you call me anything you want. we call me ebola response coordinator. mr. klain was the first choice principally because of his strong track record. >> as more persons are put under watch after being in close contact with the two dallas nurses. and the hospital staff who treated duncan have been told, stay put. but one of them is already on a 4,000-passenger cruise ship out at sea. she's agreed to stay inside her cabin. carnival cruise line says the passenger has no ebola symptoms and poses no risk to guests or crew. but worldwide there are now 9,200 reported ebola infections. and the organization keeping tabs says, hey, they botched the initial assessments of just how fast this virus would spread. more on that in a moment. first, on the ebola czar. kristin welker at the white house, two days ago the white house said, we don't need a point person in all this. so, what changed? >> reporter: well, toure, i think there were practical

pressures on president obama and also political pressures. first, to the practical pressures. what you mapped out. there is widespread fear right now about this disease. day after day, more negative headlines. there didn't seem to be a coordinated response from the white house. i think on the one hand, president obama was feeling pressure to name someone to be a point person. there were real mrim political pressures as well. i've been talking to democrats saying, they don't want to see another week like the one they just witnessed where you had different administration officials speaking out every day, sometimes giving conflicting messaging. so, they're cheering this move by president obama to appoint a point person. one person telling me there was real concern the administration's response -- the criticism the administration was getting would factor into the midterm elections. so, i think that's why you saw president obama announcing last night and signaling last night that this big announcement was

going to come today. he decided to go with ron klain because he does have such a broad base of management skills, a background in law and business. he served as chief of staff for vice president biden, former vice president al gore. so, he knows how government works. of course, we are getting reaction from capitol hill. some republicans saying he doesn't have a background in medicine. he's not the right person. white house press secretary josh earnest got a number of questions about that during the daily briefing. he responded by saying, president obama wasn't necessarily looking for an expert in ebola but, rather, an expert in implementation. someone who has management skills but who also knows how government works. so, that is the way that president obama's deciding to move forward with this. of course, you have the cdc director acknowledging there have been some mistakes made. so all parties sort of moving forward with an attempt to make sure that those mistakes aren't repeated. president obama continuing to insist he still has confidence in the cdc director, tom frieden. back to you. >> nbc's kristin welker, thank

you for that. more on the politics surrounding all of this in a moment. first, the spread. dr. daniel deaconman, the director of infectious diseases at university of iowa health care and also president of shae, society of health care epidemiology of america. we now have an ebola czar. not a medical person but an implementation expert. he knows how government works. he knows how the obama administration works. will having an ebola czar make a difference for the thousands of doctors and nurses who are fighting to be prepared for ebola? >> well, i certainly hope it does. i think there's a good chance it will because ebola response is quite complicated. as you mentioned earlier, a lot of agencies are involved. so, having someone manage and koortd nature the activity across all those agencies, i think, could potentially be important. i hope also that this -- the new

czar will advocate for more resources. for hospital preparedness, for public health, and most importantly for west africa which is where this outbreak is actually occurring. >> and on that piece of hospital preparedness, how confident are you that, you know, hospitals around the country have learned the lessons from what they saw at texas health presbyterian and someone with ebola could walk into a hospital anywhere across the u.s. and they would know what to do, they would have the supplies, the materials to be able to do what they needed to do to handle that patient? >> yeah, that's a great question. and i can tell you that i'm absolutely certain every hospital is putting in long hours preparing so that they can do just that. this is an extremely complicated process, though, because you really have to be able to make sure that no matter where a patient contacts your health care system and your outlying clinics, on the telephone, in

your emergency room, wherever it, my that these screening questions are asked and that patients who have traveled to the outbreak zone and have concerning symptoms are then immediately placed in isolation, public health authorities are notified, your emergency responders and infectious disease are notified and you have this process running smoothly. in addition, you have to have enough personal protective equipment. finally, training, training, training to make sure that everyone knows how to use it properly. >> yeah, doctor you talk about equipment. we're reading reports about only ten specialized beds available nationwide. can you explain to us why that number sounds low to the average person and what's being done, if anything, to expand that? >> that number is referring to the four biocontainment hospitals we have nationwide. these are hospitals funded by the government. their infrastructure has been beefed up to care for these

patients and there's been training that's been going on for a decade or longer at many of these facilities. so, these really are the best places to treat a patient who is confirmed to have ebola virus infection at this point. however, should we have more than can meet that capacity, we really do need to bring state and regional hospitals up to speed. and i think the cdc is moving forward on that process to identify hospitals beyond those four biocontainment hospitals that would be capable of safely taking care of patient with ebola virus infection. >> doctor, what is the situation once you have survived this virus? you have the british nurse who has survived the virus and heading back to west africa to help out. are you no longer a carrier once it's cured and can you get it again? >> right. so, yeah, once you recover from ebola virus disease, what happens is your immune system eradicates the virus and clears

it completely. we have very sensitive tests to make sure you don't have any virus in the blood. there are a couple places where the virus stays a little bit longer. so, for example, it can be defected in semen for one to two months. so, recovering patients are instructed about safe sex practices after they recover from ebola virus disease. but this recovery that -- involves the production of antibody that is protective against that strain of ebola that you had. so, if you go back to the outbreak zone as someone who's recovered from ebola virus disease, then you would be assume to be immune and you would not be a risk to anyone else. >> doctor, the national nurses union, which represents thousands of nurses across the country, though we should note not the nurses at texas health presbyterian, the national nurses union is threatening a national walkout if they don't get the amount of training they feel they need. are you and others at your

hospital afraid of a strike by your nurses coming? >> i'm not afraid -- i should phrase it, by aggressively ramping up our preparedness and providing the training in the use -- in the safe use and careful, you know, dawning and doffing, as we say, putting on and taking off personal protective equipment, that will increase the confidence of our front-line health care workers who are bearing this risk and create a situation where they won't feel the need for a walkout. that's the ultimate goal. so, i mean, that's what we're all working very hard to do. >> obviously, everyone is on the same side of that issue. doctor, thank you for your time. we'll go live to dallas and tell you about a machine the size of a toaster that could have

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the first people who were exposed to ebola victim thomas eric duncan are now starting to emerge from quarantine. they're now passed that 21-day incubation period. most will be clear by this weekend. additional restrictions are being placed on more than 70 medical workers who treated duncan. nbc's sarah doloff is in dallas again for us. these workers we know are signing pledges not to travel. can you tell us what those parameters look like? >> reporter: well, they're pretty strict, krystal. this agreement instructs those

who sign it not to go to public places. the grocery store, restaurants, the movie theater. and to also not travel by plane, train or ship for the next 21 days after their exposure. this, of course, is in reaction to the news that nurse amber vinson flew round trip from dallas to cleveland, even though she reported a low-grade fever before boarding the flight to come back to dallas. she is now, of course, being treated in atlanta at emory university hospital specialty isolation unit. meanwhile, nina pham, that is the other infected nurse, flown to the national institutes of health isolation unit in maryland. she bid an emotional good-bye to her doctors in a video yesterday. at one point you can see a worker in a protective suit handing her a tissue as she tears up, discussing the trip she's about to take. we're told today she's in fair condition. she's a bit tired from the trip, but she is sitting up, eating, interacting with the staff. doctors there say it is going to be up and down as her body battles ebola.

but they do say they fully intend to see her walk out of the hospital. back to you. >> sarah doloff, thanks so much. the u.s. military is using a machine that screens ebola 24 times faster than traditional blood tests. it's fast. it's also reliable. texas health presbyterian has it, but they're only allowed to use that machine for research, not for diagnostics. early detection of index patient thomas eric duncan might, might have saved his life and possibly helped to prevent the infection of two nurses. but it took dallas 24 hours to get their final results. tech editor patrick tucker brought all of this to our attention in his new piece up on defense one. patrick, thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so, tell us why the fda wouldn't allow texas health presbyterian to use this machine? >> well, so texas health's presbyterian and other hospitals around the country have this device. it's called a film array from a company called biofire. you can use it in clinical

settings to scan for very particular illnesses that have already been their use fda-approved. like listeria and certain types of influenza. if you want to screen for ebola, then you need a special kit. it's just a little pouch that comes in the mail, but have you to be a research use-only setting. so you have to only be using it for research, if you want to screen for ebola. of course, what they actually want to screen for is, you know, regular people coming in off the street, like duncan. so, that's the weird glitch right there, is that the fda says, if you want to screen for ebola with this machine, it can only be for research, not for screening actual people. >> are we working on a rapid diagnostic system that can be used quickly and in the field to -- for us to determine who has the virus? >> this is kind of it. the fda has already approved one dod rapid screening test. this one -- biofire has asked the fda for consideration to

allow hospitals to use this precisely for that. it will give you results in actually about an hour. one that can give you results in like ten minutes. that's probably two or three years away. but this one will give you results in an hour. and if biofire gets their way, then soon hospitals around the country will be able to use this for diagnostics and not just research. and then possibly airports as well. >> patrick, we've increased screenings at airports, but now there's concern about cruise ships, what about trains or buses, you think about being in a confined space for a long period of time. and that's quite concerning. but then you think, where do you draw the line here? >> the cdc drishgt, tom frieden, came out and said, travel bans won't work to keep the american population safe from this. and also we don't really like travel bans. we need to move as many people as we can that are trained and that are ready to deal with this in africa to help curb that

there. in terms of what we can do at airports, our options are fairly limited. in about five airports across the country they're doing thermal screenings. taking people's temperature with a little gun. the problem with ebola is this, it can sit in your system for like three weeks before you begin to exhibit an elevated temperature. this device, which takes about an hour to use, to give you a result s far more conclusive. that's really, i think, what they would be moving towards next is a device or system screening like this. >> patrick, what can you tell us about the concrete technological goals that the u.s. has for these downgoing operations in africa, which we know are the place to contain this disease. i understand by mid-november there are some specific targets. >> the u.s. military right now is really following the lead of usaid in what they're trying to do there, which is just contain it as much as possible. this is tricky business. right now we're talking about these really electric logical advanced rna tests that we have in hospitals that aren't being

used for the purpose we would want. in liberia, the technology that's really going to make the biggest impact is some of these, but also beds and also tents and also just infrastructure to move people that might be effected away from the broader population. it's actually a really low-tech fight. i think mobilizing for that, that remains the challenge right now, is getting as much in there to move possibly infected away from larger populations. >> patrick tucker, thank you so much. and still ahead, kofi anan blasts the international response. why he says the world has been too slow to act. but up next, the very latest on that dangerous hurricane that is barrelling right now toward bermuda. it's time for "your business" entrepreneur of the week. virtue cider was started three years ago with locally grown apples. he's competing with major brewers in this rapidly growing

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welcome back. right now hurricane gonzalo is bearing down on bermuda. the category 3 storm is packing winds of 125 miles per hour. it could be the strongest storm in more than a decade to make

landfall on the tropical island. nbc meteorologist is here to tell us when the worst will hit. >> yes, as gonzalo heads toward bermuda, we're looking at conditions deteriorating across the island. things will certainly get worse by tonight. here's a look at gonzalo right now, the center of the system. it's less than 100 miles southwest of bermuda. it is continuing to push off to the north-northeast around 60 miles an hour. it's still a strong category 3 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. the system is expected to have a direct landfall or this hour the eye should stay west of the island. nonetheless, we expect to see 120 to 130-mile-an-hour winds that could cause widespread wind damage as well as widespread power outages. here's a look at the track of gonzalo. it's expected to make landfall or pass just west of bermuda within the next couple of hours. the worst will be felt through

tonight. it's going to continue to push off to the north. as it enters the cooler waters of the northern atlantic ocean, that's when things are looking a lot better for bermuda. that will be the case by saturday morning. meanwhile, here's a look at tropical storm ana in the pacific baigs basin. it's still a pretty organized system. a lot more organized compared to this time yesterday. it looks like forecast models now have ana staying south of the island chain. as we head into late in the weekend/early next week, that's when the worst of this may be felt across the island of kuawi. looks like ana will be sparing the hawaiian islands through the weekend. >> jeanette, thank you for that. jeanette will be here tracking that storm. on to other news now. we heard from kristin welker at the white house earlier about the president's appointment of an ebola czar. one person to coordinate federal efforts to confront this crisis.

but just two days ago pretty secretary josh earnest insisted that was something the administration was not going to do. the appointment of ron klain, vice president biden's former chief of staff, is not surprisingly drawing criticism from republicans who argue his lack of medical experience lessens the krifblt hcredibilit position. now, democrats are not to blame for ebola in america, but 17 days out from the midterminmidt election has become infected with this. air kashgs i think most of us can agree this ebola crisis has been mishandled every step of the way. the government has been too slow to act, mistakes have been made. we're now in a situation that, sadly, could have been avoided. maybe even a life saved. for the white house, it's all about the government being the answer to our problems. this looked really bad, erica, especially just a couple weeks before the midterm. >> see, last time i was here, abby, i promised you guys an october surprise. here it is. it's ebola. i deliver on my word, right?

>> nice job. >> i think one of the things any time there's something that didn't work the way it was supposed to, it falls on the administration. that's kind of the thing of being the manager in chief, is that you have to take responsibility for any lack of -- lack of following protocol, any misstep, any mishap. people look to you to be the one that says, i'm responsible. and i think it's a tough question. one patient passed away, unfortunately. far more people die of gun violence. where do you focus your efforts? and i think the administration was a little slow to act on this but i think a lot is because they're trying to keep perspective on it. a lot of funding for these types of diseases at nih and cdc have been cut over the years, you know, through sequestration and lots of different kind of ways of trying to trim the fat. and i think we can all agree, nih, cdc, not fat. >> yeah, suddenly everyone's

rushing to put a little bit of that funding back. looking at the midterms, two states your focused on, iowa and colorado. i want to zoom in a bit on iowa, joni ernst is the republican candidate there. and i've got a theory that it is a bit tougher for democrats to run against republican women. some of the themes that have worked for them across the country are conversations about paycheck fairness, closing the wage gap, republicans blocking access to birth control, signing onto personhood amendments, things like that. i think it's tougher for them to make that argument, even when the woman supports all those positions, it doesn't have quite the resonance as it does in other places in the country where they're running against a white man. >> that's true. the contrast in this case is a woman who's not good for women's health issues. what are you to do? you do the best you can. you talk about things like paycheck fairness, minimum wage and increasing that, helping women economically and taking

control of their health is very important. bruce braley has been doing that in a lot of television ads. once you see braley has been kind of catching up lost ground before he was down behind ernst pretty significantly, now they're statistically tied. i think a lot of it's been women who really maybe wanted to vote for the first woman from iowa to go to the senate or go to congress at all but found she doesn't hit those notes and isn't great in -- they don't feel good about her being in charge of their health. so, actually, bruce braley has been pulling ahead. he holds a big advantage with women voters. i think it goes to show that lady parts don't just get you lady votes up. really need to actually have the policy. >> well said. >> indeed. >> the other big midterm news that would have been all over the national news if we weren't covering so many other important stories with ebola, you have several states now that have knocked down voter i.d. requirements that have proved so controversial, including just this week arkansas, which is a fairly conservative state.

texas last week, although that is currently delayed or stayed while an appeals court figures it out. talk to us about the impact here. there was a new gao independent government study that said these vote er i.d. rules can swing elections two to three points. what do you think going into the midterms now that we is a couple cycles with voter i.d. being a major issue in about 35 states? >> voter i.d. is one of my pet issues. it's one of the stupidest things we have done ever in all of the states. it is really ridiculous. we had a problem that did not exist. and then we tried to solve it. so, i'm not sure why we need to show i.d.s. instead of protecting the right to vote through i.d., we've disenfranchised and, you know, made the right to vote an even harder thing. i gotmy own kind of thing,

sometimes in rural areas people don't even know this, the dmv isn't always open. in ashland, wisconsin, it's open two days a week. >> and when it is, it's incredibly complicated. >> and it's hard to get there. my mother works in the polls in madison, wisconsin, another state where they had their voter i.d. law just struck down, you know, thank god. there was a woman she had to turn away because she didn't have an i.d., a state i.d. the dmv doesn't give i.d.s to people living in hotels so she was a registered voter. she was absolutely eligible to vote but because she was living out of a hotel, she couldn't get a driver's license. and that kind of a story, it's all over the country. i'm sew glad judges are starting to make moves on this and strike these laws don't. >> shouldn't be a partisan issue. >> no. we should encourage people. more people should vote. make it easier. >> absolutely. erica, can we talk about the florida gubernatorial debate madness. >> oh, toure. >> to what do you refer? >> fangate, i'm referring to,

krystal. it was brilliantly sliced up by the young jon stewart last night. >> is there anything wrong with being comfortable? >> now, that is how you win votes in florida. right now, a million in florida are turning to their friends going, i mean, he's got a point. you know, you stand all night in the lights, i mean, he should be comfortable. >> what do you think about that notion of, you know, well, maybe he's got a point. maybe that is a way that -- when you make that argument, way, a way to win some votes, does silliness like that ever have an impact? >> first of all, from the campaign operative perspective, i completely understand what happened. the negotiations over debates are very intense. they are very deliberate. whether or not we have podiums. do you allow pen and paper? how many cameras? how many questions? it's all negotiated beforehand.

and so when one candidate feels like the other candidate is violating the rules there's an understandable amount of frustration. i don't know that it means a fan is an electronic device that shouldn't be allowed on stage. but if you think back to the mitt romney debates with president obama and you saw the close-ups, there's kind of a little sweat on his face. maybe the fan, you know, would have been a good thing for him because a lot of people felt like he looked nervous. >> but whatever you negotiate, if you don't go out at the beginning of the debate, that makes it all the worse than it it would be. >> that's right. that's something the operatives think, right? that's what people who do this for a living. the average person is like, it's a fan, guys. come on. if you're the governor, you have to look like you can, like, roll with the punches a little more than a fan. >> i think they both looked pretty terrible. guys, let's act like men and have an actual debate. up next, what an internal memo is revealing about the u.n.

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neglected the ebola threat because it started in africa. some tough criticism there. but is it true? joining us now is todd muss, form. now the chief operating officer and senior fellow for the center for global development. and author of the book "the golden hour." a lot of credentials there. >> many talents. >> and the father of three. >> and the father of three. >> of adorable kids. >> malet's start with this question on kofi anannen. do you agree with him there? were we slow to respond because this is africa? >> i don't think anyone knows the u.n. problems because he used to run that organization. he's very well placed to understand what the problems have been, the slow response. and i think he's reflecting what a lot of african leaders are feeling right now, which is that they're feeling very isolated,

somewhat neglected and felt like they're left to deal with this crisis somewhat on their own. >> as you know, we've been having a debate in this country around whether we should ban all flights to west africa. you have a number of republicans that are saying, why haven't we already done this? we are now in this situation. the president said last night, look, we are not banning flights for a number of reasons. we'll keep monitoring it. where do you fall on this debate? >> it makes no sense to ban flights from ebola-effected countries. we don't have direct flights from sierra leone, guinea or be liberia. really the way we are going to contain ebola is at the source. a travel ban or talking about a travel ban is counterproductive. what we need now is a surge of health care workers. >> who's going to want to go if they can't come back? >> absolutely. this is going to make it a lot tougher.

>> suddenly, people are afraid to go anywhere in africa. there are 50 african countries are zero cases but people are canceling trips to kenya and south africa, which have no ebola problem whatsoever because people tend to look at africa as one unit rather than many, many countries, a very large continent. we're looking at a potentially massive economic impact on all of africa that could derail the economic growth we've seen out of africa for the last several years. which could derail africa for many years to come. >> that's right. africa is a big place. ebola is scary. ien why people are nervous about it, why people are in a panic in some places. i think we have to put it in perspective. in an average year, 23,000 americans will die from flu. q you can catch that from a sneeze. ebola is much harder to catch. we're talking about single number infections at this time. at the similar time, africa is doing extremely well economically. last week the world bank came

out with their list of top ten fastest growing world economies. africa has top ten spots. ghana, mozambique, not countries people think of as economic engines. it would be a real shame for americans ready to put billions of dollars into these countries decide not to out of irrational fear. >> we talked about the health issues, some politics. talk to us the diplomacy, given your background. what do some of these governments, diplomats or citizens in several of the african countries think of the u.s. government response? because at this juncture, all criticism aside, you get the impression sometimes that we're having a bigger problem than they are, which is just not true, and some elements of ignorance saying, what we need to do is quarantine these whole

countries whereas medically you don't want to quarantine the country. only the core affected people at risk. >> yeah. i think trying to quarantine a country, it's just totally impractical and it will make us less safe rather than safer. i think the frustration i'm hearing in the diplomatic community is the international response was extremely slow. the oou.n. as we just heard, completely blew it. not for completely understandable reasons. the u.s. government, while they're making a tremendous effort right now, was also very slow off the mark. the cdc identified the ebola outbreak back in january. in july we pulled all peace corps volunteers out of the country and it wasn't until september that the white house made a big empt. so, a lot of the reason we're behind the eight-ball on this is because we've just been way too slow off the mark. >> and as you said, the u.n.

completely botched the response. is that specific to the ebola response or speak to bigger problems with the u.n.? >> the u.n. does some great work in certain places with refugees. even in some health areas the u.n. has been critical. but it is a massive bureaucracy. countries get to put their favorite people in place. there's a quota system. you don't get the a-team in many of the u.n. systems, unfortunately. and when you have the "c" or "d" team, you get bad responses. >> hopefully this will be grave enough they'll reassess some practices and clean it up. todd moss, thank you so much. up next, something hopefully a bit more uplifting here. mr. boston, at least in the sports world, the legendary bob ryan right here. that's next. [ female announcer ] take skincare to the next level

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book "scribe." it's an honor to have bob ryan here with us. welco welcome. >> who else wears $2,000 sweaters to his press conferences than giselle's husband. >> she probably dresses him. >> i grew up in boston. i know the impact that the red sox had on all of new england, right? when i was growing up, they were the perennial losers, supposedly curse. the curse of the bambino. and that losing for decade passed on the misery, from grandfather to father to son. that bonded new england. it was part of like how strong new england is. we can deal with the red sox. now the red sox have been winning some the last few years. it's a little bit different, their place in the cosmos. >> yes. people have had their attitudes a bit changed and they got spoiled with three in the last ten years. they certainly have had this weird juxtaposition. last, first, last, the last three years. but they did have that cache. now they've lost it. they can't go around crying, woe is me.

when all of that was going o i kept reminding them, go call your cousin in cleveland and ask him how he feels. you know, so you have no reason to complain about anything in boston. >> the man you've written about more than anything else is larry bird. never did a man and a city, i think, mesh better than bird and boston, hard working, gritty, working class background. i mean, like this man is sort of like if boston became an athlete, it would be larry. it wouldn't be -- >> all of which surprised him. because he came as a hostile, suspicious weary person with regard to the media and the big city. he had been sheltered in a secluded area of southwest indiana, then terre haute for college, and he was suspicious of the media. he never believed he would come as media conscious and savvy as he became to the point where i wound up writing a article in 1988, the blossoming of larry bird, how he not only enjoys the media, but how he manipulates it to get to the fans.

he showed to be quite savvy with the media. >> this is why you're so great at what you do. you don't just cover sports. you are sports. you've grown up going to games with your dad. you started writing for your high school paper. >> yes. >> this is what you're all about. >> first thing i wrote when i was 11 for myself, an audience of one. that was my first attempt at writing. >> what was it about? >> it was about the local grammar school league that i played in. a few national observations. i tied it up on an 8 by 11 typewriter. i had it for years and years. that was my first attempt. the thing for me was this, my father was involved in sports. it was a dna injected about sports of every kind, believe me. i also like words and writing. that's the other part. it's a two-part word. the second part is far more important if you're going to become a professional than the first, because being a sports fan, everybody -- the proliferation of talk radio, the number one format in america proves anyone can talk about sports. but writing it, organizing your thoughts, deadline, is different. i had a dna about writing as well. my father would take me to a

friday night, and i couldn't wait until saturday morning to get the paper because the game wasn't validated in my head until i read about it. >> some people are just born with that passion. there's a kid i knew in my hometown who started writing about -- a local column about sports when he was literally 7 years old. he's now -- >> i can relate to that. i love the sports and writing. i played. i was a normal american kid. played all the sports. i also love to read about them. i was given a subscription to sports magazine and sporting when i was 9. people gave me christmas books about sports. i kept reading and cross-reading, cross-referencing and the play, read, play, read. i mean, that's where i was. >> wow, that's amazing. toure was talking about how the culture around the red sox has changed now that they're winning. how is the culture around sports in boston changed post the boston marathon bombing? because sports in boston used to be very divisive and now the country things about boston

strong and it's a unifying thing. >> the teams were really magnifice magnificent. the red sox got a lot of credit. during their victory parade, they stopped at the site, and shane victorino placed a wreath wreath. but the bruins were magnificent. they visited hospitals and got involved as weapon but it's i don't went -- they don't get enough credit. it was their season. their season went longer and all. that it will never be forgotten. it will never go away. marathon day is a civic holiday in boston. it's a joyous celebration. everybody gets into the whole thing. and forever and ever we will be pausing to remember as well before we have the celebration. >> who is boston's greatest athlete of all time? ted williams? bill russell? >> there is only one tunnel named after an athlete and it is ted williams. the generation just above me, you know, okay,

that's always going to be ted williams. but since i've been in boston, it is number 4, bobby orr. it's still a hockey town. >> bobby orr above ted williams and bill russell? >> bill russell -- problem is when he played basketball, boston was a niche sports town. it should be bill russell. we have a statue for him finally. but i'm telling you, you asked me and i'm telling you the most revered athlete since i've been here as a writer. russell i didn't cover. i watched him from the stands. it is bobby orr. >> but curt schilling can't buy a meal in new england. >> dave roberts stole one base and he can't buy one either. if they all walked down the street together and put your hand over the head for the applause like amateur hour, bobby orr's meter would rise.

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i understand the people are scared. but what i want to emphasize once again is that right now we've got one individual who came in with the disease. we have two nurses who have been diagnosed with the disease. it's important, i think, for all of us to keep perspective in terms of how we handle this. we are taking this very seriously at the highest levels, starting with me. >> let's fast forward to today. there has been one death in the u.s. four patients being treated. 48 about to be released from

quarantine. 76 hospital workers under observation and that's just here on the united states. on the international skags 4,000 troops are heading to west africa. there are more than 9,000 infections being reported and the world health organization estimates 10,000 new cases per week by the end of the year. and this is how many people have taken the lead before today. zero. well even the world health organization now says they failed to realize the potential for ebola to spread so explosivesly. and we have no u.s. surgeon general because congress cannot confirm one. on wednesday the white house said we don't need an ebola czar and they have appointed are on claim to that role. but it would have been great to have someone in charge from the start. i'm not alone here. 80% of americans are nervous about ebola. they do not feel safe. 91% support increased screenings

at the airports. this is coming from a nation where people are keskeptical abt tsa procedures. you know, i think about thomas eric don can's story who sadly is no longer alive, every step of the way mishandled. sending him from the home to leaving him alone in the e.r. with other patients to putting the nurses in a situation where they didn't feel prepared. and now you have amber vinson who called the cdc before boarding her flight to ask if it was okay to fly with a low-grade fever of 99.5 degrees. they told her yes, go right ahead. the fever is not high enough. it opportunity take more than simple common sense to realize that was probably a bad idea. it's no surprise the cdc is warning us it is possible we will have more cases of ebola. and here's what i cannot wrap my head around.

the situation we're in right now could have been avoided. maybe a life could have been saved. we have been talking about the possibility of this happening for months now not to mention we have some of the best medical capabilities anywhere in the world. but it is just another example of the government falling down on behalf of all of us. but here's what i will say, last night i saw the president speak to this nation in a way i have never seen before. it was a different barack obama. he spoke from the heart and not a teleprompter and told us the truth, not what we want to hear. >> it may make sense for us to have one person, in part, just so that after this initial surge of activity, we can have a more regular process, just to make sure that we're crossing all the "t"s and dotting all the "i"s.

let's see more of that, that does it for this "the cycle." "now" starts right now. everybody exhale, ebola has a new czar. it's friday, october 17th and this is "now." >> winning the fight is going to be costly and it is not risk-free. >> president obama has just named an ebola czar. >> i do not know what is meant by a czar. >> i don't know what you call him. >> josh earnest said there was nony. >> that man is ron claim. >> air travel is in fact, how this disease crosses borders. >> there is no way in the world for the fruit bat to fly over the atlantic ocean. >> travel bans are not going to stop infected individuals from going around the world. >> people in that country will