right, congresswoman, degette? >> i'm sorry. if i said nih, i meant the cdc. were you satisfied?was not. there's been great confusion coming from the cdc. there was underestimation. the hospitals across the country did not have and still do not have clear, precise guidance. there's lack of coordination of waste disposal and so many different areas the protocols being more precise in these protocols is something that we want to see. there's unanimous agreement in this. we're here to work with them to protect americans. >> are the hospitals in your district, in tennessee, ready if somebody walks into the emergency room with ebola, will they have the equipment, the gear, all of the ex pepertise t they ned to get the job done. >> we would hope. that's something we don't know. this is something where the cdc should be more aggressive in coordinating that effort to be certain that every hospital has the gore thear that is necessar. >> you hear these horror stories out of the dallas hospital. they didn't have the proper gear. >> yes. >> as a result, two doctors are suffering from ebola.

ranking members degette and ranking member upton and ranking member waxman.you heard ab the health aspectses of ebola virus disease from dr. frieden. i appreciate the opportunity to speak to you this morning on the role of national institute of allergy and infectious disease in research addressing ebola virus disease. of note our activities started with the tragic events of 9/11, of 9/11, 2001, which were followed closely by the anthrax attacks which many of the members remember against the congress of the united states and the press. it was in that environment that a multifaceted approach towards bioterrorism was actually mounted by the ral government, one of which was the research endeavor to develop countermeasures. we soon became very aware, naturally-occurring outbreaks of disease are as much of terror to the america and world public as deliberate bioterror. a number of what we call category a pathogens, anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, but look at the last bullet, viral hemorraghic fevers, ebola, marburg and lassa and others. they are fevers that ar

degette and i partnered together in the cures initiative to help improve the research and speed, thepproval of life saving medicines, and how this affects cancer and diabetes, same reforms have to have treatments for ebola. we are part of the effort to save lives. i reserve my time to dr. burgess. >> thank you. we all agree we must fix this. the response to the outbreak is not a political issue, but a public health crisis and dire at that. the frightening truth is we cannot guarantee safety of our health care workers. they have a risk in western africa. 56% of the -- they have a 56% mortality rate of the health care workers who catch this disease. two nurses have contracted ebola in the united states. indeed, we have to learn from the current situation in texas and use any information we can gather to better help prepare hospitals and protect health care workers on the front line. we're here today because we need answers to the questions. this past august, the inspector general, the department of homeland security, issued a report on personal equipment and anticounty measures finding

i commend the work that both you and representative degette had done in this efforts.the chairman founder of faster cures. i'm here today not as the chairman and founder of the prostate cancer foundation. i'm here today not as one of the founders of melanoma research alliance or adviser to the focused ultrasound foundation. i'm here today as an american who lost ten relatives to cancer and representative of the men and women in america, one in two men, and one in three women, that will be diagnosed with cancer. and i am the happiest person to be with you today, mr. chairman, in that they gave me 12 to 18 months to live when i was diagnosed with cancer 21 years ago. and i'm here to remind the committee that 50% of all economic growth in the last 200 years has come from bioscience and public health. that the greatest achievement in the history of the world has been the increase in worldwide life expectancy from 31 years of age in 1900 to over 70 today. it took millions of years for average life expectancy to go from 20 to 31. and a little more than a century we've risen

what we are trying to do as a congresswoman, anna to get -- degette of colorado and myself are trying to move legislation to protect the privacy of the american citizens in the various mediums. companies andge industries to be more accountable, more protective of their customers' privacy. >> do you see any of the issues we talked about so far coming up in the lame-duck session in congress? >> i do not. [laughter] you know, that and a dollar gets you a dr pepper. but i think we will have a very short lame-duck session. and i don't think telecommunications issues will be a part of it at all. >> what about the 114th congress when it sits in january? >> part of that depends on which party controls the senate. if the republicans gain the senate so you have a republican house majority and a republican senate majority, then i think definitelyee very some telecommunications actions. chairman upton and subcommittee chairman walden have a very aggressive agenda, and we have some bipartisanship with congresswoman anna eshoo of california and in new jersey, whichever one of them gains the minorit

varga. >> good afternoon, chairman murphy, ranking member degette. i'm the chief clinical officer texas health resources. i am board certified in internal medicine and have more than 24 years in medical education and health care administration. i'm truly sorry i cannot be with you in person today, and i appreciate committee plus understanding of our situation and how important it is for me to be in dallas. texas health, presbyterian hospital is one of 13 acute-care hospitals. we are an 898 bed hospital treating some of the most complicated cases in north texas in terms of -- texas health dulles is recognized as a magnet facility for excellence in nursing. texas health resources is one of the largest state-based centers, not-for-profit health systems in the united states and the largest in texas. our mission is to improve the health of the people and the communities we serve, and we care for all patients regardless of their ability to pay. community anderse we provide one standard of care for all, regardless of race or country of origin. as the first

varga. >> good afternoon, chairman murphy, ranking member degette. i'm the chief clinical officer texas health resources. i am board certified in internal medicine and have more than 24 years in medical education and health care administration. i'm truly sorry i cannot be with you in person today, and i appreciate committee plus understanding of our situation and how important it is for me to be in dallas. texas health, presbyterian hospital is one of 13 acute-care hospitals. we are an 898 bed hospital treating some of the most complicated cases in north texas in terms of -- texas health dulles is recognized as a magnet facility for excellence in nursing. texas health resources is one of the largest state-based centers, not-for-profit health systems in the united states and the largest in texas. our mission is to improve the health of the people and the communities we serve, and we care for all patients regardless of their ability to pay. community anderse we provide one standard of care for all, regardless of race or country of origin. as the first

. >> immigrately concerned as congresswoman degett expressed, the administration did not act fast enough in responding in texas. >> that second congressman, bruce braley, a democrat runic in iowa from los angeles, al jazeera political con transitbutor, michael schor. how much is to show opportunity with an unpopular president? >> some is driven that way. bruce braley. it's almost a gift to bruce braley, these hearings are because he can go back to iowa and can do what he is being hammered for not doing, which is separating himself from the president and go back there. and i am sure that sound byte is going to be cut into an ad that may be airing already in iowa david because it gives him an opportunity. a lot of these republicans have been trying to tie an unpopular president, as you said, to the candidate against whom they are running, often sitting senators already. >> that's a big problem for democrats. it's a line that they have to tow. it's a series of local elections. so the president plays better in some places than he does in others. but balancing it right now is huge. so this do

. >> congresswoman diana degette, pleasure to have you with us. >> thanks. >> fears coalition air strikes this week helped swing the momentum back to the ethnic kurds. but in iraq i.s.i.l. continues to gain ground near baghdad and while u.s. strategy in iraq requires unity among shia, sunni and kurd, a new film iraq divided shows the kurdish cleansing. >> do you think families should return? >> for more i'm joined from washington, d.c. by fault lines host josh rushing. josh good to see you, powerful reporting in your film which shows you in some cases on the front line, in one case walking with kurdish fighters, with i.s.i.l.'s black flag flying and booby traps on the ground. it must have been frightening. what struck me most was the scope of the violence and hatred that you found. has that surprised you at all? >> i've reported from iraq for ten years, seen that many, many times, found the same attitudes towards one another every time i've gone. the idea that there might be a unity government, let's say you have an open vote in the country and someone is going to take a ballot as a shia

i want to thank chairman upton and representative degette for convening this whole series of discussions and many members of this committee who have participated by convening similar hearings and roundtables in various parts of the country. i was here for the first roundtable may 6th in this room. i was two weeks ago in lancaster, pennsylvania, when representative pitts convened a very interesting group of us around that table. it is enormously inspiring and encouraging to all of us involved in biomedical research to have this kind of focused attention on the opportunities that now lie in front of us for developing these 21st century cures. i live a paradoxical life because as director of the nih, i have the opportunity on a daily basis to see amazing science that is possible. things that i would not have dreamed would happen in my own lifetime. at the same time i also preside over an effort, which, as mike has laid out, is under the greatest stress that it has seen in four decades. with young scientists who find it increasingly difficult to see a path forward to live out their visions.

. >> joining me now is colorado congresswoman diana degette, the ranking congresswoman on the subcommittee. you've been demanding that congress hold hearings for weeks. are you satisfied with the apss you got from agency leaders yesterday? >> i think we still have some questions outstanding. and one of them is, what were the protocols for these folks? who came into contact with mr. duncan for traveling? it seems unclear. and i'm sure it was unclear to them as well. dr. friedan told me that miss vinson apparently got the go ahead to fly. we don't know from whom, we don't know when. and we don't know what those rules really were. were they supposed to fly or not supposed to fly? there were a lot of other questions that we still need to gel get follow-up answers from as well. >> we're hearing that ron klain, the former chief of staff to both joe biden and formerly to al gore when he was in the white house, ron klain is going to be named the ebola czar. does that fix a problem, the gap between coordinating amongst these agencies? >> i think what it may do is help with the communications gap. i

degette. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have questions for you, dr. frieden, and i appreciate yes or no answers in the short amount of time. in the spring of 20 14, ebola spread through west africa causing concern within the international public health community, correct? >> correct. >> ebola has an incubation period of 21 days, and not contagious until the person with the virus is symptomatic beginning often with a fever, correct? >> between two and 21 days, yes. >> ebola is transmitted through contact with the patient's bodily fluids like vomit, blood, feces, and saliva, and the virus concentrates heavily as the patient becomes sicker presenting greater risk to those who come in contact with them, correct? >> correct. >> now, the cdc has developed guidance for hospitals to follow if patients present symptoms consistent with ebola, and it distributed them to hospitals around the country in the summer of 20 14, correct? >> correct. >> now, doctor varga, can you hear me? >> yes, ma'am. >> your hospital received the first advisory about ebola july 28 th

diana degette -- >> if a patient shows up saying he's vomiting and has diarrhea and you say we haven't gotten the lab results yet, you would start treating the person like they have ebola. >> more than two dozen nations have restrengthed travel but most of them are small african countries, a few caribbean nations that have imposed bans and the world health organization has urged countries not to impose flat travel bans because it makes it so much more difficult to get cares and supplies into the region. charlie? >> nancy, thanks. >>> a new cbs news poll shows 60% of-americans have a fair or poor view of the agency. that is a sizeable difference from last year. chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook is with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> there's also talk of an ebola czar. what are the merits of that? >> i think it makes a lot of sense because we're certainly finding out the devil is in the details and it's tough for somebody like tom friendden, head of the cdc, to do all of those jobs so it makes sense. >> there's a real question if she was sick when sh

degette showed the protective gear that our nurses are supposed to have, and yet two days apparently went by when they were not wearing shoe covers, that an act -- their necks were not covered, as dr. burgess said, may have been exposed even though they knew he had ebola. how do we make sure when we check at the airports -- i am from chicago, cuts to our health director today -- i talked to our health director today, but there is still a chance anywhere -- how are we going to make sure that everybody can be protected? >> just to clarify one thing, those first love days, the 20, 29th, -- first couple of days, the 28th, 29th, 30th, were before his likenesses was known. the tests had been drawn and assessed but he had not yet been diagnosed with ebola. in our team's review -- >> excuse me one second. congresswoman, were you saying otherwise? ield.e gentlelady will y he presented with ebola symptoms, he had been to the emergency room just a couple days earlier saying he had been from africa, and i believe the cdc protocols that were given to the dallas hospital said that people should be

and, you know, what we're trying to do in the privacy caucus congresswoman anna degette of colorado and myself are, when appropriate, trying to move legislation to protect the privacy of the american citizens in the various mediums. and the ongoing, day-to-day current events encourage companies and industries to be more accountable and to be more protective of their customers' privacy. >> host: do you see any of the issues we've talked about so far coming up in the lame duck session in congress? >> guest: i do not. that doesn't -- [laughter] you know, that and a dollar gets you a dr. pepper. i think we're going to have a very short lame duck session, and i don't think telecommunication issues will be a part of it at all. >> host: what about in the 114th congress when it sits in january? >> guest: i think part of the answer to that depends on which party controls the senate. if the republicans gain the senate so you have a republican house majority and a republican senate majority, then i think you could see very definitely some telecommunications actions. chairman upton and subcommittee

diana degette and i have partnered to help ensure the research speed and while much attention has been paid on how this affect can help with diseases like cancer and diabetes, these same reforms have to help us in the development of treatments for ebola. nfections like i yield back the balance of my time to dr. burgess. >> thank you. i think everyone here agrees we must fix this. america's response to the ebola outbreak is not a political issue, it is a public health crisis. we need to guarantee the safety of our health care workers on the frontlines. it has been long known that health care workers have an out-sized risk in africa. they have a 56% mortality rate of those health care workers who catch this disease. two nurgses have contracted ebola in the united states, and indeed, we have to learn from the current situation in texas and youzhny information we can gather to better help prepare hospitals and better protect health care workers on the frontline. we are hear today because we need answers to these questions. this will past august the director of homeland security issued a re