dr. tom frieden, said "he was astonished at the latest breech and angry." here's dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: for the third time in a month, the c.d.c. acknowledged deadly pathogens were handled incorrectly in government labs. c.d.c. director dr. tom frieden: >> so i'm upset, i'm angry, i've lost sleep over it, and am working around the clock to make sure we do everything possible to resolve it. >> reporter: in the latest case revealed today, c.d.c. workers somehow lost track of samples of the dangerous h5-n1 influenza virus. the virus was added to a shipment that went to a secure lab in athens, georgia. the c.d.c. says both facilities were highly secure and nobody was ever at risk. frieden says the mistake was discovered in late may, but he was only told about it this week. can you take me back to the moment when you found out about h5-n1? >> i remember it vividly. i was sitting at my desk in the washington office, and i was stunned and appalled this could have happened and there could have been this type of delay in notification. >> reporter: this comes after 60-yea

dr. frieden's. susan heavy correspondent for reuters. carolyn block publisher and editor federal telemedicine news. hirito. this time last week dr. tom frieden was busy cramming for his july 16th appearance before the house committee on energy and commerce. the director of the centers for disease control dr. frieden had been summoned to washington to answer questions about the startling and potentially dangerous lab errors at the cdc and while that topic is likely to come up again here today, dr. frieden joins us to explore a much bigger and broader issue, looming worldwide health threats including the pathogens that put modern medicine at risk. he'll explain the mr. mers coronavirus a disease that has no known cure and has recently immigrated to our country. it haunts the arabian peninsula and is showing up in travellers through other destinations far away. the virus has reached an arrival in the united states, sent hundreds of cdc staff into emergency mode. and some now refer to this illness as public enemy number one. other issues that dr. frieden will tackle this afternoon includes the dramatic increase in the number of measles c

recess until senate stands in recess until >> the director of the centers for disease control, tom frieden, dr. tom frieden is speaking at the press club today on the reported mishandling of anthrax by cd -- cdc staff. live coverage from the press club at 1 p.m. here on c-span2. later today on c-span3 we will be bringing you the hearing on the president's veterans nomination, former procter & gamble ceo were robert donald nominee by the president to head up the veterans affairs department. he will be before the senate committee with a confirmation hearing coming up at 3 p.m. eastern. we will have that live on c-span3. also today in washington a federal appeals court has delivered a serious setback to president obama's health care law. the ap writes potentially derailing subsidy from the low and middle income people who have bought policies, and a right also a three-judge panel in washington ruled that the law as written only allows insurance subsidies and states that set up their own exchanges. that invalidated an irs regulation that allowed subsidies in all 50 states. >> coming up next on c-s

dr. tom frieden, thank you very much. >> the president is meeting this evening with congressional leaders on the surge of illegal immigrant children on the southern border. today a pew center poll found that 53% of americans support accelerating the legal deportation process while 38% want to stay with the current policy. there are nearly 9,000 illegal immigrant children in u.s. custody now waiting for a hearing on whether they can stay. those children were part of a surge of more than 57,000 unaccompanied minors who have come from central america just since last october. manual bojorquez went to el salvadore to find out why so many children are headed north. tonight he has raul's story. >> here if you don't do certain things, your life is going to end anyways. and it's better to try than to just stay and die. >> reporter: 16-year-old raul told us he gets daily threats from the gangs that rule the streets across most of this country. >> what's that like? >> well, it's really horrible because you feel like your life is in danger. you feel like you don't have freedom to walk down the street

dr. tom frieden there will face tough questions this week in washington. he's scheduled to discuss the anthrax scare before a congressional kmecommittee. erica edwards has more on the laboratory mistakes. >> reporter: a report has revealed several serious errors at cdc labs. historically considered world class in their safety precautions. >> i'm disappointed by what happened, and frankly, i'm angry about it. >> reporter: friday tom frieden addressed recent incidents. starting with the anthrax scare that exposed 80 cdc workers. >> the scientists failed to follow a scientifically derived and reviewed protocol that would have assured that anthrax was inactivated and that the material was confirmed to be sterile before it ever left the lab. that should have happened, and it didn't. >> reporter: none of those workers have fallen ill, but that lab is now closed. in a second incident, workers accidentally sent active bird flu to an outside lab. this week another agency discovered decades' old viles of smallpox. these errors coupled with 2006 involving botulism le

dr. tom frieden scheduled to discuss the anthrax scare before a congressional committee. 83 workers were exposed to the virus after it was transported. >>> heads up this morning. five new speed cameras will start giving you tickets in the districts. all the cameras are in southeast d.c. if you are caught speeding, you could be ticketed up to $300. there are more than 117 -- 170 speed cameras across the district. >>> thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. >> the humidity is certainly sticking around for the start of the weekend. >> not good for our hair, right? >> not at all. you don't want to see that. >> time to check in with amelia segal. amelia, you have such a beautiful forecast next week. i have a gold star for you right here. can you see this? gold paper with a star. >> thank you so much. i ordered this weather up. honestly, though, next week we're looking at fabulous weather. temperatures, well, we'll talk about temperatures in a bit. all in all this weekend is going to be nice. it's the epitome of a summer weekend. it will be a little bit humid today with a high around 9

dr. tom frieden also took questions at the national press club. this is an hour. >> good afternoon and welcome. i'm an adjunct professor at the george washington university school of media and public affairs, former international bureau chief with the associated press, and the 107th president of the national press club is theional press world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future through our programming with events such as this while fostering a free press worldwide. or more information on the please visit our website. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today's event. our head table include tests of the speaker, as well as working journalists who are club members. if you hear applause in the audience, i know members of the general public are attending so not necessarily evidence of the lack of journalistic object to the. i would also like to welcome c-span and public radio audiences. follow the action on twitter. guest speech conclude

dr. frieden's. susan heavy correspondent for reuters. carolyn block publisher and editor federal telemedicine news. hirito. this time last week dr. tom frieden was busy cramming for his july 16th appearance before the house committee on energy and commerce. the director of the centers for disease control dr. frieden had been summoned to washington to answer questions about the startling and potentially dangerous lab errors at the cdc and while that topic is likely to come up again here today, dr. frieden joins us to explore a much bigger and broader issue, looming worldwide health threats including the pathogens that put modern medicine at risk. he'll explain the mr. mers coronavirus a disease that has no known cure and has recently immigrated to our country. it haunts the arabian peninsula and is showing up in travellers through other destinations far away. the virus has reached an arrival in the united states, sent hundreds of cdc staff into emergency mode. and some now refer to this illness as public enemy number one. other issues that dr. frieden will tackle this afternoon includes the dramatic increase in the number of measles c

dr. tom frieden is sending 50 more disease specialists from the cdc into the hot zone to try to get this epidemic under control. >> ebola in west africa is worsening. we're responding by surging the cdc response so that we can lep countries find patients, ice lett them, stop spread and appreciate future cases. but it's not going to be quick and it's not going to be easy. >> in fact, frieden told me this ank, finally stopping the outbreak could take three up to six months in the best shot. >> what about ebola patients who could be coming to the united states, john? >> they're workers, volunteers with samaritan's purse and service in mission. dr. kent brantley and nurse nancy rightpol, both severely ill. samaritan purse is working with the centers for disease control and state department to medevac them back to the united states. if they come back, the first-ever cases of ebola in the u.s. samaritan's purse director franklin graham told me all necessary precautions would be taken. >> people are afraid. but these are american citizens, and they want to come home. we're going to help them ge

dr. tom frieden. with me is mr.eads our office of security, safety and asset management. i'll review the problems that have come to light in the past month and tell you what we're doing now to address improving lab savt. the fact that it appears that no one was harmed and that there were no releases do sd not excuse what happened. what happened was completely unacceptable. it should never have happened. if i leave you with

dr. tom frieden. with me is mr. joe henderson who heads our office of security, safety and asset management. i'll review the problems that have come to light in the past month and tell you what we're doing now to address improving lab savt. the fact that it appears that no one was harmed and that there were no releases do sd not excuse what happened. what happened was completely unacceptable. it should never have happened. if i leave you with just one thought about today's hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. with the recent incidents, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve that culture of safety. cdc works 24/7 and our scientists protect americans from threats, including naturally occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug resistant bacteria such as anthrax. but we must do that work more safely and we will. there's a recap of the recent incidents that summarized in our report which has been completed and we're

dr. tom frieden, will be talking about the middle east respiratory syndrome known as mirs, as well as the rise of antibiotic resistant diseases. that will be at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. in washington today, a ruling at the federal appeals court may have delivered a serious setback to president obama's health care law, potentially derailing subsidies for many low-income people who have bought policies. they write that a three-judge panel in washington ruled 2-1 that the law as written only allows insurance subsidies in states that have set up their own exchanges. that invalidated an irs regulation that allowed subsidies in 50 states. legal correspondent jeffrey tubin of cnn tweeted after that ruling, the 7-4 democratic majority on the d.c. circuit will nuke option means likely overturning of that obamacare ruling. >>> this weekend on book tv's "after words" -- >> i thought it would be compelling to tell the story of a white family and a black family with the same name who come from the same place and follow them from slavery through the civil war, reconstruction, jim crow, the civil r

dr. tom frieden, will give remarks and take questions at the national press club today. live coverage starts to 1 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. c-span to provide live coverage of the u.s. senate floor proceedings and key public policy defense. and every weekend booktv, now for 15 years the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by the cable tv industry and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> the senate starts its day in the few moments. leader time in speeches for the next 45 minutes, then votes to advance three judicial nominations to district courts in california, florida and louisiana. members will recess for party lunches at 12:30 p.m. and when the return at 2:15 p.m. they will vote on any of the three nominations advanced this money. meanwhile, the house meets at noon for speeches at 2 p.m. for legislative business with 14 small bills on their schedule. live coverage of the house is over on c-span. now live to the senat

dr. tom friedman, he did say he doesn't anticipate that this will spread to the united states. why does he think that? >> i think what dr. friedenve spread is extremely small, in part because we have the ability through education to recognize cases, ask positionhysicians, me they take good travel histories, educate travelers in the area to monitor themselves for early recognition of symptoms, present to health care in advance, identifying they may be at risk and implementing it very prompt and effective infection control, all the way from the emergency room visit through the hospitalization, and that knowledge has been proven to effectively contain and stamp out epidemics of hemorrhagic fevers in the past. just this spring we had an incident with lhasa fever, another hemorrhagic fever sfwei introduced, three others identified and none of them spread. >> one of the reasons this one case that they were talking about where the man died is really stoking so much fear is that he was traveling from liberia to nigeria. he died after he collapsed in the airport there, which makes me wonder, is there a discussion that is needed or is alr

dr. frieden. >> chairman murphy, ranking member degette -- [inaudible] chairman murphy, ranking member degette, members of the subcommittee, thank you very much for this opportunity to appear before you. on dr. tom frieden, director of the cdc. with me is mr. joseph anderson was the office of secure the safety and asset management. i will review the problems that come to light in the past month and tell you what we're doing now to address improving lab safety. the fact that it appeared no one was harmed and that there were no releases does not excuse what happened. what happened was completely unacceptable. it should never have happened. if i leave you with just one thought about today's hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. with the recent incident, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety, and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve the culture of safety. cdc works 24/7, and our scientists protect americans from threats, including natural occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug-resistant bacteria and man-made threats such as anthrax. but we must do that work more safely, and we will. there's a recap of the recent incidents that our