the polls were sdrupd by the ebola outbreak.t health controls were imposed to prevent the spread of the virus. it's been one year since the first victim of the west african ebola outbreak dined in guinean. by march this year the virus has spread to linebiera and sierra leone. in july, nigeria confirmed the first patient. a missionary was flown to atlanta in the united states in august. cases were also confirmed in spain and senegal. nigeria, spain and senegal are now free of ebola and the number of indications in liberia is going down. the disease is still spreading in western sierra leone. the ebola outbreak has been the worst ever killing 7,500 people worldwide. carla malone has the story of some of those left behind. >> reporter: over the past year as the ebola outbreak continued to spread in three west african nations, it's left three,000 without parents. at this new or fannage in the capital, they perform drills to protect themselves against ebola. >> these children have become orphans. you can see how poor they are. what i

a new warning over ebola.ted nations says there's still a huge risk it could spread around the world, but is the u.n. meeting its own targets for tackling the disease? >> we've been very successful in many, many areas. of those 62 districts, the vast majority for sure were exceeding those targets. not in all the districts. >>> also coming up, the fight against another deadly disease. hiv and aids. the u.n. hopes to eradicate it by 2030. >>> a video goes viral of two sisters fighting back after they claimed they were sexually harassed on a bus in india. >>> and the australian parliament pays tribute to phillip hughes, who died last week after being struck on the head by a ball. >>> hello. december 1st today marks the u.n.'s self-imposed deadline for tackling ebola in west africa. but the head of the mission has suggested it has missed its target for controlling the virus. tony banbury also warned there's still a huge danger the disease could spread around the world. the aim was to isolate 70% of those who have

-- not yet with ebola. this is an inhibitor that was brought in viral usage. it protect life and has not gone into a nonhuman primate. i show you is this, you can argue about the potential but despite the fact that they are given in compassionate use and/or in the face 1 trial doesn't mean they work and the critical issue is the balance, the need for a therapeutic with a desperately ill person and the need to show that it actually works. and the first trials have been kicked off a couple days ago in the knee and sierra leone and liberia which is going to be determining whether the antibodies in the person's plasma who is recovered will be protected. we have put together with the people in emily and nebraska and adapted trial designs to take a look at a couple of these therapeutics with the control being an enhanced care. in other words he intensive replenishment and fluid and electrolyte balance so it is in the placebo because it is different from the situation in which you are giving the vaccine. i will ha

that is the way ebola works. it comes in waves. even though we are making progress, we are still in a very critical, serious situation. the thing about ebola, unlike other diseases, when the trajectory goes down, almost by itself, it will disappear. ebola, if there is one case, one case can ignite another explosion. it is one of those unusual diseases that you have to really put every ember and every spark out. we are far from that right now. >> thank you, tony. ron, tony has spent his career engaged in addressing infectious diseases. your ownminding business when the president called you and said we need you to help us develop your national response. what was it like in those early days? how did you come to terms with the challenges you faced in this new role? tell us about the learning curve and how you were able to close some of that curve, and what have been your impressions, your experiences in the six weeks on the job? >> well, so, when the president asked me to come do this, i was minding my own business. i was teaching a co

and global responses to ebola. after that, a discussion on the policing task force. >> tomorrow, a memorial service will be held for former mayor marion being -- marion barry at the washington conventional -- convention center. speakers include national urban league share of mark morreale. my coverage of the service begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> here are some of the programs you find a speaking on the c-span network. saturday at 11:00 eastern, live coverage of the memorial service for former mayor marion barry. sunday evening at 8:00 on the c-span cna -- c-span about this "q&a," a former abc white house correspondent. saturday night at 10:00 on book jason's localwo, on how the northeast united states was not always the haven of racial equality and supportive of effort american civil rights. and sunday at new and, the live three-hour conversation with author and american enterprise institute president arthur brooks. with your phone calls, e-mails, and tweets. and on american history tv on 8:00, three, r

i mean we have had the anxiety of ebola. and we have had a handful of cases here back then, we had tens of thousands of cases and not a lot of people were paying attention to it early on. so when you talk about community did, i think the involvement and caring community -- mostly the activist community -- have transformed the way we look at diseases now in the united states. so, it's a little bit different because we don't have or need that with ebola in the united states. but i can tell you, the reason is that we have the success in southern africa with hiv is that the activist community in the playbook, if the united states they say there are drugs out there. they are making people well. we are dying. we need those drugs community did in africa, there is government you disfunctions and civil war but if the community makes the demand for the kind of systems, kind of from a structure we are talking about, that's going to go a long way to making it happen. there is nothing like a community to change the way leaders look. it h

ebola in the united states. not an outbreak or epidemic, but occasional works. we'll have health care workers come back to the united states infected so this is a health care problem for us. secondly, it's a geopolitical and national security challenge for the united states to see this kind of devastation and loss in west africa, that's something we have to respond to. it's a humanitarian crisis to see this kind of loss and devastation. we're seeing great response from the united kingdom, france, even non-traditional partners. china i think has mobilized its largest global let response in response to this crew sis. we have doctors from cuba working in sierra leone right now. it has been a global response, but i think our leadership has been critical and i think it is something the american people can take a great deal of pride in. >> if there were other elements in the current structure for addressing a challenge like this from a global perspective, are they needed, or are there existing elements in the structur

another suspected ebola patient being tested in the united kingdom.tient is in the southwest of england at royal cornwell hospital. that nurse traveled from sierra leone to scotland over the weekend. she's entering a special isolation unit in london. >>> senior international correspondent nic robertson joins us in london. what we're seeing now here in port two additional ebola cases, in addition to the one at the hospital where you are at. >> reporter: that's right. the one in scotland currently in a remote hospital being transferred shortly we understand to the hospital -- main hospital in coastal city of aberdeen. that will be for continued monitoring and checks to see if this person has ebola. they were recently in west africa although that person hasn't been believed to have had any contact, direct contact with people who have ebola. so yes at the moment we now have these two other cases, as well as the one that's being treated here at the high level isolation unit at the royal free hospital. the person here is a woman, we know she's a nurse. she

when thomas eric duncan died and two nurses treated them contracted ebola.r president obama former white house aide ron klain as nation's first ebola czar. we welcome ron klain to "face the nation." >> thanks for having me. >> garrett: this week we had event, someone might have been exposed to live ebola virus what can you tell us was this late in the game? >> it's obviously unacceptable to have any mishandling of ebola materials. the director of cdc as promised review. also important to keep this in context. first of all thanks to the other protocols and procedures there was no risk to the public, no risk to the cdc campus only one technician was exposed sophora showing no signs of having the disease. she's being monitored every day. i visited this lab on the campus in october they have been studying ebola for 20 years without single incident. processed more than 10,000 samples. they saved thousands of lives. it's a national treasure people around the world look to us for leadership for the kind of leadership they provided on the ebola response. american pe

all the people died of ebola are black. does that mortality distinct and in addition to the off the chart number of infections and deaths that have occurred suggest that u.s. africa ebola variant may be a weaponize version of the virus? >> okay, let's take one other. right here, sir. we will come to you in a moment in the second round. >> thank you. again, i commend the effort. i'm the head of r&d at no backs, a recombinant vaccine company at i think the efforts to mend want to put any -- what you were doing, i think the companies have mobilize in a tremendous way vertically. i would point out that these are factors, very focuse focus on je technology, and we go to our limitations. they haven't really worked in other settings. they have pre-existing immunity. they develop very low immunity to the target. we have non-human finding data. so i think that's the best, and i believe plan b should be at the forefront for a second kind of vaccine because there is some chance that when we come to face will look at this and say i don

that person has not been the point person of ebola. i think the administration has to do afteraction review as to did they recreate the wheel or take the blueprint that was there? and i think on any given news cycle, you saw a different person in the administration, now there's a spokesperson. that's not the way you get through a crisis like this. and in some cases, two people said two different things. but, concentrated in that secretary, assistant secretary of emergency preparedness are the responsibilities for the actual training that goes on continuingly at hospitals. and i think that what we've got to do is look back and say what was the training we were taking them through. we know that cdc had at least bad regulars as it related to personal protective equipment. and that was transitioned very quickly. did we communicate to the states and to the hospitals here's the degree of training we want you to go through. here's the threshold we want you to hit, depending on the size of the hospital that the capabilities will be different.

the 50 states can't have 50 ebola responses. there has to be some standardization. >> is that hhs's job to say silt down and don't do that? >>> i think when there was a vacuum, people were filling it based upon folks at if local level. the news is saying one thing and this person on television is saying another. >> but these never happened again. >> everything was fine on that point up until the point where the public was the messenger or the message or both changed. the governor said my public was out raged and i'm going to have a policy and we're going to do this or that. you wouldn't be there unless you had a consistent approach from the beginning. >>> the gap fween what a large segment of the public thought versus the science that is not in dispute, that you both understand, it was a very big gap. and does that -- how do you get over something like that? something that's more frightening or a bigger ecological threat with that inability to tamper down fears and not create chaos. how do you look at that gap? >> i didn't artic

we are still safe here fighting ebola. the full course is for us toize late ebola and not isolate the revert of the country. >> the international efforts to find a cure or treatment is being stepped up. teams across the globe are looking into anti viral drugs, while another is investigating how to use the blood of survivors as a potential therapy. >> it's probable that these treatments will work, but we have to check that the human body can tolerate them, the treatments must not be toxic. >> more than 17,000 people have contracted ebola in this outbreak, and the rate of infection is still rising in place. >> a rocket carrying nasa's hopes of return to the glory days of space flight is waiting to blast off in florida. the mission is touted as the first step in deep space exploration, but time is ticking with less than half hour left in today's launch window. live to andy gallagher at the kennedy space center for us. several delays and about 20 minutes left now in the launch window. is this going to happen today? >> well, ti

we are still safe here fighting ebola. the focus is for us to isolate the ebola and not to isolate the rest of the country. >> the international effort to find a cure or treatment is being stepped up. teams across the globe are looking into antiviral drugs while another is investigating how to use the blood of survivors as a potential therapy. >> translator: it's probable that these treatments will work but we have to check that the human body can tolerate then. the treatments must not be toxic. >> reporter: as things stand, more than 17,000 people have contracted ebola in this outbreak. and the rate of infection is still rising in places. dominic cain, al jazeera. >> in india, breast cancer kills a staggering 70,000 women every year. the government is trying to launch an awareness campaign. carishma via reports. >> diagnosed with stage 3 cancer five months ago. after finding a lump if her breast. her life now revolves around cycles of radiation. rita lost her sister to breast cancer decades ago but she never thought it wo

. >>> a new ebola scare. scientists inside the cdc may have been exposed to the lethal virus. how did it happen. >>> celebrations in bethlehem and midnight mass at the vatican with a special message from the pope. good morning, everybody. merry christmas to you. thank you for joining us today. i'm betty nguyen. getting home for the holidays has been a big hassle for millions of americans thanks to the snow, the flooding, and the thunderstorms. according to flight aware.com, as of 11:00 p.m. last night, more than 13,000 flights had been delayed. and more than 1200 flights canceled nationwide this week. so how did last minute travelers fare? here's nbc's chris pollone. ♪ >> reporter: at new york's laguardia airport, santa and his evil elves tried to keep travelers merry and bright. it was windy and wet from maine to florida. by midday, 200 flights across the country had been canceled, more than a thousand delayed. but travellers in new york seemed to be taking everything in stride. >> so far it has been great, no problems for us. we're hoping it will continue to be this way. >>

duncan went to a dallas area hospital and not tested for ebola. two days later he returned to the hospital and tested positive becoming the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the u.s. days later duncan passed away, the hospital came under scrutiny. the city of dallas went on high alert and two nurses that treated the liberian national became infected. the cdc cautioned against overreaction. >> the risk of having an ebola outbreak in the u.s. is exceedingly unlikely and rare. partly because of the control we have. >> hospitals across the country quickly began ebola training so that no other health care workers would become infected. >> it is very difficult is it? >> you have to have a certain amount of balance and a certain amount of dexterity and patience, there's no rushing. >> there's no time or place to screw this up is there? >> no. we are operating under the no errors mentality. >> reporter: with the number of cases going up in west africa aid workers were pleading for international support infrastructure and continued education to st

and the news about ebola has cast a heavy shadow on investor sentiment. now, market heavyweights like softbank and fast retailing the uniqlo operator showed heavy declines. softbank and fast retailing among some of the big decliners. currency traders also taking more of a risk avoidance mode and they had bought back the yen which they see as a safer asset. so some of the major exporters were trading lower on the back of the relatively stronger yen. toyota and tdk but shares of fuji film showed strength on the ebola news. it rose more than 2.5%. a drug made by fujifilm group is now under clinical tests for ebola. fujifilm up 0.36%. tokyo electric power company, the operator of the crippled fukushima daiichi plant was also trading higher one of the biggest gainers, in fact. analysts say investors cheered the news that tepco will review its restructuring plan by spring 2015. so with only one trading day left here the nikkei could still end up in the positive for the year despite the ebola concerns that we'll have to see if it closes above 18,000 levels. we h

on the ebola update i have dr. [inaudible] here and i wanted to do an update and see if you have questions for him he is available. we have a great job of planning and also preparing for ebola. our staff, we have been looking at this as a major preparedness activity and so we have already have identified over 15 individuals who could be utilized if [inaudible] any other significant response to e bola issue. i think that's a good practice for us. also, cdc has sent out a document on the 35 treatments centers throughout the country and we are monitoring some individuals as they come back at most at low risk, and so, i just want to acknowledge dr. cardigan [sp?] an office app and this has been a full department response including san francisco general hospital and all the hospitals all the clinics are pairing with protective equipment so if you want to give a important message to all of you is that the department is in preparation and also the fact that i think our staff has really stepped up to be prepared for any in

the ebola outbreak that originatedoriginated in africas that grown to 19,000 cases and 600 deaths. in sierra leone the government banned holiday celebrations. on the radio christmas concerts were replaced by public health announcements. more from debora patta. >> reporter: before sierra leone took the descrask step of banning all public activities, it was going to be a bleak holiday for these ebola orphans. deprived of one or often both of their parents, they are cared for by survivors of the disease as the infection rate continues to rise in their country. sierra leone has had over 9,000 cases of ebola, more than three times that of guinea and 1200 more than liberia. american doctor dan kelli is an infectious disease expert just returned from more than a month working in the west african country. he says the christmas ban is sad but necessary. >> i can only imagine how that would impact a country of people who are used to going home to their villages and spending time with their families. i really hope this is the last christmas in sierra leone that we see the need for a ban. >> r

. >>> on the broadcast tonight, ebola scare. breaking news tonight, scientists inside the cdc may have been exposed to the lethal virus. how did it happen? >>> now playing, a christmas eve surprise. the movie that sparked an international incident available a day early for the world to see. >>> path of destruction, from a deadly outbreak of tornadoes and tonight, flooding, wind, fog and major delays at the airport. >>> hospitalized, the latest on the condition of former president george h.w. bush. >>> and here comes santa claus. we'll show you how to track his every move. we are hot on his trail. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. i'm tamron hall in for brian on this christmas eve. we begin with breaking news from atlanta. inside a secure laboratory may have exposed a technician to ebola and other staff who may have had contact with that lab are being identified. it's the latest in a series of embarrassing errors for the c

, including those here at ebola.t is needed to help us partner with other countries and to prevent and deal with future outbreaks and threats before they become epidemics. this is something that i want to focus on for just a second. tony and i were fondly reminiscing about sars and h1n1. that is what these guys do for fun. [laughter] and we were lucky with h1n1, that it did not prove to be more deadly. we cannot say that we are so lucky with ebola because obviously it is having a devastating effect in west africa but it is not airborne in its transmission. and there may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly. and in order for us to deal with that effectively we have to put into place an infrastructure, not just here at home but globally, that allows us to see it quickly, isolated quickly, respond to it quickly. and it also requires us to continue the same path of recent research that is being done here at nih that nancy is a great example of. so that if and when a new str

we know the word got out for ebola, we know the city felt it was prepared because of this team.nk you very much. [ applause ] >> please step forward so we can acknowledge all that are here. thank you. there is a photo op here. okay. amika, please come forward. she provided analysis and staff report for the mayor's 2013 universal health council. on july 2013, mayor asked her to include the stakeholders and data driven process to examine san francisco's implementation of the federal affordable care act and it's integration in our own health and security plan. the final report issued in january of this year. the topic was controversial and the ten adversarial. micka remained the focus was on the staff. micka help identified the key issues in order to do its work and draft the key issues. she planned with meeting and planning and evaluation of logistics. it was successful to its success and certainly helped this commission through the issues. thank you very much, and congratulations a. [ applause ] >> our next award is to the jail information management design team and those who are

. >>> a new ebola scare. we're learning scientists inside the cdc may have been exposed to the lethal virus. how did it happen? >>> christmas in the holy land. celebrations in bethlehem and midnight mass at the vatican with a special message from the pope. we are live this christmas morning. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. and merry christmas. i'm ayman mohyeldin. getting home for the holidays has been a big hassle for millions of americans, thanks to snow, flooding and thunderstorms. according to flight ware.com, more than 13,000 flights had been delayed, and more than 1200 flights canceled nationwide this week alone. so how did last minute travelers fare? here's nbc's chris pollone. >> reporter: at new york's laguardia airport christmas eve, santa and his elves tried to keep holiday spirits bright, serenading travelers with christmas carollers, perhaps distracting them from dreary weather causing flight delays and cancellations. it was windy and wet from maine to florida. by midday, 200 fl

the human toll taken by ebola in west africa grows heavier by the day.00 people have lost their lives. but after months of agonized discussion amongst health experts and a series of big promises from at least some world leaders, international assistance is starting to make a big difference. one month ago, our africa correspondent andrew harding visited a village in sierra leone that was being torn apart by the ebola virus. no help had reached the village, which is several hours drive from freetown. he found people dying by the side of the road. this week, he went back to see how things had changed. >> reporter: a month ago, we found a village torn apart by ebola. the dead and dying on one side. do you think it's ebola? >> it is. >> reporter: orphaned children stranded across the road. could you ask the children to raise their hands if they've been orphaned? >> i haven't got any help yet. >> reporter: nothing at all? >> nothing at all. >> reporter: today, we're back here to find out what's changed. in october, this man begged us to help him. >> she's goin

is conducting a review of the latest mistake in which live ebola virus may have been sent anom one lab to another down the hall-- one not equipped to work with the deadly pathogen. the technician who handled the sample was not adequately protected. c.d.c. director tom frieden is promising action, the latest in a string of pledges to upgrade safety. he said, "no risk to staff is acceptable." >> for this to happen and put our workers potentially at risk, is totally unacceptable. >> reporter: that was frieden in july. it had just been revealed that c.d.c. workers had accidentally contaminated flu samples with the deadly h5n1 virus, also known as bird flu. and in june, the agency admitted that lab workers may have been exposed to live anthrax after it wasn't properly deactivated. those tampers have been transferred between labs in ziploc bags, a breach of protocol. it prompted congressional hearings during which frieden promised sweeping measures to change the lax safety culture. they put together a panel of outside safety experts and even temporarily shut down some labs, but cbs news chie

first on ebola. i wonder, the fact that the esident -- [inaudible] shift of level of concern. -- ou give us a sense now -- particularly as it relates to talking to members of congress? >> i can tell you the administration does believe that the funding for these ebola priorities should be taken very seriously by members of congress. there are early indications -- >> [inaudible] >> there are democrats and republicans in congress who have indicated that they share the administration's view that these are priorities. that there is a need to redouble our efforts to improve readiness in this country, and a need to redouble our efforts in west africa to stop the outbreak nits tracks, where we can tyler eliminate the ebola risk to the -- we can entirely eliminate the ebola risk to the american people. i know there are democrats and republicans on capitol hill who share that view. now, as i also mentioned, just because democrats and republicans believe something is a priority doesn't guarantee it's going to g

for ebola. there were only 13 labs that could do it back in august. >>> the white house also says that it's adding about 200 civilians and 3,000 troops to help fight ebola in west africa. in liberia alone the u.s. has already opened three ebola treatment units and a hospital. this all on the heels of a study published by u.s. researchers just last week which found that an experimental ebola vaccine appears to be safe with no major side affects for the volunteers who tried it. now, when it comes to battling ebola the group "doctors without borders" is less optimistic. it said that the international response to the virus has been slow, and international bodies have been more concerned with managing the ebola crisis while leaving the hands-on fighting of the disease to local people. but in a report to the president the ebola response coordinator ron clayne said that the efforts to stop ebola virus has improved in the past two months. still, better is relative. it's been 51 weeks since the first cas

half the people who caught ebola decide from it. there's no specific treatment, but vaccines and drugs are tested. it spreads through contact with an infected perp through bodily -- person through bodily fluids or broken skin symptoms may take 28 days to appear. the world responded with shipments like this from the e.u. a billion has been donated from the world bank. a recent world bank study suggests the economic cost of ebola could be as much as 33 billion over the next two years, if it continues to spread. back at the orphanage, children are surviving with limited support they get from the private sector. >> translation: we get rice and tea, it's not enough. i have a hard time sleeping. i don't think i'll become someone in the future. i lost my mother and father. >> reporter: she is one of many children and adults victims of the worst ebola outbreak. >>> time is running out for the u.n.'s millennium development goal. an ambitious plan with the aim of producing poverty and better companies around the world. one of those goals is t

how worried are you ebola was the best case scenario? we didn't have a good test and don't have a good treatment and don't have a vaccine. we don't have -- we didn't know how to treat it -- we didn't know how to take care of the waste. do you wake up in the middle of the night very worried about the other 13? >> just as worried as i was the day after the anthrax attack when we started writing the legislation. we funded, i don't know how much, since then and i think at some point we have to go back and look to see what did it buy us? what level of protection did it get us? how many partnerships have we had with the private sector? how have we leveraged federal provide a solution to those threats. i don't think the solution will that be good. but it's important we realize at least the barda piece, we don't partner with somebody until it reaches the threshold of what we need. we don't -- we don't do a partnership just to have one. so when you look at infectious disease, right now what we'd like is a platform that we're le to handle more tha

an equivalent amount of body fluid ththatat carries either hr ebola has a significantly higher ebola viral load, which makes it .erociously transmittable it's hard for an hiv doctor to become infected with the disease without something very invasive like a needle stickck for people working with ebola,,, even bio safety level containment facilities at the three-tier or four tier, the highest years, even those facilities cannot -- highest tiers, even those e fafalities create enough protection to help the people helping the sick. >> thahahahanknk y for joining . you are watching bbc world news america. still to come, scientists deal a blow to the theory most water on earth came from comets. we will bring you the latest nene from outer space. has beenrichest man revealed as the one who bought james watson.l of tson won the prize in 1962 for the didididiscscy of the structe .f dna >> 1962, american james d watson d his fellow recipients are presented by their nobel for medicine for discovering the structure of dna, but dr. watson has just sold his metal at auction and new york to raise a

i byin july nigeria confirmed its first ebola victim.cases were also confirmed in spain as well as senegal. nigeria some spain and senegal are free of ebola, the number are cases are going down but the disease is still spreading in western sierra leone. the worst ever, killing 7500 people worldwide. cala maleen has malone has the story. >> as the outbreak has continued to spread in three west african locations, it's left many children without parents. >> translator: these children have become orphans and can you see how poor they are. what i can do now is to help to the best of my abilities. >> reporter: part of the problem is the stigma attached to ebola. some of these children have relatives who could look after them but fear the disease even though the kids are healthy. this outbreak has been traced to a two-year-old in the guinane village. it has been traced to bats which many people eat here. >> people bereft, hungry, angry suspicious how did meandru become this crucible for the most deadly outbreak of the virus? when people die in

preparedness for emergences in the wake of ebola. bob casey of pennsylvania and richard burr spoke at an event hosted by politico. this is 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. we have scheduling problems it would no lame-duck is going to be rather busy. we are really glad to have you. guess, we were talking ourselves and one of the questions we had is, was sort of look back in 10 or 15 years ago we had a complacency in the country that we got public health was old and we do not have to deal with it anymore. public health hadn't kept up. and then we had 9/11, anthrax. and then you came along and filled in some gaps with bipartisan legislation. originally 2006, it's got a very long name which i wrote down. the pandemic all hazards, preparation act. and it has two different acronyms. one was probably the democrat acronym, you call it papa and reauthorized it. i'd like to talk a little bit about -- it's a shared, it was bipartisan from the beginning, you've worked together, there's funding issues going forward. we just had something that

>> because ebola stop us. i'm a seaman. i've been to sea. because of ebola, no job.hat's why i prefer to do this job. my family has abandoned me. my children have abandon me. that's why we have come here to find solution. >> we love our country sierra leone. we want this kind of disease to go out of this country. our resources, our business, our things are going behind. >> reporter: in the background, you can probably see the bulldozers. they've been hard at work, too. this cemetery has already run out of space so they're clearing through a rubbish dump to try to get extra ground because everyone knows this crisis is still out of control here, so there are going to be many more burials to come. >> andrew harding there. let's take a closer look at those failed u.n. targets. 70% of ebola patients would be isolated and under treatment by december 1st. according to figures recorded by the world health organization, a month ago, only 23% of cases had been isolated in liberia, and in sierra leone about 40% of cases had been isolated. figures for safe burials in both countr

we take a look back at ebola 2014. >> reporter: described as dreadful and merciless, ebola. a deadly disease infecting almost 20,000, killing nearly 8,000. >> this morning i'm declaring the current outbreak of ebola a public health emergency of international concern. >> reporter: in march 2014 west africans and sierra leone, guinea and liberia were put on high alert. >> protect yourself. listen to workers. believe it is real. go out and carry the message to wherever you are. >> researchers believe the origin of this outbreak came from an infected fruit bat which some consumed. according to the world health organisation there is no specific treatment or vaccine, and the fatality rate can be up to 90%. >> it varies from patient to patient, but can be severe. the virus itself attacks the cells of immune systems and disrupts the ability for work as well as creating inflammation that the immune system breaks down. >> the world's response was slow. >> as frustrations grew calls for funding and medical staff increased. >> ebola is actually a difficult disease to catch. president ob

the whole world must organize. >> there have been some success in stopping ebola. the country has been declared free of the disease since january, but mali has not been hit as hard as guinea. ebola is still spreading, and heat workers say more is needed. >> the police broke up a banned anti-government rally. tear gas was fired to dis% the protesters. the protesters have been demanding the resignation of it's presidents. >>> south africa has about 6 million hiv aide sufferers, the highest numbers in the world. scientists are driving research that may lead to a breakthrough in the virus. a vaccine that already shows to slow the rate of new infections. this woman is not a scientist but she's on the cutting edge of age research. she is part of a trial that may save lives. it's time to see if the trial is working. so far she has shown negative to hiv. she's helping because two of her uncles died of a.i.d.s. >> i'm making sure that no one dies. i want to make sure that people who are left, maybe in three-years time there will be nothing like. >> the second phase of the t

luckily, she did not have ebola. people at the wharton is did what they could to make her life as normal as possible. not everyone was so kind. didion says he will never forget the day he found her. >> >> she managed to convince the rest of her family to accept her back home. she tells us that people were afraid of her for a little while. but, after some time, the people saw that nobody was getting sick around her. nothing was happening to them. come in today, she is happy and healthy. she still shows a close bond with the man who rescued her. >> pope francis has delivered his prayer the day after christmas. >> >> thousands gathered in st. peter's square as the pope appeared on the balcony of the apostolic palace. the day after christmas, the head of the worlds 1.2 billion catholics dedicated his traditional prayer to christians around the globe who are suffering persecution. >> let us also pray that thanks to the sacrifice of these modern-day martyrs, efforts may intensify all over the world to recognize and guarant

but this year, because of ebola, i am not able to. >> well, ebola has killed more than 7,500 people in the west african region. richard atkinson is part of oxfam's humanitarian team and is in freetown and he supports the charity's work on ebola. i asked him about the mood in freetown this christmas. >> it's very quiet today. it's been very quiet for the last month really, and they say at this time normally, it's much more festive in feeling. this morning, there was a little bit of music playing and there was some firecrackers last night, but today it's quiet. a few cars on the street. so a few people out around where i am at at the moment. but generally, it just seems like a quiet day. the bars and restaurants are all shut. i'm not even hearing much from churches this morning. >> can you give us a bit more detail on what the restrictions actually are? >> in freetown, it's principally a movement in and out of town. so it really does mean people are limited what they can do. they stay at home with the family who are here. as the earlier person was saying, people not able to travel long d

ebola has killed more than 6,500 people in west africa.oke to a spokes women for the world health organization. and she says people attending funerals are spreading the virus. >> go-- generally infections ar spread two ways, one is by attending unsafe burials. there's some rituals, washing of the body, and there are some rituals with the water which is very dangerous. for these people to come and touch that person and weep and brush away the tiers that's when they introduce the ebola into their bodies. when they wipe away a tear, they can be giving themselves ebola. and then if you are caring for season -- someone who is very sick in your house, it's very easy to catch ebola has you care for the person. so that's how the disease is spreading. >>> it looks like the u.n. climate change summit taking place in peru may not wrap up on friday as expected. rich and poor nations are trying to agree on a global climate action plan ahead of a major conference in paris next year. nick clark reports from lima. >> reporter: every year-round this time i

ebola survivor nancy writebol will join us for her reaction. >> the people trying to stop ebola received a major honor, time magazine naming them the person of the year. >> a person may be singular, but the magazine recognizing people involved in the fight. >> these are the faces of the ebola fighters, selected by time magazine for tireless acts of courage and mercy. >> we really wanted to draw attention to the people who from the very beginning were being ignored by bureaucrats and government officials, decided this is a potential danger. those are the people who are the ebola fighters and we wanted to tell their stories. >> among on res, dr. kent brantley, a physician. he talked about his selection. >> i think it's fitting that we acknowledge that most ebola fighters and certainly those who paid the highest price for their service are themselves west africans. it's an honor for me to be considered part of the group. >> he stared death in the face trying to save people. back in july, the doctor became the patient as he contracted ebola. he was medevaced from liberia to emery university

in the popular ebola czar. i never feel as unczarry when we are trying to deal with this complex patch work of federal, state, and local authorities involved. they are benefitted by the hard work of many state and local officials. this is a two-way relationship. right now we have about 1400 people who traveled from west africa in the past 21 days. we monitored them for their temperature done by state and local officials. they take on that work and make a big contribution. obviously as we rolled out the system of treatment centers, we announced earlier this week at the nih when the president was there, 35 hospitals, 53 beds. those are set by standard and state and locals designating and approving the hospitals ready for that. i think the system worked for us for 225 years. they have frustration, but many days great benefits to us. science i think has been the centerpiece of our response in the administration and the guide post for us. by and large that has been successful. i think that as they said, translating

actually end up with ebola.erent from other tests not at all but it's not perfect, right? >> you can't close the window to zero days. there's time between the infection and when it's detectable. we believe we're going to be able to close that window more substantially than any other rapid test but can't close it to zero days. >> if you're given fda approval, how long would it take to use these tests where they are needed in west africa? >> the technology is for sale and the chips are commercial. we're ready to start supplying this as soon as we get approval. >> and lastly, they don't only detect ebola, right? they detect other diseases, malaria? >> exactly. the biggest need in west africa is one of different 15 fevers. there's yellow fever, malaria, dengay, the list goes on and on. the trick is when someone comes in with a fever, is it ebola or something else? we can detect 15 different pathogens at one time. >> are there a lot of competing devices? >> there's no other rapid test that can do 15 at one time. ther

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you know, the ebola health care workers? as "time" magazine's persons of the year. they've been on the front lines battling the virus. 2200 new cases in the number of patients in sierra leone is still increasing. thankfully it's decreasing in liberia. the work of the u.s. military, the world health organization, the cdc and volunteer groups such as doctors without borders. dr. siegel fills us in. >> we see kids that are suffering from ebola. they just don't feel well. they want to be touched, they want to be hugged. >> nurse marina novak from doctors without borders recently returned from sierra leone. >> when you're wearing the tpe, they reach for you, and because there's always the risk that a child could knock off your goggles or tear through your protective equipment, you're unable to carry them. >> novak is one of thousands of aid workers with the organization. they say one of the biggest challenges is ebola is a moving target. >> the needs are still there, but they're in different forms. >> doctors without borders has

we are still safe here fighting ebola. we isolate ebola and not isolate the rest of the country. >>reporter: the effort to find a cure or treatment is being stepped up. teams across the globe are looking into antiviral drugs and others are looking at using the blood of survivors as a potential therapy. >> we have to check that the human body can tolerate them. the treatments must not be toxic. >>reporter: more than 17,000 people have contracted ebola in this outbreak and the rate of infection is still rising in places. dominick caine, al jazeera >>> russia is accused of covering up failed doping tests. joe will have all the details shortly. >>> in india, breast cancer kills a staggering 70,000 women every year. now, that's more than anywhere else in the world. now the government is trying to combat the problem by launching an awareness campaign. from new deli, we have this report. >>reporter: rita is getting ready for another session of chemotherapy. her life now revolves around cycles of radiation. she lost her sister to breast cancer decades ago but never thought it would happe