. >> yeah, i went to emory university in atlanta. i found myself wanting to do business, not wanting to sit in class. unfortunately, i started selling fake ids for about two months and then i realized i was going to get caught. i was really good though. >> they worked? >> they worked. >> you became a promoter, a party promoter when you were 19? >> yes. i was throwing all the 21 and up parties and i was 19. the reason i dropped out of school was there was a guy who sat me down and told me the story of robert woodruff, the guy of coca-cola, the largest endowment at emory. i thought, this is great. he gets me. at the end, he tells me that robert woodruff was one in a billion and a chance of you being a robert woodruff is almost impossible. you need to stay in school and let go of this pipe dream. i said thank you very much. he said, so we're cool? i said, yeah, i am dropping out of college. >> do you think you proved him wrong? >> i don't think he cares. i want my kids to go to college. [laughter] it wasn't that. i don't like the fact t

so do we need more biocontainment units like what emory has, dr. frieden? >> we think we need some increase in the number of facilities that can safely care for someone with ebola or another deadly infection. we have been working closely with hospitals throughout the country to increase that capacity and the emergency funding request would enable us to get to the level where we would have a greater degree of comfort with the facilities out there in the kmaft. >> just to clarify that some of the dollars that would be in the emergency funding, the president's request would be to expand the number of biocontainment units. >> yes. >> very good. one of the questions about having three patients at unmc, these folks don't have any insurance and they are hold iin the back for the funding of those patients. is there anything with hhs, dr. laurie, or cdc that can reimburse facilities for health care costs? >> i believe the secretary indicated in the hearing last week that we're open to mechanisms that would make them whole for the expenses they have had. >> open to i

so do we need more biocontainment units like what emory has, dr. frieden? >> we think we need some increase in the number of facilities that can safely care for someone with ebola or another deadly infection. we have been working closely with hospitals throughout the country to increase that capacity and the emergency funding request would enable us to get to the level where we would have a greater degree of comfort with the facilities out there in the kmaft. >> just to clarify that some of the dollars that would be in the emergency funding, the president's request would be to expand the number of biocontainment units. >> yes. >> very good. one of the questions about having three patients at unmc, these folks don't have any insurance and they are hold iin the back for the funding of those patients. is there anything with hhs, dr. laurie, or cdc that can reimburse facilities for health care costs? >> i believe the secretary indicated in the hearing last week that we're open to mechanisms that would make them whole for the expenses they have had. >> open to i

heard about y has the ebola management strategy at emory with an enclave unit on the word. have a ospitals do not large autoclave, so the question of how to move that waste around has generated new discussions between had it been t involved. these are all failures of preparedness and thinking through -- upfront -- how to manage something. what our just-in-time management strategies for hospitals? should the nurse at the triage in infectious disease consult or initiate the hospital command system? is emergency management stuff and most hospitals had not thought that through. their lesson for us -- is there a lesson for us. given the approach, where are the boundaries between use of surgical masks and respirators? the cdc has, meanwhile, put 95s and paprs up. there are paprs with -- many hospitals exit purchase those. in fact, needed for appropriate protection? and then, finally in hospitals, what is the perspective of frontline healthcare workers on managing the infrastructure? it turns out -- if you read documents -- the nonhierarchical team approach protection re worker an

as i say, that's extremely close to the number that the folks at emory have come up with. that does not include the cost of the preparation, which i just referred to and it does not include the cost of what i would call the opportunity cost, which is this a ten-bed unit that's otherwise used for medical, surgical admissions that would otherwise be completely full with routine patients receiving their care. >> okay. are the policies that were in place prior to the current outbreak still in use? or has the university made changes as protocol and guidelines based on real life experiences? >> we do evolve our policies and procedures. we learned a lot from each of the patients, particularly the first patient that we housed. we put a completely self-contained laboratory unit in so laboratory specimens are not transported outside the unit. we are also privileged and there's been a lot of discussion about waste management, is we decontaminate all the waste as it leaves the unit. so there's no transportation of waste material outside of of the unit. which makes it much safer for th

university currently has on their website which are labeled draft, which i think that means even for emory is experienced with treating these kinds of illnesses. we currently have waste management protocols. we have the u.s. department of transportation has many regulations and there's an enormous patchwork of state and local regulations about the management and handling of the bio hazardous waste. so come at the same time the few cases that we have in the united states have posed in the challenges in terms of the quantities of the ways that have been generated. on the one case the entire truck pulled up after the appointment to haul off the waste and in dallas with one patient 140 barrels 55-gallon barrels were generated and in fact there were controversies about how the ashes were incinerating the waste would be handled in for the competing not to take those actions so we will produce a workshop report that will be prepared by the institute of medicine. this will be publicly available what transpired here at the workshop. there will be further deliberations by the planning committee. wha

emory street is a quick hop to the plaza. today chp finished its investigation.nce, drugs. also auto theft, driving the wrong way, and driving without a license. reporting live in oakland, debora villalon, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> it's still mind boggling that she made it 2 miles driving the wrong direction on the bay bridge. debora, thank you. >>> and started work to replace expansion joints on the bridge but then caltrans stopped that project and removed plates after morning traffic began slowing to a crawl. the new plan calls for the work to resume tomorrow. it will now take place at night and without those steel plates. officials warned traffic may be limited to one lane. crews are expected to work monday through saturday for the next two months. >>> the department of homeland security has come out with a scathing review of the role of the secret service in the recent case of that intruder at the white house. a man armed with a small knife got over the fence then ran inside the white house before he was stopped. the review says alarm systems and radios didn'

emory had their first wins. >>> thank you, jamie. what a way to start off the week with dancing and country music. that starts at 8:00. two hours of "dancing with the stars." at 10:00 it's the countdown of cmas after that one hour special is "action news" at 11:00. and alicia vitarelli is in tennessee to captured the excitement. she is live tweeting behind the scenes pictures and more from the private party. the live report starts tomorrow on "action news." >>> and a-listers from the media and entertainment worlds mourned oscar de la renta. mong thosamong those attending e oscar de la renta. mong thosamong those attending e funeral was hillary clinton we thought our cable internet was fast. but, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really half-fast. so half-fast. someone did a half-fast job posting our vacation pics. stop living with half fast internet. only verizon fios comes with speedmatch - uploads as fast as downloads. so his homework won't be so half-fast? that is up to him. get a fios triple play

gold and the team there, who have had the opportunity to spend time and talk to, and the emory folks, what we have done is there is funding about the creation of an education training facility and it is our hope that both of those institutions will team with cdc. we will do financing for those institutions to be part of our training of the other institutions and hospitals around the country. with regard to the specific issue of treatment and the treatment of patients, to date, much of the conversation has been between private insurers and the hospitals themselves. if this is something that the congress -- to date it has not been an issue that has come to us. if this is something that folks want to discuss as part of this funding, we're happy to entertain that. >> great. it's an appropriate discussion because the private insurer, when they look at the cost of care for an ebola patient, i mean, it's through the roof. they will cover a minuscule amount if there is private insurance coverage. it will come nowhere near to cover the cost. and i will tell you what you know already. and that

. >> i went to emory anniversary. i found myself wanting to do business, not sit in class. i started selling fake ids. i realized i was going to get caught. >> you became a promoter when you were 19? >> the reason i dropped out of school's is because there was a guidance counselor. he told me the story of robert woodruff. robert woodruff is one of billion. this is almost impossible. >> i think i understand now. >> did you prove him wrong? >> i don't think he cares. >> do you care? kid tobecause i want my go to college someday. he told me that i should not believe in my dream. while we are young, this is when we should take chances. >> i read a book about one of the founders of dreamworks. i read another book about richard branson. >> you became quite a celebrity on the atlanta hip-hop scene. you threw a party for britney spears. >> this, i was a good party promoter. >> when did you get your first big break? jermaineht have been dupree given me an opportunity. you could have been steve rifkin, the founder of loud records. his first person to give me a record deal when no one

i grew up not far from here, in miami and went on to emory university watching john lewis. and lift the games and went to university of chicago for my nba and law degree, among other things. and we were in graduate school. we bought our home in a pricey suburban chicago, had two beautiful baby girls, living the perfect american dream story but why do something this extreme to prove our love for our people and our willingness to stand up for them? likely not doing anything, active in the youth ministry, john was a mentor with the black man, teaching our girls to love themselves, their god, their country, and once in a while we donated to black candidates when the broker enough. wasn't that enough? philanthropy is commendable but it is does not recall the philanthropist to overlook economic injustice which makes philanthropy necessary. i am going to teach on saturday morning, circulating and the community's bank retailers for 28 days. our jewish friends pier 19 days, predominantly white suburbs, 17 days, keep their daughters for a week, the black community we are celebrating

michael shure, al jazeera america political analyst, andra gillispie, professor of political science at emory university in atlanta, and mike viqueira with al jazeera america. this my help decide if hillary clinton wants her photograph taken with president obama. >> hillary clinton, if she's the democratic nominee, it's looking good for her. on the white board on th the wall all individuals who are considering run for president. there is no shortage of candidates, many of them can be dismissed relatively quickly, but it's going to start early, and it's going to be very expensive. >> in terms of some of the issues that we're talking about here, the economy is so bad and so anemic for so long, it sort of god baked in. and the obama administration is frustrated that they're not getting ready for the expansion that is the robust growth that you're seeing right now, and legitimately this is something that the president has cited time and time again. wage earners are disproportionate. it has hurt them perception-wise. the economy has had fits and starts. recover summer they set the bar high. they d

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bruce ribner has overseen the care of four ebola patients at the emory university hospit hospital. mr. ribner, thank you very much for joining us. first, just quickly, is it accurate to say that the recovery rate at this point in the u.s. far better than it is in west africa? >> the recovery rate in the united states is substantially better than in west africa or the cases in central africa, yes. >> woodruff: and why is that? >> ebola virus disease basically ravishes every organ in the body, and what the patient needs is aggressive support until the body can control the virus and the functions of the various organs can recover. unfortunately, the infrastructure in most of africa is such that our colleagues over there are not capable of aggressive supportive measures. we have the luxury of very good infrastructure, and so we would anticipate that while our fatality rates in the u.s. would not be zero, they would be substantially less than the rates we see in africa. >> woodruff: what do you mean by "infrastructure?" >> in other words, when we receive our patients from africa, more o

the doctors work at institutes including emory university hospital and reported their findings in the new england journal of medicine. two patients had been flown back in august from liberia. the doctors say they found both people had a shortage of water, poe tas yum and calcium in the blood. they gave them each five liters of fluids every day and saw them start to recover in two weeks. the doctors say their experience is limited. they say the techniques they used won't necessarily work with all ebola patients. still they suggest aggressive hydration using a drip can help some survive. >>> people across the united states have been spending more at retailers. they bought more goods online last month and spent more on automobiles. officials at the commerce department say retail sales rose 0.3%, to $444 billion. the figure had been down in september for the first time in eight months. consumers spent more on automobiles and auto parts. they spent less on gasoline because of lower oil prices. cheaper gas means people will likely keep spending more on other things. here are the latest mark

it was either at emory or it was at nebraska or other places. the second is the inadvertent importation of someone who gets sick some place else, doesn't know they're sick, and comes here and the illness is manifested here. we have two examples of that. thomas duncan who went to dallas and craig spencer, the new york physician from columbia who got sick over there, came back here and when he realized he was sick, he got admitted to bell vue. the third is secondary spread from an inadvertent case. there isn't any. so craig spencer didn't spread it to any, so there's no cases. the other, health care workers in the united states who have taken care of patients. and we have two of those. nancy pham who i had the privilege of taking care of myself at the nih and amber vinson who was also infected and taken care of first at dallas and then at emory. and then lastly is the secondary spread from those health care workers. and there's been none. nina pham did not spread it to anybody nor did amber vinson. you have to be careful when you talk about ebola

so everybody's heard about the ebola, these management strategy at emory with an autoclaving unit on the ward. many hospitals don't have a large autoclave. they don't have portable autoclaves and so the question of, how to move that waste around has generated, you know, new discussions between agencies that hadn't been involved, dr. leduc, reported borderline ludicrous decisions and failure and these are thinking through up front how to manage something. what are just in time management strategies for hospitals. should the nurse at the triage desk call an infectious disease consult or initiate the hospital incident command system? this is emergency management stuff and most hospitals hadn't thought that through. is there a lesson for us where is the boundary between appropriate use of surgical masks and respirators? the cdc put 95s and paprs up but in fact paprs come up with different strategies. there are paprs with protection factor of 25. there are paprs with protection factor of 1,000. they were determined with sarin contaminated patients and many hospitals purchased those. what

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she was declared free of the virus after treatment in emory hospital in atlanta. she said it was excruciating and wasn't sure she'd make it through. amber said in an interview she still does not know how she contracted the disease. >> i have no idea. i go through it almost daily in my mind like what happened? what went wrong? because i was covered completely every time. i followed the cdc protocol for donning and offering every time. i never strayed. it is a mystery to me. >> even today amber says she is still weak and gets tired very easily. she said she gets breathless just walking short distances, but she says she is gaining more strength each day. >>> house speaker john boehner and presumed senate majority leader mitch mcconnell laid out their vision for the new gop controlled congress. the pair are on the same page spelling out goals in a wall street journal op ed today approving the keystone excel pipeline is a priority, as is repealing obamacare. they claim it is hurting the job market and americans' healthcare. another hot topic? immigration. the speaker w

we had emory there. we had the n.i.h. there and we had others. at the data,ooked tim from the cdc presented all of the data. we had no ideaat what works or what doesn't work, anause it was just given on empirical basis, which is a very clinicalgument for trials. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, madam chair. forirst question is assistant secretary lumpkin. in your statement, you mentioned that 112 million of the president's recent request for the emergency funding will go to develop technologies and provide temporary immunity. defensetand that the threat reduction agency has been looking for rapidly available treatment.nes and so first, can you elaborate on for darfa will be looking with the requested funds and whether there are tech nothings in -- technologies in the pipeline that you'll promise for the short term? >> first of all, i don't propose to promise anything. this is a research capability. tore trying to fund it accelerate development programs. and i think the key to look at in conjunction with n.i.h. efforts, in conjunction with di

>> we are working with emory with the cdc and asper standing up on educational protocols and visiting other institutions across the united states to help them enhance their readiness, hosting teams from other discussions across the united states. in nebraska we recently had a team of 9 or 10 people from joh johns hopkins unit. as well as a series of protocols used for certification of readiness and maintenance of readiness. >> when you say you advised the administration, have you spoken with mr. klein, the ebola czar? >> yes, several times. >> did the administration, did they incorporate your recommendations and did they reject any of your recommendations? >> we're working specifically with dr. lurie, who was your guest here a little bit earlier. we speak probably daily on the development of these protocols. there's a conference call scheduled for friday. >> you feel they are accepting your recommendations? >> thus for a, yes. >> good. >> thus far, yes. >> and dr. isaac, in your testimony, you talked about people in planes being checked temperature-wise every so often. what did you sa

my name is petty, the director for environmental health and safety and providing support to the emory unit. cochair for the iso development of an international standard, which the next g off your the next . few weeks. in addition, i am the global director for a nonprofit who does work in africa -- aand i actually worked with nigeria setting up their response to evil. so -- ebola. so, as a bio management geek, seeing this panel appears phenomenal. it is exciting to see the efforts and the enthusiasm looking at some of the science and technology that is going into it. in my former life, is to do pharmaceutical research. dr. howard, with regard to compound handling -- there is one group that is not at the table, and that is the usda. if we look at our containment facilities for large animal research, you do see a lot of this type of technology with ppe working around large animals that are in containment. the africa issue, it is not just africa, it is a lot of the developing countries. tremendous ent a amount of resources -- billions and billions of dollars on security -- and it security

gold and the team there, who have had the opportunity to spend time and talk to, and the emory folks, what we have done is there is funding about the creation of an education training facility and it is our hope that both of those institutions will team with cdc. we will do financing for those institutions to be part of our training of the other institutions and hospitals around the country. with regard to the specific issue of treatment and the treatment of patients, to date, much of the conversation has been between private insurers and the hospitals themselves. if this is something that the congress -- to date it has not been an issue that has come to us. if this is something that folks want to discuss as part of this funding, we're happy to entertain that. >> great. it's an appropriate discussion because the private insurer, when they look at the cost of care for an ebola patient, i mean, it's through the roof. they will cover a minuscule amount if there is private insurance coverage. it will come nowhere near to cover the cost. and i will tell you what you know already. and that

in a distance a couple of places away and he seemed to be having a kind of revelry, savering some emoriesen he blew the candles out. >> i loved this man. for the thousands of us who worked with ben. if was not it was this love and the real question is why. because he spoke and dealt with all of us personally. he touched each of us in almost every encounter or discussion with ben, no matter how fleeting, he made you feel better about yourself. he left you with the feeling not just that he accepted you, but that he loved you in return. he made you want to be better and, yes, had more fun, not just for yourself, but for him, whether it was a 19-year-old summer intern, a beginning reporter in an outer county where ben had never visited, or the spouses of the staff. and here i wanted to list names of people who worked for ben and wouldy wife reminded me i have to read the whole staff directory or portions of it over 26 years. ben made -- made you feel that your enterprises, whatever they were, were the most important in the world. so it might only be for a few seconds, short attention span you

rain, a bipartisan group gathered under trench coats and y umbrellas and tents to plant a tree in emory till. he was 14 years old when he was beaten, tortured and murdered while visiting relatives in mississippi in 1955. if you think about your civil rights history, 1955 is early. it helped spark the civil rights movement in the south, particularly after his mother insisted on him being buried in an open casket so the world could see what had been done to her son in mississippi. well, today, in washington, emmett till was officially recognized for this sort of living memorial at the capitol. nearly 60 years after his death. attorney general eric holder spoke about it. >> although emmett till died senselessly and far too soon, it can never, it can never be said that he died in vain. his tragic murder gallon andized millions to action. and today we commemorate this legacy by planting a tree in his honor, a tree that will become his living memorial, here at the heart of our republic, in the shadow of the united states capitol. like the work it symbolizes and the cause it represents, this t

rangers score 3 times on ray emory. and jt miller passes by the flyers on the end around. flyers dropped 8 of their last 9 games, this season, confidence is killing us. >> it's mental, i truly believe that. it's a confidence things for sure, i think that the on the hockey game is going the other way. >> that's sports, i'm jeff skeverski. have a good day. >> christmas started early for a family in chester county. santa claus surprised 18-month-old will i willian and her parents with thousands of dollars and a christmas tree in spring city. the family was chosen for the secret mission, because lilly sulphurs from a rare birth defect. a charity called operation nine reindeer ohing the the whole thing to give them something to smile about this holiday season. tempted not to come in with a coat on this morning. it was so cold. it was so cold yesterday morning, when i stepped outside this morning, i was like oh, my goodness, felt like we picked up and moved somewhere else. there's the view, the ben franklin bridge, a warm front has pulled through, just a few high, thin clouds, l

mason in florida starting for the first time after being out almost two weeks in favor of ray emory.yers kicking themselves after another bad start in the first. mitchell the goal. mason and the flyers fall behind 1-0. claude giroux stopped the power play. the fans falling asleep late in the third, panthers add another, mason says, flyers played their best when he was on the bench. look at that, that's when he this get their first goal. flyers lose 2-1. mason still without a win. that's sports, i'm jeff skeverski have a good day. imagine a health plan that gives you zero. as in zero copays. if you're on medicare and eligible for medicaid, gateway health has a medicare advantage plan for you. gateway health medicare assured diamond gives you better coverage, benefits, and service, plus zero monthly premiums. and zero copay for primary care and specialist visits, hospitalization and er, even transportation. call 1-877-gateway today! for a better plan. and a better you. >> it is 28:00 this blustery -- it is 7:28 this blustery chilly sunday morning. >> a member of the mummers hall of fam