friends passing. i would have liked to have done anything to play a part in saving his life. but as dr. rodriguez mentioned this was never planned for a clinical trial. first of all, you don't know when and where an ebola outbreak was going to happen. this is very limited quantities.

this is a darned if you do, darned if you don't situations. if you were ever to do a clinical trial without all the regulations, it would be a disaster and the companies would never take on that liability. now asking them to do the complete opposite poses many ethical challenges, as well as just the simple physical constraints. >> thanks very much to both of you. we are live today in sew air ra lee own. the country hit hardest. you just heard the medical expert there, the adviser in charge of this issue say it's out of their control. our david mckenzie has a special live report. could an infected person just get on a plane and fly to the united states? avo: waves don't care what age you are.

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lives. governments in west africa declaring states of emergencies struggling to contain a virus. liberia just declaring a state of emergency. the families of those affected there reportedly -- this is just -- imagine this. so desperate they're leaving the bodies of their loved ones in the street just to avoid being quarantined. david mckenzie is at the epicenter. you bnsed firsthand the struggle to contain the virus and the desperate measures people are turning to. >> reporter: well, that's right. they are desperate measures. as you describe, you know, the dead bodies of the victims of ebola, they're sometimes the most dangerous aspect of this, and many health professionals trying to convince the local population to allow the red cross to bury their dead, and that's one of the key reasons we believe that this virus spread through sierra leone. at this point they're putting in

strict protocols at the border regions to try and stop this outbreak. to try and stem the deadly ebola spread through sierra leone they've set up these checkpoints and they're doing some specific things to mitigate the risk. one is the people coming through. everybody has to wash their hands in the chlorine solution like this. ebola is a deadly disease, but it's not that sturdy. so this will probably kill it if it's on your hands. you come through here. you need to get your temperature tak taken. 36.6, so i'm all right. what must i do next? i can go out. he says i must be careful. stopping the spread of ebola is so crucial both for sierra leone and for regional health concerns, but i want to show you why this is so difficult. this area here is just brimming with trade and it's in a region where three countries meet.

the kisi triangle. people aren't just moving here. they're moving on foot paths and through the bush all the time. it is impossible to effectively stem the flow if people who have the disease haven't been found out. we just came out of that area, erin, and just moments ago we learned that the police of that region are announcing a blockade of the entire eastern part of sierra leone. they say that there will be no movement allowed in or out. they say only suppliers with registered businesses and aid workers will be able to move in. it remains to be seen how strictly they enforce that, but it shows how seriously they're trying to stop the spread of ebola through this country and beyond. erin? >> we were just talking to the doctor obviously there and the adviser in terms of this for the sierra leone government. the truth is they're incredibly concerned, they're afraid. you, david, have had time to see

doctors who are fighting this on the ground. and one of the most frightening and tragic aspects of this is the doctors who are now dying. >> reporter: well, that's right. health workers often at most risk in this kind of outbreak. that's been the case in previous outbreaks, but this is just so unprecedented that you had scores of doctors and nurses dying just in sierra leone alone. we went past a hospital today in a large town in the eastern part of the country. you know, doctors without borders told us in no uncertain terms the were we to even move inside there and film, because it was too dangerous, they said that the protocols that were put in place at the early stage, this epidemic would not protect the doctors there and as we've been reporting, sierra leone's best known expert on ebola died at that hospital and several others have as well. so it does appear that more

knowledge and technical support is needed for the country teams to try and bring together their resources to help stem the tide. >> david mckenzie, thank you very much. doing such important work there, such a dangerous place. dr. jorge rodriguez is "outfront." one of the developments today was the patient in new york city who had been in isolation and tested. they indicated that test would come back negative. it did. but what was interesting was even with a rush job, it took days to get the test back. is there any way to improve this so you can find out who may be infected much more quickly? >> absolutely. to me that's almost as important as getting a treatment. cold and flu season, there will be people who are scared going to emergency rooms with fever, diarrhea. you need to know within a matter of a half day or a few hours if possible. we have quick assay tests for hiv. they should be able to come up with some quick test where doctors like myself on the front

line can test people, reassure them, move them on, and if not, quarantine the people that may be positive. >> what can people do if they are worried? you live in a big city, you have people flying in who could be coming in from anywhere in the world. what do people do to make sure to keep themselves safe even though you're going about living your normal life. >> keep remembering there hasn't been a case in the u.s. yet. >> right. >> no need for panic. >> right. >> use common sense as far as if someone is sick, don't touch their phlegm, their diarrhea, if you have a child or husband or wife that's sick, wear gloves. make sure you disinfect something with simple alcohol, maybe 10% bleach. stay away from bodily fluids at this time. that's all that we know right now. >> but at this point, one of the bottom line situation is -- and we'll talk more about this with richard quest. there is even though you hear about the developments of david mckenzie saying they're trying to put a blockade in that part

of sierra leone, there's nothing you can do from stopping the travel of people, from getting on planes and going from frankfurt or munich to amsterdam or washington or new york. >> the beginning of that infectious process and maybe honestly they don't know they have it. they're feeling a little bit poorly. they may be infectious at that time. we need a lot more guidelines and stricter control on transportation at this time. >> we're going to be tackling that in just a moment. thank you very much, dr. rodriguez. "outfront" next with the united states raising its level to a red alert, a level one, the virus is spreading and fast. what is the risk of an infected person getting on a plane, getting on a connection and coming into the united states without being detected as ill? plus sergeant bowe bergdahl questioned today by investigators. this is a huge development in this case. we'll tell you what bergdahl said about his time in captivity. a glimmer of hope in nigeria

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breaking news, the cdc raiding its response to the deadly ebola outbreak to the highest possible, a level one, with the biggest outbreak of ebola in known history continuing to spread, how safe is it to fly? major airlines are canceling flights to west africa, but that's only part of the issue. british airways is the latest to suspend all flights to sierra leone and liberia. the liberian president just moments ago declaring a state of emergency to combat ebola. pan african airline and a regional carrier have also restricted flights to the region. will u.s. carriers soon do the same? richard quest host of "quest means business." this is a really big issue. this isn't just about direct flights. >> no, because there are no direct flights from monrovia into the united states, any

flight is going to have to go somewhere else. so you're looking at flights from acura, dhaka and laggos. >> and those fly to the united states but also you can fly to a hub, to europe. >> absolutely. let's take for example delta airlines. delta currently has a flight in dhaka and a flight from acra. it's a hopping flight that goes elsewhere. delta has put out a release on this health question. delta is basically warning and saying that it is aware of the health issue and that it is actually advising passengers to get to the airport because delta says they know that people are going to get greater checks when they get there. but so far delta in its statement says that there is no intention to stop the flights. >> of course there is this real fear because of this issue of incubation period of the virus and the fact that there is a test, that the test takes a

while to get back. not that i can take your temperature and say, richard, you're a problem. >> no, this is why the jumping flight, the flight that goes from monrovia to lagos to elsewhere in the continent, brussels airline is a very good example. flies you up to brussels, then will either fly you straight to the united states or put you on another star allianz region. >> i've done that. >> there are ways that a passenger can get from the infected area to the united states, which is why the cdc needs to be vigilant at all the major entrances. >> any airport in the united states that has an immigration facility could have somebody coming from this region. >> let's take the united flight, houston to lagos. let's ignore nigerinigeria's owe with ebola but talk about people

coming from the infected countries into nigeria then joining a flight. the reality is it's got to be at the exit of the country, at the transfer country and at the arrival country at the final destination. all three have to be vigilant at least. >> richard quest, thank you very much. the fear is even with vigilance, it may not be detectable. part of what is causing such concern with this crisis. still "outfront" sergeant bowe bergdahl just finished being questioned by an army investigator about his time in captivity. the question we've all wanted to know the answer to. we've got details of that meeting next. a new hope in nigeria. "the wall street journal" reports that there may have been evidence a drone may have spotted some of those kidnapped girls who have been missing for four months.

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breaking news. bowe bergdahl's lawyer speaking first to cnn following the soldier's interview with an army investigator. and the topic was the topic the whole world wants to know the answer to. what happened after he disappeared? what happened in those five years? bergdahl was held by the taliban starting in 2009.

nick valencia just spoke to his attorney. what did he say? >> the first formal interview of bowe bergdahl was a productive one according to his attorney. eugene fidle tells cnn that bergdahl did the majority of the talking. he answered all the questions posed to him. his attorney described the atmosphere as >> the setting was sort of a almost a living room setting in the cid office at fort sam houston. a couple of comfortable chairs, the proceedings were recorded on audio. the only people in the room were general dahl, sergeant bergdahl and the time passed. >> and germane to the line of questioning of major general kenneth dahl is what happened

that day on june 29th that bowe bergdahl left his post? it intentional? it deserting? the attorney was quick to point out it was not interrogation. it will continue tomorrow and only expected to last a couple hours that lead investigator has 60 days to submit his findings and recommendations to the higher ups and that could involve a variety of scenarios. >> so nick, you said he did all the talking, answered questions, is there anything about how confident he was, how good his health was? you know, just anything about his tone? >> we asked about that, just the demeanor of bowe bergdahl. he said kenneth dahl was a master. he spent all day prepping bowe bergdahl for today and was confident when i spoke to hill

earlier and appeared to be happy with the way things went and looking forward to having this wrap up and concluding. we mentioned if he had spoken to his parents yet, a lot of people wondering if bowe bergdahl has contacted his parents. his attorney is unwilling to comment on that but as far as we know, that's yet to happen months after he's been released from captivity. >> pretty incredible. i was just in hailey a few weeks ago, still all the signs up, welcome back to bowe with the yellow ribbons. all the stories about ebola and ebola confirmed in nigeria today. there is a glimmer of hope, terrorist group boca haram has taken the girls, that report is next. afternoon arrives and feeling good, but her knee pain returns... that's two more pills.

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115 days ago, nearly 300 nigerian girls was kidnapped. today nigeriaen president talked about efforts to rain in the terror group. american surveillance over nigeria may have spotted some of the girls that could truly be miraculous. here is the question, has enough even been done to find them?

[speaking foreign language]. >> 276 girls taken in the dark of night, some sleeping, some studying for exams, an act forbidden by boca haram. a few escaped, one brave enough to speak to cnn. [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: almost four months later, 223 girls still gone. >> boca haram is a an organization, the taliban that have taken it to the next level, maybe taliban on steroids. >> reporter: nigeria turned to the united states for help. >> we're talking to all countries that we believe will help us. u.s. is number one. i personally had a discussion with president obama at least two times.

>> reporter: michelle obama took a stand and sell ebb la celebri acts with boca haram continue. may 7th, 150 people in a boarder town slaughtered. may 20th, 118 killed in a bombing while shopping. june 26th, another bomb blast killing 21. it wasn't until july 22nd, that nigeria's president, good luck jonathan met the families saying anyone who gives you the impression that we are aloof and not doing what we're supposed to do to get the girls out is not being truthful. >> by itself, the nigerian government is not capable of dealing with boca haram in terms of both resources and technical capabilities. they are simply inadequate. >> reporter: and baca haram is getting stronger.

on july 27th, fighters crossed the boarder into cameroon, kidnapping the wife of that country's vice prime minister. nigeria says they killed at least 12,000 people there in the last five years and now they are aiming even further a field. a threat impossible to ignore. >> we know a direct connection with al qaeda and the islam. they have been involved in joint training including the use of imp viced explosive devices, suicide attacks. >> reporter: through it all, 223 girls still missing. >> this disappearance cannot be another mystery that the world cannot resolve. >> reporter: every day that passes, it seems more likely the world will move on. ♪ ♪ >> which is why we hope that report, that the u.s. may have spotted some of them in groups,

seems so inprobable. so many said they were sold to slavery, some said to act as suicide bombers. we'll keep covering this story, we'll keep covering this story, thank you for watching, -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. thanks for joining us. there is breaking news on ebola, late today, the centers for disease control put the operations center on the highest alert since the h1n1 flu alert as dr. sanjay gupta witnessed firsthand. >> while we were here, the activation level just went up to level one, just in the last couple minutes. what does that mean? >> well tell you his answer shortly. we begin with urgent efforts in cairo to extend the seize fire. president obama's take on it. a short time ago, the president wrapped up a press conference. >> we intend to support the process that's takes place in egypt. i think