pretty safe so far, as long as they are keeping their distance. >> i'm so sorry that you guys are going through this. axl goode and taylor cole, we wish you the best. make sure you stay in touch with us. >> thank you for having us on. >> thank you. >> thank you, guys. appreciate it. i'm going to turn the mike over to wolf blitzer who starts right now. hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington and 6:00 p.m. in london and midnight in hanoi. wherever you're watching from the around the world, thanks for joining us. we begin with the latest on the ebola crisis. earlier today, cnn's jake tapper broke the news that president obama will name an ebola czar. the white house insider ron klain will coordinate the entire federal response to the threat. the white house will hold a press conference this hour and we'll bring it to you live.

meanwhile, the fight against ebola needs to be an international fight, says secretary of state kerry. >> meeting this crisis is going to require that we draw on each other's collective experience. and our collective capacities. no one country, no individual group of nations is going to resolve this problem by themselves. this is going to take a collective global response, all hands on deck. that's the only way to get it done. >> all people who came into contact with the latest ebola patient amber vinson have been located and interviewed and still no ebola cases confirmed in northeast ohio but frontier airlines is notifying as many as 800 passengers before the plane was taken out of service and

disinfected. nina pham is listed as being in fair condition. she's one of the two nurses infected with the ebola virus at that hospital. she's been moved to the national institutes of health hospital to be treated by a team of infectious disease experts in bethesda, maryland, right outside of d.c. and the west african nation of senegal is free of ebola. that means that the country went 42 days with no new cases. president obama will appoint an ebola czar, ron klain, former chief of staff for biden and al gore and is currently a president of case holdings. we'll talk about all of this with an infectious disease

sublisu specialist joining us from new york as well as candy crowley, host of "state uft union." we just listed klain's credentials, no medical degree or medical experience. do you think that's a problem? >> wolf, the key word here is coordination. managing the ebola response is like herding cats. most of our clinics in this country are private. it's difficult for someone like tom frieden who is a cdc director to manage the state and local and private sector. klain has that experience as a washington insider. he's worked with various federal agencies and has experience in the private sector and really has the right management experience to break through some of the bureaucratic and regulatory obstacles here. >> as you know, candy, the presidentially resisted these

outside calls for an ebola czar, john mccain, the senator. he was making that request of the president. but now he's come along. what does it say about the way the administration has handled this crisis, that they've now asked ron klain to come in and coordinate the effort? >> it says they've lost control of the message and they understand that this ebola virus has created fear. within the united states, there are three cases. mr. duncan's tragic death and then two of the nurses that treated him. that's tragic, but it's three people. what this administration is dealing with is the fear of ebola now more than anything. yes, there has to be the coordination. he was head of the fast response for the gore campaign. i mean, he knows how to reach out and grab control of the message.

because the fear right now, look at wall street. it's affected the economy by now so he is a message guy and i think you've got plenty of doctors ohhen this case that he can call and if you think the problem is the message, ron klain is probably your guy. >> i don't know if he's the guy that's going to be visible on television, going out and doing a bunch of interviews, giving daily briefings, things like that. you really need, dr. gounder, a spokesperson for the administration who has got the credentials and expertise who can reassure the nation that the government knows what they are doing. isn't that right? >> we still need a surgeon general. ron klain's job is going to be more about coordinating among the agencies. it's more of a behind-the-scenes job. we need the government to educate about ebola and help understand how the government is responding. we don't have somebody right now

and vivek murthy was nominated last year. >> there is no acting surgeon control because the nra doesn't support that and his nomination has been held up in the senate now for almost a year. we haven't heard at all from the acting surgeon general. surgeon general of the united states is supposed to be the nation's doctor and that part of the government has been silent. >> is missing. and for that matter, hhs, you know, if in the second instance where has the secretary of hhs been? i think you saw a couple -- i think it was last sunday they put out a picture of the president phoning the hhs secretary to talk about ebola. but there hasn't been someone out front and there needs to be. i think you're right. i don't think that's klain.

i don't think you'll see daily briefings from him but i think he'll make sure the message gets out and that's where they have been lacking and people are wondering who is running the show here. now they have a name. >> candy, thank you very much. we'll see a lot more on sunday morning on "state of the union," dr. anthony fauci among one of your guests. dr. gounder, thanks to you as well. we'll continue our conversations. meanwhile, a cruise ship passenger is now under quarantine in the caribbean. what her connection is to the texas ebola case and what could happen next. also this hour, my family's powerful journey. we're going to follow along as i trace my roots from poland when my grandparents died to my childhood home in buffalo, new york. to a sandwich. the tender, slow-roasted turkey, the zesty cranberry mostarda, the freshly baked flatbread paired perfectly with our autumn squash soup. a delicious meal made just for you only at panera bread.

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first ebola case to make it here onto u.s. soil. so that's the situation there. i spoke with a passenger who is on board this ship. i asked about the mood. he says that there's no sense of panic. however, this is something that people are talking about. all the computers, people are googling ebola. they have concerns but no one is panicked at the time. the current situation with the ship, they were supposed to stop in cozumel so the passengers could get off and enjoy this cruise here but the authorities have not cleared them to do that so we just got word from the cruise line that they are heading back to galveston, texas, now. perhaps this has to do with the fact that this woman is on board but we are stressing, the cdc says that very low risk as far as passing anything on to anyone on board. she has no symptoms and she was checked by a doctor on board this ship. so the word from the health

officials is very low risk. >> i saw that in the state department's statement that she's being isolated in her own cabin, not walking around the deck, if you will? >> right. that's the situation. again, she's away from everyone else onboard this ship and, again, this passenger who i spoke to said that when the captain made the announcement that they had a health situation, he never used the word ebola. he simply said there was a lab worker from texas presbyterian hospital who is self-quarantined within her cabin. she doesn't have symptoms but, again, this passenger telling me they never used the word ebola. perhaps they didn't want to get everyone panicked on board. but without even using the word ebola, everyone knew what he was talking about. >> some were saying, why was she on this ship to begin with knowing that she dealt with the laboratory work of the now dead

ebola patient? >> she got on the ship on october 12th. there's been a shift in the monitoring requirements since then and that would explain why. again, she didn't have symptoms when she got on the ship. >> thanks very, very much. first, coalition air strikes may finally be turning the tide, at least some suspect, in the syrian city of kobani. we'll tell what you has changed about the intelligence that the u.s. and coalition partners have been receiving from the ground. and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine, loving your numbers. introducing once-daily invokana®. it's the first of a new kind of prescription medicine that's used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. invokana® is a once-daily pill that works around the clock to

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cnn has learned that for the first time the u.s. military is getting intelligence from kurds on the ground inside the besieged country of kobani. this news comes as a new round of coalition air strikes hit isis targets in the area. the town has been under siege by isis militants now for weeks but their advances have been beaten back, at least in the recent days. nick paton walsh is on the syrian/turkish border and isis has taken to using warplanes of its own. >> reporter: according to the human rights, monitoring the conflict, they say that over an air base to the east of aleppo held by isis, residents have spotted three warplanes circling that base at a low altitude. the suggestion being that the former iraqi pilots have been

teaching isis militants to fly these planes. you have to bear in mind two words of caution. these planes are not going to be matches for the air force and they are going to lack the spares and potentially ma maintenance required for that long period of time. so isis short of an air force but certainly this shows both the scope of ambition that they have to expand their capabilities and the sheer extent of former iraqi military expertise. where i'm standing now in kobani, there is a quieter situation in the town certainly we've been seeing two warplanes in the skies just in the last few minutes. what we're hearing from kurdish fighters down in the town, as they say they control over 80% of it. in many ways they think, too, that pushing back to the east where isis used to be and down to the south where they were as well. and this is basically the results, as everybody seems to agree now, of over 50 coalition

air strikes in the past 72 hours, hammering isis positions around there i think making it very hard for them to sustain a continued presence on their own front lines and we've seen, too, how the access roads are being hard hit. in fact, we just heard behind me there what looked like one explosion landing towards the city center. but this is, of course, suggesting that we are seeing the kurds increasingly in control of kobani. i've just got off the phone with the political leader of those syrian kurds and he has said, look, the air strikes have been enormously helpful. he was deeply thankful to the coalition nations and now he says they need weapons, ammunition and anti-tank weaponry for the kurds to be able to continue their increased hold on kobani. a tough challenge ahead. the turkish border is still a volatile place. earlier on we saw the military not willing to let that many people through and i'm hearing the jets in the skies above me

now. the fight is far from over but perhaps there's been a change on the ground. appealing to weapons now to hold that town. nick paton walsh, cnn, near kobani. just ahead, we'll get more reaction to president obama's decision to name an ebola czar. i'll speak two u.s. leading representatives. that's coming up next. like the.

>> it's a little bit from yesterday's oftentimes contentious capitol hearing on ebola. joining us now, two congresswoman who were there, colorado democrat diana, the ranking democrat on the committee and also joining us, the tennessee republican marsha blackburn. to both of you, thanks very much for joining us. congresswoman blackburn, what's your reaction to the decision to name ron klain as the new ebola czar? >> well, they needed one person to be in charge of coordination but i'm one of those who would have loved to have seen a former

senator bill frist who understands the governor mental and medical components or general honore. >> russell honore was involved in hurricane katrina. a what's your reaction, congresswoman? >> well, i agree with marsha that it's good to have somebody who can coordinate both the medical and the political and communication here. ron has done this a lot. i have a lot of faith in our cdc and nih medical personnel. i think that they are handling these things according to protocols. but i think it's good to have somebody to coordinate that. so i think it's good that the white house has done this. >> because congresswoman degette, it sounded to me like

you were not completely satisfied with you will a of the answers that you got. >> well, i think that when mr. duncan presented himself at the hospital in dallas -- >> the liberian individual who had ebola? >> the man who sadly has died now. and when he first presented himself, i thought the hospital handled this very poorly and then i think subsequent to that, some of the nih directives were either not clear enough or else the hospital was not interpreting them clearly. and i think what we need to realize, i'm sure marsha would agree with me on this, we shouldn't get hysterical over this. ebola's not like the flu. it can't be transmitted by airborne transmission. on the other hand, we need to have very clear guidelines about what we're going to do to handle these few cases of people who have come into close contact

with the bodily fluids of the sick people and then we need to treat those folks and get them better and then we need to focus on eliminating ebola in west africa. that's where we need to put our efforts. >> you were not happy with the nih so much as the cdc, centers for disease control and prevention. right, congresswoman, degette? >> i'm sorry. if i said nih, i meant the cdc. were you satisfied? >> no, i was not. there's been great confusion coming from the cdc. there was underestimation. the hospitals across the country did not have and still do not have clear, precise guidance. there's lack of coordination of waste disposal and so many different areas the protocols being more precise in these protocols is something that we want to see. there's unanimous agreement in this. we're here to work with them to protect americans. >> are the hospitals in your district, in tennessee, ready if

somebody walks into the emergency room with ebola, will they have the equipment, the gear, all of the ex pepertise t they ned to get the job done. >> we would hope. that's something we don't know. this is something where the cdc should be more aggressive in coordinating that effort to be certain that every hospital has the gore thear that is necessar. >> you hear these horror stories out of the dallas hospital. they didn't have the proper gear. >> yes. >> as a result, two doctors are suffering from ebola. i want both of you, congress women, please stay with us. we have a lot more questions, a lot more to discuss for our international viewers, "leading women" is up for those in the united states and north america, we're going to talk about the ebola virus and travel bans and the military personnel now being deployed to west africa. stay with us. will that be all, sir?

thank you.

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usaid and department of defense and cdc have been involved in responding to the outbreak in west africa. you've seen the department of homeland security and customs and border patrol play an important role in this effort which is to monitor our borders and screen passengers from airplanes who are entering the country. there ware additional measures put in place within the last couple of weeks to make sure we're protecting the american public. there's a need to communicate with state and local leaders, including medical professionals. there is a significant medical component here as well, of course, but it's not solely a medical response. that's why somebody with mr. klain's credentials, somebody that has strong management experience, both inside government but also in the private sector, he's somebody that has strong relationships with members of congress and obviously strong relationships with those of us who have worked with him here at the white house earlier in the administration. all of that means he's the right

person for the job. and he is the right person to make sure that we are integrating the interagency response to this significant challenge. >> the white house press secretary josh earnest effectively announcing that ron klain will be the new so-called czar, former chief of staff to vice president joe biden. let's bring back congresswoman marsha blackburn as well as congresswoman diana degette to discuss what is going on. congresswom congresswom congresswoman degette, do you support a travel ban from people

coming from sierra leone and new guinea and liberia? >> i think we should certainly consider it but americans should not fool themselves that simply making a travel ban will make themselves. the world health organization says that we could have up to 1.2 million cases in that areas in a month. there's no travel ban on earth that will stop people from moving around the earth and we will have ebola in the united states. so it seems to me the top priority in west africa needs to be work as part of the international community to stop ebola right there. >> how do you feel, congresswoman blackburn, about a travel ban? >> i think a travel ban right now would be a good thing. we have about 35 countries that have one. i've also supported having a quarantine there. if they are not going to do a travel ban, then we're having our military over. let's set up something like a forward operating base.

have people report 21 days before they are to leave the country, go into quarantine. >> in those west african ma nations? >> in those west african nations. i think that would go a long way to settling this situation and helping get our hands around it so we can manage our way through this. >> congresswoman degette, people are worried about personnel, including national guard, the president signing papers to activate them being deployed to those cnt about them? >> well, we need to -- again, we need to realize ebola is not transmissable if we follow appropriate protocols and i assume we'll have strong protocols for those military personnel. again, i don't know if you're trying to quarantine people there, i don't care what you're

doing if we as part of an international community don't stop ebola in west africa, it will be coming here no matter what we do. i admire those troops for going there and doing what they are going to do. i've got to say. >> it's courageous and i know their families are deeply worried. you have a base, ft. campbell, in kentucky. >> i have about 700 constituents heading over and i can assure you, being in touch with the command team on post, talking with some of the families, people are very concerned. they want to make certain that our troops will not be in contact with people that have ebola, that have been exposed to ebola that are in a controlled group, surveillance group. and they also want to know how those troops are going to be handled if someone does contract ebola, what the expectations are so we're watching this closely. >> as we all should.

>> yes. >> congresswoman blackburn, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> good luck to you will a of the men and women heading over there. i know they are going to do critically important work. and could be congresswoman degette, thank you. you're going to see my journey to trace my family's history. >> i feel like i've been robbed of an experience of having grandparents. six million jews were killed during the holocaust.

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welcome back. as part of cnn's series "roots," i'm about to take you on a very personal and powerful journey home, a journey where i learned more about my family's history. it's saturday in buffalo, new york. my hometown. how are you? and these guys, well, they're fans of fc buffalo blitzers. that's a soccer team that somehow was named after me. something i find both flattering and a little embarrassing.

cnn has asked me to come here to trace my roots. a task i find daunting. i grew up here in the 1950s and '60s. with my sister and parents. a lot has changed since then. my dad passed away in 2002. and my mom, she's 92 years old and she now lives in florida. but some things here never change. like the anchor bar. the birthplace of the buffalo chicken wing. brings back memories from my youth. two weeks ago, i was on the israel/gaza border. now i'm eating buffalo chicken wings. my journey to learn about my family's history has been months in the making. delayed in part because of this. the war between israel and hamas.

i'm in jerusalem reporting for nearly a month. but a friend suggested i take some time to visit israel's national holocaust museum. let's go to my father's side first. last name is blitzer. i knew my grandparents died during the holocaust, but i wanted to know more. circumstances of death, it says the concentration camp. auschwitz. my dad, david blitzer, wrote a testimony for the museum detailing what he knew about the fate of his family in poland during world war ii. i didn't know until i came here to israel this week that on my father's side, my grandparents died or were killed at auschwitz. i feel like i've been robbed of an experience of having grandparents. 6 million jews were killed during the holocaust, and i saw the documentation there, place

of ex termination, auschwitz, and i knew that's where i wanted to go. ♪ [ speaking in foreign language ] >> what will set you free. it was a place for working. >> they were slave laborers. >> yes. it was this kind of camp, but work was an instrument of extermination prisoners here. >> it's one thing to learn about the holocaust in school or from books, but to see these places firsthand, some untouched since the war, can be overwhelming. most of the jews brought here -- >> then begun selection. >> who lives and who dies. >> exactly. >> my grandparents died here.

>> probably they walked in. they really believed they were in the shower. >> they thought maybe they were going to get a shower. but instead -- >> that was the gas chamber. >> while many jews were brought here from far away, my dad's family was unique. he grew up in a neighborhood in the town of auschwitz. arthur schindler, a local historian, agreed to help me find my dad's childhood home. >> we have some school records. this is information about rachel blitzer. >> that's my aunt. >> this is an address. >> now, we've looked over here. it's not here anymore.

>> many houses in this area were taken down by the nazis. >> they were destroyed. like much of my journey so far, i'm struggling to find remnants of my father's life. did this house exist before world war ii? do you remember, by any chance, a family by the name of blitzer? none of the neighbors remember the blitzers. or the house in which they once lived. but i did find a place where my family once stood. the town square. the testimony that my father provided, three sisters, only one sister survived the war. two of his other sisters, when the nazis came in, they were brought to this area. two sisters, they were killed. they were young girls. it's pretty much the same story on my mother's side. she survived but her parents died during the holocaust. i'm named after my grandfather

wolf. the most frequent question i get asked, is your real name wolf? yes, it's my real name. i was named after my grandfather. this is my cousin, she grew up with me in buffalo. what number was it? >> number 12. >> whatever house they had is gone. >> yeah, it's closed. >> together, we found what's left of my grandfather's old factory that produced clay pipes. not far from that factory was the slave labor camp where they worked. this was the land where the labor camp, camp a, was. >> in this camp, 24,000 jews came in for labor. almost 18,000 died here. there was no crematorium here, but they simply burned the

bodies and buried the ashes in this place. so it's conceivable that our grandparents, their ashes are here. >> we have no idea. >> we have no idea, no. >> when you look at my mom now, she's 92 years old, you wouldn't realize how courageous she was when she was liberated in 1945 from the slave labor camp. they told all the jewish workers, you're going to be marching on this death march. my mother knew if they were on this forced death march, they would die. >> this remarkable woman took her siblings and hid in the basement of the factory and they stayed there for a few days until they were finally liberated by the russians. >> yep. pretty amazing story. >> amazing woman. >> to this day, i'm very aware of the really courageous moves my mom made. she's obviously a very wonderful woman. before we leave poland, we visit

>> before we leave poland, we visit the only jewish cemetery that's left and i see a tombstone that says blitzer. i don't know if this woman was related to me, but i do what my father would have wanted. i say the special prayer for the dead. so after the war, after my parents were liberated, my mother by the russian troops and my dad by the french troops, they did what most holocaust survivors did once they were strong enough. they went and started looking

for family members who may have survived. so they were on a train and all of a sudden they saw each other. their eyes met and they fell in love. within a few months they were married by an american military chaplain, a rabbi. my dad found work in germany where my sister and i were born. my dad always said, in those days you didn't know what was going to be happening a week from now or two weeks and after the years of what they went through during the war, they said, you know, you had to grab life when you could. when my dad was visiting munich one day, he saw a long line so he got in it. it turned out it was a line for visas to america to bring holocaust survivors and displaced persons to the united states. a few months later, we were moving to upstate new york. when he came to buffalo, people help him get that job.

you'll make money. they thought it was pretty cool. it was awful. >> ungodly hot. it's going constantly and it will not stop if you're injured. >> my dad hated the steel mill and left after a year or so. they decided to open a small deli. it used to be blitzers and now it's buffalo airbrush tan. this was the deli. i used to pack eggs here. i would come in on sunday mornings and pack eggs. i would walk in over here. keep going. work. working. so this was where we used to pack the eggs. a lot of memories. blitzer's deli. hard to believe. my dad didn't like the deli business much either. one day he was talking to friends he knew from the concentration camp. they were buying land. and building homes for gis

returning from the war. my dadd edecided to give it a t. my dad actually built this house. this is one of the houses he built when he became a builder. that's my house. someone is living there. my father a knack for home building and with a lot of hard work became a successful developer. i went to school here. this is where they taught me to be a journalist. >> awesome. >> this is my roots. this is where it started. student council secondary representative. debate club, german club, advertising staff, marching band, national honor society. football jv. that was me. after months of following my family tree, i'm back where i started. my hometown. >> we watch you every day. >> it's a place where i grew up. where i went to college.

where i met my wife, lynn, and where i also learned a lot about eating good food. how can we not have -- we have to have anderson's frozen custard. we're here, right? ted's. mustard, relish, pickles. cool people say everything you got. we would like all of the above. it's amazing my parents after all they went through and losses that they went through, i never sensed the vindictiveness. they wanted to move on. my dad when he died in 2002, he was 82 years old. he was always upbeat. whenever he would see me on television, my mother would see me on television, they would always say the same thing. this is the revenge. this is the revenge to hitler and the nazis. i'm very proud of the new roots my parents planted here in america. those roots have grown and during this visit back to

buffalo and throughout my life, i realize a lesson i learned from my parents. like them, i try to grab life wherever i can. my hometown buffalo. this was really a powerful experience for me discovering more of my roots. i was a bit uncomfortable when cnn asked me to undertake the project. i didn't know what to expect and how i would react. i'm glad they asked and that i did it. i want to thank my producers and photographers who made it possible. certainly among the best in the business. finally, i want to thank my parents who struggled. they survived. they wound up building a wonderful new life right here in the united states. that's my family story. up next, two other families get good news finally. breaking news on the possible release of more than 200

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home. let's go to johannesburg. what do we know about these school girls? are they about to be released? we can only hope. >> reporter: well, we have been hearing from nigerian officials that it is a part of a cease-fire agreement that they have struck with boko haram and that in the part of northeastern nigeria where almost a war has been fought over the last few months and years, boko haram have agreed to put down their weapons and the nigerian government has done so also. the next stage is to release the girls. we might expect to see one batch of girls being released at some point in the future. he was vague on details really. i think the best approach would be cautious optimism on this

deal. it's difficult to understand why boko haram, who really has been waging a huge insurgency in the northeast of nigeria, and is after an islamic state should lay down their weapons on any kind of a permanent basis. perhaps this deal is just to release the girls. we'll have to wait and see. wolf? >> do you know any terms of this deal what the nigerian government may be giving up? >> reporter: there have been so few details, no, not at this stage. this is just about laying down weapons. president goodluck jonathan of nigeria is under pressure internationally to make some headway on the release of these girls. i think it's also important to note that there are so many more who have been abducted and that these murders and killings have been continuing by the hundred in the months before and after their kidnap also.

>> thanks very much. let's hope these school girls are freed and freed soon. >> that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'll be back at 5:00 with "the situation room." "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts now. >> great to be with you on this friday. i'm brooke baldwin. have to share this huge development with you in this battle against ebola here in america. a new man is in charge. this is the thing. this ebola czar has zero medical experience. his name is ron klain. let me rundown his experience. lawyer by training. early in his career he was a clerk for byron white. he served as chief of staff to both vice president joe biden and also to then vice president al gore. he then left the white house