frieden promised sweeping measures to change the lax safety culture. the cdc put together a group of outside safety experts and even temporarily shut down some labs. the materials that potentially kantd live ebola in this latest accident were steroid before officials even discovered the problem. the cdc never got to test the actual specimen, so we may never know how big of a mistake this actually was. julianna goldman, cbs news, washington. >>> a spokesman says george h.w. bush is in great spirits. he remains hospitalized this morning in houston where he's being treated for shortness of breath. the 90-year-old was admitted tuesday. mr. bush is the oldest living former president. he suffers from parkinson's disease and has lost use of his legs. >>> on the cbs "moneywatch," jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. >> good morning. here on wall street the markets reopen after the christmas holiday. the dow is over 18,000. it's at its highest level ever after gaining six points wednesday. the s&p was down less than a point and the

frieden's come under criticism for the way he's handled the ebola crisis. some critics said he came across as too confident that ebola wouldn't spread in the united states and then it did. >> reporter: the worst ebola outbreak on record has devastated west africa, killing more than 7,500 people. but the cdc says the risk from this latest mistake is low, and there is no public threat. cdc officials here say that other workers who entered that lab have been contacted, but so far it's unlikely anyone else was exposed. >> gabe, thank you. >>> one of the most hard to get items to buy today was not a hot new toy, it was a movie ticket to sony's film "the interview," the one that launched an international incident. while hundreds of theaters say they will show it, it's also now available online. we get the latest tonight from our justice correspondent pete william who's in our washington newsroom. pete, good evening. >> reporter: tamron, good evening. this is a first newly released hollywood movie showing up in theaters and online at the same time. but sony entert

the cdc director tom frieden admitted the agency made mistakes.n response to the potential ebola exposure, frieden says, i am troubled by this incident. i have directed that there be a full review of every aspect of the incident and the cdc take all necessary measures. >> dr. frieden's come under a lot of criticism for the way he's handled the ebola crisis. some critics have said he came across as too confident that ebola wouldn't spread in the united states. and then it did. >> reporter: the worst ebola outbreak on record has devastated west africa, killing more than 7500 people. but the cdc says the risk from this latest mistake is low, and there is no public threat. >> that was gabe gutierrez reporting. >>> there are growing calls for calm in st. louis two days after another black teenager was shot and killed by a police officer. the teen's mother joined a candlelight vigil last night at the gas station where he was killed. as crowds continued to gather, several people started shouting at police officers but officials in berkeley say this shoot

cdc director tom frieden is promising action, the latest in a string of pledges to upgrade safety. in a statement 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 cdc workers had accidentally contaminated flu samples with the deadly h5n1 virus, also known as bird flu. in june they admitted lab workers may have been exposed to live anthrax after it wasn't successfully deactivated. those samples had even been transferred between labs in ziploc bags. during congressional hearings, frieden promised sweeping measures to change the lax safety culture. the cdc put together a panel of outside safety experts and even temporarily shut down some labs. the materials that potentially contained live ebola in this latest accident were steroid destroyed before officials even discovered the problem. the cdc never got to test the actual specimen, so we may never know how big of a mistake this actually was. julianna goldman, cbs news, washington. >>> a s

director tom frieden is promising action, the latest in a string of pledges to update 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. work herself accidentally contaminated flu samples with the deadly h5n1 virus, also known as bird flu and in jiewrng 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 swrib ziploc bags a breach 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 temporarily shut down some labs but cbs news chief medical correspondent jon lapook says the c.d.c. may not have done enough. >> human error is always going to be present. you cannot get rid of it, but the question is you can change the culture? can you change the protocol so that when human error

frieden has come under a lot of criticism for the way he's handled the ebola crisis. some critics have said he came across as too confident that ebola wouldn't spread in the united states and it did. >> reporter: the worst ebola outbreak on record has devastated west africa, killing more than 7500 people. the cdc say it is risk from the latest mistake is low and there is no public threat. >>> the st. louis area is on edge, two days after another black teen was shot and killed by a police officer. last night, dozens of protesters stopped traffic on a highway and some clashed with police officers trying to end their demonstrations. earlier in the evening, the teen's mother joined a candlelight vigil at the gas station where her 18-year-old son was killed. crowds continue to gather there to protest the fatal shooting, but officials in berkeley say this shooting is no ferguson. nbc's john yang has the latest. >> reporter: officials were quick to release security view of the incident. a berkeley police officer investigating a shoplifting report encounters two men. less tha

in a statement, the director of the cdc, tom frieden, said, "i am troubled by this incident. we are monitoring the health of one technician who possibly could have been exposed. and i have directed that there be a full review of every aspect of this incident." it's just the latest troubling incident at cdc. last may, a flu sample with deadly bird flu was sent to an agriculture department laboratory by error. and in june, dozens of cdc workers accidentally exposed to anthrax. frieden telling abc news at the time -- >> we've had two incidents in recent months that are a wakeup call. safety protocols that should have been in place weren't or procedures weren't followed. >> reporter: the cdc vowing to do better after those mistakes, but tonight, tom, yet another wakeup call. >> hard to believe. all right, ron, thank you so much. >>> now, to a new wave of violence near ferguson, missouri. a black teenager is shot and killed by a white police officer. and take a look at this. a gas station surveillance camera shows the 18-year-old allegedly pointing a gun at police, just moments be

in congressional hearings frieden promised, quote, speeping measures to change the lax culture. cdc put together a panel of outside safety experts and even temporarily shut down some labs. >> whenever you're dealing with a deadly organizism like anthrax, ebola, bird flu, there's a potential for it to be a social men ace. >> experts say in the past cdc hasn't always been forthcoming in admitting safety problems. in this case they disclosed the mistake immediately. >> julianna, thank you. >>> former president george h.w. bush remains in the hospital this morning as a precaution. bush, who is 90 years old spent christmas at a houston hospital. the 41st president was admitted tuesday for shortness of breath, visited by his wife, barbara, son, neal and daughter-in-law. >>> memorials were held for victims of the indian ocean tsunami. in southern thailand wreaths were laid on the beach. about 250,000 people were killed when the tsunami struck india, sri lanka, and other countries. the tsunami was triggered by a powerful earthquake. >>> president obama's vacation in hawaii met with marr

director tom frieden said, i am troubled by thi this incident in our ebola research laboratory and directing a full review of every lab incident and the c.d.c. take all necessary measurers. this is just the latest misstep for the c.d.c. earlier scientists sent live anthrax to labs not able to handle that material, and mishandled a desly strain of bird flu. no one was hurt in either of those incidents. >> movie fans can see the director's cut as opposed to the dictator's cut. sony unexpectedly released the interview online one day before the controversial movie opens in some theaters. president obama w we cannenned e news and said people can make their own decision about the film. here's ben tracy. >> "the interview" is playing in a living room near you. >> we've got "the interview." >> reporter: sony makes it available online as well as a dedicated web site see the interview.com. michael linton said it was essential for our studio to release the movie, especially given the assault on our business and employees by those who wanted to stop free speech. >> we're in uncharted territory. >> repor

tom frieden was tried to do it. >> i think it was difficult in the midst of -- i think when there was a vacuum, people were filling it. it might have been right, might have been wrong, but they were filling it based upon folks at the local level saying hey, i can't, i think it was probably happening to the governors, probably happening to mayors or other municipal people. what's going on? tell me what's going on. washington, i keep hearing different things from washington or the news is saying one thing, and this person on television is saying the other. and i think they were -- >> but these never happened until the trust began to break down. everything was fine up to that point when the trust of the public towards the messenger or the message or both changed, then all the sudden, governors said, my public is outraged, i'm going to have to take over and have a policy and we're going to do this or that. you wouldn't be there if you had a consistent approach to it from the beginning. and let me just say that, you can't have a consistent approach here and an approach in west africa that

director tom frieden said, "i am troubled by this incident in our ebola research laboratory. i've directed a full review of every aspect of the incident and the c.d.c. take all necessary measurers." we have to say, this is just the latest misstep for the c.d.c. earlier this year, scientists sent live anthrax to labs not able to handle that material, and the c.d.c. mishandled a potentially deadly strain of bird flu. no one was hurt in either of those incidents. >> axelrod: bobb orr in our washington studio, thank you bob. orvie fans can see the director's cut as opposed to the dictator's cut. exday, sony unexpectedly released "the interview" online one day before the controversial movie opens in some theaters. president obama welcomed the news and in a statement the white house said people can make their own choices about the film. ire's ben tracy. >> reporter: "the interview" is playing in a living room near you. >> we've got the interview! >> reporter: sony's deal with google and microsoft makes it available online on various platforms, as well as a dedicated web site, seeth

frieden telling abc news at the time. >> safety protocols that should have been in place weren't or procedures weren't followed. >> reporter: the cdc vowing to do better after those mistakes, but tonight, tom, yet another wakeup call. >> hard to believe. all right, ron, thank you so much. >>> now, to a new wave of violence near ferguson, missouri. a black teenager is shot and killed by a white police officer. and take a look at this. a gas station surveillance camera shows the 18-year-old allegedly pointing a gun at police, just moments before an officer shoots and kills him. the deadly confrontation just two miles from ferguson, where michael brown was killed. tensions erupting last night. hundreds of protesters clashed with police. and now new questions about the officer's body cam. here's abc's alex perez. >> reporter: mayhem overnight in berkeley, missouri. protesters looting and tossing fireworks at officers. all this after a white police officer shot and killed 18-year-old antonio martin at another gas station nearby. police say the officer was responding to reports of a robbery and rele

in a statement, the director of the cdc tom frieden said, i'm troubled by this incident.chnician who could possibly have been exposed. i've directed there be a full review of every aspect of this incident. it's just the latest troubling incident at cdc. last may, a flu sample with deadly bird flu was sent to an agriculture department laboratory by error. in june, dozens of cdc workers accidentally exposed to anthrax. frieden telling abc news at the time -- >> we've had two incidents in recent months that are a wake-up call. safety protocols that should have been in place weren't or procedures weren't followed. >> reporter: the cdc vowing to do better after those mistakes, but now this, yet another wake-up call. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >>> the police here in new york are investigating a number of threats following the murder of two officers last weekend. and they are taking those threats seriously. you can see the stepped up police presence outside station houses in brooklyn. the head of the police union is telling his members to wear bulletproof vests and carry

stories, and you have to learn to recognize who those people are that you can trust them like thomas frieden in "the new york times." he was always completely trustworthy when he wrote about the middle east. and i just think you have to go to the source and be your own doctor, be your own judge of what is real and what is not real speed if i may tack onto that very quickly because i want to get the next question will be the lady here on the third row back, that at least it is recognized by his consumers that what one major newsgathering organizations, television, have now morphed into far more news packages. there's a tremendous difference between having a worldwide newsgathering organization and an organization that to the contrary doesn't have many, to use the phrase, boots on the ground, but packages of mentors of others, and that's an important distinction to know between what is today and what was yesterday. get a microphone down to this lady. >> can i just tack something on? if you turn to a as tv on the hd network passion am i right? >> access spin you will find some investigative rep

the director of the centers for disease control, tom frieden, said i am troubled by this incident and we are monitoring the health of the one technician who possibly could have been exposed and directed there be a full review of every aspect of this incident. >> it turns out this is the third troubling incident at the centers for disease control in recent months. in may, a sample was sent agriculture laboratory by mistake and in june, dozens of workers are were exposed to anthrax and the head of the centers for disease control specific to abc at the time. >> we have had two incidents that are a wake-up call: safety protocols that should have been in place were not in place or procedures were not followed. >> as far as this incident is concerned, officials maintain that the public is not at risk. again, the only person under mandatory observation is the laboratory technician, who will laboratory technician, who will be monitored for 21 days >>> 6:16. clean up in parts of ohio this christmas morning after a string of storms and high winds tore a path of destruction. check this out, the

. >> at that time, frieden was on the hot seat addressing laboratory lapses handling anthrax bacteriand avian flu. cdc put tough new controls in place. >> these were unacceptable events. they should never have happened. >> in line with the new procedures following the latest incident, lab was closed pending review and decontaminated. the material was destroyed. an investigation was launched. the incident was reported to health and human services secretary can the sylvia burwell and others up and down the chain of command. as for the possibility of anyone else coming into contact with the material, cdc says a handful of others who entered the lab have been contacted. they will be assessed for possible exposure. but only the one technician is being monitored. the cdc does not believe anyone outside the lab could have been exposed. >> the cdc tells cnn the lab tech is still not showing any symptoms. lab has been working on a project to try to determine how long the virus remains viable on a dead person because so many people in africa contract ebola after handling a body. >>> sheriffs an

tom frieden was tried to do it. >> i think it was difficult in the midst of -- i think when there was a vacuum, people were filling it. it might have been right, might have been wrong, but they were filling it based upon folks at the local level saying hey, i can't, i think it was probably happening to the governors, probably happening to mayors or other municipal people. what's going on? tell me what's going on. washington, i keep hearing different things from washington or the news is saying one thing, and this person on television is >> these never happened until the trust began to break down. everything was fine up to that point. when the trust of the public towards the messenger or the message are both changed, then all of a sudden, governor said my public insert of outrage so i have to take over and have the policy and we will do that or do that. you would not be there if you had a consistent approach to it from the beginning. me just say this. you can have a consistent in west air -- here africa that evolves based on how the disease is there. two totally different places. is th

tom frieden, we know him as director of cdc issued a statement saying he's troubled by the incident inlaboratory and monitoring the health of that one technician who could have possibly been exposed and he directed a full review of every aspect of the incident so that cdc takes all the necessary measures. normally when something like this happens, the lab is closed where the problem occurred and they decontaminate it. they say all of that has been done. the question is whether any other measures need to be put into the procedure chain. >> joe johns, thank you so much. >>> up next, the past year has been dominated by international headlines from ebola as we just discussed to isis. our anderson cooper counts down the top ten international stories of 2014 right after this break. >> reporter: hi. just want to say merry christmas to my family and my newborn who is with mom. everyone else, merry christmas. vo: this year, santa left his sleigh at home and booked his trip around the world on expedia. because now the points you earn traveling for the holidays can be donated to help the kids at

tom frieden of cdc called that incident troubling and said the agency is taking all necessary measuresnd that's supposed to include destroying material, decontaminating and closing labs, letting the staff know about the incident and basically doing all the notifications they have to do in oversight, ashleigh. >> let's hope it works. merry christmas, john. thanks so much. >> to you too. >> reporting live from washington, d.c. before we move on from the story about ebola, i want to show you something this christmas day. it's a reminder many, many people are still sick and dieing from this disease. take a look at your screen. ♪ ♪ we wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year ♪ >> this is an international red cross ebola hospital camp in sierra leone, one of the highest risk centers in the world for this disease. the health care workers spending this christmas day singing and dancing. many of them in full protective gear. they're trying to share a little bit of christmas joy with the people there, many of them who are children who are suffering with the ebola outbreak right now. by th

this was according to the president himself i believe in a recent interview with tom frieden can you consider this a signal foreign policy achievement of his administration. it says something up that he would consider this to be the signal foreign policy achievement of his administered should look at the state the country is in. the egyptians and united arab emirates are launching airstrikes without even warning the united states beforehand. behavior like this would've never been tolerated 10 years ago. you just wouldn't have been able to get away with it but now it's just what happens. i think one of the key lessons we take from burnham is how gullible democracies are to be manipulated, to being co-opted by authoritarian powers. it's very easy to spread disinformation, propaganda, li lies. and i'm very interested in what the russians are doing in this field, and the disinformation field. if any of you are missing the network are key, it is a thing to behold. it is -- it is horrible, evil and its censure but it's brilliant television. it has a huge audience and it is not soviet style

still cdc director tom frieden not happy.d by the incident in our ebola reserve laboratory in atlanta thousands of laboratory scientists in 50 labs throughout the dr. dc have taken extraordinary steps in the recent months to improve safety. no risk to staff is acceptable. our efforts to improve lab safety are essential of the safety of our employees is our highest priority. there is a big review going on right now. the cdc wants to know how in the world this was even possible. higher-ups were apparently briefed one one hour of this mistake coming to light. the hhs secretary sylvia burwell was prompted notified as well and the lab that opened up the ebola will be closed until officials are sure it is safe around they can figure out how to make sure this never happens again. leland? leland: we know the cdc had problems with these kind of things before. peter doocy, live for us in washington. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. leah: obamacare keeping busy signing up more than a million people for health insurance in a week. de

and the pattern is an insufficient culture of safety. >> reporter: at that time, frieden was on the hotressing laboratory handling of anthrax and avian flu. >> he's were unacceptable events they should never have happened. >> reporter: the lab was closed pend rege due and decontaminated. the material was destroyed. an investigation was launched and and an investigation to sylvia burwell and others up and down the chain of command. as for others cupping in contact with the material, cdc says a handful of others coming into the lab have been contacted. they will be addressed for possible exposure. but only one technician is being monitored. the cdc does not believe anyone outside the lab could have been exposed. joe johns, cnn, washington. >>> and the toll that ebola has taken on three west african countries there have been almost 19,700 cases in liberia, sierra leone and guinea since the outbreak began. more than 76 hundred people in those countries have died from ebola. >>> still to come, you want to see this one. a homeless man is given $100 and then secretly records. he walks into thi

thomas frieden said there is a long hard fight ahead before the outbreak will be stopped. sierra leone has the large effort number of infections. some health care workers have walked out of a treatment center, worried that patients are being given an untested heart drug as part of treatment. >> france is urging calm after another attack on pedestrians by a driver. a man plowed his van into shoppers are at a christmas market in western france. ten were injured. there were similar attacks over the weekend. witnesses say all drivers shouted god is great in arabic. french officials are trying to figure out if this was a copy cat attack. >> police in scotland are investigating a deadly crash, a garbage truck slammed into a crowd of shoppers, six people were killed. a group of people were hit waiting to cross the street. the truck came to a stop inside a hotel. seven people were seriously injured. >> nicaragua has broken ground on a historic water way projected to rival the panama canal. work began monday on the canal, probabled to be longer, deeper and wider than the panama can

frieden oversees the cdc.e to how ebola was treated and really the protocols that were given to health workers to deal with the ebola threat. does he need to go? >> that's not for us to decide. but it's a matter of leadership. it's a matter of management. the senior management in these labs have to ensure all the laboratory workers are compliant. not with just the regulations but the standard operating procedures and also there is a second set of eyes. if there was a second of eyes in this situation, you would have noticed the colors were inappropriate for the lab and the situation would have been corrected. that didn't happen. >> it's also a question of resources and support. so cdc has a budget. the work they're doing every year just increases. we're seeing more epidemics and more people get sick and the battles they're fighting get bigger and the resources aren't going up in line with that. >> gavin, thank you to both. ahead in the next hour, new doubts about whether north korea is behind those signer attac

you heard ron and i and tom frieden and sylvia burwell and others say not in a cavalier way that it is highly unlikely -- you don't say impossible, because you never say that in biology -- highly unlikely that we would have an ebola outbreak of any significance in the united states. the reason is because we have a health care system that won't allow that to happen. so one of the things that is so important for the world to realize, that we will end this outbreak in west africa in collaboration with our west african partners. but this would be a terrible thing if we let the opportunity go by without saying we need to then leave an infrastructure there, or the beginning of a direction to an infrastructure, to not only prevent ebola, but what about malaria? what about tuberculosis? there are things there that can -- i wouldn't say easily, but that can be addressed just with a modest turning of the knob. it is amazing how many people who we are following that we want to make sure they don't have ebola that have malaria. it really hits you right between the eyes that malaria is taken so for

director tom frieden said he was determined to avoid repeating earlier this year. >> what we're seeingafety. >> reporter: at that time, he was on the hot seat. cdc put tough new controls in place. >> these were unacceptable events. they should never have happened. >> reporter: in line with the new procedures, following the latest incident, the lab was closed pending review and decontaminated. the material was destroyed. an investigation was launched. the incident was reported to health and human services secretary, sylvia burwell, and others up and down the chain of command. as for the possibility of anyone else coming into contact with the material, cdc says a handful of others who entered the lab have been contacted. they will be assessed for possible exposure, but only the one technician is being monitored. the cdc does not bereave anyone outside the lab could have been exposed. joe johns, cnn, washington. >>> turning now to the latest on that massive hack at sony pictures. doubts are growing that north korea was actually behind it. and now two leading cybersecurity firms are raisin

frieden was not, surprisingly incredibly upset that this happened this week and he has mandated a full what actually happened. at the end of the day, it appears that there were some different stories or differing accounts about something that happened coloring coding mis mistakes. it just shouldn't happen but mistakes happen. >> right. >> they happen all the time. >> here we are we're talking about a mistake and i want to go to the flip side here. how many times did we talk about ebola and we had grave concerns. the fact is there's been no ebola breakout here in the united states sg. >> yes. >> so the way that we have dealt with that can that be deemed an absolute success? >> we can. time will tell you know as we are going to see more cases. certainly, i think that the dr. spencer case at bellevue was very illustrative of where we had come from where we were and where we came from that all of the health care workers were a trained properly. >> can we talk about this caramel apple deaths? a handful of people died as a result of this listeria outbreak. >> i would not want to lead the fda

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