dr. sanjay gupta and dr. fouchy. i want to stafort start with you sanjay. have any sense of how she's doing? >> what's next for her is bringing her from the air force base where she landed here to the hospital. i imagine it's going to be like it was with dr. brantly. he came by plans. it took about 20 to 30 minutes. it's an ambulance where you have people with ms. writebol here who will be in these bioprotective suits and i don't know what kind of condition she's in. she was obviously stable enough for flight. we were quite surprised when dr. brantly was able to walk in. i'm not sure if that will be the case for ms. writebol but we'll see in just a bit. the hospital is right behind me. it's going to happen in just a bit. >> we're anticipating her arrival and i can imagine the medical professionals are as well as are her family. her husband is still in liberia. he's expected to travel back to the states soon but her son is said to be at the hospital and is anxious to see his mom. we dope know how close he will be able to get to her obviously. we know so litt

dr. sanjay gupta joins me now from atlanta. doctor, great to see you.ow concerned should americans be with the cases coming back to the united states? >> the best way to characterize it is this is not a very contagious virus. it is not something that behaves like the flu in the air. like walking around the airport and shaking hands with people. this is highly infectious. a small amount of the virus can cause the infection. it comes from someone who is typically very sick. somebody in the hospital or in bed, which is why health care workers and family members are the most likely to get infections from sick people. michael, there is also a risk to anything. no matter how small. i had a chance to talk to the doctor who will lead the team to take care of the ebola patients. this has never happened in the western hemisphere before or the united states or this particular hospital. i asked him about it. take a listen. >> we know the risk is small, but it would be smaller if these patients did not come here. if you don't have anything magical to provide why tak

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dr. sanjay gupta is going to join us for that. we begin tonight here in israel and in gaza, reports from the entire region tonight. the scene here just a short time ago, as word of the cease-fire was starting to filter out. there was word of the cease-fire, it hadn't yet taken effect. and rockets came firing toward ashkelon. take a look. we're just seeing the sirens have just started to go off, and we've seen some rockets going out to intercept something that's incoming. you see there appear to be two interceptions. the iron dome system here. the sirens continue to -- those are the two interceptions from several seconds ago, it takes a while for the sound to actually get here. and now the sirens stopped. people continue to walk around, go about their business. that took place a short time ago, in the last hour here. as we said, there is hope and concern on both sides of this border tonight, after what has been a difficult several days in gaza, take a look. more chaos on the streets of gaza, as israel again fires nearby a school on

dr. sanjay gupta, thanks so both of you. remember, you can watch "sanjay gupta m.d."very saturday afternoon at 4:30 eastern and sunday mornings at 7:30 eastern right here on cnn. >>> now back to the breaking news actually, i told you what was happening and unfolding in afghanistan, a serious situation there. group of terrorists dressed up in afghan army uniforms opened fire on a nato security force. one german soldier was killed, 14 others injured. jim sciutto has been digging into this story and found out more. what can you tell us, jim? >> hi, ka acarol, thanks. when you came to me before i was speaking on the phone to the pentagon. this took place in afghan national security forces, ansf facility, just outside of kabul, the african called camp qahgha. multiple casualties no, deaths confirmed at this point but a serious incident there involving soldiers, attackers rather dressed up as afghan soldiers and carol, as you know, there have been a number of incidents like this over recent years where attackers or even sometimes members of the afghan security forces, wheth

dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, atlanta. >> we also just learned that dr.rantly who arrived in atlanta has been visited by his family. his wife amber said he's in good spirits and grateful for the care he is getting and his family visiting him behind a glass wall for their safety. >> hope he recovers from this. . we turn back now to our middle east coverage here on cnn. after the break, he's not injured, but he's not out of the fight, i should say. straight ahead, a wounded israeli soldier says he wants to get better so he can finish his mission. let me get this straight... [ female voice ] yes? lactaid® is 100% real milk? right. real milk. but it won't cause me discomfort. exactly, because it's milk without the lactose. and it tastes? it's real milk! come on, would i lie about this? [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100% real milk. no discomfort. come on, would i lie about this? frommy family and is to love ice cream. however some of us can't enjoy it without discomfort. so we use lactaid® ice cream. it's 100% real ice cream just without the lactose. so now we

dr. sanjay gupta has more. >> the fight to keep american dr.e experts at atlanta's emory hospital. the 33-year-old brantly a missionary with samaritan's purse made the long journey from liberia to the united states in a specially equipped jet. >> i'm worried about him. but he'll be okay regardless. >> after near lie 6,000 miles, 14 hours in the air, brantly touched down saturday morning in atlanta. but not before a brief refueling in bangor, maine. he's the first known ebola patient on u.s. soil. i spoke with dr. bruce ridner one of the leading physicians. he said there was never a question of bringing the two americans who contracted ebola to emory. they were ready for them. >> why take the risk at all. >> you've been in that part of the world. you know the level of care that can be delivered. these are americans who went over there to supply a humanitarian mission of medical care for these individuals. and our feeling is that they deserve the best medical care to try and resolve this infection that they can get. >> by early saturday afternoon

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dr. sanjay gupta.rug out there just got some approval by the food and drug administration. what do we know about this, how effective is this specific drug? >> it's a fascinating time with regard to these drugs. obviously the situation in west africa putting some heat on trying to get these drugs available. this one is from techmera. it's called tkm ebola. it's an interesting drug. it was further along in the trial process than the drug we have been talking about zmapp. this one was tested in human beings and did pretty well. they found in the animal studies it was 100% effective if it was given within an hour of the animal being exposed and in the human studies it was a safety study it performed really well. it was on a full clinical hold and the reason it was on a full clinical hold because as they went higher and higher in the dose, the humans starting to take it started to have some side effects. now it's on a partial clinical hold because they realize the dose they need to give humans shouldn't cau

dr. sanjay gupta for that. looking at this big picture, the ebola outbreak is having an impact.ys the first airline to cancel flights. deltale airlines is monitoring the situation. in the uk health officials confirm several people are quarantined with suspected cases of ebola after returning from west africa. and this disease is spread sewing quickly the u.n. health agency has called an emergency two-day meeting starting today in geneva. they could call the outbreak a public health emergency. authorities in guinea, sierra leone are quarantining and closing schools and tracking the movements of citizens infected. as of this morning, 1,103 suspected cases exist. 887 of those patients have died. >>> looking like there's a new government leaker. this is first reported by cnn. government officials are trying to figure out who leaked documents about terror suspects. these were dated last august and appeared in the news intercept. remember, edward snowden had already fled the country at the time these documents were written. >>> time for an early start on "your money." asian stocks end

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dr. sanjay gupta has this story. >> reporter: the fight to keep american dr. kent brachbtly alive is now in the hands of infectious disease experts at emory hospital. the 33-year-old brantley made the long journey from liberia to the united states in a specially equipped jet. >> i'm worried about him. yeah, i am. he will be okay regardless. >> reporter: after nearly 6,000 miles, is 4 hours in the air, brantley touched down on saturday in atlanta but not before a brief refuelling in bangor, maine. he is the first known ebola patient on u.s. soil. i spoke to dr. bruce ridner, one of the leading physicians overseeing his care. he said there was no question bringing the patients to emory. they were ready for them. why take the risk at all? >> i think you have you have been in that part of the world and know the level of care that can be delivered. these are americans who went over there to supply humanitarian mission of medical care for these individuals and our feeling is they deserve the best medical care to try to resolve this infection they can get. >> reporte

dr. sanjay gupta brought us kind of the breaking details yesterday. what do you make of this. ed by one doctor, to san >sanjaj as an almost remarkable turnaround in dr. kent brantly. what do make of it? >> i think it's very interesting. if it turns out the monclonal antibodies ended up causing the survival of these two patients it would be fantastic news. i'm cautiously optimistic. this spectacular outbreak is caused by the zaire species involving in case mortality rates anywhere from 60% to 90%. this particular outbreak has opinion on the lower end, about 60%, so we just want to make sure that these two individuals aren't, you know, in that 40% that would have survived anyway. >> and there is -- and you are skeptical, would you say, that this would be such a miraculous turnaround in the doctor? do you think that there's potential that this could really be the fix, could be the cure for him but maybe not for mass production. >> i think it could be. i think the treatment has a lot of potential. i just think right now we're talking about two patients and we really, as a scientist

dr. sanjay gupta is cnn's chief medical correspondent. he has been all over this story really for months. sanjay, let's just get right to it. do the economics of drug development play a role here in why there is no ebola vaccine? >> i think they definitely do. that was a fascinating graphic to see as well, to just see that play out over this past week. what is interest, when it comes to eeb lashgs it's not a particularly complicated virus. there are some viruses and some diseases where it's just very hard to develop a vaccine, the scientific costs are really challenging. this ebola virus is just seven genes. human bodies are 20,000 genes just to give you some context. i think it comes down to numbers, you know, how many people would actually end up being a candidate for this vaccine. certainly as you mentioned during outbreaks the numbers would go up, but on a routine level the numbers would be a lot lower. there wouldn't be as much demand. another part of this, in order to get these things approved, you have to go through a clinical tria

dr. sanjay gupta, appreciate the update. a lot of interest in this story.an toll that it's taking on these two people and all those in west africa infected, the treatment of people with ebola on u.s. soil. it's unprecedented and getting a lot of attention but the source of their infections and so many others as we reported is in west africa, it already killed hundreds of people and described as raging, out of control in some places despite the efforts of dedicated doctors. david mckenzie has a report from a treatment center in sierra leone. >> reporter: taking incredible care to combat an unprecedented outbreak. ebola can lead to death with one drop of infected fluids. >> that's why we take every possible precaution. >> reporter: dozens of doctors and nurses died in this outbreak. still, dr. stephon kruger says he had to come. >> this is where they need us and there is a really big lack of resources and at the moment, the truth is, if it wasn't here, there would be nothing. i mean, that's a good enough reason. >> reporter: but they are losing the battle. eb

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dr. sanjay gupta, our chief medical correspondent. sicians think this is unlikely ebola. but they want to err on the side of caution so they're sending the lab work to the cdc in atlanta where you are. give us your analysis of what's going on here. >> well, you have sort of several things being pieced together. smung wsomeone who has a fever, gastrointestinal or stomach symptoms and i think most relevantly the patient had traveled to west africa, piecing those things together, it sounds like he came to the emergency room and because of that history was put into isolation and blood was drawn to test for ebola. they mentioned that those test results will come back in the next 24 to 48 hours. interestingly, wolf, they said that they didn't think any casual contact, people who may have been next to him in the emergency room, someone who may have been next to him in a car or cab or something like that, any of those people they weren't concerned about. they said family members, people who may have had more prolonged contact, they're not goin

dr. sanjay gupta visited the cdc facility charged with responding to the outbreak.. >> reporter: this is the cdc's emergency operations center. think of it as the nerve center of its response to the ebola outbreak. just a few minutes after i walked in, phones and blackberrys started buzzing everywhere. while we were here, the activation level just went up to level 1. just in the last couple minutes. what does that mean? >> what that means is just more people and more resources dedicated to the response. >> reporter: in that room, you could feel a quiet determination and a sense of urgency. let me give you a little bit of an idea of how this all works. what you're looking at is what the cdc looks at, a map of the world, trying to figure out what infectious diseases are happening and where they're happening. as you might imagine, a lot of focus on ebola right now. they're tracking that as well realtime. they've been doing it since march. take a look in here. this really jumped out at me. mid-may, they thought things were basically under control. but then look what hap

dr. sanjay gupta is live out front of emory university.hat have you learned about nancy writebol's condition? >> we heard that she is stable, stable enough to make that trip, that medical evacuation trip from africa to atlanta. we also got a better idea today of just how sick she was a few days ago. i want you to listen to what bruce johnson, the head of s sim usa had to say about her husband. >> a week ago we were thinking about a possible funeral arrangement arrangements. yet we kept our faith. now we have a real reason to be hopeful. >> one of the thins worth pointing out, he talks about being hopeful. she did receive two doses of this experimental serum that we talked about a bit. it's a type of medication that had been not used before in a human being ever before dr. kent brantly and then nancy writebol. they sound like they had pretty amazing recovery as a result. we'll have to see how they do over the next several days. as of now she's in a hospital getting assessed how much of an impact this disease has had on her heart, lungs, kid

dr. sanjay gupta witnessed firsthand. >> while we were there, the activation level just went up to level 1 just in the last few minutes. what does that mean? >> we'll tell you his answer shortly when sanjay joins us. we begin with urgent efforts in cairo to extend the 72-hour ceasefire between israel and hamas. the views of each side of the conflict and president obama's take on it. just a short time ago, president obama wrapped up a press conference. >> we intend to support the process that is taking place in egypt. i think the short-term goal has to be to make sure that rocket launches do not resume. that the work that the israeli government did in closing off these tunnels has been completed, and that we are now in the process of helping to rebuild a gaza that has been really badly damaged. as a consequence of this conflict. >> he had more to say about the long-term about hamas and who he trusts in the palestinian side. joining us now senior white house correspondent jim acosta. so what did the president say on the gaza situation? what is the latest? >> anderson, this is some of the t

dr. sanjay gupta, m.d., 4:30 p.m. eastern time. dr.ing you the latest efforts to fight the ebola epidemic and one of those american patients now en route to the atlanta area. thanks. >>> moving now to the middle east where an offer for new negotiations on the gaza conflict may not get very far. egypt is now pushing for a new cease-fire, and a palestinian delegation is going to cairo right now, but according to israeli media reports, israel is not sending a delegation. the last attempted cease-fire fell apart less than two hours after it started yesterday. israel blames hamas saying, militants attacked israeli soldier, trying to dismantle a tunnel. and it captured a second lieutenant, hadar goldin, but hamas is not admitting to the disappearance of this soldier. it blames israel for starting to shell gaza again. the u.n. relief and works agency said today, one of its workers was killed in a strike in gaza yesterday. today, the israeli military says it hit what it calls 200 terror targets in gaza. that includes a university, that israel

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dr. sanjay gupta looks at how brantly made his way home from west africa. >> the fight to keep dr. kent brantly alive is now in the hands of infectious disease experts at emory hospital. a missionary with samaritans purse made the long journey from liberia to the united states in a specially equipped jet. >> i'm worried about him. i am. but he'll be okay regardless. >> after nearly 6,000 miles, 14 hours in the air, brantly touched down saturday morning in atlanta. but not before a brief refueling in bangor, maine. he's the first known ebola patient on u.s. soil. i spoke with one of the leading physicians overseeing brantly's care. he said there was never a question of bringing the two americans who contracted ebola to emory. they were ready -- >> you know the level of care that can be delivered. these are americans who went over there to supply humanitarian mission of medical care of these individuals. and our feeling is that they deserve the best medical care to try to resolve this infection that they can get. >> by early saturday afternoon, brantly was transferred from his isolat

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dr. sanjay gupta is outside the hospital where the victims will be treated. good morning, sanjay. >> reporter: we had a chance to sit down and talk to the doctor who will be responsible for the care of these patients with ebola coming in from liberia. keep in mind, this has never happened before in the united states. this has never happened before in the western hemisphere where you have a patient where you have the ebola infection. it's a question of how prepared they are. also, just what is the risk and is it worth it? i sat down, talked to dr. bruce ribner, asked him about. >> people in atlanta are concerned. the risk is small but it would be even smaller if these patients did not come here. if you don't have anything magical to provide, why take the risk at all? >> i think you've been in that part of the world, you know the level of care that can be delivered. these are americans who went over there to supply humanitarian mission of medical care for these individuals and our feeling is that they deserve the best medical care to try and resolve this infect

dr. sanjay gupta has witnessed the outbreak in west africa firsthand. also teaches at the atlanta hospital where the u.s. patient is being treated. and dr. gupta got the chance to sit down with the doctor who is going to be responsible for treatment of the ebola patients. >> keep in mind now. this has never happened before in the united states. it's never happened before in the western hemisphere where you have a patient who has the ebola infection. so it's really a question of how prepared they are. also, just what is the risk? and is it worth it? i sat down and talked to dr. bruce ridner and asked him about it. >> they're concerned. they say, we get it, we know the risk is small. but it would be even smaller if the patients did not come here. if you don't have anything magical to provide, why take the risk at all? >> i think you've been in that part of the world. and you know the level of care that can be delivered. these are americans who went over there to supply a humanitarian mission of medical care for these individuals and our feeling is that th

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dr. sanjay gupta, is on the scene for us. sanjay, let's take a look at the video, again, of kent brantly as he was brought in an ambulance and he brought over to the emory university hospital, a hospital you know quite well. you perform surgery there. how did it all look to you. how did it go down? >> reporter: well, it was quite a logistically, you know, impressive feat, you know, obviously the plane himself bringing him back and the ambulance picking him up at the air force base, wolf, i'm not sure what images you are seeing right now. but i was pretty struck by the fact that dr. brantly was able to get off the ambulance sort of his own power there, just sort of walked off. he had some assistance obviously. i think when he got inside they may have put him in a wheelchair to wheel him up to the containment unit. we know that in days past his condition had been described as grave. and just before he took off to come here -- been talking to a few doctors about that. they say that, you know, patients with the ebola infection ca

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dr. sanjay gupta reports. >> last thursday, dr. kent brantly thought he was going to die.is condition worsening by the minute. he called his wife to say good-bye, he also knew just hours earlier, a secret highly experimental drug had been delivered to the clinic, the serum was delivered in sub-zero temperatures and allow the viles to thaw naturally before administering. when it arrived, brantley told his colleague nancy, who was also sick that she should have the first dose. as his condition deteriorated, he asked for writebol's now thawed dose. dr. kent brantly would be the first to try this serum. doctors describe what happened next as miraculous. within an hour of receiving the medication, his symptoms began to change. >> i hope it was as impressive as described, if it is that bodes well for that particular product. >> the next morning he was able to shower on his own before making the 6 thorks mile transport to the u.s. watch as he walks off the back of the u.s. he became the first patient infected with the ebola virus to ever set foot in the united states. tuesday his

dr. sanjay gupta is with us now.s once this plane hits the ground? >> the whole unit is on lockdown. that is how they described it to us. they have the doctors going through specific training. nurses involved in the care. there is a buddy system involved. people go in and they monitor how each person is gowning up. making themselves safe as they take care of the patient. all that training is going on right now. the plane is supposed to land at some point. we don't know when it will go to the air force base and the patient brought to emory university hospital in the isolation unit. i want to bring in an expert who knows a bit about this and originally cleared up misconceptions out there. with everything you know, dr. morrison, you know how difficult this is spreading person to person. when you heard this was first coming to atlanta, what were your thoughts? >> they will get much better care here because of the specialized infrastructure. they will get the same treatment they would have gotten in the field, but the iso

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dr. sanjay gupta joins me live from outside that hospital, as another infected american gets ready to come to the united states. stay with me. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and when it's cloudy, we use more natural gas. this ensures we can produce clean electricity whenever our customers need it. ♪ . . >>> welcome back. you're watching cnn. a doctor in liberia describes it as miraculous this top-secret experimental serum given to just two american aide workers infected with the deadly ebola virus. so far, the pair's response appears to be remarkable. this serum has made it possible for nancy writebol to prepare to come home. a special plane outfitted with an isolation unit is actually en route to pick her up, bringing her back to the united states for treatment. she is likely to arrive in atlanta's emory university hospita

dr. sanjay gupta is "outfront." you were at the cdc when it raised that alert to the highest possible level. that decision, i know, not one to be made lightly. >> it is not. the last time this happened was during the 2009 h1n1 flu epidemic and before that hurricane katrina. they take this seriously. this is where we're focusing our attention. we're keeping our eyes on the ball and the ball is all about ebola. in the united states, obviously, we've been talking about these two patients, but a lot of the focus on west africa and trying to even mobilize more resources from the cdc, 50 more people going out to west africa to try and stem this epidemic at its source. so this is a big signal. it means more people sort of flooding the zone, if you will, erin, and also higher level people. pulling people from other departments to really focus their attention on this. >> sanjay, the president was also asked about the experimental drug that was given to two of the americans with ebola. there's a story that i know you first br

dr. sanjay gupta is there. a doctor is being treated there. he was brought from africa to the united states with ebola. how is his condition tonight? >> we hear things are looking good for him. this is the hospital where the special isolated unit it where dr. brantly is. he is the first american to set foot on american soil with ebola. he had a conversation with his wife. through a glass wall for her protection. through a glass wall and intercom system. it is somewhat culminating with an experimental serum flown to liberia to try and save him. last thursday dr. kent brantly thought he was going to die. the ninth day since he came down sick with ebola. his condition worsening by the minute. he called his wife to say good-bye. but he also knew just hours earlier, a secret, highly experimental drug called zmap had been delivered to the clinic. the serum was delivered in sub zero temperatures and with clear instructions. allow the vials to thaw naturally. it would be an agonizing eight-hour wait. he told his nurse, nancy, that she should have the

dr. sanjay gupta. he shows sanjay the gear he'll wear.laborate plan getting them home and making sure they won't infect someone else. i know you and i talked about this last night but i want to ask you again because i think a lot of people worried about it. how risky is it to bring the patients to the u.s. for treatment? >> well, it's a pretty risky thing. there is no question. simply making sure the patients are medically stable enough is a very important requirement here. i talked to the cdc director earlier and said explain to me why, how this decision got made and he said it was about bringing american citizens who are sick doing this humanitarian work, bringing them home and i asked the lead doctor the very same question. >> we know that the risk is small, but it would be smaller if these patients did not come here. if you don't have anything magical to provide, why take the risk at all? >> i think you have been in that part of the world and you know the level of care that can be delivered. these are americans who went over there to

dr. sanjay gupta and dr. fouchi.octor, this trial, can you just explain how it's going to be conducted. it's my understanding it's going to start very small and then expand. >> right. it's a phase one trial. we've had very good results with the animal study in this. it looks really good in protecting monkeys against lethal challenge of ebola but now that we're going to the next important step into humans, that's why you've got to go very slowly. once you finish that and observe them long enough for safety, it will take us until the end of the calendar year, sometime around december, then we'll know if it's safe and whether it induces the kind of response we want it to. then you go to the next stage of a broader, larger trial. >> and sanjay, in terms of preventing further outbreaks, how important could this vaccine be? >> that's a great question. i think obviously for this outbreak, given the timing dr. fauci described, it's probably not going to be available in time for this particular outbreak. hopefully this outbre

dr. sanjay gupta, covering this for months and months and months. hink, you know, hearing from folks who have known dr. brantly and saying they were planning funeral arrangements to flash forward three weeks at emory hospital and he is walking out of there. it's stunning. >> it really is. and i mean, that juxtaposition, brooke, you know, that's real. before -- the day before he flew, medevaced out of liberia, they thought he was going to die. his health care team thought he was going to die. he had had a conversation with his wife, sharing those concerns. he got this experimental therapy. we know that by the next morning he was able to stand up and shower on his own and get on that plane. so -- he was very, very sick, you know, close to death, sounds like. and now you see him the way he is. and point out as well, brooke, and i'm sure you saw this. but he's holding hands with his wife, amber, as he comes in. he hugs every member of the 26-member health care team that cared for him. besides what he said, the optics of that is very important. this is a

dr. sanjay gupta explains. >> reporter: last thursday dr. kent brantly thought he was going to die. it was the ninth day since he came down sick with ebola. his condition worsening by the minute. he called his wife to say good-bye. but he also knew just hours earlier a secret, highly experimental drug called zmapp had been delivered to the clinic. the serum was delivered in subzero temperatures and with clear instructions -- allow the vials to thaw naturally before administering. it would be an agonizing eight-hour wait. when it arrived brantly told his colleague, nancy writebol, who was also sick, that she should have the first dose. but as brantly's health deteriorated and he became more desperate, he asked for writebol's now thawed medication. it was a risk. the treatment had been tried in monkeys and had seemed to work. but never before had it been tried in a human. not even to test safety. dr. kent brantly would be the first. while doctors don't often use this term, they describe what happened next as miraculous. within an hour of receiving the medication, dr. brantly's conditi

dr. sanjay gupta.l test here and they're starting with a very small group, just a handful of people. how good are the hopes here? how high are the hopes here that this could do something -- make a difference? >> well, you know, the answer in part is this is why you do science. what we know about this ahead of time, it hasn't been used in humans before, so it's hard to predict, but it has been used in non-human primates, chimpanzees. it's been pretty effective. some may look at that and say, well, there's a lot of examples where things work on animals then don't translate to humans. that's true. i think that's why this is being done. but look, there are a lot of different vaccine trials out there, jim. why exactly this one, i'm not sure but it's probably in part because this one holds more promise than the others, jim. >> with the vaccine in layman's terms, this is putting a piece of the virus in effect in your body, is that right, to stimulate an immune response? >> that's the way to think about it. it

dr. sanjay gupta spoke with two medical officials who explained how the highly orchestrated patient transportually happened. >> simply getting the patient, dr. kent brantly from point "a" to point "b" from the air force base to hospital required a lot of planning. state department, cdc, the hospital itself. the two gentlemen you are about to meet say they've been planning for this day for 12 years. you probably heard some of the reports from citizens of atlanta. they are concerned about this just because all they hear about ebola is what's happening in west africa. >> i have no reserves. totally comfortable with it and this is what we do and train for. and it's perfectly safe. >> when you heard about this first, did you have any expectations of what dr. brantly, what his condition would be like when he arrived in the united states? >> no. we've been getting reports here and there, and with this disease process or this virus, patients can be in a lot of different conditions. so the condition he's in is, you know, what we expected because it's what we've been hearing. >> we heard from samaritan

dr. sanjay gupta who we should mention is on staff at emory. it's surprising he is able to leave. i think the two questions, are how do we know? how do we know that dr. kent brantley and dr. nancy writebol are not going to be sick or not going to show signs of sickness later on, what is their life going to be like? >> well, you know, with regard to the first part of that question, it sounds like they made this decision in conjunction with guidance from the centers for disease control and prevention which has had a lot of experience with ebola in other parts of the world. again not in the united states. this has never happened before in the united states. i keep making that point. what you're witnessing here is historic from a medical and scientific standpoint. but the two criteria they use, they want to prove through blood tests, that they -- the patient does not have ebola anymore in their blood, and they also want to make sure that the patient is doing well overall physically. you know, the ebola disease, ebola virus disease can cause significant problems with organs in the body,