dr. brantly contracted ebola in library.ower of prayer. today he is with us to offer a prayer for the leaders of the world. is warmly welcome dr. kent brantly. [applause] >> let us pray. our father who art in heaven the lord, the lord the god of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness, lover of all peoples of the earth, there is no god like you in all of heaven above or on the earth below. you keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion. hallowed thy name. remind us that all nations are as nothing before you. their governments but a shadow of passing age. all authorities are intended to be your servants, to go to the people under their care and to ensure justice for those who have been wronged. but we all, including our leaders, will stand before your judgment seat oh god, and they sure as you live, oh lord every knee will bow and every tongue confess and give praise to you as thy kingdom come on earth. grant to the children throughout the

dr. kent brantly who received the drug after being the first american diagnosed with the drug. >> you wereh a patient and a guinea pig. >> i've gone from being physician to patient to lab rat. >> reporter: after you took the zmapp did you start feeling better very quickly? >> actually my body began to shake and shiver violently. an my breathing got worse. >> you remember that? >> i remember the people around me praying over me. but after that first hour my breathing improved. the shaking stopped. >> reporter: the story was produced by simon's daughter tanya. can you see bob simon's final report on our website, that's cbsnews.com. when we return celebrating "snl." last night's highlights from their 40th anniversary special. ...with the power of three medicines to take on your worst pain and fever, cough and nasal congestion. it breaks you free from your toughest cold and flu symptoms. theraflu. serious power. there's only one egg that just tastes better. with 10 times more vitamin e. and twice the omega 3s. because why have ordinary when you can have the best. only eggland's best. better ta

dr. brantly contracted ebola in liberia.wer of prayer. today he is with us to offer a prayer for the leaders of the [applause] >> let us pray. our father, who art in heaven. the lord, the lord, the god of compassion and mercy. slow to anger, and abounding in a love and take. lover of all people in the earth, there is no god like you. you keep your covenants, and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion. hallowed be thy name. remind us that all nations are as nothing before you. their governments but a shadow of passing age. all authorities are intending to be your servants come a to do good under your care. to ensure justice for those who have been wronged. we all, including our leaders will stand before your judgment, o god. and as surely as you live, oh lord every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess to you. thy kingdom come on earth. granted by children throughout the world, and especially to the leaders of the nations the gifts of prayerful thought and of thoughtful prayer. that fol

dr. kent brantly back to the united states for treatment. dr. walters said the first thing he did was to google dr. brantly. little plug for google there. i know we got some -- [ laughter ] and the first pickture he saw was of kent and his family. now remember, the decision to move kent back to the united states was controversial. some worried about bringing the disease to our shores. but what folks like william knew was that we had to make the decisions based not on fear, but on science, and he knew that we needed to take care of our heroes, who had sacrificed so much to save the lives of others in order for us to continue to get people to make that kind of commitment. they had to know we had their backs in order for us to effectively respond, and so as williams said, we do the work we do to impact something bigger than ourselves. we do the work we do to impact something bigger than ourselves. that's the test of american leadership. we have this extraordinary military. we have an extraordinary economy. we have unbelievable businesses, but what

dr. brantly and his colleagues have done. we see faith driving us to do right. driving us to do right. but we also see faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge, or worse, sometimes used as a weapon. from a school in pakistan to the streets of paris we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith their faith. professed to stand up for islam, but in fact, are betraying it. we see isil, a brutal, vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism, terrorizing minorities like the yazidis subjecting women to rape as a weapon of war and claiming a mantle of religious authority for such actions. we see sectarian war in syria, the murder of muslims and christians in nigeria, religious war in the central african republic, a rising tide of anti-semitism and hate crimes in europe. so often perpetrated in the name of religion. >> if you missed any of this morning's national prayer breakfast, you can see it online any time at c-span.org. >> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress. not only a

dr. kent brantly learned last summer. missionary who was treating ebola patients in liberia, he was the first american to come down with the disease. and there was very little that could be done to help him. did you know at the time that there were any ebola drugs being experimented with? >> kent brantly: personally, i didn't know anything about what was being done in the world of research in ebola. i figured it was a forgotten disease that drug companies weren't interested in working on. >> simon: he had never heard of zmapp, and didn't know that gary kobinger had brought a small amount to the neighboring country of sierra leone to see if it could withstand heat and travel. kobinger never expected to put it to use, until word got to him that brantly wanted the drug. zmapp had cured monkeys, but no human had ever taken it. you knew it was experimental. you knew it had never been tested on a human being. did you have any hesitation, or did you figure "it's the only shot i've got?" >> brantly: i was dying. i was actively dy

dr. kent brantly, who work in liberia and to contracted ebola and pray for father in sierra leone began to warn us about how rapidly the virus was spreading there. the number of people being infected with ebola was doubling every three weeks and many of those infected were dying. because for ebola there was and is no cure, and there was and is no vaccine. this produced a near panic in the united states. it changed procedures in nearly every hospital and clinic. i remember one chattanooga public health officer saying, ma it's all ebola all the time every day. in response, congress appropriate more than $5 billion to fight the spread of the virus. the impact of efforts to fight evil is the number of ebola cases is declining. at the same time here in the united states were experiencing a large outbreak of a disease for which we do have a vaccine. measles used to second up to 4 million americans each year. they played it wasn't on preventable childhood illness. but the introduction of the vaccine in 1963 changed everything. measles was declared eliminated meaning absence of continues disease t

dr. kent brantly. he returned to liberia not treat patients, that's the kind of ebola people we're dealing with here. [ applause ] meanwhile in west africa it's true we led a massive effort to combat this epidemic. we mobilized other countries to join us in making concrete significant commitments to fight this disease and to strengthen global health systems for the long-term. in addition to the work of our troops, our u.s. aid dark teams have corrected response and cdc traced contacts, our team is providing support for 10,000 sufficientlyian responders on the ground. that's what brett sedgwick did. where is wret? there there he is. brett went to an ngo that partnered with us to respond to ebola. brett supported safe burial teams that traveled to far-flung corners of liberia to ensure those who lost their lives to ebola were carefully, safely and respectfully buried so they could not transmit the disease to anyone else. and brett reflects the spirit of so many volunteers when he said "if you need me jus