place they've been pushing hard but haven't gotten everything they wanted, jose. >> the great chris jansingthank you so much for being with me and breaking important news on this broadcast. the president has decided who the ebola czar will be. chris, thank you so much. >>> i show you the news conference that we're expecting in about nine minutes. there you see the live shot from the nih conference that we expect on the ebola crisis. we've got a lot of other stories for you with this hour. bermuda is right now bracing for a major hurricane. this morning hurricane gonzalo is packing wind up to 145 miles per hour. coming up we'll have a live report from the island. an update on the pacific storm. >>> also, a flash back friday on the west coast. the bay area is marking 25 years since the earthquake. 6.9 magnitude quake killed 63 people. it was most destructive earthquake since the 1906 quake and fire. travis i we'll be back with more. this one into right! the giants win! rt attack. but i did. i'm mike, and i'm very much alive. now my doctor recommends a bayer aspirin regimen to help prevent ano

he called in key advisors for another strategy session on this chris jansing at the white house for us tonight. chris, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this is the second straight day president obama canceled commafening. after tonight's meeting, he suggested for the first time that he might appoint someone to see the response of all the different agencies, an ebola czar. >> 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 ts and dotting all the is going forward. also today, the president signed an executive order. the pentagon calling the national guard and reserves cutting through red tape to get to the source of the disease in liberia quickly. >> chris jansing, thank you. >>> more focus tonight on the commercial flights that the dallas nurse, amber vinson took to ohio and back, as fellow passengers have been told to stay home. nbc's tom costello has more. tom, good evening. >> frontier airlines says it's now reaching out to people who

brian. >> chris jansing on the white house north lawn. chris, thanks. >>> now to the fears ebola has caused especially to do with travel. more focus on the commercial flights that the dallas nurse, amber vinson, took to ohio and back, as fellow passengers have been told to stay home. nbc's tom costello with that end of the story. he's at dulles airport outside d.c. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. frontier airlines says it's now reaching out to people who were on five flights after amber vinson was on a plane. but those five flights used the same plane. out of an abundance of caution, they say the risk to those passengers is thought to be near zero and very low for the people who were actually on the plane with amber vinson. frontier airlines says the plane that carried nurse amber vinson has been cleaned and thoroughly disinfected out of an abundance of caution. the airline has replaced seat covers and carpet around her seat. meanwhile, health authorities have been reaching out to other passengers onboard flight 1143. >> they to

nbc's chris jansing has the story from the white house tonight. >> reporter: it was the ride 56-year-old jeffrey fowle of ohio, husband of tatiana, father of three, had been waiting six long months to get. >> we can confirm that jeffrey fowle has been allowed to depart the dprk and is on his way home to rejoin his family. >> reporter: fowle had gone to north korea on a tourist visa, and after leaving a bible in a hotel, he was arrested, accused of proselitizing in a country that sees religion as a threat to government. he made a heartfelt plea to be released. state department officials say the deal happened very fast. there was a small window to get the plane and its military crew from hawaii to pyongyang. >> mrs. fowle and the children miss jeffrey very much. >> reporter: his lawyer expects fowle to be home tomorrow. and a city where he was an equipment operator for 26 years, moraine, ohio, posted a "welcome back" message on its website. fowl is one of seven americans released from north korea in the last five years. but two are still being held. matthew miller and kenneth bae, both rep

nbc's chris jansing is the only television journalist traveling with her and has our report tonight on the ambassador's journey to sierra leone. >> reporter: it took a plane, bus and water taxi to get ambassador smngtr oot samantha power to freetown. the almost-empty airport another victim of ebola. to beat the disease more foreigners will have to come to help. but restrictions in the u.s. have made people nervous about coming. >> the last thing we want is to stigmatize people doing work here. >> reporter: power is trying to get a handle on just how many health care workers they'd lose here if there's a mandatory quarantine. >> there's a category of people we need to be effective in persuading to come who are kind of hanging back and wondering. so those are the people that we're in constant communication with. >> reporter: the topic came up repeatedly today across ten meetings and site visits for power, often carrying her green notebook jotting ideas. you take a lot of notes. >> i do. my background as a former journalist, i can't help myself. everyone washes their hands in chlorinated

brian. >> chris jansing on the north lawn of the white house tonight. chris, thanks. >>> all of these jitters about ebola actually contributed to a wild day on wall street. when you think about it it makes some sort of sense that airline stocks took a big hit in particular. at one point the dow was down 460 points before rebounding some, finishing the day down 173. nasdaq, s&p were down as well. there is good economic news as well, especially gas prices. cnbc's david faber to talk about all of it. the market has been making a lot of news. >> it is. you certainly can't discount ebola. there's certainly fear. fear moves markets and to the extent that's growing, that's having an impact. as well as a practical impact. if we believe people will change their behavior, perhaps they won't travel as much and we've seen airlines and car rental company stocks come down even before this recent dip in the market. it's not just ebola. there's also continued concerns geopolitically, russia, ukraine, growing battle against isis of course in syria and iraq. and global gr

official to make such a visit and spoke exclusively with chris jansing who is traveling with her. >> reporter: from the time samantha power got off the overnight flight, the day became a race of meetings and formal welcomes, updates and photo ops. this one with the president of guinea. she wants to pressure other countries to do more than appreciate the u.s. response. >> they, themselves haven't taken the responsibility to send doctors or beds or a reasonable amount of money so i want to check out the situation on the ground assess the situation. >> reporter: guinea needs the help. it is one of the poorest countries on the planet and already lost about 900 lives to ebola. so at every stop, health protocols for all of us, including the ambassador who got a shot of hand sanitizer and had her temperature taken three times today. billboards warn of the dangers of ebola but a majority of the people here can't read them. that is where religious leaders come in. the grand imam is sending instructions to the 12,000 mosques. but now this growing concern, that if american health care workers h

our senior white house correspondent chris jansing has our report. >> send alison to the senate. >> reporter: from the start of her campaign democrats thought alison lundergan grimes was a strong bet to beat the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell. then this. >> did you vote for president obama? >> this election isn't about the president. >> did you vote for him? >> i respect the sanctity of the ballot box. >> you are not going to answer? >> again, i don't think the president is on the ballot. >> reporter: seven times in seven days she refused to say if she voted for the president, including last night during the only debate of this close race. >> you won't answer that question tonight? >> every kentuckian has the right for privacy at the ballot box. >> reporter: when the white house tried to make light of it all. >> i'll tell you that i voted for the president. >> reporter: but the democratic senate campaign committee which has put $2 million into the race, seems to be giving up on her. they stopped paying for ads. and other democrats are using their own air time to distance thems

let's go live to nbc senior white house correspondent chris jansing. what is the president's reaction? >> reporter: the official statement is that the president accepted julia pierson's resignation, this is their wording. recent and accumulating reports about the performance of the agency required new leadership. but once it was clear that in a series of cases, the president and members of his family were in danger, the situation had really become untenable. and the most recent example, press secretary josh earnest acknowledging that the white house was informed of a breach on september 16th. an armed man with a questionable history on the elevator with the president in atlanta when he went to the cdc. only yesterday they found out about it just before published reports came out. >> only yesterday is when the president -- >> reporter: only yesterday. wow. and i pressed him. what is the standard operating procedure if there is a security breach. he said the white house should be notified. you'll remember those who listened to julia pierson's testimony,

brian. >> chris jansing, sierra leone tonight. >>> now in this country an update on the deadly school shooting we reported. we are learning the suspect had lured his five victims via text message to sit with him at a table in the cafeteria bringing them all together right before he opened fire. we get more tonight from nbc's joe fryer. >> reporter: the marysville pilchuck community paused for a moment of silence at 10:39 this morning, the time of friday's shooting. >> i ask us all now to take one minute to be silent and to reflect. >> reporter: it was especially emotional at the hospital that has treated four of the victims. last night one of their patients, 14-year-old gi gia soriano, died. the hospital read a statement from her family. >> gia is our beautiful daughter and words cannot express how much we will miss her. we've made the decision to donate gia's organs so that others may benefit. >> reporter: another victim died friday. she was honored at a candle light vigil where a family friend delivered a message from zoe's mother. >> she loved her baby so much. just let them know h

. >>> this is chris jansing in liberia. from 10,000 feet, the osprey helicopter descends into the heart of the ebola epidemic. for u.n. ambassador samantha power, it's a close-up look at americans on the front lines of the fight. >> we service the remote regions of this part of liberia. >> reporter: the u.s. navy set up a mobile lab that's cut the agonizing wait time for ebola test results from six days to four hours. then a rough ride into the jungle to an ebola treatment unit. the staff includes ten americans. >> you can't really see it from here, but the other side, that's our triage area. >> reporter: we saw it from outside a barrier at a safe distance. recruiting health care professionals to work inside has been a real challenge. >> even the humanitarians are afraid to come here. >> reporter: why? >> it's new. it's invisible. >> reporter: i talked about that fear with liberia's american-educated president ellen johnson-sirleaf. are you worried americans will stop coming? >> i'm not worried, but i'm a little bit concern

. >> and chris jansing, b understandably, the president has been notified of this. what are you hearing from the white house? >> yeah, he's been kept up to date. i talked to a senior administration official who said he was in the daily briefing as all of this was breaking. he would have been with his national security adviser susan rice. and speaking of homeland security, lisa monaco, as well, homeland security adviser. and the whole relationship changed when homeland security was created after 9/11. so that's a close working relationship that they have. but also, and while it's important to note, again, as you've been doing that there's no motive that's been ascribed to this. there has been heightened concern in canada, and that just happened on october 8th that canada would join the u.s.-led coalition against isis, and they agreed to take part in some of what was happening in iraq. they've contributed six cf-18s, fighter jets, crews, reconnaissance, aircraft. that has been very much top of mind at the white house in this relationship. the big story out of here tod

our team coverage continues with chris jansing. you have more on the chatter and continued threat from isis. >> reporter: the president spoke just a short time ago in the oval office. the key question, what does this mean for you at security? we haven't seen any visible changes for you or the white house on capitol hill. this is a very important set of questions for us, as the president pointed out. canada a long partner with us because of our economic and geographic locations. we don't have enough information yet to assess in detail what this might mean. having said that, going back to the general assembly there have been a lot of meetings between u.s. officials and other world leaders what it means for foreign fighters. this is the kind of key information they're looking at. he was in a meeting supposed to be about ebola with the new ebola czar, ron klain but also there h homeland security advisor and other officials of this is national security team and we know they're in touch with canadian counterparts tonight. right now, the

chris jansing traveled with u.s. ambassador to the u.n.inea. >> it was a dizzying first day in guinea for samantha power. >together, we can beat this epidemic. >> from press conferences, to a visit with the influential president. she's been greeted with open arms. >> in terms of money and people, america's leading the charge by far, right? >> in another league. >> her five-day, five-country fact finding trip aimed at getting ammunition that will help bring other countries on board to fight ebola and not >> we will not deal with the epidemic unless we deal with it at its source and dealing with it at its source is going to require international health workers to come to offer leadership, to help mobilizq society here. >> her biggest obstacle, fear of ebolp even people on the front lines treating patients from the beginning of the outbreak. >> weren't you afraid? seven months in, he's worried that much-needed international health care workers will stop coming because the number of cases keeps growing. >> if everybody's running away, who will

let's turn to the white house and nbc's chris jansing. hris, you have people demanding that the flights are banned from parts of africa. here is what the cdc is saying about that. they say, banning flights makes it harder to get help. the disease spreads more within these countries. it spreads to other parts of africa. and within a few minutes we're dealing with outbreaks in many parts of africa, so basically, chris, let's stop asking this question. it's not going to help. and it's not going to happen. >> and there is a lot of pushback from the white house. they had a big meeting in the roosevelt yesterday. top white house officials, top public health officials, department of defense, and of course the president was there. they have to be able to get both people and supplies in there. it's not that they don't have great hospitals in these countries. jdtqi rp+e no public he infrastructure at all. there has been absolutely no treatment. they're basically building a health infrastructure from scratch. so, while there are economic reasons they

joining me now is nbc news correspondent chris jansing, susan crabtree, susan broke the secret service news today. and u.s. historian michael beshlov. apparently the skres service has not offered an explanation. >> she met with the president last week. she gave him an update on the investigation on the latest incident. did not offer her resignation but obviously the pressure is on. it was hard to find anyone on capitol hill who had a nice thing to say. they kept using words like outrageous and disgraceful. even though only a few have called directly for her resignation, there's no doubt about the fact they weren't happy with her performance and certainly not happy with what's gong on at the secret service. you had two major new revelations in just the last 24 hours in addition to what we've seen over the last couple of weeks. so again, the pressure is on, the white house being very measure in what the to say about the secret service and julia pierson, something you can auns, given the fact that these are men and women, many of them extraordinarily competent who put their lives on the l

joining me now, the senior white house correspondent chris jansing.ow is the president addressing this situation in canada tonight? >> well, late this afternoon he was meeting with his senior advisers and we know he was in a prescheduled meeting with his homeland security adviser when he first got word of what happened in ottawa. and she has been getting him updates throughout the day. we heard from him a short time ago after he met with his new ebola czar and said obviously we're all shaken by it and asked what it mental for u.s. security, he said it is too soon to tell but it is something that will have to be factored into our ongoing assessment of how we deal with the threat of terrorism. and there have been these ongoing allegations of foreign fighters. we don't know exactly what the motivation is here. but the president has had conversations with canadian officials in the past. as have other members of this administration. in part because on october 8, the canadian parliament voted to join the war against isis to join in the air strikes in iraq.

joining us with some insight is nbc news senior white house correspondent, chris jansing. did the protocols work according to plan last night? >> reporter: yeah, that's the first thing, jim and wendy, the white house will say, is this time it worked. obviously, they have that embarrassing incident back in september when somebody scaled the wall and actually got well into the white house. this time he was stopped very quickly with those dogs who have become instant celebrities. but this will be reviewed, nevertheless, every time there is a fence-jumper. it's not an unusual occurrence. there is a review. but there is a larger review that is ongoing as a result of some of the more embarrassing incidents that happened, including that one in september. some of the things they're looking at is are there different ways they ought to be using personnel. are there different, better uses of technology. is there technology they don't have now that they should. and maybe the biggest question is about those barriers, and you heard him saying it was easy to get over. they have this seco

chris jansing, what can you tell us about how the administration is responding to this?nd talked to lisa monaco, the president's homeland security adviser. she told me she did speak to the president and updated him this morning. he is following this very closely, obviously, and as you well know, alex, he spoke to the prime minister of canada yesterday, late yesterday and pledged support. lisa monaco told me this is in particular from the intelligence and law enforcement community, investigative help that they might need and the big picture we heard is something that this administration has been talking about for a while and that is the lone wolf scenario, the counterterrorism efforts that are in place to make sure that that doesn't happen and so that is a key component of the conversations that are going on in the white house today. >> nbc news' chris jansing, always good to see you. >> coming up, ted cruz is on a crusade against the texas equal rights law and we'll break down his latest ted talk coming up next. there are more reasons than ever why now is the best time t

chris jansing is in the capital of guinea with her exclusive interview. chris? >> i'm where dr. craig spencer contracted ebola in conkary. certainly gives urgency to the trip. she's worried about it requiring a three-week quarantine. worried that health professionals like dr. spencer won't want to come to the region. she called the new regulations not well thought out. >> people in this country have fear of the unknown. fear of ebola. >> reasonable fear. >> is there good reason? ebola is an epidemic and why president obama is leading the world trying to ensure we can stop it in its tracks which we know we can do based on past experience but which is challenging and something that's got thn big. we cannot take measures here to impact the ability to flood the zone. i think we have to find the right balance between addressing legitimate fears people have and encouraging and incentivizing heroes. they are heroes. american heroes. we have to incentivize that and find ways to do it while ensuring that the american people feel safe. they feel safe over time certainly is when we beat th

nbc's chris jansing is traveling with ambassador power and has the latest from sierra leone in wet africa. >> reporter: we just arrived in sierra leone and the ambassador has a lot on her plate. let me tell you about a conversation we had on the way over here. she said the u.s. is asking international aid organizes to talk to their american employees and here's quote. if you knew when it came time to go home to see your family back in the states and you might be quarantined, would you still be willing to work in an ebola infected area? the early answers have been troubling. here's the concern. the concern is they need americans here. they need americans to take the lead. american doctors, health care workers. we already know that the military has been in this region, setting up remote hospitals, health care centers. people say now they don't want to come here. it's going to set things back. we're at a point where there are 10,000 cases of ebola. there's another part of this trip. and it is really one that is all about diplomacy. it's about really putting pressure on other countries to get

. >> nbc senior white house correspondent chris jansing live for us this morning. it seems like the president is doubling down now. >> good morning. yes, obviously a big push this we saw since the naming of klain. president obama had an emergency response team meeting. who we didn't see there was ron klain. he's somebody who the white house expected to push back. he's also somebody with manag managerial experience. what they needed was somebody to oversee all these different governmental agencies. that's what they're looking for ron klain to do. although, craig, he was here at the white house on saturday, they said he was basically taking care of paperwork. >> all right, chris jansing from the white house, thank you. more ahead from the ground here in dallas. including new guidelines coming from the cdc as we learn more about how the two dallas nurses contracted ebola. we'll talk about that. plus, a major discovery could mark a grim end to the five-week search for missing virginia college student hannah graham. we will go live to charlottesville, virginia, on the o

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nbc's senior white house correspondent chris jansing is traveling with the ambassador and she has thispdate from liberia. >> good morning, craig, today, she will meet with military officials at one of their base of operations where they send out planes and supplies for the three countries that have been hit so hard by liberia, including liberia. yesterday, i sat down with liberia's president. >> you need to get past your fears. you need to work with us and partner with us. this is a disease that if not true partnership is properly contained, you will be more at risk. >> throughout this week, including her meeting with president sirleaf, powers has been on a fact-finding mission. she will take a lot of what she's learned and bring it to brussels in a major speech calling on the international community to get more involved in the fight against ebola. >> chris jansing, thank you. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker joins us now with more on president obama's plans today. kristen, what do we know? >> hey, craig, good morning. we know president obama will meet with health care

joining me now, chris jansing. you are not just the senior white house correspondent, but in effect, a white house security correspondent knees days. we compiled a list of some of the breaches of security going back to 2009 starting with that instance of the reality tv stars, crashing a steak dinner, going through a sign language interpreter next to mandela's memorial. a lot of incidents of this agency coming under fire. this revelation of the convict being close to the president making a lot of waves, as well. is the white house maintaining its confidence in julia pearson today? >> as of this morning today, you have to listen to some of the things they're saying that the president is very concerned for the safety and security of his family. josh ernest pressed several times yesterday about whether or not the public was misled by secret service officials saying it is a legitimate public interest to ask these questions and get them answered honestly and quickly. and then elijah cummings, very close to the president

nbc's chris jansing is the only television journalist traveling with the ambassador. >> reporter: it was a dizzying first day in guinea for u.n. ambassador samantha power. >> together we can beat this epidemic. >> reporter: from press conferences to meeting with the imam. she's been greeted with open arms. the u.s. is leading the charge? her five-day, fact-finding trip, aimed at getting ammunition that will help bring other countries on board to fight ebola and not just with money. >> we will not deal with the epidemic unless we deal with it at its source and dealing with it at its source is going to require international health workers to come to offer leadership, to help mobilize society here. >> reporter: her biggest obstac obstacle, fear of ebola. ear dr. bah, who's been on the front lines treating patients from the beginning of the outbreak. aren't you afraid? >> yes, i was afraid. >> reporter: seven months in, he's worried that much needed international health care workers will stop coming because the number of cases keeps growing. >> if anybody's afraid, everybody is running a

nbc's chris jansing is on the north lawn for us. we thought the new ebola czar would be grabbing all the headlines today. that certainly didn't turn out to be the case. >> reporter: in fact, the president is in the oval office with the new ebola czar, ron klain, right now. we expect comments at the end of that meeting. we wouldn't be surprised at all if he had something to say about the situation in ottawa. earlier today, we can show you a picture, he was on the phone with prime minister harper offering the assistance of the united states. we know that there have been conversations not just between the president and prime minister, but folks from the state department, from the department of homeland security, as well as other white house officials. homeland security really became one of the lead agencies in the relationship with canada post-9/11. obviously, there's always been a geographical and economic relationship, but 9/11 and our large border changed that. josh earnest, the press secretary, talked about that a short time ago at

we start with nbc's chris jansing at the white house. this is an oval office meeting, right? >> reporter: yeah. the president will be in the oval office, toure. this will be a speakerphone meeting with senior administration officials. we already know he talked with hhs secretary sylvia burwell yesterday as well as getting an update from lisa monaco, his point person. a couple things, and he'll want to know the latest on them. one is, what happened? that investigation is under way and cdc officials say they've been scrambling to interview everybody who had a part in this patient care. and they still don't know exactly why this second ebola infection happened. so, obviously, that's critical for them to find out so they can stop it from happening again. the second thing he ordered were more cdc officials there. a doubling down, getting to the area, making sure hospitals know what's going on. one of the things they're looking at very clearly is having sort of regional centers. there are four hospitals now who can handle this kind of situation. and the question is, is it really lo

. >> chris jansing from the can'tle a city in liberia. >>> we have a breaking story along the atlantic coast tonight. because previous nighttime rocket launches have been so spectacular, a lot of folks along the east coast from the carolinas to maine were ready to watch tonight at 6:22 eastern when an unmanned rocket launched from wallops island on the virginia coast carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies to the international space station. as you see there, it didn't clear the tower by much before it went back to earth and exploded. it was supposed to launch last night, but was scrubbed. no word yet on what this does to the supply effort in space at the space station. >>> and we have a late alert from the department of homeland security tonight. federal buildings not just in washington but some all across the country are now being ordered to beef up their security. we want to get more on this from our justice correspondent pete williams in our d.c. newsroom. pete, good evening. >> brian, good evening. officials say this is not the result of a specific threat. instead they say it's a respon

chris jansing, now back to you. >>> the ambassador will head to brussels, belgium, where she will make a speech. her efforts to the international community there, it's time to step up and help. >>> the life and career of one of baseball's young stars was cut short this weekend. st. louis cardinals player oscar taveras was killed yesterday. he made his major league debut this year. hearing the news, his teammate, carlos martinez, tweeted today is one of the saddest days of my life. i lost a brother, friend and teammate. >>> news for your health. there is controversy over new home test for colon cancer. the test is not for everyone and it doesn't replace the colonoscopy. dr. natalie explained how it works. >> you can actually send in a stool sample. you send it to a company. they're going to test your stool for genetic not an genetic risk, meaning your risk is so-and-so for colon cancer. it's checking for mutations. >> the takehome test is only available by prescription from the mayo clinic. and it's only rented for men and women over 50 who have an average risk for colon cancer. it's no

we are joined now by senior white house correspondent, chris jansing. thanks for joining us. >> hi, rachel. >> what do we know about the scope and the reaction from the white house. >> what they like to say is this is a full government response. we just named the agencies to the cdc. they are all working on this. day two, welcome to the white house. he is stepping into a situation that really does already have this extensive infrastructure. this is something that the white house has been putting together for quite a while now, but obviously gaining more intensity. this is something when we were talking to josh earnest earlier today, he said, i don't even know where his office was. i assume he has an office. i don't even know about his staff. i can tell you, having talked to a number of people at the white house today, this is why they brought him in. he has great management experience. they don't think it will be somebody who will be in front of the camera. the people tonight in terms of new york who will be doing that kind of thing, he will be working

the senior white house correspondent, chris jansing. i know you have been following this.ke up of this team and if there is another case of ebola? >> it's only here in the united states. we are talking about five doctors and 20 nurses and five trainers and they could deploy within 72 hours. they will be doing it in texas. the administration recognizes that while a lot more reports are a lot better prepared than they were 21 days ago when the case was diagnosed, it's not realistic to believe that every single hospital in every part of the country has all the resources that they would need and that there is a good reason to have experts who are trained specifically to deal with these crisis situations who can get on a plane and go and can not only be hands on, but make sure that the kind of situation that we saw in dallas does not happen and there is not a transmission of the disease. it's coming out of the pentagon where the troops have been going into west africa. this is completely a domestic response call. the s.w.a.t. team is something the president has been talking abo

i am joined by chris jansing. she is following this story. tell us, what are you hearing from white house officials at this point? >> reporter: this will be the second update the president is giving if 24 hours. he was on the phone yesterday with health and human service secretary and the administration's counterterrorism severt coordinating the response but this latest case confirmed there, obviously raising the level of concern, look what the wlus will tell you this is a toll government response. that i have cdc, health and human services and the department of defense working on the front in liberia and west africa to try to put these clinics together to try to contain the spread of ebola. it's opened up the administration to criticism. who is in charge who is making sure the protocols are followed? who is the point person for this response? they would tell you it is lisa monica. there is pushback. it's become a campaign issue. we heard john mccain and others saying with efeed some sort of czar. what we don't have is a surgeon general. it w

we are joined now by senior white house correspondent, chris jansing. for joining us. >> hi, rachel. >> what do we know about the scope and the reaction from the white house. >> what they like to say is this is a full government response. we just named the agencies to the cdc. they are all working on this. day two, welcome to the white house. he is stepping into a situation that really does already have this extensive infrastructure. this is something that the white house has been putting together for quite a while now, but obviously gaining more intensity. this is something when we were talking to josh earnest earlier today, he said, i don't even know where his office was. i assume he has an office. i don't even know about his staff. i can tell you, having talked to a number of people at the white house today, this is why they brought him in. he has great management experience. they don't think it will be somebody who will be in front of the camera. the people tonight in terms of new york who will be doing that kind of thing, he will be working behind

our chris jansing is there and she asked about u.s. health workers treating the patients. >> we have to find the balance between addressing the fears and encouraging and incentivizing the heroes. these workers are going into the hot zone. they are american heroes. we have to valorize and that and incentivize that while ensuring the american people feel safe. >> heroes. these health workers are risk everything to fight the outbreak and protect our country from it. is that something that is right? a professor at the university of north carolina. he committed his to helping treat and fight ebola. you have a personal take on this and give us a sense of what that is like on a personal level. are they using vacation time and does your boss support it? >> most of the people going overseas up until now have been volunteers or using vacation time. and imprisoning the nurse who took the vacation time is really terrible. the voll eegs of mine are going from. >> some people are upset that doctor spencer didn't quarantine himself immediately. he wa

chris jansing is following this at the white house for nbc. chris, thank you so much.f all, tell us in your view, following this story, how much of a difference has it made not having a term surgeon general in place during this ebola? >> reporter: we were talking to josh earnest about the surgeon general during the daily briefing, which is still going on. they've had a strong response, and the cdc director has been the face of, this dr. frieden. would they like to see a surgeon general? yes. i've talked to a lot of people about this issue. and the example thaw hear most often takes you back to the 1980s when c. everett coop had a significant impact on people, including smoking, and even aids. when there was a lot of fear, like we see with this ebola crisis, which was a disconnect from what the medical facts were. we really did make a difference. having said that, it is essentially someone who speaks to the american public. it's a communications position. not a strong policy position. and the white house thinks their policy in this case has been strong and has been an o

nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing joins us live. one statement said we're able to use the air base which is significant. you can launch more air strikes. now turkey back pedaling from there. or it was never agreed upon >>well, there's going to be a lot of discussion about that today. i was talking to senior white house officials this morning who said it was a previously scheduled meeting, tamron. obviously it takes on new importance because of these things going on. one, obviously, is turkey. they have come under a lot of pressure to send ground troops into syria in addition to the air base you talked about. and so the question is will anything come out of the meeting? we don't expect there to be announcements coming out of the meeting. there are three main goals. one is coalition building. that's something the president has been working on for many months now. the second is this a he's going to be getting an update and the lear leaders will get an update. the key will be strategy. what is needed? ground troops being part of that di