3,300 people have died, according to the world health organization, in new york with me now is brian walshr time magazine and edited'd today's cover story about ebola and laurie garrett senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations. and dr. william schaffner, the of vanderbilt university, welcome everybody. thanks for coming. >> bill, why don't you start off on if giving everybody, assume people know nothing, give us a little primer on go larks why don't you tell people what it is. >> so this is a virus that actually lives in the wild, largely among fruit bats and very successfully and only occasionally gets out into human populations. and starting in 1976, it has caused a series of outbreaks largely in the congo, not exclusively there, usually in rural villages, the villagers got interacted with animals and products to the fruit bats, became infected themselves and those outbreaks were relatively quickly contained. it was a serious virus, because when it got into people, it had high fatality rates, sometimes as high as 90 percent. sometimes lower. now, more recently,

richard karmona and brian walsh. again, we're keeping tabs on the call. none of the initial patients, individuals, rather, who came into contact with thomas eric duncan have shown any symptoms. the focus is much more on health care workers now. and there's some new information from that briefing. the second patient traveled to ohio before it was known that the first worker was infected. we're going to keep you updated on anything that comes out of that briefing call. are we able to go to -- we are going to go to a break, i believe. and when we come back, an update on the situation in the fight against isis. stay with us, everybody. are you on medicare? do you have the coverage you need? open enrollment ends december 7th. don't put it off 'til later. now's the time to get on a path that could be right for you... with unitedhealthcare medicare solutions. call today to learn about the kinds of coverage we offer, including aarp medicarecomplete plans insured through unitedhealthcare. these medicare advantage plans can combine parts a and b, your hospital and

brian walsh rejoins me here as we watch the landing of that plane. coverage started that american hospitals are ready to handle ebola cases. we know how to do it. we have plenty of people on before it got to the point where american hospitals were tested on this. saying that they could do it. but the first cases we saw went directly to emery, the highly specialized location for this. and now we're seeing a major american hospital, i don't know how to interpret this. can we say giving up in texas on trying to provide the best treatment and simply saying there's a better place to go? which, let's point out, in american medicine is not unusual. there's plenty of places you can be, world-class institutions who say the best treatment for this is actually in new york or in minnesota and you should go there for that. >> i think this is showing that now we're going to move these patients as much as possible to these specialized institutions where the training is in place, where the beds are in place, where they'll get the best hospital care and probably more

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brian walsh. dr. do any of these courses of treatment show any promise to be the ultimate choice for a mainstream widely available treatment plan? >> well, ronan, the canadian vaccine you mentioned as well as another one being tested by nih in africa, the u.s., and the uk have been shown to be very effective in primates or monkeys. but they have been v not been tested in humans up until now. it's a tord say whether they will work. the first type of testing you do for any type of experimental vaccine is just to see whether it's safe to give. not people with ebola. >> brian, take a listen to what the canadian minister of health said about this. >> the canadian vaccine provides great hope and promise because it has been shown to be 100% effective in preventing the spread of the ebola virus when tested on animals. >> so echoing what dr. yasmin was saying about this being promising, but there are also calls for larger human samples to be tested next. is that code for running tests in west africa and would

. >> yes item 16 litigation between michael walsh and city and county of san francisco. next is brian hill versus city and county of san francisco. item 18 jean o'connell. item 19 anticipated as litigation against defendant. next is city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric company. 21 city and county of san francisco versus pacific gas and electric company. item 22 pacific gas and electric company versus the city and county of san francisco and item 23 will not be heard today. >> okay. is there any public comment on the items for closed session? seeing none -- >> i move to assert. >> second. >> all those if favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion carries . >> the commission is now back from closed session. i would like to read the following from closed session. item 16 settled of the item 17 and 18 settle d. item 19 no action and imrm items 20, 21, 22 and 23 were taken off calendar, so may i have a motion to whether to disclose discussions of closed session? >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all those in favor? the motion fails. any new business? >> [inaudib