dr. fouchy and with what you say, jim. public health in america is the federal government, state and local government. must it down at the local government level. i have complete confidence in cdc, dr. frieden and dr. fouchy. obviously they fumbled the ball in dallas. this is a good accounting for other counties and e.r. rooms in america, because if you walk into an e.r. room in america with those symptoms and you've been traveling outside of the united states, particularly africa, you will get more attention. i see this as a great weak-up call and i completely agree ebola is not the kind of threat we talked about at the wmd commission when we were worried about bio terrorism overwhelming our public health. ebola will not overwhelm our public health system in america. >> we have to hope the mistake of one case getting through as opposed to it causing other infections. mary, and can we ask you, because there has been a question raised about tightening travel restrictions from west africa, possibly canceling flights or someth

dr. fouchy.day with mr. duncan's half brother, wilford smallwood. he lives in phoenix but he has a 21-year-old son who was in that apartment with mr. duncan when he got ill from ebola. he's clearly very, very concerned about his son and the other people in that apartment. listen to what he told me. [ indiscernible ] >> "that worries me now," he says. how worried should they be about his 21-year-old son who is in that apartment? >> well, wolf, when you say how worried should they be? they clearly are at a risk because of the contact with mr. duncan when mr. duncan was actively very ill in that apartment. so there is a risk. you can't quantitate it and give a percentage, but the person will have to be monitored for symptoms over a period of at least 21 days, which is the outer limit of the incubation period. so you don't want people to get overly worried. but there is a concern he may have been infected that's the reason you can monitor people. either under a quarantine situation, or if you monitor

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dr. fouchy, go to gretawire.com. well, this is a fox news alert.isis is on the move, making even more big gains in iraq right now. isis is advancing through the anbar province, the gateway to baghdad and grn correspondent live in baghdad with the latest. tell me what's the latest. >> according to the latest updates of isis personnel. they had a change in methods of operation and strategies. for instance, they prohibited a local residents and areas controlled by isis to use anyi] other electronic devices or any other g.p.s. equipped cell phones fearing from any tips or locations might be sent to air forces conducting their assault. they impounded their main locations. public buildings, the mosque and large building into other locations. they were so achebe to disperse the foreign fighters among the pro-isis local populations and the areas controlled by isis. despite of all the rumors about isis advancing towardf)l the baghdad airport, none of this confirmed in reality. i was personally on the outskirts in the vincent of baghdad airport. and we have

dr. anthony fouchie is here with us. thank you for being on with us. >> good morning. >> at the time duncan was arriving at the hospital, it is fair to say ebola is high. are you shocked he was sent home given his travel and temperature? >> there is no doubt it was a misstep to not connect the travel history he gave to the nurse with the decision of what to do with him. i think everybody realizes that it clearly was a misstep. >> moving forward, how confident are you with the hospitals now have heard this lesson loud and clear and we won't have this misstep again? >> i cannot guarantee you won't see it again, but the awareness is high. probably as high as anything i have ever experienced of people in emergency rooms and clinics being aware of something that might come in. i cannot imagine that if someone comes into an emergency room in any clinic in the united states with a fever and says, by the way, i just got back from west africa that they will not highly suspect and act on the possibility that this person has ebola.

dr. anthony fouchy said that it would be extraordinarily unlikely that there would be an outbreak here inhe did say there's still a chance, he thinks there could be another chance of a u.s. case of ebola in the coming days. but since there were no initiatives and no new measures being announced here by the white house, dr. fouchy was asked why this press conference was held in the first place. >> now that it's in the united states, the concern is that i don't ever like to see people suffer and die. but as a medical professional who has witnessed and experienced the whole 38 years since 1976, i never say i'm not concerned, because that's interpreted as taking something lightly. i take nothing lightly. but i'm convinced by what we have all said today that the system that's in place, with our health care infrastructure, would make it extraordinarily unlikely that we would have an outbreak. >> reporter: the other thing that dr. fouchy said during that news conference is an ebola vaccine is being tested over at the nih as we speak. they should have the first result from the first phase of that

dr. fouchi, one of my heroes and an extraordinary individual all recognize we are in flu. excuse me. there are a lot of people who are going to have fevers and colds and aches and pains, and what we wanted to make sure was that people didn't start thinki thinking, oh, my god, i caught ebola obviously. the real issue there is simple questions up front. have you been out of the country? have you been to africa? have you been near anybody that has ebola? and if the answers are no, you don't have ebola. period. you have the common cold. you have flu, which happens every time around this time of the year. so we are trying to do the best we can to get that word out. i know in numerous press conferences i have had over the last couple of weeks, i do the best i can to get that information out to the public because i have had colleagues call me and say, my gosh, you know, i have a friend of mine who is from africa originally, and he has a fever and i have a fever. does that mean i have ebola? i said absolutely not. your friend has never been to africa. his family is from africa. there start t

dr. anthony fouchi. the president underscored the steps we take must be guided by the best medical science as informed from our best medical health experts, and measures should be crafted so as not to discourage health workers from serving in west africa. governor cuomo's administration said that healthcare workers can be monitored at home. >> during that 21 days healthcare workers would check in on them twice a day. >> and u.s. ambassador to the united nations touched down in guinea in a five-day fact-finding mission on the ebola crisis. >> we need to be part of the solution and not runaway with something. it will come to us. >> the "world health organization" said it estimates there have been more than 10,000 cases since the outbreaks' beginning earlier this year. >> thousands are already dead of ebola in west africa. many thousands more will likely be dead before it's over. how to respond in the united states this time on the program. the center of disease control outlined a new set of guidelines for

dr. fouchi says the old protocols were developed by the world health organization for remote rural areas of africa where many of the encounters between the healthcare workers and patients are outside in the open air. inside a hospital he says workers' necks and skin need to be protected. >>> the monitoring period is over for 43 people who came in to contact with thomas eric duncan the man who contracted ebola in liberia and then died in dallas. a 44th person will be cleared later none of them including duncan's family and fianci, showed any signs of the disease. about 120 other people are still being monitored in texas. >>> talking some weather now. our first alert weather team has issued a yellow alert for tomorrow. chief meteorologist topper shutt joins us from the weather center. what can we expect tomorrow? >> tomorrow morning is going to be okay. we have a couple showers left of radar out to winchester and points west of i-81. couple showers could make it in to the metro area overnight. we're fine for the evening commute. showers on winchester's door, up to cumberland, nothing crazy

dr. anthony fouchi. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good to be with you. >> you are treating one of the nurses that contracted ebola down in dallas, nina pham. tell us about her condition. >> she's fair. she's comfortable. had a long conversation with her late last night. as you might expect, she has a serious disease. i think she's doing well. my full intention is to at some time in the reasonably future to walk out of the hospital with her. we can't predict but she's doing well. >> we are getting very close to that magic 21-day figure for anybody that was working and treating the late mr. duncan. when we get there, does that mean everybody connected in dallas is out of the woods? >> you have to look at it in different phases. for example, when mr. duncan first came to the emergency room when it was not -- we didn't know he had ebola, there was a group in that cadre that saw him. we are today later today at the 21-day period for that group. then he goes in the hospital. there's another group that's

dr. fouchi, one of my heroes and an extraordinary individual all recognize we are in flu. excuse me. there are a lot of people who are going to have fevers and colds and aches and pains, and what we wanted to make sure was that people didn't start thinki thinking, oh, my god, i caught ebola obviously. the real issue there is simple questions up front. have you been out of the country? have you been to africa? have you been near anybody that has ebola? and if the answers are no, you don't have ebola. period. you have the common cold. you have flu, which happens every time around this time of the year. so we are trying to do the best we can to get that word out. i know in numerous press conferences i have had over the last couple of weeks, i do the best i can to get that information out to the public because i have had colleagues call me and say, my gosh, you know, i have a friend of mine who is from africa originally, and he has a fever and i have a fever. does that mean i have ebola? i said absolutely not. your friend has never been to africa. his family is from africa. there start t

dr. anthony fouchi chit sized the mandatory quarantine. listen. >> the best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in africa and we need those health care workers. we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to volunteer to go. >> the back and forth continues. >> it continues indeed, brian. so the nurse was there. what is governor cristy's response. he was in guinea and came back sick later. >> that's right. that's part of chris christie's point. he says i'm sorry for the inconvenien inconvenience. bottom line, the current cdc policy calling for voluntary quarantine is simply not strong enough. >> i don't believe when you're dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system. this is government's job. if anything else, the government's job is to protect the safety and health of our citizens. we have taken this action. i absolutely have no second thoughts about it. >> the new york times is just reporting that the obama administration is reportedly pressuring

dr. fouchy the head of the national institutes on allergies and infectious disease. that should raise a very big red flag among health providers across the country when you ask somebody where they're from you need to take it seriously. what's interesting, too, about that case, shep, is when he came in -- when he came in, doctors thought he had a low-grade virus, yet they prescribed him antibiotics which have no effect against viruses. >> that made absolutely no sense. down in dallas, though, i guess officials are working to reassure people? >> yeah. they're trying to keep a lid on this, governor rick perry said believe me, we got the team in place to be able to do this and rather sometimes bombastic mayor of dallas mike rollins said there is zero chance if someone is not showing symptoms they cannot infect anyone. it's not a min my skull but zero chance. the message was aimed at the parents of the children these kids might have gone to school with a couple days this week after they had been exposed to the ebola virus. >> john roberts keeping us updated from the cdc.

dr. anthony fouchy is the director of institute of allergy and diseases. great to have you with us. we have seen a change in attitude it seems on the part of the administration now talking about screening and moving up what will be one assumes and we would like to hear from you, rules that will further assure the american public that they are the number one priority of our public health officials. >> well, what is going on now without any changes is watt we call exit screening. if someone goes to the airport in liberia and wants to get on the plane you are screened for temperature and you have a questionnaire to ask if you are feeling well or sick and if you have had known contact with someone suspected of or having ebola. that is really it. right now what i consideration and is actually being discussed is adding something, another layer on the incoming and of the arrival portion of the trip. so instead of having exit screening you are having inistry screening. that would likely consist of a number of things possibly retaking the temperature again to make sure it was taken correctly

dr. anthony fouchy a federal health official. >> what he is counting on is a voluntary system with folks may or may not comply. we had had this situation in new jersey, chris, as you know with the nbc news crew that said that they were going to self-quarantine and two days later they were out picking up takeout food in princeton and walking around the streets of princeton. the fact of the matter is that we, i don't believe, when you are dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system. >> illinois has also imposed a quarantine, all along with the state of florida. one american nurse, who was quarantined in new jersey has threatened to file a a lawsuit. meg begin kelly will deal with that in just a little while. the overall federal policy on ebola remains confused and ineffective. right now a a a-year-old boy in isolation at bellview hospital in new york city. he spent a month in the ebola region of guinea west africa. but he and his family were allowed to enter the u.s.a., go home to the bronx. the boy developed a fever. city officials say tonight they do

dr. anthony fouchi, thanks for being with me. comparing ebola to aids, is that a fair and accurate comparison? >> well, i think that dr. frieden's comment may have been taken a little bit out of context. what dr. frieden was saying, is there are some similarities, but there are more dissimilarities between ebola and aids. some of the similarities is that both of us, dr. frieden and i, back in the early '80s dealing with hiv/aids, there was a similar fear and concern and panic about the unknown. that, certainly, is a similarity. the similarity also is that the explosion and the rate of the infection with hiv and with ebola is early on outstripping resources, but the similarities really end there, because if you look at the magnitude of aids globally, it just completely dwarves what's going on and what will ever go on with ebola. so we've got to make sure that we don't make that strict comparison between aids and ebola, because that would be misleading. >> and i think that's why his comments caught a lot of folks off guard. you said

dr. anthony fouchy admitted her and will oversee her care while she is here. in terms of the course of treatment, we still don't have a lot of detail. he says they have to take a closer look at her, evaluate her, talk to her before they can figure out exactly what they're going to do here or whether or not they will use any experimental drugs. just a little too early to tell. back to you guys in the studio. >> megan, thanks. >>> we want to bring you facts about ebola, not fear. we have it all laid out for you at nbc 10. look for the special area there. >>> today in bucks county, former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords will be speaking about protecting women from gun violence. this is part of a roundtable discussion with state and local leaders in ben salem. focus on the need for laws to protect women and families from gun-related crimes. back in 2011 that giffords was shot in the head as she met with constituents outside of a grocery store. since then, she has been campaigning for responsible gun ownership. >>> also today, delaware county district attorney

dr. anthony fouchi. joining me now is raking democrat on the health subcommittee which has jurisdiction over both of the agencies. thank you for being with me. >> thank you, jose. >> when you look at what happening at home, what can congress do to stop this from becoming a full outbreak? >> i think our major concern is enough resources for the agencies like the cdc and the nih. also, to have oversight to make sure that those agencies are doing their job and communicating and are on the ground both on the united states as well as in africa. >> and do you think they're doing their job well? i mean, for what we're seeing coming out of texas? >> well, i think the answer is yes. of course, there have been some glitches initially when duncan went to the hospital in dallas, you know, because they didn't really know initially what they were dealing with. there were some problems. but i think those problems have been cleared up and now the protocols will be followed. but again, i think we have to make sure we hav

dr. anthony fouchy, that you're still going to have the doctors, or the president decided he's going to be the calming voice. you wouldn't send ron klain to do that. that's not what he's expert at. and the plain fact is there is a fupgs in the government built in and it has been for a few decades, whose job it is to educate the public. it's called the surgeon general. >> interesting we don't seem to have one. i wished i lived in world where we had one. hold for me a second. we're going to take a break. but when we come back, i want to ask you, because what has happened as part of the panic in congress, is this question of whether or not we ought to shut off the flights, close the borders, keep the people out? let's have a travel ban. lock those people out. i want to talk to you about that as soon as we come back. my grandson's got this blankie that gets filthy. but he's got such sensitive skin that you worry about what you use in the laundry. so i use new tide pods free & gentle, to get a deep clean that's gentle on skin. new tide pods free & gentle. for over 19 million people. [ mom ] wit

as long as frieden and fouchy stay engaged, it's a good thing. i'm curious if dr. >> did you get a call? >> it's a real tough job. i think the point sanjay makes is an important one. we have to to look at the competency. >> core competency. >> exactly. ron is an insider, operative. people understand that. the question i keep getting from the public, when we have secretaries, deputy secretaries, why do we need another person to coordinate? what do these people do on a daily basis? >> your answer? >> i don't know. there's a must be of positions responsible. >> they weren't doing it? >> apparently if they were, it wasn't done well. >> boy, you are very generous in assessments. they were not coordinatincoordi. that's what texas presbyterian tell us. nurses give us a different story than the hospital. it wasn't getting done. 21 days, quarantine ed fiance a family members of are mr. duncan. they're cleared. we're hearing 21 days is old science. maybe it's 41 days because you need more time to figure this out. what's your take? >> science says it's about 21 days. there ar