for more about west africa's fight against ebola, we are joined now from washington via skype by helene cooper of the new york times. she recently returned from liberia. i understand you were out and about when you first got home. in fact, you were on meet the press last sunday. i understand you are on some sort of self-imposed quarantine now. >> it is sort of a modified quarantine as well, i came back from liberia on saturday and i went on meet the press. i am not symptomatic, i have been taking my temperature and all of that but then i started thinking about it when it is time to go back to the office and go to the pentagon which is where i actually work often and i realized that a lot of people were going to feel weird around me, so i worked it out with the times that i would work from home, i wouldn't go into the pentagon and into the press bullpen which is a crowded area and what i i am trying to do is just for the rest -- until i reach the 21 day point is to stay away from crowds, i am not touching anybody, i am basically behaving the same way i did while i was in liberia, which is don't

helene cooper from the new york times. you just went through the process of coming back from liber liberia. tell us a little bit about this process. we know only jfk has started. there will be four others. dulles, hartsfield, newark and chicago's o'hare will be doing these. describe what you went through in leaving liberia. >> i came in to dulles. the really interesting thing was that my time, just getting into the liberian airport, you can't even enter the grounds of the airport in liberia without getting your temperature taken. my temperature was taken three times at robert fields airport. there was a guard there who 36.4 is the place where i reside. had to wash my hands with chlorine bleach. you do that before entering any public building. i had to fill out a questionnaire that asked me in many ways if i had come into contact with ebola patients, handled bodily fluids, been involved in burial ceremonies or anything. i said no. i have been careful over the two weeks i was in liberia not to touch anybody. we don't touch a

. >>> i'm chuck todd and joining us is tom brokaw and helene cooper back from liberia, and the white house director under george bush susan fagan and george bush's first press secretary robert gibbs. thank you for joining me. this is "meet the press. >> from washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> and welcome and breaking news. a second case of ebola confirmed in texas. it is the first person-to-person transmission in the united states. reminder, it is a health care worker who treated thomas eric duncan. in a moment, we will hear from dr. anthony fauci from the national institutes of health, and first to mark potter who is in dallas covering the story. mark, what do we know about when this health care worker came into contact with the late mr. d duncan? >> well, it sounds like the contact occurred on duncan's second visit to the hospital which began here september 28th. the officials say they got the preliminary test results back late last night indicating that a health care worker here at texas health presbyterian had contracted ebola and further tests will be condu

cooperation. they were bitterly disappointed. for example, martin sobell's wife, helen, frequently took the fifth amendment. when asking how many children she had, she plead the fifth amepdment. when asking if she was speaking with her sister, who at this time lived with mortin and helen. like wise, she took the fifth when she was asked if she knew a classmate and friend of mortin sobell. the grand jury was aware that danningiser agreed to mail letters to his family when he was in mexico. the grand jury repeatedly expressed skepticism or the testimony of mortin's mother, rose. they were especially unconvinced by the claim she did not know her son fled to mexico. why, they ask, did she and her husband pay their son's rent if they thought he was just gone for a short vacation. the grand jury could not believe that a parent would not express an interest in the whereabouts of their son. as a mother with such a devoted son, you weren't interested in knowing where he was, queerried the foreman of the grand jury. mortin sobell's father, lewis sobell, was an even more hoss file

cooperation. they were bitterly disappointed. for example, martin sobell's wife, helen, frequently took the fifth amendment. when asking how many children she had, she plead the fifth amepdment. when asking if she was speaking with her sister, who at this time lived with mortin and helen. like wise, she took the fifth when she was asked if she knew a classmate and friend of mortin sobell. the grand jury was aware that danningiser agreed to mail letters to his family when he was in mexico. the grand jury repeatedly expressed skepticism or the testimony of mortin's mother, rose. they were especially unconvinced by the claim she did not know her son fled to mexico. why, they ask, did she and her husband pay their son's rent if they thought he was just gone for a short vacation. the grand jury could not believe that a parent would not express an interest in the whereabouts of their son. as a mother with such a devoted son, you weren't interested in knowing where he was, queerried the foreman of the grand jury. mortin sobell's father, lewis sobell, was an even more hoss file