up a speech in estonia, we'll have more remarks next hour as our nato allies confront the crisis in ukraine. our first focus is on the worldwide outrage of the murder of another american journalist in syria. at any moment we're expecting to hear from john kerry at the state department. there you see it. the podium is there. you may have something to say about the murder of stevotloff. here is the statement. the world bore witness again to the unfath mble brutality of isil terrorist murders in an act of mid evil savagery by a koud ward hiding behind a mask. there are no words strong enough to express the sorrow we feel for his family. president obama strongly condemned isis terrorists and vowed to hold them accountable for their second brutal murder

of an american journalist in two weeks. >> americans are repulsed by their bar barrism. we'll not be intimidated. their horrific acts only unite us. we will not forget our reach is long and justice will be served. >> the video appears to show the same man with a british accent who executed james foley. we're going to play a short portion of the video so you can hear the accent. >> the terrorist threatens to kill another hostage, a british journalist, if the u.s. air strikes targets continue in iraq. those air strike, in fact, are continuing with the u.s. laun launching its 124th attack yesterday. the pentagon announced an

additional 350 troops are being sent to iraq. >> these extra personnel that we're going to be sending in shortly will be added securely assistance for the embassy complex and for around baghdad. there will be a security sort of defensive posture. that's their job. obviously won't be going into any combat. >> let's bring in documentary film maker, a friend of steven sotloff and james foley. matthew has been in the middle of fight and was held as a prisoner of war in libya. it's good to see you altogether under such difficult circumstance. let me start with your reaction to the horrific news. >> it's a mixture of sadness and anger, outrage. i've lost two friends in two weeks. it's hard. >> you know in the video, steven never flinched. he was never fearful, even though he knew clearly he was about to die. you knew him so well. does it surprise you?

>> no. he was incredibly courageous and james foley. you see both of them. courageous to the end. it takes courage to go into syria in the first place and report on the conflicts. they certainly both had it. >> as we mentioned, isis is holding a british journalist hostage. nbc news is not showing his picture in honor of the family's request. clearly concerned for his safety and the other people that isis may have. >> yes. a situation does not look good. there's very little i think the u.k. and u.s. can do. other than if there's an offer to negotiate they should negotiate. all the hostages held by isis, which include british hostages and more american hostages as well. the situation is does not look good for them. >> you know you're saying very little you think great britain and the united states could do, but, you know, you've been in the middle of situations that maybe has these organizations as

their birth areas. syria, you've been there so long, and iraq. what do you think can and could be done about these organizations and about their plan to just not stop. i mean, this is not like they're going stop any time soon. >> the only way they'll stop is if the united states and perhaps a coalition stops them. the modern syria opposition has to be supported, and much larger u.s. air campaign. it has to be expanded. perhaps into syria but not without also supporting the moderate opposition in syria to fight on the ground as well. >> is there a opposition left in syria? >> there isn't much of one but there's enough. there's enough to take the fight to isis. a a lot of fighters have quit due to the morale and lack of funding. some of of the fighters will come back and will be defections from perhaps other units as

well. >> it just seems like it's going to be a difficult thing to do to eradicate these people from where they are. and stop them. >> it's a long, hard slog in donald rumsfeld's words. >> i proficient yoappreciate yo. the any minute now the secretary of state john kerry could speak. we're monitoring the state department in washington, d.c. if he does speak. we'll, of course, be bringing you that. it is a ceremony that has already been organized but the secretary could say something about the horrific act on the death of sotloff in his prepared remarks, in the beginning of them. we'll bring them live if they occur. i want to make sure you know we're keeping tabs of everything going on related to the story. president obama will discuss the growing threat from isis at the nato summit in whales tomorrow. when asked about confronting isis, the president was initially forceful in his response, but later softened his

position. >> our objective is clear and that is to degrade and destroy isil if we are joined by the international community. we can continue to shrink isil's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, it's financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem. >> let's bring in former ambassador to nato, nicholas burns. thank you for being with me this morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the strategy dealing with isis. we try to destroy the group or manage it? >> well,ic that's the key strategic question the president need to content with. are we trying to contain the threat or defeat it? containment is one thing. we have effectively contained crisis over the last three or four weeks by air strikes, pushing isis back from iraqi

kurdistan and the mosul dam and other strategic locations. to defeat it, i think most experts would say you need troops on the ground. can the peshmerga and the iraqi army be the troops on the ground? they haven't proven to be effective. can you aloin yourself with the rebel syria groups? what i think is clear is there is little support or congressional support or support in the white house for substantial american troops on the ground. you'll have to have local troops and make allies. i thought what the president said today in estonia was smart. beyond the military aspect of this, we have to create an international coalition to dry up the financing, to isolate them politically. that's where we need the help of the arab state and the europeans. that's why it's important that the president is pushing this at the nato summit this week in the u.k. >> you know intelligence sources have told nbc news this isil group or isis, however you want

to call them. may be the wealthiest terrorist group in the history of all time. they don't really dry up their sources of income. they have a lot of income already and they're just, you know, swimming in money. and then the pepeshmerga. is it time for the united states and others to arm them to be offensive in their operations? because so far they have been really limited to what they have been getting from the west as far as weapons >>well, the u.s. is giving substantial support to the iraqi kurds. the peshmerga, historically, have been effective fighting in the mountains, their natural terrain. they're not a standing army. they're not a conventional army that can fight in the desert. that's where they were defeated tactically by isis at the beginning of august. and so that needs a lot of work, of course, strengthening the iraqi army which did so poorly in losing mosul.

let me get back to your first point. you're right it's going to be difficult to dry up the financing to isis. they literally took cash, millions of dollars from the iraqi national bank in mosul when they took over mosul. they're selling oil. they're pumping oil and selling it in the black market. it's going to be tough. that is the leverage points we have against isis right now. >> and you said earlier that the united states was very effective in containing isis in iraq. but it also seems to indicate that these beheadings occurred in syria. what do we do about syria? >> well, it's a big question. there are a lot of people, myself included, who believe that we ought to take the risk and we ought to align ourselves with some of the moderate rebel groups and there are such groups in syria, arm them, fight with them. not on the ground but aloin our air power with their actions on the ground to strike at the heart of isis, the base of isis,

which is in syria itself. there are a lot of complications. i'm sympathetic with the president. i know, a lot of people are after him these days saying he's not strong enough, assertive enough, delaying too much. there are no easy answers to this. i think what the president is trying to avoid is us getting sucked into another consequential land war in the middle east, which clearly he shouldn't do. i think the president ought to take this step in the next week or two to strike into syria. we shouldn't care about the sensitivities of the syrian government. we don't owe them anything. we should want to effect the balance of power on the ground. difficult to do but not impossible. >> yeah, because the balance of power could include syria being strengthened dictatorship in the country being strengthened by isis and being weakened in syria. because they have a battle one against the other there. >> this is part of the complication. you have iran and syria both opposing isis, the united states

opposing isis. yet we're not going do syria's bidding nor iran's bidding. i think the president deserves a little bit of time to try to fashion the right away forward, but he needs to engage in syria. the other part of syria that is being lost in the current debate there are over 9 million people in the country of 22 million people that are now homeless either refugees outside the country or internally displaced. that's a catastrophic situation. syria is about the most fractured country in the world today. it has largely ceased to exist as a nation state. you begin to see that the civil war has bled profusely obviously into iraq with the advance of isis and the caliphate isis established in northern iraq. you see the consequences in lebanon, you see it in turkey, and jordan. we're looking at the regional war, which is why the president needs to think about the syria option. >> and, ambassador, in thinking

about nato. merkel has spoken a little bit in the past about maybe changing their policies toward supporting, you know, in northern iraq. does nato have a role to play in this? >> nato probably is an institution as 28 countries acting together, probably not. you need every one of the 28 countries to agree it's not going to happen. what we can expect is britain and france, especially, our two most powerful al -- allies militarily they should join us. they should be part of it. you probably can't expect the germans to do that given their history and tradition and sensibilities. why can't the germans then contribute more substantial economic aid to the disaffected populations in northern iraq and -- excuse me western iraq and northern syria. in other words when president obama goes to the summit in whales tomorrow, he has a right to expect more help from the europeans. we are working for them in the

middle east. we shouldn't shoulder the burden alone. >> ambassador nicholas burns, it's a pleasure to see you. thank you for being with me. appreciate your time. we're going to go and take you very quickly to the state department where secretary of state john kerry could be at any moment coming out. there is a preprogrammed ceremony there. as a matter of fact, he's going to be hosting ceremony. it is very probable that the secretase secretary of state will speak about the horrific act of terrorism, the beheading of steven sotloff. the news that broke yesterday and we continue to cover as we speak this morning. if the secretary speaks about this, we will bring it to you live. stay with us. there's a lot more to cover this hour. we'll do so in just seconds. especially now that i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib,

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secretary of state john kerry is speaking right now at the state department. it's part of a ceremony welcoming the appointment of u.s. special representative to muslim communities. let's listen in a few minutes. >> in my multiple engagements in far east, middle east, north africa, sub sahara africa. let me be clear as a starting point for today's conversation. the real face of islam is not what we saw yesterday. when the world bore witness again to the unfathomable bru l brutality of isis murders when we saw steven sotloff, an american journalist, who left home in florida in order to tell

the story of brave people in the middle east. we saw him brutally taken from us in an act of mid evil savagery by a coward hiding behind a mask. for so many who worked so long to bring steven and other americans home safely, this obviously was not how the story was meant to end. it's a punch to the gut. and the united states government, i want you to know, has used every single military, diplomat, and intelligence tool we have. we always will. our special operations forces bravely risked military operation in order to save the lives. and we have reached out diplomatically to everyone and anyone who might be able to help. that effort continues and our prayers remain, as they always are, with the families of all of the hostages who remain trapped in syria today.

now bar barty, sadly, is not new to our world. neither is evil. and i can't think of a more graphic description of evil than what we witnessed yesterday and before that with james foley. what we see in the unbelievably brutal mass executions of people because of their sectarian or religious affiliation. we have taken the fight to this kind of savagery and evil before, and believe me, we will take it again. we're doing it today err when terrorists anywhere around the world have murdered our citizens, the united states held them accountable no matter how long it took. those who have murdered james foley and steven sotloff in syria need to know that the united states will hold them

accountable too no matter how long it takes. want to emphasize. but here today what is really important, and i want to take advantage of this podium and of this moment, to underscore as powerfully as i know how that the face of islam is not the butchers who killed steven sotloff. that's isil. the face of islam is not the neoists who know only to destroy not to build. it's not masked cowards whose actions are an ugly insult to the peaceful religion they violate everyday with their bar bar i did.

the real face of islam is a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings. it's one where muslim community are leading the fight against poverty. it's one where muslim communities are providing basic care and emergency assistance on the frontlines of some of our most devastating humanitarian crises. >> secretary of state john kerry as he introduces special representative to muslim communities. you heard the secretary of state with some very powerful words, strong condemnation of isis/isil and the terrorists who have now killed two american correspondents in just two weeks. a punch to the gut is how the secretary of state reacts to the news that we have been reporting for over 24-hours. let's go to nbc senior white

house correspondent chris jansing. good to see you. thank you so much. we heard from john kerry, a similar message from the president that justice will be done and isis will be held accountable. >> that's right, jose. the president, again, calling isis a cancer, and when you talk to administration officials, pentagon officials reintegrating this is an enemy unlike any with have known. the brutality you see on the video tapes. they're looking for land. they want to establish and islamic caliphate. and they have been making their mark. in part, because they have such a strong propaganda. these videos are a part of it. they've been able to recruit westerners. we should mention they continue to hold westerners. there are still two american aid workers who are hostages to isis as well as at least three british citizens. so the pressure is building at home. you know, we've talked about the fact that bill nelson from

florida from your state of florida, the democratic senator, wants to propose legislation that would allow the president to authorize the president to expand air strikes going on in iraq to syria. but every indication that we got listening to the president today is that he is not prepared to do that. we know the pentagon and intelligence officials have drawn up lists of possible target, but he's going to be leaving here in a short time. he's going to be heading to whales to the nato conference where he wants to build a coalition. i think when you listen to john kerry and hear him talking about this being a peaceful religion, that isis does not represent islam. that's outreach to muslims, arab countries because the president's tactics, which are to get them on board to help go after isis, it's going to be necessary to build a coalition that doesn't involve europeans and doesn't just involve nato. that's part of the overall strategy here. right now that strategy does not

include, at least doesn't appear to include any imminent air strikes in syria. >> i'm wondering, chris. there's the announcement additional troops sent to iraq. what is the policy on iraq? they have been able to contain isis there, but, i mean, they do control a good chunk of that country and have all the money in the world. >> >> that's the other problem, obviously, with isis. they're extremely well funded. another message we heard today was from prime minister david cameron. he said it's so important to tell countries that they cannot -- when hostages are taken pay ransom. that's where a lot of money is where it's coming and funding terror. the policy of the united states is they don't do that. the policy of great britain is they don't do that. but we know that a lot of money has been funneled in that way. it's something they would like to see stopped. you can just -- that's just one example of why it has got to be

sort a of multi-pronged effort that western countries are going to have to adopt if they're going to have a chance. and i think it's worth noting that the president was talking about whether or not, you know, he could -- they could destroy isis, which is a different thing from what they've been talking about so far. and you heard him back off a little on that to the point where he said they have to hit isis to where it becomes a manageable problem. in other words, if they don't pose the imminent threat that even western countries feel they do now. >> talk about imminent threat. we're talking the trip is really about nato. i want to turn you to russia and ukraine. there's an imminent threat there. there's also some confusion over a russian cease-fire and the president calling out putin this morning for russian aggression. what is the best outcome for the president of the russian ukraine front from the trip. >> that's pose supposed to be the main focus of nato. at least that's the main agenda item.

obviously there's a couple of things want president wants. i think you're taubling it earlier. one, is they want a well-funded nato. according to the charter, any country that is a member is supposed to contribute 2% of the gross domestic product to fund military action. and in fact, they don't. only, i think, four meet that benchmark. so they want essentially more of the nato countries to ante up. again, it's the president's strategy to build a coalition. he wants to get more people on board to sort of ante up these actions against russia. they want more sanctions. they want potentially sec sec tarl sanctions. there's no appetite on the american part, european part to

get involved what is happening on the ground in ukraine. they're looking at diplomatic ways. they have to be on the same page for it a chance to have working. >> estonia, one of the few countries that pays the dues in full to nato. >> they do. >> what a pleasure to see you. thank you so much. thank you. i want to bring in angela, the director of the center for y -- >> the es tonya president this morning emphasized how significant the president's presence in the region is and send a message to nato nations and putin. but how does it do that? >> well, this is going to be the most important nato summit tomorrow that we've had since the end of the cold war. it's time for nato rededicate itself to the original mission which the protection of the country and the member states. there's been questioning since

russia began the hybrid war in new yo ukraine. i think it's important that the president has gone to estonia, he's rededicated nato to its original mission, this is going to be a credible defense and it's really to is kind of deter russia from thinking it could make any incursions into a country like estonia, which has a significant russian-speaking population. >> yes, and the president this morning in one of his prepared remarks reminded the world that part of the principles of nato is if you attack a nato state it's like you're attacking all nato state. ukraine is not a part of nato. is there a correlation. can you say, well, we're going to act this way as nato but ukraine is on their own? >> i think we're trying to send the message that you cran begans

are on their own but the president made it clear we cannot get engaged militarily with russia in ukraine. ukraine is not a nato member. at least what we're doing now is to deter russia from thinking it can move beyond ukraine to countries that are in nato. we can help the ukrainians. we can try to help broker a settlement we keep hearing rumors there will be cease-fire talks then the russians walk them back. we can use whatever influence we have. but our influence is limited as our obligations to ukraine. >> i love the term you use i d hybrid war. do you think there's anything that would move pew tone stop with his plans of expanding. do you think anything the wets can do that would stop the plans? >> even though the sanctions had

an economic impact and will have a fwraert impact economic down the road that does not seem to -- what russia is doing. russia is determined not see the ukrainian military to have a vubt i are in the area. they want to make sure that this part of southeastern ukraine will never really be fully part of ukraine. they're destabilizing ukraine. at the moment, it's very hard to see any way of persuading president putin to step down. >> thank you so much. and we're following breaking news out of detroit. this is a breaking news day here on the hour. we learned theodore wafer has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison for killing 19-year-old mcbride. he shot her out his home after she pounded on his front door. earlier in court he apologized

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joining me now democratic congressman from california, brad sherman, a senior member of the house foreign affairs committee. thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> what can congress do to help stop isis? >> i think congress should pass an authorization to use air power and air power only against isis. it's clear that the president has the authority under the war powers act to do that without us for 60 days, but i think this is going to take longer than 60 days. at the same time, i do not think that we should authorize boot on the ground. we have fought one -- actually wars in iraq. we don't need to fight a war that involves hundred of american casualties or thousand of american casualties. >> should congress vote on military authorization, for example, if the situation in syria starts getting out of control. because, you know, if you authorize attacks on syria and,

you know, there's always a possibility that an action has a reaction. how do you deal with that? >> well, first, you can never write the perfect war powers resolution that is good year after year. that's why congress meets hopefully more often. the war powers resolution should allow air power to be used against isis whether they're on the syrian side of the border or the iraqi side of the border. of course, isis claims there is no border. and for them there is no border. isis -- i don't think, can be destroyed at the present time. but question contain it. we can weaken it at a limited cost to the united states. >> and, congressman, just your reaction to these horrible video tapes we've seen twice in two weeks. and what kind of human being can do something like that to get, you know, international -- i

mean, what is your reaction to this? >> obviously those are gut wrenching videos, but what is just as gut wrenching is they tried to kill tens of thousands of yezidis for their religions. they tried to kill thousands of turkmen for their ethnicity and religion. as terrible as it is to see one american under those gut wrenching circumstances, it's even -- i think even more terrible to see an organization bent on genocide that came close to carrying it out. >> congressman brad sherman, thank you so much for your time. i appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up world leaders warning the ebola outbreak is close to spiraling out of control. the u.n. will give an update in moments. this video i'll describe in depth.

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at the u.n. they're just about to give an update about the ebola crisis. global health leaders say the outbreak is reaching a breaking point and we may be losing the battle to contain that crisis. recovered american nancy writebol is also speaking for the first time in the next half hour in charlotte, north carolina. we're also expecting to hear more about a third american aid worker from that same agency who has also been diagnosed with ebola. nbc gabe gutierrez is live.

what are we expecting to hear from her this morning? >> nancy writebol and her husband david are expected to speak here in about 20 minute os or so. it would be her first public news conference since she was diagnosed with ebola and later released. they're not expected to take any questions, but right after that representatives from sim, the organization they work for are expected to give an update on her, answer questions, and tell us more about the latest american missionary who was diagnosed with ebola, jose. >> and what do we know about that third missionary? do we know anything? >> right, they have not publicly identified him. we know he's in isolation right new liberia. he's said to be doing well and in good spirits. he was treating pregnant women in liberia not ebola patients in a separate facility, and we understand that it's not yet known how he exactly he contracted the disease.

meanwhile, dr. kent brantly, the other american survivor of ebola, said that the latest patient is a dear friend. he spoke exclusively with nbc's matt lauer about that and his own diagnoses. >> that's the nature of ebola is that health care workers are predominantly affected because of the way it's spread. i don't think they ever said, kent, i think you're about to die, but i felt like i was about to die. >> and again, we're execing to hear from nancy writebol and her husband david in a few minutes. >> nbc gabe ambiguityi, thank y. thousand of fighters, a billion dollars, and master i are of social media. the fight against the propaganda machine in the digital era. straight ahead. is one of the bs in the country.

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what will isis tweet next? it may sound like an absurd question, by right now there's a debate being waged over the terrorist propaganda machine that is isis. some argue the best thing to do is look away from the gruesome propaganda videos circulating across the internet. steven sotloff and isis remain trending topics at this hour. joining me now is a foreign editor of the daily beast christopher dicky and gideon lynchfield. thank you for being with me. chris, to give a little bit of historical context. we covered the war, death, destruction and central america in the mid '80s. it might days for an report to air. how dangerous is it to lose the control to isis? >> well, i think it's very dangerous. you described isis as a propaganda machine it is. what it is. more than the land it's taken. more than the city's it's taken.

it's taking over the media war around the world. and projects itself on a global stage whether it's on twitter other social media and essential it does so with the hideous videos, which are, let's be cleared, designed to watch and designed for people who would be completely repelled by, for instance, the decapitation shown ten years in iraq. this -- the foley video, the sotloff video, those are designed to look like something not so different than what you see on "game of thrones." and that a smart of them and really something that we should not encourage. i don't know how to avoid it. >> yeah, and i'm just thinking back to the many books you have written. one is with the contras. a reporter in the wild of nicaragua. it's not possible to do that anymore. it's not possible to embed with these people because they're just not able to have rules that can --

>> and they don't need us jose. the contras needed us. they needed the international to be with them even though they thought the press didn't agree with them. now isis, al qaeda, any of these groups they have their own media outlets. they post their youtube videos, they post their tweet and the world picks them up. they don't need the press to be with them. they're happy once they get their hands on reporters, to kill them when it suits their media purposes. >> gideon, the president today described isis as a, quote, cancer. we know a cancer unchecked can spread everywhere. it can reach american sympathetic to the isis cause. it can reach, i don't know, could it reach my daughter when she's doing her homework? how do you stop the cancer? >> well, i think that it you are talking about in terms of media, then as chris said, it's really very impossible to stop it. all you can do is generate counter narratives, if you would like. things that people can talk

about as alternatives. and we saw that with james foley. a lot of people are making a conscious effort to spread alternative pictures of james foley rather than the video of him being beheaded. everything these days it has been this way but especially now with the internet. it's the struggle for narratives and stories. we just have to tell better stories. >> thank you for being with me this morning. see you soon. >> thank you. up next nancy writebol expected to speak within the next few minutes about he recovery from ebola. we'll talk to a doctor about the crisis of ebola after the break. you, my friend are a master of diversification. who would have thought three cheese lasagna would go with chocolate cake and ceviche? the same guy who thought that small caps and bond funds would go with a merging markets. it's a masterpiece. thanks. clearly you are type e. you made it phil. welcome home. now what's our strategy with the fondue?

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the we're in the middle of the worst ebola outbreak in history. this chilling new video from liberia shows medical staff in protective gear chasing down a desperate ebola patient who escaped quarantine. take a look at this.

it's just chilling. but i would like to bring in dr. frank. he's at the university hospitals in cleveland infectious disease specialist. thank you for being with me this morning. and the question is, is ebola really about to spiral out of control? >> well, a lot of people has been saying it's spiraling out of control for the last several months. and that we have not been able to contain it. it's been a very big problem with individuals who are leaving quarantined areas or moving from place to place and not being able to contain the spread has been a very big problem. >> i'm wondering the video of the escaping patient. did he put anybody at risk? >> i would say that anyone who is well enough to run is probably not very contagious. usually the people who are the most contagious are the sickest. usually it's when you're bed bound. when you're very sick is when

you have a lot of virus to spread to other. when you're well, a lot of people could be well for weeks. they may have aability will of virus. they're not contagious to other people. so when you're able to run and able to move, that's when you're probably less likely to spread the disease to others. >> more than 1500 people have died, another 3,000 been infected. is there anything that we as a world community can do to deal with this crisis effectively and global level? >> well, i think that's been the biggest criticism going to this point is that we have felt that the response has been fairly lackluster. at least here in the united states we have shown how bold we can be. when we go and use our resources to bring to individuals who are american back to our borders. we would give them new drugs, we would give them top quality care. we have shown what we can do. what we haven't done is really put that kind of boldness and

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diagnosed with the deadly virus and survived after being given an experimental medicine and transported back to the united states for treatment. we're also expecting to learn more about a third american aid worker who has been diagnosed with ebola in liberia. the unidentity doctor worked for the same north carolina-based mission group as writebol and worked in the same hospital as the other american who was infected and survived. dr. kent brantly. brantly has been living in seclusion with his family. an exclusive interview with nbc matt lauer. brantly is talking about his near death experience with the virus, according to the world health organization, has killed more than half the people infected during the outbreak. >> my experience with ebola, you know, i was looking at it than a different lens because i had