>> and, joy, just to say he did that even though he was grievously injured. he suffered ever since that horrible day in march of 1981. we used to call him the bear. he was the funniest, the most irreverent staff member on the reagan team on the campaign trail and then in those early months. only 69 days after taking office he was shot along with the president, of course, on that horrible day in march. he and his two children and his wife, the valiant sarah brady, were just stalwart in the face of such tragedy. sarah and the children with were him and got to say their good-byes, according to a statement from the family. they fought so hard for gun control, the brady bill that was

signed, of course, by bill clinton and then was not renewed. their sadness over what happened to the brady bill and for all of their efforts for gun law changes. >> yeah, and indeed. that assassination attempt that, traumatic moment for the country, it did change not just, you know, the nation but it actually changed a lot of the debate in washington. you saw democrats in congress give a lot more latitude to the reagan agenda after that happened. the sense of sympathy in the country. that era, just talk about the importance of it in terms of the way it changes really the legislative process, the tone in the country, et cetera. >> well, after coming out of the hospital, first of all, the way president reagan responded and joked to the emergency team at george washington hospital and to the surgeon and just joking about whether or not the surgeon who operated on him was a

republican or a democrat and then saying to nancy reagan, honey, they missed me, we did not know for decades how seriously he had been injured. and how close he came within a fraction of an inch of actually being killed. the assassination attempt also changed the way the secret service protects presidents, the way we in the news media cover presidents, the whole elaborate pool operation where presidents are accompanied by the press wherever they go, whether they like it or not. just the whole sensibility of the nation changed. then of course the valiant way that ronald reagan came and addressed a joint session of congress and showed his strength and endurance. that did change the attitude towards reagan and the whole first-term agenda. >> you interviewed mr. brady back in 2011. what was his sense in terms of, as you said, the gun bill that was passed initially during the

clinton administration, then the sharp turn away from this idea of gun control? what was his sense of the overall look at that legacy of gun control and his contribution to it? >> well, i think he and sarah were enormously saddened by the way the whole nation turned away from gun laws. just seemed after the assassination attempt there was not even a question. they did have to fight very hard. it wasn't really passed until the '90s. of course, this had happened in the '80s. it took more than a decade for this to become a reality. i think it was a sense of enormous loss. he lived with pain and with all sorts of physical ailments, but his spirit didn't falter. of course, sarah brady suffered a very serious lung cancer and came back from that. so this family have been through a lot. they are indelibly imprinted in the history of the united states. >> yes, indeed. and as you can see in the picture next to andrea, the press briefing room is, in fact,

named after james brady, ronald reagan's press secretary. andrea mitchell, thank you so much for being here. >> you bet. >> be sure to watch "andrea mitchell reports" week days at noon eastern here on msnbc. now to gaza, where israel has resumed its attacks today after a brief self-declared cease-fire. without rage growing in the white house over yet another attack on a u.n. shelter on sunday. palestinian officials say the attacks now in their 28th day did not end outright during the cease-fire. while israeli officials report two attacks in jerusalem, including one they labeled a terrorist attack after a palestinian driving an excavator crushed a bus killing a pedestrian. the end of the cease-fire comes just one day after yet another attack near a u.n. school killed at least ten gazans. the state department has condemned that attack with u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha powers using unusually strong language, calling it disgraceful and demanding a full investigation. nbc news' jim maceda is in tel aviv. what can you tell us about the

israeli response to the harsh criticism from the united states, the french, the britains reviewing arms deals? what's the reaction in tel aviv? >> hi there. well, joy, i think that we've seen a mixed bag today of anger and contrition, at least over the last 24 hours coming from israel without naming the allies per se. prime minister netanyahu tore into hamas in a speech claiming that the palestinian militants, terrorists as he calls them and as we call them as well, encourages the suffering of its own people so the world blames israel. in other words, netanyahu is telling the west that he has no choice when the existential threat to israel is firing from inside these populated areas, even next to u.n. shelters. but the israeli government, joy s clearly feeling the pressure, which analysts tell us here was the reason behind today's

temporary pause. a unilateral call for a cease-fire by israel to allow for the duration of only seven hours, really, food and medical supplies to enter gaza. and for some of those hundreds of thousands of displaced gazans to return to what was left of their homes in the safer parts of northern gaza. though it seems that very, very few, if any, found the nerve to attempt this today. this pause did not apply to any active israeli area of operation, and the palestinian militants rejected it outright. they called it a diversion from ongoing israeli massacres. gazan officials claim that even during that pause, a house in gaza city was shelled by israelis today, wounding 29 and killing an 8-year-old girl. on its side, the idf claimed at least four rockets were fired at israel today from the gaza strip. joy? >> all right. nbc news jim maceda. thank you very much. democratic congressman david

serves on the subcommittee of the middle east and north africa. good of you to be here. thank you. i want to start by asking you if you concur with the state department, who called the attacks on those u.n. schools, the shelling of u.n. schools being served as shelters by the israeli military disgraceful. she also said that there is no excuse, even if there are rockets being fired nearby. that's no excuse, in her words. it does not justify strikes that put at risk the lives of so many innocent civilians. do you agree with that statement from our state department? >> i think there is no question that the casualties of civilians in this military conflict are horrific. israel has a responsibility to do all that it can to mitigate the loss of innocent civilian life. but we have to understand the context in which this violence is occurring.

israel has the absolute right to defend itself from thousands of rockets being shot into israeli populations in israel. they have a responsibility to end that kind of threat to their people and to their country. they ought to do it, of course n a way which minimizes civilian losses. i think this instance is particularly egregious based on what we're hearing and that a full review must be conducted. but we shouldn't forget what the context of this conflict is. this is a terrorist organization that is shooting thousands of rockets into israel. i don't think anyone would think a country doesn't have a right under those circumstances to defend itself. but it's one of the reasons i think the united states has worked hard to bring a cease-fire to try to encourage the parties to create breathing space to stop the fighting and begin to think about a resolution. israel has now unilaterally said that they would cease military operations. hamas has rejected that. i expect we'll continue shooting rockets. i think obviously any time there's a civilian loss -- but

we have to understand hamas is leaving civilians and encouraging them to stay in places where there are military assets, purposely to, i think, create the impression that the israelis are attacking civilians when in fact they're attacking military assets. i think this is a complicated situation. any time you see the loss of life, especially the loss of young lives, it's horrific. and the parties need to cease military operations so that we can have an opportunity to see some path forward that involves a peaceful resolution. >> now the united nations has not confirmed what you just said. they have not displayed in evidence that the government there in gaza is encouraging people to stay in their homes when they're being shell. in fact, ban ki-moon, the secretary general, has called the attacks on those u.n. shelters, which is where people are being told to go, totally unacceptable and totally indefensible. again, the united states, our government, has said that the suspicion that militants are operating nearby does not justify strikes that put at risk the lives of so many innocent civilians. they're not qualifying what's being said -- >> no, no.

i think that's absolutely right. what i'm talking about -- and we saw evidence when we were briefed about the efforts by the israeli government to announce when they had identified a military target to encourage people to leave the area, to do leafletting, loudspeaker announcements and they were being discouraged by members of hamas from leaving these areas. i think there's ample evidence the israeli government has repeatedly attempted to minimize the loss of civilian life. this example is particularly egregious. it ought to be investigated. if it, in fact, turns out they struck a place where there were individuals who are civilians and became victims of this, it's important to get to the bottom of it. but i do think it's important to remember this is in the context of a country defending itself against oncoming rockets, thousands of rockets. they have to do everything they can to mitigate that and certainly avoid civilian casualties on both sides. at the same time, we have to recognize they're the only democracy in that region of the world. we have a strategic alliance with them.

>> sir -- >> but it's important -- i'm sorry. >> i want to ask you another question. you did mention the united states as part of the responsibility. we are the country that is supplying billions of dollars in aid as well as much of the fire power that's being used in gaza. over the weekend, there were reports that prime minister benjamin netanyahu said in a private conversation to the united states member of our delegation there, a member of our team, that the united states had better not second guess him again. there were also reports over the weekend that secretary john kerry was being eavesdropped upon by the israeli government, our friendly government there. how do you react to that? >> well, look, i think there's no question that the relationship between the united states and israel is long standing and is mutually beneficial to both our countries for the reasons i just explained. it's the only democracy in that region in the world. but the relationship is based on a shared set of values, valuing of human rights, valuing of liber liberty, of freedom. it's because of those shared values israel has a responsible

to be sure they're mitigating civilian losses. >> but how do you respond to that statement that, we had better not second guess? is that a way an ally should speak with another ally? >> of course not. look, israel, i think the relationship between our two countries is more than the relationship between benjamin netanyahu and the american people. this is a long-standing, deep, and important relationship. i don't think that's an appropriate thing for him to have said. obviously, the state of israel will make its own judgments how to defend its own sovereignty. it's a mutually beneficial relationship to our own country as well as to the state of israel. we'll continue to make judgments based on what are in the best interests of the american people. i think certainly that the statement by benjamin netanyahu was regrettable and doesn't reflect the importance of shared values of our two countries. >> let me ask you one final question, sir. the pew research center recently put out numbers about how the different con stitch wents in the united states are

responding. it shows younger americans, americans between 18 and 29 years of age, are not really so in line with what israel is doing, nor are the lot of people of color, minorities. much of the democratic constituency, quite frankly. given the fact that democrats and republicans -- there's no daylight between the two parties on this issue. it's 100% support for israel no no matter what is going on. who represents those americans who disagree with what's happening in gaza right now? who are their representatives right now in congress? >> well, i don't know there's 100% of israel no matter what's going on. i think there's a recognition that our two countries share values and that we respect the right and the responsibility of the israeli government to protect their people federal an ongoing terrorist act. this is not a conflict between israel and the palestinians. this is a conflict between israel and hamas, a terrorist organization that we've identified as a terrorist

organization. so i don't think it's a question of israel can do anything it wants. but it's a recognition that israel has a right to defend herself against an oncoming terrorist attack, thousands of rockets. but obviously to do so in a way which reduces the likelihood of civilian casualties but also honors its responsibility to protect its citizens. >> so there's not a democratic constituency, there's not a member, a part of the democratic congress that would represent those people who dissent from the policy? >> if you're asking if there's anyone that represents the interests of hamas, a terrorist organization, i don't think there is anyone. >> not representing hamas. no, i don't think i've ever mentioned anyone who would represent hamas. >> the conflict is between israel and hamas that we've recognized as a terrorist organization because it is. and so does israel have the right to defend itself against a terrorist organization? absolutely. i think that's not only because we respect the sovereignty of israel, but because we share values. deeply important values to our country of human rights, of the free press, of equality.

that's the history of our two countries. i think when we see that kind of attack of thousands of rockets being sent into israel, most americans will say, of course israel has a right to defend itself. this is against a terrorist organization. it argues again there has got to be a resolution and long-term, peaceful solution. but in the short term, israel has the right to defend itself but has to do it in a responsible way. >> all right. we're out of time. we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much. and coming up, an update on the condition of the two americans infected with ebola. one of them is in atlanta. the other is headed here soon. first, reaction to the death of former press secretary james brady coming in. here's what josh earnest had to say moments ago. >> he is somebody who i think really revolutionized this job. even after he was wounded in that attack on the president, was somebody who showed his patriotism and commitment to the

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now to two major developments todayed in the ebola outbreak that's being called the worst in history. first, the second american infected with the virus in western africa is expected to arrive back in the u.s. tomorrow. nancy writebol will receive treatment at emory university hospital in atlanta, the same place where american doctor kent bra brantly arrived for treatment. fears grow the disease could be spread by bodies being buried in residential areas. nbc's sarah dallof is live outside emory hospital in atlanta. give us the latest on the patient who's set to arrive there now. >> well, good afternoon, joy. the plane that will bring nancy writebol back to the states is reportedly on the ground in africa. the family of writebol is very anxious to have her back understandably and receiving treatment alongside dr. kent brantly. his family has revealed he received a dose of that experimental serum before he

left africa. sources tell nbc news he has since received a second dose of that medicine here at the hospital. his wife has been able to see and visit with him via a glass window in that specialized containment unit. she says he is in good spirits, and they are confident he's receiving the best care possible here at emory university hospital. meanwhile in africa, officials are scrambling to get ahead of this outbreak. it's now in four countries, including nigeria, where two new suspectabed probable cases were reported today. there are now 1600 confirmed cases of ebola. nearly 900 deaths. that's a fatality rate of 55%. here in the u.s., there have been four patients who have shown symptoms severe enough that doctors have tested them for ebola. three of those tests have come back negative. joy, they're waiting on the results of that fourth test. back to you. >> all right. nbc's sarah dallof, thank you

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it's time for we the tweeple, which today kicks off with a look at the power of social media to form its own lane of information on an unfolding event, like the situation in the mideast. for weeks now, terms like gaza and israel have been trending online with the hash tag #israel yielding more than 24,000 tweets an hour and more than 4.4 million tweets in just the past week. and the hash tag #gaza getting more than 21,000 tweets an hour. the conversations that we're seeing online include first-hand accounts of the war from the ground from reporters, but also from ordinary people. it includes information about how governments are trying to harness the power of social media too. with everyone from the israeli defense forces to the united nations and human rights groups using their twitter accounts to write the history of the conflict in realtime. there's also this report that the israeli government is offering scholarships to students to post pro-israel

facebook posts and tweets to help shape public opinion about the conflict. and a report saying the hacker group anonymous has jumped into the conflict and started denial of service attacks against israeli government computers. this after a palestinian protester was shot while wearing a mask. amid all the fierce debates online, some of you are actually finding community, like the hash tag jews and arabs refuse to be enemies. we're pleased to announce the pair that started the hash tag have also started a facebook community, which has already surpassed 55,000 likes, and there's more to come. stay tuned. there's also a disturbing new game for phones that's just been removed from the google plus store. it's called bomb gaza. players pilot an israeli war plane over gaza and try to bomb what they're calling terrorists. according to reports, it's almost impossible to avoid bombing civilians. many reviews of the game have

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officials to look for anybody who might be symptomatic of ebola. we were told there are no additional meetings to deal with the crisis added to the agenda. having said that, what they want to do here is send a message to big american business and that is that six of the world's ten fastest growing economies are in africa. they're open and ready to do business. when you have situations like the ebola crisis, it makes big business, it makes investors nervous. that's being acknowledged here, that essentially these countries have a much tougher sell job to american countries. i think it's worth pointing out that ebola comes on the heels of boko haram, even though that hasn't been high in the headlines recently. obviously, terrorism is another big concern. as a spokesman for the president of nigeria put it, the sell job is harder to get american

businesses to come there. >> chris, thank you so much. now to new calls for a federal investigation along with an emotional call for justice from the family of eric garner. the new york city man who died after a police officer placed him in a chokehold. >> it's been really hard. i've been trying to be strong, but it's really hard. i met with the prosecutors, and i feel like i did the right thing by doing that. and i just want them to do the right thing and get my justice for my husband. >> garner's widow joined other family members for a rally on saturday after the city medical examiner ruled the 43-year-old's death was a homicide, saying a chokehold was the contributing factor. meanwhile, the man who taped the disturbing confrontation between police and garner two weeks ago was himself arrested over the weekend. he was taken into custody on unrelated weapons charges. that prompted this response from national action network president reverend al sharpton.

>> what it does have bearing on, interestingly enough, is it supports our call for the federal government to take this case because now the staten island district attorney may be in a conflict where he is prosecuting someone who may be a witness in the case. >> and of course reverend sharpton is also host of "politics nation" here on msnbc. joining me now is vince warren, the executive director of the center for constitutional rights. and vince, thank you for being here. this case has captivated so many people in part because it's visual. we have seen the video. are you heartened by the fact that the medical examiner has said that what people see with their eyes is what happened? >> i'm always heartened when science proves the thing we all know to be true, that we've seen with our own eyes. i think it's an important evidentiary step. when we saw the way eric garner was treated, him saying he can't breathe, there was a narrative around what should the police

have done, what actually happened. here we know there's hard evidence, medical evidence, that this was a homicide. it doesn't necessarily mean it's murder. that's for the prosecutor to decide. it's a clear statement that what the -- that the police officers caused this man's death. >> you've been very involved in the lawsuits trying to stop, stop and frisk in new york city. you now have this happening. a new friction between the community and police. the response of the union, the police union so far has been very defensive. the head of the nypd police union has already criticized the gentleman who actually videotaped what happened to eric garner in saying, quote, it's criminals like him who carry illegal firearms to stand to benefit the most by demonizing the good work of police officers. is that response disturbing to you, given you don't see a lot of contrition, you see a lot of defensiveness. >> that response, unfortunately, doesn't surprise me. what we saw was eric garner being killed at the hands of

police officers. it doesn't matter what the pedigree of the person taking the video was. what matters is the video was made and the question for mr. lynch and for the police department is what the heck are we going to do about it? turns out in our stop and frisk case, we're all coming to the table in a reform process to be able to understand what are the remedies to that practice. the community and the union are going to be at the table. that's the opportunity for us to really say how should the communities be treated in these police interactions, how can we keep the mpolice and the community safe. >> what's the responsibility of the mayor? he was elected, in large part, a lot of people believe, because he vowed to change the stop and frisk policy. obviously his son, that ad he did, where he visually showed is he too could be somebody who could be stopped under this policy. grade the mayor so far on his response to what's happened to eric garner. >> the mayor has been out there and out front saying, i think, unequivocally that he was going to issue an investigation and condemned the killing. unlike previous mayors who would not do that.

i think that's really one of the signals of the shift. but we have to remember that a progressive mayor, a mayor that supports change is not enough, as eric garner's death shows us. we need leadership from the mayor and the police commissioner and the union for when we come to the table about how we're going to resolve this, to resolve it not on the backs of the communities but in ways that keeps the communities safe. >> what about in this specific case? do you just from your view of it in having a lot of knowledge and experience with the system here in new york, do you expect a prosecution, number one? and if not, is this something that federal prosecutors should take an interest in? >> i actually was involved with a chokehold case back in 1983. it was one of the cases that became the point at which the city said, you know what, the police department said we're not going to do this anymore. it's a bad practice. unfortunately, having been in this city all of my life, i've seen you don't always get grand juries to indict police officers. you don't always get prosecutors prosecuting police officers. and you don't get juries convicting police officers for

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most of our media friends just can't resist psychoanalyzing because they think i'm a very complex and therefore interesting person. >> that is former president richard nixon in his own words from the new documentary "nixon by nixon." it airs tonight on hbo to mark the 40th anniversary of his resignation. the film includes hours of secret recordings. from china to vietnam, the pentagon papers, and finally watergate, the recordings reveal how an isolated president was brought down by his own demons and how the scandal and the fallout helped give birth to modern day politics in america. joining me now, the director of "nixon by nixon," and ken hughes, the lead researcher on the film. thank you both for being here. i'm going to start with you, ken. what do these recordings reveal about nixon maybe that we didn't know or that we thought we knew and we were a bit wrong about?

>> the tapes are astonishingly revealing on a wide variety of subjects. i think the most shocking thing to me is the way nixon ran the vietnam war with an eye toward how it would affect his re-election campaign. he decided to keep the war going through all four years of his first term because he realized if saigon fell before election day 1972, it would take his shot at a second term down with it. but that's just one example. and there are many in peter's brilliant documentary, which i personally love the way it weaves together the behind the scenes stuff with the public facade. >> i want to play another piece of it. that's the central piece, the public pronouncements and the

private pronouncements were so at odds with each other. let's play a little bit of that dichotomy between what was being said in public and what was being said behind closed doors. >> i remember the headlines. nixon bugged himself. taping was done for the purpose of having it for the historical record. it was voice activated. everything was taped. which, of course, was probably stupid. >> okay. that was actually a different sound bite. that was essentially the other big shock, i guess. what did you come away with of why somebody who had so much on the line and was doing so much that was clearly nefarious would put it all on tape? >> he kind of missed the big picture. he was so full of himself that he never even considered that they might come out. i think the reason he did it was that he didn't trust that people who came away from private conversations with him would quote him properly. so he wanted a record to then use against them. but it was this bravado of

lincoln -- i'm doing a lincoln show. >> preview. >> the bravado of nixon that came from his youth. i mean, he was taught to be intellectual by his mother, to be a tough fighter by his father. everything was a fight. he took everything on as the enemy. >> now let's play that other sound bite. this touches on what was going on in vietnam. let's take a listen to that. >> within the past week, there have been reports of eyewitnesses claiming to have seen american planes hit dikes and dams. the question is, has such bombing occurred? >> we have had orders out not to hit dikes because the result in terms of civilian casualties

would be extraordinary. >> and ken, the ability of richard nixon to be all-out untruthful with the american people is extraordinary. why do you suppose at the time that the press was not able to ferret out some of these truths in realtime? >> the real reason? they did not have a microphone in the president's office. that's one of the most disturbing things about studying these tapes. i don't see how the press could have ferreted out what nixon was doing. we're talking about a golden age of journalism. you know, we've got woodward and bernstein and many other brilliant reporters who are, you know, doing extraordinary work. but the president, by exerting his control over national security and classifying information, can hide extraordinary secrets that we as americans really do need to know. >> peter, how do you think somebody like nixon, that personality type, somebody who's that sort of full of paranoia and guile, a lot of the things

that he was hiding were just incredible racism, anti-semitism, just some really noxious personal views. could somebody like that survive the present version of the press, the present iteration that ferrets everything out about you? >> i think it would come out. i don't think he could have kept that side of him -- he was very proud of his self-control. he said, i'm an emotional man, but i believe in self-control. i don't believe in showing is things off in public. so like he did during his era, he hid that side of himself. there's much more scrutiny today. there's much more media coming at you from every direction. so i think he probably would have slipped up at some point. >> indeed. someone with no social graces in today's multifaceted media world would have been just really eaten up, i think. peter and ken, the filling is "nixon by nixon." it debuts tonight on hbo. more on our breaking news on the death of former white house press secretary james brady.

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morning of a u.n.-designated shelter in a school. they were there under u.n. protection. >> the tears of the u.n. relief agency's chris gunnas and the escalating condemnations of united nations leaders up to and including ban ki-moon, the secretary general, who called the direct shelling of at least six schools where palestinians were sheltering from the war with israel a moral outrage and a criminal act. those condemnations and expressions of outrage have done exactly nothing to protect civilians in gaza. so far the war in gaza has left more than 1800 palestinians dead. the population equivalent to 100 9/11s, mostly civilians, and including women and hundreds of children. the u.n. keeps condemning the attacks on civilian facilities by the israeli military and the compromising of u.n. facilities by hamas. all to no avail. it's been calling for cease-fires and getting basically nowhere. at this point, the u.n. can't even protect the civilians

hiding in its elementary schools. meanwhile, as the brookings institution notes, these recent events are not isolated incidents. frequent major military attack campaigns, the seven-year blockade, or the multiyear blockade and the resulting psychological trauma are destroying the hope and means of education and with it the future of palestinian children and youth. when the united nations of founded after world war ii, the stated aim was to bring international stability and security and peace to a chaotic world by drawing together the world's established nations, 192 of them today, into a compact whereby they would respect an international rule of law. but for that compact to work, the countries who are cig any stories to the u.n. have to believe in the norms that it was designed to defend vane to believe in the u.n.'s authority or at least in the isn't aty of its facilities. that is clearly not the case now. since the u.n.'s founding, there have been endless mass kers and wars in the congo, bosnia, ra

wan -- rwanda. not to mention the horrors in the middle east and nigeria. it's easy for one nation to thwart the will of the entire body. whether it's russia and china stopping the international community from intervening to stop the slaughter in syria, which has killed more than 100,000 people, or the united states running interference for israel, the u.n. is clearly not working. so what does the u.n. do? what does the world do when it's spinning out of control and there's no moral authority, neither governmental, nor international, nor institutional that can stop it? it may be time to revisit that question and revisit the purpose of the united nations. and that wraps things up for "the reid report." i'll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. be sure to visit us online. "the cycle" is up next. hello, cyclists. happy monday. >> hello, joy. happy monday to you.

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outbreak is still spreading in africa. nigeria is dealing with multiple cases, including another doctor who was helping to treat an infected patient. that country is now the fourth african nation to report the outbreak. staggering new numbers this hour. more than 1600 people have been infected, nearly 900 are dead. it's the word ebola outbreak in history. a second sick american is due to be flown to atlanta tomorrow. nancy writebol was assisting dr. kent brantly in liberia. dr. brantly arrived at emory saturday walking out of the ambulance. what a great image there. both have received an experim t experimental treatment since there's no vaccine and no cure for ebola. as the outbreak grows, experts say there's an extremely low chance of an outbreak here in the united states. emory is only o